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Photo: Parks Department Cleaning Up Riegelmann Boardwalk

Reader Illona B. sent us this photo today, letting us know that Parks Department crews are out in force on Riegelmann Boardwalk, the 2.5-mile waterfront icon spanning Brighton Beach and Coney Island that took a battering during the storm. Several feet of sand blew up and over the boardwalk

A Public Pot Worth Peeing In: Brighton’s Got The Best Public Toilet

Hazel Chatman, in her bathroom. (Source: NYTimes.com)When I was just a lad, attending after-school instruction at Temple Beth Avahath Sholom (then in Bensonhurst, later replaced by condos) years before my bar-mitzvah, I made a discovery that has forever left me with feelings of inferiority.Women have much nicer

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