Feb 152010
Happy Presidents’ Day everyone! Hopefully you’re able to stay at home from work today. Not just because off-days are fun, but because the MTA is catching up from weekend service work that was canceled in advance of last week’s storm by working through the entire three-day weekend.
- 91-year-old community activist Mary Powell passed away last Friday. (Sheepshead Bites)
- The Mill Basin and Marine Park Civic Associations take their complaints about a surge in crime to the 63rd Precinct. I continue to be floored by 17-year-olds committing armed robberies. (MarineParker.net)
- A 16-year old graffiti artist vandal lost his leg while trying to tag vandalize the N-line near the Kings Highway station. I’m sorry if I sound unsympathetic, but I think I have made my opinion of those that paint on property they do not own abundantly clear on these pages. (NY Times via Gothamist).
- Speaking of vandals, why are fake animals being stolen from Brooklyn schools? Last week, Seth Low middle school in Bensonhurst was robbed of its fiberglass cow, and a 5-foot tall stuffed giraffe was taken from the Brooklyn Blue Feather elementary school in Gerritsen Beach. (WCBS TV, GerritsenBeach.net)
- Halikarnas Restaurant feels like they’ve been had by the Department of Health. (Sheepshead Bites)
- Anyone hoping that Coney Island mania would spread to the properties still owned by Joe Sitt (like me – I was hoping for that) may now lower their expectations well in advance of the 2010 season. (Amusing The Zillion)
- The Lola Starr boutique will finally be able to move into the Stillwell Avenue subway terminal. (Lola Starr’s Diary)
- The NYPD’s answer to double-parking in front of schools at dismissal? Triple-parking. (GerritsenBeach.net)
- Brennan & Carr wants a piece of Roll-N-Roaster. (Sheepshead Bites)
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