Friday Wrap – September 11, 2009

(photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/ / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

• September 11 memorials: In Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Sunset Park, and Bay Ridge. (Sheepshead Bites, GerritsenBeach.net, Best View In Brooklyn, BK Southie)
• The Cherry Hill Market in the historic Lundy’s restaurant building has been open for realz since May. Last night, they finally had their official Grand Opening. (Sheepshead Bites)
• The Brooklyn Cyclones have been swept out of the playoffs. (Brooklyn Cyclones)
• Firefighters save two sleeping teens (and several birds) from a Bensonhurst house fire. (NY Daily News)
• A Hebrew charter school has opened inside of a yeshiva on Kings Highway (after dropping plans to move into the Marine Park Junior High School). (NY Post via Sheepshead Bites)
• The Dreamland Pier bell (actual 1900s era Dreamland, not Lola Starr’s Dreamland Roller Rink and certainly not Joe Sitt’s Rent-A-Dreamland), found under water last November, was raised last week and put on display at the Coney Island History Project (in front of the Cyclone roller coaster) last weekend. It will be on display again this Saturday and Sunday. (Kinetic Carnival with additional hat tip to CIHP’s and ATZ’s Tricia Vita)
• Governor Patterson has signed a bill, sponsored by Carl Kruger for the benefit of his Russophone constituents, requiring voting materials be printed in Russian. (WCAX)
• Residents of a Brighton Beach condominium complex are being terrorized by a BB gun shooter. (1010 WINS)