New Boardwalk, Old Problems

While much of the boardwalk is changing, some things stay the same.

Along several newly-renovated areas of the boardwalk, with concrete planks taking the place of wood, there already are screws popping up and planks coming loose, causing all too familiar hazards.

More...

Farewell to the Boardwalk

The Brighton Beach and Coney Island boardwalk will be no more

The city Parks Department plans to replace all of the Brighton boardwalk and most of the Coney Island boardwalk with, to the shock of many residents and boardwalk visitors, concrete.

More...

The Gift of Life - For a Price

Israeli man donates kidney for $20,000

When an Israeli man decided to donate his kidney for $20,000 four years ago, he violated the 1984 National Organ Transplant Act prohibiting the sale and purchase of organs. He also saved someone’s life.

More...

A Rare Visitor

Peregrine falcon spotted in Brooklyn

Bay Currents associate editor Arthur melnick spotted this peregrine falcon enjoying his freshly killed pigeon dinner on a tree along Ocean Parkway. These biords are quite rare in southern Brooklyn.

Featured Videos

Videos

Have your short videos featured here!

If you have a newsworthy, funny, exciting or otherwise interesting short video of local or citywide significance, send it or its link to info@baycurrents.net. Be sure to include your name, neighborhood, and contact information.

Latest Photos

Login To Bay Currents

Featured News

New Boardwalk, Old Problems
BAY CURRENTS EXCLUSIVE While much of the boardwalk is changing, some things apparently will stay the same – like re-occurring damage. Along several newly-renovated areas of the boardwalk, with concrete planks taking the place of wood, there already are screws popping up and planks coming loose, causing all too familiar…

1 comment Read more...
Why San Diego?
Area residents and loyal visitors to the boardwalk wonder why a company 3,000 miles away from New York -- T.B. Penick & Sons and its affiliate, Triton Structural Concrete in San Diego -- was awarded the $13.7 contract to reconstruct the iconic walkway.

Leave a Comment! Read more...
Turning an icon to stone
When the Parks Department begins turning the legendary boardwalk into a concrete-walk, it will eradicate a large chunk of Brooklyn history. Ever since the boardwalk was completed in Coney Island in the early 1920s, it was a key cultural attraction of New York City. With its location at the Coney…

Leave a Comment! Read more...
Wood or concrete?
How do local users of the boardwalk feel about the boardwalk project? Bay Currents writer Heeyen Park took a sampling of the pros and cons on a cold January day along the boardwalk:

Leave a Comment! Read more...
Transmitting to Hell
“All we can do now is pray.” People were crowding into the small reception area of Radio Soleil (“Sun Radio” in French) at 1622 Nostrand Ave. in Flatbush Thursday afternoon Jan. 14; two days after a horrific earthquake devastated the Caribbean homeland of tens of thousands of Brooklynites.…

Leave a Comment! Read more...

More Headlines

Hope and healing A local fund directed towards meeting the immediate and longer-term needs of Haitian American communities of New York City in aftermath of earthquake February 8, 2010, Brooklyn, NY – The Brooklyn...
Where to pick up Bay Currents BOXES Sheepshead Bay Road at East 16th Street (Q and B station) Avenue U and Nostrand Avenue Avenue U and Ocean Avenue Gerritsen Avenue and Avenue U (at Key Food) Kings Highway...
Seizing to Exist Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to convene a Charter Revision Commission has many community board members shaking in their boots as they speculate about their future -- or lack thereof. Board members say that...
Save Coney Island! A local non-profit group is determined to help restore and revitalize iconic Coney Island while preserving its historical and cultural value, even if it means going up against the city itself. The organization,...
Community Boards Were Once Powerful With the recent speculation surrounding the upcoming Charter Revision and its effect on the existence of community boards, it may be easy to forget that once upon a time community boards were given power,...