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Help Police Identify Man Who Snatched A 71-Year-Old Woman’s Purse

CONEY ISLAND – The NYPD is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying the man seen in the video below in connection to a purse snatching earlier this month. At approximately 11am on Wednesday, November 8, police say that a 71-year-old woman was walking toward her car near Shell Road and

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93-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Killed In Coney Island Apartment Fire

Luna Park Houses (Source: Google Maps)A 93-year-old survivor of the Holocaust died Monday morning after a fire ripped through his 15th floor apartment. Lipa Briks, who fled Poland in the 1930s, was pulled unconscious from his burning apartment at the Luna Park complex at 2954 West 8th Street shortly

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Elderly Left For Weeks Without Vital Care And Supplies In Sandy’s Wake

Source: JohnnyBarker / FlickrFor some people, Hurricane Sandy came and went, barely disrupting their lives or neighborhoods. Others, especially the elderly living in Brighton Beach and Coney Island, were not nearly as lucky. A report [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/trapped-ditched-nycha-article-1.1204211] in the New York Daily News chronicles the weeks-long