BROOKLYN Your Neighborhood – Your News Now Including Park Slope Courier, Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier, Brooklyn Heights Courier & Williamsburg Courier Mar. 15-21, 2013 SERVING GOWANUS, PARK SLOPE, PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, DUMBO, METROTECH, BOERUM HILL, CARROLL GARDENS, COBBLE HILL, RED HOOK, WILLIAMSBURG & GREENPOINT Brooklyn SPECIAL Free The boro’s BBQ hot coupons ultimate spots READER to save$ classified See 24Seven BONUS you cash section Heart in the right BUMPY place BY ELI ROSENBERG Hurricane Sandy devastated Brooklyn, but a new work of pub- lic art proves the storm couldn’t ROADS break the borough’s heart. The heart-shaped sculpture “Heartwalk” — made from wood salvaged from Sandy-struck boardwalks in Atlantic City and Sea Girt, N.J., and Rockaway and Long Beach, N.Y. — now holds court in DUMBO’s Pearl Street Triangle as a testament to Hurri- AHEAD cane Sandy’s wrath and the neigh- borhood’s fl ood-proof resolve. “Since Sandy, we’ve watched Push for speed humps in the neighborhood recover and we’re happy to have it here as a sign of that recovery,” said Wes Rozen of Situ Studio, a DUMBO Greenwood, W’Terrace fabrication fi rm that created the piece for a Valentine’s Day art BY NATALIE MUSUMECI and 22nd streets and 22nd and competition in Times Square, Windsor Terrace and Green- 23rd streets. which the outfi t won. “The de- wood Heights residents are racing “Speed bumps are deterrents,” struction of the storm was on our forward in their push to install said Sam Sierra, chair of the com- minds when we considering a speed bumps on several blocks mittee. “When you go over it and public artwork [for the competi- that they claim lead-footed have mess up your car you’ll know next tion], and we wanted to do some- turned into dangerous raceways. time not to come speeding down thing around the community love Community Board 7’s trans- the block.” we saw after the storm.” portation committee voted unani- The speed bumps are only the Hurricane Sandy hit DUMBO mously on Tuesday in favor of re- latest traffi c-taming measure hard, but when the water receded, quests for traffi c-calming lumps pushed by safety-minded Green- the community rallied to help on 11th Avenue between Pros- woodsmen, who want to reduce those in need. pect Avenue and Sherman Street, the speed limit from 30 miles per Beloved businesses including HEART OF THE MATTER: A 30-foot heart made of wood salvaged from Ocean Parkway between Caton hour to 20 miles per hour on a Galapagos Art Space, powerHouse, Hurricane Sandy-slammed boardwalks shines at night in DUMBO’s Pearl and Kermit places, 21st Street be- fi ve-block stretch of Sixth Avenue Continued on page 16 Street Triangle. Courtesy BerlinRosen Public Affairs tween Fifth and Sixth avenues, without any stop signs or traffi c and Sixth Avenue between 21st Continued on page 36
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Community of theof Brooklyn Bridge Park tion trustee and the co-chair Brooklyn Heights Associa- Brooklyn Heights Peter Flemming, a former care for seniors, said activist activist said seniors, care for pany that offers high-end high-end offers that pany used fl used should lease out some un- medical the facility, hospital living. Hill Cobble 155-year-old the Hospital — bring in assisted citate Long Island College College Island Long citate opment,” he said. opment,” turned into devel- a private from being down and shut tion to prevent thetion to prevent hospital turned into condo towers. hospital from being sold and and sold being from hospital almost anything to keep the the keep to anything almost center open, now. for to open is Fleming through, order keeping the medical order won a temporarywon restraining ary, but pro-hospital activists activists pro-hospital but ary, at the beginning of Febru- of beginning the at money-losing medical center ommended shuttering the ommended shuttering pital,” he said.pital,” saving a perfectly good hos- in the economics of it and and it of economics the in architecture, I’m interested than design. than says he cares more about use about cares more he says ist-leaning background, he and his despite preservation- saving, Flemming said — said Flemming saving, structed” building is worth worth is building structed” and hospitals.” and man Robert Bellafi Robert man “They run a medical school living centers,” said spokes- said centers,” living ness of running assisted the hospital on May 21. York, which intends which to close York, the State of New University Hospital’s current owners, owners, current Hospital’s der Long Island College it couldit end that defi be realized least— at un- 4 DT COURIER LIFE, MAR. 15-21, 2013 trunk removal wasn’t atop removal trunk and understand that tree neighborhood, their spared largely storm super the ful thank- are saydents they garden. rock off-limits popular-but-now- the across laying other the and space, green- the outside sidewalk the blocking partially and fence park acast-iron ing —onecrush- October since have remained in place trunks uprooted but the arbors, giant ofthe limbs Sandy. down during Hurricane roll Car- in trees century-old Park massive, two after months are asking came more than four crashing up? it anybodyGardens, will pick in Carroll Gardens BY NATALIE MUSUMECI Carroll Gardens resi- Gardens Carroll Workers the off hacked residents what That’s Carroll in falls atree If They’re stumped " " are on their scooters, so I so scooters, ontheir are hardwood. truding or running into the pro- hurt getting from children small prevent to their walk side- Street Carroll over the tree trunk that leans partly walking past the mighty avoid say they parents happened.” constant “It’s a just sons. young two reminderquents the park with her of who fre- Street, President what done,”zling that nothing has been saidhas passed it’s really puz- Cara much so but time now that Drury of, care taken be to had that of there were bigger things treatment . the Buscemi getthe to trees they say it’s —but now hurricane the about after immediately priority time for “I fear if my children Some Gardens Carroll “At fi “At that Ithought rst the right ofway. the right the While out of and power lines the off getthem to is trees the deemed urgent. urgent. deemed not was removal their so danger or apublic donotpose stumps a health hazard,Engineers said that the tree Lalor. 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