Tag: Bay Ridge
The Brooklyn District Attorney’s office continued its quest against shady massage parlors this week, shuttering Bay Ridge’s notorious Bright Ocean Spa and four other spas in the area for alleged prostitution. Last time, evidence showed human trafficking may have been involved, and that seems to be the case in at least one instance here. According to […]
Lately, donation boxes have been popping up around Brooklyn–this Brooklyn Paper article mentions Bay Ridge; I’ve seen them in Sunset Park–run by companies like USAGain, Spingreen, and Green Tree, that collect old clothes from neighborhood residents and vaguely “reuse” them, without much explanation as to what that reusing entails. And while it’s true that […]
While perusing Google Maps Street View for an unrelated purpose, we came across this little oddity: when looking at the building at 7427 5th Avenue in Bay Ridge while “standing” on 5th, you see the Chase bank that currently occupies the space. When moving your vantage point to Bay Ridge Parkway, however, you’re treated to […]
