ICYMI: Cop Saves Teen, Baku Bakery Reopens & DOT Gives Makeover To Lawless Intersection
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.
- The family of a teenager who collapsed from a heart attack at the Sheepshead Bay subway station thanked the local cop on Wednesday who saved their son’s life.
- Macy’s Backstage, a new discount store, opened for business in the Loehmann’s Seaport Plaza on Emmons Avenue.
- Baku Bakery is reopening in a new location on Avenue U.
- A chaotic intersection on Coney Island Avenue is finally getting an overhaul from the DOT.
- A brooklyn street will be named after beloved photographer, writer, and Sheepshead Bay native Seth Kushner.
- The 39th Annual Brighton Jubilee was spectacularly successful, for visitors and organizers.
- Two Coney Island gang members received stiff sentences for a deadly 2012 stabbing.
- As many as 3,000 New York City homeowners may have to repay federal money used to help rebuild their Sandy-ravaged homes.
- Can you dig? The Warriors are coming out to play for a reunion at Coney Island.
- A woman died after being pulled to shore at Brighton Beach.
- An electrical fire knocked out power at 42 homes in Midwood.
- Ex-rep Michael Grimm requested his eight-month prison sentence be pushed off for two weeks so that he can have surgery.