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Sometimes life hits hard. Suddenly, you may find you are unemployed, without benefits, with a spouse, three children, and a dog to feed. Our neighborhood has a couple of programs — aside from WIC and SNAP — where families can get help in an emergency. One of them is the food pantry
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Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway. (Source: Gregory Maizous)Three top officials are leaving their positions at Coney Island Hospital amid accusations that a botched diagnosis [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/02/medical-examiner-investigating-whether-botched-diagnosis-caused-grandmothers-death-at-coney-island-hospital/] earlier this year caused the death of a 47-year-old grandmother. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation,
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanPolice are urging neighbors to be cautious of crooks posing as uniformed utility workers after a man posing as an energy salesman tried to break into a Dyker Heights home. More via News 12 Brooklyn [http://brooklyn.news12.com/news/man-claiming-to-be-energy-salesman-attempts-to-rob-dyker-heights-apartment-1.11540039] : > The incident happened around
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanIn Case You Missed It (ICYMI) [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/]: Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow us on Twitter [http://twitter.com/#!/bensonhurstbean]and Facebook
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by B.Y. LeiAfter a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. Another P.S. 193 educator threatened to have a parent arrested.
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(Source: Street Easy)Looking for a new place to call home? We’ve rounded up a bunch of intriguing Bensonhurst apartment listings. Take a look at the details, and let us know what you think. Lots of luck and happy hunting! Sensible Spot on 70th Street (1924 70th Street #1
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Source: Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeThe serial killer dubbed “Son of Sal” by the media — who was known to lurk and dance in Bensonhurst [/serial-killer-who-lurked-and-danced-in-bensonhurst-convicted-on/#.VtngxpMrKSM] — will spend the rest of his years behind bars. Salvator Perrone, 67, a Staten Island salesman who was convicted for the 2012 murders [/serial-killer-who-lurked-and-danced-in-bensonhurst-convicted-on/
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(Photo: NYC Parks [http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/accessibility])The parks department will be adding additional beach mats in Coney Island this summer in order to provide greater accessibility for seniors and the disabled, City Councilman Mark Treyger announced. “One of our community’s greatest natural features is our
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Photo by Ben Cohn/Bensonhurst BeanAs the owners of Jmart quietly closed [/its-official-waldbaums-is-now-owned-by-asian-grocer-j-mart/]on the Waldbaums supermarket site last week, a “no parking” sign has popped up in the store’s parking lot. The 37-year-old New Utrecht Avenue supermarket — which shut down [/farewell-waldbaums-longtime-employees-customers-mourn-supermarkets-demise/#.VkuYI2SrSqQ] as part of A&P’
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Assemblyman Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman Colton (Courtesy of Cymbrowitz’s Office) Residents of Gravesend’s Marlboro Houses will soon get $3 million in home improvements, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman William Colton have announced. The two lawmakers, who share representation of the 28-building NYCHA complex, made the joint announcement today at
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https://youtu.be/9rygkKJSLLo A 70-year-old man is fighting for his life after being struck in a hit-and-run in Bensonhurst Wednesday. The senior was thrown from his motorized scooter into a pile of debris at the corner of 85th Street and 25th Avenue at approximately 3:45pm, police said. Cops
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(Photo: Wahlburgers Coney Island [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/photos/pb.1487982234809494.-2207520000.1456961491./1663025207305195/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)The Coney Island Wahlburgers [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/?fref=ts] — which opened last summer [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2015/08/after-two-month-delay-wahlburgers-opens-in-coney-island/] to immediate fanfare – is hosting a rooftop viewing