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Verizon Minivan Crashes into B6 in Bensonhurst

BENSONHURST — A Verizon minivan crashed into the back of an MTA bus yesterday morning and both drivers were taken to the hospital for injuries. At around 9:30 a.m. on Halloween, a B6 bus was at a red light on 74th Street and Bay Parkway. All of a sudden,

Central Brooklyn

Rats Did It! They Are Terrorizing Crown Heights and PLG

Community Board 9 at 890 Nostrand Ave. between Carroll and Presidents Streets. (Photo: Kadia Goba/Bklyner)CROWN HEIGHTS/PLG — Phone service at Community Board 9 was restored Wednesday after nearly a month of no service because a rat infestation in the building’s basement prohibited Verizon from repairing the rat-chewed

Police & Fire

Cops Cuff Third Suspect Involved In Midwood Shootout With Police

Cops say the suspects used a Jeep Cherokee to flee the robbery. (Photo: Alex Ellefson / Sheepshead Bites)Sleep soundly, neighbors. Police caught up with the third suspect involved in a robbery that ended in a shootout [/breaking-police-involved-shooting-avenue-o/] with police on a quiet Midwood street. Police reported that the third robber,

Cell Phones

Another Sheepshead Bay Electronics Store Robbed By Gun-Wielding Thief

Another Sheepshead Bay cellphone store was robbed Friday night when an armed thief forced an employee to fill two bags with cash and electronics, the New York Post reports [http://nypost.com/2015/10/04/daily-blotter-657/]. The robbery occurred at 7:30pm in the Verizon wireless store at Avenue U

AT&T

Bogus Charges On Your Cell Phone Bill? You Can Get Money Back But You Must Apply Now

These things are useless and just cost you money. (Source: Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr)Cell phone companies are doling out millions of dollars in refunds after agreeing to stop a slew of shady billing practices called “cramming,” but few customers have applied to get money back as a May 1 deadline

153 7th Avenue

Verizon Store Now Open On 7th Avenue

One of the vacant storefronts along 7th Avenue [/blog/real-estate/a-look-at-vacancies-on-7th-avenue] has been filled, as a Verizon outpost has opened in a former video game shop. The Diamond Wireless [http://diamond-wireless.com/] store, which is a Verizon retailer that launched in Salt Lake City in 2000 and now has hundreds

fios

Cymbrowitz Criticizes Verizon For Discontinuing Russian-Language Phone Support

Photo by Erica ShermanThe following is a press release from the offices of Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz: Russian-speaking Verizon customers would do well to have a translator handy if they want to complain about FIOS or question a bill. Following a number of complaints from constituents, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (D-Brooklyn) has

internet service

How Has Your Verizon Service Been Lately In Ditmas Park West?

A frustrated neighbor wrote in about a lack of Verizon [http://www.verizon.com/home/verizonglobalhome/ghp_landing.aspx] service throughout his apartment building that’s been going on for over two weeks. He says: > I live in 570 Westminster and our Verizon land line service has been out since

Park Slope

Mobile Service May Be Coming To All Underground Subway Stations

We may soon lose one of the last excuses for missing a phone call. The MTA is working on a deal with Verizon to offer cell phone service to cover all 277 subway stations [http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/new-york-today-can-you-hear-me-now/] , which could be complete as soon as

Time Warner Cable

Time Warner vs. Verizon

If you had the opportunity to switch your cable service from the ubiquitous Time Warner to Verizon, would you? One neighbor feels pretty strongly that he would, as he wrote on a Verizon forum [http://forums.verizon.com/t5/Share-Your-Ideas-with-Verizon/Bring-Service-to-Park-Slope-in-Brooklyn-Please/idi-p/500735#M19430] : > So I’m writing because we

Verizon

New Verizon Store On Kings Highway

Hurray, another cell phone store! Arthur Borko reports: > A Brand spanking new verizon store has opened today at the corner of East 17 and Kings Highway (previously Hollywood Video and a Con Edison payment center before that). I caught them taking their publicity photo and the manager tried to sell

cellphone stores

Verizon Wireless Shop Changes Owners

We all know how much our readers love hearing about Sheepshead Bay’s cellphone stores. So we’re absolutely giddy to pass on this groundbreaking story: as of this past Monday, February 1, the Verizon Wireless – Paging Zone Premium Retailer at 1517 Sheepshead Bay Road is under new management. Igor