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Yaakov Weingarten (Source: vosizneias.com)A Midwood-based charitable fundraising operation purporting to benefit Israel-related causes was shut down last week, after Attorney general Eric Schneiderman unveiled criminal charges against its operators for allegedly funneling millions of dollars into his own pockets. The ring, operated out of a call center at
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Police are hunting for four men suspected of armed robbery in Borough Park. CBS News has the story [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/06/30/four-men-wanted-for-borough-park-armed-robbery-sought-by-police/] : > According to police, the suspects entered the New Jujian Associates located at 5124 9th Avenue with a gun just after midnight on Friday,
There’s the Sheepshead Bay subway station I know and love… and wish could receive a good power wash. Photo by the very talented Roman Kruglov.
Source: psychohh/FlickrTrains are running like buttah [http://www.hulu.com/watch/4118] in Brooklyn this weekend, with no adjustments at all. There are some tweaks on the D and F line in Manhattan and elsewhere, but nothing at all on the R and N. Enjoy! D LINE From 12:
Source: psychohh/FlickrWeeee! That’s me speeding along to Manhattan this weekend, since the Q line is running express for a stretch of Southern Brooklyn. Yup, that stinks for Avenue U and Neck Road passengers, but it’s great for me. If I was going to Manhattan. Which I’m
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Scene of the shooting. (Source: Google Maps)A 63-year-old man is in critical condition after a mysterious gunman shot him in the leg and back early Thursday morning. Yang Guan Chen, a cook at a local Chinese restaurant, left for work early yesterday morning and was walking near 62nd Street
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Legend has it that when Robert Moses designed the Belt Parkway, he made the overpasses low in order to ensure buses couldn’t travel on it, so that the lower-class masses, dependent on mass transit, couldn’t access the fancy-shmancy beaches of Long Island. And while it seems to have
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Source: David Reber’s Hammer Photography/FlickrAfter an international manhunt that lasted nine months and included several nations, fake IDs, an island-hopping private plane piloted by the suspect, and an expanded indictment that saw the suspect’s largess grow from $4.5 million to $8 million, Arthur Bogoraz, a confessed
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The Asser Levy Park bandshell in better days. (Source: senarchitects.com)City Council candidate Chaim Deutsch is looking to revamp Asser Levy Seaside Park, saying the space is going to waste and the bandshell – abandoned after a court ruling that barred amplified music in the park – has become an eyesore.
2049 ocean pkwy
Firefighters are currently at the scene of 3049 Ocean Parkway, where a suspected electrical fire broke out in the basement, filling the building with smoke. Calls came over the radio shortly after noon, indicating that smoke conditions were present throughout the building. Sheepshead Bites reader Brian Hoyt was nearby, and
Y’know, it didn’t used to be that in order to cool off at the beach, you’d have to head down to Coney Island. You used to be able to check out the sands around the Bath Beach and Bensonhurst waterfront, long before the Belt Parkway was built,
8975 bay pkwy
Ceasar’s Bay’s Toys ‘R’ Us and Babies ‘R’ Us, located at 8973-95 Bay Parkway, will celebrate its grand re-opening from Friday, June 28, through Sunday, June 30, with giveaways, family activities, costumed characters and more – marking the full restoration of the retailers’ services since Superstorm Sandy dealt tremendous