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One of the libraries flooded by Sandy (Photo: Brooklyn Public Library via NYDailyNews.com)Five Brooklyn Public Library branches, four of which are in Southern Brooklyn, remain closed after taking severe damage during Superstorm Sandy, and library administrators say they need millions to get back online. New York Daily News
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Reader Illona B. sent us this photo today, letting us know that Parks Department crews are out in force on Riegelmann Boardwalk, the 2.5-mile waterfront icon spanning Brighton Beach and Coney Island that took a battering during the storm. Several feet of sand blew up and over the boardwalk
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Source: YAI.orgSeveral autistic and developmentally disabled people who previously lived in group homes in Sheepshead Bay are among the hundreds left displaced after Superstorm Sandy took a heavy toll on their facilities. YAI Network, an organization which manages several such homes in the area, announced today that two of
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From the Bay Improvement Group: We are having a meeting of block captains and those interested in being block captains at Roll & Roaster on Wednesday, 11/27, at 7pm. Block captains will collect information at the meetings and bring them back to their blocks. They will also collect information
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Sheepshead Bay High School students protesting the city’s closure attempts in the last school year. (Photo: Robert Fernandez)The third time’s the charm? New York City’s school administrators seem to hope so. For the third time in three years, the Department of Education has again set its
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Photo by Ray JohnsonCherry Hill Gourmet Market opened its doors to the public for the first time last Tuesday, and you can barely tell floodwaters ever entered its storefront in the historic Lundy’s building (1901 Emmons Avenue). “We were working night and day, day and night, 24-seven, to get
Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Beach.
Source: shayagency.comThanksgiving is here, and despite our many struggles as of late, we have much to be thankful for. We have our friends and family, we have our lives, and we have a bright future with which to rebuild in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. We will be stronger
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From the offices of Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein: FEMA representatives will be at the Kings Bay Library 3650 Nostrand Avenue, (between Avenue W & X) on Friday November 23 from 10am – 2:pm to assist individuals who suffered damages as a result of Sandy. Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein and Councilman Lew Fidler
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Our friend Jack Spadaro from the Bay Improvement Group gave us a flier that had the following information: > Volunteers with Occupy Sandy and other groups invite you to sit down with us and the Sheepshead Bay community for Thanksgiving Day Lunch, Thursday, November 22, roughly noon to 3 p.
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Anyone who has tried to visit Floyd Bennett Field since Superstorm Sandy rolled through more than three weeks ago has discovered that the site is no longer open to the public, turning into what appears to be a makeshift military base. Well, it ain’t wartime on the Hudson, but