LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 11 Jan. 31, 2016 Your Neighborhood — Your News® MonthA CNG xx,Publication 2016 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM Trash heap has its own WIRED Twitter BY COLIN MIXSON Call it a trash-tag. A Park Slope school has been cultivating a permanent pile of FOR ART garbage on its Fourth Street side- walk for several years, and the mound of rubbish has become so notorious, there is now a Twitter Exhibit paints artists as cyborgs account dedicated to document- ing the sight — not to mention BY PHIL SMREK inspiration from the Kenyan the smell. They can be rebuilt — stronger, capital’s informal economy of “It stinks,” said the 25-year faster, artsier! laborers who provide goods Park Slope resident behind the A Bushwick photographer from reclaimed waste material Twitter handle Park Slope Pile , depicts Nairobi artists as su- — much of it electronic waste who spoke with the paper on the perhuman cyborgs in a new ex- from the United States. The condition of anonymity. “It gets hibit opening in Dumbo on Feb. words “Jua Kali” — Swahili so big, cars run over bags blown 4. The Kenyan-born creator of for “fierce sun” — refers to the off the pile.” the “Jua Kali” exhibit says that scorching daytime conditions The social media watchdog his fanciful images provide a under which they work. posts regular photos of the pile view of his home country that The 29-year-old photogra- outside the John Jay Educational stands in contrast to many me- pher scoured through Nairobi Campus at Seventh Avenue — dia portrayals. junk yards and trash heaps to which houses the Secondary “I’ve always wanted to de- select items that resonate with School for Law, the Secondary pict Nairobi as this fantastic his theme, such as spark plugs, School for Journalism, Park place with characters that can electrical wiring and hard Slope Collegiate, and Millen- achieve anything — and more- drives. He immediately pho- nium Brooklyn High School — over, depict my country differ- tographed each bit of refuse where janitors toss their detritus ently from what you see in the against a sheet of white paper. directly onto the street, accord- media,” said Tahir Karmali. He also photographed mem- ing to locals. “Nairobi is a growing metropo- bers of city’s creative class, in- The waste is usually dumped lis that has created revolution- cluding dancers, painters, en- in plastic garbage bags, but of- ary technology and solutions trepreneurs, and musicians, ten doesn’t stay that way, accord- IRON CIRCLE: The subjects of Tahir Karmali’s modifi ed photos are adorned for the African continent.” applying a tribal face paint Continued on page 8 with reclaimed materials taken from Nairobi trash heaps. Tahir Carl Karmali The show takes its title and Continued on page 6 Pre-K spot panned Barclays serving up tennis BY DENNIS LYNCH Street and Gatling Place, BY LAUREN GILL “I’ve always loved Shares Series — a nation- Two separate community but a community board Tennis, anyone? Brooklyn and can’t wait to wide circuit for former panels gave the city an F for committee and the local ed- A quartet of retired get back there,” said Andy icons. its plan to build a pre-school ucation council panned the champions will break out Roddick, who won the 2003 The four legends will next to a Gowanus Express- plan during two meetings their old sweatbands at U.S. Open and retired in compete in two one-set way off-ramp in Bay Ridge last Wednesday evening. Barclays Center in Decem- 2012. semifinal matches, then Associated Press Associated on Jan. 20. Education honchos claim ber for the arena’s fi rst-ever Roddick will face off the winners will go head- The School Construc- the Department of Trans- THE MANE EVENT: Andre tennis event, and the veter- against fellow aces An- to-head in a one-set cham- tion Authority wants to portation can quell the rag- Agassi will return to the ans say they can’t wait to dre Agassi, Jim Courier, pionship match. build a 108-seat, city-run ing traffi c coming off the court at Barclays Center — make a racket in the bor- and James Blake in the Kings County hasn’t pre-kindergarten on 86th Continued on page 6 minus this amazing hairdo. ough of Kings. final round of the Power Continued on page 8 Blind in taxes 2 Bushwick bar has in-house accountant BY ALLEGRA HOBBS If tax season drives you to . 31, 2016 31, . drink, this could be the ac- AN countant for you! , J , A Bushwick bean coun- EEKLY ter is setting up shop in- W C.O.D. side an experimental cocktail bar next month, ROOKLYN B serving up completed 1040s alongside wacky mixed drinks — and, he hopes, shaking up his oc- (718) 354-3834Refer a new customer cupation’s uptight image to us and take an in the process. *Mention this ad additional 3¢ off “I am probably on the per gallon edge of some ed tax bell guru curve,” when you place your said certifi Shane Mason. - Stacy Grenia digs into her fi nances while order and receive an on your next order Starting in February, Photo by Jason Speakman additional 3¢ off Mason will peddle his fi CRUNCHING NUMBERS: per gallon nancial expertise to pa- sipping on a delicious on-tap cocktail at Yours Sincerely. trons at so-called cocktail your 1099s and W–2s in “laboratory” Yours Sin- style. 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