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(Photo: Luigi Rosa [https://www.flickr.com/photos/lrosa/172087288/] / Flickr) Firefighters are battling a brush fire spreading through the southern end of Marine Park — and working to keep the flames from catching onto nearby homes. According to the FDNY, 60 firefighters were called at 4:16pm to Avenue x
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Seniors are especially vulnerable to phone scammers. (Photo: The FBI)To protect the elderly from a surge in telephone scams, City Councilman Chaim Deutsch has introduced legislation requiring the Department of Consumer Affairs to educate seniors and their caregivers about how to recognize the frauds. “Concerns about deceitful telemarketing calls
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Photo by ricangeekn [http://instagram.com/p/y3MWjiuzak/?modal=true]Some of our local Councilmembers, along with a group of business, labor, and transit advocates, will be pushing the de Blasio administration and the MTA tomorrow on the issue of renewed F express service in Brooklyn. Councilmembers David Greenfield of
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Source: mikey k/flickrAn 81-year-old woman in Coney Island was the victim of a terrifying home invasion Sunday after opening up her home to a burglar posing as a Con Edison employee, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/woman-81-home-invaded-woman-posing-coned-worker-article-1.2548430] . The octogenarian, who only speaks Russian,
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Salvatore Prestianni. (Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a missing 60-year-old man who went missing from his Coney Island home on Monday. Salvatore Prestianni was last seen around 2am at his home on Surf Avenue near West 23rd Street, according to authorities. He is described as a
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Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway. (Source: Gregory Maizous)City Councilman Mark Treyger pressed city officials last week about the sluggish pace of recovery projects at Superstorm Sandy-affected public hospitals. Speaking Tuesday at an oversight hearing for the Committee on Recovery and Resiliency, chaired by Treyger, the councilman demanded to
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Starealty Estate snapped up three properties near Sheepshead Bay Road and Shore Parkway. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Another multi-million dollar land purchase has taken place in the red-hot real-estate market near Sheepshead Bay’s waterfront. Three properties, located across the street from the swanky condo building [/rybak-development-scheduled-for-completion-in-fall-of-2017/] that will
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(Photo: Coney Island [https://www.facebook.com/coneyislandfun/photos/a.439779054513.232785.18664769513/10153527658584514/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Hear from city and state officials about progress in Superstorm Sandy recovery efforts. There’s also a psychedelic laser light show in Coney
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(Photo provided by the NYPD)He wanted a $3 beer. Now he has a $2,500 bounty on his head. Cops are searching for man who allegedly shoved a grocery clerk into a cooler when the employee tried to block him from stealing a $3 bottle of bud light. Police
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Transit cops involved in the arrest of 33-year-old Euzebelin Abellard. (Photo: NYPD News [http://nypdnews.com/2016/02/smart-cops-smartphones-proactive-police-work-lead-to-arrest-of-murder-suspect/] )A murder suspect who evaded capture for three months was busted Thursday when officers spotted him spitting on the platform at the Coney Island subway station, the Daily New reports [http: