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Our Heroes: Cops Rescue Choking Woman At 18th Ave Feast; Two Days Later, Save Choking Baby

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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Photo: Disgusting Street Waste Along Bay Parkway

Photo courtesy of Carmela.It is no great revelation that outerborough neighborhoods are becoming increasingly filth-addled, but it doesn’t mean we have to stand for it. Bensonhurst Bean reader Carmela sent us some horrible photographs she took along Bay Parkway outside the N train station near 67th Street with

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What Is The Feast Of Saint Rosalia?

Source: Maxnashville via Wikimedia Commons/ Painter: Sir Anthony van DyckOf course, I know what it is. I’m referring to the history of the much celebrated, though sometimes slightly disliked, 18th Avenue Feast. Tour guide for Made In Brooklyn tours and former Stoop Stories interviewee, Dom Gervasi, sent us a