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Pub picture: Venerable Brooklyn watering hole Farrell’s Bar and Grill is getting the star treatment with a documentary. Police, poets and pipe fitters have knocked back cold ones side by side for the past 86 years. “It’ll remind them of their own favorite bar or club down their street. It’s a universal story,” producer Rob Martin told The News.
Hotel hanky-panky: Owners of dozens of new homeless hotels are saving millions of dollars in city tax breaks through an obscure rebate program, The News exclusively reported Monday. The Industrial and Commercial Abatement Program, or ICAP, rebate has saved homeless hotel operators $30 million over the past four years and $12.5 million during the last tax cycle, city records show. Owners are also raking in big bucks to provide emergency shelter to the homeless. In 2018 alone, $384 million went from city coffers to housing homeless people in hotels. Dog defender: A homeless woman was reunited Tuesday with her fourlegged hero, a pet pooch named Oreo who saved her from a sexual assault in Manhattan last month. Loreal Madonna Moore’s large pit bull-great Dane mix was taken by authorities after he took a
bite out of a vagrant who attacked his owner. “No matter what I look like or how much money I have, Oreo is always going to be there for me,” said Moore, tearing up. “He’s proven that.”
Stranger sacrifice: An Ecuadoran immigrant murdered inside a Jersey City kosher supermarket died saving a stranger, The News exclusively reported Friday. Douglas Rodriguez had just returned from vacation and was less than an hour into his first shift when a pair of anti-Semitic killers opened fire. Rodriguez, 49, took a fatal bullet while holding a back door open so a customer could escape.
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