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By Colin Mixson Brooklyn Paper Make it so! Starship Enterprise captain and Park Slope resident Sir Patrick Stewart is Archaeological dig throwing his weight behind a contro- versial theory that the bodies of hun- dreds of Revolutionary War heroes are buried beneath a vacant lot in Gowanus hunts for answers — and he wants a memorial placed there so that history never forgets the name “Maryland 400.” Stewart claimed in a recent GQ inter- They’ll settle it once and for all view that the empty Ninth Street site is By Colin Mixson the final resting Brooklyn Paper place of the famed Excavating news! band of soldiers Archeologists are finally — who died sav- going to dig into a vacant ing General Wash- Gowanus lot that some be- ington’s rebel army lieve to be the final resting from annihilation place of the Maryland 400 — during the Battle of thrilling news for local his- CAP’N’S Brooklyn — and said tory geeks, who are excited he has personally pe- to know once and for all if the titioned Mayor De- Revolutionary War heroes are LOG Blasio to install a buried down below. monument to them “This is one of the great there, to which Hiz- mysteries of New York his- Painting by Domenick D’Andrea zoner replied, “I’m on it.” Are the bodies of hundreds of Conti- tory that we don’t have an an- nental Army soldiers buried beneath “All it is is a concreted-over car park, but swer,” said Chris Ricciardi, Ninth Street? We’ll soon find out! underneath the concrete is the mass grave,” Park Sloper Patrick Stewart, famous for iconic roles including Star Trek’s Capt. Picard and the X-Men’s founder of Chrysalis Arche- said Stewart, whose “Star Trek” charac- Professor X, wants a memorial to the Maryland 400 at this Ninth Street lot, where he believes the war ology. ter was an archeology buff. “It’s worth heroes are buried. The city is currently in negotiations Some local historians have long making, I think, a bit of a fuss of.” to purchase the empty Ninth Street believed the location may well be on The thespian, who settled in a Brooklyn Heights historian Bob Furman , said. “I didn’t get a response.” Furman was, however, able to shed lot between Third and Fourth ave- top of a mass grave containing the $2.5-million duplex penthouse on Sev- who has been petitioning the city to per- But you can’t blame the Starfleet hero light on the idea that DeBlasio is “on it” nues, after the Council voted in De- remains of the troops who sacrificed enth Street in 2012, told the men’s fash- form a rigorous archeological dig there to for wanting to keep a low profile on this in regards to erecting a memorial — he cember to acquire the site for a 180- ion journal that the lot between Third prove once and for all what lies beneath one, Furman said — it became a hot-but- says he has asked the mayor on numer- their lives during the Battle of Brook- and Fourth avenues is home to a mass the currently undeveloped real estate. ton political issue last year when the city ous occasions for the very same thing, seat pre-kindergarten school. lyn to buy General Washington time grave for the more-than 200 slain he- Naturally, Furman sent Stewart a letter proposed building a pre-kindergarten fa- and that’s exactly what he said. But before it can start construc- to escape British forces. roes whose bodies were unceremoniously in response to the article, asking the actor cility on the site, which will be held up “Every time I raised this with DeBla- tion, the state’s historic-preservation Ricciardi points to 19th-century discarded by King George’s troops fol- to endorse his archeological endeavors — if anything of historical value is discov- sio, he would say, ‘I’m on it,’ ” Furman agency requires the city to contract journals that put the grave site around lowing a heroic rear-guard action that but he has yet to hear back. ered there, and the British knight proba- said. “The city is not interested in pre- archeologists to spend a few days ex- that location, along with maps de- bought Washington the time he needed “I was hoping he would publicly ex- bly doesn’t want to get involved. serving the site, they’re interested in the cavating the property to determine scribing that area as hilly, compared to slip across the East River. press his support and interest for doing “He’s not a political person really,” pre-K school. So I pointed that out to him its cultural value. See DIG on page 4 The theory has long been shared by proper archeology at the site,” Furman said Furman. “He’s an actor.” in the letter.”
each year. “I’ve worked in some of the most marginalized communities and I can’t tell you how many par- ents, mostly people of color, have Shot through the art talked about the importance arts play in their children’s lives.” New York is hardly short of Trump’s arts-funding cuts would gut millions from Bklyn orgs deep-pocketed arts philanthropists, and the federal grants account for By Ruth Brown Diane Jacabowitz, founder of Park 2012 — and that doesn’t include last week . “The answer is no.” just a portion of many local groups’ Brooklyn Paper Slope dance school Dancewave, outfits headquartered elsewhere that Actually, you can, say local which offers discounted instruc- work in the borough or state arts arts buffs — the country’s hard- overall funds — but they often pay President Trump’s dream bud- for things that other benefactors get is a nightmare for Brooklyn tion and teaches in schools that grants, which are partially funded est-done-by are exactly the peo- won’t, administrators say. artists! don’t have arts classes of their through the federal program. ple who benefit from the publicly- The Donald’s proposal to elimi- own. “Everyone will start focus- But Trump wants to scrap the funded programs, and they really For the Brooklyn Arts Council nate federal arts funding will drain ing their clientele, which makes it scheme — along with 18 other agen- appreciate it too. in Dumbo, that’s folk art. Many millions of dollars annually from arts for the rich, which is the story cies — arguing that working fam- “It’s insulting to say that people private foundations want to see the borough’s creative organiza- we’ve known for too long. It makes ilies shouldn’t have to foot the bill of a certain economic status don’t people on stage singing and danc- tions, gutting programs that serve it divisive.” for such frivolities. have an appreciation or need for ing in exchange for their donation, Kings County’s poorest communi- In 2016, Brooklyn-based organi- “Can we really continue to ask arts,” said Robyne Walker Murphy but aren’t so enthused about pay- ties and cementing music, theater, zations collectively scored at least a coal miner in West Virginia or a of Groundswell, a Gowanus outfit ing someone to spend weeks work-
Photo by Stefano Giovannini and dance as luxuries for the elite, $2.7 million in grants from the Na- single mom in Detroit to pay for that employs young adults to lead ing with an immigrant community Noor Ul Ain helps paint a mural in Bedford-Stuyvesant in a according to local arts gurus. tional Endowment for the Arts, part these programs?” his budget bigwig public-mural painting projects , and to document their basket-weaving program run by local arts organization Groundswell. “It would be devastating,” said of a whopping $13 million since Mick Mulvaney said on MSNBC receives around $70,000 in grants See ARTS on page 2 Real-estate trend: Celeb endorsements consumer advocacy group Truth in Developer pays star resident to Instagram Ft. Greene high-rise Advertising told the blog Jezebel that “#300AshlandPartner” may By Ruth Brown posts about the new tower at Flat- by New York Magazine. a month for a studio to $5,479 for a not be sufficient warning. Brooklyn Paper bush and Lafayette avenues — now Now, the developer plans on two-bedroom — but the firm also Two Trees believes they’re Forget rooftop pools and heated called “300 Ashland,” but formerly moving in additional famous res- pays her for the sponsored posts, clearly ads, according to Berk- dog runs — Brooklyn’s hottest new known as BAM South . idents — and the stars will be and it isn’t clear which dollar fig- man, although he says Gevinson “Tonight I spent a long time ad- hosting “special experiences” in ure is higher. luxury building feature is a famous is the one penning the posts. neighbor! miring/trying to understand this the property for their less-well- He also refused to say how she 3D CLOUD-SLASH-MIRROR known neighbors. ended up living and tweeting in the Celebs are hardly the building’s Developer Two Trees is paying in my new lobby #adamfrank- “We think it’s an exciting addi- building — if she was invited, or only selling point — the tower will a celebrity resident of its ritzy new inc #300AshlandPartner,” wrote tion to our marketing efforts and if the company is just taking ad- also house a cinema, an Apple store, Fort Greene high-rise to tell her Gevinson — the former wunder- a terrific amenity for tenants,” vantage of a famous tenant. and a Whole Foods . But compe- online followers about how great kind behind teen web-zine Rookie the company said in a statement. People who are paid to shill on tition is fierce , and Two Trees is living there is — and is marketing and now Broadway star — on March “Stay tuned for more great names social media are supposed to make vying against several other new her presence in the building as “an 13, joining photos documenting her and content.” it “clear and conspicuous” when properties nearby, including “the Instagram amenity” for other residents. move-in to the building, and her Gevinson pays rent to Two their posts are ads, according to Ashland” next door, which has its Fashion blogger and actress Tavi Gevinson Instagrams Fashion blogger and actress Tavi delight at living next door to the Trees, company spokesman Joshua the Federal Trade Commission — own fancy food court , and “The about living near the Brooklyn Academy of Music — but Gevinson is raking in an undisclosed Brooklyn Academy of Music. Berkman claims — units in the which advises starting a missive Hub” across the road, which will the post is really a paid ad for Two Trees’ new 300 Ashland sum to write glowing Instagram The Insta-ads were first reported building currently run from $2,416 with “sponsored” or “ad” — and have a huge indoor pool. building.
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By Colin Mixson And she wasn’t lying, ac- Brooklyn Paper cording to Perris — meeting Talk about telling tall minutes compiled by the ten- tales! ants’ association show a po- The landlord of a proposed tential new school was dis- seven-story schoolhouse in cussed. Clinton Hill kept neighbors in But the project wasn’t set the dark about its construction in stone and the rep promised plans — then won the local to follow up before seeking NYC Parks Department community board’s support out the community board’s en- by saying residents knew all dorsement — and that never about it, claimed disgruntled happened, residents say. locals while confronting the “He said he would main- Park this plan property owner at the panel’s tain contact with us and he land-use committee meeting Schrom Rainer did not,” said resident Da- on Mach 15. This is what the new vid Moore. Neighbors demand more “Y’all went in front of the school will look like. Impacct’s boss acknowl- public body and said you had edges the lack of follow- input on Ft. Greene Park 9, according to the panel’s lead through, but blamed the
Photo by Jordan Rathkopf spoken to us and had not,” said resident Tracie McMillan, staffer. blunder on staffing changes Fort Greene Park neighbors Ling Hsu and Jean B give their thumbs down to By Ruth Brown toric designs, along with feed- one of several who showed up “One of the tenants took — the rep who attended the the city’s planned park makeover, which (left) includes taking away part of Brooklyn Paper back from a public forum at- to register their disapproval. the chairperson aside just be- tenant meeting went on pater- tended by around 40 people the stone retaining wall and tiered granite ‘mounds’ at Myrtle Avenue and St. “To stand in front of a pub- fore the meeting and said, ‘We nity leave shortly afterwards, The city must give resi- Edwards Street to clear a path to the Prison Ship monument. dents more say over a planned in November — which it pub- lic body and lie, that’s really knew nothing about that … and she didn’t take over the $7-million makeover of Fort licized through flyers posted messed up.” please don’t vote on this to- org until December. Greene Park’s Myrtle Avenue around the neighborhood, at current look, that ramps February meeting. “We want msted and Calvert Vaux, they Community Board 2’s night,’ ” said district manager “I have no doubt that if entrances, neighbors are de- Ingersoll and Walt Whitman and other safety upgrades to see [the city] work with us said. land-use committee last Rob Perris. this transition were not tak- manding. Houses tenant-association will only be added to a few to evolve the design.” But the city claims noth- month approved Unity Pre- The proposed schoolhouse ing place there would have been additional follow up,” They believe longtime lo- meetings, and through the entrances rather than all of Reps told locals at the ing is set in stone and the paratory Charter School’s re- requires several zoning ex- said executive director Ber- cals and public-housing res- local community board and them, and that construc- meeting that some of their whole point of the February quest to erect the new 400- emptions, partially because business improvement dis- kid institution on a parking Impacct has already used nell Grier. idents have been left out of tion will close that side of requests — like new play- meeting was to get feedback trict, according to a parks lot at 32 Lexington Ave. be- the lot’s development rights Still, the neighbors say they the conversation in favor of the park for a year or more ground equipment — aren’t on the suggested designs newcomers and real-estate spokeswoman. tween Grand and Classon av- to build low-income housing aren’t just bothered by the lack But many neighbors say — but mostly they just want possible, because the make- — and there’ll be another enues, after land-owner and at 15 Quincy St. next door — of consultation — they’re also interests in the gentrifying more opportunities to influ- over is part of the so-called chance to speak when the neighborhood — and now they never got the memo and housing advocacy group Im- which, ironically enough — concerned about the height ence the design. “Parks Without Borders” plan comes before the com- they want in. are annoyed they weren’t there pacct Brooklyn told the board is where the bulk of the irate and bulk of the new school, “It would seem that the pri- to weigh in on construction “I want them to be open to program, which is for open- munity board in May. — amongst other things — neighbors live. which would add to several ority is to cater to the new that will impact them the proposals instead of saying, ing up and beautifying park And because the park is that neighbors were in the When Impacct’s head hon- new luxury apartment high- luxury unit residents on Myr- most. ‘This is the proposal, take it entrances. part of the Fort Greene His- know. cho appeared before the land- rises already towering over tle Avenue,” said local Sandy “Half of us black folks or leave it,’ ” said Ling Hsu, And keeping features like toric District, the changes But after catching wind, the use committee in February, the area. Reiburn in a letter to park stew- didn’t even know that you who lives a block from the the wall and mounds for the will also have to be okayed denizens came to the commu- she described a November The land-use committee ta- ard group the Fort Greene Park had a meeting in November park and has been distribut- sake of “preservation” is mis- by the city’s Landmarks Pres- nity board with their claims meeting with 15 members bled the matter for a meet- Conservancy, which supports — I certainly didn’t,” said ing flyers around the neigh- guided, as much of that was ervation Commission. of ignorance just in the nick of Quincy’s tenants’ asso- ing in April, giving Impacct the changes. “Further discus- one local from the Whit- borhood railing against what done in the 1970s and isn’t in The Fort Greene Park of time to stop it endorsing ciation, where a rep notified an opportunity to fill neigh- sions about monies spent and man Houses at the February she calls a “top-down” design line with the vision of famed Conservancy declined to the lofty learning facility at the inhabitants that the school bors in on the details of the a redesign that seems more gathering. process since attending the park-itects Frederick Law Ol- comment. its general meeting on March was a possibility. project. about social engineering than The city presented two very about the best and most wel- similar pitches at the February coming use of our park are event — one has more trees lem finding companies to spon- not have tickets.” arts is a bipartisan issue,” said on PBS and “America Re- NPR’s “Morning Edition.” warranted.” — leading some of the ag- sor its open-air screenings on Of course, Trump’s budget Jacabowitz, who is on Capitol Framed” series on World Bric: The Fort Greene or- Around a hundred people grieved residents to believe it ARTS... buildings in the borough’s hip- is really just a serving sugges- Hill this week lobbying pols. Channel. ganization got a combined packed a meeting at the neigh- was just a fait accompli, pos- Continued from page 1 pest neighborhoods, but the tion for Congressional Repub- “Even a right-wing church- Arts East New York: $85,000 for its free Pros- sibly designed for fee-paying Feds foot the bill for free kids’ licans, many of whom have al- goer goes to see their choir $100,000 went to the East boring Ingersoll Houses last traditions, according to the pect Park concert series Cel- month where Parks Depart- members of the park’s conser- sessions in Coney Island and ready come out against it . singing.” New York organization to council’s head honcho. ebrate! Brooklyn and to teach ment honchos revealed their vancy group and the devel- East New York to the tune of And given the National help pay for artist residen- “It’s not a one-hit produc- Biggest recipients visual art in “underserved” proposed changes — most sig- opers who sponsor it. $50,000–$70,000 a year, ac- Endowment for the Arts’ cies, an artisan market, com- schools. “This plan appears to ad- tion, it’s years and years of $148-million budget is really These are the Brooklyn- munity-planning workshops, nificantly the corner of St. Ed- cording to an organizer. Rooftop Films: The sum- wards Street, where they plan dress some anticipated new work,” said Charlotte Cohen, “[Losing the grants] is not a drop in the ocean of over- based arts organizations and arts entrepreneurship mer film festival got $75,000 to clear a path to the Prison residents to the neighborhood, the executive director of the going to put us out of busi- all federal spending, the cre- that scored the most tax- training. Ship Martyrs’ Monument by without regard for the long- Dumbo organization, which ness, but it could stop us do- ative types are hopeful it will payer moolah from the Na- StoryCorps: The Fort to fund its popular al-fresco eliminating a stone wall and term residents who already has been receiving the grants ing events we really want to ultimately prove as popular as tional Endowment for the Greene multimedia outfit, screenings. some granite platforms, and have been using the park,” said since the early 1980s and cov- do,” said artistic director Dan Trump Steaks and Trump Air- Arts in 2016: which helps ordinary peo- Archipelago Books: The adding wheelchair ramps and neighbor Enid Braun. ers a third of its Folk Arts pro- Nuxall. “NEA funding is re- lines with conservatives. AmDoc: The Dumbo doc- ple record extraordinary sto- Gowanus publisher nabbed a “water feature.” The disgruntled locals’ gram with the grants. ally what we use events that “I’m going to talk to as umentary creator got a com- ries from their lives, scored $70,000 to publish and pro- The city says it based its gripes include the dramatic Likewise, the popular Roof- might not have a lot of corpo- many people in Congress on bined $170,000 to continue $100,000 to help with its mote its translations of foreign blueprints on the park’s his- changes to the entrance’s top Films festival has no prob- rate sponsorship support, might both sides of the aisle — the its “Point of View” films weekly radio segment on fiction and poetry titles.
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9P:8D@CC<JG By Caroline Spivack Existing Conditions Brooklyn Paper The city aims to install two protected bike lanes along four miles of Fourth Avenue from Boerum Hill to Bay Ridge. The proposed path would run between Dean and 65th A/D3C>B= streets and separate cyclists A>@7<5 from traffic with a buffer of parked cars. Activists have pressed the city for such a lane for years, claiming it would Design for Community Consideration curb accidents on the bus- tling thoroughfare, but the Department of Transporta- AC7B tion shot down the idea in A/:3 $ favor of expanding medians along stretches of the roadway. 5@3/B>@713A=<B636=BB@3<2A Now locals are ecstatic that the city has reconsidered, said one community activist. “It’ll make the ride so much safer. I’m absolutely jubilant,” Department of Transportation Transportation Department of said Sunset Parker Tony Gior- The new four-mile-long protected bike lane would stretch from Boerum Hill to dano, who has pushed for the Bay Ridge. 9LP(JL@K lane since 2014. “This has re- ally been a David and Goliath 8KK?<M8CL<GI@:< battle. We’ve been advocat- Park up to Atlantic Avenue, But Brooklyn has seen a construction that will trans- ing for this for years.” so I think this will be some- spike in commuter cycling, form the corridor for decades, Fourth Avenue would fea- thing that will be of great ben- and the city decided a bike we look forward to engaging > @ '' A 00 @ " @ JL@KJ ,0 7 = D 4=@ Council approves S’Park library sale 3 ! ! : 2 = N\jg\Z`Xc`q\`e^iflgjXc\j 1 By Caroline Spivack Some criticized the plan 51st Street from the city, raze show. 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Kramer to President Trump’s son-in- with some journalists worry- signing on as Trump’s senior Trump’s executive order on The Dumbo Heights complex is owned by Jared 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens law could kill their credibil- ing the Edward Snowdens of advisor, but the Guardian’s immigration. Kushner’s family firm. 624-5554 s 624-7055 ity. the world wouldn’t feel com- management still balked when Kushner also bought the Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking The news was first reported fortable leaking to them any- it learned of the link, the pa- Witnesses’ old Columbia lot next to York Street sta- turn a request for comment. and insurance plans accommodated by Buzzfeed , citing anony- more, according to the re- per told Buzzfeed. Heights headquarters and tion last year. Kushner Companies declined mous sources, and later con- port. Instead, the newsroom will a massive empty residential The Guardian didn’t re- to comment. Brutes slash teen on way home from school Three other jerks then nue club on March 16. edly smacked the poor woman 84TH PRECINCT joined in, and held the vic- The victim told authorities in the face, cops said. Brooklyn Heights– tim’s arm behind him so the POLICE BLOTTER that she went clubbing at the Lifting first malefactor could cut the party place near S. Portland Dumbo–Boerum Hill– Officers arrested a 17-year- FOLLOW OUR Downtown right side of his face, causing Find more online every Wednesday at Avenue around 12:30 am, old girl for looting the shelves A brute slashed a teen a deep cut, police said. The BrooklynPaper.com/blotter and hung up her purse on a of a Flatbush Avenue chain DAILY UPDATES ON walking home from school victim was taken to Kings hook while she tore up the store on March 11. while three of his buddies County to Hospital. dance floor. authorities. smartphone and headphones, An employee told police held the victim still on Hoyt Threatened The next day she noticed the suspect was spotted in- police said. that her wallet — which con- Street on March 13. A baddie stole from a guy Pocket pinch side the retailer near Atlantic tained had debit and credit The victim told police he and threatened him with a A sneak thief swiped a Brawl at a bar Avenue at 7:30 pm, grabbing cards and her driver’s licence was near Bergen Street at box cutter on Court Street woman’s phone from her Two brutes bashed a woman nearly $270 worth of grocer- — had vanished from her bag, about 9 pm when the goon on March 13, police said. pocket on Remsen Street on at a bar on Flatbush Avenue ies, clothes, and electronics, and she’s pretty sure it hap- said “Do you have a problem?” The victim told police he March 3, police said. Extension on March 17. before attempting to f lee with- pened while she was cutting The victim told him no and was inside a store between The victim told police on The victim told police that out paying for her ill-gotten twitter.com/Brooklyn_Paper a rug, according to a report. then the lout tried to punch Schermerhorn and State March 13 that she was near she was at the tavern near goods. — Colin Mixson him, officials said. streets at about 1:30 pm when Court Street at about 2:15 pm Dekalb Avenue just after mid- — Alexandra Simon the villain showed the blade when the weasel must have night when she got in a war of 76TH PRECINCT and said, “Be careful before bumped into her and grabbed words with two other patrons 78TH PRECINCT I cut you,” according to au- her Apple iPhone, according — but the spat turned violent Carroll Gardens– Park Slope Cobble Hill–Red Hook thorities. The report did not to authorities. when one of them lunged at Scooting out say what the man stole. Street snatcher her head with a glass bottle, Loaded Big break while the punched her repeat- Cops busted a would-be Cops cuffed a guy for al- A pirate plundered a guy’s edly in the shoulder. thief for trying — and fail- legedly having loaded guns A burglar broke into a electronic tablet on Smith Police said the victim sus- ing — to rob an Eighth Av- inside his Cheever Place home woman’s Hicks Street home Street on March 13, police tained injuries to her forehead enue bodega with a baseball on March 20. and stole thousands of dol- said. and needed stitches. bat on March 9, before flee- Police had a search war- lars worth of her stuff on The guy told police he had C.O.D. Bully problem ing empty-handed aboard a rant for the 50-year-old man’s March 17. just left court near Schermer- kick scooter after a deli guy house between Degraw and The looter got into her horn Street at about 3 pm Brazen bullies attacked a fended him off. Kane streets and went in at abode between Pineapple when the purloiner must have teenaged boy and tried to steal The victim told police he about 12:45 pm, when they and Clark streets through a grabbed his LG tablet from in- his phone on Myrtle Avenue was working the register at the say they found a loaded re- door sometime between 4:35 side his bag, said cops. on March 10. grocery store between 12th volver and shotgun. pm and 6 pm, and then ran- — Julianne Cuba The teen’s mom told cops and 13th streets at 8:30 pm, sacked the place, stealing her that her 15-year-old son was when the suspect suddenly Spa treatment (718) 354-3834 MacBook laptop, bank bonds, 88TH PRECINCT leaving school near Clermont burst into the store waving a Four teens threatened a $500, $1,000 in jewelry, and Avenue around 3 pm when he bat and demanding cash. woman and swiped cash from pricey Ray Ban sunglasses, Fort Greene–Clinton Hill was approached by four men “Give me all your money, her wallet in the back room of according to authorities. Hungry prowling who had attacked him before, or I’ll kill you,” the man al- a Court Street spa on March 19, police said. # #" ! &$"# ! A meat-loving marauder and asked for his phone. legedly snarled. Bad hit The 51-year-old victim told & ( $ ( $! # $" # broke into a Myrtle Avenue The bruisers then punched But the suspect’s antics Cops cuffed a 22-year-old police the bandits entered the shop on March 14 and made the boy over and over, before weren’t enough to cow the !! !% # ) man for allegedly hitting an spa between Second and Third himself a feast. fleeing in an unknown direc- brave deli guy, who beat back officer on Schermerhorn tion empty-handed, accord- places at about 3:30 pm and # ) ! Street on March 16. The business owner told the man even as he tried to ing to cops. snatch cash from the regis- intimidated her, making her ! ( $! '# !! Police were called to a cops that someone entered the fear for her life. The malefac- courthouse between Boerum shop near Clinton Avenue at Musty bandit ter tray, cops said. Eventually, the coward fled tors then grabbed $50 out of Place and Smith Street at around 1:40 am and prepared A dirty thief broke into a her wallet, said cops. about 2:20 pm because the $500 worth of assorted meats Myrtle Avenue variety store none the richer, although he suspect was in a fight, but before fleeing, according to on March 16 and raided it for did hurl a glass bottle at the Bye bike PAY C.O.D. 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The thief time at the library devolved unloaded high-tech wrenches into an argument. and drills into a nearby car As the dispute escalated, and fled the scene, accord- ! " the suspect decided to win the ing to a police report. debate with his fists, and alleg- — Caroline Spivack ! !" " ! Seniors Save BIG! 3 .$)&(.+*'01 5% off every Tuesday DIG... 000/1-,+),++'(1*%+) Continued from page 1 smaller engagements fought to the vast marsh that once all across the borough. covered Brooklyn — which Also the soldiers were hardly gentlemanly enough to would have made it an appro- ! " " ! priate burial location. have dragged the Americans’ " “They wouldn’t have bodies for a mile through the thrown them in the muck,” bog to higher ground. he said. “This was a gentle- “It is highly likely that man’s war.” those who were killed were in- But not all borough history terred in shallow graves close .59 .29 .99 to the spots where they fell, buffs agree — the Old Stone 99 and not carried half a mile ! 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"" !"! !"!" ! hood — the regiment’s sac- or three other sites. It helps ! ! rifice played out in several narrow the field.” MUSIC Royal revue Hail to the queens! A Bedford-Stuyvesant mu- sician will launch an album that pays tribute to powerful women throughout history at Bric Arts Media on March 30. Singer and guitarist Becca Stevens says that she fol- lowed an artistic and spir- itual inspiration while cre- ating her songs devoted to queens and goddesses. “I’ve always been re- ally fascinated by queens throughout history and al- ways been drawn to Queen Elizabeth I, her legacy, the Shervin Lainez Elizabethan era,” said Ste- vens. “The queen theme took flight and it became way more of a spiritual journey than I expected it to be. It was almost like crafting an alter-ego and finding this divine strength and regal iden- tities, and that gave me a vehicle to inspire other people to feel same way.” (718) 260–2500 Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings March 24–30, 2017 The album “Regina” — which is Latin for “queen” — draws on diverse musical roots, in- cluding pop, classical, jazz, hip-hop, and Irish and Appalachian folk music. The album features several guest artists, including jazz and soul singer Laura Mvula, who will join Stevens at the launch performance. Stevens hopes listeners will respond to her celebration of female power, she said. “I want them go and be inspired by feminin- ity — there’s a feminine strength in men and women but it’s treated differently from mascu- Potty humor line strength, which is revered and prioritized,” said Stevens. Becca Stevens at Bric Arts Media [647 Fulton Comedians will share their tales of toilet tragedies Ave. at Rockland Place in Fort Greene, (718) 855–7882, www.bricartsmedia.org]. March 30 at 8 pm. $18 ($15 in advance). By Julianne Cuba — Alexandra Simon Brooklyn Paper t’s Brooklyn’s number two comedy show! A group of comedians will make a splash BOOKS I this week by sharing their stories about not making it to the toilet on time. The host of “Uh-Oh! Stories From People Who Pooped Their Pants,” at the Legion Bar in Williams- burg on March 30, said that he and five other Reading picks jokesters will be letting it all out in their inti- mate stories, but he thinks that the audience Word’s pick — “The Vine That Ate the will be able to digest it. South” by J.D. Wilkes “I was very nervous for a while — that peo- A modern epic full of charm and intrigue, ple could be turned off by the subject, but the “The Vine That Ate the South” is a wild romp response has been so positive, people say they that showcases the imagina- are excited,” said Chris Calogero, who lives tive and linguistic quirks of the in Carroll Gardens. deep South. Set in a version Calogero had his own Code Brown incident of Kentucky that blurs reality in his apartment. He had just finished having with folk tales and rural lore, the space professionally cleaned — as a gift the novel’s unlikely hero, ac- for his girlfriend — when things started go- companied by the indomita- ing down, he said. ble and unforgettable Carver “I was hanging around in my boxers and Canute, searches for an infa- was sitting there thinking, ‘I should go up and mous house swallowed whole go to the bathroom.’ I don’t know what hap- by kudzu — with its occupants still inside. The pened — my body went off like a pop gun,” two encounter a haunted forest filled with the Calogero said. stuff of nightmares, forcing them to confront At first he was embarrassed about the acci- their fears and their own pasts. dent, but after sharing his story with friends, he — Alison Gore, Word [126 Franklin St. at Mil- was soon flush with ideas for a new show. ton Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383–0096, www. “I was a little nervous to tell my girlfriend wordbrooklyn.com ]. honestly, but once I told people, they kind of were excited to share their story, and then the Community Bookstore’s pick — “Man floodgates opened and people just were very in the Holocene” by Max Frisch cool and fun and funny about sharing their Max Frisch’s masterpiece is a marvel of quiet stories,” said Calogero. “People didn’t cower description and fierce erudition. The elderly Gei- from it, they just kind of embraced it.” ser sits alone in his home at the Instead of trying to wipe his slate clean end of his life, contemplating the of the shame, he decided he had a doody to rain and man’s place in the natu- share his story with the world, ral world. To keep himself from he said. forgetting the stray odd fact, he “People want to realize COMEDY covers his walls in cut-outs from they are not alone in the “Uh-Oh! Stories From People encyclopedia, with information world with this embarrass- Who Pooped Their Pants” at on the weather, the speed of light, ing stuff happening,” said Legion Bar [790 Metropoli- and mass extinctions — until a Calogero. tan Ave. between Humboldt mysterious compulsion leads him Street and Bushwick Avenue in During the show, which is Williamsburg, www.legion-bar. out the door and into the wider world. Frisch has a sponsored by Squatty Potty com]. March 30 at 8 pm. Free. knack for escalating the quotidian into the apoca- — the life-changing defeca- lyptic. Spoiler alert: none of this ends well. tion accessory with a silly vi- — Hal Hlavinka, Community Bookstore [43 ral commercial — Calogero will invite the au- Seventh Ave. between Carroll Street and Gar- dience to write down a few sentences about field Place in Park Slope, (718) 783–3075, www. their own similar accidents. The person with commu nityb ookst ore.net ]. the “Number One” story will take home their very own Squatty Potty to help things flow a Greenlight Bookstore’s pick — “Ber- little more easily, he said. tolt” by Jacques Goldstynn The jokes will also flow freely, but more Would you prefer your Calvin and Hobbes important is the feeling of relief that audi- with a side of melancholy? With delicate and ences will get from knowing that they do not gracious illustrations, this picture book about have to hold in their secrets any more, said a young boy and his best Calogero. friend, a tree named Ber- “I think people will come and hear other tolt, is a gauzy meditation people tell their stories and feel, ‘Cool, yeah on childhood, individual- that happens to everybody,” Calogero said. ity, grief, and loneliness “I don’t think anyone should be embarrassed, — as well as on the worlds and everyone should share their stories and Photo by Jordan Rathkopf and friends we construct for come to the show and you could win a fun, Pop a squat!: Comedian Christopher Calogero will host a show all about pooping your pants at Williamsburg’s ourselves, which can be their cool gift from Squatty Potty.” Legion Bar on March 30. own kind of loneliness. 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[622 Degraw St. between MMUSIC, ACOUSTIC SUNDAY Fourth and Fifth avenues in MORNINGS WITH BOBBY Gowanus, (718) 855–3388], AND BUCKY: Enjoy Peter www.littlefi eldnyc.com. Pan Donuts and acoustic MUSIC, THE JAZZ PASSEN- music. Free. 11 am to 1 pm. GERS: The band releases Brooklyn Farmacy & Soda its newest album “Still Life Fountain (513 Henry St. at with Trouble.” $20. 8 pm. ‘Groundhog’ Sackett Street in Carroll Roulette [509 Atlantic Ave. Gardens), brooklynfarmacy- at Third Avenue in Boerum andsodafountain.com. Hill, (917) 267–0363], www. READING, SUNDAY STORY roulette.org. Bill Murray’s son serving fi ve-course TIME: Cynthia Leonor Garza reads from her picture book “Lucía the Luchadora.” WED, MARCH 29 RSVP requested. Free. 11:30 TALK, TOWN HALL MEETING dinner of food scraps — for just $21! am. PowerHouse on 8th WITH KATHLEEN CASHIN: [1111 Eighth Ave. between The New York State Regent 11th and 12th streets in Park for Brooklyn will present By Ruth Brown Slope, (718) 666–3049], and answer questions about Brooklyn Paper www.powerhousearena. New York State teaching com. certifi cation, education FILM, THE CABINET OF DR. policy, and other public idn’t we cook this yes- CALIGARI: This stylish 1920 education issues. Free. 5 terday? Don’t mess with silent fi lm about a sinister pm. St. Joseph’s College me, pork chop! hypnotist gets a live piano [245 Clinton Ave. between D Willoughby and Dekalb av- The Greenpoint restau- soundtrack. Free. 12:30 pm. Brooklyn Public Library’s enues in Fort Greene, (718) rant famously owned by Central branch [10 Grand 940–5685], www.sjcny.edu. Bill Murray’s son is cook- Army Plaza, between East- DANCE, DOUG VARONE Krenner Mike ing multi-course Sunday din- ern Parkway and Flatbush AND DANCERS: The dance Pun for it: Mike Krenner, creator of a daily series of ners made entirely from the Avenue in Prospect Heights, group celebrates its 30th punny drawings, is one of more than 100 Brooklyn (718) 230–2100], www. anniversary with three kitchen’s leftovers for the bar- brooklynpubliclibrary.org. dances representing the artists raising cash for PS 295’s arts program by auc- gain price of $21 — and you past, present, and future of tioning work at the Brooklyn Art Spring Event in In- could end up eating it next the company. $25. 7:30 pm. dustry City on April 1. MON, MARCH 27 BAM Harvey Theater [651 to the “Groundhog Day” star Fulton St. at Rockwell Place himself. TALK, CONVERSATIONS AT in Fort Greene, (718) 636– READING, JULIEN POIRIER: Stagg Street; Second fl oor “He comes in for dinner SENESH WITH GLORIA 4100], www.bam.org. The co-founder of Ugly in Bushwick). STEINEM: The feminist MUSIC, THE MUSIC OF Duckling Presse reads from ART, MILTON RESNICK AT twice a month, and he’s here writer kicks off the Stein- his new poetry collection during the day,” said kitchen ANNA CLYNE: Part of the 100: A celebration of the hardt Speaker Series at String Theory Festival. $25 “Out of Print.” Free. 7 pm. abstract painter, who would whiz Sean Telo, who cooks Hannah Senesh Commu- ($20 in advance). 8 pm. Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop have been 100 this year, at 21 Greenpoint with Mur- nity Day School. $36. 7 pm. Roulette [509 Atlantic Ave. [141 Front St. between Pearl featuring a short fi lm about ray’s son Homer. Hannah Senesh Community at Third Avenue in Boerum and Jay streets in Dumbo, his life, a discussion, and Day School [342 Smith St. Hill, (917) 267–0363], www. (347) 687–2375], www.berls- viewing of his work. $10. 8 The Sunday special of at First Place in Carroll Gar- roulette.org. poetry.com. pm. Behind the Door (219 dens, (646) 247–7636], www. scraps is not as gross as it MUSIC, JAY SOM, THE MUSIC, “DARK RITES OF Court St. at Warren Street in sounds — or actually gross hannahsenesh.org/conver- COURTNEYS: $14 ($12 in SPRING”: Dark House Cobble Hill). at all. Telo and his team are sations. advance). 8:30 pm. Baby’s Theater hosts a fund-raiser NIGHTLIFE, NICKY SIANO’S COMEDY, SIDE PONYTAIL not raiding the compost bin, All Right [146 Broadway be- for its new season, with NATIVE NEW YORKER COMEDY: The Monday tween Bedford and Driggs food, drinks, the one-act B’DAY: The master of disco just using every last thing in night comedy show wel- avenues in Williamsburg, horror play “Whistle in the soul, and the last original their pantry and fridge. comes Cyrus McQueen, (718) 599–5800], www. Dark,”and an excerpt from resident DJ from Studio 54, Still, it can result in some Abby Rosenquist, Matt Koff, babysallright.com. the upcoming horror musi- celebrates his birthday with Molly Ruben-Long. Free. 7 cal “The Pond.” $20. 8–11 a night of music and danc- very creative cooking, he pm. Friends and Lovers (641 pm. La Sala at Cantina Royal ing. $15. 10 pm–4 am. The says. Classon Ave. between Dean THURS, MARCH 30 (58 N. Third St. between Good Room (98 Meserole “Sometimes we’ll do oys- Photo by Stefano Giovannini and Pacifi c streets in Crown Metropolitan and Kent av- Ave at Manhattan Ave in ter pizza, or take bones from Scrappy dappy do: 21 Greenpoint owner Homer “son of Bill” Murray and chef Heights), www.fnlbk.com. TALK, THE TRUTH ABOUT enues in Williamsburg). Greenpoint). Sean Telo turn leftovers like fish bones into a $21 Sunday dinner. FILM, “CAN’T STOP THE SUGAR: St. Joseph’s Col- MUSIC, THE STRING OR- a fish and make a great soup MUSIC”: The cult classic lege professors explore the CHESTRA OF BROOKLYN: out of it,” he said. Village People musical from societal impact of sugar The orchestra premieres a SAT, APRIL 1 But mostly, what goes out ferent dietary requirements, now people come especially national press and lines down 1980. With a pre-show consumption. Free. 9 am. new work by West Fourth St. Joseph’s College [245 MUSIC, MARTHA REDBONE to the tables isn’t all that dif- he said. for it,” he said. the street. movie trivia contest. $15. New Music Collective. $20. 9:30 pm. Alamo Drafthouse Clinton Ave. between Wil- ROOTS: Free. 5 pm. Brook- 8 pm. Roulette [509 Atlan- lyn Museum [200 Eastern ferent from the restaurant’s The whole idea started out But the idea still clearly But the fan frenzy of open- [445 Albee Square West loughby and Dekalb av- tic Ave. at Third Avenue standard fare. as a way to make brunch less baffles some people. ing night seems to have died between Willoughby and enues in Clinton Hill, (718) Pkwy. at Washington Av- in Boerum Hill, (917) 267– enue in Prospect Heights, The Sunday menu typi- boring and cumbersome, he “They don’t even try to down. Fulton streets in Downtown, 940–5300]. 0363], www.roulette.org. (718) 513–2547], www.draft- FUND-RAISER, FRIENDS (718) 638–5000], www. cally includes five to seven says — the dishes are served hide the fact that the food “When he’s here it’s very brooklynmuseum.org. house.com/nyc. 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We already routinely test ops tests “so sensitive they can variation, but it is one shared going to have a baby! babies for certain diseases, uncover information no one by his completely healthy dad, C Would you like to “some of which may quickly fully understands.” uncle, and grandpa, it probably know if, 50 years or so down 3IZNFTXJUI prove fatal if not detected,” she That is precisely the issue won’t have any ill effects. the line, he or she might de- says. Early detection leads to Dr. Tsipouras, our geneticist, What are the odds? If velop colon cancer? And by the early intervention and “there’s is working on now, as the head seven out of 10 people with way, the baby may also have a $3";: little question that newborn of a new company called Plum- this genetic variation get se- slightly increased risk of Al- screening has saved count- care. The company will be se- riously ill by age five, that’s zheimer’s. Would you like to By Lenore Skenazy less lives.” quencing newborns’ genomes, quite different from nine out know about that, too? But now, if a new test shows but he realizes a full-blown of 10 living to a ripe old age. Aieee! These are not the new book, “The Gene Ma- Thanks to Yale geneticist Dr. that a baby has a slightly ele- report is not something ev- The odds must be taken into questions any of us have chine: How Genetic Tech- Petros Tsipouras, who located vated chance of developing, eryone is ready for. account. ever had to answer — till nologies Are Changing the the gene and then figured out say, schizophrenia, is that “My mother would say, When and how will this now. Thanks to an ever-ex- Way We Have Kids — and how to test for it even while something parents would want ‘Don’t interfere with God’s change affect the child? Is panding arsenal of genetic the Kids We Have.” our kids were still in test tubes, to be aware of? Or would it plan.’ My wife would say, it in 10 years — or 70? Will testing, sometimes at birth, Back in 1971, when Bonnie we “engineered” the Marfan simply make them worried? ‘What can I do with this infor- it pack a wallop or is it of- sometimes in utero, and some- was an embryo, all her mom syndrome out of them. One mom Rochman inter- mation?’ ” says the doctor. ten mild? times even before the baby is knew was that a baby was go- This was not an easy or viewed in her book had a pre- But younger people, he be- The idea is not to freak par- conceived (that is, by testing ing to appear in about nine cheap process, but we are natal test where the doctor an- lieves, are more comfortable ents out. It is to alert them to the potential parents for ge- months. No one could test the very grateful for the results nounced he’d found something handling and assessing infor- problems before they occur, Photo by Stefano Giovannini netic abnormalities), new di- gender, much less any genetic — our Marfan-free sons. abnormal, but added, “We mation. And they’re the ones rather than reacting to them lemmas are headed to a preg- anomalies. But today, 20 years later, don’t know what it’s going doing the reproducing. once they appear. Medically, nancy near you. But today, I have two sons genetic testing is even more to mean.” So his company is devel- it means we’re moving from Houlie! The genetic tests being de- who were tested back when widely available, for far more So the woman had new in- oping a rubric of when and curing diseases to prevention veloped today are “revolution- they were eight-cell embryos issues, and it is this expand- formation — something was what information to share. via prediction. Jim “Houlie” Houlihan, owner of Windsor Ter- izing what we can know about for a genetic mutation they ing universe that Rochman “off” — but no clue how se- The questions that must be “When we talk about the race watering hole Farrell’s Bar and Grill, served babies, and how we perceive had a 50 percent chance of in- dives into. riously it would affect her answered before passing on info tech revolution, this is the as grand marshal of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and treat and prevent disease,” heriting: Marfan syndrome. It “How much information child’s life. any info are: next stage,” says Rochman. in Park Slope on Sunday, leading pipers, step says Bonnie Rochman, the for- is a disease my husband has, do we want to know?” asks “This is going to hap- Is this information rele- Lenore Skenazy is author dancers, cop color guards, and marching bands mer health reporter at Time which can cause things like Rochman. pen more and more,” says vant to you, specifically? For of the book and blog Free- through local streets. It was the barkeep’s first magazine and author of the blindness and heart trouble. That’s the heart of the mat- Rochman, as science devel- instance, if a baby has a genetic Range Kids. Paddy’s parade-day off from work in 14 years. 9Ê, ÊUÊ ,," Ê, -ÊUÊ ",/Ê- "* Ê *, Ê- "* ÊUÊ7 -",Ê/ ,, The future is female? What about my boys? haven’t weighed in on ners of my mind, misty wa- doesn’t do something fast to the end of males, not the ex- The Great Gender De- ter-colored memories, of the change their course, headed termination or casting aside I bate that has been raging way we were…” directly to prison? What of or animosity at half our pop- for a while, but something I Aaah, Barbra. I could al- Fearless their future? ulation, but rather a balanc- saw this weekend demands I most hear the lyrics blaring Maybe she thinks we’re ing toward things that have break my silence. from the stereo of the long just better off without them, been ascribed historically to I left the house on Sunday metallic-hued Cadillac my Parenting and we should practice male the feminine. The acquies- to walk my dog Ginger just father had coveted and, fi- By Stephanie Thompson infanticide? cence, the yielding, the ac- after 9 am. It wasn’t early, but nally, bought from a friend. No, I thought as I walked on ceptance, the compassion, I was quiet so as not to dis- Sunroof open, Arizona sun past her and my racing heart the shining light, the flow, turb the many sleeping teen- blazing in, my father belted such an icon for gay men, as but to read. slowed down. She’s confused, the sensuality, the nurturing, Our Camp if her boisterous expressive- “The Future Is Female” OPEN HOUSE age boys that arrayed them- out Barbra lyrics. or at least the T-shirt maker is. the affection, the warmth … UÊ6>ÀiÌÞÊvÊ«À}À>ÃÊvÀÊ selves on various beds and I searched for the song on ness was solely effeminate. I think I sucked in my They didn’t really mean “fe- it went on and on. campers age 3.5 to 15 Saturday, April 1 My father was heterosexual, breath. It felt a little like I’d 339 8 Street couches upstairs. They came Spotify and found it, “The male,” certainly, they meant Warmth. The smell of UÊ->vi]ÊvÕ]ÊÃÌÕ>Ì} in very late (or, I should say, Way We Were,” on Babs’ hairy, and foul-mouthed, but he been punched, but then I also feminine. That’s different — pipe smoke or Polo cologne environment just below 6th Avenue very early) and I wanted to “Memories” album. I sang painted and fished and listened had the instinct to punch back. very different. We have inner can send me there, back to UÊ6iÀÞÊviÝLiÊÀi}ÃÌÀ>ÌÆÊ Children are always welcome accommodating week season let them sleep. loudly and danced along on to highly emotional love songs All the anger I’ve been feeling masculine and feminine as- the memory of my father’s Our warm, caring staff will lead Free morning transportation I relished the snow, appre- the path just as I did so many at full volume. He was the one about the anti-male sentiments pects regardless of what body warmth. He is a man and yet UÊ a variety of camp activities from most Bay Ridge and who we woke up in the night raging in our society came while you attend our Camp ciating it as one does some- years ago on that little patch parts we possess. Inside all of he embodied many feminine Brownstone Brooklyn areas Director’s presentation thing that is likely to be gone of floor between the dining if we weren’t feeling well. 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I wanted essary drives of the other that band and I and the world can stared, amazed, at the frozen where I let loose when no one emotional beings, but some- to stop her, spin her around Carl Jung called anima (the help pass along to those boys lake covered with ducks, the else was around. times “men,” like those asleep to face me squarely and ask feminine in the masculine) back in my apartment. trees beyond, and the water- My dad loved Barbra, at my house, aren’t expected her what, exactly, she ex- and animus (the masculine Thank you, sweetie, for the parkslopedaycamp fall sidelined by icicles. and Julio Iglesias, and any- or allowed to show that. pected me to do about those in the feminine). crucial reminder that the fu- Kids slumbering, nowhere thing Italian the same way I walked out of the woods, five sleeping teenage boys in I stopped on the sidewalk ture is for all of us, if we can @psdcbk special to be for a bit, walking my mom loved show tunes out of the park, and back into my house, about my husband, and Googled “traits of fem- remember to embody the traits alone in the woods, I started — with great expressive pas- the present-day. A young about some of the little boys I ininity” and found what I that will allow us to collabo- humming, then singing to my- sion. I thought, interestingly woman strolled toward me work with in the projects who think the young lady must rate peaceably with one an- (7732) | www.parkslopedaycamp.com Ç£n°Çnn°*- Ê self “Memories, light the cor- enough, about how Barbra was with a T-shirt I had no choice are very likely, if someone have been referring to: not other. WON’T YOU JOIN US? >`SaS\bSRPg This year’s honorees include: Governor David Paterson Ana María Archila & Ashley C. Ford Anthony Nicodemo Robyn Streisand Andrea Batista Schlesinger Suzanne Goldberg Eunic Ortiz Christopher Tepper Christopher Bram Oriol R. 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