Sheepshead Bay

Kittery Brings a Taste of the Beach to Carroll Gardens

A sea worthy clam shack

Conditions Still Bad in Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach, Most Restaurants Closed

The Gorilla Cheese truck dispenses free toasted cheese sandwiches to the storm-beleaguered of Brighton Beach. Bad as things are in Coney Island, they're worse in Sheepshead Bay, as my bike ride Friday demonstrated. The concrete-lined bay and quarter-mile-distant town center have a restaurant econo ... More >>

Nathan's Famous, Totonno's Pizzeria Napolitano Still Shuttered After Storm

Nathan's Famous has been dark for nearly two weeks -- perhaps for the first time in its 96-year history. Today I took a bicycle tour of Coney Island, Brighton Beach, and Sheepshead Bay. Those areas of Brooklyn along the Atlantic Coast are more devastated than has been reported. One stumbles on par ... More >>

Brooklynites, You're Going To Have To Ice-Skate Somewhere Else This Winter

Come winter, New Yorkers love to ice-skate. They also love to hibernate for three months and watch Woody Allen movies (for whatever the reason, his flicks comfortably settle when it's freezing outside). However, I do not like to ice-skate - I tried my unbalanced luck at the rink in Central Park a fe ... More >>

Journey to the Goat Soup of Your Dreams

[See More Gears 'n' Grub: A Taste of Sri Lanka on Staten Island | A Ride to the Roll 'n' Roaster in Sheepshead Bay] Cinco de Mayo's goat soup is the soup of my dreams. Thin, but deep in flavor. The tomato-based broth has chunks of goat on the bone and nuggets of hominy. I usually add in a healthy s ... More >>

A Taste of Sri Lanka on Staten Island

[See More Gears 'n' Grub: A Ride to the Roll 'n' Roaster in Sheepshead Bay]

Welcome to Gears 'n' Grub, Our New Illustrated Series

Hello! And welcome to Gears 'n' Grub, an illustrated series about the great snacks I find on bike rides across New York City. Our first stop: the old Roll-N-Roaster in Sheepshead Bay, which I came across after a trip to Bottle Beach (also know as Dead Horse Bay).

A Ride to the Roll 'n' Roaster in Sheepshead Bay

Double Digit Crime Spikes In Almost One-Third of All City Police Precincts

Crime citywide is up by 4 percent through last week, pushed largely by an increase in grand larcenies, though there have been 15 percent fewer homicides so far this year over last, NYPD figures through July 8 show. Much more troubling are the larger increases in some of the city's police precincts. ... More >>

Under the Toque: Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Tom Colicchio

Jean-Georges Vongerichten is expanding his empire and his set to open ABC Cocina this fall. "We will have paella, croquettas, a lot of small plates,'' Vongerichten told Grub Street. [Grub Street] Tom Colicchio will be the anchor tenant of a new outdoor market that will open under the High Line in ... More >>

A Youth Stabbing and Deadly Fire Last Night in Bushwick

The past few weekends have been a little rough for Brooklyn residents. Last Saturday, we reported on a deadly accident that happened in Sheepshead Bay and a police officer who might have been over the legal limit to drive in Brooklyn Heights. This week, our attention shifts to th ... More >>

A Fatal Car Crash, NYPD Cop DWI In Brooklyn Last Night; Nassau Cops Get a DWI Grant

It was an eventful but tragic evening in the outer borough of Kings County.Late last night, on the Ocean Parkway in Sheepshead Bay, two cars met in a head-on collision after the driver of a BMW lost control and swerved into oncoming traffic, hitting a minivan. The man behind the wheel, Jamal Iq ... More >>

Bloomberg Cites Crime Drop in Brooklyn Precinct; Doesn't Mention Big Spike

In his comments Sunday about the shooting of four police officers in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn, Mayor Bloomberg--never one to miss a chance to tout good numbers--told reporters that "crime is down something like 46 percent in the 61st Precinct since 2001." This is true. What he conveni ... More >>

10 Iconic Foods of New York City, and Where To Find Them

​Ultra-creamy New York cheesecake may be the world's richest dessert. Hotbed of culinary fusion, NYC is not only a repository of cuisines from around the globe, but the place where many important dishes originated, if not by pure invention, then as uniquely compelling adaptations of things t ... More >>

NYC's 10 Best Bargain Seafood Restaurants

​The catfish sandwich at Taste of Seafood (#10 in our countdown) is abundant, cheap, and delectable, especially smeared with tartar and jerk sauces. For those who think Omega-3 fatty acids mean longevity, fish is the new meat. For the rest of us, seafood is a just another delightful option ... More >>

Tomorrow: NYC's 10 Best Bargain Seafood Restaurants

Randazzo's shines like a beacon on Sheepshead Bay, the last man standing from what was once a large population of Italian clam bars along the bay. Will it make our top 10? The city's most well-regarded and renowned seafood restaurants -- places like Le Bernardin, Molyvos, and Esca -- are big-ticke ... More >>

Third Roll-Your-Own Cigs Place Opens in Brooklyn, Despite City Lawsuit Against First Two

​There are a handful of magical places in New York City where you can roll your own cigarettes and save considerable amounts of money in so doing. They're under threat, though, because the city has filed suit against the first two in existence. That hasn't stopped a third roll-your-own-smoke ... More >>

Sheesphead Bites Sponsors Tasting Event This Thursday

​Cheese-stuffed Fingers of Fatima at Liman Turkish restaurant in Sheepshead Bay A tasting event featuring the restaurants of Sheepshead Bay (several reviewed in the pages of the Voice) called A Taste of Sheepshead Bay will be held Thursday, October 27, at the Baron DeKalb Knights of Columbu ... More >>

Brooklyn Supermarket Resorting to Olfactory Mind Control

​A chain of supermarkets in Brooklyn and Staten Island has started piping in food scents to their stores in an effort to subliminally encourage customers to buy stuff. Scents you might smell in NetCost Market include "Lindt Chocolate," "Smoky Bacon," and "Rosemary Focaccia." A shopper in Sheepshea ... More >>

Five Dead and Gone Classic Brooklyn Restaurants

pbase.comAt one time, Lundy's was the world's largest restaurant, seating 2,800 hungry souls.​ Shed a tear for Brooklyn's great restaurants of the past. They once defined life in the borough, making it unnecessary to toddle to Manhattan for a lively and memorable night out, and they died as t ... More >>

T.G.I. Friday's Among Those Charged With Dumping Waste and Raw Sewage in Brooklyn Waterways

Because untreated grease gives us all something to smile about!​Here's yet another reason we find ourselves weary of the continuing existence of T.G.I. Friday's.

Robert Sietsema at I Sodi; Sarah DiGregorio at Co Ba

This week in The Voice, Robert Sietsema shares his appreciation for I Sodi: "one largely overlooked restaurant in town that has succeeded in reproducing an actual Tuscan bill of fare, such as you might find in roadside osterias near Cortona or Gaiole-in-Chianti." Sarah DiGregorio files on Co Ba in C ... More >>

Mosque Near Ground Zero Passes Another Hurdle

Community Board One voted last night 24-to-11 (with two abstentions) not to push for landmark status of 45-47 Park Place. That location is set to be the home of the formerly named Cordoba House, the $100 million mosque and interfaith cultural center just a couple blocks from where the World Trade Ce ... More >>

Robert Sietsema at Halikarnas and Marmaris; Sarah DiGregorio at 5 & Diamond

This week in the Voice, Robert Sietsema takes to Sheepshead Bay to visit Halikarnas and Marmaris, two competing Turkish seafood spots; while Sarah DiGregorio heads up to Harlem to see just how Twitter-happy chef Ryan Skeen is holding up at 5 & Diamond. Sam Sifton approves of Takashi: "a modest and ... More >>

Coney Island Taste Heaps Up the Flavors of Peru

A Brooklyn bodega offers unexpected delights

Where Am I Eating? Marmaris, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn

​ I boasted that the Where Am I Eating contest would be tough this week, but little did I know how tough. The picture was of an octopus casserole smothered in cheese. The best clue lay in identifying the pale, finger-shaped masses as octopus tentacles, and the cheese as something Mediterranean ... More >>

Sheepshead Bay "Hell House," Once Home to Winsor McCay, Now a Dump

​There's a sad old house with a Greek revival portico in Sheepshead Bay that Sheepshead Bites labels "Hell House," because of the angry messages tenants spray-painted on the facade ("WELCOME TO HELL" and "BED BUGS PARADISE" among them). The graffiti's been scrubbed, SB learns, but the owners ... More >>

Sheepshead Bay Remembers: Old Roll-n-Roaster Commercial

Well, Movable Type is a fucking mess today, and who knows when the previous post will be visible. Bitter experience has taught us that the best way to make sure MT is working is to post something you might regret. So here's an old commercial for Roll-n-Roaster, the "not-so-fast fast food restauran ... More >>

Pix from Liman Turkish Seafood Restaurant in Sheepshead Bay

​ Fried fresh anchovies at Liman--cheap, sustainable, delicious. Today Counter Culture swims into Liman, a Turkish seafood restaurant perched on the pouting cement lip of Sheepshead Bay. Stroll the bay in the early evening, as party fishing boats dock, and fishers swarm over the bows, bearing ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

In the TV business, you sort of expect executives to pad their expense accounts, use station employees to run personal errands, and even do personal work for profit on company time and equipment. But it's a little different when taxpayers foot the bill. Tom Robbins lays out how the city's broadcas ... More >>

Weekend Special--Sheepshead Bay by Night

Waiting for the night fishing boats to return to Sheepshead Bay, Thursday, 11 pm. Cafe crawlers who've been sitting at outdoor tables in the mild evening are packing up and getting ready to go home along the concrete bathtub that is Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Party boats disgorge tourists and gr ... More >>

Somebody Got Murdered: Shooting in Sheepshead Bay

View Larger MapLOCATION: Voorhies Avenue and East 18th StreetTIME: 12:47 a.m. this morningA 50-year-old native of India was shot and mortally wounded shortly after midnight Thursday in the Sheepshead Bay section of Brooklyn. Details on the shooting are still limited, but cops say Tamiz Din was shot ... More >>

Our Man Sietsema and the Greek Vacation on Acid

Yiasou Imitates Midtown 'Estiatorios' But Is Easier on the Paycheck

A place to go in Brooklyn where nobody knows your name

Spring Food Preview: Sailing and Scarfing

Where to eat as you take to NYC's bounding main

Priceless: This Cat-Hair Coated Bean Bag is Yours - Free!

Our Man Sietsema: 'Would it Be Boner-Like?'

Georgia Rule

A forest of phalli at a Georgian restaurant on the beaches of Sheepshead Bay

Rearing Trout

A lavish charcoal-driven summer retreat in Sheepshead Bay

Aw, Shucks

A New York oyster story

Meat Bombs

Sailing away to Turkey and beyond on Coney Island Avenue

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Close-up on Sheepshead Bay

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