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(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/zoning-qa/presentation_0915.pdf] (ZQA) and Mandatory
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275 4th Avenue, rendering by Moso Studio/ODA Architecture. (Courtesy of Moso Studio/ODA Architecture)The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability [http://www.nyc.gov/
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(Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The City Council voted overwhelmingly Tuesday in favor of two controversial zoning changes proposed by the mayor to spur the construction of affordable housing. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/zoning-qa/presentation_0915.pdf] (ZQA) and Mandatory
News
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)The owners of a Midwood construction company, who benefited from a program to assist minority-owned businesses, pleaded guilty to violating prevailing wage laws and pocketing almost $150,000 meant for their employees, Brooklyn District Attorney
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(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a man who broke into a synagogue earlier this month and stole the congregation’s collection money. Authorities say the thief climbed through a window at Congregation Kozover [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Congregation-Kozover/1510735702556179], located on East 28th Street, between
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The Tovushi Center’s youth soccer team with their trophy and medals. (Photo provided by Raisa Chernina)The Tovushi Kavkazi Jewish Youth Center [/tag/tovushi-kavkazi-jewish-youth-center/]‘s youth soccer home took home first place in a city-wide tournament last week. The indoor tournament, part of the “Under 10” division for the
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An eight-story building is expected to take the place of three properties on Sheepshead Bay Road. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Sheepshead Bay’s rampaging real estate market [/deutsch-says-he-will-back-mayors-zoning-plan-if-waterfronts-are-protected/] has delivered another major construction project to the waterfront. Following a $3.66 million land deal [/three-sheepshead-bay-road-properties-sold-for-3-6-million/] last month, a developer
Police & Fire
Photo provided by the NYPDA good samaritan was stabbed in Brighton Beach Sunday morning when he tried to break up an argument, police say. The victim, a 27-year-old man, was stopped at Brighton 13th Street and Oceanview Avenue at around 4:20am, when he noticed a man arguing with a
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Firefighters emerging from Marine Park after Monday’s brush fire. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Scores of firefighters spent almost two hours battling a raging brush fire in the southern edge of Marine Park’s salt marsh Monday night. Lieutenant Dave Ostrowski, a member of the Gerritsen Beach Volunteer Fire
Health
Photo by Park Slope StoopA key component of New York’s effort to bring down opioid abuse — which requires doctors to file prescriptions electronically [http://www.health.ny.gov/publications/1098.pdf] rather than with handwritten notes — takes affect next week, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced [https://www.governor.ny.gov/
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