Where are you, Karen Bell?

Where are you, Karen Bell? What has happened to your blog? I used to read it every day. You last updated it four months ago. You used to describe things that happened in and around Bensonhurst, the neighborhood where you and I live, in a very intelligent manner.


Karen Bell in California on Sept. 17, 2003 in an image downloaded from the original Karen's Shorts blog, which, like the current one, is offline.

Save the Mark Lanes Bowling Alley!

As you have read in the newspapers, the Mark Lanes Bowling Alley's lease is scheduled to run out this summer. Century 21, the new owner, will tear down the bowling alley and turn it into a parking lot - that is, if they get a city variance. A public hearing from Community Board 10 would also be required. Now is the time to save Mark Lanes by signing a petition, as my good friend Maria "The Ice Cream Girl" Campanella has done. Click the link below to sign:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?rush06&201