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I regret not making any Dusty Rhodes jokes. How many roads [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwgrjjIMXA] would you walk down to find the right apartment? If two roads appeared, would you try to walk both? Or take the one less travelled [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/
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This tender, crisp, mayonnaise-free slaw goes great with seafood and pork and leftovers make a great base for a lunchtime salad. This slaw with its crisp, crunchy texture, sweet fennel, peppery radish and tangy dressing seems to be the perfect side for your next juicy pork tenderloin. At least, that’
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Photo via Owl’s Head Park Volunteers Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/owlsheadvolunteers/].NYPD officers from the 68th Precinct report they discovered an unidentified woman in her twenties, unconscious and unresponsive with trauma to her head, on Thursday morning in Owl’s Head Park. Police said they responded at
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This tender, crisp, mayonnaise-free slaw goes great with seafood and pork and leftovers make a great base for a lunchtime salad. This slaw with its crisp, crunchy texture, sweet fennel, peppery radish and tangy dressing seems to be the perfect side for your next juicy pork tenderloin. At least, that’
Bensonhurst
Participatory budgeting in action. (Photo: Corner Media)The participatory budgeting process gives New Yorkers the power to decide [http://labs.council.nyc/pb/] how to spend tax dollars in our neighborhoods. Every year, the participatory budgeting (PB) process begins with an idea collection phase, which is facilitated by participating City
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NYC Climate Justice Youth Summit sponsored by UPROSE in 2010. (Photo via UPROSE Facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/Uprose-133979383320121/].)Long-time environmental justice advocacy organization UPROSE [http://uprose.org] will celebrate its 50th anniversary at a gala in Fort Greene this evening. UPROSE, which is based in Sunset Park, on
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Photo via the Ragamuffin Parade’s official websiteHave a great weekend and take advantage of all your neighborhood has to offer at one of these local events. If you have an event to share, please email us at editor@bensonhurstbean.com or post it on our community calendar [/calendar/]. Movies
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Participatory budgeting in action. (Photo: Corner Media)The participatory budgeting process gives New Yorkers the power to decide [http://labs.council.nyc/pb/] how to spend tax dollars in our neighborhoods. Every year, the participatory budgeting (PB) process begins with an idea collection phase, which is facilitated by participating City
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Photo via Freier’s campaign Facebook pageA licensed attorney, mother, grandmother, and former Borough Park community board member, Rachel “Ruchie” Freier recently became the first Chassidic woman elected as a Civil Court judge in the 5th District. Today, we had a chance to catch up with Freier, whose term will
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New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca at an immigration hearing at City Hall in 2014. (Credit: William Alatriste / New York City Council / via Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nyccouncil/15208342877/])After City Council Member Jumaane Williams, District 45, remained seated during the Council’s Pledge of Allegiance [/blog/
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532 Neptune Avenue. Rendering by S9 Architecture via Yimby [http://www.yimbynews.com/2016/09/new-rendering-revealed-of-neptunesixths-single-story-retail-building-planned-at-532-neptune-avenue-coney-island.html] Developer Cammeby’s International has released an updated rendering of the second portion of its three-phase, mixed-use Neptune/Sixth project in Coney Island. The first phase of the development, currently under construction, entails
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“Seen in Borough Park Erev Shabbas.” Photo by kolhaolam [https://www.instagram.com/p/BKtgdXPjybu/]The South BK Beat is our new round-up of news you may have missed in South Brooklyn this week: Fort Hamilton Tigers earn first win for Homecoming Game [http://brooklynreporter.com/story/fort-hamilton-tigers-earn-first-win-for-homecoming-game/] [Brooklyn Reporter]