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Photo via joseph031286 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BLcB98_ANHJ/]The South BK Beat is our new round-up of news you may have missed in South Brooklyn this week: Kelly Clarkson greets fans in Bensonhurst [http://brooklyn.news12.com/news/kelly-clarkson-greets-fans-in-bensonhurst-1.12421955] [News 12] Police seek man wanted for questioning
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Sometimes a primary is almost as important as a general election. Just think of the presidential primaries this spring. Registered voters who wish to participate in the 2017 NYC mayoral primary must have their correct party affiliation registered by tomorrow — Friday, October 14th. Don’t
Food & Drink
Photo by Sean Egan/Sheepshead Bites.Palermo Pastry Shop has been in Mill Basin since 1974, and to this day they are keeping the neighborhood as sweet as can be. Last night was my first time at Palermo, which is located at 5517 Avenue N, and I may have gone
Business
Photo via Google Maps.The Raymour & Flanigan at 2544 Flatbush Ave is planning a big move to the other side of Avenue V, according to New York YImby. [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/10/raymour-flanigan-planning-new-two-story-55300-square-foot-store-at-2570-flatbush-avenue-mill-basin.html] The furniture store, which is based out of upstate New York, just filed
Neighbors
1 Prospect Park West (Photo by Park Slope Stoop)The long saga at 1 Prospect Park West may be over. Sugar Hill Capital Partners has closed on the purchase of 1 Prospect Park West — at Grand Army Plaza — for $84 million, NY Yimby reported today [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/
News
560 and 564 19th Street between 10th Avenue and Terrace Place. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Brooklyn-based real estate company filed plans this week to build a three-story residential building on 19th Street in Windsor Terrace, and raze the single-story warehouse on the lot, reports YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/
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Photo via Flickr/Oatsy40 [https://www.flickr.com/photos/oatsy40/7631270960/in/photolist-5DuXrJ-mwQoP-B7tqxh-8BkjvV-BSsFQ-7C16w9-a5HFKk-oY4emS-5WLPtP-4M1hz4-5xA7U-dHPGVp-4PrmnV-nMN7Sm-7ZRmDA-abvGnz-cCmfZf-bkeKG7-vv7yY-bsfgR9-dta67j-jPsGq-58FDLC-kQMUTa-6BDwbs-dtcT5-5Nvt3Y-ehfVkK-Gxb22-6KMMMh-9Bxuxc-nEWQAP-4CQHkr-Kq5TJ-c2kj-6bnwJL-f5QH8t-poJw7k-8wN5kD-aspYdh-6kfjR6-UbM9K-4bNQBK-6EgDeR-8HosxV-8WrhF3-zxhCRb-JpdKTh-nZn2ht-xJKV1M] The garbage cans on the sidewalk on some of the busiest streets in the n
News
560 and 564 19th Street between 10th Avenue and Terrace Place. (Screenshot via Google Maps)A Brooklyn-based real estate company filed plans this week to build a three-story residential building on 19th Street in Windsor Terrace, and raze the single-story warehouse on the lot, reports YIMBY [http://www.yimbynews.com/
Bensonhurst
Congressman Dan Donovan. (Photo via the Congressman’s Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/RepDanDonovan/])Across the United States, the rate of drug overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids nearly doubled [http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6450a3.htm] between 2013 and 2014. One of these synthetic opioids is the
News
New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito confers with Councilmember Jumaane Williams. (Photo via New York City Council Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/NYCCouncil/].)Are you civic minded? Have you ever thought about running for public office? Thoughtful and dedicated people are needed at all levels of government
Bensonhurst
The NYPD has released additional images of a man wanted in connection with the September 29th murder of a woman in Owl’s Head Park. /wp-content/uploads/2016/10/2803-16-68-PDU-Homicide-09-29-16-video-2.mp4 Courtesy: NYPDJennifer Cohen, 35, was found dead, with head and face trauma, around 9am Thursday, September 29th in Owl’
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The Edwards, Deme, Ellis and Blakney families at a rally to save the Fort Greene Day Care & Senior Center in April, 2015. (Photo: Fort Greene Focus)The lease for 966-972 Fulton Street, which houses the Young Minds Day Care and Grace Agard Harewood Senior Center, has finally been signed