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(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for an elderly man with a cane who allegedly swiped a woman’s wallet at a Kings Highway grocery store earlier this month. The pickpocket made his move at 3pm on January 16 inside Mama Liza’s Gourmet Foods [http://www.yelp.
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The Zig Zag Records sign now lives in a Williamsburg warehouse. (Photo: Corey Kanterman [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153792626488330&set=gm.10153668708590801&type=3&theater] / Facebook)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have
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The Shore Theater at 1301 Surf Avenue. (Photo: Luca Vanzella [https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanz/3097815498/in/photolist-5HK7C3] / Flickr) Rumors that Coney Island’s landmarked Shore Theater was sold to a developer triggered a tide of excitement this week that the long-neglected property [/owner-coney-islands-shore-theater-snubs-proposals-reactivate-landmarked-site/#.VqPJh5MrKSM] would be restored to
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The Shore Theater at 1301 Surf Avenue. (Photo: Luca Vanzella [https://www.flickr.com/photos/vanz/3097815498/in/photolist-5HK7C3] / Flickr) Rumors that Coney Island’s landmarked Shore Theater was sold to a developer triggered a tide of excitement this week that the long-neglected property would be restored to its former
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Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
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Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz. (Photo: Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz [https://www.facebook.com/AssemblymanStevenCymbrowitz/photos/a.465589220131458.107581.465589086798138/465633266793720/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Are you scrambling to find a healthcare plan before this year’s open enrollment period ends on January 31? Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz [http://assembly.state.ny.us/
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Photo by Courtney SolomineCops in Coney Island will soon be getting some new tech to help keep a lid on gun violence. As part of his 2017 budget proposa [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/077-16/fact-sheet-mayor-de-blasio-releases-preliminary-budget-fiscal-year-2017] l released Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to expand the NYPD’s
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Photo by Courtney SolomineCops in Coney Island will soon be getting some new tech to help keep a lid on gun violence. As part of his 2017 budget proposal [http://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/077-16/fact-sheet-mayor-de-blasio-releases-preliminary-budget-fiscal-year-2017] released Thursday, Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to expand the NYPD’s ShotSpotter
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Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)A local transportation group accused police Thursday of ‘victim-blaming’ during their investigation of a hit-and-run that killed a bicyclist from Bensonhurst on Avenue U. The group, Transportation Alternatives [http://transalt.org/news/releases/8516], cited an article by the