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INSIDE: GET THE RIGHT RESULTS WITH OUR CLASSIFIEDS SECTION Yo u r World — Yo u r News BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2016 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn, Williamsburg & Greenpoint AWP/14 pages • Vol. 39, No. 15 • April 8–14, 2016 • FREE Duggal Greenhouse Duggal This waterfront warehouse will host the hotly anticipated debate be- tween Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in Brooklyn. Associated Press / Carlos Osorio ROOM FOR DEBATE BROOKLYN’S ELECTION FEVER! Clinton and Sanders will battle at Navy Yard on April 14 By Ruth Brown avoiding the verbal skirmish — but their mont senator of dragging his feet. under the relentless scrutiny of former Brooklyn Paper campaigns didn’t let that stop them get- “We had thought the Sanders cam- editor Gersh Kuntzman, who proposed Democratic presidential candidates ting one last jab in. paign would have accepted our offer the event live on Monday’s edition of Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton will “It’s great for the people of New York for a Brooklyn debate on April 14 in a Brooklyn Paper Radio . go head-to-head in a televised debate at that there will be a debate in Brooklyn, New York minute, but it ended up tak- The debate itself — five days ahead the Navy Yard in Fort Greene on April something that the Clinton campaign has ing a few extra days for them to agree,” of the New York primary — will take 14, in a battle for the hearts and minds of long opposed,” said Sanders’s spokes- said Clinton spokesman Brian Fallon. place inside Navy Yard event venue the the most important voters in the coun- man Michael Briggs, noting the cam- “We are glad they did.” Duggal Greenhouse, a cavernous ware- try — Brooklynites. paign moved a planned rally forward CNN and NY1 will co-host with an- house on the waterfront. The two camps finally settled on a a night to accommodate Clinton’s pre- chor Wolf Blitzer moderating — a blatant A rep from the venue said there would Photo by Jordan Rathkopf date and venue for the war of words on ferred date. snub of the Brooklyn Paper’s own offer likely only be around 1,000 public tick- HILLARY’S TOWN HALL: Brooklynites packed into Medgar Evers Monday night after days of squabbling A staffer for the former secretary of to sponsor an authentic Kings County ets up for grabs, and to keep an eye on College in Crown Heights on April 5 to hear Clinton speak at her — each publicly accusing the other of state fired right back, accusing the Ver- showdown between the two combatants CNN and the candidates’ websites. first Kings County appearance. Read more on page 5. She’s got no time to waste! Artist will recreate 11-hour fi libuster with no pee breaks By Lauren Gill Brooklyn Paper It is a fili-bladder-buster! An artist will re-enact for- mer Texas state Sen. Wendy Da- vis’s non-stop, 11-hour, anti-abor- tion-bill-blocking 2013 speech at a Fort Greene performance space on April 13. But unlike Davis, who wore a catheter to avoid prohib- ited bathroom breaks during her marathon monologue, this brave performer plans to hold it in the old fashioned way. Photo Callan by Tom “I’m not going to drink that Residents in Brownstone Brooklyn say the F train’s express tracks should not come out of morning and stop drinking the retirement unless the transportation authority adds more trains to the line. night before as if you were to go ken with Davis about the perfor- into surgery,” said Alicia Grul- mance — she didn’t get any en- lon, who lives in the Bronx but durance tips, but did receive her will give her performance at Bric blessing. House. “I’ll go in the morning be- “She really likes the idea that The ripple F -ect fore I start.” I’m doing this and that was great,” Grullon says she is staging the said Grullon. production to bring attention to This will not be Grullon’s first Riders: MTA must add trains for F express Whole Woman’s Health v. Heller- re-enactment — she previously stedt — an ongoing US Supreme Photo by Jason Speakman acted out the death of an undoc- By Lauren Gill the line , though, so F riders who many straphangers can’t get on Court case challenging parts of the umented immigant who froze to Brooklyn Paper don’t live along express stops will and are forced to wait for other Artist Alicia Grullon will same 2013 legislation that Davis’s death while working in the woods be left waiting as the orange bul- trains to arrive. re-enact Texas state Sen. No F-ing way. stand ultimately failed to stop, re- in Long Island in 2007. Brownstone Brooklynites liv- let whizzes by. Councilman Brad Lander (D – sulting in restrictive conditions on Wendy Davis’s 11-hour And it also won’t be her last — ing along the citrus-colored F line The F express used to quickly Cobble Hill) said he’s in favor of Texas abortion clinics that have filibuster to block an anti- this is the first of a series of fili- say they will not support a push shuttle Brooklynites between the F express as long as the trans- forced many to close. abortion bill on April 13 at buster re-enactments that will also Coney Island and Manhattan, Bric House. She will don to reintroduce express service un- portation authority adds more “I hope people get inspired to feature Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I– skipping stops in brownstone trains along the line, but a rep get more informed about the Su- the same salmon Mizono less the cash-strapped Metropol- Vermont) eight-hour stand against itan Transportation Authority in- Brooklyn except Bergen Street refused to comment on whether he preme Court and will look at the running shoes Davis wore tax cuts for the wealthy in 2010 . in Cobble Hill and Seventh Av- creases service along the route would offer his support to speedy case that will largely define wom- during her epic speech. As with Davis’s speech, peo- enue in Park Slope, but the au- so those at skipped stops won’t service sans more trains, dismiss- en’s access to abortion and health Associated Press / Eric Gay ple will be able to attend any part thority cut it more than 30 years ing it as a hypothetical he did not care,” she said. get stranded. ago to save money . stray off topic as she was attempt- pare herself for the big day. But of Grullon’s performance gratis. want to get into. Grullon will stand at a po- They will also be able to tune in “I would be in favor of the ex- Now the transportation au- ing to block the bill. she said she is not rehearsing the Another Carroll Gardens resi- dium and read off the same let- via the livestreaming app Peri- press if there was an increase in thority is considering bringing Grullon will adhere to these actual material at all, mimick- dent who has worked to bring back ters and testimony Davis shared scope, where it will be broadcast trains,” said Erika Chiu, who lives back the rapid ride to and from same restrictions, but said she ing the feisty Texas pol’s on-the- from women against the bill, while for the first 15 minutes at the top in Carroll Gardens and uses Car- the People’s Playground, follow- the F express agreed the entire video excerpts of the actual senate doesn’t think holding in her flow fly feat. of each hour. roll Street station — which the ing demands from riders and pols service’s success depends on add- hearing and audio of the senator’s sans catheter for 660 minutes will She will also don the same After the epic performance, she express would pass by — to get in far-flung Southern Brooklyn ing more trains to the line. voices play in the background. be the toughest hurdle — it will salmon Mizono running shoes will take questions via Twitter. to Manhattan. “If not, it would neighborhoods. “You have to make sure you The Lone Star State has the be standing up for the entire time, that became almost as famous “Filibuster” at Bric House kind of suck.” Supporters of the F express maintain a level of service and toughest filibuster rules in the since she has bad knees and is nor- as the filibuster itself as thou- [647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place A former transportation au- argue it will relieve congestion people are not going to see the country and Davis wasn’t allowed mally a fidgety person. sands around the country fol- in Fort Greene, www.bricarts- thority bookkeeper says the pub- during peak hours when trains service suffer,” said rider and to sit down, drink water, go to the Davis is an avid runner, and lowed along online. media.org, (718) 855–7882]. licly funded agency doesn’t have — which run every four to six Community Board 6 member bathroom, lean on the podium, or Grullon has been hiking to pre- The artist says she has spo- April 13,10 am–9 pm. 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