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Local Residents Impacted by Voltage Reduction Amid Hot Weather

(Photo: Matt Tracy / Sheepshead Bites)Local residents are enjoying a return to normalcy after Sheepshead Bay and select other neighborhoods around New York City were affected by reduced voltage during a blisteringly hot weekend in the Big Apple. Con Edison announced over the weekend that it was reducing voltage by

Animals

“Keep Hookers off the Pier — No Fishing!”

A shark sighting near the Steeplechase Pier [/coney-island-beach-closed-shark-sighting/]in Coney Island on Tuesday has prompted local animal rights activists to send a clear warning to fishers: leave fish alone. PETA [http://www.peta.org/] will fly a banner along the Coney Island coast on Saturday between noon and 1pm, when