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Brooklyn Pol Wins Role in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Irishmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Ralph Perfetto finds second career as actor RALPH PERFETTO WORKED IN POLITICS AND CITY GOVERNMENT FOR YEARS BEFORE TAKING ON A NEW CAREER AS AN ACTOR. SEE PG. 3.

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Coney Island station solar energy mystery EXPENSIVE SOLAR PANELS HAVE BEEN DARK FOR SEVEN YEARS. By Scott Enman Brooklyn Eagle

Stillwell Terminal’s gleaming solar panel roof was once touted by the MTA as the centerpiece of a $310 million rehabilitation of the Coney Island station, touted by the transit agency as a “sparkling jewel.”

Yet the state-of-the-art project, the largest of its kind in the nation to cover a transit facility, was in operation for only seven years — and it hasn’t provided power since 2012. When the terminal flooded during Superstorm Sandy, the water knocked out electrical equipment at the street level. But the solar panels, which are hurricane resistant, went largely undamaged. In May 2014, the MTA declared that plans were “currently underway

for the system’s rehabilitation.” More than five years later, the panels are still offline. “It was the biggest system of its kind in the world when it was built and really, New York City Transit and MTA were incredibly visionary and bold to build it in the first place because it really did set a precedent in all kinds of ways,” said Gregory Kiss, the architect of the sun-powered roof. “It was an amazing thing that they did and I give them lots of credit, but it’s kind of strange and surprising that for whatever reason they haven’t been able to fix it in such a long time.” The 76,000-square-foot terrace, unveiled in 2005, provided the station with about 15 percent of its electricity per year, or roughly 250,000-kilowatt hours of energy every year. That’s equivalent to the annual power of 40 single-family homes. The system saved the MTA roughly $52,500 a year, depending on the number of sunny days. In the time that the system has been out of order, the solar panels could have saved the agency around $367,500. The canopy provided electricity for the 100-year-old station’s lights, token booths, police facility and crew quarters, but it was not connected to the grid, meaning any excess electricity was wasted. Due to millions of dollars in damage caused by Sandy, however, the MTA said it had to triage its resources to areas that directly affected train and bus service. “As part of our overall program to recover from the storm we are currently engaging with the private energy services industry to explore strategies for restoring the solar roof system at the Stillwell Avenue station,” MTA spokesperson Andrei Berman told the Eagle. The MTA declined to comment on why the system hasn’t been fixed, despite saying in 2014 that plans were “underway” to fix it. The MTA could not provide an exact price tag for the solar project but installing solar panels in Germany’s Lehrter Station cost roughly $4.8 million, according to Wired. As the largest above-ground station in the subway system and the largest rapid-transit terminal in the world, the Stillwell Avenue project was likely well above that figure, and Kiss said the MTA tends to spend more money to make things last longer. “The way that New York City Transit builds things is incredibly durable,” Kiss said. “They build things to a much higher standard then you’ll ever see in the private sector because their subways run 24/7 all year; they never stop. The costs that the subway system pays for things are really not comparable to just about any other kind of project.” The dome, made of glass and steel, was designed by Kiss’ firm Kiss + Cathcart. The project was awarded an honorable mention in 2007 for being a top 10 green building. The roof was estimated to cut back on more than 17,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions over 40 years, according to the New York Post. Kiss said he was perplexed as to why the system wasn’t up and running already and argued that the MTA could immediately reap financial benefits by turning it on. “Fixing it would be totally worthwhile because basically the whole system, except for that relatively small part that was in that downstairs room, is fine. It’s ready to go,” he said. “They should do it right away, because we’re wasting all of that solar energy every day that it’s not running.”

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Here’s a look at the underside of the solar panels from the inside of the Stillwell Avenue station. Photo by Adam Friedberg 2 • Brooklyn Eagle • December 5, 2019

Brooklyn Pol Wins Role in ‘The Irishman’ Ralph Perfetto finds second career as actor By Paula Katinas Brooklyn Eagle

If you watch the hit movie “The Irishman,” starring Hollywood heavyweights Robert DiNiro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci, you’ll see Ralph Perfetto playing a Catholic monsignor presiding over Ray Romano’s wedding. When Steven Spielberg’s much-anticipated version of “West Side Story” hits the big screen in 2020, you’ll see Perfetto playing an old ItalianAmerican man. And if you watch any one of dozens of television shows, from “Law and Order SVU” to “Madame Secretary,” you can catch a glimpse of Perfetto. Perfetto, 85, a longtime Bay Ridge resident who is better known as a local Democratic Party leader, has found a rewarding second career as an actor. “I’m having a great time and I’m making good money,” he told the Home Reporter. Perfetto, who came to show business late in life, is the Democratic district leader of the 64th Assembly District covering parts of Bay Ridge and Staten Island and has spent decades working on political campaigns and advising elected officials on policy. He also had years of experience working in city government, including a lengthy stint serving in the Public Advocate’s Office under Betsy Gotbaum and Mark Green. While he still loves politics, Perfetto admitted that his blossoming acting career is taking up more and more of his time these days. And who could blame him? It’s not every day a person gets to rub elbows with famous directors like Martin Scorsese, who was at the helm of “The Irishman.” “It was a thrill to be on that set. You knew it was going to be a special film,” he said. He enjoyed a nice chat with Pesci between takes and was thrilled when Scorsese came up to him at the end of the day’s shoot, shook his hand and thanked him. Perfetto also loved working on “West Side Story,” especially the day Spike Lee came to the set to visit his friend Spielberg. One of his fondest memories was teaching two-time Oscar winner Michael Caine how to play bocce on the set of “Going in Style.”

Perfetto plays the clergyman presiding over wedding of the daughter of key character played by Ray Romano (shown here). Photos courtesy of Ralph Perfetto

Ralph Perfetto worked in politics and city government for years before taking on a new career as an actor.

Caine was required to play bocce in a scene but was unfamiliar with the game. Perfetto came to his rescue by giving him some pointers. “Michael Caine, a man I admire so much as an actor, came up to me afterwards and thanked me for making him look good!” Perfetto said. Perfetto caught the acting bud early on, when he was a child. “When I was young, I had a nervous stutter and I was introverted. It’s hard for anyone who knows me now to believe it, but I was introverted,” he said with a laugh. He went to a speech therapist for help. A theater workshop was located across the hall. “I went there for $10 a week,” he said. At one point, the director of the theater workshop, Burt Lane, the father of actress Diane Lane, made him get up onstage and pointed him out to the other acting students as an example of a brave person unafraid to take chances. Lane encouraged the other acting students to be more like Perfetto. The moment left an impression on Perfetto. But he dropped acting. “I went on with my life,” he said. He raised a family and worked in politics and government. In 2008, he was getting set to retire from the Public Advocate’s Office when an insurance fraud case came into the office. Perfetto helped the victim recover $5,000 owed to him.

The victim told Ralph he had a strong persona and could be an actor. “Three months later, I retired. He called me again to help him on a second case,” said Perfetto, who was working as a private investigator at the time. He helped the client a second time. The man’s name was Clem Caserta, an actor who has appeared in many films, including “A Bronx Tale” and “The Untouchables.” Caserta introduced Perfetto to an agent who got him roles as a non-union actor. “I started out non-union and worked my way up to become a SAG actor,” he said, referring to the Screen Actors Guild. Since the start of his career in 2008, Perfetto has had small roles in 37 movies and appeared in 53 episodes of television series, including appearing seven times on “Law and Order SVU.” He played a juror on “The Good Wife.” He has worked on “Madam Secretary” and “Billions.” He has acted numerous times in historical re-enactments on the Discovery Channel. “I’ve done commercials. I’ve played Mafia dons,” he said. Perfetto’s love for acting is contagious. He acted in one commercial where the director needed a woman to play his wife. Perfetto recruited his neighbor, Gerri Sullivan. December 5, 2019 • Brooklyn Eagle • 3

How well does your community board represent the district? Not very By Kelly Mena and Meaghan McGoldrick Brooklyn Eagle

Community boards, which translate neighborhood needs to City Hall and city agencies, play a vital role in the functioning of New York City. But in Brooklyn, many boards don’t accurately reflect the districts they serve, according to an analysis by the Brooklyn Eagle and Measure of America of a new report on community board membership. Borough presidents are newly required to provide an annual report on the demographic composition of their community boards’ memberships. Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams published his first report in October, after reporting from the Eagle revealed that all five borough presidents had missed the initial July 1 deadline. The mandated report was added nearly 10 months ago to the City Charter, following the passage of a 2018 ballot proposal overwhelmingly supported by voters. It compiles the age, gender and ethnicity of board members as indicated on board applications. Including that data on an application is at an applicant’s discretion, and any analysis is impacted by differing rates of disclosure. Still, the data in Adams’ report reveals a lack of Latinx and Asian people serving on Brooklyn’s community boards, as well as a shortage of young representatives and women. What is a community board? Community boards are comprised of 50 non-salaried members apiece — half of whom are nominated by city councilmembers, and the rest of whom are selected through a general application process. Each member is then approved and appointed by the borough president. They weigh in on matters like land use proposals, street co-namings and traffic changes, among others. Though their recommendations are purely advisory, the boards can act as organizing forces in their neighborhoods. Community board opposition has, at times, proven effective in squashing development plans and rezonings, bike lane installations and liquor licenses. Brooklyn has the largest community board system of any borough: 18 boards, with 900 potential positions. (Adams’ report also points to which boards have empty seats and upcoming vacancies. Many do not have all 50 seats filled.) Board members must reside, work or have some other stake in the community, like a child enrolled in a local school. The group is overseen by a district manager, who runs a local office, hires staff and works with city agencies to get support and resources for the district. “Community boards serve a crucial function in our city as local civic bodies,” said Sarah

Sayeed, executive director of the New York City Civic Engagement Commission, a group established by the 2018 Charter Revision to provide assistance to community boards, among other duties. “They can be a doorway for diverse New Yorkers to have a voice on issues that impact them in their neighborhoods,” Sayeed said. An analysis of Adams’ report conducted by the Eagle in collaboration with Measure of America, however, shows that membership on Brooklyn community boards doesn’t always reflect the demographics of the communities they’re meant to represent. In focus: race and ethnicity A comparison of the ethnic and racial makeup of community boards (as shown in the report) and the ethnic and racial makeup of neighborhoods (as shown through DATA2GO. NYC, Measure of America’s online mapping tool) shows that some community segments are underrepresented. Latinx representation: According to the analysis, Latinx people are underrepresented on all but two Brooklyn community boards: Community Board 17 (East Flatbush) and Community Board 18 (Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Flatlands and Marine Park). Latinx people are most underrepresented in Community Board 4 (Bushwick) and Community Board 16 (Ocean Hill and Brownsville). Breaking down the numbers: Bushwick’s CB4 CB4 is home to the highest percentage of people who identified themselves as Latinx — 57 percent — of all the borough’s community districts, yet only about 33 percent of its community board members identified themselves as Latinx (14 out of 42 members). Asian representation: Asian people are underrepresented on all but three boards: Community Board 5 (East New York, Cypress, Spring Creek, Starrett City, Gateway and Highland Park), Community Board 6 (Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus and Cobble Hill) and Community Board 14 (Flatbush, Midwood and parts of Kensington). Asian people are the most underrepresented in Community Board 10 (Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Fort Hamilton) and Community Board 11 (Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend and Mapleton). Breaking down the numbers: Bensonhurst’s CB11 CB11, data shows, has the highest percentage of Asian people in Brooklyn, at nearly 40 percent. Only about 20 percent of its community board members are Asian (8 out of 39 members). Black representation: Black people are underrepresented on 12 of Brooklyn’s 18 boards.

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According to the analysis, black people are the most underrepresented in Community Board 14 (Flatbush, Midwood, Kensington) and Community Board 18 (Canarsie, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Flatlands, Marine Park). Breaking down the numbers: Canarsie’s CB18 According to citywide data, CB18 has a majority black district at about 62 percent, though its community board membership is only about 49 percent black (22 out of 45 members). Digging deeper Ethnicity and race play integral roles in the appointments of board members, Borough President Adams told the Eagle. “When appointing members of the community to the various community boards around Brooklyn, we take numerous factors into consideration to reflect the communities themselves, which includes ethnicity,” he said. Sayeed, of the Civic Engagement Commission, said it’s not as easy as just appointing more diverse people. “Making community boards reflect the diversity of their communities is a two-way street, and we all need to work together to achieve this shared goal,” she said. “Community board leaders who regularly consider how to engage the communities they serve and update their engagement plans are likely to be more successful in reflecting the diversity of their neighborhoods,” she said. “Similarly, appointing authorities, including borough presidents and councilmembers, will need to regularly consider board composition and monitor how vacancies are filled to ensure greater representation.” In focus: age In general, members of community boards are older than the districts they represent. According to the 2010 Census, the median age in Brooklyn is about 35 years old — but community board membership is in the 45 to 64 age group. Community Board 5 in East New York is the only exception. Digging deeper Alex Pellitteri, an 18-yearold serving on Community Board 11, said his decision to get involved was inspired by his work on a local City Council race. “I wanted to get involved because youth voices are often not represented in local government, even though much of what they do directly affects us,” he said. Before sitting on CB11, Pellitteri was a member of Community Board 10 when he was 17. (The minimum age to serve on community boards has been 16 since 2015.) “If we want more young people to get involved, we have to do a better job of demonstrating that political struggles directly

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affect their lives,” he said. Councilmember Rafael Espinal, who was elected to the State Assembly at the age of 27, believes that one of the reasons community boards tend to lack younger representation is due to a now-overturned policy: unlimited term limits. Before this year, board members could serve indefinitely. In November 2018, however, voters favored a ballot proposal capping members’ tenures at four consecutive two-year terms. The new policy went into effect in April 2019. “I hope moving forward with term limits that we start seeing a shift in the demographics and seeing young people wanting to get involved,” said Espinal, who represents Community Boards 4 and 5. “And term limits will make space for that.” In focus: gender Eleven of Brooklyn’s 18 community boards skew male, according to Adams’ report, even though a little more than half of Brooklyn’s population is made up of women. The difference is most jarring in southern Brooklyn’s Community Board 15 (Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen Beach) and Community Board 11 (Bath Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend and Mapleton), where men make up 77 percent and 74 percent of the board, respectively. Digging deeper Marnee Elias-Pavia, district manager of CB11, told the Eagle she was surprised by this imbalance. She said she’d never really “taken inventory” of the board. “Our first and second vice chairs are both female so, I gotta tell you, that figure surprised me,” she said. Elias-Pavia said that looking forward, she’d love to see more women apply for a position on CB11. “It would be great to really represent that diversity on the full board,” she said. Of the seven majority-female boards, Community Board 16 (Ocean Hill and Brownsville) had the highest percentage of women, at 74 percent of its roster. Community Board 3 (Bedford-Stuyvesant) also has a majority-female board, with 63 percent. Henry Butler, district manager of CB3, told the Eagle he thinks women in his community are more inclined to apply for a community board position than men. “In Community Board 3, women tend to be the head of

household, so they are the ones with a stake in the community,” he said. Elias-Pavia, though, questioned whether or not the same circumstance was holding women back from community board positions in her neighborhood. “I’m wondering the population of women in this district who are starting families and maybe just had children,” she said. “I’d have to really dig into the numbers, but maybe it’s just a time factor.” How do we fix it? Adams believes that the first step in diversifying Brooklyn community boards is education. “The appointment process requires choosing among candidates who apply and who meet basic minimum qualifications, which is really where we should focus our efforts — increasing the amount of folks who apply and educating the public about the process and opportunity to get involved in local government,” he said. Councilmember Antonio Reynoso — whose district encompasses two boards with racial and gender disparities — still hopes to take it one step further. He introduced legislation in the spring of 2018 to require applications for community boards to contain additional

information on demographics in order to figure out who is applying for the local civic group. “These measures will offer us a more detailed picture of who is applying for board membership and how they reflect the community at large, helping ensure that the voices of all residents are part of important conversations,” Reynoso said. In the meantime, the Civic Engagement Commission will take involvement one step further starting next year, by providing resources like language access and technical assistance at community board meetings, Sayeed said. Longer term, Sayeed said, the commission is looking to educate New Yorkers about different ways to engage locally — from precinct councils to parent teacher associations — as well as to create a new online portal that will connect residents to an array of civic engagement options. “[The commission] definitely wants to see more New Yorkers attend community board meetings,” she said. “We think that’s an important stepping stone to become integrated into board membership and leadership roles.” Renee King with Measure of America contributed research using data from DATA2GO.NYC.

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News From Your Neighborhood Paper. Residents say the stagnant water attracts raccoons and other vermin. The city Department of Transportation estimates that it would cost about $4 million to re-do the street completely. Wanda Hillaire, another resident, charges that the city doesn’t want to spend the money on a working-class neighborhood like Crown Heights.

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SHOWY B’KLYN RAPPER RUNS FOR CONGRESS

CENTRAL BROOKLYN — A Brooklyn rapper who is known for his silver tinsel wig has launched a primary campaign against longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, according to Patch. Paperboy Prince is best known for his “Yang Gang” videos in support of presidential candidate Andrew Yang. “I have the power to get people interested and excited. That’s literally what I do for a living. I’m speaking the people’s language,” Prince told Patch. Asked about his unconventional attire, he answered, “I don’t want to look like these politicians. Art and youthfulness and creativity and fashion are at the center of the district.”

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LAWSUIT CHARGES SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT SCHOOL

SOUTHERN BROOKLYN — For nearly four decades, a swath of southern Brooklyn has been waiting for a new Sanitation garage — and there is no end to that wait in sight. Members of Community Board 13, which spans Coney Island, Brighton Beach, Bensonhurst, Gravesend and Seagate, voted in September to put the garage back on its list of priorities. See brooklynreporter.com. Pictured: A Southern Brooklyn Sanitation truck empties a load of Brooklyn Eagle photo by Paul Frangipane trash at a local dump site.

THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER ON SUNDAY

DYKER HEIGHTS — Thousands of Brooklyn residents, most of them in Dyker Heights and Sunset Park, were without power on Sunday. Con Edison said it was still trying to determine whether the outages were weather-related. A spokesperson for the utility said that more than 3,600 of the outages were located between 10th and 13th avenues. The rest were scattered throughout the borough. Service was restored around 5 p.m.

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BIG MACS VS. ‘LUCRATIVE, HIGH-DENSITY’ HOUSING

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The owner of a building containing a McDonald’s on Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights, just down the street from Barclays Center, is trying to hike the fast-food outlet’s rent 545 percent, from about $14,000 a month to nearly $90,000, according to the New York Post. Representatives for the owner, Vanderbilt Atlantic Holdings HHC, say they would like to build “lucrative, high-density” housing on the street. The McDonald’s chain, in return, is suing Vanderbilt in Brooklyn Federal Court for “attempting to corrupt a contractually required fair-market rental-valuation process.” Vanderbilt spokesperson Tom Li told the Post, “I think there’s two sides to the story.”

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BPL BRANCHES TO BEGIN LENDING BOARD GAMES

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Public Library will begin lending board games at branches in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights next spring, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Librarians aren’t revealing which games will be loaned out through the program, but the library system has conducted an extensive survey of library users’ preferences. Funding for the project will be provided by Bklyn Incubator, a Brooklyn Public Library program that funds creative programming ideas, the Brooklyn Paper said.

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COLTON ANNOUNCES TOYS FOR TOTS DRIVE

GRAVESEND — Assemblymember William Colton (D-GravesendBensonhurst-Bath Beach) has announced his annual Toys for Tots Drive on behalf of the U.S. Marine Corps. “The U.S. Marine Corps Toys for Tots program is a perfect example that our servicemen and women are doing more than just serving our country. Any contributions are appreciated and will help millions of less fortunate children to enjoy the magic of the holidays,” said Colton. Toys should be new and in their original packages. Anyone who would like to donate toys is welcome to drop them off any time before Dec. 16 at Colton’s district office, 155 Kings Highway in Gravesend.

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WOMAN SCARES OFF WOULD-BE RAPIST

BENSONHURST — A brave woman walking to a Bensonhurst subway station fended off a suspect who tried to rape her behind several parked cars. The 48-year-old woman was walking to the 20th Avenue station near 64th Street around 5 a.m. on Thursday when a man grabbed her by the throat and dragged her behind two

parked cars. He tried to rape her but ran away when she screamed for help, police said. Surveillance video shows a white or Hispanic man in his late teens or 20s with a dark-colored T-shirt bearing a logo and dark-colored pants.

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PARK, COLLEGE HAVE NEW DEFENSE AGAINST ALGAE

PROSPECT PARK — Toxic, blue-green algae have plagued Prospect Park Lake for years, and whenever dogs come into contact with it, they get sick, according to Gothamist. The shallowness of the lake and a buildup of phosphate in the water both contribute to the algae bloom. The Prospect Park Alliance has teamed up with Brooklyn College for a new nature-based solution called ecoWEIR, Gothamist said. This technology filters incoming water underground and uses plants grown on top to absorb excess nutrients. Professor Jennifer Cherrier of Brooklyn College said, “If you don’t stop the pollutants from going into the water in the first place, it’s just going to be never-ending.”

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MIDEAST RESTAURANT FOCUSES ON FOODS OF SYRIA, JORDAN

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — The mother of a Brooklyn charter school student said another student sexually harassed and groped her daughter during a test and the school did nothing about it, according to the Daily News. In a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, Clerice Brown said her daughter was molested and harassed by a fellow student at Uncommon Charter High School last year. Brown said her daughter, identified as A.B. in the lawsuit, was at school to take a make-up Spanish test. A proctor noticed a boy staring at her during a group portion of the test, but staff still decided to put the two in a room together without any supervision, Brown alleged. Among the other student’s remarks were, “Hey, you a virgin? Look under the desk, I’ve got something to show you.” Eventually, he crawled under the table and grabbed her buttocks and leg. The school refused to transfer the boy to another school, the lawsuit charged.

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MAN TALKS WOULD-BE JUMPER DOWN FROM BRIDGE

BROOKLYN BRIDGE — A stranger helped a man who was standing at the edge of the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, CBSNewYork reported. Plumber John Hansen and a friend were driving over the bridge when they saw someone standing on the ledge. Hansen began yelling, “Walk back! It’s not worth your life!” When Hansen said, “Turn around, it’s not worth it,” the man turned and looked at him. The man was taken into police custody and transported to a hospital for treatment.

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MANHOLE FIRES PLAGUE CROWN HEIGHTS RESIDENTS

WILLIAMSBURG — Sakib, a new restaurant on Bedford Avenue near the Williamsburg Bridge, has its roots in Syria and Jordan, according to New York Eater. It offers “Arabic pies something like individual pizzas, topped with ground meat, spinach, cheese or the spice-andsesame seed mixture called zattar” as well as bourekas, kebabs and falafel. The store also specializes in labneh, a Middle Eastern yogurt with a creamy and thick texture. Sakib is located at 349 Bedford Ave.

CROWN HEIGHTS — Residents of Dean Street and nearby thoroughfares in Crown Heights were awakened early Tuesday by popping and cracking sounds coming from multiple manhole fires, according to 4NewYork. No injuries were reported, but some 245 Con Edison customers were without power temporarily, the utility reported. One of the manhole fires was reported to be directly underneath a parked car. Con Edison crews restored power by 9 a.m., 4NewYork said.

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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — The New York Times recently focused on Erin Lorek, a Bedford-Stuyvesant artist who works out of her living room rather than a commercial studio or loft. “It’s a constant negotiation of moving stuff around and finding space to do this,” Lorek, who works in metal, told the Times. In the past, artists were able to find affordable studio spaces in industrial buildings in Williamsburg, Bushwick, Sunset Park, Gowanus and other neighborhoods. However, faced with rising commercial rents, more and more artists are working out of living rooms, bedrooms or rented studios that they time-share with other artists. Moreover, the fact that artists are working from home means that they don’t have the sense of community that they used to have in loft and warehouse buildings.

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HUGE PUDDLE PLAGUES CROWN HEIGHTS RESIDENTS

CROWN HEIGHTS — Homeowners on Midwood Street in Crown Heights have been forced to live with a large, stagnant puddle on their block for more than a decade, according to the Brooklyn Paper. “In the summer, it’s a swimming pool. In the winter it’s a skating rink,” Bernadette Lewis, whose mother owns a house on the street between Utica and Schenectady avenues, told the Brooklyn

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FLATBUSH — Police are searching for a man wanted in a violent purse snatching in Flatbush on Friday, Nov. 8, and have released surveillance video showing a suspect running and clutching the bag, ABC7 reported. The victim, a middle-aged woman, was riding in a dollar van, according to ABC7, when her pocketbook was taken. When the perp, who was also a passenger, got off near Avenue H and Flatbush Avenue, he punched the victim in the face and grabbed the purse. An eyewitness chased the man and got the purse back, but the man was able to escape.

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NEWARK MAYOR SUES DE BLASIO ON HOMELESS

CITYWIDE — A dispute over shipping homeless New Yorkers to Newark, N.J. landed in federal court on Monday after Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s administration filed a lawsuit against Mayor Bill de Blasio and the City of New York. For months, according to Politico, Baraka has expressed increasing frustration with de Blasio allegedly unloading his homeless problem onto surrounding municipalities. Newark claims New York has sent almost 1,200 people across the Hudson River into New Jersey, often subjecting them to dangerous conditions, Politico said.

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Your CBD Store in Park Slope is the first in the area to carry an organic line of CBD products for people and pets. The store opened its doors earlier this month and, on Dec. 7, will host its official grand opening ceremony. Owner Dominique Pastorello studied plant science at Cornell University and has always recognized the medicinal value of plants. Your CBD Store at 195 Fifth Ave. offers not only award-winning products, but a comfortable, spa-like environment for customers to learn about their health benefits and proper use. According to Pastorello, CBD, aka cannabidiol, is one of the main chemical components of the cannabis plant, offering powerful anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective qualities for potential health benefits without the high. “We produce CBD naturally in our bodies, but most of us do not produce enough,” explained Pastorello. “CBD acts on receptors in our endocannabinoid system in order to find imbalances in our body, pull inflammation out and provide

general homeostasis. The majority of ailments are caused by inflammation in the body and/or imbalances of the nervous system — hence the great potential relief,” she added. Pastorello elected to carry the Sunmed line of CBD products as she believes it is one of the highest quality oils available on the market today. Sunmed won the award of excellence this year at the biggest CBD expo in the nation in Miami, and took home the award for ‘Best Oil Tincture’ as well as ‘Best Topical Cream’ with over 500 brands contending. “It is very important to us not only to provide a top-quality product, but to create a comfortable environment where people can stop in to receive education about CBD from our knowledgeable staff and understand how these products may benefit their health,” said Pastorello. Your CBD Store and the Sunmed brand were founded by Rachel Quinn and her husband Marcus. Rachel suffered from Crohn’s disease and experienced severe pharmaceutical side effects for years before finding natural relief from CBD. When she saw how difficult it was to obtain a consistent, high-quality product, she knew

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she wanted to provide a better option. She and her husband began extensively researching CBD and with the help of Dr. Tony Ferrari, the on-board Sunmed CBD chemist, this new brand was born. “I was introduced to Rachel and Marcus through a close friend and after trying their products and finding great success with anxiety relief, I decided to hop on board and offer great quality CBD products along with education surrounding hemp products to my local community,” said Pastorello. “I have spent many years studying and working with plants so this felt like a natural career move for me,” she added. Thanks to what Pastorello ascribes to the outstanding quality of the brand, Your CBD Stores have grown from one mom-and-pop shop to almost 600 stores nationwide since May 2018. Pastorello also owns an affiliate store in her hometown of Ithaca, New York, where she built up a considerable customer base. “It has been such a fulfilling journey that I decided to expand into Brooklyn and opened the first Your CBD Store in the five boroughs. I have spent quite a bit of time in Brooklyn as I

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Let there be light! Sunset Park hosts another festive tree-lighting ceremony BY JAIME DEJESUS JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER. COM

A Sunset Park Christmas tradition continues, as the Sunset Park Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) held its annual holiday tree-lighting ceremony on the day after Thanksgiving. As always, local families showed up on Friday, Nov. 30 outside Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 545 60th St., for goodies, entertainment, photos with an elf and, of course, the dramatic illumination of the towering tree. “The front of OLPH is the closest thing that strip of Sunset Park’s Fifth Avenue has

to a public square other than the park itself so it’s really important to have that place to begin with,” noted Executive Director of the BID David Estrada, noting that the church partners with the BID to host the “shared event. “Father [James] Gilmour said some beautiful words about the season of lights and appreciating having these lights during the darkest times of the year,” he added. The entertainment included clown Payaso Pechuguin and band Hasta la Zeta, and the BID’s famous antique trolleys that were on the avenue the next day, throughout Small Business Saturday, and the BID gave away about 150 gift

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Scenes from the Christmas tree lighting outside OLPH at Fifth Avenue and 60th Street. bags for children. The trolleys help the youngsters brave the cold, Estrada said. “There used to be a Santa that sat outside but it’s just so cold for the little kids so now we have the antique trolley that runs in the afternoon for shopping and pauses in front of OLPH and becomes home base,” Estrada said. The well-attended event means a lot for both Sunset Park and the BID, he added. “I’m just happy to carry on a Sunset Park tradition like the lighting of the holiday lights on the avenue, followed by the tree lighting on Black Friday, which is trying to get people shopping small on Fifth Avenue. It all seems to line up beautifully,” he said. He also thanked event producer Cathy Williams who was on the trolley all afternoon, handing out bags. The trolleys will run again along Fifth Avenue on Saturday, Dec. 14, Sunday, Dec. 15 and Saturday, Dec. 21.

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the motel where she was staying and Dan’s brother officers collected 3,600 pennies for his and Dorothy’s honeymoon. The two were married on June 16, 1926 at the Church of the Holy Name, Miami, Florida. They returned to Brooklyn where Dan became a member of the New York Police Department assigned to the 103rd Precinct. Dorothy lived through Dan’s long overtime hours brought on by the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and Two-Gun Crowley’s crime spree. After her children were grown, Dorothy started a career in retail sales working for Rogers Peet in Manhattan until retiring in 1974. She then worked for Dunhill’s at Rockefeller Center where her clients included Tony Randall, Walter Cronkite, Jack Lemmo, and Carol Channing. Upon retiring from Dunhill’s in her 70s, Dorothy became the head of travel for the Senior Club at St. Athanasius Roman Catholic Church in Bensonhurst, a position she held until the age of 91. Not wanting to sit around and do nothing, Dorothy shaved 10 years off her age and joined the Jeanette & Morris Kessel Volunteer Services Department at Beth Israel Hospital. She was a patient liaison and knit blankets for preemies. She also delivered yarn and picked up completed preemie blankets from friends who were elderly shut-ins. She remained in her own apartment on East Fifth Street until the age of 101 when she moved into assisted living at the Norwegian Christian Home and Health Center in Dyker Heights. In February 2019, at the age of 111, NCHHC suggested that it was time to think about a nursing home. Dorothy moved to a nursing home in Framingham where her family was able to be with her every day. Dorothy leaves two daughters, six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandson. Her husband, son, two son-in-laws and one grandson predeceased

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+++ MARSHALL, Kathleen — Age 77, of Brooklyn, entered into eternal rest on Saturday, Nov. 30. Mrs. Marshall was born Feb. 20, 1942 in Brooklyn. She is the daughter of the late John and the late Margaret (Ceasar)

Scotto. Beloved wife of George Marshall. Loving mother of Maryanne Marsaggi (Francine) and Patricia Marshall. Adored grandmother of Benjamin Scott and Gabriella Kate. Dear sister of Patrick, the late Ralph and the late Dennis. All arrangements handled by Marine Park Funeral Home. Mass of Christian burial St. Mark R.C. Church. Burial Calverton National Cemetery.

+++ O’FLAHERTY, Maureen — Age 57, of Belle Harbor, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, Nov. 28. Maureen O’Flaherty was born August 15, 1962 in Brooklyn. She is the daughter of Ellen Walsh and the late John O’Flaherty. Cherished stepdaughter of Michael Walsh. Beloved wife of Vito Spano. Loving sister of Linda O’Flaherty, William O’Flaherty (Elizabeth) and Ellen Marie Sweeney (Brian). Stepsister of Jeanne Rivera. Treasured stepmother of Joseph Spano (Tina) and Charles Spano (Katrina). Adored grandmother of seven loving grandchildren and a special aunt of one niece and eight nephews. All arrangements handled by Marine Park Funeral Home. Funeral Mass St. Francis De Sales Roman Catholic Church, Belle Harbor. Committal Green-Wood Cemetery.

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(Never known to fail) O, most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine, Splendor of Heaven Blessed Mother, of the Son of God. Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. O, Star of the Sea help me and show me, herein you are my mother. O, Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth! I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in this necessity. (Make Request) There are none that can withstand your power. O, show me herein you are my mother. O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee (3X). O Holy Mary I place this cause in your hands (3X). Sweet Mother, I place this cause in your hands (3X). Thank you for your mercy to me and mine. Amen. This prayer must be said for three days and after three days your request will be granted and the prayer must be published. Grateful thanks.

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Welcome to the Brooklyn Navy Yard Wegmans.

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Welcome to waterfront Brooklyn, Wegmaniacs. The long-awaited 74,000-square-foot Wegmans grocery store in the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been open for about a month, gladdening the hearts of devoted shoppers who refer to themselves as Wegmaniacs. I’ve got a suggestion for all of you who are schlepping a long way to Wegmans. Why not turn your shopping trip into an urban adventure? There’s so much cool stuff to see in the area — including historic architecture, driverless cars and places to day-drink. Wegmans stays open until 11 p.m., so you have lots of time to do other things before you hit the produce department.

VINEGAR HILL Go and see Vinegar Hill, a quiet, picturesque waterfront neighborhood that combines 200-year-old rowhouses with a Con Ed substation that extends for blocks and blocks along the shoreline of the East River. The neighborhood is right up the hill from Wegmans’ Sands Street entrance.

The area was named after the Battle of Vinegar Hill, which took place during the Irish Rebellion of 1798. Irish immigrant shipbuilder John Jackson owned a lot of the land on which the neighborhood was built. He chose the name to honor his homeland. At the top of the neighborhood’s highest hill, behind a fence and gate, there’s a landmarked mansion built in 1805 and 1806 for the Commandant of the Brooklyn Navy. It has been privately owned since 1979. It is called the Commandant’s House. The address is 24 Evans St., if you’re looking for it on a cellphone map. Charles Bulfinch designed the house, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report about it says. Of course his name rings a bell. He designed part of the U.S. Capitol. The Vinegar Hill Historic District consists of several blocks in various parts of the neighborhood. It includes Greek Revival-style rowhouses located at 67, 69 and 71 Hudson Ave., which were constructed in 1817.

THE NAVAL CEMETERY LANDSCAPE At the edge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, there’s an extraordinary 1.5-acre park with a winding boardwalk built a few feet above a former burial ground. It is open to the public.

This somber and peaceful place is called the Naval Cemetery Landscape. It is part of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative. When you’re walking around the area surrounding Wegmans, this is NOT the next thing you will see after finishing a Vinegar Hill stroll. But I’m mentioning the Naval Cemetery Landscape now because I suggest you see it early in the day while there’s plenty of sunlight. It takes a good long while to walk there. You have to head down Flushing Avenue and go all the way to Williamsburg Street West, then turn left. People who died at a hospital in the Navy Yard were buried in this hallowed ground. But in the 1920s, this cemetery was decommissioned. Many of the dearly departed’s remains were taken to Cypress Hills Cemetery where baseball great Jackie Robinson is buried. However, other bodies were possibly left behind in the Naval Cemetery, archival and archaeological investigators realized in the 1990s. The raised boardwalk is a sign of respect for the unmarked graves that are probably on the site.

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— Continued from page 16INB — There are also two lines of gigantic stones that form pathways in the park. The terrain is planted with native meadow grasses, wildflowers and photogenic milkweed plants. In one corner of the park, semi-circular rows of benches form an amphitheater. In another corner, there’s an area called the Sacred Grove with a wooden bench for quiet contemplation. A compartment on the bottom of the bench holds a notebook in which visitors are invited to write their thoughts. If you turn your head while sitting on this bench, you can catch a glimpse through the trees of the former Navy Yard hospital. It was built in 1838 and is made of Tuckahoe marble. Several years ago, developer Doug Steiner of Steiner Studios showed me around the Naval Annex, which is the area where the hospital is located. He’s restoring the buildings in the 20-acre complex and turning it into a location for film and TV production.

THE NAVY YARD The Brooklyn Navy Yard where Wegmans is located is an immensely historic place. President John Adams established it in 1801, when the American Republic was young. Famous ships that were built at the 300-acre site include the USS Arizona, which the Japanese sank in their Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Women worked at the Navy Yard during World War II — Jennifer Egan’s novel “Manhattan Beach” delved into that historic phenomenon. In this day and age, the Navy Yard belongs to the city. It’s now an industrial park full of businesses that make innovative products such as bomb-proof underwear (Crye Precision) and tools that are used on the Mars Rovers (Honeybee Robotics). Most of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is closed to the public. But there are guided tours that share some of its most interesting secrets. One provides an overview of the Navy Yard’s past and present, another offers an inside look at the businesses located there now. One tour focuses on the Navy Yard’s architecture, another’s about the Navy Yard’s role in World War II and another’s about urban ecology. Sign up for them on the Navy Yard’s website. A few years ago, Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. President and CEO David Ehrenberg gave me a tour of the facility. It was great fun.

The handsome brick building with the flag in front of it is the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s Building 92. At the end of the vineyard where the hammocks are set up, you see Downtown Brooklyn’s new high-rise apartment towers standing in a row. Off to the left, you get a glimpse of the iconic Williamsburgh Savings Bank Clocktower Building.

THE SELF-DRIVING CAR Have you ridden in a self-driving car yet? You can try one out in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. When you’re done with your Russ & Daughters snack, walk out the back of Building 77 and head for the NYC Ferry landing. A path for pedestrians and cyclists passes alongside Dock 72, a 16-story office building I recently toured (this was a reporters’ tour). It’s the first new-from-the-ground-up commercial building to be constructed at the Navy Yard in more than 10 years. At the end of Dock 72 by the ferry landing, a spot is marked for the self-driving cars that a company called Optimus Ride is operating in the Navy Yard. The vehicles will shuttle you to the Navy Yard’s Cumberland Gate — or if you’re a timid passenger, you can take a very short ride that ends outside Building 77. The car moves verrry slooowly, less than 20 miles per hour. And a human being, who’s referred to as a safety operator, sits in the driver’s seat in case anything goes wrong. The Optimus Ride cars are New York’s first commercial self-driving vehicles.

ROOFTOP REDS There’s a vineyard in the Brooklyn Navy Yard called Rooftop Reds — on top of Building 275. And it’s open to the public. It’s “the world’s first commercially viable urban rooftop vineyard,” its website says. You have to make a reservation, which is free of charge, to get access to Rooftop Reds. Also, you have to go to the Navy Yard’s Sands Street entrance to be allowed into the complex. It’s a unique experience to stroll down rows of grapevines with industrial buildings all around you and the top of the Empire State Building rising up from the horizon. This time of year, the vines are leafless and austerely beautiful, like wiry modern sculptures. There are hammocks to hang out in, and picnic tables, if you want to stay outside and stare at the superb scenery while you sip your vino. There’s indoor seating as well.

Once you know that, you’ll be less surprised to discover that Brooklynites with a sense of history call the neighborhood bounded by Flushing, Carlton, Myrtle and Classon avenues Wallabout. In this neighborhood, you find the city’s largest concentration of mid-19th century wooden houses. There’s a city-designated Wallabout Historic District on Vanderbilt Avenue. Greek Revival-style LeffertsLaidlaw House at 136 Clinton Ave. is an individual city landmark. Preservation activists are campaigning for landmark designation for Wallabout’s most culturally significant house — 99 Ryerson St., where famed poet Walt Whitman lived when he published the first version of his ground-breaking volume “Leaves of Grass.” To keep things simple, the advocates refer to the neighborhood where Leaves of Grass House is located as Clinton Hill. A petition urging the Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate 99 Ryerson St. has 7,000 signatures. Whitman was the Eagle’s editor in the 1840s.

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RUSS & DAUGHTERS One spot in the Navy Yard that is open to the public is the ground floor of Building 77 at 141 Flushing Ave., where you can get a bite to eat. The Lower East Side’s famous century-old bagels and lox purveyor, Russ & Daughters, opened a shop and food-production facility in Building 77 a couple years ago. It’s a good spot to sit for a bit and nosh on bagels and smoked Scottish salmon, or Irish salmon, or sable, or … the list goes on and it’s all good. Building 77 was constructed in the 1940s as a storage facility. It didn’t have any windows. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. recently renovated it.

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A boardwalk winds its way through the Naval Cemetery Landscape. When you sit at the picnic tables, you get a view of Navy Yard buildings located on one side of Flushing Avenue and homes on the other, which are in a neighborhood called Wallabout that I’ll tell you about in a minute.

BUILDING 92

So. About Wegmans. The dazzling new supermarket has an entrance at 21 Flushing Ave. As I mentioned at the beginning of this story, there’s also an entrance on Sands Street. My colleague Paul Frangipane and I toured the Wegmans right before it opened and created a list of reasons people are obsessed with this grocery chain. Now that it’s fully stocked and full of shoppers, the Brooklyn Wegmans is even cooler than I thought it was on tour day. When I shopped there the other day, I tried out the store’s Burger Bar. The hamburgers and French fries were great. There was quite a crowd at the cheese counter, where a misting system keeps the goods moist without forming puddles. There were beautiful orchids in the floral department and bounteous bread displays in the bakery. Did I mention there’s a cocktail lounge on the mezzanine? It was full.

There are historic exhibits at the Navy Yard’s Building 92 at 63 Flushing Ave. It consists of a glamorous brick home constructed as the Marine Commandant’s residence in 1858 with a modern addition in the back. Also, in Building 92’s Yard Work Gallery, there’s an exhibit of works by artists whose studios are in the Navy Yard’s Building 30.

HEAD HI Off Flushing Avenue just steps away from the Brooklyn Navy Yard, there’s a shop whose address is 14 Clermont Ave. Head Hi, as it’s called, sells books, art, coffee and snacks. The book selection is beautiful. It’s a good spot to stop and refuel with caffeine before you head off to the serious business of shopping at Wegmans. WALLABOUT The body of water where the Brooklyn Navy Yard is situated is called Wallabout Bay.

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