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Benjamin Cohn

Benjamin Cohn

Feb
19
Sunset Park Street Vendors Say They Are Forced To Black Market For Permits

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
2 min read
Feb
19
Sanitation Worker Arrested For Chucking Trash At Jesus In Borough Park

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
2 min read
Feb
16
Flash Floods Drown Bensonhurst Streets [Photos]

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
2 min read
Feb
12
Asian American Community Reacts To Conviction Of Rookie Cop From Bensonhurst: ‘No Justice, Only Politics’

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
5 min read
Feb
11

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.
1 min read
Feb
11
Firefighters Smash Windows To Extinguish Dyker Heights Blaze [Photos]

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
1 min read
Feb
08
New Ruan’s Caters Lunar New Year Meals For Thousands Of Elementary School Kids

New Ruan’s Caters Lunar New Year Meals For Thousands Of Elementary School Kids

(Photo by Logan Frazier/Bensonhurst Bean)The atmosphere at New Ruan’s Restaurant [http://www.ruansrestaurant.com/] (1955 86th Street)
3 min read
Feb
03
Fire At New Utrecht Reformed Church Sets Back Restoration Project

Fire At New Utrecht Reformed Church Sets Back Restoration Project

Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA fire that broke out behind New Utrecht Reformed Church [http://www.newutrechtchurch.org/] (1827 84th Street)
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