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Volume 59, No. 23 MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013 www.brooklyneagle.com 50¢ BROOKLYN Real Estate Summit: B’klyn Is Hot, Getting Hotter TODAY ‘Demographics MAY 13 NY To Distribute Is Destiny; Good morning. Today $1.8B in Sandy Aid The Borough Is is the 133rd day of the year. From Associated Press Changing’ The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almost $1.8 billion in feder- By Mary Frost of May 13, 1900, carried al money for repairing homes, an article about the pro- Brooklyn Daily Eagle helping businesses and other Attendance surpassed all posed “Borough Hall Tun- Superstorm Sandy relief efforts expectations at the 2013 Brook- nel” to link Brooklyn to the is set to start flowing soon in lyn Real Estate Summit held on city’s still-unopened sub- New York City. Thursday at the Brooklyn way system in Manhattan. Federal Housing and Urban Academy of Music (BAM) in The city was considering Development Secretary Shaun Downtown Brooklyn. two tunnel routes, one a Donovan announced Friday “It was insane,” Chris tunnel starting near Bor- that HUD had signed off on the Havens, director of commercial ough Hall (the route that city's plans for spending its first property for aptsandlofts.com was eventually built) and chunk of Sandy aid money. told the Brooklyn Eagle. “Over the second starting on Mayor Bloomberg says 600 registered and more than Hamilton Avenue in Red there still are some procedural 525 people attended — our Hook. Studies determined steps to be followed, but the city biggest yet.” that the Borough Hall is very close to being able to The event was put together route would serve far more start dispensing it. by TerraCRG's Brooklyn Real Estate in conjunction with the people, and that the Bor- The plans include up to two Brooklyn Chamber of Com- ough Hall route would be years of rent assistance for dis- more accessible to tourist merce and aptsandlofts.com. placed residents, grants and "So why are we all here? destinations such as loans for businesses and a con- THE 2013 BROOKLYN REAL ESTATE SUMMIT AT BAM DREW ROUGHLY 525 ATTENDEES ON THURSDAY. Prospect Park and Coney The answer is simple: Brooklyn test for developing storm-re- A panel on “The Hotel Development Boom” included (from left to right): Jim Friend, president and CEO, real estate is hot," Carlo A. Scis- Island. Moreover, said the siliency technology. See related Friend Development Group; Marc Freud, principal, Troutbrook Company; Matt Livian, senior VP and CIO, The Sydell Group; Toby Moskovits, founder and CEO, Heritage Equity partners; and moderator sura, president and CEO of the Please turn to page 3 story, page 11. Brooklyn Chamber of Com- Jason Muss, principal, Muss Development. Eagle photo by Mary Frost merce said during his opening remarks. He called real estate “one of Brooklyn's biggest eco- nomic development engines." Pressure Builds To Revive Real estate professionals filled the auditorium or caught the action on video Bay Ridge-to-D’town Bus monitors set up inside BAM By Paula Katinas rats, state Sen. Diane Savino Café as speakers shared their Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Assembly members Felix insights on Brooklyn’s retail “Bring back the B37 bus!” Ortiz, Alec Brook-Krasny and corridors, hotel development That’s the rally cry from a Joan Millman, to put together boom, residential develop- bipartisan group of elected of- the protest rally. ment, arts and entertainment ficials who are organizing a For the lower portion of its districts and more. protest in Bay Ridge to fight route, the MTA replaced the Brooklyn’s changing de- for a return of the shuttered B37 with another bus line, the mographics, fueled by an in- B37 bus line eliminated by the B70. But Bay Ridge residents flux of “knowledge workers,” MTA in 2010. pointed out that the B70 only was a theme running through The rally is scheduled for goes as far north as 69th the panels. Sunday, May 19 at 10:30 a.m. Street, meaning that riders “We started to buy in Brook- on the corner of Third Avenue seeking to travel to Sunset lyn 10 years ago,” said Daniel and Senator Street. The line Park or points north have to Benedict, principal at Benedict operated along Brooklyn’s find alternative transportation. Realty Group, speaking on a Markowitz Honors LICH Nurses Third Avenue from Bay Ridge Riders who took the B37 from panel made up of multi-family to Sunset Park to Gowanus to ON FRIDAY, BOROUGH PRESIDENT MARTY MARKOWITZ HONORED THE NURSES OF LICH, Bay Ridge to go to jury duty buyers. “Brooklyn started com- the courthouse area. in the state Supreme Court ing alive ferociously, and many Long Island College Hospital during a Nurses Week luncheon at the hospital, sponsored by the Two Republicans, Assem- building, for example, could opportunities are still there.” New York State Nurses Association. Brooklyn Nurses Week was launched at a rally for LICH nurs- blywoman Nicole Malliotakis not use the B70. Arik Lifshitz, CEO of DSA es in 1997. “We want to thank Marty Markowitz for honoring us, and for fighting by our side and state Sen. Marty Golden, “The elimination of the Property Group, said that to save our hospital,” said LICH RN and NYSNA leader Loreto Gasmen. Photo by Kathryn Kirk are working with four Democ- Please turn to page 3 Please turn to page 3 Design Show Returns to DUMBO that once of my first priorities Cutting-Edge Furniture, Lighting, Ceramics was to bring back the BKLYN By Raanan Geberer Several speakers, including DESIGNS show. We almost Brooklyn Daily Eagle Brooklyn Chamber of Com- didn’t do it this year because After two years, the merce President Carlo Scissura of [Superstorm] Sandy, but we BKLYN DESIGNS show came and Borough President Marty did it.” Chamber of Commerce of Brooklyn courtesy Photo back to Brooklyn this past Markowitz, noted that this Markowitz noted that with- weekend, specifically to St. year’s show was the kickoff for in the past two years, the area Ann’s Warehouse. NYCx Design Week. This, they has gained 60,000 residents, The show, which featured said, is yet another indication many with large amounts of exhibits by more than 35 that Brooklyn is now “the” disposable income that could Brooklyn-based furniture, light- place to be when it comes to be spent on curtains, lamps, ing, ceramics, tabletop and fashion and the arts. tabletops and so on. Even other home-based designers, “Brooklyn is now bigger, during the few years when was sponsored by the Brooklyn better and hotter than ever,” he BKLYN DESIGNS wasn’t Chamber of Commerce, with said. held, the borough president support from the West Elm “After I took over the continued, Brooklyn designers furniture store, New York mag- Chamber,” said Scissura, who exhibited prominently at the azine, inHabitat magazine and previously served as Marko- “big show” at the Javits Center CARLO SCISSURA, PRESIDENT OF THE BROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AT THE PODIUM others. witz’s chief of staff, “I said Please turn to page 3 and Diane Arbesu, chair of the Chamber, kick off the Brooklyn Designs show. May 13, 2013 • Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 1 porcelain sculptures. She fashioned sailboats from cardboard boxes Proteus Gowanus, Old Stone House used for contemporary consumer products, such as cigarette packs, and printed her impressions of the Battle of Brooklyn, in the form of Join for Battle of Brooklyn Exhibits wartime slogans, on coffee cups. This seems like a commentary on By Carl Blumenthal first line of Whitman’s poem: “Give/ our historical consciousness in an Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle Me/Your/Hand/Old/Revolutionary.” age when everything, including Brooklyn is the comeback kid: By channeling old Walt, Love reach- facts, is disposable. As if to unwit- The Dodgers left in 1958. Now the es across time and space because tingly prove this point, the cup read- Nets have picked up the ball. We the setting for “The Centenari- ing “Washington Sat Here,” placed may have lost the Battle of Brook- an’s Story” was the Civil War drill on a stool, went missing during the lyn — Walt Whitman called Gener- grounds in Washington Park, now opening reception for the “Battle al Washington “resolute in defeat” home to the Old Stone House. Ground” show. — but won the Revolutionary War. Eva Melas provided handmade, Christina Kelley re-purposed a In 1933, the Parks Department bone-white porcelain relief sculp- cabinet of card catalog files from the reconstructed from partial ruins tures of such common objects as a Brooklyn Public Library into “Con- the Old Stone House, where “400 gunpowder tester, a musket, British ditions on the Ground” during the brave Marylanders” pinned down helmet insignia and an American battle. The various drawers contain the British during the battle. And if cockade. In addition to these life- pertinent information in the catego- all goes well by 2026, the 250th an- sized implements of war, she cre- ries of “wilderness, cultivation and niversary of that battle, the EPA will ated domestic miniatures — a uni- weather.” For example, a video of un- have cleaned up the Gowanus Ca- corn, window shutter, door key, a dulating wetland grasses, like those nal. Then we can properly memo- leaf, waves, etc. You can say she’s try- that probably grew in the vicinity of rialize the many American soldiers “Untitled (Death in the Garden) by Andy Keating. ing to strip colonial life down to its Gowanus Creek, is set to the fife-and- who drowned in the high tides of bare essentials. drum music of “Good Old Colony Gowanus Creek on August 27, 1776.

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