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• Prowler makes off with $32,000 in jewels

  21-06-2017 23:55
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Daily68th PrecinctBay Ridge—Dyker HeightsBig scoreA burglar broke into a woman’s 67th Street apartment on June 14and made off with more than $32,000 in jewelry.
  The woman told police that she left her home between Third Avenue and Ridge Boulevard that morning and upon returning at 11 am discovered that her pad had been ransacked.
  Upon closer inspection, the woman found that a variety of gold jewelry and electronics had b
  
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• Sheepshead Bay pol reintroduces bill to ban party boats

  21-06-2017 23:10
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyAssemblyman Steve Cymbrowitz reintroduced legislation on June 2 that would ban notoriously noxious “booze cruises” from the Emmons Avenue piers, but it failed again to come to a vote.
  The pol commended the skippers last year for a calmer start to the summer after residents had complained the year before about excessive loud noise, traffic, and trash from the party boats — but it’s been anything but smooth s
  
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• White Lung, Operators and more playing free Canada Day party in Brooklyn

  21-06-2017 23:03
  
  Canada is celebrating its 150th birthday this year and for Canada Day (July 1), The Well in Brooklyn is throwing a free party featuring Canadian music, food and drinks...
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• Feast Your Eyes On This Year’s SummerScreen Posters

  21-06-2017 22:26 via bkmag.com
  
  This year’s SummerScreen, just as every other year, offers something for everyone. Want a pre-fame Rachel McAdams going head-to-head with Lindsay Lohan? You will be pleased. Want the OG dry office place comedy? Gotcha. Want a movie about a psychotic bunny getting in a teenager’s warped mind? You are covered.
  Held in McCarren Park, SummerScreen’s 12th year should be it’s most exciting, as aways including live music and local food vendors with each week’s event;
  
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• Teen pilfers guy’s phone, threatens him for password

  21-06-2017 19:25
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn Paper88th precinctfort greene–clinton hillPassword plunderPolice arrested a guy who allegedly stole a man’s phone after asking him for the time as he was leaving a B and Q train station near Hanson Place on June 13.The 17-year-old victim told police he was walking up the stairs at the station at 3:28 pm when he was approached from behind by the 15-year-old suspect, who asked him for the time. The guy went to look at his phone
  
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• Get your Gersh on as Gersh interviews Gersh!

  21-06-2017 18:50
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Gersh Kuntzmanfor Brooklyn PaperHe’s done it again — I mean, I’ve done it again!Brooklyn Paper Radio co-host Gersh Kuntzman grilled Daily News columnist Gersh Kuntzman about the latter’s satirical novel “COUP!”, which was serialized last week in New York’s Hometown Paper.“We were really lucky to land this interview,” Kuntzman told Brooklyn Paper Radio listeners.In the interview, author Kuntzman detailed
  
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• Cyclones drop home-opener to hated Staten Island Yankees

  21-06-2017 18:50
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Matt Johnfor Brooklyn PaperOy vey Maria!A Cyclones first baseman Jose Maria grounded into three double plays and reliever Joe Napolitano gave up four runs — walking two, throwing a wild pitch, and balking a runner for good measure — in two innings of work as the Cyclones fell to the hated Staten island Yankees 7–4 at MCU Park on Opening Night Tuesday.Down 7–4 in the sixth, Maria, from the Dominican Republic, had a chance to put the C
  
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• There’s a Class for That?

  21-06-2017 16:00 via bkmag.com
  
  While learning may conjure images of desks and backpacks and homework, it doesn’t have to mean school. In fact, these classes are downright adventurous. Here, 9 activities that you never knew existed—let alone that you could do them yourself.
  Make Your Own Neon Sign – Because there’s nothing like seeing your name in lights, you might as well learn to make your own neon sign. Practice tube-bending and wiring techniques, then let the folks at Brooklyn Glass fill it with col
  
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• Tree-son! Advisory panel okays Ft. Greene park changes despite locals demands to hold vote

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn PaperThey’re sowing the seeds of discord.The Community Board 2 parks committee voted to approve a controversial plan to makeover a heavily-used entrance to Fort Greene Park on Monday, despite objections from residents who said locals — many of whom live in nearby public housing complexes — could not weigh in because the meeting’s agenda was announced just four days before it.“The community ought to hold a sc
  
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• Trash talk: Locals demand city step up efforts to pick up large junk

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyIt’s becoming the trashy part of town.
  The Department of Sanitation must switch over to an appointment system to pick up large junk piling up on Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights streets, say angry locals.
  New garbage trucks rolled out into the area last fall as part of the city’s organics program, but the waste haulers’ separate compactors for recyclables and garbage mean less room for bulky items — which are
  
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• Taste the rainbow: Brightly colored foods to nosh during Pride

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyBrooklyn is chasing rainbows — and catching them!June is gay pride month, and this borough is so proud that you can taste it. Brooklyn brewmasters, ice cream churners, and bakers have all crafted brightly colored concoctions that celebrate the queer community and add a magical touch to your favorite nosh. Here are six vibrant bites that you can indulge in this June — and beyond!Pint of prideThis month Carroll Garden
  
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• Shot down! Land use committee votes against developer’s plan for Crown Heights armory

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperThey were armed and ready.Members of Community Board 9’s Land Use Committee voted unanimously on Monday to oppose the controversial scheme to put Crown Height’s city-owned Bedford-Union Armory in the hands of a private developer, after reps for the company failed to present a plan that would benefit area residents, according to the group’s chairman.More than 60 community members spoke for roughly two hours leading
  
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• Shock-rocker and burlesque queen tie the knot at Mermaid Parade

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyIt’s a Coney Island love story!
  A burlesque bombshell and metal-head merman tied the knot at the 35th-annual Mermaid Parade. Newlyweds Chuck Varga — a costume-maker who portrayed Sexecutioner in the shock-rock group Gwar — and Bambi the Mermaid, founder of Burlesque at the Beach, recited their vows on Surf Avenue in front of a 50-strong bridal party of unicorns, a non-nautical mythical icon chosen as a symbol
  
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• Police: Trio assaults bodega clerk and steal duffel bag full of Red Bull

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Daily62nd PrecinctBensonhurst—Bath BeachCaffeine addictsPolice arrested three men who they say tried to steal a duffel bag full of Red Bull from a 20th Avenue bodega on June 14.The men entered the bodega between 61st and 62nd street at 11 pm, when they shoved as many cans of the energy drink as they could carry into a bag and tried to flee the store, said police.
  But when the clerk approached them, two of the men punched him i
  
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• Police: Man threatened salon worker and stole from the register

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn Daily61st PrecinctSheepshead Bay—Homecrest—
  Manhattan Beach—GravesendSalon snake
  Cops cuffed a 32-year-old guy for threatening a woman inside a Kings Highway salon and running off with a wad of cash from the register on June 15.
  The employee told police the suspect entered the store near E. 19th Street at about 5:30 pm and said “Give me everything or you will get hurt,” and simulated having a weapon in his
  
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• Out of the park: Charity softball game honors Fort Ham base

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.Photo by Jordan RathkopfBrooklyn DailyIn the end, everyone felt like a winner.Former New York Jets star quarterback — and current radio and television personality — Boomer Esiason, together with Craig Carton, his co-host on the “Boomer and Carton” WFAN FM radio show, hosted a charity softball game at Fort Hamilton on June 16, pitting Esiason’s squad of celebrities against a team of Fort Hamilton military all-stars.Esiason’s
  
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• Miscreant holds up hotel guest for cash with Taser

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lauren GillBrooklyn Paper84th PrecinctBrooklyn Heights–DUMBO–Boerum Hill–DowntownShockedSome scofflaw threatened to use a Taser on a man staying at an Adams Street hotel on June 14 if he didn’t hand over his cash in.
  The victim told police he answered a knock at his door in the lodge near Jay Street at 9 pm and was met by a woman who pulled out the weapon and snarled, “Give me your money.”
  He handed over his MacBook and $
  
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• Lout shoves woman into pizzeria’s glass window

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Paper78th PrecinctPark Slope
  Slice of crimeSome brute shoved a woman into the glass façade of a Sixth Avenue pizza joint on June 3, shattering it.An employee told police he was hard at work inside the restaurant between Bergen Street and Flatbush Avenue at 1:15 am when he noticed a dispute occurring outside turn ugly as the goon hurled a young lady into the window, cracking it.The ball rollingA woman was arrested for allegedly st
  
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• Gun-wielding goon shoots man on Mermaid Ave.

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn Daily60th PrecinctConey Island—Brighton Beach—SeagateConey vs. Gravesend
  A gun-toting baddie shot a man in the butt and leg on Mermaid Avenue on June 17.The brute pulled out a firearm and fired five rounds at a man between W. 27th and W. 28th street at 1:30 am, police said. One bullet pierced the man’s left buttocks and another went through his right leg, according to a police report. The victim told police that th
  
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• Gerritsen Beach woman dies in Marine Park home

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Julianne CubaBrooklyn DailyA 23-year-old Gerritsen Beach woman — Stefania Kalos — was found dead inside her boyfriend’s Marine Park home late on June 17, possibly as the result of a drug overdose, according to neighbors and police sources.Emergency responders found Kalos unconscious and unresponsive inside the E. 33rd Street home between Avenues U and T at about 3:40 am, and pronounced her dead at the scene, according to authorities.
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• Free Wheelin’: Street art challenges preconceptions with a revolution

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Colin MixsonBrooklyn PaperCall it a spin-off!A diversity-promoting twist on “Wheel of Fortune” installed on signposts in Kensington and Windsor Terrace is challenging locals to imagine themselves in a different skin, and the results are mostly positive, according to the artists who created it.“People really enjoy it, and their response is powerful” said Ori Alon. “But I have no control. Sometimes I witness people having a very
  
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• Fish and chicks! Coney’s mermaid parade makes a splash

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Caroline SpivackBrooklyn DailyTalk about wet ’n’ wild!Shimmering sea creatures shimmied along Surf Avenue for the 35th-annual Mermaid Parade on June 17. More than 3,000 sirens, serpents, and all manner of merfolk flooded Coney for the raunchy procession, and they were in their element when a downpour tried to dampen their spirits, said one scally parade-goer.
  “No amount of rain can drown us out — we’re merfolk, baby,” sai
  
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• Don’t blame Bernie, blame ourselves

  21-06-2017 06:00
  
  See this story at BrooklynDaily.com.By Joanna DelBuonoBrooklyn DailyShaun King, in his Daily News opinion piece about the June 14 shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise and others by a Bernie Sanders supporter, said Bernie is not to blame,
  “This notion that Bernie, of all people, had anything to do with Wednesday’s violence is foolhardy, unintelligent and poorly considered,” he wrote.I agree — no one person can be held accountable for the act of a madman, except the madman.
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