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NYPD Blocks Off Bed-Stuy Street After Beekeeper Drops A Bunch Of Bees
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Christopher Robbins
Published May 30, 2012
Modified May 30, 2012
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BEEWARE: COPIOUS BEE PUNS AHEAD When transporting your bees, please bee careful you don't get stung by slippery fingers. A tipster passed along this photo of a bee cleanup on his block of Madison Street in Brooklyn yesterday evening after a neighbor apparently dropped "a giant container full and it burst open." The tipster writes that he saw "hundreds of bees on my block, [the] NYPD blocked off the street and now they're attempting to vacuum them up." A police spokesman had no information regarding the swarm, but a source tells us the bees may have been upset after seeing My Girl.
The city beegalized beekeeping in 2010, provided you register your Apis mellifera bees with the DOH [pdf] and fill out a state survey. Master beekeeping courses at Cornell cost $85, and you can also meet up with one of the city's many beekeeping clubs and organizations.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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