Brooklyn Heights Press and Cobble Hill News

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77TH YEAR, NO. 3,993

THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2018

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New Group Seeks Pathway from Promenade to B’klyn Bridge Park SEE PAGE 2

Photos by Rebecca White

Waterfront Revitalization Leaders Honored

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Executive Director Nancy Webster (right) honored two Brooklyn Heights residents who have played an integral role in the revitalization of the Brooklyn waterfront — Rachel Hines (left) and Benjamin F. Crane (inset) — at a special ceremony held at the River Café. See page 28.

Group Seeks Pathway from Promenade to BBP DOT Commits to Feasibility Study By Mary Frost Brooklyn Heights Press

Brooklyn’s Central Park needs a better way to get to its center. A new group called Connect Montague is pushing for a direct link from the fabled promenade to Brooklyn Bridge Park, the much-used, but difficult-to-access, waterfront green space. The park drew 5 million visitors last summer, but is only accessible on its northern and southern ends. A ramp or elevator from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade would “correct what was an omission in the original park planning,” group member Steve Rothman told Community Board 2 (CB2) last Monday night. And the timing might be perfect: the city is currently planning its $2 billion renovation of the cantilevered portion of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway under the promenade — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a new amenity, Rothman added.

Convenience and Safety The majority of park visitors arrive by subway, Rothman said. From there, they enter the park at Old Fulton Street or Squibb Bridge on the north end, or Atlantic Avenue or Joralemon Street on the south. A Montague Street access point would make entering and leaving the center of the park more convenient and offer safer street crossings, Rothman said, especially for seniors and those with young children. Joralemon Street — a narrow, Belgium block road — was never intended as a main gateway, and Old Fulton Street gets overcrowded. Montague Street is already Brooklyn Heights’ main commercial thoroughfare, and the increased pedestrian traffic would be a boost to businesses, said Kate Chura, executive director of the Montague Street Business Improvement District, which supports the plan.

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Elevator or Ramp?

Original park planners studied installing an elevator from the promenade, but residents were concerned that it would obstruct the famous Manhattan view and would be difficult to maintain, said architect Marc Wouters, who favors a gradual ramp. “It’s such a shallow slope, you don’t even need to call it a ramp,” he said. “Everybody can use it — bikes, pedestrians; it’s accessible. And it always will have the view to the harbor. You could shield the noise [and fumes] from the highway with a cover, if you had the money.” Rothman said community support, starting with a vote of confidence from CB2, would pressure the city to look into the idea — a first step toward lining up sufficient funds. The group, he added, would “make sure there’s an inspired view of this thing, and not the most pedestrian pedestrian access point.” The board’s executive committee said it would send a letter of support to the Department of Transportation. There were no opponents of the proposal on hand at the community board briefing, but in the past, some residents of Montague Street have objected to the increased traffic that a promenade access point would bring. The group said the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. “We appeal to a sense of fairness in objectively analyzing the need for additional park access … and the general good — for visitors, residents and local businesses — that would be achieved by creating a central Heights connector,” the group wrote in its formal presentation. Business owners and residents seem to support the idea. “It would inject a little something into the retail market,” which is struggling on Montague Street, said Dana Nahas, who works in DUMBO. New father Chris Tufts, who lives on Pierrepont Street, also backs the idea, citing the hordes of park visitors. “I see a lot of people walking through the neighborhood already, so they might as well make it easier for everyone,” he

said. “The park’s a great resource.” Of course, some residents don’t want more visitors to the center of the neighborhood. “It would be a mixed blessing,” said Tom, a Brooklyn Heights resident who wished to be identified only by his first name. “I don’t want it — I’m fine with going the extra half mile.” DOT offered the following statement: “DOT has committed to studying the feasibility of additional pedestrian access to Brooklyn Bridge Park from a number of Brooklyn Heights locations. Feasibility criteria include meeting the ADA requirements in addition to the needs of the overall project concepts [which] will be developed by DOT and shared with community over next few months. The design and implementation of potential pedestrian access will be completed by the Design Build Team, with DOT’s input.”

INSET: Architect Marc Wouters showed Community Board 2 how an access point from Montague Street to Brooklyn Bridge Park would work. Heights Press photo by Mary Frost

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSBEAT Eagle Article on Montague Rats Produces Results BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — After Mary Frost’s article, “Rats the Size of Burritos Feast on Chipotle’s Trash in Brooklyn Heights,” appeared in a recent issue of the Brooklyn Eagle, Chipotle communications manager Quinn Kelsey issued a statement that the chain’s Montague Street location is implementing secure garbage containers to thwart the rodents. Frost had written that the rats appeared on a regular basis soon after the restaurant put out its garbage bags every night, although Chipotle workers maintained it was the construction of a new apartment tower nearby that brought the rats out. “We are going to begin using secured garbage cans to help alleviate the problem,” Kelsey said. “We are also hoping to meet with the developer and other local officials to ensure the situation is properly handled.”

Area Residents Keep Up Pressure To Save Angel Guardian Home DYKER HEIGHTS — In the latest salvo in a long-running battle, supporters of the Angel Guardian Home and the Narrows Senior Center, which was located within the home until recently, rallied recently for the historic building’s preservation. The blocklong building at 6301 12th Ave. was sold last year by its owners, the Sisters of Mercy, to a still undisclosed buyer, according to Brooklyn Reporter. This time, however, state Sen. Marty Golden had

some hopeful words for the protesters, the Brooklyn Reporter said. “Right now, I do believe that there is a window of opportunities, and that window is going to be discussed by the elected officials, the builder, the Sisters of Mercy and Catholic Charities.” Fran Vella-Marone, president of the Dyker Heights Civic Association, added, “We want to maintain the building, we want to maintain this property and, most of all, we want to keep our seniors here.”

Con Ed Selling ‘Last Large-Scale’ W’burg Waterfront Development Site WILLIAMSBURG — Con Edison is selling three vacant sites a block north of the former Domino Sugar Refinery on the Brooklyn waterfront, according to Crain’s New York Business. The three sites along River Street, which total about 3.2 acres, are designated for manufacturing and commercial uses but could be rezoned for residential development, Crain’s reported. Cushman and Wakefield is marketing the properties, which Cushman sales executive Stephen Palmese said were worth more than $100 million. “It’s a unique site that represents really the last large-scale development opportunity on the water in the neighborhood,” he told Crain’s. The utility used the properties for oil storage from the mid-1980s until 1997 and removed its large steel tanks site in 2011. Crain’s reported that contamination on the sites has already been remedied.

Ethan Hawke rides down Montague Street yesterday morning with his daughter. Although they weren’t wearing helmets, he did get off the sidewalk quickly. INBrooklyn photo by Gersh Kuntzman

Landmarks Nixes Bid to Save Century-Old Flatbush Church FLATBUSH — Local efforts to save the Baptist Church of the Redeemer at Cortelyou Road and Ocean Avenue in Flatbush, built in 1919, have not succeeded, and the church’s building is now slated for demolition, according to City Limits. The building has deteriorated over the years, leading to the congregation’s decision to demolish it and replace it, in partnership with Mutual Housing Association of New York, with a nine-story affordable housing development with space for the church on the ground floor. A local preservationist submitted a request with the Landmarks Preservation Commission in March for the church to be landmarked, City Limits said. The commission, however, determined “that it does not rise to the level of significance necessary for consideration as a potential individual landmark,” it told City Limits in a statement.

Developer to Pay $55M for Contaminated Greenpoint Site GREENPOINT — Brooklyn developer Yoel Goldman’s All Year Management is in contract to buy a 10-parcel site along the Greenpoint waterfront, according to The Real Deal. Goldman signed an agreement in April to pay more than $55 million for the site, which has addresses on Clay, Franklin and Dupont streets and now contains several low-rise warehous-

es, The Real Deal reported. The developer plans to do a full environmental cleanup before building a planned residential and retail complex containing two or more buildings. Other Goldman projects have included the Rheingold Brewery complex in Bushwick and a still-unfinished rental building at 436 Albee Square in Downtown Brooklyn.

Gold St. Could Evicted Be Renamed Jury Weighing Evidence Against Food Co-op Finds Fulton For Civil Rights Driver Who Ran Over Slope Toddlers PARK SLOPE — A grand jury is considering evidence Activist Street Home against a driver who fatally ran over two Park Slope tod CLINTON HILL — The Greene Hill Food Co-op in Clinton Hill has raised enough funds to find a new home after its landlord sold the co-op’s longtime home in March, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The market, which had been located on Putnam Avenue for many years, received an eviction notice earlier this year. Rather than getting discouraged, the co-op’s board went into high gear and started an online fundraising campaign, which has now produced almost $40,000.The co-op will soon move into a former furniture store on Fulton Street between Classon Avenue and Claver Place, the Brooklyn Paper reported. Now, members plan to hold a big fundraising bash featuring food and live music to cover the remaining expenses.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Councilmember Stephen Levin (D-Brooklyn Heights-Downtown) has introduced an application to rename Gold Street in Downtown Brooklyn after civil rights activist and journalist Ida B. Wells, who lived on the street for several years. The idea came from Jacob Morris, head of the Harlem Historical Society, according to Brooklyn Heights Patch. “People don’t know that she lived in Brooklyn, and they don’t know how formative Brooklyn was in influencing her growth as an activist and as a thinker and a person,” he told Patch. Wells, who was born as a slave in Mississippi in 1862, campaigned against lynchings in her Memphis Free Speech newspaper. She moved temporarily to Brooklyn after her offices were destroyed and one of her partners was attacked in Memphis.

dlers early this year, according to the New York Post. It is likely, the Post reported, that charges against driver Dorothy Bruns, 44, of Staten Island, would involve her medical records and what doctors may have advised her regarding her multiple sclerosis and heart problems. Bruns, who had garnered 12 motor vehicle violations since 2016 for a variety of offenses, is believed to have had a seizure shortly before running over 1-year-old Joshua Lew and 4-year-old Abigail Blumenstein.

Bedford-Atlantic Armory One of Most Dangerous Shelters in NYC CROWN HEIGHTS — The Bedford-Atlantic Armory shelter in Crown Heights is the most dangerous homeless shelter in Brooklyn and one of the three most dangerous in New York, according to a report by the Daily News. The News reported that while the de Blasio administration claimed in its official report that there were no drug arrests inside the shelter in 2017, the Department of Homeless Services Police itself detailed 113 narcotics-related incidents at the armory that resulted in 51 arrests. The police records, obtained by the News, “raise serious questions about what the city is reporting to the public,” says the paper. Meanwhile, Greg Floyd, president of Teamsters Local 237, which represents the cops, said, “The numbers are even higher.”

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Dime Bank Formally Opens New Williamsburg Branch

From left, Benedetta LeoGrande, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce VP of Membership Chris Lenard, North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Paul Samulski, Dime Bank CEO Kenneth Mahon, Dime Bank board Chairman Vince Palagiano, Dime Bank Executive Vice President Michael Perez, North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Chairwoman Elaine Brodsky and Dime Bank Kent Avenue Branch Manager Anthony Wilson. INBrooklyn photos by Andy Katz By Andy Katz Special to INBrooklyn

“We need to get some pictures of the tellers,” announced former Democratic District Leader and Dime Bank board member Steve Cohn as he maneuvered through the crowd. Cohn, a well-known Court Street lawyer, and the rest of Dime Bank’s board were on hand on Thursday to formally open the bank’s fourth North Brooklyn location on the corner of Kent Avenue and North Fifth Street in heart of Williamsburg. This new branch, which has been open for business going back several months now, is a stylistic contrast to its next elder brother, the Bedford Branch, which must certainly be a contender for smallest full-service bank branch, wherever such competitions take place. Anchoring a new, six-floor construction, the interior boasts high ceilings and large picture windows that permit light to fill every nook and cranny. The sense one gets is of spaciousness. “People come in and don’t even realize it’s a bank,” Branch Manager Anthony Wilson pointed out. Wilson, who also managed the Bedford Branch when it first opened, has long-standing ties to the area. He recounts driving through here as a child with his father. “It looked quite a bit different then,” he said with a smile. On hand for the official ribbon cutting were Dime Bank executives and board Dime Bank CEO members as well as members of the Kenneth Mahon North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce takes the podium. who presented Wilson and CEO Kenneth Mahon with an architectural map of the borough. “We were looking for a greater presence in this area,” said Mahon. “Once we saw the building going up we knocked on the door and told the developers, L & M, that we wanted in.” “Other banks have come and gone,” added marketing officer Andrew Grippo. “But we’re still here. So what’s that say about our com-

Dime Bank presents a gift to North Brooklyn Angels. From left: Executive Vice President Michael Perez, NBA Executive Director Ryan Kuonen, Dime Bank CEO Kenneth Mahon, NBA Director of Development Felice Kirby, Dime Bank Kent Avenue Branch Manager Anthony Wilson and Dime Bank Chairman of the Board Vince Palagiano. mitment to the community?” In fact, joining the North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce were representatives of the North Brooklyn Angels, a food truck and distribution system sponsored largely by North Brooklyn board members Norm and Elaine Brodsky. NBA — along with M.S. 577, Conselyea Preparatory School — was to receive a check for $2,500 from Dime Bank as an investment in bettering the community. NBA Development Director Felice Kirby recalled, “I went into the Dime by Bedford and left a packet of information for Anthony [Anthony Wilson, then manager of the Bedford Branch and current Kent Avenue manager]. To my surprise, he called me up and said, ‘We’re going to dedicate this branch, and we’d like to make a donation because we like what you’re doing.’ It just left me floored.” “Felice was great,” Wilson agreed later. “But it was really about the organization, fighting hunger, having so much passion … it’s tremendous.” “Another thing that was a little bit ironic,” Kirby added, “Was that quite a few years ago, when I was a neighborhood activist working with anti-redlining activists, we discovered that insur-

MS 577 Conselyea Preparatory School receives award from Dime Bank. From left: Executive Vice President Michael Perez, CEO Kenneth Mahon, M.S. 577 PTA Officer Judith Pecorino, MS 577 Vice Principal Karen Stevenson, M.S. 577 Principal Karen Masullo, Dime Bank Branch Manager Anthony Wilson and Dime Bank Chairman Vince Palagiano.

ance companies and banks were redlining us in this neighborhood as poor financial risks. And Dime Bank was actually the first to acknowledge that and commit to become more robust residential lenders. They’d gotten out of home lending in past years, but they’re starting to return to it.” “That was long before my time,” Wilson pointed out. “Some 25 years ago. But I understand that’s true. Dime was one of the first to stop redlining practices. We did, in later years, focus on commercial real estate rather than home loans, but we’re moving back into residential mortgages.” Without a doubt Dime Bank’s Kent Avenue branch reflects much that has changed in banking since Dime opened its first branch in 1864. Steve Cohn finally found the tellers he was looking for, only to discover that nowadays they’re more likely to be called “relationship bankers.” “Give me some time to learn the new nomenclature,” he said, laughing while posing with them for photos.

From left: Relationship banker Ernest Meredith, Dime Bank director Steve Cohn, relationship banker Jeff Geneus and Libby Bertrand.

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B R O O K LY N COMMUNITY BOARD #1 435 GRAHAM AVENUE, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Phone: 718�389�0009 Fax: 718�389�0098 Email: bk01@cb.nyc.gov Web: www.nyc.gov/html/bkncb1/html/home/home.shtml

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Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace CHAIRPERSON: Daniel Murphy DISTRICT MANAGER: Jeremy Laufer

1360 FULTON STREET, Brooklyn, NY 11216 Phone: 718�622�6601 Fax: 718�857�5774 Email: bk03@cb.nyc.gov Web: http://cb3brooklyn.org/ (Steps above PO and Applebees Sign in with security On second floor) Bedford�Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant Heights, and Ocean Hill CHAIRPERSON: Tremaine Wright DISTRICT MANAGER: Henry Butler Regular monthly board meetings are held on the first Monday of the month at 7:00 pm.

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Bushwick CHAIRPERSON: Julie Dent DISTRICT MANAGER: none at this time

North Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, and Weeksville CHAIRPERSON: Nizjoni Granville DISTRICT MANAGER: Michelle George Regular monthly board meetings are held on the second Thursday of the month at 7:00 pm.

COMMUNITY BOARD #9 890 NOSTRAND AVENUE, Brooklyn, NY 11225 Phone: 718�778�9279 Fax: 718�467�0994 Email: bk09@cb.nyc.gov Web: www.communitybrd9bklyn.org South Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Wingate CHAIRPERSON: Musa Moore DISTRICT MANAGER: Currently vacant

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COMMUNITY BOARD #5 127 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, Brooklyn, NY 11207 Phone: 718�498�5711 Fax: 718�345�0501 Email: bk05@cb.nyc.gov Web: http://brooklyncb5.org/ East New York, Cypress Hills, Highland Park, New Lots, City Line, Starrett City CHAIRPERSON: Andrew Mitchell DISTRICT MANAGER: Melinda Perkins Regular monthly board meetings are held on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm.

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Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Flatlands, Marine Park, Georgetown, and Mill Island CHAIRPERSON: Saul Needle DISTRICT MANAGER: Dorothy Turano Regular monthly board meetings are held on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:00 pm.

Brownsville and Ocean Hill CHAIRPERSON: (economic development) Genese Morgan DISTRICT MANAGER: Viola D. Greene�Walker Regular monthly board meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm.

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Brooklyn Heights

Million-Dollar Ghost On the Promenade Neighbors: ‘Why Doesn’t 194 Columbia Heights’ Owner Sell Already?’ By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Who Sits on a Multimillion-Dollar House?

The owner of a decrepit Brooklyn Heights brownstone that could sell for millions is in danger of losing the house to foreclosure — for the second time! — if he doesn’t pay $55,000 in overdue taxes. Dr. Austin Moore, whose failure to pay his property taxes is a decades-old issue in the Heights, now has until May 17 to settle up with the taxman and stop the city from beginning foreclosing on his Promenade-facing 194 Columbia Heights townhouse. The city started the very same process against Moore in 1986 — when the Brooklyn Heights psychiatrist got behind on his taxes the first time — but he paid the undisclosed bill within a month and cleared himself of the city lien. This time, if the city starts the process, Moore would have a year to pay up — or six months to set up a payment plan for the outstanding 20162018 taxes. If not, he could finally lose his once-stately home, which he is allowing to slowly decay, despite its location fronting one of the world’s greatest views.

Moore, a board-certified psychiatrist and member of the American Board of Psychology and Neurology, purchased the Civil War-era brownstone in 1969. He has not lived there for at least 25 years, neighbors said — and in the years since, the building has been allowed to fall apart. Moore’s neglect of 194 Columbia Heights is most visible on the Promenade-facing side of the house, which has bricked-in or boarded-up windows. The front of the building is partly covered by a thick moss. The Department of Buildings started issuing violation notices in December, but Moore has not paid the $1,500 fine for a broken cornice, online records indicate. He also has an open violation from the Landmarks Preservation Commission dating back to 2013. It is unclear why. And in 2009, a piece of the roof blew off and fell against a building next door, the Brooklyn Eagle reported at the time. No one besides Moore knows why he’s letting the four-story house fall apart — especially given its value. A house just down the street at 212 Columbia Heights sold for $11 million in 2012.

Moss grows on the facade of 194 Columbia Heights and locks are chained to the front door. INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan

Long-vacant 194 Columbia Heights (second building from left) is located on a landmarked block full of carefully maintained properties.

“It’s a mystery to me what his motives are,” one neighbor said. “Why would he preside over its deterioration instead of fixing it up or selling it to someone who treats it with love?” The neighbor added that chance encounters with Moore, who lives nearby, always are brief and always end the same way. “He’ll say, ‘Just you wait and see. There will be big changes,’ and then he shoots off,” the neighbor explained. Maybe he hopes to move back into the Italianate brownstone. Maybe he’s just hoping to pass it on to his heirs. In any event, he’ll have to pay his taxes to hang onto it. And if the decay continues, the Landmarks Preservation Commission could rule that Moore is committing “demolition by neglect,” which would invite additional punishment because the house is in a landmark district. “This house is a real blight on the block, and most especially for the neighbors on either side of it,” said Judy Stanton, the former executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association. “People couldn’t understand why the house remained empty with front doors chained and padlocked. They would call with reports of rats out front or broken windows in the back. And there were always a few would-be buyers asking why the house wasn’t up for sale.” The Eagle had the same question, but Moore has declined multiple requests to comment. A woman who answered the intercom at his Brooklyn Heights co-op The Promenade-facing side of 194 Columbia said only, “I’m sorry. No.” Heights has bricked-in and boarded-up windows.

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Prospect Heights Brooklyn Chamber Hosts Immigrant Experience-Themed Networking Event By John Alexander INBrooklyn

Brooklyn has long been influenced and defined by the contributions of immigrants who brought their ideas, cultural heritage and business skills to the borough. On Monday, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce continued its year of centennial programs with a networking event at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Prospect Heights. It was hosted by DeSales Media Group, the technology and communications arm of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn with support from the TD Charitable Foundation. Seventy-five business owners and their guests attended the networking event that took place in the restored rectory of the cathedral with a cocktail party and violinist. “It’s always nice to see Brooklyn’s diverse business community come together in one room, especially when it is comprised of the many immigrants who contribute so much to the borough’s economy,” said Chamber President and CEO Andrew Hoan. “And to be able to gather in this recently renovated, magnificent house of worship that dates back to 1914 just made the evening that much more special.” The theme of the event was the contribution of immigrants to Brooklyn. In fact, the Diocese of Brooklyn is also known as the Diocese of Immigrants. There was an interactive video experience where attendees were able to report their family’s

From left: TD Bank Managers Neville Clifton, Randolph Douglas and Cedric Priso.

From left: Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Vice President Rick Russo; New York City TD Bank Market President Peter Meyer; Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello; JoAnn DiNapoli, DeSales director of sales and marketing; Chamber Chairwoman Denise Arbesu; Chamber President and CEO Andrew Hoan; and Vincent LeVien, DeSales director of external affairs. INBrooklyn photos by Arthur De Gaeta

immigration history. “The Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph was built by immigrants more than 100 years ago,” said Vincent LeVien, director of external affairs at DeSales Media Group. “Today, the church, which has been restored to pristine condition, continues to serve Brooklyn’s diverse and dynamic community. “What a pleasure to share the parish’s rich history, and stunning architecture with our friends at Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. The event has inspired us all to do even more great things for Brooklyn.” There was also a guided tour of the Co-Cathedral. St. Joseph’s was initially founded to serve the vast immigrant population fleeing the Irish famine from 1846-1852. The first church building was a small brick structure that was dedicated in 1855 by Bishop John Loughlin, the first Bishop of the new Brooklyn Diocese. “What I thought was really special here tonight was the fact that it’s reflective of all the different neighborhoods that we have in Brooklyn and that the Brooklyn Chamber is continuing to do its neighborhood visits,” Chamber Chairwoman Denise Arbesu told INBrooklyn. “There were also a lot of new members here today and it’s the first time they’ve been in this neighborhood in Prospect Heights. I thought that was pretty impressive. It was a different venue and it shows how we’re all collaborative, how we’re all into partnerships and how everybody is networking and attempting to meet new people.” New York City TD Bank Market President Peter Meyer was

Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello and Rev. Charles Keeney of the Co-Cathedral Business owners and their guests. of St. Joseph.

From left: New York City TD Bank Market President Peter Meyer, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Chair Denise Arbesu and Msgr. Jamie Gigantiello. especially pleased with the event. “I think it was wonderful that tonight’s theme was the immigrant experience and there’s no better place to celebrate it than Brooklyn with all its churches and synagogues and all the religious communities in this borough that have sustained and have served generations of Americans,” Meyer told INBrooklyn. “And it’s wonderful to see the diversity in this crowd that was here tonight. It’s very reflective of Brooklyn.”

Guests Linda Ableman of Gridmarket.com and Vito A. Pietanza of Summit Coverages LTD.

New York City TD Bank Market President Peter Mayer speaking at Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce networking event with Chamber Chairwoman Denise Arbesu (left) and Chamber President and CEO Andrew Hoan (right).

Maria Stack performs for guests.

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Welcome to South Midwood, a Victorian Flatbush microneighborhood that deserves landmark protection. INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan

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South Midwood By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Queen Anne. Princess Anne. Freestanding Colonial Revival. They are such stuff as dreams are made on — yes, that's a Shakespeare line — if you love Victorian architecture.

They're showcased in South Midwood, a Victorian Flatbush micro-neighborhood Henry Meyer's Germania Real Estate & Improvement Co. built starting in 1898. Before he got into development, Williamsburg-born Meyer was president of the Retail Grocers Association of Brooklyn and the Retail Merchants Association of Brooklyn. He ran for mayor of Brooklyn in 1891 but lost. The following year, he launched his real estate firm. Continued on page 10INB

This Princess Anne-style house with a terrific turret can be found at 2404 Foster Ave. in South Midwood.

Houses seem to march off into infinity on this East 21st Street block in South Midwood.

This fine two-toned house is on the corner of Farragut Road and East 22nd Street in South Midwood.

Afternoon sun lights up houses from 691 East 22nd St. (at left) to 703 East 22nd St. in South Midwood

Landmark-WorthyCaton Park and the Parade Ground Where Sandy KoufaxPlayed Baseball Come See

By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

What a magic place for baseball fans. The tiny neighborhood known as Caton Park is nestled up against the Prospect Park Parade Ground — where pros who earned at least 50 World Series rings played amateur baseball in their youth. This roster includes Baseball Hall of Famers from Phil Rizzuto to Joe Torre to Sandy Koufax. Bensonhurst-born Koufax is our personal favorite among the extraordinary athletes who lit up the Parade Ground baseball diamonds over the long years.

Fans called him the Man with the Golden Arm and the Left Arm of God during his years as a Major League Baseball pitcher in the 1950s and 1960s. We never saw him play. Nevertheless he's our hero, now and forever, because of his famous refusal to pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the 1965 World Series. Koufax was Jewish. It was Yom Kippur. His act of conscience and religious devotion captured America's attention and will forever be a big moment in baseball history. Koufax originally played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, having signed on with them in December 1954. He moved with the team when it headed to California in 1958. Continued on page 10INB

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Eye-catching houses are located at 39 Buckingham Road (left) and 43 Buckingham Road in Caton Park.

Come See Landmark-Worthy south Midwood

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An Architect Born in Bavaria Benjamin Dreisler designed some of the houses in South Midwood. The Bavarian-born architect was a big name in Victorian Flatbush at the beginning of the 20th century. The Brooklyn Eagle ran a story about him when he was elected president of the Brooklyn Society of Architects in 1908. Historic info that neighborhood residents amassed and sent to the city Landmarks Preservation Commission identifies 528 East 23rd St., 630 East 24th St. and 755 East 24th St. as freestanding Colonial Revival designs by Dreisler. The info packet went to the preservation agency in 2012 as a request for evaluation for South Midwood and five other Victorian Flatbush micro-neighborhoods that aren't landmarked. The residents want them to be protected as a single historic district. The boundaries of South Midwood are Ocean Avenue, Foster Avenue, Bedford Avenue and Glenwood Road. The other unlandmarked mini-neighborhoods are Beverley Square East, Beverley Square West, Caton Park — SEE RELATED STORY — Ditmas Park West and West Midwood.

Don’t you love this freestanding Colonial Revival house at 567 East 23rd St.? It was built in 1901.

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Landmark-Worthy Caton Park and the Parade Ground Where Sandy Koufax Played Baseball Come See

— Continued from page 9INB — By the way, an article on the Society for American Baseball Research's website says Brooklyn Eagle sports columnist Jimmy Murphy tipped off a Brooklyn Dodgers scout about Koufax, and that's how the young pitcher got a try-out at Ebbets Field. We thought about Koufax the other day when we went walking around Caton Park. Just imagine what it was like to be a baseball fan living in the Victorian Flatbush micro-neighborhood and seeing Koufax over on the Parade Ground. The parkland is right across Caton Avenue from Caton Park. In the late 1930s, the ball fields drew an average of 20,000 spectators per day, the city Parks Department's website says. For much of the 20th century, there were 13 baseball diamonds at the Parade Ground, Andrew Paul Mele wrote in the Fall 2012 Baseball Research Journal. The 40-acre Parade Ground was renovated in 2004. Now there are four baseball diamonds — and basketball courts, soccer fields and other sports fields. BTW, it's called the Parade Ground because it was originally created in the late 1860s as a place for Civil War veterans to hold military exercises.

Houses built by William A.A. Brown stand on Marlborough Road in Caton Park.

The Queen Anne-style house at 26 Rugby Road has belonged since 1990 to nonprofit Watt SamakkiDhammikaram Inc., a Cambodian Buddhist temple. Queen Anne-Style Houses A gentleman there invited us Sell for More Than $2 Million inside the fenced-in patio for So. About Caton Park, which is just three blocks a look around, which enabled wide and has around 50 century-plus-old wood-frame us to take a closeup photo of houses. There's so much old-fashioned architectural the temple's religious statues. eye candy to see. The 1906-vintage shingle For instance, a trio of Queen Anne-style houses house at 17 Marlborough with terrific porches stands at 40, 46 and 50 Rugby Road has a circular front Road. Developer Edward R. Strong built these homes porch that has been turned in 1905. into an enclosed sun room. Nearly every Victorian house in the neighborhood Down the block, William A.A. has a fine porch, by the way. Brown built Queen AnneSerene statues grace the patio of Cambodian According to city Finance Department records, an style houses from 21 through LLC that had bought 46 Rugby Road for $1.4 million Buddhist temple Watt Samakki-Dhammikaram 71 Marlborough Road in in Caton Park. in 2015 sold it for $2.35 million in 2016. 1906. That's not a typo. He really does have two middle initials. He was a real estate developer, banker and beer brewer. Developer John C. Sawkins built Queen Anne-style houses on Buckingham Road in 1905. Both 39 and 43 Buckingham Road have especially charming exteriors. Caton Park is one of six unlandmarked Victorian Flatbush micro-neighborhoods. We're obsessed with them. A few weeks ago, we set out to photograph houses on every block in the mini-neighborhoods. We took on this task to honor residents who have renewed their call for the city Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate the microneighborhoods as a single historic district. The residents made their first try in 2012, when they banded together with the Flatbush Development Corp. and gave the preservation agency a request for evaluation of the potential historic district. See brooklyneagle.com to read about the other SPRING SPECIALS ON WINDOWS • Gutters/Leaders/Sidings unlandmarked micro-neighborhoods. They are Beverley Square East, Beverley Square West, Ditmas Park West, West Midwood and South Midwood. Caton Park's boundaries are Rugby Road, Caton Avenue, Buckingham Road and Church Avenue. The micro-neighborhood's development started in 1899.

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Jacqueline Bisset Loves Brooklyn

Global Superstar, Who Just Wrapped Up a Project in The Boro, Speaks To INBrooklyn By Peter Stamelman Special to INBrooklyn

Jacqueline Bisset is one of the world’s greatest and best-traveled actresses, but the other day, she had a confession to make: She’ll take Brooklyn, not Manhattan. “Brooklyn’s got a much gentler vibe than Manhattan,” she told this reporter by phone from Los Angeles. “I think it must be a great place to live. I’d love to get to know it better.” Bisset became the latest convert to Brooklyn thanks to her role in the just-wrapped indie film, “Asher,” part of which was shot in the borough. “Asher” is the story of a former Mossad member turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Coming to the end of his career and perhaps his life, Asher (Ron Jacqueline Bisset in London in 1971. AP file photo Perlman) breaks an oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie (Famke Janssen) on a job gone sideways. In an effort to live a life before it›s too late, he must kill the man he was, for a last chance to become the man he wants to be. Bisset plays Dora, Sophie’s mom. “Asher” is one of three recently completed films for Bisset — who has worked hard from the very start of her long career, working with a wide variety of directors and leading men, including getting “The Knack” for Richard Lester in 1965, playing Steve McQueen’s girlfriend in “Bullitt” in 1968, Albert Finney’s wife in John Huston’s “Under the Volcano” in 1984 and working with Claude Chabrol in 1995 on “La Ceremonie.” Currently, Bisset is championing her latest film, “Backstabbing for Beginners,” which just opened in New York. It’s a political thriller set in the Middle East in the run-up to the war in Iraq. In it, Bisset plays Christina Dupre, an aid worker who is trying to straighten out the mess in a corrupt and mismanaged Food for Oil program that the Bush administration and the United Nations set up to get Saddam Hussein to feed his people. Ben Kingsley plays an amoral and unscrupulous U.N. official who locks horns with Dupre. Kingsley’s participation is one of the principal reasons Bisset decided to do the film. “I liked the atmosphere of the piece and I was very eager to work with Ben. It’s a good part, although I would have loved to have had my character be more fully developed. But that’s true of many of the roles I take these days. I do always look for the juicy bits and pieces.” That’s been the case since her biggest break, playing Julie Baker in Francois Truffaut’s “Day for Night” (1973). I mentioned to Bisset that the film is one of my personal favorites because of her performance “It’s one of mine, as well,” she said, though she gave a different reason. “It was important for me because up until that film I’d been in Hollywood making studio movies, doing mostly girlfriend parts. Because ‘Day for Night’ showed that I was capable of being much more than just the girlfriend, it was a pivotal role for me. And it helped me shape a different, more rewarding career for myself.” Bisset has been so good for so long that her mere presence adds Bisset starred in “The Deep” in 1977. AP file photo gravitas to any role, and this is certainly true of her performance in “Backstabbing for Beginners.” But she also did her homework. “I didn’t know all that much about the Oil for Food program, but I’ve always been fascinated by all the Byzantine shenanigans that go on in the Middle East,” she said. “I try to keep up by reading the papers, but it’s all a bit of a puzzle, isn’t it?” Speaking of puzzles, I ask Bisset for her take on Donald Trump. “First, I don’t understand why he’s so determined to reverse everything that President Obama accomplished. It must be his narcissism. Plus, he seems shockingly uninformed. I have friends who know him and who like him, but he’s an enigma to me. He seems to me to be making all the wrong choices, about the Iran deal, the Paris climate accord, immigration. I mean, I can understand that there are people with different points of view, who support him. I think perhaps America needs more than two parties. I know there is Here’s Bisset playing alongside Frank Sinatra in the 1967 film, “The Detective,” the Green Party…but it doesn’t seem to be a which also featured many scenes in Brooklyn Heights. AP photo real alternative.”

Jacqueline Bisset today.

Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Bisset

Bisset starred in “Napoleon and Josephine” in 1987. Associated Press/Michel Lipchitz

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PASSION FRUIT Ian Valentine is a Los Angelesbased computer artist, known primarily for his virtual realism exploring the identity and distortion of human forms. Valentine’s exhibition for the Made in NY Media Center, “Passion Fruit,� ventures deeper into virtual space and loses the figure entirely. When: Daily through May 31st, Monday-Fri day 9 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Where: DUMBO/Made in NY Media Center (30 John St.)

A rt JAN GROOVER: HARTFORD AND OTHER PHOTOGRAPHS A trove of 100 vintage Jan Groover photographs was recently found. This archive, documenting the architecture of Hartford, Connecticut has not been seen for fortyfive years. Although they are very objective, straight photographs, they also tell a story offering a glimpse into the past of the state capital with a hypnotizing suburban tranquility. Some of them seem very New Topographic, some out of Walker Evans‌ with a hint of Groover’s later diptych and triptych interests. When: Tuesday-Saturday through May 15, 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Where: DUMBO/Janet Borden, Inc (91 Water St.)

R.J. KERN An American artist whose work explores ideas of home, ancestry, and a sense of place through the interaction of people, animals, and cultural landscapes. When: Wednesday-Saturday through June 30, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Where: DUMBO/Klompching Gallery (89 Water St.) THE FAILED UTOPIAN AND OTHER STORIES Cyrilla Mozenter exhibits two and three-dimensional pieces of hand stitched industrial wool felt and works on and with paper. While the pieces have been selected from different bodies of work and from different periods of time, there is an essential correspondence between them. Using deceptively simple, pictogram-like images along with letters

and words, Mozenter has invented her own language. The work is in the tradition of iconic images. Cycladic idols, medieval tapestries, Fra Angelico’s frescos, African divination figures, and Aboriginal cave painting are points of reference. The involvement, however, is not with a standardized symbolic system. Through an immersion in an intuitive and improvisational process, a personal symbolism, which has reverberations beyond the self is discovered and revealed. When: Thursdays-Sundays through May 13, 1–6 p.m. Where: Crown Heights/ FiveMyles (558 St. Johns Place) ELIZABETH RILEY: THE LIFE OF A CITY Elizabeth Riley’s video works address questions surrounding the complex relationship between our lived reality and its digital manifestations. The Life of a City follows the timeline of a modern cityscape—from a primordial, prehistoric realm up to the contemporary bustle of a cosmopolitan metropolis. When: Daily through May 17, Monday-Friday: 8 a.m.–6 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/BRIC House (647 Fulton St.) FEAR OF NATURE OF FEAR Art by Amy Vogel. Vogel’s carcinogenic palette and stratified brushstrokes both cloak and reveal nature as “a place that is both somewhere to escape to and from.� When: Thursdays and Fridays through May 17, 12–6 p.m. Where: DUMBO/Asphodel (20 Jay St.) CONFESSIONS AND REFLECTIONS An exhibition of original artwork by Stephen Basso. When: Thursdays-Saturdays through May 20, 1–5 p.m. Where: Sunset Park/Tabla Rosa Gallery (224 48th St.) (207 Ocean Ave.)

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LATE SPRING This is the established Brooklyn, New York-based artist’s, Michael Brennan’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and it will feature a suite of new small format oil paintings on canvas merging elements of both gestural and geometric abstraction. When: Wednesday–Saturday through June 30, 11a.m.–5 p.m. Where: DUMBO/Minus Space (16 Main St.)

THIS IS IT an installation of videos, drawings and sound by Fellowship Artist, Karen Leo. This is Leo’s first solo exhibition in New York City. This is it is a collection of visual narratives about doubt, obsolescence, and mental reverb. Featuring puppets, animated characters and disembodied voices, these stories convey moments of observation, reflection, conspiracy and connection. When: Wednesday-Sunday through May 20, 12–6 p.m. Where: DUMBO/A.I.R. Gallery (155 Plymouth St.) FORGIVENESS AND CONFLICT Landscapes from Nelson Mandela’s South Africa. When: Tuesday-Saturday through May 26, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Where: DUMBO/United Photo Industries (16 Main Street #B) TOMà S RIVAS: PROVINCIA A site-specific installation by Tomås Rivas. His work investigates the ornamental components of classical Western architecture. When: Tuesdays-Saturdays through June 2, 2–6 p.m. Where: Gowanus/Open Source Gallery (306 17th St.) HOME FRONT Participating Artists: Lauren Frances Adams, Golnar Adili, Aisha Cousins, Maya Jeffereis, Lorena Molina, Katherine Toukhy. When: Fridays through June 19, 3–6 p.m. or by appt. Where: Park Slope/The Old Stone House (336 3rd St.) THE BUSINESS OF BROOKLYN: AN EXHIBITION ON THE OCCASION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BROOKLYN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE An exhibition exploring the past 100 years of business in the borough. The story spans booming factories, family shops, iconic innovation, and labor struggles. The exhibition showcases images and objects from companies large and small that thrived in Brooklyn, including Domino Sugar, Squibb Pharmaceuticals, Schaefer Beer, Drake Bakeries, Abraham and Straus, Gage and Tollner, and many others. It includes numerous artifacts from the Brooklyn Chamber’s history. When: Wednesday-Sunday through Winter 2019, 12–5 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Heights/ Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont St.)

Ian Valentine explores the identity in virtual space in his exhibition for the Made in NY Media through May 31st, at the Made in NY Media Center. Art courtesy of Ian Valentine /Made in NY Media Center PRIDE AND LOSS A group exhibition curated by South African visual activist, Zanele Muholi, featuring works by the Inkanyiso collective including Muholi, Thembela Dick, Lerato Dumse, Boitumelo Nkopane, Collen Mfazwe, Thembi Mthembu, Velisa Jara and Lebogang Mashifane. The collective consists of South African visual activists and photographers who produce, educate, and disseminate information for the LGBTI community and marginalized people. When: Tuesdays-Saturdays through June 23, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Where: Prospect Park/Jenkins Johnson Projects RADICAL WOMEN: LATIN AMERICAN ART, 1960–1985 This is the first exhibition to explore the groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art of Latin American and Latina women artists during a period of extraordinary conceptual and aesthetic experimentation. Featuring 123 artists from 15 countries, “Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985� focuses on their use of the female body for political and social critique and artistic expression. When: Wednesdays–Sundays through July 22, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Thursdays: 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Where: Crown Heights/ Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway)

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BOOK TALK: “BROADWAY: A HISTORY OF NEW YORK CITY IN THIRTEEN MILES� In his new book, architectural historian Fran Leadon delves into the history of NYC’s iconic artery, from its colonial roots to its twentieth-century status as a locus of spectacle and entertainment. When: Thursday, May 3rd, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Where: DUMBO/Brooklyn Historical Society (55 Water St.) MAIRA KALMAN PRESENTS MAX MAKES A MILLION AND CAKE WITH CHEF BARBARA SCOTT-GOODMAN Illustrator, author, and designer Maira Kalman presents two books: one new, and one beloved by legions of children and their parents. Kalman and co-author Barbara Scott-Goodman

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will present Cake, a new, beautifully illustrated book dedicated to their mutual love of cakes; and celebrate Max Makes a Million, Kalman’s classic children’s book capturing youth and pluck in New York City When: Saturday, May 5, 2 p.m. Where: Rockaway/Brooklyn Public Library (1580 Rockaway Parkway) EAT, DRINK AND BE LITERARY: LORRIE MOORE

Raise a glass and share a meal withLorrie Moore, author of several novels and short story collections, including Birds of America, A Gate at the Stairs, and Bark. Her new book, See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary came out in April. When: Tuesday, May 8, 6 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/BAMcafe Live (30 Lafayette Ave.)

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THE LANGUAGE OF FLAVOR IN HONEY Did you know there are hundreds of different flavors of honeys that can complement every food group? Join Italian-trained honey expert Carla Marina Marchese on a sensory journey where you will learn how to taste and pair honey like a pro. Carla Marina will be signing copies of her book, The Honey Connoisseur: Selecting, Tasting, and Pairing Honey, With a Guide to More Than 30 Varietals, following the tasting. When: Thursday, May 3, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Where: Greenpoint/Museum of Food and Drink (62 Bayard St.) DEATH CAFE Green-Wood’s Death CafÊ continues throughout the spring and summer. Each evening, in small groups, participants share their CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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thoughts on death and dying in a space where they can feel comfortable talking about this universal, but rarely discussed, topic. When: Tuesday, May 8, 6:30–8 p.m. Where: Greenwood/GreenWood Cemetery (500 25th St.) BEGIN YOUR TV, FILM, OR PODCAST JOURNEY: ORIENTATION, MEDIA EDUCATION Brooklyn Free Speech is a New York community television network that amplifies and honors alternative voices in media. The initiative seeks to empower Brooklynites with media dreams to share their brilliance, talent, and creativity with the world. When: Tuesday, May 8, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/BRIC Arts Media (647 Fulton St.) NYC PRESENTS: PRESERVING GENRE CINEMA AT VINEGAR SYNDROME This class will discuss the basic issues and challenges associated with film preservation, with a specific focus on issues most common to genre films. Topics shall include film decay and restorative processes, format specific preservation techniques, the role of home video (and specifically Vinegar Syndrome) in the preservation of genre films, viewer expectations in the digital age, as well as a general overview of the methodologies by which Vinegar Syndrome selects films for restoration and release. The first 2/3 of the class will be primarily taken up by lecture, with the final third reserved for discussion as well as any questions. When: Tuesday, May 8, 7–9:30 p.m. Where: Williamsburg/Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole St.) ROASTED: THE HISTORY OF COFFEE IN NYC From Arbuckle Coffee to Brooklyn Roasting Company, coffee has been at the center of Brooklyn life for well over a century. Join historian Steven Jaffe; coffee impresario and owner of Gillies Coffee Company (which was founded in 1840) Donald Schoenholt; Brooklyn Roasting Company’s Jim

Munson; and Erin Meister author of New York City Coffee: A Caffeinated History for a conversation about the love affair that wakes us up every morning When: Thursday, April 26, 6:10–8 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Heights/ Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont St.) WRITERS STUDIO The eight-week writing workshop welcomes beginning and experienced fiction writers and poets to ongoing writing workshops designed to help them discover and nurture their own voices. When: Thursdays through June 21, 6:30–8:30 p.m. Where: Gowanus/The Ugly Duckling Presse Studio (232 Third St.)

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BROOKLYN FLEA Brooklyn Flea remains the pioneer in creating a curated, high-quality, communityoriented outdoor market for locals and visitors alike. With its mix of vintage, repurposed, handmade, and food vendors in a townsquare environment now replicated around the world, a decade later the Flea still features many of the same vendors from the original 2008 market, who have become fixtures of Brooklyn culture while emerging as world-class dealers in their individual niches When: Saturday, May 5, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Where: Sunset Park/ Industry City (274 36th St.) COMMUNITY PAINT FEST Come help paint a mural. The NYC Mural Arts Project is hosting a Community Paint Fest that’s free and open to the public. There will be live music, face painting and enough paintbrushes to go around. The mural was designed by people living with mental illness and community members as part of the NYC Health Department’s effort to increase awareness about mental health and reduce the stigma around mental illness. When: Saturday, May 5, 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m. Where: Crown Heights/MS354, The School of Integrated Learning (1224 Park Place)

LIFT OFF: A WATERFRONT KITE FESTIVAL This free family-friendly event offers all ages the opportunity to watch their kites soar above the Manhattan skyline and enjoy special activities exploring the science of flight. The event will emphasize S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) concepts and outdoor adventures. When: Saturday, May 5, 12–2:30 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park/Pier 1

Lift Off: A Waterfront Kite Festival offers all ages the opportunity to watch their kites soar above the Manhattan skyline and explore the science of flight on Saturday, May 5 at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Photo: Alexa Hoyer

FAMILY FUN SERIES: HIP-HOP Designed for the whole family, you will learn a Hip-Hop routine and freestyle with your own moves in this style born in the South Bronx. For all ages and abilities. No experience necessary. All children under the age of 14 must be accompanied by an adult. When: Saturday, May 5, 4:30–5:30 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/ Mark Morris Dance Center (3 Lafayette Ave.) CAMPFIRE CONVERSATIONS Prospect Park Alliance and Brooklyn Public Library present Campfire Conversations, a series of themed community conversations set around an outdoor campfire at the Lefferts Historic House, complete with music and refreshments. RSVP at www.prospectpark. org/news-events/ events/2018/5/5. When: Saturday, May 5, 7–8 p.m. Where: Prospect Park/ Lefferts Historic House MOTHER’S DAY POP-UP MARKET This Mother’s Day experience handmade, unique products. Brands will showcase and sell their products at our markets. Categories include Clothing, Fashion Accessories, and Handmade Jewelry and Sustainable Products. Plus, we’ll also feature locally famous food brands. When: Saturday and Sunday, May 5 and 6, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Where: Williamsburg (33 Grand St.) CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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PROSPECT HEIGHTS STOP ‘N’ SWAP Bring clean, reusable, portable items you no longer need and take home something new-to-you, free. No need to bring something in order to take something. No furniture or large items, please. Outdoor event, will be moved inside the school in case of inclement weather. When: Sunday, May 6, 12–3 p.m. Where: Prospect Heights/PS 9 Schoolyard (80 Underhill Ave.)

F ilm A DIFFERENT PICTURE: WOMEN FILMMAKERS IN THE NEW HOLLYWOOD ERA, 1967-1980 From Bonnie and Clyde to Heaven’s Gate, the brief window of American directordriven cinema that flourished in the late 1960s through the 1970s has been framed as a triumph of a handful of male movie brat auteurs. But the true revolutionaries of the moment were the trailblazing women filmmakers who defied historic inequity to bring their stories to the

screen. Emerging from the feminist and civil rights movements of the 1960s, this generation of women artists—working both inside and outside the Hollywood system—created a striking, brash, and empathetic counter-cinema that exists as a direct challenge to their male counterparts. Please see schedule at: www. bam.org for schedule When: Tuesdays-Sundays through May 20, Times vary Where: Fort Greene/BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave.) ONCE UPON A SUPERHERO

Adam Marcinowski as Solar Flare in “Once Upon a Super Hero.” Photo courtesy of Once Upon a Superhero

Once Upon A Superhero shows how the art of film can shine without the superpowers of Hollywood. When: Sunday, May 6, 5:30 p.m. Where: Greenpoint/Film Noir Cinema (122 Meserole St.)

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CAN JAM Over 25 breweries, come for a cavalcade of coveted cans available only for this one jam-packed day. DJ set by Mr. Mumbles (Funk, soul, disco, boogie). When: Sunday. May 6, 12–5 p.m. Where: Gowanus/Threes Brewing (333 Douglass St.) PARK SLOPE FARMERS MARKET A neighborhood farmers market featuring locally farmed and produced foods. When: Sunday, May 6, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Where: Park Slope/Old Stone House (336 3rd St.)

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SMORGASBURG With a range of cuisines from local and regional food purveyors this highly regarded outdoor food market features 100 vendors offering packaged and prepared food and beverages. When: Sunday, May 6, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. Where: Prospect Park

H ealth AEROBIC CLASS A full body workout with low impact aerobic class with African and world dance movements followed with muscle resistance/toning and stretching. All done to great music and taught by highly trained and skilled instructor. When: Saturday, May 5, 2–3 p.m. Where: Bushwick/Roosevelt II Studio Center (400 Hart St.)

N ightlife STUDIO 54 RETURNS: MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU Our Wicked Lady takes you back to the era of glitter, glam and insanity as we transform our bar once again into to the wildest nightclub ever to grace the City of Dreams… Studio 54 on two floors. DJ NiteOwl and special guest Extra Water heat up the decks with the world’s finest disco, funksoul gems and other bangin’ grooves all night long. And it is May the Fourth, so expect a few Galactic Surprises. When: Friday, May 4, 9 p.m.–4 a.m. Where: Bushwick/Our Wicked Lady (153 Morgan Ave.) FELT UP: A BURLESQUE TRIBUTE TO JIM HENSON’S CREATURE SHOP

Petite Renard will portray Chiara from Farscape Friday, May 4, at Bizarre Bushwick. Photo: Atticus Stevenson

Everyone knows the Henson’s Muppets, but the Creature Shop has done so much more! Characters portrayed by these beautiful burlesque performers include Chiana of Farscape, the Red Fraggle, Yoda and more! When: Friday, May 4, 7–10 p.m. Where: Bushwick/Bizarre Bushwick (12 Jefferson St.)

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LOU 100: IN HONOR OF THE DIVINE MR. HARRISON Created in celebration of Lou Harrison’s centennial, an evening of works all performed to the music of the late Lou Harrison, Morris’ friend and collaborator and featuring the New York premiere of Numerator. When: Wednesday, FridaySundays through May 6, Where: Fort Greene/ Mark Morris Dance Center (3 Lafayette Ave.) LIAISONS NOW: THE BROTHERS BALLIETT AND FRIENDS PhiloSonia presents the fourth and last concert of its season “Liaisons” exploring composer friendship. Having established themselves as two of the most prominent figures in today’s music world, the multi-talented brothers Brad and Doug Balliett curate a program of friends and colleagues. When: Friday, May 4, 8 p.m. Where: Williamsburg/South Oxford Space (138 S. Oxford St.) JAZZ SESSION SUNDAYS Music with a rotating cast of musicians. Sit and listen or sign up to play at our weekly Sunday Night Jazz Jam. When: Sunday, May 6, 10 p.m. Where: Bedford Stuyvesant/ Fulton Ale House (1446 Fulton St.) STRUTTIN’ WITH SOME BARBECUE Titled after a composition by Louis Armstrong and Lilian Hardin, Struttin’ With Some Barbecue will help support the rapidly blossoming Brooklyn Music School (BMS) Jazz Department. It’s a chance to enjoy the down-home feel of southern food, swinging music, and jazz community that will make anyone think they’ve been transported straight to New Orleans, all the while helping support Jazz at BMS. The afternoon will feature performances by all three of the BMS Student Jazz Ensembles, the BMS Jazz Faculty Ensemble, and an appearance by Dr. Victor Lewis. When: Sunday, May 6, 3 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/Brooklyn Music School (126 St. Felix St.) THE BIRDS The American Premiere of Nikos Karathanos’ The Birds, a modern, feast-for-the-senses adaptation of Aristophanes’ offbeat and poetic comedy. This vibrant restaging owes as much to Eden as it does to the Amazon, and captures the collective spirit of revolution with a company of 19 actors. Two Athenians, Peisthetaerus and Euelpides, are fed up with their city and the gods who rule over it; they take to the woods, seeking out “birds” to build a utopia in the clouds. When: Daily, May 2nd through May 13, May 2-5 and 8-12 at 7:30pm; May 6 and 13 at 5pm; and May 12 at 2pm Where: DUMBO/St. Ann’s Warehouse (45 Water St.)

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IMPOSSIBLE BUT TRUE This musical follows Washington Irving’s immortal character (pardon the pun) of Rip Van Winkle. It follows Rip–an idle storyteller and dreamer–as he goes off to fight in the Revolutionary War and then cannot find his way home. When: Mondays through May 21, 7 p.m. Where: Franklin820 (820 Franklin Ave.) LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical family portrait comes to BAM, featuring decorated stage and screen actor Jeremy Irons as whiskey-soaked patriarch James Tyrone and Lesley Manville in a harrowing performance as morphineaddled matriarch Mary. When: Tuesdays–Sundays through May 27, Weekdays: 7:30 p.m., Sundays: 3 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St.) THE JUNGLE BOOK Adapted by Puppetworks’ Artistic Director, Nicolas Coppola and Adam Kilgour, “The Jungle Book” tells the tale of Mowgli, a little boy lost in a Jungle of India and adopted by a family of wolves. Hunted by Shere Khan–a fierce Bengal tiger, Mowgli is taught the Laws of the Jungle by his teacher, Baloo–a brown bear. Some of Mowgli’s adventures involve Kikki and Tikki–the Monkey Folk, Nag–the cobra, and Hathi–the elephant. Puppetworks’ production features an original song score, with scenery and costumes based on authentic motifs of India. When: Saturdays and Sundays through August 19, 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. Where: Park Slope/ Puppetworks (338 Sixth Ave.)

T ours BROOKLYN CULTURAL DISTRICT WALKING TOUR Join this walking tour, to experience the old, the new, and what’s to come. Learn how this concentration of venues and people is shifting the cultural landscape of the borough and the city, while you discover surprising historical anecdotes and see new cultural additions. Registration required. When: Saturday, May 5, 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/BAM Plaza (Flatbush Avenue at Lafayette Ave.) HISTORIC TROLLEY TOUR Experience the most magnificent and historic 478 acres in New York City. Join our expert tour guides to hear fascinating stories of GreenWood’s permanent residents, see breathtaking views of Manhattan, tread where George Washington and his troops fought the Battle of Brooklyn, and much more. When: Sunday, May 6, 1 - 3 p.m. Where: Greenwood/GreenWood Cemetery (500 25th St.)

Kings County Criminal Bar Honors Justice Dineen Riviezzo Among Others

Michael Cibella and Hon. Dineen A. Riviezzo. By Rob Abruzzese Brooklyn Record

The Kings County Criminal Bar Association honored four people, including Justice Dineen Riviezzo, during its annual awards dinner that was held at Giando on the Water in Williamsburg recently. “It’s been a big year here in Kings County for the Criminal Bar Association,” said association President Michael Cibella. “We elected a board member as the new district attorney, Eric Gonzalez, and we had another board member, Ellen Edwards, elected to the bench and is sitting in criminal court.” Riviezzo received the Gustin L. Reichbach Judicial Recognition Award. The other honorees included Siobhan Shea-Gillespie, the case management coordinator at Brooklyn Supreme Court, who got the Non-Judicial Court Employee Award; Danielle V. Eaddy, chief of the grey zone trial bureau

Michael Cibella and Danielle V. Eaddy.

Stuart D. Rubin and Michael Cibella.

at the Brooklyn DA’s Office; and Stuart D. Rubin, a senior staff attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services. George Sheinberg and Hon. William Miller were also recognized for their career achievements which have each spanned more than 50 years. Riviezzo has presided over the Youth Part at the Brooklyn Supreme Court since New York state began to implement its Raise the Age legislation that treats kids ages 16 and 17 as children rather than adults in court. She has been helping attorneys on both sides of the criminal justice world navigate the often confusing changes to the law. “It’s not just the youth part,” said Cibella. “She’s not just handling cases of kids stealing cell phones. There are homicides, DNA hearings, she’s rolling up her sleeves and handling some of the most serious and deadly cases in our system. She does it with grace and such care of what is before her because she knows the decisions she makes impacts people’s lives.”

Riviezzo thanked her family and everyone involved with her court part. She also took a moment to remember Judge Elizabeth Foley, who died this past January after a battle with leukemia. “Judge Foley and I began this incredible judicial journey together 12 years ago,” Riviezzo said. When presenting Shea-Gillespie with her award, Cibella explained the vital role that court clerks have in keeping the courthouse running smoothly and explained why she is one of the best. Shea-Gillespie thanked the people she worked with and mentors who encouraged her to become a court clerk after she started as a court officer. Eaddy, a former defense attorney, was a board member of the group before she went back to work at the Brooklyn DA’s Office a couple of years ago. She had many people to thank in her speech, but afterward she issued them all a challenge.

From left: Frederick Arriaga, Hon. Keshia Espinal, Hon. Christopher Robles, Patrick Hayes, Hon. Joanne Quinones, Carmen Pacheco and Hon. Edwin Novillo.

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Kings County Criminal Bar Honors Justice Dineen Riviezzo, Among Others RIGHT: The Kings County Criminal Bar Association honored four people during its annual dinner-dance at Giando on the Water recently. Pictured from the left are the honorees: Hon. Dineen A. Riviezzo, Danielle V. Eaddy, KCCBA President Michael Cibella, Siobhan Shea-Gillespie and Stuart D. Rubin. Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese

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“Having been both a prosecutor and defense attorney, I feel that there are true believers on both sides,” Eaddy said. “I would ask everyone to stop and take a look at the other side. If you are a prosecutor, you may see a very strident defense attorney, but they are literally fighting for someone’s life. You have to understand that. If you see a prosecutor, remember they are trying to do justice. If you are a judge, try to mentor from the bench.” Finally, Rubin was introduced by Cibella as a highly regarded criminal defense attorney, who three years ago went to work for the Brooklyn Defender Services after 30 years as a defense attorney. “With an acquittal rate of 67 percent, two out of every three cases he tried, his client walked out of the courtroom with him,” Cibella said. “That’s outstanding. That’s not just at the trial level. It’s at the appeals level. We’re onetrick ponies, but he tries cases and handles appeals, and wins them.” Hon. Abena Darkeh and Hon. William Miller.

From left: Michael Farkas, George Farkas, George Sheinberg and Michael Sheinberg.

Hon. Matthew J. D’Emic, administrative judge of the Kings County Supreme Court, Criminal Term; and Michael Yavinsky, supervising judge of the Brooklyn Criminal Court.

Christopher Wright and Paul Hirsch.

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Civic and Clergy Leaders Celebrate North Brooklyn Angels’ New Kitchen By Andy Katz

Park Slope Rabbi To Receive Human Rights Hero Award

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North Brooklyn Angels board member Neil Sheehan has witnessed his visionary food truck become an expanded reality. On Sunday, the truck officially became supplemented by its own shiny, state-of-the-art commercial kitchen, which could supply more than 200 meals per day to in-need residents of North Brooklyn. “We started this four years ago,” food truck principal sponsor Norm Brodsky said, after receiving a framed thank-you plaque for the role he and his wife, Elaine Brodsky, who is North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce chair, played in making this all a reality. “We played our role, but it was important for us to see how the community responded — whether they would pitch in and keep the thing going. People needed to do their part.” Judging by the response from business, community and religious leaders, Sheehan’s concept and the Brodsky’s facilitation of it were profoundly inspiring. “A lot of our volunteers are younger people,” said kitchen coordinator Donna Sinetar. “We want them to have a good time. There’s a lot of camaraderie when you do this kind of work.” The North Brooklyn Angels Food Truck has been operating for the better part of a year now, establishing a routine that brings it to Cooper Park Houses, St. John the Evangelist Church, Williamsburg Library, Annunciation Church and St. Anthony of Padua-St Alphonsus on a weekly schedule. The prominent role of churches in the truck’s orbit is no accident, either. The Angels’ new kitchen, although refurbished by the nonprofit, actually belongs to Our Lady of Mount Carmel parish. “We weren’t using it that much,” explained Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello, pastor of the Shrine Church. “So, we’re happy to have it used to help feed people. Add to that we have some 40 self-help and 12-step groups meet-

North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Board Members and NBA Food Truck sponsors Norm and Elaine Brodsky accept a framed thank you from Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello (far left) and NBA board member Neil Sheehan. INBrooklyn photos by Andy Katz

ing here, and that creates a huge pool of volunteers—people help themselves by helping others.” “People are basically good,” added Rev. Deacon Joseph Occhiuto, of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, which is another key Angels sponsor. “They just need reminding from time to time.” “We share resources, because we take part in this ministry, too,” said Rev. Dr. Katrina Foster, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church on Milton Street. “You can literally feed the masses from this kitchen,” she added with smile. Asked whether Food Truck clients expressed a favorite dish, kitchen manager and designer Josh Cohen said, “We did a chicken curry with lentils and rice that people couldn’t get enough of.” Sinetar nodded. “Right,” she agreed. “That one was huge.” Cohen and Sinetar buy all of their food at present. Because he owns a number of restaurants, including Casa Publica and Jimmy’s Diner, Cohen can leverage prices from his suppliers. “We’re developing a relationship with

NYC food banks, so we can stretch of budget even further,” Sinetar explained.

Heights Association Teams With Local Houses of Worship For E-Waste Recycling Gather those unwanted, obsolete electronic devices. Brooklyn Heights residents will again be able to give away their e-waste on Sunday, May 20 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., thanks to the Brooklyn Heights Association and a coalition of local houses of worship. They have partnered with the Lower East Side Ecology Center to sponsor this annual program. The Chapel of First Unitarian Church will serve as the collection site. The e-waste drive is a convenient way for neighbors to safely dispose of residential electronics waste, from batteries to answering machines to VCRs (no kitchen appliances accepted.) Please call (718) 624-5466 or pick up a flier for additional information.

New 300-seat Church Is Fruit of Partnership That Salutes African-Americans’ Talent A new state-of-the-art church building with a 300-seat sanctuary will celebrate the culminating months of its yearslong development with the blessing of a “final cornerstone” this weekend. The Rev. Canon Dr. Audley Donaldson, rector of St. Stephen and St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, sponsor of the project, made the announcement on Monday. Bishop Lawrence Provenzano of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island (which includes Brooklyn), said the new church is the first to be built in the diocese in 27 years. The historic congregation had an old church building that needed millions of dollars for infrastructure renovation and maintenance. Banks would not consider loans, but Donaldson and other parish leaders were determined to find a way to continue and even expand their service to the community in Brooklyn. After years of exploring options, including the prospect of ending its ministry, the congregation was able to create a forward-looking project with the partnership of Pericles Notias of Notias Construction of Flushing, N.Y., and with architect, Shaneekua Henry. And, Donaldson added, “There is some symbolism in the fact that the architect, Ms. Henry, is a partner in the Afri-

can-American owned SLM Architecture, P.C., because we in the Episcopal Church are mindful of the church’s involvement with slavery and slave owners.” Henry is also the first female African-American to design a church in the diocese. Donaldson describes the new building as “a contemporary design that expresses the warmth and welcoming spirit of the Episcopal Church.” The new church expects to open its doors for services in early September. The church was built as part of a larger development project that includes a 38-unit apartment building next to the church called the Brooklyn Manor. The parish and Bishop Lawrence Provenzano will host the May 5 celebration, which starts at 10 a.m., and will include clergy and leadership from across the diocese and special invited guests representing a wide cross-section of society. Provenzano said he is “looking forward to greeting the members and neighbors of the revitalized ministry at St. Stephen and St. Martin’s church. It’s an exciting and demographically diverse community. There is absolutely new life here, and it is one more expression of the creative life and growth in our diocese.” St. Stephen and St. Martin’s Episcopal Church is located at 789 Jefferson Ave.

Rabbi Rachel Timoner at a protest outside Trump Tower in December 2017. Photo courtesy of T’ruah Rabbi Rachel Timoner of Congregation Beth Elohim will receive the seventh annual Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award next Tuesday, May 8, at the gala of T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights in Manhattan. Timoner has turned her community into a hub of social justice action in Brooklyn, guiding congregants to take a stand for racial justice, welcome refugees and speak up against the current presidential administration’s attacks against Muslim and immigrant neighbors. Timoner has launched several community organizing and social justice initiatives at CBE, including a Dismantling Racism Team that was part of the successful campaign to Raise the Age of criminal responsibility in New York. She also launched a successful action with Brooklyn’s district attorney to address systemic racism in the prosecution of “broken windows” infractions, the bail system and discovery. Moreover, in partnership with New York City Councilmember Brad Lander, she convenes #GetOrganizedBK, through which thousands of New Yorkers work together to defend democracy and human dignity in this time when they believe that both are under siege. Before arriving at Beth Elohim two years ago, Rabbi Timoner served as associate rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles, where she supported its successful local community organizing work in economic justice and transportation, and was a leader in Reform California, a statewide effort that helped to protect undocumented immigrants and build affordable housing. Timoner commented: “We are watching a systematic assault on human dignity, human rights and democratic institutions. This is a time that calls for moral courage, a time that demands the best we have to give. Everyone’s voice is needed. As Jews we learn in Torah never to oppress the stranger, never to stand idly by the blood of our neighbor, never to allow the oppression of the poor. There is nothing heroic about fulfilling these Jewish obligations. It is simply what we must do.” Lander praised Timoner, saying: “Rabbi Timoner’s courageous leadership, far-sighted vision, inclusive community-building and strategic organizing have electrified Congregation Beth Elohim as a vibrant center of justice and activism over the past few years. She has helped build a Jewish movement for racial justice, put herself on the line time and again for the rights of immigrants and refugees and helped to create and nurture #GetOrganizedBK as a hub of action for justice. T’ruah — an organization I love, by the way! — is wise to recognize her with this well-deserved Rabbinic Human Rights Hero Award.” Congregation Beth Elohim’s President Jonathan Fried said, “Rabbi Timoner has brought new energy and vision to our congregation’s longstanding commitment to tikkun olam. She leads us by example and through teaching to make the words of Torah have meaningful and tangible impact for the causes of human dignity and social justice, and we couldn’t be more thrilled that she is being honored for her efforts.” T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights mobilizes a network of almost 2,000 rabbis and cantors from all streams of Judaism that, together with the Jewish community, act on the Jewish imperative to respect and advance the human rights of all people.

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‘A Glorious Hour’

May 7, 1945

A week after the death of Adolf Hitler on April 30, 1945, the war in Europe ended in victory for the Allies, though the war in the Pacific would rage on through the summer. On May 8, The Brooklyn Eagle reprinted a radio speech by President Harry Truman, in which he said, “This is a solemn but glorious hour. General Eisenhower informs me that the forces of Germany have surrendered to the United Nations. The flags of reason fly all over Europe ... Let us not forget, my fellow Americans, the sorrow and heartbreak which today abide in the homes of so many of our neighbors -- neighbors whose most priceless possession has been rendered as a sacrifice to redeem our liberty.” The Eagle also reported, “Clifford E. Paige, chairman of the Kings County War Finance Committee, said today: ‘Although the European war is over, the people of Brooklyn still have before them their biggest job of supporting the final effort to bring Japan to her knees. The Kings County War Finance Committee urges every man and woman to keep up with the war effort to the fullest extent and to buy more and more war bonds.’” The Eagle also published a chart which showed the war ca-

The crowd outside Brooklyn Borough Hall during VE-Day ceremonies.

sualty numbers among Brooklyn residents up to that point: Army: 2,611 killed, 9,039 wounded, 1,367 prisoners and 1,164 missing. Navy: 351 killed, 631 wounded and 300 missing. On May 9, the Eagle’s front page carried a photo with the caption “AGLOW WITH VICTORY — The dome of the capitol in Washington, blacked out since Pearl Harbor, is bathed in radiance as flood lights are turned on the night of VE-Day. Silhouetted against the brightness the figures of a wounded veteran and his wife and daughter make an impressive tableau.” It was also reported, “The lifting of the brownout, with the official proclamation of VE-Day restoring city night lighting to almost normal, today brought indications

that other wartime restrictions may soon be removed. The midnight curfew and the racing ban are expected to be lifted soon.” The Eagle also detailed Lt. Gen. George S. Patton’s final press conference with war correspondents attached to his army. “‘Since today marks the termination of combat in Europe,’ General Patton told the newsmen, ‘I desire to take this opportunity of extending to all of you the thanks and appreciation of myself and all members of the 3rd Army, past and present, not only for the generous and efficient manner in which you have reported our activities, but also for the uncomplaining way in which you shared our vicissitudes and accommodated yourselves to our way of life.’”

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Church with Strong German Heritage Welcomes Pastor Klaus Dieter Gress

Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church Derives Joy from Mission, Outreach Work By Francesca Norsen Tate Brooklyn Heights Press

Herzlich Willkommen! This German expression, meaning a “Hearty Welcome,” is at the core of a 163-year tradition of hospitality and outreach of a Brooklyn Heights church that sits on Henry Street near Clark Street. On Sunday, Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church gave its official welcome to its new called pastor, the Rev. Klaus Dieter Gress. Gress began the afternoon by greeting worshipers at the door, bidding them that “hearty welcome.” Gress succeeds Pastor Josef Henning, who now serves a Missouri Synod congregation in Indiana. But Gress is also no stranger to Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church and was friends with the Rev. Dr. George R. Muenich, who served there for more than 18 years (December 1990 through June 2009 when he retired). Muenich died suddenly in May 2011. During his tenure, Muenich, who was a co-founder of and active in the Brooklyn Heights Clergy Association, enrolled Zion Church into the growing international synod called Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ. The group formed over a desire to focus on mission rather than continue the political battles that were dividing Christians. Indeed, mission is central to the history of the Lutheran Church — and this particular congregation — since the latter’s founding in 1855. A full-page article published in the Brooklyn Eagle on Feb. 13, 1910 featured the German-American community in Brooklyn, with illustrations of some of the pastors and buildings, including those of Zion Church on Henry Street. An earlier Eagle article from Aug. 3, 1895 names the Rev. Augustus Steimle as the guest summer preacher that weekend at Zion. The story points out that while he resided in Minnesota, he was also a Brooklynite, and the son of Zion’s founder, the Rev. Frederick W.T. Steimle. The Steimle family and legacy had a connection with the April 29 welcome service’s guest preacher. The Rev. Bill Paulsen, a longtime Heights resident, spoke tenderly and joyful-

Pastor Clint Padgitt (right) welcomes the Rev. Klaus Dieter Gress, the new pastor of Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church. Heights Press photo by Francesca N. Tate ly about his times serving Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church, particularly in being invited back repeatedly to speak at its Mission Society meetings and at spring festivals. Paulsen was later asked to serve as a coverage pastor. (Coverage pastors minister to churches who are without a called pastor at a specific time, such as for interim periods.) “My first recollection of hearing about a Zion Lutheran Church was while I was at Union Theological Seminary (UTS),” Paulsen said. “My professor of preaching was a Dr. Steimle [Edmund Augustus Steimle, who was Brown professor of Homiletics at UTS from 1961-75, before being named emeritus].

His grandfather was the founding pastor of Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church. Little did I know at that time that I would be a pastor in Brooklyn! “At that time, (1983-85) there were lots of German immigrants still. The mission of the church was done mostly in German, and mostly to Germans. And, in fact, that’s what kept the church going,” Paulsen exclaimed. “There was another German-speaking church not far from here, on Schermerhorn Street. Their last German service was on Dec. 7, 1941. Now you remember what happened that day, and after that day, that church did not have any more German services. Well, that church disbanded long before I came on the scene under Pastor Baumann. They did not reach out,” Paulsen said. But at Zion German Evangelical Lutheran Church, “it was Germans who kept this church going!” Likewise, the Rev. Clint Padgitt spoke of his time serving as a coverage pastor for Zion in past years. Padgitt extended his greetings on behalf of Lutheran pastors in Brooklyn and the wider New York metropolitan area, many of whom attended on Sunday. Padgitt also presided at the brief welcoming rite. Gress, in his remarks, reinforced the importance of mission and outreach. He said that, in his daily walks and routine around New York City, he often hears visitors speaking German, and starts up a conversation, extending an invitation to visit Zion in the Heights. But even if only a few of them ever step inside the church, “what’s important is the outreach.” Gress emphasized the importance of greeting and connecting with people to learn more about them, and to share hospitality. Whereas the church members in the past had taken an oath to conduct services and official business solely in German, the membership has expanded in recent years to include local English-speaking residents. Among Sunday’s worshipers were also some Scandinavians. After the liturgy, which included Holy Communion, the hospitality continued in the church’s undercroft with a relaxed smorgasbord of German specialties, such as potato salads, lamb, chicken and more.

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Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Honors Benjamin Crane, Rachel Hines Brooklyn Heights Press

Benjamin F. Crane and Rachel Hines were honored by Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy on April 26 for their active roles in transforming the Brooklyn waterfront into a vibrant cultural and recreational destination. A glittering awards ceremony, complete with cocktails and a seated three-course meal, took place at Buzzy O’Keeffe’s storied River Café. Before dinner, guests took a hard-hat tour of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s (BBP) Pier 3, which is set to open later this summer. Crane was one of the first Brooklyn Heights residents to recognize that a worldclass park could be a permanent solution to saving the abandoned piers along the Brooklyn waterfront from private development. A corporate law partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, in the 1980s Crane was concerned about preserving the community’s access to the waterfront. His wife Sally was also a guiding force and a leader in many philanthropic and volunteer endeavors. Hines is a longtime Brooklyn Heights resident, park supporter and advocate who joined the board of the Conservancy in 2003. She has been a vital force in the organization’s growth and evolution, the organization said, having served on the board’s executive committee, as chair of the Development Committee and currently as treasurer. Hines helped grow the Brooklyn Black Tie Ball from a $500,000 to a $1.4 million gala in five years. “Over the past 25 years, the Conservancy has revitalized the waterfront through inno-

Dmitri Yatrakis (left) and Mary Pat Thornton enjoy the event.

From left: Mark Baker, Betsy Rogers and Bo Rogers.

vative public programming and educational initiatives; but we wouldn’t have been able to do that without the dedicated efforts, brilliant vision and continuous support of Ben and Rachel,” said Nancy Webster, executive director of the Conservancy. “They truly are cornerstones of Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, and we are thrilled to honor them.” Proceeds from the event will go directly to support the Conservancy’s free public pro-

gramming in BBP. More than 1.6 million BBP visitors have enjoyed the Conservancy’s educational, cultural and recreational programs. In 2017, more than 150,000 individuals enjoyed Conservancy events including kayaking, waterfront workouts, environmental education classes, movie screenings and book readings. The 2018 programming season will kick off on May 5 with “Lift Off: A Waterfront Kite Festival.”

Photos by Rebecca White

Ken Adams (left) and Dick Yancey pose with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background.

Lisa Marie Casey (left) congratulates honoree Rachel Hines.

Kate Crane (left) and Nancy Bowe

28 • Brooklyn Heights Press • Thursday, May 3, 2018

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