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(Photo: yewenyi [https://www.flickr.com/photos/yewenyi/2256618233/]/ Flickr)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Check out the Lunar New Year festivities at David A. Boody Junior High School. The Parks Department is also taking ideas for how to improve locals parks and some of the rangers
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Image via Friends of Brooklyn Queens Connector.Elected officials slammed the mayor’s plan to build a fancy streetcar [http://parkslopestoop.com/blog/politics/brooklyn-queens-connector-streetcar-may-become-reality-under-mayors-2-5-billion-proposal/] along the East River waterfront as further proof the city is willfully neglecting the transportation needs of southern Brooklyn residents. Following Mayor Bil de Blasio’
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A reminder of the flooding caused by Hurricane Irene (Photo by Mickey Whitley) City Councilman Chaim Deutsch is urging federal and state agencies to pick up the pace on planned resiliency measures after an unusually strong high tide flooded parts of Manhattan Beach and Sheepshead Bay this morning. “I’ve
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Members of Community Board 15. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Are you passionate about engaging in significant decisions in your community? Do you have opinions about real estate development, educational institutions, city-wide policies, and the future of our neighborhood? If you are a New York City Resident and passionate about
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Gcin1987 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYPD_Ford_Police_Interceptor_2013.jpg#mediaviewer/File:NYPD_Ford_Police_Interceptor_2013.jpg] via Wikimedia Commons.Police caught up with two young thieves traveling on an MTA bus Saturday by using a Find My iPhone app to track the location of a
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Mute swans in Sheepshead Bay. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)In Case You Missed It (ICYMI): [/tag/in-case-you-missed-it/] Here are some of the big stories you may have missed this week. You can keep up with what’s going on in the neighborhood all week long. Just follow us on
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Photo by Vladimir KorostyshevskiyAfter a busy week, here’s a chance to catch up on some of the news happening outside of our neighborhood! We’ve pulled together some of the most interesting recent stories from our sister sites. Playing Too Nicely In The Sandbox: The New Yorker parodies Park
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(Photo provided by the NYPD)Cops are after a man who snuck through an open window last week and snapped up valuables from a Shore Parkway apartment. Police say the brazen criminal climbed into the apartment during the the middle of the afternoon on January 28. He grabbed several rings
Health
The Coney Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. (Source: DEP)The rancid smell from the wastewater treatment plant over on Knapp Street has long been a nuisance [/sheepshead-bay-is-tops-in-poop-smell-complaints/] for residents in the area. However, following last month’s record-breaking blizzard [/volunteers-distribute-hot-food-to-neighbors-stranded-by-the-winter-storm/], neighbors say the stink has become intolerable and are calling on