ICYMI: Convict Tries To Hire Hitman To Kill Gravesend Bodega Owner; Coney Island Creek Is Full Of Poop
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- A convict allegedly offered an undercover cop $10,000 to kill a Gravesend bodega owner who testified against him.
- A Bensonhurst couple are fighting to keep open a “lock-down” institution for the disabled, where their severely autistic son has lived for 35 years.
- Coney Island beach tested better for water quality than some would think, but Coney Island Creek ended up being New York City’s most poop-filled waterway.
- Three men robbed an elderly woman at gunpoint in an elevator.
- Local pols remembered Gravesend firefighter Billy Tropea with a street co-naming.
- The swearing-in of the first Asian elected official in Brooklyn – a Bensonhurst mom – was hailed as historic.