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Capt. Kenneth Quick (center) with 66th Precinct Council President Mark Katz (left), and Community Board 12 District Manager Barry Spitzer (right) discussing business before the meeting. (Photo: Jole Carliner)A quick Happy New Year’s greeting to the Bangladeshi community, and then Captain Kenneth Quick got right to the point.
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Photo courtesy of Blue Agave/FacebookFood Stuffs [/tag/food-stuffs/]: Blue Agave, even on a sleepy Sunday night, feels alive and immediately draws the hungry diner through its doors. The rustic wood and brick exterior can be hard to spot from the street, but the upscale Mexican restaurant located at 7201
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Photo Credit: happn [http://gethap.pn/jZqIVP]This post is brought to you by happn [http://gethap.pn/jZqIVP]. During a long ride home on the Q train one night, I dozed off with my head against the window. When I awoke there was a note on the orange plastic
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(Photo: Willie Nelson / Facebook)The soon-to-open Coney Island Amphitheater [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/02/coney-islands-long-awaited-amphitheater-open-july/] has added another headliner to its already stacked summer lineup [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/04/coney-island-amphitheaters-summer-lineup-will-include-beach-boys-boston-sting-ziggy-marley/] . Country music legend Willie Nelson will play at the open-air entertainment venue on September 13, according the
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Red Cross volunteers aid victims of Ecuador’s May 16 earthquake (Image via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/26409477582/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz4Wq-afHwkp-afLhJG-afLhFb-7GzET3-9pyEbn-c8mauu-7GvPrK-7GQxtS-7K5Whx-7GLAFD-7GQxDh-Gkwc6Q-7GLB6z-FqUqWh-7GLApg-99LuME-wPg5eC-FsqpVU-GeHtAo-FXLcf5-FsqpTj-FXLcn9-FXLcjo-GeHtBA-GeHtH7-GnSBCH-FsAX8c-FXLcmY-qdV8fs-GkzDJ3-GnSBEM-FsqpXN-FsAX4p-FXLcjd/] ). [https://www.flickr.com/photos/ifrc/25896906034/in/photolist-pkYLx1-q4f3sz-rAA9Xt-rtz
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Source: Flickr/jpotischCouncilman David G. Greenfield, Community Boards 12 and 14, and the Sanitation Department have collaborated to create a more robust garbage collection schedule in anticipation of the eight-day Jewish holiday of Passover, which begins Friday, April 22 [/avoid-40-years-desert-brooklyn-seder-guide/#.VxesrpMrLiw]. The modified garbage collection will include the following measures:
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(A traditional Seder courtesy Wikimedia Commons)Brooklyn’s matzoh bakeries are working overtime in preparation for Passover, producing only the finest shmura matzoh [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/13/dining/passover-matzo.html?_r=0], which celebrates the liberation of the Jewish people from bondage under the Egyptian pharaoh. What
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Via NYT videoNot only won’t ex-officer Peter Liang spend a single day behind bars for the shooting death of unarmed Akai Gurley [/rookie-cop-indicted-akai-gurley-slaying-bensonhurst/] in a Brooklyn housing project, but his charges have been reduced. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun sentenced the former cop from Bensonhurst to five years
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The site of a proposed nine-story residential building between the Abe Stark Skating Arena and the Child’s Restaurant. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)It appears Bloomberg’s dream of transforming Coney Island [http://www.nycedc.com/project/coney-island] into a seaside resort is finally getting off the ground. Development
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A member of Borough Park’s Jewish community safety patrol is the latest to be implicated in the massive NYPD bribery scandal that recently snagged several South Brooklyn top cops. Alex “Shaya” Lichtenstein, 44, was arrested and slapped with bribery and conspiracy charges in connection with his efforts to pay
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All photos via FacebookThe New York presidential primary is upon us — and we want to hear from you! Are you feeling the Bern? Standing with her? Or would you like to “make America great again”? Declare your allegiance with our handy poll, share your thoughts in the comments, and don’
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Courtesy of NYC Parks [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/lt-joseph-petrosino-park]Community members are invited to a public input meeting today, at which the future of Lt. Joseph Petrosino Park [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/lt-joseph-petrosino-park] — and its complete transformation and reconstruction — will be discussed. At the public meeting, which takes