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an average of 21.2 deaths among every
100,000 residents of other neighborhoods
citywide, statistics show .
LSA Recovery’s Coney center is
slated to fi ll two fl oors of an eight-story
building on Stillwell Avenue between
Mermaid and Neptune avenues.
It would be similar to the fi rm’s existing
Midwood outpost, which currently
employs about 20 staffers and
serves about 150 clients, who spend
an average of between six months and
a year receiving regular treatment at
the facility, including counseling sessions,
medication-assisted treatment,
and substance-abuse education, according
to Jorge.
And the center would not use the
controversial opiate methadone to
wean patients off of other addictive
drugs, she said.
“This is the least intensive substance
abuse program there is,” she said.
But the committee members questioned
the need for LSA to open another
location so close to its Midwood
site — especially in Coney, where locals
can already seek treatment at two
existing outpatient centers, Coney Island
Hospital’s Ida G. Israel Community
Health Center, and the Merryland
Health Center on Mermaid Avenue at
W. 17th Street.
“What makes you different from
the facilities that are in the neighborhood?”
asked CB13 Health Committee
chairman Alex Chadaev.
Jorge explained the center could
serve even more residents because its
counselors speak seven languages, including
Russian, Hebrew, Ukrainian,
and Farsi. But the committee members
said cultural competency wasn’t
good enough, and demanded she hand
over data supporting the necessity of
another recovery center in the neighborhood
— which she allegedly promised
to provide at a previous meeting
with the board, according to its chairwoman.
“I don’t know why she has to come
in here when we have the same facility
that people in the neighborhood are
already using,” said JoAnn Weiss.
“She still hasn’t given us the numbers
that we asked for at the last meeting,
the numbers that prove that this is
needed in the neighborhood.”
Jorge promised to bring data supporting
the need for the center to the
panel’s upcoming general meeting at
the New York Aquarium’s Education
Hall, claiming she misunderstood the
board’s last request for the data.
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ket the victim co-owned and managed
— on March 14, 2009, and beat
the 34-year-old merchant to death
before running off with a pouch containing
$32,000 in cash, paychecks,
and luxury watches, according to
prosecutors.
The two men fl ed to their native
Turkmenistan a few days after the
incident, before the now-captured
suspect traveled to Australia where
he sought asylum and failed to mention
his alleged criminal past, according
to prosecutors.
The second suspect is still on the
lam, said a law-enforcement source,
who requested anonymity due to authorities’
FERRY
Coney Island Councilman Mark
Treyger cheered the proposed site at
Bayview Avenue and W. 33rd Street
following the mayor’s announcement,
but Borough President Adams argued
the location should be further up the
creek at W. 21st Street and Neptune
Avenue, a spot he fi rst endorsed back
in December 2017 , in part because it
would force the city to clean out more
of the creek than it likely would otherwise
to make way for the service.
Still, Adams promised to work with
Treyger and other colleagues in order
to determine the best landing location.
“I think it’s the whole opportunity
to do the environmental cleanup — we
should take a holistic approach,” Adams
told this newspaper. “But Councilman
Mark Treyger is the representative
out here, and I’ll coordinate with
him and we’ll fi nd the right spot.”
And some locals want to know why
offi cials did not add another Manhattan
stop as part of the new express
route that will shuttle straphangers
between Wall Street on the distant isle,
Bay Ridge, and Coney once service
sets sail in the neighborhood, according
to Sanoff and Mendez, who noted
most Coney Islanders, including the
alleged 4,000 residents whom offi cials
claim live in public housing roughly
a half-mile from of the proposed landing,
travel further into the city than
Wall Street to go to work.
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ongoing search for him.
In April 2013, Police Department
detectives worked with their Australian
counterparts to get a DNA sample
from the defendant, which the Aussie
authorities collected from an energy
drink can the suspect trashed.
The DNA they found matched that
on clothing cops previously recovered
from the Brighton Beach crime
scene, according to prosecutors.
A local grand jury indicted the
man months later, in October 2013,
and in December 2018, Austrailian
offi cials surrendered the defendant
to the U.S. He arrived in New York
City on Feb. 1.
Justice Vincent Del Giudice ordered
the defendant be held without
bail, and he will return to court on
March 29, according to authorities.
CHARGED
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