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LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 11 Dec. 11, 2016 Your Neighborhood — Your News® May 1–xx, 2016 Yarrr on the air! WILD BY COLIN MIXSON Shiva me timbers! A pirate radio station offering Talmudic wisdom and spouting Jewish fables has for weeks been interfering with 105.9 WQXR’s public broadcast in Kensington, Windsor Terrace, and parts of CARDS Park Slope, and local fans of New York’s only classical radio station say they’re fed up. “It’s public radio, I contribute ‘Spank the Yeti’ naughty fun to it, and I can’t listen to it because this guy’s there,” said Courtelyou Road resident Patrick Russell. BY CAROLINE SPIVACK husband Bryan Wilson. “We “It’s the only classical station in Talk about a stacked deck! want people to chuckle the mo- the city, and it’s a crime!” A raunchy new card game ment the cards are on the table. Russell began noticing an created in Cobble Hill chal- And I think it does a great job at irritating crackle when he lenges players to predict which bringing people together to cre- tuned into New York Public lewd and bizarre activities their ate lasting, fun memories. There Radio’s classical station a few friends might perform with a is nothing better when someone weeks ago, but assumed it was variety of pop culture fi gures, tells us, ‘Oh I remember mud merely someone gabbing away mythical creatures, and objects. wrestling Madonna,’ and can’t nearby on a walkie-talkie, he The creators of the “Spank the stop laughing as they’re remem- said. Yeti” card game say they were bering the crazy time they had It wasn’t until the problem inspired by the party game “f- playing the game.” persisted on a near constant ba- --, marry, kill,” but pushed to In each round of the risque sis that he tuned into 105.7 and make the game as dirty as pos- game, one player — “the Yeti” realized it was actually a Jewish sible without being offensive. — pairs up three action cards talk-radio station that was mess- The game — now on shelves in (verbs) with three object cards ing with his Mozart. eight Brooklyn stores — is not (people, creatures, and things), “It just kept up, so I started for the easily embarrassed, said while the other players try to fooling around, and I changed one creator. predict the Yeti’s answers. But it to 105.7 and — boom — there “It’s not for those who blush instead of the traditional trio of comes this guy giving a lecture GAME ON!: A raunchy card game called “Spank the Yeti” hit Brooklyn stores last easily,” said Sara Farber, who having sexual relations, propos- designed the game with her Continued on page 8 week. Photo by Stefano Giovannini Continued on page 6 Offi cer threatened It’s the art of the meal BY CAROLINE SPIVACK Elsokary dropped her Police arrested a man who 16-year-old son at the cor- BY JULIANNE CUBA cember for its annual robust conversation, said allegedly threatened an off- ner of Ridge Boulevard and Soup’s on display! Soup Kitchen event, in the gallery’s founder. duty police offi cer who was 67th Street and then parked A Park Slope gallery which a volunteer artist “I really wanted it to wearing a hijab, yelled big- her car a little before 6 pm is showcasing commu- prepares a one-pot meal be a space where every- oted slurs at the decorated last Saturday. While she nity and home-cooked for about 20 people and body feels welcome and hero and her teenage son, was parking, a guy started Photo by Stefano Giovannini meals during the holiday displays their art for the feels like they are part of and told them to “go back to shoving her son, police KEEPING WARM: Girl Scout season. The Open Source night. The event is de- it and involved and have your country” on Dec. 3, ac- said. The off-duty cop inter- troop member Lily Monaco Gallery offers free food signed to bring artists something to say,” said cording to a police report. vened, and the man called serves soup at Open Source and a different art dis- and community members Monika Wuhrer, who Police Offi cer Aml Continued on page 10 Gallery on Dec. 2. play every night in De- together for a meal and Continued on page 8 A CNG Publication Vol. 5 No. 50 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM 2 JORDAN’S TAKE-OUT MARKET . 11, 2016 EC A closed book , D EEKLY Cobble Hill’s BookCourt closing after 35 years W HAPPY BY LAUREN GILL ROOKLYN That’s all she wrote. B The owners of beloved Cobble Hill book shop BookCourt have sold their HOLIDAYS Court street storefront and are closing the emporium at the end of the year after LOBSTERS BY THE TON! 35 years in business, crush- ing local booklovers who 1 Live or Steamed • 1 /4 Lb to 6 Lbs each say it will leave a huge hole in the lit-loving neighbor- hood. cGGC=< J=K@-@JAEH “I’m absolutely devas- tated,” said George Wash- c&G:KL=J.9ADK ington Francis Gaw Jr., a Boerum Hill resident who frequents the store at least c9D9E9JAc-=9>GG<-9D9< FINAL CHAPTER: BookCourt will close after 35 years of serving once a week. “I think it’s Brooklyn’s bookworms at the end of this month. c J=K@ AK@ a tremendous loss for the neighborhood … it’s like Community News Group / Lauren Gill cD9EKc)QKL=JKc'MKK=DK losing a good friend.” Owners Henry Zook doesn’t know who will suc- liophiles this year — the c9C=<D9EK and Mary Gannett broke ceed their mom and pop owner of notoriously clut- the bad news of their retire- shop in the two spaces they tered used literary boutique c J=K@&G:KL=J'=9L ment on Tuesday. The hus- occupied between Dean and Community Bookstore re- band and wife duo opened Pacifi c streets, but custom- cently shut up shop after c&AN=J9:K9F<'GJ= the store in September 1981 ers are already dreading a three decades at the corner and expanded three times dull replacement. of Warren Street , also cash- as its popularity grew, “It’s really tragic, it’s ing in on the strip’s rising most recently opening an such a part of the neighbor- real estate fortunes to the JORDAN’S event space in 2008 , where hood,” said Debra Robbins, tune of $5.5 million. they hosted big names in- who has lived in Cobble Hill BookCourt will remain cluding Jonathan Lethem, for 32 years. “I don’t want open for Christmas shop- TAKE-OUT MARKET R.L. Stine, Michel Gondry, to see another bank come ping, and its last day will and Jonathan Franzen. in here or a nail salon.” be Dec. 31. Zook wouldn’t say who BookCourt is the second But the neighborhood OPEN the buyer is and said he loss for Court Street bib- Continued on page 9 FOR THE HOLIDAYS 5AM – 7PM Library’s overdue notice THROUGH 1/1/17 Brighton Beach book depot reopening delayed BY JULIANNE CUBA tant — the election, the books again by November, This library is way past its new president — we want but now they do not know DGK=<@JAKLE9K9Q return date. to read. I don’t have com- when it will reopen, Leddy Information-starved lo- puter, I don’t have wifi , I said. cals are demanding that the want to know what’s going “As with any major ren- )H=F(=O3=9JK9Q Brooklyn Public Library on with the election, it’s ovation work, there is al- reopen the Brighton Beach very, very important,” said ways the chance for delay,” MARKET PRICE LIST & MENU ONLINE: branch, which closed in Joseph Ben-Po. said Leddy. “The Depart- JORDANSLOBSTER.COM the beginning of the year The Brighton First Road ment of Design and Con- for renovations that were library closed last winter struction, which is manag- CORNER OF 2771 KNAPP ST. & BELT PKWY (Exit 9 or 9A) supposed to wrap up last so contractors could up- ing the branch renovation month. Brooklynites who grade its heating and cool- project, expects to have an Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn do not have computers or ing system, bring in new anticipated reopening date GPS: 3165 Harkness Avenue the internet at home rely furniture, and install en- soon, and we will share on the library to get their ergy-effi cient lighting — a that information with the (Across From UA Movies & Next To TGI Fridays) news, and access to the lat- $1.5-million renovation — community as soon as it is est headlines is crucial as according to system spokes- available.” the country readies for a man Adam Leddy. Indeed, library renova- ZAGAT 718-934-6300 new president, one local When it closed in Janu- tions are often delayed — RATED FREE SERVING NEW YORK SINCE 1938 said. ary, offi cials had said the typically by construction EXCELLENT PARKING “Now it’s very impor- branch would be lending Continued on page 9 3 D Beloved Holiday Traditions EC . 11, 2016, B ROOKLYN Tree’s company! W EEKLY Shore Road Park lights up for the holidays BY CAROLINE SPIVACK It’s a beloved holiday tradi- tion. Bay Ridgites ushered in the holiday season with a Christmas tree lighting at the Shore Road Gazebo on Nov. 29. Cheermeisters braved CHRISTMAS IN CANARSIE: Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss Frank Seddio lit up his house for the cold and came out in the holidays on Dec.