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A collection of 8 issues

If You’re Thinkin’ About Stoop Drinkin’, Will New Laws Keep Your Bottles Clinkin’?

Photo by Donny Levit / Park Slope StoopIt’s finally warm outside, and those summer nights are here. The sun won’t go down until 8:29pm [http://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/new-york] this lovely evening. You may be craving some time out in your weekend schedule for a bit

Trash On Bay Parkway Remains An All Too Common Sight

This overflowing trash can was taken near Seth Low Park on the Bay Parkway side. Photos by Eric JankiewiczThe trash of Bensonhurst has become something of an unwanted neighbor over the last few years. Last year [/brooklyn-trash-garbage-fines/] the Department of Sanitation issued fewer tickets to residents who illegally dump their

Neighbors Frustrated Over Abandoned Flyers On 11th Street

We received the following email from a neighbor last week regarding flyers on 11th Street: You think Zito’s would know better as a former resident of the neighborhood, but I guess not. They heavily flyer-ed 11th street (the Mayor’s block) between 6th and 7th (and I am sure

Concern Over Sanitation At Cop HQ By The Parade Ground

A neighbor wrote us about how surprised he was this weekend on a trip past 397 Coney Island Avenue (between Kermit and Caton Places), which houses the NYPD’s Brooklyn South Task Force, Park Enforcement Patrol [http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/urban-park-service/park-enforcement-patrol], and Prospect Park Alliance [http://www.prospectpark.

Photo: Disgusting Street Waste Along Bay Parkway

Photo courtesy of Carmela.It is no great revelation that outerborough neighborhoods are becoming increasingly filth-addled, but it doesn’t mean we have to stand for it. Bensonhurst Bean reader Carmela sent us some horrible photographs she took along Bay Parkway outside the N train station near 67th Street with

Bananas About Town

Keep the sidewalks clean [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZRq3XxCZXo], Ditmas Park: stick to seltzer bottles, squirting boutonnières, and pies in the face. Share your Ditmas Park photos by email at editor@ditmasparkcorner.com, in the Ditmas Park Corner Flickr group [http://www.flickr.com/groups/dpcorner], or tag

Garbage Theory #4: Clean Streets… For Now

GARBAGE GAZETTE [/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/garbage2.jpg]: In our last edition of Garbage Gazette: Garbage Theory, we deemed the corner “officially a mess” [/garbage-theory-3-and-the-pile-grows/] after Sanitation workers failed to empty [/its-back-return-of-east-14th-street-trash-bin-gives-chance-to-observe-garbage-theory/] it on their Tuesday route, and garbage piled up to the point of mini-avalanches. Friday morning the can

Don’t Litter Sign With Emphasis

This picture of a picture of a Don’t Litter sign was taken in the vicinity of East 19 Street between Avenue X and Avenue W. The Sheepshead Bay resident who posted these signs took some effort to use photo quality print paper. He or she added color with a