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"I have a job. Hooray, me!" (Source: Vicky TGAW/Flickr)New York City government jobs will decrease by 1,697 [http://ibo.nyc.ny.us/cgi-park/?p=485] this year according to the city’s Independent Budget Office, bringing the total number of city jobs to 294,961
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Source: THOR via Wikimedia CommonsThe Brooklyn Blue Storm, Bensonhurst’s own Little League champions, are headed to Georgia [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-blue-storm-head-georgia-championship-tournament-article-1.1119020] for a tournament with their pockets full thanks to generous donations from the community. The squad needed $5,000 to rent vans to drive
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Source: alexraytses.comWhen you picture Coney Island, you may imagine that fantastic, bright red parachute jump in front of a vibrant blue sky, or the many colorful bathing suits and multicolored beach umbrellas. Perhaps you can’t help but picture the dazzling array of signs along the boardwalk as you
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Professional hockey in Brooklyn is no more! After two seasons at Floyd Bennett Field, the Brooklyn Aviators have folded due to financial issues. The team’s owners are looking for “alternative sources of income,” according to Brooklyn Daily [http://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2012/30/all_aviatorscrash_2012_07_27_
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Source: Stougard via Wikimedia CommonsMaimonides Medical Center has added a section to their website with information teaching New Yorkers how to keep cool during a heat wave. [http://www.maimonidesmed.org/Main/SummerHealth.aspx] The city is in the midst of its hottest 12-month period since the Civil War, according
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Source: MTAThe MTA is increasing efforts [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443570904577545370737049232.html?mod=WSJ_NY_LEFTTopStories#articleTabs%3Darticle] to catch fare beaters on city buses, which it estimates cost the city tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue. Since 2008, the “Eagle Team” has patrolled the budding Select
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Jason Koppel (Source: Erica Sherman)Former State Senator Carl Kruger’s chief of staff is heading back to work… on the reelection campaign of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz. City and State [http://www.cityandstateny.com/carl-krugers-ex-chief-staff-consulting-cymbrowitz/] revealed yesterday that Jason Koppel, who served as Kruger’s chief-of-staff and campaign treasurer, and
Mark Murphy called out [http://politicker.com/2012/07/mark-murphy-calls-on-grimm-to-directly-address-investigation-reports-video/] his opponent in the race for the 11th Congressional District [/congressional-primer/#district11], Republican incumbent Michael Grimm, demanding he “come clean” about fundraising issues which are currently being investigated by the FBI. It was recently revealed that a Brooklyn federal grand
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Source: Google MapsIt’s lies, damned lies! That’s the response offered by the owner of Z-Best Car Wash at 2784 Coney Island Avenue, which has received thousands of dollars in violations from the city, in addition to earning the ire of a local politician calling for it to cease
Brooklyn Cyclones
Image courtesy of the Brooklyn CyclonesToday in front of MCU park you can get free tickets to a Cyclones game while simultaneously helping to save lives! The New York Blood Center will be hosting a blood drive at the entrance of MCU park at 1904 Surf Avenue from 3 to
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Source: Intothewoods29 via Wikimedia CommonsCarmela Sbarro, founder of the Sbarro’s Pizza chain, died this week at the age of 90. What is now known to most people as a worldwide pizza chain with more than 1,000 restaurant locations, began as a family-owned Salumeria on 65th Street and 17th
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Jewish seniors from the former Soviet Union have a startlingly high poverty rate of 71 percent, according to the UJA-Federation’s “Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 [http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/new-york-news/surge-poor-ny-suburbs-poses-challenge] ,” and Orthodox Jews aren’t far behind, with a poverty rate of 42 percent. The