Kyle Kucharski

Business

Plans for New Homeless Shelter Move Forward, Local Business Caught in the Middle

CONEY ISLAND – Despite strong community pushback, the homeless outreach organization Women In Need (WIN) [http://www.winnyc.org/] is moving forward with plans to construct a seven-story homeless shelter at 2200 Neptune Avenue in Coney Island. Although no formal announcement has been made by Women In Need yet, the first

Coney Island

5 Years Since Sandy: Coney Island Community Center Still Not Repaired

The haphazard construction site at the Surfside Gardens Community Center in Coney Island (Kyle Kucharski / BKLYNER)CONEY ISLAND – This October marks the five-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy’s destructive landfall here in New York, yet some areas of the city seem to have been more neglected in recovery efforts. The