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LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 15 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 A CNG Publication Vol. 5 No. 40 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM 2 Taking their victory lap . 2, 2016 CT , O EEKLY The Prospect Park West bike lane lawsuit dies W BY COLIN MIXSON then cherry-picked crash the suit showed the num- bike lane for the Park Slope ROOKLYN The years-long fi ght over and safety data to justify ber of car-on-car crashes Civic Council Halloween B the universe’s most contro- making it permanent. actually increased slightly Parade , while Markowitz — versial bike lane is fi nally But as the case dragged in the two years after the who didn’t support the lane over, after the cadre of polit- on for years, several of the lane’s installation, though — rode into his 2011 State ically connected Park Slop- backers backed off — one, it also found drivers hit few of the Borough address on ers that has been trying to Lois Carswell of Seniors cyclists even as bike traf- a tricycle to mock the path kill the two-way protected for Safety, died — and the fi c tripled, speeding went and the pro-cycling activ- pedaling path along Pros- lane became a fi xture of down, and bikers stopped ists supporting it. pect Park West dropped its the neighborhood, as doc- riding on sidewalks. As of 2012, the city had lawsuit against the lane on umented by a candid 2012 While it lasted, the spent more than $140,000 Sept. 21. photo of Schumer riding court battle was huge news, on legal fees fi ghting the The high-powered down the pathway with ap- with former Department of suit. neighbors — whose ranks parent glee. Now, the re- Transportation Commis- Still, some local bike lov- originally included former maining critics say they sioner Janette Sadik-Khan, ers are disappointed to see Transportation Commis- have to accept that it is just former Borough President the case fi zzle out instead sioner and current wife to not practical to get rid of Marty Markowitz, and of fi nish with the bang of a Sen. Chuck Schumer (D– the bikeway at this point. Councilman Brad Lander judge’s gavel. Park Slope) Iris Weinshall, “We acknowledge that, (D–Park Slope) all testify- “There was a part of me former Deputy Mayor Nor- for better or worse, and ing, media outlets across that wanted to see this de- man Steisel, and former despite the disingenuous t h e c i t y s p i l l i n g p l e n t y o f cided in a court room, be- Brooklyn College dean means by which we believe ink on coverage and edito- cause I think their case was WOO!: Bike lover Eric McClure couldn’t be happier that a group of Louise Hainline — balked it was installed, the Pros- rials, and bike activists ral- without merit,” said Eric powerful Park Slope residents have dropped their lawsuit against at what they saw as the city pect Park West bike lane is lying to show their support McClure, co-chair of Com- the Prospect Park West bike lane. Photo by Stefano Giovannini shoving the 19-block bike here to stay,” the litigants for the lane . munity Board 6’s Trans- lane down their throats six said in a statement. At the height of the portation Committee and says he’s glad the opponents after the blue bike rental years ago, and sued argu- The litigious locals did drama, this paper’s then- a longtime defender of the waved the white fl ag — and stations rolled out across ing offi cials installed the fi nd some vindication when editor Gersh Kuntzman lane. he hopes the Citi Bike hat- his district last month fol- passage on a trial basis city data released as part of famously dressed as the Lander, meanwhile, ers he is currently battling low suit. 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