LOCAL CLASSIFIEDS PAGE 11 Jan. 17, 2016 Your Neighborhood — Your News® MonthA CNG xx–xx,Publication 2016 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM Cadman high-rise WHAT THE HULL! divides Debris clogging Shell Bank Creek B’Heights BY COLIN MIXSON They’re really up a creek. BY LAUREN GILL Last Sunday’s unusually A developer’s lucrative proposal high tide, strong wind, and tor- to build a high-rise between two rential rains sent junk spewing Brooklyn Heights co-op buildings into Shell Bank Creek, trapping is threatening to tear the close- boats and leaving locals shak- knit community of neighbors ing their heads at the sorry state apart. of Jamaica Bay. Denizens of the 33-story build- “Besides it being an eyesore, ing at 75 Henry St. have the op- it’s a shame to anyone who lives portunity to score big bucks by on the water to have to witness selling a slice of their land along something of this proportion,” Pineapple Walk to an unknown said Charles Martinez, a retired real-estate fi rm so it can erect a sanitation worker and captain 40-story residential tower there. of the Sea Boot, which he docks But the residents of a 31-story at Shell Bank Yacht Club. “It’s co-op on the other side of the a load of garbage, and we try to tropically-named lane say the keep our waters clean.” deal would literally and fi gura- Much of the junk was left over tively build a wall between the from Hurricane Sandy, lodged two groups who have lived as one on the bank near Plumb Beach happy hamlet for decades. Bridge and the mouth of Shell “We’re not kids, but I think it Bank Creek, until the weekend’s would change things between us,” raucous seas loosened it, accord- said Shelly Holtzberg, who lives ing to John Douglas, president in Cadman Towers, which hosted of local community group Ger- a packed public forum about the ritsen Beach Cares. sale last Wednesday. “Right now WE’VE GOT A FLOATER: Charles Martinez, captain of the Sea Boot, which is docked at Shell Bank Yacht Club, said he’s “It had been deposited during there’s really an open door and disgusted with the state of Jamaica Bay, which spewed massive amounts of junk into Shell Bank Creek amidst heavy Sandy and hadn’t been cleaned Continued on page 8 rains and high tide last Sunday. Photo by Steve Schnibbe Continued on page 8 Sunset goes Nova Get street naming ‘Dunn’ BY LAUREN GILL that a bright new perspec- BY DENNIS LYNCH say. The board typically “I wanted to honor This local art scene is a tive is representative of the They’ve gotta get it Dunn waits two years after a him because he deserves hotspot! area’s fl ourishing creative quick! notable dies before en- it, and I wanted her to A Sunset Park gallery community. Community Board 10 tertaining a co-naming, be alive to enjoy it,” said is putting a spotlight on “We’re a little bit out of must fast-track a street but Dunn’s daughter said daughter Geraldine Mar- the work of local artists in the way but not anymore,” Photo by Georgine Benvenuto co-naming for a Bay she wants the sign up as tinez. “Ars Nova,” an exhibit of said Audrey Anastasi, also GET IT DONE: Widow Mae Ridge do-gooder who died soon as possible so her The daughter made an focused on fresh, forward- the director of the Tabla Dunn and daughter Geral- in September so that his 88-year-old mother can emotional presentation thinking art. The curator Rasa Gallery. “People are dine Martinez want to name aging widow can enjoy a see her husband immor- to the board’s Traffic and of the show, whose title sim- kind of discovering Sunset a Ridge corner after neigh- walk down the memorial talized before she joins Transportation Commit- ply means “New Art,” says Continued on page 6 borhood icon Howard Dunn. lane, family members him. Continued on page 6 A CNG Publication Vol. 5 No. 3 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM 2 Pawn Trades | Jewelry Buyers (We Will Pay Immediate Cash) | Bring in your Jewelry Furniture, Old coins & More CASH FOR . 17, 2016 . 17, AN Can’t stop, , J EEKLY YOUR GOLD W Turn your jewelry box into a cash machine... We’ll pay top dollar on the spot for your unwanted or broken gold ROOKLYN B jewelry and scrap gold, no appointment necessary! hammer time! 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Transit Authority will and eight weeks, accord- The transit agency says shut eight subway sta- ing to a transit authority the lengthy lockdowns will tions across the borough spokesman. allow it to get repairs done — including the Bay Ridge The agency has not yet more quickly — contrac- Avenue, 53rd Street, and decided whether it will tors will be able to get all Prospect Avenue stations run buses to and from the the work done in one fell C.O.D. along Bay Ridge’s be- closed stations, a rep said. swoop, rather than doing loved R train — for up to Three C stations — in- it piecemeal on weekends two months over the next cluding Clinton-Washing- or nights for shorter stints few years while it gives ton avenues in Fort Greene of construction over longer them facelifts, officials and Kingston-Throop ave- periods. announced recently. 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