Brooklyn Mourns Shooting Deaths

July 15–21, 2016 Including Brooklyn Courier, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Courier, Brooklyn Heights Courier, & Williamsburg Courier FREE ALSO SERVING PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, KENSINGTON, AND GOWANUS Brooklyn mourns shooting deaths BY COLIN MIXSON Hundreds of Kings County residents gathered with pols, police, and religious leaders in Grand Army Plaza on Monday for a candlelight vigil to pray for shooting victims around the country last week. Speakers mourned the black men shot by police in Louisiana and Minnesota as well as the fi ve offi cers killed by a gunman in Dallas, con- CRUELTY-FREE MYSTERY: Gersh Kuntzman and Marc Dinkin co-wrote the musical who-done-it “Murder at the Food Co-Op.” demning Photo by Stefano Giovannini both and em- phasizing a message of Photo by Stefano Giovannini peace and LIGHT IN THE unity for all. DARK: A woman “We must holds a candle. send a strong signal that the pathway of hate, the path- KILLER KALE! way of despair, the pathway of harming innocent people — if they wear a blue uniform, blue jeans, or a blue suit — is Fringe musical is set in Park Slope Food Co-op not tolerated in this country called America,” said Bor- BY COLIN MIXSON “There’s so much tension two-decade member-owner of Kuntzman said he was in- ough President Adams, who This murder mystery is cru- in the co-op that the outsider the socialist answer to Costco, spired to pen the play by some helped organize the event. elty free! investigating the murder, Det. where subscribers work two members’ legendary attempt “That’s what this moment is A long-time devotee of the Dick Johnson of the 78th Pre- hours and 45 minutes every to ban Israeli products from about — that innocent people Park Slope Food Co-op has cinct, feels overwhelmed,” month in exchange for access the store and, to a greater ex- should not lose their lives pre- written a new musical who- said Windsor Terrace resi- to the store’s cheap fare. tent, the notoriously bureau- maturely.” done-it set somewhere be- dent Gersh Kuntzman, a for- The play centers around cratic co-op’s response — to As both a black man and a tween the locally sourced kale mer editor of this very paper, the untimely death of the mar- hold a vote on whether or not former police offi cer, Adams section and the organic quinoa who co-wrote the production ket’s fi ctional founder Doris to vote on the ban. said he understood the fear aisle of Brooklyn’s most left- with songwriter Marc Dinkin. “Chiang Kai” Shenkman — “We were debating over and pain that both communi- leaning grocery store. And in “There are so many obvious whose body is found inside the whether to have a debate es- ties are enduring. the famously progressive pro- suspects.” co-op’s yak-manure-powered sentially,” said the playwright. “I know what it is to leave duce haven — where members “Murder at the Food Co-op” freezer — while affectionately “If you’re an outsider it seems your home with the uncer- feud over the ethical purity of — opening Aug. 13 at the New sending up the Union Street ridiculous, but as a member it tainty of returning — not just about every item on the York International Fringe commune of commerce, where makes perfect sense.” only as a police offi cer but as shelf — everyone is a suspect, Festival — is based on Kuntz- produce and politics are inex- Longtime readers will be a young man who may be the according to the author. man’s own experiences as a tricably intertwined. 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The proprietor of a Park Slope home-goods store is selling a line of T-shirts supporting Hillary Clinton, kicking in $1 from the sale of each $28 tee to the presump- tive Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign. The Fifth Avenue fash- ionista acknowledges sup- porters could take more of their money directly to the FED UP: Gowanus resident Joshua Ramos proudly displayed his pro-Trump signs outside his home until a candidate’s own merchan- HEADING FOR THE HILL: Susie vandal threw a rock through his door. Photo by Stefano Giovannini dise store, but says the pres- Kurkowski with a few items par- idential hopeful’s clothing ticular to 2016 democratic presi- range isn’t as stylish as hers. dential nominee Hillary Clinton. “They’re very attractive Photo by Stefano Giovannini shirts and the designs are Trump-hater hurls very simple and a lot of politi- The proprietor says she’s cal T-shirts are just unattract- proud to be doing her part ive or look like an athletic jer- to send Clinton to the White sey as opposed to something House, but she’s optimistic Throws rock through Gowanus fan’s glass door fashion conscious,” said Susie other female political candi- Kurkowski, a six-year Park dates will use her tees to get BY LAUREN GILL Ramos says he reported are responsible — they’re all Slope resident and owner of an edge on their male oppo- This is not how you rock the the vandalism to the police, friendly, he says — but rather Items of Interest between Ber- nents. vote. but they haven’t had any luck that it was a drunk radical gen Street and St. Marks Av- Kurkowski plans on mar- Someone hurled a rock tracking down the perpetra- from elsewhere in the neigh- enue. “Customers who have keting them to people run- through a Gowanus fami- tor so far. The cops are also borhood. come into the store have said, ning political fund-raisers, ly’s door after it put signs up not investigating the attack “You know there’s lots of ‘we really don’t like those de- with the option to have the supporting presidential can- as a hate crime, despite Ra- liberal people around here — signs.’ They’re just not reso- name of interested organiza- didate Donald Trump, leav- mos’s best efforts to convince they got drunk and did what nating with them.” tions and candidates printed ing the household patriarch them otherwise. they had to do,” he said. “I’ve Kurkowski says she de- alongside the catchy slogans. steaming about the struggles He doesn’t think any of the got my [U.S.] fl ag up — I’m signed her line of tees in the “I want people to feel they of supporting the conserva- people who live on his street surprised they didn’t tear it days leading up to the New can use the shirt for their tive cause in a largely liberal down or burn it.” York Democratic Primary in fund-raising as well,” said neighborhood. Ramos says he has been fol- April, largely in response to Kurkowski. “ ‘Vote for the “I was angry, that’s for lowing Trump since the 1980s all the Sen. Bernie Sanders girl’ could be used for other sure,” said Joshua Ramos, and has backed the business- (I–Vermont) mania that was female candidates.” who lives on 11th Street be- man’s presidential bid from sweeping the borough. And if Clinton wanted to tween Third and Fourth ave- day one — he is worried about “I didn’t think Bernie was take advantage of Kurkows- nues with his two young kids. terrorist attacks, and likes going to win in New York, but ki’s dapper duds ads, she’s “It’s not fair, you can’t put Trump’s immigration poli- there was so much Bernie welcome to them. anything up for Trump.” cies and the fact that he is not hype that I though I better do “I think ‘vote for the girl’ Ramos said the vandal a career politician. something,” she said. is a perfect message, and pitched the projectile through “I can’t even take my kids In order to take the Ver- if she wants to put it on her the glass of his front door anywhere, I’m constantly mont socialist down a notch, store I’d be happy to do that,” while he and his family were looking around,” he said. Kurkowski printed out 30 she said. asleep on the night of June “It’s just like living in a dif- shirts with slogans including Park Slope is a stronghold 24, then tore one of his three ferent world, there’s no jobs, the perennial favorite “Hill of support for the former sec- Trump signs in half. it’s corrupt. I think we need Yeah!” “Hilladeplphia,” and retary of state, according to The registered Republican to get someone in there who “Vote for the Girl,” a phrase campaign data — 10,158 res- claims he will have to dish isn’t a politician that can’t be she penned with her new idents turned out to vote for out $2,400 to repair the door, bought.” product in mind.

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