ICYMI: Professor With 22 Kids, Amphitheater Uncertified, Scorching Brush Fire
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- A Kingsborough Community College professor who donates in his sperm in public bathrooms has 22 children.
- With less than a week until its first show, the Coney Island Amphitheater has still not been certified as an entertainment venue.
- An entire block in Gravesend was defaced with Mexican gang graffiti.
- The largest New York City brush fire in a half-decade scorched Marine Park and Plumb Beach.
- Police are searching for a man who used credit cards stolen from a home on Kings Highway.
- Officials announced the completion of a $28 million project to prevent beach erosion.
- Legislators in Albany are working to block the New York City bag fee.
- The “bored” teen who set a deadly mattress fire in Coney Island was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison.
- Two bandits tried to rob a Midwood store,
- An NYPD traffic agent was arrested in Coney Island for groping a woman on the R train.
- City Councilman Mark Treyger came under attack from his state committee opponent for living outside the 46th Assembly District.
- Looking for cheap eats on the boardwalk? Try Brighton Beach’s Smoothie Cafe.
- The Manhattan Beach resident accused of running a Medicaid scam out of his flophouses was also charged with illegally evicting tenants.