Jul 262010
Needed to recharge the batteries a bit, but Around South Blogistan is now back.
- Sheepshead Bites pours over recently published editorials regarding the Voorhies Avenue mosque. (Sheepshead Bites)
- The Bensonhurst cop that spent two months in the hospital after getting run down in the pursuit of stolen car suspects was able to visit his precinct. (Gothamist)
- Senator Marty Golden challenges, then unchallenges, the ballot petitions of his Democratic opponent. (Bay Ridge Journal)
- BID fail. On the plus side, those planters look like trash cans, so at least the dying trees don’t have far to go. (Beehive Hairdresser)
- ConeyRocks attempts to get some answers about the beachside water park. Apparently the Parks Department was standing in the way of this for a while, which I find curious, since it was just a year ago they told us they wanted to bring the “biggest, baddest, inflatable rides” we’ve ever seen to Coney Island. (ConeyRocks)
- BBQ at Luna Park. (ConeyRocks)
- First possums in Bensonhurst, now racoons in Gerritsen Beach. It’s only a matter of time before the undead rise in Kings Plaza. (GerritsenBeach.net)
- Not your father’s Grossman’s: the Mill Basin Lowe’s is now open. (Sheepshead Bites)
- This story is supposedly about a contestant for the Mister Cyclone pageant, but I was really just looking for an excuse to link to the picture featuring Miss Cyclone. (Sheephead Bites)
- A six-foot sand castle won a Long Island resident the 20th Annual Sand Sculpting Contest on Coney Island. (Gothamist)
- The Left In Bay Ridge blog signs off. (Left In Bay Ridge)
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