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Cyclist In Critical Condition After Being Hit By Sanitation Truck

Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BklynerGOWANUS – A cyclist is fighting for his life after being hit by a driver of a sanitation truck last night. On Sunday, September 8 at around 9:30 p.m., a 62-year-old man was riding his e-bike in Gowanus. When he was at the corner of 12th

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Two Attempted Sexual Assaults In Park Slope

PARK SLOPE – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the man seen in the video below in connection to two attempted sexual assaults Monday night. The first incident happened on July 29 at approximately 11:50pm near 8th Avenue and 12th Street. Police say the suspect approached

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Photo Of The Day: Double Trouble

Photo by Donny Levit / South Slope NewsWhat’s behind the particle board on 12th Street near 5th Avenue? Take a photo in the neighborhood lately? Share it with us! Add it to our Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/groups/southslope] group, tag it #southslope on Instagram, or email it to

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Truck Hits Building On 12th Street

In case you were wondering what all those helicopters were about this morning, they were circling the scene of a truck crash that took down part of a brick wall on 12th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. > U/D Brooklyn: Box1327 at 121 12 St Garbage truck hit a

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Photo Of The Day: Lizards Of 12th Street

Photographer ironmaven718 [http://instagram.com/p/pWoWJFCYrV/] spotted this awesome little guy on 12th Street — anyone know the story behind him? Seen anything surprising in the neighborhood lately? If you take any local photos, share them with us! Add them to our Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/groups/southslope] group,

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Sewer Main Repairs Continue On 12th Street

Wondering how long the sewer main repairs at 12th Street and 5th Avenue are going to drag on? According to a construction permit search [http://a841-dotweb01.nyc.gov/permit/permit/web_permits/PermitSearchForm.asp] on the Department of Transportation’s website, the majority of the work is slated to end

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Emergency Sewer Work Has 12th Street Closed To Traffic

12th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenue) remains closed to traffic this week as emergency sewer repairs continue. No official word as to when the work will be completed, but a construction permit on the DOT website lists September 11 [http://a841-dotweb01.nyc.gov/permit/permit/web_permits/PermitSearchForm.asp]

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Photo Flashback: 5th Avenue And 12th Street

The New York Public Library has a fantastic shot [http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47db-a118-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99] of 5th Avenue and 12th Street, which they say was taken in 1941. A dairy and grocery operated out of the spot where Commonwealth [http://commonwealthbar.com/] now sits, and the mid-block building that is

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Broken Sewer Pipe Behind 12th Street Hole

An official from the NYC Department of Environmental Protection [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/home/home.shtml] tells us that an old sewer pipe is to blame for Wednesday afternoon’s cave-in on 12th Street [/blog/news/sinkhole-opens-up-on-12th-street] between 4th and 5th Ave. The 30″ pipe, which the

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Update: 5th Avenue Open for Parking Again

We bring tidings of good news on this beautiful Monday morning. The construction [/blog/transportation/no-parking-on-5th-avenue-between-12th-and-13th-streets-again] on 5th Avenue between 12th and 13th Streets ended Friday afternoon and you are free to park your vehicle along the block. Just watch out for those meters!