This week we’re changing it up from a single photo to a whole slideshow. Alissa Ambrose, a freelance photographer living in Brighton Beach, originally posted these on her blog, Brighton Beach Diaries. Asser-Levy/Seaside Park is currently embroiled in controversy, as BP Markowitz is pushing a plan to turn the itty-bitty bandshell into a full-featured ampitheatre. Residents are fighting to hold on to the area’s only bit of greenspace. Ambrose wrote about the controversy for CityLimits.org.
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It appears as if the exterior work on the Walgreens going up on Coney Island Avenue and Avenue W is almost done. Construction started about six months ago, notes Lisanne Anderson, who shot the above photo, and looks as if it may open sometime mid-summer.
This will be Walgreens’ fifth location in the area. Last June, they bought out Morris’ Drug Store on East 17th Street, where they expanded the store last month by removing the wall separating it from the next storefront, which is part of the same building. There is also a branch on the corner of Kings Highway and Coney Island Avenue, in the building that formerly housed the Kingsway Theater, and another branch at Brighton Beach Avenue at the intersection of Coney Island Avenue. Their branch at West 5th Street and Neptune Avenue was probably their only Brooklyn store previously, having been there at least since the late seventies, if not earlier.
Thanks to Lisanne for the information.
