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Beer for Breakfast? BP Adams Wants 8 a.m. Alcohol Sales on Sundays Borough President Adams Releases Report On City’s Thriving Craft Beverage Industry By Scott Enman

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The American soccer fan is all too familiar with the sacrifices he or she must make to watch the world’s best matches. From Champions League games during the workday to English Premier League fixtures at ungodly hours on weekends, Americans must routinely bend over backwards to get their football fix. And as love for the Beautiful Game continues to grow in Brooklyn, many bars are opening increasingly earlier to accommodate those who want to watch “[New York] state has distinct licenses with limits on production,” Adams said. “Other states do not. We want to remain games across the pond.

competitive to make sure that we can compete with the other states.”

Photos by Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Oﬃce

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NYC Together Unites Cops & Kids for Pasta Workshop in N. Brooklyn Program Provides HS Students, NYPD Patrol Officers with Mutual Hands-on Experiences By Andy Katz

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“OK,” chef Albert di Meglio confronted his audience, some in uniform, others not yet having to shave. “How many of you like to eat?” Hands flew into the air. The setting was Williamsburg’s Barano, a fine-dining Italian restaurant on Broadway, hardly a stone’s throw from the East River Waterfront.

ABOVE: The whole crew seated and ready to consume their afternoon’s work. Deputy Chief Jeffrey Maddrey, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn North, is shown at right. Brooklyn Eagle photo by Andy Katz

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Councilmember Espinal Calls for ‘Night Mayor’ To Protect New York City Nightlife By Scott Enman Greenpoint Gazette Photo courtesy of Councilmember Espinal’s oﬃce

Mayor Bill de Blasio may soon have to amend his title to “Day Mayor” if legislation proposed by city Councilmember Rafael Espinal gets passed. Espinal, who represents Bushwick, Brownsville, Cypress Hills and East New York, is currently drafting a bill to create an Office of Nightlife for New York City, which would be led by a “night mayor.”

Councilmember Rafael Espinal

The new position’s responsibilities would include regulating the nightlife industry, helping DIY venues stay open and creating a safer partying environment. “How can our city make laws and regulate the nightlife industry, without adequately understanding it?” Espinal told the Greenpoint Gazette. “Nightlife is a $10 billion enterprise in NYC and is a significant part of our economic, social and cultural fabric. “NYC needs a ‘nightlife mayor’ who can advocate for

the specific needs of this industry and liaise between businesses and city agencies so that all venues are safe and up to code.” Were the City That Never Sleeps to adopt a night mayor, it would be the first American city to do so. Many European metropolises have had night mayors for some time, including Amsterdam, Paris and London. “We should follow the lead of other cities, such as London, Paris and Berlin, where crime and noise complaints have actu-

ally gone down because of the success of their nightlife advocacy,” Espinal told the Gazette. “I look forward to working with this community, my colleagues and the administration to figure out the best path forward.” Mirik Milan, the night mayor or “nachtburgemeester” of Amsterdam, is a particularly active and vocal night mayor who hopes to create an international network of night mayors. continued on p. 3

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Protect Like a Mother: Ferocious Animals Comes to Brooklyn Bridge Park By Scott Enman Greenpoint Gazette Exploring the 85-acre Brooklyn Bridge Park, visitors are treated to lush forestry filled with more than 120 different species of birds. From peregrine falcons and Baltimore orioles to buffleheads and ravens, the green is filled with wildlife of all shapes and sizes. Last weekend, Brooklynites feasted their eyes on a trio of wild animals normally found in only the most remote parts of the world. The creatures were not real. They are instead massive sculptures of mothers and their young. The beasts, which were designed by the Greenpointbased installation company SFDS, included an octopus, a golden eagle and a 24-foot-tall orangutan. The installations were constructed out of steel frames, Styrofoam, fiberglass coating and paint. Originally planned for Mother’s Day weekend, the two-day open-air exhibit was moved to last weekend due to inclement weather. The campaign, dubbed "Protect Like a Mother," is an effort to show how Lysol — a company that makes disinfectant sprays — helps mothers protect their children from bacteria in a similar way that wild animals defend their offspring.

Last weekend, Brooklyn Bridge Park had three massive animal sculptures installed at Brooklyn Bridge Plaza. The animals are part of Lysol’s “Protect Like A Mother” campaign, which celebrates all that a mother does to protect its young Renderings courtesy of Lysol “The idea behind the exhibition is to highlight and dramatize all of the ways that the protective instincts of mothers come to life within the animal kingdom,” said Lysol Marketing Director for Europe and North America Rory Tait. “Then use an analogy to explain and show how the protective instincts of human mothers can come to life in various, incredible ways, as well. “That was the synthesis for the idea. How could we, instead of shouting and advertis-

ing our point of view and message on television, how could we bring it to life in a way that exemplifies exactly as a brand what we’re trying to stand for and talk about?” There was an educational element to the exhibit as wildlife expert Dave Salmoni was on hand to provide fun facts about the animals and to answer questions raised by inquisitive minds. There also was literature posted about the mothers and how they were chosen for the pop-up exhibit.

The animals were on display Saturday and Sunday at Brooklyn Bridge Plaza in Brooklyn Bridge Park. “We wanted it to be in an area that was as interesting, dramatic and imposing as the exhibition that we’re putting together itself,” Tait told the Greenpoint Gazette. “And certainly, the location underneath the bridges is exactly that.” The three animals on display were chosen due to the extreme lengths that each species goes to to protect its young from predators and to

make sure they grow up safe. Children were able to climb on all of the structures. The octopus was chosen for the long and extreme lengths she goes to to make sure her young survive the early stages of birth. After laying more than 100,000 eggs, the mother octopus cleans and aerates the eggs by gently blowing bubbles over their tiny, gestating bodies. The octopus will do this for roughly a year, never stopping to feed herself. After a year, the mother octopus will

often die from exhaustion. While many mothers have a hard time seeing their children go off to college, the orangutan takes this concept to a whole other level. For the first six months of a baby orangutan’s life, the mother does not break physical contact with her newborn, even as she cascades and swings through the jungle canopy. For the next seven years, the primate will teach her offspring the skills necessary to survive in the wild. Countless mothers come to the sad realization that their kids will one day leave the nest, but for the mother golden eagle, that is literally the case. For 50 days, the mother golden eagle will ferociously protect her babies in their nest from predators and hunt for food. Once the chicks can fly on their own, they will be able to leave their sylvan home. “We wanted to bring home this story to the human mother and the lengths that they go to to protect their own children,” Tait told the Gazette. “The final part of the exhibit is a video montage of the mothers who were at the exhibition themselves. “We thought it was a very nice conclusion to highlight the very extreme things that mothers go to to protect their children when they’re in danger. But actually on a daily basis, every mother is doing the utmost to protect their children.”

Councilmember Espinal Calls for ‘Night Mayor’ to Protect NYC Nightlife continued from p. 2

Milan, who has held the position since 2012, has played a leading role in the introduction of 24-hour licenses for venues in the Dutch capital. He also organized the first-ever Night Mayor Summit in April 2016.

Night mayors from Paris, Toulouse and Zurich attended and speakers from Berlin, London, Tokyo, Stockholm, Mumbai and San Francisco were present at the conference. Milan, according to the Amsterdam night mayor’s website, is “dedicated to ensure a dynamic nightlife and helps to build bridges between the

municipality, [small] business owners and residents.” Milan came and spoke to club owners and nightlife professionals on May 6 at the Williamsburg club Output. The meeting was held to brainstorm ways New York could adopt an office of nightlife and how creating a night mayor in Amsterdam helped his city.

Anya Sapozhnikova, coowner of the Bushwick nightclub House of Yes, told the Gazette that a nightlife mayor would help change the stigma of the nightlife industry into a positive one. “We are a force and we deserve to be recognized as that,” said Sapozhnikova, who attended the meeting. “It feels

Anya Sapozhnikova, co‐owner of Bushwick nightclub House of Yes, says a night mayor would help change the stigma of the Photo by SASHABPHOTO nightlife industry into a business that creates revenue, jobs and culture for New York City.

like nightlife has had a bad rep, which is unfounded. It should have a really good rep of stimulating the city’s economy. We’re creating culture in our city. People come to New York because of nightlife. “At the same time, there isn’t an equal voice talking about the concerns, issues and struggles that we are having and a voice that is being heard. With Milan, that was where they started, prove the fact that nightlife does not increase crime, that nightlife increases revenue to the city. Once that became super clear is when the program started to be recognized and started to work.” Last month, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce hosted an event at Brooklyn Bowl that released the results of a study studying the economic impact study of music in New York City. The study revealed that the music industry supports roughly 60,000 jobs, accounts for $5 billion in wages and creates $21 billion in total economic output for the city. In 2015, New York’s concert tickets accounted for $5.4 million, which was more than Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago combined. Espinal has been an active advocate for bettering Brooklyn’s nightlife. He has been an outspoken opponent of the Cabaret Law, an antiquated and draconian law that prohibits dancing in venues that do not

possess a cabaret license. These certificates are extremely difficult to procure, and only 17 venues in Brooklyn and 88 in the entire city have the license. These strict regulations have caused many iconic Brooklyn DIY venues to close, including Death By Audio, Glasslands and Shea Stadium. “It’s a shame that event spaces … have to undergo so much scrutiny and cut through so much red tape to exist,” said Espinal. “We are losing great recreational spaces like Bushwick’s Shea Stadium because of it. “It is time NYC rethinks the archaic and broad Cabaret Law and brings our regulations into the 21st century so that all businesses are treated equally and all communities are safe to express themselves.” Espinal is drafting a bill to repeal the Cabaret Law. “Nightlife has been really fragmented,” said Sapozhnikova. “All of these meetings and dialogues that a lot of club owners are now having, mostly in North Brooklyn, it’s going to make the scene a lot less fragmented, which is going to be a positive change.” She added, “That was one of the main points that Milan was making. They finally had an official platform to come together as various nightclubs and nightlife organizations, so that gave this huge, huge industry a voice, which it didn’t have before.”

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NYC Together Unites Cops & Kids for Pasta Workshop in North Brooklyn continued from p. 1

Named for the Southern Italian town where di Meglio’s grandmother lived, Barano was recently host to one of NYC Together’s educational sessions, uniting members of the NYPD’s 77th, 79th and 90th precincts with students from Northside Charter and W.E.B. DuBois Academic High School to learn the art of making and cooking pasta. Barano owner Zack Weiner volunteered his location after a chance encounter with NYC Together founder and Director Dana Rachlin at a community interest event. Weiner sought ways to give back to the community that made his restaurant successful, and Rachlin had just the right idea. After the pasta was made, sauced, served and consumed, the Weiner planned to sit down with some of the students and share his experiences as a Brooklyn entrepreneur. Before any of that could happen, di Meglio and sous chef Ben Mastrocinque divided the kids and cops into two groups. One, led by di Meglio, began dicing mirepoix — onions, carrots and celery — for the sauce, while Mastrocinque guided the rest to a massive pasta extruder, which they’d use to produce bundles of flat, linguinishaped pasta. Watching his crew function harmoniously while seated on a chair across the pass was Assistant NYPD Chief Jeff Maddrey. “It’s amazing to see young kids come into the program,” the chief explained. “These are kids who are borderline suspended. So this is an alternative. They become supportive of the precinct. They look forward to coming into contact with us.” Each of the participating schools provides NYC Together with a list of eight to 10 students whom they believe would benefit from participating in the program. “We provide emotional support, job readiness, academic support,” Rachlin explained. “And when I say ‘we,’ I really mean the officers. They get to see how meaningful their role can be. Then chefs like Al di Meglio and entrepreneurs like Zach Weiner have the opportunity to pass on their experience and wisdom.”

Chef Albert di Meglio demonstrates how to sauté for students in sauce making

ABOVE: 77th Precinct Of‐ ficer Douglas with a tray of fresh pasta ready for boiling.

Sous chef Ben Mastrocinque talks over a cooking strategy with NYPD Officer Douglas Brooklyn Eagle photo by Andy Katz of the 77th Precinct.

NYC Together’s past projects have included a police-community mural for the 90th Precinct station house; a cooperative garden, also in front of the 90th; and trips to Carnegie Hall, BAM and the American Museum of Natural History. Maddrey’s personal favorite is the annual DJ contest where kids and cops vie their spinning skills at a neighborhood block party.

Students and officers also meet weekly to discuss issues of concern in the community, such as gun violence, gentrification and the school-to-prison pipeline. After the day’s project was consumed, Weiner and Mastrocinque sat down with some of the students. “Sometimes,” Weiner explained, “you have to work at something you don’t really enjoy doing to get to where you want to be.” Citing his own experience, Weiner recounted working in a family business for 15 years, when his real dream had been to own real estate. “All that time I asked myself, ‘What am I doing to educate myself about real estate?’ When I was 21, I devised a plan to achieve [my goal] by the time I would be 40. “At certain times in your life you will fail,” he cautioned. “Then people will come out of the woodwork and say, ‘I told you so.’ That’s because they don’t have the courage to do what you’re doing right now … Above all, be persistent.” “We find that people want to be helpful,” Rachlin said. “We find they want to make a change, and we provide the opportunity to do that. I believe the community is an ecosystem, and my favorite thing is providing a platform for everybody to be their best self.”

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Beer for Breakfast? BP Adams Wants 8 a.m. Alcohol Sales on Sundays

Borough President Eric Adams (right) released a report on Tuesday on the city’s booming craft beverage industry. He is calling for several changes to be made to aid the companies, including allowing earlier alcohol sales on Sunday.

B.P. Adams examines a bottle of whiskey at the New York Distilling Company on Tuesday in Williamsburg. Photos by Erica Sherman/Brooklyn BP’s Oﬃce

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These watering holes, however, cannot legally serve alcohol until 10 a.m., thanks to an antiquated law known as the Sunday Blue Law. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, however, is calling for that time to be reduced to 8 a.m. so that Brooklynites can enjoy a cold beverage with their match or for brunch. “Businesses located outside of New York City can apply for a permit to start serving alcohol at 8:00 a.m. … New York City businesses are put at a disadvantage by having different time allowances than other parts of the state,” Adams wrote in a report released on Tuesday. “To increase revenue and please brunchgoers and European League soccer fans, New York state should allow New York City businesses to apply for a permit to serve alcohol at 8:00 a.m. on Sundays.” The call for an earlier serving time is part of a report released by his administration on the city’s booming craft beverage industry. Adams wants to create more support for independent craft breweries, cideries, distilleries and wineries and help these quintessential Brooklyn institutions continue to thrive and advance local tourism. “We’re here to distill the best from our craft beverage industry, a multimillion dollar growth opportunity for our city,” said Adams. “The five boroughs are home to some fabulous fermenters, Brooklyn especially, and the city and state can do more to make them global brands. “Our report outlines steps we must take in order to brew a successful industry that continues to receive accolades from tastemakers and tourists alike. I can’t accept second best for Brooklyn and New York City.” Adams’ plan was released at a press conference on Tuesday at the New York Distilling Company in Williamsburg. The report, compiled by his administration, includes recommendations to expand the economic potential of its breweries, cideries, distilleries and wineries. There are currently 60 of these manufacturers operating in the five boroughs.

B.P. Adams wants to create more support for independent craft breweries, cideries, distilleries and wineries and help these quintessential Brooklyn institutions continue to thrive and advance local tourism.

“We are really excited about a great group of people that are part of the distilling industry in Brooklyn,” Adams said at the press conference. “These ladies and gentlemen are really pioneers in when people say that ‘there’s something special about what’s happening in Brooklyn,’ this is what they’re talking about. “Often times, people can’t put their finger on it, they just know that there’s something brewing. Well, what’s brewing is the great beer, gin, whiskey and the entire industry has continued to brew in Brooklyn.” Adams revealed that he dedicated $1 million for the Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) as a starting investment to create an Urban Incubator in Brooklyn. Adams said that in 2015 alone, the U.S. produced 24.5 million barrels by more than 4,200 breweries. Small, independent breweries accounted for 99 percent of those in operation. In addition to changing Sunday’s starting time for alcohol sales, Adams stressed the need for the city to create a dedicated single point of contact to help people launch and run their craft beverage business efficiently. Adams also wants better communication between city agencies like FDNY, the Department of Buildings and the craft beverage companies. Furthermore, he wants better waste management, for the city to support urban agriculture and for these beverage businesses to be used as a tool to boost local tourism. “[New York] state has distinct licenses with limits on production,” said Adams. “Other states do not. We want to remain competitive to make sure that we can compete with the other states. Things are just done better in New York state but we must allow the businesses to do it better by getting out of their way.” He added, “The name of the game is not to play ‘I got you’ with the business, it’s to play ‘I support you’ with the business. That’s what we’re calling on to take place.”

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The Latest Condo Closings at Pierhouse in Brooklyn Bridge Park

Here is Pierhouse seen from Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2. By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Wanna know who the newest Pierhouse condo owners are? Of course you do. The priciest apartment that was recently purchased at Toll Brothers and Starwood Capital Group’s condo and hotel complex in Brooklyn Bridge Park belongs to Amy Weinfeld Schulman. She paid $7,789,612 for the apartment, city Finance Department records indicate. She’s a Yale-educated lawyer who served as the general counsel of Pfizer and headed its $4 billion consumer healthcare business, whose brands include Advil, Centrum and Chapstick. She left the pharmaceutical giant in December 2013. Schulman is currently a partner at venture-capital firm

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Polaris. And she is the co-founder and CEO of Lyndra Inc., a company that has developed formulations for ultra-long-acting, sustained-release oral medicines. She is also the executive chair of SQZ Biotech and Olivo Labs. All three businesses are located in the Boston area. Also, she is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School.

Priciest Purchase to Date Was Made By Timothy and Stephanie Ingrassia Pierhouse’s condos are located in two buildings at 90 Furman St. and 130 Furman St. Glass-faced 60 Furman St. is where 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge can be found. Continued on page 9INB

Spring foliage in Brooklyn Bridge Park frames Pierhouse and the former Watchtower headquarters. Park visitors check out an art installation by Anish Kapoor.

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Squibb Park Bridge Brings Visitors ThisClose to Pierhouse

ABOVE: As Squibb Park Bridge emerges from between two Pierhouse buildings, it affords a stellar view of Lower Manhattan. AT RIGHT: Now that Squibb Park Bridge has reopened, it takes pedestrians thisclose to Pierhouse. INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Well, hello there. We really like your striped bedspread. Squibb Park Bridge — the picturesque wooden footbridge that connects Brooklyn Heights to Brooklyn Bridge Park — recently reopened after being out of commission for 32 months. A roughly $2.5 million repair job made the so-called “bouncy bridge” less bouncy. It sure looks different up here now. The last time the 450-foot-long pedestrian pathway was open, the construction of Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pierhouse condo and hotel complex was in its early stages. Now it’s kind of like the situation with the High Line, the popular landscaped railroad trestle in the Meatpacking District, where apartment windows are so close at hand that visitors could hit them with tossed pebbles. When the black-locust timber and galvanized-steel-cable Squibb Park Bridge initially opened, people who walked down the zig-zagging aerial pathway had wide-open views of Lower Manhattan skyscrapers and Brooklyn Bridge Park’s shoreline. Now the work at Pierhouse is nearing completion. And the bridge threads between two condo buildings, 90 and 130 Furman St., as it descends from its point of origin at the edge of Squibb Park and passes over Furman Street. Some Pierhouse windows are thisclose to all those folks walking on the bridge. So a word to Pierhouse residents: If you think the dark glass on your shoreline-facing windows renders your condo interiors invisible, you are mistaken. During a stroll down the bridge the other day, we could see the stripes on a bedspread in one of your apartments. Also, as those of you with patios probably realize, folks strolling on Squibb Park Bridge have a bird’s eye view of these outdoor spaces.

Visitors to Squibb Park Bridge pose for pix alongside Pierhouse.

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The Latest Condo Closings at Pierhouse Continued from page 7INB The development, which has 106 residential condo units, has been a magnet for well-heeled real-estate purchasers, who are paying prices of $2,000-plus per square foot for the apartments. Pierhouse has caused legal controversy over the issue of whether the building partly blocks the protected view plane between Brooklyn Heights’ Promenade and the Brooklyn Bridge. Sales of dozens of the apartments have closed since Eye on Real Estate started writing about the transactions in February. At this point, the highest-priced Pierhouse purchase remains that of Timothy and Stephanie Ingrassia, who also own an 1840s Greek Revival-style house at 140 Columbia Heights in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. As we previously reported, the couple paid $10,669,579 for their Pierhouse condo, Finance Department records indicate. Timothy Ingrassia is a banker at Goldman Sachs.

Other Big-Ticket Deals in the Offing Another Pierhouse condo is in contract that could turn out to be more expensive than theirs, if its closing price is close to its $11.179 million asking price, which is posted on StreetEasy.com. According to the real-estate website, this three-bedroom, 5,586-square-foot apartment has 3,407 square feet of outdoor space. As of press time, either the closing had not occurred or the

deed had not yet appeared in online Finance Department records. A second Pierhouse condo that’s in contract is going to be on a top rung of the price ladder if it closes near its $10.4 million asking price. StreetEasy.com describes it as a five-bedroom, 4,264-squarefoot apartment with 1,594 square feet of outdoor space.

Other Pierhouse Condo Purchasers But back to Pierhouse’s done deals. The new owners of two recently purchased Pierhouse condos recently sold apartments in Williamsburg or DUMBO, Finance Department records indicate. • Wai Lui Fung paid $3,093,799 for a Pierhouse apartment. In January 2017, Fung and two co-owners sold a condo at 1 Northside Piers in Williamsburg for $1.45 million. Fung had held a 90 percent interest in that apartment. • Sain Sain Lu and Michael Chua bought a Pierhouse condo for $2,854,511. In October 2016, they sold a condo at the Sweeney Building at 30 Main St. in DUMBO for $2.7 million. Lu and Chua had purchased the condo at 30 Main St. for $1,201,535 in 2003. Finance Department records also reveal these names and prices paid for recently closed Pierhouse condos: • Jordan T. Woods and Jillian S. Woods, $6,112,911 • David Epstein and Bonnie Epstein, $3,898,217 • Ian Ross, $3,047,978 • Jiong John Wang, $2,803,598

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‘Affordable New York’ Pours Fuel on Already Fiery Flatbush Development Market By Alexander McGee, Director of Investment Sales & Brett Campbell, Senior Analyst Special to INBrooklyn

The Brooklyn development market slowed considerably in the first quarter, a continuation of 2016’s trend, as the expiration of the popular 421a tax incentive program kept investors sidelined. Now that the program has been reinstated in the form of “Affordable New York,” neighborhoods that saw a lull in activity, such as Flatbush, are now primed for a significant pickup in demand. It is no secret that the expiration of the 421a tax exemption a year-and-a-half ago severely dampened new development projects throughout New York City, with the downturn in Brooklyn particularly pronounced. New York City’s biggest borough saw total development dollar volume in the first quarter at just over $331 million, an astonishing 45 percent drop from the $619 million tallied during the period in 2016, according to Ariel Property Advisors research. Only 54 transactions were recorded in the first quarter, a remarkable 40 percent and 32 percent below the same quarters in 2015 and 2016, respectively. In 2016, the Brooklyn development market saw $3.136 billion in dollar volume for the year, down from $3.56 billion the year prior. Despite the drop, prices edged higher in Brooklyn year-over-year, with the average buildable square foot rising by 6 percent to $262, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ “Brooklyn 2016 Year-End Sales Report.” The 421-a tax exemption was highly enticing before it expired, offering developers of residential properties in certain areas a 25-year tax break in exchange for the creation of low- to middle-income housing. As developers, affordable housing activists, trade unions and politicians, including New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo, debated the program’s destiny for well over a year, new development throughout most

Alexander McGee, director of investment sales for Ariel Property Advisors of New York City dramatically slowed. However, in April, New York state lawmakers revived 421-a as part of the state’s $163 billion budget. The new program, called “Affordable New York,” offers full property-tax exemption for as long as 35 years. The new program comes with some cost to developers as it implements new standards for construction wages, but most contend the tax advantage far outweighs this added expense.

Flatbush: The Next Development Frontier From a development perspective, the up-andcoming Brooklyn neighborhoods of Flatbush and East Flatbush have fared significantly better than

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Brooklyn as whole. While there was a slight downturn in dollar volume in 2016, at $50 million versus 2015’s $56 million, transactions in the area held steady. Moreover, if the dollar volume of $18 million in the first quarter keeps pace for the remainder of the year, 2017 will surpass 2016’s tally of $50 million for those areas. Flatbush’s popularity amongst investors is a relatively new phenomenon, which is starkly evident when looking at pricing, with the average price per buildable square foot at $119 in the first quarter, an astounding 43 percent higher than 2014’s average of $74. There is currently substantial value in developing rental buildings in Central Brooklyn, due largely to the “affordable” component of the Affordable New York legislation. In Manhattan, the affordable rental rate is considerably lower than the market rental rate. Therefore, the owner

will see a steep difference in rent between the required “affordable portion” of the building and the free market dwellings. Meanwhile, in the outer boroughs, namely Central Brooklyn, the affordable rents are extremely close to the market rents. In Flatbush, the “affordable” two-bedroom at 130 percent of area median income is $2,652, while the free market rent for the same unit in the same location is $2,600. The law, therefore, provides a clear path for developers to capture the whole rental market and fair market rents across the board in budgeting rental communities. Flatbush’s extreme value and substantial upside likely has developers experiencing a bout of déjà vu. That is because the neighborhood looks a lot like Bedford-Stuyvesant did just a few years ago before rampant development activity sent prices sharply higher, with the price per buildable square foot reaching $252 in the first quarter, more than double 2014’s average of $127. With pricing more than half that of BedfordStuyvesant, Flatbush offers developers the opportunity to build in a solid neighborhood with much less capital. Unlike Flatbush’s modest decline in 2016, dollar volume for development sites in Bedford-Stuyvesant decreased to $95 million in 2016, down a remarkable 55 percent from 2015. Flatbush’s relative affordability has not fallen on deaf ears and in the northern part of Flatbush, institutional investors who have long focused on core markets are now planting their flags in the neighborhood. For example, Hudson Companies is developing a 170-unit market-rate building at 310 Clackson Ave. The company is in the second phase of a large development at 350 Clarkson Ave. that will have 248 residential units and 6,000 square feet of retail space. Looking ahead, interest rates are positioned to move higher, but they remain historically low, which should bode well for the financing of development projects throughout New York City. While Affordable New York is undoubtedly positive for Brooklyn development, it will be a significant boon for Flatbush, where the tax incentive will fan the flames of an already sizzling development market.

Here’s a Fresh Look at Everyone’s Favorite Street for Photos in DUMBO

If you’re a tourist in DUMBO — or a bride-to- be, or a marketer who needs a good photo — this is where you go. INBrooklyn photo by Lore Croghan By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

The corner of Washington and Water streets is Selfie Central. So many people stand in the middle of the cobblestones on Washington Street to snap photos that you’d think it’s a pedestrian-only street. It’s not. The historic red-brick DUMBO buildings on either side of the block make a corridor that frames the Manhattan Bridge.

And the blue-green supports on the bridge make a frame for the Empire State Building. Take a careful look the next time you’re standing in the middle of the street with all the other selfie-takers, and you’ll see that iconic skyscraper off in the distance. Of course we’ve previously published pix of this visitors’ hot spot. But we were in the neighborhood the other day and just couldn’t resist taking new photos. See brooklyneagle.com for additional shots we took.

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MYBROOKLYNCALENDAR.COM Continued from page 2INB This Land Is ... This show features work by 800 Brooklyn students and offers youthful artistic commentary on modern socio-economic and political issues, from immigration and health care to gun violence. When: Tuesday through Sunday, through June 18 (Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Sunday, 12-6 p.m.) Where: Fort Greene/BRIC Arts (647 Fulton St.) Kajahl: Obscure Origins This exhibition presents a focused survey of Kajahl’s portraits, which combine iconography from African, Asian, European and PreColumbian traditions. The fusion of these symbols results in the creation of enigmatic artworks that bring the forgotten past into the foreground and reanimate minor artifacts of history into transformative assemblages. When: Thursday through Saturday, through June 18, 12-5 p.m. Where: Clinton Hill/Tillou Fine Art (59 Cambridge Place) S.B. Walker: Walden Walker’s photographs illustrate the way this once pristine landscape is now viewed and used. Using a large format camera, Walker captures both the grandeur and the cotidian 100 years after Thoreau. When: Tuesday through Saturday, through June 23, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. Where: DUMBO/Janet Borden, Inc (91 Water St.) Multilocational See multilocational artworks by Natalia Nakazawa and Cecile Chong. Multilocational is defined as “of, pertaining to, or being present in more than one location.” It subtly plays on the words multicultural or multinational, or “of mixed ancestry or residence.” When: Fridays, through June 25, 3-6 p.m. Where: Park Slope/Old Stone House (336 Third St.) Georgia O’Keeffe: Living Modern This exhibit takes a new look at how the renowned modernist artist proclaimed her progressive, independent lifestyle through a self-crafted public persona, including her clothing and the way she posed for the camera. The exhibition expands our understanding of O’Keeffe by focusing on her wardrobe, shown for the first time alongside key paintings and photographs. It confirms and explores her determination to be in charge of how the world understood her identity and artistic values. When: Wednesday through Sunday, through July 23, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. (Thursdays, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.) Where: Prospect Heights/Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway)

“This Land Is...” will be on exhibit through June 18 at BRIC Arts. Image courtesy of BRIC Arts Where: Brooklyn Heights/Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont St.) Next Stop: Second Avenue Subway Tracing nearly 100 years of history, the New York Transit Museum’s newest exhibit explores how the Second Avenue line fits into New York’s past, present and future transportation landscapes. When: Tuesday through Sunday, through Sept. 3, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. (Saturday and Sunday hours, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.) Where: Downtown Brooklyn/New York Transit Museum (Corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn Street) Infinite Blue The works of art in “Infinite Blue” feature blue in all its variety — a fascinating strand of visual poetry running from ancient times to the present day. In cultures dating back thousands of years, blue — the color of the skies — has often been associated with the spiritual, but also signifies power, status and beauty. The spiritual and material aspects of blue combine to tell us stories about global history, cultural values, technological innovation and international commerce. When: Wednesday through Sunday, through Nov. 5, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m. - 10 p.m. Where: Prospect Heights/Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway)

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Forged Worlds This outdoor photography exhibition showcases work by seven artists whose photographic practices revolve around the physical construction of fictional landscapes. Installed on a fence beneath the Manhattan Bridge, this photo installation invites viewers to take a closer look and perhaps allow themselves to be carried away — if even for a moment — in thoughts and lands so strange, yet so familiar, so close to home. When: Daily, through July 31, 2017 Where: DUMBO/Manhattan Bridge (Adams Street, Plymouth Street and Anchorage Place)

A Republic, If You Can Keep It: Masha Gessen Talks Autocracy with Timothy Snyder Government by the people is a powerful and beautiful system, but one that is not impervious to threats. Two political thought leaders — Russian-American journalist and author of the forthcoming “The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Retook Russia” Masha Gessen and esteemed academic and author of “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” Timothy Snyder — sit down to discuss the global rise of nationalism and America’s political future. When: Thursday, May 25, 6:30-8 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Heights/Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont St.)

Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie In the spring of 1958, a young photographer named David Attie was led through the streets of Brooklyn Heights and to the Brooklyn waterfront by an unexpected guide: 33-year-old Truman Capote. The images Attie took that day were to illustrate Capote’s essay for Holiday magazine about his life in Brooklyn. Decades later, these largely unseen photographs are being exhibited for the first time. When: Wednesday through Sunday, through July 31, 12-5 p.m.

U.S. Book Launch: Theft by Finding Diaries 1977-2002 by David Sedaris These pages are the closest thing to a memoir David Sedaris has written, giving us a glimpse into his early life, his family, his struggles with money and his search for an artistic point of view. Along the way we watch the development of his unique voice, timbre and cadence. When: Tuesday, May 30, 6 p.m. Where: Dumbo/PowerHouse Arena (28 Adams St.) Continued on page 12INB

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MYBROOKLYNCALENDAR.COM Continued from page 11INB Eat, Drink & Be Literary Featuring Elif Batuman, author of the new novel “The Idiot” and the essay collection “The Possessed.” Moderated by Deborah Treisman. When: Wednesday, May 31, 6:30 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/BAMcafé Live (30 Lafayette Ave.)

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Educational An Evening with Alice Walker for “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85” Join acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker in an intimate lecture inspired by her life’s work and the exhibition “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85.” When: Thursday, May 25, 7:30 p.m. Where: Prospect Heights/Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway) Manana from Heaven Cooking Class Learn specialty cooking skills in the Bay Ridge Jewish Center’s brand new kitchen. This month’s specialty is creating blintzes. When: Thursday, May 25, 7 p.m. Where: Bay Ridge/Bay Ridge Jewish Center (405 81st St.) NYTM Train Operators Workshop Drop by the computer lab to take control of a New York City subway car and operate it over virtual miles of track, using some incredibly realistic software. Limited capacity.

Tillou Fine Arts presents “Kajahl: Obscure Origins,” on exhibit through June 18. Image courtesy of Tillou Fine Art When: Saturday and Sunday, May 27-28, 3:30-4:30 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Heights/New York Transit Museum (99 Schermerhorn St.)

Family Fun Kids Drawing and Poetry Workshop Kids can join artist Jesse Chun for a workshop on drawing, poetry and combining the two. When: Saturday, May 27, 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Bridge Park/99 Plymouth St. Family Bowl Bring the whole family and get your bowl on. When: Saturday, May 27, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., and Sunday, May 28, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Where: Williamsburg/Brooklyn Bowl (61 Wythe Ave.) Memorial Day Concert It’s a New York City favorite, now in its 19th year. Bring a blanket and enjoy this free early summer performance. The concert features the ISO Symphonic Band, founded in 1995 to sponsor talented students throughout New York City and led by the band’s inimitable founder and conductor Brian P. Worsdale. Each year it features the works of Green-Wood Cemetery’s permanent residents, including Fred Ebb, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Leonard Bernstein and many others. Enjoy the beautiful landscape with your fellow New Yorkers, as well local vendors selling food and drink throughout the day. When: Monday, May 29, 2:30-5 p.m. Where: Greenwood Heights/Green-Wood Cemetery (500 25th St.) School Lunchtime Concert Series Showcasing middle and high school students from throughout

Green-Wood Cemetery presents its annual Memorial Day Concert on Monday, May 29. the borough, offering live music and performances in Columbus Park at the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall. When: Wednesday, May 31, 10 a.m. Where: Downtown Brooklyn/Brooklyn Borough Hall

Film Rooftop Films: The New American Paradise A grandfather attempts to pull his two grandsons out their collective boredom with a twisted fairytale right out of Trump’s America. Based on a true story, “American Paradise” is a story of desperation and disguise. When: Thursday, May 25, 8 p.m. (doors open) Where: Downtown Brooklyn/Metrotech Commons (1 Metrotech Center) Best of BAMKids Film Festival 2017 A selection of the most popular films from this year’s BAMkids Film Festival, including the “BAMmie” award winner for best short film as selected by the 2017 festival attendees. When: Saturday, May 27 Where: Fort Greene/BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave.) Rooftop Films: Love is Short (Romantic Short Films) “Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” Neruda wrote it, but these protagonists live it. When: Tuesday, May 30, 7 p.m. (doors open) Where: Williamsburg/The William Vale (55 Wythe Ave.) Varda in California A six-film series commemorating Agnes Varda’s brief relocations in the late-1960s and ’80s to California. When: Daily, May 31 through June 13 Where: Fort Greene/BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave.) The Sunset Screenings: Killing of a Chinese Bookie, 1976 Complementing the skyline, the series will be city-themed, representing the world’s most iconic cities from New York to Tokyo with a carefully curated list of films. When: Wednesday, May 24, 8:15 p.m. Where: Greenpoint/Good Roof at Dobbin Street (64 Dobbin St.)

Tours Lovecraft In Brooklyn Lovecraft’s time in Brooklyn, although difficult, proved transformative. This tour will trace a path from Lovecraft’s high hopes at the beginning of his Brooklyn sojourn in Flatbush, to tough times in the area now known as Brooklyn Heights, and artistic renewal beyond. When: Saturday, May 27, 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Heights/Northwest corner of Pacific and Court streets

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