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Coney Island Boardwalk (Photo by B.Y. Lei)City Council unanimously adopted a resolution introduced by Councilman Mark Treyger and Councilman Chaim Deutsch — as well as 48 other members of the Council and Public Advocate Letitia James — calling on the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to designate the Coney Island Riegelmann
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City announces voter registration forms in five new languages at Homecrest Library. (Courtesy: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office)By Elizabeth Elizalde Just in time for election day. Voter registration forms in five new languages — Russian, Urdu, Haitian Creole, French and Arabic — are available under the City’s effort to
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Photo via plasticbagpics [https://www.instagram.com/p/5289cRJgnG/?taken-by=plasticbagpics&hl=en]The City Council’s controversial plastic bag fee legislation — which passed on May 5 [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=484894&GUID=B22E7F6F-30CC-4A14-9BF8-A6F55432642E&Options=&Search=] — is being held up in Albany
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A temporary power line feeds electricity to the Ocean Avenue Footbridge. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)The 136-year-old Ocean Avenue Footbridge is once again drawing maintenance crews. Con Edison is working to replace the underground power lines that provide electricity to the bridge’s lamps after they stopped working last
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The lost vehicle and foot traffic outside the Sheepshead Bay subway station is hurting local businesses. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Businesses up and down Sheepshead Bay Road are reporting that DOT’s new traffic plan [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/2015-06-15-sheepshead-bay-cb15.pdf], which converted part of
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Source: katerha via flickrThe City Council on Thursday narrowly passed a controversial shopping bag fee aimed at curbing the use of disposable grocery bags in favor of reusable, environmentally-friendly materials. Proponents of the bill, which passed 28-20 [http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=484894&GUID=B22E7F6F-30CC-4A14-9BF8-A6F55432642E&
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Source: blhphotography via FlickrCity Councilman Mark Treyger is urging New Yorkers, and especially southern Brooklyn residents, to turn out at a City Council hearing next week and show their support for his resolution to landmark Coney Island’s Riegelmann Boardwalk. Treyger has long advocated [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2014/12/
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Bicycle lessons. (Photo: NYC Parks [http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/leon-s-kaiser-park/events/2016/05/01/learn-to-ride-helmet-giveaway] )The weather is heating up. And that means lots of fun activities in southern Brooklyn! Check out “The Wizard of Oz” at the drive-in movie night in Manhattan Beach Park. Luna Park’s kick-off
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Monk Parakeets. (Photo: Gary Leavens [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gary_leavens/21475923575/] / Flickr)Frequent power outages have frustrated southern Brooklyn residents during the last several years. And while blackouts and brownouts (a drop in voltage that causes lights to dim) are often attributed to a fallen tree [/almost-7000-people-lose-power-two-outages-strike-southern-brooklyn/] or
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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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Members of Community Board 15. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Are you passionate about engaging in significant decisions in your community? Do you have opinions about real estate development, educational institutions, city-wide policies, and the future of our neighborhood? If you are a New York City Resident and passionate about
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Photo by Vladimir KorostyshevskiyIn 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/sheepsheadbites]and Facebook