Neighbors
Michael Lvovsky training in Thailand. (Photo: Mike Beastmode Lvovsky [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153009527814028&set=pb.818769027.-2207520000.1456444131.&type=3&theater] / Facebook)By Alexandra Semenova Brighton resident Michael Lvovsky — beloved fitness coach and seasoned Mixed Martial Arts fighter who won his first professional
Police & Fire
Residents have a new tool to understand crime patterns in our area. On Tuesday, the NYPD unveiled Compstat 2.0, a website [https://compstat.nypdonline.org] which allows users to examine crime statistics up to the most recent week, identify crime locations by street intersection, and get other details about
Education
Seven more people have been arrested in connection to a city-wide fraud that involved ripping off scores of heating oil customers, including Edward R. Murrow and James Madison high school, prosecutors announced Wednesday. “The defendants are charged with running a scheme to systematically steal heating oil from a Brooklyn terminal
News
Manhattan Beach Community Group member Shari Kaplan, left, standing next to officials from the Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency and the Department of Environmental Protection. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites) Frustrations boiled over at a Manhattan Beach Community Group meeting Tuesday when city officials showed up empty handed
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Food & Drink
(Photo: Chillax Manhattan Beach Cafe [https://www.facebook.com/chillaxMBcafe/photos/pb.1103576223006858.-2207520000.1456358365./1138233606207786/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)An upstart cafe has drawn the ire of community leaders over its application to serve alcoholic drinks on a residential street in Manhattan Beach. The Community Board has submitted
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Source: Flickr/lisanne001The Lady Moody-Van Sicklen House is one step closer to landmark status! At an all-day public meeting Tuesday to address its backlog of 95 properties, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission [http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/html/home/home.shtml] (LPC) decided to keep the Moody House
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City Councilman Chaim Deutsch speaking to Community Board 15. (Photo: NHSatSheepshead [https://twitter.com/NHSatSheepshead/status/702297626574598144] / Twitter)City Councilman Chaim Deutsch told the Community Board Tuesday that he will stand with his colleagues in passing two controversial pieces of the mayor’s affordable housing plan so long as he
Police & Fire
Photo provided by the NYPD.Less than a day after cops released a new photo [/new-surveillance-photo-gives-face-suspect-grabbed-14-year-old-girl/] of the man wanted for trying to lure a 14-year-old girl on her way home from school, authorities dropped the charges after the suspect turned himself into police, according to the NYPD. Cops say
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The back of the vacant property at 1102 Banner Avenue — across the street from a 102-unit condo building. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)When a 29-year-old man was found dead last week in front of the vacant, two-story home at Banner Avenue and East 11th Street, neighbors found the news
Kids & Family
New York City is overflowing with incredible camp options [http://citykidcamp.com/], but when you’re searching for a special needs summer experience, the choices are few and far between. Once again, though, the Borough of Kings does not disappoint. Check out our list of five special needs camps that