Brooklyn PHOENIX by Nat

Volume 43, No. 39

OUR WORLD IN PHOTOS

B’klyn Religious Leaders Host Anti-Racism Training By Liliana Bernal

Special to the Brooklyn PHOENIX

More than 20 religious leaders from different races and backgrounds came together at Redeemer St. John’s Lutheran Church to host its first antiracism training of 2017 last Saturday. “We believe that our society is more and more divided and we need to talk about tough issues like racism. Racism exists, we cannot deny that … and we need also to talk about institutional racism, yes there is racism in the church,” said Pastor Khader Khalilia of the Dyker Heights-based church. “It’s time for the church to stand up and speak against racism because we cannot be silent any more...” Continued on page 3

Friday, October 27, 2017

Two Sections

FORMULA ONE U.S. GRAND PRIX AUTO RACE — Sprinter Usain Bolt, left, and Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, pose after Hamilton won the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas, Sunday, Oct. 22, in Austin, Texas. Visit brooklyneagle.com for more Our World in Photos. AP Photo/Darron Cummings

Rare Jackie Robinson Brooklyn Dodgers Jersey Up for Auction

From the Desk of the PUBLISHER Too Many Trees on NYC Streets Can Be Dangerous — See page 2 —

A rare jersey from Jackie Robinson’s historic rookie season with the Brooklyn Dodgers 70 years ago could be available for someone with a few spare millions. The jersey, part of a Heroes of Sports offering by Heritage Auctions, has been certiﬁed by Mears, one of the top memorabilia authentica‐ tion companies. It is accompanied by a letter from Robinson's widow, Rachel, saying it is the one brought home by the Hall of Famer at the end of the 1947 season, when he became the ﬁrst black player in the majors and earned Rookie of the Year honors. Shown: Rachel Robinson, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson and Jackie Robinson in 1947.Visit AP Photo/Harry Harris, File brooklyneagle.com.

Too Many Trees on NYC Streets Can Be Dangerous Let me begin by saying that I’m all in favor when it comes to beautification and clean air initiatives, but in some Brooklyn neighborhoods, the Parks Department and other departments have to reconsider how and where to plant trees.

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Reducing storm water runoff

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Providing shelter and food for birds and other wildlife

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Offsetting climate change by reducing energy used by buildings, and reducing carbon dioxide emissions that pollute our air

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Keeping the city cooler in the summer

Bloomberg and New York Restoration Project (NYRP) founder Bette Midler originally launched the Million Trees NYC initiative to plant and care for one million trees throughout the five boroughs in the next decade. The former mayor and Midler planted a street tree in the Morrisania section of the Bronx — a neighborhood with too few trees and high rates of asthma — and declared the Carolina Silverbell to be the first of one million trees. Through a mix of public and private plantings, Million Trees NYC was designed to increase New York City’s urban forest by 20 percent. There are indeed benefits in planting trees, but at the same time, the amount of trees being planted in one block in some neighborhoods gives criminals an advantage to stay hidden while they’re planning to commit crimes. Trees also can cause accidents when they block views for people who are walking on the sidewalks or streets.

PHOENIX photo by Paula Katinas

Most of us know that the following reasons that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg initiated the planting of a million trees: • Removing air pollutants that can trigger respiratory illnesses

From the Desk Of the PUBLISHER

Many people look out their windows when they see or hear something unusual outside the buildings or homes, but trees can block their views. Even vehicular accidents are caused by trees that are planted but not pruned. Their overgrowth can sometimes block traffic lights.

In storms and high winds, trees can fall, causing more accidents. All in all, the only time that there will be complete visibility on streets with trees will be the winter, when there are no leaves on the trees and thieves cannot lurk in their shadows. —Terrence Lyght, Publisher, Brooklyn PHOENIX.

GUEST EDITORIAL Brooklyn College Students Largely Low Income, Feel Cheated by State Programs By Dylan Campbell According to statistics from the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and provided to Brooklyn College, only 2 percent of Brooklyn College students can expect tuition assistance from the Excelsior Scholarship, disappointing students and leaving many feeling “cheated.” The governor’s office released documents in early October that said nearly 210,000, or 53 percent of all eligible students, are attending SUNY/CUNY schools, tuition-free through financial assistance from the Excelsior Scholarship and other federal and state aid. But at Brooklyn College, out of more than 17,000 students, only 773 students are eligible for the Excelsior Scholarship because of strict qualifications. Out of the students who meet the guidelines, only 375 Brooklyn College students should expect to get an Excelsior scholarship because of the “last dollar” structure of the program that only covers funding to those who don’t receive financial aid.

Founded in 1972, the Brooklyn Phoenix is an award-winning weekly that covered Brownstone Brooklyn and reform politics for two decades. Full archives of the Phoenix are being catalogued as a special project of the Department of Library Science at Brooklyn College. Today the Phoenix has a new mission to become the voice of the immigrant community in Brooklyn in the new century. Publisher: TERRENCE LYGHT tlyght@brooklynphoenix.com Managing Editor: JEAN DAVID HUBERT jdh@brooklynphoenix.com (646) 683‐1864

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Students are feeling cheated by a “free tuition” narrative and limited by the scholarship qualifications. The Excelsior Scholarship covers tuition for full-time students who live in New York, complete 30 credit hours a year, maintain a passing GPA of 2.0, and come from households making less than the income cap of $100,000. That income cap will rise to $110,000 in 2018, and $125,000 in 2019. Recipients are also required to live in New York state for the number of years they received the scholarship. Approximately $163 million was appropriated for the program in this year’s budget. But the Excelsior Scholarship only pays tuition. The scholarship is “last dollar” meaning that the scholarship only provides funds for what is not covered by TAP or Pell grants. Of the 773 eligible students at Brooklyn College, 398 students will not get an award because of this provision — a little more than half of those eligible at the college. Aida Nesimi, a sophomore, said she was frustrated when she found out she wasn’t eligible. “Despite the fact that my parents seemingly are financially sound, we have a lot of expenses on our plate,” said Nesimi whose father pays for her and her sister’s tuition on top of the family’s home in Albania. “So after everything, we’re barely making ends meet […] I’m lucky my dad is good at managing his finances or else I don’t know how we’d be afloat after all that we have to take care of.” “I started working more to ease the financial strain on my dad because it is not easy,” she said. Other students felt that the program was falsely marketed. “I felt cheated. Not cheated by whoever offers the scholarship, but by the media who lauded it as ‘free tuition for everyone,” said Krista Cohen, senior. “It’s a regular scholarship like any other, only offered to people who really truly wouldn’t be able to go to college otherwise. I don’t fault them at all, it’s very important for education to be available to everyone, and scholarships like this definitely help, I just wish the requirements for succeeding as a scholarship student weren’t so narrow.” Free tuition advocate groups such as CUNY Struggle and Free CUNY have criticized the program. CUNY Struggle said the eligibility requirements are too stringent, closing the door to free tuition on many students. “CUNY students, who are overwhelmingly low-income, but must somehow survive in the most expensive city in North America, need a lot more than this half-mea-

sure to ensure that they have the resources they need to pursue their college education with the dedication that so many of them show even under extraordinarily difficult circumstances,” said a spokesperson for CUNY Struggle. “The fact that CUNY tuition is already lower than most state schools, and still students have a very tough time finding the resources to sustain themselves to graduation, is an indicator of the obstacles that this plan doesn’t begin to address.” Free CUNY, a group that received more than 4,000 signatures on a petition for fully free tuition, agreed the program was failing students.“Cuomo’s program is a total sham with tall promises that in reality amount to very little improvements for CUNY students,” said Conor Tomas Reed, an activist at Free CUNY. “We believe that CUNY should become completely tuition-free again, and that enough annual city and state budget surpluses exist to make this happen.” For the few students who received the scholarship, the program delivered the benefits of free tuition, but at a different price. Ghennah Forde, a sophomore, was relieved when she received the scholarship. But from the application to disbursement, getting the scholarship came with obstacles. After appealing the claims of ineligibility because of an error with her transfer credits, she was awarded the tuition coverage. But the assistance didn’t come in time. “It somewhat helped me out, but in a sense, not really, since I was accepted and expected immediate financial aid, it remained pending right near the tuition deadline forcing me to pay out of fear,” Forde said. Though she laid the money out, she was reimbursed for these expenses. She said the financial assistance with tuition is valuable to her, but she wishes the program were different. “It somewhat takes off the burden but now I have to work even harder in classes,” she said. Forde also wishes she were able to keep her aid. Though covering the remains of her tuition is helpful, she said she expected and needed more. “I thought it’d cover tuition and I’d keep my TAP but it deducts any other financial aid,” she said. “It’s like they’re making sure to pay the bare minimum or pick up their crumbs.” —Dylan Campbell is a Brooklyn College student

Metropolitan Black Bar Association Installs New Officers and Directors

The Metropolitan Black Bar Association held its annual officers and directors swearing-in ceremony last week where President Paula Edgar (center in red) was sworn in along with the other officers and board of directors. Pictured from left: Zalika Pierre, Shantal Sparks, Darryl Gibbs, Nadine Etienne-Bazile, Patrick Michel, Tyear Middleton, Carl Forbes Jr., Jason Clark, Edgar, Jenesha Tai, Turquoise Haskin, Alison Moore, Dionne Gill, Areal Allen-Stewart, Luwick Francois, Wayne McKenzie, Dawn Reid-Green and Karume James. Photos courtesy of MBBA By Rob Abruzzese

Brooklyn Religious Leaders Host Anti-Racism Training

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The Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA) held its annual induction ceremony on Tuesday at Proskauer Rose LLP in Manhattan, where they reinstalled President Paula Edgar and the rest of the officers and board of directors. Edgar is back for the second year of a twoyear term. She was sworn in alongside new board members, including Jason M. Clark as the president-elect; Anta Cisse-Green, vice president of programming; Nadine Etienne-Basile, vice president of membership; Tyear Middleton, vice president of finance; Luwick Francois, treasurer; Areal Allen-Stewart, secretary; and Roy Locke, general counsel. Judge William Kuntz, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, was on hand to swear in the new officers and directors. During her speech, Edgar took a look back at her “Four Ps” initiative and introduced one for the new year: IMPACT, which stands for innovation, mentoring, partnerships, advocacy, community and training. “For the second year of my presidency, IMPACT is our theme,” Edgar said. “We will focus on how the MBBA will have a greater influence on the legal community as well as the broader communities we serve.” The difference in the two plans is subtle (the four Ps stand for professional development, pipeline, partnership and presence). The difference is an emphasis on innovation and advocacy. It is no coincidence that these have been added, as a large portion of MBBA’s members are immigrants or come from immigrant families, and with President Donald Trump trying to enact three different versions of a travel ban, Edgar said she feels that more needs to be done to protect members and the community.

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From left: Turquoise Haskin, Dionne Gill, Carl Forbes Jr. and Darryl Gibbs.

From left: Dawn Reid-Green, Zalika Pierre and Alison Moore.

This Oct. 31 marks 500 years since Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation, considered by Christians as one of the most significant events in human history as it marked the theological, historical, intellectual, economic and political identity of the Western World. After five centuries, Protestant leaders continue to talk about the evolution of the church, including talks of diversity and openness of cultures. Participants at the training shared their experiences with racism within their religious communities and how those incidents affected the faith of members of their congregations. A majority of people in many ethnic, identity and racial groups in America believe that discrimination against them exists in many areas of daily life, according to a poll from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. White Americans are among those who feel their group is discriminated against, with 55 percent saying discrimination exists against whites in the U.S. today. “An African-American lady came into my office … and she was in tears, she was crying. She said, ‘I went to a Catholic Church in the neighborhood three times and every time … people would not share the peace with me,’” said Rev. Khader El-Yateem, pastor of Salam Arabic Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge. “She said, ‘How can we be the church when we cannot accept each other because of our skin color?’” The training on Saturday was led by Crossroad, an organization based in Chicago that offers anti-racism training for institutions. “We are fundamentally led by people of color who are dedicated to working in partnership with people of white, our other contingency, in order to really focus on the business of the restoration of humanity,” said Rev. Michael Russell of Crossroad. “We are going to get people to really take a look around the context today and recognize that racism is alive and well, not too hard these days … but what we do propose is that there is a way to deal with that and then we talk about organizing at a local level and organizing within institutions to change that construct.” In 2015, the Synod Assembly adopted a resolution to train as many people as possible in anti-racism. Metropolitan New York Synod is the representation of the Protestant Church in New York. There are nearly 200 congregations across the five boroughs, Long Island and seven upstate counties. El-Yateem said that as a person of color, often times he has experienced racism and discrimination, even within the church itself. “I think that this kind of training, the antiracism training will help us to break from these prejudices that we come with and to be able to recognize each other, celebrate each other’s identities and to welcome each other as equals in our faith community.”

Public Legal Notice

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Brooklyn Shows Helped Fats Domino’s Rise to Fame By Raanan Geberer Brooklyn JOURNAL

The music world this past week mourned the recent death of Antoine “Fats” Domino, 1950s rock and roll and rhythm and blues pioneer who brought the sound of New Orleans to the nation. With his boogie-woogie piano riffs and his laidback delivery, Domino had hit after hit and was one of the first performers inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. Younger people might not know, however, that his fame in the New York area was spread by a series of shows right here in Brooklyn, courtesy of pioneer rock DJ Alan Freed. The first show Freed produced in Brooklyn, the Jubilee Under the Stars, was held in August 1954 at Ebbets Field, which was still the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Freed was still on the air in Cleveland at that point, but negotiations were already under way to bring him to WINS here in New York. At that point, Domino’s records were almost exclusively played on Black-oriented radio, but Freed had visions of taking R&B to a wider audience. On the bill with Domino were Chicago bluesmen Little Walter and Muddy Waters as well as harmony groups such as the Dominoes, the Clovers and the Orioles. By the following year, Freed’s show on WINS was listened to by teenagers across the metropolitan area. He began to produce shows at both the New York Paramount in Manhattan and the Brooklyn Paramount, whose building is now part of the LIU Brooklyn campus in Downtown Brooklyn. Alanfreed.com has reproduced some of the show booklets from those years. The first Brooklyn Paramount show starring Domino took place in September 1956. By this point, he had placed a string of hits on both the R&B and pop charts (“Ain’t That a Shame,” “Blueberry Hill,” “I’m in Love Again”). On the bill with Domino were Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers (“Why Do Fools Fall in Love”), Joe Turner (“Shake, Rattle and Roll”), and New York doo-wop groups the Harptones and the Cleftones.

Domino also appeared with Freed at the 1957 Christmas show at the Brooklyn Paramount. He’d had a major hit that year with “I’m Walking.” Along with Domino on the bill were flamboyant singer and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis (“Great Balls of Fire,” “Whole Lot of Shaking Going On”), the Everly Brothers (“Bye Bye Love”) and Paul Anka (“Diana,” the songwriter of “My Way”). The presence of country rockers like Lewis and the Everlys shows that Freed was trying to diversify his music and reach out to a broader audience. In 1959, Freed switched his shows to the nearby Brooklyn Fox Theater, which was later demolished. Domino appeared in April 1959 with soul singer Jackie Wilson FILE ‐ In this May 30, 2009 ﬁle photo, Fats Domino visits with (“Lonely Teardrops”), pop crooner Bobby Darin Little Richard in a dressing room after Richards' performance (“Mack the Knife,” “Beyond the Sea”), the doo-wop at The Domino Eﬀect, a tribute concert for Domino, at the comedy and singing group the Cadillacs (“Peek-aNew Orleans Arena in New Orleans. Domino, the amiable Boo,” “Jay Walker”) and wild Little Richard-type rocker Larry Williams (“Short Fat Fannie”). That very rock 'n' roll pioneer whose steady, pounding piano and easy month, Domino’s last big hit of the 1950s, “I Want to baritone helped change popular music even as it honored Walk You Home,” was released. the grand, good‐humored tradition of the Crescent City, has Freed didn’t last long at the Brooklyn Fox. He died. He was 89. AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File got caught up in the payola “pay to play” scandal, was fired by WINS and soon left the city for a station in Los Angeles. Disc jockey Murray “the K” Kaufman inherited Freed’s slot at WINS as well as his shows at the Brooklyn Fox. By that point, however, Domino was gradually becoming an “oldies” singer, and his place on the charts was being taken by younger artists. In an age when virtually the only information about rock and roll singers came from their publicists, the material on Domino in Freed’s show booklets was informative and free of hype. It describes his beginnings in New Orleans, local musicians there who influenced him, his family life and his upcoming European tour. Also included is his response to the U.S. State Department’s plans to send him on a cultural exchange tour to Russia: “If those cats like to dance, they’ll dig my kind of jive!”

OUR WORLD IN PHOTOS LEFT: Sprinter Usain Bolt gets into a car to ride a lap with driver Lewis Hamilton, of Britain, before the Formula One U.S. Grand Prix auto race at the Circuit of the Americas, AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez Sunday, Oct. 22, in Austin, Texas.

NAME CHANGE SIMMONS

NAME CHANGE ROMAN SANTIAGO

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court,

Kings County on the 21st day of September, 2017, bearing the In-

Kings County on the 15th day of September, 2017, bearing the In-

NAME CHANGE PRICHER

dex Number NC-001247-17/KI, a copy of which may be examined

dex Number NC-001220-17/KI, a copy of which may be exam-

NOTICE is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 3rd day of October, 2017, bearing the Index Number NC-001284-17/KI, a copy of which may be examined at the Ofﬁce of the Clerk located at Civil Court, Kings County, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, grants me (us) the right to: assume the name of (First) DAVID (Middle) ANTHONY (Last) PRICHER. My present name is (First) MALE (Last) PRICHER AKA DAVID ANTHONY PRICHER AKA DAVID PRICHER. My present address is 420 WATKINS STREET, Brooklyn, NY 11212. My place of birth is BROOKLYN, NY. My date of birth is January 9, 1963.

Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, grants me (us) the

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at the Ofﬁce of the Clerk located at Civil Court, Kings County, 141 right to: assume the name of (First) CRYSTAL (Middle) KANDI (Last) SIMMONS. My present name is (First) FEMALE (Last) SIM-

ined at the Ofﬁce of the Clerk located at Civil Court, Kings County, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11201, grants me (us) the right to: assume the name of (First) NECTAR (Middle) ROSA (Last) ROMAN SANTIAGO. My present name is (First) NECTAR (Middle) ROSA (Last) ROMAN SANTIAGO AKA NECTAR ROSA

MONS AKA CRYSTAL KANDI SIMMONS AKA CRYSTAL K. SIM-

ROMAN AKA NECTAR ROSA ROMAN SANTIAGO AKA NECTAR

MONS AKA CRYSTAL SIMMONS. My present address is 2250 W

R RAMOS. My present address is 1251 BAY RIDGE PARKWAY,

11 ST, Brooklyn, NY 11223. My place of birth is BROOKLYN, NY. My

Brooklyn, NY 11228. My place of birth is CAMUY, PUERTO RICO.

date of birth is June 10, 1978.

My date of birth is February 26, 1949. #153628

NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS 210 AVE N LLC 210 Ave N LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/27/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 130 Brighton Beach Ave Bklyn NY 11235. Purpose: any lawful #154311

SLEEKTECH PROPERTIES LLC Sleektech Properties LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/6/16. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 5814 12th Ave Bklyn NY 11219. Purpose: any lawful #154313

MMC BROOKLYN LLC MMC Brooklyn LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/12/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: One Old Country Rd Ste 420 Carle Pl NY 11514. Purpose: any lawful #154315

BUT WHY TOO LLC But Why Too LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/6/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 245 Wilson Ave Bklyn NY 11237. Purpose: any lawful #154323

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KBENY, LLC

KBENY, LLC, Arts of Org. ﬁled with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/22/2016. Cty: Kings. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 76 Batterson Park Rd., Farmington, CT 06032. General Purpose. #154000

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BAJAN BEACH ENTERPRISES LLC

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: BAJAN BEACH ENTERPRISES LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/7/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Henrietta E. Thompson, 600 Harbor Boulevard, Unit 671 Weehawken, NJ, 07086. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153806

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DI TRUCKING LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY

Di Trucking Limited Liability Company. Filed with SSNY on 8/7/17. Formed in NJ on 4/17/09. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 152 W Roselle Ave Roselle Park NJ 07204. NJ SOS: 33 W State St 5th Fl Trenton NJ 08608. Purpose: any lawful #153722

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OTIUS STUDIO LLC

Otius Studio LLC Arts of Org ﬁled with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 8/28/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Yuki Saito, 125 15th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Registered Agent of LLC: Kil S Jung, 16 W 32nd St, #406, NY, NY 10001. General Purposes. #153780

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L & M GRAND REALTY LLC

L & M GRAND REALTY LLC. Arts of Org ﬁled with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/17. Ofﬁce location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 271 Grand St., 5th Fl., NY, NY 10002. Purpose: any lawful act. #153544

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SUNRUN ZEUS HOLDCO 2017, LLC

Notice of Qualification of Sunrun Zeus Holdco 2017, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/19/17. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/11/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. #153852

SUNRUN ZEUS OWNER 2017, LLC Notice of Qualification of SUNRUN ZEUS OWNER 2017, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/19/17. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/11/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity. #153854

SUNRUN ZEUS PORTFOLIO 2017, LLC Notice of Qualification of Sunrun Zeus Portfolio 2017, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/19/17. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 8/11/17. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is CT Corporation System, 111 8th Ave, NY, NY 10011. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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SC & LC LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/25/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 50 Evelyn Pl SI NY 10305. Purpose: any lawful

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: GREY GENETICS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/25/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Legalinc Corporate Services Inc., 1967 Wehrle Drive, Suite 1 #086 Buffalo, NY, 14221. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

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153 32ND STREET LLC

153 32nd Street LLC, Arts of Org. ﬁled with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/19/2016. Cty: Kings. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 2803 Hylan Blvd., Staten Island, NY 10306. General Purpose. #154501

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GREY GENETICS, LLC

53RD PM LLC

53rd PM LLC, Arts of Org. ﬁled with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 8/24/2017. Cty: Kings. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Marie Leone, 65 Ironwood St., Staten Island, NY 10308. General Purpose. #154505

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07058

DESIGN AGAINST LYME LLC

For details, emailTlyght@brooklynPhoenix.com

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760 DEAN ST. REALTY LLC

760 Dean St. Realty LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/28/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 4667 Parsons Blvd Flushing NY 11355. Purpose: any lawful #154333

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LEIHAIYEN LLC

LEIHAIYEN LLC. Arts of Org ﬁled with Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/17. Ofﬁce location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail copy of process against LLC to: 8811 62nd Ave., Rego Park, NY 11374. Purpose: any lawful act. #154115

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1068 PEG LLC

1068 Peg LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/4/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 812 Napoleon St Woodmere NY 11598. Purpose: any lawful #154335

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SB REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC

Notice of Formation of SB Real Estate Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. ﬁled with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/25/05. Ofﬁce location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 11 Lisa Drive, Dix Hills, NY 11746. Purpose: any lawful activity. #154374

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DYKER HEIGHTS RENTAL PROPERTIES L.P.

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LITTLE EAGLE MANAGEMENT, LLC

Little Eagle Management, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 7/22/16. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 80 East Route 4 Ste 170 Paramus NJ 07652. Purpose: any lawful #154337

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HENG FU, LLC

Heng Fu, LLC Arts of Org ﬁled with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 8/24/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 1450 Armitage Way, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050. General Purposes. #153548

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MAISON AROZE LLC

Notice of Qualification of MAISON AROZE LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/06/17. Office location: Kings County. LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 08/03/17. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 850 3rd Ave., Ste. 301A, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Address to be maintained in DE: Delaware Corporation Organizers Inc., 1201 North Market St. 16th Fl., Wilmington, DE 198991347. Arts of Org. filed with the Secy. of State of the State of DE, Division of Corporations, 401 Federal St. #4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activities. #153595

FAMILYASSETS GROUP, LLC

Abigail Associates LLC. Filed with SSNY on 5/5/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 121 Wilson Terrace SI NY 10304. Purpose: any lawful #153702

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ABIGAIL ASSOCIATES LLC

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Design Against Lyme LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/10/17. Ofﬁce: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 18 Hook Mtn Rd Ste 202 Pine Brook NJ 07058. Purpose: any lawful

FamilyAssets Group, LLC ﬁled with SSNY on 10/11/17. Off. Loc.: Kings Co. Formed in DE on 11/13/16. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 67 West St #221, Brooklyn, NY 11222. DE off. add.:874 Walker Rd #C, Dover, DE 19904. Art. of Org. on ﬁle: SS DE, 401 Federal St, #4, Dover, DE 19901. General Purposes.

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We know entrepreneurs are the backbone of our society, the biggest employer, the best growth poten al.

#153558

Notice of Formation of Dyker Heights Rental Properties L.P. Cert. of Limited Partnership ﬁled with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 10/12/17. Ofﬁce location: Kings County. SSNY is designated as agent of LP upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 187 Wolf Rd, Ste 101, Albany, NY 12205. List of names and addresses of all general partners available from SSNY. Purpose: any lawful activity. Last date to dissolve is 12/31/2057.

#153856

From Caribbean Bakeries to Restaurants to Handyman to Home Health Agencies

and doctors & lawyers,hotels & bars,dealers in cars. .

PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICES LIQUOR LICENSE

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1305591 for beer/ wine/liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer/ wine/liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at Good Move, 167 Nassau Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11222 for on premises consumption. #154515

LIQUOR LICENSE

Notice is hereby given that a license, with a pending Ser No., has been applied for by Hometown Fried Chicken LLC., to sell liquor, wine and beer at retail in a restaurant under the ABC Law at 329 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn, NY 11231 for on-premises consumption. #154536

LIQUOR LICENSE

Notice is hereby given that license #1305955 has been applied by the undersigned to sell wine, beer and liquor in a Hotel under the alcoholic beverage control law at 300 Schermerhorn St., Brooklyn, NY 11217 for on-premises consumption. Dark Horse Hospitality d/b/a Brasserie Seoul. #154477

LIQUOR LICENSE

Notice is hereby given that a license, number “Pending” for beer, wine and liquor has been applied for by ASIA HARBOR BROOKLYN INC. to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 404 CHURCH AVENUE, Brooklyn, NY 11218 for on premises consumption. #154130

LIQUOR LICENSE

Notice is hereby given that a license, number 1305053 for beer and wine has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer and wine at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 4110 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11232 for on-premises consumption. BJ0857 LLC d/b/a Slimak cafe #154266

LIQUOR LICENSE

Notice is hereby given that a license, with a pending Ser No., has been applied for by Brooklyn 21 Pub, Inc., to sell liquor, wine and beer at retail in a restaurant under the ABC Law at 686 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215 for on-premises consumption. #154297

LIQUOR LICENSE

Notice is hereby given that a license, serial #1305727 for beer, wine and liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer, wine and liquor at retail in a cinema under the ABC Law at 188 Prospect Pk W, Bklyn NY 11215 for on-premises consumption; Nitehawk Prospect Park LLC #154221

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11207

Notice of formation of Centrinel LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY 9/7/17. Office Location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to: c/o The LLC, 63 Cranberry St., #4, Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: NEW LOTS AVE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 1/12/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is The Limited Liability Company, 425 New Lots Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11207. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

CENTRINEL LLC

#153576

PE2 MANAGER LLC Notice of Formation of PE2 Manager LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/25/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: MHANY Management Inc., One Metro Tech North, 11th Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful activity. #153969

COLOR COLLECTIVE, LLC Color Collective, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/12/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 59 Livingston St #2f Bklyn NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful #154331

321 PIERREPONT LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: 321 PIERREPONT LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/12/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is David H. Perlman, Esq., 186 Montague Street Brooklyn, NY, 11201. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #154338

11219

1994 BERGEN STREET LLC

1994 Bergen Street LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/16/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 2276 Sixty Fifth St 2nd Fl Bklyn NY 11204. Purpose: any lawful #153708

11204

NEW LOTS AVE LLC

#153688

53 BOERUM 7K, LLC 53 Boerum 7K, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/17/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 6920 Bay Parkway Bklyn NY 11204. Purpose: any lawful #153690

11205

SIXSIXFOUR LLC

SixsixFour LLC. Filed with SSNY on 6/14/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 15 Washington Ave Bklyn NY 11205. Purpose: any lawful

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: NYS HEALTHCARE CONSULTING, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/18/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is The LLC, 405 78th Street, B1 Brooklyn, NY, 11209. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153640

#153947

LIBERTY FOR COLUMBUS LLC Liberty For Columbus LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/8/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 1245 Wilson Ave Bklyn NY 11237. Purpose: any lawful #154319

ORTIZ PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: ORTIZ PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 2/21/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is Ortiz Product Development Llc, 390 Van Siclen Ave Brooklyn, NY, 11207. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #154354

11208 MAFATEX AGENCY LLC Notice of Formation of MAFATEX AGENCY LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/7/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 609A Fountain Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11208. Purpose: any lawful activity. #153540

53 BOERUM 7J, LLC

53 Boerum 7J, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/17/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 6920 Bay Parkway Bklyn NY 11204. Purpose: any lawful

NYS HEALTHCARE CONSULTING, LLC

GRANITE ENVIRONMENTAL, LLC Granite Environmental, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/21/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 847 Shepherd Ave Bklyn NY 11208. Purpose: any lawful #153712

338 PROPERTY LLC Notice of Formation of 338 Property LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/12/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 122 76th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Purpose: any lawful activity. #154459

11210

AZG SCC LLC

Notice of Formation of AZG SCC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1465A Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: any lawful activity. #154254

LL SCC LLC Notice of Formation of LL SCC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/11/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 1465A Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210. Purpose: any lawful activity. #154258

11211

FALLS VILLAGE MEDIA LLC

Falls Village Media LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/11/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 2 Bayard St Apt 1b Bklyn NY 11211. Purpose: any lawful #153720

PATRIMONIO, LLC PATRIMONIO, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/3/17. Off. Loc.:Kings Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 395 Leonard St #215, Brooklyn, NY 11211. General Purposes. #154238

IGR HOLDINGS LLC IGR Holdings LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/21/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 926 Crescent St Bklyn NY 11208. Purpose: any lawful #153739

11209 SHREEJI ATM LLC

11213

THROW SHADE PUBLISHING LLC

Throw Shade Publishing LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/12/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 1665 Union St Bklyn NY 11213. Purpose: any lawful #153694

New 25WA LLC. Filed with SSNY on 7/12/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 15 Washington Ave Bklyn NY 11205. Purpose: any lawful

SHREEJI ATM LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 6/1/2017. Off. Loc.: Kings Co. Mahendrakumar R. Ghelani designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The LLC, 9816 4th Avenue, Apt. 2F, Brooklyn, NY 11209. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity.

1055 Sterling, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 9/25/17. Cty: Kings. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Neal M. Friedfertig, 283 Kingston Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11213. General Purpose.

#154329

#153774

#153941

#154327

NEW 25WA LLC

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11214 DE CHANG DEVELOPMENT LLC De Chang Development LLC. Filed with SSNY on 7/26/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 158 Bay 46 St Bklyn NY 11214. Purpose: any lawful #154317

11215 133 SEVENTH LLC 133 SEVENTH LLC Art. Of Org. Filed Sec. of State of NY 8/25/2017. Off. Loc.: Kings Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY to mail copy of process to The Limited Liability Company, 133 7th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: Any lawful act or activity. #153501

EDG CONSTRUCTION GROUP, LLC EDG CONSTRUCTION GROUP, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/15/2017. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Harel Edery, . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 161 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11215 #153764

JV PM LLC Notice of Formation of JV PM LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/28/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 149 18th St., Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: any lawful activity.

SEWIT SIUM LLC

TP BK SERVICES LLC

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: SEWIT SIUM LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/20/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Sewit Sium, 67 Hanson Pl Apt 4C Brooklyn, NY, 11217. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose.

TP BK Services LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/12/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 2237 W 7th St Bklyn NY 11223. Purpose: any lawful

#153944

11224 LUCAS NEPTUNE REALTY LLC Lucas Neptune Realty LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/21/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 3704 Neptune Ave Bklyn NY 11224. Purpose: any lawful #153706

OAK TREE ACQUISITIONS NYC LLC Notice of Formation of Oak Tree Acquisitions NYC LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 2/7/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 264 Sixth Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: owning, operating, and managing real estate and any lawful business purpose or purposes. #154088

344 J & S REALTY LLC 344 J & S Realty LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/4/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 538 2nd St Bklyn NY 11215. Purpose: any lawful #154305

GREASY LUCK STUDIO, LLC GREASY LUCK STUDIO, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/29/17. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to c/o Bauman & Kunkis, P.C., 14 Penn Plaza , Ste. 2208, NY, NY 10122. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. Principal business location: c/o Merolla, 530 6th Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11215. #154450

11217 DARK HORSE HOSPITALITY LLC

1741 EAST 4TH LLC 1741 East 4th LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/06/16. Off. loc: Kings Co. SSNY des. as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, c/o Joyce Israel, 2202 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11223. Purpose: General. #153920

BACK 2 SHAPE P.T. & O.T., PLLC Back 2 Shape P.T. & O.T., PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/13/17. Off. Loc.:Kings Co. SSNY desig. as agt. upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 2411 E2nd St, Brooklyn, NY 11223. General Purposes. #154236

11218 CREATIVE GALAXY S3LA LLC Notice of Formation of CREATIVE GALAXY S3LA LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 09/19/17. Office location: Kings County. Princ. office of LLC: 23 Micieli Pl., Apt. 2, Brooklyn, NY 11218. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #153880

#153965

#153716

11220 67FIVE LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: 67FIVE LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/10/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is 67five Llc, 352 52 Street, 1 Fl Brooklyn, NY, 11220. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153546

772 48ST LLC 772 48st LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/7/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 772 48TH St Bklyn NY 11220. Purpose: any lawful #154325

11225 HUMMINGBIRD DELIVERY LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: HUMMINGBIRD DELIVERY LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/24/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Joseph Cayenne, 16 Lamont Court Brooklyn, NY, 11225. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153586

DOV SEWER AND DRAIN LLC Dov Sewer and Drain LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/11/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 444 Montgomery St Bklyn NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful #153692

G & L IMPORT & EXPORTS OF GOLD & DIAMONDS LLC G & L Import & Exports of Gold & Diamonds LLC. Filed with SSNY on 7/7/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 280 Crown St Ste D-8 Bklyn NY 11225. Purpose: any lawful #153718

BODY INK NARRATIVE LLC

Norman Kingsland LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/13/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 269 Norman Ave Bklyn NY 11222. Purpose: any lawful

BODY INK NARRATIVE LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/13/2017. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Derrick Campbell, . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 358 Lincoln Rd., Apt. 3L, Brooklyn, NY 11225

#153696

#154211

11222 NORMAN KINGSLAND LLC

11223

11226

1725 BOSTON RD LLC

442 GRAND AVE, LLC

Dark Horse Hospitality LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/18/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 300 Schermerhorn St Bklyn NY 11217. Purpose: any lawful

1725 Boston Rd LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/11/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 1946 Coney Island Ave Bklyn NY 11223. Purpose: any lawful

442 Grand Ave, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 6/15/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 885 Flatbush Ave Ste 201 Bklyn NY 11226. Purpose: any lawful

#153686

#153684

#153714

NEW BUSINESS FORMATIONS 11234

ACCOUNTING AND COMPLIANCE CONSULTING, LLC

Accounting and Compliance Consulting, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/24/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 1568 E 34th St Bklyn NY 11234. Purpose: any lawful #153698

11228

KICKTRADERS, LLC

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: KICKTRADERS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/18/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153813

GERANIUM STUDIOS, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: GERANIUM STUDIOS, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/12/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153824

TATY’S RESTAURANT, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: TATY’S RESTAURANT, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 4/13/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153646

DESTON CONSTRUCTION, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: DESTON CONSTRUCTION, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/5/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153896

GEILA HOMESTORE L.L.C. Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: GEILA HOMESTORE L.L.C.. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/12/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153934

BLACKER BERRY, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: BLACKER BERRY, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/8/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153997

NEWPORT MARITIME LOGISTICS AND SUPPORT SERVICES, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: NEWPORT MARITIME LOGISTICS AND SUPPORT SERVICES, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 6/20/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #154054

SUNSET RIDGE ADVISORS LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: SUNSET RIDGE ADVISORS LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/19/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #154102

BE OMNIWELL, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: BE OMNIWELL, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 7/3/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is C/O United States Corporation Agents, Inc.,7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202 Brooklyn, NY, 11228. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #154197

11232

11236

11229

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: CARE FAMILY HEALTH NP PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/3/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is The LLC, 1159 East 83rd Street Brooklyn, NY, 11236. Purpose/character of LLC: For the practice of nursing.

2409 Ocean Ave 3B, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/21/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 2409 Ocean Ave Unit 3B Bklyn NY 11229. Purpose: any lawful

CARE FAMILY HEALTH NP PLLC

#154289

JH STUDIO LLC

Notice of Formation of JH Studio LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/1/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 32 33rd St., Unit 8, Brooklyn, NY 11232. Purpose: any lawful activity. #153542

MEDIATRIX REALTY LLC Mediatrix Realty LLC. Filed with SSNY on 8/24/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 777 Fifth Ave Bklyn NY 11232. Purpose: any lawful #153700

DSM 878 REALTY LLC DSM 878 Realty LLC Arts of Org filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 9/8/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 4001 8th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11232. General Purposes. #153778

24 K AUTOLEASING, LLC Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: 24 K AUTOLEASING, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/5/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Joseph Tomasino, 871 3rd Avenue Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #154223

11233

BK ISLAND STEAMS AND JUICE BAR LLC

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: BK ISLAND STEAMS AND JUICE BAR LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/10/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is David Gardner 1790 B Sterling Pl Brooklyn, NY, 11233. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #154411

11237

SVB HOLDING LLC

SVB Holding LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/7/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 245 Wilson Ave Bklyn NY 11237. Purpose: any lawful #154321

11238

BIEDRON LLC

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: BIEDRON LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/13/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is Laura Biedron, 82 Downing St Apt 4D Brooklyn, NY, 11238. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #154362

665 DANCING FISH, LLC 665 DANCING FISH, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/16/2017. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 665 Vanderbilt Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11238 #154426

ALISON HORNE RONA DESIGNS, LLC Alison Horne Rona Designs, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 6/19/2017. Cty: Kings. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to Alison Wright Horne Rona, 41 Eastern Pkwy., Apt. 4-D, Brooklyn, NY 11238. General Purpose. #154509

11241

133 FDB LNVESTOR LLC

Notice of Formation of 133 FDB LNVESTOR LLC amended to 133 FDB INVESTOR LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 10/6/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o ELH Mgmt. LLC, 16 Court St., Ste. 800, Brooklyn, NY 11241. Purpose: any lawful activity. #154376

PE2 OWNER LLC

2409 OCEAN AVE 3B, LLC

#153704

11249

STUDIO VK ARCHITECTURE PLLC

Notice of formation of limited liability company (LLC). Name: STUDIO VK ARCHITECTURE PLLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/5/2017. NY office location: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/ her is C/o Veronica Kan, 58 Metropolitan Avenue, Apt PHA Brooklyn, NY, 11249. Purpose/character of LLC: Any Lawful Purpose. #153761

935 BRUCKNER ASSOCIATES LLC

935 BRUCKNER ASSOCIATES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/19/2016. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 15 Ocean Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11225, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #153743

5303 ENTERPRISE LLC

5303 Enterprise LLC Arts of Org filed with NY Sec of State (SSNY) on 8/16/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 5303 Fort Hamilton Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11219. General Purposes. #153776

2439 JEROME LLC

2439 JEROME LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 8/16/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2004 East 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY 11223, which is also the principal busines location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #153870

JEROME 75 PARTNERS LLC

JEROME 75 PARTNERS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 9/18/2017. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 2004 East 3rd St., Brooklyn, NY 11223, which is also the principal business location. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #153874

ROBBIE’S DEVELOPMENT SHOP LLC

Notice of Formation of Robbie’s Development Shop LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/06/17. Office location: KINGS County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INC, 1967 WEHRLE DR., STE. 1-086, BUFFALO, NY 14221, also the registered agent upon whom process may be served. Purpose: any lawful activities. #153889

Notice of Formation of PE2 Owner LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 9/26/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: MHANY Management Inc., One Metro Tech North, 11th Fl., Brooklyn, NY 11201. Purpose: any lawful activity. #153967

WISE REAGON ARTS, LLC WISE REAGON ARTS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/01/2017. Office loc: Kings County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc., . Reg Agent: U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc., . Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. 7014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 112287014 13th Ave, Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228 #154099

NATURES GREATEST FAMILY DAYCARE LLC Natures Greatest Family Daycare LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 11/3/2016. Office in Kings Co. SSNY desig. agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 58 Shephard Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11208, which is also the address of the registered agent Attn: Kennia M. Fernandez, upon whom process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. #154127

GREENPOINT PARTNERS LLC Notice of Formation of Greenpoint Partners LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 5/4/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o BNS Real Estate LLC, Attn: Keith A. Schuman, Esq., 1536 Third Avenue, NY, NY 10028. Purpose: any lawful purpose. #154137

MADISON BU LLC Madison Bu LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 2/23/2015. Cty: Kings. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 308 Malcom X Blvd., Brooklyn, NY 11233. General Purpose. #154173

NVA ANIMAL KIND MANAGEMENT, LLC Notice of Formation of NVA ANIMAL KIND MANAGEMENT, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 08/03/17. Office location: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207, regd. agent upon whom and at which process may be served. Purpose: Any lawful activity. #154208

SCS1 LLC SCS1 LLC. Filed with SSNY on 9/28/17. Office: Kings County. SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 828 E 14 St Bklyn NY 11230. Purpose: any lawful #154307

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Striking Memorials at Evergreens Cemetery

CHARLES ROEDER’S MAUSOLEUM, LOCATED INSIDE BUSHWICK’S HISTORIC EVERGREENS CEMETERY, LOOKS LIKE A CASTLE AND IS ONE OF MORE THAN HALF a million gravesites located therein. For more, see pages 6-7. Eagle photo by Lore Croghan

NYC Together Second Annual Gala Raises Funds to Keep Kids Out of Prison

NYC Together gala guests watch as recipients accept their awards. Eagle photos by Andy Katz By Andy Katz Special to the Brooklyn Eagle

Dana Rachlin wasn’t joking around when she named the organization dedicated to disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline “NYC Together.” The first thing a supporter attending the nonprofit’s annual gala encountered when entering the Wythe Hotel was a table offering samples of Laphroaig Single Malt Scotch Whiskey imported all the way from Islay in the Inner Hebrides. Hard liquor served gratis at the Oct. 16 event, which raised funds to support high school students by providing them opportunities to work closely with both NYPD officers who patrol their communities and some of the businesses that serve them. Why not?

Cops Join North Brooklyn Do-Gooders To Stop Feeding the Prison-Industrial Maw “Dana’s fearless,” North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Paul Samulski said of his erstwhile colleague. (Rachlin was the North Brooklyn Chamber’s director of development several years ago.) “She gets things done because she’s not afraid of being told no, and she’s not dismayed by conventional barriers.” “Tonight is about getting off the sidelines,” stand-up comedian and master of ceremonies Chuck Nice insisted. “Tonight is about getting engaged!” And so they do. Moments later, Nice called for individual donations: “Is there anyone for $10,000?” he started. “I know, I know, but I got to ask…” When Chris Breslin of Credite Agricole Bank raised his hand, the room erupted. Rachlin danced over to envelop him in an ecstatic hug. “Everyone has a role to play,” Breslin explained while transferring data from his Amex onto the pledge form. “And I just want to support Dana any way I can.” Breslin’s monster, 10-grand pledge opened the floodgates.

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Kate and Jed Walentas matched it with 10 large of their own, and several thousand-dollar pledges followed suit. By the end of the night, NYC Together raised $26,000 in donations and received another $28,000 in sponsorships from area businesses. Awards were also a part of the evening, and the first, the Visionary Award, went to Assemblymember Joe Lentol. If Rachlin is the mother of Master of ceremo- NYC Together, Lentol is its nies, radio personal- father. From left: Assemblymember Joe Lentol, NYC Together foundity and stand-up co“Dana and I go back a ways,” er and CEO Dana Rachlin, City Councilmember Antonio Reynomedian Chuck Nice. Lentol explained, “working the so and Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design Greenpoint Youth Court until it Vice Principal Giovanni D’Amato. closed in May of 2014. Dana’s great with kids, and you have to focus on the kids. By the time they’re grown-ups, it’s often too late. “Even if we can’t do this for my generation,” Lentol told the audience, “we can do this for the current generation.” “NYC Together brings social justice tenets to police work,” Rachlin said. “Our goal is to turn adversaries into partners. This is something beyond important.” Longtime ally Jeffrey Maddrey, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn North, spoke, recounting: “When I first took over, I told my staff how important it was to become involved with the communities and with the young people. When one of my commanders, Inspector DiPaolo, Continued on page 3

NYC Together alumnus and photographer Uriah Roman with examples of his work.

Megadonor Chris Breslin gets a hug from NYC Together Founder and CEO Dana Rachlin after pledging a $10,000 donation.

NYC Together founder and CEO Dana Rachlin with Philip Granderson. Continued from page 2

told me about Dana and what she was trying to do, I realized this was what I was looking for. Dana’s passion for this kids is second to none.” “I really liked the program,” said alumnus Uriah Roman, showing some of his street photos that had been printed and mounted for the event. “This is my grandmother,” he said as he pointed to a shot of a woman sitting on stairs in somber available light.

From right: Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design Vice Principal Giovanni D’Amato with City Councilmember Antonio Reynoso. A few years before meeting Dana and NYC Together, Roman helped to support his family by busking Bruno Mars tunes with his own keyboard accompaniment in the Port Authority subway station. Past NYC Together projects have included the 90th Precinct Community Garden, a joint police-student mural also set on the 90th Precinct Station House, and numerous joint learning activities, one of the most recent having been a cop-student mise-en-place prep at Zach Weiner’s Barano restaurant in Williamsburg.

From left: Melissa Furdyn, honoree Coss Marte and Nicole Lee.

Jeffrey Maddrey, commanding officer of Patrol Borough Brooklyn North, does his bit spinning vinyl for the event.

NYC Together founder and CEO Dana Rachlin (center) with her Patrol Borough Brooklyn North Community Service Award. Eagle photos by Andy Katz Bobby Truzzolino presides over Laphroaig’s Single Malt Scotch whiskey sample table.

State Assemblymember Joe Lentol speaks.

From left: Detective Izora Neal, NYC Together founder and CEO Dana Rachlin and Restaurant Barano co-owner Zach Wiener.

Jay Spence (right) with honoree and entrepreneur Coss Marte.

NYC Ferry Director of Community Development and Guest Services Franny Civitano with North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President Paul Samulski.

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A Special Section of BROOKLYN EAGLE Publications

October 26-November 1, 2017

Stroll Nifty Nostrand Ave. In Bed-Stuy

THERE ARE SO MANY FINE SIGHTS TO SEE ON THIS STRETCH OF NOSTRAND AVENUE. FOR INSTANCE, HOW ABOUT THIS LANDMARKED APARTMENT BUILDING, The Alhambra, which was designed by distinguished architect Montrose Morris? Check out some of Bedford-Stuyvesantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s finest architectural eye candy in EYE ON REAL ESTATE, pages 4-5INB. INBrooklyn photo by Lore Croghan

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If you’re trying to scare up something frighteningly fun to do next weekend, don’t be afraid to head to KINGS BEER HALL (KBH) at 84 St. Marks Place for Okto-BOO-fest! The KBH crew is throwing a kick-ass Halloween party on Saturday, Oct. 28 and you definitely don’t want to miss it. With its 4,000-square-foot space in Downtown Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, KBH is the perfect spot for dining, drinking, playing and hanging out with friends, neighbors and strangers. Customers are encouraged to mix and mingle in the

Here’s a look at Cafe Chili’s outdoor patio.

large open space or seated at the wooden picnic tables. Okto-BOO-Fest! will feature tons of games, raffles and up to $500 in prizes! Live music starts at 9 p.m. and there’s a costume contest, so come join your favorite ghosts and goblins for a howling good time at KBH. Other upcoming events at KBH: • Thursday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.: Paint Night! Grab a pint and join KBH for a Brooklyn-themed Paint Night — fun, artist-led painting complete with drink specials. • November: The month of thanks and giving — KBH has so much to be thankful for and would like to help give back. During the entire month of November, the hall is donating 10 percent of sales to a different charity each week — Pirate Surf Club Puerto Rico Relief (Nov. 1-5), Planned Parenthood NYC (Nov. 611), Beat Stage 3 (Nov. 12-18), National Alliance on Mental Illness (Nov. 19-25) and Limbs for Life (Nov. 26-Dec.2). Each organization will be hosting its own events during the month. For the full events calendar and more details, go to thekbh.com.  Three cheers for CHADWICK’S in Bay Ridge — or should we say 30 cheers for 30 years? The renowned restaurant has been serving some of the finest food in the borough for 30 years and this week marks its anniversary. Stop in and congratulate owners STEVEN and GERRY on a job well done and while you’re there, you might want to try their famous calamari, possibly the best in the Ridge.  Continued on page 3INB

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Continued from page 2INB By the way, the venerable COLONIAL CLUB just held its biweekly luncheon at one of Bay Ridge’s popular restaurants. Attendees heard club member and health care expert LOUIS PETERS deliver a timely talk about United Healthcare Medicare solutions and explain the various plans for enrollees. And rumor has it that the club is thinking of moving its meetings to CHADWICK’S restaurant.    Have you heard the buzz about CAFÉ CHILI on Court Street? People are raving about its drunken noodles and other selections. Oh, and the ambience gets an A+ for its soft and soothing background music. There’s no better place to relax and enjoy fine Thai cuisine.    With popular locations at ski resorts throughout the country, including California, Colorado, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, WAFFLE CABIN has its first home off the slopes … well, off the ski slopes, that it is ... because its delicious Belgian delights can now be found in Park Slope. That’s right, VANESSA BARRY is one of the owners of the new Brooklyn hotspot.    Overheard at THE RIVER CAFÉ’S traditional English breakfast: “Wow, this is so beautiful!“ exclaimed a drop-in tourist in a group who had taken a morning walk over Brooklyn Bridge. “I had no idea this was here.” Inquiring of one of the well-dressed waiters, he added, “Is there anything like this on the other side of the bridge?” Politely, the waiter noted, “Nothing even REMOTELY like it.”    Overheard in the New York State Supreme Court Jury Room: “I think they’re letting us go to lunch ... I want that place that has ‘Nuts’ in the name. Pine Nuts? What is it? Check the paper.” She was talking about LICHEE NUT at 162 Montague St.    FRAGOLE is quickly becoming one of the most popular hot

Enjoy a delicious Bento Box at Cafe Chili.

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spots for office parties, thanks to its great food and appealing ambience. Owner VICTOR NAVARRETE is the guy to talk to about Fragole, which means “strawberry” in Italian. He does not care for restaurant food. Instead, every meal in the place is homemade. That’s right, every single dish is prepared from scratch. Go see for yourself!

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Nostrand Avenue Odyssey, Part 3: Castles Designed By Montrose Morris and Other Bed-Stuy Eye Candy By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

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Thank you, thank you, thank you, Louis Seitz. Brooklynites owe this late 19th-century developer a debt of gratitude for hiring distinguished architect Montrose Morris to design three stunning apartment buildings on our home turf. The architect conjured up castles that could hold their own in HBO’s hit series “Game of Thrones.” Two of these century-and-a-quarter-old architectural masterpieces, the Alhambra and the Renaissance, are located on Nostrand Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. The fact that they can be found on the avenue is one of the main reasons we chose it as our route for an eight-mile urban hike. They’re terrific architectural eye candy. We walked along busy Nostrand Avenue from south to north, from the intersection of Emmons Avenue in Sheepshead Bay to the intersection of Flushing Avenue at the edge of Bed-Stuy. The eight-mile distance is walkable in a single day, but if you stop to take photos of interesting buildings you’ll run out of daylight before you’re done. So we split our stroll into three segments. See brooklyneagle.com to read our accounts of the first two parts of the Nostrand Avenue odyssey, which took us through Sheepshead Bay, Marine Park, Midwood, Flatlands, East Flatbush, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Crown Heights. Today we want to show you some of the fine sights to be seen on the third and final leg of the journey.

The Alhambra It would be logical to start today’s walk at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and head north from there. But we really want to go look at Montrose Morris’ designs first. So let’s head for the Alhambra. The five-story Roman-brick, stone, metal and terra-cotta apartment house is located at 500-518 Nostrand Ave., with frontage on Macon and Halsey streets. It was constructed in 1889 and 1890. The building delights the eye, with turrets, arcades in front of upper-floor windows and a mansard roof. Its architectural style is part Romanesque Revival, part Queen Anne.

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Soaring columns flank the windows at the Renaissance, a Nostrand Avenue apartment house designed by Montrose Morris. The city Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated the Alhambra as an individual landmark in 1986. The LPC’s designation report about the building says it was one of the first apartment houses in Brooklyn built for middleclass families. In that era, they tended to live in rowhouses. The Alhambra’s fine design was meant to overcome their negative opinions about apartment buildings. The Alhambra is in fine shape in this day and age thanks to its city-funded rescue in the 1990s. Anderson Associates Development Group and the I.M. Foundation renovated the building, which had been damaged in a fire, and turned it into affordable housing. The project was partly funded by the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the city Housing Development Corp.

The Renaissance Louis Seitz’ other must-see Montrose Morris design on Nostrand Avenue is the Renaissance, which is located at 480-488 Nostrand Ave. on the corner of Hancock Street. It was built in 1892. According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report about the building, its design was inspired by the 16th-century chateaux of Renaissance France. The five-story apartment house has circular towers topped with cones that look like witches’ hats, a mansard roof and arched windows flanked by soaring columns. It has a Romanbrick and terra-cotta facade laid out in stripes. Like the Alhambra, the Renaissance was granted individual landmark status in 1986. Like the Alhambra, the Renaissance was in bad shape when it was renovated and turned into affordable housing in the 1990s. The restoration project was handled by Anderson Associates, which was chosen as the developer by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development in a competitive bid-

ding process. By the way, the third apartment house Montrose Morris designed for Louis Seitz is the Imperial at 1327-1339 Bedford Ave. in Crown Heights. A Landmarked High School and a Tenement Designed by Magnus Dahlander Now let’s double back to Atlantic Avenue, which is the boundary between Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy. • The Long Island Rail Road train trestle that looms over the intersection of Atlantic and Nostrand avenues casts artsy shadows. • Near the intersection of Fulton Street and Nostrand Avenue, a handsome old building formerly owned by Carver Federal Savings Bank — and before that, Crossland Savings Bank — now houses a Walgreens store. Carver Federal Savings Bank sold 1281 Fulton St., which is the building’s address, for $2.8 million in 2009, city Finance Department records indicate. That purchaser, 1281 Fulton LLC with Joseph Ashkenazi as manager, sold the building in 2012 for $7.5 million to Bleecker Square Owner LLC, Finance Department records show. • Girls High School, an individual city landmark at 475 Nostrand Ave., looks like it belongs in an Edward Hopper painting. The gorgeous red-brick building has a distinctive tall tower above its front door. The school’s architectural style is combination Victorian Gothic-French Second Empire. It was built in 1885 and 1886. The designer was James W. Naughton, the Superintendent of Buildings for the Board of Education of the City of Brooklyn. A Collegiate Gothic-style addition to the school was designed by C.B.J. Snyder and constructed in 1912. The current occupant of the property is the New York City Department of Education’s Brooklyn Adult Learning Center. The stunning school building occupies the blockfront between Macon and Halsey streets — directly across Nostrand Avenue from the Alhambra. • The landmarked building at 478 Nostrand Ave. on the corner of Hancock Street is an eye-catcher. The Queen Anne-style tenement was designed by architect Magnus Dahlander and constructed around 1893. The building is located directly across Hancock Street from the Renaissance.

Jacob Dangler House and the Marcy Houses • The house at 387 Gates Ave., which is near the corner of Nostrand Avenue, has solar panels on its rooftop. The building belongs to David and Erica Ashe, who purchased it for $1.7 million in 2015, Finance Department records show. The seller in that transaction, Gates Avenue Associates LLC with Tomer Dafna as sole member, had renovated the house after buying it for $215,000 in 2013, Buildings Department filings and Finance Department records indicate. Continued on page 5INB 4INB • INBROOKLYN — A Special Section of Brooklyn Daily Eagle/Brooklyn Eagle/Heights Press/Brooklyn Record/Bay Ridge Eagle/Greenpoint Gazette • Week of October 26-November 1, 2017

This is landmarked Girls High School on Nostrand Avenue in Bed-Stuy. Continued from page 4INB • Construction of a seven-story, 29-unit residential building is underway at 348 Nostrand Ave. The site is located between Lexington and Greene avenues. The property owner is Nos Realty LLC with Lynn Kornblum as a member, Finance Department records indicate. • The late Shirley Chisholm appears on a mural painted on the side of 498 Greene Ave. just off the corner of Nostrand Avenue. She was the first African-Amer-ican woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and the first African-American candidate from a major political party to run for President. The mural, which is titled “When Women Pursue Justice,” was painted by a group called Artmakers Inc. • There are eye-catching homes on the north and south corners of Hart Street, which begins at Nostrand Avenue and proceeds east from there. • Jacob Dangler House, built around 1902, is located at 441 Willoughby Ave. on the corner of Nostrand Avenue.

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According to a two-part Brownstoner.com story by architectural historian Suzanne Spellen, Dangler was an immigrant from Alsace-Lorraine who owned a prosperous Brooklyn meat and provisions business. He was also a real-estate investor and a trustee and officer of Fulton Savings Bank. The architectural style of his house is French Gothic Revival. According to Finance Department records, the building now belongs to the United Grand Chapter Order of Eastern Star, State of New York Inc., with Paul Alvarenga as Grand Secretary. • The Marcy Houses are on Nostrand Avenue between Myrtle and Flushing avenues. Of course, this is the New York City Housing Authority development where hip-hop mogul Jay-Z grew up. • Our walk ends at the intersection of Flushing Avenue, which is Nostrand Avenue’s point of origin. This isn’t a dead end. There’s a road on the north side of the intersection, but it’s Lee Avenue, which runs on a diagonal through the south end of Williamsburg.

Nothin’ but blue skies do I see (yes, that’s a line from an Ella Fitzgerald song) on Nostrand Avenue and Hart Street in Bed-Stuy.

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The Means of a Ready Escape: Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Prospect Park has never been simply an escape from the city, but a fundamental part of it. This exhibition highlights the 150year social history of Brooklyn’s backyard. Featuring over one hundred artifacts and documents, it tells the story of the 585 acres of forest, field, and swamp that Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux transformed into an urban oasis, and how the Park has sustained generations of Brooklynites throughout the borough’s many eras of change. Continued on page 8INB

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Arts Julia Oldham: How to Escape a Black Hole A stimulating and immersive video installation. This hallucinatory guided tour into a philosophically fraught region of space time is part physics lesson, part voyage toward destruction. When: Tuesday-Sunday, through Oct. 29; Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.; Sunday, 12-6 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/Project Room at BRIC House (647 Fulton St.) In & Out A pairing of Kate Teale and Marcy Rosewater paintings curated by Brittany Prater. When: Thursday-Sunday, through Nov. 5, 1-6 p.m. Where: Bushwick/Studio 10 (56 Bogart St.) Beyond-Beyond Ron Baron’s expansive installation of nearly 100 pairs of life-size cast ceramic shoes. Although each pair is small in comparison to the gallery’s vast space, their combined poetic and ghostly presences fill the significant void and evoke all that is missing. When: Wednesday-Sunday, through Nov. 5, 12-6 p.m. Where: DUMBO/Smack Mellon (92 Plymouth St.) Reconceived Notions “Reconceived Notions” is an exhibit and programming that includes the work of artists, makers and writers who are exploring, questioning and challenging existing systems. When: Friday-Sunday, through Nov. 19; Fridays, 6-9 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 12-5 p.m. Where: Bay Ridge/Stand 4 (414 78th St.) My Shot: Portraits from Hamilton “Hamilton” features a cast of revolutionaries. Night after night, this band of young rebels raise their voices to the darkness in an inspiring uprising of song and spirit. They are at once our history and our future, inciting rebellion and leading the way to change. Josh Lehrer captured their portraits using antique cameras and lenses. When: Tuesday-Saturday, through Nov. 22 (Tuesday-Friday, 126 p.m.; Saturday, 12-4 p.m.) Where: DUMBO/United Photo Industries Gallery (16 Main St., Gallery B)

capacity to store energy frequencies of everyday experiences, systemic racism, inequality and generational trauma and is interested in how individuals recalibrate themselves. Within the narratives presented in “Transcend,” Mayhorn explores how individuals heal, discharge negative data and carve out a space for themselves amid the noise. When: Wednesday-Saturday, through Nov. 25, 12-7 p.m. Where: Park Slope/Open Source Gallery (306 17th St.) Bête Noire This group show features 12 artists. The paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures featured in this exhibition illuminate the conceit by embodying forms, narratives and frames of mind that pique and, perhaps, consternate the eye, haunting it in ways that refuse ready interpretations. When: Thursday-Sunday, through Dec. 10, 1-6 p.m. Where: Crown Heights/Five Myles (558 St. John's Place) Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo At particular moments in history, artists use their artwork to reveal social, cultural and political complexities, responding to the times in which they live. Bringing together the work of three innovative chroniclers, “Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo” offers insight into the energy, empathy and creativity with which these artists recounted and reimagined their realities. When: Wednesday-Sunday, through January, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

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Kimberly Mayhorn: Transcend Humans are made of energy that is emitted every day, affecting not only ourselves, but those around us. Mayhorn views energy that settles on the body over time as data. Whether interpersonal, political, historical or cultural, this data creates invisible scars. Mayhorn views the body as a delicate organ that has the

Author Tad Hills will read from his new book "Duck and Goose: Honk Quack Boo" at Books Are Magic on Saturday, Oct. 28. Image courtesy of Books Are Magic, and the author

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Books & Readings Book Talk: The Second Coming of the KKK Rick Perlstein leads this conversation with renowned historian Linda Gordon, whose new book takes an in-depth look at the roots and ramifications of the KKK’s 1920s resurgence. When: Thursday, Oct. 26, 6:30 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Heights/Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont St.) Tad Hills: Duck and Goose — Honk Quack Boo It’s Halloween in the meadow, and the beloved, classic New York Times bestselling feathered friends Duck and Goose are ready for trick-or-treating! Join author Tad Hills for a spooky story time reading “Duck & Goose: Honk! Quack! Boo.” When: Saturday, Oct. 28, 11 a.m. Where: Boerum Hill/Books Are Magic (225 Smith St.) And Jenny’s Head Fell Off Enjoy tarot Readings by Ancient Nouveau and a night of spooky Halloween readings. When: Monday, Oct. 30, 6 p.m. Where: Williamsburg/Quimby's Bookstore NYC (536 Metropolitan Ave.) Spooky Storytime Jamboree Put on your costume and get in the Halloween spirit with some spooky (but not too spooky) stories and songs. For kids 0-5 years. All attendees are encouraged to dress up. When: Tuesday, Oct. 31, 10:30-11:15 a.m. Where: Clinton Hill/Clinton Hill Library (380 Washington Ave.)

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States of Denial: #Closerikers, Build Communities Join activists from JustLeadershipUSA, founders of the #CLOSErikers campaign, as they discuss the urgent need to reimagine, and implement real solutions for problems with New York City’s criminal justice system. Part of the ongoing series “States of Denial: The Illegal Incarceration of Women, Children, and People of Color,” organized by Elizabeth A. Sackler and the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. When: Sunday, Oct. 29, 2-4 p.m. Where: Crown Heights/Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway) Photographing Trees at Brooklyn Botanic Garden As leaves fall in late autumn, the true architecture of trees emerges. This class explores how looking with the naked eye and photographing are two different ways of seeing and offers a special opportunity to photograph trees in Brooklyn Botanic Garden's collections as inspiration. When: Sunday, Oct. 29, 10 a.m. - 1p.m. Where: Prospect Park/Brooklyn Botanic Garden (990 Washington Ave.) Youth Ride Club — McCarren Park This free program for young people ages 10-19 teaches the mechanics of riding a bike, the rules of the road, best practices for riding in a group and on the city streets, and — of course — the joy and freedom of biking. Beginner and experienced riders are welcome. When: Monday, Oct. 30, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Where: Williamsburg/McCarren Park (776 Lorimer St.)

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Living Gig to Gig in NYC’s Freelance Economy New York City’s workforce is increasingly populated by freelancers, working from contract to contract for a variety of companies. As the “gig economy” overtakes more traditional career structures, dramatic changes could be on the horizon. Join Sara Horowitz, executive director and founder of the Freelancers Union, in a lively discussion about the gig economy’s impact on New York City and the safety nets we need to support the 21st century workforce. When: Monday, Oct. 30, 6:30-8 p.m. Where: Brooklyn Heights/Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont St.) Little Scientists: Science Baby Join the Washington Irving Library for this special eight-week series for babies and toddlers exploring STEM: Science,

Littlefield will host the “Reality Bites” ’80s + ’90s Halloween Party on Friday, Oct. 27. Image courtesy of Littlefield Technology, Engineering and Math. “Science Baby” is a creative science program for 0-3-year-olds led by teaching artist Emma Gordon. The heart of “Science Baby” is exploring the wonder of science through story, repetition and play. We explore gravity, motion, magnets, chemical reactions, light, water, bubbles, sound and more. When: Wednesdays, through Dec. 20, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Where: Highland Park/Washington Irving Library (380 Washington Ave.)

Family Fun 17th Annual Fort Greene Park Halloween Festival Stop by the central lawn for an afternoon of rides, games, giveaways, face-painting, crafts, live music and more. When: Saturday, Oct. 28, 12-3 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/Fort Greene Park (85 South Oxford St.) Spookfest A wonderful family event at which kids can trick-or-treat through child-friendly haunted classrooms, participate in arts and crafts, bounce in the bouncy houses and enjoy other inflatable rides while eating ghostly treats. When: Saturday, Oct. 28, 12-4 p.m. Where: Crown Heights/P.S. 316 (750 Classon Ave.) Brooklyn Music School’s Haunted House The 5th Annual Musical Haunted House at Brooklyn Music School is fun for the whole family. The event will begin with the world premiere of “Dead Zeppelin” and there is a rumor that this might be the final appearance of “Helvis.” A costume contest will take place during the concert, and raffle prizes will be awarded. Following the show, participants are invited to take part in a haunted tour, with a “Schtick or Treat” through the century-old schoolhouse, fantastically decked out in Halloween décor, with performances by students and teachers in costume. When: Sunday, Oct. 29, 3 - 6 p.m. Where: Fort Greene/Brooklyn Music School (126 St. Felix St.) Challoween Come to see Halloween whether in costume or not. Prize for best costume. See the all- time frightful movie. Cost $20 includes franks, blood beans and refreshments. When: Sunday, Oct. 29, 7-10:45 p.m. Where: Bay Ridge/BRJC (405 81st St.) Stomp, Clap & Sing with Shira Kobren Shira Kobren is the front woman and songwriter for kindie rock band Shira & Friends. She performs all over the tri-state area. Program is in Hebrew, Yiddish and English. When: Sunday, Oct. 29, 2-3 p.m. Where: Borough Park/Ryder Library (5902 23rd Ave.)

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Food & Drink Atlantic Avenue Halloween Pub Crawl 2017 Bring back the ’90s at the Atlantic Avenue Halloween Pub Crawl. This pub crawl includes 13 bars along Atlantic Avenue between Fourth Avenue and the BQE. Register online at 2017HalloweenPubCrawl.Eventbrite.com to get a participant wristband. The wristband gives pub crawlers access to drink specials and allows them to enter the costume contest. When: Saturday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m. - 2 a.m. Where: Brooklyn Heights/Atlantic Avenue (Various locations) Smorgasburg Prospect Park More than 100 local and regional food purveyors will gather on Breeze Hill to offer a range of cuisines. When: Sunday, Oct. 29, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Where: Prospect Park/Breeze Hill Bartel-Pritchard Square Greenmarket Nestled inside Prospect Park’s tree-shaded southwest corner, this much-loved weekday market is where South Slope and Windsor Terrace residents stock up on locally grown staples. The offerings range from a selection of vegetables, fruits, baked goods, plants and flowers to fresh-caught fish and organic baked goods. When: Wednesday, Nov. 1, 8 a.m. - 3 p.m. Where: Prospect Park/Bartel-Pritchard Square

Health Older Adult Wellness — Sit Down to Get Down A class using chair exercise, mindfulness and meditation. This free, holistic, low-impact, friendly class is a great way to support your healthy lifestyle. When: Thursday, Oct. 26, 10-11 a.m. Where: Carroll Gardens/Carroll Gardens Library (396 Clinton St.)

Nightlife Mummy Masquerade MeLo X and Jasmine Solano (AKA Electric Punanny) host a Halloween dance party in celebration of the special exhibition Soulful Creatures. The evening includes pop-up tours, led by the ASK team, on the origins of mummies becoming synonymous with Halloween. Guests are encouraged to wear costumes, but

they are not mandatory for entry. When: Thursday, Oct. 26, 7 p.m. Where: Crown Heights/Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway) Reality Bites ’80s + ’90s Halloween Party Things just aren’t like they used to be. Littlefield is taking you back to the days of your youth, with the skint’s “Reality Bites” ’80s + ’90s Halloween Party. Because the scariest thing in the world right now isn't ghosts or goblins — it's the future. Trick-or-treat yo'self: Bump in the night to angsty ’80s + ’90s anthems spun by DJ Brian Blackout, reel at throwback horror movie projections by Music Video Time Machine's Stephen Pitalo, get caught in the web of the spooky photo booth, or just haunt the bar and get jack-o-lit with drink specials. What should you wear? Come as you aren't. (It's Halloween, after all.) Dress as your favorite Winona Ryder character, a vampire, a microchip — anything except a clown. For the love of “It,” no clowns. The best and worst of the night will be rewarded with frightfully good prizes. When: Friday, Oct. 27, 10:30 p.m. Where: Gowanus/Littlefield (635 Sackett St.) Rocky Horror Picture Show/Live Karaoke Revue and Halloween Extravaganza The Occasionalists present their Third Annual Rocky Horror Picture Revue and Live Karaoke Halloween Extravaganza, the wildest and most untamed version yet. Two complete live karaoke sets. Special guest singers but none more special than you. Come sing on the big stage, or just do the Time Warp like it's 1976. There’s also a Costume Contest at intermission with big prizes. When: Tuesday, Oct. 31, 7:30 p.m. Where: Gowanus/The Bell House (149 Seventh St.)

Theatre & Music American Dance Spectacular From The Charleston and Lindy Hop to The Jitterbug and Twist to Disco and Vogue, leading Broadway dancers — backed up by Broadway vocalists and a live band — take the audience on a sweeping journey through the last century of American dance sensations. When: Saturday, Oct. 28, 8 p.m. Where: Manhattan Beach/On Stage at Kingsborough (2001 Oriental Blvd.)

Week of October 26-November 1, 2017 ARIES — Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, embrace that others see you as a role model. There may be someone close to you who holds you in strong regard. Pay attention to the influence you have on others. TAURUS — Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, a difficult problem will ultimately prove very rewarding when you find the solution. Embrace this challenge and give it your best shot. You will be glad you did. GEMINI — May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, attempt to connect with people on a deeper level for the next several days. Your home is a place of comfort and your personal sanctuary, and you can make it that for others, too. CANCER — Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, slow down a little and take time to smell the roses. A breather can help you appreciate all the things you have and give time to show that appreciation. LEO — Jul 23/Aug 23 Your focus this week will be on acquisitions. You may be renovating a home or business or simply updating a wardrobe. Keep track of your spending. VIRGO — Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, change is stirring things up in a way that should be beneficial for you. See where this excitement takes you and brace yourself for whatever comes your way. LIBRA — Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, make an effort to be more financially prudent in the coming weeks. Some patience and discipline now will pay big dividends down the road. SCORPIO — Oct 24/Nov 22 Someone you know is interested in picking up new skills, and you are just the teacher for the job, Scorpio. Embrace this chance to help others. SAGITTARIUS — Nov 23/Dec 21 This is an excellent time to express your feelings, Sagittarius. Others will be receptive to your thoughts, and a new relationship may be on the horizon. CAPRICORN — Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, you may need to develop some thick skin as you begin taking on a new project. You’re fully capable, so don’t listen to any potential doubters. AQUARIUS — Jan 21/Feb 18 Your motivation must come from within this week, Aquarius. Others are not around to be your cheer squad. Your inner drive is there; it just may need a boost. PISCES — Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, keep to yourself this week if you feel unwanted conflict is coming. Enjoy some solitary time until the waters calm down.

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The Evergreens Cemetery Draws Visitors During Open House New York Weekend By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Eagle

Here lies Bill “Bojangles” Robin Robinson, beloved tap dancer. And victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. And a grieving widower who lived in his dead wife's tomb with a pet parrot for company. They’re among the more than Everhalf-million people buried at the Ever greens Cemetery in Bushwick. The historic graveyard, which was visi established in 1849, welcomed visitors on Saturday, Oct. 14 and Sunday, Oct. 15 for tours during the celebracelebra Weektion of Open House New York Week end. archiThe annual event showcases archi tecturally and historically significant sites throughout the five boroughs. This year’s participants were an eclectic mix of properties ranging synfrom museums to churches and syn agogues to artfully designed shops to a whiskey distillery — and a number of cemeteries as well. The weekend was partly supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Visitors who toured the Evergreens got an informative tutorial from Eva Bowerman, the cemetery’s director of programs, about the architectural styles of some of the 225-acre gravegrave gravemarkyard’s mausoleums and gravemark A sweet-faced statue gaz es down from a pedestal at the Meng- ers. es family’ s grave. Eagle photos b y L ore Croghan Many of the mausoleums

Welcome to the Evergreens Cemetery, a historic Bushwick graveyard. were meant to look like small-scale Classical Greek temples, Bowerman said during the tour she gave on Oct. 14. But here and there, Bowerman pointed out designs that were inspired by Egyptian-Revival architecture or Gothic-Revival architecture. A mausoleum built for Louis Jantzen is Art Nouveau in style. It is located in a cluster of tombs near the Evergreens' Bushwick Avenue entrance that's referred to as Mausoleum Row — or Brewers' Row, because some Brooklyn beer makers of yesteryear have their final resting place there. Charles Roeder's tomb, which is made of rusticated stone and has two small towers on either side of its entrance door, looks like a tiny castle. A Widower and His Parrot Lived in a Mausoleum Speaking of the Evergreens' mausoleums, the one that was a big sensation more than a century ago was inhabited by Jonathan Reed, the grieving widower mentioned at the beginning of this story, and his parrot. When Reed’s wife Mary died in 1893

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she was initially buried in her father's vault — where Reed spent massive amounts of time until Mary's father put a stop to the visits. After Reed's father-in-law died in 1895, Reed bought a mausoleum for Mary and himself — and along with her casket he had furniture, a stove to keep him and Mary warm, paintings and even her unfinished knitting moved into the tomb. He spent his days there for many years. When the parrot that served as his companion died, Reed had it stuffed so it could continue to stay by his side. Reed had lots of human companionship in the mausoleum as well. The first year he spent there, about 7,000 people visited him. Since his 1905 death, the Reeds’ tomb has been locked up tight. But Open House New York Weekend tour-takers did get to go inside another building in the cemetery that is normally closed to the public — the “receiving vault,” which was constructed in 1872. It was used to store bodies in the winter when the ground was frozen and Continued on page 7

Eva Bowerman, who’ s wearing a red coat in this photo, leads visitors on an Oct. 1 4 tour of the Evergreens.

The leaves on a few of the Evergreens Cemetery’ s trees are j ust starting to change color for fall.

H ome S weet H ome: The mausoleum at right is where widower J onathan Reed lived with his dead wife in her casket. Continued from page 6

torically appropriate restoration work that has been done on the Evergreens' Victorian-Gothic chapel. Wetzel said during the tour he gave on Oct. 14 that the multi-year renovation project began with repairs to the exterior of the chapel. “It lost all its character in earlier renovarenova tions,” Wetzel said. Its tri-color slate roof had to be replaced. The bell in its steeple was restored. Inside the chapel, which is now used as an administrative office, the restoration crew removed drop ceilings and discovered old-fashioned “penny-dot” porcelain tile on the floor. Part of the interior is still A Victorian-Gothic Chapel Is under renovation. Tour-goers Being Restored steered clear of it. Evergreens Cemetery visitors See brooklyneagle.com for also got an update from Tony This statue looks like it’ s rising additional photos of the EvWetzel of the Historic Construcout of the ground in front of ergreens. tion Management Corp. on histhe Claus family monument. gravediggers couldn't do their jobs. The receiving vault is constructed of Coignet stone, Bowerman said. This material, which is also called artificial stone, is concrete that’s cast in molds according to a process brought from France to Brooklyn in the 19th century. The former headquarters of the New York and Long Island Coignet Stone Company, which manufactured artificial stone, is still standing. This individual city landmark, located on the corner of Third Avenue and 3rd Street in Gowanus, is flanked on either side by a Whole Foods supermarket.

Charles Roeder’ s mausoleum looks like a castle.

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Interview: Englander on His New Novel ‘Dinner at the Center of the Earth’ By Peter Stamelman Special to Brooklyn Eagle

How much did I relish reading Nathan Englander’s new novel “Dinner at the Center of the Earth?” Let me tell you, my enemies should never enjoy such a book! Englander is a writer possessed of bountiful humanity and wisdom. His novels and short stories have a sweeping sense of the historical and the personal. In fact, for Englander, history is personal. Englander himself overflows with ideas, conjectures, declarations. Listening to him riff on writing fiction, the current Trumpian moment, Israel and Palestine, the concept of Aliyah (the immigration of Jews from the diaspora to the Land of Israel), the fortunes of the University of Wisconsin football team — often all in the same sentence — is like listening to a great jazz group, say Benny Golson & Art Farmer’s Jazztet. There is the opening melody, then the frontline solos, then the rhythm section enters, then back to the melody. Englander’s free-associative musings at times had me feeling that I was at Birdland, not the Primrose Cafe in Clinton Hill. Englander’s longtime (and only) literary agent Nicole Aragi tells me by email from London: “I signed Nathan because I was attracted to his voice. I love it when I can recognize who the writer is within a few seconds … Nathan's originality, voice, even the rhythm of his sentences felt utterly original and compelling, like nothing else I had read. Nathan’s brain travels in circles and loops around and then around again, incorporating dozens of thoughts. Often, I have to say, ‘Whoa, slow down. Hang on, say that again, you lost me. Love it, now compress that to a sentence, or a page, or 25 pages (depending on the situation). You need to give up caffeine!’” Thus my apprehension when, in the course of our one-hour conversation, he ordered a second large Americano. I had to tamp down my Jewish mother instinct and not exclaim, “Nathan, don’t drink that!” These are edited excerpts from our conversation.

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Eagle: The structure of “Dinner at the Center of the Earth” is so interesting. Did you know when beginning the book that you would shift perspectives and jump around in time and place? Nathan Englander: Not to make this too much of a Talmudic interview, but it depends where the beginning begins. I’ve wanted to write this book since the [Israeli-Palestinian] peace process fell apart. And I was searching for the right form. I knew I didn’t want to write a 900-page lecture on heartbreak or a didactic treatise on peace. Until this past presidential U.S. election, I couldn’t claim that I was an expert on geopolitical matters. But now with Trump and his cabinet — coupled with the research I did for this book — I can say (laughing) I’m qualified to head NASA or be the Secretary of Education. My biggest challenge in writing “Dinner” was bringing all those pieces and people together. Eagle: Did you use a bulletin board with colored cards to keep track? NE: Oh, I love those boards! I’m so jealous of writers who use those boards! I wish I was disciplined enough to have a crazy person’s board that organizes everything: the plot, the characters, the locations. Eagle: Like a storyboard that filmmakers use. Hitchcock famously said that once he had his storyboard completed shooting the film was an afterthought. NE: (Laughing) Well I’m definitely not Hitchcockian. Here’s the point: I’m obsessed with the dissociative states and with the subconscious. I mean I do have writer friends who can work that way, like Colson Whitehead, who, when he sits down to write, he knows how everything is mapped out. But that’s not me, as you can probably tell. I mean, I feel my way through differently. For example, we’re two minutes into this interview and I already have 15 threads going. Eagle: I’ve been in psychotherapy; I can handle the threads. In fact, I’m enjoying them. NE: Well, that’s good because I think in circles; you know that New York Jewish circularity. At the age of 19, I decided I was no Ortholonger going to be an Ortho dox Jew. For my junior year of college, I went to Israel and, for the first time, I understood culturwhat it meant to be more cultur ally Jewish. When I showed up in Iowa City [where Englander Robstudied with Marilynne Rob inson at the famed University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop], I was still newly secular, yet my speech patterns, so shaped by my yeshiva education, were very much reflected in my writing. I learned that I was basically building sentences with an almost Yiddish-inflected pattern. Eagle: To often hilarious effect, as in your story “Camp Sundown” (from Englander’s most recent collection of short stories “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank”), where Josh, the beleaguered camp director, asks Agnes, a 76-year-old camper. Here is an excerpt: “Why do you talk like that?” “Like what?”

“Like ‘Always he takes care.’ Like you haven’t been living in Livingston, New Jersey for the last 50 years.” Englander: (Laughing) Yes, that’s a perfect example. But it’s funny because I don’t speak Yiddish. I speak Hebrew. The Yiddish inflection is due to the fact that I was taught by rabbis with those speech patterns and I absorbed them. How I think, how I write, how I build a sentence — so much of that is shaped by, obviously, the education I got. For example, right now, “This you call an interview?” Eagle: Did you ever think of becoming Hasidic? NE: Plenty of my Orthodox friends shifted that way. I went the other way. I mean, still, the yarmulke, tzitzit, kosher, halachic. But not the black hat. Eagle: Regarding your new novel “Dinner at the Center of the Earth”: It’s interesting, and ironic, that we’re talking about it because just three weeks ago I interviewed Jennifer Egan, whose new novel “Manhattan Beach,” like yours, is also a shift in theme and style from her previous novels. NE: Yes, I know. Jenny and I are friends. [Note: Jennifer Egan and Nathan Englander will be speaking and reading at the 92nd Street Y on Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m.] Although, in her novels before “Manhattan Beach” she still had plots. My previous short stories and novels have not been particularly plot-driven. Eagle: Since it’s your first thriller, were you channeling your inner Graham Greene or Eric Ambler when you decided to write “Dinner”? NE: Allow me to answer in a bit of a roundabout way: So, a motivating factor, with this extraordinarily loaded subject [the Israeli-Palestinian question] that I decided to tackle, was that it not turn into a lecture or a diatribe, that we enter into the conversation solely through character. Now, of course, that puts a different kind of pressure on the plot. And regarding the thriller elements, it wasn’t conscious in that way, beyond the fact that, once I knew I was writing my “Prisoner Z” [based on the real-life case of “Prisoner X”], that his thread would have that [thriller] feel. Eagle: Actually, “Dinner” is a mix of genres… NE: Yes, a big mix of genres — the General is, I guess, a magic-realist-dream-history genre, then there’s the love story and then the allegory. I was aware of the different threads, but not the genres — that only became clear when I was done writing. Eagle: I’m wondering — was it that you didn’t feel “ready” to write such a novel earlier in your career? NE: It wasn’t the thriller part that I was waiting to write. It was the Israel-Palestine part that I was waiting to find the right form for the telling. And [“Dinner at the Center of the Earth”] was it. To tell the story of this conflict the way it needs to be told, it has to be told in circles. And I’m organically desperate to use those circles. This is my fourth book, and when I was starting it, I thought, “Oh, I think I can finally control those circles ... and, yet, I discovered that here’s a story, that if you’re going to show it any respect, you have to tell it in circles. Eagle: Why do you use generic names for your principal characters: “the General,” “the Waitress,” “Prisoner Z”? NE: There are two answers. The first is that I literally discovered while I was writing — almost as if a lightbulb went off — that I was writing an

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allegory, and if you’re writing an allegory, rather than use mellifluous, poetic made-up names, I wanted to keep the names generic. Thus “the Waitress,” “the General” — that’s how allegories work. And here’s the second part of my answer: There’s the conscious part, the things I think as me writing and then there’s the unconscious part. The circles within the circles. Eagle: You thought if you “named” the General it would be too much of a lightning rod? NE: Yes — it doesn’t work for my brain ... for someone who becomes a writer from being a reader ... the books that changed my life are the books that ask the questions but don’t give the answers. We have a shortage of empathy in this world now, to such an extraordinary degree that, whatever your political stripes, it has to break your heart when you know that we have a president who’s willing to take health care away from children. I’m not even talking about giving health care to children, I’m talking about someone who will take it away, i.e., children will die. My book explores empathy; I wanted the reader to enter into the Israel-Palestine conversation with me. The concept of what John Gardner called “moral fiction.” While one is reading my book, I want them to test and rethink their own values. Eagle: Nathan, if you hadn’t been born a Jew, what would you write about? NE: (Laughing) Wow ... that’s a question that stops me in my tracks! You know, I always like to have quick answers. For example, part of being a writer today is coming out of your room and going on a book tour. And people expect you to have favorites. Like “Nathan’s five favorite summer salads.” Or when I’m on these tours, I’m inevitably asked if I’m still religious, and my quick response is, “No, I’m a failed atheist.” I mean … I have 20 pre-packaged, Woody Allen-like jokes about where I am religiously. But when you ask me a question like that, my head short-circuits. Because to try to answer your question, I have to differentiate between Jewish, New York, bagels or just neurotic. And because at this moment in America we essentially have a white supremacist president, I sometimes feel like doing my readings with 10 yarmulkes piled high on my head. But, truthfully, I have spent such a long time saying, “I am not a Jewish-American” writer. I mean I’m fifth-generation American. My dad worked for the city of New York, my grandfather also worked for the city. Everyone’s welcome to see a Jew when they look at me, but I don’t write about Jews, I write about people. You know, you are the first person that’s ever asked me that question. Nathan Englander’s “Dinner at the Center of the Earth” is published by Alfred A. Knopf and available at Greenlight Books in Brooklyn, Barnes & Noble and online at Amazon.