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Source: NYPDAuthorities and loved ones are searching for Dominico Rodriguez, a 78-year-old man who went missing near his doctor’s office located on Brighton 12th Street and Brighton Beach Avenue yesterday morning. Rodriguez was last seen at 10am on Thursday, April 9. He was wearing a black wool
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7 Corbin Place (Source: Google Maps)Plans for a seven-story mixed-use building at 7 Corbin Place have neighbors ticked off, and opponents are plotting a grassroots challenge to get the city to nix the proposal. The eight-unit building will include medical offices and “community facilities” on the
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The proposed location for First Steps to RecoveryIn the midst of the summer drama centered around a proposed drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility on East 21st Street [/state-pulls-plug-on-east-21st-street-rehab-center/], Assemblyman Cymbrowitz blasted the agencies involved for ignoring community input. He promised a legislative
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The proposed location for First Steps to RecoveryThe state agency charged with approving drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers has reversed course, choosing to reject a controversial clinic slated for East 21st Street after initially allowing the project to go forward. The Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) on
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The proposed location of the facility.The owner of the controversial drug rehabilitation facility attempting to plant its flag on East 21st Street and Jerome Avenue [/city-gives-green-light-to-east-21st-street-drug-rehab-center-despite-objections-from-community-board-and-local-leaders/] has shot back at local
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“Bullet Points” is our format for Community Board 15 meeting coverage, providing takeaways we think are important. Information in Bullet Points is meant only to be a quick summary, and some issues may be more deeply explored in future articles. Neighbors Demand Board Rescind Support For Drug Counseling Center: Residents
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Community Board 15 voted in favor of permitting one drug rehabilitation center in the neighborhood, but voted down another, saying that the owners’ attitudes made all the difference. At the November 27 meeting, the Board gave the nod to One World Counseling, a newly-formed entity proposing to develop a
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Source: davidsonscott15/FlickrA woman was stabbed to death in her Brighton Beach home on Thursday, and the killer is still at large, according to the Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/woman-51-found-stabbed-death-brighton-beach-brooklyn-apartment-article-1.992483] . The perp stabbed the 51-
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Bella Freytor // Source: NYTimes.comThe New York Times carried an article today about Tuesday’s bust, involving some 17 Russian-Americans – most or all of whom lived in Southern Brooklyn – and their scummiest of scumbag attempts to bilk Holocaust survivor funds [/local-scammers-bilk-holocaust-survivor-fund/]. In it, they