LOOK FOR BREAKING NEWS EVERY WEEKDAY AT BROOKLYNPAPER.COM Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2014 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn and Williamsburg AWP/14 pages • Vol. 37, No. 27 • July 4–10, 2014 • FREE LET’S MAKE A DEAL Forest City agrees to build discounted housing quicker By Matthew Perlman their neighborhoods,” Cuomo The Brooklyn Paper said in a statement. The lower-cost apartments in Of course, Forest City orig- Atlantic Yards have to get built inally said the 15-tower town sooner thanks to a deal between would be completed in 2016. activists and developer Forest City The developer has blamed con- Ratner. struction delays on the many law- The landmark agreement man- suits it has faced. As part of the dates that Forest City speed up latest pact, the activist coalition construction of the mega-develop- BrooklynSpeaks agreed to drop ment, prioritize building below- its litigation against Forest City market-rate housing, and create a and the state. body to oversee the project. Un- “This is great for us,” said Ash- der the deal, the developer could ley Cotton, a spokeswoman for face stiff fines if it fails to hold the company, claiming it had been up its end of the bargain. Gov. fighting 35 lawsuits. Cuomo called the accord a vic- The 2,250 “affordable” apart- tory for everyone. ments the developer planned to “This agreement is a win for build with its Chinese-govern- the state and most importantly Forest City Ratner ment-owned partner Green- for Brooklyn residents who will The agreement requires Forest City Ratner and developer land, will have to be completed finally begin to see affordable Greenland to complete their tower town 10 years faster by 2025, a decade sooner than buildings being constructed in than their project completion date of 2035. See YARDS on page 5 Photo by Stefano Giovannini Nets to train Runners Mary Harvey and Kevin Beganics enjoy mid-run slices during the Pizza Mile race on June 25. in Sunset Park Dine — and dash By Noah Hurowitz manufacturing center alongside The Brooklyn Paper Makerbot’s three-dimensional Williamsburg runners scarf pizza mid-trot The Nets will soon abandon printing operation and various their New Jersey training facil- food-product factories , but in- By Danielle Furfaro fore going on a long run, but tion was a recipe for nausea, one ity for fairer shores. stead of assembling gadgets and The Brooklyn Paper athletes at the Williamsburg participant said. Brooklyn’s home team is mov- cooking up salsa, the Nets are These runners carbed up a Pizza Mile turned the conven- “It was a strange pull of deli- ing into the top floor of a water- going to try to build champion- little too late. tion on its head by eating sev- cious and disgusting,” said Wil- front warehouse in Sunset Park’s ships. The squad has spent its The Brooklyn Nets Traditional fitness wisdom eral slices amid a mile-long dash liamsburg runner Mary Harvey. Industry City. The ball players first two seasons as Kings Coun- The Nets’ two practice courts are the main attraction, but suggests eating carbohydrates around the McCarren Park track “I actually expected it to feel a will set up shop in the bustling See NETS on page 2 the complex will also include a rooftop bar. between 24 and 48 hours be- last Wednesday. The combina- See PIZZA on page 12 2012 2014 NYU’s overhaul loses a lot of luster RENDERING RENDERING College backtracks on shimmery vision for D’town transit building By Matthew Perlman including in the promotional mate- partnership with Mayor Bloomberg, The new design calls for restoring The Brooklyn Paper rial a flashy rendering of the build- was never meant to be taken seri- the current limestone-and-steel facade, Everything that glitters is not sil- ing overhauled to look like a crys- ously. and install new windows, plumbing, icon. tal fortress. “The rendering released in 2012 and electrical systems, according to New York University is taking over A June 26 announcement came with was aspirational, but it wasn’t a plan,” the school. the city-owned former New York City further details on who is moving into said Philip Lentz, director of public The renovations are meant to make Transit Authority headquarters that the building, but also a new mock-up affairs for New York University. “To- the structure a hub for hands-on tech- has stood mostly vacant above the Jay that showed none of the glass-and- day, we have a plan that lays out what nology, a school spokeswoman. Mitchell Giurgola Architects Giurgola Mitchell Street–MetroTech subway station for steel glitz of the previous one. the building will look like and how “Applied science, technology, and After a showy display in 2012, NYU has released a new rendering of two decades. The school and the city A spokesman for the college said the it will be used when the renovations engineering are among our fastest 370 Jay St., which looks remarkably like the current building. announced the move back in 2012, original, rolled out to great fanfare in are completed in 2017.” See NYU on page 12 Three shot in Gowanus Standoff ends with suicide By Noah Hurowitz The terror started when The Brooklyn Paper 54-year-old Cameron Walthe A gunman took his own life of East New York walked into after shooting two in an incident C and A Iron Works, asked that sparked a police standoff for a job and, without warn- Photo by Jason Speakman and a bomb scare in Gowanus ing, opened fire on workers Cops gather at the corner of Second Avenue and 13th on Monday, officials said. See SHOTS on page 12 Street in Gowanus on Monday. Just the ‘Thing’ for Bklyn block Photo by Paul Martinka Park Slope kids, from right, Oliver Ogulnick, Sofia Kendall, Lily Isabella Lai, and Julian Spike Lee joint’s b-day celebration begins with street party Lai jump into the Double D pool in Gowanus on opening day. By Matthew Perlman also reportedly featured a video The Brooklyn Paper message from President Obama Brooklyn is buggin’ out for and first lady Michelle Obama the 25th anniversary of the semi- about watching the film on the MAKING A SPLASH big screen on their first date. nal Spike Lee film “Do the Right Thing.” One neighbor had seen the Pool would be missed if tank plan rolls ahead The classic turns 25 this week, movie but never realized it was and the auteur’s native borough is filmed around the corner from By Noah Hurowitz ing day, driving home just how the pool offline for a decade, celebrating through July 10. The where she lives. The bash was a The Brooklyn Paper much it would be missed should but the move is still on the ta- festivities kicked off on Satur- blast, she said. Pool’s in for summer! the feds move forward with a plan ble in the most recent version day with a block party that drew “It was awesome,” said Pre- The Douglass-Degraw pool to decommission it in order to of the Environmental Protec- 2,000, including singer Erykah cious Peoples, who attended with — Gowanus’s other, more invit- bury a massive sewage tank as tion Agency plan. Badu, actor Wesley Snipes, co- her husband Willie and their ing body of water — opened for part of its Superfund cleanup of The receptacle is necessary median Dave Chappelle, and rap- Photos by Stefano Giovannini 10-month-old daugther Tami. the summer on June 28, drawing the nearby Gowanus Canal. to catch millions of gallons of pers Chuck D and Yasiin Bey, (Above) A new sign marks “We couldn’t go too far because legions of kids happy to splash Activists balked at the orig- untreated sewage that flood the formerly Mos Def. The partiers Do The Right Thing Way, we had the baby in the stroller, away the heat. inal proposal to install the of- fetid canal during heavy rains, and performers packed the Bed- the block of Stuyvesant Av- but we just stood around and en- More than 500 people showed fal-catching tank under the be- federal environmental hon- ford-Stuyvesant block where the enue where Spike Lee (left) joyed the music.” up to the Double-D pool on open- loved pool, saying it would take chos say. movie was shot, and the party filmed the classic. See THING on page 12 Henry Street DONATE FOOD TODAY Food Pantry First Presbyterian Church Drop off food items Mon.– Fri. from 9am to 6pm. Food pantry is open to the public on Thursdays from 10am to noon. 124 Henry Street Proteins especially needed: peanut butter, dried or canned beans, canned fish. (door on right side of church) Thanks for your support. 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