Events
Photo courtesy of Councilman Mark TreygerLots 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/]. Flicks on the Beach: Star Wars: Inside Out [/lineup-announced-coney-island-flicks-beach/] When:
Police & Fire
https://youtu.be/5h47wZw7MpE Cops are searching for a man wearing bright red sneakers, who they say is wanted for several cellphone robberies that occurred on Coney Island’s Riegelmann Boardwalk recently. In the first incident, the suspect punched a 25-year-old male victim in the face on the boardwalk and
News
Sheepshead Bay’s skyline has changed forever. [/sheepshead-bays-skyline-changed-forever/] [Sheepshead Bites] Neighbors worry Kings Highway Target is death knell for small businesses. [/neighbors-worry-kings-highway-target-death-knell-small-businesses/] [SB] Slower Than ‘A Herd Of Lumbering Elephants’: New Study Seeks To Improve Bus Service [http://fortgreenefocus.com/blog/2016/07/21/study-improve-buses/]. [Fort Greene Focus] Mullane’s
News
New York City will be enveloped in a heat dome [http://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/heat-dome-warning-expands-26-states-thunderstorms-loom-n614756] this weekend, which means that it’s time to abscond to The Beach [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beach_(film)] (though we can’t promise you’ll find Leo DiCaprio there.) Fortunately,
Nonsponsored
Photo by Maria Spencer > Silence is a true friend who never betrays. > -Confucius
Announcements
Photo Credit: flickr/Pete [https://www.flickr.com/photos/comedynose/14373314278/in/photolist-aqTL4i-cXiwL-e8ZT5F-vU2HV-m9ZhzM-tp3P8-32kmQ-5bXDHD-d4xDSC-e96wGo-7LBNyx-oyzDPs-7Md4q1-ZsgM5-4AMwG-n7NWt-68pAb2-i6wCF-6tKBNy-vuPhPd-k4yBrR-oyvU7v-dfy2y-2hfF1k-6KvkE2-dZvX9-nU7Zzq-ohihS9-43viRx-9YGFmn-znbAB-6VCdn-5qQ1QU-caayEA-72CxN-iJWvJ-54FGGu-aaqnAL-57tuKf-5zASQh-6qFKy-CLoSZR-3qKAKE-xc2GWp-wqQXfP-5puvWW-5nZqJ7-wLDDt1-wTXyKj-x6CnYw] At least we’re not in Washington D.C. where it will feel like 105 degre
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Photo courtesy of Kate CuccoDemocratic State Assembly candidate Kate Cucco [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2016/05/cucco-announces-candidacy-46th-assembly-district/#.V5D5oZOAOko] has been interested in public service since she was a child in her native Ohio, when she often tagged along with her grandfather to United Steelworkers Union [http://www.usw.org/] events.
Animals
A shark sighting near the Steeplechase Pier [/coney-island-beach-closed-shark-sighting/]in Coney Island on Tuesday has prompted local animal rights activists to send a clear warning to fishers: leave fish alone. PETA [http://www.peta.org/] will fly a banner along the Coney Island coast on Saturday between noon and 1pm, when
Health
Dr. Ram Raju, President and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals [http://www.nychealthandhospitals.org/hhc/html/home/home.shtml], announced a new public awareness campaign this week designed to promote the health care services that are most utilized by New Yorkers aged 12 to 21 at neighborhood centers in the
News
A bus stopping at the corner of Fort Greene Place and Lafayette Avenue. (Photo by Mitchell Trinka)Transit advocates have rolled out a new drive to improve NYC’s buses and their ridership. Elected officials and activists introduced a busload of new ideas during a call to adopt the recommendations
Announcements
If our dedicated and informed readers are anything like us, they’ve had enough of the same old delivery services and their shortcomings… but no worries – there is a solution to your problem. FoodSnagger: [http://www.foodsnagger.com] A Brooklyn based delivery service that’s paving the way to true
News
The “preferred” alternative proposed by NYC Parks for the comfort stations. The original site is in blue. (Source: NYC Parks)A comfort station that originally caused outcry [/brighton-bathrooms/] when it was going to be built in front of the Oceana condominiums in Brighton Beach is now a cause for alarm