Bensonhurst
(Photo: Luna Park NYC [https://www.facebook.com/LunaParkNYC/photos/pb.375624901061.-2207520000.1458593507./10154017061651062/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Don’t miss opening day at Luna Park (rescheduled because of an expected snowstorm), as well as the blessing of the rides
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15-year-old Destiny Garcia is accused of murdering her mother and mother’s boyfriend. (Photo: Destiny Garcia [https://www.facebook.com/julisa.guzman.10?fref=ts] / Facebook)More tragic news for the troubled teenager accused of a bloody double-homicide [/15-year-old-girl-taken-into-custody-after-cops-find-two-bullet-riddled-bodies-at-the-sheepshead-bay-houses/] in the Sheepshead Bay Houses last year. The Daily News reports
Events
(Photo: Luna Park NYC [https://www.facebook.com/LunaParkNYC/photos/pb.375624901061.-2207520000.1458593507./10154017061651062/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Don’t miss opening day at Luna Park (rescheduled because of an expected snowstorm), as well as the blessing of the rides
Events
Kids got dressed up for the Kings Bay Y’s annual Purim party. (Photo: Kenneth Brown)The Kings Bay Y [http://www.kingsbayy.org/] hosted one of its largest Purim parties Sunday when more than 3,000 people swarmed the community center for an afternoon filled with colorful costumes, dance,
Bensonhurst
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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Image via Park Slope Stoop.A 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.
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/
Police & Fire
An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)Two adults and two children were hospitalized when an SUV collided with another car and then crashed into a flower shop on Gravesend Neck Road Saturday evening, the New York Post reports [http://nypost.com/2016/
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Photo by Erica Sherman [http://websta.me/p/1081210036566333164_46892020]In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow us on
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Photo by Leon LipkovichThe City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio have reached an agreement on two zoning changes meant to spur construction of affordable housing [http://www.nyc.gov/html/housing/assets/downloads/pdf/housing_plan.pdf] in the New York City. The proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability