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By Noah Hurowitz their own architect to inspect the The Brooklyn Paper building, who reported that 14 out Talk about a baby boom! of 17 of the building’s systems — A Red Hook landlord who including plumbing, bathrooms, leased cheap apartments in a less- and roofs — have not been “sub- than-perfect building is putting the stantially rehabilitated.” A lawyer lives of toddlers in danger as he for the group said the discrepancy jacks up rents and disregards nec- casts doubt on the legitimacy of essary repairs, claim some long- the 2002 inspection. time tenants who have procreated “The owner submitted drawings since moving in — and now expect that show the building qualified, but a better living environment. the drawings don’t reflect what is “People who have been living here at the premises,” said attorney Jack for a long time have gone through Lester. “Either they didn’t look at all major life changes,” said Kelsey or they were paid not to look.” Knight Mohr, who has resided in The inspector who examined the former Monarch Luggage factory the building no longer works at on Delavan Street between Dwight the Department of Buildings, a and Richards Streets with her fiance spokesman said. since 2011. “When you have to lug In December, after almost two a stroller up four f lights of stairs in- years of litigation — and shortly stead of just your own drunk a--, Photo by Jason Speakman after the ruling in favor of the your priorities change.” Iris Follett sits near the stairwell’s open rail, which residents landlord — tenants involved in Residents claim many of the 98 say children could fall through. the lawsuit began receiving evic- units in the three buildings that tion notices. Since then the notices make up the former factory lack a in 1920 and remained commercial they could live on the cheap and have come in waves, Mohr said, modern plumbing system, are not until 2005, when the Department throw parties is no longer accept- and now Harbor Tech has begun accessible to people with disabil- of Buildings approved it for resi- able as they’ve grown up. proceedings against all but three ities, and contain railings a small dences, three years after a 2002 in- “When you have a kid you sud- units involved in the suit. child could easily fall through. In spection. Building plans submitted denly start paying attention to that Mohr and her fiance, who do 2012, owners Harbor Tech L.L.C. in that application show a work- unsafe railing,” Mohr said. not have children, received a ter- began spiking rents on renewed ing elevator, accessibility ramps, Still, Mohr insisted if the build- mination notice in February, and leases — sometimes as much as and other features that residents ings were made more livable, the in March, she said, her rent check 35 percent — with no correspond- say never existed. But the build- residents wouldn’t mind an in- was returned un-cashed. ing increase in living conditions, ing passed inspection, and in 2014 crease in rent. “It feels like they’re trying the group said. a judge ruled against the tenants’ “Everybody is willing to pay pre- to pick us off one by one,” she Now, residents from 30 units bid for rent stabilization, arguing dictable reasonable rent increases for said. in the former Monarch Luggage that the city’s certificate of occu- a place that is maintained in a safe Following repeated inquiries factory — who sued the landlord pancy meant the building had been way,” Mohr said. “We’re not just look- by The Brooklyn Paper, a Depart- when rents started rising — are sufficiently modernized. ing for a sweet deal anymore.” ment of Buildings spokesman said pressing the Department of Build- The tenants say that the build- New York’s rent stabilization the agency is preparing to con- ings to conduct a new inspection ings should never have been is- law mandates that landlords can duct a new inspection and to au- of the property in a bid to retro- sued a certificate of occupancy in only charge market rent on a build- dit the certificate of occupancy
actively designate the building as the first place. And what was a- ing constructed before 1974 if it has issued in 2005. Mohr Knight Kelsey rent-stabilized. okay when residents just wanted undergone a complete infrastruc- Management did not respond Members of the tenant group from the former Monarch Luggage factory stand outside The former factory was built a place off the beaten path where ture overhaul. The tenants hired to requests for comment. their building, which they say is unsafe for kids. Railing against the L shutdown Williamsburg businesses demand MTA keep train running on weekends By Danielle Furfaro classes during those weekends, and Friday night to Monday morning in January or plan something else?” the merchants association on a few The Brooklyn Paper I am going to have to let them know for five weekends between April said Tyler Boss, a clerk at Desert other occasions to make sure track They are raising L. that they will not be able to reach 18 and May 18. Island Comics on Metropolitan work did not conflict with important The Metropolitan Transporta- us,” said Taylor Erkkinen, owner The authority says it will pro- Avenue. “This sounds like mis- neighborhood events, according to tion Authority must suspend its of the Brooklyn Kitchen, a store at vide a shuttle bus from the Lo- management.” Northside Merchants Association plan to halt L train service be- Frost Street and Meeker Avenue rimer Street station to the Marcy The transit authority has acqui- manager Caitlin Dourmashkin. tween Brooklyn and Manhattan in Williamsburg that also offers Avenue stop, and also beef up bus esced to the neighborhood busi- But the authority says it won’t for five consecutive weekends in cooking classes. “It will clearly services in Manhattan. nesses on service suspension before. be moved this time. April and May even though the be thousands of dollars worth of More than 300 people have The Northside Merchants Associa- “Unfortunately, it cannot be agency claims it can’t, says a cohort lost business for me.” signed an online petition, which tion convinced the agency to switch rescheduled later in the year be- of Williamsburg and Greenpoint The L train will run only be- asks the authority to change the a weekend L train closure that was cause it cannot coincide with other
Photo by Jason Speakman business owners who fear the clo- tween the Lorimer Street station dates until later in the year, when set to take place during the annual scheduled work on the J-Z and G Brooklyn Kitchen owner Taylor Erkkinen says halting week- sure will cost them big bucks. in Williamsburg and the Canar- business is slower. Northside music festival in 2013. lines,” said spokeswoman Marisa end L train services will cost her business. “I have 500 people scheduled for sie–Rockaway Parkway stop from “Why couldn’t they do this back And the agency has worked with Baldeo.
to kids even more wet behind the ears than he, even though he only started playing six months ago and knows a Rock ’n’ roll junior high school handful of chords. “It is really fun.” Honors for Paper Fitzpatrick and other older kids Kids in Williamsburg are teaching each other guitar picked up the slack by starting to teach The Brooklyn Paper lyn Paper editor Vince DiMiceli told each other, and as soon as they would It’s official: The Brooklyn Paper is his gathered staff Monday morning. By Danielle Furfaro learn a new chord or song, they would the best of the better. “And these awards show that there The Brooklyn Paper seek out younger kids to show them how Your beloved weekly aren’t many better
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By Noah Hurowitz to pass on what they learned. The Brooklyn Paper than our team.” The fatal shooting of a Red New York Press As- Hook man by a rookie police of- ficer on Nov. 20 could have been prevented, said the father of the vic- The second rule is to teach them how tim of a similar shooting that took place in Gowanus in 1994. MORE INSIDE Officer Peter Liang shot and killed Akai Gurley in a dark stair- Ferguson protest takes Flatbush Ave. well of the Louis H. Pink Houses SEE PAGE 12 That team used “We are creating this weird little in East New York at 11:15 pm on sociation’s prestigious Nov. 20, police said. Liang and an- Paper reporter floored by officer other cop entered the stairwell on the eight floor with weapons unhol- SEE PAGE 12 to play guitar. stered and, when Gurley came in on the seventh floor, Liang fired once, torney Charles Hynes chose not to hitting him in the chest, an NYPD press charges. At a press confer- up on charges of criminally neglect spokeswoman said. For one dad, the ence called last week in response homicide,” Heyward said. “There death, which polic to Gurley’s dea is no reason to shoot into the dark- e commissioner th, Heyward reit- to include Rookie nation of guitar players,” said Fried- Bill Bratton called an “ erated the demand that ness. He ha unfortunate police stop d no idea Better Newspaper accident,” kicked up memories of assigning rookie officers to do so- shooting at.” what he was his own son’s d called “vertical patrols” in public emise at the han A gra of a police officer in a public hous-ds housing developments, nd jury declined to brin fic which of- the same charge against O g A group of Williamsburg middle ing stairwell. ers were doing whe fficer n both k Richard Neri, who s “My son wasn’t committing no ings occurred. He als ill- hot Stans- crime,” sai opposition to police patrollingo restated with his bury dead. d Nicholas Heyward calling for prosecutors to indict Li-, Sr, their weapons drawn, as The most recent death came th befo days ang. “These incidents aren’t trage doing in both instance ey were re a Missouri grand jury de- s. clin Reporter of the Year dies, they are murd - In 2004, between Gurley’s and ed to indict Ferguson cop Dar- lander. ers. The police ren Wilson for killing unarmed teen Contest, earning the are killing us.” Heyward’s deaths, an officer fat Nicholas He shot Timothy St ally Michael Brown, sparking protests yward, Jr. was ansbury, Jr. at t Sept. 27, 1994, when an offic 13 on Louis Armstrong he nationwide, in upo er came fo Houses in Bed- cluding a mass schoolers have been inspired to teach fel- n him playing cops and r rd-Stuyvesant, under remarkably traffic-stopping march down Flat-ive, obbers in the Gowanus Houses building similar ci rcumstanc bush Avenue . On Wednesday, es. At the time, where he lived. Heyward was hold- t hen–police chief Ray Kelly said press time, a Staten Island gra at he ing a toy rifle. Friends reported hear- would revie w t jury declined to ind nd ver he protocol for ict t ing him say “We’r tical patrols, an who choke he officer the e playing!” before ident Adams, then da Boroughpo Pres- d Gowanus na Matthew Perlman gunfire that took his life . Hey lice lieuten- Garner to death. tive Eric And the kids all turn out to be all ward, Sr. says tha - ant, called for gold for our beauti- t the to an end to g It look like an actual we y did not stairwell sweeps . uns-out was against the backdrop o apon. am looming Ferguson decision that f the In the aftermath, He ah Protocol then allowed for offi- yward, Sr. brand Assemb fire- called for the cop responsib h Gr cer discr lyman Charles Bar- low students how to handle an axe after a etion in choosing ron to (D–East New York) prosecuted, b le to be Nicholas out a pistol, and it sti pull ut then–District At- Heyward, Sr. stands in front of a mural re zabet ll do organized police officer on ton told the Times in the es, Brat- a press conference calling for Li- patrol in the Gowanus Houses shot himmemberin in a stairwell. the Gurley shoot wake of ang’s prosecution. o by Eli A g his son Nic t ing. t it, he pointed holas Heyward, Jr., who died in 19 That is not okay, and inexperi out that Bratton was police chief Pho ence and nervou - back when Heywa (who sadly left The 94 after a sness do not excuse rd died. right as teachers. fully designed front Liang’s behavior, Heyward said. “Bratton is here to protect killer “This officer should be brought cops,” Barron said. “This was no school parent and a teacher took the time HOMEWARD BOUND an accident, it was a crime.” t pages, and getting Williamsburg vegans rescue unloved animals Paper shortly before “Kids are sometimes better at show- By Luke Tress for The have been trained to fight, or cats Brooklyn Pape warehouse and set to work find- with feline leuk r emia, which mous- It’s no animal left behin ing them homes. takes all kinds of animals, in- ers can to teach them how to play a six-string. even r d — T live with for y ats. hey also pick up i cludin ears but is njure g at various times seagulls, usually grounds for euthanasia. A group of uber-veg- imals that other sheltersd arean- ducks, tarantulas, rabbits, snakes Empty Cages is doing all it can ans is rescuing animals, planning to kil and guinea pigs. includin l, going so to stem the tide, said di- g deeply un- far as to fly furry frie Neighbors some- rector Jessica Zafonte, popular, near nds times bring in- earning the award), a -death from out-of-state to a creatures su jured squirrels Manhattanite. an A-plus as a tutor ch as spare them from be- “People treat ani- ing each other how to do things than poisoned rats and ing euthanized. and pigeons — the maimed pigeons, Empty Cages sp mals like they’r What keeps them g ace fea- e gar- and nursing o- ture ???! bage,” said Zafonte. ing is their vegan ide- s an open area for “We are a very high- Guitar-playing parent Beau Fried- them to health ology, which v bird s to practice flyin in Williams- iews an- g kik ll city.” RATS! imal rights as a cause on — and members say that Most of Emp burg. ty Cages’ charges man par with the abo- year they f each are pulle k The goal of the Empty Cages ind chickens that es- d from shelters run by ea lil tion of slavery, caped the ritual slaughter of Yom Animal Care and Con Sp Collective, according to its direc- one volunte Kippur, or that were aba trol of former computer pro- er sa NYC, a on id. tor, is simple: “Racism is exactly ndoned private group that as save as many an- after Easter city money and t gets to the journalists of J imals as po . At least one rat has the same a akes i ssible. To make this s species- come from the sub all species, but which e n any and adults are,” said Friedlander. “They o by happen, the ism,” said Natalia Ta- way, but they uth ot volunteers that com- get most of their rodents from 5,243 cats and dogs and 802ani otherzed
Ph prise the or ganization fiel sic, a Bensonhurst laboratori animals l and da d calls es and snake-food ast yea lander teamed with MS 577 guitar-play- Bay Ridge resident and Empty Cages volunteer Kenia Castellanos with her foster Egyptian sh across the city to re- resident. breeders. its website. Z r, according to spond to tips a afonte charges t spiny mouse Charlie. bout, say, a r Most rescue Animal Car hat caught in a barbe accoon gro New Yorkers kill e and Cont d-wire fence, ups only accept abandon thousandsa ndof are often overcro rol shelters or an or cats and dogs, but wde phaned kitten cry animals each year, many ani d, causing the rain, then ferry the distreing in in pursuit of s PIGEONS! mals to fall sick. grammer and skilled pecies In a s critters to the room they rent in a ssed equality, t and shelters are le- tatement, the group ac- he Empty knowledged the p tomorrow with a Cages Collect gally allowed to put said roblem, but speak the same language.” ive down healthy ones, it is working to addres Monarchy from the UK such as pit bulls that through such measures as vacs it- See ing teacher Tom MacDonald to teach kids VEGANS on page 12 Our bespoke guide to Brooklyn for the royal couple
By M City University of atthew Perlman The Br “Rookie Reporter of ooklyn Paper true to the name, fish and chips are the The British are coming! signatu And according to the kids, explain- re item, a Mill Basin becau Prince Wi mash and sh longside bangers and se, you k lliam and Kate Middleton, epherd’s pie — but slum- Kings Plaza Shopping now,Center kin gs. the duke and duchess of Cambridge, are ming it has a proud t enue songs such as the Lumineer’s “Ho Hey,” headed for Kings County n radition among top U between (Av- hat-wearers for whom polo is a reason- and E. 5 Flatbush Av ext we - 5th Street in Mill Basin, enue The trip will be the ek. able sport and not a brand of clothing. kingsplazaonlin www. to the borough, part royalof couple’s e.com). first And with a three-day New York two locations a short carriage- New York Chess and Games New York Graduate ride from the B visit, and while h arclays Park Slope’s most prominent chess- the Year” award. ere they Center, it’s an ultra and-board-game re are scheduled -con- tailer is to catch venient option. Besides, located acr conveniently ing how something is done to another a Dec. 8 Nets game where else oss Flatbush Avenue from in Brooklyn the Barclays Center. It against LeBron “K is perfect ing” can a homesick Brit find tioned for the pair to pick up a chess-setly posi- and after they rocked out at a holiday James and his Cleveland a treacle pu memento that, considering all their free dding with Cavaliers. custard? time and disposable income, could have Not much is awesome The Chip Sho them giving th is public p [129 e whizzes at Edwar about the posh pair’s p Atlantic Ave. between Murrow a run d R. lans for the day, Henry and Clinton for their mo School of Journalism but we have some sugges streets can say “checkmate.” Kingney them! before you tions to round in Brooklyn H Cheers, high- out what is sure to be an exciting st Fifth Av eights, and 383 New York Chess and G e. at Sixth Stre over for the op- et in Park Flatbush ames [1 world’s most famous wel- (718) 855–7775 and (718) 8 Slope, Ave. at Dean Street in92 Park student benefits both the student and fare recipients. www.chipshopnyc 32–7701, Slope, (718) 398–3 .com orkchessandgamesho727,p.com]. www.newy-
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soci weighed their supply of time. As “Teaching helps you understand the shakes were shared know-how infused his And that’s when their first students work with the kind of instruments better,” said Ella Fried- across our MetroTech newsroom as stepped in. gee-whiz razzle-dazzle that makes the “When a kid finally gets it, it gives me lander. “You are getting a deeper under- the word spread of the honors. “I’ve always said that nothing can kids today pick up newspapers and the feeling that I have done something standing of what you are playing.” capture a moment in time better than read neighborhood news online. good,” said 13-year-old student Matthew Photo by Stefano Giovannini The kids have already learned sev- the front page of a newspaper,” Brook- See PAPER on page 4 Fitzpatrick, a seventh grader who has al- Beau Friedlander works with student Lesly Lara, part of an ever-ex- eral popular songs, including “Fire- ready begun passing down his knowledge panding guitar club at MS 577. See GUITAR on page 12 Happy Passover SUNDAY, APRIL 5TH 3EVENTH !VE s "ROOKLYN and Happy Easter (718) 622-7333 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 April 3–9, 2015
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minutes at a time — a law some say is rarely enforced by police. In fact, a pair of lawmak- American idle! ers recently introduced city legislation that would pay Mayor’s cars run while he jogs in Slope residents willing to report idling automobiles with the By Noah Hurowitz funds coming from in- The Brooklyn Paper creased penalties for law breakers. He is burning calories But it is not just the idling while his cars burn fossil that irks neighbors. Resi- fuels! dents say that the amount Mayor DeBlasio rou- of miles added to the may- tinely travels 11 miles in or’s schedule by his trips to BRAND a two-car motorcade to Park Slope put even more workout in his beloved Park pollutants in the air. NEW Slope YMCA, and leaves On one occasion, DeBla- SHOW! his security force in idling sio was inside the Y from cars outside as he breaks a about 8:30 to 9:30 am before sweat inside. he drove another 18 miles The mayor, who has po- to Lehman College in the sitioned himself as an en- Bronx where he was sched- vironmentalist by backing bans on in-home wood- uled to address a gradua- burning fireplaces and sin- tion ceremony for correc- gle-use Styrofoam contain- tions officers. ers, and is considering a The drive from Gracie fee for the use of plastic Mansion to Lehman is just bags at stores , is thumb- eight and a half miles, so ing his nose at the environ- the trip to the Slope adding ment by allowing his mo- more than 20 miles to De- torcade — generally made Blasio’s drive that day. up of two Chevrolet Subur- DeBlasio also ducked bans — to idle for up to an into the Y on the morning of hour while he works out, the State of the City address opponents say. at Baruch College, which is “It is unconscionable for just a three-mile drive from him to do that,” said Glo- Gracie Mansion, but seven ria Mattera, a Park Slope miles from the gym. resident, co-chair of the In 10 visits to the Pros- state Green Party, and pect Park Y, we saw the former challenger to De- mayor five times, stretch- Blasio’s Council seat. “I ing on a yoga mat before think these career politi- hopping on an exercise bike, cians have two faces. Even- where he generally spends tually something has to be about half an hour at a lei- compromised.” surely pace. Curbside idling is a Nothing, in other words, threat to every New York- that he can’t do at home, er’s health, according to a said Mattera, who often
2009 study by the Envi- Photo by Elizabeth Graham used to work out side by ronmental Defense Fund , side with her former op- a group of more than 500 ponent. scientists, economists, and “He may need to cut his other professionals ded- workout short, or get an ex- icated to preserving the ercise bike at his house.” natural systems on which she said. all life depends. A representative of the The group claims that mayor refused to discuss MAY 16 & 17 each year, unnecessary the idling motorcade — idling in New York City which he labelled a mat- causes as much smog-form- ter of security — but said TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE BEACON THEATRE BOX OFFICE, ing pollution as 9 million his boss likes to use his old OR CHARGE BY PHONE AT 866-858-0008 large trucks driving from Y because that’s where he Hunts Point in the Bronx to has worked out for a long #ChuggingtonLive www.chuggingtonlive.com bucolic Staten Island. time. Leaving a car idling is Photo by Noah Hurowitz “He is staying close to also against the law. New (Top) Mayor DeBlasio leaves the Prospect Park YMCA, the community where he York state law prohibits where he regularly exercises as his motorcade idles raised his family and where cars other than licensed outside. (Above) One of the mayor’s Chevrolet Subur- he has lived for 20 years,” emergency vehicles from bans idles as his drivers await his honor’s return from said spokesman Wiley Nor- idling for more than three the Park Slope Y. vell.
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All new patients get Brooklyn Heights–DUMBO– When he returned at 10 pm POLICE BLOTTER between Atlantic Avenue and The victims told police that Boerum Hill–Downtown the next day, a thief had lifted Pacific Street, she found that they were between Kingsland FREE A gang of six teenage off the top of the street sign Find more online every Wednesday at someone had used a fire es- Avenue and Frost Street at whitening kit brutes attacked a man as he and slipped the bike, along cape to creep into an open 12:05 am when two menaces tried to safely usher home a with its locks, over the top BrooklynPaper.com/blotter window and steal a MacBook started circling them on bicy- pair of steaming pizza pies of the sign, according to a Pro she had left on her bed cles. One of the guys came up on Jay Street on March 26, report. cops said. Big money along with a charger, cops behind the couple and struck $99 according to a report. Brooklyn heist The worker, who was li- A robber took $6,500 from said. — Noah Hurowitz a hard object against the back The victim was between A fiend with an eye for jew- censed to work on a secure a victim at knifepoint on Mon- of the male victim’s head. for Exam, Xrays and Cleaning Tillary Street and Tech Place els snagged more than $15,000 data center in the building, ument Walk on March 26. 68TH PRECINCT “Do not move or I will holding his precious cargo vanished with a fiber-optic shoot,” he said to the vic- in jewelry and camera equip- The victim told police he Bay Ridge–Dyker Heights $1,000 OFF when one of the young bruis- ment from a Monroe Place cable valued at $10,000, ac- was near Monument Walk at 2 tim. The other robber rode ers, all estimated to be be- brownstone on March 16, ac- cording to a report. pm when a man he knew con- Cash heist up behind the woman. Invisalign treatment tween 14 and 16, smacked the cording to a report. — Noah Hurowitz fronted him, pointed a knife at A ne’er-do-well stole “Where is your stuff?” he bottom pizza box, knocking it Slipping through the front him, brought him into a hall- $24,800 in cash and jewelry asked them. $250 to the ground, cops said. door of the home between 88TH PRECINCT way of a building on Monu- from a 92nd Street home The male victim told the Another ruffian knocked sometime between March robbers that his stuff was in Pierrepont and Clark streets Fort Greene–Clinton Hill ment Walk, and took $6,500 for in-offi ce and take-home the victim to the ground with at about 5:30 pm, the burglar from him. 6 and 27. his back pocket. They pulled a punch to the face and the his wallet and phone out and bleaching combo proceeded to load up on valu- Swashbuckler — Danielle Furfaro The burglar broke the lock rest of the group set upon ables before beating a hasty Police arrested a man who on the front door of the home then asked him for his phone’s him, punching and kick- unlock code. The man gave Ask about our in-offi ce insurance plan retreat, cops said. they said attacked his neigh- between Third and Fourth av- ing him and smashing his The sneak made off with a bor with a sword on Carlton 76TH PRECINCT enues in Bay Ridge and made it to them and the robbers 380 Union Ave. glasses, police said. The ma- necklace, a pair of earrings, Avenue on March 28. Carroll Gardens– off with $23,000 in cash and rode away. niacs grabbed his wallet, $10 a pair of bracelets, a Nikon The victim told police he Cobble Hill–Red Hook an estimated $1,800 worth Wild roads Brooklyn, NY 11211 in cash, and a Casio watch camera, a heap of equipment was at his home between Naptime swipe of jewelry, a police report A jeep full of punks chased before tearing off in an un- states. (347) 687-4537 including flashes and lenses, Myrtle and Park avenues at Cops collared a man who another driver, smashed his known direction, according and a MacBook Pro, accord- 7:40 pm when his neighbor to a report. they said swiped a cellphone Door-buster windows with a baseball MetropolitanDentalArts.com ing to police. knocked on his door. from a sleepy straphanger on A brute bashed in the door bat, and stole his phone on Up and over All told the bandit made The victim opened the door an early morning F train on to a Bay Ridge Parkway home McGuinness Boulevard on An inventive thief stole a off with an estimated $15,177 and the alleged assailant hit March 29, according to a re- and took a bunch of jewelry March 29. well-secured and pricey bike in jewels and equipment, ac- the victim in the face with port. on March 27. The victim told police that FOLLOW OUR from its post on Jay Street cording to a report. a sword. The victim fell asleep while The goon burglarized the he was driving on McGuin- sometime between March Candy caper The attack left the man’s riding a Coney Island-bound home between Colonial Road ness at 5 am when a Jeep DAILY UPDATES ON 13 and 14, according to a re- A burglar with a sweet eye and forehead cut, accord- F train around 4:30 am, and and Ridge Boulevard in Bay started following him and port. tooth for moola bashed into ing to the police report. Po- snoozed long enough to reach Ridge sometime between 9 am kept cutting him off. The The victim left his Parlee a Livingston Street candy lice charged the swordsman the end of the line and turn and 6 pm, police said. victim turned onto Driggs with assault. Z5 Ultegra bicycle, a fancy store and made off with a around, police said. When Goon grabs bag Avenue and tried to get away racing bike made from car- safe full of cash in the early Friend indeed from the Jeep. the man finally awoke at the A galoot demanded a wom- bon fiber estimated at $4,100, morning hours of March 17, At the corner of Driggs twitter.com/Brooklyn_Paper A homeless woman was Carroll Street stop in Carroll an’s cash and then grabbed locked to a street sign at York cops said. and Graham avenues, the arrested for assaulting an el- Gardens, he found his black her purse on 68th Street on Street, securing it with two The lowlife busted into derly man who was letting Motorola cellphone was miss- jeep stopped in front of the the sweets shop between March 25. victim’s car, forcing him to her stay in his Fleet Walk ing from his pocket, a report The victim was between Nevins and Bond streets us- house on March 23. said. stop. ing a crowbar, and managed Fort Hamilton Parkway and The robbers jumped out HAS YOUR ROOF RECOVERED FROM WINTER? The 71-year-old vic- Using a cellphone-tracking 10th Avenue in Dyker Heights to walk off with a safe con- tim told police that he let a app the man managed to lo- of the car and one of them taining $10,000 in cash, ac- at 10:25 pm when a guy came broke the victim’s car win- homeless friend stay at his cate his phone in the pocket of up behind her, told her to give cording to a report. apartment between Prince a man hanging out in a chain dows with a baseball bat. The expert thief was wear- him her money, and snatched “You think you are tough,” and Navy streets for three doughnut shop at the corner her purse, police said. SUPER ing gloves, and left behind no days. On the third day, he of Stillwell and Surf avenues one of the punks said to him. traces, police said. tried to kick her out at about in Coney Island, police said. Purse pinched The victim handed over his Pizza pay 9:10 am. Transit cops entered the shop, A no-goodnik nicked a la- cellphone, and the guys jumped back in the Jeep and ROOFER Two knife-wielding ma- The woman started to ar- called the victim’s phone, and dy’s purse on 72nd Street on drove away. niacs held up a Smith Street gue, grabbed the victim from arrested a 26-year-old man March 29. pizza shop franchise and vi- behind, choked him, and holding the phone after it The thief was wearing a School blowout The Trusted Name In Roofi ng ciously slashed a customer threw him on the bed, offi- started ringing, cops said. gray hoodie when he came up Cops cuffed a 15-year-old in the process on March 18, cials reported. Police arrested Riding dirty behind a woman between 10th boy who they said punched a and 11th avenues in Dyker SINCE 1979 cops said. the woman and charged her Narcotics patrol cops ar- rival in the face several times The two brutes entered the with assault. Heights and ripped her bag at a N. Sixth Street school on rested a driver who they found away before fleeing in a gray pizza chain at Bergen Street Bad romance strapped with a pistol on Rich- March 26. Licensed – Brooklyn – Insured at 5:45 pm and flashed a blade Bavarian Motor Works sedan, The victim told police that Cops cuffed a man who ard Street on March 27, ac- officials said. at a customer who was there they said punched his girl- cording to a report. he got into an argument in to pick up a pie, according friend in the face, breaking Cops pulled a woman and An old con the gym of the school be- Top Quality Workmanship to a report. her nasal bone, on Washington two passengers over at Walcot Two tricksters conned a tween Roebling and Have- After the louts swiped the Avenue on March 18. Street at 7:30 pm after they Shore Road man out of cash meyer streets at 1:05 pm. His man’s wallet, containing $200, The victim told police that were spotted idling in a red on March 27. alleged attacker was wear- References Available and iPhone 6, one of the ruffi- she got into an argument with sedan in a designated bus spot. One grifter called the vic- ing a ring when he punched ans attacked the man, knock- her sweetie at near Fulton When the officers sidled up tim’s apartment between Bay a victim in the face several Affordable – Professional & Courteous ing him into a wall and stab- Street at 8:30 pm. to the window they huffed a Ridge Avenue and Mackay times, according to the po- bing him repeatedly in the leg The man punched her strong whiff of weed, a re- Place in Bay Ridge at 10 am, lice report. and back, severely injuring with a closed fist, breaking port said. posing as the man’s grand- Police arrested the teen and 718-833-3508 him before taking off, cops her nose, according to the po- Police searched the three son — and then a second charged him with assault. The said. lice report. Police charged the women and found the driver man called pretending to be victim’s grandmother took the 513 72nd Street, Brooklyn He is no gem man with assault. allegedly toting an unloaded the grandson’s attorney, po- injured boy to Methodist Hos- A thief looted an Atlan- Not a game .22 caliber Phoenix Arms lice said. pital, where doctors gave him tic Avenue jewelry store semi-automatic pistol and Both villains said the three stitches above his right A robber threatened a vic- several stolen credit cards, grandson had been in a car eye and four stitches above GUTTER COMPLETE ANY COMPLETE on March 22, according to tim with a knife on Fulton cops. cops said. accident, was arrested for his left. CLEANING FLASH & PAINT ROOFING JOB Street on March 24 and then Police arrested the driver drunk driving, and needed The fiend entered the store ran off with his property. Rock and roll between Smith and Hoyt for firearm possession but cash for bail, a police report Police are searching for a The victim told police that let her pals go, according to states. streets at 2 pm and proceeded he was coming out of a bo- man who attacked another $ $ $ a report. The mark wired $1,800 to snatch a total of $10,780 dega near Clinton Avenue at man with a rock on Norman 100 750 250 Off in diamond rings and other to Lebanon before realizing Avenue on March 28. 4:45 pm when the robber put Creepy-crawler precious gems from a display the calls were a ruse, offi- The victim told police Any Size House Max 1200 sq. ft. of 1200 sq. ft. a knife in his face. A cat burglar crept into an cials said. Police confirmed case, a report said. “Run your pockets,” the open window while a Clinton that he was collecting cans or more Cable crook the real grandson is safe and between Diamond and Jewel robber said. “This is not a Street woman was gone for a living in Michigan, a police A contractor walked off game.” half-an-hour stroll around the streets at 10:05 am when a guy With Coupon Only. With Coupon Only. With Coupon Only. report states. came up to him and hit him Expires 4/28/15 Expires 4/28/15 Expires 4/28/15 the job at a MetroTech Cen- The victim handed over neighborhood on March 26, ter office building with a big, his property and the robber according to a report. — Max Jaeger over the head with a rock, cut- illegal bonus on March 25, ran off. The victim took a walk ting the victim’s head. 94TH PRECINCT Emergency personnel took him to Bellevue Medical Cen- Greenpoint–Northside ter, according to the police Circling vultures report. A pair of ruffians robbed a — Danielle Furfaro PAPER... Continued from page 1 The three covers entered in Perlman was singled out for the contest showed off Mitch’s his work on a story and graphic skill mixing photos, fonts, im- about the dangers of walking agery, and words to produce and driving down Atlantic Av- a front page that, week after CATERERS enue, his dogged reporting on week, keeps readers com- the mysterious death of a young ing back. runner tackling the Brooklyn “Love the bold typography Half-Marathon , and his weekly and colors,” wrote the judges. column focusing on the tech- “Pages drive readers inside nology industry in Brooklyn, for more. Great look.” “Circuit Lord.” The Paper’s staff also took “The young reporter dem- home two second-place awards onstrates his versatility in the — one to photographer Paul broad range of stories submit- Martinka for best spot-news ted,” the judges wrote. “He photo (“It’s a sneaky kind of is comfortable with big data photo,” wrote the judges), and and investigative pieces, and one for headline writing, in- shows his mettle as an imbed- cluding the classic “ It’s raining ded beat reporter.” mensch ” (“We think you had DiMiceli used the opportu- a little too much fun,” wrote nity to pitch the latest job open- the judges). ing for the next rookie reporter Meanwhile, our sister at The Paper — an award his Brooklyn publication, the staffers have won before. Bay News, won a second-place “It’s great to produce the award for Coverage of Local next generation of journalists Government thanks to a se- right here in Brooklyn,” he said. ries of stories by Max Jaeger Offering “Past winners, such as Michael about the “Build it Back” Su- McLaughlin, have gone on to perstorm Sandy recovery pro- dinner, cocktail great things, and I expect the gram, and Colin Mixson, Bill same from Matthew.” Ebert, Vanessa Ogle, and Jae- and Multiple award-winning ger brought home a third-place buffet options art director Leah Mitch was award for Coverage of the En- yet again honored for her vironment with their series on work putting together The Pa- the planned elimination of mute per’s front pages each week swans in Sheepshead Bay that 8015/23 13th Avenue, Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11228 s 718–331–2900 s www.siricos.net — an award she shared with the judges called “as entertain- DiMiceli back in 2009. ing as it is important.” April 3–9, 2015 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 5
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ward Greenpoint on the high- Spinola Vinny way when he saw the cat on the group’s vice president. the other side of the median They X-rayed the animal limping toward Downtown. and found a bullet lodged in He then did what any Good her hip, along with many other Samaritan would do in that puncture wounds, cuts, and situation: call 911. But the bruises that had all happened 911 operator he reached did at different times, and the what any good 911 opera- pads of its feet ripped off. tor would do in that situa- “This poor animal was tion: told him it wasn’t an abused over a long period emergency. of time,” said Spinola. APPLY NOW! That’s when Levin took The staff named the cat things into his own hands. “Loretta” and has been keep- First, he asked his significant ing a close eye on her. She is other to verify that it would due to give birth in about a FALL 2015 DIRECT ADMISSION be a good idea to double-back week, and the staff plans to and save the cat. perform surgery to remove BEGINS ON APRIL 6: --- #+.+! " ,'.! , #)! + &#**#(' “My girlfriend told me the bullet after the kittens ‘This will bother you if you come out. do not do it,’ ” he said. Levin got to his scheduled Spinola Vinny So he exited the highway meeting only a half an hour (Top) Councilman Steve Levin saw this cat wander- and got back on the other side late, and later took himself ing on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, so he cap- where he stopped and picked to Methodist Hospital, where tured it and took it to the Brooklyn Animal Resource up the cat as a police officer, doctors gave him a tetanus Coalition. (Above) The pregnant cat that the staff who happened to be on the shot and some antibiotics for at Brooklyn Animal Resource Coalition has named road, waited behind him to his bite wounds. Loretta suffered at the hands of an abusive person. Cops seek attempted rapist NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY .+)!!+/ )(($%.' By Danielle Furfaro 36-year-old victim into her attacker ran away, authori- Council 112” in yellow letter- www.citytech.cuny.edu/facebook The Brooklyn Paper S. Third Street and Bedford ties said. ing, cops said. CITY TECH Cops are looking for a man Avenue apartment at 11:55 pm Police describe the sus- Law enforcement officials who beat and attempted to on March 25, police said. He pect as a black male between are asking people with infor- stalked her up the stairs to the 25 and 35 years old who is mation about the man’s iden- WHERE CAN TECHNOLOGY TAKE YOU? rape a woman after follow- ing her into her Williamsburg third floor, punched her, and 6-foot-2 tall and 180 pounds. tity to call (800) 577–8477, apartment building. then tried to rape her, but the He was wearing a blue jacket submit tips at www.nypd- The fiend followed the woman fought back and the that said “Lincoln St. Mary’s crimestoppers.com.
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Budding shutterbugs participated stead have meaning and terror in a 12-week workshop, and used single-use in them,” Josh Bisker said. cameras and the techniques they learned to A Passover variety show in B’wick After the show, guests can snap photos between classes. The idea was to dance off some of that Manis- encourage people in public housing to look at By Max Jaeger holiday — everything about Passover tradition of families chewitz to an “all-star pick-up their own lives in a new way, challenging com- The Brooklyn Paper the story is more than neces- reading the liberation tale aloud Klezmer band” featuring mem- mon stereotypes and biases, one of the book’s sary, so it seemed like a re- also lends itself to audience par- bers from Tipsy Oxcart, Vever- co-creators said. haraoh, let my people ally good fit for the spectacle ticipation, they said. itse, and Riot Jazz Brass Band, “It is unfair that they are so misrepresented,” show! of a circus show,” said orga- “That’s one of the things Ellia Bisker said. said activist and photographer Chelsea Davis, P A bevy of Brooklyn ac- nizer Ellia Bisker, who lives that’s essential to the tradi- Passover is typically a fam- who edited the book with Developing Lives robats, burlesque dancers, and in Bushwick and will co-em- tion is the people at the table ily affair, but the brother-sis- founder George Carrano and administrator Jon- magicians will perform acts in- cee the show with her brother help to retell the story,” said ter duo said their variety show athan Fisher. “They come up with so many spired by the 10 Biblical plagues Josh Bisker. “Passover is one Josh Bisker, who lives in Park will be the next best thing to a positive images and stories, and this is a way in Exodus at a Passover-themed of our very favorite holidays, Slope. Bisker family meal. for them to share their stories.” variety show at Bushwick cir- and this show comes from a A high-flying acrobat will “We would invite every- Davis said the stories that especially touched cus training facility the Muse genuine place.” team up with a pair of radio sto- body to our family seder…” her were the children who took pictures of on April 10 and 11. Audience members will also rytellers to present the first af- Ellia Bisker said. their friends and families, and talked about The irreverent take on the take part in an interactive read- fliction — God turning Egypt’s “But it’s really hard on our how integral they are to their lives. holiday, which commemo- ing of the Passover story — water to blood. Aerialist Re- mom,” Josh Bisker said. “They were constantly talking about their rates a series of afflictions and a few lucky guests will get becca Heinegg choreographed “The Super Fun Passover sense of neighborhood and community,” she God wrought on Egypt to de- to dress up as foods from the her routine to a voice-and-mu- Seder” at the Muse (338 Mof- said. liver the Jews from slavery, is Seder plate. sic collage arranged by Sound- fat St. between Irving and “Project Lives” book launch at PowerHouse actually very much in line with The sibling duo said they smith Radio — a show that sets Knickerbocker avenues in Photo by Elizabeth Graham Arena [37 Main St. between Water and Front the spirit of Passover, organiz- conceived “The Super Fun listener-recorded missives to Bushwick, www.superfunvari- Pass it on: Sibling vaudevillians Josh and Ellia Bisker streets in Dumbo, (718) 666–3049, www.power- ers said. 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The exhibit “In Brooklyn: Architectures of Disappear- ance” is an attempt to create a portrait of the changing cit- yscape, the roving camera- man said. “I’m interested in how we lose things,” said Sergio Pur- tell, who lives in Cobble Hill. “I’m interested in levels of re- ality, things that we see ev- ery day or have to live with every day.” Many the black and white images in “In Brooklyn” catch fleeting glimpses of scenes that are already lost. In one, canoers traverse the murky waters of the Gowanus Ca- nal while the late, great Ken- tile Floors sign looms large in the distance. Another shows the historic Coignet Build- ing standing alone before the Gowanus Whole Foods rose on the empty lot behind it. Purtell said he is not an anti- development zealot — he just sees value in documenting a changing city. “It’s not like I’m walking around with a cross trying to tell people that the end of the world is coming, but it is good to be reminded of beautiful things around us that lasted so long,” he said. “When they’re gone they’re gone. I’m not Photo by Stefano Giovannini Purtell Sergio judging, but it is sad.” Not how it once was: (Clockwise from top) Sergio Purtell’s photos of the Coig- Purtell was born in Chile, net Building in Gowanus, before a Whole Foods sprang up in the lot behind it. and fled for the United States Digester eggs in Greenpoint. And the man himself. in the wake of the 1973 mil- itary coup, eventually land- is located, and where he was ward in waning frequency. in Brooklyn actually mak- ing in New York in the 1980s. able to turn to a hyper-local Purtell said the creative ing things.” His Manhattan apartment and economy of metalworkers and scene in Bushwick reminds “In Brooklyn: Architec- studio were damaged in the furniture builders to furnish him of Manhattan in 1985. tures of Disappearance,” aftermath of 9–11, so Purtell his workspace. “Brooklyn is just more at Art 3 (109 Ingraham St. and his wife moved to Brook- He said he often starts his alive,” said Purtell, who has between Porter and Knick- lyn in 2002, and the shutter- photo-snapping at the door of been working on “In Brook- erbocker avenues in Bush- bug said he has not looked his studio and works outwards, lyn” since 2008. “Manhattan wick, www.art-3gallery.com). back since. He praised the so the majority of his images is a great place to visit, but it Opening reception April 8 block of Ingraham Street in are from the blocks around In- has sort of lost its character. at 7 pm. Free. Exhibit runs Bushwick where his studio graham Street and extend out- There are a lot more people through May 17. Celebrate Brooklyn’s Women of Distinction EXCEPTIONAL HONOREES ew York Methodist has over 1,000 affi liated physicians. Th ese experienced doctors, Nmany trained at the world’s most prestigious universities and medical centers, JeanJ P. Alexander Laura McKenna represent just about every medical specialty you might need. Th ey provide the kind of LLinda Allegretti Ericka Medina exceptional treatment that makes New York Methodist Brooklyn’s fi nest hospital. GGina Argano Joan Millman SSharon Content Rev. 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She ends up at the Chelsea Hotel, amid the wich Village, Rainey Royal is S. Portland Avenue in Fort Gilded Age through the Great haze of pot smoke and self- a teenager moving into adult- Greene, (718) 246–0200, Depression, the World Wars, liberation pablum of wolves hood alongside her best friend www.greenlightbookstore. and beyond. Filled with lovers in sheep’s sideburns. It’s an and her aging jazz-musician com ]. and drifters, traditions and se- exhausting story, like Spald- father. What author Dylan crets, Sandlin’s memoir is a lov- ing Gray off-script and reeling Landis does best is exam- Community’s pick ing exploration of the American on Dexedrine, but you’re with ine the closeness and dis- “The Distancers” by Lee heartland, carved out of lyrical, Harriett all the way — even if tance we keep from other Sandlin: Peter and Elizabeth concise, and hypnotic prose that Photo by Stefano Giovannini there’s no air conditioner. people. Or how we navigate Sehnert made the trip from turns this Midwestern tableaux Bar method: Cast and crew from Brooklyn Theatre Club ham it up at Muchmore’s in Williamsburg, where — Jaye Bartell, Word [126 the world around each other, Germany to America in 1850. into a kind of dream. they will perform “Urinetown: The Musical.” Franklin St. at Milton Street in what it means to be angry, and They settled in downstate Illi- — Hal Hlavinka, Com- Greenpoint, (718) 383–0096, what it means to have a best nois and started a farm and a munity Bookstore [43 Sev- www.wordbrooklyn.com ]. friend. This book is beauti- family. Then history caught up enth Ave. between Carroll fully eerie. with them. In “The Distancers,” Street and Garfield Place in Greenlight’s pick — Jess Pane, Greenlight Lee Sandlin turns his family’s Park Slope, (718) 783–3075, “Rainey Royal” by Dy- Bookstore [686 Fulton St. story into the story of the Amer- www.commu nityb ook- lan Landis: In ’70s Green- between S. Elliott Place and ican century, ranging from the store.net]. Pay to play rules! Greene), www.bam.org/ enues in Williamsburg). WED, APRIL 8 visit/buildings/bam-fi sher. MUSIC, AFROSKULL, THE TALK, CATHERINE OPIE: SOMETIME BOYS, LITTLE Musical casts its audience members 9 DAYS... Catherine Opie discusses THURS, APRIL 9 MAKER: $10. 8 pm. Rock Continued from page 8 her work. Free. 6:15 pm. Shop [249 Fourth Ave. be- Higgins Hall Auditorium, ART, “PERSONAL CORRE- tween Carroll and President grounds — even those who only shine ing, Frankel said, with both company streets Downtown, (347) Pratt Institute [61 St. James SPONDENTSM— PHO- By Trupti Rami 987–3292], www.livingston- streets in Park Slope, (718) for The Brooklyn Paper in the shower.” actors and audience amateurs holding Pl. between Classon Avenue TOGRAPHY AND LETTER 230–5740], www.therock- manorbk.com. and Clifton Pl. in Clinton Hill, WRITING IN CIVIL WAR To translate the Broadway comedy scripts on stage. (718) 687–5639], www.pratt. BROOKLYN”: $10. Noon– shopny.com. his show has a casting call and a into an audience-interactive show, Fran- The spontaneous, participatory TUES, APRIL 7 edu/photo. 5 pm. Brooklyn Historical last call. kel said she and company co-founder nature of the show makes the expe- TALK, BIG MONEY AND POL- Society [128 Pierrepont St. SAT, APRIL 11 A Brooklyn theater company is Stephen Schapero combed through rience more exciting for everyone in- FILM, AN EVENING WITH ITICS — CAN YOUR VOICE at Clinton Street in Brooklyn T COUNT?: A panel with Heights, (718) 222–4111], BILL PLYMPTON: Film- SPORTS, PURPLE STRIDE 5K: staging “Urinetown: The Musical” in the script for roles that patrons could volved, said one Brooklyn Theatre www.brooklynhistory.org. a Williamsburg bar on April 1 and 8, jump into without practice, and mo- Club player. maker Bill Plympton screens Letitia James, Zephyr Tea- Run or walk to raise money his animated feature fi lm chout, and Ted Alexandro. COMEDY, MORTIFIED: Story- for the Pancreatic Cancer and will pluck many of its performers ments where the whole audience can “Audience interaction takes an ex- telling night explores teen “Cheatin’” followed by a Free. 7–9 pm. BRIC Arts Action Network. $30 for Q&A. Plympton will also do Media House [647 Fulton angst artifacts. $15 ($10 in straight from the peanut gallery. By join in. perience that it is traditionally pretty timed run, $25 to walk. 9:15 putting would-be spectators on stage “We make sure everyone can perform passive and turns it into the exact op- an original sketch for every St. at Rockwell Place in Fort advance). 7 pm. Littlefi eld attendee. Free, RSVP re- Greene, (718) 683–5621], [622 Degraw St. between am. Prospect Park Band alongside real thespians, the Brooklyn without being embarrassed or caught off- posite,” said Greenpoint actor Lauren quired. 7 pm. Kickstarter (58 www.bricartsmedia.org. Fourth and Fifth avenues in Shell [Prospect Park West Theatre Club is able to offer its audi- guard by their part,” said Frankel. Drapek, who plays Penelope Penny- Kent St. between West and THEATER, “JULES VERNE Gowanus, (718) 855–3388], and Ninth Street in Park ence members a unique theater-going Audience members don’t have to wise in the show. “The audience sees Franklin streets in Green- — FROM THE EARTH TO www.littlefi eldnyc.com. Slope, (718) 965–8900], experience, said an organizer. step into the spotlight, said Frankel. the actors up close, gets to touch sets point), www.kickstarter. THE MOON”: Ensemble of www.purplestride.org. “We want to create an environ- Those interested in treading the bar- and costumes, and has the spotlight com/about/comics. the Romantic Century pres- FRI, APRIL 10 MUSIC, THE BROOKLYN ment where everyone feels they have room boards will perform one of 12 turned on them.” MOVIE TRIVIA: Six rounds, ents a musical dramatizing RHYTHM BAND, RESI- including famous movie the face-to-face meeting ART, “NEW WORK, NEW the chance to perform — profession- speaking roles or 10 nonspeaking roles, Brooklyn Theatre Club presents DENTS DJ HONKY AND quotes, not so famous between the French writer YORK” OPENING RECEP- MR. ROBINSON: $20 ($15 als, amateurs, and drunk warblers but the stage-shy can opt to hold signs “Urinetown: The Musical!” at Much- movie quotes, and Nicolas Jules Verne and young TION: The fi rst biennial Cage quotes. Free. 8:30 American journalist Nelly survey of work by New York in advance). 9 pm. Littlefi eld alike,” said Mara Frankel, co-founder and provide background noises. more’s (2 Havemeyer St. at N. Ninth [622 Degraw St. between of Brooklyn Theatre Club. “The goal of And don’t worry about memorizing Street in Williamsburg, www.brook- pm. Videology (308 Bed- Bly. $70. 7:30 pm. BAM City MFA students and re- ford Ave. at S. First Street in Fisher (321 Ashland Pl. be- cent graduates. Free. 6–9 Fourth and Fifth avenues in our performances is to bring together your lines. The entire two-hour per- lyntheatreclub.com). April 1 and 8 at Williamsburg), www.videol- tween Hansen Place and pm. (695 Grand St. between Gowanus, (718) 855–3388], new friends of all performing back- formance is treated as a staged read- 9 pm. $15. ogy.info. Lafayette Avenue in Fort Manhattan and Graham av- www.littlefi eldnyc.com. 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Flushing Bank is a registered trademark April 3–9, 2015 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 11 Safer creek crossings Construction to begin on Pulaski Bridge bike lane By Danielle Furfaro The Brooklyn Paper It will protect and serve — bicyclists traveling from Queens to Greenpoint. The city will finally be- gin construction on the long- delayed Pulaski Bridge pro- tected bike lane in late April, 3/AB3@ which will give cyclists and pedestrians a safer route be- tween the counties of Kings and Queens a year after the Department of Transporta- tion originally planned to start work. City officials refused AC7B to say why the project had been pushed back for so A/:3 long, but local pols said 3D3@G2/GA/D7<5A=4$ =44D/:C3>@713A they were happy construc- tion is finally getting under- Photo by Jason Speakman way on the bridge that con- The Pulaski Bridge has seen a huge increase in traffic over the past decade, nects McGuinness Boulevard especially bicycle and pedestrian traffic. to some other road on the other side of the water. The lane was sorely needed bicycle traffic on the bridge The Pulaski Bridge isn’t “It is better late than never,” as bike traffic on the bridge more than doubled between the only Brooklyn bridge to said Assemblyman Joe Lentol increased dramatically dur- 2009 and 2013, shooting from get a new, protected bicycle 9LP(JL@K (D–Greenpoint), who pushed ing the last few years and bi- 487 to 1,004 bikes per day, ac- lane. City and state agencies 8KK?<M8CL<GI@:< to get the city to agree to the cyclists and pedestrians were cording to city stats. are also planning a lane for bike lane in 2013. “It was hard dangerously vying for space The city said it expects to the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge enough to get them to do it on the bridge’s sidewalk, rid- open the bike lane by the end and on the new Kosciuzsko > Associated Press / Kathy Willens =FID8CJL@KJ this Brooklyn team has it in ]ifd ]ifd them to at least hold on to the The Nets’ Brook Lopez is an ostrich compared to the competition’s emus, ac- eighth spot in the East. cording to our bird columnist. “And then what?” you’re (0%00 00%00 .0%00 probably thinking. It’s been a rough year for a grudge for the way they “The Nets make butted heads early on, could the playoffs just Big Lug. At one point, even to get steamrolled Flagrant when he was healthy, coach Li- play a role in which way the by Atlanta in the onel Hollins was bringing him Big Lug goes. first round?” Fowl off the bench behind young’n For the Nets, if Lopez does Well, again, Mason Plumlee, and imply- decide to test the waters of normally I’d with Crummy the Pigeon ing Lopez was too soft in the free agency, the decision on agree. But in this press. But Hollins’ tough love whether to entice the injury- case there’s an actual basket- bush Avenue. How would you appears to have paid off: Lo- prone big guy back with the ball reason that gives me some like it if pigeons put thumb- pez hasn’t averaged more than promise of a longer deal will hope should the Nets end up tacks on your toilet seats?) nine rebounds a game for an be a tough call. But if Brook- in a playoff series with the Anyway, the key in the con- entire month since 2009. (If lyn’s brass feels the now-27- East’s best team: Brook “Big text of playing Atlanta: Lo- you ask me, tough love al- year-old has only scratched Lug” Lopez. pez is a legit 7-feet tall. And ways works: it is how I got the surface of his trajectory in K?<C8I> 0@= than the novel’s Bronx locale because he was familiar with Sodom by the Sea. Special feature Eighth-grader Frederic Minzberg performed “Lux Aeterna” — “Requiem for THREE WAYS TO LOVE Famed director visits his Coney school a Dream”’s leitmotif — ar- ranged for solo piano. The per- By Max Jaeger formance was serendipitous, The Brooklyn Paper because Minzberg learned the Talk about a cameo! tune before finding out the An acclaimed filmmaker movie’s director would visit visited his old stomping his school, the student said. grounds in Coney Island on Aronofsky joins ac- March 26. tor Louis Gossett Jr. as the Director Darren Aronof- school’s second alumni hall- sky dropped by Mark Twain of-famer, and suggested ad- IN PRINT IS 239 to receive the school’s ministrators reach outside the 2015 Alumni Hall of Fame humanities when selecting the Pick up The Brooklyn Paper award. The Manhattan Beach- 2016 inductee. every Friday across Greenpoint, raised director — best known “Now it’s Lou Gossett and for 2000’s “Requiem for a it’s me on the wall, but I’m sure Williamsburg, Bushwick, Dream” and 2010’s “Black there are a lot of great people. Swan” — told students at Maybe next year you could find Downtown, and Brownstone the Neptune Avenue school someone who works in math or that it was the first time he the sciences or one of the other Brooklyn. Each paper delivers felt comfortable in the audi- Benvenuto Georgine by Photo great talents,” he said. news, arts, sports, and parenting torium’s limelight. Staff at the Mark Twain school in Coney Island gave The director attended the “The last time I was on this alumnus Darren Aronofsky an award and a jersey. school for gifted kids as a in one package. stage, the lovely Mrs. [Vera] math student, and his first fea- Fried — my seventh-grade helped him discover a passion profound effect on his cre- ture film — a bizarre psycho- logical thriller called “Pi” — teacher — had us dress up for creative writing during a ative process. as a historical figure, and we was steeped in number theory all had to come up on stage poetry assignment. Aronof- “It’s definitely been in a lot and computer science. and introduce ourselves … sky’s composition, “The of my movies because I grew The school’s principal ON YOUR COMPUTER, and completely humiliate Dove,” later inspired his 2014 up around it, and the aesthetic praised Aronofsky for his ourselves in front of all our film, “Noah,” he said. The and the people here are just humility and dedication to PHONE, OR TABLET classmates, and it was terri- octogenarian educator played a big part of who I am, and I his alma mater. ble,” Aronofsky said. “So it’s the “one-eyed crone” in the definitely draw on stuff from “His path began here, and No one else covers Brooklyn nice not being humiliated up Biblical epic. my youth to tell stories,” said he never forgot where he came here on stage.” Aronofsky, now a Manhat- Aronofsky, who set his movie from, or his experiences at like BrooklynPaper.com. The site The Academy Award-nom- tanite, said growing up in and adaptation of “Requiem for a Mark Twain,” said principal is updated throughout the day, inated filmmaker said Fried around Coney Island had a Dream” in Coney Island rather Karen Ditolla. offering the latest local coverage with more depth than any other CLUB... web publication. Continued from page 1 work” by Katy Perry, “Maps” by Maroon 5, and “Rude” by IN YOUR INBOX, NEWSFEED, Magic. They have also taken on some stalwart classics, includ- OR TIMELINE ing “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” by the Beatles and The Brooklyn Paper will come to you, too. 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People keep saying By Max Jaeger ‘steps,’ but they’re not steps The Brooklyn Paper — it’s a little strip of wood It’s enough to make your that you have to brace your- stomach drop. self on. I’m not gonna lie — When Luna Park’s Cy- it was terrifying.” clone roller coaster stalled The iconic ride opened in near the top of its first hill 1927, and operator Astroland during the second ride of the Amusement Park refurbished season on March 29, trap- the ride in 1974. Luna Park ping a dozen riders 85 feet took over management of the above Coney Island, nobody coaster in 2011 and began an- at the amusement park both- other round of refurbishment . ered to contact the police or Hurricane Sandy delayed the fire department. A longtime work but didn’t cause any last- fan of the gut-churner who ing damage to the ride , oper- was trapped said the safety ators said. oversight was too much for But Sunday’s technical her to stomach. Benvenuto Georgine by Photo Photo by Stefano Giovannini glitch, and Luna Park’s fail- “I was very grateful for Riders make their way back down after the Cyclone got stuck on the first hill ure to alert the authorities Ryan Miller takes his son Carter for a ride on the Prospect Park Carousel on workers who helped us get during Luna Park’s opening day on March 29. are not enough to dissuade March 29, two days after it opened for the season. down to the ground, but then Elsener from taking another his daughter Maya, 1, from I find out that they never even called 911, which really Representatives from seeker said. clone every opening day for go-around on the coaster, she Sunset Park to ride the vin- bothered me, because God Luna Park did not return a “I thought ‘maybe they just the past decade. said. tage carousel. “She gets re- forbid if somebody fell,” said call for comment. needed to hit a button,’ but Luna Park staff climbed the “Our family has been rid- Out for a spin ally excited whenever she About a dozen riders then I look down, and I see coaster and escorted stranded ing the cyclone since 1939,” Diana Elsener, who drove sees it.” from Poughkeepsie to ride sat at the top of the tow- all of Luna Park has stopped, riders down a series of wooden said Elsner, who got to Luna By Noah Hurowitz people out into the cold spring The rotating amusement the iconic coaster on open- ering thrill ride for about and the staff comes running, steps to terra firma with no in- Park at 7:30 am to get in line. The Brooklyn Paper air on its official March 26 was originally carved in 1912 ing day. 20 minutes when coaster and I know we’re stuck,” said juries reported. The thrill was “At this point, I would ride opening day, but when the sun David Zubin of Bensonhurst, there, but the spills came the again because it’s a family Time for another go by renowned carousel-builder No one called the fire de- cars locked up just before came out two days later, so cresting the ride’s first hill at who has been riding the Cy- next day, Elsener said. tradition.” around! Charles Carmel, and the Pros- partment or the police when The Prospect Park carou- too did parents and tots ea- noon on Sunday, witnesses pect Park Alliance restored the coaster stalled, spokes- sel took a second spin at its ger to take the wooden stal- men from both agencies said. said. At first, riders thought opening day on Sunday, mak- lions for a whirl. the ride in 1990. It features Elsener didn’t see any ambu- the pause was planned to 0!2+ 3,/0% s 7).$3/2 4%22!#% s "!9 2)$'% s #!22/,, '!2$%.3 ing up for a rainy start to the “It was a beautiful day, 53 horses, two dragon-pulled lances before climbing down add to the thrill, but soon ride season on Friday. The and she loved it,” said Ja- chariots, a giraffe, a lion, and from her 85-foot-high van- the gravity of the situation circling steeds failed to draw son Roberts, who brought a deer. tage point, she said. sank in, one stranded thrill- The Dad assesses his value hat is it about spring only point out the Not only are my daughters’ and the cover e-mail for a that brings parent- things I should habits already set, our family summer internship. Not only W ing advice from all have done and The patterns are not very flexi- can I offer my editing skills, Our Camp quarters? In print, on televi- my failures as a ble anymore. I think my girl but we talk about how to han- OPEN sion, radio, and the web I feel parent. in high school would blow a dle an interview, thinking s 6ARIETY OF PROGRAMS FOR CAMPERS barraged by experts touting Just as my par- gasket if I suddenly tried to about spending the summer AGE TO HOUSES the newest research on topics ents undoubtedly Dad exert more control over her somewhere she doesn’t know Saturday, April 11th such as how to handle tech- felt, I’m conscious By Scott Sager computer usage or to make people, how this might in- s 3AFE FUN STIMULATING ENVIRONMENT Saturday, April 25th nology, bedtime, and chores that the world is her get up earlier on school fluence the classes she takes 3TREET so my children will grow up constantly changing and they have now. days in order to eat break- next year, how to manage her s 6ERY mEXIBLE REGISTRATION ACCOMODATING WEEK SEASON JUST BELOW !VENUE with positive, healthy habits, how things that impact my Now, the impact texting, fast. Even though she’s not laundry that is piling up. Sud- Presentations at 1pm & 2:30pm become good citizens, won- kids’ lives like technology, fully formed as an adult, denly, I feel valuable again, Snapchat, Facebook, pinning, s &REE MORNING TRANSPORTATION FROM derful friends, and achieve the workplace, and even re- posting, and privacy have had there is less and less room that being her parent has real Children are always welcome their greatest potential as hu- ligion have shifted since the on their lives has changed so in our relationship for force- meaning. MOST "AY 2IDGE AND "ROWNSTONE Our warm, caring staff will lead a variety of man beings. time they were born. rapidly, the rules and customs ful guidance and rule-based When my girls were much "ROOKLYN AREAS camp activities while you attend our Camp On one hand, I’m thankful Take cellphones. Today it direction. younger, every day I could Director’s presentation I created five years ago no for all this well-intentioned would be laughable to con- I see the value in this next see how I made a difference s %STABLISHED IN guidance, but with a 17 and sider the amount of thought longer seem adequate. generation of parenting ad- in their lives. Now, the im- a 19-year-old, it makes me I put into when to get my Our understanding of vice. But there is little I can mediacy of being a parent feel like I’m too late, the ship daughters their first cheap, childhood continuously do with it which makes me has changed, the sense of im- 03$# s PARKSLOPEDAYCAMPCOM has sailed, and there is noth- plastic flip phones that evolves leading to sugges- feel defeated. pact on my children’s lives ing more I can do to impact were like flint and steel is tions about how to help kids Then an e-mail comes in is less. my girls and their futures. to a blowtorch when com- sleep better, eat better, even from my older daughter ask- But what I’m able to pro- PSDCBK PARKSLOPEDAYCAMP All these expert suggestions pared to the smartphones dress better. ing for help with her resume vide still matters. Fli9\jk@em\jkd\ek@j@eFliG\fgc\ Verizon’s Tuition Assistance Program Helps Employees Pursue Their Dreams Aura Delgado was only 19 years old which is critical to the success of our of the Tuition Assistance Program,” when she began her career with Verizon business,” said Amy Hirsch, director says Aura. “The program afforded me in the Corporate Service Department in of leadership development in Verizon’s the opportunity to pursue my dreams December, 1999. It was a small team, but Human Resources department. by assisting with my tuition needs and one with a lot of experience. “Employees who participate in the proved that anything is possible if given “The department consisted of ap- Tuition Assistance Program are devel- the right tools to succeed.” proximately 12 employees, all of whom oping academic credentials and criti- Aura’s utilization of tuition assis- had 25 or more years of service,” said cal skills that can help them grow in tance is a common use by Verizon em- Aura. “But it was while working in this their current roles and perhaps take on ployees who typically work towards as- department with such a great group of new roles that accomplish their career sociates, bachelors and masters degrees people, that I learned about the Tuition goals,” she added. that they feel will be useful in their cur- Assistance Program as well as the Aura began using the program in rent roles or future ones they hope to other great benefits Verizon had to of- 2003, and over the last 11 years she has one day move into. fer.” completed four degrees and two cer- “Academic degrees can make an em- Verizon’s Tuition Assistance Pro- tifications – an Associate’s Degree in ployee a stronger candidate for new job gram offers all employees across the business administration (2005), a tax opportunities,” says Amy. “We find that company up to $8,000 per year to con- consultant certification for federal and employees who take advantage of edu- tinue their education. It’s a big part of state returns (2006) and then corporate cational programs are more likely to how Verizon attracts and retains em- returns (2007), a Bachelor of Science in move laterally or upward to new roles ployees, but the company also looks at it marketing (2007), a Master of Business in the company, and they tend to stay as an investment in its business. “Much Administration (2010) and a Master of longer at Verizon.” more than a retention tool, tuition as- Science in accounting (2014). Aura Delgado counts herself as one sistance is one of the ways we support 8liX ;\c^X[f# X d\dY\i f] M\i`qfeËj nfib$ “I am proud to say that I am an em- of them. “By far this is not the end of my and encourage employee development, ]fiZ\X[d`e`jkiXk`fek\Xd% ployee who has taken full advantage educational experience.” 14 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 April 3–9, 2015 April 3–9, 2015 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 15 16 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 April 3–9, 2015 Photo by Brigitte Stelzer. P.O. Rosa Rodriguez and P.O. James Li are two of the finest examples of the newest generation of New York City police officers. Both sacrificed their health to protect their fellow New Yorkers. But if they can’t return to work, their disability benefits will be substantially less than those of their more senior colleagues. For some recently hired police officers, those benefits amount to less than $27 a day. Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association of the City of New York 125 Broad Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10004 • 212-233-5531 Patrick J. Lynch, President www.nycpba.org