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Dec. 18, 2016 Your Neighborhood — Your News® May 1–xx, 2016 Menorah’s ‘largest’ A LATKE LOVE title lost Fest honors BY COLIN MIXSON potato pancake It is the world’s largest menorah no more-a! A rabbinical court has for- BY JULIANNE CUBA bidden a Park Slope rabbi from These aren’t your bubbe’s latkes! promoting the massive menorah A collection of chefs will rad- that has spread Hanukkah cheer ically redesign the humble po- at Grand Army Plaza since 1984 tato pancake next week at the as the world’s largest, decreeing eighth annual Latke Festival, instead that the title belongs to a swapping out traditional top- colossal candelabra on the god- pings of sour cream or apple- less island of Manhattan. sauce for short rib and oxtail The Chabad-Lubavitch court’s jelly. Foodies will fl ock to the Dec. 1 decision, fi rst reported by Museum on Dec. 19 to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, sample unique twists on the Ha- ends a years-long feud between nukkah staple made from pota- Rabbi Shimon Hecht and Crown toes fried in oil. The festival is a Heights Rabbi Shmuel Butman tasty way to bring gentiles and — the man behind the competing the chosen people together for candleholder in Central Park — an early celebration of the holi- but the losing side says they aren’t day of lights, said the festival’s kvetching about the results. founder. “We’re going to follow the “December is so fi lled with court’s decision,” said Rabbi holidays and really dominated Moshe Hecht, Shimon Hecht’s by Christmas, which is wonder- son. “It is what it is.” ful, but I always say that I’m a Both Hecht’s and Butman’s me- Hanukkah girl. There’s really norahs sit on a 32-foot base — the this void around Hanukkah-re- maximum size permitted under lated celebration and a latke is Jewish law — but the Big Apple so delicious, I mean who doesn’t version boasts signifi cantly more HIS FRIED AND JOY: Chef Saul Bolton, of the Norm restaurant in the Brooklyn Museum, will cook up an oxtail-topped love fried potato?” said Liz Neu- Continued on page 12 latke for the festival on Dec. 19. Photo by Caleb Caldwell Continued on page 16 Pols: Fix bridge typo Mummies and daddies BY CAROLINE SPIVACK — which has been missing AND MAX JAEGER a Z since it opened in 1964, BY ALEXANDRA SIMON — by becoming men! “A whole concept strange and The Metropolitan Trans- thanks to a petition started For this afterlife, it’s no Woman’s Afterlife: Gender sexist, but the exhibit dem- portation Authority must by a Dyker Heights man, lo- girls allowed! Transformation in Ancient onstrates how much beliefs fi x a 50-year-old typo, ac- cal pols wrote in a Dec. 7 let- The ancient Egyptians Egypt,” opening Dec. 15, can change, said its curator. cording to area pols. ter to agency chief Thomas Museum Brooklyn believed that only dudes details the post-mortem rit- “I know it’s weird but The agency should cor- Prendergast. GENDER ASSIGNMENT: This could live on after death, ual that temporarily trans- not everybody thinks the rect its spelling of the Ver- “It is our opinion, along ancient Egyptian statue was but according to a new ex- formed women into men so way we think — there’s razano-Narrows Bridge — with the almost 1,000 sig- painted red to signify it’s a hibit at the Brooklyn Mu- they could be reborn in the more than one way to think named for Italian explorer natories, that as we move man, regardless of its other seum, some women man- next world. about things and we are Giovanni da Verrazzano Continued on page 5 attributes. aged to slip into the afterlife Modern minds fi nd the Continued on page 8

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BY LAUREN GILL The developer building a mas-The developer the promised, as just But, a punch always “It’s in the The Henry Streetbuild- There will also be a 17-story had The honchos developer’s LICHdeveloper for fi for oors of community facilities — — facilities community of oors reveals its plans plans its reveals SKY SCRAPING: led plans for the rest — yet. and right. Fortis hasn’t fi some residents’ hopes that its its that a facade. wasn’t It hopes the on site housingsive complex His- of the former Long Island Col- Hill lege Hospital fi dashing residents’ Wednesday, last Cobble towers the some over earlier threats to build a high- rise toric District were just a bluff to a supporting into residents push rezoning. plans builder show Fortis Prop- erty is Group planning a 15-story residential structure on a low- rise brownstone stretchStreet, confi of Henry brownstone-lined their that fears overshadowed be will soon nabe by tall buildings. gut to apart- see towers in Cobble Hill,” 30 said Amy Breedlove, president of local group civic the Cobble Hill include Association. will ing, between Pacifi streets, ments, a 21-car garage, and a swimming pool, according to the plans. high-rise on Hicks Street and that includesAtlantic 46 Avenue units on the top nine fl fl canwhich be used hospitals by also as college and churches, but — and a four-story park- dorms that may ing garage 282 for cars also serve medical a new center next door. Photo by Caleb Caldwell Continued on page 16 VR Bar has a rotating library can you Right bring now, the Virtual reality users in have tual playing area is translated translated is area playing tual said VR experience,” the into Doddi, a former software devel- “So ifoper. point some- at you thing on the north wall of your building, will it stay there and canyou around move and come back to it, and will it still be there.” of between and 10 20 games and experiences which on offer, Ninja” change based licens- on Doddi’s ing agreements with publish- “Fruit ers. favorite iPhone to life — using dual the Vive’s urai swords to slash through through slash to controllers as razor-sharp swords sam- urai falling watermelons and grape- “Brookhaven in fruit — blast through hordes undead the of ex- Experiment,” a sur- or enjoy mundane your on take real Simulator,” “Job with istence a favorite amongst youngsters where players can mud- either dle their through way a num- ber of routine offices and cook- ing jobs sick- or throw staplers at bosses. their “simulator as the past reported gettingmotion sickness known from the experience, also Doddi but ness,” claims that ad- cial Google VR Bar Bar VR theiry at heads. The difference is especially in movement the“Your ac- Vive isVive not as well-known evident in Google’s painting program“Tilt Brush,” which allows users to sculpt three-di- mensional images and then walk around and through their cre- ations. plus television screens so other other so screens headsets, Vive two sports cade television plus people can watch what the play- ers are doing in their artifi realities. Rift, but Oculus device rival as Doddi he likes says better it — sta- stay to have users Oculus tionary, while can Vivers stroll around their digital and worlds andduck as weave virtual bul- lets fl A STEP-UP FROM MS PAINT: MS FROM STEP-UP A has Google game “Tilt Brush,” where you can paint in three dimensions. rst rst nitely nitely not BY COLINBY MIXSON

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Continued from page 14 page from Continued Continued from page 4 page from Continued Continued from page 4 page from Continued cials are in the midst of of midst the in are cials Proponents expect the The city revealed poten- much so spend “Why People have certainly People have certainly “It’s pretty cool that the not could Officials TROLLEY HOTELS WORDS new rail would make locals locals make would new rail say the did butment, they to concerns about displace- on Monday. him asked publicly locals when astance take to fused not for it.” I’m that, accelerate to going summerover the is this . “If insane,” he told absolutely which is $2,000, Gothamist now almost is one-bedroom rents increased to it led if . plan the notsupport could he said previously has Park) (D–Sunset Menchaca waterfront.” the near ing in luxury developments residentsUprose. “This is for new group social-justice local thatOrozco an organizer will with be Ana said no [streetcar],” liv-the gentrifi without because prophecy It’s aself-fulfi values. it relies on rising that fact —the project the property critic said. one oflocals, placement dis- the and rents higher trifi gen- cause necessarily will plan The new construction. of aresult as enue reaped with additional rev- tax fi to plan Bridge. 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