Under New Management Judge Takes Running of Troubled Senior Residence from Owner
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By Noah Hurowitz The Brooklyn Paper Police need to do a better job investigating drivers who mow down pedestrians, says the hus- band of a woman who was killed by an unlicensed — and possi- bly drunk — driver on a Clinton Hill street in 2011. The widower lashed out at the cops who bun- gled the examination of his wife’s death so badly her alleged killer was never brought to trial. Jake Stevens damned police on Sunday during a memorial ser- vice for Clara Heyworth at the site of her death at the age of 28, calling them out for not ensuring the driver who killed ever saw a Stephan Keegan day behind bars. (Left) Jake Stevens, husband of the late Clara Heyworth, “F--- the police,” Stevens said watches as road safety activists paint a memorial near while standing at the corner of where a car fatally struck her at Dekalb and Vanderbilt av- Dekalb and Vanderbilt avenues, enues in 2011. where Heyworth was run down as he watched helplessly. “There has creased regulations to hold killer criticized as a lack of investiga- not been, and there will never be, drivers accountable for their ac- tion of such deaths. An orga- ever, any justice for Clara.” tions. Activists painted a pair of nizer said they have shifted to The widower called on cops rose-studded angel wings on the making memorials less confron- to do a better job investigating pavement. tational since Mayor DeBlasio be- traffic deaths and ensuring fu- Stevens has filed a civil suit gan taking road safety more seri- ture traffic deaths get the atten- against the driver. ously with his so-called “Vision tion they deserve. “We are here for those that The memorial was organized Zero” initiative, which aims to by Right of Way, a road safety end pedestrian fatalities in the
come after us, not for those we Seel Alex lost,” he said. group that calls attention to bike city but, he said, there is still a Heyworth died in 2011 after a ing, but he refused further tests The police further dropped the and the driver walked. and pedestrian deaths and lobbies long way to go. driver struck her as she crossed and a judge tossed the results ball, Stevens accused, by failing “The police failed to investi- for increased penalties for reck- “When police do a terrible job the intersection. when it was learned police from MEAN to send the Accident Investiga- gate her death, the D.A. failed to less motorists. of an investigation they screw over A Breathalyzer test admin- the 88th Precinct had not cal- tion Squad to the scene until three prosecute,” he said. “In doing so, In the past the group would the victims and their families all istered at the scene showed the ibrated the testing kit in four Streets days after the crash. Because of they failed all of us.” spray paint white body outlines over again,” said road safety ac- driver — who only had a learn- years, according to a report in the weak investigation, the dis- Loved ones gathered at the in- at the site of pedestrian fatali- tivist Keegan Stephan, who helped er’s permit — had been drink- Gothamist at the time. The battle for Brooklyn’s byways trict attorney did not press charges tersection once again called for in- ties to call attention to what they paint the memorial. Under new management Judge takes running of troubled senior residence from owner
By Noah Hurowitz said Councilman Brad Lander (D–Park ments showed he had actually agreed vices, and the original lawsuit became The Brooklyn Paper Slope). “The judge has been the sole pro- in January 2014 to sell the building for mired in sideshow litigation. Advocates A judge took the reins of a Grand Army tector of the residents, but he cannot pro- $76.5 million once he had cleared out all for the residents say Deitsch only kept Plaza old-folks home from its embattled vide day-to-day protection.” the residents. Most of the facility’s 120- a skeleton crew of staff, dimmed hall- owner and handed them over to a tempo- Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice odd residents decamped, but a handful way lighting, and served shoddy meals, rary administrator last month, which will Wayne Saitta seized the management remained, and their angry relatives sued which they claim was a deliberate ploy hopefully ensure that the facility’s resi- of Prospect Park Residence from owner Deitsch and the Department of Health to to force the inhabitants out. dents will be cared for while court pro- Haysha Deitsch on April 10 and appointed keep the facility open and create a new “For a year Haysha Deitsch has shown ceedings against the owner continue — and Brian Rosenman, a nursing home ad- closure plan, claiming the original plan he had no intention of providing ser- that they will continue at all, said a Park ministrator, as receiver, as first reported was illegal and inadequate. Saitta or- vices,” said Lander. “We have every rea- Slope pol who welcomed the news. by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. dered Deitsch to keep the facility open son to believe that his goal was to make “The core court case could not have The move comes more than a year af- for the holdouts and continue providing the facility unlivable.” been heard if all of the residents had been ter Deitsch first announced he intended the services laid out in their leases un- The number of people in the home has
Photo by Jason Speakman driven out through illegal mismanage- to close the facility citing financial dif- til the lawsuit could be settled. now dwindled to seven. But Lander said A judge handed operation of Prospect Park Residence over to a re- ment, so thankfully the judge appointed ficulties — a claim The Brooklyn Paper But the remaining residents and their he hopes the new management will allow ceiver in April. someone who will provide basic services,” revealed to be bogus when court docu- families accused Deitsch of cutting ser- the remaining residents to see justice. Vinyl destination: Greenpoint Massive record fair draws thousands to Expo Center
By Danielle Furfaro their wares to 3,500 record geeks Conspiracy of Beards, which The Brooklyn Paper between Friday and Sunday. is an a cappella Leonard Co- Wax on! The fair, like the radio sta- hen cover band. Fair organiz- New Jersey radio station tion, is known for champion- ers also screened a handful of WFMU brought its famed an- ing obscure musical genres, bizarre films, including Fran- nual record fair to Brooklyn for such as psychedelic, no wave, cis Ford Coppola’s low-budget the first time last weekend, draw- experimental, and old rockabilly. horror film “Dementia 13” and ing thousands of music fans from WFMU held the first fair at a creepy 1962 cult classic “Car- around the globe to Greenpoint’s Hoboken Elks Lodge in 1993, nival of Souls.” Brooklyn Expo Center. Attend- and in the intervening 22 years, And the Expo Center was a ees said the long-running bazaar it has become one of the most big hit in its first spin as a venue, is a great place to uncover hid- popular record fairs in the coun- said an organizer. den gems. try, serving as a gathering place “This is the best place that “The radio station is the num- for vinyl fetishists from near we have done it,” said station ber one source for me finding and far, Jones said. manager Ken Freedman. “It good music, and the record fair “So many people show up to has great acoustics and natu- is the same way,” said station vol- congregate in the same place who ral lighting, good bathrooms unteer Sasha Jones. “I go there only get to see each other once and ventilation. Load-in is al- and I play roulette by buying a or twice a year,” she said. ways hard because records are
bunch of $1 and $2 records that This year’s fair hosted musi- heavy, [but] the problems that Photos by Stefano Giovannini I never heard of before.” Olivia Neutron John, aka Anna cal performances by Olivia Neu- we have had in the past were Ilya Chaiken fawns over a Bill Withers record at the WFMU record fair at the Brooklyn Expo More than 200 vendors hawked Nasty, belts out a tune. tron John, Danny Kroha, and nonexistent.” Center this past weekend. HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! SUNDAY MAY 10TH, 2015 #!+%3 s 0!342)%3 s 0)%3 s #//+)%3 \ Specialty Cakes by Madison Lee \ WWW#OUSIN*OHNS"AKERYCOM Serving Park Slope since 1986 Open 7 Days from 7am-10pm: Breakfast, Lunch & Sunday Brunch | 70 Seventh Avenue • Park Slope • (718) 622-7333 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 May 8–14, 2015 A premiere, 70 years late Ratner brings Hitchcock’s Holocaust doc to screen By Lincoln Anderson abled, homosexuals, dissi- Community News Group dents and non-Jewish Poles On May 19, the Museum and Russians. of Jewish Heritage will pre- “It’s inexplicable,” Ratner miere a never-before-seen said. “That’s why it very much 1945 documentary directed resonates today.” by Alfred Hitchcock. But un- As the Russians filmed like a typical film by the mas- Auschwitz, the British doc- ter of suspense, this isn’t a psy- umented Bergen-Belsen, and chological thriller that will the Yanks recorded other sites. ! leave viewers wondering until Other camps shown include the mystery is finally unrav- Dachau, Buchenwald and Maj- eled at the last minute. danek. In all, the film includes Rather, the documentary footage from 14 locations (10 was made with the opposite camps and four sites of atroc- intent: to erase any mystery ity) discovered in Austria,
about what really happened Imperial War Museums Germany and Poland. in the Nazi death camps, to A still from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1945 documentary The combat cameramen h ij expose the unvarnished truth “German Concentration Camps Factual Survey” who shot the footage used k about the Holocaust. shows children smiling through barbed wire. very simple cameras, Rat- It’s called “German Con- ner noted, but “there were a h centration Camps Factual Sur- lot of them.” lmmn vey,” and it will be screened cluding building the New York of the atrocities and extreme Although Bernstein called Times building and, in Down- brutality of the Nazis.” olmmh for the first time thanks to the Hitchcock the director, he was efforts of developer Bruce Rat- town, MetroTech and the new As for why the film was left really more of a “treatment ad- h pllqlr ner, chairman of the board of Barclays Center — home of on the shelf, he said, there were viser,” according to Ratner. the Nets, of which he is a part a number of factors. snltuqvmwlxtq trustees of the Museum of Jew- The documentary bears a ish Heritage in Manhattan. owner. He is currently con- “It got delayed, in general, Hitchcock hallmark, Ratner y When the camps were liber- structing three buildings in in the summer of 1945,” he said — long, wide shots that the Atlantic Yards project — said. “They didn’t have ated, extensive footage of them show the scenes in their full was shot by British, American now known as Pacific Park the Russian material from context. It also uses symbol- and Russian military camera- Brooklyn — half of whose to- Auschwitz.” ism to evoke the camps’ hor- men, as well as by newsreel tal units will be below market But the film’s visceral im- rors. cameramen. rate. Work will soon begin on pact and condemning message “Hitchcock was always This array of film, in turn, a fourth building, which will were also reasons why it was about symbolism,” Ratner was used by the British Min- be 100 percent below market not shown back then — there said. “It’s not like the 15-min- istry of Information to cre- rate. When fully built, the proj- was a fear of alienating the ute newsreels of the day. It’s ate a documentary that would ect will have 2,250 below-mar- Germans and driving them done with a certain degree of condemn the Nazi regime and ket-rate units toward the Soviets. Rebuild- artistry and care.” document the magnitude of its In addition to his develop- ing became the focus, not de- Five rough-cut reels of the crimes. In short, it was meant ment work, Ratner said he takes Nazi-fication. film were originally com- to be the film to be shown to immense pride in work with “You wanted to win them pleted, but a planned sixth German prisoners of war and Museum of Jewish Heritage. over, and it was felt that this reel was never made — un- the German public after the The opportunity for the mu- would not do that,” Ratner til now. To create the new, dig- fall of the Third Reich. seum to host the East Coast said. “Germany became the fo- ital version, the restorers went Sidney Bernstein, chief of premiere of the documentary cal point of the Cold War.” back to the original footage the film division of the Psy- is a great honor, he said. Ratner was born in 1945, — a total of 100 reels of film chological Warfare Division of “I would say it’s a major mo- and growing up, heard family — and followed the 1945 film the Allied Expeditionary Force, ment in Holocaust documen- members talking about the Ho- team’s instructions. initiated the project and fought tary,” he said. “When the Rus- locaust. His family lost about Ratner has seen five of the for its production. Hitchcock — sians reported on Auschwitz, 120 members across Germany film’s six reels. Asked how who was described by Bern- it wasn’t believed. This film and Eastern Europe in the war. graphic it is, he said, “It’s very stein as the film’s director — was meant to prove and show Afterward, his father spon- hard to watch.” spent a month overseeing the what the German people and sored many survivors who For now, the plan is to show editing. Ultimately, though, what the Nazis had done — came over to America. the long-lost documentary on the film was shelved. and then to tell the people of In 1976, Ratner went to only one night, May 19, at the Now, seven decades later, the world.” Poland to see Auschwitz for Museum of Jewish Heritage. England’s Imperial War Mu- “It still shakes the soul, himself. “German Concentra- LMNOPMQRP'SMNTUVWXY'ZNW'[\]^_]`XUMPT''a'ZN'LQ`O'bUQMQ`WPP'a'cQd'eNXP'fQgUP seum has digitally restored the shakes the mind to see this “It was communist,” tion Camps Factual Survey” film,” Ratner said. “The ‘Ho- "#$%&'()*+,-.'/0)1*2'3'(456'7805'9,,'+:;)<.'+-.-+=->5'?-@2-+'/7A(5''(/%BC&#D$E'F$B%GDH$H%I documentary and assembled he said. “Nobody visited at the Museum of Jewish 9JACCGEGD$$''F$EK%&I it for the first time exactly as locaust,’ the word, did not ex- Auschwitz in those days.” Heritage [36 Battery Pl. in Bernstein and Hitchcock orig- ist as we know it now until the The Nazis killed about 1 Manhattan, (646) 437–4202, inally intended. 1970s. Had this documentary million Jews at the infamous www.mjhnyc.org]. May 19 at Ratner is best known for been shown at the time, it would killing camp. 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The victim told police that he was between Stagg and Ten Eyck streets at 8:45 pm when Cops: Knife-wielding man sticks up fl ower shop a guy walked up to him and shot him in the thigh and then choice but to allow the suspect tory, according to a report. sometime overnight on April personnel took the man to ran away. Police are searching 78TH PRECINCT to snatch the cash drawer and The crook snuck into the 29, cops said. Methodist Hospital. for the suspect and emergency Park Slope dash out, police said. basement of the store between POLICE BLOTTER The owner left his 1997 Vicious ex personnel took the victim to The alleged thief did not President and Union streets Woodhull Hospital, where he Cops cuffed a knife-wield- Dodge Caravan near Nas- A woman’s ex-boyfriend ing man who they say stuck up make it far, a report said. A and swiped about $200 worth Find more online every Wednesday at sau Street a 5 pm, but when was treated and released. witness spied the suspect of shampoo, boxers, T-shirts, followed her into a Rockwell a flower shop inside a Seventh BrooklynPaper.com/blotter he returned at 9 am the next Place fast food restaurant on Sneak attack walking into the back en- lighters, and fruit snacks, cops day, some galoot had sped Avenue supermarket on April April 25, beat her, took her Someone bashed a drunk trance of a pizza restaurant said. off in the ride, according to 25, according to a report. vinyl records, and then ran guy in the head with a blunt The alleged slasher, clad on Fifth Avenue between Gar- When the store owner re- to his old job at a Livingston The victim left the vehi- a report. away, police say. object on Stagg Street on in blue sweatpants and a blue field Place and First Street, ported the burglary he told Street gym and swiped equip- cle at Willoughby Street at See no evil The victim told police that May 3. sweatshirt, barged into the where cops managed to track cops another burglar had ment on April 20, according 7 am and then headed home him down and arrested him, struck only a day earlier, ac- to a report. without noticing anything was An unknown brute at- she went to the eatery near Police responded to a call market near Carroll Street Fulton Street at 11:55 pm and according to a report. cording to a report. The man lost his job at the amiss, according to a report. tacked a man on Bergen Street between Union Avenue and at 11:25 pm, waving a knife early in the morning of May saw her ex-boyfriend there. He in the face of an unlucky em- Low blow In-and-out gym between Court Street and When the driver got home at Lorimer Street at 4:40 am to 1, according to a report. forcibly took her records and find the victim lying on the ployee and demanding cash, A thief broke into the base- A burglar managed to swipe Boerum Place that day, and 2 pm he checked the back of The victim was near in the process injured her arm ground with the cut over his police said. ment storeroom of a Fourth thousands of dollars in loot allegedly returned sometime the truck and realized some- Boerum Place at 4 am when and rib cage, cops reported. left eye, according to a report. With the knife held to his Avenue convenience store on from an Eighth Street apart- that night to load up on equip- one had swiped a nail gun Police are searching for the an unseen assailant clocked Cops say the intoxicated man stomach, the employee had no April 19 and raided the inven- ment on April 22 — as the ment, police said. worth $600, a cordless drill boyfriend. Cameras at the location worth $500, and a variety of him in the back of the head told them that somebody had occupant slept on the couch, with an unknown object, leav- according to cops. picked up the meathead as drill bits valued at $350, po- Full stop hit him hard over the head. he allegedly cleaned out his lice said. ing a small laceration on the Someone punched a bicy- Emergency personnel took The victim awoke some- man’s scalp, cops said. Affordable Family Dentistry time after midnight to the former bosses, and police ar- Is no place safe? clist as he was waiting at a the victim to Woodhull Hos- rested him on April 29, ac- — Noah Hurowitz Willougby Avenue red light in modern pleasant surroundings sound of a loud thump from Some wannabe Houdini pital and police said they were cording to a report. on April 27. the rear of his apartment broke the lock on a gym-go- checking nearby surveillance State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave) between Eighth Avenue and 88TH PRECINCT The victim told police that cameras. Emergencies treated promptly Motor away er’s locker at a Remsen Street he was stopped at the light Prospect Park West, but went A highway robber snagged gym on April 28 and snatched Fort Greene–Clinton Hill Bike off Special care for children & anxious patients back to sleep, police said. near Claremont Avenue at a motorcycle parked on Staten thousands of dollars in loot, Direct hit 10:52 pm when a guy ran up A sacrilegious intruder WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD When the man awoke again Street sometime between according to a report. at about 4 am, he found a sneak Please arrested a woman to him, punched him off his was captured on camera steal- April 24 and April 25, cops The victim only exercised who they say intentionally hit bicycle, and drove away. ing a bicycle and cash from a • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) had crept off with a laundry said. at the gym between Court and • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, list of belongings, includ- a man with her car on Fulton — Danielle Furfaro Penn Street religious school The victim parked his black Clinton streets from 4:30 to 5 Street on April 27 — causing on May 1. Bonding Crowns & Bridges (Capping) ing a MacBook, cashier’s 2009 Kawasaki bike between pm, but in that time the thief • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment checks, and handbags, a re- him to go airborne and fall The manager of the pri- Hoyt and Smith streets at 3 managed to clip his lock and 68TH PRECINCT • Root Canal • Extractions • Dentures • Cleanings port said. down a subway entrance. vate school between Kent pm, and when he returned at steal two cellphones, a pair of Bay Ridge–Dyker Heights • Implant Dentistry • Fillings (tooth colored) A police officer claims he and Wythe avenues told po- 9 am the next day, the bike pants, a belt, a wedding ring, • Stereo headphones • Analgesia (Sweet air) saw the 25-year-old woman in- Tip jar jacked lice that he saw a video of 84TH PRECINCT had vanished, according to and an iPod, all told making tentionally hit the 50-year-old A lush larcenist stole the sinner breaking into the a report. off with an estimated $2,265 Dr. Jeffrey M. Kramer Brooklyn Heights– man with her car near Wash- $22,000 from a Third Ave- school at 2:30 am. of the poor guy’s stuff, cops 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens DUMBO–Boerum Hill– Keep on truckin’ ington Avenue, causing him nue bar on April 28. The blasphemous thief said. 624-5554 s 624-7055 Downtown A thief broke into a truck to fall down the stairs of the The thirsty thief snuck grabbed a bicycle and $60 Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking Vengeful while it was parked on Gold Need for speed Fulton Avenue C stop. into the pub between 97th worth of religious donations and insurance plans accommodated Cops nabbed a spurned em- Street on April 27 and swiped A car thief drove off with Police charged the woman Street and Marine Avenue and then fled the building, ployee who they say returned the driver’s tools, cops said. a van parked on Gold Street with assault and emergency in Bay Ridge through a side cops reported. Police found door sometime between 1 am the bicycle around the corner and 8 am, police said. the next morning. Computer piracy Sharp tongued A nogoodnik nicked three Two wicked women slashed computers from a Bay Ridge a man across the cheek with Avenue home on April 30. a knife while trying to steal The intruder snuck into the his phone on Broadway on residence between Third and May 2. Fourth Avenues in Bay Ridge through a rear window some- The victim told police that time between 8:15 am and 3:15 he was near Flushing Avenue pm and made off with an Ap- at 2 am when two women sur- WHETHER ple desktop, an iPad Mini, and rounded him and tried to take a MacBook, police said. his phone out of his hand. One of the woman pulled Boob tube out a knife and slashed the YOU SAY IT IN A fiend filched eight tele- man across the face. The vic- visions and some mounting tim then ran into Woodhull brackets from a 76th Street Hospital to get help. residence that is under con- CHINESE, struction on May 1. Not on Amazon The bandit snuck into the Police arrested a woman home between Ridge Bou- for breaking into the lobby levard and Third Avenue in of a Messerall Street apart- , Bay Ridge through a base- YIDDISH ment building on April 23 and ment door sometime between stealing a package. 8:15 am and 3:15 pm, police According to the police re- , said. port the woman broke into the SPANISH ARABIC, Laptop gone lobby of the building between A lout lifted a laptop from Graham and Manhattan some- an 86th Street store on April time between 3 and 5 pm. The , 27. victim showed police video RUSSIAN and photos of the incident and An employee set the com- puter on the floor inside the police arrested the 38-year- store between Fifth and Sixth old woman and charged her OR ENGLISH, Avenues in Bay Ridge at 2 pm with burglary. while he fixed the shelf it was Park outing sitting on, police said. While the worker was distracted, the A pair of teenage punks at- thief picked up the laptop and tacked and robbed a woman THIS IS A using her laptop in a Morgan walked out of the store, offi- cials said. The computer was Avenue park on April 20. valued at $1,849, a police re- The victim told poilce she port states. was sitting on a bench in the PARTNERSHIP park near Maspeth Avenue — Max Jaeger at 7:12 pm when two young teens suddenly grabbed her 90TH PRECINCT laptop out of her hands. WHERE Southside–Bushwick She tried to fight back and Hole in one one of the boys kicked her in A gun-wielding maniac the side of the stomach. Then EVERYONE shot a guy on a Lorimer Street they both ran away. on May 5, cops said. — Danielle Furfaro
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Bishop Kearney High School Photo by Stefano Giovannini (Above) Outgoing Brooklyn Academy of Music President Karen Brooks Hopkins speaks at a gala in her honor on April 29. (Right) A caterer lays out cake at the event.
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ager of the remaining Junk store on Driggs Avenue be- tween N. Sixth and N. Sev- enth streets. Packing its trunk The Junk store on N. Ninth, like its sister store on Driggs Avenue, was overflowing with Junk store closes N. 9th Street outlet old suitcases, chairs, type- writers, mirrors, rugs, man- By Danielle Furfaro nequins, mediocre artwork, The Brooklyn Paper and all manner of flea-mar- They’re cleaning house! ket detritus. Vintage stores A Williamsburg vin- still have cachet in Bushwick, tage emporium has closed where there are several, but one of its two outlets after with rents in Williamsburg AB=@3E723 the landlord raised the rent. skyrocketing, Junk was not Junk shuttered its sprawling, A/D3C>B= the best use of cavernous overpacked store on N. Ninth spaces, said Orama. Street two weeks ago and will The N. Ninth Street lo- instead open a well-organized cation opened 11 years ago, housewares shop on Union and the Driggs Avenue shop Avenue, which should be a opened in 2011. better fit for the neighbor- Orama declined to say how hood’s new character, said much the landlord wanted to A/:3% the store’s manager. raise the rent or how much “The neighborhood has the rent will be in the new changed completely, and there shop.
B6=CA/<2A=4<3EA>@7<5 AC;;3@/@@7D/:A is not a place for a store like Photo by Stefano Giovannini The new store on Union ours anymore,” said Danny Junk is keeping its store on Driggs Avenue, but has Avenue will open in mid- Orama, who is still man- closed its second outlet on N. Ninth Street. May, he said. 9LP(JL@K 8KK?<M8CL<GI@:< > (,0%00 Photos by Stefano Giovannini GIFDJN<;;@E>JJN< By Noah Hurowitz citywide open house event in The Brooklyn Paper honor of the FDNY’s 150th Kids in Park Slope — and anniversary. But unlike the at least one curious reporter — vast majority of ho-hum sta- got the chance to see a piece tions throughout the city, the of Brooklyn history on May home of Engine 239 carries 2, when Engine 239 on Fourth the mark of an earlier breed (Top) Smoke eaters and families hunker down in Avenue threw open its doors of Brooklyn’s Bravest. front of a truck at the old Brooklyn Fire Department ;I BOOKS Fact-sinating Roger Alarcon Viva los Smiths! Photo by Elizabeth Graham Mexican musicians play tribute to Morrissey at BAM He is fascinated by the fascinating. A Park Slope writer and composer has penned an illustrated tome featuring who he considers By Max Jaeger in Mexico City and also founded elec- and incorporated traditional elements like mariachi horns or traditional rhythms — to be some of the 50 most interesting people The Brooklyn Paper tronic music project the Mexican Institute Mariachi-style horn sections and the clave with a very modern rock form and sensi- in the world. But the author of “Extraordinary of Sound. “That is why we love telenove- — the tightly syncopated rhythmic back- bility,” said WNYC radio’s John Schaefer, People: A Semi-Comprehensive Guide to Some ow soon is ahora? las [soap operas] and lucha libre [Mexi- bone for many styles of Latin music. who will host a discussion with Lara before of the World’s Most Fascinating Individuals” Mexican musicians will re-imag- can wrestling].” Melding the disparate elements is not Mexrrissey takes the stage on May 10 as said “fascinating” doesn’t always mean “fa- H ine the songs of mononymic musi- Lara said his love affair with Morrissey a simple task, according to one Latin mu- part of the station’s annual Radio Love Fest mous” — just someone who has done some- cal monolith Morrissey in a show at the began when he was 6 and his older brother sic producer. series at the Fort Greene arts institution. thing “above and beyond the norm.” Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 10. started spinning tunes from British post-punk “Some songs, especially English ones “It takes a really keen ear and a really deft “ ‘Fascinating,’ or more specifically, ‘extraordi- Setting music by the morose former front- bands XTC, Bauhaus, and the Smiths. originating in the United States, are at times touch to pull off that sort of thing.” nary,’ to me, doesn’t necessarily mean ‘role model,’ ” man of the Smiths to bouncy south-of-the- “I enjoyed those more than ‘Sesame impossible to place in clave,” Salsa pro- For Lara, the biggest hurdle was capturing said Michael Hearst, who will launch his book at border instrumentation may sound like a Street,’ ” Lara said. “I think every single ducer Sergio George said in the 2008 book Morrissey’s voice amid his verbosity. PowerHouse Arena in Dumbo on May 16. culture clash, but for many Mexicans and band in Mexico … has been influenced “Sounding Salsa: Performing Latin Music “He tends to put a lot of words in little The book includes people responsible for sci- Mexican-Americans, Moz’s heavy lyrics by the Smiths.” in New York City.” spaces,” Lara said. “It was a great exercise. entific breakthroughs, inventions, humanitarian are a light that will never go out, one per- This year, he put together Mexrrissey, a But Lara’s ability to seamlessly weave to- These are not translations — these are ad- efforts, and acts of great daring. One of the 50 former said. supergroup with members from indie Mambo gether English and Latin music is testament aptations. We didn’t want to make a trib- featured faces is Soviet space program master- “His music is charged with drama, black act Calexico, hair metal mock-rock group to his skill as an arranger, one critic said. ute or a cover band — we wanted to do a mind Sergei Korolev, who was responsible for humor, irony — we have that in our DNA,” Moderatto, and punks Tijuana No! The col- “He’s gotten to be so good at marrying tra- band that really re-appropriated Morrissey Sputnik and sending cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin said bandleader Camilo Lara, who lives lective translated Moz’s lyrics into Spanish ditional Mexican sounds — whether they’re songs with a Mexican DNA.” and the dog Laika into outer space. Hearst said Korley has never really gotten his full dues. “Many consider Korlev to be the father of practical astronautics,” said Hearst, who wrote the first draft in four months, mostly at Park Slope Library. “Of course, the reason we are just now hearing about him is because he was locked away in a Soviet gulag for years.” The big bang! Other people in the book have more eccen- tric claims to fame. Jeanne De Clisson, a female pirate in the 1300s, trolled the English Chan- Party with a huge drum band nel hunting down and destroying French ships. Heraclio Bernal, also known as the “thunder- By Danielle Furfaro MUSIC bolt of Sinaloa,” was a real-life Robin Hood in The Brooklyn Paper Mexico — he stole from the rich and gave to The Carnival Project at Little- the poor and is also the subject of many Mexi- alk about a birthday bash! fi eld [622 Degraw St. between can folk songs. A massive all-female Afro- Fourth and Third Avenues in Hearst said he has met, talked to, or corre- T Brazilian drum group bass-ed Gowanus, (718) 855–3388, www. sponded with several of the people featured in in Brooklyn is celebrating its third littlefi eldnyc.com]. May 16 at 8 pm. the book, including his all-time hero, profes- $10–$12. birthday with a show at Littlefield in sional skateboarder Rodney Mullen, who in- Gowanus on May 16. The band’s co- vented the flat-ground ollie skate move. founder said this will be the group’s Kovacs and assistant director Laura “I spent several hours on the phone with him biggest shindig yet. Torell founded the New York arm in talking about his role as ‘godfather of street “We had a party last year and we 2012 after visiting Brazil to learn how skating,’” said Hearst. wanted to make it even bigger this it all works, and bringing 35 drums Hearst said he isn’t just interested in fas- year,” said Stacy Kovacs, musical di- home with them. Only 18 people came cinating people — he wrote “Extraordinary rector of Batala NYC. to the group’s first rehearsal in the People” as a follow-up to his first publication, And the band has plenty to cele- basement of a Dumbo warehouse, “Unusual Creatures,” in which he highlighted brate. In its three years of existence, but the band has since boomed to 86 unsung fauna, such as the axolotl, echidna, hag- the group has opened for the Roll- members, with somewhere between NYC Honk fish, and mimic octopus. ing Stones, graced the cover of fe- 40 and 60 players joining in for most Beat-down: The 86-piece, all-female samba-reggae drum group Batala NYC will celebrate its third At the launch, Hearst said he will give a pre- male drummer magazine Tom Tom, shows. The ensemble now has to re- birthday with a big party at Littlefield. sentation with photos and videos of some of the and paraded through dozens of street hearse in a school auditorium in Pros- book’s featured individuals, perform a musical festivals in New York City. pect Heights. Kovacks said, and many of the current Carnival Project,” will include mu- Lady Aye imbibing some blades, and set inspired by the book, and serve Toll House Batala NYC is just one of 31 Batala Kovacs said she wants to grow the members had never even picked up a sical performances from Batala, of hula hoop expert Miss Saturn twirl- cookies, which were invented by Ruth Wake- groups across the globe. Batala mem- brigade even larger and hopes to reach drum stick before signing up. course, as well as psychedelic Bra- ing all her parts. field, who is also featured in the book. bers all play one of four types of 150 drummers soon. “We teach through verbal repeti- zilian ’70s rock group As Lolas, Bra- “We are not sure if the sword swal- Michael Hearst launches “Extraordinary brightly colored drums, on which they “In order to be bigger for each show, tion,” said Kovacs. “So many women zilian percussion project Grooversity, lower is going to perform while we People” at PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. be- bang out samba-reggae arrangements I have to saturate the amount of play- tell me they do not have rhythm, and and a disc jockey. The party will also are playing,” said Kovacs. “The tween Water and Front streets in Dumbo, (718) from the movement’s home in north- ers we have,” she said. I tell them they do not need it.” feature some circus elements, with drums vibrate a lot, and it might 666–3049, www.powerhousearena.com]. May eastern Brazil. Batala NYC is open to all women, The birthday bash, dubbed “The Coney Island sword-swallower the not be safe.” 16 at 2 pm. Free. — Trupti Rami 8 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 May 8–14, 2015 WHERE TO EDITORS’ PICKS FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY THURSDAY May 8 May 9 May 10 May 11 May 14 Deals on Pen-ny ante wheels As if becoming a writer Talk about wheeling isn’t enough of a finan- and dealing! Ride cial gamble, some away with a bargain- scribes choose to basement bicycle at become actual gam- Swamp Park Slope’s annual blers. The Brooklyn stomp two-wheeler flea Historical Society will host a panel of writers The Jalopy Theatre’s market, the New York who also play pro annual festival of Cajun, Bike Jumble. 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But the film- maker said she was so inspired by the unique, literally un- derground shop that takes up a basement space on Fulton Street between Franklin Ave- nue and Claver Place, she de- cided to set her movie there before she even knew what it would be about. “The first time I went to Is- rael’s, I realized I just had to Photo by Jason Speakman shoot a movie in there,” said On the record: Filmmaker Kate Cortesi at Israel’s Record Shop. Kate Cortesi. “Before there was a script or a lead, or money, Stuyvesant about six and a fore she ever realized that the while trying to find a gift for highlight the larger issue of there was a location.” half years ago. The owner, Is- nondescript sidewalk doors his grandmother, and he too a changing borough, where Cortesi said she found rael Ben Yahuda, often sat on under a sign reading “Re- develops a friendship with the stores like Israel’s are increas- the shop — which special- the sidewalk along her morn- cords” led to a store. enigmatic owner. ingly disappearing. izes in soul, funk, jazz, and ing commute, and Cortesi said In the film, teen protagonist Cortesi said she wanted to “A lot of us are worried that disco albums — about a year she had a “nodding relation- Lazarus also stumbles across immortalize the shop while these special New York shops after she moved to Bedford- ship” with him for a year be- the old-school vinyl emporium she still could, and also are dying, and I think we’ve tapped into a zeitgeist about everyone’s panic about New Maroney Theater. May 16 York changing,” she said. at 8 pm. $10. Cortesi debuted the film Top flicks at the New York City Inter- Viral video national Film Festival on the The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival is all about “Jazzsoon: Portrait distant island of Manhattan celebrating films that are either made by Brook- of a Brooklyn Hustler” last month, but this will be lynites, set in Brooklyn, or filmed in Brooklyn. profiles a curious real-life its first outing in Brooklyn. Brooklynite who goes by The Art of Brooklyn Film But here at The Brooklyn Paper, we are always the name “Jazzsoon,” lives Festival, which specializes in looking to push the parochial envelope even in his grandparent’s Park flicks about Brooklyn made further, so we have plucked out three of the Slope apartment, and makes by Brooklynites, will screen a living collecting and sell- it alongside a short filmed at Brooklyniest if this year’s bunch. Time Creative Sugar coated: Art- ing retro comics and cloth- the soon-to-shutter Trash Bar ist Kara Walker’s giant ing. Director Ivan Cash in- in Williamsburg. OUS OUS OUS Bittersweet "" "! "& Instagram feed — last sum- sugar sphnix sculpture advertently made Jazzsoon “Kara Walker: A Sub- mer. a viral internet meme when is the subject of a film. tlety, or the Marvelous Saint Francis College, he featured him in a previ- FILM 1]a[SbWQAS`dWQSa(0]b]f0SZ]bS`]8cdSRS`[D]Zc[O Sugar Baby” is a docu- Founders Hall. May 14 at 7 ous project declaring, “You @ORWSaaSAQcZ^b`O:OaS`6OW`@S[]dOZ:OaS`DSW\@S[]dOZOUS OUS OUS mentary short about artist pm. $10. girlfriend about to leave him, gotta live your life on the “Lazarus” at the Art of "" "! "& Kara Walker’s installation of and a drug sale that goes south weekends!” Now Cash gets Brooklyn Film Festival ;SRWQOZAS`dWQSa(eSOQQS^b56767> ''/3B:/<6=@7H=<O\R[O\g]bVS`a ino Sugar Factory that was lows the travails of a Red to move his family out of the Saint Francis College, in Brooklyn Heights, 1OZZB]ROg the talk of New York art Hook cocaine dealer juggling projects. Founders Hall. May 14 at 7 theartofbrooklyn.org.) 8OdWS`HSZOgO;2 scene — and all over your a wife about to give birth, a Saint Francis College, pm. $10. May 16 at 5:30 pm. $10, #">`]a^SQb>O`YESab0YZg\ % & &! !! ! $50 for festival pass. !$ESab %bVAb`SSb BRAZILIAN RHYTHMS. AFRICAN ROOTS. D anc e A fri ca F ESTIVAL 2 015 MAY 22—25 Fleece Festival At Fleece Festival At Wagner da Bahia, by Wendell Photo: Balé Folclórico ProspectProspect ParkPark ZooZoo MAY 16 & 17 Time: 11am - 4pm DANCE | MUSIC | FILM | BAZAAR Watch our sheep get their annual haircut Artistic Director Chuck Davis and Artistic Director Designate Abdel R. Salaam during a day of shear fun with BAM.org | 718.636.4100 demonstrations, crafts, games and more! 2015 DanceAfrica BAM Community Presenting Sponsor of Major support for Global Sponsor: Programs Sponsor: Dance Education: BAM provided by: www.prospectparkzoo.org BAM 10 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 May 8–14, 2015 Bookstore [126 Franklin St. between Milton and Noble By Bill Roundy streets in Greenpoint, (718) BAR SCRAWL 9 DAYS... 383–0096], www.word- brooklyn.com. Continued from page 8 THEATER, “HEARTBREAK”: grams/bamcafe-live. Ariell Stress’ play focuses on MUSIC, CHAIN AND THE a man that, after 30 years of GANG, TURN TO CRIME: running a successful build- $10. 9 pm. Union Pool [484 ing company, fi nds himself Union Ave. at Meeker Av- on the brink of retirement. 8 enue in Williamsburg, (718) pm. The Bushwick Starr (207 609–0484], www.union- Starr St. between Wyckoff pool.com. and Irving avenues in Bush- THEATER, “JACK AND THE wick), www.thebushwicks- BEANSTALK”: The classic tarr.org. fairytale comes to life with COMEDY, THE BIG TERRIFIC puppets in this musical per- COMEDY SHOW: Standup formance based on old Eng- comedy, hosted by Max lish folk melodies. $9 ($10 Silvestri. Free. 8 pm. Cameo adults). 12:30 pm and 2:30 Gallery [93 N. Sixth St. be- pm. Puppetworks [338 Sixth tween Wythe Avenue and Ave. at Fourth Street in Park Berry Street in Williams- Slope, (718) 965–3391], burg, (718) 302–1180], www. www.puppetworks.org. cameony.net. FILM, HAITI FILM FEST: Screening “Black Dawn,” Photo by Elizabeth Graham THURS, MAY 14 “Port-au-Prince Mon Seul Sheepish grin: Get up close with some sheep at the Propect Park Zoo’s annual et Unique Amour,” and “In Fleece Festival on May 16 and 17. READING, NATHAN LAR- the Eye of the Spiral.” All SON, STACY WAKEFIELD, screenings will be followed MEGAN ABBOTT: Nathan by discussions with fi lmmak- SCHMIDT AND LAUREN [149 Seventh St. at Third Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Larson releases “The Im- ers, actors, and scholars. THOMPSON: The Park Avenue in Gowanus, (718) Avenue in Park Slope, (718) mune System,” the third Free. 1–6 pm. Central Li- Slope Food Coop’s Reading 643–6510], www.thebell- 638–4400], www.union- installment of his Dewey brary [10 Grand Army Plaza Series presents story-telling, houseny.com. hallny.com. Decimal crime-fi ction series, in Prospect Heights, (718) readings, and activities with TALK, CHURCH OF MONIKA along with fellow Akashic 230–2100], www.haiticultur- two Brooklyn children’s — COPERNICAN VIEWS: author Stacy Wakefi eld alx.org. book authors. Free. 3–4 Artist Erin Gleason will TUES, MAY 12 and her new novel, “The pm. Park Slope Food Co-op FLEECE FUN: See how wool host an experimental talk ART, “BROOKLYN UNITED Sunshine Crust Baking Fac- was used on a Flatbush (287 Union St. between that will examine how we tory.” Free. 7 pm. Word Sixth and Seventh avenues THE ARTISTS”: An exhi- farm. Attendees can brush navigate conversations and bition project on display Bookstore [126 Franklin St. the wool with carding pad- in Park Slope). spaces by shifting our refer- for Immigration Heritage between Milton and Noble dles, spin yarn using a drop ence point from one of light Week. Free. 4–8 pm. The streets in Greenpoint, (718) spindle, and make a felt ball to one of darkness Bagels Bridge MCP [1894 Flatbush 383–0096], www.word- to take home. $3. 2–4 pm. SUN, MAY 10 and coffee will be served. Ave. between Avenue L and brooklyn.com. Lefferts Historic Homestead TALK, BROOKLYN LITER- Free. 11 am. Open Source Hubbard Place in Flatbush, TTHEATER, “DOUBLE FALSE- Gallery [306 17th St. at Sixth [452 Flatbush Ave. between ARY PUB CRAWL: Tour (917) 497–0306], www.theb- HOOD”: Letter of Marque Avenue in South Slope, Empire Boulevard and East- several Brooklyn Heights ridgemcp.com. Theater Company presents (315) 382–7398], www.open- ern Parkway in Park Slope, READING, SYDNEY PADUA: a workshop production pubs closely connected to sourcegallery.org. (718) 789–2822], www. some of the literary greats. Animator and artist Sydney of Lewis Theobald’s 1727 prospectpark.org. $15–$20. 1 pm. Henry MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH: Padua presents her new romantic comedy, based MOTHER’S DAY: Children Street Ale House [62 Henry Celebrate with a brunch graphic novel, “The Thrill- off of original Shakespear- celebrate their mom with St. between Cranberry and just for mom. $60 ($50 ing Adventures of Lovelace ean manuscripts. $10, free a special story and activ- Orange streets in Brooklyn members; $33 for children and Babbage,” a collection with promo code. 8 pm. ity. Free. 2 pm. Barnes and Heights, (212) 613–5796], 4 and older). 11 am–1:30 which imagines an alternate South Oxford Space [138 S. Noble [267 Seventh Ave. at www.literarypubcrawl.com. pm. Brooklyn Museum [200 timeline in which Ada Love- Oxford St. between Hanson Sixth Street in Park Slope, Eastern Pkwy. at Washing- lace and Charles Babbage Place and Atlantic Avenue MUSIC, DARCY JAMES ton Avenue in Prospect (718) 832–9066], www. ARGUE AND SECRET use their computer bril- in Fort Greene, (718) 246– barnesandnoble.com. Heights, (718) 638–5000], liance to fi ght crime. Free. 2211], www.lomtheater.org. SOCIETY: $20 ($16 in ad- www.brooklynmuseum.org. READING, JACQUELINE vance). 7:30 pm. Bell House 7 pm. Word Bookstore [126 COMEDY, SUNDAY NIGHT’S Franklin St. between Milton MAIN EVENT: Hosted by and Noble streets in Green- FRI, MAY 15 Jennifer Salzman. Free. point, (718) 383–0096], ART, “THANK YOU” OPEN- 8:30 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 www.wordbrooklyn.com. King Tai Bar [1095 Bergen St. at Norstrand Avenue in Crown Heights, Fifth Ave. between 17th and ING RECEPTION: Art- (718) 513–1025, www.kingtaibar.com]. Open Mon–Thu, 5 pm–2 am; Fri, 18th streets in Greenwood ists Raul de Nieves and Heights, (718) 768–0131], WED, MAY 13 Erik Zajaceskowski create 5 pm–4 am; Sat, 3 pm–4 am; Sun, 3 pm–2 am. www.freddysbar.com. large-scale immersive en- ART, KNIT AND CROCHET vironments using refuse ART, “PANCAKE FERRARI” FLEECE FESTIVAL: Join with GROUP: Learn how to gathered from their neigh- SAT, MAY 16 MON, MAY 11 crochet and knit with in- borhood. Free. 6–9 pm. OPENING RECEPTION: Alt staff at the zoo and watch structors or simply spend Black and White Gallery (56 Space’s inaugural exhibi- MUSIC, BROWNSVILLE HERI- as the sheep get their an- READING, JESSICA HOPPER: time with fellow makers. All Bogart St. between Har- tion, featuring new paint- TAGE HOUSE JAZZ 2015: nual buzz cut, along with The music writer and critic experience levels and ages rison Place and Garrison ings and a fl oor-to-ceiling The Wade Barnes Tribute wool demos and activities. releases “The First Collec- 10 and up welcome.Free. Street in Bushwick), www. installation of works from Band presents the Word on Free with zoo admission. tion of Criticism by a Living 1–3 pm. Brooklyn Farmacy blackandwhiteprojectspace. artist Brian Leo. Free. 7–9 the Street Ensemble. Free. 11 am–4 pm. Prospect Park Female Rock Critic,” a col- & Soda Fountain [513 Henry org. pm. Alr Space (41 Montrose 3–6 pm. Brownsville Heri- Zoo [450 Flatbush Ave. at lection of work from more St. at Sackett Street in Car- READING, SEAN H. DOYLE Ave. between Lorimer tage House [581 Mother Ocean Avenue in Prospect than two decades in the roll Gardens, (718) 522– WITH D. FOY, NATA- Street and Union Avenue in Gaston Blvd. between Du- Park, (718) 399–7339], www. front row. Free. 7 pm. Word 6260], www.brooklynfarma- LIE EILBERT, JORDAN Bushwick), altcitizen.com. mont and Livonia avenues in prospectparkzoo.com. Bookstore [126 Franklin St. cyandsodafountain.com. GINSBERG: Sean H. 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The lockers are cleared out, the arena empty, the trash (at least what Barclays employ- ees know of) has been thrown out, and the players are all "WPJEJOH3VOOJOH*OKVSJFT headed their separate ways. Me? Well, this bird finally got that timeshare above the Nathan’s in Coney Island, af- 8IJMF4UBZJOHJO4IBQF ter years of slumming above the franchise at 86th Street in Bensonhurst. by Matthew Wert, M.D. | Director of Sports Medicine, New York Methodist Hospital In March I jumped up the list after a few gulls met an In the past, I have run for physical fitness on untimely demise. Well, ac- occasion, but now running has become my tually, it was quite timely for me. And just like that I primary form of exercise, and I plan to con- was at the top of the wait- tinue doing it on a regular basis. But I know ing list, but there was still that there are injuries that can develop over the issue of Mrs. Sasha, the time due to running. What can I do to re- sparrow that has been squat- ting there since the ’70s. She duce my risk of incurring them? never leaves! There’s nothing that can derail a well-intentioned at- But on the first nice day of the year, as the story goes, tempt to stay in shape or participate in a sport like an Associated Press / Frank Franklin II she stepped out for a quick fly Nets big man Brook Lopez gets stuffed under the boards — something Crum- injury. You have probably heard the mantras “know around the block, and bam! my hopes to do this summer in Coney Island. your body,” and “take it slow,” but the real key to Flattened by the B36. They say preventing injuries starts with a careful evaluation of she never saw it coming. Ah, well. with the NBA’s largest pay- Williams will be one year your individual risk factors—age, weight, previous Anyway, I’ll roll was doomed to toil in me- older, which, unless they find injuries, and other circumstances—as well as what diocrity. the fountain of youth or get be sitting talons injuries are commonly associated with the particular up, crushing Flagrant That is until mediocrity on the Lance Armstrong diet, Thunderbirds turns into crap, which it easily means the disturbing pattern physical activity you plan to take up. The one that is and enjoying all Fowl could this offseason. Brook- of losing more games each responsible for the most injuries is, indeed, running. lyn’s two best players down year is more than likely to the throwaways with Crummy the Pigeon the Coney Is- the stretch, Brook Lopez, continue. Running at any speed is an impact activity—you can land Boardwalk our favorite flat-footed jump- What about rookies, you think of every stride you take as a “jump” from your has to offer. Hawks was tied 2–2, the Nets ers, and Thaddeus Young, ask? Well, as part of the Joe left leg to your right leg. Each time you land, you the most athletic Net, might Johnson trade, the Hawks and The players on the Nets, had the borough buzzing. But put sudden stress on the joints, bones and muscles on the other hand, will not when the Hawks made quick take their rich butts and fly a Nets swapped first round be enjoying any part of their work of the Nets in games bit further south and west of picks this year, meaning in your legs. Added up, studies suggest that in just on the middle of your foot, and allow your legs to act summer. five and six, everyone sud- Coney. They can both opt out the Nets pick 29th and the one mile of running an American of average weight as “shock absorbers.” Keep your legs directly beneath When the series with the denly remembered the team of their current contracts and Hawks 15th. And picking places about 45 tons of force on each leg seek big paydays on the open 29th is like sitting behind you as well—the wider your stride, the more stress market with a contender. Joey Chestnut at the hot-dog- The accumulation of all of this impact over the course you place on your ankles. Strengthening exercises on And really, can you blame eating contest on the Fourth of weeks, months, and years, explains why injuries off-days can also go a long way toward reducing the them? Billy King has been of July in hopes of picking risk of injuries incurred by running—particularly, ex- trying to deal Lopez for the up some scraps — they are caused by repetitive stress are the ones that occur last three years. And you tough to come by. most with running. The cartilage in the knee can ercises that address the muscles in your hips, lower know the Big Lug reads all By my calculations that gradually wear away, resulting in painful grinding of back, and abdomen. (And definitely do not forget about it in the blogosphere. would leave the Nets with to stretch, before you work out—always warm up Even for a guy of his stat- aging one-time stars, de- the bones that converge in the knee joint. The bones ure, the constant dangling parted actual stars, no draft and muscles in the shins—which bear a very high first—and immediately after you finish.) as trade bait has got to cut picks, and no money to lure percentage of your body weight—are particularly There’s no reason to let running injuries prevent you to his core. free agents. susceptible to stress fractures and swelling. And Young doesn’t owe the You want the glass half- from getting, and staying, in shape. By taking the Nets anything. He spent less full outlook? Well, too bad. A key to preventing repetitive stress injuries due to proper precautionary measures, you will give your- than half the season in Brook- My bottle of Thunderbird is running is minimizing the overall impact force on your self the best chance to hit your stride. Don’t miss a lyn and has no real allegiance all the way empty. to the borough where I nest. So this summer, do me a legs. Don’t take large strides which cause your heel To find a physician affiliated with New York At only 26 years of age, he favor. Pick up a forty for me (and, subsequently, the joints in your knees and hips) Methodist Hospital’s Institute for Orthope- Bar Scrawl should have plenty of suit- and drop it under the Board- to bear all of the impact of landing—make sure that dic Medicine and Surgery, call 866.ORTHO.11 ors if he wants to play for a walk near W. 16th Street. And your steps are short enough so that you always land (866.678.4611). 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The school’s annual Touch- a-Truck event got tots up close and personal with cherry pick- ers, police cruisers, moving A Day Camp trucks, and other extremely As Complete exciting thrills on wheels. Some youngsters relished As Sleep- the opportunity to flex their Away! power over the police loud- speaker, even if they did not know quite what to do with it, Benvenuto Georgine by Photos according to one mom. (Clockwise from above) “They kept telling the kids Christian Matias takes they could say anything, like the wheel at the fifth ‘You’re under arrest.’ But she annual Touch-a-Truck just kept saying ‘Hello,’ ” said event at PS 295 in Park Nomi Altabef, whose three- Slope on May 2. Ellis year-old daughter Lizzie Mervin got to project her voice Mueller cuddles with through the loudspeaker. a dog up for adop- Touch-a-Truck, which is in tion at the event. Jack its fifth year, raised funds for Riehl sits on a wheel PS 295’s parent-teacher orga- bigger than him. nization. In past years, it raised money that went toward art supplies, a music program, and hiring part-time teachers. Can’t kids and adults share? f you have passed a public was shopping there without had to come to his aid. playground anywhere in a parent. It didn’t matter that That is not babysitting! I New York City, you have he had come there with his That is one human being help- seen this sign: “Playground 3IZNFTXJUI own money, intending to buy ing another who happens to rules prohibit adults except in the Legos he loves so much. be under 12. the company of children.” It didn’t matter that he had Most kids making their That is right — no adults shopped there many times be- way to school, running an er- allowed, unless they are de- $3";: fore without incident. And it rand, or playing in the park monstrably there in their ca- By Lenore Skenazy didn’t matter that he was per- are not going to need major pacity as a caregiver. Appar- fectly well behaved. league assistance from any- ently, any adult who simply All that mattered was that one, adult or otherwise. But if wants to sit on a bench and tion — the men’s kindness hats are supposed to do. In this time, a store employee they do, I’d like to think most watch kids at play could be a — didn’t matter. All that mat- Japan, the assumption is that asked his age and when it of us would give it ungrudg- creep. Best to just ban them tered was the fantasies con- the easier it is to see children, was under 12 (the magical ingly. Their parents have not all. The idea that children and jured up by “What if?” think- the easier it is for grown-ups age when Lego allows con- foisted a huge burden on so- adults go naturally together ing: What if they turned out to look out for them. sumers to fork over cash on ciety by letting their kids be has been replaced by distrust to be monsters? Japan is coming from the their own) he was deemed part of it. and disgust. By separating the gener- idea that children are our col- an unbearable burden to the Old and young have always Maybe you recall that case ations this way, we are cre- lective responsibility. Amer- store. The manager had him interacted. Adults who enjoy in a Washington Heights play- ating a new society, one that ica sees children as private detained him until his father being around kids are, for the ground a few years back when actively distrusts anyone who treasures under constant picked him up. most part, adults who enjoy seven chess players were fined wants to help a kid other than threat, so why trust anyone This detention outraged being around kids. They aren’t for — wait for it — playing his own. Compare this anxi- else around them? many people, but a signif- predators. chess. ety with what goes on in Ja- Which brings me to the icant contingent sided with And kids who are out and The chess tables — con- pan. There, the youngest kids flip side of our obsession with the store, saying that the em- about in the world are, for the crete ones, placed there by wear bright yellow hats when stranger danger: the idea that ployees there shouldn’t have most part, kids out and about. the city — were deemed too they go to school. any time a parent lets her kids to “babysit” the boy. Not a big, unpaid, drag of a close to the kids. So the men “Doesn’t that put them in do anything on their own, she But that’s the point! No job for the rest of us. were booted. danger?” asked a friend I was is actually asking the rest of one did have to babysit him. I’m not sure about the yel- It didn’t matter that they telling about this. To her, a kid us grown-ups to “babysit” He was just a person in pub- low hats, but Japan has the hadn’t caused any trouble. In who calls attention to himself them, for free. lic, albeit a young one. He right idea. Looking out for fact, the grizzled guys had is a kid who could be attract- This topic came up last was fine. everyone beats trusting no taken it upon themselves ing a predator. It is like she week when a story from Can- If some problem had one. to teach some of the local really thinks kids should play ada went viral: an 11-year- come up — say he poked Lenore Skenazy is a pub- kids how to play the Game outside in camouflage. old boy in an Alberta mall himself in the eye with a lic speaker and founder of of Kings. But attracting adult atten- was detained by the staff of Lego block — well, then, the book and blog Free- The reality of the situa- tion is exactly what the yellow the Lego store because he yes, some adult may have Range Kids. When my teen said ‘no’ to me here is a teenager in my If you didn’t ask anything of out of milk, or so I thought. house. He is taller than your kids, if you just let them “Could you maybe go to T I am, and seemingly his hang with their friends, do as the deli, and get some milk?” own person. When I asked they pleased, then it would Fearless I asked, hesitantly. him to walk the dog the other be smooth sailing. Except I He didn’t skip a beat, didn’t morning before school, he ac- didn’t bargain for the anger complain he was tired, or roll tually said “No.” and resentment that builds as Parenting his eyes. Holy s---. The boy said one does all the chores while By Stephanie Thompson “Sure,” he said. “Can I also “No.” children old enough to help sit get some eggs so you can make BUSINESS, BROOKLYN STYLE – ADVERTISEMENT I stood there aghast. No? idle, without noticing. me more than one?” A child isn’t supposed to say “You could have walked the new norm. some advance notice, like ask- “Sure,” I said. “That’s no to his parents. the dog earlier,” he said. “I appreciate it,” I said. “I ing the night before for some great.” I immediately grabbed the And in fact it was true. I get really don’t like arguing, and help the next morning, might I smiled as he got up from Turning Today’s Learners phone out of his hands and up super early most days and I know I sprung it on you this be a good solution, and I told the stool to put on his shoes. pocketed it angrily. there were hours of dark in morning about walking the him that I loved him. I kissed Phew. Crisis averted. “I’m taking your phone, un- which I could have taken the dog, but I really need you to him too, not even having to We could still bargain with til further notice!” I said. dog before my early appoint- be able to do some things, even stoop at all to do so. one another, which is, after into Tomorrow’s Leaders He shrugged. ment. But I had work to do, when you don’t want to.” Scary. “I don’t care,” he said. “I’m dishes to put away, straight- all, what every good relation- Exciting times lie ahead for stilling pride in their Jewish identity tired, and I’m not walking the ening … wait. Did I have to He nodded. We agreed that The next morning, we ran ship requires. Brooklyn Heights and the surround- and a strong sense of purpose. dog this early, I’m not going give excuses why I asked him ing neighborhoods as the first Jew- A welcome entry into the neigh- out.” to do the job instead of doing ish Day School under the auspices of borhoods with growing Jewish fami- Wait. He didn’t care? What it myself? Did I really have to 0!2+ 3,/0% s 7).$3/2 4%22!#% s "!9 2)$'% s #!22/,, '!2$%.3 Chabad of Brooklyn opens its doors lies, BHJA will be “built with ideas ammunition did I have? justify asking this one sim- “No friends over after ple thing? for Kindergarten in September and feedback from the parents in line with our vision”, says Fran Bast, Ad- school, no doing anything,” My husband took out the 2015! I said. “You need to come dog as I angrily made break- An outgrowth of the success ministrative Director of the School. straight home!” fast. Should I even make my of Kiddie Korner Pre-School, “The bright and sunny location at “Mom…” usual smoothie? Offer an egg founded over 20 years ago by Rabbi 81 Atlantic Avenue will encompass 4 He talked to my back as I sandwich? Why should I do Aaron and Shternie Raskin the classrooms, an indoor gym, private walked out of his room. I was anything for him when he new school embraces the winning outdoor space and the proximity to angry, but as much at myself as wouldn’t do something for combination of Jewish learning and the vast Brooklyn Bridge Park sys- at him. Shouldn’t I know how me? the critically important secular stud- tem.” to communicate better with Tit for tat, even steven, my son so we weren’t in this an eye for an eye — all the ies. According to the school’s Execu- For the full article about the predicament? How exactly phrases entered my mind. It Our Camp tive Director, Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin, Brooklyn Heights Jewish Academy, please visit Lubavitch.com. had I put myself in this stu- was so cliché, but yet how else OUTDOOR “Now is an opportune time for a K-12 to explain to a young person Please join us at BHJA’s Open pid I’m-going-to-take-things- s 6ARIETY OF PROGRAMS FOR CAMPERS Jewish day school to grace the streets away-to-make-you-do-things that goodwill is built on ev- OPEN HOUSE House scheduled for Wednesday, AGE TO of Brooklyn Heights. Investing in jam that I always promised eryone pitching in and doing in Prospect Park May 13, 2015 at 7:30 pm - 117 Rem- Jewish education ensures a Jewish myself I would avoid? Was their part in a household? s 3AFE FUN STIMULATING ENVIRONMENT by the Picnic House sen Street, Brooklyn, NY. it so important that he walk That was the conversation future; we need to inspire the Jewish s 6ERY mEXIBLE REGISTRATION Enter at the 5th Street entrance youth of today towards a committed the dog? Or was it just the that came later, after school, to the park principle of the thing? when he came home as asked. ACCOMODATING WEEK SEASON Jewish life.” With this in mind, the Saturday May 9th, 1–3 PM For more information, visit As I stormed about the I’d given him back his phone. school’s curriculum takes a holistic our website: bhja.org and find kitchen, I thought of all those “What if something happens s &REE MORNING TRANSPORTATION FROM integrated Torah perspective where warnings from parents of kids and I need to call you?” he’d MOST "AY 2IDGE AND "ROWNSTONE Children are always welcome us on Facebook at Brooklyn Our warm, caring staff will lead a variety of secular units such as math and sci- said, smartly — but for once Heights Jewish Academy. older than mine, all those "ROOKLYN AREAS camp activities while you attend our Camp ence are taught alongside Torah Contact Rabbi Aaron Raskin scary stories of the teenage he didn’t reach out to ask if Director’s presentation themes and content, to create a whole- at [email protected] or 718- years. I always thought if I someone or many someones s %STABLISHED IN some and unified worldview. BHJA’s 510-6905. hugged and loved my child, could come over or if he could objective is to equip students with the Fran Bast, Administrative we would be close, and then go somewhere. we could just easily get along. “You said to come home,” necessary academic and life skills Director at [email protected] or 03$# s PARKSLOPEDAYCAMPCOM 718.596.4840 ext. 18. I thought I would find a way to he said. The words sounded needed to confidently take their place avoid fights and discord. beautiful to my ears. You said, in society, while at the same time in- One way to avoid discord so I’m doing it. Thank god. @psdcbk PARKSLOPEDAYCAMP was to do everything myself. Defiance wasn’t completely May 8–14, 2015 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 13 Back home in Bklyn Singer returns to her roots with Slope residency By Phil Smrek nings, Cantrell, who moved New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for The Brooklyn Paper to Queens in 2003, has re- May dates, May dates! leased five studio albums A country singer-song- and garnered plenty of criti- of Mount Sinai is in writer who got her start in cal praise. She found interna- ’90s Brooklyn is going back tional success when legendary to her beginnings. Acclaimed British Broadcasting Corpora- songstress Laura Cantrell is tion disc jockey John Peel re- headed out to play shows all portedly fell in love with her over the East Coast in May, 2000 album, “Not the Trem- but she will be back in the bor- blin’ Kind,” and brought her Brooklyn ough every Tuesday to play a on his show to record sev- show at Park Slope’s Union eral live “Peel Sessions” with Hall, where she said she hopes him. She spent last year tour- to channel the energy of those ing the U.S. and United King- New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, halcyon days. dom in support of her latest “One of the reasons I album “No Way There From wanted to return to Brook- Here.” But back in the bor- nationally recognized for specialist eye, ear, lyn for this residency was to ough where she cut her teeth, recapture some of the spirit Cantrell said she is excited to of fun from those early days spread her wings. before music was my job,” “For these shows, I’m re- nose and throat care, has four satellite she said. ally looking forward to play- Cantrell hails from Nash- ing with some different line- ville, but moved to New York ups and visiting material from City in the late ’80s for college, our first album to the most Brooklyn offices providing the highest quality where she learned to play gui- recent, and duetting with tar and started working as a ra- some of our great guests,” dio disc jockey. She moved to said Cantrell, whose guests ophthalmologic, ear, nose and throat and plastic Williamsburg in 1991, where will include rock band the Hu- she said she honed her mu- man Hearts, featuring music sical chops playing with the writer and local music fixture hoards of young performers Photo by Phil Smrek Phil Photo by Franklin Bruno, and the Mi- and reconstructive surgery services. who also moved to the city’s Singer-songwriter Laura Cantrell is playing a Tues- chael Shelley Band, whose new creative outpost at the day night residency at Park Slope’s Union Hall namesake member is also a time — not least of all John throughout May. longtime WFMU presenter. Linnell and John Flansburgh “The point of these shows is of They Might Be Giants, with to be celebratory and fun, whom she recorded in 1992 on ote Studios on N. Sixth Street, “It was a great time and to stretch out over the four the band’s album “Apollo 18.” between Wythe Avenue and place to develop as an artist,” weeks and see how much fun Bay Ridge (B) Sheepshead Bay (S) In 1993, she began present- Berry Street. She said it may she said. “Williamsburg was we can have.” ing her long-running coun- be hard to believe now — the like a blank canvas about to Laura Cantrell at Union try music show “Radio Thrift Coyote Studios space is now change back then. Nobody, ex- Hall [702 Union St. between 9020 5th Avenue, 3rd Fl. 2560 Ocean Avenue Shop” on New Jersey radio an Urban Oufitters — but cept for maybe real estate de- Fifth and Sixth avenues in station WFMU. Williamsburg was the per- velopers, knew what it might Park Slope, (718) 638–4400, 718-333-5120 718-646-1234 Cantrell recorded her first fect place for up-and-com- become.” www.unionhallny.com]. May demos at the legendary Coy- ing artists at that time. 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Coney fencing medalist Midwood (M) Williamsburg (W) 1630 East 15th Street 101 Broadway By Max Jaeger competes for the French Na- release. “When we turned on The Brooklyn Paper tional team, took silver along the TV at the hotel, there was a He’s a real saber rattler. with his fellow French swords- channel just for fencing.” Suite 203 Suite 201 A teenage swordsman who men and women, who collec- Cannone competed in the tively finished second out of “epee” style of fencing — a trains in Coney Island won a 35 countries in the interna- high-stakes version of “foil” 718-375-6933 718-384-6933 silver medal in Fencing World tional competition. and “saber” fencing where the Championships in Tashkent, The medalist said the air entire body is a valid target Uzbekistan, last month. was electric in Tashkent. and swordsmen have to hit Romain Cannone, a stu- “You could tell people were harder to register a point, ac- New York Fencing Academy dent at the New York Fencing very aware of what was going cording to the United States Romain Cannone Academy in Coney Island who on,” Cannone said in a press Fencing Association . 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