Police & Fire
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – The police are searching for the man seen in the photos below in connection to a recent burglary in Sheepshead Bay. Via NYPDAt approximately 12:05pm on Saturday, October 28, police say a 47-year-old woman discovered a strange man inside her apartment located near the intersection of Avenue
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The first incident occurred on 14th Street near 8th Avenue nearby the Pavilion Theater. (Photo via Google Maps [https://www.google.com/maps/@40.6619076,-73.9799985,3a,75y,132.1h,81.57t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1stE5s-JjjUe4TwsUI5E0OHQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656] )Two incidents occurring five blocks from each other on
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Falafel Pita Pocket. (Photo via Mimi’s Hummus)Just over a month after opening a location inside the UrbanSpace Vanderbilt food hall [/blog/food/mimis-hummus-is-opening-a-location-in-manhattan] near Grand Central Terminal, Mimi’s Hummus [http://www.mimishummus.com/] has opened their second location in Manhattan and this one will be serving falafel.
14th Street
More condos are coming to our area — this time, displacing a day care center for low-income children. The Shirley Chisholm Day Care Center at 333 14th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenues, has been at that location for nearly 20 years, but when their lease runs out at the end
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The Holy Family School opened its doors on 14th Street, between 4th and 5th Avenue, in 1908 (when the above photograph [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search~S64?/Xpark+slope&m=k&searchscope=64&SORT=D/Xpark+slope&m=k&searchscope=64&SORT=D&
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Here one minute and gone the next. The for-profit clothing donation bin that recently appeared [/blog/neighbors/clothing-donation-bin-pops-up-on-14th-street] on 14th Street has been removed from the block. This isn’t a huge surprise, though, considering somebody set the thing on fire [/blog/crime/clothing-donation-bin-catches-fire] last weekend. How are the other
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In addition to scheduled manhole work [http://a841-dotweb01.nyc.gov/permit/permit/web_permits/returnSortedPermits.asp?sort=permit_number] on 8th Avenue and 14th Street, it looks like the intersection is in need of a little sinkhole repair. We spotted the above crosswalk depressions this morning as we were walking
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A 29-year-old man was reportedly punched in the head [http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/police-blotter-three-muggers-punch-man-in-head-on-sixth-avenue] as he walked down 6th Avenue near 14th Street around 1pm, on February 7, according to Park Slope Patch. However, we spoke to the NYPD this morning, and they tell us the mugging actually took
South Slope
Neighbors call her the Mayor of 14th Street, but the woman beside me just smiled and shook her head. “I never wanted to be famous,” she said. “I just like watching out for everyone.” One would be hard pressed to find a better guardian for South Slope than lifelong resident