Please tell me there’s a point in the week – or even in the year – when people are steaming in and out of both the American Legion and the Oulel Albab mosque. Now, THAT is a picture that would be worth a thousand words.
Memo to Oxygen Network: The next time you want to name your show after the zip code in which it takes place, you might want to Google said zip code.
I have to admit, I don’t really watch much programming on the Oxygen Network. Surprised? It was fun at first, when they showed Barbarella five or six times a day, but after that, they stopped airing shows that could hold my interest. Lucky for me, I’ve got Facebook Friends™ who stay right on top of this sort of thing. Like yesterday, when a friend shared this NY Post story:
Photo: EJ Camp/Oxygen Media
It’s “Jersey Shore’’ à la Bay Ridge — where they just won’t fuhgeddaboutit.
A once tightknit group of girls from the Brooklyn ’hood are still at each other’s throats over an alleged heinous act of betrayal years ago — and their long-simmering beef has spurred a new documentary TV series called “Brooklyn 11223.”
The show, which begins airing on the Oxygen network March 26, features such residents as Christy Maria Livoti, for whom there is no greater sin than seducing someone’s boyfriend and lying about it.
The object of scorn for Livoti and about a dozen of her closest friends is Joey Lynn Tekulve, 24, a pal since kindergarten at PS 215 in Gravesend. Their friendship abruptly ended after Tekulve allegedly seduced Livoti’s then-boyfriend about three years ago.
I know you’re thinking, it can’t get better than this. It gets better. Click here to keep reading…
Feb 202012
Grimm on 5th Avenue in June 2010, when he was a candidate seeking to unseat Democrat Michael McMahon. (Photo: Brian Hedden)
It hasn’t been an easy week in the media for Congressman Michael Grimm, the Republican representing Bay Ridge and Staten Island in the House of Representatives.
Yesterday’s news that a staffer for Representative Michael Grimm had been arrested for a physical altercation with his teenage son is the latest in a series of black marks against the Congressman and his office. The Staten Island Advance and other outlets reported that Liam McCabe, a community relations director in Grimm’s Bay Ridge office, had been charged with assault, menacing, and endangering the welfare of a child after violently shaking his 14-year-old son outside of the school where the teen had been caught with marijuana. Grimm suspended McCabe, pending the results of the investigation.
Earlier last week, the New York Times published an expose detailing three separate business practices of varying degrees of shadiness both before and after his FBI career that flies counter to his image of ethics beyond reproach: Continue reading »
Remember: the key to a strong harbor defense is being ready to blow your principal bridges to smithereens before letting them fall into enemy hands. John Paul Jones knew this. That is why there was no bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island during the Revolutionary War.
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This is a bit of a sick day for me, so instead of a recent picture, you get this one from the Wayback Machine of 2007. I love that one of the reviews on Yelp described this place as a “spinoff” of the “original located in Coney Island.” OK. Sure.
This was the incarnation of Peggy’s that existed before it’s closure in 2009. Not the “real” Peggy’s. (And I’m not talking about Coney Island anymore.)
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The cast of "The Unexpected Guest." Photo credit: Jennifer Hansen
The Narrows Community Theater will begin a six-performance run next Friday of The Unexpected Guest, a 1958 play written by famed crime writer Agatha Christie.
The Theater describes the plot as such:
Imagine a foggy night. A stranger’s car breaks down, so he enters the Warwick home looking for help only to find the owner Richard Warwick dead and his young wife holding a gun. Well, the murderer seems obvious doesn’t it? Or, does it? Anyone familiar with Agatha Christie’s writing knows that the culprit is never obvious, but, is only revealed through hauntingly captivating dialogue and many twists and turns of events. In typical Christie fashion, there is always a surprise ending! The murderer could be anyone!
Opening night is Friday, February 24. The Friday and Saturday shows (Feb. 24, Feb. 25, Mar. 2, Mar. 3) begin at 8pm. The Sunday performances (Feb. 26, Mar. 4) begin at 3pm. All shows are at St. Patrick’s Auditorium (4th Avenue and 97th Street). Tickets are $15 ($12 for seniors, students under 21, and children).
P.S. If any aspiring actors are interested, the Narrows Community Theater is holding auditions tomorrow (7pm, 9000 Shore Road) for My Fair Lady, the Theater’s mid-May production.
I wonder if I should have taken a video of this firehouse instead of a still photo. Just try to imagine the flags barely fluttering because they’re held taut by the wind, and imagine all you can hear is wind noise.
A short trench has been dug into 76th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues in order for the city to perform ‘emergency sewer reconstruction.’
We’ve reached out to the NYC Department of Design and Construction to determine how long the project is expected to take. We haven’t heard back by our publishing deadline, but we’ll update this story if and when they respond.
This past Saturday, Little Kitchen (9300 5th Avenue) held a Grand Opening event. The restaurant – which has been open “unofficially” for a few weeks – is next door to Kelly’s Tavern, and is co-owened by Corrine Betsch and Kelly’s owner John Nolan.
Your author sampled everything in the photograph below the jump, and the split pea soup as well, and can report that it is very good. Another attendee tells me that the burger is also very good – Skinflints good. I can’t personally attest to this, but I’ll certainly be going back to find out. Signature dish fish & chips and a variety of sandwiches are also on the menu. Continue reading »
