Photo credit: Brian Hedden
Photo credit: Brian Hedden
Feb 222010
(8th Avenue before the 2010 Chinese New Year parade. Photo: Brian Hedden)
Reminder: you, too, can be a BK Southie blogger! Looking for writers from all neighborhoods across our half of the borough! Read all about the details here.
- The Brooklyn DA is rumored to be considering gang-assault charges against the firefighters involved in the drunken January 29 brawl at the Salty Dog that left four civilians pummeled. Meanwhile, Law & Order and Rescue Me are in a race to see who can rip this story from the headlines first. (Gothamist)
- The United Federation of Teachers has filed a lawsuit to stop the closure of 19 public schools like Sheepshead Bay High School. (Sheepshead Bites)
- How to handle the Belt Parkway entrance ramp closure at Coney Island Avenue and Guider Avenue (other than, you know, to avoid). (Sheepshead Bites)
- Raining on the Coney Island parade. The concern is that the long-term plan for the amusement park will be decided 10 years from now, presumably by the Mayor’s successor. Hey, a few more changes to the term limit laws ought to fix that. (Brooklyn Paper)
- Mapping the Walgreens-Duane Reade overlap in the Sheepshead Bay area in the wake of the drug store mega-buyout. (Sheepshead Bites)
Jan 042010
(photo credit: Johnathaneric via Flickr)
That’s right, male Polar Bear swimmers. I went there. While you were showing off your misplaced sense of machismo in 34-degree water, I was enjoying a comfortable, climate-controlled subway-and-ferry ride to Staten Island.
I’m jealous. Really really really really really really jealous.
Because rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, and Coney Island beats Staten Island. Always. It’s in the rules. Look ‘em up. (Besides – looks like fun.)
You can read all about the Polar Bear swim at Amusing The Zillion. Or on 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 countless Flickr photosets. Update: Also, Lola Staar’s blog.
I expect I’ll be posting infrequently for the next week or two – in addition to recovering from vacation mode, I’m also hoping to work on some tweaks to the site in my spare time – for now, I present to you the new Monday edition of the formerly-Friday blogwrap.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the $500 million undertaking by the City DOT to renovate the bridges of the Belt Parkway. (GerritsenBeach.net)
- Word that the body of the Bensonhurst teen found in Greenwood Heights on Christmas eve was dumped the night before, then moved four hours later. (Kudos to Sunset Park Chronicled for mining that from the Spanish-language El Diario de la Prensa)
- The Village Voice interviews Dick Zigun, Coney Island’s All-Everything cheerleader. “I (interviewer Robert Schaffer) asked Zigun what he thinks of the new plans for the old neighborhood. His response was mixed, but leaning toward the optimistic.” Yeah… aren’t we all. (Village Voice)
