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Ingersoll Senior (Courtesy NYCHA)The planned LGBTQ-friendly senior residences at the Ingersoll Houses [/?s=ingersoll] is starting to come into focus. The planned building, to be known as Ingersoll Senior, is to be built on an unused grassy area at Myrtle Avenue between St. Edward Street and Portland Avenue and
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Admiral’s Row. (Courtesy S9 ARCHITECTURE)While the Navy Yard is experiencing massive growth and innovation, one thing it won’t be getting any time soon is a new supermarket. Wegman’s [/?s=wegman] massive planned [http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByNumberServlet?requestid=2&passjobnumber=321183599&passdocnumber=01]
Police & Fire
Source: Google MapsA Coney Island teenager has been convicted of felony murder and arson for setting fire to a mattress [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/04/two-cops-in-critical-condition-after-suspicious-coney-island-fire/] in the hallway of a New York City Housing Authority building, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced today. Marcell Dockery, 18, of 2007
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The Coney Island Houses on West 25th Street. (Source: Google Maps)Barely an hour after NYCHA announced reforms to improve elevator safety at its properties, a worker was killed doing elevator repair at a public housing complex in Coney Island. Sources told ABC 7 [http://abc7ny.com/news/nycha-worker-killed-doing-elevator-repairs-in-brooklyn/1293419/
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The Coney Island Houses on West 25th Street. (Source: Google Maps)Barely an hour after NYCHA announced reforms to improve elevator safety at its properties, a worker was killed doing elevator repair at a public housing complex in Coney Island. Sources told ABC 7 [http://abc7ny.com/news/nycha-worker-killed-doing-elevator-repairs-in-brooklyn/1293419/
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Image via NYPD.Surveillance video shows the horrifying moment that a man, clad in black, shoots a 15-year-old in both legs outside the Farragut Houses last Friday, April 1. It was 5:07pm at Sands Street and Navy Street — still daylight hours and right outside the gate to the Brooklyn
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Photo by Fort Greene Focus.Let there be light. Now that a $4.8 million lighting installation project has been completed at Harlem’s Polo Grounds Towers public housing development, the city is continuing to go full steam ahead at the next eight (8) locations — including our very own Ingersoll
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Assemblyman Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman Colton (Courtesy of Cymbrowitz’s Office) Residents of Gravesend’s Marlboro Houses will soon get $3 million in home improvements, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman William Colton have announced. The two lawmakers, who share representation of the 28-building NYCHA complex, made the joint announcement today at
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An FDNY ambulance. (Photo: Tomás Fano [https://www.flickr.com/photos/tomasfano/4245678925/] / Flickr)A 26-year-old man was shot in the leg while seated in a car outside the Nostrand Houses Saturday night, according to authorities. Cops say the victim was parked on Batchelder Street, near Avenue V, around 7pm
Announcements
Image via National Weather Service [https://www.facebook.com/NWSNewYorkNY/?fref=ts].With temperatures dropping and freezing rain and ice pellets due to arrive overnight in New York City, now is the time to make sure your building’s or house’s heat is in working order. If you live
Bensonhurst
The report found there are two sex offenders living in the Marlboro Houses. (Source: Google Maps)Elected officials railed against NYCHA Monday for allowing registered sex offenders to to live illegally in public housing — including at least two at Gravesend’s Marlboro Houses [/in-list-of-citys-worst-housing-projects-marlboro-houses-ranks-41st-out-of-349/] . Following a report released last week
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The report found there are two sex offenders living in the Marlboro Houses. (Source: Google Maps)Elected officials railed against NYCHA Monday for allowing registered sex offenders to to live illegally in public housing. Following a report released last week that found the number of convicted sex offenders living in