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Photo by maripracharova [https://www.instagram.com/p/BLMQC6XDR6t/]Have a great weekend and take advantage of all your neighborhood has to offer at one of these local events. If you have an event to share, please email us at editor@bensonhurstbean.com or post it on our our calendar
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The lot in August. Photo by Christopher Bride for PropertySharkApplications have been filed to turn the long-vacant lot at 1770 52 Street in Boro Park into a new three story synagogue. According to the permits, a business known as Heichal Hatfillah filed for the building. The 37,163 square-foot synagogue
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Photo by magliarosanyc [https://www.instagram.com/p/BLOfd6IjUAD/]The South BK Beat is our new round-up of news you may have missed in South Brooklyn this week: Gravesend apartment complex allegedly dumped 200K gallons of sewage daily in Coney Island Creek [http://gothamist.com/2016/10/04/brooklyn_coney_
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Ask not what your cannoli can do for you, but what you can do for your cannoliIn Brooklyn, real estate prices will rise and fall, the F train will go in and out of service, and the price of pizza will inch ever upwards, but as sure as the Cyclone
Education
Source: Old Shoe Woman/FlickrThe State Education Department released new drafts of the English Language Arts [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-english-language-arts] and Mathematics Learning Standards [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-mathematics] — together composing the Common Core academic standards [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/01/common-core-cuomo-proposal/#.V_VCWpMrKT8] — last Wednesday. If approved,
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Photo via WikipediaThe weather is growing crisp and the leaves are beginning to change meaning it’s prime time to get a flu vaccine. The government recommends the vaccine for everyone six months and older, and it constitutes the best protection against the flu. Quick and safe, the vaccine is
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Source: Old Shoe Woman/FlickrThe State Education Department released new drafts of the English Language Arts [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-english-language-arts] and Mathematics Learning Standards [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-mathematics] — together composing the Common Core academic standards [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/01/common-core-cuomo-proposal/#.V_VCWpMrKT8] — last Wednesday, September 28.
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Frank Lampard photo via Wikipedia. Longbow photo via Longbow’s FacebookAs a reward for winning the Daily Mail and Heineken’s competition for being one of the best soccer bars in New York, Bay Ridge’s Longbow Pub & Pantry [http://longbownyc.com/meet-frank-lampard/] will be hosting a meet and
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Photo of suspect courtesy of DCPI. Photo of New York Community Bank by Christopher Bride via PropertySharkHave you seen this man? He may have robbed a bank. The police are searching for the individual depicted in the below photo in connection to a bank robbery that happened yesterday at the
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Is your mouth watering yet?A contender for the title of most popular Italian bakery in Bensonhurst, Villabate Alba is a neighborhood institution opened in 1978 and known for supplying cannoli at Brooklyn’s first cannoli eating contest [/villabate-cannoli-eating-contest-slated-18th-avenues-columbus-day-festival/#.V_VOqJMrKT8] , giving out free cannoli [/bensonhursts-18th-avenue-feast-kicks-off-tomorrow-heres-what-you-need-to-know/#.V_VOk5MrKT8] after the
Education
Source: Old Shoe Woman/FlickrThe State Education Department released new drafts of the English Language Arts [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-english-language-arts] and Mathematics Learning Standards [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-mathematics] — together composing the Common Core academic standards [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/01/common-core-cuomo-proposal/#.V_VCWpMrKT8] — last Wednesday. If approved,
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Source: Old Shoe Woman/FlickrThe State Education Department released new drafts of the English Language Arts [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-english-language-arts] and Mathematics Learning Standards [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-mathematics] — together composing the Common Core academic standards [/common-core-cuomo-proposal/#.V_VCWpMrKT8] — last Wednesday. If approved, over half of the state’s