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The Bay Ridge Avenue Key Food is open! Woo hoo! With freakin’ valet parking! (And apparently a bag check.) (Bay Ridge Journal, Bay Ridge Talk)
From the “If You Don’t Have Renter’s Insurance, Buy Some Now” file: A stalled construction site in Sheepshead Bay was knocked down by last weekend’s storm and fell into a neighboring house – which will now have to be demolished. By the way, what exactly will it take for the Bloomberg Administration to own up to oversight of the DOB? I would have thought that people getting killed and buildings getting demolished by collapsing cranes would have done the trick… doesn’t seem to have even been a blip on Mayor Oligarch’s radar. (Sheepshead Bites)
The Apple Dumpling Gang strikes again, this time at a Sovereign Bank in Gravesend. (NY Daily News)
Not only will John Strong’s version of the freak show be coming back to Coney Island – it will be coming back with a three-year lease. (Amusing The Zillion)
I never went to the Chip Shop in Bay Ridge while it was open. Does that make me a bad person? I was told over the weekend that their food was overrated anyway. Well, whatevs! Apparently the new-ish Welsh pub Long Bow is supposed to be all that and much more. (Brooklyn Paper, via Left In Bay Ridge)
In a multi-year lease of another kind, the Brighton Beach Post Office will be staying open for at least five more years. (Sheepshead Bites)
Around 40 rides at Coney Island are awakening from their slumber this coming weekend for Palm Sunday. Last night from the Q-train, I could see one of the kiddie rides in the Wonder Wheel park being tested out. And the boardwalk food stand Paul’s Daughter was seen earlier getting their cash registers ready. (Amusing The Zillion)

(Photo credit: Brian Hedden)

Hannah Springer, a Bay Ridge resident that was the subject of a recent Brooklyn Paper article about raw milk consumption, is really really NOT happy with that paper’s coverage. (The Healthy Family Chronicles)
Acid doesn’t hurt people. Delusional psychopathic dog-haters who walk around with jars of acid hurt people. (Sheepshead Bites)
Stillwell Avenue, pre-Joe Sitt. It still annoys me that the first things he tore down were the spots I was most looking forward to visiting in 2007 during my post-Connecticut-exile return to Brooklyn. (Amusing The Zillion)
At first, I didn’t believe it. But if Key Food went through the trouble of publicizing their stocked shelves through the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, then I suppose they really mean to open the 69th Street and Third Avenue location. This Week. (Bay Ridge Blog, Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
I had no idea that the reigning Miss Brooklyn lives in Manhattan Beach and loves thrift stores. I do remember the Brooklyn Paper complaining that the 2008 winner lived in Manhattan (without the Beach). I don’t remember them plugging 2009 winner Keelie Sheridan at all. Maybe they’re not sure where Manhattan Beach is? Or maybe they know exactly where it is, which is probably outside their distribution area. (Sheepshead Bites)
This 1924 aerial view of Gerritsen Beach looks like Google Maps in some sort of Hot Tub Time Machine. (GerritsenBeach.net)
Lola Star is officially back in her Boardwalk cribs. On a related note, her blog makes me extremely confused as to whether I should be spelling her name with one ‘r’ or two. (Lola Star’s Diary)
The volunteer Gerritsen Beach Fire Department is looking for additional support from the community, at least more than 25% of it. I’ll fess up, I had no idea that GB even had a volunteer fire department. (GerritsenBeach.net)
A large condo development on Avenue Z is on the fast track to nowhere. (Sheepshead Bites)

Shore Theater - From Far Corner

(photo credit: Brian Hedden)

It’s the day-late edition of the blogwrap! It’s going to be another busy week for me on the homefront. I’m already behind schedule. Damn it, these rooms aren’t painting themselves!

Councilmember Lew Fidler wants the police to crack down on Seba Avenue Park vandals by arresting them. Can I suggest a warning shot past the right ear? (GerritsenBeach.net)
Nah, just skip to the headshot for the ringleader of this crew. (Sheepshead Bites)
Loehmann’s and Totonno’s are finally reopening. Yay for good pizza! (Wait, this is Brooklyn – do we have any other kind of pizza?) (Sheepshead Bites)
What about the Bay Ridge Key Food? (Bay Ridge Blog)

Informed sources say that the new projected opening date for the 69th St Key Food is Sunday Feb 28.

They didn’t say which year

Movie theaters in the news: Coney Island’s Shore Theater (pictured above, as seen in 2003) will go through the first step in the landmarking process today, while Marty Markowitz hearts the Loew’s Kings Theater in his State of the Borough address. (Amusing The Zillion, Flatbush Gardener)
The squabbles between residents and management at this coop make a single-family dwelling look really appealing right now. (Sheepshead Bites)
Yogalates! At the Marine Park Salt Marsh Center, TODAY! (MarineParker.net)
Nice tats. (Sheepshead Bites)

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