ICYMI: Target Coming To Kings Highway, Mermaid Parade, Sandy Home Collapses
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.
- Target signed a lease for a new location on Kings Highway.
- Build it Back suspended construction in Brooklyn after a home collapsed in Gerritsen Beach.
- Coney Island’s Mermaid Parade was more colorful and sparkly than ever.
- Neighbors mourned the death of 28-year-old Sheepshead Bay resident Rebecca Wasserstrum.
- The wife of the Kingsborough professor who sired 22 children with 18 women is reportedly “livid.”
- A man allegedly stabbed two people at a local sushi restaurant while his baby wailed nearby.
- Elected officials railed against the MTA for closing part of Avenue O during Midwood Mardi Gras.
- Try this delicious Ramadan treat at Safir bakery.
- Check out this delicious recipe for buttered sugar snap peas.
- A local police officer was convicted of molesting a young girl.
- A stash of drugs, cash and firearms were uncovered in a Coney Island apartment.
- A man groped a 12-year-old girl at the Coney Island subway station.
- Five people were charged in a $38 million Medicare and Medicaid fraud at local clinics.
- In the wake of the Orlando shooting, Jewish and Muslim neighbors show unity at special Ramadan meal.
- Elected officials have introduced legislation to combat illegal home conversions.
- Here’s what the new city budget means for Sheepshead Bay.
- Elementary schoolers won an essay contest about inspiring women.
- A local auto shop owner pleaded guilty to a $176,000 tax fraud.
- Police are looking for a man who groped a teen in Brighton Beach.