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Prospect-Lefferts Gardens residents angry over piled-up garbage

People living in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens have reached out to News 12 Brooklyn for help, saying Ocean Avenue has become a makeshift dump where people are leaving their garbage. Residents say trash has

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Jul 6, 2012, 9:09 PM

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