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LIGHT UP THE NIGHT: Members CASE CLOSED of the new Brooklyn Nightlife and Restaurant Coalition and Borough President Adams announce their Towers will plans at Borough Hall on May 27. Photo by Jason Speakman rise on the The Beep, waterfront restaurants BY NOAH HUROWITZ Brooklyn Bridge Park hon- chos can move ahead with love the their plan to erect two more apartment towers in Brook- lyn’s front yard, but will have to make some concessions to nightlife anti-development activists, after the two parties settled BY DANIELLE FURFARO a 10-month legal battle last They’re lowering the bar to Wednesday. raise the bar. Park offi cials can resume Borough President Ad- the process of selecting a de- ams will chair a new alliance veloper for the site, but have of restaurant and bar owners agreed to place height restric- that aims to help eateries and tions on the buildings, get the nightlife venues obtain liquor state’s approval on their latest licenses and building permits plans, and give the public time more easily and avoid spats to respond before the building with neighbors. The Brooklyn designs are fi nalized, which Nightlife and Restaurant Co- the activists say is still a win alition will grease the wheels for park lovers and a win for of community consultation by transparency. installing its members on com- “This is a victory for the munity boards and encourag- tens of millions of current ing them to communicate more and future visitors to Brook- proactively with residents, said lyn Bridge Park,” said Lori its organizer. Schomp, a spokeswoman for “Our industry is plagued the plaintiff, a group called with stories of confl ict, confu- People For Green Space. “This sion, and miscommunication, park already has millions of and we want to change that square feet of development. into a narrative of coopera- Before blocking the park en- tion,” said coalition head Dave On the fl ip side trance with unneeded private Rosen, who is the owner of condos and cars, the public Williamsburg bar the Woods, Aerialist Sarah Wollschlager impresses the crowd at the Gowanus Ballroom during the “Brooklyn should have a say.” which previously had to scrap Spaces” book launch party. For more on the event, see page 6. Photo by Stefano Giovannini Schomp said her group’s Continued on page 19 Continued on page 20
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NNN%9IFFBCPE;8@CP%:FD GL9C@J?<;9P:E>(D BY MAX JAEGER A pack of two dozen pooches March of the tin dancers: ‘Robot’ mixes human dancers and robot performers for a strange and kinetic theater experience. Laurent Phillipe Robots and humans tango together in surreal dance show and a rat named Betty strut- By Danielle Furfaro fit with her vision. She picked a handful hese robots want to boogie. that looked cool and were sophisticated Humans and acrobatic androids enough to dance along with the music on Tshare the stage in a colorful dance stage. It took months to coordinate the performance landing at the Brooklyn movements of the robots into a well-oiled Academy of Music this week. But “Robot” choreographed piece, she said. ted their stuff on the Board- is more than a kinetic spectacle of music, “It was really difficult to put it all metal, and fancy footwork. The perfor- together,” said Li. “It almost did not hap- mance is also a philosophical rumination pen.” on how smart machines have invaded She finally found the robots in France, aspects of the human world, said the and Japanese collaborators created the show’s creator. elaborate 10-piece mechanical orchestra walk during Deno’s Wonder “It came out of the idea that the world of aluminum and resin that provides music is changing a lot because technology and for the performance. The band is as much machines are becoming part of our lives an art installation as an orchestra, she more and more,” said Spanish director and says. choreographer Blanca Li. The performance comes to Brooklyn Li conveys our complicated relation- after two years touring Spain, France, Tiny dancer. An android strikes a pose in the dance extravaganza “Robot” at the Brooklyn Academy Wheel’s annual Pet Day cos- ship with technology without saying a Belgium, Portugal, and Italy. word, instead creating a surreal costume- of Music. Laurent Philippe “Robot” at the Brooklyn Academy of and prop-driven adventure. Each robot has learn to walk and dance, and they interact presence and emotion,” said Li. “I wanted Music, Howard Gilman Opera House [30 a unique name and personality, and they with eight human performers in a variety them to really be able to interact with the Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort range from toddler-sized cuddly creatures of way, including dancing, making fun of people on stage at an emotional level.” Greene, (718) 636–4100, www.bam.org]. to towering metallic monsters. During each other, and falling in love. Li traveled the world to connect with June 9, 11, 12 at 8 pm, June 13 at 2 pm and 8 the course of the show, the seven robots “I wanted to be able to show the robots’ robot makers and discover machines that pm, June 14 at 1 pm and 5 pm. $25–$75. tume contest on May 31. And one hound came Your entertainment dressed as Coney Island’s guide Page 35 own top dog — unofficial mayor Dick Zigun. The clever costume was a no- Police Blotter ...... 8 brainer, said its creator. Letters ...... 22 “ I r e a l ly l i ke t h e M e r m a i d Rhymes with Crazy ...... 23 Parade, and I find Zigun to Standing O ...... 25 be an interesting character, so I thought it would be in- Sports ...... 43 teresting and Coney Island- related,” said Jenny S., who will also be judging the mer- maid-themed march down Surf Avenue and the Board- walk on June 20. So she dressed Snick- ers, her miniature Austra- lian Shepherd, in full Dick Zigun regalia — including HOW TO REACH US a black tank top, bowler’s hat, shades, and a Tilly-em- Mail: blazoned drum just like the Courier Life one Coney Island’s unoffi- Publications, Inc., cial mayor beats while lead- 1 Metrotech Center North ing the annual Mermaid Pa- 10th Floor, Brooklyn, rade. After seeing a photo of N.Y. 11201 the dog on Twitter, Zigun General Phone: invited Jenny for a beer at (718) 260-2500 Coney Island USA. News Fax: But the pint-sized parade (718) 260-2592 paragon took second place in the contest. News E-Mail: The judges — Ferris [email protected] wheel magnate Diane Vour- Display Ad Phone: deris, burlesque dancer (718) 260-8302 Angie Pontani, and Coun- MERMAID PAW-RADE: (Clockwise from top) Jenny S. and Snick- Display Ad E-Mail: cilman Mark Treyger (D– ers won second place for their dogged impersonation of Board- [email protected] Coney Island) — gave top honors to Paquito, a Chihua- walk impresario Dick Zigun, complete with tiny bass drum like the Display Ad Fax: hua dressed up like a police one Zigun beats when he leads the annual Mermaid Parade. Erin (718) 260-2579 patrol car. Samuelsen kisses third-place winner Betty, dressed as Tinker Classified Phone: The dog’s owner said he Bell. Kevin Serrano’s chihuahua Paquito won fi rst place for his (718) 260-2555 wanted to inject a bit of lev- NYPD patrol car costume. Photos by Georgine Benvenuto Classified Fax: ity to reduce the recent ten- (718) 260-2549 sions between police and lo- I thought I’d make some- pet rat Betty, who came victory in the contest since cals. thing to liven up the situa- dolled up as Disney fairy 2003, he said. He didn’t ex- Classified E-Mail: “With all the situations tion,” said Kevin Serrano of Tinker Bell, took third pect a win this year, but the [email protected] happening with police and Queens, Paquito’s owner. place. field left a bit to be desired, civilians and shootings, Erin Samuelsen and her It was Serrano’s third he said. :FLI@ GL9C@J? 2 COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 DT Expanding MoCADA is on the move BY NOAH HUROWITZ The new building is only Fort Greene’s Museum of fi ve blocks from the mu- Contemporary African seum’s current home, but Diasporan Arts will relocate the move will bring it into to bigger digs in 2018 — and the heart of the so-called not a moment too soon, says Brooklyn Cultural District the museum’s chief. — a nebulous zone of arts “We are already kind of organizations and theaters bursting at the seams,” said anchored by the Brooklyn executive director James Academy of Music at Lafay- Bartlett. ette Avenue and Ashland The museum, which fea- Place. Bartlett said he is ex- tures contemporary works cited for the institution to by artists with African her- get to know its future neigh- itage, will move into the bors in what he hopes will ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE: Pastor Ben McKelahan of St. Paul’s Church in Williamsburg shows off the newly nearby BAM South building become the new centerpiece renovated theater he plans to rent to community groups. Photo by Michah Saperstein — named for but not owned of the area. by the Brooklyn Academy of “We are really looking Music — that is currently un- forward to growing partner- der construction at Lafayette ships but also collectively be- Street and Flatbush Avenue. ing part of the whole area,” The new space will be more he said. “The building will be than three times the size of a central hub and focal point PLAY-HOUSE its current home at Hanson of this growing cultural dis- Place and S. Portland Ave- trict.” nue, allowing the institution Now-Councilwoman Lau- to make its art accessible to rie Cumbo (D–Fort Greene) more Brooklynites by adding founded the Museum of Con- staff, classrooms, and gallery temporary African Diaspo- space so it can show multiple ran Arts in a Bedford-Stuyve- exhibitions at once, Bartlett sant brownstone in 1999, and OF WORSHIP said. moved it to its current Fort “This is really going to Greene location in 2006. She give us a space that will allow handed the reins of the insti- Pastor fi nds, restores theater in W’burg church us to take art into the com- tution over to Bartlett in 2012 munity and not be an ivory when she decided to run for BY DANIELLE FURFARO McKelahan said he didn’t the damage was so extensive,” tower elite by any means,” he offi ce. Talk about a divine interven- even realize there was the- McKelahan said. “I knew it said. Last year, Cumbo gave tion! ater in the landmarked house would take a long time, be- The art repository will $1.4 million of her $5.8 mil- A Williamsburg pastor of worship for several months cause we are a small, poor share the lower levels of the lion capital fund — her larg- will reopen a long-forgotten after he fi rst arrived there in congregation.” 32-story tower with African est single allocation — to the theater inside his church to 2013. But while wandering The pastor’s prayers were diaspora performing arts or- museum to help pay for its the public this weekend, after around the second fl oor over answered when he met mem- ganization 651 Arts, a new move and expansion, accord- working for years to restore the parish hall one day, he bers of the Workers Justice branch of the Brooklyn Pub- ing to Capital New York. The the abandoned performance came across a pair of doors Project, an outfi t that helps lic Library, and a new Brook- city also allocated another space back to its former glory. that looked like they had been protect the rights of the day lyn Academy of Music cin- $1.4 million to the reported The churchman says he tied together for years. In- laborers who gather on Wil- ema. $9-million project. felt compelled to save the old side, McKelahan found a the- liamsburg street-corners in playhouse for the sake of both ater that had deteriorated into the mornings to seek employ- his own fl ock and the commu- a disaster area. The room, ment. The group’s organizers nity at large, as so many of the which hadn’t been used since were looking for somewhere neighborhood’s arts venues the mid-1990s, had crumbling they could hold meetings and have recently closed due to walls, broken windows, and a classes, so McKelahan pro- skyrocketing rents. hoard of discarded home fur- posed an exchange — the orga- “Part of a church’s mission nishings that congregants nization could use the church is to help people express what had collected long ago for a if its members helped renovate it means to be human, and the rummage sale that never hap- the theater space. arts are an important part of pened. The workers, some of whom that,” said Pastor Ben McK- It was a mixed blessing. are skilled at construction, elahan, who is the head of St. McKelahan immediately saw quickly coordinated the res- Paul’s Lutheran Church on S. the potential for the space, toration, which included fi x- Fifth Street at Rodney Street. but also how much time and ing and painting the walls, up- “Also, there are so many small money it would take to fi x — grading the electrical system, venues that have shut down both of which were in short installing a chandelier, and in Williamsburg and artists supply at St. Paul’s. building a bathroom. Workers GETTING COSY: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts need more places to show off “I thought it would be great Justice Project organizers say employees say they’re feeling the squeeze in the art institution’s cur- their work.” if we could use it again, but Continued on page 19 rent space. Photo by Jason Speakman DT COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 3 Zombies lurch in W’burg BY DANIELLE FURFARO dressed as a zombie version of and disc jockeys entertained They were looking for brains Wendy from the eponymous the undead masses. The shuf- — and a stiff drink. restaurant chain, as part of a fl ers also faced off in a cos- Dozens of blood-speckled pack of zombie fast-food mas- tume contest, with categories Brooklynites lurched through cots. “Every year, it gets more including “bloodiest zombie” the streets of Williamsburg on extreme.” and “sexiest zombie.” a rainy Sunday afternoon for The zombie horde rose up “It is like Halloween in the ninth annual New York from Bar Matchless on the May,” said Brian Bricker, who City Zombie Crawl. The living corner of Manhattan and Dri- came dressed as a zombie clown dead, many of whom were back ggs avenues, then shuffl ed to match his clown tattoos. for the third or fourth shuffl e through McCarren Park and The dead heads encouraged in as many years, said it was a down Manhattan Avenue. The others to come along, adding surprisingly animated event. cannibal corpses rounded out that there is only one entry re- “It is an amazing day of the night with a monster bash quirement. BROKLYN’S UNDEAD: (Above) Elisabeth Faraone, also known as Zombie laughing, being ridiculous, at the Black Bear Bar on N. “Dress however you want,” Wendy, shocked the streets of Williamsburg during the ninth annual NYC and running around with Sixth Street near Wythe Av- said Faraone. “As long as it Zombie Crawl. (Center) A pair of zombies terrorize the town. (Left) Peter blood everywhere,” said Elisa- enue, where skateboarders, has blood and gore on it, you Hemme dripped blood all over Williamsburg during the event. beth Faraone, who showed up burlesque performers, bands, will be part of the party.” Photos by Stefano Giovannini NEIGHBORS SUPPORT YOUR BROOKLYN NETS BROOKLYN NETS NEIGHBORHOOD TICKET PLAN Represent your neighborhood by becoming a Brooklyn Nets Season Ticket Holder today. 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McGuinness Boulevard on May The victim was standing in 29. front of a residential building Unsafe keeping Out of the box Offi cers said they tried to stop Car thieves made off with a A man was arrested for robbing between Hoyt and Smith streets a man near Greenpoint Avenue pair of pricey vehicles from a Cad- a Nassau Avenue bodega with a shortly after midnight when he for an earlier assault. The man man Plaza parking garage on May box cutter in the early morning of was approached by a pair of men, jumped on his bicycle and rode 25, according to a report. May 29, according to cops. one of whom asked “You from the away recklessly, slamming into a One woman parked her 2014 The victim told police that he police offi cer, authorities say. G?” before reaching for his waist- Range Rover Autobiography at the was working at the store near The offi cer needed six stitches band, cops said. garage between Clark and Mid- Jewel Street at 4 am when a man to his eye, and had cuts to his face, The victim broke into a run dagh streets at 11:30 am, and per came in and put a box cutter to his shoulder, and arm, according to and as he fl ed heard two gunshots garage policy left her keys in the neck. the report. Police charge the man fi red, according to police. car, cops said. When she returned “Give me all the money,” the with yet another assault. There were no injuries or ar- to her auto, some “Gone in 60 Sec- man allegedly said. — Danielle Furfaro rests in the incident, police said. onds” wannabe had made off with The victim moved away from her ride, a report said. the blade, which the suspect kept Never saw it coming Another man parked his Audi swinging it at him, and picked up 68TH PRECINCT A purse snatcher robbed a A6 at 11:09 on the same day, but a baseball bat and hit the suspect woman on Bergen Street on May when he returned the next morn- over the head with it, reported po- BAY RIDGE—DYKER HEIGHTS 25, according to a report. ing, the attendants told him a thief lice. The bloody suspect ran out The victim was between Hoyt had swiped his car around 10 pm the door, where police arrested Front-door fiend the night before, cops said. Along and Smith streets shortly after him and charged him with rob- A brazen burglar walked right with the Audi the brigands made midnight when a ruffi an snuck up bery. into the front door of an Eighth off with a golf bag, golf clubs, golf behind her and grabbed her purse Avenue home and stole cash and shoes, and an iPod, according to before dashing off with the loot, electronics on May 24. a report. Gang assault cops said. A gang of teens beat and robbed The thief entered into the The thief made off with an iP- two men as they walked through home between Bay Ridge Avenue hone, an iPad mini, $300 in cash, a Bad prom night McGolrick Park on May 30. and 70th Street in Dyker Heights driver’s license, and a wallet, po- A heartless thief swiped a The victims told police they sometime between 2 and 11 pm, lice said. prom-goer’s belongings from the were walking through the park police said. He took $800 and an limousine as she was taking pho- at 1:50 am when a gang of about iPad, a police report states. In and out tographs at a scenic vista in on 15 teenagers circled around them. Plymouth Street on May 22, a re- Some of the teens started to punch A thief made off with a pricey Apartment trashed port said. and kick the victims. One of the wedding ring from a man’s Ber- A puerile prankster ransacked The limo was parked near victims fell onto the ground, and gen Street apartment on May 25 a Sixth Avenue apartment on May Main Street as the girl took pho- a teen grabbed his wallet and — before being chased out by the 29. tos in the shadow of the Brooklyn phone. victim, cops said. Bridge, but as she made memo- The rake rummaged through The sneak entered the abode ries, a highway robber swiped a the apartment between 67th and between Hoyt and Smith streets Michael Kors wallet and a Sony Bottle thrown 68th streets in Bay Ridge at noon, at 6:25 am, gaining access through camera from the back of the car, A lout threw a bottle in a Berry police said. The victim said noth- the unlocked front door before according to police. Street bar on May 24 — knock- ing was taken, offi cials said. snatching a $12,000 wedding ring — Noah Hurowitz ing out a woman and cutting her from the bedroom, according to a head. Door-buster The victim told police that she report. A brute bashed in a front door 94TH PRECINCT was partying at the tavern near Upon spotting the intruder, the on a 66th Street home and took a N. 14th Street at 11:05 pm when a victim chased him out of his home, GREENPOINT–NORTHSIDE bunch of electronics sometime be- man suddenly hurled a bottle at but did not manage to recover the tween May 28 and May 29. her head. ring, according to police. Quick moves The burglar broke into the The woman blacked out and Police arrested a man who they woke up to fi nd that she had a cut home between 13th and 14th ave- said robbed a woman on N. Ninth Looked the part on the side of her head. Witnesses nues in Dyker Heights between 7 Street on May 29 with a knife, Police arrested a pair of alleged told police they saw the guy throw pm on May 28 and 7 pm the follow- stole her phone, and then with- thieves who they saw on Third Av- the bottle. ing day, police said. He took four drew money from her bank ac- enue on May 25 and said were in cellphones, an iPad, and a purse count. possession of loot from an earlier valued at a total $2,250, a police The victim told police that she Twice attacked heist, according to a report. report states. was in the lobby of an apartment A jerk randomly attacked a guy Cops pulled over a man and building between Berry Street who was walking to the store on woman near Pacifi c Street be- and Wythe Avenue at 1:37 am when Kingsland Avenue on May 26. Wallet grew legs cause they matched the descrip- a guy approached her and put a The victim told police that he A sneak stole a woman’s wal- tions of suspects from an earlier “simulated” knife in her face, ac- was near Withers Street at 1:05 let in a Third Avenue market on car break-in, and upon searching cording to the police report. am when a guy suddenly got in May 25. the car found several bags fi lled The woman handed over her his face. 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An administrator at Poly Della Pietra, who gradu- Prep Country Day School ated from the school in 1986 took a group of pupils on a and began working there in trip to Cuba where he pro- 2003, is suing the 161-year- vided them with booze, Cu- old institution for breach of ban cigars, and hookers contract and for failing to while he scouted out a pri- have a state-mandated whis- vate investment opportunity tle-blower protection policy. — all on the Dyker Heights The school has suspended school’s dime — a lawsuit al- Andersen indefinitely, and leges. the chairman of the school’s “[Fund-raising direc- board of trustees Scott tor Steven] Andersen paid a Smith has stepped down, prostitute to entertain stu- according to a letter sent to dents as a ‘rite of passage,’ SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKED: A lawsuit claims that the son of a famous mu- alumni on June 2. and drank alcohol to excess sician and Poly supporter took part in the trip. Jesse Bongiovi, the son of School administrators and smoked Cuban cigars rock star Jon Bon Jovi, attended the school. Photo by Denis Gostev did not respond to requests with them,” a lawsuit filed for comment, but accord- by school employee Lisa dents on the late-2012 trip alleged indiscretions, the ing to the suit, the school Della Pietra claims. “Ander- as “the son of a famous mu- school failed to protect her launched an investigation sen later admitted to [Della sician and Poly supporter.” identity, and Andersen re- in 2013 that resulted in un- Pietra] that the true purpose Rocker Jon Bon Jovi’s son taliated by bullying her specified disciplinary action BAD INFLUENCE?: Steven Anderson of the Cuba trip was to scout Jesse attended the school at family, the suit alleges. She against Andersen. 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G’point next for compost pick-ups Yard trimmings and table scraps are being primed for come- backs as plant food and natural gas when the city takes its new SOUND OFF TO THE EDITOR food-waste recycling program to Greenpoint next week (“Oh, scrappy day! City brings com- LETTERS AND COMMENTS FROM OUR READERS posting pick-up to Greenpoint,” online May 22). these containers with a latch? And I hope they place it right next to Matt is talking about the $150 Sanitation workers will issue how are food scraps in this con- the outdoor seating at the local “see sanitation recycling fi nes from the brown bins to dwellers in single tainer magically smellier than food and be seen,” where the baby stroll- city because the majority of tenants family houses and apartment scraps put into a difference con- ers usually reside. in this city don’t separate plastics buildings with fewer than 10 tainer (i.e., regular trash)? The lack Matt from Greenpoint or cardboard from their garbage, so units between June 11 and 15, and of rational thought is why we can’t the super or owner has to do it for begin weekly pickups on June 15. have nice things. These comments are so ridicu- them on collection day. The commentariat’s hodgepodge Jimmy from Flatbush lous. Compost bins will be the cause You’ve obviously never had to offered food for thought: of all that is bad, and food waste in dig through rotting food and pet According to the D.E.P., the New- garbage bags is equivalent to a bank droppings to get the plastics out of Ah, rats! town Creek digester eggs work by vault full of rainbows. multiple apartments worth of gar- Rufus Leaking from B.H. heat-accelerated anaerobic diges- Jimmy from Flatbush bage to avoid a sanitation fi ne or tion. It is obviously far more effi - you wouldn’t be so enthusiastic They should do separate elec- cient to burn fossil fuels to speed up If we end up with too much com- about the fi nes that will inevitably tronics collection, instead of this anaerobic digestion with heat, the post, it turns into soil, and what follow this compost plan. nonsense. Vinny same process as in a landfi ll but ar- will we do with all that dirt. Dirt is If you want to reduce waste, don’t from Greenpoint tifi cially sped up by burning fossil just pollution. generate so much waste in the fi rst fuels, to make more fossil fuels! My mother always said don’t place. It is irrational to impose your Vinny, that’s a ridiculous state- Food only takes 15 years to natu- bring dirt into the house. If we have own ideologies on other people. ment. This is not nonsense, it’s rally decay in a landfi ll. You’ve ob- too much dirt, we might have to Vinny from Greenpoint called appropriate waste manage- viously never seen the holes that send it to another country and that ment. Food scraps shouldn’t be bur- rodents chew into closed plastic would start a war, and those coun- What Vinny? Diverting recover- ied in a landfi ll to anaerobically de- garbage bins when they smell rot- tries would go to war over foreign able materials for use rather than cay over 100 years when they could ting food inside. Oh, those irratio- soil. ty from pps putting them in a magical hole be made into useful compost. And nal rats and irrational New York- somewhere is not “ideology,” it’s what do you propose for this “sepa- ers, they are the reason why can’t If you already have a container proper stewardship of the Earth. rate electronics collection?” Trucks we have nice things! in your house or apartment for And a city of eight million discards cruising around empty looking for Vinny from Greenpoint glass and plastic recycling, and a a lot of this material (recyclables, the small number of electronics dis- pile of boxes for paper recycle, then compostables, and otherwise). Yeah. carded each week? I guess food scraps just magically what you really need is a container Sanitation fi nes buildings. And the Most neighborhoods (or nearby disappear if there’s no compost col- for composting, you know the stuff people not separating their waste neighborhoods) have periodic elec- lection, right? The rats don’t want that rots in a day. Oh, I almost for- should be punished for not comply- tronics recycling events, usually the scraps stored in other contain- got, hipsters just put it on the street ing with fairly simple garbage sepa- coupled with the green markets, ers, just the small brown ones. and don’t even realize a person sorts ration requirements. etc. Far more effi cient model. Jimmy from Flatbush it out for them. If a building’s management Jimmy from Flatbush In any case, the best compost wants to sort through their lazy And when they get knocked over? container is called the toilet, mind tenants’ garbage, so be it. That’s Can we compost the yuppie trust- The smell, rats? Homeless people the bones. Pretty soon they can just not a real problem, that’s a prob- afarians and weekend-warrior, eating out of them? Should be inter- send us a paycheck for working for lem created by the management-co- bar-hopping invaders, too? Please? esting. Some hipsters will no doubt the Sanitation Department. I mean, op-boards-condo-associations, etc. Can’t wait for the odorama scents of start a food-club-based rummaged who in the city does not have space The last big building I lived in had summer compost, waiting days and compost. In the country one gener- for a recycling and composting area two full-time staff. Neither of them days for pickup, as the rats have a ally covers compost with dirt and in their space? Then again, just ever sorted through the garbage. fi eld day. straw and it can aerate, not fester in eat every meal out and no worries, The residents put their trash in the Do something useful and bring a plastic bin. mate! Matt from Greenpoint right spots or were fi ned. Done. back electronic-item collections for Matt from Greenpoint Jimmy from Flatbush smaller buildings, idiots! Just as What are you winging about, they do for larger appliances, etc. Hooray! We’ve seen these bins in Matt? The container goes outside There is no way to trace trash stanchaz from GreenPernt other hoods, and we were jealous. where the garbage cans are. Do you in small apartment buildings. You We love composting and think it’s keep the curbside garbage can in can’t just fi ne individual apart- How are the rats climbing into a cool step in the right direction! your apartment? Everyone that I ments nor is that allowed by law. The city is in need of a way to get know who collects food for compost- How would you prove it was theirs? rid of our (abundant) trash, and this ing (they collect it weekly at most There is no recourse in the law ex- option is good for the environment farmer’s markets in the city) just cept putting up signs. Most people LET US HEAR FROM YOU and the city, too! keeps a small bag of scraps in the do not separate their plastics. You Submit letters to: Vince DiMiceli, Edi- John from Greenpoint freezer. have to sort through the rot to get tor, Community Newspaper Group, 1 For a big family, there might not the plastics out. MetroTech Center North, Brooklyn, NY Maybe we can fuel the garbage be room in the freezer. Thus, the Obviously our experiences liv- trucks with the gas this produces, “locking” food waster containers ing in the city are different. In my 11201, or e-mail to editorial@cnglocal. since we are now using fuel to drive that are kept outside. This is not a opinion, separating compost is com. Please include your address and around garbage. crazy thing. It’s actually a very rea- penny wise, pound foolish. Plastic telephone number for so we can con- Rufus Leaking from B.H. sonable thing for a city and its in- is worth the trouble of sorting be- fi rm you sent the letter. We reserve habitants to do. cause it is not biodegradable. Seg- the right to edit all correspondence, Drink tap water and stop buying Oh, right, but it’s so (insert irra- regating rotting food from landfi ll which becomes the property of it, if you are really concerned with tional thought that has nothing to trash is in my opinion not worth the Courier Life Publications. the environment. do with evidence or reality). overhead cost. Me from Bay Ridge Jimmy from Flatbush Vinny from Greenpoint 22 COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 DT Visit from school of hard knocks mily Horowitz spends a kill baked into the system? was like putting a chocoholic Us” (Praeger, 2015). lot of time with people To fi nd out, she started in- in a candy store — as if being a Ever the researcher, E other professors don’t. viting convicts who had been gay man and being a child mo- Horowitz discovered that the Criminals. Domestic vio- exonerated to speak to her lester were the same thing. belief that sex offenders must lence victims. Domestic vio- class. People such as Marty The National Center for be continually monitored to lence perps. Sex offenders. Tankleff, who falsely con- Reason and Justice cham- keep kids safe is based on Guys convicted of murder. fessed to killing his parents; pioned Baran’s case, and he fear, not fact. A teacher of sociology and Jesse Friedman, notorious was fi nally freed after more “Once people are no lon- criminology at St. Francis from the movie “Capturing than 20 years behind bars. ger a threat, you don’t have College in Brooklyn, she in- the Friedmans;” and even He told the class what it to punish them to the point troduces her students to the Bernard Baran. was like to be a gay man in where you destroy their same folks she is meeting in Who? prison who had been con- lives,” she says. “I’m not an effort to change the lives “Bernard was a work- victed of child molestation: pro sex offender, I’m pro of all of them. ing class, gay teenager who They put cigarettes out on his move-on-with-your-life-once- Horowitz is one of those dropped out of high school in head. He was beaten. He was you’ve-been-punished.” people who walks the walk. the late ’80s because he was raped more than 30 times. She’ll be reading from Before coming to St. Francis, RHYMES bullied. He started working As he told his story, stu- her book this Sunday night, she got her PhD in sociology at at a day care center,” says dents wept. Those tears — June 7, at the Bluestockings Yale, concentrating in women’s WITH CRAZY Horowitz. “But a couple went and those students — will bookstore, 172 Allen St., on studies and decided to spend to the head of the day care and go on to make a difference, Manhattan’s Lower East a year in Brooklyn’s domestic Lenore Skenazy said they didn’t want a ‘homo’ Horowitz says, because many Side, at 7 pm. Admission is violence court, watching as watching their son. And the of her students go on to ca- free. women fi nally got justice. day care said, ‘We can’t fi re reers in law enforcement. If you’re wondering what But … that wasn’t what should be punished, but she a person because of that.’ Lo “Now they will have a it looks like when an aca- she saw. thought the harsh sentences and behold, the couple alleged much more nuanced view of demic talks the talk, walks “It was just poor and she witnessed weren’t de- that Baron molested their the people they’re dealing the walk, and changes the unemployed men being signed to improve anyone’s son,” says Horowitz. with,” she said. lives of future cops and for- slammed over and over,” says prospects. Baran was found guilty Her latest project is the mer convicts, don’t miss it. Horowitz, a mom of four. She began to regard the and given three life sentences. just-published book, “Pro- Lenore Skenazy is a public Horowitz agrees that if a criminal justice system with The judge said that putting a tecting Our Kids? How Sex speaker and author of the book man slapped his partner, he curiosity: How much was over- gay man in a day care center Offender Laws are Failing and blog Free-Range Kids. I? DT COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 23 LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE LEGAL NOTICE 24 COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 DT Brooklyn’s Biggest Booster STANDING by Joanna DelBuono Angels of mercy don white coats BROOKLYN HEIGHTS More than 40 undergraduate nurs- ing students received a medical white coat emblazoned with the St. Fran- cis College logo to honor their dedi- CONEY ISLAND Pas de deux at 106 Standing O is tilting a glass of bubbly and toasting Tillie Fein- berg as she celebrates by the sea shore at Sea Crest. Tillie tripped the light fantastic on her mile- stone 106th birthday on May 22 with family, friends and staff. “My mom loves to dance,” said daughter Elayna Woods. “It is her passion. She always attends cation to the health and well-being dance venues and music events, of their future patients at St. Francis and still wants to dance and hear College’s fi rst White Coat Ceremony music every day.” on May 12. Son-in-law Stanley Franco, St. Francis places a heavy focus on fellow Sea Crest resident Janette technology in its four-year undergrad- MOLTO BUONO: Students from the Information Technology High School created this Hughes, staff, and friends were uate nursing program as well as its mural depicting the Silk Road, traveled by explorer Marco Polo, that hangs on Marco all on hand to help Tillie blow out two-year registered nurse to bachelor Polo Ristorante. Photo by Steven Schnibbe the candles on her delicious pur- of science program. Each student re- ple-iced cake and have a slice or ceived an iPad to be used for textbooks Delicious meal with beautiful art two of pizza. and to link with the college’s newly Standing O wishes Tillie, renovated nursing lab. CARROLL GARDENS last year), the mural was ready for “Many more dances, and a very Pamela Straker, program coordi- its close up on May 21. happy 106th.” Enjoy! nator for the Brooklyn Health Dispari- Magnifi cio, fantastico, molto Borough President Adams, Sea Crest Rehabilitation and ties Center at Downstate Medical Cen- buono. Marco Chirico, restaura- an advocate for both education and Health Care Center [3035 W. 24th ter was the keynote speaker and talked teur extraordinaire and patron of good food, was on hand and added St. and the Boardwalk in Coney about some of the programs. the arts, has always advocated for his praise of the work, expressing Island, (718) 372–4500]. Standing O turns the tassels and of- education. In order to further the his desire that this project would in- fers congratulations to all those who education of students at the Infor- spire students to continue learning got their angel wings — including Fra- mation Technology High School inside and outside the classroom. happy reign. cisca Gabriele, Class of ’17, pictured in Long Island City, the owner and “The entire concept of educa- Pratt Institute [200 Willoughby Ave. with her grandmother Dolores Anas- chef of Marco Polo Ristorante tion is more than what takes place and DeKalb Avenue in Bedford-Stuyve- tasio and St. Francis School of Nurs- commissioned the students in the within the four walls of a classroom. sant, (718) 636–3600]. ing Dean Allen Burdowski. fi ne arts program to depict the ex- It’s about how do we go out and expe- St. Francis College [180 Remsen St. ploration of the Silk Road by Ital- rience the beauty of being in such a FLATLANDS at Court Street in Brooklyn Heights, ian explorer Marco Polo, for which rich city,” he said. (718) 522–2300]. the Carroll Gardens restaurant is Standing O agrees, and says: Just do it named. “Whether it is the mural on the wall Standing O is sharing the news: We BENSONHURST Under the direction of art teacher or the delicious food on your plate, hear that a brand-new Nike store, the Jorge Luis Cordero, the students Marco Polo restaurant offers the fi rst-ever Community store in Brook- Oops, a boo boo began the arduous journey of re- best of al fresco.” lyn, has opened on Nostrand Avenue. In the Standing O of May 14, Stand- searching, designing, and then ap- Make a reservation, get yourself Folks at Fraser Civic Association ing O incorrectly identifi ed Kathe Em- plying the skills necessary to create to Marco Polo and enjoy the view were so excited about the addition to manual, Marie Holstrom, Amanda this masterpiece work that was not and the menu. Abbondanza! the community that they just had to Alexandre, Dominique Gayot, and only historically authentic but visu- Marco Polo Ristorante [345 tell Standing O the good news and wish Autumn Bernard, as educators — but ally appealing, too. Court St. between Union and Sack- Nike “the best of luck and success here they are students at Bishop Kearney. After fi ve long months, (the stu- ett streets in Carroll Gardens, (718) in our part of Brooklyn!” Standing O hopes they will be great dents began work in November of 852–5015]. Nike Community Store (2236 Nos- educators some day, too. trand Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Flat- Bishop Kearney High School [2206 lands). 60th St. at Bay Parkway in Benson- terim president at the University of demic administration and has a stellar hurst, (718) 236–6363]. the Arts in Philadelphia, where he reputation as an accomplished leader SAVE THE DATE served as provost from 2011 to 2014. who listens, moves priorities forward, BEDFORD STUYVESANT Thomas F. Schutte, president at and embraces the collaborative nature Bensonhurst Pratt, was excited to let Standing O of collegial governance.” The Brooklyn Spine Center is of- Welcome, Provost know of the appointment. Kirk shares the enthusiasm, and fering three free seminars on weight Standing O says bienvenue to the “Kirk is a phenomenal individual said, “Pratt is an extraordinary hub loss — June 9, at 6:15 pm; June 16, at new Pratt Institute provost, Kirk with the energy, enthusiasm, and ex- of creative energy and excellence. It’s a 1:15 pm; and June 23 at 6:15 pm. Pillow, who will take the reigns from perience to lead the institute in ful- dream come true to be chosen for this Brooklyn Spine Center [5911 16th current provost Peter Barna this fi lling its academic mission,” he said, role.” Ave. at 60th Street in Bensonhurst, coming July. Kirk is currently the in- adding: “He is a true visionary in aca- Standing O wishes Kirk a long and (718) 234–6212]. 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Determin- POLY PREP ing what administration figures, if any, beyond Andersen and [Poly Continued from page 13 board of directors chairman Scott idence that Mr. Andersen had ever Smith] are culpable is also key.” Attention to all Vendors, Restaurants and tried to engage prostitutes on their Tuition at the posh, tax-exempt other Businesses interested in “selling” or behalf,” the letter states. “The in- school runs upwards of $40,000 a vestigation also determined Mr. An- year, and its revenue exceeded $46 “distributing” any type of information during dersen had exercised poor judgment million in 2012, the school’s tax in certain instances while in Cuba returns state . Of that, more than WIADCA’s 2015 New York as a representative of Poly. [An in- $7 million came from donations vestigator hired by the school] con- and private grants, the document Caribbean Carnival Parade cluded that, while Mr. Andersen shows. did not engage in retaliatory action In a disturbing twist, Andersen WIADCA welcomes all Vendors to join us in celebrating our 48th Anniversary against Ms. Della Pietra, his actions worked for years alongside former of Carnival in Brooklyn on Monday September 7th, 2015. Interested persons and managerial style were not con- Poly Prep football coach Philip Fo- have the opportunity to “vend” along the parade route on Eastern Parkway sistent with Poly’s values.” glietta, who was accused in a 2009 on Labor Day, Monday September 7th. Della Pietra remains an em- lawsuit of molesting hundreds of WIADCA especially invites and welcomes all ethnic food vendors to provide ployee of the school, but is currently boys over his 25-year tenure at the their special cuisine from around the world for the millions of international on leave. school. The 2009 suit alleged that visitors who participate every year. The bombshell suit ignited a Poly Prep covered up the abuse for firestorm from alumni. Citing a decades to protect its image. The “leadership crisis,” one Poly alum school and 12 plaintiffs settled for an EARLY REGISTRATION BEGINS: started a petition on Change.org de- undisclosed sum in 2012 . Della The manding an independent investiga- school must seriously investigate Monday June 1st–Tuesday June 30th, 2015 tion into the allegations against An- Della Pietra’s allegations in light of Great discounts for early registration ONLY! dersen, and has garnered more than the Foglietta case, the alumni peti- `É ÊV VÊ ÀÃÊÊUÊÊÀÌÃÊEÊ À>vÌà 350 signatures in 24 hours. tion states. Non-Profi ts for distributing information “Della Pietra’s complaint is long, “[T]he school’s history of obfus- and the abuses it alleges are numer- cation and opacity during the sex- REGULAR REGISTRATION BEGINS: ous and disturbing,” the petition ual abuse scandal involving coach Wednesday July 1st – Monday August 31st, 2015 states. “The ongoing lawsuit aside, Phil Foglietta are too recent to ig- `É ÊV VÊ ÀÃÊÊUÊÊÀÌÃÊEÊ À>vÌ the alumni community feels that nore,” the petition states. “The mis- Non-Profi ts for distributing information the full range of Della Pietra’s alle- handling of that tragedy necessi- A late fee of $50.00 will be applied for any gations — from bullying to extortion tates increased vigilance.” registration submitted after August 31st, 2014 Space will be assigned on a fi rst come - fi rst served basis. WIADCA cannot guarantee any spots. All spaces measure 10x10. No Exceptions. REGISTRATION WILL BE AS FOLLOWS: Organization’s offi ce: 325 Rogers Avenue (Bet Montgomery & Sullivan). PH #: 718-467-1797 Online at wiadcacarnival.org. Please note there will be an additional service fee for online registration. Offi ce Email: [email protected] WIADCA’s offi ce is open for registration Monday through Friday 11:00 am – 6:00 pm. PAYMENT OPTIONS In Offi ce registration: Money Orders, Debit and/or Credit Cards ONLY. No Exceptions. Please make your money order payable to: WEST INDIAN AMERICAN DAY CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION, INC. OR WIADCA INC. Online registration: Credit & Debit Cards ONLY. Discounts will be offered to anyone taking more than one vending space. The Info below is ONLY a suggestion. You may opt to go elsewhere. These Insurance Carriers are familiar with the insurance required for vendors for WIADCA’s Labor Day Carnival. INSURANCE: Vendors are required to purchase General Liability Insurance from a reputable Insurance Company that is licensed to provide insurance coverage. The policy should name the following as additional insured: WIADCA INC., The City of New York Offi ce of the Mayor’s Street Activity. Manhattan BROOKLYN BROOKLYN S E. G. BOWMAN CO. INC. ALLIED INSURANCE ANDREW CLUNIS 5 Hanover Square, BROKERAGE 2130 Caton Avenue Suite 201 4315 Church Avenue BROOKLYN, NY 11226 New York, NY 10004 BROOKLYN, NY 11203 Tel. No.: 718 284 1783 Tel. No.: 212 425 8150 Tel. No.: 718 693 2000 Fax No.: 718 284 8973 For more hyper-local Brooklyn news on your computer, Fax No.: 212 269 0399 Fax No.: 718 269 0399 smartphone, or iPad, visit BrooklynDaily.com. 28 COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 DT fi cult parts of transitioning to a nursing home is the notion that se- niors are leaving their lives behind once they move into a home. Choos- ADAPTING TO A ing a nursing home that’s close to home and makes routine visits from friends and relatives possible enables seniors to maintain a connection to their current lifestyle. A home that is miles and miles away from a per- son’s support system can foster feel- NURSING HOME ings of isolation and loneliness. Plan trips with your loved one. any older men and women members with little to no recourse in a new light. In addition, family Just because an aging relative lives fi nd the transition to a nurs- when aging relatives protest the members who familiarize them- in a nursing home does not mean he Ming home somewhat diffi cult. move. But there are ways to ease a selves with nursing homes will be- can no longer travel. If a relative is Seniors tend to see a move to a nurs- loved one’s transition into a nursing gin to see they are often great places healthy enough to travel, include ing home as a step toward surrender- home. for aging men and women to social- him on family trips and outings. ing their independence, and this can Keep a positive attitude. The ize with others their age while re- This includes more routine events be a diffi cult hurdle for seniors and stress of moving an aging relative ceiving the care and attention they like weekly Sunday dinners, kids’ their loved ones to overcome. into a nursing home can be signifi - need. When discussing the move to sporting events, and other extracur- Adding to the diffi culty is the fact cant for all parties involved. But fo- a nursing home, focus on these posi- ricular activities. The more involved that many move into nursing homes cusing on the positives of nursing tives and your relative will be more your aging relative is in the daily life because their physical or mental homes, such as around-the-clock likely to follow your lead. of your family, the more likely he is status requires the help of a profes- care and daily activities, can help ag- Choose a nursing home that’s to see the advantages of living in a sional nursing staff, leaving family ing relatives look at nursing homes close to home. One of the more dif- nursing home. DT COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 29 ELDERCARE TODAY Cognitive ability better among bilingual eniors who are bilingual switch between tasks and acti- language or moving to a for- and have spoken two or vate their brains in a manner eign country as an adult can S more languages since closer to the younger subjects. provide the same level of cog- their youth may have cognitive They didn’t have to expend nitive advantage as being bi- advantages over adults who much effort, and they out-per- lingual from childhood. How- have only spoken one language formed their peers who were ever, learning a new language their entire lives. monolingual. The researchers can help keep the brain sharp. A new study headed by surmised the bilingual seniors Many experts now believe Brian Gold, a neuroscientist were using their brains more learning a second language is at the University of Kentucky effi ciently. College of Medicine, which Other studies have shown no harder when you’re getting was published in the journal bilingualism pays even more on in years than when you’re a Neuroscience, found that bi- dividends, including improved child. lingualism leads to heightened cognitive function in those suf- There are different methods mental skills. In the study, fering from Alzheimer’s dis- to learning a new language: participants were divided into ease. A study titled “Lifelong • Foreign language tapes three groups: bilingual se- Bilingualism Maintains Neu- • Grammar and vocabulary niors, monolingual seniors, ral Effi ciency for Cognitive books from a child’s foreign and younger adults. Each Control in Aging,” found that language class group was instructed to sort even though seniors who spoke • A foreign language tutor colors and shapes in a series dual languages had more brain • Vocabulary index cards of simple cognitive exercises. atrophy due to Alzheimer’s, • Moving to a foreign coun- The researchers used a brain they were still able to function try and learning through im- imaging technique to compare better than individuals with mersion how well the subjects switched lower levels of atrophy who Bilingual seniors have dis- between mental tasks. The re- spoke one language. Research- sults indicated there were dif- ers believe that being bilingual tinct cognitive advantages over ferent patterns of brain activ- strengthens the brain’s capac- other people who are monolin- ity among the groups when the ity for doing work, even if it is gual. 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With mined woman to change the lives of This policy is particularly harmful for that a patient can continue receiving proper documentation from the pro- millions of seniors. Glenda Jimmo, a chronically ill patients who require physical, occupational, or speech ther- vider, Medicare may cover additional 76-year-old, blind, wheelchair-bound continuous therapy in order to main- apy indefi nitely. A person who receives therapy. If Medicare denies the claim, woman did just that; she improved tain an optimum level of health. When rehab in a nursing home can get up to the decision can be appealed. Medicare’s rehab policy for millions of their therapies are discontinued, their 100 days of Medicare fi nanced therapy. All the information on how much, infi rmed seniors. In 2011, Jimmo fi led condition deteriorates. The fi rst 20 days are paid in total. Af- how often, and under what conditions a class action suit against Medicare Jimmo, a resident of Bristol, Vt., ter that Medicare pays 80 percent of ad- a person can receive rehabilitation after being denied rehabilitation ther- decided to challenge this decision and ditional therapy starting on day 21 and therapy paid by Medicare is publicly apy. She was informed that she was no fi led a class action suit against Medi- continuing up to 100 days. The remain- available by referencing The Center for longer eligible for physical and occu- care. This landmark case, Jimmo v. ing 20 percent is covered by a second- Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Pol- pational therapy because she was not Sebelius, changed the lives of millions ary health plan. icy Manual on Medicare. It is impor- making progress with the therapy she of chronically ill seniors throughout Upon leaving a rehab facility a per- tant that every person be aware of his was receiving. In rehab language, she the United States. On Jan. 23, 2013, son can continue to receive out-patient rights under Medicare. It takes people had “plateaued.” the U.S. District Court for the District rehabilitation, however, it is not as like Jimmo to challenge unsubstanti- Jimmo could not understand this of Vermont decided in Jimmo’s favor. intense as the treatments received in ated policies like Medicare’s “improve- reasoning. She had her right leg ampu- The Court ruled that nowhere in Medi- a rehab facility. In-house therapy in- ment standard” and demand their tated due to complications from diabe- care’s policy manual is there a clause cludes two 30- to 45-minutes sessions rights. And it is up to consumers like tes and was confi ned to a wheelchair. requiring a person to show improve- a day. A person receiving rehab at you to insure you get the care you de- She required intense rehab therapy ment in order to continue receiving home gets the same amount of time per serve. to improve her physical abilities. She skilled treatments through Medicare. visit but usually gets therapy approxi- Joanna R. Leefer, a senior care ad- knew her condition would deteriorate In fact, the court determined that mately three days a week. visor/advocate, and panel of elder- if she did not continue. Medicare must cover therapy services In 2015, Medicare covers up to $1,940 care experts speak about long-term Thousands of rehab patients face that helps a person maintain his abil- for outpatient physical and speech planning at West Park Presbyterian similar situations everyday. Since ity to function. As a consequence of therapy combined, and another $1,940 Church (165 W. 86th St. at Amsterdam Medicare’s creation in 1965, it has stuck this settlement, patients with chronic for occupational therapy. If a patient Avenue on the Upper West Side , www. to an improvement standard policy conditions can now continue to receive is approaching this limit and a doctor joannaleefer.com) June 16, 6–7:45 pm. that states once a person stops show- physical and occupational treatment or therapist feels more therapy is re- Free. At New York Methodist, vaccinations are crucial for seniors Vaccines are routinely tance of the tetanus, diphthe- for a potentially life-saving they are released. against shingles (the same vi- administered to infants and ria and pertussis—or Tdap— immunization.” “The influenza vaccine rus that causes chicken pox) children as protection against vaccine for seniors who live Dr. Mudannayake also is up to 70 percent effective is also recommended as well viral diseases to which they in a household with young stresses the importance of an at preventing hospitaliza- for those ages 60 and up. are particularly vulnerable. children who aren’t yet old annual flu vaccine—the most tion for both influenza and Those who benefit second- However, seniors can also enough to receive their own frequent immunization that pneumonia,” said Dr. Mudan- arily from a senior staying benefit from vaccines. Older immunizations.” seniors will need. This is be- nayake. “That is why NYM current on vaccinations in- adults often have weaker im- One immunization that is cause the flu vaccine protects physicians recommend a flu clude his or her loved ones, mune systems than younger highly recommended for el- against more than just influ- vaccine annually for seniors and anyone else with whom people, making them more derly patients is the vaccine enza infection—studies have at any age.” he or she has regular contact. susceptible to viruses and against pneumonia, which found that people who receive NYM physicians also rec- This is “herd immunity” less able to fight those viruses often starts with the flu or the flu vaccine are less likely ommend two doses of vacci- in action—reducing one’s off once contracted. other viral illness. Pneumo- to experience other health nations for hepatitis A and chances of becoming conta- “After age 50, an adult’s nia infection is one of the complications that can be ag- three doses for hepatitis B for gious also reduces the chance ability to fight diseases de- most fatal infections among gravated by the flu, like heart seniors at any age if they have that people with whom he or creases, because lympho- older adults. disease and stroke. While never contracted the illness she interacts will be vulner- cytes [white blood cells] be- “I particularly recom- the 2014–2015 flu season may and are at higher than aver- able to the spread of the dis- come more sluggish,” says mend the pneumonia vac- seem like a distant memory, age risk. Risk factors include ease. Emil Baccash, M.D., internist cine for elderly people whose the 2015–2016 flu season is having multiple sex partners, To find a New York Meth- and geriatrician at New York health is compromised,” says only a summer away. 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Of- CLASSIFIEDS 34 COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 DT WWW.BROOKLYNDAILY.COM PUBLISHED BY CNG • 1 METROTECH CENTER NORTH • 10TH FLOOR • BROOKLYN, NY 11201 Dance dance robolution March of the tin soldiers: A troupe of dancing droids create a colorful and kinetic theater experience in “Robot,” opening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music next week. Laurent Phillipe Robots and humans tango together in surreal dance show By Danielle Furfaro Li traveled the world to connect with hese robots want to boogie. robot makers and discover machines that Humans and acrobatic androids fit with her vision. She picked a handful Tshare the stage in a colorful dance that looked cool and were sophisticated performance landing at the Brooklyn enough to dance along with the music on Academy of Music this week. But stage. It took months to coordinate the “Robot” is more than a kinetic spectacle movements of the robots into a well-oiled of music, metal, and fancy footwork. choreographed piece, she said. The performance is also a philosophical “It was really difficult to put it all togeth- rumination on how smart machines have er,” said Li. “It almost did not happen.” invaded aspects of the human world, said She finally found the robots in France, the show’s creator. and Japanese collaborators created the elab- “It came out of the idea that the world orate 10-piece mechanical orchestra of alu- is changing a lot because technology and minum and resin that provides music for the machines are becoming part of our lives performance. The band is an art installation more and more,” said Spanish director and as much as an orchestra, she said. choreographer Blanca Li. The performance comes to Brooklyn Li conveys our complicated relation- after two years touring Spain, France, ship with technology without saying a Belgium, Portugal, and Italy. Tiny dancer: An android strikes a pose while under the watchful eye of a fellow performer in the word, instead creating a surreal costume- “Robot” at the Brooklyn Academy of theatrical extravaganza “Robot.” Laurent Philippe and prop-driven adventure. Each robot has Music, Howard Gilman Opera House [30 a unique name and personality, and they learn to walk and dance, and they interact “I wanted to be able to show the robots’ Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort range from toddler-sized cuddly creatures with eight human performers in a variety presence and emotion,” said Li. “I wanted Greene, (718) 636–4100, www.bam.org]. to towering metallic monsters. During of way, including dancing, making fun of them to really be able to interact with the June 9, 11, 12 at 8 pm, June 13 at 2 pm and 8 the course of the show, the seven robots each other, and falling in love. people on stage at an emotional level.” pm, June 14 at 1 pm and 5 pm. $25–$75. 24-7 COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 35 HAUNTING PERFORMANCE Artists transform Green-Wood Cemetery into a ‘Dark Wonderland’ By Danielle Furfaro hese performers will take their work to the grave. T Musicians, dancers, and perfor- mance artists will take over Green-Wood Cemetery every weekend in June as part of “Dark Wonderland,” an installation of outlandish works celebrating the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” The twilight performances are not directly inspired by the surreal children’s story, but the organizers chose esoteric acts to highlight the otherworldly atmosphere of the 177-year-old cemetery. “It is the idea of using Green-Wood as a wonderland and surreal landscape,” said Chelsea Dowell, manager of programs and membership at the cemetery. “It is such a robust experience and something you do not get sitting in a theater.” Audiences will travel around the cem- etery during the show, but the performers will not actually be dancing on graves. The action takes place in groves between the tombstones, while the audience watches Ian Douglas from the cemetery’s many paved surfaces. Marshall Ed Two productions during this week’s Music of the night: (Left) Among the musicians performing at Green-Wood Cemetery this month are Sean Dixon (far left) and Sandra Lilia Velasquez (front) of the electonic band SLV. (Right) Sacha Yanow’s Little Vamp will also appear among the tombs with a performance inspired by silent cinema. installment are particularly appropriate for the graveyard location. One is a musical work intersects with the real world. acter created by performance artist Sacha Julie Atlas Muz, improvisational big band piece composed in remembrance of Eric “They are the cutting edge of the cutting Yanow. Her performance of the vampiric orchestra Burnt Sugar, and electro-pop band Garner, who suffocated to death while being edge,” said Brian Tate, executive producer character draws on the traditions of silent SLV, among many others. arrested by police in Staten Island last year. of MAPP International Productions, the film, as well as feminist and queer history. “Dark Wonderland” at the Green- The guitar solo requiem will be performed group that curated the shows. “They are not Three different artists will perform each Wood Cemetery [500 25th St. at Fifth by Vernon Reid, founder of the band Living just bold creators but empathetic people who weekend, so visitors can return for a differ- Avenue in Greenwood Heights, (718) 210– Colour. Organizers of the event say that care about social issues.” ent experience throughout the month. Other 3080, www.green-wood.com]. Thursdays, Reid and other artists were chosen not only The second scene at home among the acts will include burlesque star and queen Fridays, and Saturdays in June at 7:30 because of their ability, but because their tombs is “The Little Vamp,” an undead char- of the 2015 Coney Island Mermaid Parade pm. $30 ($25 in advance). Swashbuckling spectacle By Allegra Hobbs ed Hook’s favorite pirate hackers are back! R The Caravan Stage Company drops anchor this week at Gowanus Bay Terminal for its show “Hacked: The Treasure of the Empire,” a fantastical multimedia rock opera in which pirate hackers in a dystopian future sing, dance, and swing from the rigging of a tall ship high above the harbor. The socially conscious performance is designed to provoke the audience into contemplating the malevolence of the capitalist machine. Ship ahoy!: Caravan Stage Company parks its tall ship in the Gowanus Bay Terminal “I would like the audience to from June 10 - 14 for a dazzling multimedia production about pirate hackers in a leave wanting to understand what dystopian future. Claire Sabattie they’ve just seen,” said Bernard surreal post-apocalyptic vision. The people’s jaws dropped,” said Pearce. Pearce, who was a cook in the nau- travelling company last brought the “We reach for the stars and are con- tical caravan before taking a role show to Red Hook in September of stantly improving.” in the play. “I think the idea is to 2014, but say that this year’s perfor- “Hacked: The Treasure of the overwhelm the audience and then mance is new and improved, with Empire” at Gowanus Bay Terminal have them so intrigued they go back new music, aerial performances, [699 Columbia St. between Ikea and and start reading about it.” choreography, and video, resulting the end of the road in Red Hook, The performance itself is a daz- in an even fuller and richer vision www.caravanstage.org, (904) 944– See pirate, see horse: “Hacked” uses puppetry, high-flying acrobatics, and music to zling spectacle, combining a wide than before. 3698]. June 10–14 at 9:00 pm. $20 project a message about corporate malevolence. 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Alternatingng take on what the fictional Rydell between accounts of thee High would have looked like post- German U-boat captain whoo desegregation, which the show’s sank the ship, the daily lives creator said was inspired by her of passengers aboard it, newly own childhood reaction to the film. revealed British secret intel- “As a black American, I fell in ligence data, and details of love with ‘Grease’ just like every- President Woodrow Wilson’s body else, but I had this weird private life, Larson creates a moment where I was like, ‘That’s shocking narrative that reveals howhow WinstonWinston not me,’ ” said Hollie Harper, who Churchill may have deliberately let it all happen. I couldn’t wrote and directed the produc- put it down. tion with her sketch comedy group — Ashanti White-Wallace, Word [126 Franklin St. at American Candy. Milton Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383–0096, www.word- As with its canonical prequel, brooklyn.com]. “G3” begins with some summer lovin’, but this time it is Lauren, Tell me more: Comedy troupe American Candy’s “G3: The Browning” adds a new, more Greenlight Bookstore’s pick: diverse chapter to the classic musical “Grease.” Photo by Stefano Giovannini visiting from Brooklyn, and local “East of Eden” by John Steinbeck heartthrob Will who are having a integration — and larger events of racism, Harper said. I’ve been thinking about thisthis blast. Lauren ends up staying for the the era such as the assassination “You always have to have a book a lot lately. I’ve read it twice,ice, school year, but it is now 1964, and of Malcolm X — along with teen spoonful of sugar to go with some- both times while on long drives.es. like schools throughout the country, romance. With America once again thing bitter,” Harper said. “I think What I like about Steinbeck is Rydell High is in the process of inte- engaged in a public discussion people will really be able to relate that he was always trying to bee a gration, after the town’s black high- about racism and police reform, to how some things have changed better writer and that his booksks school burns to the ground. And Harper said modern audiences will and some things have not.” are always different. Thiss the students don’t initially all go still find their chills are multiplyin’ “G3: The Browning” at the Actors one is epic, generational, andd together like a rama-lamma-lamma- while watching the teen characters Fund Arts Center (160 Schermerhorn explores family relations by ka-dinga-da-dinga-dong. and their struggles. St. between Smith and Hoyt streets using some of his own fam- The musical follows Lauren, Of course, the “G3” is still a in Boerum Hill, www.facebook.com/ ily history. 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Portland Avenue in Fort By Max Jaeger Greenhouse Cafe (7717 Third Ave. Greene, (718) 246–0200, www.greenlightbookstore.com ]. op o’ the mornin’ to ya, Bay between 77th and 78th streets) for a Community Bookstore’s pick: Ridge! rollicking set of tunes from the 1960s “Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last T It is June, which means and ’70s starting at 9:30 pm. we’re halfway to halfway to St. Enjoy some airs in the fresh air on Days of American Spaceflight” Patrick’s Day, and the Ridge’s Irish- Sunday at 7 pm, when ivory-tickling by Margaret Lazarus Dean est parade committee is already gear- songster Tony Travis performs in the The space program was oncece so ing up with a fund-raising event next Shore Road Park gazebo (Shore much a part of how we saw oour-ur- week. And of course, on top of the Road and 90th Street) as part of selves as Americans, its futureure Gaelic gamboling, the neighborhood the Shore Road Parks Conservancy’s so seemingly limitless, that it has more live music this weekend summer concert series. would have been inconceivableble than you can shake a shillelagh at. On Thursday, embrace your Irish that someday we would shut it It is a meat-ing of cultures on side at Leif Bar (6725 Fifth Ave. down and walk away, turningg Friday when the Bay Ridge Jewish between 67th and Senator Streets) Cape Canaveral over to thee Center (405 81st St. between Fourth where you can take some tradition- alligators. Margaret Lazarus and Fifth avenues) holds a Shabbat al Irish dance lessons from the St. Dean is too young to know service followed by a hoe-down and Patrick’s Day Parade Committee. what it was like to watch chicken-and-ribs dinner — talk about Learn how to step the Siege of Ennis, Alan Shepard, Gus Grisson, manna from heaven! 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Photo by Caroll Alvarado being lifted up around the box- ing ring in jubilation. “I wanted to be carried around that ring so bad last time,” Hardy said. “I had to Volleyball title wait this whole time for that.” Hardy got her wish af- ter she remained undefeated with a split-decision victory, slips away from 77–75, 75–77, 79–73, over St. Pe- tersburg, Fla., fi ghter Noemi Bosques in a featherweight bout at Barclays Center last Friday night. Boys & Girls The eight-round bout was part of the Premier Boxing BY PATRICK MCCORMACK agitated. They had to work a Champions undercard head- The Boys & Girls players al- little more,” White said. lined by the Amir Khan-Chris lowed overconfi dence to creep Metropolitan (12–2), Algieri battle. Hardy didn’t in, and it cost them. which fi nished second in its believe her fi ght was as close The second-seeded Kan- division, ran into problems as the judges saw it. She gave garoos were just three points in the third set. The Knights Bosques just the fi rst and away from closing out No. 4 led 18–9 before Boys & Girls third rounds, but was pleased Metropolitan Campus in the (15–1) went on a 10–2 rally to with another victory. second set and celebrating a cut the lead to 20–19. Bryan The bout was considered city championship. Expect- Vasquez responded with a a big jump up in competition ing victory instead of seizing kill to increase the Knights’ for Hardy. Bosques is the No. NO. 1: Hardy remained undefeated with a victory over Noemi Bosques at it, Boys & Girls let the set and lead to 21–19. Tishawn Doolit- 3 ranked bantamweight in the Barclays Center on May 29. Photo by Steven Schnibbe the title slip away. tle, who had 12 kills, made country. She came up a weight “We got a little bit too some big plays down the class to fi ght her. step in with quick combina- back to her usual position on loose,” said Kangaroos coach stretch to help Metropolitan “I really, really wanted tions,” Hardy said. the shoulders of supporters be- Leroy White. “We let them wrap up the fi nal set 25–20. someone where we could She did just that especially ing carried around the ring. come back, we fi gured the The Knights learned from showcase what women’s box- well in a strong fi fth round. “I’m so happy right now,” three points would be ours. seeing Boys & Girls faltering ing was about on a stage like Hardy landed two hard right- Hardy said. “I don’t even know We let that game get away down the stretch of the sec- this,” Hardy said. left combinations and was get- if I’m answering the questions from us.” ond set. They weren’t going After a strong start, ting her head out of the way of right.” Metropolitan scored eight- to let that happen to them. Bosques gained some confi - Bosques’s big shots. She also Her victory was part of a straight points to win the “I told them when we were dence in the third and fourth focused more on body blows in big night for Brooklyn fi ght- second set, and held off Boys up big, ‘Hey listen, I see you rounds. Hardy said she was the later rounds. The strategy ers. Featherweight Chris Col- & Girls in the fi nal frame to think we got this and you are overanxious for a knock- slowly wore Bosques down. It bert earned a technical knock- win 23–25, 25–22, 25–20, in the relaxing,’ ” said Metropolitan out and standing in front of left her grabbing Hardy often out victory against Marquis Public School Athletic League coach Thomas Shean. “ ‘But Bosques too much. That al- to slow the fi ght down. Pierce in his pro debut. Wes- Class B city fi nal at Hunter remember the other team lowed her opponent to land “She actually saw and ley Ferrer bested Jose Miguel College on May 27. The Kan- thought they had the match some big punches and impress made the slips at the appro- Castro by majority decision, garoos carried the shock of just before and they relaxed, the judges. Hardy quickly ad- priate times,” Hardy’s trainer 58–54, 57–55, 56–56 in a light- dropping the second set into so play hard.’ ” justed and controlled the fi ght Devon Cormack said. “Before weight fi ght. Adam Kownacki the third, and it showed. Down 16–11 in the fi rst the rest of the way. Her jab was she was basically thinking to won a 79–73, 79–73, 80–72, “The guys were hoping set, Boys & Girls rallied to go effective for most of the bout. go in and hit.” unanimous decision over we would do it in two and ahead 24–23 behind the play “My coaches were trying to Hardy’s adjustment got her Ytalo Perea in a heavyweight sweep, but when they got to of Donte Myers. Metropoli- tell me to step back and then back in the win column and bout. the third round they were Continued on page 45 DT COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 43 Tough loss for Madison softball Late lead slips away from Golden Knights in semifi nal heartbreaker Madison semis loss BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI outs for Wagner in the bottom James Madison never recov- of the frame. Altieri pinch-hit ered from the emotional swing the heavy-hitting Kelly with a step forward in of the game’s biggest play. one ball on Kiera Rodriguez. Second-seeded Susan Wag- Kelly gave him a better chance ner tied the score on a hit bat- of getting a ball hit into the ter and an obstruction call outfi eld to bring in a run. She softball title quest at third base in the bottom of served the fi rst pitch she saw the seventh inning. It later got into left fi eld to end the game. t was not the ending to a walk-off single from Kerri “We stole a run. They got the season James Madi- Kelly in the bottom of the a run back, and then unfortu- I son wanted. eighth to hand No. 3 Madison a nately they got another one,” The pain from the extra- heartbreaking 5–4 defeat in the said Madison coach Thomas inning loss in the softball Public School Athletic League Moblilia. semifi nals only goes away Class A softball semifi nals on Madison, which has lost its if the game becomes a step- May 30 at the College of Staten two previous meetings with ping stone to a storybook Island. It is Madison’s second- Wagner, picked up where it left fi nish next season. straight loss in the fi nal four. off in the quarterfi nals at the Ace Isabella Gerone The seventh inning ob- HEAT UP: Madison ace Isabella plate. Jenna Graffeo drove in slumped over, hands on her struction call was the turning Gerone struck out seven in a loss Gerone with a run-batted-in sin- knee, as the ball Susan Wag- point. to Susan Wagner in the semifi nals. gle to give the Golden Knights a ner’s Kerri Kelly hit to left “That’s when we started to Photo by Joseph Staszewski 1–0 lead in the opening inning. fi eld to score the winning run think about it too much,” said Wagner responded by scoring was thrown back into the in- JOE Madison shortstop Taylor Ace Isabella Gerone set three times off Gerone in the fi eld. The junior looked like Trim. “It all went down hill down Wagner (17–4) in order bottom of the fi rst to take a 3–1 she wanted to throw another KNOWS from there.” in the bottom of the inning, lead. Trim and Valerie Horton pitch immediately. That will Madison (16–5) appeared but with two strikes she hit both drove in runs with singles have to wait until next March by Joe Staszewski to have stolen its way to the No. 9 batter Nicole Williams in the top of the second to tie the after Madison lost a one-run Public School Athletic League to start the seventh. She was score at 3–3. seventh-inning lead before Class A softball title game bunted over to second and the Gerone was superb after falling 5–4 a frame later last pect. We got here early and when leadoff hitter Trim next batter singled to left. that. The junior allowed two Saturday. went to the cages. We did ev- reached on a walk with out Williams blew threw coach runs on six hits the rest of the “For next year, I think erything that we had to do.” two outs in the top of the sixth. Marco Altieri’s stop sign and way and struck out six in the we all see what we need to The next thing to do is to She stole second, then stole collided with Maegan Butrico game. She changed her pitching do and how we have to act,” win, not just come close. third, and put Madison ahead at third. Williams appeared to motion two weeks ago, but went said Gerone. Madison will be a vet- 4–3 when the throw sailed into be thrown out at home, but the back to her old ways in hope of The Golden Knights eran team next year, and left fi eld. third-base umpire ruled ob- increasing her strikeouts. She graduate just two seniors will have two of the city’s “From the beginning I told struction and awarded Wagner shook off the slow start. and the majority of the best players in Gerone and myself, ‘be aggressive,’ and the tying run to make it 4–4. “I didn’t want to think roster is made up of sopho- shortstop Taylor Trim. Mad- that’s all I could do,” Trim said. The Golden Knights went about it too much and knew mores. That includes start- ison last won a Public School “I just wanted to get home. I quietly in the top of the eighth. I could do it,” Gerone said. “I ing outfi elder Gabrielle Athletic League Class A title wanted to win. I wanted to go A single and an error put run- just tried to pitch my best.” Grimes, who was academi- in 2010 when Kayla Hill con- to the championship.” ners on fi rst and third with no Continued on page 45 cally ineligible for the play- trolled the Tottenville bats offs. for eight innings. “Hopefully, next year There is no reason that they do the right thing shouldn’t be the goal again — it is student-athlete — next year, and Madison will Madison baseball title run cut short and they will be playing be even more prepared to the whole season,” Madi- take that next step. A break BY DAVID RUSSELL ing strikes, things started son coach Thomas Mobilia here, a break there, and AND STEPHEN ZITOLO happening.” said. the Golden Knights would James Madison saw its dream Jordan Wilson’s two-run Missing players aside, be playing for the crown at of playing for a city title at double off Reyan Mustafoski the year was still a step for- St. John’s University this Yankee Stadium cut short on tied the score at 2–2 for Madi- ward for Madison. It won weekend. Saturday when Tottenville’s son in the second inning. The its division outright and Instead, Madison’s de- Brandon Seltzer looped a Golden Knights left nine men showed plenty of tough- meanor changed after Wag- walk-off single over Madison’s on base. ness on its way to the semi- ner tied the score in the drawn-in infi eld in the bottom Howe had a chance to put fi nals. bottom of the seventh. The of the eighth inning. the Knights ahead in the sev- It wasn’t ready for the crispness from the fi rst That gave top-seeded Tot- enth with two on and one out, stage of the fi nal four last seven frames let up a bit and tenville a 3–2 victory in the but he could not deliver. Tot- year. It was Mobilia’s fi rst an error opened the door for decisive Game 3 of the Public tenville reliever Ryan Bartley trip there as well as his Wagner in the eighth. School Athletic League Class AND HOWE: Madison starter Rob- came on and got him to bounce players. They lost 10–0 in Madison learned from AAA baseball semifi nal se- into a double play. fi ve innings to then-defend- its semifi nal appearance a ert Howe retired 12 straight batters ries on May 30 in Huguenot. The game almost ended in ing champion Construc- year ago. If it does so again, Madison was kept off the after allowing two runs in the fi rst the bottom of the seventh. Jo- tion. Madison learned from a title will be within its scoreboard after the second inning against Tottenville. seph Sadallah drilled a liner that. It came to the College grasp. inning. Photo by Steven Schnibbe to left with the potential win- of Staten Island expecting “It’s defi nitely a step in “You’re talking about good ning run on third with two to win, not just hoping to, the right direction,” Trim pitching,” said Madison coach but Howe settled down and outs. Madison’s Joseph Toldeo and was better prepared to said. “I’m a sophomore. I Vincent Caiazza. “Good pitch- retired the next 12 batters he made a diving catch to take compete. hope to return to semis next ing stops good hitting.” faced. away a hit and kept Madison’s “They know what it was year again and take it even Caiazza sent Robert Howe “The fi rst inning was a lit- hopes alive. about,” Mobilia said. “The further. We defi nitely get to the mound for the fi rst time tle rough, I was trying to fi nd “He’s been doing that all stage didn’t shock them this something from each time this season. The fi rst four Pi- myself,” Howe said. “I couldn’t year,” Caiazza said. “He comes time. They knew what to ex- we come here.” rates got on, with two scoring, throw strikes, I started throw- Continued on page 45 44 COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 DT Flashy Flatbush native Colbert wins pro debut BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Chris “B-Hop” Colbert was so confi dent he would win his fi rst professional fi ght he was more concerned with just liv- ing up to his own hype — and his nickname. “I was more nervous to look bad,” Colbert said. “I talk a lot, so I had to back it up.” The 18-year-old Flatbush- native, who began boxing at the age of 13, earned the nickname B-Hop three years ago because of his friendship with legendary fi ghter Ber- nard Hopkins. He also car- ried himself with the same showboating swagger as the future Hall of Famer. At the weigh-in, Colbert — who had “B-Hop” shaved in the back of PUNCHING POWER: Chris “B-Hop” Colbert, in the zebra shorts, knocked his head — told opponent Mar- down Marquis Pierce late in the fi rst round with a straight right to the quis Pierce he was going to temple. Photo by Steven Schnibbe SAFE!: Jordan Wilson’s two-run double off Reyan Mustafoski tied the “whoop” him. score at 2–2 for Madison in the second inning. Photo by Steve Solomonson B-Hop delivered on his knew it would be there again was the No. 3-ranked fi ghter promise. when he needed it. nationally at 114 pounds as the fourth and sixth innings. Colbert, still in high school, “I faked to the body and an amateur, and No. 1 at 123. BASEBALL He got a strike out of Daniel knocked down the 25-year-old came up top with the right Colbert decided to by pass on a Digeorgio to end the fourth. Pierce late in the fi rst round hand,” Colbert said. “I knew it chance to try to qualify for the Continued from page 44 Tottenville (18–1) won the se- with a straight right to the tem- was going to land because he 2016 Olympics. up clutch. As I told them, ries’ fi rst game 4–1. ple. He landed a similar punch kept ducking.” “He’s a camera kid,” Sosa ‘Two-clutch plays. The kid Madison’s defense saved in the second, sending Pierce Boxing has provided an es- said. “He was ready for the hit a line drive in the clutch, the day in the sixth when fl ying into the ropes. The ref- cape from a tough neighbor- hype.” and he made the catch in the Wilson made a game-saving eree immediately stopped the hood and family life for Col- The day didn’t start as clutch.’ ” diving catch in centerfi eld fi ght at 1:31 of the second round bert. Neither of his parents well as it ended for Colbert. Madison (18–4) put run- and proceeded to double off of the featherweight bout to was on hand to see him com- He came to the area without ners on second and third Nicholas Manzella at third award Colbert a memorable vic- pete. Colbert’s coach Aureli- his custom-made zebra box- with two outs in the eighth, base. tory Friday night in Brooklyn. ano Sosa, who has known him ing shorts. He had a spare, but Bartley got Charles Pre- James scattered seven The bout was part of the Pre- since he was 11, has become a but was on his way to the ring vete to ground out to second. hits over six innings of work mier Boxing Champions un- father fi gure to him and han- when the originals were run Howe returned to pitch the and struck out three. dercard headlined by the Amir dles the task of keeping him in over from near Junior’s Res- eighth inning with Caiazza “He gutted it out,” Cai- Khan-Chris Algieri fi ght. line. taurant to Barclays Center. not thinking twice about azza said. “Not a lot of people get to “Most of the time he stays “I was ready, but if I had to pulling him before the start Wilson also changed the make their pro debut in their over my house, and we keep go out there and fi ght in my of the inning. game with his bat and speed. hometown,” Colbert said. him out of trouble,” Sosa said. drawers I would have did it,” After a leadoff single and He reached base in all three B-Hop isn’t known for his Despite this being his fi rst Colbert said. a walk, Caiazza went to An- of his plate appearances by punching power, but he cer- pro fi ght, Colbert was already It further insured Colbert thony Mascolo. Tottenville’s walking twice and singling. tainly showcased his fi st- a veteran in the ring. He’s had looked good while defeating Everett Rodriguez, who was Wilson also stole four bases force for the Brooklyn fans. more than 50 amateur fi ghts Pierce. attempting to move the run- and scored three of Madi- Colbert, who is signed with and has won multiple titles, “I just knew today was go- ners over, bunted for a single son’s fi ve runs. top manager Al Haymon, de- including the Daily News ing to be a special day,” Col- to load the bases with no outs. “As a leadoff hitter, you scribed himself as an accurate Golden Gloves last year, USA bert said. “I just had to come Caiazza had no choice but got to get on base and you got puncher. Once he landed the Nationals, and Silver Glove here and show up, and do what to bring the infi eld in, but to steal,” Wilson said. “My big right in the fi rst round he nationals, among others. He I do best — and that’s fi ght.” Brandon Seltzer hit a looper dad has always told me that over the shortstop, landing as a leadoff hitter you got to in shallow left to provide a control the game.” tough ending. Madison didn’t win the “You came this far, fall series, but it dropped Totten- SOFTBALL VOLLEYBALL with a bloop single,” Howe ville from the ranks of the Continued from page 44 Continued from page 43 said. unbeaten in league play, and Madison’s best wasn’t good enough, but tan hit the next ball out to secure the Kanga- Madison forced the fi nal proved it belongs among the it was certainly an improvement from a roos’ win of the fi rst set. The play of Marlon game behind a dominant city’s top teams. 10–0 run-rule loss to Construction in last Glynn and Olivier Gaussaint put Boy & Girls pitching performance from “Before the season started, season’s semifi nal. With just two seniors on in a great position to close out the champion- Shawn James and the speed we weren’t even mentioned the roster the Golden Knights still take this ship, but then the wheels started to come off. of centerfi elder Jordan Wil- in the top 10 in the rankings,” game as something to build off of for next The Kangaroos kept fi ghting, but the end son in a 5–1 Game 2 victory James said. “To come here season. result didn’t go its way. the day before in Brooklyn. and be ranked fourth in the “This is maybe the second game where I “It was a test of who can come out and play James showed his ability city, and then to give Totten- really saw us come together,” Gerone said. “I the best volleyball,” White said. “We did our to work in and out of trou- ville their fi rst loss, it feels could see everyone really wanted it. For next best. We stuck together. We didn’t lose faith un- ble. He loaded the bases in really good.” year, we all see what we need to do.” less that last ball hit the fl oor.” DT COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 45 Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York 125 Broad Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10004 • 212-233-5531 Patrick J. Lynch, President www.nycpba.org 52 COURIER LIFE, JUNE 5-11, 2015 DT