This is a paid announcement from the Midwood Development Corp.: Shop local this holiday season! The Midwood Development Corp. (MDC) and the Midwood Merchants Association (MMA) present Shop Midwood Week, December 14-28, 2014. Participating merchants on Avenue J, Avenue M, and Coney Island Avenue are offering…
Free coats – and free food – are coming to the Kings Bay YMCA this Sunday, December 14, courtesy of a community coat drive organized by SpinGreen, a 1733 Sheepshead Bay Road-based textile-recycling company, and Investors Bank. The event is set to run from…
UPDATE: See the exclusive renderings for the building the new owners have planned for this space, and hear what the current owners and some patrons will miss the most when El Greco closes. Sheepshead Bay’s iconic El Greco Diner is set to shutter next…
T.G.I. Fridays wants to make dinner a little hotter this holiday season, so they’re deploying drones equipped with dangling mistletoe to hover over diners’ heads and encourage a little heavy petting. The Sheepshead Bay Fridays at 3181 Harkness Avenue will…
Do you miss the days of heading down Emmons Avenue to Brown Street for some Chinese food at Hong Kong City? Well, the former owners are back with a new place in Bensonhurst. Hong Kong City, the one of the…
The owners of Cherry Hill Gourmet Market are working to open up a new Glatt Kosher market in the former site of the legendary Richard Yee’s Restaurant at 2617 Avenue U. Neighbors began noticing construction in late summer, with the…
Thank goodness. Sheepshead Bay Road has what it’s been missing for a whole six months: a Sprint store. Sure, you could say, “What’s wrong with any of the six other cell phone stores (not to mention the two barber shops that also…
This is a paid announcement from Brokelyn, a webmag devoted to living the best possible life in Brooklyn regardless of one’s means: What’s a better gift than a pocket full of free beers at the best bars in Brooklyn? The South Brooklyn &…
It was with great dismay that we noticed Back to USSR pulling down its signs over the summer, after two years in business. The kitschy, Soviet-themed restaurant at 2817 Coney Island Avenue was a great place to bring people from…
After a blitz of independent and local chain frozen yogurt joints opening up in Sheepshead Bay these last few years, national franchise Red Mango has staked out a location on Kings Highway. Located at 1222 Kings Highway, it’s the second…
