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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are looking for a man wanted in connection with an assault and attempted robbery of a boy on the Q train earlier this week. The incident took place around 3:00 pm on Monday, November 26, on a southbound Q train headed from Sheepshead
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Rachel Tagiev, owner of Fittletica, a new gym in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, stands on a body composition monitor, which measures body fat percentage. Photo by Cole Zerboni/BklynerSHEEPSHEAD BAY – Electric muscle stimulation training, the latest fitness craze known as EMS, which uses an electric-pulsing body suit to shock people’s
Cypress Hills
CYPRESS HILLS – Police are looking for a man in connection with a robbery and assault that took place on Monday, November 12 in Cypress Hills. The suspect punched a 32-year old victim in the face and took $100 from him, according to police. The incident took place on Pine St.
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State Sen. Marty Golden Photo credit: Campaign office of Marty GoldenBAY RIDGE – State Senator Marty Golden conceded the 22nd senatorial race on Monday as the Board of Elections calculates the final absentee and affidavit ballots. As of last night, Andrew Gounardes led Golden unofficially by 1055 votes with several uncounted
Bed Stuy
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are looking for a man in connection with a seemingly unprovoked assault of an off-duty cop walking his dog on a Sheepshead Bay street last week. On Thursday, November 8, around 9:00 am, police said the suspect walked up to a 29-year-old man near Williams Court
News
Zito was found shot to death in his Sheepshead Bay home on Friday, police said (Screenshot via Google Maps)SHEEPSHEAD BAY – An elderly man was shot in the head at his home in Sheepshead Bay on Friday, police said, in what is thought to be a mob-related hit. Vincent Zito,
Central Brooklyn
Photo via Wikimedia Commons [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Police_Line_Crime_Scene_2498847226.jpg] SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are looking for a suspect who shot another man outside a Sheepshead Bay mini mart earlier this week. The shooting took place around 11:00 pm on Tuesday, October
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – Early yesterday morning, another pedestrian was hit and killed by a city garbage truck [/sanitation-truck-strikes-cyclist-bushwick/]. This time, however, the driver was arrested and charged. Police got the call around 6:45 am on Thursday, October 11: a person had been struck by a vehicle at Eastern Parkway and
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Photo: Courtesy of Andrew Gounardes for State SenateBENSONHURST — Gov. Cuomo visited Brooklyn on Tuesday to endorse the Democratic senatorial candidate Andrew Gounardes, in what seemed more like a presidential campaign rally. Dozens packed into the Stars and Stripes Democratic Club to rally for Gounardes and witness a rare Southern Brooklyn
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(Courtesy: bee721 / flickr)A string of deaths across Brooklyn struck over the weekend, from a tragic fratricide to the loss of a local singer and artist. EAST MIDWOOD – A 20-year old man is in custody after allegedly throwing his younger brother to his death from the top of their 7-story
Animals
OwnerDr. Anna Samuel at the ribbon cutting last week.SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Back in 2015, we wrote about the East 17th Street’s Bay Veterinary Clinic Closing After 37 Years, To Be Replaced By 5-Story Office Building [/east-17th-streets-bay-veterinary-clinic-closes-after-37-years-to-be-replaced-by-5-story-office-building-sheepshead-bay/] . As it happens, a new veterinary clinic opened in mid-August in its place
Neighbors
SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Corner of Avenue U and Coney Island Avenue will from now on also be known as Lester’s way. Lester Kronfeld, in whose memory the corner is now renamed, is the late founder of the famous “Lester’s” [https://www.instagram.com/shoplesters/] clothing store on Avenue U