VOLUME 67 NUMBER 34 • SEPTEMBER 6-12, 2019
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Where’s My Bus? MTA removes schedules from stops PAGE 2 WHAT’S NEWS Photo courtesy of Kids of the Arts Productions GRID-LOCK SLAMMED In the wake of a moratorium by National Grid on installing new gas hookups in Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island, New York State might consider ending a long-standing agreement it has with the company, giving it a monopoly on supplying gas to homes and businesses. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has directed the Department of Public Service to broad- en an investigation it is currently conducting into the moratorium and to consider alternatives to National Grid as a franchisee for some or all of the areas it currently serves if the problem is not resolved. For more on this story, go to page 10. IMPEACHMENT-KEEN Demonstrators held a protest rally outside U.S. Rep. Max Rose’s Bay Ridge office late last month to urge the pol to back the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Rose, who won his seat in 2018 and has earned a reputation as a centrist willing to work across the aisle on certain issues, has steadfastly refused to back impeachment. For more on this story, go to brooklynreporter.com. FOODIE OUTPOST OPENS Sahadi’s, the family specialty grocery store that’s been a Brooklyn fixture since 1948, finally opened its doors in Industry City late last month. The new space is 7,500 square feet with approximately 80 seats and a bar. It offers the traditional ancient grains and spices, bins of freshly roasted nuts, dried fruits, imported olives and old-fashioned barrels of coffee beans that customers look for at its first location on Atlantic Avenue, along with new additions, such as light breakfast, full coffee service and lunch. For more on this story, go to page 12. CHURCH SALE The Bay Ridge property that housed Salem Lutheran Church for many years has been sold for $4.65 million in a real estate transaction that marked the second time in nine years the property has been put on the market. The Eastern Buddhist Association purchased the property at 450 67th St. from the previous owners, Saint Matthew’s Church, which bought the 11,915-square-foot property, which includes a church, parsonage and auditori- um, from Salem Lutheran Church in 2010 for $2.65 million. For more on this story, go to page 2. Columnists’ Corner: BAY RIDGE ‘PRINCESS’ Generally Speaking Seventh grader Ana-Sofia Rodriguez advances acting career By Ted General SEE PAGE 11 Common Sense By Jerry Kassar MARC MINDS YOUR BUSINESS Home Reporter executive Marc Hibsher spent a few minutes with Bay Ridge Matter of Fact Center Executive Director Marianne Nicolosi, whose leadership team has launched a satellite office on Third Avenue to expand services to Bay Ridge By Jay Brown seniors here who live in a well-defined Naturally Occurring Retirement Community (NORC). NORCs usually come into being when residents “age in Focus on Bay Ridge place” because, Hibsher reports, “they remain comfortable with their neigh- borhood and their neighbors. The Third Avenue satellite office will be By Chuck Otey well received in a stable, residential place like Bay Ridge.” Focus on Bay Ridge columnist Chuck Otey agrees and was there to cover Columns begin on page 18 a public forum held at the new Third Avenue NORC center. For more, see page 19. ebrooklyn media photo by Arthur De Gaeta Giant fallen tree branch crushes truck in Bay Ridge • Page 6 2• •EXTRA EAGLE EDITION NEWS HOME MEDIA REPORTER — HOME AND REPORTER SPECTATOR AND • Week BROOKLYN of September SPECTATOR 6–12, 2019 • Week of September 6-12, 2019 Salem Lutheran Church site sold for $4.65 million BY PAULA KATINAS [email protected]
A Bay Ridge property that housed Salem Lutheran Church for many years has been sold for $4.65 million to the Eastern Buddhist Association in a real estate transaction that marked the second time in nine years the property has been put on the market, the Home Reporter has learned. The Eastern Buddhist Ass- ociation purchased the proper- ty at 450 67th St. from the pre- vious owners, Saint Matt- hew’s Church, according to Victor Weinberger, the real estate agent who brokered the sale for RE/MAX. The closing took place earlier this month. St. Matthew Church bought the 11,915-square-foot prop- erty, which includes a church, parsonage and auditorium, from Salem Lutheran Church in 2010 for $2.65 million. Weinberger also handled that real estate deal. It is unusual for a religious institution to change hands This church property that once housed Salem Lutheran Church has been sold for the second time in less than a decade. Photo courtesy of Victor Weinberger twice in less than a decade, but Weinberger said St. Matthew Church wanted to ovated, along with the library to preserve noteworthy build- according to District Manager issue for more than a decade. design of the school building. sell so that church leaders and the church offices. ings in the neighborhood, said Josephine Beckmann, who said Bay Ridge United Methodist Salam Arabic Lutheran could concentrate on other The Eastern Buddhist Associ- churches are worth saving. the board often takes a close look Church, which was located at Church on Ovington Avenue, areas of the country. “Saint ation, a religious organization “Some of the most beautiful at so-called “soft sites,” build- 7002 Fourth Avenue for nearly down the block from the Green Matthew sold the church based in lower Manhattan, plans architecture we have in Bay ings that city zoning laws allow 100 years until the congregation Church site, was also demol- because their main churches to establish a Buddhist temple at Ridge can be found in our reli- to be converted to other uses. sold the property in 2008, was ished, in 2012, and housing was are in California and Texas,” the site, according to Weinberger. gious institutions,” she said. “The board is proactive. controversially demolished by a built on the location. he told the Home Reporter in The association could not be Salem Lutheran Church, The community needs senior developer. Then, when the bot- Another area church, St. an email. reached for comment. whose members held Sunday housing and schools, and the tom fell out of the housing mar- John’s Episcopal Church on St. Matthew Church put a Victoria Hofmo, founder of services at the site for 65 board is always looking for ket, the site was sold by the Fort Hamilton Parkway near great deal of work into the site, Bay Ridge Conservancy, said years, had a history of opening possible sites,” she said. developer to the city for use as a Marine Avenue, has been on spending nearly $3 million on she was relieved to hear that its doors to the larger commu- Beckmann said the 67th school, P.S./I.S. 30. The church the market since 2014, after extensive renovations of the the new owners will have a nity, according to Hofmo. “I Street church property, situat- was known to generations of closing because the shrinking three-story church building, religious presence at the site. remember there was a Girl ed across the street from Leif Bay Ridge residents as the congregation could not sustain including roof repairs, the instal- “I think it’s fantastic,” she told Scout troop. And the Swedish Ericson Park, “is a beautiful “Green Church” due to its ser- its use. An effort to landmark lation of imported golden plated the Home Reporter. “It’s good Folk Dancing Society was building that is in a great loca- pentine stone exterior. the structure has so far been cathedral-style leafs, a new heat- to know that the church build- there,” she said. tion.” The architects designing unsuccessful. ing system and plumbing up- ing is being preserved.” The church property was on The fate of churches in the the school incorporated the — Additional reporting grades. The auditorium was ren- Hofmo, whose group fights Community Board 10’s radar, neighborhood has been an church’s clock tower into the by Helen Klein When is my bus coming? MTA removes schedules from stops BY PAULA KATINAS the move. mation on bus arrivals. ers, basic internet skills or sim- cians wrote in their letter to I urge the MTA to restore the [email protected] Councilmember Justin Bra- Brannan called the removal ply without access to mobile Foye. schedules immediately.” nnan, State Sen. Andrew Gou- of bus schedules “a bonehead- technology, printed bus sched- “We fear that enacting this MTA spokesperson Shams Riders waiting for the bus can nardes, Assemblymember Ma- ed move” and said he will do ules are an essential part of get- policy means forgetting or Tarek defended the removal of no longer tell what time it will thylde Frontus and U.S. Rep. everything he can to get the ting where they need to go. ignoring the needs of a signifi- schedules from bus stops. arrive after the Metropolitan Max Rose contend that the MTA to reverse course. Many of our constituents are cant group of bus riders, which “As we modernize bus serv- Transportation Authority sys- absence of printed schedules at The MTAallows riders to text senior citizens who may not would frankly be unaccept- ice, we’re finding ways to pro- tematically removed schedules bus stops is a hardship for riders their location to access bus have access to a working mobile able,” the lawmakers added. vide accurate arrival time infor- from bus stop poles, according to who don’t have smart phones schedules, but the elected offi- phone and so insisting that cus- The MTA stripped the sched- mation to customers in faster, four Bay Ridge lawmakers who and cannot access apps like cials argued that that’s also prob- tomers call, text, or visit a web- ules from hundreds of bus stops more efficient ways. Moving to fired off a letter to MTA Chair- MTA Bus Time and MY MTA lematic for many passengers. site to obtain scheduling infor- around the city as a cost-cutting paperless schedules helps reduce person Patrick Foye objecting to that offer up-to-the minute infor- “The digital divide is a real mation creates a very real obsta- move, Brannan said. our paper waste and makes the thing. For those without comput- cle,” the four Democratic politi- “There are many things with most of new technology that the MTAthat need fixing but this puts real-time information in isn’t one of them. I have no idea customers’ hands whenever they why the MTA would target the need it,” Tarek told the Home removal of printed bus schedules Reporter in an email. “The as a cost-saving measure. The $550,000 in recurring annual digital divide is very real and not savings from this initiative every commuter has an iPhone allows NYC Transit to redirect or access to mobile technology. our resources to maintaining bus This ill-advised change will service levels.” impact senior citizens, and low- MTA officials said New income New Yorkers most of all. York City Transit and MTA Bus Ultimately, it is the responsibili- Company serve more than ty of the MTA to provide sched- 16,000 bus stops and that ules to all paying riders, regard- reprinting and reposting sched- less of their individual access to ules at bus stops every time technology,” Brannan told the there are changes is a time-con- Home Reporter. suming and expensive process. Gounardes said his office Officials also said that even has received numerous calls though the new signs posted at from confused passengers. bus stops no longer list bus “The MTA trying to save a schedules, they do offer sug- few bucks by simply removing gestions about the various the bus schedule is the brightest ways passengers can find out idea since New Coke,” when their bus will arrive. Gounardes said. “This is cutting Customers can use the Councilmember Justin Brannan, pictured at a B37 bus corners at the expense of riders. MYmta app, call 511 or tweet stop on Third Avenue, says the MTA’s decision to Many seniors and low-income the @NYCTBus Twitter remove schedules from bus stops is a boneheaded residents do not have smart- account, which officials said move. Photo courtesy of Councilmember Justin Brannan’s office phones and now have no way to is monitored 24/7 by customer know when the buses will come. service representatives. 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Party chair, a role he only George Pataki by delivering the recently retired from. amount of votes needed to nar- Long’s career in politics rowly defeat his opponent, began in 1981 when he was incumbent Gov. Mario Cuomo. elected to the City Council as That must have been quite a member at large for Brooklyn. rewarding feeling. He served until 1983, when Long: In 1994, I was proud the post was eliminated. In to be the state chairman of the 1988, Long became chair of Conservative Party and to have the New York State Conserv- participated and provided mon- ative Party, a position he held umental change in the state of until his retirement in January New York. By electing Govern- 2019. or George Pataki, the party During his 30 years of serv- helped to defeat a liberal icon ice, Long left quite a mark on like Mario Cuomo as governor state politics and had the of the State of New York. That opportunity to get to know year, the Conservative Party world-renowned political fig- provided the margin of victory ures, celebrities and presidents for Gov. Pataki and Attorney of the United States. General Dennis Vacco in New He was especially known York State. as the model of a civic leader in the Bay Ridge community, Spectator: What were where he and his brother Tom some milestone events that owned Long’s Wines and occurred during your years as Liquors at Fifth Avenue and chair of the party? 79th Street. Long: Throughout the Long, 79, was a long-time years, as chairman of the party resident of Bay Ridge before there were many accomplish- recently moving to Breezy ments. The most significant Point. He and his wife Eileen was the election of the gover- have nine children and are nor and attorney general of the parishioners at Our Lady of State of New York which cre- Angels Catholic Church. Long ated a sea change of policies. is chair of the Board of These changes benefited the Directors at Holy Angels citizens of our great state, and Catholic Academy, a school brought about tax cuts, stricter with strong ties to the parish. law enforcement policies and He is a member of the board a more business-friendly envi- of directors of the Cathedral ronment for the entire state. Club of Brooklyn and vice chair of the Fort Hamilton Spectator: President Ron- Citizens Action Committee, ald Reagan once said, “The and is also a member of the Conservative Party has estab- American Legion. lished itself as a preeminent Among the people Long force in New York politics and helped are former Gov. George an important part of our polit- Pataki, former Congressmem- ical history.” You were friends bers Susan Molinari, Vito with Reagan. How did that Fossella, Michael Grimm and friendship come about and any Dan Donovan, and former state interesting stories you might Sen. Marty Golden, as well as share with us? current Assemblymember Nic- Long: In 1975, before his ole Malliotakis. first run for president, I had Long took the time to share the honor of introducing him some of the fascinating events as our featured guest speaker he’s witnessed and people he’s at our state dinner at the met during his remarkable Waldorf Astoria, where we career. spent more than three hours in deep political conversa- Spectator: You were a vol- tions. In 1980 and again in unteer for Barry Goldwater’s 1984, I had the honor of serv- presidential campaign and you ing as a member of the elec- joined the Conservative Party toral college for the state of in 1964. What first drew your New York where I cast the attention to politics at that votes for him as president of time? the United States. Through Former New York State Conservative Party Chair Mike Long Photo courtesy of Mike Long Long: In 1964, I was first the years, with many events attracted to politics through and activities, I grew to know Barry Goldwater’s campaign him personally. Each time I Spectator: Any other polit- important is that role for you? pope but would have enjoyed Spectator: How do you for president. His outspoken was with him, my admiration ical stories you could talk Long: As chairman of it. feel about the state of the and fierce positions against grew. about? Holy Angels Catholic Conservative Party today with worldwide communism led Long: In 1981-1983, I was Academy it was most reward- Spectator: Following the new State Party Chair Jerry me to get involved in the New Spectator: What other a member of the New York ing to assist in providing an loss of two key seats in the last Kassar and Brooklyn’s Chair York State Conservative presidents or heads of state City Council. To date, I am the education and a strong faith election, do you think the Fran Vella-Marrone? And how Party. have made a strong impres- only member of the New York foundation to students in our Conservative and Republican do you view the future of the sion on you? State Conservative Party to academy. Parties will be able to win Conservative Party in the next Spectator: What was it Long: Other world leaders serve on the New York City back seats in Congress and the few years? about the Conservative Party that have made great impres- Council. Spectator: Were you ever Senate? Long: I have worked side that resonated so strongly with sions upon me are (former granted an audience with the Long: I strongly believe by side with Jerry Kassar you? British Prime Minister) Spectator: You also contin- pope? with the right candidates we since 1977 and with Fran Long: The beliefs and val- Maggie Thatcher and Pope ue to serve as chair of Holy Long: No, I was never can retake the congressional since 1980. The party couldn’t ues that the New York State John Paul II. Angels Catholic Academy. How granted an audience with the and state senate seats. be in better hands. T:10" Week of September 6–12, 2019 • EXTRA EDITION HOME REPORTER AND SPECTATOR • 5 INFUSION Perlmutter Cancer Center Cancer care has come a long way. Now you don’t have to go far to receive it.MEDICAL provides the most Perlmutter Cancer Center provides world-class care in every treatment comprehensive modality right here in Brooklyn, with infusion, surgical, and radiation treatments treatments for nearly all cancer types ONCOLOGY and blood disorders. in Brooklyn. 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Cops seek man who attacked, tried to rape woman in Dyker Heights BY JAIME DEJESUS Saturday, Aug. 31 at around from the suspect. Stoppers website at www.nypd- JDEJESUS 1:20 a.m., the victim, a 41-year- Anyone with information in crimestoppers.com, or on @BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM old woman, was walking near regard to this incident is asked Twitter @NYPDTips. Battery Avenue and 86th Street to call the NYPD’s Crime All calls are strictly confi- Police are looking for a when the suspect approached Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577- dential. man who allegedly attacked her from behind, placed her in a TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1- and tried to rape a woman in chokehold and attempted to 888-57-PISTA (74782). The Dyker Heights. assault her sexually. The public can also submit their tips Surveillance image of the According to authorities, on woman was able to break free by logging onto the Crime- suspect. Photo courtesy of NYPD Giant fallen tree branch crushes truck in Bay Ridge BY JOHN ALEXANDER of the borough pretty hard. came crashing down, completely JALEXANDER The heavy downpours, thun- enveloping the white Ford F-150 @BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM der and lightning rocked the city pickup truck directly below it. and on the corner of 95th Street The truck was parked in A violent Labor Day after- and Fort Hamilton Parkway a front of a house at 9502 Fort noon rainstorm hit certain parts giant tree branch broke off and Hamilton Parkway.
A surveillance image of the attack. Image courtesy of the NYPD Police search for 4 assailants who struck man with gun, stole his car in Gowanus BY JAIME DEJESUS approached a 25-year-old trators is asked to call the JDEJESUS man at 16th Street and Third NYPD’s Crime Stoppers @BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM Avenue, struck him in the Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS face with a gun, shoved him (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888- Police are looking for inside the trunk of a car, and 57-PISTA (74782). The public four men wanted for stole his vehicle, $6,000, a can also submit their tips by allegedly attacking a man cell phone and a watch. The logging onto the Crime- and stealing his car at gun- suspects fled in another Stoppers website at www.ny- point in Gowanus. vehicle in an unknown pdcrimestoppers.com, or on According to authorities, direction. Twitter @ NYPDTips. on Saturday, Aug. 24 at Anyone with information All calls are strictly con- around 2:20 a.m., the group about the identity of the perpe- fidential. A tree branch crashed into a truck parked on Fort Hamilton Parkway during the rain- storm on the afternoon of Labor Day. ebrooklyn media/Photos by John Alexander
Cops say the victim was with a friends got into an argument ing a phone from his 33-year- Department of Health for a friend when an unknown man with another group of men. The old female partner near Bay dog license renewal, was ran up to her, ripped her off and suspect punched the victim in Ridge Avenue and 18th robbed of more than $2,000 The 68th Precinct serves fled eastbound towards Fourth the mouth. Police said that the The 62nd Precinct serves Avenue on Aug.26 at around by an unknown crook who Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights Avenue and 97th Street. No victim was intoxicated and Bensonhurst, Bath Beach 3:30 p.m. Cops say that the changed the amount of the and Fort Hamilton. arrests have been made. refused to talk to police. He was and Gravesend. suspect went home and argued check to $2,370 and cashed it. taken to NYU Langone Hospital with his girlfriend, accusing According to reports, the vic- AN EARLY MORNING COPS ARREST TWO - Brooklyn for treatment. No RUDE WELCOME: A her of cheating on him. The tim posted the check at 78th ATTACK: A woman was MEN IN ALLEGED 68 ST. arrests have been made. man was attacked and robbed suspect then allegedly wres- Street and 20th Avenue. No attacked by another woman ASSAULT: Two men were of cash while walking along tled with her, slapping her to arrests have been made. she didn’t know in an apart- arrested for allegedly attack- 60K BURGLARY: Approx- 85th Street between 20th and get her phone. The victim sus- ment building on Senator ing another man, 41, at imately $60,000 of dollars 21st avenues on Sept. 1 at tained minor injuries. NO GOOD DEED GOES Street between Fourth and Colonial Road and 68th Street worth of cash and jewelry around 12 a.m. According to UNPUNISHED: An 18-year- Fifth Avenues on Aug. 31. on Aug. 25 at around 1:45 was stolen from a home on reports, the victim had just PAINTBALL ATTACK: old boy was robbed of his According to reports, at a.m. According to the police, 77th Street between 13th and walked out onto the street when A 23-year-old was shot at with cellphone while he was wait- around 5:17 a.m., the victim the two suspects allegedly 14th Avenues on Sept. 1. a man walked up to him, a paintball gun by an unknown ing at a bus stop at 20th was hanging out with a friend approached the victim and According to reports, the vic- shoved him against a fence and man at Avenue P and West Avenue and 86th Street on when the assailant entered the asked for money. When he tim, a 54-year-old man, demanded money. The victim Seventh Street on Aug. 30 at Sept. 1 at around 3:34 a.m. apartment, broke a beer bottle said no, a second victim got returned home at around 7 fell to the ground, took his wal- around 11:30 p.m. According The cops say the victim was and threw it at her, resulting involved and the suspects p.m. and saw that an air con- let out of his pocket and gave to reports, the man was walk- waiting for an Uber when the in minor injuries. No arrests allegedly attacked them both, ditioner had been removed his assailant $200. After the ing eastbound on Avenue P crook approached him and have been made. punching them in the face. from the window of an perp fled, the man ran down the when he was hit by the paint- asked if he could borrow his upstairs bedroom. He then street and called police. He sus- ball. The attacker fled in a car phone to make an emergency MAN SNATCHES 87- FIGHT NIGHT: A 20 year- realized that items had been tained minor injuries. No in an unknown direction. No call. The suspect gave him the YEAR-OLD WOMAN’S old-man was attacked by anoth- stolen from his nightstand arrests have been made. arrests have been made. phone and the crook said, BELONGINGS: An 87-year- er man on the corner of Senator and dresser, including a dia- “The phone is mine now.” He old woman walking home Street and Fourth Avenue on mond and gold ring, a gold COPS NAB ALLEGED REWRITING HISTORY: then fled northbound on 20th along 97th Street between Third Aug. 24. at around 3:35 a.m. watch,a wedding band and PHONE SNATCHER: A 38- A 47-year-old man, who on Avenue. The phone is worth and Fourth Avenues was robbed According to reports, the assault $3,000 in cash. No arrests year-old man was arrested for Aug. 30 had mailed a $34 over $1,000. No arrests have on Sept. 1 at around 5:40 p.m. occurred after the victim and his have been made. allegedly attacking and steal- check to the New York City been made. Week of September 6–12, 2019 • EXTRA EDITION HOME REPORTER AND SPECTATOR • 7 8• EXTRA EDITION HOME REPORTER AND SPECTATOR • Week of September 6–12, 2019 Ursula A. Gangemi, Esq. Attorney-At-Law
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It cannot in- thousands of dollars to buy pleased to see Cuomo take crease gas capacity unless a home or build a business, action. n the wake of a morato- New York State approves a they have every expectation “The governor has shown rium by the company on permit to construct a new that they are going to get gas.” that he has heard the cries I installing new gas hook- gas pipeline between New Cuomo expressed con- and the anguish from peo- ups in Brooklyn, Queens Jersey and New York, com- cern over reports of lack of ple. He has heard what was and Long Island, New York pany officials have stated. service to customers. said and he is responding in State might consider ending Homeowners and busi- “If these reports are accu- a responsible way,” Colton a long-standing agreement nesses in Brooklyn have rate, National Grid’s refusal told the Home Reporter on it has with National Grid been complaining to their to resume service could en- Wednesday. which gives the company a local elected officials after danger the health and safety Colton was skeptical of monopoly on supplying gas being rebuffed by National of New Yorkers,” Cuomo National Grid’s assertion to homes and businesses. Grid if they have complied wrote in his letter to DPS. that it needs the new pipe- In a letter to the Depart- with the company require- “Affected homeowners likely line in order to keep up Photo from governorandrewcuomo/Flickr ment of Public Service, Gov. ment that they turn off gas include families without the with increasing demands Gov. Andrew Cuomo, pictured at a ceremony Andrew Cuomo wrote that service during renovation means to secure alternative for service. “There is more marking the opening of the Kosciuszko Bridge the state would instead projects, and request, fol- residences, and National than enough gas to service on Wednesday, has directed the Dept. of Public bring in other companies. lowing the completion of Grid’s refusal of service current customers and Service to widen its probe of National Grid in In his letter, Cuomo directed the project, that gas service could deprive these families future customers,” he said. the wake of customer complaints regarding a DPS to broaden an investiga- be reinstated. of heat as temperatures fall.” Councilmember Mark gas service moratorium. tion it is currently conduct- According to Assem- Cuomo ordered DPS Treyger, who represents ing into the moratorium. blymember Bill Colton, a to broaden its probe to Coney Island, Gravesend gas provider,” Treyger said without additional supply. In addition, the governor Democrat who represents include the investigation and parts of Bensonhurst, in a text message to the We’ve been working closely directed DPS to consider al- Gravesend, part of Benson- of incidents in which Na- accused National Grid of Home Reporter. with the Department of ternatives to National Grid hurst and Dyker Heights, tional Grid has refused to “holding Brooklyn, Queens But without a new pipe- Public Service staff and its as a franchisee for some or the moratorium is hurting restore gas service. The and Long Island customers line to increase its capacity, consultants to support the all of the areas it currently working families and mom governor wrote that DPS hostage,” and urged Cuo- National Grid is caught in a commission’s investigations serves if the problem is not and pop businesses. Colton must “take any steps” with- mo to end the company’s bind, according to a compa- of gas supply constraints in resolved. held a press conference in its authority and should monopoly. ny spokesperson. downstate New York and will National Grid announced outside his Gravesend office use “appropriate penalties “We should also not be at “We will stand by and continue to cooperate with earlier this year that it with affected National Grid and sanctions” to ensure the mercy of a monopolistic honor all customer commit- any further inquiries while would no longer provide customers on Friday. that National Grid imme- company like National Grid ments that were approved we await the results of that gas hookups to new or re- “We are dealing with an diately provides service to and the governor should before we determined that study,” the spokesperson turning customers, citing a emergency in our commu- customers affected by these end the agreement with we can no longer safely said in a statement emailed shortage in the supply chain nity,” Colton said. “When refusals. them and find an alternative serve additional gas load to the Home Reporter. DOT to install guardrails along Belt Parkway to protect promenade
BY PAULA KATINAS deployment of Jersey bar- attention to our community [email protected] riers along the Belt Park- but I’m happy they finally way this fall to provide an heard our clarion call,” he New York City immediate safety measure Brannan told the Home Department of in the area of greatest need. Reporter. TTransportation will We will continue to deploy “This area has been un- install guardrails along the additional barriers to the protected and vulnerable Belt Parkway in Benson- roadway as they become for far too long. When they hurst at a faster pace than available,” a DOT spokes- told us it would be another originally planned after person told the Home two years just for them to community leaders and Reporter in an email. design the guardrail, that’s lawmakers requested quick Community Board 11 when I really lost my mind. action to increase public officials breathed a sigh of You have a very popular safety along the Shore relief. promenade just a few feet Parkway Promenade, the “It’s wonderful news,” from a highway with cars bike and pedestrian path Board 11 District Manager flying by — there should that sits adjacent to the busy Marnee Elias-Pavia said. ebrooklyn media/File photo by Paula Katinas have been a guardrail here highway. “Community Board 11 had A large swath of Shore Parkway Promenade (at right) is unprotected on day one. We’re talking DOT officials confirmed called on DOT to install from the Belt Parkway. DOT plans to rectify the situation by installing about very basic safety that they will be putting guardrails on the Belt guardrails. measures; this isn’t some- up guardrails this fall. The from Bay Eighth Street to thing that should be up for original plan was to install Bay Parkway following the weather is crowded with Treyger and Vincent Gen- illustrate the danger bike debate,” Brannan said. the barriers in 2021. terrorist attack on the West residents biking, strolling, tile, who was serving in riders and pedestrians face Rose said he was relieved The Belt Parkway runs Side Highway.” jogging, roller-blading and the City Council at the time, when the only thing sepa- to hear that DOT is taking alongside the Shore Park- Elias-Pavia was refer- fishing, according to local began pushing DOT to rating them from vehicular action sooner rather than way Greenway for several ring to an October, 31, 2017 officials. install guardrails several traffic on the highway is a later. miles along the Gravesend incident in which a driver The community board al- years ago. patch of grass. “It shouldn’t have taken Bay waterfront. There are plowed into crowds of peo- so put the guardrail project This past spring, U.S. “Councilman Treyger this long, but I’m glad the no guardrails along the ple in Hudson River Park, on its list of capital budget Rep. Max Rose and Coun- and my predecessor city finally realized the section of the eastbound killing eight and injuring 11. priorities for a few years cilmember Justin Brannan, Councilman Gentile have danger my constituents Belt Parkway between Exits “Our promenade is totally in a row, a sign of how seri- who succeeded Gentile in been banging the drum on were in so long as this 4 and 5 (Bay Eighth Street to exposed,” she said. ously members considered the Council, held a press this for years. It’s really a stretch of the Belt Parkway Bay Parkway). The promenade is a the work. conference on the prome- shame we have to scream so remained unprotected by “We will begin popular area that in warm Councilmember Mark nade near 17th Avenue to loud to get City Hall to pay guardrails,” he said. Week of September 6–12, 2019 • EXTRA EDITION HOME REPORTER AND SPECTATOR • 11 Sixty-one Brooklyn residents ‘go the distance’ in Public Works’ “Hercules” BY JOHN ALEXANDER theatrical performance, play,” she said. “It was a lot JALEXANDER@BROOKLYNEAGLE. and she says she’s having of fun learning the songs COM fun and learning at the and the dance moves.” same time. “I was cast as The sisters live in Sunset ixty-one residents one of the three Fates,” Isa- Park and attend P.S. 506 at of Brooklyn are part belle told this paper. “Public 59th Street and Third Av- S of the cast of the new Works has been teaching enue. They are part of the Public Works’ adaptation Center for Life after-school of the 1997 Disney classic program. “Hercules.” They’ve joined “My daughters and I together with over 200 New became a part of the acting Yorkers to tell the story of classes this year,” the girls’ the mighty Roman god. father Marvin Romero told With music by Alan Men- this paper. ken, lyrics by David Zippel, “We auditioned for the and book by Kristoffer Photos by Joan Marcus ‘Hercules’ show. They were Diaz, the show is directed The company in rehearsal for Public Works’ very interested in Isabelle’s by Lear deBessonet. It will “Hercules.” voice and after several au- run for seven nights at the ditions she was Delacorte Theater in Cen- also recorded by Michael join in the creation of ambi- cast as one of tral Park, from Friday, Aug. Bolton, reaching number tious works of participatory the three Fates. 31 to Sunday, Sept. 8. Free 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 theater. It has really tickets will be distributed in 1997. “The heart of Public Isabelle Romero, Hasaan Bailey been a great via digital lottery. The Public Works produc- Works is our partnerships and Kelly Campbell in rehearsal experience for Along with six songs from tion is a partnership with with community organiza- for Public Works’ “Hercules.” my daughters the Academy Award-nomi- borough-based nonprofits tions across the city,” said and me to be nated film’s beloved score, Brownsville Recreation Laurie Woolery, director of perfectly with what we are me how a part of this the Public Works produc- Center, which offers exten- Public Works. “We are so trying to accomplish in the to use my play. The entire tion includes new, addition- sive resources for youth honored that the ‘Hercules’ neighborhood.” voice and Public Works al songs by Menken and and seniors, and Center for cast includes people from Onserud continued, “Pub- new dance community has Zippel. Family Life in Sunset Park, Staten Island to the north lic Works recognizes that moves. I am Arianne Recto and been so helpful. I Hercules is played which provides compre- Bronx, all joining together the fabric of a community excited for Shannon Rhett never would have by Jelani Alladin. Tony hensive social services for in Central Park to make is meaningful relationships, everyone to rehearse their parts. imagined being Award-winning actor children and adults. magnificent, soulful and and what Public Works does watch the in a play. We are Roger Bart, who voiced the Working with commu- excellent art.” really well is intentionally show. I am so happy to be very grateful to Public character of Hercules in the nity partners in all five According to Hélène On- create occasions for mean- part of the Public Works Works,” he added. animated version and sang boroughs, Public Works serud of Center for Family ingful relationships to community.” Additional information “Go the Distance,” returns has invited community Life in Sunset Park, “Public happen.” Her five-year-old sister about Public Works’ “Her- as Hades in the new produc- members to take classes, Works is only one part of This is eight-year-old Mayiah agrees: “I am part cules” can be found at www. tion. “Go the Distance” was attend performances and what we do, but it fits so Isabelle Romero’s first of the town of Agora in the publictheater.org.
Aspiring Bay Ridge actress Ana-Sofia Rodriguez has a role in “A Little Princess”
BY JOHN ALEXANDER the work. “A Little Princess” is a interactions with Amy through- the street kids like family, and she [email protected] children’s book that centers on out the play change and evolve as is not afraid of anything!” themes like perseverance, friend- the story unfolds. Prior to joining the show, Ro- he may be only in the sev- ship and strength of character. “My description of the role of driguez played Little Gloria in the enth grade, but Bay Ridge’s The story revolves around Cap- Amy is that she is very protective Broadway National Tour of “On SAna-Sofia Rodriguez has tain Crewe and his daughter, Sara, and caring,” said Rodriguez. “She Your Feet! The Musical,” which already compiled a solid resume who have arrived in London after has two other street children she tells the story of the lives of Latinx Photo courtesy of Kids of the Arts performing off-Broadway, in living abroad in India. Crewe is takes care of, and their names musical icons Emilio and Gloria Productions movies and on television. She quite wealthy and believes Miss are Anne and Albert. She always Estefan. Selected for the role by Ana-Sofia Rodriguez. played Amy in “A Little Princess,” Minchin’s Seminary for Young makes sure they’re safe and tries Estefan herself, Rodriguez had which premiered this month in Ladies will be the best school for her best to treat them like brother the opportunity to perform in 39 at 76th Street and Third Avenue New York City. Sara. When unfortunate circum- and sister.” cities over the span of a year. and her first vocal coach was Chris- “A Little Princess” is a brand stances leave her impoverished, Rodriguez continued, “Amy She has also appeared in off tina Gioradano at Music Box School new musical adaptation by British Sara begins to discover things she also has other characteristics like Broadway productions and partic- at 94th Street and Fourth Avenue. writing team Carl Miller and Marc never knew about the world, and annoyed, jealous and desperate. ipated in several short films, includ- Rodriguez graduated from St. Folan based on the novel by Fran- that a true princess’s light shines She gets annoyed by Sara, a very ing “Ceviche,” “La Sangre En Nues- Ephrem School in Bay Ridge and ces Hodgson Burnett. The musical from the inside. brave girl in the show. Sara is nice tras Venas” and “Back to Alaska.” On currently attends Mark Twain debuted last year at Andrew Lloyd Rodriguez plays one of the and sweet, but the street kids television, she had a principal role Intermediate School for the Gifted Webber’s the Other Palace in Lon- street children named Amy. They don’t like her because they are in the Emmy Award-winning “The and Talented on Neptune Avenue. don, and made its United States are essentially people struggling poor. Amy is jealous because she Magical Wand Chase: A Sesame “I always wanted to act because premiere at the Pershing Square for survival throughout the play wishes she were in Sara’s shoes, Street Special” on HBO. I loved seeing how people would Signature Center at 480 West as they essentially have no money. pretty and happy. They end up Rodriguez was born in Brook- react and say their lines,” said 42nd St. in Manhattan. Sara, the main character, starts realizing they shouldn’t have lyn and has lived in Bay Ridge all Rodriguez. “I could turn down the Burnett’s popular 1905 novel be- out very wealthy, a princess, and judged her too quickly because her life. As a child, her first musical volume all the way on the TV and gan as a short story, but due to its is then orphaned and on the same all she was is kind. Amy likes to theater training was at Dimensions still watch the show because I loved popularity, the author expanded level as the street children. Her take on the world and care for all On Stage, a children’s acting school to just see them act and react.” 12• EXTRA EDITION HOME REPORTER AND SPECTATOR • Week of September 6–12, 2019 Sahadi’s to finally open its doors in Sunset Park BY JAIME DEJESUS in Brooklyn. We live here, grab-and-go dinner options. Co-owner Ron Sahadi JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER. we work here,” she said. According to Sahadi’s, explained what has given COM “Brooklyn is a dynamic “Daily meze — featuring dish- the business staying power. place. We’re constantly es like mini kibbeh, couscous “We were artisanal before oodies, rejoice! After looking for ways to in- timbale and hummus — will it was cool,” he said. “We’ve a long wait, Sahadi’s novate while preserving be paired with Lebanese always been very particular F is finally opening its what our longtime and Mediterranean wines when sourcing foods from doors in Sunset Park. customers know and select spirits. Lunch and all over the world to put on The family specialty and love. The grab & go options will range our shelves. We’re looking grocery store that’s been Industry City between $9-14.” forward to sharing our a Brooklyn fixture since store will allow The new eatery will also carefully vetted product 1948 announced in early us to share the be- offer an open kitchen that mix, which include local and 2018 that it would open its loved Sahadi food allows customers to order imported offerings, with the second location in Industry and hospitality their food and watch Industry City community.” City. On Thursday, Aug. 29, culture in a new, staff prepare made-to-or- “We’re excited to expand it will officially make its modern setting.” Photos courtesy of Sahadi’s der saj and pita breads. our footprint in Brooklyn,” grand opening. “ S u p p o r t i n g A look at the new Sahadi’s in The new store has been co-owner Pat Whelan The new space is 7,500 the growth of Industry City designed to create, “a warm said, adding that bringing square feet with approxi- Brookly n-born and relaxed community jobs to the area is also mately 80 seats and a bar. business is an campus. space is totally renovated vibe — a departure from important, “and keep[ing] It will offer the traditional important part of what we They’re great partners. My and wide open and will the ticketed, bazaar-like good, solid manufacturing ancient grains and spices, do at Industry City,” added husband Pat is a longtime give us opportunities that atmosphere at the original and hospitality jobs in our bins of freshly roasted nuts, Industry City CEO Andrew part of the Sunset Park Wa- we don’t have on Atlantic. location,” Sahadi’s said in a community. We’ve always dried fruits, imported olives Kimball. “Sahadi’s is a leg- terfront Task Force and our While other neighborhoods release. “The Industry City been committed to diversity and old-fashioned barrels of endary Brooklyn outpost warehouse is in that area so were extremely appealing store is just a few blocks in hiring practices and are coffee beans that customers that we will be proud to see we are part of that communi- for the new customer base, from Sahadi’s longtime pro- looking forward to working look for at its first location grow within our campus.” ty already.” we felt that being close duction facility in Sunset with Industry City’s Inno- on Atlantic Avenue, along Last year, Whelan told She also discussed what to our existing store, it Park, Brooklyn. The Sunset vation Lab in the months to with new additions. this paper the importance makes Sahadi’s and Sunset makes it easier for us to be Park warehouse houses an come.” Co-owner Christine of Sahadi’s opening up in Park a good match. transporting goods, doing 18-foot-tall roaster which Sahadi’s will be open Sahadi Whelan is pleased Industry City. “This is a neighborhood deliveries, things like that.” freshly roasts top quality Monday through Friday to have the second location “We have been discussing we are intimately devoted The Industry City loca- nuts and seeds, stores thou- from 8 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sat- finally open. joining them in their campus to already,” she added. “We tion will offer light break- sands of pallets of imported urdays and Sundays 10 a.m.- “Our family and our for quite a number of years,” love being a part of it on the fast and full coffee service, delicacies, and supplies ac- 4 p.m. For more information, business have deep roots she said. “It’s a beautiful manufacturing level. The lunch, bakery items, and counts across the country.” visit facebook.com/sahadis ‘Artivist’ mural done by youth artists highlights Sunset Park community issues
BY VICTOR PORCELLI led by teaching artist Raul as a Mayan figure surround- EDITORIAL@ Ayal. ed by roots being stomped BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM Ayal and his team par- on by modern-looking took in 10 different sessions business shoes. Elsewhere, group of young from May to late June in average-looking people can artists unveiled order to plan the mural, in- be seen cleaning the water, A a mural in Sunset cluding a listening session with images of nature and Park on Aug. 28 that seeks with community members a goddess with open-arms to highlight issues within held at the Brooklyn Army depicted further down. the community such as Terminal. “The fact that we can see gentrification and leftover Ayal said the group of our thoughts about liber- detrimental effects of Su- young artists talked to com- ation, our thoughts about perstorm Sandy. munity members and orga- place, about our traditions, At the corner of 56th nizations to learn about many ways that we can ebrooklyn media/Photo by Victor Porcelli Street and First Avenue, Sunset Park and the unique intersect and the ways that The mural lies on the edge of the Upper Bay in Sunset Park along First the mural stretches across issues residents face there. we can see the future,” Ayal Avenue. a building on the edge of the Members of the group told the Brooklyn Reporter, Upper Bay of New York Har- also had conversations, “that’s what awes me, be- he loves to do. for a better future,” Bendter New York City being home bor. It was done by a group did readings and exercises, cause they’re youth.” When describing the mu- told the Brooklyn Reporter. to some of the most talented of 18 artists from ages 19 to and went to museums or Ayal said leading the ral, Bendter said the water “So the tree is a part of that artists, it lacks public art in 24 as part of Groundswell watched movies to inform project gave him the feeling goddess depicted in the aftermath and as you can comparison to other cities NYC’s Artivist Allstars their approach to the mural. of passing the torch to his beginning, surrounded by see people are trying to around the world. He said Program. For example, the young students, saying they are snakes, represents nature clean up the water and fix Groundswell’s projects Groundswell, and specif- artists included images “really, really great artists,” facing corporate oppres- everything that’s going on that make more murals ically its flagship program of water throughout the and not just for their age. sion. When the snakes and stop the destruction” like these, taking commu- called the Summer Lead- mural after a community Brandon Bendter, an are eventually stifled by Dread Scott, a well- nity input into account and ership Institute, seeks to member suggested having alumni of Groundswell the roots of the tree, and known artist and acade- providing public art, are support young artists by it represent some of what who was part of the group people are shown cleaning mician with the National rare but important. creating public murals over is on the other side of the that painted the mural, the water, Bendter said it is Academy of Design, part- “I think it’s really won- the five boroughs between building — New York said he heard about the meant to communicate a nered with Groundswell derful when an organiza- July and August. Done in Harbor. organization when a rep- more hopeful future. for the second year in a row tion like Groundswell can partnership with the NYC The mural includes im- resentative came into one of “The rest of the mural is on the project. He brought actually do a mural of this Economic Development ages of the Statue of Liberty his high school art classes. to show the after-effect of the group to his studio, and caliber that’s out here,” Corporation and the Na- being hit by intense waves of Since then, he’s participat- [the oppression] and how said he discussed the larger Scott said. “There is not tional Academy of Design, water Ayal said represents ed in three different mural people work to fix and im- concepts of art as activism. much like this, and I wish the Sunset Park mural was Superstorm Sandy, as well projects, something he said prove that and a projection Scott said that despite there were more.” A Special Section of the Brooklyn Eagle
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Community Board #1 Community Board #6 435 GRAHAM AVE., 250 BALTIC ST., Brooklyn, NY 11211 Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone: 718-389-0009 Phone: 718-643-3027 Fax:7 18-389-0098 Fax: 718-624-8401 Email:bk01@cb .nyc.gov Email:info@brooklyncb6 .org Flushing Ave., Willamsburg, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Greenpoint, Northside, Southside Gowanus, Cobble Hill Chairperson: none Chairperson: Peter Fleming District Manager:Gerald Esposito Regular monthly board meetings held the District Manager: Michael Racioppo 2nd Tuesdayo f the month/ 6:30pm. Regular monthly board meetings held the 2nd Wednesday of the month/6:30p.m. Community Board #2 350 JAY ST., 8THFLOOR Community Board #7 Brooklyn, NY 11201 4201 4THAVE., Phone: 718-596-5410 Brooklyn, NY 11232 Fax: 718-852-1461 Phone: 718-854-0003 Email: [email protected] Fax: 718-436-1142 Brooklyn Heights, Fulton Mall, Boerum Hill, Email:bk07@c b.nyc.gov Ft.Greene, BK Navy Yard, Clinton Hill Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace Chairperson: Lenue H. Singletary, III Chairperson: Cesar Zuniga District Manager:Rob ert Perris Regular District Manager: Jeremy Laufer monthly board meetings held the 2nd Regular monthly board meetings held the Wednesday of the month/ 6:00pm. 3rd Wednesday of the month! 6:30p.m.
Communi Board #8 Community Board #3 1291 ST.MARKS AVE., 1360 FULTON ST. t Brooklyn, NY 11213 Brooklyn, NY 11216 Phone: 718-467-5574 Community Board #17 Phone:718-622-6601 Fax: 718-778-2979 Community Board #11 Commun· Board #14 2214 BATH AVE., 810 EAST 16TH ST., Fax: 718-857-5774 Email:info@brooklync b8.org 4112 FARRAGUT ROAD Brooklyn, NY 11214 Brooklyn, NY 11214 Brooklyn, NY 11210 Email: [email protected] North Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant Heights, Phone:718-266-8800 Phone: 718-859-6357 Phone: 718-434-3072 Weeksville Fax: 718-421-6077 Ocean Hill Fax: 718-266-8821 Fax:718-434-3801 Chairperson: Ethel Tyus Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Chairperson: none District Manager: Michelle George Bath Beach, Gravesend, Mapleton, Flatbush, Midwood, Kensington, Ocean East Flatbush, Remsen Village, Farrgut, District Manager:Henry Butler Regular monthly board meetings held the Bensonhurst Parkway Rugby, Eramus, Ditmas Village Regular monthly board meetings held the 2nd Thursday of the month/ 7:00pm. Chairperson: William Guarinello Chairperson: Ed Powell Chairperson: Aaron Ampaw 1st Monday of the month! 7:00pm. District Manager: Marnee Elias-Pavia District Manager: Shawn Campbell District Manager: Sherif Fraser Regular Regular monthly board meetings held Regular monthly board meetings held the monthly board meetings held the 3rd Community Board #9 2nd Thursday of the month/7:30p.m. 2nd Monday of the month/ 7:30pm. Wednesday of the month/ 7:00pm. Community Board #4 890 NOSTRAND AVE., Community Board #15 Communi Board #12 1420 BUSHWICK AVE., SUITE 370 Brooklyn, NY 11225 KINGSBORO COMMUNITY COLLEGE Community Board #18 5910 13THAV E., Brooklyn, NY 11207-1422 Phone: 718-778-9279 2001 Oriental Blvd., Cluster Room C124 1097 BERGEN AVE., Brooklyn, NY 11219 Brooklyn,NY 11235 Phone: 718-628-8400 Fax: 718-467-0994 Brooklyn, NY 11234-4841 Phone:718-851-0800 Phone: 718-332-3008 Fax:718-628-8619 Phone: 718-241-0422 Email: [email protected] Fax: 718-851-4140 Fax: 718-648-7232 3 Email: [email protected] South Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Fax:718-5 1-3199 Email:b [email protected] Bushwick Gardens, Wingate Boro Park, Kensington, Ocean Parkway, Sheepshead Bay, ManhattanBeach, Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Chairperson: none Midwood Kings Bay, Gerritsen Beach, Kings Chairperson: Fred Baptiste Flatlands, Marine Park, Georgetown, District Manager:C elestina Leon Chairperson: none Highway, Madison, East Gravesend District Manager: CurrentlyVacant Mill Island District Manager: Barry Spitzer Chairperson: none Regular monthly board meetings held the Regular monthly board meetings held the Chairperson: Gardy Brazela Regular monthly board meetings held the District Manager: Laura Singer 3rd Wednesday of the month! 6:00pm. 4th Tuesday of the month! 7:00pm. Regular monthly board meetings held the District Manager: Dorothy Turano 4th Tuesday of the month/ 7:00pm. last Tuesday of the month/ 7:00pm. Regular monthly board meetings held the Community Board #5 Community Board #10 CommuniJy Board #13 3rd Wednesday of the month/ 7:00pm. Communi Board #16 404 PINE STREET, 8119 5THAVE., 1201 SURF AVE., 3RD FLOOR 444 THOMAS BOYLAND ST., ROOM 103 Brooklyn, NY 11208, 3RD FLOOR Brooklyn, NY 11209 Brooklyn, NY 11224 Phone: 929-221-8261 Phone: 718-745-6827 Phone:718-266-3001 Brooklyn, NY 11212 Fax: 718-345-0501 Fax: 718-836-2447 Fax: 718-266-3920 Phone: 718-385-0323 Email:[email protected] Email:b k01 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Fax: 718-342-6714 East New York, Cypress Hills, Highland Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Fort Hamilton Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Email: [email protected] Park, New Lots, City Line, Starrett City Chairperson: Lori Willis Bensonhurst, Gravesend, Seagate Brownsville, Ocean Hill Chairperson: Andre T Mitchell District Manager: Josephine Beckmann Chairperson: Joann Weiss Chairperson: none District Manager:Melinda Perkins Regular monthly board meetings held the District Manager: Eddie Mark District Manager: Viola D. Greene-Walker Regular monthly board meetings held the 3rd Monday of the month! 7pm. Except Regular monthly board meetings held the Regular monthly board meetings held the 4th Wednesday of the month! 6:30pm. during Januaryand February 4th Wednesday of the month! 7:00pm. 4th Tuesday of the month! 7:00pm. UPDATED SUMMER 2019
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WILLIAMSBURG STREET DANGEROUS FOR DRIVERS WILLIAMSBURG — Driving down South Fifth Street has be- come dangerous because painted street markers are missing, according to CBSNewYork. A parked car lane is in the middle of the street, with bikes on one side and car traffic on the oth- er. At least one confused driver was about to line up behind the parked cars until he realized that they were stationary. A spokesperson for the city Department of Transportation said that crews will be painting markings on the street this month, weather permitting. CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FLOODS SLOPE ROWHOUSES PARK SLOPE — A massive city construction project has result- ed in the routine flooding of several Park Slope brownstones, according to the Brooklyn Paper. “People have had anywhere from 2 to 16 inches of sewer water and stormwater in their homes,” Michael Saunders, who lives near Sixth Avenue and St. Johns Place, told the Brooklyn Paper. “It’s cost me thou- sands of dollars to deal with the damage.” The project re- quires workers to dig a massive trench along Sixth Avenue between Union Street and Park Place in an effort to replace underground water mains and install sewers, catch basins, and manholes. The Brooklyn Cyclones are overjoyed at MCU Park on Monday afternoon after locking up the New York-Penn League’s McNamara Division title. Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Cyclones LAWSUIT: RED-LIGHT CAMERAS ARE ILLEGAL CITYWIDE — A Brooklyn man is suing the city Department of bath products.” The shelters are provided by Collective Re- dio Gallos is listed as the architect of record. The building will Transportation, claiming that red-light cameras are illegal, ac- treats, which also offers a group of furnished tents positioned have 35 residences, which will most likely be rentals, as well cording to the New York Post. The plaintiff, whose name is around a lodge. as 17 enclosed parking spots. The site is currently occupied Monroe Street, filed his lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court by a two-story private home, and demolition permits have on Thursday after he was issued a $50 fine for going through BOERUM HILL MAN not yet been filed. a red light in Brooklyn. He claims his ticket’s accompanying CHARGED WITH THREATS “Technician’s Certificate,” which is designed to ensure that BOERUM HILL — Police arrested a Boerum Hill man on felo- DRIVER-CYCLIST BRAWL ENDS IN DEATH, ARREST a worker double-checked the red-light camera, is illegal be- ny robbery charges because he allegedly threatened to beat a BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — A man has been arrested after po- cause it wasn’t notarized. Street’s lawsuit wants any red-light worker at a Downtown Brooklyn Starbucks in order to steal a lice said he mowed down a cyclist in Bedford-Stuyvesant, ac- camera tickets issued to drivers since August 2013 to be void- coffee mug on Thursday, the Brooklyn Paper said. The victim cording to NY1 News. Police said Korey Johnson, who is fac- ed, since most of them haven’t been notarized. told police he was serving customers at the chain’s location ing murder and manslaughter charges, saw the cyclist trying on Jay Street near Myrtle Avenue when the suspect threat- to break into his car on Marcus Garvey Boulevard. Johnson CITY AGENCY COULD BUY ened to hit him in the face in a bid to steal the coffee cup. Po- apparently confronted the man, and it quickly turned physi- EX-CATHOLIC SCHOOL SITE lice charged the man with third-degree robbery, third-degree cal. Police say the cyclist hit a woman with a screwdriver, then KENSINGTON — Brooklyn Catholic leaders are in the process menacing and petit larceny. tried to get away on his bike. Johnson get into his car, then of demolishing a rundown former school building on Fort followed the cyclist. The victim suffered severe head trauma Hamilton Parkway between 40th and 41st streets and are ANOTHER ANTI-HASIDIC and was pronounced dead at the scene, said NY1. also looking to sell the site, according to the Brooklyn Paper. ATTACK IN CROWN HEIGHTS When asked whether they were in the process of purchasing CROWN HEIGHTS — A group of teens threw ice at a truck SYNAGOGUE ATTACK IN FLATBUSH the property, a spokesperson for the city’s School Construc- stopped a traffic light in Crown Heights on Thursday evening, FLATBUSH — An Orthodox Jewish man was verbally and phys- tion Authority suggested that they are. “We are very early according to PIX11. A 34-year-old Hasidic man was in the ically attacked in front of a synagogue in Flatbush, according in the process,” said spokesperson Kevin Ortiz. “The [School truck when it was stopped at Prospect Place and Brooklyn to the Forward. In the attack, which took place on the Sab- Construction Authority] is always looking at diocese buildings Avenue and was hit in the head by the ice. After the incident, bath, two men who may have been drunk hit the Jewish man as viable locations for new public school space,” Ortiz added. he saw a group of teens running away from the scene. Police in the face with a belt and yelled anti-Jewish racial slurs. The The building was formerly occupied by St. Catherine of Alex- are investigating the incident as a bias attack. victim told police that he had not spoken to the men before andria School, which the diocese closed in 2005 due to de- the attack. The NYPD is treated the incident as a hate crime. clining enrollment. ARCHITECTS’ BOAT TOUR EYES WATERFRONT EX-CON THREATENS TO KILL HIS EX-WIFE FORMER REPUBLICAN POL MAY HAVE CITYWIDE — For 10 years, the American Institute of Archi- BOROUGHWIDE — Scott Smith, a Brooklyn ex-con who was A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY tects’ New York Chapter has been sponsoring a boat tour out on parole last month after half a decade in a Missouri BAY RIDGE — Former Republican State Sen. Marty Golden around the city for an architectural view of skyscrapers, bridg- prison, said during an Aug. 3 phone call that he still wanted to is considering a run against Democratic State Sen. Andrew es, infrastructure and more, according to NY1. The tour, led kill his wife, and he’d “happily live in a cell and await the nee- Gounardes, according to Kings County Politics. Gounardes by architect Arthur Platt, leaves from Chelsea Piers, moves dle” after killing her, according to the New York Daily News. lost to Golden in the 2012 Senate race but defeated him last along the West Side, then turns around for a look at the He even said he’d kill her in front of her 5-year-old daughter. year by a little more than 1,000 votes. Gounardes’ win was changing waterfronts of Brooklyn and Queens. “One of the “I just want to tell you, you’re about to die,” said the defen- part of the “Blue Wave” that also enabled Democrat U.S Rep. main themes at the forefront has been, how do you build an dant. He also texted his former prosecutor that he’d kill the Max Rose (Southern Brooklyn-Staten Island) to defeat Repub- urban waterfront in an age of rising sea levels and frequent victim from the 2014 federal case, the Daily News said. “Five lican incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan, Kings County Politics storm events,” Platt told NY1. years, I’ve been waiting for what’s about to happen. I’ve fan- said. State Conservative Party Chair Jerry Kassar, Golden’s for- tasized about it every night.” mer chief of staff, said, “Marty has not made a decision yet. MAN PUNCHES TRAIN CONDUCTOR We’ve been taking to him, and he’s not sure yet, as he has DOWNTOWN BROOKYN — A man asked a subway train con- CO-OP FOR SALE IN 1940 a very good job with the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn and ductor for directions, then punched her when she told him he B’KLYN COLLEGE-AREA BLD’G Queens.” was on the wrong platform, according to Patch. The man ap- FLATBUSH — A one-bedroom co-op in a 1940 elevator build- proached the conductor’s window as the southbound D train ing in Flatbush near Brooklyn College is currently being of- STREET COVERED WITH RAW CHICKEN PARTS pulled into the DeKalb Avenue station, police said. After the fered for $329,000, according to Brownstoner. The building BOERUM HILL — A stretch of Bond Street in Boerum Hill was man became upset and punched her through the window, he at 2601 Glenwood Road, says Brownstoner, “features charac- covered with raw chicken parts last Friday morning, accord- flicked his lit cigarette at her and ran away, police said. teristic period elements of preview apartments, such as par- ing to The New York Times. “Every car and truck that pushed quet floors, shelves in a niche, arched doorways and coved through the scattered parts unleashed a series of pops, snaps NOT A GOOD WAY TO PLAY POST OFFICE ceilings. The building was built by Abraham Fox, a pioneer and cracks,” the Times reported. The parts were mainly thighs EAST FLATBUSH — One person has been injured after a car Brooklyn builder, and his son Milton. It was originally called and wings, and there may have been some turkey parts as slammed into a post office on East 94th Street and Church the Rutledge and featured a Colonial-style entranceway, well, onlookers said. Neighborhood residents believed the Avenue, according to CBSNewYork. The incident happened which has since been covered up. parts fell off a truck, as there are several butchers nearby. on Saturday afternoon. Witnesses looked on as the vehicle crashed through the East Flatbush post office’s metal security QUEER AND TRANS YOGA AT BUSHWICK STUDIO SUMMER GUEST HOUSES gate. There was no word on what caused the accident. BUSHWICK — To serve the LGBT population, Sasha Sigel has ON GOVERNORS ISLAND developed Queer and Trans Yoga at Daya Yoga Studio at 360 GOVERNORS ISLAND — Governors Island now has “outlook NEW 7-STORY BUILDING Jefferson St. in Bushwick, according to Bushwick Daily. At the shelters,” or luxurious trailer-type structures where guests GOING UP ON OCEAN AVE. core of the program, which is also known as QT, is Sigel’s trau- can stay overnight, according to Gothamist. They are now MIDWOOD — Permits have been filed for a seven-story resi- ma-sensitive training, and yogis can design their own regi- open for business and will remain until Oct. 31, when Gov- dential building at 1730 Ocean Ave. in Midwood between Av- men. Another unique element of QT yoga is its commitment ernors Island closes for the season. Each unit has landscaped enue L and Avenue M, according to New York YIMBY. Eddie to the LGBT community. “This class is for trans and queer folk decks, 10-foot ceilings, whitewashed pine walls and a “luxu- Yair, operating under the name of Ocean Avenue Develop- to simply be in our own community without navigating other rious soaking tub.” You also get a private library and “luxury ment LLC, is listed as the owner, while Francisco Nunez of Stu- dynamics,” said Sigel.
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South Brooklyn to host multiple 9/11 memorial events BY VICTOR PORCELLI lot of the families don’t feel continue till 7 p.m. Following EDITORIAL@ comfortable going down to the screening, there will be a BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM Ground Zero because it’s a discussion, beginning at 7 p.m., very sad place. But in Coney moderated by Jessica Chen, On September 11, 2001, Island, at the Brooklyn Wall senior director of public and when terrorists hijacked of Remembrance, they come professional programs at the commercial jetliners and flew to celebrate them and that’s 9/11 Memorial & Museum, them into the World Trade the nice part: we’ve made it a with a panel of writers, Garrett Center, Brooklyn residents celebration.” Graff, Giannina Braschi and were among uniformed service Those interested can meet at Lorem Ipsum. member, first responders and the memorial at 1904 Surf Ave. In Dyker Heights, St. financial sector victims. at 7 p.m. Ephrem’s Church at Fort Now, 18 years after the hor- On Sept. 11 itself, Brooklyn Hamilton Parkway and Bay rific attack, Brooklyn residents State Sen. Andrew Gounardes Ridge Parkway will also hold will hold a host of memorials will be continuing the tradition its annual ceremony, in which for those who died on that of his predecessor, Marty participants will attend a Mass terrible day. Golden, by holding two vigils: before heading outside, where At 10 p.m. on Friday Sept. 6, one in Marine Park and one in the church has installed a stat- the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Bay Ridge. ue of Jesus holding the Twin Hamilton will hold its annual First, the senator will mark Towers. 9/11 Commemorative Memori- the anniversary at Marine Park Finally, the 18th Annual al Ceremony. Fort Hamilton is in front of the Carmine Carro ebrooklyn media/file photo Stephen Siller Tunnel to the only active military base in Community Center at 6 p.m. A A scene from last year’s memorial on the 69th Street Pier. Towers 5k Run & Walk will New York City. Its ceremony second vigil will be held at the take place on Sunday, Sept. often includes a moment of si- 69th Street Pier at Bay Ridge committee, explained. “So, Commemoration Ceremony Mychal Judge, a Franciscan 29 beginning at 9:30 a.m. lence and a bugle performance Avenue and Shore Road at 7:30 one day out of the year, the at 4 p.m. This year’s cere- priest, was also killed. The Siller was an FDNY firefight- of “Retreat.” p.m. Both include a 21-gun handball court is given to us mony is dedicated to the 18th mass will also honor Fr. Judge. er who died trying to rescue The Night Before Can- salute and a candle-lighting. by the Parks Department and anniversary of the tragedy, and The Brooklyn Heights survivors. The run retraces dlelight Ceremony will take “Our community comes we remember the people that will include candle-lighting, a Interfaith Clergy Association his final footsteps, beginning place at MCU Park’s Wall of together each year to mark we lost and we honor the first laying-the-flowers ceremony, a will hold its annual evening at the Brooklyn entrance to Remembrance at 7 p.m. on the events of September 11,” responders in our area, just to Color Guard presentation and prayer service on the Brooklyn the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel Sept. 10. The wall is engraved Gounardes said. “Together, let them know that we appreci- speeches from 9/11 family Heights Promenade. The event and finishing across from the with images of 346 firefighters, we mourn those we lost on that ate everything they do.” members, major supporters of will take place at Montague World Trade Center at West 37 Port Authority officers, 23 day, and recommit ourselves to Attendees will meet at the the memorial and clergy. The Street, on the 11th, from 6:30- and Murray streets. New York City police officers, keeping their memories alive. handball court on the corner September 11 Family Group is 7:30 p.m. The run will be followed by three New York State officers, As the years pass, it remains of Avenue X and Bedford Av- a nonprofit organization that Also in Brooklyn Heights, a barbecue and concert; 30,000 one member of the New York essential to remember and re- enue. The court is home to a unites families of the victims. the Brooklyn Historical So- participants are expected to Fire Patrol and one rescue dog. flect on the events of that day mural painted by Brooklynite At 8 a.m. on the 11th, As- ciety, 128 Pierrepont St., will attend. The event honors all This year, the ceremony will and how it forever shaped our Ray Fiore after he spent three sumption Roman Catholic mark the anniversary with first responders, and this year use electric candles and will lives, our city and our nation.” days volunteering at Ground Church, 55 Cranberry St., will a screening, in real time, of will for the first time also in- have Fire Department chap- Also on the 11th, the Zero. It includes the names hold its Mass of Remembrance Wolfgange Staehle’s work, clude tributes to service men lains present. Brooklyn/Bedford Park 9/11 of over 400 South Brooklyn for the firefighters from the “2001,” a visual recording of and women killed in the line “It’s hard to realize that it’s Memorial Committee will host residents lost in the attacks Engine Co. 205/Hook and Lad- the events of Sept. 11, 2001. of duty since 9/11; their faces been 18 years since 9/11,” Sol a candlelit vigil at Bill Brown as well as a painting of the der 118 firehouse on Middagh Staehle had set up cameras in will be displayed on banners Moglen, honorary deputy chief Park from 6:30-8:30 p.m. American flag. Street in Brooklyn Heights. All Brooklyn to record a day in the held by ROTC Cadets. For with the FDNY and founder of “We were created because On Sept. 11, at the Memorial eight firefighters who were on life of New York City; instead, information on participating, the Brooklyn Wall of Remem- we felt, as just regular people, Square in Brooklyn’s Asser duty the day of the attacks lost they recorded the attacks and go to tunnel2towers.org. brance, told this paper. “This that we can’t let people forget,” Levy Park, the September 11 their lives. While administer- their aftermath. The screening Noah Singer contributed is the 18th anniversary, and a Tina Gray, a member of the Family Group will hold its ing last rites to victims, Fr. will begin at 8:30 a.m. and reporting to this article.
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