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Petty Officer Angela Boyle is currently stationed in Charlotte. Photo courtesy U.S. Navy

James Madison HS grad coordinates Navy funeral honors

Angela Boyle, in addition to being a massage therapist, a volunteer for Susan G. Komen’s Race for a Cure and a volunteer for United Service Organizations, is a petty officer 2nd class in the U.S. Navy Reserve. … Full Article
 
A courtroom sketch shows the three Brooklyn men arraigned on Wednesday. One of the men allegedly planned to bomb Coney Island, alarming local politicians that Homeland Security funding could soon decrease. AP Graphic/Jane Rosenberg

Coney Island lawmakers demand homeland security funding

Wednesday’s arrest of three terror suspects from Brooklyn, one of whom told investigators he wanted to bomb Coney Island, is proof that Congress should vote to provide full funding to the U.S. … Full Article
 
Councilmember Mark Treyger presided over a hearing on his bill in December. Photo courtesy of Treyger’s office

Council passes Treyger bill on Sandy church task force

The City Council has approved legislation proposed by Councilmember Mark Treyger that would provide more assistance to houses of worship and charitable organizations that help victims in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy types of natural disasters. … Full Article
 
Bishop Kearney senior Jen Kaye helped lead her team in an upset of the previously undefeated St. Edmund Prep with 24 points including eight in the fourth quarter. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

Kearney upsets St. Edmund Prep in regular season finale

The Bishop Kearney Tigers pulled off a stunning upset, beating the previously undefeated St. Edmund Prep Eagles 51-48 behind a tremendous 24-point performance from senior Jen Kaye in Sheepshead Bay on Monday. … Full Article
 
Sen. Chuck Schumer. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite

NY breaks ground on Coney Island beach-protection project

New York elected officials have broken ground on a $25 million project to protect the shoreline at Coney Island. Sen. Charles Schumer says the Army Corps of Engineers project will replenish and repair beachfront areas damaged by Superstorm Sandy in 2012.
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Image courtesy of the Library of Congress

New book focuses on Luna Park, headhunters and colliding cultures

Two cultures collide as a huckster imports a tribe of Filipinos to Coney Island’s Luna Park in author and journalist Claire Prentice’s newest work “The Lost Tribe of Coney Island.”  … Full Article
 
Pedestrians make their way around a deep slush puddle in New York City on Feb. 2. AP Photo/Seth Wenig

NYPD: Freezing temps may have claimed man's life in Coney Island

Authorities say freezing temperatures may have claimed the life of a man found dead on the Coney Island boardwalk. Police identified the 77-year-old victim as Bai-Ping Wen. … Full Article
 
Brooklyn sites hard hit by Superstorm Sandy — including the The Red Hook Container Terminal, shown here — are receiving federal funding thanks to local politicians. In addition to $1.6 million for the terminal, Coney Island’s P.S. 90 Edna Cohen School is receiving $16.2 million. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan

Coney Island school gets more than $16M for Sandy-related repairs

U.S. Sens. Chuck E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Congressman Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday announced $16.2 million in federal funding to the New York City School Construction Authority for permanent work of P.S. … Full Article
 
Wahlbergers, a franchise owned by Mark (l.) and Donnie Wahlberg, along with their chef brother Paul, is coming to Coney Island this spring. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill

Wahlberg Brothers’ Wahlburgers joint coming to Coney Island

Wahlburgers — the franchise owned by actor brothers Mark and Donnie Wahlberg and their brother Paul, a chef — is coming to Coney Island, and the Brooklyn joint is slated to be featured in a reality TV show. … Full Article
 
Louis Parascandola. Images courtesy of Columbia University Press

Anthology tells the story of Coney Island in historical fiction and non-fiction

The history of Coney Island is fairly well known. In the early 19th century, it was known as a place where people could commune with nature and only a few guest houses existed. … Full Article
 

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