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Photo via NYPD[Update 4pm: The missing has been reported found and safe] Help cops find 37-year-old Iliana Camacho missing from Gravesend since yesterday. Camacho was last seen on Wednesday, April 12 at 4pm leaving her home on 84th Street. She is described by police as a Hispanic woman, 5
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Aerial footage of the Gravesend Bay spill site, Saturday, April 1.(Photo by Hugo Smith.)A Brooklyn company quietly spilled thousands of gallons of heating oil into Gravesend Bay, BKLYNER has learned. The 27,000 gallon spill at Bayside Fuel Depot [http://www.baysidedepot.com] began before sunrise on Thursday,
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250 Avenue Z and West 15th Street. (Screenshot via Google Maps)Density is rising in southern Brooklyn, with new apartments jockeying for space on vacant or low-rise home sites. Gravesend Potential apartments or condos could replace a gated cluster of small homes in Gravesend, according to YIMBY. A Brooklyn-based LLC
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District Leader Nancy Tong and Assemblymember William Colton at the South West Brooklyn Transfer Station site. (Photo via William Colton’s office)Construction has been temporarily halted after workers found asbestos at a former incinerator site in Gravesend, where a new waste facility is slated despite vehement protests from local
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2034 East 5th Street in Gravesend. (Photo by Christopher Bride/PropertyShark)In February, a Gravesend home sold for $5 million, becoming the second most expensive single-family home sold in Brooklyn that month, according to The Real Deal. The two-story detached home at 2034 East 5th Street between Avenues S and
Police & Fire
Maurice Walker (Image via NYPD)Cops are searching for a 12-year-old boy who went missing from his Gravesend home on Sunday. Maurice Walker was last seen on February 26 at his home on Avenue X, at 10pm, and was reported missing yesterday, February 28. Walker is described by police as
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Salvatore Lucchesse leaving the 61st Precinct in police custody. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell/Sheepshead Bites.The Gravesend toddler’s gruesome death has been reclassified as a homicide, following an examination by the Medical Examiner’s Office. Salvatore Lucchesse, 24, was indicted on December 9, 2016 for beating his girlfriend’s
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Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz introduces NYCHA Chair and CEO Shola Olatoye as Assemblyman William Colton looks on. Via Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz’s Office. Last Friday, January 20, marked the first delivery and installation of new GE refrigerators and Premier ranges at Marlboro Houses [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/?s=Marlboro+Houses] in
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(Photo via Lloyd Mitchell)This morning around 10am, a man died from crushing his head between his car and a tree on West 7th Street, just off of Kings Highway in Gravesend. Xin Zheng Lin, 52, of Manhattan, had stuck his head out while reversing a Toyota Minivan, and hit
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Salvatore Lucchesse leaving the 61st Precinct in police custody. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell.As of last night, the 3-year-old Gravesend boy who was on life support at Coney Island Hospital after being found in his home covered in feces, with a fractured skull, and lacerations to his kidney and liver
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December 6th, 2012 photo of damage to Sea Gate after Superstorm Sandy. Sand appears missing in the top left of this photo, while it temporarily took over the road in the foreground. Coney Island is to the right. (U.S. EPA photo by Jeanethe Falvey via Creative Commons/Wikimedia [https:
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Stryker Court before the parking was removed. Photo screenshot from Google Maps. The Department of Transportation (DOT) [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/home/home.shtml] struck a chord with Stryker Court residents when they removed parking from one side of the Gravesend street. It happened three weeks ago