GrowInStyle is a company founded by a mom in Sheepshead Bay Mom who’s got business to tend to while mommin’ the kid. To do so, she’s got herself an amazing website that not only provides all the urban babies the chance to have the oh so popular French giraffe teether we all know as Sophie […]

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[Image courtesy of Forgotten NY] Forgotten NY takes a trip to Sheepshead Bay this week and features a mural from 1994 that still offers glimpses of Sheepshead Bay’s past and presumed future. Here’s a bit of what Master New York Factologist Kevin Walsh has to say: Sometimes, NYC history can be preserved in the unlikeliest […]

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[Photo courtesy of Nifty Pete/GL Flickr Pool] The Q outside in Sheepshead Bay in some gorgeous light.

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“Just after Tropical Storm Hanna, we reported on the growing situation with the possibly predatorial plant that is taking over certain parts of Sheepshead Bay. A few weeks later, I interviewed a vigilante property owner, known as Kam, who was single-handedly taking on the culprit. Without any help from anyone else, Kam cut down and […]

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The energy scam reports keep on coming and, in some ways, keep getting stranger. Here’s one from Sheepshead Bay, via the email list from our good friends at Park Slope Parents, who are always performing a community service in getting the work out: Im in Sheepshead Bay was at the nail salon. Two well dressed […]

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[Photo courtesy of galvarez51/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a really cool pic dropped into our GL Flickr Pool by galvarez51 that shows some of that good old entrepreneurial spirit in Sheepshead Bay.

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[Photo courtesy of Erinmelina/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s another cool pic of Sheepshead Bay around dusk placed in our GL Flickr Pool by Erinmelina. Fishing boat, orange clouds and water, a perfect Southern Brooklyn scene. The boat sails at 7AM.

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[Photo courtesy of Erinmelina/GL Flickr Pool] Check out that Sheepshead Bay sky outside Randazzo’s Clam Bar on Emmons Avenue. Opinions about Randazzo’s may vary, but should be fairly more uniform regarding the sky.

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[Photo courtesy of Rubys Host/GL Flickr Pool] The white buildings in the background is the development known as The Breakers, a Sheepshead Bay project that has garnered its share of attention, particularly because it’s a gated community that has cut people off from waterfront access. There’s a long post about here on Sheepshead Bites. There […]

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Here’s the latest from Brooklyn Independent Television’s series featuring local bloggers. This vid features Sheepshead Bites talking about the local Sheepshead Bay fishing fleet.

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Is it bad news for development projects when the developer gets into a nasty dispute with the people providing the financing? Well, projects in Gerritsen Beach and Sheepshead Bay being developed by Stephen Jamal as part of the Brooklyn Riviera should provide some insight. $5.5 million is at issue.–GerritsenBeach.Net

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This is Sheepshead Bay Station Plaza as designed by Greenberg Farrow. Local blogger Sheepshead Bites found the renderings of the big retail site and posted them, noting:<blockquote>Someone pointed me to the artistic renderings for Sheepshead Bay Station Plaza, the enormous shopping center being built by Acadia Realty and PA Associates practically right next door to […]

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“We noted a few weeks ago that renovation of the Lundy’s space is underway; now we’re happy to bring you confirmation of the new tenant. And the business that will be operating in the iconic building is… [cue drumroll]… Cherry Hill Gourmet Market, a local food market with a storefront currently on 2278 86th St, […]

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[Photo courtesy of Sail Brooklyn/flickr] These are powerboats docked in Sheepshead Bay. They come to the GL Photo Pool courtesy of Sail Brooklyn.

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[Photo courtesy of lornagrl/flckr] Yes, it’s time to get the wicker chairs out and drag them over to the water in Sheepshead Bay next to the footbridge that connects the former to Manhattan Beach. This superb image comes from lornagrl, whose full collection of Brooklyn shots is wonderful.

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There’s a new blog in Sheepshead Bay called Sheepshead Bites. It is billed as “Sheepshead Bay’s community meetings, development issues, local politics, interesting people, happenings and cool new places — these are just some of the beats the Bite will walk. Welcome to Sheepshead Bites. Real Brooklynites. Real teeth.”

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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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“For all her grit, filth, grease, stench, pollution, and absurd amounts of over-development (do we really need more condos, peeps? I mean, really!), Sheepshead Bay is not a half bad place to hang one’s hat at the end of the day.” Nice dusk pics, too.–Erica’s Blog

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“Years ago, along side the Brighton Line, was a spur for the Long Island Railroad that ended in Manhattan Beach. There are some remnants visible today, even though service ended in the late 1800’s. I took some photos at Neck Road station on the Brighton Line. Easy to see are two staircases on both sides […]

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“I took a few minutes during my travels in the past few days to both shoot some photos with my cell phone, and send some of the old ones that have been there for months to my email. Here’s a little slice of Brooklyn for the lot of youse who’ve never been here.” Definite slice […]

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The former landmark Lundy’s Restaurant in Sheepshead Bay is being gutted for conversion into a high-end food market. Check out the pics of a space that is impressive, even in a diminished statew.–GerritsenBeach.Net

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There’s been a record $20 million land deal that could mean “the landscape of Sheepshead Bay is about to be changed forever.” The site could end up with a 100,000 square foot retail center.–GerritsenBeach.Net

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The last we had heard the building housing Lundy’s, the closed venerable Sheepshead Bay restaurant, was rumored to be coming back to life as an Outback Steakhouse. GerritsenBeach.Net relates news that was deep in a Courier Life story a couple of week back about a WWII memorial plaque on the site the local civic association […]

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We missed this in our sleepy Saturday morning reader yesterday, but the New York Times featured a development story from Sheepshead Bay that could serve as a Poster Child for everything that is wrong with the (non) regulation of development and construction in Brooklyn. It’s about a six-story condo development called Homecrest that’s going up […]

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An interesting development to report from Sheepshead Bay, where the venerable (if recently bedraggled) Lundy’s shut down at the beginning of the year. Kinetic Carnival‘s O. Robau left this information as a comment on an older post, but it’s interesting enough to pass along on its own. All credit to Mr. Robau for the intel: […]

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