Bensonhurst
By Laura IfrailovToday it’s a bustling playground, with basketball courts, handball courts, and picnic tables, but once upon a time, the triangle between Bay Parkway, Bay Ridge Parkway, and Stilwell Avenue known as Seth Low Park was a serene waterway called Indian Pond. Highlighted in his upcoming book Hidden
Food & Drink
Courtesy of Fiorentino’sFine Italian food is about to become a little scarcer in Gravesend. Fiorentino’s Ristorante [http://fiorentinosristorante.com/] (313 Avenue U), an authentic, no-frills Italian spot on Avenue U known for its generous helpings of red sauce-drenched pasta, will be closing its doors for good this Sunday
Business
Source: Google MapsA hotel is coming to a particularly ugly and industrial corner of Gravesend, reports [http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/12/new-hotel-headed-for-2632-west-13th-street-in-gravesend.html] YIMBY:Developer Ankit Mehta, who purchased several vacant lots on West 13th Street for $1,750,000 last month, has filed plans to build the four-story
Police & Fire
A truck from the NYPD’s Emergency Service Unit, a branch of the Special Operations Division. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)After an hour-long standoff Tuesday night, police safely removed a “disturbed individual” who had barricaded himself inside his Gravesend home. The NYPD could not provide further information about why
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2827 Brown Street, #1C (Photo via Compass [https://www.compass.com/listing/2827-brown-street-unit-1c-brooklyn-ny-11235/f510c6830eb68557c20a36b1241bc8dd77e395d5/?origin=synd] )We’ve rounded up some of the more interesting open house listings coming up in the area this weekend. Any thoughts on these places? 2827 Brown Street, #1C [https://www.compass.com/listing/2827-brown-street-unit-1c-brooklyn-ny-11235/
Bensonhurst
The kitchen in 103 Bay 25th Street (Photo via NauCorp Properties [http://www.naucorp.com/properties/bath-beach-beauty/])We’ve rounded up some of the more interesting open house listings in and around Bensonhurst that are coming up this weekend. Any thoughts on these places? 103 Bay 25th Street [http://www.
Police & Fire
https://youtu.be/kJXTB28dlZE Look out for this Grinch! Cops say a slippery thief squeezed through a roof vent at a Gravesend restaurant Saturday morning to pilfer a trove of valuables, including a legally-owned handgun, before dashing off to his hideout. The bandit, seemingly styled on Dr. Seuss’ furry, green
Bensonhurst
Junior competitor Lauren Zilberman, as seen on Food Network’s Chopped Junior, Season 1. (Photo provided by the Food Network)Gravesend’s Lauren Zilberman may be on course to realize her dream of hosting her own Food Network show. The 14-year-old chef, who just entered the 9th grade at Edward
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Courtesy of Joseph Ditta/Gravesend Gazette [https://www.facebook.com/GravesendGazette/photos/pb.102353071530.-2207520000.1445873156./10153999548986531/?type=3&theater] NY1 News recently launched a history series [http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/brooklyn-week-2015/2015/10/25/what-s-in-a-name--native-americans-and-dutch-settlers-gave-brooklyn-landmarks-their-names.html] that zooms in on a different borough each week, and
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Map courtesy of Department of HealthIt’s peak mosquito season, and this summer, many of the little buggers are carrying the potentially deadly West Nile virus, health officials warned this week. Neighbors are advised to stay indoors tomorrow night as pesticide trucks spray down southern Brooklyn neighborhoods where the disease-carrying
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Natik Nisimov (Source: Facebook)Police arrested Jefferey McCrae, 31, of Brighton Beach for the March murder of Gravesend resident and salon owner Natik Nisimov [/man-found-shot-dead-ocean-parkway/]. McCrae, who lives on Brighton 4th Terrace near Neptune Avenue, is charged with murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon three
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Bennett Castello (Source: New York State Division of Criminal Justice)A repeat sex offender living in Midwood is headed back to prison after being slapped with a 22-year-to-life sentence yesterday for raping a 13-year-old girl in the basement of a laundry room in a Gravesend apartment. Bennett Castello, 42, of