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News

The Down-Low: Shotzy Avoids Kill List And Other Stories You Shouldn’t Miss

Photo via Luna Park / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunapark/8334483128/in/photolist-dGupsY-64V4xC-jWgiyx-qKNhXJ-7Cia4f-95hnff-4ov4X9-rkov2G-DTPta-9fHuyd-qxJFYu-9fEnmn-64HL12-68cxwd-7peZiw-7pbbdg-5LDAUc-9kyJA8-ri9NRy-aFBFr-9fEntD-9LHp9-jsWQNh-rezhY5-qNNc3S-9LHui-9awhKY-bgrD1a-aDfMB-96wge4-DArrd-9LHz1-qZ2vay-7T7pkf-7Br6m6-9VoKp-9fHv9J-9S4nR-r9doyJ-95fY87-9fEnqK-ARSmA-a2DRJ-dTut3G-6tQiX1-64Wk5a-4ov4jo-7FSnFi-9LHBg-mH7ekn] The Down-Low is our round-up of stories as well as other curiosities

Events

This Weekend: Treecycle your Holiday Tree Throughout The Borough

Photo courtesy of NYC ParksNow that the holidays are over, it’s time to get a fresh start by recycling your holiday tree at one of the many MulchFest 2017 locations [https://www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/mulchfest] in Brooklyn on January 7 and 8. Your tree will be recycled

Food & Drink

It’s Always A ‘Good Day’ For Cantonese Cuisine In Bensonhurst

Fried taro basket with chicken and beef. (Photo by Carly Miller / BKLYNER)My three friends and I wandered into Good Day Restaurant on a day that could not be described as good — it was a a cold, January night punctuated by icy wind and bitter rain splashing up and down

Police & Fire

Two Southern Brooklyn Traffic Fatalities In First Three Days Of 2017

Screenshot via Google MapsIn the first few days of 2017, one livery cab crash and one hit-and-run claimed the lives of two southern Brooklyn residents. Abraham Shmailov, 56, was killed in the back seat of a livery cab when an Infinity smashed into the cab at Avenue P and West

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Bensonhurst Bean Joins BKLYNER

Dear friends and neighbors, As we welcome 2017, we will be starting a new phase of local news by merging Bensonhurst Bean and our other neighborhood news sites into one, large, Brooklyn-wide site — BKLYNER.com [http://bklyner.com] — under the stewardship of Donny Levit on the editorial and Dina Rabiner

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New Year’s Eve Returns to America’s Playground! (Sponsored)

While many out-of-towners choose to crowd themselves into Times Square, real New Yorkers know that Brooklyn is hottest place to spend the coolest night of the year. Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. AdamsFor the third consecutive year, Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams is partnering with the Alliance for Coney

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ICYMI: 18th Avenue’s Annie Sez And Mandee Closing, The Backwards Wheelchair Lady

Now that’s the holiday spirit. (Photo via YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0OrM5sg6BE]) * 18th Avenue’s Annie Sez and Mandee will be closing at the end of January [/18th-avenues-annie-sez-mandees-shop-closing-january-offering-half-off-everything/] . Until then, everything is half off (as long as it lasts) * Who remembers 18th Avenue’s Walker Theater

Announcements

Merry Christmas And Happy Hanukkah To You From The Bensonhurst Bean

Images via dover1185 / instagram [https://www.instagram.com/p/BOHqT4VDrSH/?tagged=charliebrownchristmas&hl=en] and Anna Banana / flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tannesphotos/5225453389/in/photolist-8XKPeX-q2Yowd-puiA6T-qf8mdU-BSPLr7-dzSWjs-8Z3bVf-5LUbt4-dBhWHg-q9CgmD-7QwjHg-hVvqNi-4eNBzv-b91Tdz-dJUXKF-pukAv7-3yoxJH-fN9XX2-dyQ1et-q2w6sz-qrdeKp-98wWcn-dsLgEm-5GwByM-aY5cCp-otyZyT-hUPSZM-dySrNC-5LEBUb-qfVKwi-qiUamu-qcCAu3-bDMyQz-naZHWp-79H8fS-dwFxS9-irfGt4-5Lm5wJ-ehmXGe-bHcbvt-92Ssyr-ehgehu-9

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Weekend Reading: Brooklyn Stories You May Have Missed

(Photo via villabatealba / Instagram)Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus has closed; ‘Rebirth’ promised. [/morbid-anatomy-museum-in-gowanus-has-closed-rebirth-promised/] [BKLYNER] Cafe Glechik kicked out of Sheepshead Bay Road location [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2016/12/cafe-glechik-kicked-sheepshead-bay-road-location/] . [Sheepshead Bites] Brooklyn neighbors protest eviction of Errol’s Bakery in Flatbush [http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/business/brooklyn-neighbors-protest-eviction-errols-c

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Where To Go For Christmas Mass In Bensonhurst And Dyker Heights

Saint Finbars. (Photo by Vincent DeMarco)Saint Finbar Catholic Church [http://www.stfinbarbrooklyn.org/] Saint Finbar Catholic Church, via FacebookOn Christmas Eve mass will be held in English at 4 p.m. and at midnight. On Christmas Day mass will be held at 9 a.m. and noon in English,

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[VIDEO] 20th Avenue Employee Hospitalized After Being Beat With Screwdriver In Failed Robbery

Stills of the perp at the scene of the crime. (Photo via police)Back in November, at close to midnight a creep inside 8322 20 Avenue — an address police describe as a “grocery bodega named Tyolpen” but that we were unable to locate (it’s possible the shop number was

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ROTNAC, Bensonhurst’s Unofficial Mayor: The Man, The Myth, The Legend

86th Street photo via Google MapsA local celebrity to many, and a familiar face to even more, the character known as ROTNAC has been making his rounds through Bensonhurst in his signature custom hat gear for over three decades. Whether or not he has graced your presence, he is well