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Alex Ellefson

Feb
05
Be Advised: B & Q Service Suspended South Of Kings Highway Due To Fallen Tree [Updated]

Be Advised: B & Q Service Suspended South Of Kings Highway Due To Fallen Tree [Updated]

Photo by globegallivanter [https://instagram.com/p/zePqDAIn97/?modal=true] Attention straphangers: The MTA is reporting that southbound B &
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Feb
05
Councilmembers Rally Around Effort To Landmark Riegelmann Boardwalk

Councilmembers Rally Around Effort To Landmark Riegelmann Boardwalk

Source: blhphotography via FlickrCity councilmembers are pushing back against the effort to rip up parts of Coney Island’s Reigelmann
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Feb
05
Mayor’s Controversial Rezoning Plan Moves To City Council For Approval

Mayor’s Controversial Rezoning Plan Moves To City Council For Approval

Photo by Bensonhurst BeanMayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial rezoning plan — meant to address the city’s affordable housing crisis
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Feb
05
Morning Mug: “In Nature, Nothing Is Perfect And Everything Is Perfect. Trees Can Be Contorted, Bent In Weird Ways, And They’re Still Beautiful.” — Alice Walker

Morning Mug: “In Nature, Nothing Is Perfect And Everything Is Perfect. Trees Can Be Contorted, Bent In Weird Ways, And They’re Still Beautiful.” — Alice Walker

Photo by Laura SingerMorning Mug is our daily showcase of photographs from our readers. If you have a photograph that
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Feb
04
Mayor’s Controversial Rezoning Plan Moves To City Council For Approval

Mayor’s Controversial Rezoning Plan Moves To City Council For Approval

Photo by Leon LipkovichMayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial rezoning plan — meant to address the city’s affordable housing crisis
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Feb
04
Local Pols Call Out Cuomo For Using Seniors As Political Pawns

Local Pols Call Out Cuomo For Using Seniors As Political Pawns

Governor Andrew Cuomo at his 2016 State of the State speech. (Photo: PROgovernorandrewcuomo [https://www.flickr.com/photos/governorandrewcuomo/23994415209/
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Feb
04
Local Pols Call Out Cuomo For Using Seniors As Political Pawns

Local Pols Call Out Cuomo For Using Seniors As Political Pawns

Governor Andrew Cuomo at his 2016 State of the State speech. (Photo: PROgovernorandrewcuomo [https://www.flickr.com/photos/governorandrewcuomo/23994415209/
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Feb
04

Cops Arrest Another Suspect Involved In Grisly Murders At Sheepshead Bay Houses

Police arrested a 28-year-old man Wednesday who allegedly assisted teenager Destiny Garcia in the grisly murder [/15-year-old-girl-taken-into-custody-after-cops-find-two-bullet-riddled-bodies-at-the-sheepshead-bay-houses/] her mother and
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Feb
04
Morning Mug: “The Best And Most Beautiful Things In The World Cannot Be Seen Or Even Touched — They Must Be Felt With The Heart.” — Helen Keller

Morning Mug: “The Best And Most Beautiful Things In The World Cannot Be Seen Or Even Touched — They Must Be Felt With The Heart.” — Helen Keller

Photo by Jonathan DantMorning Mug is our daily showcase of photographs from our readers. If you have a photograph that
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Feb
03
New Uzbek Restaurant ‘Tandoori’ Opens On Coney Island Avenue

New Uzbek Restaurant ‘Tandoori’ Opens On Coney Island Avenue

The samsas at Tandoori. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)A new Uzbek restaurant has set up shop in Sheepshead Bay
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