ICYMI: Subway Fare To Be Raised To $3, Bay Ridge Avenue Station Closing, Prostitute Convicted Of Murder
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, e-mail us at editor@bensonhurstbean.com.
- The Bay Ridge Avenue R train is getting extensive renovations, for which it will temporarily close
- A 34-year old male has been arrested in in regards to the August murder of a man in Gravesend’s Scarangella Park
- According to this 1969 analysis of life in Bensonhurst, life “will not change much in the future“
- Some of the New York Islanders took a visit to Seth Low this week and performed the “mannequin challenge”
- Southern Brooklyn is getting a new Hebrew Language academy next year
- MTA announces fare hike for subways and buses: a swipe could now cost $3
- A Bed Stuy prostitute was given 18 years to life for her murder of a man in a Bay Ridge hotel with a violent history
- According to foodie guide Zagat, Dyker Heights doesn’t have any worthwhile restaurants
- This is what your local politicians had to say in response to Trump’s election
- A warehouse in Boro Park is being converted into school and causing much trouble in the neighborhood, according to a tipster
- The racist Manhattan man who snatched purses from Asian women in Boro Park has been sentenced to 12 years in prison