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755 city schools are more segregated than their neighborhoods — report

By Victoria Merlino and Meaghan McGoldrick Brooklyn Heights Press

New York City schools remain deeply segregated, according to a new report that found that a pair of Brooklyn school districts had among the highest rates of segregation in the city.

The study, conducted by the Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, found that 41 percent of all New York City schools — 755 in total — did not reflect their districts’ demographics.

“New York City schools are still deeply segregated and lack diversity,” said Daryl Hornick-Becker, a policy and advocacy associate at CCC. “This is shown through experiences, personal testimony, and it’s shown through academic study.”

The organization compared the overall racial and ethnic demographics of students in the district to the demographics in each individual school located within the district to determine the rate of representation.

Diversity in the classroom has been proven not only to foster a student’s cognitive learning, it can also allow for real-life experience in an increasingly diverse society, according to a report released by the Century Foundation.

“When we allow for diversity in schools, everyone has a richer experience,” said Paula White, executive director of the New York City chapter of Educators for Excellence, a group that recently ramped up its calls for more teachers of color. That call, she said, goes hand-in-hand with the one for desegregated student bodies.

“Students of color have a richer experience, and white students have a richer experience when we have a broad swath of students in the classroom,” she told the Heights Press “And that is more acutely relevant for our students of color.

When students of color are in an integrated setting — and that includes teacher diversity — then they’re more likely to have the resources they need in order to be able to succeed.”

CCC considered an individual school to be representative of its district if the school’s enrollment by race or ethnicity was within 10 percentage points of the district’s overall enrollment numbers by race or ethnicity.

Meanwhile, CCC considered schools to be unrepresentative of their districts if those two numbers (school and district enrollment by race or ethnicity) differed by 20 percentage points or more.

Roughly 72 percent of schools in District 13, which encompasses Brooklyn Heights and Downtown Brooklyn, and 69 percent of schools in District 15, comprised of Park Slope and Sunset Park, were not representative, according to the report.

District 27 in Queens, which encompasses parts of Jamaica, Howard Beach and the Rockaways, and Districts 13 and 15 in Brooklyn, had some of the highest racial disparities citywide. Roughly 73 percent of schools in District 27 did not reflect the overall demographics in the district.

CCC said that utilizing this more localized data can be an easier and more effective way of looking at school diversity.

Some New York City school districts are taking steps to ramp up their integration efforts to close that gap between school demographics and district demographics.

Brooklyn’s District 15 currently has a diversity plan in place, but even so, the district has just one school that accurately reflects the district demographics, the data shows. The district — which includes affluent brownstone neighborhoods, such as Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens and Park Slope, as well lower-income areas, such as Red Hook and Sunset Park — recently nixed competitive screens and moved to a lottery-based admission system, which has started to show results.

The city’s Department of Education has also proposed either the redrawing or removal of district lines to relieve overcrowding and encourage integration. A number of parents in District 15 have also raised concerns about the diversity plan. Community leaders who have poured their energy into the district’s Red Hook Neighborhood School, for example, have said that the plans don’t adequately address the needs of their school, one of the city’s lowest performing.

District 28 in Queens, which encompasses Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Jamaica and Rego Park, is attempting to implement an integration and diversity plan designed to make the schools more representative. The district currently has no schools that accurately reflect the district demographics, according to CCC’s data.

The plan, however, has faced intense opposition from swaths of parents within the district. At a December meeting, parents expressed fears about uprooting children and questioned why the city doesn’t invest more into schools that are considered lower performing — schools typically comprised of majority students of color.

“If we’re going to be honest here, most families in Rego Park, in Forest Hills, are not going to put their kids on extensively long commutes for the pleasure of attending a subpar school. It just doesn’t make any sense,” one parent said at the meeting, as reported by THE CITY. CCC hopes their study can be of use to schools across the city as they implement diversity plans of their own.

“What we hope with this is that districts can, instead of looking at a standard definition of diversity, and say, “How do we get to that?” they can look at a more local definition like representation and say, “Where are the problem areas in our district, and what’s causing them, and how can we fix it?” Hornick-Becker said.

White, of Educators for Excellence, called the CCC’s data “critical” for pushing the conversation about education equity forward.

“So often, we think that education policy is something that’s decided at Tweed [Courthouse] or in Albany, but a lot of these decisions about segregation are made at the neighborhood level,” she said. “And this data really reflects how this plays out on the ground.”

“New York City is one of the world’s most diverse cities and we strive to make our classrooms reflect that,” Katie O’Hanlon, a spokesperson for the city’s Department of Education told the Heights Press. “We are proud of the work this administration has done to help move our classrooms towards becoming more inclusive, rigorous, and equitable for all, and while we know there is a lot more work to do, we are excited to see promising signs as a result of our Equity and Excellence agenda across the city.”

Students at William McKinley Junior High School.

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Photo from Mayoral Photography Office

Aerial view of the debris left from the Hotel Margaret fire.

Photo by Amy Davis

40 Years Ago Hotel Margaret Destroyed In Spectacle of Fire and Ice

By Francesca Norsen Tate Brooklyn Heights Press

The storied Hotel Margaret, which for 91 years was a home away from home for luminaries such as the future King Edward VIII, H.G. Wells and Norwegian Nobel Prize-winning author Sigrid Undset, predated the 1898 Great Consolidation of Brooklyn into one of the five boroughs of New York City.

“It was bitterly cold out,” Porter recalls.

“All that water turned to ice and the cobraheaded lamp heads fell to the ground because of all the ice that weighed on them.”

Although the fire was extinguished in about four hours, it totally gutted the building, with renovations just two weeks from completion, Porter explained. Because a whole new building would have to be constructed, the Landmarks Preservation Commission ruled that the site’s owner and developer, Bruce Eichner, had to keep to a new height limit. However, Eichner appealed that ruling and the LPC ultimately granted him permission to build to the original height of the Margaret.

“Then the Jehovah’s Witnesses took over the building,” Porter said. The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, the official name of this religious organization, moved their headquarters upstate a few years ago.

A New York City records website shows that the entire building was sold in 2017 for $58 million.

The Margaret Hotel’s History Architect Frank Freeman — whose Herman Behr mansion on Pierrepont and Henry streets was another masterThe Hotel Margaret in the 1940s at 97 Columbia Heights. piece — designed Photo courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives the hotel. The first Then, on Feb. 1, 1980, a fire that report- owner was coffee and sugar magnate John Aredly started from an unmanned construction buckle, who named the hotel for his sister, heater destroyed the hotel. The building was Margaret.

Widely respected Brooklyn Eagle columundergoing renovation at the time. Firefighters battling the blaze had to deal with an extra nist Margaret Mara wrote of the hotel and the challenge — the water from their hoses froze Arbuckle family in a May 21, 1951 feature, when it hit the frigid air, enveloping the Mar- “As seen from the hotel, Brooklyn Bridge is like a gigantic etching, with its graceful outgaret and neighboring structures in ice.

One witness, Andrew Porter, told the line and its tremendous network of cables.”

Brooklyn Heights Press that he called 911 at Mara noted also that the Arbuckles were a 3:55 a.m. on Feb. 1. When he didn’t hear any prominent Plymouth Church family. Another fire truck sirens, he called again, and learned sister named Christina founded the Plymouth that the first alarm did not get reported until Institute and bequeathed memorial buildings 4:20 a.m., “a 25-minute delay that was unex- to Long Island College Hospital and the Continued on page 3 plained,” he said during a phone call this week. Brooklyn Hospital.

For domestic violence victims, cyberstalking is a growing issue.

This NYC clinic is helping them.

By Mary Frost Brooklyn Heights Press

Her ex-husband is cyberstalking her.

He hacked her social media accounts and wrote false comments that alienated her friends and relatives. He posted her private photos on Facebook. He locked her out of her Gmail account by changing the recovery emails and phone number to his own — derailing her sales career by taking away her access to her business contacts.

She knows that he installed spyware either on her phone or on the kids’ phones, because she found the purchase of the mSpy app on their joint credit card statement.

She is not one specific woman, but rather an aggregate of typical cyberstalking victims that computer scientists at Cornell Tech are helping through a pilot program with NYU Tandon and the Mayor’s Office.

Researchers say the problem is widespread.

Abusers use technology to track, intimidate and harm their former partners. In a recently released research paper about the project to protect people from cyberstalking, the scientists concealed victims’ names and details, because they are under constant threat.

About half of the domestic violence victims participating in the initial field study were found to have hacked devices. Out of 44 assisted, researchers discovered compromised accounts, exploitable misconfigurations and potential spyware in 23 cases.

Cornell Tech is piloting a cyber program with the Mayor’s Office to End Domestic & GenderBased Violence (ENDGBV) and NYU Tandon in Brooklyn. Damon McCoy, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon, described the program to reporters at a Cybersecurity Media Roundtable held in Downtown Brooklyn in conjunction with Cyber Security Awareness Week.

Domestic violence clients are referred to the program by the city’s Family Justice Centers, which provide free assistance to victims and survivors of domestic violence.

“We run the tech clinic on a referral basis, rotating between the five boroughs,” McCoy said.

The clients bring in their devices, “and we try to diagnose the sources of the tech abuse that they’re experiencing. Or sometimes there is no tech abuse, and we give them some assurances.”

“A lot of it is very low tech,” he said. If the perpetrator has access to the victim’s iCloud credential, for example, “Through that they can monitor locations, and sometimes they monitor messaging apps, Facebook, things like that.”

Damon McCoy, assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at NYU Tandon, at the recent Cybersecurity Media Roundtable. Heights Press photo by Mary Frost There are numerous technical complexities faced by abused intimate partners. A victim or her children may be using online accounts controlled by her former partner, or relying on passwords he either knows or could easily guess. He might be backing up her iPad to an iCloud or Google account to which he has access. He may have turned on location sharing in her settings, or installed child- or spouse-tracking apps, or apps that can remotely turn on the camera or mic.

The researchers developed a spyware scanning tool to diagnose the victims’ phones and computers, along with a methodology to map out who controls what devices. The complete diagnostic process takes around an hour.

If the tech experts find spyware on the devices, they help the clients delete it or work around it, and inform them about privacy settings and other crucial information. They also advise their clients to take photos or screenshots of any discovered spyware or device compromises — as evidence in a potential future court case.

“Several clients we met with have ongoing court cases in which they plan to use evidence discovered via our consultations,” they said in their report.

‘I think he has my email’ Often, a victim will tell the center that their abuser “constantly shows up where I am,” and they don’t know how the abuser got that information; or, “I think he has my email,” said Jennifer DeCarli, assistant commissioner for Family Justice Centers & Outreach with the Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic and Gender-Based Violence.

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40 Years Ago Hotel Margaret Destroyed In Spectacle of Fire and Ice Continued from page 2

Other stories from the original Brooklyn Eagle archives describe the purchase of adjacent land to expand the Hotel Margaret. One story chronicles a visit from the Prince of Wales, who would later become King Edward VIII of England and then abdicate the British throne for the love of American divorcee Wallis Simpson.

Smoke envelops the burnedout Margaret Hotel.

Photo copyright Andrew Porter/1980

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WHATS NEWS Actress Michelle Williams buys Heights townhouse Actress Michelle Williams and her partner, theater director Tommy Kail, are moving to Brooklyn Heights, according to Brownstoner. The couple have purchased a townhouse in the neighborhood for $10.8 million as well as a plot of land behind the home. Williams already owns a prestigious townhouse at 1440 Albermarle Road in Prospect Park South.

Other celebrities in the Heights include Matt Damon, John Krasinsky and his wife Emily Blunt, and Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany, Brownstoner said.

••• ‘The Heat Is On’ doesn’t apply to Williamsburg housing project NYCHA’s Independence Towers in Williamsburg has had 17 heating failures this winter, and once the heat is off, it takes more than 10 hours to get it back on, according to the New York Post.

Officials say a $120 million project that includes new pipes and new boilers is slated to begin in February and will be completed in February 2022. In the meantime, tenants are having a hard time. “We have to turn on the oven and leave it open to keep the place warm,” said Liliana Arin, who has lived in the towers for four years. Independence Towers was built in the 1960s as a state-sponsored development but was later transferred to NYCHA .

Corcoran, Citi Habitats merge; RE firms have a Strong Brooklyn presence

Grace Church’s WinterFair this Saturday

After operating as sister companies for nearly two decades, the Corcoran Group and Citi Habitats real estate firms are merging under the Corcoran banner, according to The Real Deal. Corcoran has six locations in Brooklyn, stretching from Greenpoint to Clinton Hill to Park Slope, while Citi Habitat has three, stretching from Greenpoint to Brooklyn Heights. The deal will give the company a combined 2,420 agents, who were responsible for $7 billion in sales and 22,000 rental transactions last year, The Real Deal said.

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Carroll Gardens library to close temporarily The Carroll Gardens branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, located at 395 Clinton St., will close for maintenance on Feb. 1, according to Pardon Me for Asking. The branch is set to reopen in mid-March. The BPL will make a Bookmobile available at the site during that period on Mondays and Fridays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. starting on Monday, Feb. 3. Pardon Me for Asking also advises library users to patronize nearby branches, including the Park Slope Library at 431 Sixth Ave., the Pacific Library at 25 Fourth Ave. and the Red Hook Library at 7 Wolcott St.

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Grace Church’s annual WinterFair is coming up.

Photo by Franklin Stone courtesy of Grace Church Fair

Grace Church is holding its annual WinterFair this Saturday, Feb. 1, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 254 Hicks St. (at the corner of Grace Court, between Joralemon and Remsen streets).

Always the first Saturday in February, Grace’s WinterFair has been compared to “an old-fashioned church jumble” with the sale of used clothing, kids’ toys, books, sports equipment and household items.

A delicious hot lunch will be served, with a bake sale for desert.

Admission to the fair is free. Donations are being accepted in the gym through Friday, and volunteers are being sought.

Please call the Parish Office at (718) 624-1850, x10 for further information, or visit gracebrooklyn.org/calendar/winterfair/ —MF

News From Your Neighborhood GOOD SAMARITAN STOPS SEX ASSAULT IN SUBWAY

BAY RIDGE — A good Samaritan helped to stop a man who was sexually assaulting a woman in the bathroom of the 95th Street R subway station on Monday morning, according to the New York Post. The suspect followed the woman into the bathroom, punched her in the face and started sexually assaulting her, police said. The woman screamed for help, and a good Samaritan opened the door and asked, “What’s going on here?”

The attacker closed the door, but the other man kept pounding on it until the suspect stopped the attack and ran off. He was last seen wearing all black and a black ski mask, the Post reported. 

NEW DATE SET FOR BQX STREETCAR STUDY

BOROUGHWIDE — A draft environmental impact study for the much-debated BXQ Brooklyn-Queens streetcar plan should be complete by 2021, according to the New York City Economic Development Corp. Starting next month, the first public community meetings are scheduled to take place in neighborhoods that the BQX would traverse, such as Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Sunset Park, Astoria and Long Island City, Z100 news reported. The streetcar was originally projected to begin running along the waterfront in 2024. However, it is now scheduled to start in 2029, Z100 reported. 

MAN ARRESTED IN KILLING OF VIDEO GAME DEVELOPER

WILLIAMSBURG — A second man has been charged in the November killing of video game developer Jose Zambrano Rodriguez, according to the New York Post. Damian Diaz was arrested in Queens and arraigned Saturday in Brooklyn Criminal Court. Diaz and his cousin, Joshua Hernandez, allegedly beat Rodriguez in a random attack outside a Brooklyn bar on Nov. 17, Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Christopher Myco said in court Saturday. Myco said the pair, along with a third man, came after Rodriguez as he was walking down Havemeyer Street with a woman around 4:30 a.m. As Rodriguez tried to escape, Diaz knocked him to the ground, where he allegedly cracked his skull on the pavement, Myco said. 

DEVELOPER SEEKS TO BUILD LOW-RISE CONDO IN W’BURG

WILLIAMSBURG — A local developer has filed zoning amendments to construct a new low-rise condo building at 276 Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg, according to New York YIMBY. The building is about three stories high and would include groundfloor retail as well as two levels of residential units above. The zoning proposals are included within an environmental assessment statement prepared in collaboration with BFJ Planning.

The site is currently vacant, New York YIMBY said. 

CHABAD HOSTS WEEKEND FOR YOUNG ADULTS

CROWN HEIGHTS — Jewish young adults this past weekend gathered in Crown Heights for the annual Chabad Young Professionals Shabbaton (or Sabbath weekend), this year titled “Encounter 2020.” Chabad is the outreach arm of the Lubavitch Hasidic religious movement. The event attracted hundreds of young Jews from 46 cities around the world, according to Chabad.org, the movement’s website. Rabbi Lavy Kosofsky, leader of the Springfield, Massachusetts, Chabad Young Professionals group, commented that “Nothing compares to seeing it [Hasidic Judaism] at the source.” 

BROOKLYN-RAISED B-BALLER PLAYS FOR GEORGIA STATE

BUSHWICK — JoJo Toppin, who grew up in Bushwick, then moved to Norcross, Georgia, for his sophomore year of high school, is now part of the Georgia State Panthers basketball team, according to Georgia State Signal, the school’s website.

At Norcross High School, he was ranked as the No. 14 prospect in Georgia and No. 326 nationally, the Signal said. He spent his freshman year at the University of Georgia, where he had little playing time, then transferred to Georgia State because its coach, Rob Lanier, had encouraged him when he was in high school. 

AFFORDABLE LOTTERY HELD AT SIX-STORY BUSHWICK B’LDG

BUSHWICK — An affordable housing lottery has opened for 20 apartments in a six-story building at 594-600 Bushwick Ave., according to New York YIMBY. The building, located between Jefferson and Melrose streets, is being converted to housing from a two-story early 20th century commercial building in combination with a three-story 19th century building next door. The affordable apartments include seven studios and 13 two-bedroom units, with monthly rents starting at $2,150 and topping out at $2,709. Building permits show that there will be 66 apartments in the building, as well as retail stores

Father Michael Louis Gelfant, seen here leading a procession on the Feast Day of Saint Finbar in Bath Beach, got a big thrill when New York Yankees legend Mariano Rivera (inset) sent a video wishing him well in his new assignment in a Queens parish. ebrooklyn media/File photo by Paula Katinas / Mariano Rivera photo by John Minchillo (AP Images for New Era Cap) and a medical office, New York YIMBY reported. The building will also include bicycle storage on the ground floor and parking for 32 vehicles on the second floor. In the early 2000s, the main commercial building that formerly stood on the site was the home of a series of informal concerts called “Above the Auto Parts Store.” The developer is Cayuga Capital Management, which purchased the two lots for $525,000 in 2005, New York YIMBY reported. 

MEAD, MEDIEVAL DRINK, FINDS A HOME IN TRENDY BROOKLYN

BUSHWICK — Honey’s, the taproom in Enlightenment Wines Meadery in Bushwick, was almost full on a recent Saturday night, according to The New York Times. The customers were drinking mead, a type of honey wine that dates to the Middle Ages. Most people in the modern age know of mead through Chaucer or “Game of Thrones,” but that’s about it. Rafael Lyon and a partner opened Enlightenment in 2015, and since then, several other meaderies have opened in the borough and elsewhere. “There are two groups of people,” Alison Kizu-Blair, a bartender at Honey’s, told the Times, “people who know about us and come here with the intention of trying the mead, and then there is the person who has no idea why the bar is called Honey’s.” The mead, which is made on the premises, also includes fruits like apples, cherries and black currants. 

ATTY. GEN. BARR SPEAKS TO JEWISH LEADERS IN BROOKLYN

BOROUGH PARK — U.S. Attorney General William Barr visited a gathering of Orthodox Jewish leaders in Borough Park Tuesday and told them he is “extremely distressed” about recent acts of intimidation and violence against Jewish communities, according to ABC7.

“It strikes at the very core of what this country is about,” Barr said during a meeting at the Boro Park Jewish Community Council. As part of a new effort, Barr announced new federal charges unsealed against Tiffany Harris, a woman accused of assaulting three Orthodox Jewish women in Crown Heights in December. The incident was one in a series of acts alleged to have been motivated by anti-Semitism that alarmed New York’s Jewish community just before the New Year, ABC7 said. 

COPS SEEK BROOKLYN, QUEENS BANK ROBBER

WILLIAMSBURG — The NYPD is looking for a man who robbed two banks in Brooklyn and Queens earlier this month and attempted to rob one more, according to qns.com. On Jan. 13, the unidentified man approached a teller at Popular Bank at 15 Graham Ave. in Williamsburg, gave the teller a threatening note and ran off with $2,000, police said. Ten days later, on Jan. 23, he passed a note demanding money to a teller at the Popular Bank at 918 Seneca Ave., Ridgewood, and made off with $500. On Jan. 27, he passed a similar note to a teller at a Bank of America branch at 386 Knickerbocker Ave. in Bushwick, but the teller did not comply and the perp ran away in an unknown direction. Surveillance video shows a white man with a goatee and moustache wearing a gray jacket and a gray baseball hat.

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TOWNHOUSE’S RENT: $18,500 PER MONTH

PARK SLOPE — A five-story townhouse at 18 Prospect Park West is currently for rent at $18,500 per month, according to Brownstoner. The home is replete with original 19th century details, such as coffered ceilings, pocket doors, wood paneling, an oak center staircase, a stained-glass window and glass cabinets. The home has modern temperature control, a stateof-the-art chef’s kitchen with modern appliances and an elaborate security system with closed-circuit TV. The parlor level has a double parlor, a wood-paneled dining room and more.

The second floor has a library with original leaded glass in the bookcases, a bathroom, a dressing room and a large master bedroom. The third floor has three more bedrooms, two bathrooms and a laundry area; and the fourth floor has three bedrooms and a full bathroom. There is a private entrance to the garden level, Brownstoner said. 

COUNCILMEMBER ESPINAL RESIGNS FROM POST

BROWNSVILLE — City Councilmember Rafael Espinal (D-Bushwick-Brownsville-East New York) has resigned after serving in the Council since 2014, according to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle website. Espinal will be taking over as executive director of the Freelancers Union, a national organization of independent workers. The news came shortly after Espinal ended his campaign for the Democratic nomination for Brooklyn borough president. Espinal had nearly two years left in his second and final term as councilmember. Espinal last year finished seventh in the race for public advocate. See future issues of the Eagle for more details. 

ASSEMBLY PASSES COLTON’S LITTER BASKET BILL

BENSONHURST — Shoppers will be seeing more litter baskets on commercial streets if a bill sponsored by Assemblymember William Colton (D-Gravesend-Bensonhurst-Dyker Heights) becomes law, according to the Brooklyn Reporter website. On Jan. 23, the Assembly passed Colton’s proposed legislation, which would mandate that urban areas place an adequate number of litter baskets on commercial streets and in public recreation areas. “I decided to sponsor this bill to ensure that garbage is properly disposed, and littering is kept to a minimum. It is very important that an adequate number of trash containers are in both business areas and in public areas,” said Colton. 

ACTRESS MICHELLE WILLIAMS BUYS HEIGHTS TOWNHOUSE

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Actress Michelle Williams and her partner, theater director Tommy Kail, are moving to Brooklyn Heights, according to Brownstoner. The couple have purchased a townhouse in the neighborhood for $10.8 million as well as a plot of land behind the home. Williams already owns a prestigious townhouse at 1440 Albermarle Road in Prospect Park South. Other celebrities in the Heights include Matt Damon, John Krasinsky and his wife Emily Blunt, and Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany, Brownstoner said.

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REAL ESTATE Take a winter walk through landmarked Greenpoint

By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Come see where shipbuilders lived.

Nineteenth-century Greenpoint was a hotbed of industry.

China, porcelain and glass production were big back then, and oil refining as well, in addition to ship making.

Now, high-rise apartment towers sprout on the shoreline of this waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood. But there’s a historic district where shipyard workers and owners lived — and a magnificent apartment building Charles Pratt constructed in 1886 as model housing for employees of his refinery, which was called Astral Oil Works.

Also, Greenpoint’s got an unusual city-designated landmark — a street clock on Manhattan Avenue.

Zip up your quilted coat and bring your fingerless mittens. It’s time for a winter walk through historic Greenpoint.

THREE CHEERS FOR THE SHORELINE The most entertaining way to get to Greenpoint for this walk I’ve devised is the NYC Ferry.

As far as I’m concerned, there’s no point in visiting any of Brooklyn’s waterfront neighborhoods unless you get at least one good look at the shoreline.

The ferry pier stands beside a new combination condo-rental apartment tower called The Greenpoint. Mack Real Estate and Palin Enterprises co-developed The Greenpoint in conjunction with Urban Development Partners.

Outside the tower at 21 India St., there’s waterfront public space that belongs to the city Parks Department. It’s open from dawn to dusk.

Have a seat for a second — there are 312 linear feet of benches — and take in the view of the Empire State Building and the United Nations on the East River’s far shore.

The waterfront recreation area has a 275-foot promenade as well, plus playground equipment and a large lawn.

Welcome to landmarked Greenpoint, which is full of 19th-century rowhouses and churches.

INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan

HAVE YOU SEEN KAWS’S SCULPTURE? When you’ve had a good long look at the river, turn towards The Greenpoint’s entrance. Right alongside it, there’s a monumental-scale sculpture that consists of two figures dressed like Mickey Mouse, but in black and white. There are Xs on their faces where you’d expect their eyes to be. In a manner of speaking, they’re cross-eyed.

The sculpture, which is called “Waiting,” was installed in October. It’s the work of popular artist KAWS, whose real name is Brian Donnelly.

Other characters in his sculptures and paintings are inspired by the Smurfs, the Cookie Monster or SpongeBob SquarePants.

In May, one of KAWS’s paintings sold for $14.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong. The price was about 15 times higher than the pre-auction estimate, Bloomberg.com reported.

KAWS lived a few blocks from The Greenpoint when he was commissioned to make a sculpture for the property. “My wife was often taking the ferry, and I was imagining going to wait for her to arrive,” he told Architectural Digest in October.

Once you’ve had a good look at “Waiting,” head down India Street and turn onto West Street.

Here’s Manhattan Avenue at the corner of Kent Street.

Some other time, you should walk all the way up West Street, where you’ll find other waterfront green spaces such as Newtown Barge Park. Or head in the other direction down West Street to find WNYC Transmitter Park. Both locations’ East River views are inspirational.

Today, though, I want to see Greenpoint’s historic district.

Pratt of course founded the Pratt Institute. Lamb & Rich designed the school’s Romanesque Revival-style Main Building, which was also constructed in the 1880s. It is located on Ryerson Walk.

Pratt’s Main Building is also an individual city landmark.

THANK YOU, CHARLES PRATT

The Greenpoint Historic District begins on the opposite side of Java Street from the Astral Apartments. Properties on the east side of Franklin Street are included; those on the west side of Franklin Street are not.

Walk down Franklin Street and turn onto Kent Street. Houses built by people from the neighborhood’s shipbuilding industry can be found on this block.

A shipwright named John A. Connolly built the Italianate brick rowhouse at 101 Kent St. in 1867 and the similarly styled home at 99 Kent St. in 1870, the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report about the Greenpoint Historic District says.

Jeremiah Foulks constructed the Italianate rowhouse at 109 Kent St. in 1863. He became a partner in shipbuilding firm Lawrence & Foulks, the designation report notes.

Turn on Green Street, where the brick rowhouses on the corner are pretty enough to be on a landmarked block, though they aren’t.

Turn again onto Franklin Street, where the buildings’ ground floors are populated with shops and restaurants.

You’ll find Charles Pratt’s majestic 1880s housing development, the Astral Apartments, at 180 Franklin St. It stretches the length of the block between India and Java streets. By the way, the refinery where its original residents worked was located in Williamsburgh. The neighborhood’s name had an “h” on the end of it in that era.

Architecture firm Lamb & Rich designed the Queen Annestyle red-brick and terra cotta building, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report about it says.

The LPC’s designation report about the Astral Apartments lists numerous features that were considered innovative for workingclass housing of that era. These included toilets in each apartment, rear courtyards that increased the amount of light and air in the apartments’ back ends, fireproof stairwells with removable windows for fresh-air circulation in warm-weather months and a lecture room with books and newspapers.

In the basement, there were bathrooms with tubs for bathing.

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A CHEESEBOX ON A RAFT Further down the block, the Episcopal Church of the Ascension at 127 Kent St. is being renovated. While Ascension is being rehabbed, its congregation is holding Sunday worship services at St. John’s Lutheran Church at 155 Milton St.

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Henry Dudley designed Ascension, which was built in 1866, the church’s website says.

The stone edifice’s architectural style is Early English Gothic.

The benefactors who donated money for Ascension’s construction were J.W. Valentine and Thomas Fitch Rowland, the website says. Rowland owned Continental Iron Works.

That was the Greenpoint shipyard which built and launched the USS Monitor, the Union’s ironclad Civil War ship nicknamed “a cheesebox on a raft.” One of its significant innovations was its revolving turret.

The USS Monitor famously fought the Confederacy’s CSS Virginia to a draw in Hampton Roads, Virginia in 1862.

If your recollection is that the Monitor battled the Merrimack on that historic occasion, your memory is not playing tricks on you. The USS Merrimack was a Union frigate that Union forces burned and sank when they evacuated a Navy shipyard in Virginia. The Confederates salvaged its hull and constructed an ironclad warship on top of it.

ed the homes for James R. Sparrow Jr. in 1885, the LPC’s designation report says.

The Sparrow family constructed homes in various parts of the historic district.

Turn onto Franklin Street.

Have I mentioned that most of the buildings on this street’s landmarked blocks were constructed in the 1850s?

The wintry day I took my stroll, adventurous souls were sitting at sidewalk tables under an awning outside the Pencil Factory Bar at 142 Franklin St. This building is on the corner of Greenpoint Avenue, within the historic district.

‘Back to our walk. Stroll to the end of the block and turn onto Manhattan Avenue, which is another boundary of the historic district.

Actually, on Kent Street the historic district ends before you get to the corner.

The rowhouses and shops on this part of Manhattan Avenue are eye-catching even though they aren’t landmarked.

Turn onto Greenpoint Avenue. The deli on the corner, whose address is 903 Manhattan Ave., has an eyepopping mural. This building is also outside the historic district.

The landmarked properties on this block include a 21building neo-Grec-style row from 123 Greenpoint Ave. down to 83 Greenpoint Ave. Architect E.B. Ackerly design-

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Most of this Greenpoint Avenue block is landmarked. The corner building, whose address is 903 Manhattan Ave., is not.

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THE PRINCE OF AMERICAN CATHOLIC ARCHITECTS Now, turn onto Milton Street, which has rowhouses with deep front lawns on part of the block.

A row of homes from 139 to 151 Milton St. was constructed a bit later than most of the historic district, namely in 1894, the designation report notes. These brick Queen Anne houses have oriels — meaning cantilevered

This is St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church.

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bay windows — on their facades or a combination of oriels and loggias, which are arcades that are open to the air on one side.

This Milton Avenue block is a must-see because it ends at Manhattan Avenue where landmarked St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic Church stands.

Attentive readers will notice that I mention this red-brick, limestone-trimmed house of worship in almost every story I write about Greenpoint. It’s so beautiful.

It has a 240-foot spire.

Sometimes I see this church in my dreams.

Patrick Charles Keely, nicknamed the Prince of American Catholic Architects, designed the Gothic Revival house of worship at 862 Manhattan Ave. It opened in 1874, the church website says.

Keely was born in Ireland and lived in Brooklyn. He is said to have designed almost 700 religious buildings in the Eastern United States and Canada.

Another one of his lovely local church designs is 1870svintage Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church in Carroll Gardens. It looks a bit like St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus.

BELOVED WOODEN HOUSES After you get an eyeful of St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus, walk down Manhattan Avenue and turn onto Noble Street.

Some of my favorite Greenpoint wood-frame houses are located on this block.

The LPC’s designation report calls shingle-covered, Italianate-style 107 Noble St.

“one of the finest frame houses within the district” and notes that it was constructed around 1853 and 1854. The houses on both sides of it are wood-frame beauties as well.

In February 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved a plan to renovate and expand 111 Noble St., which had been a wood-frame house but was drastically altered over the years.

When you turn from Noble Street to Franklin Street, walk down to Calyer Street and head for the corner of Clifford Place.

This tiny street has a lovely row of five neo-Grec houses from 2 to 10 Clifford Place that falls within the historic district.

These brick homes were built in the early 1880s.

Unless you live in Greenpoint, it’s possible you’ve never heard of Clifford Place.

I hadn’t until I took my walk, and it’s my job to know everything I possibly can about Brooklyn’s historic blocks.

Part of Guernsey Street is also included in the Greenpoint Historic District.

around 1870 and continued to do so into the 1960s.

Shop owners of yesteryear placed street clocks outside their businesses as forms of advertising — they put their names on the clocks. When they moved, they often took the clocks with them, the designation report said.

At the time of the Manhattan Avenue clock’s landmark designation in 1981, the name “Bomelsteins Jewelers” was inscribed on a frame around the two-faced clock. The clock has been renovated since then. The name on the frame is now “Greenpoint.”

When you’re looking for the beautiful clock, don’t be confused by online postings that say it stands outside 753 Manhattan Ave. You can’t

blame the people who wrote these postings. This address appears several times in the designation report about the clock. If you read all the way to the end of the report, it gives Bomelsteins Jewelers’ address, just once, as 735 Manhattan Ave., which makes a lot more sense.

Also, online postings say this is the only street clock in Brooklyn. I imagine that was true when the designation report was written in 1981.

But today, there are other street clocks in our borough.

For instance, there’s one outside Century 21 on 86th Street in Bay Ridge. And another’s in Ditmas Park, outside the Newkirk Plaza shops by the B and Q subway stop. Tick tock tick tock.

TICK TOCK This walk through the historic district ends at the corner of Calyer Street and Manhattan Avenue. But there’s one more important thing to see: the landmarked cast-iron street clock that stands on a pole on the sidewalk outside Greenpoint Vision Care at 733 Manhattan Ave. It was manufactured by the E. Howard Clock Company, which was founded by Edward Howard in 1861, the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report about the street clock says.

This company, which was successful in Massachusetts, had an office in Manhattan. It started making street clocks

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Despite news of the rapidly spreading Coronavirus, hundreds of people came out Sunday to celebrate the Lunar New Year by making Eighth Avenue in Sunset Park a colorful canvas of Chinese culture.

T he Brook ly n Ch inese-American Association hosted the 33rd annual Lunar New Year celebration in Brooklyn’s Chinatown, with performances by schools, after-school programs and senior centers from the area.

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Kids and parents alike reveled in the colorful chaos of party poppers, silly string and sparklers that decorated the avenue while lion dancers made their way down to 60th Street in the parade.

The first year in the Chinese zodiac calendar is named after the rat. The last Year of the Rat was celebrated in 2008.

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Former Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church pastor Kjell Jordheim has died at 97

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Beloved former Bay Ridge Pastor Kjell Jordheim died on Thursday, Jan. 16 at the age of 97.

Jordheim was born in Oslo, Norway in 1922. His studies at the University of Oslo were interrupted during WWII with the German occupation of Norway. The university was closed by the Germans after civil disobedience against the German occupation by student groups intensified. Jordheim’s involvement with the groups leading protests made it dangerous for him to remain in Oslo when the Germans rounded up students to be sent to “reeducation camps” in Germany.

Jordheim evaded arrest by hiding in a church basement for several days before escaping the city. He survived the rest of the war as a night watchman at the post office,

and later was able to finish his from 1967 to 1994. studies in 1948.

Jordheim was also the Two years later, in 1950, he founder in 1969 of Our Savreceived his Master of Sacred iour’s Lutheran Preschool, Theology degree and married which remains today a fixture Anne Elisabeth Falkenstein, in the community and a partwhom he had met through a ner with the Department of local Lutheran student group. Education, serving families of From 1951 to 1958, they trav- all faiths and from all religious eled throughout war-torn Eu- backgrounds. rope aiding in the resettlement Alice Mulligan, director at Our Saviour’s Lutheran of refugees from WW II. Following his ordination in Preschool, recalled how Jord1959, Jordheim and his wife heim interviewed her and first moved to the United States and hired her in 1991. “I have a settled in Wisconsin, where fond memory of the preschool they remained for eight years staff and their children hosting before moving to Brooklyn in a barbecue for him in our gar1967 after becoming a leader in den one evening in late June,” the Scandinavian community. Mulligan told this paper. “All During his 27-year career the children helped carry out at Our Saviour’s Lutheran a large sheet cake and sang Church at 414 80th St. in ‘Happy Birthday’ to him. He Bay Ridge, Jordheim helped was thrilled! He loved the spearhead fundraising efforts children and they loved him.” that allowed the congregation While going through the to finish its church building in school archives recently, Mul1986, after construction had ligan said that she had found stopped in 1929, due to the notes Jordheim wrote at the Great Depression. Jordheim very first parent meeting that was pastor at Our Saviour’s took place a few weeks after

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Pastor Kjell Jordheim speaking to the students at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Preschool graduation in 1974. the school opened.

“He detailed for the families that he wanted the preschool to be non-sectarian and of service to the community, and that the church was ‘not only open to people of Norwegian background’ but to all in the community. I am very grateful that Pastor Jordheim had the vision 50 years ago to create a place for children to learn and grow in our Bay Ridge

community. His desire to welcome all children is truly at the heart of what we believe at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Preschool,” she added.

Jordheim was also a leader in the Norwegian American community in Brooklyn for 27 years, having served as the Chair of the Annual Norwegian Day Parade in Bay Ridge.

He was also the recipient of the St. Olav medal, awarded to

him by King Olav V, the King of Norway, in January, 1976.

Norwegian Day Parade Chair Arlene Rutuelo said that hearing about Jordheim’s passing was devastating. “Although he was 97 years old, this news was like a lightning bolt that shot across the U.S. as well as in Norway,” Rutuelo told this paper.

“He served God, the church, the Norwegian community and the whole Brooklyn community as though everyone was his own family. We would do well as a society to learn from his civic-minded example.

Job well done! His legacy will continue in the lives of those he loved and served. Rest in peace, Pastor Jordheim.”

Jordheim died at the Lenoir Woods Long Term Care Center in Columbia, Missouri, surrounded by family. He was preceded in death by his son, Jon Steffen, and is survived by his wife Anne, daughter Kristin, son Jan, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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