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ICYMI: Local Father Dies In Motorcycle Crash, Public School Employees Tell Immigrant Students To “Pack Their Bags”

Hannah Frishberg

Nov 27, 2016 — 1 min read

From the Avenue P subway station. (Photo by Hannah Frishberg / Bensonhurst Bean)

Public school employees tell immigrant students in Bay Ridge, Sunset Park to “start packing your bags“
Remembering Bensonhurst native and Brooklyn Borough President, Sebastian Leone, who died this month at 91
A small victory has been won in Bensonhurst’s ceaseless war against double parked USPS trucks
A Thanksgiving miracle: man who went missing in front of Coney Island Hospital is found
Take a tour with us of Bensonhurst, Gravesend, and Bath Beach’s best Russian supermarkets
The life of a Gravesend father was tragically taken in a fatal motorcycle crash on Avenue X, just days before Thanksgiving

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