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The trial of Officer Peter Liang — the rookie cop from Bensonhurst who fatally shot an innocent man in the stairwell [/rookie-cop-indicted-akai-gurley-slaying-bensonhurst/] of a housing project in 2014 — began last week. Liang elected to have his fate decided [https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160106/east-new-york/officer-peter-liang-opts-for-jury-trial-killing-of-akai-gurley] by a Brooklyn jury rather
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Former President George Washington. (Courtesy of New Utrecht Reformed Church) George Washington is coming back to Bensonhurst. Friends of Historic New Utrecht invites you to meet the former president — as portrayed by actor Michael Grillo — at the New Utrecht Reformed Church Parish House [http://www.newutrechtchurch.org/] (18th Avenue and
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> Scene of 2-alarm fire earlier this morning on Bay Parkway in #Brooklyn [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brooklyn?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]. No injuries reported. Photo credit @nycoem [https://twitter.com/nycoem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] pic.twitter.com/0bA080kyGR [https://t.co/0bA080kyGR] — FDNY (@FDNY) January
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=336m4dZnglE In the aftermath of Winter Storm Jonas, the Department of Sanitation [http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dsny/index.page] (DSNY) did a kickass job at getting our streets clear and functioning in a timely manner. But where does the snow go when it
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanA woman was killed by a car turning left onto Bath Avenue from 20th Avenue Thursday. Responding to the 911 call at 1:03pm, cops found 56 year-old Alfiya Djuraeva with trauma to her head and torso. She was transported to Lutheran Hospital where she was pronounced
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If the owners of Sunset Park’s Fei Long Market [http://www.yelp.com/biz/fei-long-supermarket-brooklynhttp://www.yelp.com/biz/fei-long-supermarket-brooklyn] were trying to keep their bid [/owners-of-sunset-parks-fei-long-market-bids-on-waldbaums/#.VqjXvJMrLe0] on the shuttered Bensonhurst Waldbaums supermarket under wraps, their plan has failed. Another Asian grocer — identified as “JMart Group Inc.” — has
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A car snowed in by Winter Storm Jonas. (Photo: Ned Berke [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206686209408488&set=a.1878414194685.107486.1071163781&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Following the record-breaking blizzard [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/01/volunteers-distribute-hot-food-to-neighbors-stranded-by-the-winter-storm/] that blanketed parts of the city in almost
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B.Y. LeiWell, the honeymoon is over. Just three days after Winter Storm Jonas deposited 26 inches of snow on our city, the breathtaking blanket of white power that coated Bensonhurst on Saturday has quickly morphed into piles of grey ice and sludge — as it does each year. Fortunately, many
Announcements
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanCalling all able-bodied men and women: As the cleanup from this weekend’s blizzard continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia put out a call today for additional emergency snow laborers to remove snow and ice from bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, step streets,
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanAs the cleanup from this weekend’s blizzard continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia put out a call today for additional emergency snow laborers to remove snow and ice from bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, step streets, and other locations throughout the city.
Central Brooklyn
Photo by Bensonhurst BeanAs the cleanup from this weekend’s blizzard continues, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia put out a call today for additional emergency snow laborers to remove snow and ice from bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, step streets, and other locations throughout the city.
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Photo by scottbleck [https://www.instagram.com/p/BA5g2I_NEuM/]/InstagramA man with ties to the Russian mob was pulled over for drunkenly speeding down 86th Street early Sunday morning while Governor Andrew Cuomo’s city-wide emergency travel ban was in effect, say police. Aleksey Tsvetkov, 36, refused a Breathalyzer