Check out some pics of Greening the Ridge, including bonus shots of fishing on the pier and the dude that caught a 41″ bass. “The buzz was great and it was the kind of event that as you got closer to the pier, you could feel the positive energy. It was a great vibe, and […]

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Two Bay Ridge drug houses, whose activities have been widely chronicled on the Bay Ridge Talk Message board and by the neighborhood’s large number of blogs has been busted. The buildings were on 93rd Street. Here’s a bit from the Times: Most neighborhoods in Brooklyn have at least one blog — and in some places, […]

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[Photo courtesy of subatomicfilms/flickr] Trees have been coming down here and there in the storms we’ve been having and, as usual, parked cars are among those paying the ultimate price. This photo posted to flickr by subatomicfilms who also has some Ikea opening frenzy shots posted up. The fallen tree and crunched car are from […]

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“It’s weddings and funerals over greenmarkets in Bay Ridge. A much-anticipated farmers’ market in a Third Ave. church parking lot has been canceled after fears the country goods would take away parking space from wedding and funeral services. ‘The market is not going to happen,’ said the Rev. James Devlin, pastor of Our Lady of […]

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography] The annual Kings County Memorial Day Parade took place in Bay Ridge yesterday and GL Contributing Photographer Deborah Matlack was on hand to capture some of the images. The parade is billed as the longest-running such Memorial Day event in the country.

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For most of the 19th Century, Stewart Avenue–which is named for a landowner along its route–was Bay Ridge’s main drag. It “once ran straight up the spine of what was then the western edge of the town of New Utrecht….Today, you can more or less make out Stewart Avenue’s old route on the map by […]

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The Brooklyn Preservation Council will be hearing a presentation about Green Church is Bay Ridge, which is slated to be torn down for condo development. The session is at 6PM on Tuesday (5/20) in the First Floor Conference Room at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Bob Cassara of the Committee to Save Green Church will speak.–Bay Ridge […]

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Forgotten New York pays a visit to Third Avenue in Bay Ridge this week. Here’s a sample of Kevin Walsh’s take on the Chip Shop’s signage: Bay Ridge is the last place on earth…OK, maybe the NYC area…that would be associated with punks at all, at least the punks of the late 1970s musical movement […]

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[Photo courtesy of Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography] You think your block has a big pothole? It’s safe to say that your hole has nothing on this one in Bay Ridge, which opened up yesterday afternoon. GL Photo Contributor Deborah Matlack sent along photos of this monster along with the following description: “Here are two shots of […]

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Check out this photo record of a day’s travel from Sheepshead Bay through Coney Island via subway to Bay Ridge. There are photo galore and they say something.–Erica’s Blog

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[Image for GL courtesy of Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography]This is Ft. Hamilton High School in Bay Ridge brought to us courtesy of GL Photo Contributor and photographer Deborah Matlack, who send many wonderful images our way.

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Bay Ridge’s amazing Middle Eastern eatery Tanoreen is making progress toward expanding to a new, bigger space down the block from its current Third Avenue location. The restaurant is one of the city’s most amazing Middle Eastern places and its tiny space is constantly jammed.–Left in Bay Ridge

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We have no idea what this is (other than short fiction), but we came across it and we liked it, so here it is: It all happened on the Queens bound D – m4w (Bay Ridge) It all happened on the Queens bound D. She was searching for a minimally invasive emotional relationship and he […]

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[Image for GL courtesy of Deborah Matlack/Matlack Photography] This is the spring gorgeousness in Owls Head Park in Bay Ridge as captured by frequent GL Photo Contributor, photographer Deborah Matlack. Many more such scenes to come Brooklyn-wide in the next couple of weeks by the look of trees starting to bloom.

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[Photo courtesy of Charles Andrisano] The photographer, Charles Andrisano, emails to say, “Spring is in the air, and I took advantage of our ever present sparrows. This shot was taken from my living room window in Bay Ridge two days before Easter Sunday.”

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[Courtesy of GL’s Carroll Gardens Correspondent] Our Carroll Gardens correspondent ventured to the far off corner of Brooklyn called Bay Ridge over the weekend and found that spring is even more far advanced there than it is in Carroll Gardens or Park Slope or environs. Excellent.

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We were sad to get an email overnight from the person behind the Right in Bay Ridge blog announcing that the blog is being suspended. The email said, “After much reflection and a shift in priorities, I have decided not to continue running the Right in Bay Ridge blog any longer…Should I be able to […]

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[Photo courtesy of Charles Andrisano] Local photographer Charles Andrisano sent us this gorgeous shot of Wednesday night’s lunar eclipse as seen from a rooftop in Bay Ridge. The streaks in the photo are the lights of a commercial airliner that he says “had crossed under the moon just as I tripped the shutter.” We love […]

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When a man notices a woman, it doesn’t matter that she almost ran him down when fleeing a bar. Attraction is attraction. The evidence is right here in our Brooklyn Missed Connection of the week, which comes to us from Bay Ridge: You almost ran me over!!! – m4w – 38 I noticed you last […]

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A building on Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge succumbed to the deadly combination of high winds and an unsupported cinder block wall built on the building’s roof. The building was once the site of the Leading Edge Radiation Oncology Services Center, and some residents wondered “about spillage of radioactive material following the collapse.”–Right in Bay […]

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“What had once been the site of the Hollywood-connected Bay Ridge Funeral Home is now nearly a half-block long hole in the ground, easily providing passersby a glimpse into their neighbors’ side-street backyards from the rare vantage point of Fourth Avenue – for now.” It will become a seven-story condo. Earlier excavation unearthed a time […]

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The city can’t seem to put enough cut on the stench that is making resident of Bay Ridge on Fort Hamilton Parkway between Marine Ave. and 99th Street a little sick to their stomach. The smell, they say, is coming from a former sewer pipe project. The city has tried tossing pine-scented deodorizer down there, […]

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The suicide of the owner of Lowen’s Pharmacy, who was caught up in a steroids scandal was reported yesterday. “I’ve shopped at Lowen’s many times over the years. This business has long roots in the neighborhood – Kenny was telling me how he remembers their old location, and the real life Mr. Lowen, pharmacist ,who […]

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Sunday night was supposed to be a spectacular showing of royal majesty in New York Harbor as the Cunard line’s Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Mary 2, and the brand-new Queen Victoria rendezvoused by the Statue of Liberty for a Grucci fireworks display before sailing through the Narrows into the open sea – but a delayed […]

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“Construction workers frantically scrambled to secure a lift after a rope apparently slipped from the roof of a Bay Ridge apartment, sending one side of the platform hurtling down with a worker inside.” There are many photos, although in the end, no one was hurt.–Right in Bay Ridge

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