Source: The Elp BlogAlternate Side Parking regulations are suspended for Thursday and Friday, May 2 and 3, for Orthodox Holy Thursday and Orthodox Good Friday. All other rules, including parking meters, remain in effect. You can download your own 2013 Alternate Side Parking Suspension calendar — in English [http://www.nyc.
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Just as we came upon the sixth month anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, a unique arts organization has covered Gerritsen Beach with dozens of stars to bring hope and inspiration to the children of the disaster stricken neighborhood. The Stars of Hope [http://starsofhopeusa.org/] organization brings together schoolchildren to paint
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Photo by Max Bolotov.On Thursday, in light of National Volunteer Week, State Senator Marty Golden held an appreciation dinner honoring dozens of those neighbors who lent at hand in Gerritsen Beach in the terrifying hours after Superstorm Sandy battered the New York coastline, despite the fact that many of
I’ve posted the entire video of President Barack Obama’s segment at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner above, but what I’d really like you to watch begins at 18:45. I don’t care whether you’re liberal or conservative, public sector or private – these statements go
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BYLAWS REVISED: After taking heat from a group of neighbors upset about a drug treatment facility proposed for Kings Highway, Community Board 15 voted to revise a section of their bylaws that would require more intense community outreach in the run-up to a hearing for similar facilities in the future.
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Source: National Parks ServiceHundreds of horseshoe crabs invaded the subtle slopes of Plumb Beach’s shoreline in their own sex-fueled, prehistoric rendition of the Allied invasion of Normandy last week, as horseshoe crab mating season kicked off on Thursday, April 25. The National Parks Service snapped the photo above of
Source: KB35/FlickrOhmuhgawd! No Q service issues this weekend! Clear sailing for commuters! Oh, hey, what’s that? Detroit [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WNvZPDqSzQ] froze over as a pig flew by? Weird. Anyway, F train riders have some good news, too, but it’s tempered a bit by
Source: KB35/FlickrBad news for anyone going to or from Sunset Park and Gowanus, and some mediocre news for F train riders. Here’s your weekend subway service advisory roundup for Bensonhurst-area lines. D, N & R LINESLate night trips (11:45 p.m. to 6:30 a.m.) on
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I passed by the New Utrecht Reformed Church (1827 84th Street) this week, and spotted this sign out front for their free feeding program. The sign told me to share the love, so here I am doing that. The program takes place Saturday, April 27, at 1 p.m. Come
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Faithful Friends Animal Hospital is coming to 2455 McDonald Avenue, off the corner of Avenue W in Gravesend. Our friend Mary, of Ditmas Park Corner [https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&
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Royalty is coming to 2663 Coney Island Avenue, for who else would reside in Sultan Palace other than the sultan? Well, we passed by yesterday, and we didn’t see any sultans hanging around. We’re still not quite sure what the plan is yet. But if we were to
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Photo by Bart Ettinger.Advance Auto Parts – “a leader in the automotive aftermarket” – is coming to 3720 Nostrand Avenue, the location of the shuttered R & S Strauss Discount Auto. The storefront has been empty since last June, when Strauss declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy and shuttered all stores overnight [/strauss-auto-declares-bankruptcy-overnight-50-stores-shuttered-700-laid-off/