Bensonhurst
(Photo: Mosman Library [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary/5275902450/] / Flickr)There’s lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Add a special touch to your holiday cards this season by attending a card making workshop. There’s also a history lesson, a poetry jam, a media education seminar
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(Photo: Mosman Library [https://www.flickr.com/photos/mosmanlibrary/5275902450/] / Flickr)There’s lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Add a special touch to your holiday cards this season by attending a card making workshop. There’s also a history lesson, a poetry jam, a media education seminar
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Holidays
https://youtu.be/E9C3arQs0yo This is the first year Saint Mark Pastor Robert Mucci made it through the Christmas tree lighting ceremony without shedding a tear. Unfortunately, he couldn’t hold it together for the children’s choir. “Each of the previous years, I cried like a baby when they
Police & Fire
(Photos provided by the NYPD)Cops are searching for two burglars who raided a construction site last week and hauled out several pieces of equipment and electronics. The two bandits broke into the site of a planned eight-story residential building [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=1&passjobnumber=
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News
The Lexus involved in the fatal crash on Emmons and Nostrand avenues. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)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
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Members of the Pipes & Drums of the Emerald Society play the Be Proud Foundation’s police appreciation luncheon. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)With the country still reeling from a horrific shooting in California this week, local politicians and community leaders paid tribute to police heroism at the Be
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Neighbors
Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz swears in Manhattan Beach Community Group President Judy Baron. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The Manhattan Beach Community Group celebrated 75 years of service to the neighborhood Wednesday night with a ceremony full of awards, recognitions, rousing speeches, and food. The event, held at PS 195, was
Police & Fire
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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Photo by Erica ShermanPolice are investigating a possible hate crime at Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’ district office where some anti-Russian graffiti was found after Thanksgiving weekend, the news site JP Updates reports [http://jpupdates.com/2015/12/01/assemblyman-cymbrowitz-office-vandalized-with-anti-russian-graffiti/] . The vandalism was reported Monday afternoon when staffers discovered that a hammer
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