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Affordable and delicious: the steak taco and chicken quesadilla at La Casa de las Quesadillas. (Photo by Heather Chin/Sunset Park Voice)Fifth Avenue in Sunset Park is a veritable smorgasbord of food, flavors, and ingredients from around the world, although with an emphasis on Latin American cuisines. Among these,
Business
Image via MakerBot [https://www.facebook.com/makerbot/photos/a.10152907102650137.1073741828.202406810136/10152907230105137/?type=3&theater] .Just two weeks after announcing the unloading of over 25 percent of their Industry City office and manufacturing space [http://technical.ly/brooklyn/2016/04/26/makerbot-shutter-industry-city-factory/] , MakerBot — the 3-D printing company
News
Photo by Ann Dwyer.Morning Mug is our daily showcase of photographs from our readers. If you have a photograph that you’d like to see featured, send it to editor@sunsetparkvoice.com. Also, follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Sunsetparkvoice], Twitter [http://twitter.com/sunsetparkvoice], and Instagram
Police & Fire
Image via Google Maps.The week of April 19-25, the 72nd Precinct received reports of two robberies, two assaults, two grand larcenies, one auto theft, one car crash, one DWI, one forgery, one case of aggravated harassment, and one dead body. The following is a list detailing a few of
Animals
Image via Pilly Quiles-Galarza.This princess of a pooch has been missing since last Friday, April 22, and her family is hoping someone has seen her or took her in temporarily. The Yorkshire Terrier is named Princess, she only weighs about five pounds, and she has brown, grey, and blond
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Catch-basin in New York City. (Photo: NYC Department of Environmental Protection)The next time a heavy rainstorm comes to Gowanus and Sunset Park, at least some of the catch basins (the sewer drains on street corners, where it meets the curb) will be clear. That’s thanks to an Adopt-A-CatchBasin
Education
Photo courtesy of Winnie Hu.It has been a month since 24-year-old Lin Li was arrested and confessed to inadvertently drowning her two-year-old daughter [/police-fire/sunset-park-toddler-mother-arrested-murder-manslaughter-charges/], Melody Pheng, in a basin of water for soiling her clothes. In the weeks since, Melody was laid to rest, her four-year-old brother was
Arts & Culture
Image via packyjewell [https://www.instagram.com/p/BEo0sPPG1s3/?tagged=sunsetpark].Morning Mug is our daily showcase of photographs from our readers. If you have a photograph that you’d like to see featured, send it to editor@sunsetparkvoice.com. Also, follow us on Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/Sunsetparkvoice]
Police & Fire
Photo courtesy of Tony Giordano.Two pedestrians were injured when the driver of a silver sedan hit them as they walked on 49th Street near Fifth Avenue in the middle of a sunny Sunday afternoon on April 24, shortly before 4pm, said police. According to the NYPD, “one male pedestrian
Events
Below you’ll find information on events through the week in and around Sunset Park. Submit your event listing to our BROOKLYN-WIDE CALENDAR [/calendar/]. MONDAY, APRIL 25 Salsa Lessons Where:Sunset Park Rec Center at 43rd Street and 7th Avenue When:7-8pm What:Free salsa lessons for adults of all
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Image via Department of Sanitation.The next time a heavy rainstorm comes to Sunset Park, at least some of the catch basins (the sewer drains on street corners, where it meets the curb) will be clear. That’s thanks to an Adopt-A-CatchBasin pilot program that will include part of Fourth
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Miguel, Sara, and Armando Lopez are three of nine siblings who opened Don Paco Lopez Panaderia 25 years ago. (Photo by Heather Chin/Sunset Park Voice)Pretty much everyone who has spent regular time in Sunset Park has heard of and/or been to Don Paco López Panaderia [http://www.