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Assemblyman Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman Colton (Courtesy of Cymbrowitz’s Office) Residents of Gravesend’s Marlboro Houses will soon get $3 million in home improvements, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz and Assemblyman William Colton have announced. The two lawmakers, who share representation of the 28-building NYCHA complex, made the joint announcement today at
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https://youtu.be/9rygkKJSLLo A 70-year-old man is fighting for his life after being struck in a hit-and-run in Bensonhurst Wednesday. The senior was thrown from his motorized scooter into a pile of debris at the corner of 85th Street and 25th Avenue at approximately 3:45pm, police said. Cops
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(Photo: Wahlburgers Coney Island [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/photos/pb.1487982234809494.-2207520000.1456961491./1663025207305195/?type=3&theater] / Facebook)The Coney Island Wahlburgers [https://www.facebook.com/WahlburgersConeyIsland/?fref=ts] — which opened last summer [http://www.sheepsheadbites.com/2015/08/after-two-month-delay-wahlburgers-opens-in-coney-island/] to immediate fanfare – is hosting a rooftop viewing
Arts & Culture
Visury Fox performing her show at Townhouse 275. (Photo by Donny Levit / Bensonhurst Bean)Bet you can’t guess where drag queen Visury Fox got her start. “Toys For Tots [http://www.toysfortots.org/default.aspx],” says Fox, referring to the organization that provides toys to less fortunate children during
Police & Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koiHXed-kRM The hunt for a burglar who posed as an MTA construction worker to break into the D train’s 9th Avenue station in January [/police-fire/crook-steals-chainsaws-from-9th-ave-subway-station-video/] is heating up as perp struck a second time this week — at the same station! In both
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanDrug dealers, beware: You may serve more jail time if you are arrested selling narcotics to children under 14 or if you are caught at a park or a playground. The State Senate passed two drug-related bills yesterday, the first sponsored by Senator Jack Martins and the
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Photo by Bensonhurst BeanPolice believe they may have caught the perp responsible for a spate of car thefts in the neighborhood this week. There were at least eight car-related crimes on Cropsey Avenue and Shore Parkway near Bay 11th Street between February 20 and February 27, according to cops. NYPD
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Source: mikey k/flickrAn 81-year-old woman in Coney Island was the victim of a terrifying home invasion Sunday after opening up her home to a burglar posing as a Con Edison employee, the Daily News reports [http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/woman-81-home-invaded-woman-posing-coned-worker-article-1.2548430] . The octogenarian, who only speaks Russian,
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Salvatore Prestianni. (Photo provided by the NYPD)Police are searching for a missing 60-year-old man who went missing from his Coney Island home on Monday. Salvatore Prestianni was last seen around 2am at his home on Surf Avenue near West 23rd Street, according to authorities. He is described as a
Police & Fire
Images via Torres-Ruiz family.Two sisters disappeared from their family’s 52nd Street apartment some time overnight between Sunday, February 28 at 11pm and the next morning, say police and family members, who are hoping the girls are found safe soon. Kimberly and Alicia Torres-Ruiz, age 16 and 14, were
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Coney Island Hospital, 2601 Ocean Parkway. (Source: Gregory Maizous)City Councilman Mark Treyger pressed city officials last week about the sluggish pace of recovery projects at Superstorm Sandy-affected public hospitals. Speaking Tuesday at an oversight hearing for the Committee on Recovery and Resiliency, chaired by Treyger, the councilman demanded to