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BY COLIN MIXSON They’re one step closer to bringing the farm to another table. Membership at the Park Slope Food Co-op is now so overgrown that the bastion of cheap, organic produce must either expand to a new location or begin refusing thousands of grocery-starved shoppers’ admission to the cooperative market, according to a found- ing member and employee. “We have two paths ahead of us,” said Joe Holtz, one of 77 paid employees at the oth- erwise member-owned and staffed store. “You could say, ‘Okay, we’ll go into our shell.’ But the other way to look at it is that we’ve hit upon some- thing, we can duplicate it, and who’s to say we can’t serve an- AWFUL SCENE: A sneaker lay on Ninth Street in Park Slope after a female motorist killed two children and wounded two women and a man when other 14,000 people.” she plowed her white Volvo into the victims after running a red light at Fifth Avenue on Monday. The car, at left, later crashed into parked vehicles. Shot-callers at the com- Community News Group / Colin Mixson mercial commune located at 782 Union St. between Sixth and Seventh avenues were forced to cap its membership at around 17,000 cart-pushers — about 500 more than the co-op boasted when its lead- ers fi rst announced the possi- DEATH IN SLOPE bility of an expansion back in 2016, Holtz said. New members are only Driver kills two kids in crash, isn’t immediately charged permitted when current ones leave, forcing higher-ups to BY COLIN MIXSON Seizures struck the driver emotion at all,” said bystander way through the crosswalk. limit the number of seats Prosecutors did not immedi- at the time of the deadly Jennifer Muniz, as she waited “She just threw her head available at the cooperative su- ately charge a female motor- crash, according to a law- to speak with investigators back, like she didn’t want to permarket’s orientation meet- ist after she killed two chil- enforcement source, who as following the horrifi c crash. see what she was about to ings as a form of gate-keeping, dren and sent two women of press time on Wednesday The driver was behind the do,” said the eyewitness, who according to the employee, — one pregnant — and a man said the medical condition is wheel of a white Volvo sedan claimed she was about to cross who said there simply is no to the hospital with injuries investigators’ best explana- heading downhill on Ninth the same intersection with a more room in the grocer’s cur- when she plowed her vehicle tion for the carnage. Street towards Fifth Avenue friend when the collision oc- rent retail space to accommo- into the victims while they The woman remained at 12:41 pm, when she allegedly curred. date more shoppers — many crossed Ninth Street at Fifth emotionless after the colli- ran a red light and slammed The driver continued down of whom come from as far Avenue in Park Slope on Mon- sion that claimed the lives into the adults and children, Ninth Street towards Fourth away as the outer boroughs day afternoon. of the 1-year-old boy and according to witnesses. Avenue following the crash, of Queens and the Bronx to “This very tragic incident 4-year-old girl, fi ring off text Muniz claimed the motor- dragging one of the kids be- toil two-and-a-half hours each is under active investigation messages on her phone as ist approached the intersec- neath her sedan, before collid- month in exchange for access and we’re looking into all paramedics loaded her into tion slowly, well after the light ing with a parked car halfway to the co-op’s aisles of inexpen- aspects of this case,” said a an ambulance, witnesses turned red, and then averted down the block, Muniz said. sive fare. spokesman for District At- claimed. her eyes before accelerating Rescuers found the chil- Continued on page 18 torney Eric Gonzalez. “She had no emotion, no into the victims making their Continued on page 3
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NNN%9IFFBCPE;8@CP%:FD GL9C@J?<;9P:E>(D Brooklyn Museum welcomes a stellar David Bowie exhibit BY COLIN MIXSON By Adam Lucente he Starman has touched down in Brooklyn! After a five-year world tour, the “David TBowie is” exhibit has made its final landing Harsher penalties must be at the Brooklyn Museum. The enormous exhibition displays more than 300 artifacts from the late rock icon’s five-decade career, including his instru- ments, costumes, writings and more. “David Bowie is” got its title because the polymorphous singer, actor, and artist David Bowie is so many things, dealt to reckless drivers whose said the curator of the London museum that initi- ated the project. “It’s a statement and an unfinished sentence because it can’t be finished,” said Victoria Broackes, of the Victoria and Albert Museum. “It’s an answer in which everybody brings their own.” behavior behind the wheel “David Bowie is” shows off a treasure trove from the Thin White Duke’s personal archive, including original costumes, handwritten music, set designs, photos, and album artwork. Once you enter the exhibit, on the Museum’s fifth floor, you imme- diately see Bowie’s name lit up in bright, white lights. Many of the signs, placards, and images results in tragic collisions, throughout the exhibit are orange, a steady theme throughout Bowie’s long career, said the Museum’s chief designer. “Throughout Bowie’s album covers, one color stands out more than others: orange,” said Matthew Yokobosky, pointing to the orange lightning bolt Mayor DeBlasio told a crowd painted on Bowie’s face for the “Aladdin Sane” album cover. Each section covers a different era of Bowie’s career, with a different attempt to complete the title: Next to a collection of this stage costumes, a sign reads “David Bowie is making himself up.” that rallied to confront him on Another, beside a series of photos, reads “David Bowie is floating in a most peculiar way.” Some of the coolest artifacts in the collection are a banjo that Bowie played on the BBC in 1981, the Union Jack coat he wore on the cover of his “Earthling” album, stage costumes from the “Ziggy Tuesday morning as he left his Stardust” tour, and the handwritten sheet music for the guitar and violin parts to “Space Oddity.” The Brooklyn Museum version of the show also features some objects not included at its previous stops, including lyric sheets and set lists. And the exhibit is more than a visual tour gym on the same Park Slope of Bowie’s career — each visitor gets a pair of headphones that plays Bowie’s music hits and snippets from his interviews, with the audio chang- ing depending on where you are in the room. For All the young boots: The exhibit “David Bowie is” at the Brooklyn Museum includes photos and example, when you approach the slightly worn, yel- artwork from throughout the artist’s career, including this image from 1973. Masayoshi Sukita Continued on page 54 street where a driver hit and killed two children on Mon- Your entertainment day. guide Page 39 “If someone has shown be- cause of their actions they could endanger other human Police Blotter ...... 8 beings with a vehicle, and Standing O ...... 20 use that vehicle as a weapon, Letters ...... 28 there should be more strin- Rhymes with Crazy ...... 30 gent penalties,” Hizzoner said. More than 100 traffi c watchdogs converged on the Prospect Park YMCA on Ninth Street the day af- ter a Staten Island woman Photo by Gersh Kuntzman drove her white Volvo se- NIGHTMARE ON NINTH: (Top) May- dan through a red light and or DeBlasio talked to street-safety into fi ve pedestrians cross- activists outside his YMCA on ing that street at Fifth Ave- Ninth Street on Tuesday morning, nue, killing 1-year-old Joshua less than a day after two kids were HOW TO REACH US Lew and 4-year-old Abigail killed by a driver a half-block away. Blumenstein, and injuring Mail: (Right) Park Slope resident Nancy three others, including Blu- Scherl wept over roses she laid Courier Life menstein’s pregnant mother, next to more fl owers, stuffed ani- Publications, Inc., Tony Award–winning actress Ruthie Ann Miles. mals, and other tokens of grief left 1 Metrotech Center North in memorial to two children killed 10th Floor, Brooklyn, The mayor emerged from the gym in workout gear in a fatal crash at Ninth Street and N.Y. 11201 shortly after 9 am, calling on Fifth Avenue on Monday. General Phone: state legislators to stiffen pen- (718) 260-2500 alties for lawbreaking motor- Doug Gordon, who blogs News Fax: ists and for the installation of about street safety on Brook- (718) 260-2592 more speed cameras around lyn Spoke, said to DeBlasio. “I Community News Group / Colin Mixson the city in response to advo- don’t want cops to arrest my look at things and say maybe needs to be done,” he said. News E-Mail: cates’ demands for safety im- child’s killer, I want my child nothing would have worked.” And as advocates pushed [email protected] provements at the site of the not to be killed.” But Gordon said the re- for change outside the YMCA, Display Ad Phone: deadly crash. Hours after the pro- corded five fatalities along mourners congregated around (718) 260-8302 But DeBlasio’s solutions test, investigators said the Ninth Street since 2004, fl oral bouquets and other to- Display Ad E-Mail: merely retaliate against al- woman may have experi- in addition to the 33 inju- kens of grief laid down the [email protected] ready committed crimes, and enced a seizure at the time ries suffered on the road block in honor of the victims, fail to prevent collisions in she accelerated into the vic- since 2010, suggest chronic for whom some openly wept Display Ad Fax: advance by implementing tims, and Gordon admitted hazards that can be fixed tears of grief. (718) 260-2579 traffi c-calming measures on that no amount of infrastruc- through sensible traffic- “We’re such a close-knit Classified Phone: treacherous roadways like ture improvements could safety improvements. community,” said Park Slope (718) 260-2555 Ninth Street, an organizer of prevent crashes caused by “If it had been the only resident Nancy Scherl, who Classified Fax: the rally told the mayor in re- certain uncontrollable cir- crash in recent history, yeah, left roses at a memorial out- (718) 260-2549 sponse. cumstances. then maybe this wouldn’t be side the Chase Bank on Fifth “I don’t want drivers pulled “There’s no way of know- the time or place to call for Avenue near Ninth Street. Classified E-Mail: over for speeding … I want ing exactly what would have improvements, but when you “When something happens to [email protected] streets that drivers look at made the difference here,” he look at the overall pattern, one person, it happens to ev- and say, ‘I’m a guest here,’ ” said. “There are times you can it suggests something more erybody.” :FLI@ > 2 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 DT Art is splendor on the grass in Greene Park BY JULIANNE CUBA They’re the new faces of Fort Greene Park! A massive sculpture fea- turing three carved visages will soon greet visitors to Fort Greene’s eponymous meadow, the Department of Parks and recreation an- nounced on Feb. 28. The green-space agency handed $10,000 to local art- GOOD AS NEW: Workers are nearly fi nished fi xing the once-gaping hole in a wall of the Bergen Street train ist Tanda Francis — who cre- station. Community News Group / Julianne Cuba ated a larger-than-life me- COMING SOON: Artist Tanda morial for borough son and Francis will install her sculpture hip-hop legend Biggie Smalls in Fort Greene Park in June. in 2016 — to make her 14-and- Parks Department a-half-foot piece, “Adorn Me,” which combines elements of neighborhood into a largely Mending the gap! traditional African sculp- affl uent, white-collar com- ture with references to Victo- munity. rian- and colonial-era dress, “Being an African-Amer- and will serve as a new mon- ican woman working, speak- Chasm plaguing B’Hill subway station fi xed ument to black culture in the ing my voice, is something I nabe when it is installed this don’t see often in the public BY JULIANNE CUBA January slapped a wooden summer, according to the space,” she said. “The work It’s a hole new day! plank over the crater — con- artist. I’m producing is a positive Transit workers are patch- cealing its unknown contents “I’m using the overall representation of people from ing up a once-gaping chasm in and smells — and three hard form of a large African head African descent.” a wall of Boerum Hill’s Bergen hats were on site last week and incorporating contrast- The sculpture will stand Street station that nauseated busily replacing the cracked ing elements of adornment in a to-be-determined spot commuters for weeks while and dirty tiles surrounding — themes of skin scarifi ca- inside the green space from putrid odors wafted from it the gap with new gleaming tion practiced in West Afri- this June through next May, before a miniature glacier ones after scrubbing the rest can cultures, and decorative and its authentic represen- formed inside the gap. PATCHED: Straphangers fi rst no- of the area clean. elements seen in Victorian tation of African culture is The tiny iceberg’s natural ticed the stench-emitting chasm in Authority leaders believe ornamentation,” said Fran- a remedy to the recent con- splendor mesmerized some early December. Marcus Baram wet stuff that oozed up from cis, who lives in Park Slope. troversy surrounding some straphangers, but the shiny down below created the rup- “I seek to address the demo- culturally insensitive monu- new tiles now covering the foul odor emanating from the ture, and said employees are graphic of people of Afri- ments throughout the city, hole are a far more appeal- cavity in a wall along the sta- still putting fi nishing touches can descent who are often according to the Parks De- ing sight for riders of the be- tion’s Manhattan-bound F- on the good-as-new wall. underrepresented in public partment. leaguered subway system, and G-train platform in early “The source of the leak is art, especially in terms of Francis is one of 10 artists according to the man whose December, and within weeks, believed to be groundwater the current historic artwork who received grant money nose fi rst sniffed out the rank frigid temperatures and a fu- intrusion,” said an agency featured in and around Fort from clothing retailer Uniqlo rupture. rious winter storm froze ice in spokeswoman. “The work is Greene Park.” to create artworks that will “I’m glad that straphang- place within it. ongoing.” Francis, who used to live be installed in a handful ers are fi nally able to have a Transit leaders pledged And if it weren’t for Ba- in Clinton Hill, said she of city meadows, including normal, clean platform while to repair the leak they said ram’s sensitive sense of smell, wanted to create a powerful Bedford-Stuyvesant’s Her- waiting for their delayed caused the chasm to form, but straphangers might still be and positive image for the Af- bert Von King Park, which train,” said Park Sloper Mar- fi rst had to fi nd the source of bedeviled by the mysterious rican-American community local artist Roberto Visani cus Baram. “I don’t know why the slit. hole. in Fort Greene, which trans- will adorn with his own orig- it took so long.” Metropolitan Transporta- “We get results,” he said. formed from a once mainly inal piece, according to the Baram fi rst whiffed the tion Authority workers in late “I’m glad it worked out.” working-class, low-income agency. rushed to the wounded adults’ lives in Red Hook — there, not “She was crying, scared. Numerous traffi c-watchdog SLOPE CRASH and dying children’s aid, ac- as a victim, but comforting the She was trying to get up,” said and cyclist-advocacy groups cording to Muniz. pregnant woman as she lay in- Clark-Smith. “She was like, demanded Mayor DeBla- Continued from cover “Everybody was crying, jured in the street. ‘Oh god,’ you know?” sio improve safety on Ninth dren dead at the scene, accord- yelling, screaming,” she re- “The only person moving Surveillance footage the Street hours after the crash, ing to a Police Department counted. “It looked like Arma- was the lady trying to get up Brooklyn Paper obtained from with some organizing a rally spokesman, who said para- geddon.” to check on her child, and my a nearby insurance broker at 8:30 am on Tuesday outside medics rushed the two women Another witness said she aunt was telling her ‘please shows the 44-year-old driver the nearby YMCA, where Hiz- and man to Methodist Hos- was working on the second stay down, please stay down, — a Staten Island resident, ac- zoner works out each morn- pital in critical, but non-life- fl oor of a gym that overlooks please stay down,’ ” said De- cording to reports — approach ing. threatening, condition. the intersection when she sireé Williams of her aunt, the intersection as the light In 2016, a motorist fatally A mangled baby stroller spotted bodies littering the June Clark-Smith. turned red, then slowly inch struck a 41-year-old man at the lay beneath the Volvo’s right- street below and ran to the The pregnant woman with forward as pedestrians and intersection of Ninth Street rear wheel following the scene fearing someone she a wounded leg was covered in vehicles began to cross Ninth and Fifth Avenue, where 33 crash, which left a visible trail knew was hurt. blood and drifting in and out Street before speeding into the others have suffered traffi c- of gore on the road beside a And upon her arrival, the of consciousness, according to victims during a break in traf- related injuries since 2010, ac- sneaker. good Samaritan said she was Clark-Smith, who described the fi c, sending their bodies fl ying cording to data from the city’s Bystanders, meanwhile, shocked to fi nd her aunt — who victim as hysterical with fear. to the pavement. Vision Zero initiative. DT COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 3 Citi Bike faces uphill battle Biz struggles to restock Bklyn docks in elevated nabes BY COLIN MIXSON Citi Bikes in the morning on It’s all downhill from these their way to work, but switch neighborhoods. to other forms of public trans- Citi Bike users in some portation for their evening hilly parts of Brooklyn are commutes — makes it harder pedaling their rented two- for the service to refi ll dock- wheelers downward, but not ing stations in the residential back up again, according to a neighborhoods where it last honcho of the program, who year debuted plans to install said riders frequently fail to roughly 400 new bicycles , Wal- re-dock bikes at stations in doch said. Prospect and Crown Heights “In general, we see there is because they’re located on more commuting in the morn- higher ground. ing than in the evening,” he “There’s higher elevation said. in those areas and, not sur- BRING ‘EM BACK!: Citi Bike is of- But Citi Bike bigwigs re- prisingly, bikes tend to go fering extra perks to the rental cently announced an initia- downhill,” said Collin Wal- service’s members who enroll in tive to supplement the rental doch, who manages programs a program to help return bikes to service’s in-house bicycle- for the Citibank-sponsored restocking operation in the File photo by Stefano Giovannini certain docking stations in Pros- rental service and lives in area, in which it offers mem- CHRONIC PROBLEM: Poorly stocked Citi Bike docking stations, such as Prospect Heights. pect and Crown Heights, where bers who join its Bike Angels this one in Park Slope, plague elevated Kings County neighborhoods in- Although neither neigh- commuters often grab bicycles for corps — who earn points to- cluding Crown and Prospect Heights, company employees said. borhood boasts the borough’s their morning commutes but opt wards membership renewals highest peak — that honor for other public transportation in by ferrying two-wheelers to times the amount of points power of Bike Angels, to help belongs to Green-Wood Cem- the evening so they do not have to understocked docks — extra they normally would for drop- us in these diffi cult areas.” etery’s 194-foot-tall Battle Hill pedal home uphill. Citi Bike incentives to return the rides ping off bikes at empty docks Anyone interested in join- — the stretch of Eastern Park- to locations in Prospect and in the nabes, Waldoch said. ing the Operation Edge Ex- way that cuts through Pros- commute on the road to get Crown Heights. “We saw this as an area plorers initiative must fi rst pect and Crown Heights, at to, according to topographic The special program, en- that can be challenging be- purchase an annual Citi Bike 164 feet, towers over other low- maps. titled Operation Edge Explor- cause of those factors,” he said. membership and enroll in the land nabes such as Downtown And the incline — coupled ers, gives participants until “It’s neat to harness the power free Bike Angels program at and Dumbo that local cyclists with riders’ tendency to use March 16 to earn up to fi ve of these incentives, and the bikeangels.citibikenyc.com . 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DT COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 5 State signals support for faster BQE fi x BY JULIANNE CUBA tained his general support for road’s rehab and other projects Brooklyn Heights state pol, Now it’s getting somewhere! the process that state law re- such as closing the jails on Rik- who in a joint statement ap- The streamlined design- quires his authorization for lo- ers Island and replacing them plauded Cuomo and pledged build process is integral to cal governments to use, which with new facilities throughout not to give up their fi ght for the city’s repairs to a crum- would request one bid for the the fi ve boroughs, and making design-build as the budget-ap- bling portion of the Brooklyn– expressway makeover’s de- much-needed renovations to proval process continues. Queens Expressway, accord- sign and construction instead the city’s public-housing com- “We thank Gov. Cuomo for ing to Gov. Cuomo, who this of hiring unique contractors plexes, according to the New his essential support for design- week signaled his support for for each phase. He green-lit it York Daily News, which fi rst build for the BQE, and we look the process that would fast- for several state-run projects, reported on Cuomo’s support. forward to working with him track the fi x — months after including the construction of But design-build advocates and with our colleagues in the IN FAVOR: Gov. Cuomo this week local pols and residents began the recently built Kosciuszko said they aren’t taking a vic- Senate and the Assembly to en- demanding he authorize the Bridge and a new span that said the streamlined process of tory lap until the governor of- sure that legislation authoriz- procedure in his budget so city will bear the Cuomo name. design-build is “essential” to the fi cially approves a fi nal budget ing design-build for this proj- transit honchos aren’t forced But he’s repeatedly left ad- city-led repair of a portion of the that authorizes using the pro- ect is enacted later this month to send the thousands of big- vocates hanging when asked Brooklyn–Queens Expressway, to cedure to fi x the expressway, a in the fi nal budget,” said state rigs that travel the road daily specifi cally whether he’ll allow the delight of state and local law- permission that will cut about Sen. Brian Kavanagh. down local streets instead. the Department of Transporta- makers who rallied for authoriza- $113 million from the job’s cur- The governor’s public sup- “The Brooklyn–Queens tion to use design-build in its tion of the procedure last month. rent $1.9-billion price tag, and port for the streamlined pro- Expressway is a very big con- reconstruction of the express- Community News Group / Julianne Cuba accelerate the reconstruction cess followed a Feb. 27 meeting struction project. The city plan- way’s decaying triple cantile- of the 1.5-mile stretch of the where Transportation Depart- ning to move traffi c through- ver. And Cuomo failed to au- ority projects,” said Assembly- road between Atlantic Avenue ment bigwigs presented a draft out the construction period thorize the procedure in both woman Jo Anne Simon. “The and Sands Street by at least of their expressway-repair is by defi nition problematic,” his fi rst and revised drafts of governor is signaling that he two years, supporters say. plan, which locals have until Cuomo said on Tuesday dur- the state budget, so his state- will fi ght for this.” “Of course I’m worried,” Si- March 12 to submit comment ing an unrelated conference ment indicates he is moving in Before the call on which mon said. “I’m not going to rest on by e-mail or snail mail. call with reporters about the the right direction as his April Cuomo recognized how de- until it’s done.” Check out the city’s proposed next day’s snowstorm. “Down- 1 deadline to sign-off on a fi nal sign-build could help the ex- Members of both houses in scope of work for the Brooklyn– town Brooklyn is already con- budget looms, according to a pressway’s repair, his staffer Albany are now writing each Queens Expressway repair at gested, so design-build for the Brooklyn Heights lawmaker in Alphonso David penned a Feb. chamber’s own budget, which www.bqe-i278.com/en . E-mail BQE I think is essential. Even favor of the process. 25 letter to Council Speaker are due by the end of next week feedback to [email protected], with design-build it’s going to “What’s different is that Corey Johnson (D–Manhattan) and together will be used to cre- or mail it to BQE Project Team, be a real problem in terms of this is more direct, and it’s that urged city offi cials to seek ate the fi nal version that must 605 3rd Avenue, 3rd Floor, New traffi c.” about doing it in the context approval for the process in spe- be approved by early April, ac- York, NY 10158. All comments The governor has long main- of the city and some of its pri- cifi c cases — including the cording to Simon and another due by March 12. 6 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 DT AT NYU LANGONE HOSPITAL–BROOKLYN WE’RE IMPROVING QUALITY AND SAFETY FOR EVERY PATIENT. 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Brutal assault The 38-year-old victim told cops A lowlife tore out a chunk of a he let the cur into his apartment woman’s hair during an argument near Union Street around 5:30 am on a train near Union Street on Feb. then went to bed, and when he woke 23. up at 7 am, he noticed the punk had The victim told police that she stolen his iPhone and Apple laptop. was on the Manhattan-bound R Street on March 3. The woman couldn’t remember train near Fourth Avenue around Police said the Red Hook man if she locked her door, offi cials said. Bad parking spot 9:05 am when she asked a man sit- shot the gun three times in the di- A malefactor stole a woman’s bag ting beside her to move into a differ- rection of someone else between Cashed out from inside her car that was double- ent train car. Hicks and Columbia streets at 4:57 A crook stole a wad of cash from parked on Ashland Place on March The pair then got into an argu- pm. Offi cers later arrested the sus- a woman’s bag while it was inside a 1, authorities said. ment, which escalated when the lout pect and charged him with criminal The woman told police she left shoved her onto a row of seats across use of a fi rearm, reckless endanger- locker in a MetroTech Center build- her car double-parked and unlocked from her, and pulled her hair, caus- ment, and menacing. ing on Feb. 26, authorities said. ing a chunk of it to rip out, accord- The 22-year-old woman told cops near Fulton Street for about one ing to offi cials. Car gone she left her bag locked inside the minute at 7:45 am when some jerk compartment in the building near reached in and took her pocketbook A good-for-nothing stole a man’s containing $800, two credit cards, Myrtle Avenue at 8 am, and when Harsh words car right out from under his nose on car keys, and an iPhone. A menace threatened an em- Court Street on March 3. she returned to get it at 4 pm, $1,020 ployee at an Atlantic Avenue mar- The victim said he left his green was gone. Sorry straphanger ket on Feb. 20. Toyota running near Atlantic Av- A nogoodnik swiped a senior’s The victim told cops that he was enue at 11:58 pm. When he headed In a split second bag she accidentally left on a Fulton at the store around 8 am when, for back towards the car, he saw a man A good-for-nothing walked away Street bus-stop bench on Feb. 17, po- some unknown reason, the trou- in glasses get in and drive off, police with a woman’s bag inside a cloth- lice said. blemaker followed him around the said. The man chased after the car, ing store on Fulton Street on Feb. The 68-year-old woman told au- market and began making threats but lost sight of it as it went towards 26, police said. thorities she left the bag on the toward him. Pacifi c Street, he told cops. He said The victim told offi cers she put bench near Lafayette Avenue and Cops said the nogoodnik told his iPhone 7-Plus, three credit down her bag containing her Guate- then hopped on the B25 bus around the victim “I will kill you. I’m from cards, and $1,175 were in the car. malan passport, New York identifi - 5 pm. And when she returned the Crown Heights,” and he feared for next day at 2 pm, her bag with her his life. cation card, and debit card on a rack Apartment break-in while she was shopping in the store passport, driver’s license, and two Would-be feast A punk broke into a woman’s near Bridge Street around 6:30 pm. credit cards inside was gone, ac- Richards Street house on Feb. 27. She then turned around for one cording to cops. A stranger con- Offi cers cuffed a man who they The victim said she left her minute, and when she went to pick it tacted the woman to return it to her, said stole an estimated $138 worth house between Visitation Place and up, the bag was gone, offi cials said. but never did, police said. of groceries at a Fifth Avenue super- Pioneer Street at 8 am, and when market on Feb. 23. she got back at 5:30 pm, she noticed Bye, bye, bicycle Cops said the suspect entered the someone entered the bedroom of her Jewel thief A crook rode off with a guy’s mo- market near Baltic Street around apartment and stolen her Beats by A nogoodnik swiped thousands torcycle parked on Greene Avenue around 9:46 am and placed four Dre headphones, a speaker, a wallet, of dollars worth of jewelry from sometime bewteen Feb. 24 and 26, packs of chicken, two packs of hot and various articles of clothing. She a woman’s apartment on Henry offi cers said. dogs, cheese, a bag of shrimp, and a told cops she left the apartment un- Street sometime between Feb. 15 The 28-year-old told police he bouquet of fl owers in his shopping locked when she left for the day. and March 1, cops said. parked and locked his 2011 DUC cart, and left the store without pay- — Adam Lucente The 29-year-old victim said the two-wheeler near Adelphi Street ing. baddie took her earrings, rings, around 6 pm on Feb. 24, and when Police apprehended the 60-year- and necklaces from her apartment he returned for it on Feb. 26 a little old suspect and recovered all the 84TH PRECINCT near Joralemon Street while she after midnight, it was gone. items. BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DUMBO– was gone, but there were no signs of — Julianne Cuba Litterbug BOERUM HILL–DOWNTOWN forced entry, police said. Some brute assaulted a man for Subway scoundrel 72ND PRECINCT telling him not to litter in front of a A snake struck a guy in the head 88TH PRECINCT SUNSET PARK–WINDSOR TERRACE Park Place eatery on Feb. 22. inside a Schermerhorn Street sub- FORT GREENE–CLINTON HILL The victim told police that he way station on March 4, police said. was at the restaurant near Flatbush Vicious attack The 31-year-old victim, who is a Watch it! A brute struck a man with an Avenue around 7:39 pm when he Metropolitan Transportation Au- asked the litterbug to pick up trash A wretch stole a guy’s watch from umbrella, causing an abrasion to thority conductor, told police he his left forearm, and threatened his he dropped on the ground. was inside the station near Hoyt his wrist while the two were inside Instead, the nogoodnik spat on a Washington Avenue hotel room on life when he was driving in his car Street around 7 pm on a Manhattan- with his child inside on Greenwood and attacked the man, leaving a bound C train departing the termi- March 4, offi cers said. bruise on his lip, before fl eeing, po- The 21-year-old victim told po- Avenue on March 2. nal when the villain socked him in The man told police he was driv- lice said. lice he met the rogue at a Manhat- the head. ing from E. Fifth Street towards E. — Alexandra Simon tan club that night and she brought Fourth Street around 6:45 pm when him back to the hotel near Greene While she was out he heard a car nearby. When he 76TH PRECINCT Some jerk swiped a woman’s lap- Avenue around 3:30 am. When they stopped to check, the lout ran up to top from her Furman Street apart- got inside the room, the crook told him and hit him with the umbrella CARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL– ment on March 2, cops said. him, “Your watch is bothering me,” and then commanded that he “get RED HOOK The woman told police she left and took it off him and put it in his out of here or I’ll kill you in front of her apartment near Bridge Park shoes, cops said. your kid,” police reported. Man fi res gun Drive at 7:45 am, and when she re- The weasel then ran off with the The man got into his car and Cops cuffed a man who they said turned at 9 am, some sneak had sto- guy’s shoes and his rose-gold Rolex drove away, he told cops. fi red a gun at someone on Bush len her Apple Air laptop. watch, according to authorities. — Julianne McShane 8 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 DT AT NYU LANGONE HOSPITAL–BROOKLYN WE’RE RECRUITING HUNDREDS OF NEW PHYSICIANS. NYU LANGONE HOSPITAL–BROOKLYN 150 55TH STREET, SUNSET PARK A hospital is only as good as its physicians. NYU Langone Health is composed of over 3,000 world-class physicians, and now we’re recruiting more to join us at our hospital in Brooklyn. In fact, we’ve already added more than 100 specialists from some of the best institutions in the country. And that’s just the beginning—because providing the best medical care to the communities here means continuing to recruit the best doctors to deliver it. To learn more, visit nyulangone.org. DT COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 9 STILL CLOSED: The Bossert Hotel won’t open before this summer. Photo by Caleb Caldwell INN-CH BY INCH Heights hotel seeks new operator, delays debut again BY JULIANNE CUBA chased the 280-room Bossert from the This old inn’s rooms are still being ser- Jehovah’s Witnesses, which once used viced. the Italian Renaissance–style hotel to The developers restoring the house its members, and promised to swanky Bossert Hotel yet again post- fi nish restoring the inn’s pair of grand poned its long-awaited reopening, ballrooms, chandelier-covered lobby, pushing the luxe Brooklyn Heights and rooftop restaurant to their former lodge’s debut to some time this sum- glory by the next year. mer while they secure a new operator But work delays postponed that re- after their previous candidate packed opening — along with subsequent ones its bags. slated for October 2016 , which was Hotelier Fën Hotels — which runs nixed in part due to out-of-commission the Dazzler Brooklyn in America’s elevators, and September 2017, leaving Downtown and a handful of other U.S. locals to wonder what’s taking so long. properties, along with dozens of inns The president of civic group the across Latin America — is no longer Brooklyn Heights Association told a setting up shop inside the Montague crowd of curious residents at the or- Street property, according to a rep for ganization’s Feb. 28 meeting that the one of its new owners, who couldn’t latest delay was due to a blaze inside elaborate on what fi rms may take the property, which she said develop- its place or when another will be se- ers most recently hoped to reopen last lected. December before pushing its debut to “We’re in the process of picking this summer. one,” said Stephen Allen, the man “Apparently there were some fi res managing the makeover under devel- in the building that affected the tim- oper David Bistricer of Clipper Equity, ing of inspections and so things have who co-owns the property with real- been delayed,” said Martha Bakos Di- estate bigwig Joseph Chetrit. “We’re etz, relaying information she received kind of in the middle of negotiations so from the head of the nabe’s business- I can’t really speak to that right now.” boosting group, the Montague Street And modernizing the hotel built in Business Improvement District. 1909 — which sits near Hicks Street, But no fl ames tore through the ho- within the Landmarks Preservation tel, according to Allen, who said tests Commission–protected Brooklyn of its alarms may have sparked the ru- Heights Historic District — while pre- mors. And a Fire Department spokes- serving its historic feel is simply more man confi rmed that none of New York’s time-consuming than anticipated, Al- Bravest rushed to put out an inferno at len said, necessitating a new debut the property in the last six months. date nearly fi ve years after its owners Contractors are fast at work on the fi rst expected to welcome guests. fi nishing touches to the immaculate “The restoration of the hotel’s ar- inn once known as Kings County’s chitectural grandeur has proven to be Waldorf-Astoria — where the Brook- a tremendous amount of work,” said lyn Dodgers famously celebrated its Allen. “All the new technology is de- 1955 World Series win — according to signed to be hidden, and if it’s not hid- Allen, who said he hopes the latest set- den it has to complement the elegant back is the renovation’s last. details. It’s just taking longer to do “Right now the hotel is nearly fi n- things than management expected.” ished. 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DT COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 11 Back in motion Beleaguered PLG dance academy offers special classes ahead of grand reopening BY ALEXANDRA SIMON amid the school’s search for This displaced dance center is another home, according to back on its feet! Jay, who said she offi cially se- Honchos of a Prospect-Lef- cured the new place in Decem- ferts Gardens dance school ber but necessary renovations forced to abandon its class- delayed its big debut. rooms due to allegedly rising “One of big things about rents are ushering in the acad- Abundance is our very loyal emy’s March 11 grand reopen- family. We want what’s best ing inside a brand-new loca- for our community, and the tion with discounted classes students pour that right back ahead of the event. into us,” she said. And the return of the Jay fi nanced the move in school, which temporarily part using donations received operated out of a handful of via a self-organized, ongoing neighborhood venues after online fund-raiser, to which evacuating its old Rogers Ave- do-gooders contributed more nue space last year, is a dream than half of her $50,000 goal by come true for students — and press time. educators — its director said. And in a show of thanks, “All I can say is ‘Oh my she is slashing the prices of GOT HER GROOVE BACK: Abundance Academy of the Arts honcho Karisma Jay is offering discounted dance God,’ ” said Karisma Jay. “I’m the school’s lessons for all ages classes at its newly relocated school before the academy’s grand reopening on March 11. Photo by Taylor Balkom so happy, and the kids are so — which include dance work- happy to fi nally have a home shops in African, salsa, and that caters to different aspects new home is nearly three in store for me, but this is a again.” ballet, as well as yoga classes, of the community,” Jay said. times bigger than its old spot, testament to remain hopeful.” Abundance Academy of the that typically cost $30–40 — to “I want people to come and see and boasts a bigger dress- Abundance Academy of the Arts’s move into its fresh digs a special rate of $10 per session what we have to offer.” ing area, more bathrooms, Arts [90 Sullivan Pl. between at 90 Sullivan Pl. wouldn’t through March 11, to draw both Jay, who said the thought of and one space the old facility Bedford Avenue and McKeever have been possible without its loyal patrons and fi rst-time cus- relocating her school daunted didn’t have at all — a lobby to Place in Prospect-Lefferts Gar- network of supportive pupils tomers to its new location. her at fi rst, ultimately called welcome patrons, she said. dens, (347) 788–1069, www.abun- and their parents, who con- “We’re not just a dance its move a blessing in dis- “I found it crazy,” Jay said. dancearts.org]. 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DT COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 15 Pols make their mark in Dyker Local electeds send Angel Guardian worries to city’s landmarks commission BY JULIANNE MCSHANE tury,” the pols wrote. “Land- landmark, but further study Local pols penned a letter to marking will ensure that was needed,” the rep said in the Landmarks Preservation these structures will remain an e-mail. “LPC is commenc- Commission on March 1, beg- in Dyker Heights.” ing additional research.” ging the preservationists to City records show the Sis- But that’s still no guaran- landmark the Angel Guardian ters of Mercy built the struc- tee that the building will ulti- home in Dyker Heights in or- tures — administration, mately be considered for land- der to save it from demolition nursery, reception, and laun- marking, the rep said. If the by its mystery buyer. dry buildings — in 1899. The commission did choose to start Public Advocate Leti- pols wrote that the buildings the offi cial landmarking pro- tia James, state Sen. Marty are a mainstay in the rapidly cess, it would kick off with a Golden (R–Bay Ridge), state changing neighborhood, and public meeting, but the agency Sen. Simcha Felder (D–Mid- that this was all the more rea- rep couldn’t provide any time- wood), Assemblyman Peter son they should stay standing. MARK IT: The Landmarks Preservation Commission must designate the line on the soonest that could Abbate (D–Bensonhurst), “Dyker Heights’ building Angel Guardian home as a historic landmark before its mystery buyer start, or how long the process Councilman Carlos Menchaca stock is being eroded away can bulldoze it, offi cials demanded. File photo by Georgine Benvenuto would conceivably take. (D–Sunset Park), and Council- and has faced alterations over The landmarks agency’s man Justin Brannan (D–Bay several generations, but the unanimously voted to sup- sion conducted after receiving plodding and unpredictable Ridge) wrote that the proper- Angel Guardian complex has port the Guardians’ request at the initial request found that process is the exact reason ty’s four Beaux-Arts buildings remained intact,” the pols their Feb. 26 meeting. the main building might be a that locals should focus on between 63rd and 64th streets, wrote. The request for evalua- candidate for landmarking, making Mayor DeBlasio care bound by 12th and 13th av- Members of the Guard- tion does not require support and the subsequent support about the property , a rep from enues, are historically and ians of the Guardian — a civic from the community board or for the designation has led the the Historic Districts Council architecturally signifi cant group calling for the nuns to local elected offi cials for the panel to start the further re- — a private citywide preserva- structures that they worry the choose a developer who would commission to move forward search needed to begin the for- tion organization — told locals buyer will bulldoze if they’re put affordable senior housing with the process, according to mal landmarking process. at the community board’s Zon- not landmarked in time. in the space — submitted to a landmarks rep, who added “When LPC received a re- ing and Land Use Committee “We fear that the change in the landmarks commission a that there’s no guarantee that quest to evaluate the Angel meeting last month. ownership is a direct threat to request to evaluate the prop- the buildings will even be con- Guardian home, it assessed “The best way to get this losing this complex, which has erty on Jan. 3, according to a sidered for designation. the site and determined that landmarked is to get Mr. De- been an important part of our landmarks rep. 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Death by cheesecake CO-OP Another patron — who with three other members Continued from cover BY ADAM LUCENTE made headlines for storming A Sheepshead Bay woman al- “We’re kind of full,” he a 2016 co-op meeting about legedly fed her look-alike in said. banning Israeli products to Queens a poisonous cheese- The plan to branch out — protest that country’s occu- cake in an attempt to kill her which fi rst required review pation of Palestine — agreed and steal her identity. by a specially created com- that browsing the grocery The Queens District At- mittee — is inching along store on busy weekends has torney’s offi ce charged the DEADLY DESSERT: A Sheepshead with the introduction of a become practically impos- woman with attempted mur- Bay woman allegedly fed another 15-minute online survey for sible. SECOND COMING?: Food Co-op der, burglary, and a litany of woman a poisoned cheesecake. members, whose responses “It’s terrible,” said Alan leaders are slowly advancing a other crimes on Feb. 28, ac- Associated Press / Larry Crowe will be used by the appropri- Ettlinger. plan that could yield a new store. cording to a press release. ately named Second Location But expanding the coop- FIle photo by Louise Wateridge “This is a bizarre and the incident, a rep for Queens’ Committee to prepare a re- erative market raises wor- twisted crime that could have top prosecutor said. port, due sometime this sum- ries unique to its business ing a fi nancial risk to mem- resulted in the death of a Department of Homeland mer, that addresses interest model, according to Holtz, bers, who may simply prefer Queens woman, ” said Queens Security offi cials tested the in and concerns about a po- who said that if a new loca- to play it safe and stay put, County District Attorney cheesecake and found that tential move. tion — which he predicts will Holtz said. Richard A. Brown. it included phenazepam — a The poll asks practi- be about the same size as the “If our members were to The offi ce said that the tranquilizer invented in the cal questions regarding the original space — is too far vote in favor of this — which Sheepshead Bay woman gave Soviet Union. The Federal Bu- width of aisles and the im- away, it won’t serve many is a big if — and we fi nd a the victim a cheesecake while reau of Investigation deter- portance of nearby public current members, leaving place, invest in and build it, visiting her home on Aug. 28, mined the pills found beside transportation, as well as co-op brass with the arduous and then enough people do 2016, and that the victim ate it the victim were also phenaze- philosophical queries about task of building a new army not come, it could go wrong,” before feeling sick and laying pam, according to the district the need to spread the co-op’s of socialist shoppers who he said. down. The next day, a friend attorney’s offi ce. model to new neighborhoods may not share the institu- Decision making at the found her unconscious in her The woman was arrested and whether a satellite space tion’s progressive ideals and Park Slope Food Co-op — bed, dressed in lingerie with on March 20, 2017, before being will stimulate gentrifi cation. operational know-how. much like in Albany — moves pills around her body, which charged with attempted mur- But current members “If you don’t populate it, slowly, however, and opening resembled a suicide. And when der and assault, burglary, as- seem most concerned about you’re starting without any a second location will likely the victim returned home af- sault, reckless endangerment, the sheer congestion — espe- of the people who bring the require several votes, includ- ter going to the hospital, she unlawful imprisonment, two cially on weekends — at the culture and understanding of ing a full referendum, which found that her passport, em- counts of larceny, and crimi- grocery store, which made the organization to the new would then require approval ployment card, a gold ring, nal possession of stolen prop- $56 million in sales last year place, and you’re taking a by the market’s board of di- and cash were missing. erty. She is due back in court alone. bigger chance,” he said. rectors, according to Holtz, The two women — who both on May 25, and faces up to 25 “I actually won’t shop And there’s always the who said he anticipates some have dark hair and speak Rus- years in prison, the district at- on the weekends because of possibility that the new lo- of the many expected votes to sian — knew each other before torney’s offi ce said. overcrowding,” said two-year cation won’t take, present- occur before the year’s end. Celebrate Brooklyn’s Women of Distinction 2018 Honorees S. J. Avery Kim Maier Honor her Harriet Blank Anna Malkina-Shumaeva with your congratulatory Jewel Brown Katarina Martinez Eladia Causil-Rodriquez Elana Martins message in the special section Lucina Clarke Deidre Olivera of our newspapers Michelle Gall Gabrielle Puglia th Leslie Green Lisette Sosa-Dickson on Friday, May 25 Linda Halsey Rolanda Telesford Mitzie Holstein Monique Waterman Join us at the gala Cassandra Jones-Brennan L. 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Nikolakakos and together raised three daugh- ters, Stella, Olga, and Mary- Our borough daughter was pinned ann. by Cmdr. Eric Doyle, fl ight leader for BANNER WAVES!: Staff at Mamonides Medical Center’s Heart and Vascular Institute The longtime Bay resident, the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration — from left, Declan Doyle, Dr. Mark Konenfeld, Dr. Jacob Shani, Dr. Greg Ribakove, Dr. who still lives in the neighbor- Squadron, at a cresting ceremony held Steven Konstadt, Lorraine Carroll, Dr. Robert Rhee, and Kenneth Gibbs — display an hood and is helped by home care at Naval Air Facility El Centro, Calif. assistants, Michelle and Sheryl, institute banner in recognition of National Heart Month. E.R. Kaynas Standing O wishes Yeoman Atwa- worked in the garment district as ter, clear skies and easy fl ying. a coat fi nisher for over 30 years Raising banners for heart health and now spends her time listen- SHEEPSHEAD BAY ing to music, watching Greek BOROUGH PARK lence in cardiovascular care at Mai- TV, and counts Wheel of Fortune Ashes to ashes monides. and Family Feud as her favor- The staff and students at St. Ed- Raise your glass and the fl ag for Following the program, staff- ite shows. She regularly attends mund Preparatory High School cel- National Heart Month. Maimo- ers, clad in red, gathered in support service at the Greek Orthodox ebrated Ash Wednesday with a service. nides Heart and Vascular Insti- of heart health and cheered as the Church on Ave. P, where she is a Ash Wednesday signals the 40 days of tute celebrated the event with its Heart Month fl ag was hoisted out- senior member, enjoys visits with preparation for celebrating the Resur- annual fl ag raising and the wearing side the hospital’s main entrance on her family and chatting with her rection on Easter Sunday. of the red on Feb. 23. 10th Avenue. older brother George Demas, Kenneth Gibbs, president and The Maimonides Heart and Vas- who is 103 and resides with his chief executive offi cer, offered open- cular Institute has a long-standing son in Atlanta, Ga. ing remarks and introduced Dr. Ja- reputation for outstanding patient The family, including son-in- cob Shani, chairman of cardiology, outcomes. According to a New York laws Joseph, Ted and Tommy, who provided an overview of ser- State Department of Health re- together with grandchildren, vices and achievements. Joining in port, Maimonides Heart valve sur- Anthony and spouse Vicky, the event were Dr. Greg Ribakove, geons have signifi cantly low mor- George and spouse Cheryl director of cardiothoracic surgery; tality rates — lower, in fact, than Lee, Anna, Elena and spouse Dr. Robert Rhee, chief of vascular any hospital in Manhattan. Shawn, and Peter with spouse surgery; and Declan Doyle, senior Maimonides Heart and Vascu- Lauren, and Paul and Thomas, vice president of operations and lar Institute [4802 10th Ave. and 48th great grandchildren, Alexan- clinical Programs, who gave clos- Street in Borough Park; (718) 283– dra, Daphne, Joseph, Stelyn, Fr. Michael Gribbon, school ing remarks that outlined the excel- 8902] Caitlin, and George will be cel- chaplain, administered ashes to the ebrating the happy occasion at a students and said during the service: whoop-de-do party on March 12. “Let us allow the voice of God to speak tending physician at New York City’s career professionals with the opportu- Daughter Maryann said: “I more clearly to us and let us to be more Health+Hospitals at Kings County. nity to learn from former presidents, wish my mom a very happy and attentive to Him speaking to us in our The doctor was selected to attend key administration offi cials, respected healthy birthday.” Standing O lives.” the class of 2018 in the program for de- scholars, and academics. added a charoúmena genéthlia Also participating were Br. Mark veloping and implementing the Kings “I feel fortunate to be able to par- (happy birthday) for good mea- Amatrucola, director of technology, Against Violence Initiative, a youth ticipate in the program and represent sure. Deacon Ronald Rizzuto, director of violence prevention program, through the Kings Against Violence Initiative mission, ministries and outreach, and the prestigious Presidential Leader- and NYC Health+Hospitals–Kings Deacon Andrew Ciccaroni, math and ship Scholars Program. County,” said Dr. Gore. acceptance into this elite program,” religion teacher. The initiative, a partnership be- In addition to his role at Kings said Sheldon McLeod, chief execu- St. Edmund Preparatory High tween the presidential centers of County, Dr. Gore serves as an assistant tive offi cer at NYC Health+Hospitals– School[2474 Ocean Ave. and Avenue T George W. Bush, William J. Clin- clinical professor of emergency medi- Kings County. in Sheepshead Bay; (718) 743–6100] ton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyn- cine at SUNY Downstate. Dr. Gore con- Dr. Gore was also recognized in don B. Johnson, was designed to cul- tinuously seeks new ways to build the 2017 and awarded the Distinguished FLATBUSH tivate a diverse network of leaders who program, and his appointment to the Community Service Award from the are capable of addressing our nation’s program is expected to provide new United Hospital Fund. Presidential program most pressing challenges. Over the ways to build on successes already New York City Health+Hospitals, Congratulations to borough son Dr. course of six months, the executive- achieved. Kings County [451 Clarkson Ave., in Robert Gore, an emergency room at style education series provides mid- “We congratulate Dr. Gore on his Flatbush; (718) 245–3131] 20 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 DT Break ground and it goes down BQE won't survive builder's excavation of Bklyn Heights courtyard, locals claim BY JULIANNE CUBA nabe’s designated historic dis- a permit to start construction said a spokeswoman for the city They want this plan to stay bur- trict — wants to excavate the back in 2014, according to a agency. ied. complex’s backyard to install spokesman. Weiner is still waiting for Offi cials’ approval of a de- 97 parking spots that would sit But as concerns over the the state’s fi nal go-ahead be- veloper’s long-gestating pro- about 11 feet below the ground, complicated city-led rehabilita- cause the tenants association posal to dig up a tree-lined according to the Department of tion of the Brooklyn–Queens fi led an administrative appeal courtyard behind a Brooklyn Buildings. Expressway’s three-tiered tri- in January to combat the Divi- Heights building to make way But the project — which ple cantilever heat up, Riverside sion of Housing and Commu- for an underground parking would also unfreeze some ten- tenants are demanding Weiner nity Renewal’s approval of the garage sandwiched against the ants’ rents that were locked in halt work on the garage until a plan. A rep for the state-run di- Photo by Caleb Caldwell Brooklyn–Queens Expressway place after the ca. 1890 build- thorough environmental study TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT: Ten- vision declined to comment on could send the road’s already ing’s previous landlord paved proves the job won’t sabotage ants of the Riverside Apartments the issue, citing the pending ap- crumbling triple cantilever over part of its original out- the Department of Transporta- peal. crashing down before it is re- door courtyard to add parking tion’s impending repairs to the claim its owner’s plan to dig up But if the division upholds paired, warned residents and in the ’90s — has sat in purga- roadway. a courtyard in order to build an its green light, Weiner can start their reps. tory for much of the last decade, “Of the utmost concern is the underground garage abutting digging immediately, and ulti- “Whatever work they are do- because it requires approval by fact that the outer wall of our the Brooklyn Queens-Expressway mately unfreeze those tenants’ ing is threatening the integrity both the city and the state’s Di- courtyard is the actual BQE tri- could cause the road to crumble rents that haven’t budged in of the BQE,” said Joel Kupfer- vision of Housing and Commu- ple cantilever bridge wall,” said before it’s fi xed. decades — which a rep for the man, an attorney in charge of nity Renewal. Lenore Mitchell, who leads the builder said would initially de- the New York Environmental State leaders panned the pro- Riverside Tenants Association. proposal anyway to ensure it crease by about three percent Law and Justice Project, who is posal back in 2009, but Weiner “We are at a loss as to why DOT complied with the agency’s reg- — after fi nishing work on the representing the building’s ten- revised his then Landmarks has not acknowledged the risks ulations, and gave it a thumbs garage and fully restoring the ants fi ghting the project along Commission–approved plan posed by such a project.” up because they said it won’t courtyard to a state that the rep with lawyer Stephen Dobkin of — moving the entrance of the The Transportation Depart- affect their engineers’ express- claimed will surpass its cur- Manhattan-based fi rm Collins, proposed garage after offi cials ment, however, didn’t need to way rehabilitation, which is rent condition. Dobkin and Miller, LLP. objected to its former location, offi cially sign off on the park- still a few years off. “The plans for what goes on The chief of builder Pinnacle among other tweaks — and the ing-garage project since it falls “This project has been re- top of it are a rather beautiful Group, Joel Weiner — who owns division eventually green-lit within the jurisdiction of the viewed by NYC DOT, meets new courtyard with consider- the Riverside Apartments at his scheme last December. Buildings Department, ac- the guidelines previously men- ably more trees,” said Weiner’s the corner of Joralemon Street And the city’s Buildings De- cording to a rep, who said lo- tioned, and should not impact rep, former Brooklyn Heights and Columbia Place within the partment issued the developer cal transit leaders reviewed the the rehabilitation of the BQE,” Councilman Ken Fisher. WANT TO LEARN ENGLISH? 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DT COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 27 LETTERS Restaurant holsters NRA event plans The owners of Coney Island res- taurant Gargiulo’s bowed to pres- sure from local pols, offi cials, and residents and cancelled the eatery’s SOUND OFF TO THE EDITOR controversial April fund-raiser for the National Rifl e Association (“Re- port: Coney restaurant backs out LETTERS AND COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS of NRA event in face of local out- rage,” by Julianne McShane, online March 2). not need to be a case against our Sec- weapons. It is conditioned on member- military M-4 is that the M-4 has a The event — which was slated ond Amendment or yet another gov- ship in a well-regulated militia. Some three-shot burst feature, and the M-4 to include a raffl e giving away a ernment regulation that will end up day, hopefully soon, the legally cor- is most often used in semi automatic shotgun, two pistols, and two ri- not meaning anything. rect analysis of the scope of the Sec- mode, just like the AR-15. fl es — sparked crossfi re from locals Put pressure on the boards of ond Amendment will again prevail. This country has been fed a nox- around the borough: trustees and directors of all the gun I suspect that our founding fathers ious load of BS by the criminal lead- manufacturers whose products are would be disgusted with the NRA, ership of the NRA. I’m thrilled to hear this news. I being misused. It is not a Second which is an extremist, mob-rule ori- As a responsible, licensed gun was a participant in the boycott of Amendment infringement if they ented organization. owner, it disgusts me. Gargiulo’s, and I’m so glad they’ve stop making them available for civil- The NRA effectively functions as Fred from Windsor Terrace had a change of heart and will now ian purchase and stick to only mili- a criminal’s lobby. Who else would do what is best for the community. tary sales. The government can save fi ght for the right to possess armor- Fred, you lost that argument a I look forward to bringing them my face by paying a little extra for these piercing ammunition, exploding- long time ago. business this week in celebration of type of weapons to offset the loss of head ammunition, private gun sales The Heller case expressly held this brave and important decision. revenue to the companies. with no background checks (espe- that the Second Amendment right Meanwhile, for anyone who is in- I think the manufacturers have a cially loved by criminals and terror- to bear arms does not only apply to terested in Coney Island groups do- moral obligation to remove from the ists), and civilian possession of mili- members of the militia. ing serious work to respond to and market those products that are being tary-grade weapons. Your next paragraph is also balo- address gun violence, check out the misused. JD from Gravesend That’s what the AR-15 is — very ney, but others can easily do the min- Coney Island Anti-Violence Colabo- few U.S. military rifl es have a full imal research needed to debunk your rative: https://www.ciavc.org/ There is no Second Amendment automatic fi re option. The primary points one by one. Mallory from Bay Ridge right to unrestricted possession of difference between an AR-15 and a Gary from Fort Greene This is so silly, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Why don’t we also ban cars, planes, and other Catholic principals: Stop school attacks! means that are used in mass mur- ders? To the editor, tion within the Diocese of Brooklyn sion of our schools, the education As long as we seek our desire for As the Principals of the Catho- is to form children in the knowl- of our students and the safety and immediate gratifi cation to override lic High Schools of Brooklyn and edge and love of Jesus Christ as security of the adolescents in our our sense of logic and understand- Queens we have kept the adminis- celebrated in the Catholic Church, care. As educators we are facing a ing, this problem will prevail. Put- tration, faculty, staff, students and while providing a comprehensive world where we are increasingly ting blame on guns doesn’t solve the parents from Marjory Stoneman academic education that will help called upon to become the last line problem, and by not solving the prob- Douglas High School in our prayers them reach their full human po- of defense against unspeakable lem, all of us are to blame. Let’s fi ght since the thoughtless tragedy on tential and contribute to the com- horrors. mental illness, not our rights. February 14, 2018. We stand in sup- mon good of our nation and the Collectively, we as Catholic edu- For anyone who wants to eat and port of the Parkland, Fla. survivors world. The alumni of our schools cators…as Americans…know that support legalized ideals, pls continue as they draw strength in knowing are leaders in every stratum of these attacks must stop and the to indulge. As for Gargiulo’s, I was a that their efforts to effect neces- society, and our current students time for action on all levels is long big fan and big customer of some 40 sary change are heard. We call on are the leaders and policy mak- overdue. We unite in one voice to years, and now I’ll never return. It our elected leaders to do everything ers of tomorrow. We must stand as call upon our elected offi cials to ef- has sold out on its customers. necessary to help us protect stu- examples to them of the morality, fect nothing less than meaningful, Going forward, it should stick to dents against senseless acts such justice and peace which we expect proactive change. In the words of food, not politics! as the one in Florida and too many them to go forth and spread in the Mahatma Ghandi we must “be the silly from Brooklyn others across our country. world. As Principals, we are re- change we wish to see in the world”. The mission of Catholic educa- sponsible for carrying out the mis- That change starts today. So now that y’all have success- fully suppressed the NRA, how about Mr. Darius Penikas Mr. Joseph Dugan Mr. Patrick McLaughlin discussing a very viable way to have Archbishop Molloy High School Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School St. Francis Preparatory School your cake and eat it too? This does Dr. Margaret Lacey-Berman Mr. James V. Castrataro Mr. William A. Higgins Bishop Kearney High School Monsignor McClancy Memorial St. John’s Preparatory School Mr. Edward A. Bolan High School LET US HEAR FROM YOU Mrs. Caroline Latham Bishop Loughlin Mrs. Providencia Quiles St. Joseph High School Submit letters to: Vince DiMiceli, Edi- Memorial High School Nazareth Regional High School tor, Community Newspaper Group, 1 Mr. Richie Diaz Mrs. Susan Nicoletti Dr. Paula T McKeown MetroTech Center North, Brooklyn, NY Cathedral Preparatory Saint Agnes Academic High St. Saviour High School 11201, or e-mail to editorial@cnglocal. School & Seminary School Sr. Kathleen McKinney com. Please include your address and Ms. Geri Martinez Mrs. Allison McGinnis The Mary Louis Academy Christ the King High School St. Edmund Preparatory High telephone number for so we can con- Dcn. Kevin McCormack School fi rm you sent the letter. 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It can be easy person’s hands to be taken just place calls, and driv- crashes attributed to di- to veer into the direction off of the wheel and their Reading ers often cannot pull away aling is nearly identical your eyes are focused, caus- eyes to be diverted from the Glancing at an adver- from their phones, even to the number associated ing an accident. In addition road. Reaching in the back tisement, updating a Fa- when driving. According to with talking or listening. to trying to stay focused on seat to share some French cebook status or reading the California Department the road, some drivers pre- fries with the kids is also a book are all activities of Motor Vehicles, studies Daydreaming fer the help of lane depar- distracting. that should be avoided have shown that driving Many people will admit ture warning systems. Try to eat meals before when driving. Even pour- performance is lowered to daydreaming behind getting in the car. 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Or maybe your ing with other language enthu- tiveWhen teens offer their time students, parents and guid- and expectations, the son or daughter is shy or stuck siasts inspires many to want and talent to nonprofi ts and ance counselors have discov- Whigh school years can in a rut and needs a gentle to travel to experience differ- worthy causes, they gain more ered, this is an opportune time feel overwhelming - for stu- nudge to try something new? ent cultures fi rst-hand! Larger than just real-world experience to develop valuable lifelong dents and parents alike. Teens It’s amazing how a change of high schools offer more lan- for their college resumes. They skills, learn a new language grapple with questions like: scenery can inspire students guages, from French, Spanish gain maturity, perspective, and discover career interests Which colleges should I apply and tap hidden talents. Over and German to Mandarin, Ar- practical skills and a greater in a way that is not possible to? What should I choose as a time they’ll gravitate toward abic and Japanese, while teens appreciation for what they’ve in an everyday classroom en- major? What do I really want to one thing or another, and the with more limited offerings got. Volunteering can be cus- vironment. Perhaps the ulti- do with my life? What if I don’t journey will be rich with self- can often fi nd regional pro- tomized to one’s own inter- mate opportunity for personal have a clue? discovery. grams a bus ride away. ests, whether it means walk- growth, studying abroad also As a parent you naturally From local to global, there Model UN is another valu- ing dogs at an animal shelter expands communication skills want to give advice and steer are many valuable paths that able program that teaches stu- or building a website for an and helps students understand them in the right direction, but help spark new interests while dents about the world around environmental group. Adven- different cultures and ways of you also know it’s a tricky bal- building self-knowledge, confi - them, and builds confi dence as turous students can take it one living. ance. It’s their life, after all, as dence and 21st century skills well as leadership and commu- step further by participating Not sure study abroad has they’ll often remind you. along the way. nication skills. A new activity in service programs abroad. crossed your teen’s mind? Surf So how can you help? En- Global clubs and activities picked up on a whim may turn Whether working to raise so- the web together for resources courage them to explore differ- spark interest in the world at into a lifetime source of joy or cial awareness, lending a hand and get on mailing lists for ent interests, with no strings largeMost high schools offer even a career. If options are with environmental and con- brochures. CIEE (Council on attached. Look for activities a range of extracurricular op- limited at school, branch out. servation project, or mentor- International Educational Ex- beyond the usual choices. Re- portunities to get involved in Urge your teen to get involved ing underprivileged youth, change), a nonprofi t that oper- search extracurricular pro- a topic of interest or try out in the local community, meet teens grow exponentially dur- ates high school study abroad grams at your school, in your something new, from sports new people, and bond with ing a summer far away from programs in more than 30 community, even overseas so and theater to robotics and others who share similar in- their usual routine. global destinations, is a good they can see the breadth of debate. Many offer programs terests. They’ll see what’s out Study abroad transforms place to start. Transported to what’s out there. Expose them with an international theme there in the bigger world while the way a teen looks at fi elds of a world far different from their to a range of possibilities and as well. After-school language demonstrating to colleges and study - and lifeStudying abroad own, teens fi nd themselves see what they pick. clubs provide a chance to prac- employers that they’re engaged is not just for college. More and fully immersed in a new topic Does your teen already tice conversational skills in beyond the standard classroom more high school students are and a foreign culture. Pro- have a clear focus? Look for in- a relaxed environment while requirements. making the leap overseas for grams range from three weeks novative programs that allow joining in cooking and other Service programs help summer programs or for a se- in the summer to a full semes- them to dig even deeper in real- cultural activities. And bond- teens gain valuable perspec- mester or gap year. As many ter or academic year. DT COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 33 EDUCATION Apps that beat any college care package oon after back-to-school season lion educational resources by their ends, a new one begins for par- college and course names to fi nd ma- Sents of college-age kids: “send-me- terial that’s specifi c to their courses. something” season lasts for the whole Students can also interact with a school year. This year, instead of send- worldwide educational network of 20 ing your college kid yet another care million students and educators, ask package fi lled with cookies and other tutors for personalized homework stuff they may not use (or will have to help, share study resources and fi nd share with roommates), why not give the best information for hard-to-com- them these college-friendly apps? plete projects. Learn more at www. Here are fi ve apps that should be on coursehero.com, or download the free every college student’s must-have list: app in Google Play Store. Venmo. Keeping track of cash or Flipboard. Between multiple so- a credit card can be a hassle for busy cial media accounts, cable news and they were up late studying the night college careers. Busy schedules, sleep college kids. This payments app al- newspapers, there’s a lot of informa- before. Sometimes an ordinary alarm deprivation, convenience foods and lows users to pay individuals or busi- tion out there. You want your kids to just won’t cut it - it’s too easy to keep lack of exercise can undermine stu- nesses using their Venmo account, be informed, but you also don’t want hitting “snooze” or just turn it off and dents’ good health. This app helps stu- link a bank account, make payments them spending half their day scrolling go back to sleep. Alarmy forces stu- dents track key health factors such as in other mobile apps, and transfer on their devices. Flipboard combines dents to get out of bed by requiring nutrition, diet and exercise. It’s avail- money into and out of bank accounts. all the feeds from a user’s social me- them to take a specifi c action - such as able at www.myfi tnesspal.com for ei- Just be sure kids take proper security dia networks and curates news stories using their mobile device to take a pic- ther Android or IOS devices. precautions with their mobile device in an up-to-date, personalized maga- ture of an item in their living room, Fortunately, there’s an app for vir- to protect their payment app. Visit zine to help students get rid of the clut- or solving a math problem - to turn tually every aspect of college life. And www.venmo.com to learn more. ter and read the news that matters to off the alarm. The app is available at while no one has yet made an app Course Hero. While many learn- them. Find more information at fl ip- https://alar.my. that can replace a parent’s love, gift- ing apps provide great general infor- board.com. 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But for millions of low-income While the Jr. Iron Chef competition was getting Tchildren across the country, the low-cost or free students all over the district revved up, Cargill and lunch they get at school is the most nutritious, most Minneapolis Public Schools were weaving another fi lling meal they will eat. popular culinary trend into the district’s nutrition In 2016, over 30 million kids across the U.S. re- and wellness programs: food trucks. ceived low-cost or free lunches at their school. With such a wide-ranging impact, school meal programs Nutrition on wheels play a huge role in the well-being of our nation’s Parked outside the venue where Jr. Iron Chef was young people. held was a shiny, new food truck purchased with a According to Wilder Research, nearly one in six recent $75,000 grant from Cargill to Minneapolis children in the state of Minnesota live in food-inse- Public Schools. This is the school district’s second cure households. Many of these kids rely on school food truck. The fi rst one hit the road in 2013 and be- lunch to get the nutrients they need. To make sure came so popular that it quickly exceeded capacity. these needs are met, one school district in the state The trucks are staffed by the school district’s nu- has been blending nutrition with trends in popular trition and culinary staff, to bring nutritious meals culture to create a dynamic program that is getting to students, especially when school is not in session. kids excited about healthy food while also creating The trucks also appear at district-run wellness better eating habits. seminars and cooking demonstrations. “The value of these food trucks has been recog- Jr. Iron Chef nized by Minneapolis Public Schools and the U.S. Question: In an urban school district, how can trition and meal preparation. Students from across Department of Agriculture (USDA),” said Cargill the idea behind a popular television show be used to the district were invited to compete - just as popular Vice President of Corporate Responsibility Michelle raise awareness of healthy meal options? celebrity chefs on TV do - in live cooking competi- Grogg. “It’s been a successful strategy that com- In essence, this is what happened when Miguel tions. munity and state partners have found to improve Lopez, a seventh-grader at Anwatin Middle School, “This night was not so much about the compe- their capacity to reach food-insecure children when along with seven other teams and 16 other students, tition, but about what these students have learned school is in and out of session.” competed alongside eight professional chefs in one about how to prepare good meals on their own,” said In the summer of 2017, Minneapolis Public of Minneapolis Public Schools’ “Jr. Iron Chef” com- Minneapolis Public Schools’ Director of Culinary Schools served approximately 400,000 free meals petitions. and Wellness Services, Bertrand Weber. “We wanted and snacks to Minneapolis youth. This coming sum- Modeled after the popular television show, where to apply the Iron Chef concept to help improve our mer, Minneapolis Public Schools’ two food trucks teams compete to create the most appetizing dish, students’ health and well-being. Yes, it was a cool will operate at a total of eight summer feeding sites this three-year-old program was designed in coop- night, but the hope is that they will go home and do in conjunction with community youth and physical eration with Cargill to teach students about good nu- this for themselves and their families versus choos- activity programming. 34 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9–15, 2018 DT EDUCATION What to consider when the fi nancial aid letter arrives he last year of high school ter itself so you understand year students. is a whirl of activity, and the net cost of your student’s Negotiation: If the college T it’s no different when it education. 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The enormous exhibition displays more than 300 artifacts from the late rock icon’s five-decade career, including his instru- ments, costumes, writings and more. “David Bowie is” got its title because the polymorphous singer, actor, and artist David Bowie is so many things, said the curator of the London museum that initi- ated the project. “It’s a statement and an unfinished sentence because it can’t be finished,” said Victoria Broackes, of the Victoria and Albert Museum. “It’s an answer in which everybody brings their own.” “David Bowie is” shows off a treasure trove from the Thin White Duke’s personal archive, including original costumes, handwritten music, set designs, photos, and album artwork. Once you enter the exhibit, on the Museum’s fifth floor, you imme- diately see Bowie’s name lit up in bright, white lights. Many of the signs, placards, and images throughout the exhibit are orange, a steady theme throughout Bowie’s long career, said the Museum’s chief designer. “Throughout Bowie’s album covers, one color stands out more than others: orange,” said Matthew Yokobosky, pointing to the orange lightning bolt painted on Bowie’s face for the “Aladdin Sane” album cover. Each section covers a different era of Bowie’s career, with a different attempt to complete the title: Next to a collection of this stage costumes, a sign reads “David Bowie is making himself up.” Another, beside a series of photos, reads “David Bowie is floating in a most peculiar way.” Some of the coolest artifacts in the collection are a banjo that Bowie played on the BBC in 1981, the Union Jack coat he wore on the cover of his “Earthling” album, stage costumes from the “Ziggy Stardust” tour, and the handwritten sheet music for the guitar and violin parts to “Space Oddity.” The Brooklyn Museum version of the show also features some objects not included at its previous stops, including lyric sheets and set lists. And the exhibit is more than a visual tour of Bowie’s career — each visitor gets a pair of headphones that plays Bowie’s music hits and snippets from his interviews, with the audio chang- ing depending on where you are in the room. For All the young boots: The exhibit “David Bowie is” at the Brooklyn Museum includes photos and example, when you approach the slightly worn, yel- artwork from throughout the artist’s career, including this image from 1973. Masayoshi Sukita Continued on page 44 24-7 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9-15, 2018 39 BEAUTY AND THE BREAST Exhibit celebrates nursing mothers By Julianne Cuba his art is all natural! Artists from all over the world will bust out Ttheir depictions of breastfeeding for “The Art of Breastfeeding: Modern Narratives of Motherhood,” an exhibit opening in a Gowanus gallery on March 10. The Triumphant return: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz returns to the show’s co-curator said that, as an artist and a mother borough he once called home to launch his first children’s book, “Islandborn,” of three, she wanted to create a safe space to explore a at the Brooklyn Public Library on March 13. Nina Subin beautiful, natural activity that is often banished from the public sphere, she said. “This is something that’s sorely lacking in our everyday life as modern moms, very few representa- Beach read tion of breastfeeding in a modern context,” said Leigh Pennebaker, who put together the show with MF Gallery’s director Martina Secondo Russo. “I’ve been Junot Diaz launches his breastfeeding for 11 years nonstop, I’m a passionate breastfeeding advocate and really engaged in the online kids’ book ‘Islandborn’ community that is all about empowering breastfeeding women — we don’t have to put up with being harassed, By Julianne McShane of them to flee. Diaz included told to stop, that kind of thing.” he book is a sail down those darker memories to make The exhibit includes work from more than 24 art- memory lane. the text more realistic, and to ists, including performance artist Jess Dobkin, known T A Pulitzer-winning inspire young readers to stand for her piece “The Lactation Station,” which invited author and former Brooklynite up to political oppression, wher- people to taste donated breast milk, visual artist Aimee will launch his first children’s ever they come from. Gilmore, who has created “milkscapes,” and cartoon- book at the Brooklyn Public “The idea that there’s only ist Lucy Knisley, who has an upcoming graphic novel Library in Prospect Heights on going to be nostalgic, warm about parenthood. Mamma and child: Netherlands-based artist Geertje Geertsma’s March 13. Junot Diaz said that memories — that people only Not all of the paintings, photos, or sculptures glorify piece from her series “Mammalia.” Geertje Geertsma his picture book “Islandborn,” have this positive connection to the act of nursing — some take a political stance, or dis- “In art history there’s a plethora of images going about a young girl who must rely a place — struck me as deeply cuss the troubles some women experience while trying back hundreds, thousands of years that celebrate the on her family’s memories of the unrealistic,” he said. “I think it’s to breastfeed, said Pennebaker. maternal and fertility goddesses and breastfeeding,” island where she was born, was important to recall that many of “They’re not all this glowing celebration, some said Pennebaker. “It’s a really common thing, and a lot inspired by his own family’s us come from communities that things depict that wonderful connection and joy and of religious art across all religious backgrounds, things journey from the Dominican are defined by our confronta- beauty, but others delve into ambivalence or ambiguity like the Virgin Mary. It’s kind of a universal symbol of Republic to the United States. tions with political monsters, or struggles moms are confronted with,” she said. fertility and abundance.” “I had very strong and and I would hope the book func- Mixing motherhood and femininity with art is no “The Art of Breastfeeding” at MF Gallery (213 indelible memories of [the tions on a deep level as a tutorial titillating new development, said Pennebaker — in fact, Bond St. between Baltic and Butler streets in Gowanus, Dominican], but I have fam- for fighting them.” it has long been depicted in religious artwork. mfgallery.net). Opening March 10, 7–10 pm. Free. ily members who came over so Diaz similarly drew on ele- young that they have no recol- ments of his own life to write lection, and I always felt that “The Brief and Wondrous was kind of a curious place to Life of Oscar Wao,” which be, to have been born in a place won the Pulitzer in 2008, and Crossing the line but not to recall it, and then in his short story collections to live surrounded by every- “Drown” and “This Is How By Alexandra Simon Dardashti, a Dominican-American one else’s memories,” said Diaz, You Lose Her,” which was a all them artists without woman raised in France. who emigrated to New Jersey finalist for the National Book borders. The exhibit features 40 pieces when he was six years old. He Award in 2012. C More than a dozen from 19 artists, and is split into lived in Boerum Hill in the His debut book for young- Dominican and Haitian artists will three sections. The first examines early 1990s, before moving to sters is an homage to New York come together to showcase artwork the history of the island, the second Manhattan, and now teaches at City, he said, but he is glad to depicting the relationship between looks at the border area between the the Massachusetts Institute of return to the better borough to the two neighboring Caribbean two nations, and the last is a joint Technology. kick off his month-long tour. countries. At the exhibit “Bordering multimedia project by Dominican- Pretty on pink: Scherezade Garcia works In “Islandborn,” illustrated “When I think about this the Imaginary,” opening at Bric American artist Scherezade Garcia on her latest painting. Scherezade Garcia by Leo Espinosa, Lola goes to book, I think about the fact that House on March 14, artists from and Haitian-American artist school in the Dominican-heavy I miss New York City,” he said. both countries will explore the his- Vladimir Cybil Charlier. Their sec- country — it’s beyond politics, it’s Washington Heights neigh- “I lived in Brooklyn a long tory of the island they share. The tion, titled “Memories of a Utopian about the history that unites us, and borhood on the distant isle of time, and I have sentimental show is designed to demonstrate that Island and the Future,” features an they can fight all we want but we are Manhattan, where her family feelings for it.” members of the divided nations can animated video and an installation intertwined.” and neighbors tell her about the Junot Diaz at the Brooklyn work together, said its curator. exploring resistance and race on the “Bordering the Imaginary” festive music, sweet mangoes, Public Library Central Branch “This exhibit’s [purpose] is to island. The countries have much in at Bric House [647 Fulton St. at sandy beaches, and color- (10 Grand Army Plaza at Eastern propagate and imagine communi- common, said Garcia. Rockwell Place in Fort Greene, ful houses that fill their home Parkway in Prospect Heights, ties, and it’s Dominican artists and “The more and more we engage (718) 855–7882, www.bricartsme- island. Others describe a power- www.bklynlibrary.org). March Haitian artists who come together, in this conversation of Hispaniola we dia.org]. Opening reception March ful, metaphorical monster, and 13 at 6 pm. $20–$25 (includes a and trying to find ways that highlight realize we’re not different,” she said. 14 at 7 pm, on display through April the hurricane that drove many copy of the book). that creativity,” said Abigail Lapin “And it’s not about making us one 29. Free. 40 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9-15, 2018 24-7 “INGENIOUS BUBBLE WIZARDRY.” -THE NEW YORKER Ride Free on the LIRR to Gazillion Bubble Show and Save. 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Bklyn bookstores By Winnie McCroy Word’s pick: “Calamities” heir songs can be a little by Renee Gladman cheesy. T A bizarre band of heavy This collection of essays — oorr metal hamburger mascots will possibly prose poems — givesves serve up some prime cuts of fast shape to the act of creation forfor food critique at a Greenpoint con- the artist-as-writer or writer-r- cert this weekend. The humorous as-artist. Always experimental,l, McDonald’s-themed Black Sabbath but never exclusionary, Reneee cover band Mac Sabbath, playing Gladman’s writing is open,, at Brooklyn Bazaar on March 11, reflective, and sublime. I will blast black metal riffs while wanted to read “Calamities” screaming about genetically modi- as soon as I woke up and fied foods and Monsanto at the I wanted it to sing me to show. Despite their unusual appear- sleep at the end of the day. ance, the musical mutated mascots Gladman is my dream writer. have a lofty mission, according to — Mary Thompson, Word [126 Franklin St. at Milton their manager. Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383–0096, www.wordbook- “To bring the world back to a stores.com ]. time when music and food were still genuine,” said Mac Sabbath manager Greenlight Bookstore’s pick: Playtime is over: The Black Sabbath cover band Mac Sabbath will melt faces and cheese Mike Odd. at Brooklyn Bazaar on March 11. Paul Koudounaris “The Waves” by Virginia Woolf The band, composed of dement- “The Waves” may be Woolf’solf’s ed clown and lead vocalist Ronald song Flexi-disc of the song “Pair- Black Sabbath are big fans too, even strangest work, but I intend thatthat Osbourne, drummer the Cat Burglar, A-Buns” — a parody of Sabbath’s posting Mac Sabbath’s live “Frying as a compliment. Woolf calledled purple bass player Grimalice, and “Paranoid” — comes inside a col- Pan” video (a sendup of the seminal the book a play-poem, and thehe tusked guitarist Slayer MacCheeze, oring book available for $15 at the hit “Iron Man”) on their Facebook story within is told in prosese is not all empty calories — the mem- band’s website. But good luck find- and Twitter feeds. Odd said Ozzy poem soliloquies by six char-r- bers can really shred. Mac Sabbath’s ing a way to listen to it, said Odd. Osbourne recently plugged the band acters who we follow fromm irreverent shows are elaborate con- “If you don’t come from the ’70s, on his television show “Ozzy and fections that mix raucous comedy a Flexi-disc is like a child’s toy ver- Jack’s World Detour.” childhood to adulthood. Thee with borderline-horrific theatrics sion of a vinyl record single,” said The band is currently touring soliloquies are distinct, but like “a smoking grill, laser-eyed Odd. “It’s flexible and does not play with Star Wars–themed heavy metal they build towards a gestalt clowns, bouncing burgers, and magi- very well, but if you throw a couple band Galactic Empire, on the “I Got of a silent, central con- cal surprises,” said Odd. 25-cent pieces on it and Scotch tape a Bad Feeling About This Tour.” sciousness. Breaking up the “It’s an arena-sized theatrical it to your record player, you might Mac Sabbath at Brooklyn Bazaar soliloquies are nine short rock show framed onto a club-sized hear some ‘music.’ ” (150 Greenpoint Ave. between scenes that describe the seasideideatdiffer- at differ- stage,” said Odd. “It has to be seen Amazingly, the band’s name has Manhattan Avenue and Franklin ent times of a single day, beginning at dawn and ending to be believed.” not garnered any blowback from Street in Greenpoint, www.bkbazaar. at dusk. Six lifetimes set so close to a day can’t help The band recently released its first the McDonald’s corporation. And com). March 11 at 7 pm. $25 ($22 in but show just how tethered we are to time — and how album — after a fashion. The one- according to Odd, the members of advance). untethered it is from us. This experimental novel is a joy to experience. — Melissa Hohl, Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Don’t come a-knockin’ to Ridge Greene, (718) 246–0200, www.greenlightbookstore.com ]. Community Bookstore’s pick: “Craeft” By Julianne McShane and “Party Rock,” and you can start by Alexander Langlands ay Ridge is a-rockin’ this dancing to the free tunes at 10 pm. In his new book, subtitled “AnAn weekend! On Sunday, clear your music- Inquiry Into the Origins andand B On Friday night, amble filled mind with some fresh air dur- True Meaning of Traditionalnal down to Brooklyn Firefly (7003 ing a visit to Leif Ericson Park Crafts,” archaeologist Alexanderder Third Ave. at Ovington Avenue) (66th Street at Eighth Avenue). And Langlands explores the mate-e- to hear songstress Hanna Gill belt if you arrive at 11 am, you can help rial culture of medieval Europee out her jazzy new single “I Feel the Parks Department to clean up and the domestic labor thatat Awake,” backed up by a four-piece your local green space. was required to create it.. live band. The eclectic artist will After your good works, reward From weaving and beekeep- belt out some soulful songs, along yourself with some Irish and Italian ing to pottery and thatching, with tunes reminiscent of Lana del tunes and hearty plates of food at the Langlands traces traditions Ray, Regina Spektor, and Florence Irish-Italian Celebration at Our Lady which exist today as hob- and the Machine. She takes the mic of Angels Church (7320 Fourth Ave. bies or quaint pastimes back at 8 pm. at 73rd Street). Tony Kenny, the The next day, rock out with party Irish Dancers, and the Trinity Irish to their origins, creating a compelling band Full Disclosure at Red, White, Band will play tunes from the land picture of our changing relationship with labor and tech- and Brew (8910 Fifth Ave. between of the lucky, and Aaron Caruso will nology, and of domestic and public space. The book is 89th and 90th streets). The neighbor- between 77th and 78th streets) for serenade the crowd with Italian hits. impressive in its ability to use historical examples to give hood favorite will start its free, four- a bite to eat and some late-night A themed dinner will follow the us a fuller picture of our own time. hour set of rock, pop, and Motown tunes courtesy of Head Over Heels. hour-and-a-half show, which kicks — Samuel Partal, Community Bookstore [43 Seventh covers at 3:30 pm. The eight-member group performs off at 2:30 pm. The show will set Ave. between Carroll Street and Garfield Place in Park After the show, head to the modern party hits, including “Call you back $50, and dinner costs an Slope, (718) 783–3075, www.commu nityb ookst ore.net ]. Greenhouse Café (7717 Third Ave. Me Maybe,” “Don’t Stop Believin’,” additional $15. 42 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9-15, 2018 24-7 of Irish dance in this excit- FRI, MARCH 9 ing class. Your family will TALK, HOW TO WRITE A learn solo steps and group KILLER ARTIST STATE- dances. $25–$30 per fam- MENT: A workshop for ily. . 4:30 pm. Mark Morris writers and artists. $20. Dance Group [3 Lafayette 1 pm. 440 Gallery [440 Ave. between Nostrand Sixth Ave. between Ninth Avenue and Bedford Av- and 10th streets in Park enue in Fort Greene, (718) Slope, (718) 499–3844], 624–8400], www.markmor- www.440gallery.com. risdancegroup.org. DINING, MILL HOUSE DANDE, SINGULAR EX- BREWING: The Hudson TREME ACTIONS: 5 pm. Vallery brewery offers See Friday, March 9. a taste of its goodies. DINING, REKORDERLIG Free. 5–8 pm. Prospect CIDER TASTING: Re- korderlig will be in the Heights Beer Works [648 Floating on air: The perfectly composed Renaissance painting Washington Ave. between store giving you a chance Dean and Bergen streets to sample its ciders. Free. “Ascension of the Ball” predicts the March 13 match betwen in Prospect Heights, (718) 6–8 pm. Prospect Heights the Brooklyn Nets and the Toronto Raptors at Barclays Center. 623–2337], www.phbeer- Beer Works [648 Washing- Associated Press / Adam Hunger worksny.com. ton Ave. between Dean ART, FREE FRIDAY’S “AR- and Bergen streets in COMING SOON TO TISANAL RETENTIVE!”: Prospect Heights, (718) 623–2337], www.phbeer- An evening exploration worksny.com. of Brooklyn’s inexorable BARCLAYS CENTER artisanal identity. Take a READING, “BINGO LOVE” whirl through the new ex- RELEASE PARTY: Cartoon- hibition, “The Business of Take my hand: In the Regina Opera Company’s production of ist Tee Franklin celebrates FRI, MARCH 9 WED, MARCH 21 the release of her graphic Brooklyn,” and pop in on “Madama Butterfly,” playing on March 10 and 11, Christina SPORTS, 2018 ACC SPORTS, BROOKLYN pop-up small-batch talks Rohm plays the devoted wife of an American serviceman, novel about older lesbians who fall in love over bingo, MEN’S BASKETBALL NETS V CHARLOTTE about culinary ventures. portrayed by Peter Hakjoon Kim. Hannan Stampleman TOURNAMENT SEMI- HORNETS: $11–$3,000. Free. 5 pm. Brooklyn His- with a reading, discus- FINALS: $55. 7 pm. 7:30 pm. torical Society [128 Pier- sion, and several rounds of repont St. at Clinton Street bingo! $20 ($10 in advance, ditorium [97th St. at Fourth provided by Bric Arts! Free in Brooklyn Heights, (718) includes two bingo cards). SAT, MARCH 10 Avenue in Bay Ridge, (718) with RSVP. 10 am. Industry THU, MARCH 22 222–4111], www.brooklyn- 7 pm. Rocco’s Tacos [339 482 3173], narrowscommu- City Factory Floor (274 SPORTS, 2018 ACC history.org. Adams St. between Ful- SPORTS, NEW YORK IS- nitytheater.com. 36th St. at Second Avenue ton and Johnson streets MEN’S BASKETBALL DINING, ST. PATRICK’S LANDERS V TAMPA in Sunset Park), www.in- in Downtown, (718) 246– TOURNAMENT FI- DAY PARTY: The Danish BAY LIGHTNING: $20– dustrycity.com. 8226], www.geeksout.org. NALS: $55. 8:30 pm. Athletic Club offers a tra- SAT, MARCH 10 $600. 7 pm. FAMILY, SHE’S ON POINT “THE PIRATES OF PEN- ditional corned beef and MUSIC, “MADAMA BUT- — A CELEBRATION OF ZANCE, IN CONCERT”: 8 cabbage dinner and a per- TERFLY”: Regina Opera GIRLS IN SPORTS: The pm. See Friday, March 9. SUN, MARCH 11 SAT, MARCH 24 formance by the Brooklyn Company presents Puc- event honors the achieve- Bards. $25. 7 pm. Danish COMEDY, TINDER LIVE SPORTS, BROOKLYN SPORTS, NEW YORK IS- cini’s opera “Madama But- ments of female athletes Athletic Club [735-741 65th FOURTH ANNIVERSARY NETS V PHILADELPHIA LANDERS V CHICAGO terfl y,” the tragic story of by introducing young girls Street, between Seventh SHOW!: Lane Moore’s 76ERS: $26–$3,000. BLACKHAWKS: $31– a young geisha who gives and boys to sports, with and Eighth Avenues in Sun- live online dating show 7:30 pm. up everything for a brash demonstrations and talks $495. 7 pm. set Park, (718) 748–7844]. welcomes comedian Eliot American naval offi cer. In from professional athletes Glazer, musician JD Sam- THEATER, “ASSASSINS”: Italian with English super- and coaches. Free. 11 son, and author Mychal TUE, MARCH 13 Theater 2020 presents Ste- SUN, MARCH 25 titles. $25 ($20 seniors, $5 am to 3 pm. Sunset Park Denzel Smith. $15. 8:30 phen Sondheim’s musical Recreation Center [43rd SPORTS, BROOKLYN SPORTS, BROOKLYN teens). 3 pm. Our Lady of pm. Littlefi eld (635 Sack- NETS V TORONTO about fi gures who tried to Perpetual Help school au- St. and Seventh Avenue ett St. between Third and NETS V CLEVELAND RAPTORS: $26–$3,000. take out U.S. Presidents. ditorium [5902 Sixth Ave. in Sunset Park, (718) 972– Fourth avenues in Gow- CAVALIERS: $105– 7:30 pm. $40 ($30 seniors and stu- between 59th and 60th 2135], www.nycgovparks. anus), www.littlefi eldnyc. $3,000. 1 pm. dents). 8 pm. St. Francis Streets in Sunset Park, org. com. College [180 Remsen St. (718) 259–2772.] www.regi- READING, POP-UP SHAKE- THU, MARCH 15 between Court and Clin- MON, MARCH 26 naopera.org. SPEARE: An entertaining ton streets in Brooklyn SUN, MARCH 11 SPORTS, NEW YORK IS- THEATER, “THE VISITA- pop-up book collabora- SPORTS, NEW YORK IS- Heights, (718) 489–5200], LANDERS V WASH- TION”: An immersive play tion between the Reduced DANCE, “THE BEAUTY OF LANDERS V FLORIDA www.sfc.edu. INGTON CAPITALS: about two priests in 1682 Shakespeare Company and BALLET”: The School of PANTHERS: $15–$350. MUSIC, BROOKLYN CHAM- investigating a witchcraft illustrator Jennie Maizels. American Ballet presents $15–$400. 7 pm. BER MUSIC SOCIETY: The 7 pm. accusation, performed Free. 11 am. PowerHouse famous ballet moments Brooklyn Heights group throughout the Wyckoff Arena [28 Adams St. at from “Sleeping Beauty,” performs work by Haydn, FRI, MARCH 16 House, the oldest building Water Street in Dumbo, and “Swan Lake,” and in- FRI, MARCH 30 Sibelius, and Franck. $30 in NYC. $40. 7 pm and 9 (718) 666–3049], www. structors explain how the MUSIC, DEMI LOVATO ($20 students). 8 pm. SPORTS, NEW YORK IS- pm. Wyckoff House [5816 powerhousearena.com. dance works. Free. 2 pm. AND DJ KHALED: $49– Chapel at First Unitarian LANDERS V TORONTO Clarendon Rd. at E. 59th TALK, COMMUNITY VIO- Kumble Theater at Long $499. 7:30 pm. Church [119 Pierrepont St. MAPLE LEAFS: $15– Street in East Flatbush, LENCE PREVENTION: Island University [DeKalb between Clinton St. and $350. 7 pm. (908) 420–9858], visita- Violence prevention and and Flatbush avenues in Monroe Place in Brooklyn SAT, MARCH 17 tionexperience.com. upstander workshops are Downtown, (718) 488– Heights, (718) 858–0718], designed to equip those 1624], www.kumblethe- MUSIC, ALICIA OLATUJA: SPORTS, BROOKLYN SUN, APRIL 1 www.brooklynchambermu- facing hate and violence ater.org. Theater, “Yoseph The Brooklyn jazz singer NETS V DALLAS MAV- sicsociety.org. with de-escalation skills the Musical”: The Biblical SPORTS, BROOKLYN returns home. $30. 8 pm. ERICKS: $17–$3,000. MUSIC, CHOIRFLY: The nerd- and basic self-defense story of about the favored NETS V DETROIT PIS- Kumble Theater at Long 7:30 pm. themed a capella band techniques. Free. Noon. son Yosef and his broth- Island University [DeKalb TONS: $17–$3,000. 6 sings about Harry Pot- Fort Hamilton Public ers. $25–$75. 2:30 pm and Flatbush avenues in pm. ter, Star Wars, and other Library (9424 Fourth Av- and 7 pm. Master Theater SUN, MARCH 18 Downtown, (718) 488– nerdy stuff. $5 suggested enue at 94th Street in Bay [1029 Brighton Beach Ave. 1624], www.kumblethe- SPORTS, NEW YORK IS- donation. 8 pm. The Way Ridge). www.caeny.org at Brighton 11th Street in TUE, APRIL 3 ater.org. LANDERS V CARO- Station [683 Washington FAMILY, “THE PRINCE AND Brighton Beach, (516) 344– SPORTS, NEW YORK IS- THEATER, “PLAZA SUITE”: 8030], www.yosefthemusi- LINA HURRICANES: Ave. between St. Marks THE MAGIC FLUTE”: This LANDERS V PHILA- Avenue and Prospect Place The Gallery Players per- cal.com. $16–$400. 5 pm. marionette production is DELPHIA FLYERS: in Prospect Heights, (718) form Neil Simon’s comedy adapted from Mozart’s MUSIC, “MADAMA BUTTER- $15–$450. 7 pm. 627–4949], www.waysta- classic about three couples opera and is set in mystical FLY”: 3 pm. See Saturday, MON, MARCH 19 tionbk.com. who stay in the hotel suite. Egypt. $11 ($10 kids). 12:30 March 10. $25 ($20 seniors and stu- DANCE, “MOODS”: A selec- pm and 2:30 pm. Pup- FILM, “INTO THE NIGHT — SPORTS, BROOKLYN WED, APRIL 4 dents). 8 pm. Gallery Play- tion of work by dance pio- petworks [338 Sixth Ave. PORTRAITS OF LIFE AND NETS V MEMPHIS ers [199 14th St. between MUSIC, LORDE: $39–$99. neer Anna Sokolow. $25 at Fourth Street in Park DEATH”: A special preview GRIZZLIES: $9–$2,557. ($18 students and seniors). Fourth and Fifth avenues Slope, (718) 965–3391], screening of a new fea- 7:30 pm. 8 pm. 8 pm. Actors Fund Arts in Park Slope, (212) 352– www.puppetworks.org. ture-length documentary 3101], www.galleryplay- Center [160 Schermer- FREE FITNESS AND FUN: A about diverse perspec- TUE, MARCH 20 THU, APRIL 5 horn St. between Smith ers.com. weekly full body workout tives on death and dying. and Hoyt streets Down- DANCE, “MOODS”: 8 pm. of low-impact aerobic, with With a free panel discus- SPORTS, NEW YORK IS- SPORTS, NEW YORK town, (800) 838–3006], See Friday, March 9. African and world dance sion starting at 1:30 before LANDERS V PITTS- ISLANDERS V NEW sokolow2018.bpt.me. THEATER, “ASSASSINS”: 8 movements. Free. 2 pm. the screening. $15. 3:30 BURGH PENGUINS: YORK RANGERS: $81– MUSIC, “THE PIRATES OF pm. See Friday, March 9. Restoration Plaza [1368 pm. Green-Wood Cem- $20–$600. 7 pm. $750. 7 pm. PENZANCE, IN CON- FILM, “BIG HERO SIX”: The Fulton St. at Marcy Avenue etery [Fifth Avenue and CERT”: Enjoy the score Saturday Cinema Club in Bedford-Stuyvesant, 25th Street in Greenwood of Gilbert and Sullivan’s screens the fi lm about a (718) 636–6996], www.res- Heights, (718) 210–3080], 620 Atlantic Ave. at Pacifi c Street in Prospect Heights comic operetta. $25 ($20 kid and his pet robot, who torationplaza.org. www.green-wood.com. (917) 618–6100, www.barclaysc enter.com. seniors and students). 8 become superheroes. With FAMILY FUN SERIES — IRISH pm. St Patrick’s Church au- arts and crafts activities DANCE: Learn the basics Continued on page 44 24-7 COURIER LIFE, MARCH 9-15, 2018 43 THEATER, “ASSASSINS”: 8 pm. See Friday, March 9. THEATER, “PLAZA SUITE”: 8 pm. See Saturday, March 10. THEATER, “THE VISITA- TION”: 8 pm. See Satur- day, March 10. THEATER, FORCE MAJEURE VAUDEVILLE: Magician Continued from page 43 PORTRAITS OF WOMEN Tanya Solomon hosts a IN SCIENCE”: A short fi lm READING, CHELSEA CLIN- monthly showcase of bi- TON: The former First anthology that follows women working at the zarre talent, which this Daughter discusses her month includes sex-posi- new picture book “She forefront of their fi elds. Followed by a live discus- tive rapping grandmoth- Persisted Around the ers, a hat juggler, a fl ex World: 13 Women Who sion with the producers and with local zoologist Dr. dancer, and much more. Changed History,” along $15 ($10 in advance). 9 pm. with illustrator Alexandra Mände Holfor. $16. 8 pm. Alamo Drafthouse [445 Cobra Club (6 Wyckoff Boiger. Free. 6 pm. Brook- Ave. between Jefferson lyn Public Library’s Central Albee Square West be- tween Willoughby and Ful- and Troutman streets in In style: Many of Bowie’s famed outfits are on display at the exhibit. Photo by Jason Speakman branch [10 Grand Army ton streets in Downtown, Bushwick), www.cobra- Plaza, between Eastern clubbk.com. Parkway and Flatbush Av- (718) 513–2547], www. exhibit, according to a spokeswoman. COMEDY, FAME DUMP- enue in Prospect Heights, drafthouse.com/nyc. STER: Social media gurus “Advance sales for ‘David Bowie is’ (718) 230–2100], www. COMEDY, ONE LINER MAD- BOWIE Chris Burns and Alise Mo- have been the most successful to date brooklynpubliclibrary.org. NESS: 64 comedians Continued from page 39 compete in a one-liner rales host a night of viral compared to any exhibition presented at FILM, THAT SLAPSTICK comedy. $10. 9:30 pm. SHOW!: An evening of vin- joke tournament. Pro- lowing sheet music for “Space Oddity,” the Brooklyn Museum. A few days prior ceeds benefi t Shelter Chic The Brick [575 Metropoli- tage comedy fi lms, featur- tan Ave. between Union you suddenly hear “Ground control to to opening, the Brooklyn Museum sold ing Laurel and Hardy, the animal rescue. $10 ($8 in advance). 8 pm. Littlefi eld Avenue and Lorimer Street Major Tom” in your ear, followed by the over 20,000 tickets,” said Fatima Jones Three Stooges, and more. (635 Sackett St. between in Williamsburg, (718) $10. 7 pm. [389 Melrose rest of the song. Kafele. Third and Fourth avenues 907–6189], www.brickthe- St. between Knickerbocker The passage through Bowie’s life ends The exhibit’s journey from London to in Gowanus), www.little- ater.com. and Irving avenues in Bush- fi eldnyc.com. in a dark room, with footage of him per- Brooklyn echoes Bowie’s life and artist- wick, (718) 415–1025]. forming on an enormous screen. It is as ry, said those who worked on the show. FRI, MARCH 16 captivating visually as it is sonically. “He expressed his wish that it would MON, MARCH 12 WED, MARCH 14 ART, “HAND LUGGAGE” FILM, “JUST ANOTHER GIRL OPENING RECEPTION: Bowie supported the dual audio and open in London and close in New York,” TALK, “ONE CLICK AWAY”: ON THE IRT”: A 25th an- A collaborative project by visual approach, according to Broackes. said Brooklyn Museum director Anne A performance and panel niversary screening of Pirmin Hagen and Chris- on human traffi cking, with “He wanted sound and vision to be as Pasternak. “It followed the arc of his the fi lm about a Brook- tine Katscher, in which they complimentary cocktails much a part of the story as photos and career.” lyn girl going after what follow pre-determined afterwards. Free. 6:30 pm. she wants. Director Leslie instructions about how to costumes,” she said. “David Bowie is” at Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn Historical Soci- Harris will discuss the fi lm set up the exhibit. Free. Tickets to the exhibit start at $20, and (200 Eastern Pkwy. at Washington Avenue ety [128 Pierrepont St. at afterwards. $15. 7 pm. 7–9 pm. Open Source Gal- Clinton Street in Brooklyn are scheduled to allow entry every 15 in Prospect Heights, (718) 638–5000, Alamo Drafthouse [445 lery [306 17th St. at Sixth Heights, (718) 222–4111], minutes throughout the day. Based on www.brooklynmuseum.org). On display Albee Square West be- Avenue in Park Slope, (646) www.brooklynhistory.org. pre-sales, “David Bowie is” is already through July 25. $20–$25. (VIP $35– tween Willoughby and Ful- 279–3969], www.open- COMEDY, SIDE PONYTAIL: ton streets in Downtown, source-gallery.org. the Brooklyn Museum’s most successful $2,500). The Monday night comedy (718) 513–2547], www. THEATER, “THE WINTER’S show welcomes Catherine drafthouse.com/nyc. TALE”: See Tuesday, Cohen, Joanna Briley, COMEDY, “OUR FRIEND Peter Revello, and more. March 13. ALBERT”: Celebrate Pi Free. 8 pm. Friends and THEATER, “ASSASSINS”: 8 Day and Einstein’s 139th Lovers (641 Classon Ave. pm. See Friday, March 9. birthday with science, his- between Dean and Pacifi c DANCE, “CLADDAGH”: tory, puppets, and beer! streets in Crown Heights), The Celtic rock group the An evening of speed talks www.fnlbk.com. Prodigals plays along with by scientists and historians world-champion Irish and COMEDY, COMEDY MON- intermixed with scenes tap dancers. $32–$37. 8 DAY: Open mic and from a biographical pup- pm. On Stage at Kingsbor- stand-up. Free. 6 pm. pet show about Einstein, ough [2001 Oriental Blvd. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth “Friends Call Me Albert.” at Oxford Street in Man- Ave. between 17th and $10. 8 pm. Littlefi eld (635 hattan Beach, (718) 368– 18th streets in Greenwood Sackett St. between Third 5596], www.onstageatk- Heights, (718) 768–0131], and Fourth avenues in ingsborough.org. www.freddysbar.com. Gowanus), www.little- fi eldnyc.com. FILM, “LEPRECHAUN 4 — IN SPACE!”: The best fi lm in TUES, MARCH 13 the Leprechaun series gets READING, JUNOT DÍAZ: THURS, MARCH 15 a midnight screening for The Pulitzer-winning au- TALK, JUGGLING TAXES St. Patrick’s Day weekend. thor reads from his debut FOR FREELANCERS: A $12. Midnight. Nitehawk picture book “Islandborn.” free workshop for the Cinema [136 Metropoli- Free. 6 pm. Brooklyn Pub- self-employed. RSVP tan Ave. between Wythe lic Library’s Central branch requested. Free. 5 pm. Avenue and Berry Street in [10 Grand Army Plaza, The Muse [350 Moffat Williamsburg, (718) 384– between Eastern Parkway St. between Irving and 3980], www.nitehawkcin- and Flatbush Avenue in Knickerbocker avenues in ema.com. Prospect Heights, (718) Bushwick, (929) 400–1678], VOLUNTEER SINGERS WANTED! 230–2100], www.brooklyn- www.themusebrooklyn. SAT, MARCH 17 publiclibrary.org. com. TALK, “THE WOMAN’S THEATER, “THE WINTER’S TOUR, WHISKEY WARS FAC- HOUR: The Great Fight TALE”: 7 pm. See Tuesday, TORY TOUR!: Join Kings The Kingsborough to Win the Vote”: Author March 13. County Distillery on a tour Musical Society Chorus Elaine Weiss discusses her FILM, KEVIN GEEKS OUT and tasting that explores new book. $5 (Free for ABOUT WOMEN’S whiskey scandals of the members). 6:30 pm. Brook- past and the resurgence CONDUCTOR WRESTLING: Comedian MARK MANGINI lyn Historical Society [128 Kevin Maher hosts a video of the industry today. $20. Pierrepont St. at Clinton variety show celebrat- 4:30 pm. Brooklyn Navy We perform a mixed repertoire of Street in Brooklyn Heights, ing the ladies of wrestling Yard at BLDG 92 [63 Flush- musical theater, folk and classical music, (718) 222–4111], www. entertainment in fi lm and ing Ave. at Carlton Avenue and present two concerts annually. brooklynhistory.org. television, with guest pre- in Fort Greene, (718) 907– 5932], www.bldg92.org. Rehearsals are Thursday evenings at THEATER, “THE WINTER’S sentations and an appear- TALE”: Arin Arbus directs ance by Kimmy Gatewood, FILM, “BABE”: Enjoy the kids Kingsborough Community College in this production of Shake- star of the Netfl ix series movies about a good- Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. speare’s late tragicomedy, “Glow.” $15. 7:30 pm. hearted pig, with arts and FREE PARKING. which features a jealous Alamo Drafthouse [445 crafts activities provided CHORAL EXPERIENCE HELPFUL, BUT NOT REQUIRED king, a missing daughter, Albee Square West be- by BRIC Arts! Free with and a hungry bear. $90– tween Willoughby and Ful- RSVP. 10 am. Industry City CONTACT STEVE FRIEDMAN AT $100 ($20 people under ton streets in Downtown, Factory Floor (274 36 St. 30). 7:30 pm. (718) 513–2547], www. and Second Avenue in 718.338.9132 FILM, “BREAKTHROUGH — drafthouse.com/nyc. 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