Woman Dies After Passing out at Hook's Bklyn Crab
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Oct. 5–11, 2018 Including Brooklyn Courier, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Courier, Brooklyn Heights Courier, & Williamsburg Courier ALSO SERVING PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, KENSINGTON, AND GOWANUS THROWING SHADE Nature lovers condemn tower plan they fear will block Botanic Garden’s sunlight BY COLIN MIXSON “A lot has been made of impact on A crowd of nature lovers stormed a re- the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, do we cent City Planning Commission meet- know if they’re here today?” asked ing to pan a developer’s request to re- commission member Larisa Ortiz. zone Crown Heights land near the Developer Cornell Realty Manage- Brooklyn Botanic Garden, claiming ment this spring resubmitted its pro- the 20-story towers the builder wants posal to rezone two lots on Carroll and to erect would cast harmful shadows Crown streets near Franklin Avenue over the green space. — where current restrictions limit But the group of professors, anti- buildings’ height to seven stories, gentrifi cation advocates, and Bo- largely to protect fl ora at the nearby tanic Garden members who spoke out garden — in order to erect the pair of against the project did not include any- high-rises, roughly one year after the one from the beloved horticultural fi rm withdrew an identical request museum — an absence that did not go amid fi erce opposition from critics as Castro de Canteli Fernando unnoticed by the 12-person panel con- faraway as England who condemned PROJECT ORANGE: An urban planner with the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrifi cation Network cre- ducting the crucial hearing as part of the scheme . ated these renderings based on development rights sought by Cornell Realty to show the the city’s Uniform Land Use Review In June, two private architectural potential impact of its two towers when the builder sought its rezoning in 2017. The render- Procedure. Continued on page 34 ings are not based on actual designs submitted by the developer. Woman dies after passing out at Hook’s Bklyn Crab BY ANTHONY ROTUNNO A woman passed out at Red Hook’s Brooklyn Crab restaurant and later died on Sept. 28. Police arrived at the popular Reed Street seafood eatery during lunch- time at 12:20 pm after a 911 caller re- ported 25-year-old Franchesca Li- zandro was struggling to breathe, and found her unconscious and unrespon- Associated Press / Beth Harpaz sive, according to cops, who said she TRAGIC: A woman passed out at Brooklyn showed no obvious signs of trauma. Crab on Sept. 28, and later died, cops said. Paramedics then rushed Lizandro, who a Police Department spokes- ing to a separate department spokes- Hot mama! woman said may have been a restau- woman, who said Lizandro had a his- rant employee, to Methodist Hospital, tory of medical episodes related to Drag queen and native Brooklynite Shaquanda Coco Mulatta showed off a bottle where doctors declared her dead, au- asthma. of her hot sauce, which she promoted at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Chile Pep- thorities said. A manager at Brooklyn Crab said per Festival on Sept. 29. For more, see page 10. Photo by Trey Pentecost The medical examiner has yet to the restaurant would not comment on determine a cause of death, accord- the incident. Vol. 38 No. 40 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM INSIDE Master’s NNN%9IFFBCPE;8@CP%:FD (D<KIFK<:?:<EK<IEFIK?('K?=CFFI9IFFBCPE#EP(()'( Horse back pieces Artist Jeff Henriquez painted a depiction of Pablo Picasso’s studio — complete with ea- sels bearing replicas of the Red alert: Sara Caswell, Joe Brent, and Andrew Ryan, of the improvisational impressionist painter’s vari- chamber ensemble Nine Horses, will play at Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Marine Park on Oct. 21 as part of the church’s fall music series. Emma Band returns to Good Shepherd music series ous abstract artworks — on By Kevin Duggan but he leaves plenty of space for violin- ments, eventually finding Ryan. Brent has performed in the Good heir music will bring Marine Park ist Sara Caswell and double-bass player The band has since toured the country Shepherd fall music series for the last together. Andrew Ryan to add their own unique and held residencies at a number of col- 11 years, performing with various jazz, T The improvisational three-piece touches, he said. leges, and is currently writing songs for bluegrass, and classical music groups, a wall of the handball court band Nine Horses will bring its intimate “I bring in a piece that’s maybe 90 a new album. One of those new tunes, and he is excited to see the audience sound to the Good Shepherd Catholic percent finished and then they’ll add “The Water Understands,” hints at a return year after year, he said. Church in Marine Park on Oct. 21, for the their part. And Sara will bring in bits that more elaborate direction, with a more “It is great to see that they still like second in a series of eight free Sunday are better than anything that I could ever expansive rhythm section and an entranc- me,” he said. “I hope to see a lot of the night concerts at the holy hotspot. The come up with. It’s hard to describe our ing video. same people I see every year and more.” three members of the group produce an music, but when you put us together in a Brent, a Queens native who now lives Nine Horses at Good Shepherd Catholic outside Prospect Heights’s PS appealing, genre-defying sound with ele- room that’s what comes out,” he said. upstate, is looking forward to playing at Church [1950 Batchelder St near Avenue ment of folk, classical, and jazz, said the Brent, who previously toured with pop the Marine Park church. S in Marine Park, (718) 998–2800, www. band’s mandolin player. musician Regina Spektor, met Caswell “The church is a gorgeous space and goodshepherdbrooklyn.org]. Oct. 21 at 5 “It’s tough to put it into any one while they played together in other proj- music sounds really beautiful in there. pm. Free. genre,” said Joe Brent. “Which may be an ects. The two started Nine Horses in 2012 It’s spacious so sound fills the room in a “Music From Good Shepherd” music attractive aspect for me, the fact that it’s and released an album, but quickly real- beautiful way. But it’s also not too big so series performs every Sunday at Good difficult to place.” ized that they needed a bass to comple- a small ensemble like us doesn’t get swal- Shepherd Catholic Church, Oct. 14–Dec. 9 elementary school as part Brent writes most of the band’s music, ment the higher registers of their instru- lowed up in the space,” he said. 9. Voluntary donations encouraged. of a months-long project to Your entertainment decorate the learning house’s guide Page 47 exterior with dozens of colorful murals organized by another local street artist who recruit- Police Blotter ..........................8 ed talented hands from near Standing O ............................36 and far to complete the effort. 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