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76th Street and 15th Avenue, the site of the crash. (Photo via Google Maps) Today, Bensonhurst has lost a mother and a neighbor. Our prayers are with the Orlando family on this sad day. On the morning of Wednesday, November 9, Antonietta Orlando, 72, was crossing 76th Street, just blocks
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Inside Nyonya. (Photo by Hannah Frishberg / Bensonhurst Bean)To many, artisan cheese and shiny, new condo towers are seen as being iconically Brooklyn, but locals know that it’s hard to beat the commercial strips under the elevated tracks in terms of embodying this borough. Bensonhurst’s 86th Street is
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Ridge Boulevard and 67th Street photo via Google Maps. Aml Elsokary photo via NYPD Muslim Officers Society’s Twitter.On Saturday, at 6 p.m., 11 year veteran NYPD officer Aml Elsokary was getting out of her car on Ridge Boulevard and 67th Street when she noticed a man verbally
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The home’s front porch. (Photo via Warren Lewis Sotheby’s International Realty) “Santa is definitely stopping at this open house,” according to an invitation for what may be the most Dyker Heights open house of all time. Carolers and home buyers alike are invited to 8877 15th Avenue on
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The organization City Year with a van full of food for needy neighbors. Photo via RCS-Reaching Out Community Services’ FacebookIn a time of general lack of funds and food at food pantries citywide, an allocation of $4 million by the City Council for pantries in 2017 can be anticipated to
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Photo via Dyker Heights homeownerDespite much effort and energy to quell the ever growing safety issue wrought by tour busses blocking traffic to ogle the Dyker Heights lights [/the-locals-guide-to-dyker-heights-christmas-lights/], uninformed, out-of-state busses continue to be a problem. To dispel the issue this year, local police created a “tour bus parking
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A still from surveillance footage [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/suspect-b-spumoni-gardens-owner-murder-arrested-article-1.2856990] of suspected, and now indicted, murderer of L&B Spumoni Gardens owner Louis Barbati“We allege that this defendant was lying in wait outside the victim’s home, then ambushed and shot him to death in cold
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A still from surveillance footage [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/suspect-b-spumoni-gardens-owner-murder-arrested-article-1.2856990] of suspected, and now indicted, murderer of L&B Spumoni Gardens owner Louis Barbati“We allege that this defendant was lying in wait outside the victim’s home, then ambushed and shot him to death in cold
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“A sausage stand at the Festa di Santa Rosalia in Bensonhurst.” Photo by dtanist [https://www.instagram.com/p/BNonnWIDsS6/]Stay up to date on community happenings, cultural events and other free or otherwise affordably priced goings-ons in your community. For even more things to do around Brooklyn, or to
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Photo via nycphotosbyme [https://www.instagram.com/p/BNhLHZ8B95r/] * Local tour guide blames out of state “yokel bus companies [/39793/]” for Dyker Heights lights traffic chaos * The 86th Street Meats Supreme closed due to “changing demographics [/manager-cites-changing-demographics-reason-closure-86th-streets-meats-supreme/] ” according to its manager * Check out Coney Island’s 60th Precinct’s viral
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Photo via daleseat / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BLr-xOZDK7S/?taken-by=daleseat&hl=en]The entire borough was jumpin’ this week. And you were busy jumpin’ as well. Here’s a chance to catch up on all the goings on throughout the county of Kings. ACU under fire after
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At the Kings Highway F train station. Shot on 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge. (Photo by Anthony Arrigo [https://www.facebook.com/ArrigoPhotography/])ACU under fire after child beaten into coma three days after tip-off about abuse. [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/12/acs-investigated-after-child-beaten-into-a-coma-three-days-after-tip-off-about-abuse/] [Sheepshead Bites] 40 years later, stained