Marty Golden, Photo By Erica ShermanAs Republican state senators negotiate over strengthened rent regulations passed by the Democratic-led State Assembly in Albany last month, several immigrant groups are urging Senator Marty Golden, one of New York’s two Republican senators, to take a stand in favor of stronger rent laws.
> A photo posted by What Have You Done? (@whathaveyoudone) [https://instagram.com/p/3dOR-WRjxu/] on Jun 2, 2015 at 11:16pm PDT Apparently INC is our daddy. Can you guess the intersection? Take any photos in Bensonhurst recently? Send them to editor@bensonhurstbean.com , or tag them #Bensonhurst on
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Source: Grow NYC via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/GrowNYC/photos/pb.270665889709.-2207520000.1433276660./10153280540549710/?type=3&theater] GrowNYC’s Bensonhurst Greenmarket will return to 18th Avenue this Sunday, June 7, from 9am – 4pm. Look out for free cooking demonstrations and family-friendly activities at market every Sunday, through
Calvert Vaux Park
Calvert Vaux Park (Photo by Bensonhurst Bean)Another budget season, another trashed Southern Brooklyn park. At a Parks budget hearing last week, Councilman Mark Treyger raised with Commissioner Mitchell Silver the issue of the dilapidated and overgrown Calvert Vaux Park [http://observer.com/2015/05/de-blasio-administration-wont-commit-to-bloomberg-promises-on-parks/] , which in 2007 was
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A gun-wielding robber is lucky to be alive after trying to rob a Mapleton flower shop. Florist Moti Azreal proved he is no wallflower when the crook entered his shop brandishing a weapon, reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/brooklyn-flower-store-worker-fights-gun-wielding-robber-article-1.2242244] the New York Daily News: > Azreal was
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A gun-wielding robber is lucky to be alive after trying to rob a Mapleton flower shop. Florist Moti Azreal proved he is no wallflower when the crook entered his shop brandishing a weapon, reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/brooklyn-flower-store-worker-fights-gun-wielding-robber-article-1.2242244] the New York Daily News: > Azreal was
Diane Savino
Seantor Diane Savino. Source: Thomas Good via Wikimedia CommonsSenator Diane Savino re-introduced “Caroline’s Law” last week, creating a class A misdemeanor for public servants who distribute photographs of crime victims outside of their official duties. “Publishing trophy photos of a crime victim on Facebook is one of the cruelest
Courtesy of SG Blocks.Vendors were open for business at Smorgasburg Coney Island this weekend. Here’s the deal [/funky-shipping-containers-house-and-street-art-at-smorgasburg-coney-island-photos/] on those cool-looking shipping container booths. Take any photos in Bensonhurst recently? Send them to editor@bensonhurstbean.com , or tag them #Bensonhurst on Instagram, and we’ll post them here.
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Photo via fdnyhome [https://www.flickr.com/photos/fdnyhome/17106462329/in/set-72157651805202139] via FlickrTwo police officers were treated for smoke inhalation after a molotov cocktail exploded in a small apartment building on 83rd Street near Bay Parkway early Thursday, May 28. DNAinfo reports [http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20150528/bensonhurst/
9216 7th ave
Source: Poly Prep Country Day School website. (9216 7th Avenue)Two Poly Prep Country Day School [http://www.polyprep.org/podium/default.aspx?t=127337] students — including Jon Bon Jovi’s son — were taken on a cigar and booze-fueled trip to Cuba and shared a hooker on the school’s
72 Veronica Place
Source: NYPDPolice are turning to the public for help in locating a 12-year-old who disappeared from a middle school in our area, M.S. 246, last week. Dashawn Richard, who lives in Gravesend, was last seen being dropped off at M.S. 246 Walt Whitman, located at 72 Veronica Place,
Source: NYPDPolice are turning to the public for help in locating a 12-year-old Gravesend boy who disappeared from his middle school last week. Dashawn Richard, who lives in the Marlboro Houses on 30 Avenue V, was last seen being dropped off at M.S. 246 Walt Whitman, located at 72