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News
A manhole fire shot bursts of flames and smoke through Cortelyou Road last night, causing 56 neighbors to lose power. Here’s our eyewitness account from Cortelyou Road last night: During the last half hour, smoke has been filling houses and apartments near the Cortelyou Road train station. The cause
Arts & Culture
Blindspot [http://www.nbc.com/blindspot], the FBI drama currently in its second season on NBC, that was spotted filming last year in Clinton Hill [/street-closure-fyi-on-and-around-clinton-avenue-thursday-february-11-fortgreene/] , will be filming along Beverly between Coney and the Q station, on parts of Westminster Road and Matthews Court this coming Monday, so don’
Events
Dan Donovan is Brooklyn’s only Republican Congressman, representing Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Gravesend and Staten Island for the 11th Congressional District, and at least some of his Brooklyn constituents are really unhappy. This morning the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce held a Brooklyn Newsmakers breakfast series with the Brooklyn Congressional Delegation,
Neighbors
Coronet Gotham, 142 King Street, Red Hook, via Google Maps, circa August 2014 Dyker Heights resident Vasillios Georgiadis, aka William Georgiadis, 64, and his company, Coronet Gotham LLC (“Coronet Gotham”), located at 142 King Street in Red Hook have been charged with insurance fraud, grand larceny, failure to secure workers’
Announcements
Photo via Department of Youth & Community Development [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dycd/html/jobs/syep.shtml]Attention neighbors between the ages of 14 and 24! If you’re looking for a summer job, you can apply now for the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program [http://www1.nyc.
News
This summer in the city just got better: the legendary New York Cosmos [http://www.nycosmos.com/] soccer club announced yesterday that MCU Park in Coney Island will be their new home. They will share the stadium of Brooklyn Cyclones [http://brooklyncyclones.com/], a much loved minor league baseball team
Neighbors
Salvatore Lucchesse leaving the 61st Precinct in police custody. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell/Sheepshead Bites.The Gravesend toddler’s gruesome death has been reclassified as a homicide, following an examination by the Medical Examiner’s Office. Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, was indicted on December 9, 2016 for beating his girlfriend’s
Business
Target announced plans this week to open a new store in Bensonhurst at 6401 18th Avenue, a spot formerly occupied by Annie Sez and Mandee that closed earlier i [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/12/18th-avenues-annie-sez-mandees-shop-closing-january-offering-half-off-everything/] n January. The windows were covered in wall to wall sale signs in December.
Announcements
New York City Department of Environmental Protection is doing some maintenance to the drinking water delivery system today and tomorrow (2/2/17) and 2/3/17), which could cause some residents to see brownish water coming out of the tap. While it is not harmful, residents should not drink
News
The police is looking for help in identifying the individuals seen in the images in connection to a middle of the night robbery that occurred last Saturday, January 28th. Around 2:30am, a 24-year-old man was approached by three suspects near Avenue Y and East 15th Street. They showed a
Police & Fire
This past Sunday night, January 29th, around 8:30pm, an elderly woman was shoved and robbed of her belongings inside a lobby of a residential building near West 33rd and Surf Avenue. The unidentified attacker pushed her from behind causing her to slam her head into a wall, took her
Police & Fire
Deputy Inspector James Palumbo and the new 70th Precinct Captain Megan O’Malley. (Photo by Liena Zagare / BKLYNER)Highlights from Wednesday’s 70th precinct Community Council meeting: * 70th Precinct has a new Captain: Captain Megan O’Malley joined NYPD 10 years ago and has served at the 70th Precinct twice,