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https://youtu.be/QixChR22fIM Cops have released footage of a man wanted for robbing two livery car drivers and a food cart owner at gunpoint near 86th Street earlier this month. The suspect held up both cabbies on July 12, taking $100 from the first one on 86th Street near
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Fear not, Bensonhurst coffee fiends! Our beloved Starbucks location at 1971 86th Street is only closed temporarily. Multiple neighbors inquired about the store, which closed on July 24 in order to remodel, according to a company spokesperson. “We’re hoping to reopen the store later this week,” the Starbucks representative
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Photos via Brooklyn District Attorney’s OfficeTwo gangsters who lured a rival out of a Coney Island store [/two-gang-members-convicted-luring-shooting-rival-coney-island/#.V5ejZ5MrI9c] and then shot him from behind multiple times, were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison today following their murder conviction, Brooklyn District Attorney Kenneth Thompson announced today.Brooklyn
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Photo by Patti PappagalloNeighbors reported downed power lines, flooded streets, and fallen trees all over southern Brooklyn Monday afternoon, after a torrential downpour swamped the area at around 5pm. On Avenue X and Avenue Y, on the “East” streets in Gravesend, residents say they were left in the dark for
Events
(Courtesy: Councilman Mark Treyger)Lots to do in southern Brooklyn this week! Send us your own event listing by posting it for free on our new event calendar [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/calendar/], or using our classifieds site, EverythingBK [http://www.everythingbk.com/]. Free Summer Concert: Frankie Marra Band [http:
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Daniel J. Schaefer Funeral Home on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park. (Photo: Pat Marmo / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=512187632128661&set=pb.100000122870573.-2207520000.1469481479.&type=3&theater] )A Crain’s New York [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160724/SMALLBIZ/160729938/new-yorks-funeral-homes-are-reborn-to-cater-to-new-immigrant-populations-with-operators-such-as-pat-marmo-maintaining-a-steady-business-by-offering-services-in-spanish-and-learning-the-burial-rites-of
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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 [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/calendar/], or using our classifieds site, EverythingBK [http://www.everythingbk.com/]. Flicks on the Beach: Star Wars:
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Funeral of Detective Wenjian Liu at Aievoli Funeral Home (Photo by Heather Chin) An article in Crain’s New York [http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20160724/SMALLBIZ/160729937] this weekend describes how the historically Italian-Catholic Aievoli Funeral Home [http://www.aievolifh.com/] (1275 65th Street) made the decision cater to
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanUlmer Park Library [http://www.bklynlibrary.org/locations/ulmer-park] (2602 Bath Avenue), which has been shuttered for a year and half and was supposed to reopen this summer, is still closed and the site is gradually becoming a serious eyesore — collecting trash, discarded belongings and most recently,
Arts & Culture
Photo via Gothamist [https://www.instagram.com/p/BDeA1W-LEMy/]By Chris Farrell Brian Whiteley [http://www.brianwhiteleyart.com/] got his tombstone back. The artist came to the attention of New Yorkers — and the NYPD and Secret Service — after he cut a fence to install a grave marker carved with Donald
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(Courtesy: Brooklyn Nets / Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/BrooklynNets/photos/a.77208000254.112801.26426125254/10154122183585255/?type=3&theater] )Brooklyn is about to experience Linsanity. Point guard Jeremy Lin returns to New York with a three-year $36 million contract playing for the Brooklyn Nets. His new basketball team introduced Lin
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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