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(Photo: Bruce Handy [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208612480779611&set=a.1077249661615.14122.1537445879&type=3&theater] / Facebook)After 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
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Photo by mta_subways [http://websta.me/p/1026851306904496366_1799578081]Q train riders can look forward to shuttle bus service between Kings Highway and Atlantic Avenue for four consecutive weekends starting at the end of January while the MTA does needed track work. A representative for Senator Marty Golden informed
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1835 E 14th St #3B, courtesy of trulia.com.Looking for a new place to call home? We’ve rounded up a bunch of intriguing Sheepshead Bay apartment listings. They’re rentals ranging from $1900 – $2700 that are breathtaking in their own unique way. Happy hunting. 1835 E 14th St
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Photo via Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-09611.jpg].Whether you plan to spend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day reflecting on the nation’s unrest, taking in a movie at a local theater, or, I don’t know, selfishly capping off a three-day weekend without a thought
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Click to enlargeCompStat reports are produced by the New York Police Department on a weekly basis. We summarize the week’s statistics for the 61st Precinct reports every Friday. The 61st Precinct is the police command responsible for Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend, Kings Highway, Homecrest, Madison, Manhattan Beach, and Gerritsen Bea
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Firefighters outside the Baku Boulevard restaurant on Avenue U. (Photo: Mike Wright [https://www.facebook.com/midwoodnewsnet/photos/a.435485473308800.1073741963.178373932353290/435485556642125/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Emergency responders swarmed the intersection of Avenue U and Homecrest Avenue Thursday night after a fire broke out in a restaurant on
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Source: WikipediaThe number of pedestrians struck by vehicles in Sheepshead Bay and its surrounding neighborhoods fell by 30 percent in 2015, according to police. Speaking at the 61st Precinct Community Council meeting Wednesday, Captain Jason Hagestad, the station house’s executive officer, reported that 185 people were struck by cars
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Cars parked on Voorhies Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)It’s no secret that residents in Sheepshead Bay are fierce guardians of their neighborhood parking spaces. Numerous development plans have died in front of the community board [/community-board-rejects-development-plans-avenue-v/] when the proposals failed to include enough spots. And the community
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Governor Andrew Cuomo at his 2016 State of the State speech. (Photo: PROgovernorandrewcuomo [https://www.flickr.com/photos/governorandrewcuomo/23994415209/] / Flickr) Governor Andrew Cuomo rolled out a five-year, $20 billion housing plan during his State of the State speech [https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-outlines-2016-agenda-signature-proposals-ensuring-new-york-and-will-continue-be] on Wednesday that promised
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https://youtu.be/RTxa4ng_bo0 Cops say that two bandits who robbed a livery cab driver [/cops-after-two-men-who-robbed-a-cab-driver-in-coney-island/] at gunpoint in Coney Island last month are also responsible for sticking up another driver. According to police, two suspects who fit the description of those involved in the first robbery, got into