The Kid From Brooklyn on Starbucks

The Kid from Brooklyn isn't from Bay Ridge. But he should be!!

Flying over the Verrazano Bridge in a small plane

New York City VFR Flight From Southern Manhattan to the Verrazano Bridge. The bridge has a nice cloud layer over the deck. I don't fear heights much, but this is scary to me!

See today's View from 103 for a helicopter's view of the World Trade Center.

Second Annual Brooklyn Pizza Eating Contest - June 4

THE 2ND ANNUAL BROOKLYN PIZZA EATING CONTEST

Support the Children of Mercyfirst June 4th at

"THE 2ND ANNUAL BROOKLYN PIZZA EATING CONTEST"

Sponsored by Rocco's Pizzeria on 5th and Super Roofer

When: 5th Avenue Board of trade festival, Sunday, June 4th, 2006

(contest will start promptly at 3PM)

Where: Rocco's Pizzeria, 7818 5th Ave. (78th and 79th street)

Why: All proceeds donate to mercyFirst, a child welfare agency that is the union of Angel Guardian and St. Mary's Children and Family services, serving over 3,000 children at 27 locations throughout the NY area.

Prizes: Raffle includes Florida Vacation, DVD Player, Gift Certificates and more.

Live entertainment, media and more!

Contact us to be apart of our event.

Rocco's Pizzeria

Danny - 718-238-7655

Memorial Day in Bay Ridge 2006

Memorial Day in Bay Ridge 2006, originally uploaded by bayridgephantom.

Bay Ridge Place, between 69th Street and Ovington Avenue, about 1045 am.

Fairway Supermarket Opens In Brooklyn

P1000673.JPG, originally uploaded by David Prince.

The Brooklyn Dodgers Sym-Phony band still exists. They performed at the opening of the Red Hook Brooklyn Fairway Supermarket.

I opened my plastic bag of advertising circulars today, and what do I see for the first time ever, but a circular for Fairway Market. They've opened a big new store in Red Hook.

Bay Ridge is so desperately underserved for supermarkets --wonder why you can't drive two blocks without running into a Fresh Direct truck?--that there will surely be lots of people from Bay Ridge making the drive from Bay Ridge to Red Hook.

Bay Ridge basically only has two big supermarkets- Key Food and Foodtown on Third Avenue. Though they do the best they can, they're not that big, and are overcrowded on the weekend.

So, if you have a car, you may want to consider a trip to Fairway in Red Hook. Fairway is a great operation- the Broadway store in Manhattan has an immense selection of great food at fair prices. And Red Hook is not that far. And it is NOT the " bad neighborhood " that it once was.

Maybe Bay Ridge will get a huge quality supermarket someday. Don't hold your breath.

Laundromat on 86th Street

Laundromat on 86th Street, originally uploaded by bayridgephantom.

This laundromat looks like it has stood at the north side of 86th Street, above Sixth Avenue, for quite a while. Gotta love those curtains.

Bay Ridge Ave Subway Entrance

Bay Ridge Ave Subway, originally uploaded by dstueber.

There's a whole universe of photos to be found on flickr.com and Bay Ridge gets its fair share.

See above shot of the world-famous Bay Ridge Avenue R subway entrance. From below, looking up. Get nice separation of the globes, what looks to be the last bit of light before night sets in, from above and through the rails to the left.

If you're like me, you'l often enough turn to the right upon exiting here, in order to get two slices and a Coke from Original's Pizza on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Bay Ridge Avenue ( 69th St )