ICYMI: Cherry Hill Market Nearer To Legalization, Burglars Run Amok, Ferry System Expansion Proposed
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- Cops are looking for three men who busted into a Coney Island Avenue apartment. Two of those men are suspects in an Avenue U home break-in just days before.
- Cherry Hill Gourmet Market won support from Community Board 15 to change zoning at the historic Lundy’s, which would legalize the business after six years of operating outside the law.
- A man responded to a Craigslist ad and was greeted at gunpoint.
- Sanitation workers and Senator Simcha Felder chased down a coffee thief.
- Work began to turn the historic Child’s Restaurant building in Coney Island into a concert venue.
- Mayor Bill de Blasio said he wants to expand the ferry system, including a new stop in Coney Island.
- Masked men broke into two amusement-area businesses, making of with more than $22,000.
- The New York Attorney General’s office warned of a new debt collection scam going around.