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In this photo, taken Thursday, July 23, 2015, at her home in Hackensack, N.J., photographs of Beth Allen, taken by her father, show her at Dr. Martin Couney's Coney Island incubator sideshow, where she was on display with others after she was born premature in 1941. AP Photos/Mel Evans

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Left to right: Steve Cohen, Vice President of MCU Park; New York Cosmos COO Erik Stover; Former NY Cosmos goalkeeper and current ONE World Sports soccer analyst Shep Messing; NY Cosmos coach Gio Savarese; and Brooklyn Borough President Eric L. Adams following Thursday’s press conference at Brooklyn Borough Hall. Photo by Jeff Zelevansky

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Shown from left, front row: María Roca, founder of Friends of Sunset Park, Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey, U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, a check recipient, Borough President Eric Adams, Deputy Brooklyn Borough President Diana Reyna, Prospect Park Alliance President Susan Donoghue, McGolrick Park representative, Korean War veteran. Left of BP Adams: Councilmember Carlos Menchaca. Right of BP Adams: Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon.

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A nostalgic look at the landmark Montero Bar on Atlantic and Hicks was featured in a New York Times piece earlier this week, inadvertently sounding an alarm right in the middle of a “perfect storm of development concerns,” which is right now nearby Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park and the old LICH site just across Atlantic Avenue. Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

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