Locals Demand Senior Housing

Nov. 3–9, 2017 Your Neighborhood — Your News® FREE SERVING BAY RIDGE & DYKER HEIGHTS Locals demand COFFEE WITH senior housing CONGRESSMAN BY JULIANNE MCSHANE The community of nuns who own the sprawling An- Rep. Donovan gel Guardian Home in Dyker Heights should turn it into af- fordable housing for the area’s to meet with senior citizens, said many se- niors and locals at an Oct. 21 public forum on the future of constituents the building led by a citizen committee formed to protect the space from developers. in Bay Ridge The neighborhood is in dire need of more senior hous- BY JULIANNE MCSHANE ing, said one of the leaders of The Rock-to-Ridge Rep. will the committee at the group’s make it to Bay Ridge after all. fi rst public event, which drew Rep. Dan Donovan (R–Bay at least 100 concerned locals Ridge) took heat last month to Basilica of Regina Pacis on when he announced a “coffee 65th Street. tour” of fi ve informal meet-ups “We support senior hous- with constituents in Brooklyn ing because there is such a and Staten Island — with none need,” said Fran Vella-Mar- of them in the Ridge . rone, a member of the Guard- But last ians of the Guardian commit- week Dono- tee, which formed last year van’s offi ce after this paper broke the said that the news that the Sisters of Mercy last of his would sell the space . “There caffeinated are thousands and thousands confabula- and thousands of people in our tions — orig- community that need senior inally slated housing, and it’s not avail- to take place Rep. Dan Donovan able.” at the Dyker The Sisters of Mercy con- Heights Library — would in- structed the building in 1899 stead be held in Bay Ridge at and operated it as an or- Fort Hamilton High School . phanage until the 1970s. The One Ridgite who had com- grounds fi ll an entire block — plained about Donovan avoid- roughly the size of three foot- ing town halls earlier in the ball fi elds — bounded by 12th year , and later accused him of and 13th avenues and 63rd and trying to limit face time with 64th streets, and now house constituents by booking small the offi ces of the foster care venues for his coffee klatches, program of sister organiza- gave the congressman props tion Mercy First, as well as the Little superhero for moving the event to a more Narrows Senior Center, run accessible venue. by Catholic Charities Diocese One-year-old Nahuel Roberts gets ready to throw a football in his Halloween costume as a Trans- “It’s great he is trying to of Brooklyn and Queens . The former at the Connie Lekas School’s Fall Family Arts Day on Oct. 28. For more, see page 7. accommodate us,” said Sally lot is zoned for rowhouses, and Photo by Erin Lefevre McMahon, a co-founder of Continued on page 14 Continued on page 14 A CNG Publication Vol. 72 No. 44 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM INSIDE NNN%9IFFBCPE;8@CP%:FD GL9C@J?<;9P:E>(D<KIFK<:?:<EK<IEFIK?('K?=CFFI9IFFBCPE#EP(()'( HOUSE OF CORRUPTION Kids’ stuff Ex-Trump staffer used Brooklyn home to deceive government, says special counsel Two tales: Illustrator and author Neil Swaab holds up two of his books in his Greenpoint studio. Photo by Stefano Giovannini BY LAUREN GILL President Trump’s former campaign chairman allegedly used his Carroll Gardens brownstone to launder money, evade Adult cartoonist now makes children’s books taxes on income he earned as By Julianne Cuba lives in Queens. “That’s not a problem adult comics was just one part of my Swaab also has some drawing activi- e’s drawing a younger crowd! — except sometimes it is a problem. artistic expression, and there was this ties planned to help kids at the festival An illustrator and author who That’s been a learning process. I don’t other untapped thing I wanted to pur- get their creative juices flowing, he Honce drew a filthy adult comic want to do anything that’s going to sue.” said. strip now creates fun, family-friendly be bad for kids. I’m very cognizant of Mr. Wiggles has not made an appear- More than 50 other authors and illus- books for kids, and will share his new what’s going in there.” ance in his children’s books, but Swaab trators will join Swaab at the fair, a consultant for Ukrainian of- work with people of all ages at the 10th From 1999 to 2012, Swaab wrote keeps them interesting by putting some including Lori Richmond, who will annual Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair, and drew the alternative comic strip of his own personal flair into the stories read from her new book “Pax and Blue,” happening at Brooklyn Museum on “Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles,” about — especially in the series he both writes Isabel Roxas, who will give a drawing Nov. 11. Neil Swaab, who draws books a foul-mouthed, hard-drinking teddy and draws, “The Secrets to Ruling demonstration using characters in her like “Abraham Lincoln: Pro Wrestler” bear who rebels against society’s stric- School (Without Even Trying),” which picture book “Let Me Finish,” and Jon from his studio in Greenpoint, said the tures. At the same time, heco was also he will have at the book fair. Burgerman, who will present an inter- fi cials, and as collateral for il- hardest part of transitioning towards working in children’s publishing, and “I always try to put my sensibility active coloring activity from his new kid-friendly material is finding the line he eventually wanted to shift gears, and my sense of humor in the ‘Secrets book “Splat!” of what is acceptable for their young, he said. to Ruling School’ ” series,” said Swaab. Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair at the innocent minds. “I had sort of been living a dual life. “There’s an anti-hero who wants to stick Brooklyn Museum in the Martha A. and “What things you can and can’t get The longer I was in children’s publish- it to the Man in some way. There’s that Robert S. Rubin Pavilion (200 Eastern away with, things you take for granted, ing and that material, the more affinity bit of mischief in there, but filtered to a Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in Prospect like saying ‘darn,’ ” said Swaab, who I had for that stuff,” said Swaab. “The younger audience.” Heights). Nov. 11, 11:30 am—4 pm. Free. legal loans, according to an indictment released on Monday Your entertainment by the special counsel inves- guide Page 49 tigating collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Paul Manafort bought his Police Blotter ..........................8 home on Union Street between Standing O ............................30 Smith and Hoyt streets for $3 Letters ....................................34 million in cash in 2012, using Rhymes With Crazy ............35 money that was not reported to the federal government, Harbor Watch ....................... 37 which he withdrew from a Cy- Elder Care ..............................41 prus-based company that he controlled, according to the indictment. He then took out a $5-million loan on the residence in 2016, which he told lenders would be used to complete its conversion from a multi- dwelling building into a sin- HOW TO REACH US gle-family home. But instead Manafort used the funds to Mail: make a down payment on a Courier Life California property and pay Publications, Inc., off the mortgage on another, 1 Metrotech Center North violating the loan agreement’s 10th Floor, Brooklyn, terms, the indictment alleged. “[It] will allow me to pay N.Y. 11201 back the [another Manafort HOT PROPERTY: (Above) Former Trump-campaign chairman Paul General Phone: apartment] mortgage in Manafort allegedly used this Carroll Gardens brownstone, which he pur- (718) 260-2500 full…” Manafort wrote to his chased in 2012, to launder money and evade taxes, and as collateral for tax preparer about the loan News Fax: illegal loans, according to an indictment released on Monday. (Right) Paul (718) 260-2592 before it was made, the indictment said. Manafort ran President Donald Trump’s election campaign from mid-May News E-Mail: The former Trump-cam- to mid-August 2016. [email protected] paign head allegedly acceler- Display Ad Phone: ated work on the property in Construction material lit- characters declaring “Paul (718) 260-8302 the past month to make it ap- tered the building’s front yard Manafort lives here” on a Display Ad E-Mail: pear as if he was using the bor- since late 2015, according to wall in front of the house , and [email protected] rowed money for its intended the blog, but some peeved lo- when the Park Slope Courier purpose, according to a Daily cals claimed it was empty and paid a visit, a woman who Display Ad Fax: Beast report . being renovated for as many claimed to be the architect (718) 260-2579 The brownstone fi rst as four years, the New York was sitting on the front steps Classified Phone: caught locals’ attention af- Post later reported , prompting and threatened to call the po- (718) 260-2555 ter the publisher of neigh- Manafort to tell the paper that lice when this reporter began Classified Fax: borhood blog Pardon Me For he hired a new architect and asking questions while stand- Associated Press / Matt Rourke (718) 260-2549 Asking revealed its owner in expected to fi nish the work by ing on a public sidewalk. February , following an inves- the end of the year.

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