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Maria and Chubby Campanella (Source: theicecreamgirl.com)The street co-naming ceremony for Angelo “Chubby” Campanella [/chubby-ice-cream-man-campanella-memorialized-street-co-naming/] last Sunday capped off a quiet, 5-year battle in which Maria “the Ice Cream Girl” Campanella beat back City Hall smugness to get her dad remembered. The fight for the new sign at 21st
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Officers Nogol (left) and Smith (right) at the 18th Avenue Feast. (Source: NYPD) One thing is for sure: if you’re going to choke, choke in Bensonhurst. The cops here are getting a name for their heroic rescues. Cops from the 62nd Precinct rescued two people in separate incidents: one
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Maimonides Medical CenterA 3-year-old boy died of mysterious causes after being dropped off at a child day care center in Bensonhurst. The New York Daily News is reporting [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/boy-dies-child-care-brooklyn-article-1.1392240] that Andy Li lost consciousness before being rushed to Maimonides Hospital. After Li’s
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Surveillance video via NY PostPolice arrested a Bensonhurst man for stealing several of the more than 30 Con Edison manhole covers [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2012/05/theft-of-manhole-covers-on-the-rise-even-in-sheepshead-bay/] that have gone missing across New York City in the past two months, charging him with criminal possession of stolen property and
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(from creativecommons.org)The L Magazine and Brooklyn Daily Eagle are both reporting on a local 16-year-old who was killed by a car while riding her bike on Saturday. Police say Aileen Chen was riding through a red light at the corner of 62nd Street and 21st Avenue at around