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Photo by Vladimir KuvatovEXCLUSIVE: The Ocean Avenue footbridge [/tag/ocean-ave-footbridge/] connecting Sheepshead Bay to Manhattan Beach will be shuttered for 2.5 months, as contractors work to eradicate a shipworm infestation and protect against future damage. The Department of Transportation found the presence of marine borers eating away the timber
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MBCG boardmembers, including new president Judy Baron (left) and outgoing president Ira Zalcman (right) pose with Comptroller-elect Scott StringerThe Manhattan Beach Community Group met earlier this month for their 72nd annual general membership meeting, an end-of-year celebration where new officers are installed and the year’s accomplishments celebrated. This year’
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In a scathing editorial published on their website [http://www.manhattanbeachbrooklyn.org/?p=1470] yesterday, the Manhattan Beach Community Group blasted the Parks Department’s $125,000 feasibility study for the Manhattan Beach bathhouse project [/manhattan-beach-bathhouse-brooklyn/] as a waste of money, and said Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, who funded the study,
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Community Board 15’s coach, Tony Scavo, husband of Chairperson Theresa Scavo, was already grumbling when I showed up an inning or two into the charity softball game, in which the Board faced off against the Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association. Donning a black CB15 baseball cap, Scavo turned and spat,
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When we hit Manhattan Beach last week to get some photos, we came across an unexpected sight: a go kart zooming up and down Exeter Street. Three people were playing around with the noisemaker, jotting around the dead end block. It was around 3:00 p.m., and no one
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On Wednesday, we told you all about the barbecue-hatin’ Manhattan Beach Neighborhood Association’s Monday meeting, in which they presented a petition from the barbecue-lovin’ Manhattan Beach Community Group [/mbna-bbq-ban-critics-once-supported-a-ban/]. That petition, drawn up in 2007, before the two groups split and when current MBNA leaders actually ran the MBCG
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Manhattan Beach's private security forces are hampered by economy, selfishness, and politics(Photo courtesy of davidsonscott15 via Flickr)Manhattan Beach’s private security force needs to see commitments from at least 150 more households if it expects to continue service in 2010, officials from the non-profit told Sheepshead