The inimitable Forgotten New York returns to Bay Ridge this week with a new feature offering dozens of pics and tidbits of that neighborhood. Here’s a sampling of the info about Shore Road, some of whose homes appear in the FNY photos above: Shore Road is as old as Bay Ridge itself. The neighborhood was […]

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The British are coming. The Chip Shop, of Park Slope and (more recently) Atlantic Avenue fame, is opening up a Bay Ridge branch on Third Avenue. “But will the chips hit the fan for this expanding English eatery empire as it opens its doors in traditionally Irish Bay Ridge?”–Right in Bay Ridge

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One of the neighborhoods that has seen a blogging boomlet this year is Bay Ridge, with three relative new blogs bringing news every day from that corner of Brooklyn. Yesterday, Right in Bay Ridge–one of the new crew blogging away there–noted the neighborhood’s 154th birthday with a great post reviewing its history. A sample: Like […]

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Santa Claus is coming to Lowen’s in Bay Ridge. It is unknown if he is looking for steroids or will get tied up in the Mitchell Report, as Lowen’s became caught up in some alleged steroids trafficking a few months back.–The Bay Ridge Rover

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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn[Photo courtesy of emilydickinsonride sabmx’s/flickr]

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Bay Ridge’s 86th Street shopping strip, between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, commands the highest retail rents in Brooklyn, according to Sarah Ryley in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle–from $175 per square foot to $265. That is equivalent to prices on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The figures come from Massey Knakal Realty Services. Fulton Street in Downtown […]

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“The section of Bay Ridge Parkway (also referred to as 75th Street) between 4th and 5th Avenues is often called ‘Doctor’s Row’ because of the high concentration of medical practitioners along the strip.” A block away, the cornice on a building notes the name as “Florence Row.”–Right in Bay Ridge

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Bay Ridge’s excellent “stupid + retarded” tenant situation has taken another turn. Now, there is a festive sign in red and green telling tenants to “stop being sissy’s” and demand lights in the hallway go on by 4 PM. It the signs keep going up, will it be long before reporters seeing pics of the […]

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All we can say for sure is that this house isn’t in Park Slope, Williamsburg, Prospect Heights, Greenpoint or Brooklyn Heights. Readers, however, say that it is in Bay Ridge.–Brit in Brooklyn

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The Tiffany Diner, a holdover from a different era when Bay Ridge was “a raucous free-wheeling bar town,” has been demolished. It’s a big hole now, waiting a new Commerce Bank branch.–Bay Ridge Rover

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Not that it will happen soon, but a City Council Member from Canarsie is proposing a subway tunnel from Bay Ridge to Staten Island. Maybe they can use the one they started digging in the 1920s.–Brooklyn Paper

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You can drop off your unwanted computers, monitors, printers, cell phones and other electronic equipment for recycling in Bay Ridge next weekend at an event being sponsored by Council Members Vincent Gentile and Bill de Blasio. It takes place at Poly Prep Country Day School, which is located on 7th Avenue at the baseball field […]

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Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

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The timing is weird, given that the tornado spawning storm that hit Brooklyn occurred a month ago, but President Bush has finally signed a disaster declaration for Brooklyn. It makes residents eligible to apply for federal and state disaster assistance. Those who suffered damage or losses from the severe storms and flooding are encouraged to […]

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Forgotten New York weighs in this week with a huge new feature on Brooklyn’s Lief Ericson Corridor: Bay Ridge’s Lief Ericson Park can also be called a corridor park, running between Ridge Boulevard and Fort Hamilton Parkway in fits and starts, mostly between 66th and 67th Streets. What’s notable is that the park is used […]

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This post over at the Bay Ridge Blog jumped out at us because it raises the always-provacative issue of museums and the art they display. The museum in question is the Brooklyn Museum and the blogger takes issues with the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. There is background here. The blogger had almost […]

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