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By Julianne Cuba down on the Promenade. Brooklyn Paper “The concept would be for three lanes Talk about an alternative route! both eastbound and westbound, which City officials are considering a new is equivalent to the capacity in the DOT scheme for their looming fix to the plan,” said Peter Bray. Brooklyn–Queens Expressway’s tri- Such a roadway — which Levin and ple cantilever. The plan proposes cre- other locals suggested during the city’s ating a temporary roadway near Brooklyn first public hearing on the massive proj- Bridge Park for expressway traffic dur- ect back in September — would not pre- ing the repairs, instead of sending those vent locals from using the waterfront cars and trucks on a speedway that would lawn, Bray said. Rather, it would likely replace the Brooklyn Heights Promenade sit near, or on, the noise-cancelling berms for much of the years-long fix. park leaders recently built along Fur- “We are examining a range of op- man Street to muffle the sound of pass- tions that aim to minimize the traffic ing traffic in the green space. disruption and effects on surrounding “The concept would impact the park’s communities,” said City Hall spokes- berms to some extent but would not affect man Seth Stein. “We are moving through the park’s useable space,” he said. the process and will continue engaging Wouters’s plan — which did not come with the community.” with a price tag, or a timeline, although Bray said it would allow the job to finish
Department of Transportation big- Photo by Brianna Kudisch wigs at a Nov. 19 meeting with pols, The Brooklyn Heights Association wants the city to move traffic from faster than both city options — would including Brooklyn Heights Council- also still require closing the Promenade the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to a temporary two-level highway for some time, according to the civic man Stephen Levin, Assemblywoman near these berms in Brooklyn Bridge Park, in order to spare the neigh- Jo Anne Simon, and state Sen. Brian leader, as the walkway is part of the tri- Kavanagh, promised to explore the pro- borhood’s beloved Promenade from becoming a speedway. ple cantilever being repaired. posal, which leaders of civic group the And although Transportation Depart- Brooklyn Heights Association tapped an ing Mayor DeBlasio prefer, The Heights Association’s ment chief Polly Trottenberg assured urban planner to create as an alternative and would replace the historic chosen architect, Marc Wout- Bray’s group that her team would go to the city’s two previously floated op- walkway atop the triple canti- ers, proposed a third way, back to the drawing board and pore over tions for the job that could start as soon lever with a six-lane road feet however. He called for cre- the new proposal following its presenta- as 2020 — six years before experts say from locals’ windows for no ating a temporary two-level tion, she did not say when the city will the 70-year-old, three-tiered stretch of less than six years as work- structure for expressway announce which route it will take to expressway may start to collapse under ers toil to shore up the infra- traffic closer to the Furman repair the 1.5-mile stretch of express- the weight of the thousands of trucks structure by 2026. Street border of Brooklyn way between Atlantic Avenue and Sands Photo by Stefano Giovannini that travel it daily. Both city options come FIXING Bridge Park, featuring one Street, he said. Those options include the so-called with price tags north of $3 the BQE level with three lanes for Bay “She promised her staff would evalu- traditional approach — in which the triple billion, almost twice as much Ridge–bound vehicles, and ate it to see whether they found any flaws Holiday cheers! cantilever would be reconstructed lane- as what agency leaders originally pre- the second with three lanes headed to- in the concept that would preclude it as by-lane through 2029, causing backups dicted. And the traditional approach still wards Queens, according to the civic a possibility,” he said. “There was no Bartender Chris Bidmead will pour holiday spirits all month at the that the city said could stretch for up to requires closing the Promenade atop the group’s head, who noted the proposed conclusion reached at the meeting, and Williamsburg pop-up Miracle in Brooklyn. Read more about the fes- 12 miles — and the so-called innovative cantilever, but likely only for up to two structures’ lanes are equal in num- they promised they would get back to us tive watering hole in GO Brooklyn on page 7. approach, which many officials includ- years, according to officials. ber to those officials suggested laying at some point in the near future.” One dead in bridge crash Fiery six-car pileup blazes on morning before Thanksgiving
By Julianne Cuba forcing that car to smash into the bas’s four-wheeler hit the back the motorist behind the wheel of Brooklyn Paper span’s center median, and begin- of a sport-utility vehicle, push- one of the SUVs to Brooklyn Hos- One person died on Nov. 21 af- ning a series of collisions that ing that car into the back of an- pital with minor injuries, while ter six cars collided on the Brook- turned fatal, according to offi- other SUV, which in turn crashed five others refused medical at- cials. into yet another vehicle. lyn Bridge, and three of them burst tention, according to Parrella and The motorist in the Ford then Roughly 60 members of New authorities. into flames, Police and Fire De- rear-ended a second vehicle, a 2017 York’s Bravest rushed to the scene partment reps said. Volkswagen driven by 32-year-old following the first collision, and Cops are still investigating the A 48-year-old driving a 2004 out-of-towner Kristopher Ham- extinguished the inferno an hour cause of the deadly crash and sub- Ford pick-up towards Kings bas, whose car struck a cement later, Fire Department spokesman sequent blaze, and have not yet County on the bridge rear-ended barrier and burst into flames, kill- Michael Parrella said. arrested anyone, according to Po-
a motorist behind the wheel of ing its driver at the scene, ac- Paramedics transported the lice Department spokeswoman FDNY a 2017 Nissan around 7:15 am, cording to cops, who said Ham- driver of the Ford pick-up and Det. Carrie Reilly. Firefighters rushed to put out the blaze that engulfed three of the vehicles. Passing grade Locals cheer plan to replace MS 8 with new middle school
By Julianne Cuba said at the hearing, one Brooklyn Paper CLASS of two on the proposal This school-switch- this month. eroo scheme got an ACTION Department of Edu- A+! cation leaders concocted The city must move the plan, which they forward with a plan to claim has never been create a new middle done before, to allevi- school in the Down- ate problems that cur- town building currently rently plague MS and PS 8 due to their shared re- occupied by MS 8 — This’ll teach ’em! which now primarily sources, including the serves students who matriculate daily schleps that PS 8’s principal Photo by Colin Mixson from Brooklyn Heights’s popu- said she and other staff make be- The Ditmas Park owners of Pickles the pooch found their mutt largely unharmed this lar elementary school PS 8, and tween the Hicks Street elementary
week after he spent the past three months on the street. would be incorporated into the school and the Tech Place middle Photo by Julianne Cuba bigger sixth-to-eighth grade learn- school, which shares its building Parents and local educators praised the city’s plan to re- ing house planned for the site — with four other high schools and place the current MS 8 learning house inside this Tech Place locals demanded. education programs. building Downtown with a new middle school that will serve Some dill-ightful news Faculty and parents at a Nov. 19 “I can’t be in contact with ev- even more youngsters and get its own budget and staff, public hearing cheered education eryone when you can’t be at both which it now shares with PS 8 in Brooklyn Heights. leaders’ proposal to replace MS 8 sites at arrival and dismissal to Lost dog, Pickles, found after three months — which opened in 2012, priori- say hello and goodbye at the end tizes graduating PS 8 students in of the day,” Trish Peterson said the new middle school would re- Student Funding is happening,” By Colin Mixson But Pickles, an Australian- to the good boy’s mom. its admissions, and shares a bud- at the hearing. “In order for each ceive the highest possible amount said Peterson, who will remain Brooklyn Paper cattle-dog mix who previously “It’s very ‘Homeward get and staff with the elementary school to reach its full potential, of cash from the city’s so-called as PS 8’s principal if the scheme This lost pup is home — just escaped certain death by canine Bound,’ ” said Jasmin Cruz Ma- school — with an independent mid- this is the right choice.” Fair Student Funding program — is green-lit. in time for the holidays! butchers in his native Thailand, sella, comparing Pickles and his dle school in the same space that Should officials move for- which doles out money to schools The city’s Panel on Education The owners of a pooch that didn’t spend his time on the lam pal Violet’s adventure to the 1993 would no longer fast-track PS 8 ward with the plan, a new prin- serving the five boroughs’ needi- Policy was slated to vote on the went missing from his Ditmas alone — rescuers found him in flick about two lost dogs and students for admission, and get its cipal would be appointed to run est tots — after telling locals they proposal as this newspaper went Park home in August reunited with the company of a female mutt a cat searching for their fam- own funding and faculty. the middle school, which would couldn’t confirm the exact amount to press on Nov. 28. If officials their pup this week, after a desper- that’s been missing ever since she ily. “He actually found a girl- “I truly believe this proposal add one more sixth grade class to of green in earlier meetings about approve it, the new middle school ate, three-month search that took escaped while on a walk with her friend, and she’s been missing will allow both sites to flourish,” those already in place at MS 8. the proposal. would open its doors to students them across the borough. foster family in 2016, according See PICKLES on page 12 PS 8 teacher Melissa Browning Education leaders also promised “I’m thrilled 100-percent Fair in September 2019. 2 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 30–December 6, 2018
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By Julianne Cuba ride, which the state’s Depart- Brooklyn Paper ment of Motor Vehicles clas- It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s sifies as a “limited-use motor- this reporter on a Bird! cycle” lumped in with other I recently test-drove two legal low-speed cycles like start-up companies’ new forms mopeds . of alternative transportation And although Revel’s — Bird’s battery-powered 200-pound mode of transport scooter, and Revel’s Vespa- is authorized on local streets, like motorized two-wheeler a few minutes in the driver’s — that both firms hope to roll seat left me wondering if of- out across the city in order to ficials should think twice be- give frustrated subway riders fore they let just anyone hop a more convenient, and fun, on — even with the free hel- way to get around. mets the company includes I found Bird’s battery-pow- with its cycles. ered scooter generally easier I nearly plowed into the and safer to use — an ironic company’s rep, who quickly twist considering that offi- jumped out of the way, and al- cials forbid locals from rid- most smashed into a parked ing it because they classify it truck, which I swerved to as an electric scooter, a mode avoid just in time, during Rumble Boxing of transport currently prohib- my inaugural ride. Rumble’s trainers are ready to get Brooklynites in shape. ited on city streets. Of course, my near acci- The scooters, however, are dents could be chalked up to available in other cities across SouferEric nerves, since I’ve never rid- the country and world, a fact Reporter Julianne Cuba den a motorcycle or Vespa be- Knockout workout Bird bigwigs are stressing in rides a Revel “motor- fore. And I managed to get a their ongoing talks with pols cycle” (left) and a Bird better hang of it after Revel and leaders of the Department scooter (above). co-founder Frank Reig spent Boxing-inspired fi tness coming to D’town of Transportation about legal- some time showing me how to izing the technology locally, of the Gowanus Canal. But if properly handle the thing. By Julianne Cuba lace, who grew up in Clinton tan — where pop star Jus- according to a rep, who said Bird scooters do become le- Revel’s vehicles are also Brooklyn Paper Hill, and the iconic boxer, tin Bieber has been known the firm is pushing to debut gal in New York City, they dockless, and can be rented Russell Murphy Brooklyn, get ready to who was born in Bedford– to sweat it out — and far- its product to Brooklynites will be allowed in bike lanes via an app for $4 for 20 min- Rumble! Stuyvesant. “Brooklyn, like away California. before the L train closes for unlock the rides for $1 via an Bird’s scooter reminded and on streets — just not on utes and 25 cents for each ad- The founders of a popu- Rumble, has such an incred- The studio’s 45-minute 15 months’ worth of repairs app, step on, and cruise streets me a lot of the old-school Ra- sidewalks. ditional minute. The company lar boxing-inspired fitness ibly diverse community. Its classes, which fitness fanat- next April. at no more than 15-miles-per zor scooters my friends and That said, I am not sure I’d will also charge riders five studio will debut their first people, music, art, and his- ics can book at $36 a pop, “We’ve been having a lot hour for 15-to-20-cents-per I rode around town growing feel as safe on the tiny scooter cents for every minute scoot- tory completely parallel our minute. up. It was light-weight and ers are left idle, such as when Kings County location next combine punching-bag exer- of conversations with Coun- — even in a helmet — while DNA.” cil and DOT to try to find a The scooters, which emit an user-friendly. I simply put sharing pavement with cars a user hops off to make a pit year, inside a swanky new cises with floor and weight apartment building in the The Kings County location way to make the scooters legal, avian-like chirp when turned my right foot on the base, zooming by. stop at a bodega before con- drills, offering a high-inten- heart of America’s Down- is set to open next summer and we’ve been encouraged by on, are deployed via a dockless pushed off with my left foot, For my test run of the Revel tinuing his or her journey. town. within a two-floor storefront sity workout that left this re- them. We think that we will system, so users can pick up and revved the handle to in- two-wheeler, I headed over to The 68 cycles in its pilot Opening a Brooklyn inside Red Hook Lane’s new porter sore for days after at- reach a resolution soon,” said and stow them in most pub- crease its speed. the company’s headquarters fleet are available in Bush- branch of Rumble — whose 108-unit residential tower, tending a Nov. 17 session. Eric Soufer. lic spaces, and locate avail- Due to the device’s illegal- in Bushwick, where its found- wick, Williamsburg, and instructors blast hip-hop mu- The Lane, near Livingston And the forthcoming Red Residents of cities where able equipment near them us- ity, I had to contain my ride ers in August debuted a pilot Greenpoint through the end sic to get student boxers’ Street, which welcomed its Hook Lane location likely Bird’s scooters are legal can ing the app. to pavement along the banks fleet of their battery-powered of the year. hearts pumping — was a first residents in 2017 after won’t be Rumble’s only out- no-brainer, according to its workers built the high-rise post in the Borough of Kings, co-founder, who debuted its from the ground up on land according to Neiman, who first studio in Manhattan last previously occupied by sev- said company bigwigs are year, and said the boutique eral four-story walk-ups and already considering open- Man charged for burglarizing synagogues operation draws much of its a corner deli sporting a sub- ing studios in other neigh- inspiration from local music way-map-inspired mural by borhoods, including Dumbo By Julianne McShane ber and October. spicable for targeting houses hold him accountable.” several others. artist Steve Powers . and sports icons. — the former home to a gym Brooklyn Paper Prosecutors in two Nov. of worship. The man’s serial stealing Cops cuffed the guy on Oct. “It was only natural for our Brooklyn’s inaugural 19 arraignments slapped the “This defendant is alleg- spree allegedly included a 23 after using facial-recogni- founded by honchos at colos- A Dyker Heights man faces first voyage out of Manhattan Rumble will open as the com- 50-year-old with charges in- edly a professional burglar Sept. 15 burglary at an 18th tion software to identify him, up to more than four decades to be near the home neigh- pany’s founders attempt to sal cinema chain Imax, where cluding third-degree bur- whose crime spree violated Avenue shop, the theft of two according to Gonzalez, who borhoods of such greats as open some 20 new studios folks could pedal stationary in prison for allegedly burglar- glary, fourth-degree grand the sanctity of religious insti- silver crowns used in religious said the defendant later iden- Biggie Smalls and Mike Ty- over the next two years, Nei- bikes in front of a giant movie izing no less than six Borough larceny, and other counts tutions, among other places, services from a 39th Street tified himself on surveillance son,” said Noah Neiman, tip- man said, all of which will screen until the spot closed Park stores and facilities, in- for his purported crimes, from which he stole cash and synagogue, and an Oct. 7 footage recorded at the crime ping his hat to the rapper also join the company’s four ex- about a year after opening cluding two synagogues and which Brooklyn’s top pros- religious items,” Gonzalez burglary at 15th Avenue’s scenes, and told police where known as Christopher Wal- isting locations in Manhat- back in 2016. a Jewish school, in Septem- ecutor called particularly de- said. “We will now seek to Gan Yisroel School, among he stashed the stolen items.
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and it was stolen. who said he is legally blind, 84TH PRECINCT Phone swiped told cops the suspect snatched his keys and wallet with his Brooklyn Heights– POLICE BLOTTER A pickpocket robbed a Ohio identification card and Dumbo–Boerum Hill– woman on the subway at Wil- medical card inside it from Downtown Find more online every Wednesday at loughby Street on Nov. 22. him as he lay in bed inside his Police arrested a man for Cops said the woman got on BrooklynPaper.com/blotter apartment near Navy Street allegedly robbing and assault- a Manhattan-bound A train at at about 8 pm. ing a woman on a G train at Nostrand Avenue at 6:45 am the Schermerhorn Street sub- Police said the suspect is Nightmare with her cellphone and ID in The victim said he didn’t way station on Nov. 20. an employee of a nearby res- her backpack and when she see the suspect, but recog- A punk stole a man’s two nized his voice when he asked The victim told police she taurant, and the victim said phones on the subway near got off at the Jay Street sta- was on the Church Avenue- he appeared to be highly in- tion, the backpack was open him for money, according to Jay Street on Nov. 16. cops. — Julianne Cuba bound train when a man en- toxicated, said cops. The victim told police he and her phone and ID were tered the car at Clinton and Slasher fell asleep on the Manhattan- missing. Washington station and 78TH PRECINCT A goon slashed a man’s bound F train with a T-Mobile Stolen property started playing loud music. bag next to him and when he Park Slope When she asked him to face, causing lacerations, on A raider stole a woman’s Smith Street on Nov. 20. woke up at York Street at 1 pm iPhone X from her apartment Easy pickings lower the music, the sus- his two phones were gone. pect allegedly said “You The victim told police he on Nov. 25. A thief drove off with a don’t know me, n-----,” hit was breaking up a fight near Locker looter The woman told police 60-year-old woman’s 2005 she left her place at 1:57 am the woman in the head with Wyckoff Street at 12:30 am A thief stole an employee’s Toyota Prius she left un- with the door unlocked and the mini speaker, took her iP- when someone slashed his items while she was working locked on Garfield Place on left cheek. at a clothing store on Fulton when she returned, her phone Nov. 12. hone 10 when she tried to take was gone. a photo of him, and punched The nogoodnik fled toward Street on Nov. 19. The victim told police her, and got off at the station Hoyt Street and the victim was The victim told police she Speaker stolen parked her four-door between near Hoyt Street at 1:39 pm, treated at Methodist Hospi- placed her coat, wallet, and Two crooks stole electron- Seventh and Eighth avenues according to cops. tal, according to cops. keys in her locker at her work- ics from a department store at 8 am, and returned two hours later to find an empty Cigarette break Ready to rock place near Lawrence Street on Albee Square West on at 2 pm, and when she came Nov. 25. spot where her silver sedan Cops cuffed a man who A looter broke into a Jay had been. Street drugstore on Nov. 25 back, her items were gone. The bandits walked into they said threatened another the store near Flatbush Ave- The woman never locks her and stole items. man with a knife on Water Hotel thief nue at 5:27 pm and stole four car, according to police, be- Street on Nov. 20. The thief threw a cobble- A robber stole a woman’s Bose headphones and speak- cause she worries about the The victim told police stone rock at the store’s front items from a hotel on Flat- ers from a glass display case, alarm going off. he was near Main Street at door, near York Street, at 6:40 bush Avenue Extension on concealing them in a bag, and No arrests have been made 4:40 pm when the suspect am, entered the store, and stole Nov. 22. leaving the store, said cops. in the case, which has been approached, flashing the items from the shelves and The victim told police Converter crook closed, cops said. knife, and demanded a cig- from behind the cash regis- she left her debit card, iP- Pinhead arette. When the victim said ters, according to police. hone charger, $60, and Ap- A sneak stole a device from inside a car parked on Fulton Cops arrested a man and he didn’t have one, the sus- Cops said the lout took ple headphones unattended in woman accused of stealing pect said, “Give me whatever the cobblestone from the her hoodie on a chair in the Street sometime between Nov. 17 and 19. deliveries left at a man’s Sec- the f--- you got,” according construction site across the building’s lobby area, near ond Street home on Oct. 23 to police. street near York Street. Tillary Street, at 3:53 am, The victim told police that he left the vehicle near Gold — including a child’s pin- Street at noon on Nov. 17 ball machine and a maga- with the catalytic converter zine rack. ST 6/4%$ PLACE installed, and when he re- The victim told police the "%34 3!,/. turned on Nov. 19, the con- stolen items arrived as pack- One gift card verter was removed. ages at his house between Fifth and Sixth avenues at around Cycle criminal 4:15 pm, but that they were A freebooter stole a bike gone by the time he went to outshines them all on Montague Street on Nov. check on them. 14. Police nabbed two sus- Police said the thief was pects, a 35-year-old woman “In the holiday season of endless seen on video removing bolts and 25-year-old man, on Nov. and the bicycle from scaffold- 14, charging them with petty gift cards, there is the one that ing outside a restaurant near larceny, cops said. she prefers the most - 2!.+%$ 4/0 Clinton Street at 12:43 pm. Cracked open /& 3!,/.3 E-bike caper a gift card from Pilo Arts.” Cops arrested a man for al- Someone took a delivery legedly destroying the front person’s electronic bike on door of a Third Avenue wa- Smith Street on Nov. 19. tering hole on Nov. 14. The victim was deliver- An employee told po- ing food to a bakery near lice the suspect deliberately Pilo Arts Salon Dean Street at 2:08 pm and Member of punched the door leading into left his bike on the sidewalk, the drinking establishment be- Intercoiffure Mondial and when he returned, his tween President and Carroll Stealth P-7 E-bike was sto- streets at 1:50 am, shatter- Paris 4OKYO London Roma len, according to police. ing glass. — Brianna Kudisch When cops showed up to .EW 9ORK "ERLIN arrest the suspect, they found 3%,%#4%$ 4/0 88TH PRECINCT him in possession of crack "+,9. #/-0!.9 Fort Greene–Clinton Hill and marijuana, according to police. 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By Colin Mixson of Columbia Street between from 2012 to 2016, according could not provide a budget for Brooklyn Paper W. Ninth Street and Hamil- MEAN to city records, which show the project while announcing City transit officials are ton Avenue, which abuts the Streets the collisions injured some 22 it to members of Community Grow your funds installing four crosswalks campus of Red Hook’s PS 676, Brooklyn’s motorists, but just four pedes- Board 6’s Transportation Com- friendlier to locals commut- boulevard trians. mittee on Nov. 15, but assured across Columbia Street in battle lines Red Hook that they said will ing on two feet. That swath of Columbia the civic gurus that costs will help pedestrians safely nav- Workers will also install destrian-safety zone near the Street does not currently re- be cheap because the job more with peace of mind. or less consists of strategically igate a 1,100-foot stretch of yellow pedestrian-warning already in-place pedestrian is- ceive enough foot traffic to signs and curb-side ramps land at the intersection of Co- warrant more substantial infra- painted lines, and will be done the road that currently bears structure enhancements such by department workers. for the disabled at each of lumbia, Delavan, and Nelson Now, earn guaranteed interest in just 13 months no such markings. the crosswalks, which will re- as traffic lights, according to Lunyova, who added that Department of Transporta- quire getting rid of one Co- streets, which will connect an the Department. doing the work in-house will with a 2.50% APY1 CD from First Republic Bank. tion reps proposed the cross- lumbia Street parking space existing Delavan Street cross- But agency rep Leroy allow the Transportation De- walks — two of which will go near Nelson Street, and two walk with one of the new ones Branch noted that the new partment to forgo the city’s in at the intersection of Nel- more near the juncture of Co- going in at Columbia and Nel- crosswalks and safety zone year-long contractor-procure- son and Columbia streets, with lumbia, Commerce, and Lu- son streets, allowing residents will likely invite more folks ment process, also did not pro- the other two going across Co- quer streets. to better traverse the three- to stroll the road, and said tran- vide a timeline for completing lumbia Street at the juncture Other changes coming as lane juncture. sit bigwigs hope to bring fur- the project, but the meeting’s where Commerce and Luquer part of the job include using No less than 26 non-fatal ther fixes to the street as part attendees urged the work be % streets meet — along with a combination of plastic bol- crashes took place on Colum- of a larger capital project in the done as soon as the weather APY1 other planned fixes they hope lards, concrete planters, and bia Street between W. Ninth neighborhood in 2021. will allow, said Committee will make the five block stretch paint to create a so-called pe- Street and Hamilton Avenue Agency rep Elena Lunyova Chairman Eric McClure. 2.50 13-Month CD Special
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By Colin Mixson The decision will come A more recent shadow Brooklyn Paper more than a year after Cor- study conducted by two alone The city next month will nell bigwigs — who recently private architectural firms determine the fate of two con- sold one of the development tapped by a neighborhood Life Alert® is always troversial towers that devel- sites to Carmel — withdrew a anti-gentrification group, opers want to build on Crown similar rezoning request due however, showed Cornell’s here for me even when Heights lots near the Brooklyn to overwhelming criticism towers would darken parts Botanic Garden, with Coun- from Botanic Garden–lov- of the green space for hours away from home. cil set to vote on a rezoning ers as far away as the United on some days — leading many the builders need to proceed Kingdom. And it more or less locals to pan the project at before the end of the year, rests in the hands of Crown a September City Planning One touch of a button following the City Planning Heights Councilwoman Lau- Commission hearing that Bo- sends help fast, 24/7. Commission’s approval of the rie Cumbo, who will cast the tanic Garden reps notably did request last month. key vote, as the project sits in not attend. But the architects with FIRST AID GPS! Council by Dec. 24 must her district. based their study on towers as KIT weigh in on the application Cumbo grilled the devel- tall as 20 stories — the max- ® WHEN YOU to upzone Carroll and Crown opers at a Nov. 15 hearing of imum height possible should
FREE! Castro de Canteli Fernando ORDER! streets lots near Franklin Av- a Council subcommittee on the developers take advantage An urban planner with the Brooklyn Anti-Gentrifi- enue, where developers Cor- zoning, at one point asking of zoning programs such as nell Realty Management and Carmel reps how gentrifica- cation Network created these renderings based one that permits higher build- Carmel Partners want to build tion makes them feel. And she on development rights sought by Cornell Realty in ings in exchange for includ- 16-story towers with some be- later told this newspaper that 2017. The renderings are not based on actual de- ing space for a grocery store For a FREE brochure call: low-market-rate units a stone’s despite the towers’ so-called signs submitted by the developer. inside them — not 16. throw from the horticultural affordable housing, the project If Council okays the upzon- museum, which opponents ar- as is requires more communi- Cornell and Carmel’s imminent need for protec- ing, the high-rises would to- gue will cast harmful shad- ty-focused amenities, but she lots at 931 Carroll St. and tion from shadows cast on gether feature some 518 rental 1-800-404-9776 ows on the green space. stopped short of explaining 40 Crown St. are currently the greenhouses by any ad- apartments, 140 of which specific changes she expects zoned for structures seven jacent new construction,” ac- would be affordable units the builders to make. stories or less due to a 1991 cording to a letter he penned offered at varying income “During the zoning sub- downzoning of land within back then. levels, according to a lawyer Winterize Your Home committee hearing, I was a 13-block radius of the Bo- But today’s Garden stew- for Carmel, who said his cli- SUPER ROOFER able to bring many of my tanic Garden, whose lead- ards don’t believe shadows cast ent also committed to using Get ready for winter concerns with this project ers started to push the city by the proposed towers will union labor for construction 4(% 42534%$ .!-% ). 2//&).' s 3).#% to light,” Cumbo said in a to set the height limit years harm the growing patch, stat- and maintenance. Nov. 20 statement. “Carmel earlier, amid construction of ing numerous times through- But if the application is re- Partners have a lot of work the Steinhardt Conservatory out the public-review process jected and the developers are to do to make this develop- near the green space’s Wash- that the buildings would not forced to build smaller tow- GUTTER ment a true community asset, ington Avenue border. block light from plants, cit- ers, they will likely not hire CLEANING and I look forward to hear- The conservatory’s archi- ing a city-mandated shadow union labor, and cut the below- ing more from them before tect Jerry Olanoff warned study Cornell conducted last market-rate units in favor of the subcommittee vote in the City Planning Commission year before pulling its earlier more lucrative condominiums, COMPLETE SNOW & ICE coming weeks.” bigwigs of the “relatively rezoning request. a Carmel executive said. FLASH & PAINT REMOVAL Licensed s "ROOKLYN s )NSURED EPA: Gowanus much cleaner! By Julianne Cuba ished more than six months af- Community Advisory Group That setback stalled the job Top Quality Workmanship Brooklyn Paper ter its initial April 2018 dead- at a Tuesday meeting. until March, when the Feds Residential & Commercial It’s a bright spot for Brook- line — but the delay is a small Last December , the pro- resumed their work digging lyn’s Nautical Purgatory! price to pay for finally remov- gram, one of the first phases up the noxious sediment from A section of the fetid Gow- ing some of the toxic “black of the channel’s slow-go- the canal’s bottom, which they 2EFERENCES !VAILABLE s !FFORDABLE anus Canal is now cleaner mayonnaise” from the canal’s ing cleanse, got stuck in the made deeper before capping it than it has been in more than floor, according to the man muck weeks after it began, to prevent other harmful chem- s 0ROFESSIONAL #OURTEOUS a century, after workers this leading the scrub. when workers created cracks icals from seeping in. month finally wrapped a pi- “It’s the first time that a por- in canal-adjacent land — in- Officials now believe by lot dredging-and-capping pro- tion of the canal has a clean bot- cluding the ground below the spring they’ll be able to start gram as part of the federally tom in 150 years — let’s give pedestrian promenade outside counting down to the end of led cleanup. it an applause,” Environmen- Third Street’s Whole Foods — the cleanse in months, not The program in the Fourth tal Protection Agency project while using machines to drive years, almost a decade after ND ST., BROOKLYN, NY Street Turning Basin kicked off manager Christos Tsiamis told new protective bulkheads into the Feds declared it a Super- in October of 2017, and fin- local members of the Gowanus the waterway’s banks. fund site in 2010.
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point Brewery, Aguirre Corazon War Flag Brew- ing, Wartega, Coney Island Brewing, Kombrew- cha, and more. And its participating eateries include Table 187 Coal Oven Pizza, Empanada Papa, Oaxaca Taqueria, Moe’s Flavors, Mozz Arepas, Clean Meals Brooklyn, Little Chef Little Kitchen, and roughly 20 others. The first two-hour session of the day kicks off at 12:30 pm, with the second and third at 3:30 pm and 6:30 pm. And for an extra $10, attendees can score an Early Up ticket and enter their cho- sen session 30 minutes before it starts. Festival-goers with especially hardy consti- tutions can also spring for the $75 Full Spread ticket, which allows them to freely come and go from the event, and skip its lines to get in, any time between noon and 8 pm. Each vendor at the fest is a nominee in the 2019 Dime Best of Brooklyn contest — a poll in which more than 45,000 people vote across 128 categories to name some of Brooklyn’s best businesses. Attendees can cast a ballot for their favorite brewery, restaurant, bar, and food item at the festival. Best of Brooklyn Food & Beer Festival [Indus- Photo by Stefano Giovannini try City, 274 36th St. between Second and Third We three kings: Miracle in Brooklyn offers a dozen holiday drinks, including, from left, a Christmas Carol Barrel, an And A Partridge In A Pear Tree, and a Yippie Ki avenues in Sunset Park, www.bestofbrooklyn- Yay M------. festival.com]. Jan. 26 at 12:30, 3:30, and 6:30 pm. Tickets $29–$49 ($75 Full Spread, $20 des- ignated drivers). — by Anna Spivak
BOOKS Holiday spirits Reading picks Greenlight Bookstore’s pick: ‘Miracle in Brooklyn’ pop-up bar sparkles with seasonal drinks “Dragons in a Bag,” by Zetta Elliott There is a portal to another dimension at the By Bill Roundy The staff at Miracle in Brooklyn stream- entrance of Prospect Park, and 9-year-old Jax has Brooklyn Paper DRINKING lined the recipes, said Bidmead, making been tasked with return- giant batches for some that can be poured ing three baby dragons Miracle in Brooklyn [177 Grand St. be- back to their world, be- t’s a Brooklyn Miracle! tween Bedford and Driggs avenues in out of a tap. The work paid off — each A Williamsburg bar decked the halls Williamsburg, (917) 553–5409, www.fa- drink this jolly old elf ordered arrived in cause magic cannot exist I and began pouring glasses of Yuletide cebook.com/miracleinbrooklyn]. Open less than a minute. The Brooklyn loca- in ours anymore (meta- cheer on the day after Thanksgiving. Miracle daily, 5 pm–1 am. tion added its own unique beverage: The phor, anyone?). This is an in Brooklyn was the first holiday-themed World’s Best Coffee, named after a gag in excellent Brooklyn-based pop-up bar to unwrap in Kings County, and the movie “Elf” — just an average cup of middle grade fantasy — one of its bartenders said that he is look- to come back and try them all,” said Greg coffee, served with a shot of whiskey. one that all kids would ing forward to serving more wassailers as Boehm. “It’s not just a gimmick.” The bar’s soundtrack is exclusively love, but that our city’s the month goes on. Boehm pioneered the holiday bar with Christmas carols, and Boehm said that children should find extra “I’m excited to see how holiday-crazy his Miracle on Ninth Street in Manhattan he spent time making a playlist, and check- exciting, since it can be things get,” said Chris Bidmead, who lives in 2014. In the years since then, he has li- ing it twice, in order to create a holly jolly read as an escape into fan- in Greenpoint. censed the concept and his holiday-drink atmosphere. tasy while still recogniz- Miracle in Brooklyn, which will stay list — and the kitschy glasses in which they “A lot of Christmas songs are slow and ing all the local landmarks of our borough. open until Dec. 31, and then re-open later are served — to bars across the country. sad, and we don’t use those,” he said. “If — Rebecca Fitting, Greenlight Bookstore as a new tavern, is an over-the-top explo- The drinks at Miracle in Brooklyn are it’s not upbeat, then it has to at least be [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. sion of Christmas, with wrapping paper on elaborate: the Jingle Balls Nog has 11 in- nostalgic, and then we’ll get back to the Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246– 0200, www.greenlightbookstore.com]. the walls, presents on the ceiling, Christ- Photo by Stefano Giovannini gredients, for instance, while the “Die faster stuff.” mas trees, a statue of Santa, and the words Miracle worker: Doorman Joe Clantz Hard”-referencing Yippie Ki Yay M----- After several days of hearing continu- “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal” strung poses with a jolly old elf. ------requires rum infused with sweet po- ous caroling, Bidmead said that he was Word’s picks: “Alien across the bar. Along one wall are a col- tatoes and something called “marshmal- holding up just fine — though he was a Virus Love Disaster,” lection of awkward and celebrity holiday low orgeat.” At other bars, these would be little tired of the original “All I Want for by Abbey Mei Otis photos, including one incredibly ’80s im- drinks keep them coming back, said the warning signs, but the drinks are well-bal- Christmas is You.” You should pick up age of Mr. T dressed as Santa Claus, with man behind the Miracle. anced and spirit-forward, and once you’ve “I may never listen to Mariah Carey this collection of a dozen Nancy Reagan sitting on his knee. “People come for the holiday cheer, and downed one, it makes it easier to justify again,” he said. “We listen to lots of heavy short stories if you loved The decorations bring people in, but the have the delicious drinks, and they want paying $15 for another. metal before we open.” the [Brooklyn Public Li- brary’s Literary Prize- winning] book “Her Body and Other Parties,” DINING or if you’ve ever loved a scientist who gave you an Hill Country Food Park (345 alien virus and never texted you back. Adams St. near Willoughby Street Downtown). Open daily, — Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Word [126 Franklin ’Mart of Texas 11 am–8 pm. South Congress St. at Milton Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383– Downtown’s Hill Country opens at 7 am. 0096, www.wordbookstores.com]. and music venue, which will close its Community Bookstore’s pick: “Muck,” Boerum Hill location later this month, by Dror Burstein returns as Austin food hall and re-open on the second floor of the In his psychedelic, food hall early next year. Hank’s will surrealist retelling of By Julianne Cuba a breakfast taco, and Thursday for fit right in with the rest of the food the old testament book Brooklyn Paper ice cream.” hall, said Glosserman. of Jeremiah, Israeli nov- Hill Country Food Park boasts six “We knew as part of this we wanted elist Dror Burstein pres- t’s a whole mess of Texas! stalls, with designs inspired by food to have a terrific bar and bar pro- ents us with a moving col- A new food hall opened in Amer- trucks in the Lone Star State. South gram. We share a lot in common, it lage of the ancient and I ica’s Downtown this week, serving Congress serves coffee from local roast- just felt like a natural fit,” he said. the post-modern Middle Texas-inspired grub for every meal ers City of Saints, pastries from Wil- “What we’re doing here is not a full East. Corrupt Israeli pol- Photo by Stefano Giovannini iticians swill champagne of the day. The founder of barbecue liamsburg spot Du’s Donuts, and sweets Room for seconds: The airy two-floor space gives Hill Country stop replica, we’re trying to keep the joint Hill Country, who transformed from Brooklyn’s Van Leeuwen Artisan spirit of Hank’s alive.” at craps tables next to an- his former restaurant on Adams Street Ice Cream. Other stalls include Nick- Food Park the feel of an outdoor market. Glosserman said that he partnered cient Babylonian warriors into the new food park, said that the ie’s, which offers Tex-Mex food; Blue- with some vendors he already knew, at a Las Vegas casino built by the Egyptian Pha- new setup lets the company expand bonnets, with fresh salads and sand- that they were offered previously at is gonna be our signature twist on while others were the result of re- raoh, who still rules in AD 2018. Through this its culinary horizons while staying wiches; pizza spot Austino’s; and the Hill Country BBQ, and some really pizza, doing rectangular oversized searching the borough’s best foods, fever dream-world, our hero, the poet and re- true to its Texas roots. Hill Country Barbecue Market and Hill exciting new and innovative offerings,” slices called Texas slices; rectangu- he said. luctant prophet Jeremiah, must make sense of “We’re really excited about it,” said Country Chicken, where visitors can said the company founder. lar pies topped with a lot of our smoked “It was a combination of people the madness and warn the world of impending Marc Glosserman. “We’ve got a little get classic barbecued meats and fried Some of the booths combine meats — traditional pizza and BBQ we know and have had relationships doom before it is too late. bit of something for everyone here, chicken, said Glosserman. Glosserman’s native Texas roots with fused together,” he said. with over time, and doing a lot of test- — Samuel Partal, Community Bookstore [43 any day of the week and time of the “They can expect a variety of really his wife and partner Kristen Glosser- The giant food hub will also fea- ing, eating your way through lots and Seventh Ave. between Carroll Street and Gar- day — come Monday for chicken, delicious foods at great price points, man’s Italian heritage, he said. ture a new iteration of Hank’s Saloon, lots of ice cream and donuts,” said field Place in Park Slope, (718) 783–3075, www. Wednesday morning for coffee and and they can expect some of the stuff “The pizza we’re doing, Austino’s, the beloved honky-tonk watering hole Glosserman. commu nityb ookst ore.net ]. 8 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 30–December 6, 2018
THREE WAYS TO LOVE YOUR WHERE TO EDITORS’ PICKS SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY Dec. 1 Dec. 2 Dec. 3 Dec. 5 Dec. 6 At first light Lush life Chabad Park Slope Everyone knows Duke throws a party for the Ellington, but do you first night of Hanuk- know his longtime col- kah! Head to Grand laborator Billy Stray- Army Plaza at 4:30 horne? The openly Work it! pm, when the Jewish Santa’s slay gay composer and Close it rock band Pey Dald Sashay, shantay! Do Indulge in the darkest civil-rights cam- will kick things off down your thing on the side of the Christmas paigner takes center with some hot tunes. 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THEATER, AGATHA CHRIS- Free HIV testing will be of- 783–3928]. Boo, and dream pop group TIE’S “APPOINTMENT fered at the event. Free. 8 DINING, QUEER SOUP MON, DEC. 3 ViVii. Free. 7–11 pm. Baby’s WITH DEATH”: A classic am. Brown Memorial Baptist NIGHT: Enjoy soups and MUSIC, SYLVIE COURVOISIER All Right [146 Broadway be- 9 DAYS... murder mystery set among Church [484 Washington fl atbread, socialize, and TRIO: $25 ($18 in advance). tween Bedford and Driggs a group of strangers on an Ave. at Gates Avenue in dance to some good old 8 pm. Roulette [509 Atlan- avenues in Williamsburg, Continued from page 8 (718) 599–5800], www. expedition to the rose city Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) tunes, at an event benefi t- tic Ave. at Third Avenue 638–6121], www.brownme- babysallright.com. St. at Third Avenue in Gow- of Petra. $25 ($20 seniors ing Communities United for in Boerum Hill, (917) 267– morialbaptist.org. THEATER, THE PRISONER: anus, (718) 643–6510], www. and students). 8 pm. Gal- Police Reform. $15–$20 sug- 0363], www.roulette.org. thebellhouseny.com. lery Players [199 14th St. FILM, SILENT-FILM SCREEN- 7:30 pm. See Friday, Nov. gested donation. 6:30–9:30 COMEDY, CHICKEN, ROAD, 30. COMEDY, TINDER LIVE! WITH between Fourth and Fifth ING, “LUCKY STAR”: A LOL!: Weekly comedy open free screening of “Lucky pm. Littlefi eld (635 Sackett LANE MOORE: Comedian avenues in Park Slope, (212) mic in a gay bar. Five min- THEATER, “THE JUNGLE”: Star” (1929), a hybrid part- St. between Third and Lane Moore swipes her way 352–3101], www.gallery- utes to work on your stuff. Meet the hopeful, resilient players.com. talkie fi lm directed by Frank Fourth avenues in Gow- residents of the Jungle — through an improvised and anus), littlefi eldnyc.com. Free. 8 pm. Excelsior [563 interactive comedy show. NIGHTLIFE, “ALL I WANT FOR Borzage. Free. 12:30 pm. the short-lived, self-govern- Brooklyn Public Library’s Fifth Ave. between 15th and $15. 8 pm. Littlefi eld (635 CHRISTMAS IS MARIAH”: THEATER, THE PRISONER: 16th streets in Park Slope, ing society that emerged Dance the night away to the Central branch [10 Grand 7:30 pm. See Friday, Nov. within a sprawling refugee Sackett St. between Third Army Plaza between East- (718) 788–2710], www.wig- best pop, rock, hip hop, and 30. bate.com. camp in Calais, France. 7:30 and Fourth avenues in Gow- ern Parkway and Flatbush pm. St. Ann’s Warehouse anus), www.littlefi eldnyc. R&B jams of the ’90s. Free. COMEDY, CHANUKAH THE Marcus Joan 10 pm. Bell House [149 Sev- Avenue in Prospect Heights, SHOW!: This festival of [45 Water St. at New Dock com. (718) 230–2100], www. Outside the box: Hiran Abeysekera plays the title enth St. at Third Avenue in lights features comedy TUES, DEC. 4 Street in Dumbo, (718) 834– MUSIC, THE BUSHWICK bklynlibrary.org. 8794], www.stannsware- Gowanus, (718) 643–6510], from David Bluvband, Orli character in “The Prisoner,” about a man sentenced STARR’S 10TH ANNIVER- MUSIC, CONCERTS ON MUSIC, SWEDEN MAKES house.org. www.thebellhouseny.com. Matlow, Jesse Roth, plus to sit outside of a prison for 10 years. The show, based SARY CONCERT SERIES: THE SLOPE: A quartet MUSIC: The Swedish Con- COMEDY, 2 DOPE QUEENS: 10 songs by 10 Starr artists plays tunes by Mozart, gelt and gifts. Free. 10:30 sulate General presents A live recording of the hit on a true incident witnessed by writer and director to celebrate 10 years! $25. SUN, DEC. 2 Beethoven, and others. pm. Pine Box Rock Shop [12 a lineup of emerging tal- comedy podcast, featur- Peter Brook, plays at the Polonsky Shakespeare Cen- 8 pm. Bushwick Starr (207 $20 suggested donation. Grattan St. between Bogart ent from the old country, ing Jessica Williams and ter in Fort Greene through Dec. 16. Starr St. between Irving and WORLD AIDS DAY: Honoring 3 pm. St. John’s Episcopal Street and Morgan Avenue including Somali-Swedish Phoebe Robinson. $35. 8 Wykoff avenues in Bush- World Aids Day is the ‘Fam- Church [139 St. John’s Pl. in Bushwick, (718) 366– R&B singer Cherrie, indie pm. Kings Theatre (1027 wick), www.thebushwicks- ily and Friends Day,’ offering between Sixth and Seventh 6311], www.pineboxrock- rockers Vacation Forever, Flatbush Ave. between Avenue in Flatbush), www. in Williamsburg, (646) 779– tarr.org. prayer to those suffering. avenues in Park Slope, (718) shop.com. deejay and producer Bella Beverly Road and Tilden kingstheatre.com. 8455], www.nationalsaw- dust.org. COMEDY, NOSTALGIA!: A WED, DEC. 5 stand up and storytelling MUSIC, “GREEK”: Mark-An- event with Judah Fried- thony Turnage’s 1988 opera lander, in which comedi- based on a play by Steven ans reminisce on some of Berkoff comes to Brooklyn their most cringeworthy 3guysfrombrooklyn.com with the Scottish Opera and moments. Free. 7:30 pm. Opera Ventures. $35. 3 pm. Friends and Lovers (641 /%- 8 )#*3/.0%+)4%07.-0)8 .02!,)+2.- *578 .++.5.301.#)!+,%$)!&.0$!)+7$%!+1 BAM Howard Gilman Opera Classon Ave. between Dean House (30 Lafayette Ave. and Pacifi c streets in Crown ORGANIC between Ashland Place Heights), www.fnlbk.com. -$7.7 .+$%- 5%%2 Yellow Onion !+)&.0-)! %%$+%11 and St. Felix Street in Fort .+$%-%+)#).31 $ Broccoli Rabe Bartlett Pears Navel Oranges Greene), www.bam.org. FRI, DEC. 7 Apples $$ TALK, PERFORMANCE AS 49 $ ¢ 49 $ TOOL FOR SOCIAL JUS- COMEDY, POP SHOW: Co- lb. TICE: Bryan Doerries, Ar- medians perform original 1 for ea. tistic Director of Theater of 59 10 2 99 pop songs. With Cat Cohen, for 1lb. 59lb. lb. bag 9 1 War Productions, discusses Becca O’Neal, Ike Ufo- using classical literature to madu, and more. $10 ($8 in confront and heal trauma. advance). 7:30 pm. Union $5. 6:30 pm. Brooklyn Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth ORGANIC Historical Society [128 Pier- Avenue in Park Slope, (718) repont St. at Clinton Street 638–4400], www.union- %$!-$0%%- in Brooklyn Heights, (718) hallny.com. $ 222–4111], www.brooklyn- Seedless history.org. MUSIC, THE BUSHWICK Grapes 49 STARR’S 10TH ANNIVER- lb. THEATER, “WORLD CLAS- SARY CONCERT SERIES: 2 SIC”: A live, recorded read- 0%%-)!-2 !1()-'2.- 2!2% 620!!-#7 3'!0 5%%2 An evening with Dave Mal- ing of a domestic drama loy and Ghost Quartet. $75. Baby Peeled Carrots Golden Delicious Green Squash Red Seedless Grapes about an immigrant family, 8 pm. Bushwick Starr (207 followed by an interview Starr St. between Irving and ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ with the playwright. Free. Wykoff avenues in Bush- 7pm. 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Brooklyn Historical and Fourth avenues in Gow- Full Line $ Society [128 Pierrepont St. anus), www.parklifebk.com. $ ¢ $ at Clinton Street in Brooklyn FILM, THAT SLAPSTICK 2for 99 99 Heights, (718) 222–4111], SHOW: A selection of 7 comedy shorts that shine a 4 lb. 5 lb. 1 liter for www.brooklynhistory.org. D 99 1 1 4 2 spotlight on forgotten co- 11.02%$ 5.3 oz MUSIC, “LOVE SICK” A ROCK OPERA: Paul goes on a medians from the silent fi lm quest to cure his lovesick- era. $10. 6:30 pm. [389 Mel- SALE STARTS 28 29 30 1 2 3 ness. Performed by seven rose St. between Irving and opera singers and features Knickerbocker avenues in 11/28 7AM -12/3 7PM %$ (30 0) !2 3- .- 03)2.- the six-piece rock group Bushwick, (718) 415–1025]. K 2(%".22., K Contraband. $20. 7:30 pm. THEATER, THE PRISONER: ()+%13//+)%1+!12.20%1/.-1)"+%&.027/.'0!/()#!+%00.01 National Sawdust [80 N. 7:30 pm. See Friday, Nov. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue 30. November 30–December 6, 2018 Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 11 The party folk Klezmer band plays songs inspired by Woody Guthrie By Julianne McShane Brooklyn Paper MUSIC The Klezmatics present “Woody his show is going to be lit! Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Ha- Jewish roots band the Klez- nukkah” at Murmrrr (17 Eastern T matics will throw a wild Hanuk- Pkwy. between Grand Army Plaza kah party inspired by an American and Underhill Avenue in Prospect folk singer at Murmrrr in Prospect Heights, www.murmrrr.com). Dec. Heights on Dec. 2. “Woody Guth- 2 at 8 pm. $30. rie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah” will feature the band’s musical take on Jewish, but became interested in the Joshua Kessler Joshua some of Guthrie’s Yiddish poems. faith and its culture after becoming Stage lights: The Klezmatics will play musical versions of Woody The folk singer’s deep roots in Kings close with his Jewish in-laws, who Guthrie’s Yiddish poems at its Dec. 2 “Happy Joyous Hanukkah County make his tunes perfect for lived in nearby Sea Gate. He bonded a party celebrating the Festival of with his mother-in-law, Yiddish poet Party” in Prospect Heights. Lights, according to the group’s Aliza Greenblatt, over their mutual trumpet player. love of language, according to his said when they were growing up in people dancing. “Everyone thinks of [Guthrie] as daughter, Nora Guthrie. Coney Island, they had a Hanukkah “It kind of sums up the entire Klez- being this hillbilly from Oklahoma, The Klezmatics adapted Guthrie’s tree that they would dance around,” matics philosophy: it talks about think- but he lived most of his life in Brook- verses on its 2006 “Happy Joyous Ha- the trumpeter said. ing for yourself and questioning things lyn — he married a Jewish woman nukkah” album, and — accompanied The band will also play its own so- to make the world a better place — and lived out in Coney Island,” said by Irish folk singer and friend of the cial justice-oriented hits, including but you can party while you’re do- Frank London, who grew up in Brook- band Susan McKeown — will play songs from their most recent album, ing it,” he said. lyn Heights and now calls the distant some of those tunes at the party, in- “Apikorsim,” which means “heretics” London said the group wants to isle of Manhattan home. cluding “Hanukkah’s Flame” and in Yiddish and includes politically get people dancing, but will also try The American folk singer penned “Hanukkah Tree,” which refers to charged tunes defending the rights of to remember the religious traditions Fine Japanese cuisine, plus full his Yiddish poems while living on a distinct Guthrie family tradition, refugees and workers. London said behind the celebration. FREE $10 Mermaid Avenue with his wife Mar- said London. the group aims to use tunes to send “We might light a menorah if we sushi bar, for lunch or dinner DELIVERY MIN jorie in the 1940s. Guthrie was not “We talked to his kids, and they meaningful messages — and to keep get so inspired,” he said. 162 Montague St, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn Heights (718) 522-5555/58 Fax: (718) 522-7555 Festival of bites! www.nanatori.com OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Annual potato party returns
By Julianne Cuba their calendar year after year.” Brooklyn Paper This year’s festival will feature more than 25 different restaurants serving he last decade has given them a up delicious latkes, many created with latke love! flavors and toppings that vary wildly STAY INFORMED! T Celebrate the second night of from the classic apple sauce and sour Hanukkah by biting down on some cream — which makes it hard to choose unique twists on the holiday’s staple a favorite, said Neumark. food — the potato pancake — at the “We have some new participants that Get daily updates on news in your 10th annual Latke Fest at the Brook- we’re really excited about,” she said. lyn Museum on Dec. 3. Foodies flock Those newcomers include restau- from all over the city, and even from rants from across the five boroughs, Photo by Caleb Caldwell neighborhood by signing up for our far away, to indulge in potatoes fried including Acme, which will also be His fried and joy: Chef Saul Bolton, of the Norm restaurant in the in oil, said the festival’s founder. serving its smoked fish; Mama O’s, Brooklyn Museum, will serve up some special latkes on Dec. 3. “I think it gets bigger every year, known for its famous kimchi; and Ja- we don’t try to make it crazy big,” cob’s Pickles, serving latkes along- daily e-mail updates at said Liz Neumark, who started the side longtime Brooklyn participants, the Festival of Lights after Latke Fest, Brooklyn Museum [200 Eastern fund-raising event in the kitchen of such as Park Slope’s Eastern Euro- in case it whets your appetite for the Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in her catering company Great Perfor- pean restaurant Korzo and the steak- potato treats, said Neumark. Prospect Heights, (718) 638–5000, mances. “At the heart of it are a cou- house Benchmark. “People won’t be latke-d out, it’s www.latkefestival.com]. Dec. 3 at 6 BrooklynPaper.com/updates ple of hundred people who put it on And there are still six more days of the perfect launch,” she said. pm. $75 ($120 VIP). 12 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 30–December 6, 2018 Corner FROM THE PAGES OF BROWNSTONER.COM Edwardian residence near P’Park with 6=:72/G A/D3C>B= $ porch, luxe bathroom asking $2.195M A/:3 =44AC553AB32>@713 A/D3C>B=$ =4423A75<3@=CB3@E3/@ 9LP(JL@K 8KK?<M8CL<GI@:< >
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