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Pol, Locals Pan BQE Fix Plan LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 19 Oct. 14, 2018 Your Neighborhood — Your News® May 1–xx, 2016 Pol, locals pan BQE CANINE fi x plan BY JULIANNE CUBA City and state offi cials should never have let developers build their luxury condos and swanky hotel inside Brooklyn Bridge CUTIES Park knowing that they would one day interfere with rebuild- ing the Brooklyn-Queens Ex- Exhibit shows soft side of pit bulls pressway’s crumbling triple can- tilever above it , according to a BY KEVIN DUGGAN these legends around you,” said Brooklyn Heights pol who urged She’s throwing a pit-y party! the Brooklyn Heights photogra- the city to consider every option A new art exhibition will cel- pher. possible before turning the be- ebrate the beauty of pit bulls! “Pit Gamand, who has volunteered loved Promenade into a speed- Bull Flower Power,” by photog- with animal rescue groups for the way for cars and trucks . rapher and animal advocate So- last eight years, said that shelters “The city and state together phie Gamand, features portraits all over the country are full of un- built out Brooklyn Bridge Park of the much maligned doggies, wanted pit bulls. and so you have like the new each adorned with a hand-crafted “The fi rst thing a lot of people Pier 1 development, the hotel and crown of fl owers. Gamand hopes say when they come to a shelter is Pierhouse — kind of right past that her exhibit at the Invisible ‘I want a dog, but anything but a where the cantilever ends, also Dog Art Center, and a book col- pit bull.’ I can’t tell you how often the berms — and all those things lecting the images, launching at I’ve heard that,” she said. were built out over the last seven the gallery on Oct. 20, will change Gamand herself was wary of pit or eight years, and at the time a negative perceptions of the dogs bulls because of a bad experience number of us were saying, ‘This — and reveal something about with a big dog as a child — even is going to be a problem when the breeders who created them. though the canine that attacked they have to rebuild the BQE,’ ” “The fate of the pit bull is so her was a different breed. When Councilman Stephen Levin (D– emblematic of how messed up hu- she noticed her prejudice against Brooklyn Heights) said during mans are. We created these dogs, the dogs, she decided to challenge an interview with WNYC on we made them strong, and then herself through her art. Thursday. “The city, the state, PRETTY POOCH: Sophie Gamand takes photos of pit bulls wearing fl ower we decided we don’t like this any- “I realized I was not giving and federal government all de- crowns in order to counter negative stereotypes associated with the breed. more, let’s just destroy, euthanize them my best and that it was un- Continued on page 14 Sophie Gamand you and hate on you and have all Continued on page 6 WHAT A WASTE! Shore Theater to be hotel Transfer station opens in Gavesend BY JULIANNE MCSHANE mer glory as a playhouse, wished the restored prop- They’re bringing down the instead converting it into a erty would include a theater BY JULIANNE MCSHANE confi rmed. The Southwest curtain on the Shore The- hotel and spa, with ground- space, but he is nonetheless They’re fi nally taking out Brooklyn Marine Transfer ater. fl oor retail, according to glad the long-derelict build- the trash. Station at Shore Parkway The developers who plans fi led with the Depart- ing will be revived. A controversial waste and Bay 41st Street will ex- purchased Coney Island’s ment of Buildings . “My attitude is, the transfer station years in port waste to an as-yet-un- landmarked Shore The- The unoffi cial “Mayor building was falling apart, the making fi nally opened known location via barges Photo by Steve Solomonson ater for $14 million in 2016 of Coney Island” — who and I’m thrilled that they in Gravesend on Oct. 1, a in a bid to reduce traffi c and FINAL CURTAIN: The Shore will abandon their original led the successful charge to are there restoring a land- spokeswoman from the De- lessen pollution, according Theater will no longer be a promise to restore the 90- landmark the building’s ex- mark building,” said Dick partment of Transportation Continued on page 18 show venue. year-old building to its for- terior in 2010 — said that he Continued on page 18 Vol. 7 No. 41 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM 2 THE CHOICE IS YOURS . 14, 2018 Blog bites dust CT , O PLATINUM SAVINGS EEKLY PLG writer signs off after neighborhood W ROOKLYN activist accuses him of promoting racism B % BY COLIN MIXSON A Prospect-Lefferts Gar- dens blogger swore to never APY1 again cover the neighbor- 2.25 hood he wrote about for nearly a decade, or any On Balances Below $100,000 surrounding areas, after a fi rebrand local anti-gentri- fi cation activist threatened to publicly denounce him as a racist for posting de- famatory allegations about her on the website. File photo by Elizabeth Graham File photo by Stefano Giovannini 60 MONTH CD Citizen journalist Tim OFFLINE: Tim Thomas (left) shut his local blog Q at Parkside down Thomas abruptly called it last week after Alicia Boyd (right) — a frequent recipient of the quits in an Oct. 5 post on his citizen journalist’s criticism — accused him of using the website to “Q at Parkside” blog , which promote racism. has since been taken down. The blogger declared he through MTOPP, which developers and corrupt % would abandon the opera- she says is a non-profi t, politicians who fed him in- tion he started in May 2010 though it’s actually using formation and encouraged APY2 two days before activist her other non-profi t New his racist antics … we are 3.00 Alicia Boyd planned to dis- Directions in Healing as no longer willing to toler- rupt an Oct. 7 event hosted its shell, accepting tax- ate negative, abusive, sex- by his employer with a rally deductible donations,” he ist, and racist comments condemning him, and apol- wrote. “And in case you from white men in a pre- ogized to Boyd — whom he were unaware, [that’s] il- dominantly black commu- just weeks ago compared to legal.” nity.” President Trump and ac- But Thomas, who in Boyd claimed Thomas cused of illegal electioneer- another blog story insinu- referred to local black ing on behalf of a Crown ated that Hamilton gave leaders as “assoholics, Heights state senator in Boyd money to pay off a frauds, lunatics, fools, and stories on the website. mortgage in exchange for embarrassments” in 2014 “I apologize to the black her campaign services, and 2015 blog posts that community, its residents, recanted that claim and she referenced in e-mails leaders, and especially Ali- his allegation she illegally sent ahead of her planned cia Boyd for the comments electioneered on the pol’s protest, but could not pro- and behavior I have exhib- behalf in his apology post, vide more recent examples ited via this blog,” Thomas writing that he had “no of his alleged racism. wrote in his fi nal post. “I fi rm evidence” to support And in a Sept. 21 post, will shut down the Q at the accusations. the blogger admitted to us- Parkside permanently.” The blogger’s sudden ing that language, but ex- Prior to abandoning Q resignation, which also plained his remarks per- at Parkside, Thomas pub- included a pledge not to tained to Boyd specifi cally, lished several recent sto- write about Flatbush, Dit- not black people in general, ries criticizing Boyd. An mas Park, and Crown before going on to compare Aug. 24 post, for instance, Heights, came in exchange the activist to the current accused her of using her for Boyd’s promise to can- commander-in-chief. tax-exempt community- cel the protest she planned “The fact is I don’t (1) Annual Percentage Yield (APY) in effect as of 9/14/18 and subject to change without service organization, New at a bash hosted by per- hate blacks and women. I notice. A minimum balance of $0.01 is required to open account. The account will be charged a minimum balance fee of $8.00 each statement cycle if the average daily balance Directions in Healing, to forming-arts organiza- strongly dislike one black for that cycle falls below $2,500. Fees can reduce earnings. Account balances between illegally solicit funds from tion Bang on a Can, where woman. But I also strongly $0.01 and $99,999.99 earn 2.25% APY on the entire balance. Account balances $100,000 and followers of her anti-gen- Thomas works as a devel- dislike one white man, and over earn 0.90% APY on the entire balance. Transaction limitations apply, see an account trifi cation group Move- opment director, which he happens to be my presi- representative for details. New money is required to open a Platinum Savings. New money is defined as funds not currently on deposit at Northfield Bank. Platinum Savings 2.25% APY ment to Protect the Peo- the activist upheld — but dent,” Thomas wrote. is only available in Mercer, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Union, and Kings county branches and ple, which sent out e-mails not before releasing state- Boyd resorting to rac- online. encouraging recipients ment that bashed Thomas ist smears to defame an to donate funds via New as a racist and pawn for adversary is nothing new, (2) Annual Percentage Yield (APY) in effect as of 09/14/18 and subject to change without Directions to state Sen.
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