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Senate Passes Bills To Increase Penalties For Selling Drugs To Minors

Photo by Bensonhurst BeanDrug dealers, beware: You may serve more jail time if you are arrested selling narcotics to children under 14 or if you are caught at a park or a playground. The State Senate passed two drug-related bills yesterday, the first sponsored by Senator Jack Martins and the

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Crime Blotter: Police On High Alert After Rash Of Car Crime On Shore Parkway & Cropsey Avenue

Photo by Bensonhurst BeanPolice believe they may have caught the perp responsible for a spate of car thefts in the neighborhood this week. There were at least eight car-related crimes on Cropsey Avenue and Shore Parkway near Bay 11th Street between February 20 and February 27, according to cops. NYPD

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ICYMI: Liang Protests, ‘Big Ang’ Funeral, Spotlight On Calvert Vaux

Photo by Daniel FrazerIn 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 all week long. Just follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/bensonhurstbean]and Facebook

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After 10 Years Of Complaints, DOT Removes ‘No Parking’ Signs Around PS 101

Photo courtesy of Councilman Mark Treyger’s officeFollowing requests from Councilman Mark Treyger and Assemblyman William Colton, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has removed “No Standing” and “No Parking” signs on two sides of PS 101 The Verrazano School [http://www.ps101k.com/] (2360 Benson Avenue). For 10 years, the

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Crime Blotter: Daytime Break-Ins, Gunpoint Robberies, Foot Locker Thieves

Here’s our roundup of some of the crime reports that happened in and around Bensonhurst in the last two weeks, courtesy of the NYPD’s 62nd Precinct. * A daring thief broke in through back window of a home while the residents were still awake watching TV and their daughter

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Thousands Protest Conviction Of Ex-Officer Peter Liang: ‘No Selective Justice!’ [Video]

https://youtu.be/M4tVlLtakic Chants of “Justice, justice!” and “No scapegoat!” rang out in Downtown Brooklyn Saturday as local pols and representatives from Chinese American organizations gave impassioned speeches at a rally protesting the conviction of ex-NYPD officer Peter Liang. More than 10,000 people poured into Cadman Plaza to

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Sunset Park Street Vendors Say They Are Forced To Black Market For Permits

Vendors Heleodora Vivar-flores and Polcarpo Cortes pleaded their case before CB 7. (Photo by Logan Frazier/Bensonhurst Bean)Sunset Park food truck vendors, who claim they are casualties of the city’s push against street business, pleaded their case before Sunset Park’s Community Board 7 [http://www.brooklyncb7.org/

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Sanitation Worker Arrested For Chucking Trash At Jesus In Borough Park

St. Francis de Chantel Church, 1273 58th Street (Photo: Google Maps)A crazed sanitation worker was arrested Wednesday after he was seen chucking trash at a cross bearing the image of Jesus in Borough Park. Cops say Roman Protas, 38, was driving a street sweeper and wearing his sanitation uniform

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Flash Floods Drown Bensonhurst Streets [Photos]

Photo by Benjamin Cohn/Bensonhurst BeanThe rain only fell for short spurts of time Tuesday morning, but the water caused plenty of damage. Gusts of up to 20 miles per hour and heavy rain pushed trash and debris into gutters and clogged them leading to huge pools of water. Photo

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Asian American Community Reacts To Conviction Of Rookie Cop From Bensonhurst: ‘No Justice, Only Politics’

Photo by Benjamin Cohn/Bensonhurst BeanThe conviction of an Asian American rookie cop who accidentally discharged his weapon, killing an innocent man [/rookie-cop-indicted-akai-gurley-slaying-bensonhurst/]in the staircase of a Brooklyn housing project in November, has evoked strong reactions from local Asian American leaders and community members. Ex-officer Peter Liang, who is

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DOT Agrees To Install Low Clearance Signs On 86th Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB3-U0szuYw The Department of Transportation [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] (DOT) responded to requests from Assemblyman William Colton and Councilman Mark Treyger for signage under the D line. Following a series of traffic jams [/after-truck-skims-overpass-treyger-colton-call-on-dot-to-assess-height-clearance-on-86th-street/] involving oversized trucks squeezing

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Firefighters Smash Windows To Extinguish Dyker Heights Blaze [Photos]

Photo by Benjamin Cohn/Bensonhurst BeanA fire ripped through a two-story home in Dyker Heights this morning. Twelve trucks and 60 firefighters swarmed the building at 1178 72nd Street after the second floor blaze was called in at 11:01am, according to fire officials. Photo by Benjamin Cohn/Bensonhurst BeanNeighbors