Business
Isabella’s Wedding Center at 2299 Coney Island Avenue. (Source: Google Maps) Several wedding parties were left in the lurch after the owners of a local bridal shop abruptly closed their store and vanished along with their customers’ cash and dresses. Victoria Viviani, of Marine Park, said she put a
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https://youtu.be/jMg4aas6Fio Assemblywoman Pamela Harris took her seat in Albany Wednesday when the state legislature held its first session of the new year. The newly-elected assemblywomen stood beaming as she was introduced on the Assembly floor by Majority Leader Joseph Morelle, who described Harris’ career as a corrections
Events
Courtesy of The Owl’s HeadLots to do in southern Brooklyn this week. Send us your own event listing by posting it for free on our new event calendar [/calendar/], or using our classifieds site, EverythingBK [http://www.everythingbk.com/]. “Giving Up The Ghost” Art Exhibit [https://www.facebook.com/
Announcements
Photo via ImprovEverywhere.com [http://improveverywhere.com/]What is it with January and stripping down? Is it something called collective unconscious [http://www.psychology24.org/what-is-the-collective-unconscious/]? The cold weather must bring out the exhibitionist in all of us. Just a few days ago, the Coney Island Polar Bears took the
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Roxanne Persaud at the state capitol. (Photo: Roxanne Jacqueline Persaud [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153026436448571&set=a.10153026436378571.1073741883.824588570&type=3&theater] / Facebook)Roxanne Persaud [https://www.nysenate.gov/senators/roxanne-j-persaud/about] took her seat on the floor of the New York Senate
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Health
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Food & Drink
El Mexicano Restaurante’s burrito. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)THE BITE: [/tag/the-bite/] Sometimes, the best way to stay warm during a cold snap is to hunker down with a meaty sandwich. Neighbors in Sheepshead Bay already have a few favorites to fight the winter chills — the roast beef
Food & Drink
Courtesy of Fiorentino’sFine Italian food is about to become a little scarcer in Gravesend. Fiorentino’s Ristorante [http://fiorentinosristorante.com/] (313 Avenue U), an authentic, no-frills Italian spot on Avenue U known for its generous helpings of red sauce-drenched pasta, will be closing its doors for good this Sunday
Neighbors
A judge’s gavel. (Photo: Joe Gratz [https://www.flickr.com/photos/joegratz/117048243/] / Flickr)Community Board 15 member Mitchell Shpelfogel, heir to a family real-estate fortune, is being sued by his former houseworker for unpaid wages, according to court documents posted online [http://www.scribd.com/doc/294291080/Mitchell-Shpelfogel]