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Source; Mark Treyger’s officeA community leader committed to serving area youth and the neighborhood was honored last Sunday, when Councilman Mark Treyger and the family joined together to co-name the corner of East 2nd Street and Avenue W in her memory. Lifelong Gravesend resident Barbara Dattilo devoted years of
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Avenue W and Knapp Street (Source: Google Maps)UPDATE (1:07 p.m.): We’ve just received word that the child has been found. Good news, and good work to the officers of the 61st Precinct. Original story: We don’t have too much information on this yet, but we’
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2662 Ocean Avenue (Source: Google Maps)Residents of an apartment building at Ocean Avenue and Avenue W were forced from the warmth of their apartments and into a frigid, 20-degree night, as firefighters battled a fifth floor blaze. Firefighters rushed to the scene of an apartment building fire at 2662
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Two elderly residents of a six-story building at 1900 Avenue W are being treated for smoke inhalation, after firefighters rescued them from a small blaze in their top-floor apartment. The fire broke out at approximately 9:45 a.m., and was brought under control shortly before 11:00 a.m.
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The New York City Housing Authority announced this week that they’ve made tremendous strides in slashing the number of backlogged maintenance complaints in city-owned housing complexes, following a scathing “Hall of Shame”-style watchlist released by Public Advocate Bill de Blasio that named three Southern Brooklyn housing projects as
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Source: FacebookCouncilman Domenic Recchia announced this week he has secured $400,000 in funding for the installation of NYPD safety cameras across Bensonhurst and Coney Island. Recchia stressed the importance of these cameras, saying they will protect the community. “These cameras will provide much-needed surveillance capabilities to areas of my
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The NYPD issued a Silver Alert for Simona Ortiz, an 80-year-old Hispanic woman who was last seen leaving her residence near West 12th Street and Avenue W wearing a black jacket, black pants, and black shoes in Brooklyn. Ortiz went missing yesterday at 6:00 p.m. She is described
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The northbound Ocean Parkway service road is closed between Avenue V and Avenue W, after an 18-wheel truck attempting to turn onto the road struck a tree, ripping open its haul. The truck was turning from Avenue W onto Ocean Parkway’s service road and could not complete the turn.
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Surveillance video via NY PostAuthorities have nabbed a man they say stole many of the 30 manhole covers [/theft-of-manhole-covers-on-the-rise-even-in-sheepshead-bay/] in the last two months in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx. The New York Post reports [http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/drug_addict_busted_in_city_wide_n0l5jhtIGptSQVqfGOq1jJ] that
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Two cars collided at the intersection of Coney Island Avenue and Avenue W, in front of the 61st Precinct. We received the above photo just after 8:00 p.m. from tipster Tinx Chan, showing that the two cars hit each other nearly head on, and it appears as if
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Reader Aleksey P. sent in the following report of an accident on Avenue W and Ocean Parkway: > The crash on W and ocean parkway was a one car accident. a 2010 Nissan Altima was traveling towards brighton in the right lane, swereved, jumped the crub a bit and hit
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Arthur Borko sent in this photo of FDNY crews on the scene at 1900 Avenue W (corner of East 19th Street). Borko said that smoke or steam is pouring out of the ground directly in front of the building. Could be a burst steam pipe or water main underneath sidewalk,