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A picture of Roxy. (Photo provided by Zain Junaid)Saturday was a bad time for anyone to be caught outdoors. But for a lost dog, the record-breaking blizzard would have been especially harrowing. Zain Junaid, 16, has been desperately searching for his two-year-old German Shepherd, Roxy, ever since she escaped
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(Photo: jenniknutrition [https://www.instagram.com/p/84ISWrKssh/] / Instagram) We’re getting close to the holiday and there’s lots to do in southern Brooklyn. Check out the Ragamuffin Thanksgiving Day Parade in Gerritsen Beach, the Good Shepherd Church is holding their annual tree lighting ceremony, and there’s a
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Homes along Emmons Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Three years ago, many residents of Sheepshead Bay and its surrounding neighborhoods awoke to find themselves living as refugees after Sandy’s floodwaters engulfed their homes. Those who made it through the gauntlet of bureaucratic red tape and rebuilt, now face
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Photo via Flickr, RV1864 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/summer1978/17142476224/] Brooklyn skateboard culture is iconic — street skateboarding was practically born here and continues to this day. Sure, skateboarding offers physical benefits to kids, but it’s the life lessons that make this sport perfect for little ones. Skateboarding teaches
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Source: NYPDUPDATE (May 28): This missing person has been found and returned safely to his family. Original post: A 90-year-old World War II veteran went missing from his Gerritsen Beach home on Sunday, sparking a search by friends, family and authorities. Thomas Gallegos was last seen on Sunday, May 24,
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Kenneth Proveaux crashed in the ballfields near Gerritsen Avenue, a popular place for ATV enthusiasts who ride illegally in the parkland. (Source: Google Maps)Gerritsen Beach resident Kenneth Proveaux, 49, died yesterday following an off-roading accident on an ATV in the Marine Park ballfields along Gerritsen Avenue. Proveaux, a Beacon
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Shaniesha Forbes. (Source: Facebook)Christian Ferdinand (Source: Aroostook Sheriff Department via Daily Mail)The 22-year-old man convicted of smothering a 14-year-old girl [/shaniesha-forbes-gerritsen-beach-body-murder/], stuffing her naked body into a suitcase, and attempting to set it on fire on the shores of Plumb Beach Channel [/womans-burned-naked-body-found-in-gerritsen-beach/] in Gerritsen Beach was slapped
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Engine 329 in Queens, where Schreiner worked. (Source: Google Maps)An FDNY firefighter arrested in 2013 for assaulting a black postal worker while yelling racist slurs was ordered to attend diversity classes and complete an anger management course on Wednesday. The New York Post reports [http://nypost.com/2014/10/
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The city Department of Health will be spraying mosquito-killing pesticides throughout parts of our neighborhood tonight, between 8:15pm and 6am – which was supposed to happen last week [http://ditmasparkcorner.com/blog/health/west-nile-spraying-in-our-area-tonight-what-to-do] but ended up being canceled because of the rain, according to a DOH spokeswoman. The area
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The New York Rising project, a state-sponsored, federally-funded program [/community-takes-storm-resiliency-plans-into-own-hands-at-ny-rising-workshop/] to make coastal communities more resilient in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, will unveil the final proposals for Sheepshead Bay and Gerritsen Beach tonight [/monday-public-engagement-meeting-restore-protect-sheepshead-gerritsen/], revealing the $21.3 million vision to help us better withstand and more quickly recover
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UPDATE (March 26): Organizers have added two more days to the sale: Thursday, March 27, and Friday, March 28. These are the final days of the Friends of Gerritsen Beach Library’s first spring book sale since Superstorm Sandy devastated the branch in 2012 [/local-brooklyn-public-library-branches-remain-under-water/]. The library, located at 2808
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Are you still struggling with city, state or federal agencies – or your insurance company – with Sandy-related problems? Are you still in need of help and support but don’t know what programs are still running? State Senator Marty Golden is putting together yet another Superstorm Sandy follow-up town hall meeting,