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Source: Jamie Adams via Wikimedia CommonsBorough President Marty Markowitz wants a casino to be built in Coney Island [/marty-markowitz-pushes-casinos-for-coney-island/]. Now, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver may also be eyeing the People’s Playground for a new casino. Silver hopes for a location that is a “destination resort area,” according to the
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Source: US Department of Agriculture via Wikimedia CommonsDepartment of Health officials found the West Nile Virus at zip code 11228 [http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/wnv/2012/wnv-map-city-20120724.pdf] in Dyker Heights on August 3. It was detected in Windsor Terrace, Greenwood Heights and Starrett City as
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Source: VH1.comA.J. Donofrio, otherwise known as AJ, the son of “Mob Wives” star Angela “Big Ang” Riola, was at the Brooklyn State Supreme Court yesterday for his arraignment on drug charges [/son-of-mob-wives-star-busted-for-selling-rx-drugs/]. He stood accused of being involved with a group that sold drugs. Instead of jail time,
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Photo courtesy of the JCC RocklandOlympics shmolympics. The competition-ready youth of the Edith and Carl Marks Jewish Community House of Bensonhurst [http://www.jchb.org/] (7802 Bay Parkway) want to bring home the gold in the 30th annual Maccabi Games [http://www.jccmaccabigames.org/], a major sports event held all
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Months after the February rescue of 23 Shetland Sheepdogs from a duo of Sheepshead Bay animal hoarders [/breaking-bay-couple-arrested-for-cruelty-to-animals-20-dogs-recovered-from-two-homes/] , the canines can now be adopted. Since the initial bust, the dogs have been held as evidence against the couple. The dogs have been housed at several Animal Care & Control shelters
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Source: Hunter O’Eeils via Wikimedia CommonsThe fight against the waste transfer station [/assemblyman-william-colton-fights-to-block-a-waste-transfer-station-from-moving-into-bensonhurst/] situated in Gravesend Bay has come full circle for neighborhood activist Dorothy Mortman.The 87-year-old Mortman was diagnosed with breast cancer 15 years ago. Given that she has no cancer in her family, she believes it
7001 18 ave
When out-of-towners ask for a bakery recomendation in Bensonhurst, the name that comes up again and again is Villabate at 7001 18th Avenue. Villabate-Alba has been a Bensonhurst institution for over 30 years. Hot bread, espresso, cappuccino and cannolis are all specialties at the bakery. Though this clip is from
big apple produce
Source: Jack Keene via Wikimedia CommonsWhen Grace Di’turi was walking on 86th Street three years ago, she was hit in the head with a flying watermelon. Workers from Big Apple Produce were apparently unloading the fruit from their truck by chucking it to each other. Di’turi was caught
Source: Google MapsRichard Cohen, 31, of Midwood stabbed his mother in the torso on Saturday evening. He then dialed 9-1-1 to report the murder. His mother, Anne Cohen, 64, was a Bath Beach resident [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2012/08/bath-beach-mom-stabbed-to-death-by-her-son/] who recently sold her home to the tune of
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Source: Lana I.The recent media coverage of the dilapidated N-line subway stops has Assemblyman William Colton demanding that they be repaired before the slotted 2014 date. “They [the staircases] need a significant amount of structural work done and if that doesn’t get done soon we’re going to
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The next CEC 21 meetings is Wednesday, August 15 at 5:30 p.m. First up is the business meeting followed by the regular calendar meeting at 6:30 p.m. Public comment is encouraged for the calendar meeting. The location is I.S. 303, the Herbert Eisenberg School at
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Richard Cohen, 31, from Midwood was arrested for stabbing his mother to death on Saturday night. His mother, Anne Cohen, 64, went to visit him at his Midwood home on Ocean Avenue. They began arguing and Richard, who has a history of violence and mental illness, stabbed her in the