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March 23–29, 2018 Including Brooklyn Courier, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Courier, Brooklyn Heights Courier, & Williamsburg Courier FREE ALSO SERVING PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, KENSINGTON, AND GOWANUS Hizzoner: State must drive reform on streets BY COLIN MIXSON State leaders must pass laws that put more speed cameras on city streets, heighten pun- ishments dealt to reckless mo- torists caught on those devices, and mandate doctors inform offi cials of drivers’ potentially debilitating health conditions, Mayor DeBlasio demanded on March 15. “For too long people could negligently kill another hu- man being with a vehicle and essentially walk away, we’ve got to end that once and for Back at it all,” Hizzoner said at a press confer- Shopkeeper Mohammed Uddin shoveled snow off the sidewalk outside the Fifth Avenue deli where he works on Wednesday — the second ence inside the 78th Precinct’s day of spring — as Mother Nature yet again blanketed the borough in powder during the fourth nor’easter to blow through the East Coast Sixth Avenue sta- this month. For more, see page 26. Community News Group / Colin Mixson tion house, not far from where a driver blew a red light and killed two young kids crossing a Park Slope street earlier this month. The mayor fi rst called for GUNNED DOWN a bill to install an extra 150 speed cameras around schools citywide, in addition to ex- panding what constitutes a NRA frees Slope hall from hosting event amid backlash school zone so that the devices can be placed on streets that BY COLIN MIXSON invitation that led irate lo- and parties in order to pay short of a court order would be approach learning houses, not His nightmare is over. cals and politicians to prom- the rising property taxes on it cowardly. just roads that border them A local National Rifl e ise demonstrations against — agreed to host the April 12 “I’ll be a bad guy — a — which are the only streets Association chapter let the the venue. fund-raiser for The Brooklyn scared, yellow guy who chick- state law currently permits owner of Park Slope’s Grand “The people in charge Friends of the National Rifl e ened out,” Halkias said. cameras on, regardless of Prospect Hall off the hook for were understanding of my Association after gun-control But after eliciting a simi- where local offi cials believe hosting a controversial fund- plight — my diffi culty,” said activists ran the group out of lar response from pols includ- they’d be the most effective, raiser in the face of over- Michael “Mr. H” Halkias, Coney Island, where a plan to ing Borough President Adams DeBlasio said. whelming backlash against who with his wife has owned host the party at iconic Italian along with Park Slope’s Coun- “We need to be able to put the businessman. the hall at 263 Prospect Ave. eatery Gargiulo’s fell apart cilman Brad Lander and As- the cameras where the NYPD The man made famous for 37 years. “I had to make a when that restaurant’s own- semblyman Robert Carroll, and DOT know they will do by his televised promise to very serious decision, so I’m ers backed out of their deal in who that same day assured the most good,” he said. “make your dreams come relieved by their response to the face of public resistance. they were “prepared to pro- Mayor DeBlasio claimed true” announced the fi rearm the contractual agreement I And the opulent hall’s test if the NRA comes into our that if his proposed law was afi cionados voided their con- had with them.” owner originally told this community,” Halkias recog- already in place, it would have tract for the event just hours Halkias — who books his newspaper on Monday that nized the democratic forces at allowed speed cameras at the after he confi rmed he would gilded venue for events be- breaking his commitment to work and within hours recon- Continued on page 18 welcome their April bash, an yond traditional weddings the pistol packers for anything Continued on page 18 A CNG Publication Vol. 38 No. 12 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM INSIDE Marathon NNN%9IFFBCPE;8@CP%:FD GL9C@J?<;9P:E>(D<KIFK<:?:<EK<IEFIK?('K?=CFFI9IFFBCPE#EP(()'( women The sun rose behind a group of female professional run- Arabian fights: Three of the actors ners as they passed one of the from “Pay No Attention to the Girl,” an adaptation of “One Thousand and One Nights” rehearse for the show’s opening at the Doxsee Theater in Sunset Park on April 2. Photo by Stefano Giovannini Four Eagles columns in Grand Lady-killers Army Plaza at the start of their Women of Arabia take the stage in Sunset Park 13.1–mile trek from Prospect By Julianne McShane the story, who’s listening to the story, who dialogue throughout the rehearsal process, Park, will help the company to settle down ere, the battle of the sexes is a fight has the power, how that gets told — that Herskovits said. and to reach a wider audience. to the death! is a deeply woven into the entire ‘One The show was chosen before the 2016 “The space itself is raw,” he said. “It’ll H A Sunset Park theater company Thousand and One Nights,’ partly because election and before the #MeToo moment of give us the opportunity to amplify the work will launch its multi-year adaptation of the of the frame story — it’s a story about a reckoning for sexual harassers, but those that we make, to increase its engagement Arabian classic “One Thousand and One woman who is talking to save her life every events have given the show an even greater with and impact on the community around Park down Flatbush Avenue Nights” with a tale focusing on sex, jeal- single night.” significance and urgency, Herskovits said. us by giving us a sort of anchor venue, a sort ousy, and betrayal. The director of “Pay No In that frame story, a bitter sultan mar- “It all was set in motion before #MeToo, of identity.” Attention to the Girl,” opening on April 2 ries a different woman every night, and before Donald Trump became president, The show is the first in a series examin- at the company’s new theater space, culled murders her each morning so that none of and before Islamophobia kind of went even ing “One Thousand and One Nights.” The the show from portions of the centuries-old them will ever have a chance to cheat on further,” he said. “We were already rolling company plans to stage four different inter- text that focus on the dynamics of gender him. But one clever woman, Scheherazade, down the hill, and things went further and pretations of “Sinbad the Sailor” in May, and power. The tome lends itself to this tells the sultan a new story each evening, faster.” and hopes to dive into some of its other and over the Manhattan Bridge portrayal because its protagonist is fighting ending each on a cliff-hanger that keeps This is the first production in the compa- stories in another production next year, said for her life, he said. him coming back for more. One set of her ny’s new home, a former industrial garage Herskovits. “We’ve chosen a set of stories that are stories, titled “The Craft and Malice of called the Doxsee Theater. After years of “Pay No Attention to the Girl” at the essentially about competing narratives Women,” about a prince and a concubine shuffling between performance venues in Doxsee Theater (232 52nd St. between about the sexes,” said David Herskovits, who dispute the details of their sexual Williamsburg, Fort Greene, and the distant Second and Third avenues in Sunset Park, who founded Target Margin Theater in liaison — formed the basis of the Target isle of Manhattan, Herskovits hopes that its www.targetmargin.org). April 2, 4–7, to the distant isle of Manhattan 1991. “The question of who gets to tell Margin show, with the cast developing the new space, in the diverse nabe of Sunset 11–14, 18–21 at 7:30 pm. $25. while competing in this year’s Your entertainment New York City Half Marathon on guide Page 35 March 18. 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Photo by Taylor Balkom Doing good by the gallon HOW TO REACH US Youngsters skip lunch to install water-conserving barrel at Slope school Mail: BY COLIN MIXSON meeting during lunch peri- Courier Life These kids are saving the en- ods to learn about, decorate, Publications, Inc., vironment — on their lunch and then install the 55-gallon 1 Metrotech Center North break! rain barrel, which will col- 10th Floor, Brooklyn, A handful of industrious lect enough wet stuff annually third graders rigged a rain- to shave roughly $146 off the N.Y. 11201 collection barrel to the gut- school’s water bills, according General Phone: ter system of their Park Slope to current rates. (718) 260-2500 school on March 15, which But the project’s real value News Fax: will collect 28,000 gallons of is in teaching kids the poten- (718) 260-2592 reusable H20 a year. And they tial of retention drums, which did it all during lunch, accord- can collect rain that can be News E-Mail: ing to one water-conservation used for such everyday tasks [email protected] expert.