By Matthew Lysiak
The Brooklyn Paper / Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Five days after an extremely rare tornado ripped through Bay Ridge, officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency —Â you remember them from Hurricane Katrina — surveyed the damage to determine whether some residents are eligible for federal aid. They made no promises.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: A man was stabbed outside of Club Shadows, the embattled Fourth Avenue nightclub, on Aug. 10, police said.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Almost 232 years to the day after the British crossed The Narrows and began “the Battle of Brooklyn,” another flotilla — albeit smaller — declared war on a proposed waste-transfer station in Gravesend.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: The situation at the Great Wall Supermarket on Fort Hamilton Parkway still stinks, according to neighbors.
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By Matthew Lysiak and Michael Giardina
Bay Ridge: A thief with a taste for fine cutlery broke into a Third Avenue restaurant and made off with some change and one expensive knife on Aug. 11 — plus all the other crime news from the 68th and 62nd precincts in Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Yellow Hooker: Our libertarian columnist had to admit something after last Wednesday’s tornado: Sometimes government can work.
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By Matthew Lysiak
Bay Ridge: Bay Ridge’s Marine Captain John McKenna, 30, who died in Iraq after being shot while coming to the aid of fallen comrade, will be honored with a charity golf tournament on Sept. 24.
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