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Brooklyn Daily
Talk about good news!
Sunset Park’s biggest business group honored Courier Life senior reporter Dennis Lynch for his tireless coverage of the neighborhood at a special ceremony on June 23. The ink slinger has been working the beat for just nine months, but locals already consider him one of their own, according to a honcho from the Sunset Park Business Improvement District who presented the award.
“He’s our reporter,” said director Renee Giordano. “Dennis makes sure to always to pay attention to Sunset Park.”
Lynch has been on the vanguard of community news in the historic ’hood — breaking wide open the stories that the city plans to tear down a beloved landmark to build a school, bringing attention to crumbling handball courts, and tracking the nabe’s break-neck development as a tourist destination.
Lynch’s editor was shocked it took so long for a neighborhood group in the journo’s Sunset Park-to-Coney Island beat to recognize his obvious acumen, he said.
“Honestly, I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner,” said deputy editor Max Jaeger. “ ‘Lynchpin’ is a crackerjack newsman who works the beat so tirelessly that the streets of Sunset Park are lousy with his size-11.5 shoe leather.”
Send Dennis Lynch tips at [email protected] or by calling (718) 260–2508.
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