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Jul
25

John Dewey Teachers Scrambling To Figure Out Their Fate Come The First Day Of School

Source: Joe TeutonicoAfter months of uncertainty, State Supreme Court Judge Joan Lobis ruled in favor of the 3,000 teachers
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Jul
24

Alert: Credit And Debit Card Skimmer May Have Tried To Pull A Scheme At Local Ridgewood Savings Bank

A local tipster sent us a note about police activity in front of Ridgewood Savings Bank at 7124 18th Avenue.
Jul
24

Stop-And-Frisk: Out Of 1,324 Local Searches At Sheepshead-Nostrand Houses, Zero Guns Are Found

WNYC [http://www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2012/jul/16/wnyc-map-police-find-guns-where-they-stop-and-frisk-less/] took it upon themselves to map all of the
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Jul
24

After 1,524 Stop-And-Frisks, Not A Single Gun Found In Marlboro Projects

WNYC created a map that points to the number of stop-and-frisks in relation to the number of gun seizures and
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Jul
24

An Author Visits Maurice Sendak’s Childhood Home And Asks, “Where The Wild Things Were?”

Source: Google MapsBensonhurst (or Gravesend [/earlier-maurice-sendak-illustration-surfaces-in-boody-junior-high-school-yearbook/] )-born creative legend, Maurice Sendak passed away [/maurice-sendak-first-published-illustration/] earlier this year. The art and
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Jul
24

Attempted Suicide On The Verrazano Bridge Thwarted

Source: Rruss via Wikimedia CommonsIn what seems to be a continuous string of Verrazano Bridge suicides, another attempt was made
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Jul
24

Today: Bensonhurst Park Party For President Barack Obama

Source: Roxanne Jo Mitchell via Wikimedia CommonsA national event is taking place wherein supporters for President Barack Obama’s re-election
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Jul
23

Eight Years Later And Tino Decorato’s Murderers Are Still At Large

Image courtesy of Rocco DecoratoThe story of Costantino “Tino” Decorato’s violent death inside of the Telco Department Store at
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Jul
23

Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis Delivers Supplies To Project Homefront

Assemblywoman Malliotakis and staff deliver supplies to Jack Semich (second from left), Executive Director of Project Homefront.The following is
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Jul
23

Midwood Husband And Wife Indicted In $100K+ Welfare Fraud

Source: Offices of Charles HynesFor more than six years, Rivka Baror, 51, and her husband Avraham Baror, 64, fraudulently collected
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