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Transit Advocates Got Their Ferry, Now They Need Passengers w Facebook.com/ Twitter.com Volume 59, No. 81 MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2013 BrooklynEagle.com BrooklynEagle @BklynEagle 50¢ BROOKLYN TODAY B’klyn Power Players Join LICH Lawsuit AUG.5 Six Civic Organizations Join de Blasio Against Good morning. Today is SUNY Downstate the 217th day of the year. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle By Mary Frost for Aug. 5, 1894, reported Brooklyn Daily Eagle on the summer vacations of Public Advocate Bill de prominent Brooklynites. In Blasio announced on Friday those days, when trans-At- that six influential Brooklyn lantic travel was long and civic organizations have signed costly, only one person, on as co-plaintiffs in his lawsuit Robert G. Davidson, super- to keep Long Island College intendent of a church Hospital (LICH) open. school, reported that he The Boerum Hill Associa- was visiting Europe. A tion, Carroll Gardens Neigh- large number were vaca- borhood Association, Cobble tioning in Long Island and Hill Association, Brooklyn on the Jersey shore, in lo- Heights Association, Wyckoff cations that have long since Gardens Association and been transformed into sub- Riverside Tenants’ Associa- urbs but were “the coun- tion have joined as full part- try” back then. James ners a legal action to avert the Crichton, assistant director shutdown, de Blasio said. of the Brooklyn Public Li- Also joining the suit is a brary, was headed to local resident whose husband Wayne County, Pa., where, recently suffered chest pains according to the Eagle, and had to travel to Methodist Please turn to page 2 Six influential Brooklyn civic groups have joined Public Advocate Bill de Blasio’s (shown center) lawsuit to keep LICH open. Hospital for treatment. Be- Shown right: Academy Award-nominated actress and nearby resident, Amy Ryan. Photo courtesy of the Office of the Public Advocate cause Methodist’s ER has been packed since LICH was placed on ambulance diver- sion by SUNY Downstate, her husband waited over seven hours for treatment—a New Digs, New Logo: Montague BID Boasts Only One Vacancy delay their doctor told them could be life-threatening the Main Street in Heights Sets next time. Adding her voice at the Sights On New Hotel Traffic press conference was Acade- By Lore Croghan “We wanted a logo that accu- my Award-nominated actress Brooklyn Daily Eagle rately reflected Montague Street and nearby resident, Amy Dial M — for Montague. in presenting its energy and vital- Ryan (“Gone Baby Gone,” The Montague Street Busi- ity in an iconic way,” Brigit Pin- “The Office,” “In Treat- ness Improvement District is nell, the business advocacy ment”), whose child was a pa- ready to roll out a new logo for group’s executive director, told tient at LICH and who is a branding campaign for Brook- the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. fighting the hospital’s closure. lyn Heights’ preeminent retail The organization’s current “When my family needed corridor from its new office at logo, which consists of its name LICH, it was there for us,” 141 Montague St., which is laid out in an asymmetrical de- Ryan said. “It was a seven- more accessible to constituents sign, is a lot to take in at a quick minute sprint from the play- than its previous location. glance. A pictorial symbol by Josh Ross Photo ground to their emergency The neon-green logo has should be easier to remember. room the day my daughter a larger-than-life letter M, A logo “can be effective was injured, and waiting for with a modified rectangle when it sticks in people’s minds us was an incredible pediatric shaped like a map of the — it elicits a sense of recogni- emergency team. It means the three-block BID and the tion,” Pinnell said. world to me to know there’s a word “MONTAGUE” im- Shoppers should be seeing The Montague Street Business Improvement’s executive director, Brigit Pinnell, shows off first-class pediatric trauma posed on one leg of it. Please turn to page 2 the BID’s new logo, which will be appearing by summer's end on the famed retail corridor. Please turn to page 2 Longtime Rolling Stone columnist Transit Advocates Got Their Ferry, Now They Need Passengers Rob Sheffield By Paula Katinas residents that worked to con- McCabe and Committee to the public that the ferry will appear at Brooklyn Daily Eagle vince the Bloomberg Admin- Co-Chairman Justin Brannan service is here. The committee powerHouse The Seastreak ferry will istration to give the ferry the said they will conduct an all- will also try to convince local Arena in begin making stops at the go-ahead. out effort to get the word out residents to give it a try. The DUMBO on Brooklyn Army Terminal pier campaign was mapped at a at 58th Street in Sunset Park committee meeting held August 6 to on Monday, Aug. 5. But if the Wednesday night at the offices celebrate the ferry doesn’t have a lot of pas- of Community Board 10 in launch of his sengers each day, chances are Bay Ridge. new book the service will not be around “We’re using social media. “Turn Around past Labor Day, according to We have a Facebook page. Bright Eyes: transit advocates. But we’re also doing it old- Please turn to page 2 The Rituals of “We got what we wanted. Now we have to make sure it Love and works,” said Liam McCabe, The ferry service starts Aug. 5. Karaoke”. See co-chairman of the Brooklyn But transit advocates are work- BookBeat, Army Terminal Ferry Com- ing to get the service extended page 8 mittee, a grassroots group of beyond Labor Day. Photo courtesy Photo via TwitterPhoto Bay Ridge and Sunset Park Councilman Vincent Gentile’s office Monday, August 5, 2013 • Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 1 After Complaints, DUMBO Post Office Reopens been completed this afternoon . ficer who I spoke with on the ‘Repairs’ Completed, USPS Says . We want to thank the communi- phone. He said that Cadman Plaza BROOKLYN TODAY AUG. 5 By Mary Frost fice — an unmanned “Self-Ser- ty for their patience and look for- had lost the key and that he told Brooklyn Daily Eagle vice Kiosk” at 84 Front Street. ward to providing the high level them to call a locksmith.” Continued from page 1 born today include Hall of Fame One day after the Brooklyn The little storefront had been of service our customers have Hoey is happy the branch is “He will soon be back with a basketball player Patrick Ewing, Eagle wrote about DUMBO mysteriously shuttered and come to expect and deserve. finally open, but says that a new stock of fishing and bear- former baseball player John residents and workers frustrated empty for roughly a week, and Customers with inquiries regard- package she mailed from the hunting stories.” Olerud, actress Ja’net DuBois in their attempts to mail pack- several customers believed their ing service may call the USPS DUMBO kiosk before it closed (“Good Times”) and former astro- ages and letters, the United outgoing mail was stuck inside. Customer Service center at the is still lost. Well-known people who were naut Neil Armstrong. States Postal Service reopened USPS said in a statement to toll free number, 800-ASK- “My package, sadly, is still the neighborhood’s only post of- the Eagle, “The Postal Service USPS (800-275-8777).” MIA with the tracking showing regrets any inconvenience that Post office patrons told the only [it] being dropped off at the your readers may have experi- Eagle that they had been told the DUMBO [kiosk] last Monday, enced while repairs were being facility was closed because some- July 22nd. A call this afternoon to made inside the office. The office one lost the key. “Over the past check on the status of my case A CUSTOMER RATTLED THE was closed after business Thurs- week I was told by people at Cad- got me this reply: ‘The case has locked door at the DUMBO day evening at which time all man [Plaza post office] that the been resolved.’ Unreal. Obvious- post office earlier this week. mail was dispatched as usual.” key was lost, but not by whom,” ly this is just one of those random The branch has reopened. The statement continues, DUMBO resident Maria Hoey times when things go totally “Postal officials want the com- Photo: Mary Frost said. “The same explanation was wrong. So I opened a new case munity to know that repairs have also given by the USPS police of- with the USPS,” Hoey said. nearest hospital,” said Gary Reilly, executive board mem- LICH Lawsuit... ber of the Carroll Gardens Continued from page 1 bing this neighborhood of ac- Neighborhood Association. center in the neighborhood.” cessible medical services, and “SUNY should work with the Last week, de Blasio filed an we have to keep fighting until community to find other ways amended petition to prevent the our message is heard loud and of sustaining our hospital be- shutdown of LICH and hold clear.” fore shutting the doors of this SUNY accountable for violating “Our communities need institution.” the Temporary Restraining LICH—and LICH needs a “What SUNY is doing to Order he secured on July 19th, competent operator. The BHA this community is an absolute which continues to require the has been working to that end disgrace, and we are going to hospital to stay open. with community groups and fight tooth and nail to ensure The local organizations elected officials, doctors, that the interests of our resi- have already been involved in nurses and hospital employees dents are protected. We are focusing the public’s attention since February,” said Jane proud to stand by Public Ad- on the closure.
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