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A photo from the 1910s of Kings Highway between Ocean Avenue and Brighton Beach Road. (Source: Brooklyn Public Library [http://catalog.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/search~S63?/Xkings+highway&l=&m=k&s=&b=&SORT=D&Da=&Db=/Xkings+highway&l=&m=k&
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A car crashed into a Chase Bank on Kings Highway. (Photo: Mike Wright / Facebook) [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208265989424627&set=pcb.10154240302009038&type=3&theater] A car rammed through the window of a Chase Bank on Kings Highway Sunday morning after colliding with another
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An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)A 28-year-old man is in critical condition after being stabbed multiple times during an early-morning brawl Friday with a co-worker at an apartment on Kings Highway, cops say. The fight allegedly broke out around 4:20am
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Photo provided by the NYPD.Less than a day after cops released a new photo [/new-surveillance-photo-gives-face-suspect-grabbed-14-year-old-girl/] of the man wanted for trying to lure a 14-year-old girl on her way home from school, authorities dropped the charges after the suspect turned himself into police, according to the NYPD. Cops say
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Photo provided by the NYPD.Police are hoping a new surveillance photo will lead to the arrest of the man suspected of grabbing a 14-year-old girl last week [/14-year-old-girl-escapes-strangers-grasp-while-walking-home-from-school-cops-say/] while she walked home from school. Cops say the man shown in the photograph approached the girl last Tuesday on East
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(Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for an elderly man with a cane who allegedly swiped a woman’s wallet at a Kings Highway grocery store earlier this month. The pickpocket made his move at 3pm on January 16 inside Mama Liza’s Gourmet Foods [http://www.yelp.
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Photo by sirsamuelortiz [http://websta.me/p/1077987424418210558_1481684679]Q train riders can look forward to shuttle bus service between Kings Highway and Atlantic Avenue for four consecutive weekends starting at the end of January while the MTA does needed track work. The work starts on the weekend beginning Saturday,
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The b82 bus. (Source: MTA [http://www.nyc.gov/html/brt/downloads/pdf/2015-10-14-brt-southbrooklyn-bkbsc.pdf] )Community leaders are concerned that a proposal to bring Select Bus Service (SBS) through Kings Highway could bring further congestion to an already cramped commercial corridor. The MTA is considering adding SBS to the B82
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An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)An 85-year-old woman died at Methodist Hospital Wednesday from injuries caused two days earlier when she was struck by a car at the intersection of Kings Highway and East 16th Street, police say, Police identified the
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Photo via ACECouncilmember David G. Greenfield [http://council.nyc.gov/d44/html/members/home.shtml] announced expanded street cleaning in the area last week. Greenfield has partnered with the Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless [http://www.acenewyork.org/] (ACE) to sweep sidewalks and empty trash bins. Streets
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1630 East 15th Street (Source: Google Maps)The owner of one of the Kings Highway area’s largest commercial developments – two adjacent properties that include TJ Maxx and NY Sports Club – is seeking to add another 60,000 square feet on top of its already existing 160,000 square feet,