Source: @NYCFireWire via @evgrieve via the Village VoiceA fire broke out at Nathan’s Famous on Coney Island (1310 Surf Avenue) over the weekend, according to a report [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/forkintheroad/2013/05/fire_on_the_roo.php] by the Village Voice. The famous hot dog mecca is
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Ban this? “The Hookah Lighter” by Jean-Leon Gerome via Wikimedia CommonsAre you an aspiring hookah fan who one day dreams of starting your own hookah bar in New York City? You might have to hurry up your plans if Councilman Vincent Gentile gets his way. Gentile is leading the effort
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John Sampson (center) Source: nysenate.govIt looks like the federal net for nabbing corrupt New York politicians is getting wider. According to a New York Times report [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/nyregion/corruption-charge-expected-for-senator.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0] , State Senator John Sampson, whose recently redrawn 19th
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Tsirlina’s law office (Source: Google Maps)The feds have accused a Bensonhurst-based lawyer of falsifying applications for foreign nationals hoping to receive U.S. work visas. Reuters is reporting [http://newsandinsight.thomsonreuters.com/New_York/News/2013/04_-_April/Immigration_attorney_arrested_for_visa_fraud/] that attorney Anna
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Source: mikey k via flickrTwo 12-year-old Brooklyn boys, one in Borough Park and one in Bath Beach, were injured in car accidents last week, according to a New York Post report [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/two_kids_struck_in_brooklyn_auto_6GXo54cXwJobdKEZZWuNlI] . The accident in Borough
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Runners on Ocean Parkway during the 2012 half marathon. Photo by Allan Shweky. The Brooklyn Half Marathon is back and bigger than ever. New York 1 is reporting [http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/181354/coney-island-ending-of-brooklyn-half-marathon-to-have-special-meaning-post-sandy] that the marathon has grown from 6,000 runners in 2011, to 15,
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Not too long ago, although it seems that way, in the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City subway system was a graffiti-covered, crime-ridden hell hole. Thanks to Giuliani-era policing tactics, new paint resistance metal surfaces and the all around economic explosion that transformed the city into a Disney safe
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Councilman David Greenfield (center) and Mayoral Candidate Christine Quinn standing in front of a Muni-MeterThe war against the machines has begun. Muni-Meters, the electronic parking meters, have a lot of flaws and members of the City Council have been seizing on them. Some of the biggest problems with meters came
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Source: NYC Dept Parks and Recreation NYC Dept Parks and RecreationThe planned $2 million futuristic steel bathroom stations set for the beaches of Southern Brooklyn have been delayed. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/bathroom-break-sleek-new-coney-island-comfort-stations-hold-article-1.1332606] that the new bathrooms, which faced a
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Source: Debbie Egan-Chin via the New York Daily NewsThe scantily-clad mermaids are in danger of staying in their magical underwater kingdoms unless everyone chips in to coax them out. Last March, we reported that the famed Mermaid Parade [/coney-island-will-look-better-than-ever-this-summer-but-mermaid-parade-may-not-go-forward/] was in danger of being canceled because the event’s operator,
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The following is a press release from the offices of Councilman Vincent Gentile: This past Saturday, family and friends from across the tri-state area, spanning four generations, assembled at the corner of 79th Street and 13th Avenue to celebrate the renaming of “Andrew Torregrossa Jr. Way.” Since 1929, Torregrossa &
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The crook who robbed a 7-Eleven earlier this week [/knapp-street-7-11-gets-robbed-at-gunpoint/] is wanted for hitting up four other businesses across Sheepshead Bay and Gravesend. News 12 is reporting [http://newjersey.news12.com/news/tri-state/armed-serial-robber-wanted-in-rash-of-holdups-including-two-7-eleven-stores-1.5174724] that the wanted man is cutting a path of crime through the area, robbing bodegas