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Two-way bike lane on Avenue H (Photo via NYC DOT [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/argyle-rugby-beverly-mar2016.pdf]) After a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on news from our sister sites happening outside of our neighborhood! Some top headlines include: The Bensonhurst community mourns
Bensonhurst
8403 7th Avenue (source: Google Maps)A Staten Island insurance agent who ran a business [/dyker-heights-insurance-agent-slapped-with-hate-crime-charges-for-targeting-the-elderly-in-fraud-scheme/] on the Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights border admitted to defrauding elderly clients out of nearly $4.5 million on Tuesday. Paul Simoneschi, 70, pleaded guilty to first-degree scheme to defraud, first-degree money laundering and second-degree
con artists
The following is a press release from the offices of Councilman Vincent Gentile: Scams of all kinds have historically involved a victim wiring cash to a stranger, but now that many consumers have gotten wise to that trick, scammers have found a new way for them to trick people into
Asian
Scammers are finding their targets in Chinese bakeries.Scammers who claim to have magical powers are terrorizing elderly Asian ladies in Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay and Sunset Park with threats of evil curses if they don’t fork over their money, according to a report [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/