Up in Smoked Fish

Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2014 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn, Williamsburg & Greenpoint AWP/16 pages • Vol. 37, No. 50 • December 12–18, 2014 • FREE PROTESTERS’ ROYAL WELCOME Marchers stage ‘die-in’ outside Nets game packed with bold-faced names, storm Atlantic Terminal By Noah Hurowitz The Brooklyn Paper They were royally pissed. Hundreds of protesters gath- ered outside Barclays Center on Monday night for a fifth straight night of protests following a grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for killing Gow- anus native Eric Garner on Staten Island by choking him and hold- ing him facedown on the ground, — only this demonstration coin- cided with a visit by Prince Wil- liam and Kate Middleton. One protester said the marches are still going because the system has failed black people. “I’m out here to demand jus- tice,” said Derrick West, of Park Slope, as the crowd marched down Atlantic Avenue toward Smith Street. “We are tired of speak- ing and having no one listen.” The crowd of protesters didn’t Photos by Paul Martinka dramatically disrupt the Nets game against Lebron “King” James’s Clockwise from left: Pro- Cleveland Cavaliers, but James testers block Flatbush and several Nets players, includ- and Atlantic avenues on ing Kevin Garnett and Deron Wil- Monday during a fifth liams, brought the activists’ message night of protests against to the court, warming up in black the grand jury decision to shirts that read, “I can’t breathe,” the let the officer who killed phrase Garner wheezed as Pantaleo Eric Garner go without took him down. Brooklyn royalty charges. Kate Middleton Jay-Z and Beyonce were also in at- and Prince William try to tendance, and King Hov took time the English royals’ visit. The crowd Police arrested three outside at one point the protesters paused about 100, attempted to cross the wrap their heads around out to pose with the politicized Nets staged a silent “die-in” in the in- the arena that evening, one for for a moment outside the House of Manhattan Bridge on the Brook- the rules of basketball, players ahead of the game. tersection of Flatbush and Atlan- assault, according to a police Detention to relay their solidarity lyn-bound roadway. Police barred and how Lebron James Outside, more than 500 activ- tic avenues, then moved across the spokeswoman. to the prisoners inside, chanting, the path and, after a standoff, the could be king. Brooklyn ists assembled, many galvanized street to Atlantic Terminal mall, Just before 10:30 pm, the 150 “We’re here for you!” protesters turned around and left royalty Jay Z and Beyonce by the Twitter topic “#royalshut- where protesters roved from store remaining protesters set off down The march wound its way through the borough the legal way, on the stride across the court to down” and seeking to capitalize on to store, disrupting shoppers, ac- Atlantic Avenue. Some cars stuck Downtown and Brooklyn Heights pedestrian walkway, chanting “I greet the duke and duch- the media attention being paid to cording to reports. in traffic honked in support, and — then, with its ranks numbering can’t breathe” as they went. ess of Cambridge. tests following the Eric Garner grand REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: jury decision , I followed one of several nebulous crowds of activists as it pin-balled around Manhattan and eventually made its way uptown toward Times Square. There was the My Eric Garner protest arrest occasional tense moment between protesters and police, such as when someone broke the window of a Volk- I spent a night in cuffs while covering demonstrations swagen trapped inside the march and officers rushed to make a perime- By Noah Hurowitz white police officers in the killings of bring charges against Officer Darren ter around the vehicle. In that shuf- The Brooklyn Paper Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and Wilson for shooting Brown, a cop hit fle, one cop shoved me, and when I I spent a night in jail for doing my I have spent several long nights walk- me with his baton as officers moved told him I was a reporter he retorted, job. ing for miles in demonstrations, filing to barricade the Manhattan entrance to “Congratulations.” In the past two weeks protests have live updates on Twitter, and writing re- the Williamsburg Bridge . But I didn’t But I saw no arrests for most of Photo by Paul Martinka erupted in New York and across the ports for this paper. see anything like the chaos that would the night. An officer and protester face off after cops cleared Seventh Avenue country in response to the decisions On Nov. 25, the night after a Fergu- break out nine days later. It wasn’t until after a “die-in” in at 42nd Street in Manhattan during the protests on Dec. 4. by two grand juries to not indict two son, Missouri grand jury declined to On Dec. 4, the second night of pro- See ARREST on page 14 Up in smoked ﬁ sh From Dumbo 80-year-old Williamsburg lox factory for sale — to Detroit? By Danielle Furfaro The Brooklyn Paper A longtime Williamsburg Galapagos heads to Midwest smoked-fish factory could be get- ting ready to change the lox. By Matthew Perlman Service Smoked Fish, which The Brooklyn Paper supplies delicacies including A Dumbo gallery and venue is smoked salmon, whitefish, and moving to the Motor City. kippered salmon to delis and res- In a stunning reversal of the taurants across the city, is up for Great Hipster Migration that has sale, along with the Throop Ave- defined the part of Brooklyn near- nue building that has housed the est to the East River for going on operation for decades. Its owner two decades, Galapagos Art Space said he set the price at $9.75 million is packing it up and starting a new Photo by Elizabeth Graham after fielding dozens of offers for life in the Midwest. The move will Galapagos Art Space moved the factory in recent years. end a 19-year run in the borough, to Dumbo in 2008. “I got tired of answering the first in Williamsburg, then, start- door and telling everyone my life ing in 2008, in Dumbo. The head story,” Jay Wiener said. “So I de- of the operation says that it may work on our mission with those cided to list it with a number.” be setting out for more post-apoc- numbers,” he said. Wiener has not named a fig- alyptic pastures, but it will remain In discussing the impending ure for the business, but said he Wiener Jay move a third of the way across Service Smoked Fish owner Jay Wiener with a tray of his Kings County to the core. is open to selling it, too. “We were born in Brooklyn. the country, Elmes said Highland “Everything has got its price,” delectable wares. We grew up in Brooklyn,” said Park, a small city surrounded by he said. “If someone offers me Robert Elmes, executive director Detroit, reminds him of the Wil- enough money, I will take it.” to the suburbs. Subsequently, it way Triangle that the city targeted at Galapagos. “We’ll always be a liamsburg he set up shop in dur- Wiener’s father Nathan “Chick” became a high-priced delicacy, a for redevelopment as a 1,895-unit Brooklyn venue.” ing the mid-1990s. It is the land of Wiener founded Service Smoked fixture of the smoked-fish scene mixed-income housing complex Galapagos had enjoyed below- milk and affordable real estate, he Fish in 1934 in a different neigh- explained. in 2006 — only to have the proj- market rent at its space on Main explained, and it is only a matter borhood factory and moved to “It was in danger of going away ect derailed by litigation claim- Street between Water and Plym- of time before artists from else- Throop Avenue at Walton Street from the food lexicon for a while, ing the plan unfairly favored large outh streets courtesy of its land- where catch on. in 1955. and then the whole world caught Hasidic Jewish families over low- lord Two Trees, the developer that “Cultural scenes need three Smoked fish holds a special on,” said Mark Federman, a third- income black and Latino neigh- made Dumbo the real-estate pres- things: time, space, and people,” place in Brooklyn’s history. In the generation owner of the storied borhood residents. Much of the sure cooker it is today by care- he said. early 20th century, it was cheap Manhattan appetizing shop Russ property in the area is city-owned, fully cultivating an artistic com- His opinion of the cultural apti- and plentiful and often offered as a and Daughters, and a customer of vacant, and polluted. munity there. But now the lease is tude of Detroit’s 713,000 residents free side with a nickel beer. It was Service Smoked Fish. “It became If Service closes, Brooklyn will up and, though Two Trees is will- is apparently not high. a staple of the then-huge Jewish an item for first-class airlines and be left with just two smoked fish ing to keep the rent below what “In Detroit there’s time and middle class in the borough, but fancy Sunday brunches.” factories — Acme Smoked Fish File photo by Jeff Bachner it could charge, it is asking too space,” he said. “And the people went out of fashion when much Service sits within the nine in Greenpoint and Banner in Co- Scenes like this are about to be history, in Dumbo any- much, Elmes said.

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