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Holidays
(Photo by Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)If you live in southern Brooklyn, you will most likely encounter someone observing Ramadan this month. Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, is the holiest time for Muslims. Ramadan commemorates the first time the Quran (Islam’s sacred text) was revealed
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New street signs were installed on Sheepshead Bay Road. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Here’s another one for the wastebin! Despite receiving letters from community leaders protesting the new traffic plan on Sheepshead Bay Road, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Department of Transportation (DOT) says they will not abandon
News
Police investigating a shooting in Coney Island on June 5. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Local elected officials are calling on the city to address gun violence in Coney Island by expanding youth and employment services after a terrifying shootout [/gunfire-erupts-at-crowded-intersection-in-coney-island/] occurred this week at a crowded intersection this week.
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The HBO series Girls shot a scene at La Vue at 3202 Emmons Avenue. (Photo: Bob De Thomas)The hipsters have arrived! The HBO series Girls stopped by La Vue [http://www.lavueny.com/], the the French/Asian fusion restaurant and lounge at the intersection of Emmons Avenue and Bragg
Announcements
Photo via Coney Island [https://www.facebook.com/coneyislandfun?fref=photo] on Facebook.Ready your beach towels, coolers and folding chairs. Flicks on the Beach [http://media.wix.com/ugd/feddcd_5a7a870b6a64413199ee09cfc091a2dc.pdf] returns to Coney Island next month — and the organizers have a pretty sweet lineup prepared for the
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Events
Betty the Rat was one of the winners of last year’s Pet Costume Contest at Deno’s Wonder Wheel. (Photo: Deno’s Wonder Wheel Amusement Park [https://www.facebook.com/DenosWonderWheelAmusementPark/photos/a.146180595442999.29999.146153275445731/1099515753442807/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this
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Rain forced the Kings Bay Y to move their annual Israel Celebration indoors. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Two annual outdoor street festivals, the Kings Bay Y’s Israel Celebration [/thousands-come-to-celebrate-israel-on-nostrand-avenue-with-kings-bay-y-photos/] and the Lena Cymbrowitz Community Health Fair [/12th-annual-lena-cymbrowitz-health-fair-spotlights-communitys-health-services/] , were driven indoors Sunday by foul weather. Rain seems to be
Police & Fire
Photo: Dave Hosford [https://www.flickr.com/photos/baltimoredave/4400415668] / Flickr)An off-duty police officer was arrested Sunday night for allegedly assaulting a 71-year-old woman at his home in southern Brooklyn. Authorities say 46-year-old Vladimir Radionov, an officer in Patrol Borough Brooklyn North, was inside his building’s elevator when
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Police investigate a shooting at the corner of West 16th Street and Mermaid Avenue. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Four people were wounded Sunday afternoon during a shootout at a crowded intersection in Coney Island. Gunfire erupted just after 2:30pm at the corner of West 16th Street and Mermaid
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