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Photo by Ben Cohn/Bensonhurst BeanAs the owners of Jmart quietly closed [/its-official-waldbaums-is-now-owned-by-asian-grocer-j-mart/]on the Waldbaums supermarket site last week, a “no parking” sign has popped up in the store’s parking lot. The 37-year-old New Utrecht Avenue supermarket — which shut down [/farewell-waldbaums-longtime-employees-customers-mourn-supermarkets-demise/#.VkuYI2SrSqQ] as part of A&P’
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Assemblyman Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman Colton (Courtesy of Cymbrowitz’s Office) Residents of Gravesend’s Marlboro Houses will soon get $3 million in home improvements, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman William Colton have announced. The two lawmakers, who share representation of the 28-building NYCHA complex, made the joint announcement today at
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https://youtu.be/9rygkKJSLLo A 70-year-old man is fighting for his life after being struck in a hit-and-run in Bensonhurst Wednesday. The senior was thrown from his motorized scooter into a pile of debris at the corner of 85th Street and 25th Avenue at approximately 3:45pm, police said. Cops
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It’s a bird … it’s a plane … it’s a Phantom 3 drone [http://www.dji.com/product/phantom-3-standard]! Calvert Vaux Park [/?s=calvert+vaux] — southern Brooklyn’s hauntingly beautiful, yet neglected and overgrown green space [/de-blasio-criticized-for-abandoning-bloomberg-plan-for-calvert-vaux-park/]— is known as a haven for rare birds and other exotic animal
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Photo by Beyond My Ken [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Augustine's_Roman_Catholic_Church_122_Sixth_Avenue_Park_Slope_from_south.jpg] St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church [http://www.staugustineparkslope.org/] (116 6th Avenue at Sterling Place) and portions of Green-Wood Cemetery are one step closer
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Source: Flickr/lisanne001The Lady Moody-Van Sicklen House is one step closer to landmark status! At an all-day public meeting Tuesday to address its backlog of 95 properties, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] (LPC) decided to keep the Moody House
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Source: Flickr/lisanne001The Lady Moody-Van Sicklen House is one step closer to landmark status! At an all-day public meeting Tuesday to address its backlog of 95 properties, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] (LPC) decided to keep the Moody House
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanQuite the brouhah [/cb-11-condemns-racist-rhetoric-in-waldbaums-backlash/]a unfolded this month over the sale of the New Utrecht Avenue Waldbaums [/its-official-waldbaums-is-now-owned-by-asian-grocer-j-mart/#.Vs4LD5MrKT9] to the Flushing-based Asian supermarket Jmart [http://www.newworldmallny.com/jmart] . Those who complain that Bensonhurst is oversaturated with Asian groceries have clearly never visited the gourmet Queens
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Calvert Vaux Park [http://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/capital-project-tracker/project/1038] — Gravesend’s lovely, overgrown, long-neglected [/7-reasons-to-fall-in-love-with-calvert-vaux-park/] green space — will soon get a brand new maintenance building and comfort stations, and the design phase is well underway [http://www.nycgovparks.org/planning-and-building/capital-project-tracker/project/1038] . These are not just any
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This weekend, many recalled Angela “Big Ang” Raiola’s generous heart [/mob-wives-family-fans-say-farewell-big-ang-raiola-dyker-heights-photos/]at her viewings and funeral service in Dyker Heights, before she was laid to rest. Now The Dr. Oz Show has released a moving tribute [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6EORmMZMQs] to the”Mob Wives” star — who