Business
(Photo: m01229 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/39908901@N06/7565528342/] / Flickr)Brooklynites love to patronize their homegrown businesses. And indeed, it’s often the mom-and-pop shops that give a neighborhood its character. However, over the last decade, mega franchises like McDonald’s, Walgreens, and Dunkin Donuts have ramped up their
Bensonhurst
A truck from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, a branch of the Special Operations Division. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)After an hour-long standoff Tuesday night, police safely removed a “disturbed individual” from his barricaded Gravesend home. The NYPD could not provide further information about why the man needed
Police & Fire
A truck from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, a branch of the Special Operations Division. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)After an hour-long standoff Tuesday night, police safely removed a “disturbed individual” who had barricaded himself inside his Gravesend home. The NYPD could not provide further information about why
Business
(Photo: m01229 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/39908901@N06/7565528342/] / Flickr)Brooklynites love to patronize their homegrown businesses. And indeed, it’s often the mom-and-pop shops that give a neighborhood its character. However, over the last decade, national mega franchises like McDonald’s, Walgreens, and Dunkin Donuts are ramping up
Business
(Photo: m01229 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/39908901@N06/7565528342/] / Flickr)Brooklynites love to patronize their homegrown businesses. And indeed, it’s often the mom-and-pop shops that give a neighborhood its character. However, over the last decade, national mega franchises like McDonald’s, Walgreens, and Dunkin Donuts are ramping up
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News
The construction site at 1501 Voorhies Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Emergency responders closed down a section of Voorhies Avenue for an hour Tuesday morning after a pile driver collapsed at the construction site for the proposed 28-story tower beside the Sheepshead Bay subway station. The FDNY says first
News
Graffiti on the vacant storefront on Sheepshead Bay Road. (Photo: Sheepshead Bites)The anti-commie crusader who has been harassing local politicians appears to have struck again — this time scrawling a belligerent and homophobic message on the window of a vacant storefront on Sheepshead Bay Road. A tipster sent us a
Bensonhurst
(Photo: Friends of the Sheepshead Bay library [https://www.facebook.com/sheepsheadbaylibrary/photos/a.841498645919139.1073741888.630539527015053/841516319250705/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Looking for something to do with the whole family this week? There are a lot of great kid-friendly events coming up in Brooklyn, and we’ve selected
Events
(Photo: Friends of the Sheepshead Bay library [https://www.facebook.com/sheepsheadbaylibrary/photos/a.841498645919139.1073741888.630539527015053/841516319250705/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Looking for something to do with the whole family this week? There are a lot of great kid-friendly events coming up in Brooklyn, and we’ve selected
Bensonhurst
The report found there are two sex offenders living in the Marlboro Houses. (Source: Google Maps)Elected officials railed against NYCHA Monday for allowing registered sex offenders to to live illegally in public housing — including at least two at Gravesend’s Marlboro Houses [/in-list-of-citys-worst-housing-projects-marlboro-houses-ranks-41st-out-of-349/] . Following a report released last week
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