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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2018 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn, Sunset Park, Williamsburg & Greenpoint 16 pages • Vol. 41, No. 4 • January 26–February 1, 2018 • FREE CONFIDENCE GAME New website already advertising luxury digs at park’s contested tower

By Julianne Cuba Brooklyn Paper They went their own Quay. The developers of two polarizing tow- ers at Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park un- veiled a new website hawking 126 luxury apartments inside the taller 28-story high- rise, dubbed Quay Tower, even though a judge is still deciding whether the pair of buildings can go up at all . The flashy promotional site — which features the disclaimer that the build- ers are not yet accepting cash from pro- spective tenants — boasts a new render- ing for the condominium-filled tower at 50 Bridge Park Dr., and a page where interested buyers can request more in- Photo by Caleb Caldwell formation on its units for sale, which Sean Berthiaume, co-owner of Vinnie’s Pizzeria in Williamsburg, is include two-bedrooms starting at $1.9 serving “Pied pods” — mini-calzones that look like Tide pods — for million, three-bedrooms at $2.9 mil- a limited time at his Bedford Avenue eatery. lion, four-bedrooms at $5 million, and five-bedrooms at $5.5 million. But one critic of the development said the website is nothing compared to the ongoing construction of the towers at the SMART GUY foot of Atlantic Avenue, which have risen rapidly despite Justice Carmen Victoria St. George’s pending verdict because her Williamsburg pizza man suggests

predecessor permitted the work in July Studio MOSO as long as it could be “undone” if the Developers released new renderings of the 28-story Quay Tower with the launch of its website. eating pizza instead of detergent court rules against the project. “I’m upset with the city, state, and By Julianne Cuba poisonous — pods filled with Tide honchos in July 2016 after developers 2019 — if St. George decides the tow- merits of the arguments previously made Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation for Brooklyn Paper detergent. building unnecessary buildings in the RAL Development Services and Oli- ers can go up. But the real-estate firms in court,” the rep said. This snack will really tide you The co-owner of Vinnie’s Pizzeria, park, that’s the real issue here, not the ver’s Realty Group submitted plans for are not taking any deposits until a ver- Developers have yet to release a web- over! an artist known for using the cuisine fact that they have pretty pictures on a the 15- and 28-story towers. dict comes, according to a spokesman site for the 15-story high-rise at 15 Bridge A Williamsburg pizzeria is serv- as his canvas, said he cooked up the website,” said Peter Bray, the head of The builders hope to begin sales at for RAL Development Services. Park Dr. that will offer 100 so-called ing blue-and-orange mini-calzones idea because he’d rather people stuff civic group the Brooklyn Heights Asso- Quay this spring, and are optimistic “We are acting in good faith under affordable units, at least 10 stories of inspired by the absurd trend among their faces with his non-toxic look- ciation, which filed suit against meadow they can welcome tenants by summer the terms of the ground lease and the which are already complete. teens of eating candy-colored — and See PIZZA on page 6 Haitians march in protest of Trump’s ‘insults, ignorance’

By Alexandra Simon Brooklyn Paper They stepped in resistance af- ter he stepped in s---. Local Haitians and their sup- porters railed against the president during a Brooklyn-to-Manhattan protest march on Jan. 19, a week after Trump allegedly called Haiti a “shithole country,” and hours be- fore he rang in the one-year anni- versary of his inauguration. More than 100 activists rallied at Grand Army Plaza before striding to the distant isle’s Trump Build- ing in the demonstration, which called out Trump’s ineptitude and inability to lead the country, ac-

cording to a marcher. Photos by by Jason Speakman “He doesn’t know anything. More than 100 Haitians and other protestors marched from Grand Army Plaza to the Trump Building on Manhattan’s Wall Street in the Jan. 19 demonstration, during which participants What he said is disrespectful, railed against Trump’s “shithole” remark by chanting, “Hey, hey, ho ho, Trump and Pence have got to go.” and he doesn’t know the history of Haiti or the Caribbean,” said East Flatbush resident Manoushka cause she wanted to show her chil- proud of that,” she said. building on Wall Street. in Chief take a crash course on tle, who trekked from Pennsylvania wise up any time soon. Elien. “He needs to get some books dren that they should be proud of Protestors processed down And other marchers blasted the American-Haitian history. with her family to participate. “He pretends he doesn’t know, and learn.” their heritage, she said. Flatbush Avenue pounding president — who last month al- “I would like to tell him how Hai- Myrtle criticized Trump as but if he read history he’d know Elien, who said she was born “It was important for me to on drums, chanting on mega- legedly claimed all Haitians have tians helped during the American being deliberately oblivious to how Haitians and immigrants built in Haiti but has lived stateside for march for my kids. They were born phones, and waving signs during AIDS — for what they said is his Revolution. Our soldiers fought hard, the history of immigrants in this country,” she said. “But I don’t more than two decades, took the here but they tell people they are their journey across the Brook- uninformed stance on immigra- and if Trump doesn’t remember, then the United States, and said she think he’s going to change, and he’s day off from work to march be- Haitian, and I want them to be lyn Bridge to the Trump-owned tion, suggesting the Commander he’s a hypocrite,” said Marie Myr- isn’t holding out hope that he’ll never going to apologize.” Another blow to brick-and-mortar Downtown’s Court Street Offi ce Supply to close next month

By Julianne Cuba Gutman, who is closing his brick- Brooklyn Paper and-mortar storefront on Feb. 20, It won’t be a community sta- said changing consumer habits ple for long. prompted his decision to shutter it, A Court Street office-supply not rising rents. And he will continue shop where this newspaper’s re- to run an online shop out of his 11th porters once stocked up on their Street Gowanus warehouse that sells trusty note pads is closing next the supplies, toys, and other prod- month. ucts customers found at his busi- institution will miss chatting with The family-run Court Street Of- ness for nearly 40 years. their regular patrons, but are grate- fice Supply opened in America’s “Our challenge has been the ful that the business is not disap- Downtown in 1982 and quickly be- shift in how people purchase things pearing entirely, said the widow came the go-to place for workers at these days,” he said. “Our decision of Gutman’s late co-owner. Borough Hall, the Kings County to close the store has nothing to “Not working with our custom-

Photo by Nicholas Biondo ers face-to-face will be a bit of a Supreme Court house, and other do with rent.” Moving out of the Court Street let-down, that’s something we all nearby government buildings to enjoy,” said Miriam Abramowitz. location — which was featured Kings of Brooklyn pick up their pencils, pens, and “But this way, it is a happy end- paper, its owner said. in the 2002 Steven Spielberg film ing, without an ending.” Marchers sporting cultural and religious garb — including “There isn’t a businessperson in “Catch Me If You Can” — will Community News Group / Julianne Cuba people dressed as biblical figures such as Joseph, Mary, Stock up on office supplies Brooklyn who doesn’t know our give the family more time to fo- Downtown’s Court Street Office Supply will close on Feb. while you still can at Court Street and the three wise men — paraded along Graham Avenue store,” said Jacob Gutman. “Even if cus on the workspace-design part 20, its owner announced. Office Supply [44 Court St. be- from Meeker Avenue to Debevoise Street before hun- they don’t know it by name, every- of its business, according to Gut- tween Remsen and Joralemon dreds of revelers on Jan. 21 during the 21st-annual Brook- one knows the office-supply store man, who said he will be slashing “We set up custom workstations pitality companies, you name it,” streets in Downtown, (718) lyn Three Kings Day Parade, a procession celebrating the across the street from Borough Hall prices at the store from Wednes- and configure spaces for all kinds he said. 625-5771, www.courtstreet.net] Jan. 6 feast of the Epiphany. or the Municipal Building.” day through its closing day. of offices, medical practices, hos- Employees of the Downtown Closing Feb. 20. 2 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 January 26–February 1, 2018

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state-run projects, including the construction of the new WINTERIZE YOUR HOME Kosciuszko Bridge , and sup- GET READY FOR WINTER A change they believe in ports its use, according to a spokesman, who said Cuomo is willing to discuss giving SUPER ROOFER Cuomo must add faster BQE fi x to budget, pols say city officials the authority to incorporate the process in the 4(%42534%$.!-%).2//&).'s3).#% By Julianne Cuba “We all know this is some- Another pol fighting for them down local streets if it Brooklyn–Queens Express- Brooklyn Paper thing needed, we believe the design-build said he has no is not fixed by 2026. way’s reconstruction. “He is the single biggest He has to budge on his governor is a proponent of plans to back down, and re- The current timeline for proponent of expanding de- budget. this, so we don’t quite un- mains optimistic the state will the 70-year-old span’s restora- Gov. Cuomo must revise derstand why it didn’t make do the right thing. tion begins in 2024 and ends sign-build because it saves his recently unveiled budget its way into his initial bud- “I’m committed to working in 2029. But Simon and other time and taxpayer money on GUTTER COMPLETE SNOW & ICE so it includes authorization for get proposal,” said Assem- with my colleagues to con- design-build advocates say major infrastructure proj- CLEANING FLASH & PAINT REMOVAL a process to speed up the city- blywoman Jo Anne Simon tinue to make the case for the process would cut about ects,” said Peter Ajemian. led reconstruction of a crum- (D–Brooklyn Heights). “I’m design-build. This stream- $113 million from the job’s FIXING “His budget proposal includes ,ICENSEDs"ROOKLYNs)NSURED disappointed.” lined process would save total cost and accelerate work bling section of the Brook- design-build for state agen- Top Quality Workmanship Simon and more than taxpayer dollars and shorten by about three years, allowing cies to fund the state’s cap- lyn–Queens Expressway in a dozen state lawmakers the project’s timeline,” said it to start in 2021 and finish in the BQE Residential & Commercial Brooklyn Heights, a contin- ital plan, and we will have penned Cuomo a letter urg- state Sen. Brian Kavanagh 2026 — before the express- discussions with the legisla- 2EFERENCES!VAILABLEs!FFORDABLEs0ROFESSIONAL#OURTEOUS gent of pols demanded. ing him to include design- (D–Brooklyn Heights), who way crumbles beneath the if it doesn’t get slipped into Cuomo’s current bud- the budget, but that possibil- ture about expanding it to all ND build in his budget before he also signed his name on the weight of passing trucks. local governments.”   s 34s"2//+,9. get does not include a pro- released it on Jan. 16. letter to Cuomo. “The scenario nobody ity is less likely while Albany vision allowing for design- And now that his first draft The city’s Department of wants is for this to be delayed is laser focused on its finan- build — which advocates say is out, the governor has 30 Transportation is spending so much so that trucks have cial agenda, the assembly- will streamline the restoration days from that date to amend $1.9 billion to repair the de- to be banned, the city is sort woman said. of the roadway’s triple canti- it before the Assembly and crepit triple cantilever that of counting backwards in the “The most effective way lever by soliciting a single bid state Senate start preparing runs from Atlantic Avenue calendar to ensure they get to get this done is through for its design and construction their own versions, which to Sands Street, and agency this going,” Simon said. the budget,” she said. “We’ll instead of separate proposals will be used with Cuomo’s to honchos recently warned res- And there’s still a chance certainly encourage Cuomo Catch up, for each — and the local lead- create a final budget that the idents that they may have to that state lawmakers will ap- to amend his.” ers are requesting a revision state’s Commander in Chief boot thousands of big-rigs prove design-build through The governor signed off before it’s too late. must sign by April 1. from the expressway and send the typical legislative process on design-build for several get ahead, or try something new this summer. Brooklyn Community Services Borough President Adam’s office Clean getaway From left, Borough President Adams, Brooklyn Community Services executive director Marla Simp- Summer school doesn’t have to be boring. At Fusion, we have the ability son, Councilman Carlos Menchaca, Turning Point Mobile shower will soon traverse boro executive director Tata Traore-Rogers, and Johnny to customize classes to each student’s individual strengths, interests, Merizald, who was formerly homeless and now vol- and learning style. Every class is taught with just one student and By Julianne Cuba nity,” said Borough President jointly run by local do-good unteers with Turning Point, showed off the check. Brooklyn Paper Adams. “You cannot sit in a groups Brooklyn Community Talk about a car wash! classroom, or get on the sub- Services and Turning Point, one teacher per classroom. We offer academic tutoring, enrichment, A shower-on-wheels will way or the bus, if you can- the beep said. ams, whose office said the get his bus rolling within the and classes for credit for grades 6 through 12. Students can enroll at start rolling across Brooklyn not deal with your basic hy- It will travel all over the bus’s exact route and sched- next couple of months,” Ad- next year, giving homeless lo- giene needs.” Borough of Kings, parking ule will be set after chatting ams said. “A simple shower is any time, and take classes at a time of day that works best for them. cals a private place to bathe Adams coughed up at various medical centers, with the community. something we can do.” — a basic privilege that will $308,000 from his 2018 capi- homeless shelters, and food Bureaucratic red tape is de- And this isn’t the first mo- help empower their efforts to tal budget to fund the roving pantries to service those in laying the arrival of Brook- bile bathroom to hit local Fusion Academy Brooklyn get off the streets, the beep washroom, with Council allo- need of a scrub, he said. lyn’s bus-turned-bathroom till streets. Last year, residents announced on Jan. 17. cating an additional $77,000 to And it won’t just serve the next year, but the beep said in Park Slope Councilman 718.522.3286 “This is going to be a sym- purchase and retrofit a school homeless — other margin- he’s pushing the city to ex- Brad Lander’s district voted FusionBrooklyn.com bol that our homeless men and bus with two stalls equipped alized groups including sex pedite its debut because peo- through participatory budget- 1 Metrotech Center N., women can identify as a safe with overhead showers, toi- workers, day laborers, and ple who simply need a place ing to put $60,000 towards a Suite 1004 space, not only to clean them- lets, shampoo, body wash, runaway LGBTQ youngsters to wash their hair shouldn’t trailer equipped with bath- Brooklyn, NY, 11201 selves, but to start the pro- and towels. are welcome to hop on and have to wait that long. ing facilities for patrons of a cess of holding on to their dig- The clean machine will be wash off, according to Ad- “There’s no reason we can’t neighborhood soup kitchen.

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                    !  "    4 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 January 26–February 1, 2018 Police: Fare evader bites offi cer’s hand Note-passing fi end her, she bit one on the hand laces, hard drive, and back- an’s Clinton Avenue apart- 84TH PRECINCT and kicked another in the leg, pack were all gone, officers ment and swiped her jewelry robs B’Hill bank Brooklyn Heights– authorities said. said. sometime between Jan. 12 and POLICE BLOTTER By Julianne Cuba enue, cops said. Dumbo–Boerum Hill– 16, police said. Locked out Shattered glass Brooklyn Paper The suspect was last Find more online every Wednesday at The victim told authori- Downtown Some baddie swiped a A malefactor smashed the seen wearing a black Cops arrested a woman ties that when she returned Cops are searching for woman’s electronics and front door of a Hicks Street BrooklynPaper.com/blotter to her home between Greene a crook who stole cash jacket with red stripes on for biting an officer after she jewelry from her Dean Street restaurant before breaking in from a Flatbush Avenue the sleeves, according to walked through the emergen- and Lafayette avenues she no- apartment on Jan. 19, police and stealing cash and elec- er’s license, and two debit on Jan. 13. bank on Jan. 17, just days authorities. cy-exit door of a Joralemon ticed some good-for-nothing said. tronics on Jan. 20. cards inside — was gone, And when she returned two after a string of robberies Anyone with infor- Street subway station on stole her sapphire ring and The victim told cops she The nogoodnik shattered officers said. days later, she noticed the lock four men’s watches, accord- at three other North Brook- mation regarding the Jan. 18. locked up her apartment near the eatery’s glass front door was changed and her shoes, ing to a report. lyn banks . incident is asked to call The 30-year-old suspect Third Avenue before leaving around 4 am before running 88TH PRECINCT clothes, cabinets, microwave, The building’s security The lout marched into Crime Stoppers at (800) skipped the turnstiles and for class around 8:25 am, and off with a wad of cash and an and paperwork were missing, cameras were not working the Chase Bank between 577–8477. The public walked through the door to when she got back around 1:40 iPad, police said. Fort Greene–Clinton Hill authorities said. between the night of Jan. 16 Nevins and Livingston can also submit tips by enter the station near Court pm, she found her door un- Security breach! Caught The woman’s landlord told and the morning of Jan. 18, streets a little after noon logging onto the Crime Street around 10:15 am, and locked and her iPad, MacBook A good-for-nothing stole Cops cuffed a woman for her he changed her locks be- officers said. and slipped a teller a note Stoppers website at when two officers confronted computer, earrings and neck- a bunch of laptops from an threatening to shoot a conve- cause the door was open, ac- demanding the money, of- www.nypdcrimestop- cording to a report. Bad spot ficials said. pers.com or by texting office on Main Street some- nience-store employee inside Some villain drove off with time between Jan. 13 and 16, the Flatbush Avenue Exten- The employee com- tips to 274637 (CRIMES) Red-handed a woman’s car she parked in plied, handing $2,446 to then entering TIP577. All Affordable Family Dentistry cops said. sion shop on Jan. 13. Cops cuffed a guy who front of a Dekalb Avenue hos- An employee returned to The employee at the chain the nogoodnik, who then tips are strictly confiden- in modern pleasant surroundings they said broke into a Ful- pital on Jan. 17, cops said. fled towards Dekalb Av- tial. the office near Water Street store near Dekalb Avenue told ton Street construction site The victim told police she State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave) on Jan. 16 after the long week- authorities the suspect, who and was found in possession left her 2016 Toyota Corolla Emergencies treated promptly end and saw that an estimated often comes to the store and of heroin on Jan. 16. near Ashland Palace around $15,000 worth of Mac laptops blocks the door to prevent Union and President streets Authorities charged the Special care for children & anxious patients The suspect jumped the 1:15 pm, and when she re- at 10:40 am. man with assault following were gone, authorities said. other patrons from leaving, wall to break into the site be- WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD turned to get it at 5:30 pm, He asked her to leave, his arrest. Cold crook came in around 7:40 am and tween Vanderbilt and Clin- it was gone. said “I’m going to shoot you if and the woman duly com- A heartless lout stole a ton avenues around 4:20 am, — Julianne Cuba plied — but not before pull- Coat-rack theft • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) you call the cops,” then started and when cops showed up, he • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, woman’s wallet from her coat ing down her pants and let- A punk walked out of a swinging a wooden cane. tried to flee, according to au- Bonding Crowns & Bridges (Capping) pocket while she was at a fu- 78TH PRECINCT ting loose right there in the Henry Street store with a • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment neral at a Hicks Street church Phantom pilfer thorities. foyer, cops said. whole coat rack on Jan. 21. • Root Canal • Extractions • Dentures • Cleanings on Jan. 20, police said. Some thief broke into a But officers discovered sto- Park Slope Relieved, the woman fled An employee at the store • Implant Dentistry • Fillings (tooth colored) The 21-year-old victim told woman’s Vanderbilt Ave- len tools in his jacket pocket Special deposit the bank on foot, and patrol- between Atlantic Avenue • Stereo headphones • Analgesia (Sweet air) cops she hung up her coat out- nue apartment and swiped along with two Ziploc bags An indigent woman defe- men with the 78th Precinct and Pacific Street told cops side the house of worship near her clothes and appliances containing five packets of cated in the lobby of a Seventh have been instructed to keep the thief also swiped a Wool- what might be heroin, and Dr. Jeffrey M. Kramer Grace Court around 10:10 am sometime between Jan. 13 Avenue bank on Jan. 9. an eye peeled for the fecal rich Men’s Down Parka when found another 10 packets 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens while attending the funeral. and 15, officers said. An employee told police fiend, according to author- he left with the rack between in his pants pocket, police 624-5554 s 624-7055 And when she went to get The 35-year-old victim he spotted the woman, ap- ities. 3 and 4 pm. said. Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking it about 30 minutes later, her told police she left her apart- parently homeless, sleeping and insurance plans accommodated Train terror Rip and rob purple wallet — with her pass- ment between Flushing and Jewel thief near a teller machine at the Cops busted a man sus- port, Washington state driv- Park avenues around 8 am A weasel broke into a wom- financial institution between A good-for-nothing opened pected of beating a woman a man’s package left outside at the Atlantic Avenue sub- his on Clinton Street home way station on Jan. 12. on Jan. 13 and stole a phone The victim, 57, told police from inside. she was waiting for a 2 train The victim told police the at the station near Flatbush package was delivered to his Avenue at 9:50 pm, when the home near Third Place at MAKE suspect attacked her without reason, busting her nose and noon, and when he returned leaving lumps on her head. at 6 pm, he noticed the bun- THE CITY Officers arrived to find the dle on his stoop ripped open suspect in the first car of a 2 and his iPhone 5 gone. train, and the man allowed Car break-in YOUR himself to be cuffed without A nogoodnik stole a navi- protest, cops said. gation system and more from a Paramedics took the vic- car parked on President Street CLASSROOM tim to Brooklyn Hospital for between Jan. 21 and 22. treatment, according to a re- The victim told cops he port. parked his 2013 Honda Pi- No-Park Slope lot between Henry and Clin- A parking dispute turned ton streets at 9 pm, and when violent on Nevins Street on he returned at noon the next Jan. 10. day, he noticed its doors were The victim, 28, told police open and that his global-po- he was between President and sitioning system and a wire- Carroll streets working on his less headset were missing. car at 5:20 pm when an irate — Adam Lucente older man challenged him for his parking space. The dispute turned ugly af- 68TH PRECINCT ter the man shoved the victim, Bay Ridge–Dyker Heights and then socked him in the face, authorities said. iSteal The victim refused to press A lying lout scammed a charges following the fight, 72nd Street woman out of and the case has been closed, $1,700 via iTunes gift cards according to authorities. on Jan. 19 by claiming to be (212) 220-1265 from the national Citizenship Bad delivery and Immigration Services and Police arrested a man for threatening to deport her if www.bmcc.cuny.edu/cng punching a delivery guy on she did not pay a fine within 13th Street on Jan. 10 after 24 hours. he refused to hand over food in exchange for counterfeit The good-for-nothing Start Here. Go Anywhere. money. called the woman at her home The victim told cops he met between Colonial Road and the suspect between Fourth Ridge Boulevard between and Fifth avenues at 4:44 am, 3 and 5 pm, telling her that but the encounter turned bit- her credit card was no lon- ter after the suspect handed ger valid and that she con- over a bogus $100 bill in ex- sequently had to pay the fine change for his food. with the gift cards. The pair argued, and the She then gave the num- suspect snatched $70 worth bers of the gift cards over FRESH DELIVERY TO YOUR HOME of legit bills from the victim, the phone, cops said. before cracking him once in Took it to go +$/" 1-"-+0'-.1'/$$&260%/-+!/--)*6, the face, officers said. 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Hear more about the comeback of the Sunset Park waterfront from the people making it happen at IndustryCity.com 6 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 January 26–February 1, 2018 ON THE RADIO: Meet the swan savior By Moses Jefferson did, sitting vigil with the Brooklyn Paper swans all night long while try- What does a swan sound ing to get help from anyone like when it screams? who would listen, including Find out right now on Parks Department employ- the latest edition of Brook- ees, 911 operators, 311 op- lyn Paper Radio, when host erators, people on the Face- and Brooklyn Paper editor- book, and anyone in Brooklyn in-chief Vince DiMiceli sat with a canoe. down with swan savior Randi Of course, the story has a Lass, who last week spent the happy ending, which you can night taking care of — and read about in reporter Colin then saving — three swans Mixson’s thrilling account that were flash-frozen into that made the cover of last Prospect Park Lake. week’s edition , but why not Lass, who was walking just listen to how it all went her dog near the lake, heard down for yourself, right now,        the swans screaming for their on Brooklyn Paper Radio! lives after a polar vortex (or You’ll be glad you did. Paws and Smiles some equally sinister phe- Brooklyn Paper Radio nomenon that our pals at the Randi Lass called park worker Marty Bast, who fer- &% ( *!&%*  #& !$,#&$) ried the wounded swans to shore after they became is recorded and podcast Weather Channel invented ) live on Tuesday afternoons $'()(&$##" (&+%) froze their webbed feet in the trapped in ice on Prospect Park Lake. — for your convenience — water that quickly became the from our studio in Ameri- ice they were trapped in. human vocal chords and screamed into the micro- ca’s Downtown and can be Asked to recreate the shorter, unswan-like neck, phone. “We’re frozen in the found, as always, on Brook- sound she heard, Lass said so DiMiceli gave it a try. ice! Help us!” lynPaper.com, on iTunes , Camp Open House/Family Day, Sunday, February 11th she couldn’t with her very “Heeeeelllllppppp!,” he And help is just what Lass and on Stitcher . Open House, 11:00am - 1:00pm Family Day - Swim, Sports, Arts & Crafts, Pizza and a Movie! PIZZA... Continued from page 1 Berthiaume shared a photo alike than put a potentially of the creation on the eatery’s    life-threatening substance Instagram account. (Entering K - 4th grade) near their mouths. “This is not meant to be a         “If the pods look alluring culinary revolution, just a fun        enough to eat, then why don’t thing,” he said. “I don’t fore-        I create something people can see it becoming a main-menu       actually eat?” said Sean Ber- item, just a pop-up.” thiaume, who lives in Green- The small bites, made en- point, where he runs another tirely with digestible ingredi- pizzeria. “It’s all over the news, ents, are health-department    and it’s all I see on Twitter, In- approved, according to Ber- th (Entering K - 4 grade) stagram, Facebook. People are thiaume, who is advertising    !     going crazy about this.” them with the slogan “hope,  "#$    Berthiaume’s dish, dubbed not soap.”       “Pied pods,” is stuffed with “I want to go on the record      cheese, pepperoni, and spices as saying they are 100-per- that’s wrapped in crispy dough cent toxin-free,” the co- owner said. “I hope people and topped with cheese dyed Pizzeria Vinnie’s    the same colors as the clean- don’t actually think I’m try- The snacks look like the cleaning product, but un- ing product that some kids ing to endorse people eat- like the poisonous detergent, they are okay to eat.       (Entering 4th – 9th grade) dare to eat as part of the vi- ing soap.”  %         ral “Tide-pod challenge” on This isn’t the first time Bus Transportation to Camp Available! $    $!   " social media. Berthiaume bucked the no- slices adorned with purple- two of customers’ favorite & $  $'  The detergent-free dish tion that you shouldn’t play tinted mozzarella, in honor menu items, he said. &($&(!%&($*!&%'#)&%**     $  ' started out as a joke, he said, with your food. of the late musician Prince, “Each one of these things ( !!)   %* '& $ but the owners of the Bedford In May 2016, his pie shop and pies topped with natural is me just fooling around,” !@,!!" -./0.10 20/345/6 Avenue Italian joint decided shot to fame when it began rainbow-colored toppings, to Berthiaume said. “And they 5.37 @8(      to sell the Pied pods hot and serving pizzas inside an edi- celebrate the Supreme Court’s all started with me trying to fresh for a limited time when ble “box” made from the same 2015 ruling that legalized entertain our fans and follow- they got tons of orders after cheesy slices. And before that, same-sex marriage, became ers on social media.”

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Word’s pick: “Harmless Like You” by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan Sometimes you read a book and forget about ‘Seven’ wonders it immediately. But for some books, you dread getting closer to the inevitable end — you need more of the story and you are not ready to let the char- Alamo serves sinful mystery meal with crime thriller acters go, and the story be- comes part of you, as if you By Bill Roundy lessons from that screening. lived it yourself. “Harmless Brooklyn Paper “I learned that it’s a shorter movie than Like You” is one of those you think,” he laughed. books. The story drifts be- hat’s in the box? Each of the mystery dishes is based on tween 1960s Hungry movie-goers will dis- one of the Seven Deadly Sins, and will be and modern-day Connect- W cover the answer to that question served when its corresponding sin is in- icut and Berlin, revolving seven times over at a special screening of troduced on-screen. The first dish may be around a young woman, the crime thriller “Seven” at Alamo Draft- a challenge, since it comes directly after Yuki, and later, her son. It house on Jan. 30. While watching the 1995 the grotesque scene for gluttony, but New is a story about identity, growing up, family bonds, film about a serial killer who gruesomely is confident that viewers will be able to and the struggle of being an artist. A beautiful bumps off those guilty of the Seven Deadly get it down. debut that grips you until the very end. Sins, viewers can indulge in a seven-course “The way we’re pitching this is to very — Steffanie Ostrowski, Word [126 Franklin St. “mystery meal,” delivered in seven card- adventurous, open eaters,” he said. “Peo- at Milton Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383–0096, board boxes reminiscent of the one in the ple who are willing and able to eat any- www.wordbookstores.com]. film’s infamous final scene. The cooks at thing.” Alamo came up with the idea while discuss- And though seven dishes may seem like Community Bookstore’s pick: “Temple ing their love for the David Fincher-directed a lot, viewers should not feel like gluttons of the Scapegoat” by Alexander Kluge film, said the chef behind the meal. by the end, said New. Throughout his long career, Alexander Kluge “It seemed like a crazy idea to do a “It’s definitely a tasting menu — the has published books of po- ‘what’s in the box’ dinner,” said Ronnie first few courses are just a few bites,” he etry and fiction, works of New, who lives in Prospect Heights. “We said. “But you definitely need to come academic philosophy, and all love this film, and this uncanny mystery hungry.” acted as a filmmaking men- dinner seemed like a novel idea. The goal of The menu will also feature some rec- tor to Werner Herzog and the dinner is to have the guest walk in with ommended beer and wine pairings, not in- dozens more practitioners a blank slate, and you kind of find out the cluded in the $70 ticket. of German New Wave cin- mystery along with the detectives.” Alamo hopes to offer more elaborate ema. In this new collection The mystery meal had an initial try-out movie meals each month, said New, includ- of essayistic stories, subti- at the San Francisco branch of the Alamo Walking makes you hungry: Alamo Drafthouse will screen the infamous ing an upcoming Valentine’s Day dinner tled “Opera Stories,” Kluge Drafthouse in 2015, when New was a chef thriller “Seven,” starring Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, and Morgan Freeman, for the romantic film “Call Me By Your draws from the librettos of there, and he refined the meal based on the along with a seven-course meal, on Jan. 30. Name.” the great operas he loved as a child, evoking a vanished world of high German culture at the precipice of totalitarianism. — Samuel Partal, Community Bookstore [43 Seventh Ave. between Carroll Street and Gar- field Place in Park Slope, (718) 783–3075, www. Kitty cornered commu nityb ookst ore.net ]. Greenlight Bookstore’s pick: “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman Who is inside the outfi t? This young adult tale is superbly eerie, out- side of the ordinary, but also takes place in the By Alexandra Simon most mundane location of all: home. Coraline Brooklyn Paper KITTY and her parents move to a new flat, in which there is a “Hola Kitty” at the Katra Film e really got inside her head! Series [445 Albee Square West locked door that seemingly A Bedford-Stuyvesant film- between Willoughby and Fulton leads to a brick wall. But H maker will screen his short doc- streets Downtown, (718) 513– when Coraline unlocks the umentary “Hola Kitty,” as part of the 2547, www.katrafi lmseries.com]. door at night, she discovers Grand Finale of the Katra Film Se- Feb. 6 at 7 pm. $30–$100. a passage to another flat in ries at the Alamo Drafthouse on Feb. another house that looks 6. The 10-minute movie follows the and illegal immigrants,” said Dan- Hola, it’s me: (Pictured left to right) A woman who wears a Hello Kitty costume in Times Square takes precisely like her own lives of Latino immigrants who don iel Burity. “And I always wanted to break to rest in a park. And Daniel Burity, the director of “Hola Kitty,” says that wearing a Hello Kitty — but the food is better; furry costumes and superhero out- make a documentary about immigra- head is “not a good idea if you are claustrophobic.” and the books have pic- fits to pose with tourists in Times tion, only now I could highlight some- tures that writhe and shim- Square and Coney Island, and its di- thing new.” ine the social aspect of immigration,” much she feels better in the costume And just wearing the costume is mer. And there’s more: a rector hopes the doc will provide a He was especially intrigued that said Burity. because [Hello Kitty is] not Latina no easy feat, Burity discovered. He spooky mother and father in the other flat want new angle for the national discussion workers portrayed characters of dif- After talking to the costumed per- — people don’t see color, they just tried on a costume head, and he only to change Coraline and keep her forever! Which on immigration. ferent ethnicities, he said. formers, he discovered that people see this character,” he said. “What lasted two minutes with it on. side of the door will she wind up on? “When I started seeing those cos- “Hello Kitty is a Japanese char- will often treat a fictional character was heartbreaking was how she feels “I tried on a mask and it’s not a — Melissa Hohl, Greenlight Bookstore [686 tumes in Times Square, I thought it acter, and you have a Mexican per- better than they would an actual hu- even more comfortable dressing up good idea if you’re claustrophobic,” Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Port- was very interesting that the people son working illegally in the U.S. as man immigrant, said Burity. in a Hello Kitty costume than be- said Burity. “It’s heavy, it’s super dark, land Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200, doing this were mostly Mexicans that character — I wanted to exam- “One woman talked about how ing herself.” See KITTY on page 10 www.greenlightbookstore.com]. 8 AWP Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 January 26–February 1, 2018

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Art Central Branch, with hood, while kids and tell tales of the will celebrate her galleries will be open lectures, debates, watch “Guava,” a lycanthropes that lurk 92nd birthday tonight late tonight, so you and performances musical set in a city among us, along with by answering your into the wee hours. where humans and the usual tales of mur- can check out a questions, at a live We are especially puppets work der and mayhem. futuristic installation looking forward to together. recording of the pod- at Art in General, 7 pm at 7 pm. [Driggs Tune in to our new radio the 2:30 am lecture cast “The Sporkful.” paintings of mayhem 5:30 pm at the Kane Other guests on the Avenue at N. Ninth Street “Why Your Life Street Synagogue Kane in Williamsburg, (585) 666– at Smack Mellon Needs to Suck Some- Street Synagogue (236 show include come- 7243, www.madamemor- (pictured), and vid- Kane St. at Tompkins times” and the 4 am dian Aparna bid.com]. $49. eos being projected station every week! 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Photo by Caleb Caldwell THE YEAR OF THE DOG Brain power: “A New Brain” follows a musical theater writer who hallucinates up-tempo singing and dancing while in the hospital. Sun, Feb 11 at 3pm Singin’ in the brain! Tickets: $25 adults, $12.50 children KUMBLE THEATER AT LIU-BROOKLYN (Flatbush Ave between DeKalb and Willoughby) Peppy musical stars hallucinating surgery patient One University Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Q or R to DeKalb Avenue By Winnie McCroy loose in that style,” she said. doctors, nurses, and orderlies — an wondering what would happen if for Brooklyn Paper Between tap routines, nurses and ordeal that many audience members we’re in danger, uninsured, or in doctors attend to Gordon’s hospital can relate to. a crisis.” or alk about a surgical theater! business. In her production, Gelles “It’s incredibly public, but also Finn wrote the play after his own BrooklynCenter.org 718-951-4500 This weekend, the Park Slope wanted to emphasize that Gordon’s isolated,” said Gelles. “I’ve empha- experience with arteriovenous mal- Ttheater company will launch a hi- crisis is not happening privately in his sized the drama and trauma of hos- formation in 1992, teaming up with larious, heartwarming musical about home, but that all his family strug- pitalization and the health care pro- book writer James Lapine, who also brain surgery. “A New Brain,” open- gles, relationships, sadness, joy, and cess. Right now, health care is at collaborated with Finn on his 1981 ing on Jan. 27 at Gallery Players, is fear unfold before an audience of the forefront of everyone’s mind, musical “Falsettos.” It debuted Off- a play about the healing power of art Broadway in 1998, and had a re-stag- that feels somehow universal, says ing in 2015 as part of the Encores! its director. concert series. Gallery Players finally “It moves and touches me, and I got the rights to the play this year, think it’s one of the most beautiful and turned over the reins to Gelles, pieces of musical theater ever writ- who has a passion for tackling shows ten, because it simultaneously shows that are a bit off the beaten path — the honesty and schmaltz and the love either under-appreciated works by we cherish when we see musicals, great composers, or better-known but it is also full of biting sarcasm pieces to which she can apply a dif- and the difficulties we appreciate in ferent take, she said. life,” said Barrie Gelles. “That’s what “I love re-envisioning revivals and life feels like; things get dark, but finding a new way to pay tribute to there’s hope.” writers, drilling down to the core of The story, from composer Wil- what the show is at heart and finding liam Finn, follows a musical theater a way to explode it onto the stage,” FOLLOW OUR DAILY UPDATES ON writer named “Gordon Schwinn” who said Gelles. “Not to be disingenuous suffers a brain injury due to arterio- to the original piece, but to find the venous malformation. The musical’s ultimate truth and recreate it.” full-blown song and dance routines “A New Brain” at Gallery Players spring straight from the character’s (199 14th St. between Fourth and unconscious mind, said Gelles. Photo by Caleb Caldwell Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (212) “His hallucinations turn into song Reaching out: The main character in “A New Brain,” Gordon 352–3101, www.galleryplayers.com). and dance numbers, because in my Schwinn, shown getting a hospital visit from his boyfriend, is a Jan. 27–Feb. 18; Thu–Sat at 8 pm; mind, if you spend all your time writ- lightly fictionalized version of composer William Finn, who wrote Sun at 3 pm. $25 ($20 seniors and twitter.com/Brooklyn_Paper ing musicals, your subconscious lets the musical after he suffered a brain injury. students).

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