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Oct. 2, 2016 Your Neighborhood — Your News® May 1–xx, 2016 City to B’Hill on surprise FIGHT TO FINISH Citi Bikes — Play takes on deal with it Parkinson’s BY LAUREN GILL We made our bed — and now you have to bike in it! BY ALEXANDRA SIMON The Department of Transpor- They’re taking a swing against tation messed up by not consult- Parkinson’s. ing Boerum Hill residents about A classic play about the sport where to install new Citi Bike of boxing will turn the squared stations in their neighborhood, circle of Gleason’s Gym into a offi cials admitted on Tuesday, stage for four performances start- but they said the agency has no ing on Oct. 22. The production of plans to take locals’ advice now “Golden Boy” — a drama written by relocating the hated docks to in 1937, the same year that Glea- sites they’d prefer, as it could just son’s Gym opened — will raise make things worse. money for the treatment of Par- “There is a challenge to mov- kinson’s disease, a neurological ing stations around,” said agency disorder that several of the show’s spokesman John Frost. “The sta- cast and crew are living with. tion that’s on the ground right The art of fi sticuffs is sur- now, people know what they don’t prisingly well suited for those like about it, but don’t know what with Parkinson’s disease, which they don’t like about the hypo- causes uncontrollable tremors, thetical one that doesn’t exist according to the show’s director. yet.” “The hitting motion seems The city quietly rolled out fi ve to calm down the tremors and of the bike-rental berths in the I never feel so in control when nabe over the past month, aug- hitting the bag,” said Aaron menting the ones it added in 2013 Latham, who has Parkinson’s. “It to Community Board 2’s district feels like you’re actually fi ghting — which encompasses Brooklyn PUT ‘EM UP: The cast and crew of the boxing play “Golden Boy” practice their skills at Gleason’s Gym, which will host the disease. The bag is Parkin- Heights, Dumbo, Downtown, and four performances starting on Oct. 22. Director Aaron Latham, second from left, has Parkinson’s disease, and the show son’s and you’re beating it up — Continued on page 12 will raise money to fi ght the disorder. Photo by Jon Farina Continued on page 6 He’s above par! DeB: Canarsie boat ‘on table’ BY CAROLINE SPIVACK — and now at 12, he has a BY JULIANNE CUBA out are set in stone, and year in 2017 and we are A Bay Ridge pre-teen is us- pool of friends, boasts an A Canarsie extension of a stop in Canarsie will building it up in 2018. ing golf to overcome au- above-average handicap, Mayor DeBlasio’s city- apparently be no easier The [next] phase config- tism. and is headed to the 2017 wide ferry system is “on when the service expands ured comes out of the Evan Koutsopetras be- Teen World Championship. the table,” hizzoner told to the Rockaways in 2018, Rockaways and goes up gan playing the sport as a Autism expresses itself in residents during a Sept. according to DeBlasio, by Bay Ridge and then 5-year-old to improve his different ways, often mak- 22 education town hall who said he is taking lo- up the East River — that
coordination and develop ing people seem aloof or CNG / Julianne Cuba — but don’t expect it any cals’ requests for the nau- makes it tough to achieve social skills — two things anti-social — and it can in- ON THE HORIZON?: Ferries time soon. tical mass transit seri- in this phase,” DeBla- that can suffer among crease individuals’ sensi- to Canarsie are a long way Routes for the water ously. sio said during the town people with the condition Continued on page 6 off, the mayor told locals. taxi’s 2017 Brooklyn roll- “We are starting next Continued on page 14
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WILL TRAVEL ANTIQUES & ESTATE BUYERS ESTATE & ANTIQUES 4 BROOKLYN WEEKLY, OCT. 2, 2016 dumpster said. locals bin, permit waste the in rules tossing are to it using people butgally, the contrac- in.” that all breathing us to know. hazard It’s ahealth We mold. don’t lead, asbestos, be could debris that of “Some down. doors who two rito lives anything,” said Vigo- Maria be it could dumped, being what’s Nooneknows there. in things of sorts all dump say.neighbors threats such as asbestos, health harbor — it could bin is more than an eyesore the and contractors, and businesses site for area ing dump- illegal an become has nearly a year. rottingtion on aconstruc- remove city dumpster 79th the that demanding are Street that’sdumpster. for this trash wanna They been WHAT ALOAD! night. at house their near SMELLS FISHY: City won’t move rogue Dyker Heights dumpster The city first issued a issued first city The le- there is container The up and drive “People receptacle reviled The residents Heights Dyker BY CAROLINE SPIVACK CAROLINE BY Mary and Tom Spelman are fed-up with local businesses dumping trash in the construction dumpster dumpster construction inthe trash dumping businesses Tom local with and fed-up are Spelman Mary trash. sitesto dump construction and businesses for local acatch-all become has dumpster CATCH the say Locals ALL: Beckmann. 10 district manager Josephine Board Community to cording ac- permit, its of violation in junk it with filling can, the of advantage have taken nesses mits. suchper- which issues tion, Department of Transporta- according to records from the 2015, October in St. 79th 1341 at onahouse working tors The city renewed permits permits renewed city The busi- say area Residents Photo by Georgine Benvenuto Georgine by Photo tion with CB 10. CB with tion peti- the who filed Spelman, here formunity that this thing can sit months,” said said. neighbor Marytainer-renewal policy, another refuse-con- its revisit city the demanding apetition started said. pol for the rep department tois lobbying take the transportation it away,Gentile’s Ridge) (D–Bay a office dumpster, locals said. dumpster, locals the off for carting sibility respon-partments is taking tion nor transportation de- show. records city ment, base- the excavating legally il- were contractors because building, work on the order astop- is also uproar. There locals’ of because plication ap- renewal latest tractor’s con- the rejected portation The Department of Trans- community complaints. despite times — several expire every months three —which bin waste for the “It’s not fair to the com- the to “It’s not fair have residents Block Councilman Vincent Vincent Councilman sanita- But neither the CNG / Caroline Spivack /Caroline CNG said. ward gets on that committee,” he for- amendments who put these panel. Seddio’s onto it make ally actu- will reformers any doubts board, executive the of member possible.” to come backevaluate all of to these issues and us as soonbers of the executive board, to as in this, as of some active of our ing voices well as some consist- appoint acommittee mem- dois to what Iintend regard, “And crowd. that he toldthe in that were amendments the regarding askedthe county committee tonight to be made,” meeting. 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