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Bensonhurst trash (Photo by Rachel Silberstein/Corner Media)This Sunday, Bensonhurst’s multi-cultural leadership group is planning a spring volunteer event to clean up Bath Avenue. The Bensonhurst Alliance, formed by Community Board 11 Chair Bill Guarinello and District Manager Marnee Elias-Pavia, to promote tolerance among the community’s diverse
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanCommunity Board (CB) 10 is joining the chorus of folks apposing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s five-borough rezoning plan, which aims to add 200,000 affordable housing units citywide over the next decade. The plan, called Zoning for Quality and Affordability [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/
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Photo by Zachary Williams/Bensonhurst BeanOne night last year, Bensonhurst resident Adam Cruz, 23, searched for more than two hours for parking, only to double park and fall asleep in front of his house near of 78th Street and 16th Avenue. “A few hours later, my family just knocked on
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BP Adams administers the oath of office to the new class of members for Brooklyn’s eighteen community boards during a ceremony held at Borough Hall. (Source: BP Adams’ Office)Eleven new members were inducted into Community Board [CB] 11 by Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams at Borough Hall last
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Bensonhurst Park is looking pretty gritty these days. We stopped by the park over the weekend to scope out the situation, and found it to be rife with hazards. Benches were collapsed and broken, the sidewalk was full of tree stumps, potholes, and loose bricks, and caution tape was everywhere.
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A spotless Waldbaums parking lot sat silently in the dark Autumn evening. The grocery chain, which nests at 18th Avenue and New Utrecht, has become the subject of complaints for trash build-up on its property. At its October 7 meeting, Community Board 11 members reported grievances due to litter at
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June’s Community Board 11 meeting focused on three main points: the curb-cutting ‘crisis’, the new Bensonhurst BJ’s location, and the Shore Parkway promenade changes soon happening in the neighborhood. Assemblyman Peter Abbate and Councilman Vincent Gentile joined Community Board 11 at Thursday’s meeting at the Bensonhurst Center
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Source: ocularinvasion/FlickrOkay, so it’s officially two full weeks into 2014, and most people have already decided on, and then decided to abandon, their New Year’s resolutions. But the Bensonhurst Bean checked in with local leaders, business owners and neighbors to find out what their resolutions for the
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Community Board 11 met last night. As no resolutions or proposals were in the agenda, the members of the board discussed various community issues. Chairman of the Community Board Bill Guarinello started the meeting off as he usually does, by hitting his gavel, just like one you might see on
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Source: jetheriot via FlickrCommunity Board 11 Chairman Bill Guarinello is looking penalize people who cut curbs to create makeshift driveways in front of their homes. According to a report [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/community-board-chairman-demands-curb-cut-crackdown-2013-09-30-110000] by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Guarinello believes the practice limits parking in residential neighborhoods. The
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These days, most cops patrol New York neighborhoods in squad cars but in Bensonhurst, police officer John Ciarcia has been walking a beat along 86th Street. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle is reporting [http://brooklyneagle.com/articles/community-board-11-salutes-86th-street-beat-cop-2013-06-20-154500] that Ciarcia was issued a plaque by Community Board 11, honoring his service.
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Pre-Sandy seawall. Source: Retrofresh! via FlickrAlmost four months after Superstorm Sandy, the city will soon kick off repairs to the 2.5-mile Shore Parkway promenade, where waves battered sections of the seawall into rubble. The Department of Parks and Recreation awarded a nearly $2 million contract to a Queens firm
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Superstorm Sandy may have spared most Bensonhurst residents and businesses, but recovery was still center stage at Community Board 11’s December 13 meeting. In the wake of the storm, rebuilding the sea wall and protecting homeowners from toxic mold growth are top priorities for local leaders. Assemblyman Peter Abbate
drug abuse
According to Community Board 11 officials, One World, a medical group, may be opening a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the neighborhood. District Manager Marnee Elias-Pavia and Chairman Bill Guarinello said they were blindsided by the news, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle [http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/drug-rehab-center-eyed-bensonhurst]
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Photo Credit: Linda S.The city, along with New York City Transit, recently ramped up their anti-rat campaign along New Utrecht Avenue. Unfortunately, one simple preventative measure that could put a permanent end to the rat problem is currently being ignored. Plastic mesh has been installed around the now-infamous exposed
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Proposed site of Brooklyn Bay Center, featuring BJ's Wholesale ClubBorough President Marty Markowitz gave the green-light to Thor Equities’ plans to build a shopping center near Ceasar’s Bay that would include a BJ’s Wholesale Club [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2011/06/bjs-wholesale-club-bensonhurst-caesars-bay/] , but not without some