 The combined companies would have a total of some 3,000 retail stores, 30 e-commerce platforms, 71 manufacturing facilities, and four research and development facilities worldwide. John Scott reporting. Two teenagers dying while swimming in New York's Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn. Police say two females, ages 17 and 18, had gone into the water and disappeared from view. Police from the department's aviation harbor and scuba units conducted the search.