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Repairs begin on Flatbush sinkhole

Plans are underway to repair the site of a sinkhole where a sanitation truck got stuck on Tuesday. The parking lot where the sinkhole formed, which sits on top of a freight train line, collapsed under

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Repairs begin on Flatbush sinkhole

Plans are underway to repair the site of a sinkhole where a sanitation truck got stuck on Tuesday. The parking lot where the sinkhole formed, which sits on top of a freight train line, collapsed under

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