Community Board 11 will hold a general meeting and public hearing on Thursday, February 9, 2012. It will take place at the Bensonhurst Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare (formerly the Holy Family Home) at 1740 84th Street, between Bay 16th and New Utrecht Avenue. The meeting begins at 7:30
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(Source: abraham.williams via Flickr)The following is a press release from the office of State Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis: MALLIOTAKIS ENCOURAGED THAT AAA LAWSUIT AGAINST PORT AUTHORITY WILL MOVE FORWARD Court dismissed motion for preliminary injunction, but case will proceed to discovery Yesterday, Judge Richard J. Holwell ruled against a
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The Giants Super Bowl victory parade in 2008 (Source: tedkerwin via Flickr).The following is a press release from the office of City Councilman Vincent Gentile: CITY HALL – Today thousands of New Yorkers will line the streets of lower Manhattan to welcome home the Super Bowl Champion New York Giants.
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Source: Sarah_Ackerman via FlickrA colony of ravenous wood-eating beetles is endangering the first floor rafters of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow theater. The infestation threatens to bring down part of the landmarked 1917 building’s ceiling. Sideshow barker Dick Zigun told the Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/
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A loss of federal funding could threaten the future of subway track work (Source: MTA via Flickr)The following is a press release from the office of U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler: By Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) – 02/06/12 04:36 PM ET Last week, House Republicans on both
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The above video was posted on Bay Ridge Odyssey [http://www.bayridgeodyssey.com/2012/02/video-bay-ridge-celebrates-giants-victory/] , a reincarnation of website BKSouthie. Brian Hedden, the site’s publisher (as well as a former blogger [/author/bhedden/] for Bensonhurst Bean), had vowed to change its Bostonesque brand name [http://www.bayridgeodyssey.com/
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FDR High School (Source: schools.nyc.gov)The first place Moustafa Elhanafi met Principal Geraldine Maione was underneath the shade of a tree in FDR High School’s courtyard. Maione wasn’t standing below the thick branches and wide leaves to teach Eastern philosophy or poetry, but rather to catch
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Source: Barry Yanowitz via FlickrMayor Michael Bloomberg presented his annual budget proposals last Thursday. The budget outlined by the mayor contains cutbacks that, while not as harsh as in previous years, include controversial fire company closures as well as the removal of thousands of childcare slots. While the $68.7
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The following is a press release from the office of U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler: On Monday, February 6 at 11:00 a.m., Reps. Joe Crowley, Charles Rangel, Jerrold Nadler, along with New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) Chairman Joseph Lhota,
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/violettalough/5523582807/] Photo by Violette79 via Flickr, who used a Sony DSC-W1 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/violettalough/5523582807/meta/]. Got any interesting images of Bensonhurst? Send them to jteutonico [at] bensonhurstbean [dot] com [jteutonico@bensonhurstbean.com] or tag your Flickr photos Bensonhurst Bean. If
Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We publish the week’s statistics for the 62nd Precinct reports every Friday. The 62nd Precinct is the police command responsible for Bensonhurst and Bath Beach.
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Italian Wedding Soup is one of those great Transatlantic misunderstandings. The name might suggest that this was once the preferred dish at rustic wedding feasts in some picturesque Southern Italian locale. Unfortunately for our collective imagination, nothing could be further from the truth. The name is a semi-literal translation of