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Business
Isabella’s Wedding Center at 2299 Coney Island Avenue. (Source: Google Maps) Customers at Isabella’s Wedding Center, the bridal store on Coney Island Avenue, described shady business practices years before the owners abruptly closed shop and vanished along with cash and dresses from several wedding parties. As we reported
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Rendering of the tower at 1501 Voorhies Avenue. (Source: CityRealty [https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/sheepshead-bay/1501-voorhies-avenue/74373?query=1501] )The first tenants could be moving into the 28-story residential tower being constructed beside the Sheepshead Bay subway station as early as the spring of 2017 — and all of the
Police & Fire
A police cruiser parked outside the 61st precinct. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Join the 61st Precinct Community Council for its first monthly meeting of 2016 this Wednesday at the YDE School located at 2533 Coney Island Avenue, near Gravesend Neck Road. The meeting takes place at 7:30pm. The
Bensonhurst
Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)In response to pressure from local politicians, the city is sending an additional 20 officers to Coney Island this summer to clear out costumed characters and panhandlers who have been hassling residents and visitors in the neighborhood’s amusement
Police & Fire
Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)In response to pressure from local politicians, the city is sending an additional 20 officers to Coney Island this summer to clear out costumed characters and panhandlers who have been hassling residents and visitors in the neighborhood’s amusement
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Photo via Halstead [https://www.halstead.com/]A developer is receiving pushback over plans to convert Park Slope’s Tracy Mansion [/?s=tracy+mansion] — part of the neighborhood’s historic district — into an apartment building by adding another floor and a rear extension to the building, New York YIMBY reports
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Police & Fire
Photo provided by the NYPD.Police are searching for an opportunistic thief who swiped a wallet from a jacket hanging in an Avenue U deli last week. Cops say the suspect entered the deli, at the corner of East 16th Street, on Tuesday at noon. He reached into a jacket
Police & Fire
Photo provided by the NYPD.Cops are searching for a burglar who wandered the halls of a residential building on Batchelder Street last week checking for unlocked doors. He made off with a laptop and two cameras from one apartment, police say. Police say the suspect entered the building, located
Bensonhurst
77th Street Station: BMT Fourth Avenue Line, January 14, 1916. (Photo: New York Transit Museum [https://www.facebook.com/nytransitmuseum/photos/a.10151190426178843.464189.89895068842/10151190426338843/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Celebrate (or grieve) the R train’s 100 birthday at The
Events
77th Street Station: BMT Fourth Avenue Line, January 14, 1916. (Photo: New York Transit Museum [https://www.facebook.com/nytransitmuseum/photos/a.10151190426178843.464189.89895068842/10151190426338843/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Celebrate (or grieve) the R train’s 100 birthday at The