ICYMI: BJ’s Opening Delayed, Swastikas In Borough Park, Stalemate At Shore Theater
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- We will have to wait until September to get our five-gallon jugs of mayonnaise from Bensonhurst’s BJ’s Wholesale Club. Construction delays have pushed back the July opening until September.
- That’ll be a sooner opening than anything we see at Coney Island’s Shore Theater, whose owner has been turning up her nose at all proposals to reactivate the landmarked property.
- Three suspects were arrested hours after anti-Semitic graffiti was found in a Borough Park construction site and nearby yeshiva.
- More cops are being taught how to safely bring down suicidal bridge jumpers, and they’re training on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
- DON’T MISS IT! Bensonhurst is now being included in community-driven resiliency planning via New York Rising, and the first public meeting is today at 10 a.m. Give input on how to spend $3 million in the community!
- Campaign donors don’t like Congressman Michael Grimm, and even his staff seems down on him. But, hey, teen girls love him.