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Bank Heist Blitz! Foodies Do Battle at Book Slam by MAX JAEGER on April 14 LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGES 14–15 April 20, 2014 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Apr. 20—26, 2014 Cops crack down on ARBOR dollar vans BY MEGAN RIESZ Park Slope cops have been ticketing and seizing unlicensed dollar vans since January, a move activists are calling a racially mo- tivated blow against drivers try- ABUSE ing to make a living. Prospect Heights’ 78th police precinct has cited nine un-creden- Contractor bolts parking tialed drivers and seized 14 per- mit-less vans, which these days charge $2 for sometimes-wild rides along major thoroughfares signs to Williamsburg trees such as Atlantic and Flatbush av- enues, according to cops. A com- BY DANIELLE FURFARO vice announcement so that people munity organizer argues that the A city contractor, appar- understand how trees can be dam- crackdown is a racist attack on ently short on time or signposts, aged and the cost to replace trees,” black and Caribbean people who screwed metal “No Parking” signs said activist Teresa Toro. “This is are just looking to make a buck. to trees along Meserole Street in not just about aesthetics. Damage “Most drivers are Caribbean Williamsburg, angering neigh- to trees leads or people of color,” said Imani bors and injuring the trees. to sickness Henry, an organizer with the com- Empire Management and Con- and death of munity group Equality for Flat- struction, which asked the city the trees and bush, which is campaigning to for a permit to do construction that is a public stop the anti-van initiative. “This along the block between Graham health issue.” is their income and people are try- and Manhattan avenues, bolted A Depart- ing to feed their families.” three of the transportation- ment of Trans- A longtime dollar-van rider department-issued placards to portation rep said on Wednes- echoed Henry’s concerns, saying A family affair three trees to clear the work area day that the agency inspected that the city is trying to scrub of vehicles, to the consternation the trees on Meserole after a Victor Gelman of EMVI Chocolate with his daughter Mia and their giant Flatbush Avenue of its trademark of area plant-lovers who say a reporter notified it of the situ- conveyances to appease future Easter bunny. The Bensonhurst chocolatier is just one business that’s threat to the air-cleaning fl ora is ation and that it will ticket the residents of luxury developments dishing up tasty treats for, well, today. Photo by Steve Solomonson a threat to them. builder. The rep declined to say Continued on page 12 “Maybe we need a public ser- Continued on page 13 Bank heist blitz! Foodies do battle at Book Slam BY MAX JAEGER on April 14. BY SARAH IANNONE stage readings of their own Housing Works in Manhat- A criminal duo went on The pair started the A battle of words is cook- comestible-centric publica- tan. a larcenous rampage across spree at the Capital One ing in Brooklyn. tions. Each of the culinary au- Southern Brooklyn this Bank on Ralph Avenue and On April 26, the annual “It’s a legitimate compe- thors will have fi ve minutes week, according to cops. Avenue K, where one perp Food Book Fair will turn a tition, but it’s all in fun — to read the most succulent Police are searching for passed a note to a teller book reading into a heated hopefully,” said Kimberly part of their book — which two men believed respon- around 12:30 pm and made competition with its fi rst Wetherell, who is co-orga- can be a juicy recipe, a poi- sible for four bank robber- off with about $1,900, police KNIVES OUT: Butcher and “Food Book Slam” — in nizing the event with David gnant story about a dish, or ies reaching from Bergen said. author Tom Mylan is ready which 10 cookbook authors Gutowski, with whom she even just reciting the blurb, Beach to Gravesend over The two proceeded west to battle at the “Food Book will try to win over a live also runs the food-focused explained Wetherell. 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