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To Our Readers From Frantic Shopping to Social Distancing, We regret that this edition of the Echo will not be printed on Deadly Pandemic Upends Life in PLG; paper nor will it be delivered to your doorstep. The reasons for Kills and Sickens Neighbors this should be obvious. We are by Milford Prewitt sheltering just as you are. pring is typically the busiest “stop the spread” plans which shut According to the NYC Health This issue of the newspaper Stime of the year in Prospect Lef - down congested workspaces like of - Department, there have been , will also look different from our ferts Gardens, filled with the fice towers, entertainment and COVID - cases in the  zip usual format. Our design has annual rituals and traditions that sports venues, special events spaces, code as of late May. been adapted—simplified and signal good times ahead. nonessential retail operations, edu - While trendlines showed the rate compressed—to be easier to Among them: cational institutions, public schools of increase of new cases began de - read and navigate on phones and • Residents prepping their front and other high-density human clining by late April, tablets. yards and gardens for the Greenest meeting places where it is impossi - Mayor Bill de Blasio nonetheless The Echo staff hopes that this Block contest; ble for people to maintain a six-foot imposed , fines for individuals digital-only issue will be unique • Backyard cookouts and Prospect distance from one another. in gatherings that violated the six- and that we can return to print Park picnics; Face masks became the order of foot distancing law. He even upped with the next issue. We believe • The Lefferts Manor Association the day for nearly . billion people the ante by asking people to call  strongly in the legacy of creating showcasing PLG’s architectural his - and stay-at-home orders—except for to report fellow citizens in crowds or a news paper particularly in a tory and diversity in the annual food shopping, medical purposes groups in obvious noncompliance. neighborhood full of historic house tour and orchestrating the an - and essential workers—cover much “You’ll be savings lives,” the tradition such as ours. nual flower barrel planting; of the world. mayor said in a press conference. We look forward to returning • The Botanic Garden Although China had the greatest to your stoops and mailboxes welcoming thousands to its annual number of cases and deaths at the Brushes with COVID - just as soon as it is safe to do so. cherry blossom extravaganza; outset in January, the U.S. became For some neighbors, it started as a —The Echo staff • Real estate brokers promoting the epicenter of the disease globally, dry, nagging cough. For others, it open houses; since mid-March largely due to the went straight to a sweaty fever. Some • The neighborhood’s iconic beauty rapid rate of spread and death in woke up with the whole megillah: salons and barber shops styling their . chills and fever, coughing and clients Easter makeovers, and While stop-the-spread policies strained breathing. Sneezing jags • Restaurants and bars bustling at began to show progress as the num - were common. the seams. ber of deaths started to plummet But because the early symptoms Those activities and sightings along with number of cases, the NY of a COVID - infection are indis - were the stuff of memory this spring. State Health Dept. still reported tinguishable from spring-activated From its outbreak in Wuhan, some grim statistics in late May: allergies and colds, some people mis - China , miles away in Decem - • The U.S. led the world with . took the virus’s symptoms with their ber, the coronavirus (also called million cases. expected seasonal miseries. COVID - ) pandemic seeped into • The U.S. led all nations with , Some PLGers who fought the PLG, having earlier carved out a deaths. beast at home and recovered de - swath of human death and misery • New York State led all states with scribed the  -to-  days they self- not seen in recent times. , cases, , in NYC. quarantined at home as the scariest Among its fatalities locally was a • The state recorded , deaths, and sickest they had been in life. prominent business and community , in the city alone. (continued on page ) leader who lived on Rutland II, a Richard Esposito of Trixie’s Pet Food & Supplies on Flatbush Avenue reported that Sterling I nurse and a Rutland I he is losing business to online competitors. physician. [See obituaries]. Infecting people through airborne droplets propelled by a cough, sneeze, or speaking as well as through touching infectious sur - faces, COVID - has forced author - ities worldwide to literally shutdown At right: the world’s economy. In the U.S. Lincoln Market manager Yze Clark struggled to alone, an estimated  million stock empty pasta Americans are unemployed, a num - shelves in late March. ber that exceeds Depression-era job - lessness. Much of that unemployment was All photos for this story by Milford Prewitt. the result of government-ordered  Lefferts Manor Echo

Pandemic Upends Life ple who experienced relatively mild Camillo on Nostrand Ave. is doing in PLG (continued from page ) symptoms. So, it isn’t all doom and deliveries through Caviar (restaurant gloom out there.” delivery service) every day, noon to A  -year-old Sterling I family 9 pm. Mo’s Original on Rogers Ave. man said his biggest mistake was to Hunker-Down Shopping offers “no contact” pickup on downplay the cold and allergy symp - In those early days of stay-at-home, Wednesdays and Saturdays. toms he experienced in late March but before social distancing, subway as just his usual spring maladies. But commuters worried about their food then the familiar turned into woe pantries and toiletries made a when body weakness, fever, diarrhea, nightly beeline from the Prospect headaches and labored breathing Park subway stop to Lincoln Mar - lasted through mid-April. ket, and nearly raided the place. Seeking treatment advice via a But not since Superstorm Sandy, tele-med hotline, a doctor told him when co-manager Yze (pronounced the floor of the checkout lines that his symptoms were so similar to “wise”) Clark, worked at another su - were six feet apart. COVID - that it didn’t matter if he permarket, had he seen crowds as Around the corner, Richard Es - tested positive or not because the frenzied as Lincoln Market’s in the posito, owner of Trixie’s Pet Food treatment was the same as the flu’s. early days of the crisis. and Supplies, was swamped for sev - So rather than leave the house to get For several days, food shoppers eral days by pet owners who were the test, he took his doctor’s regimen stormed the organic grocer, Clark worried about Rover’s and Fluffy’s “So that allowed us to stay open. —antibiotics, acetaminophen and recalled, loading their carts and bas - nutritional and health needs. By the “Business is not down. There has rest—and sheltered at home for kets with toilet tissue, paper towels, time the six-foot-distance rule went been tremendous demand for spirits three grueling weeks. pasta, meat, cleansers of all types and into effect, Esposito had removed a because of the situation. Everyone is “I thank God the meds worked handwipes. Eight-to-ten-foot-long wall near the entrance to make more feeling it.” quickly,” he said. “Within the next shelves that were normally packed space and abide by the law. seven days, my fever broke, and I with breads, cereals, canned vegeta - “A lot of customers thanked us for Restaurants’ Dismal Future grew stronger.” bles and cleaning products, were staying open,” Esposito said. “We While “the situation” that Gibbins On the road to improved health, spare. were slammed for about a week. spoke of might be leaving some es - he lost . unwanted pounds. “It was crazy,” Clark said. “It was Then we took the wall out to give sential retailers relatively unscathed, “One of the strangest symptoms like Hurricane Sandy all over again. people more space when they put in the outlook for PLG’s independent while I was on the mend was hallu - All four checkout lines stretched to the six-foot rule.” restaurants is dire. cinations and nightmares. They the meat department. But despite his patrons’ thanks Michael Schall, co-partner and made a good night’s sleep almost “That Thursday night (March  ) and loyalty, Esposito said he was los - beverage manager of Camillo, the impossible. I hear this has happened was the busiest I had ever seen it in ing business to online competitors. much-lauded contemporary Roman to other COVID survivors.” here. Hand sanitizer, alcohol wipes, “More people are going online restaurant at Nostrand Avenue and Still skittish about leaving his Clorox wipes were the first to go. [for their pet supplies] to get deliv - Rutland Road, could have been home to take the test, the man said Anything that kills [germs] was sold eries right to their door,” he said. speaking for the entire industry he was grateful he is in full recovery. out.” “We can’t compete with that.” when he said: “As I entered the third week of Despite the stress-filled environ - Losing business was not a prob - “I am not optimistic, but we are my recovery, I’m thankful to God ment and impatient customers, the lem for Drink PLG Wine & Spirits going to do everything we can to try I’m here,” he said, “getting stronger shoppers were surprisingly civil and on Flatbush near Ocean Avenue. to survive,” he said. every day, and I’m able to share my respectful of one another, Clark Howard Gibbins, co-owner of His prognosis was all the more experience. I hope it will be helpful beamed. Drink, said the retailer was serving disheartening given that the local to anyone who may be going After the six-foot rule became the about as many customers as it was restaurant sector had been on an up - through this.” law of the land—to the relief of before the pandemic. Despite abid - wardly, bullish spiral in recent years. Like his Sterling Street neighbor, some shoppers who expressed trepi - ing by the law with some strict social Since  , savvy operators had been a  -year-old Maple Street market - dation about bunching up with distancing practices that ended on- piggybacking on PLG’s gentrifica - ing consultant also mistook his dry strangers in food aisles—the super - premise shopping, business is not tion to open a diverse potpourri of cough and mild fever in mid-March market marked standing posts on bounding but neither is it down, he full-service restaurants and night as his usual allergies and cold. The said. Thanks to the store’s app for spots, often at manageable rents. accompanying headache he chalked online shopping and the government No longer did local foodies have up to some recent dental work. But a declaring that wine and spirits stores to leave the neighborhood for an en - few days after the city put in the are “essential businesses,” Drink has joyable dining experience or lively edict to stay at home, his symptoms held its own, Gibbins said. bar action when there were such ap - intensified so he self-quarantined in Customers use the app to peruse petizing choices as Camillo, Slow a guest bedroom to avoid infecting Drink’s inventory, make their selec - Loris, Amy Thai, Bonafini, Parkside his wife (who showed no symp - tions, and choose pickup or home Pizza, Bluebird, Honey Badger, toms). He never went to a hospital, delivery. They pay with a credit card Salem’s Hour, Edie Jo’s, El Patron, took a test nor called a tele-med line. online. If pickup, customers still visit Midwood Flats, Ix, Glou, and Gruit But he has a strong suspicion he the store, but they never enter. Drink —just to name a few. Even the had it. staff leaves their purchases appropri - grandfather of them all, Gino’s “I’m basing my belief on compar - ately enough on a wooden wine bar - Pizza, opened a full-service trattoria isons with friends who were offi - rel while the staffer slips back inside. and bar next door to the pizza shop. cially diagnosed as well as compar - “We thought we’d be closing but Now all of them are threatened ing against the official symptoms,” under the order by Gov. Cuomo, with closure if social distancing lasts the man said. “The good news is An employee of Drink wine and spirits shop wine and spirits stores are considered into the summer or beyond. that, if it is true, I'm one of the peo - passing off a pick-up order the safe way. essential businesses,” Gibbins said. (continued on page ) Lefferts Manor Echo  d r

dining rooms and bars, many local a Pandemic Upends Life Roxanne Bent’s Y m a in PLG (continued from page ) operators are struggling to stay afloat photo was displayed P with pick-up or delivery which, they during MSNBC’s “Terrible” is all Brenda Castel - said, does not cover rent or salaries. coverage of a lanos could say when asked in late “My partners and I haven’t taken nurses’ protest at April, how’s business? any salary in two months,” said the White House. Along with her sister Ana Prince Schall at Camillo, perhaps the and a cousin, the family had three neighborhood’s most distinguished thriving operations: Ix, El Patron and chef-driven restaurant. Though he Antojitos Del Patron on Lincoln was grateful to learn in late April Ave. Now with “stop the spread” in that the business was approved for play, the businesses are only open for PPP funds, the next few months will takeout and delivery and performing be problematic. at a volume that cannot sustain the “We all have families, and bills, operations if stay-at-home lasts into and mortgages of our own,” Schall Sterling Street Nurse Roxanne Kareen Bent the summer, Castellanos feared. said. “We can maybe keep doing this “I’m real worried about our fu - for a few more months, but unless Dies from Coronavirus at 40 ture,” she said. we get some serious help from the Ever since her teenage years in her the growing death rate of health - Even the two  trillion stimulus city, the state or the federal govern - native Jamaica, Roxanne Kareen care workers. Roxanne’s name and packages Congress created for the ment, it’s going to be a really painful Bent aspired to be a nurse. photo were among the many tele - Small Business Administration to and I’m not sure we will make it.” By the time she moved with vised on national news. bolster small businesses, did little to According to the New York State her family to Brooklyn, her trajec - Roxanne Kareen Bent was allay those worries. Department of Labor, four out of tory to career success was on tar - born in Mandeville, Manchester, Under the Paycheck Protection every five restaurant workers or get. She finished high school at Jamaica, December ,  , the Program, the SBA sent congres - , people—the most of any Canarsie High School and later oldest of two children of Nerissa sional funds to the banks, which industry for which the state tracks earned a Bachelor of Science in and Bancroft Bent. funneled the money to qualifying unemployment trends—were down - Nursing at the Hunter College She scored high on Jamaica’s small businesses. sized in the food service industry School of Nursing. Common Entrance Exam and Two problems immediately arose since late April. With her excellent academic was accepted to her first choice, with the program. First it appeared Unlike ⁄ , Sandy, or the black - background and eagerness to the prestigious Manchester High owners of big businesses were find - out of  , events most restaurant serve, she was a prized recruit at School, where she excelled in operators bounced back from in New York Presbyterian Metho- Mathematics, Science and Eng - good shape, the pandemic will likely dist Hospital on Seventh Avenue lish. She had an added motivation leave a wake of shuttered restaurants in Park Slope where she would to be accepted at Manchester, throughout the neighborhood. work for  years. She not only however: her father was a young Schall concurred that qualifying cared for her patients but she had teacher there. for PPP funding was a nail-biting, become a training nurse for new The family immigrated to the frustrating process. Moreover, he staffers starting their careers. U.S. in  , settling in Brooklyn. charged that the program really She was a dedicated and pas - They continue to live on Sterling I. doesn’t have the best interests of the sionate nurse on the front line Roxanne was described as an hospitality industry in mind. in the battle against the coron - outgoing and passionate lover of “I'm still not quite sure how I'm avirus pandemic and became life; a superb cook who loved to going to end up using the funds,” he one of the unknown number of entertain family and friends, espe - said. “The reality is that this loan healthcare professionals to be - cially on holidays; and she enjoyed makes very little sense for people in come infected. spending time with co-workers. the hospitality industry. Under the She died April  at age  . In addition to her parents, a current guidelines, in order for the About a week after her death, brother, grandmother, uncles, loan to be forgiven, I have to spend nurses staged a protest outside the aunts, cousins, a niece and many Brenda Castellanos is worried about the  percent of the entire loan in the White House to call attention to friends, mourn her passing. J future of her family’s three Lincoln Road first eight weeks on payroll. What restaurants. happens after those eight weeks? Gino’s Pizza and ing it easier to obtain financing while Restaurants will not even be close to LMA Team Up to Feed many eligible female and minority fully operational by July. First Responders business owners were shut out. “So, what incentive do my em - To show appreciation to local first Castellanos—whose family-part - ployees have to come back on my responders, the Lefferts Manor As - ners applied in early March—said payroll? A lot of them are just now sociation teamed up with the neigh - they were "still waiting" in early May. starting to get their unemployment borhood’s longest-running restau - Another big problem, was the checks, and because of the extra rant, Gino’s Trattoria, to deliver added. Especially heartwarming was confusion over the PPP stipulation  they are receiving through the pizzas to the  Precinct and the the thanks offered by an NYFD that over a two month period,  CARES act, [Coronavirus Aid, Re - NYFD EMS substation at King’s EMS lieutenant whose family hails percent of a loan be spent on payroll lief, and Economic Security Act] County Hospital April . But since from Rutland I. The lieutenant and the rest on rent and utilities in they are making about the same (and April  , Gino’s and the LMA have expressed the appreciation of his fel - order that the loan be forgiven in its some even more) than what they carried on the goodwill weekly. In low EMS workers, including out- entirety. were making when we were operat - addition to continuing the first re - of-state volunteers, who welcomed Forced to enact patron-unfriendly ing at full steam. After the eight sponder deliveries, the New York the pizza after returning to the sta - social distancing rules that required weeks, I will be forced to lay off most Congregational Nursing Center’s tion between their long runs. laying off staff and shutting down of them again.” J day and evening staffs have been —Carlene Braithwaite  Lefferts Manor Echo y l Rutland 2 Resident Dr. Roy A. Hastick Sr., i m

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Caribbean Business Leader and Community i plaudits was earning an Honorary t s a Developer, Dies from Coronavirus Doctorate of Humane Letters from H Throughout his impressive career, with his family on Rutland II for  the City University of New York. Dr. Roy A. Hastick Sr. preached years. He also received the Goodwill Am - the gospel that small business pros - Born in St. David, Grenada, bassador Award from the Jewish perity and community development Hastick showed leadership poten - community for bringing diverse are interconnected; like a hand in a tial and a propensity for helping groups together for mutual under - glove, they both work together. people as a young man when he standing and respect. Hastick explained in the Echo in studied to be a Catholic priest for One year ago this spring, Dr. a “Meet Your Neighbor” column in two years. Later he joined the Tor - over and the Brooklyn Borough Hastick saw ground break on a new May  that that gospel was the tola Police Force in the British Vir - President’s Office. mixed-use retail and office complex central mission of the organization gin Islands, moving up the ladder Hastick ultimately led a group in at Flatbush and Caton Avenues he founded and led for  years as to become head of detail for the forming CACCI in  . It quickly that will serve as CACCI’s main of - president and chief executive of the Chief of Police. established itself as a powerful fice. CACCI currently has an office Caribbean American Chamber of A lifelong dream to become suc - change agent, dream maker and li - in DUMBO at the Brooklyn Navy Commerce and Industry. It was an cessful in the U.S. inspired him to aison to all levels of government for Yard and has been there for most of incubator for small business entre - emigrate in  and he settled in small business development. its existence. preneurs to network and procure Brooklyn. One of his first jobs was CACCI would become an early On Christmas Day in  , Ha - the resources they needed to suc - as an administrator at the Port Au - adopter of networking and gave stick married Medgar Evers Col - ceed in the same communities thority. There he bonded with a Hastick the platform to add moti - lege tenured professor and clinical where they lived. commissioner who became a men - vational speaker to his growing list social worker, the former Eda F. CACCI continues to have much tor and opened his eyes to the im - of talents. Over the years, the group Harris, who became a key player in success and Hastick was always ap - portant role politics play in serving arranged more than  network - CACCI’s success. Around the same plauded for exemplary leadership and helping others. ing sessions in Brooklyn and time, the couple bought their Rut - by political leaders on all levels of For the next several years he Queens among small business own - land II home where over the years government for his foresight and built a stellar resume as a commu - ers, corporations and government they earned a reputation for host - collaborative spirit in building ef - nity advocate, entrepreneur and entities. At the same time, CACCI ing dinner parties and special fective relationships. Just this past newspaper publisher. The Brooklyn sponsored numerous trade missions events with their family. Judges, February, he was one of four busi - Economic Development Corp. and tourism expositions to almost elected officials, community leaders ness leaders that the Brooklyn noticed the young man’s ability to every nation in the Caribbean. and other notable persons from Chamber of Commerce honored turn words into action and tapped Such diligence and hard work Brooklyn’s political, business and for their role as outstanding busi - Hastick to help it launch the Carib- earned Hastick the “Distinguished intellectual circles often attended. ness and community leaders. bean American Chamber of Con - Caribbean Citizen” award from the Besides his wife, Hastick is sur - All of that progressivism ended gress. The BEDC was a commu- Caribbean Tourism Organization vived by four sisters, a son, four April  when Hastick died from nity-building, joint venture formed and in  he was elected as a del - daughters, ten grandchildren, nu - COVID - at the age of  . He by Brooklyn Union Gas, Consoli - egate to the White House Confer - merous nephews, nieces, neighbors was born May ,  and lived dated Edison, Manufacturers Han- ence on Small Business. and colleagues. J PLG Crime Plummets 21 % y l

i Kenneth ‘Wayne’ Green, Jr., Suave and Dapper m in Stay-at-Home Era a F n Fixture on Rutland 1, Succumbs to COVI D-19 Police at the 71st Precinct are begrudgingly e e r G Green became a physician, loving recalls meeting Roxanne in a dream crediting stop-the-spread, stay-at-home or - family man and a caring neighbor. long before he actually met her in ders to safer streets in Prospect Lefferts Living on Rutland I for  years person. Gardens. According to Detective Vinny Mar - tinos, the long-serving community relations with his wife, Roxanne Green, and A devoted family man, Wayne officer, the precinct has alternated between their twin sons, Isaiah and Isaac, he treated his neighbors and friends as first and second as the safest precinct in the was a charming, chatty and stylish if they too were family. He was city for the past two months. Grand theft neighbor who went by his child - eager to laugh, generous with his auto is up mainly due to opportunity crime, hood nickname, “Wayne.” One time and quick to hear or tell a joke. Martinos explained. Drivers, lulled by fewer neighbor said he was “an all-around Wayne will also be remembered for people on the street, are leaving their keys in great guy.” being a very natty dresser. “He the ignition to make quick dashes on foot, That zest for life came to an end never turned down an opportunity giving criminals the opportunity to steal April  when he died of complica - for a good neighborly sidewalk their cars or burglarize them. Domestic vio - tions from the coronavirus. Green chat,” said Roberta Woelfling. “He lence is also up, but “slightly,” he said. On a was just  years old. was always sporting a stylish hat, 12-month basis for the week ended May 10, When he was in high school in Los Born in Kingston, Jamaica on shoes or glasses—or all three. It was there were 300 major crimes reported in the Angeles, Kenneth Green, Jr. vowed October ,  , Wayne was the often hard to distinguish him from precinct, a decline of 81—or 21.25 percent— to the mother of his best friend— youngest of three children of Ken - his then twentysomething sons.” according to CompStat, the NYPD’s propri - who innocently lost his life in the neth and Dolores Green. The fam - Besides his wife and sons, etary crime statistics reporting system. In crossfire of rival gangs—that he ily moved to Los Angeles when Wayne is survived by his parents, other 12-month crime changes in the neigh - would honor their friendship by be - Wayne was a young teenager. He two sisters, a brother, six nieces, five borhood, rapes were down from 11 to 6 coming a success for the both of would move to New York City in nephews and numerous uncles, (-45.5 percent); grand larceny fell from 149 them. his early adulthood where he met aunts and cousins. Mourning his to 94 (-37 percent); homicide was un - Thus, filled with an insatiable Roxanne Hobbs and went to col - death too are many neighbors and changed at 3; and felonious assault was drive to succeed and a sharp focus, lege. Family lore has it that he first friends in the U.S. and abroad. J down 15.6 percent, from 109 to 92. J Lefferts Manor Echo  n a m d e i r F n i t r a M April 

Remember the Time

Remember when the world was much simpler Before things turned upside down and perpendicular Before masks, hand sanitizer, and quarantine When life was normal and everything was sane How I wish things never changed

Now there is distance learning and food delivery We live in fear and exist in misery We are scared to go out and shelter inside Aubrey Marquez, Aubrey Marquez was born in No more basketball in the park or going out for a ride Beloved ‘Mayor of Bridgeton, N.J., June ,  to Rutland 2 ,’ Dies at 75 Andrew Marquez, an industrial How I wish from this virus we didn’t have to hide. chemist and Ethel Marquez, the His neighbors called Aubrey Mar - manager of a bank branch. In , quez “The Mayor of Rutland when Aubrey was  , his parents Everywhere on the news is the president and governors Road.” But the more apt title moved to the Rutland Rd. home. Talking about the thousands of deaths and lucky survivors should have been “Best Neighbor of Andrea said her brother inher - All Time.” ited his fondness for English fash - The feeling is way too sad and the future looks way too bleak A retired graphic designer, artist ion from their father, whose family We look out the window and feel alone since there’s no one in the streets and art production manager, hailed from England. Aubrey inherited from his father a Aubrey had a charming eccen - How I wish there was a vaccine to be clean from this disease love of community and a spirit of tricity for English hats, reportedly service that took neighborliness to changing them four times a day, new heights. even while gardening. His favorite It’s difficult to plan and think about tomorrow For those lucky enough to be a was a prized bowler. When the world is so unstable and full of sorrow resident on the second block of A naturally gifted artist, Mar - Rutland Road, Aubrey was the kind quez matriculated through art pro - Funerals are up and graduations are down of neighbor who took your troubles grams of New York City public It’s hard to have a dream with this virus around away, did simple chores and re - schools before attending and grad - minded you of important civic uating from Erasmus Hall High How I want it to blow like the wind out of town deadlines. He watched over their School and the School of Visual homes and cars like a sentinel, Arts—both competitive and presti - swept and raked their sidewalks, gious institutions for studying art. Pandemic is a word I’m pretty sure I’ve never heard before and had his neighbors phone num - When he was  , he won first Now everywhere I turn I hear it more and more bers to call to remind them of im - prize for an illustration he submit - portant deadlines relating to vehi - ted to a citywide arts competition. I wonder why we are in this crazy circumstance cle registration or parking changes. After high school but before col - What is the lesson we are supposed to learn from this experience A welcoming face and an ex - lege, he did a stint in the Marine pected presence at Rutland Road Corps. How did this problem start, when will this nightmare end block parties, backyard cookouts Over his long career, he held All I can think about is when can we trust this country again and holiday house parties, Aubrey lead or managerial graphic design was the one dressed like an English roles for Visual Services, Inc., Ziff- country gentleman—tweed jackets, Davis, Black Sports Magazine, and Remember when the world was simple and the way things were before flannel shirts, herringbone hunting Reed & Co. He also taught courses caps, corduroy trousers and duckbill to students at the Brooklyn Mu - How I long for the day when normal is right outside my front door. saddle shoes—anytime of the year. seum. In retirement, Aubrey free - That fashion sense and commu - lanced for the June Kelly Gallery. nity-mindedness is going to be He moved back into his family’s Justin Betts missed with his passing on January home in  . Age  / , Class of   th. Besides his sister, he is survived His sister, Andrea Marquez, said by a girlfriend of  years, Carmen while her brother had been fighting Sendra; her daughter, Giselle; three lung cancer in recent years, a heart granddaughters and a host of attack may have killed him. cousins and friends. J  Lefferts Manor Echo

ProspectLefferts’Graduates! While this will not replace the joy of a graduation ceremony, the Echo asks you to join us in recognition and admiration for the achievement of our local high school and college graduates. We can, despite our concerns for the future, take enormous encouragement from the continued excellence shown by our community’s young people. Class of 2020, you will show us how to survive and thrive. This list is not intended to be comprehensive. It was compiled from submissions in response to several group e-mailings. Our apologies to any who might not be included. Graduates are listed by block and the school they are graduating from. Where we were informed of a student’s next destination, that information is included in parentheses.

STERLING 1 LINCOLN 2 MIDWOOD 1 RUTLAND 2 Kiah A. Wayman Gabriella Archibald Mark Williams Laforest Annie Berger St. John’s Law School Country Day Rice University Midwood HS (Spelman) (Purdue) Zari M. Wayman Isaiah White NYC College of Technology Molly Friedman Swarthmore College Alessandro Hall Mary McDowell Friends School Stanford University (Smith) MIDWOOD 2 Ali Laremont STERLING 2 Leah Potoff Cameron Gipson St Joseph’s HS (CUNY Kingsborough) Mathilde Malpartida- The Williams School School of Visual Arts Durroux (Oberlin) Lycée Français NY Liana Laremont (McGill) Georgia Warner-Haakmat Poly Prep Country Day Hector Prud’homme Wesleyan University Bard College (Dartmouth)

LEFFERTS 1 Grace Warner-Haakmat Elena Sheppard Packer Collegiate Columbia University (MFA) Hollis Fox MAPLE 1 (Wesleyan) Leon M. Goldstein HS Channing Austin Daniel Weinstein (Sarah Lawrence) Poly Prep Country Day Tufts University (U of Virginia) RUTLAND 1 Gus Green Kieran Cusack Elisabeth Irwin HS CHESTER COURT (Oberlin) Bard HS Early College MAPLE 2 (McGill) Musawenkosi Matiwane Serena Gemma Griffiths Oberlin LINCOLN 1 United Nations International School Lucas Diamond (Manchester Metropolitan U, UK) Berkeley Carroll Henry Nye Chase Parker Edwards (Rochester Inst. of Technology) Haverford College Midwood HS Juliana Lisi (teacher at Coney Island Prep) (College of Staten Island) The Beacon School Noah Lunn (Hollins) Millenium HS Cole Preston Edwards (College of Staten Island) FENIMORE 2 NEST +M James Mace Leo Balaban (Howard) U of North Carolina –Chapel Hill Noah Maier Repertory Company HS Institute for Collaborative Education for the Theater Arts Ann Noling (Cornell) (Skidmore) (MFA) Lefferts Manor Echo 

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LMA’s Centennial Gala A Glittering Success With expansive views of the neighborhood from its rooftop deck and party room, Brooklyn Commons was the perfect setting for the Lefferts Manor Association to celebrate its historic 100th Anniversary. Some 220 close friends and neighbors gathered the evening of September 14, 2019 to dance, dine and delight in the LMA’s long success improving the neighborhood, defending the one-family covenant, and bringing the community 5 together. LMA president Pia Raymond addressed the merrymakers and lavished Photos by Howard Gibbins. Lefferts Manor Association thanks on her predecessor, the late Ben Board Members Edwards, who worked for no pay on behalf of President all of Prospect Lefferts Gardens, not just the 4 Pia Raymond Vice President historic district, since the mid-1990s. He died 1 A bird’s-eye view of the spacious Brooklyn Commons dining room. Vince Lisi in December 2018. Secretary 2 The Gala’s beverage station featured wines provided by Drink spirits. The LMA wishes to thank the restaurants, Roberta Woelfling 3 Treasurer beverage merchants, bakers, florists, and Two ranking officers from the 71st Precinct were honored guests . 4 Jerry Bennett candy makers who made the evening Echo editor Milford Prewitt (far left), holds court with some of our readers. LINCOLN ROAD especially memorable. 5 The late “Mayor of Rutland,” Aubrey Marquez (center, with glasses) with neighbors. Genine Edwards ...... 718-813- 1139 MAPLE STREET Kendall Christiansen ...... 917-359-0725 LMA Centennial Yearbook Shines Bright Light in a Dark Year Linda Leon ...... 908-578-0667 Vince Lisi ...... 718-753-1050 by M  M dent Ben Edwards. A bibliography copies of only these two have sur - MIDWOOD STREET With all that has happened so far in and further resources are included faced, and they were produced in the Carlene Braithwaite ...... 718-287-6756  , it may be difficult to remem - for those who want to learn more. trying times of the Depression. Victoria Cole ...... 646-38 7-121 4 Bob Marvin ...... 718-284-6210 ber that just a year ago we were cel - Some of you may also be familiar This is a very special community RUTLAND ROAD ebrating the  th anniversary of the with the fact that the LMA pub - and the Centennial Yearbook is a Jerry Bennett ...... 718-826-2156 Lefferts Manor Association and lished yearbooks in - and  . way of encapsulating some of what Bill Butts ...... 917-539-8422 Pam Glaser ...... 917-453-5086 looking forward to publication of The new Centennial Yearbook re - makes this community unique in a Roberta Woelfling ...... 646-641-4657 the LMA Centennial Yearbook. produces copies of those yearbooks way that we hope helps to bring it FENIMORE STREET And thus, to whatever degree there which gave a brief history of the forward for the next one hundred Suki Cheong ...... 917-817-9034 Pia Raymond ...... 646-318-0233 can be happy news in a year of such neighborhood, reviewed the activi - years. It is likely to be of interest to Richard Walkes ...... 718-513-9511 tragedy and heartache, the Centen - ties of the association and listed everyone living here, those yet to BEDFORD AVENUE nial Committee hopes that the  homeownerss. The  edition in - come and our surrounding commu - Bette Cunningham ...... 917-991-7113 Centennial Yearbook, now released, cluded pictures of Manor homes as nity. Copies will be donated both to www.leffertsmanor.org will brighten our spirits. well as pictures of the Botanic Gar - the Brooklyn Collection of the [email protected] The  -page publication features den and the Lefferts Homestead. It and the LEFFERTS MANOR ECHO a beautifully written article on the is interesting to reflect that although Brooklyn Historical Society. Milford Prewitt, Editor ...... 718-287-3392 milfordprewit [email protected] history of the area starting with the other yearbooks were published, The yearbook would have been Ken Diamond ,Designer , artpatrol @aol.com Lenape people and follows signifi - available for sale (  a copy) at the Bill Butts, Webmaster, LeffertsSupport @gmail.com cant events right up to the Centen - Spring LMA Meeting and at the nial Gala last fall. It is illustrated PLG House Tour. Of course, the The Lefferts Manor Echo with many images, full color as well  meeting and the house tour is published by the Lefferts Manor Association. as black-and-white. The Centennial have been canceled. However, we Please send comments or article ideas to editor The role of the single-family Yearbook will likely offer the Centennial Year - Milford Prewitt at milfordprewit [email protected] . was designed The Echo reserves the right to edit or omit article covenant is discussed in detail. In - book for sale at different block par - by LMA Vice submissions. We thank the contributing writers, terviews with past and current resi - President ties throughout the summer. photographers, graphic design er Ken Diamond, dents offer insightful perspectives. Vince Lisi. There will be flyers with details and copy editors Jane von Mehren and Renee The history concludes with a mov - when we are able to gather again. Michael Prewitt for their help creating this issue. ing tribute to the late LMA Presi - Meanwhile, stay healthy! J ©2 020 Lefferts Manor Association