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Noticed Some Pretty Lights Lying Around? That’s Gravesend Resident Jack Giambanco Trying To Cheer You Up

Giambanco distributes the lights at Washington Square Park in Manhattan. (Photo by Angelina Tala)Back in October, we told you about Gravesend resident Jack Giambanco, who began his home-based business Friendship Lights to cheer up [/gravesend-resident-jack-giambanco-lights-up-lives-with-home-based-business/] those who needed a light in their life. Now he’s taking it to

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Saturday Night Fire Destroys Gravesend Home (Photos)

Firefighters filled the streets of West 6th Street Saturday night in response to a fire that ripped through a house between Avenue T and Avenue U. Danny Glover, an FDNY firefighter and spokesman for the department, said that there was no indication whether or not people were in the building,

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Gravesend Resident Jack Giambanco Lights Up Lives With Home-Based Business

Jack Giambanco in his workshop (Photo by Eli Garcia)(Source: Friendship Lights) Gravesend resident Jack Giambanco has given his all into inventing Friendship Lights, a plastic product with a light diode to represent faith, peace, and unity that he’s been using to cheer up those facing adversity. “They may

Arts & Culture

Local Art Group Gives Troubled Teens Attention, Skills And A Second Chance

The Brooklyn Streetcar Artists’ Group [/tag/brooklyn-streetcar-artists-group/] launched a free program this week for troubled youths who have been arrested due to minor offences and for students on probation, with the hopes of nurturing their creativity and helping rehabilitate them. The program builds on the group’s mission to “promote

Education

Video: At Rally To Save Grady High School, Students, Faculty Blame Bloomberg

William E. Grady High School (25 Brighton 4th Road) students and alumni gathered on the sidewalk between the school and Shore Parkway Wednesday to rally against the school’s impending closure – and they put the blame for their recent hardships on Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Hundreds of cars coming off the

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Art Group Honors Coney Island Hospital Administrator

Saunders, middle, and the artists of BSAG (Photo: Emel Stebleva)The Brooklyn Streetcar Artists’ Group (BSAG) presented an award to Coney Island Hospital administrator James Saunders on Wednesday for his efforts to showcase their artwork at the hospital. Saunders, the hospital’s associate executive director of public affairs, recently announced

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Activists Blast Jamaica Bay Natural Gas Pipeline, Say Government Kept Them In The Dark

The approximate location of the proposed natural gas pipeline.After the House of Representatives passed a bill last week approving the construction of a three-mile gas pipeline, running underneath Jamaica Bay through Brooklyn and Queens, environmentalists and local leaders are outraged, claiming they were kept in the dark about it.

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City: Select Bus Service Won't Affect Sheepshead Much

The MTA and Department of Transportation held a public workshop to push the benefits of Select Bus Service on Nostrand Avenue on Tuesday at Brooklyn College, and responded to concerns about the program in Southern Brooklyn by saying it will see relatively minor changes in the area. The majority of

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Sheepshead Resident Plays Pivotal Role In Bringing Balkan Leaders Before Students

Mevla Gavaz speaks before FEBA (Photos by Emel Stebleva)The Federation of Balkan American Associations (FEBA) held their third annual “Road Map 2011” event last Thursday at Jacob Javits Center in New York, bringing in more than 3,000 members and guests. The event was coordinated by a Sheepshead Bay

BREAKING: Fire Truck Involved In 3 Vehicle Accident (Video)

A firetruck racing to a fire scene on Avenue U slammed into a car in the intersection of Ocean Parkway and Avenue P, leaving at least one person with minor injuries. The firetruck was barely damaged, but ripped open the doors of the vehicle and broke the entire windshield. The

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Video: Grady H.S. Hosts Student HVAC Competition

Football? Puh-lease. Wrestling? Forget it. Now, water boiler repair… there’s a sport! William E. Grady Career and Technical Education High School played host to the 7th annual Service and Installation Student competition, in which students studying Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) gathered together with inspection managers and heating

MBNA: BBQ Ban Critics Once Supported A Ban!

Alan Ditchek, president of the MBNA.The rhetoric between the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association and Manhattan Beach Community Group continued to mount this week, as MBNA President Alan Ditchek released a 2007 petition to ban the practice – a petition signed by the current proposal’s most vocal critics. The petition

BBQ To Stay In Manhattan Beach! Parks Commissioner Unmoved By Ban Arguments

The heat around a proposed barbecue ban on Manhattan Beach continued to intensify this week, this time at the Community Board 15 meeting. But the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation said they have no plans to halt one of America’s favorite pastimes. Parks Department Brooklyn Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey

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VIDEO: Ice Cream Girl's Fundraiser Rakes In $1,000+

The “We ♥ Japan” relief fundraiser of Gravesend held by the “Ice Cream Girl” came out to be a successful night bringing more than 100 residents to the event and raising $1,097 for Japan’s earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. Maria “The Ice Cream Girl” Campanella collected donations for the

Tonight: Ice Cream Girl Hosts Japan Relief Fundraiser

The infamous “Ice Cream Girl” of Gravesend is holding a fundraiser today in efforts to help the people of Japan. The “We ♥ Japan” relief fundraiser will be held outdoors on the corner of Avenue U and West 10th street at 7:30 p.m. Maria “The Ice Cream Girl” Campanella

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Confessed Criminal And Kruger Croney To Star In Brighton Beach Reality Show

Michael and Marina Levitis at Rasputin's Women's Day Soirée (Source: James Edstrom)Lifetime’s Brighton Beach reality show will star a confessed criminal and local nightclub owner facing disbarment and six months in jail after a political scandal, but the Russian community isn’t worried about negative stereotyping because they

Marine Park Salt Marshes Get An Overhaul

Source: baldpunk.comThe U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is working to restore some of the salt marshes along Gerritsen and Mill creeks in Marine Park, bringing it back to their wildlife-suited environment. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers started working on the $8 million project last spring, and

Plumb Beach Restoration Plans Outlined, Construction Could Begin As Early As December

Plumb Beach immediately after Hurricane Ida in 2009. The stretch of bike path has since been removed, and erosion has further beat back the shoreline.U.S Army Corps of Engineers and city officials are working together to save Plumb Beach [/tag/plumb-beach/] and the Belt Parkway from catastrophe, and