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Councilman Vincent Gentile, Source: council.nyc.govCity Councilman Vincent Gentile has announced that the City Council has given its seal of approval to a legislative package reforming the city’s restaurant inspection system that he helped fight for. The system has come under fire in recent years from small business
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Sierp’s surf and turf dish. (Source: NYDailyNews.com)Oh, man, look at that food. Surf, meet turf, with a glob of cauliflower heaven to boot. That’s the dish John Sierp, a firefighter from Ladder 169 on the Brighton Beach – Sheepshead Bay border, cooked up to win the top
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While most members of Congress were concerned with a government shutdown, Congressman Michael Grimm was concerned with getting down – with a gal in a Bay Ridge bar bathroom, according to witnesses. Brooklyn Magazine is reporting that the Republican congressman spent the Friday before the start of the shutdown “drinking and
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The cast and crew of Law & Order: SVU arrived on the shores of Kingsborough Community College (2001 Oriental Boulevard) yesterday, turning the school into a Coast Guard base – and the site of a murder investigation. Michael Goldstein, the school’s director of Enrollment Marketing and Public Outreach, tipped us
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As part of the 61st Precinct’s pledge to increase communication [/crime-prevention-tips-from-the-nypds-61st-precinct/] with the community, the precinct has started sending out occasional crime prevention tip bulletins to local stakeholders. The tips focus on preventing common crimes that are trending in the neighborhood to keep residents and their property safe. Below
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The NYPD has issued a missing senior notification for Aysa Strinadko, who was last seen in Bath Beach at 21st Drive and Bay 25th Street. Strinadko, pictured at right, is 81 years old. She is described as 5-foot-6-inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. She was last seen wearing a blue
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George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah,” written in Beethoven’s handwriting; “Beethoven so admired Handel’s work that he wrote it out so as to get the ‘feeling of its intricacies’ and ‘to unravel its complexities’.” Source: Rain.orgThe 18th annual “Music from Good Shepherd” chamber music series kicked off two
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The Checkmate, Cancer! team with Nancy Parmar (Source: GoFundMe)Way back in March, we told you about Elona Karafin, then a 19-year-old Bensonhurst native and cancer survivor who kicked off “Checkmate, Cancer!” [/checkmate-cancer-will-participate-in-the-19th-annual-pcf-walkathon/], an initiative to fund research for pediatric cancer. Karafin, who was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, a
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Carmine Carro Community CenterThe Madison-Marine-Homecrest Civic Association is exploring a new format for a political panel it will hold this Thursday evening that aims to generate bottom-up solutions to local problems, and urge local City Council candidates to implement them. The panel, called “Talkin’ Politics,” will kick off at 7:
Source: kairin/FlickrB LINE There are no scheduled subway advisories at this time. Q LINE All times until mid-fall 2013: Manhattan-bound Q trains skip Cortelyou Rd, Beverley Rd, and Parkside Av. F LINE From 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., Monday to Friday, there are no F trains between
Source: kairin/FlickrD LINE Beginning 8:30 p.m., Monday to Thursday, 205 St-bound D trains run local from 36 St to Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr. From 12:01 a.m. to 5 a.m., Tuesday to Friday, Coney Island-bound D trains run local from 145 St to 59 St-Columbus Circle.
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A fast-moving fire ripped through the backyards and garages of two residences near Avenue U before being squashed by local firefighters. The fire began behind a daycare center at 2125 East 21st Street shortly before 4:30 p.m.. Within minutes, according to our tipster and photographer Randy Contello, who