ICYMI: Coney Island’s Wily Deer, Mr. Figaro Passes Away, Waldbaum’s Workers In Trouble
In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and sign up for our daily newsletter. If you have any news tips, story ideas, questions or anything else, email us at editor@sheepsheadbites.com.
- A wily deer led police on an 11-hour odyssey through Coney Island.
- Mr. Figaro, Sheepshead Bay’s singing barber, passed away at the age of 88.
- Cops found hundreds of packets of heroin in an apartment near Brooklyn College.
- A Sheepshead Bay woman is running the NYC Marathon for her son, who was diagnosed with Cornelia de Lange Syndrome.
- Thee-quarters of workers at the Ocean Avenue Waldbaum’s could lose their jobs due to the A&P bankruptcy.
- A proposal to shorten hours at a Manhattan Beach dog run has caused a controversy among residents.
- A teenager was arrested for vandalizing the 9/11 memorial at MCU Park.
- Cast your vote for the best bakery in Sheepshead Bay for buying Thanksgiving sweets!
- the strip mall across from Kingsborough Community College was sold for $6.25 million.
- A small kitchen fire could have become a blazing inferno, had it not been for the rapid response of Gerritsen’s volunteer firefighters.
- BP Adams blasted the Daily News for its insensitive portrayal of a Brighton Beach mosque.
- A Midwood man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for sexually abusing a minor.
- The Parachute Jump in Coney Island went blue and orange after the Mets won the NLCS.
- A pair of thieves swiped an expensive designer jacket from a Midwood clothing store.
- Three men knocked over a Gravesend liquor store.
- Two women were crowned at this year’s Your Highness Grandmother pageant.
- Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz has launched an eyeglass drive for the needy.
- A man was struck and killed by an SUV in Coney Island.
