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Photo by magliarosanyc [https://www.instagram.com/p/BLOfd6IjUAD/]The South BK Beat is our new round-up of news you may have missed in South Brooklyn this week: Gravesend apartment complex allegedly dumped 200K gallons of sewage daily in Coney Island Creek [http://gothamist.com/2016/10/04/brooklyn_coney_
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Ask not what your cannoli can do for you, but what you can do for your cannoliIn Brooklyn, real estate prices will rise and fall, the F train will go in and out of service, and the price of pizza will inch ever upwards, but as sure as the Cyclone
Education
Source: Old Shoe Woman/FlickrThe State Education Department released new drafts of the English Language Arts [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-english-language-arts] and Mathematics Learning Standards [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-mathematics] — together composing the Common Core academic standards [http://www.bensonhurstbean.com/2014/01/common-core-cuomo-proposal/#.V_VCWpMrKT8] — last Wednesday. If approved,
Announcements
Photo via WikipediaThe weather is growing crisp and the leaves are beginning to change meaning it’s prime time to get a flu vaccine. The government recommends the vaccine for everyone six months and older, and it constitutes the best protection against the flu. Quick and safe, the vaccine is
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Frank Lampard photo via Wikipedia. Longbow photo via Longbow’s FacebookAs a reward for winning the Daily Mail and Heineken’s competition for being one of the best soccer bars in New York, Bay Ridge’s Longbow Pub & Pantry [http://longbownyc.com/meet-frank-lampard/] will be hosting a meet and
Destinations
Interior of the Brooklyn Army Terminal. (Photo: Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Collection)Here’s a chance to explore Sunset Park’s industrial past and present. Both the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Sunset Park’s waterfront recycling facility will be open to visitors during this year’s Open House New York
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Photo of suspect courtesy of DCPI. Photo of New York Community Bank by Christopher Bride via PropertySharkHave you seen this man? He may have robbed a bank. The police are searching for the individual depicted in the below photo in connection to a bank robbery that happened yesterday at the
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Is your mouth watering yet?A contender for the title of most popular Italian bakery in Bensonhurst, Villabate Alba is a neighborhood institution opened in 1978 and known for supplying cannoli at Brooklyn’s first cannoli eating contest [/villabate-cannoli-eating-contest-slated-18th-avenues-columbus-day-festival/#.V_VOqJMrKT8] , giving out free cannoli [/bensonhursts-18th-avenue-feast-kicks-off-tomorrow-heres-what-you-need-to-know/#.V_VOk5MrKT8] after the
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Source: Old Shoe Woman/FlickrThe State Education Department released new drafts of the English Language Arts [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-english-language-arts] and Mathematics Learning Standards [http://www.nysed.gov/draft-standards-mathematics] — together composing the Common Core academic standards [/common-core-cuomo-proposal/#.V_VCWpMrKT8] — last Wednesday. If approved, over half of the state’s
Education
Site at 59th Street and Third Avenue where a new public school is to be built. (Photo: Google Maps)A new public school is coming to an empty lot in Sunset Park. The New York City School Construction Authority [http://www.nycsca.org/] has filed an application with the City’
News
Twenty-eight (one-fifth) of the apartments in thisbuilding under construction in Fort Greene [http://fortgreenefocus.com/blog/2016/09/15/new-eight-story-development-include-market-rate-apartments/] (504 Myrtle Avenue) will reportedly be offered at “below market rate” and available through an affordable housing lottery. (Image via Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership & Madison Realty Capital.)The de
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Photo by roma77 [https://www.instagram.com/p/BLCFihQgOQA/]This weekend Bay Ridge held two of its biggest annual celebrations: the historic Ragamuffin Parade, and the slightly younger Third Avenue Festival. The weekend respectively marked the 50th and 43rd birthdays of the beloved community street fairs. The Ragamuffin Parade, held