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Seniors Still Stuck at Slope Old Folks’ Home Despite Pledged Payment Aug. 12–18, 2016 Including Brooklyn Courier, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Courier, Brooklyn Heights Courier, & Williamsburg Courier FREE ALSO SERVING PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, KENSINGTON, AND GOWANUS BLAZ SWEATS AT Y Police protest mayor at morning workout — say they’ll be back BY COLIN MIXSON of the city’s 36,000 offi cers. “We like to Police want to help Mayor DeBlasio surprise him.” sweat every time he visits his Park DeBlasio relocated from the Slope Slope gym. to Gracie Mansion when he took of- Dozens of offi cers picketed Hiz- fi ce in 2014, but continues to lead a mo- zoner outside the Ninth Street YMCA torcade over to his old gym between early twice last week and again on Fifth and Sixth avenues most morn- Tuesday to demand a pay raise — and ings so he can engage in a leisurely they’ll be back soon when he least “workout,” often followed by a visit to expects it, according to their union a nearby patisserie — making him a spokesman. sitting duck for foes and journalists “It’s going to be a pop-up thing un- hoping to catch his attention. expectedly,” said Joseph Mancini of During their early morning rallies, the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Associa- the protesting patrolmen waved signs BLAZ AND BLUE: Protesting police offi cers follow Mayor DeBlasio to the Park Slope Y on tion, which represents around 24,000 Continued on page 11 Aug. 2. Photo by Paul Martinka Show them the money! Seniors still stuck at Slope old folks’ home despite pledged payment BY COLIN MIXSON They’re not buying it. The outgoing residents of a tony Park Slope old folks’ home say they’re skeptical of a real-estate investment fi rm’s promise to pay them the $3.35 million they agreed to take in ex- change for vacating the ritzy property, which their landlord failed to cough up when it was due last month. Sugar Hill Capital Partners claims it is willing to front the cash Prospect Park Residence owner Haysha Deitsch agreed to pay his frail tenants so they Brace for it can afford to move to a new nursing home, yet just last week the fi rm got a Nikka gets a good scrub at the Great Dog Wash at Sean Casey Animal Rescue in Windsor Terrace on Aug. 6 but has us wondering: court order to stop Deitsch from using Are dog braces in our future? For more, see page 4. Photo by Jordan Rathkopf its money for that very purpose. Now Continued on page 22 A CNG Publication Vol. 36 No. 33 Vol. 36 No. 33 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM INSIDE NNN%9IFFBCPE;8@CP%:FD GL9C@J?<;9P:E>(D<KIFK<:?:<EK<IEFIK?('K?=CFFI9IFFBCPE#EP(()'( DOING THE ROUNDS Select all Transportation buff: Replace Times Plaza with roundabout BY DENNIS LYNCH Power to the people: The play “Election Selection,” which This is some circular logic! lands in Coney Island on Aug. 19, brings together commu- nity activists, 1920s suffrag- ettes, 1960s drag queens, and modern-day refugees to battle political problems. Julia Staff The city should fi x the no- Election play stuffs in every topic toriously dangerous nexus at By Loren Noveck Clinton or Donald Trump. alk about political theater! “They’re both a little on the wrong side,” she says An exuberantly overstuffed play is using 30 — too busy fighting each other to deal with real issues, Tactors, 12 crew members, five live musicians, a which are represented in the play by a costumed monster traveling stage, a giant hand-cranked moving backdrop, representing global warming, war, and poverty. life-size puppets, masks, and a live-action Pikachu to The show is aimed at residents of the neighborhoods Flatbush, Atlantic, and Fourth convince New Yorkers to vote. “Election Selection, or where it performs, and while one message is that voting is You Bet!” is touring the five boroughs this summer, with important, Field thinks local organizing is even more so. three performances in Brooklyn starting Aug. 19 on the “We want people to vote and we want them to get Coney Island Boardwalk. involved in politics — we don’t want them just to vote, The show’s writer said that she wanted to address but to actually get involved, talk to each other about the every topic that might matter to voters this election issues, join together,” she said. “The theme of this play is avenues by turning the inter- season. that political power begins at the bottom: with your block “We have every single issue in our play!” said Crystal association, your zoning board, your community board, Field, who also plays an angry grandma in the show. your school board, your city council, your mayor — that’s “Election Selection” is a bonanza of ideas and ideals, where it starts.” tackling global warming, gun violence, health care, war, “Election Selection, or You Bet!” on the Coney Island the Middle East, immigration, discrimination against Boardwalk (at W. 10th Street in Coney Island, (212) section into a roundabout, says Muslims, affirmative action, civil rights, Stonewall, the 254–1109, www.theaterforthenewcity.net]. Aug. 19 at 6:30 economic crisis of 2008 and its aftermath, the gig econ- pm. Free. omy, police violence, violence against police, poverty — Additional performances in Herbert Von King Park all delivered with songs and a bit of time travel. (670 Lafayette Ave. between Marcy and Tompkins avenues Joke’s over: The embodiment of war, poverty, and pollution ram- This year’s presidential candidates only appear briefly pages through the audience while presidential candidates Wonder in Bedford-Stuyvesant), Aug. 21 at 2 pm; and in Sunset in a dream sequence, represented by Wonder Woman and Woman and the Joker stand aside, in the new musical “Election Park (Sixth Avenue at 44th Street in Sunset Park), Aug. 27 the Joker. But Field swears the play does not back Hillary Selection.” Julia Slaff at 2 pm. Free. a local transportation expert. Offi cials are trying to make Your entertainment some safety tweaks to Times guide Page 33 Plaza — the awkward trian- gular pedestrian island at the heart of the havoc — but this Police Blotter ..........................8 ring-leader says the best an- Standing O .............................18 swer is to go full circle. Letters ....................................26 “That’s what roundabouts Rhymes with Crazy ............ 27 are for — they resolve strange geometries,” said Jonathan Sports .....................................39 Cohn, a transportation archi- tect at Perkins Eastman, who also lives a few blocks away in Park Slope. “This is a situation that calls for thinking outside the box.” Department of Transporta- tion offi cials are in the midst of redesigning Times Plaza — NOT TIMES SQUARE — TIMES CIRCLE: Michael Cairl, left, and Jonathan Cohn think it’s time to turn the danger- and the crossings around it — ous intersections at Times Plaza into a roundabout. Photo by Stefano Giovannini HOW TO REACH US following years of complaints by residents and pols, and and extend curbs out at each cross into the center of the “It slows traffi c because Mail: Cohn and several supporters corner to create a European- roundabout and exit in any di- they have to slow down to go Courier Life made their pitch at a commu- style roundabout. rection they please, Cohn said. around it and there are no left Publications, Inc., nity workshop last Wednesday Pedestrians could shuffl e “If you could go out to the cir- turns, so they all spur off,” said 1 Metrotech Center North night. around what would become cle, then you could go straight Park Sloper Michael Cairl, a 10th Floor, Brooklyn, Their revolutionary idea is short crosswalks over each to where you are going, you longtime member of local civic to turn the plaza into a circle street or, in one confi guration, wouldn’t have to cross more group the Park Slope Civic N.Y. 11201 than two times,” he said. Council. “Pedestrians only General Phone: The junction is one of the have to look in one direction for (718) 260-2500 most dangerous intersections oncoming traffi c.” News Fax: in Brooklyn — between 2010– And they have data to back (718) 260-2592 In the ‘Spotlight’ 2014, motorists injured 78 pe- up their argument — a well- destrians and cyclists there, placed roundabout can cut ve- News E-Mail: BY THE COURIER LIFE META killing or seriously hurting 13 hicle collisions at a single in- [email protected] FILM BUREAU of them, according to city re- tersection down by almost half, Display Ad Phone: It’s the part we were born cords. Around half of pedestri- according to the Federal High- (718) 260-8302 to play! ans mowed down by vehicles way Administration . Display Ad E-Mail: Television show “Last were crossing with a green But transportation honchos [email protected] Week Tonight With John light. didn’t come a-round to the idea Oliver” fi lmed at the Park It is even more perilous for — they are considering round- Display Ad Fax: Slope Courier’s Downtown drivers — car crashes injured abouts elsewhere in the city, (718) 260-2579 offi ce recently, using it as 289 motorists in the same pe- a department spokeswoman Classified Phone: a set for a newsroom sketch riod, killing or seriously injur- said after the workshop, but (718) 260-2555 starring Jason Sudeikis, ing 12. don’t think one is feasible at Classified Fax: Bobby Cannavale, and Rose Cohn and his fellow lords of Times Plaza because there isn’t (718) 260-2549 Byrne that aired on Sunday the ring say the traffi c-calming enough room. night. STARS IN HIS EYES: Jason Su- measure will make the cross- But Cohn disagrees — he be- Classified E-Mail: The Home Box Offi ce deikis reads one of our fi ne pub- roads far less hairy by forcing lieves the city could “take a bit” [email protected] Continued on page 11 lications.
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