Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Sheepshead Bites

BEWARE: Colorful Monk Parakeets Could Cause The Next Blackout On Your Block


By Alex Ellefson on Mar 29, 2016 05:29 pm
Monk Parakeets. (Photo: Gary Leavens / Flickr)Frequent power outages have frustrated southern Brooklyn residents during the last several years. And while blackouts and brownouts (a drop in voltage that causes lights to dim) are often attributed to a fallen tree or burnt cable, there is another seemingly innocuous threat to our electric grid: colorful Monk Parakeets. The small, tropical green birds — [...]

If You Ask, Police Will Arrest Your Drug-Dealing Neighbor


By Alex Ellefson on Mar 29, 2016 02:19 pm
heroinTwo weeks after a resident pleaded with police at a community council meeting to crack down on brazen drug activity near her home, cops busted her heroin-dealing neighbor handing out narcotics on the block. Plain-clothed officers chased 22-year-old Nikita Pertsev into an apartment building last Wednesday after spotting him hand off a packet of heroin [...]

Professor Sues Kingsborough, Alleging ‘Systemic Anti-Semitism’ By College Administrators


By Alex Ellefson on Mar 29, 2016 11:50 am
Photo courtesy of Paypaul via FlickrA Kingsborough Community College professor has filed a lawsuit accusing top administrators of creating an culture of “systemic anti-Semitism” in which Jewish faculty were openly harassed and discriminated against. The lawsuit, first reported by the Algemeiner, was filed in February by Professor Jeffrey Lax, chairman of the Business Department. Lax, who is Orthodox Jewish, describes a [...]

Morning Mug: “A Little Bit Of Mercy Makes The World Less Cold And More Just.” — Pope Francis


By Alex Ellefson on Mar 29, 2016 09:46 am
Photo by Michael GoldsteinMorning Mug is our daily showcase of photographs from our readers. If you have a photograph that you’d like to see featured, send it to photos@sheepsheadbites.com. Also, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and sign up for our daily newsletter.

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