 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 have drowned while swimming in New York's Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn. Police say two females, ages 17 and 18, had gone into the water then quickly disappeared. Police from the department's harbor and scuba units conducted a search.