ICYMI: Police Save Trapped Child, Nurse Arrested For Beating Elderly Man, Coney Island Tower Taller Than Expected
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- Police officers from the 61st Precinct smashed open a car window on Avenue U to rescue a trapped two year old child.
- An employee at a Brighton Beach nursing center was arrested for beating an 82-year-old dementia patient.
- A fire that reportedly started in a basement laboratory scorched a medical center on Ocean Avenue.
- Popular Community Bank says its new branch, opening on Avenue U later this month, will be testing out several tech-based services.
- The original Nathan’s at Coney Island is still serving fried frog legs.
- New renderings reveal the Coney Island tower will be taller than expected.
- A burglar stole $4,000 and several pieces of jewelry from a Sheepshead Bay apartment.
- Eleven bicyclists finished their 3,100 mile, cross-country journey at Brighton Beach.
- Scorsese’s new HBO show Vinyl filmed in Coney Island this week.
- Disgraced congressman Michael Grimm was ordered to pay $149,000, on top of his jail sentence, for tax fraud.