bath beach
Council Member Mark Treyger of the 47th District (Photo via Council Member Treyger’s Office)BATH BEACH – Continuing his crusade for pedestrian safety in the wake of the October 31st vehicle-based terror attack in Tribeca, Councilmember Mark Treyger is now calling for additional barricades along the Belt Parkway in Bath
Police & Fire
Photo via NYPDPolice are looking for a man who robbed a 12 year-old boy on Friday, September 2, while the boy was walking to school. The man approached the boy at around 7:30am, on Ocean Parkway, near the Belt Parkway, and asked to borrow his phone. The boy let
News
Hampton Avenue milled and ready for paving. Photo courtesy of Facebook/City Councilmember Chaim Deutsch.It is hard not to notice that the extremely bumpy Hampton Avenue was recently milled in anticipation of being repaved. The road will be smoothed out and paved in the next few days, according to
Nonsponsored
Three properties located at the corner of Sheepshead Bay Road and Shore Parkway are being torn down. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The developer tearing down three properties along Sheepshead Bay Road says they will be replaced by a mixed-use, eight-story building that looks like a “lighting bolt” when viewed
Bensonhurst
Source: Google MapsA hotel is coming to a particularly ugly and industrial corner of Gravesend, reports [http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/12/new-hotel-headed-for-2632-west-13th-street-in-gravesend.html] YIMBY:Developer Ankit Mehta, who purchased several vacant lots on West 13th Street for $1,750,000 last month, has filed plans to build the four-story
Bay Parkway
Donovan speaks to Golden and Army Corps of Engineers representatives. (Source: Congressman Dan Donovan’s office)Congressman Dan Donovan joined local elected officials, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Community Boards 10 and 11 yesterday to inspect Shore Road Park and identify opportunities for resiliency investments to protect
Crashes
An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)A person was sent to the hospital Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle while walking near Shore Parkway and Knapp Street, News 12 Brooklyn reports [http://brooklyn.news12.com/news/pedestrian-struck-on-shore-parkway-1.10646407]. Police could
27th ave
Officer Passarella [kneeling] and Officer Alberti [standing] help the boy find his mother. Photo:60th Precinct via Twitter [https://twitter.com/NYPD60Pct/status/539189109156478978/photo/1]A tender moment unfolded this past weekend between a pair of police officers and a lost little boy. Officer John Passarella and Officer Anthony
Belt Parkway
Photo by Allan Shweky via screwedontheboardwalk.comThe city has begun the process of removing tress damaged by Superstorm Sandy. Sheepshead Bites reader Allan Shweky, who runs the Friends of Ocean Parkway [http://www.friendsofoceanparkway.org/], posted a series of photographs [http://www.screwedontheboardwalk.com/2013/07/sandys-revenge.html] on a
highway
Pre-Sandy seawall. Source: Retrofresh! via FlickrFrom the offices of Senator Marty Golden: State Senator Martin J. Golden announced that he has written to Colonel Paul E. Owens of the Army Corps of Engineers regarding damage to the Belt Parkway seawall and has requested an emergency fix and replacement of the
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The above photo – which was taken alongside the Belt Parkway – comes courtesy of the very talented David Tan, who used a Konica Autoreflex T3 with Kodak Gold 200 film [http://pic.atpic.com/2383336/600]. Got any interesting images of Bensonhurst? Send them to jteutonico [at] bensonhurstbean [dot] com [jteutonico@
bay 34th street
from TerraCRG via brooklynpaper.comThere’s a new twist in the tale of big box retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club coming to the Gravesend Bay waterfront, a story Bensonhurst Bean broke last Monday [/bjs-wholesale-club-bensonhurst-caesars-bay/]. According to News Corp.-owned publication The Brooklyn Paper, Walmart has been talking with TerraCRG, the