Events
A John Travolta impersonator visited the BIG Oscars. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)A John Travolta impersonator brought down the house at the the Bay Improvement Group’s annual awards ceremony at il Fornetto Thursday night. The leisure suit-wearing performer, who strutted into the dining room to the 70s disco
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Bayfest 2015. (Photo: Sheepshead Bites)Despite looking forward to their 25th year celebrating on Sheepshead Bay’s waterfront, the organizers of Bayfest [http://bigbayfest.wix.com/bayfest-of-sheepshead-bay#!] say they will likely have to scale down the event due to less-than-anticipated funds from local sponsors and the City Council. The biggest
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Bayfest 2015. (Photo: Sheepshead Bites)Do you like party planning? Would you like to celebrate your community? The organizers of Bayfest [http://bigbayfest.wix.com/bayfest-of-sheepshead-bay#!], the neighborhood’s waterfront block party that kicks off the start of summer, are looking for volunteers and sponsors to pledge their support as
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Bay Improvement Group President Steve Barrison holds up two of the BIG Oscar awards.They like them. They really like them. The Bay Improvement Group doled out its unique BIG Oscars award, featuring an Academy Award replica next to a big ol’ fish, during it’s dinner ceremony last Thursday
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A rendering of the proposed Loehmann’s expansion. Provided by architect Robert Palermo.The owner of Loehmann’s Seaport Plaza (2027 Emmons Avenue) received Community Board 15’s seal of approval for a plan to expand the already out-of-scale building by an additional 10,000 square feet on a new
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Bay Improvement Group did it again! The group had its 24th annual holiday bash this past Sunday, bringing together more than 150 people to rock out to tunes and collect toys for some of the area’s neediest kids. The do-gooders, with help from sponsors including Councilman Chaim Deutsch and
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Students from St. Mark School served as Santa’s little helpers at the event, piling the donated toys and greeting guests.The Bay Improvement Group’s 23rd annual concert and toy drive on Sunday saw hundreds of toys piled on stage as Vince Martell of Vanilla Fudge jammed for the
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If you ask me, Sheepshead Bay could definitely use some more crocuses. Source: WikipediaNew York Cares, which runs volunteer programs for 1,300 nonprofits, city agencies, and public schools, will join forces with the Bay Improvement Group (BIG) to restore and revitalize three garden sites hard hit by Superstorm Sandy,
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While organizers of the not-so-Great GoogaMooga reneged on their “rain or shine” billing [http://gothamist.com/2013/05/19/todays_googamooga_festivities_are_c.php] in the face of Sunday’s drizzle, hundreds of Sheepshead Bay residents flocked to Emmons Avenue to prove what the phrase really means. Bay Improvement
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Photo by Vladimir Korostyshevskiy.BayFest 2012 turned into the biggest BayFest ever, drawing as many as 134,000 people to Emmons Avenue for a day to celebrate the waterfront, organizers said. Here’s the exuberant press release from Bay Improvement Group: > It was packed the first three to three
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Courtesy of Koonisutra via FlickrBay Improvement Group President Steve Barrison took to the Daily News yesterday, with an editorial bashing the big P.R. push to bring Walmart to New York City [/tag/walmart/]. What does Walmart have to do with improving the Bay, you ask? Well, Barrison is also
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Bay Improvement Group President Steve Barrison informed us yesterday of the untimely passing of Faith Palmer-Persen just before New Years. Palmer-Persen, who was fighting cancer, is the artist behind the mural on East 15th Street between Avenue Z and Sheepshead Bay Road. Her passing came as BIG prepared for a