About Bay Ridge Odyssey

Bay Ridge Odyssey is a neighborhood blog for Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights – the web site about our happenings and goings-on. We write about news and events. We share pictures from around the town. And sometimes, along the way, we say what’s on our mind.

Bay Ridge Odyssey was founded by Brian Hedden as BK Southie in May 2009 and published for two years continuously. After a six-month hiatus, it returned on a “soft” re-launch basis in November 2011, and was renamed as Odyssey in February 2012 to reflect the site’s new focus on Bay Ridge.

A Primer In Five Articles

I was actually a little sad inside the day I realized I had outgrown this magazine.

1. We believe “South Brooklyn” is the section of Brooklyn that takes its name from its location south of other parts of Brooklyn, and is not north of any other part of Brooklyn. If you are eating a slice of pizza in “South Brooklyn” but you are on Court Street, you are actually in “North Brooklyn.”
2. Our site takes its name from both a children’s science and space exploration magazine and the local nightclub featured in Saturday Night Fever, but if you think about it, both of those things were probably named after the Arthur Clarke novel and Stanley Kubrick film.
3. We hate hit-and-run drivers for both the “hit” and the “run” part.
4. If we want our pizza to come in triangles, we ask for slices. If we want it to come in squares, we ask for squares.
5. We tease the Community Newspaper Group. A lot.

Contribute / Contact

If you have a photo, event, news tip, or any other story idea to share with us, you can contact us by sending an e-mail to info@bayridgeodyssey.com.