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Development will bring neighboring Vinegar Hill sites to life

By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Heights Press

Two corner sites at a prime Vinegar Hill intersection have served as parking lots for decades. Now, residential development is headed their way.

The intersection is Front and Gold streets in the quirky, picturesque waterfront Brooklyn neighborhood thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adjacent to tourist magnet DUMBO. One of the corner lots, 251 Front St., was just sold by a property owner who withdrew his application for rezoning that would have allowed him to construct a nine-story apartment building. The other corner lot, 265 Front St., belongs to two brothers who have parked their companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trucks on it since the 1980s.

The planned residential developments will significantly change the streetscape in this part of Vinegar Hill. Currently, both sites are surrounded by corrugated-metal fences.

When the planned developments are completed, apartment buildings will stand on three of the intersectionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four corners. The one At left is development site 251 Front Street. Development site 265 Front Street is at right. thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already in existence is 99 Gold St., a former industrial property that developers Harry Kotowitz and Howard Klaus of the HK Organization purchased for $4.62 million in 2003 and converted into a residential building.

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The Brooklyn Heights Promenade won’t be torn down — and residents are relieved If de Blasio had said yes to replacing the Promenade with a six-lane BQE bypass, “it would have been devastating to the neighborhood,” Brooklyn Heights resident Madeleine Campbell told the Heights Press “If there’s a way that the BQE can be repaired without defacing this public landmark, then that’s wonderful. I’m all for it,” Campbell said. “I know it won’t be easy or simple, but if it can be done without destroying this wonderful place, then of course, that’s great.”

She was strolling on the Promenade last Sunday with her brother and his girlfriend, who were visiting from North Carolina. The Promenade is the first place Campbell takes out-of-town friends and family members when they come to see her, she said.

A panel recommended that the Brooklyn Heights Promenade not be replaced with a BQE Brooklyn Heights Press photos by Lore Croghan bypass.

By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Heights Press

Maric, who was at the Promenade’s playground with daughters Eleanor and Alma on Sunday, said the esplanade’s an excellent place to spend family time, and that the scenery is stellar.

“It’s the most beautiful view of Downtown Manhattan,” he said.

Last Friday, a spokesperson for Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed to the Heights Press that the administration embraces the BQE panel’s recommendation to leave the Promenade intact.

The recommendation was contained in a much-anticipated report the panel released last

They’re breathing a collective sigh of relief on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, because it won’t be demolished for BQE repairs.

The mood on the landmarked walkway was upbeat on Sunday thanks to the news that a mayor-appointed panel recommended that the city Department of Transportation not build a temporary highway on the Promenade or in Brooklyn Bridge Park during the BrooklynQueens Expressway fix-up.

“I am happy that it’s going to stay,” Sacha Maric, who has lived in Brooklyn Heights for six years, said of the Promenade last Sunday. “The lack of extra pollution will be a good thing, too.”

The DOT’s original plan for handling BQE repairs called for the Promenade to be replaced with a six-lane BQE bypass for six to eight years. This temporary highway would have brought noise and pollution from Sacha Maric, with daughters Alma (at left) and Eleanor (at right), is 153,000 vehicles per day glad the Promenade won’t be torn down. into Brooklyn Heights.

Toxic particulate matter released by the cars Thursday night. and trucks would have endangered the health of The panel, headed by New York Building Brooklyn Heights residents — and children at- Congress President and CEO Carlo Scissura, also tending school in the neighborhood, Laurie Gar- recommended that a 1.5-mile section of the BQE rett, former senior fellow for global health at the be repaired right away. This portion of the highway Council on Foreign Relations in New York, includes a triple cantilever that underpins the warned in a December 2018 Brooklyn Eagle story. promenade.

Neighborhood residents, public officials and environmentalists cried foul. A public protest was staged in January 2019. The BQE panel was convened in April 2019.

Having the bypass take the place of the Promenade would have been “horrible,” Brooklyn Heights resident Carolyn Zintel said while walking her dog Dally on Sunday.

“There’s been construction everywhere.

And we’re just under too much stress. It’s just too unnerving,” said Zintel.

Zintel was referring to redevelopment projects at Brooklyn Heights properties that the Jehovah’s Witnesses sold over the past several years while in the process of relocating their world headquarters from the neighborhood to Warwick, New York.

“We moved here because it’s a quiet neighborhood — and it hasn’t been very quiet recently,” Zintel said. “And this would just make it worse.”

“There was no reason to even think of doing this.

So I’m glad it’s off the table,” Stella Varveris, a native Brooklynite who now lives in Manhattan, said of DOT’s proposal to tear down the Promenade and replace it with the BQE bypass.

Madeleine Campbell always brings visiting friends and family to the Promenade

Nelson Simon and Stella Varveris savor the Promenade’s scenic views.

Carolyn Zintel and her dog Dally take daily walks on the Promenade.

David Weeks, with his dog Milo, says the proposal to construct a BQE bypass was “so harsh.”

The proposed BQE bypass would have run right alongside these homes overlooking the Promenade.

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During warm-weather months, Campbell takes daily walks on the iconic esplanade.

On Friday, de Blasio announced an enforcement crackdown to keep overweight trucks off the BQE and an immediate start to highway repairs.

“Just the thought of seeing traffic right here at the end of the Promenade was ridiculous,” said Brooklyn Heights resident David Weeks, who was walking his dog Milo on the esplanade last Sunday. “What they were talking about doing was so harsh,” he said.

“With all the changes throughout the city, I feel like this is one of the few neighborhoods that maintains its original flavor,” Weeks said.

The demolition threat has been hanging over the promenade since September 2018, when DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg announced the agency’s proposal to demolish it — and the trees growing on it as well — to construct the six-lane BQE bypass. This temporary highway would have cut across Columbia Heights near Cranberry Street and also would have necessitated the temporary demolition of Harry Chapin Playground.

She was sharing her Sunday afternoon on the Promenade with Nelson Simon, a Prospect Lefferts Gardens resident.

He said he was glad de Blasio appointed the BQE panel and that they recommended the Promenade be preserved — “especially now as we’re losing Brooklyn, we’re losing the flavor of Brooklyn, we’re losing who we are.”

According to the late Henrik Krogius, who was the editor of the Brooklyn Heights Press, the Promenade’s design was finalized in 1943. The first section of the Promenade opened in October 1950 and the remaining portion opened in December 1951.

The BQE and the Promenade were constructed under the leadership of autocratic infrastructure builder Robert Moses. According to Krogius, there were six different possible routes through Brooklyn Heights for the BQE — and the one Moses preferred, but ultimately didn’t choose, ran along Hicks Street, which would have divided the neighborhood.

Krogius’s research about the famous esplanade was compiled into a book, “The Brooklyn Heights Promenade,” which was published in 2011.

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Dorje Ling Buddhist Center stands on the fourth corner of the Front and Gold streets intersection. Its address is 98 Gold St.

St. Ann’s is long gone The larger of the two development sites is 251 Front St. CW Realty, which bought the property for $20 million, plans to construct a five-story, 59unit rental apartment building there, the Real Deal reported in January.

The development firm, which is headed by real estate executive Cheskie Weisz, expects to start construction in June, REBusinessOnline reported.

This timetable suggests Weisz is doing an as-ofright project that conforms to the site’s existing R6B residential zoning.

He wouldn’t have time before June to rezone the property because the legally required Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, process is time consuming.

Weisz didn’t respond by deadline to requests for comment about his planned development.

The site’s seller was 251 Front St. Realty Inc., whose president is Paul Tocci. He dropped his plan for a nine-story development in June 2017 after it drew opposition from local City Councilmember Stephen Levin.

In zoning votes, City Councilmembers customarily defer to the wishes of their colleague who represents the area where the rezoned property is located.

The 251 Front St. site stands beside Greek Revival-style rowhouses that extend from 237 to 249 Front St, within the Vinegar Hill Historic District.

These brick homes were constructed between 1834 and 1855.

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Ann, which was constructed in 1860, was still standing at 251 Front St. when Tocci bought the site from the Catholics in 1992. He paid $535,000 for it, city Finance Department records indicate.

The Gothic-style house of worship had an eye-catching 130-foot tower. The church’s designer was Patrick Charles Keely, whose nickname was the Prince of American Catholic Architects. Tocci tore down the church shortly after making the purchase.

ULURP for 265 Front St. As for 265 Front St., a public hearing about rezoning the property for residential use is set to take place before Community Board 2’s Feb. 19 Land Use Committee meeting.

The site belongs to Michael and Tom Spinard of TS Contracting. Goldenshtein Restaurant Equipment Manufacturing Corp. sold 265 Front St. to Thomas Spinard in 1983, city Finance Department records indicate. His brother Michael Spinard became the property’s coowner in 1992, the records show.

It is currently zoned M1-2, which means light industrial and commercial uses and some community facilities are allowed.

The Spinard brothers are seeking a change to R6A zoning — which permits medium-density residential construction — with a C2-4 commercial overlay allowing first-floor commercial space to be built. They’d also like the property to be designated as a Mandatory Inclusionary Housing area, which would allow additional development density in exchange for including affordable apartments.

The six-story development would have nine residential apartments and about 9,500 square feet of retail space, an Environmental Assessment Statement about the project says. This document has illustrations that show the proposed building’s height as 51.5 feet.

Tom Spinard told the Greenpoint Gazette he and his brother decided to propose a modestly sized building for the 265 Front St. site because of guidance from the City Planning Department.

“They sort of hinted what would work and what wouldn’t work. So if they hinted something, why give them something that’s definitely not going to pass?” he said.

Landmarked rowhouses next door Spinard said he and his brother have hired an architect for their project, but he declined to reveal the person’s name. The architect hasn’t yet drawn up the development’s final design.

“I told the architect when it’s finally all said and done, I want something that matches the neighborhood — you know, that’ll look right, with brick and a nice finish,” Spinard said.

“I don’t think I want something all glass.”

Website New York YIMBY was the first media outlet to report about the planned development at 265 Front St., with a story in late January.

Right next to 265 Front St., there are Greek Revival-style brick homes from 69 to 77 Gold St. They were built between 1841 and 1852.

They are part of the Vinegar Hill Historic District.

A warehouse occupies part of the site at 265 Front St. The prefabricated steel building is a temporary structure constructed around 1985 in which the Spinard brothers parked their company’s trucks, the Environmental Assessment Statement says.

From about 1950 until 1985, a paper company located across the street used 265 Front St. as a parking lot, the assessment statement notes. There are indications that there was housing on the site before 1950.

Dorje Ling Buddhist Center is at 98 Gold St. on a Front Street corner.

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The Brooklyn Bridge is crowded.

A new contest could change that.

By Mary Frost Brooklyn Heights Press

This is the inside of Mike Bloomberg’s new Boerum Hill campaign office.

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See inside Mike Bloomberg’s new Brooklyn campaign office

By Scott Enman Brooklyn Heights Press

Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg opened a campaign office in Boerum Hill on Monday.

The new space at 535 Atlantic Ave. will be open daily and will focus on connecting Bloomberg’s “extensive network of supporters and allies” in the borough, according to his campaign team.

The location will be a hub for organizing, phone banking and several small and large events focusing on issues important to Brooklynites ahead of the April 28 New York Democratic Primary. (A formal kick-off gathering will be held in the coming weeks.)

“Kings County is home to roughly 2,500,000 people, and is the largest Democratic county in the country,” said A.J. Sunmonu, a Brooklyn field organizer and volunteer coordinator for Bloomberg.

“We will be looking to get all of Brooklyn behind Mike Bloomberg in a big way, so stay tuned.”

Brooklyn has long been ground zero for presidential hopefuls.

Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have long touted their connections to the borough and tried to use those ties to gain support in the Empire State during the 2016 presidential race.

Sanders is a Brooklyn native who grew up in Flatbush, attended Brooklyn College and opened a campaign office in Gowanus. In 2017, he spoke at the commencement ceremony for Brooklyn College at Barclays Center and was awarded an honorary degree by the school.

Clinton is a former New York senator and had her campaign headquarters in Brooklyn Heights at One Pierrepont Plaza.

They also both took part in a fiery Democratic presidential primary debate at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren also recently held her first campaign rally in Brooklyn at the historic Kings Theatre.

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Over the last few years, the historic Brooklyn Bridge walkway has become so jammed with pedestrians and cyclists that walking or riding across it has become stressful and even dangerous.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson and a 125year-old design nonprofit launched an international competition Tuesday to redesign the walkway.

Johnson and the Van Alen Institute, which was behind the redesign of Times Square, among other transformations, hope the “Reimagining Brooklyn Bridge” contest will spark “ingenious and provocative” designs.

Using the bridge should be a pleasant experience, not a stressful one, Johnson said in a release Tuesday.

“The longterm vitality of the Brooklyn Bridge is essential to our goal of being an environmentally sensitive, pedestrian friendly city.”

“In New York, we’re a deeply creative and ingenious city,” Van Alen’s executive director Deborah Marton told the Brooklyn Heights Press.

“That’s why we live here…

Our capacity to imagine can exceed our expectations.”

The City Council and the Van Alen Institute want the public to think inclusively about “mobility and access, and accommodate commuters, visitors and vendors.”

The Brooklyn Bridge walkway.

When the Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883, an “innumerable throng” crossed the bridge’s promenade, the historic Brooklyn Eagle reported in its exhaustive coverage of the event. “No more shall the river divide!” was the headline.

Before the coming of automobiles, roughly 425,000 people a day crossed the bridge, Marton said. “Now it’s only 125,000 since it’s been reconfigured.”

The city’s Department of Transportation says it’s willing to have a look at the ideas contestants come up with.

“As we undertake our own engineering inspection this year to help assess the capacity for changes to the promenade, we welcome new and innovative ideas on how to reimagine the Brooklyn Bridge Prome-

Heights Press photo by Lore Croghan

nade to create more space for pedestrians and cyclists,” NYC DOT Chief Operations Officer Margaret Forgione said in a statement.

The general public, students and international competitors are welcome, and interdisciplinary teams are encouraged to enter. The proposed designs should focus on the bridge’s walkway, but can include recommendations for the bridge’s roadway and nearby public spaces, the organizers said. Proposals must be submitted by Sunday, April 5, at 11:59 p.m. ET. Winners will be announced in July.

Anyone can enter the contest. The competition has two categories: “Professionals,” for teams 22 years of age and above, and “Young Adults,” for teams 21 years of age and under. In recognition of their work, finalists in the “Professionals” category will receive $13,000 and finalists in the “Young Adults” category will receive $3,000.

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News From Your Neighborhood EARLY PHOTOS ON DISPLAY AT TRANSIT MUSEUM

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Photos of early 1900s subway construction will be on view at the New York Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn when “Streetscapes & Subways: Photographs by Pierre P. and Granville W. Pullis” opens on Feb. 13. Transit officials, way back when, hired the Pullis brothers to document the building of the subway.

In addition to the construction process itself, the brothers’ large-format prints captured many aspects of the city’s daily life, from children playing to men congregating in taverns to merchants selling their wares. The exhibit will run through Jan. 21, 2021 at the museum, which is underground at 99 Schermerhorn St. 

CHINESE AMERICAN GROUP HOSTS CENSUS KICKOFF

SUNSET PARK — The Brooklyn Chinese-American Association hosted a 2020 Census kickoff forum on Friday, according to the Brooklyn Reporter. The group and several other organizations discussed plans to assist Southwest Brooklyn’s Asian Americans to ensure their full participation in the Census.

As of 2010, Sunset Park and Bensonhurst had the largest Asian population in the city. Assemblymember Peter Abbate (D-Southwest Brooklyn), who offered his assistance, said, “For each family with two children that goes uncounted, you’re talking about losing between $5,000 and $7,000 that goes to health care, that goes to education, after-school programs and so many other services in the city.” 

POOL HALL WHERE CHAMP TRAINED IS BEING SOLD

BAY RIDGE — A Bay Ridge pool hall where a woman who won seven U.S. Open Championships trained is being sold, according to NY1 News. Jean Balukas, the daughter of the family who owned Ovington Billiards, began playing at the age of 4 and won her U.S. Opens when she was still a teenager. After she was inducted into the Billiards Hall of Fame at 26, her family renamed the place Hall of Fame Billiards. After Balukas, now 60, sells the pool hall, she plans to concentrate on golf. 

H.S. STUDENT NEWSPAPERS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT BPL

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Collection at the Brooklyn Public Library’s main branch now has a new resource — a digital database of more than 900 issues of high school newspapers from the borough, according to Brownstoner. The newspapers date from 1853 to 1994, although most of the papers come from 1958-64. The newspapers have colorful names like the Red Owl, the Dutchman, the Liberty Bell and the Lincoln Log. If you want to find out what famous Brooklynites like Janet Yellen, Bobby Fischer, Bernie Sanders and Shirley St. Hill (Chisholm) were up to in high school, you can do a text search. No word on whether the scanned-in collection includes any of the underground student newspapers that were so popular from around 1967-72. 

B’KLYN PHOTOGRAPHER ALLEGEDLY SCAMMED MODELS INTO SEX

BOROUGHWIDE — A Brooklyn photographer, using a stolen shot of Kylie Jenner to boost his credentials, is accused of conning aspiring models into having sex on camera, according to the New York Post. Under the name of Scarlet Lexicon, Brhonson Lexier St. Surin sought women for fine-arts photo shoots, but then he pressured his subjects into having sex with him, his victims charged in a lawsuit. One woman claimed he locked her in a basement after she refused his request. Four alleged victims, whose names are not given in Brooklyn Supreme Court papers, went public to urge other victims to speak out. 

CITY SHUTS DOWN BUILDING SITE IN MARINE PARK AREA

MARINE PARK — City enforcers shut down a development site in Marine Park after the contractor allegedly disregarded previously approved construction blueprints and played fast and loose with safety regulations, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Neighbors have filed 11 official complaints with the Department of Buildings since June 2018, saying that the project at the intersection of Avenue T and Hendrickson Street was exceeding allowed height limits and creating an unapproved elevator shaft. The building under construction was also missing guardrails and netting meant to protect construction workers, the DOB said. The building is surrounded by one-family houses. The developer did not respond to requests for comment, the Brooklyn Paper said. 

B’KLYN-BASED CAFE CLOSES IN LOS ANGELES

GREENPOINT — Five Leaves, a West Coast outpost of a Green-

‘FARE’ WELL: Outgoing New York City Transit President Andy Byford took a last ride on the 51-year-old R-42 subway cars Wednesday morning and was greeted by a cheering crowd when the old cars opened their doors to the public.

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point café by the same name, has thrown in the towel in East Hollywood after only nine months in a historic Art Deco building in La-La Land, according to Los Angeles Eater. Reached for comment, the management of Five Leaves said, “All involved have made the incredibly difficult decision to close. We are certain something great will go into the beautiful space and building.” 

COPS OPEN HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION IN RED HOOK

RED HOOK — Police announced Monday that they’ve opened a homicide investigation into the death of an unidentified man found in a burned-out car in Red Hook on Saturday morning, according to amNewYork. Officers from the 76th Precinct and the FDNY responded to a 911 call about a vehicle fire at the corner of Court and Bay streets just before 2 a.m. on Feb. 8. Shortly before they put out the fire, firefighters saw the lifeless man sitting in the front passenger seat. 

`TRUE’ AFFORDABLE DEVELOPMENT MOVES CLOSER TO CONSTRUCTION

BED-STUY — A proposed 86-unit “true” affordable housing development moved one step closer to construction in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to Patch. Plans for DeKalb Commons moved to Borough President Eric Adams’ office last week for review. The project, being developed by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corp. and St. Nick’s Alliance, will build include seven-story buildings on city-owned property along DeKalb Avenue and a four-story building on Fulton Street. Henry Butler, district manager for Community Board 3, said the DeKalb buildings will be affordable housing to people who earn between 40 and 80 percent of the area’s median income. 

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SIX-STORY APARTMENT BUILDING PLANNED FOR PROSPECT-LEFFERTS

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — Permits have been filed for a six-story apartment building at 408 Lefferts Ave. in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, according to New York YIMBY. The site, near the 2 and 5 trains’ Sterling Avenue station, is currently occupied by several vacant low-rise wooden houses and a large vacant lot. The building is slated to have 56 units, most likely rentals, as well as 27 enclosed parking spaces. Tolub Mansurob is listed as the owner, and Alexander Zhitnik of Z Architecture is listed as the architect of record. 

CITY EYES REVAMPING OF BAY RIDGE INTERSECTION

BAY RIDGE — The city Department of Transportation is developing a traffic safety plan for the busy intersection of Marine and Third avenues in Bay Ridge, but it’s not clear when any changes will be coming because DOT is analyzing five separate proposals, according to the Brooklyn Reporter website.

“We are currently reviewing community input and expect to have an input in March,” a DOT spokesperson said in an email.

Jayne Capetanakis, chair of Board 10’s Traffic and Transportation Committee, said the corner has been a problem intersection for years. 

B’KLYN BRIDGE MARRIOTT CELEBRATION SWEETER THAN HONEY FOR IBRAHIM

JUDGE PUTS HOLD ON RE BROKERS’ FEE BAN

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Sam Ibrahim, who is celebrating 35 years with Marriott Hotels, has been managing and leading the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge’s growth for almost 20 years. Not only famous for extraordinary conferences and events, like the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the hotel is now producing its own beer from the honey gathered at its rooftop hive, which was covered by the Eagle in 2017. 

PERMITS FILED FOR SIX-STORY GREENPOINT BUILDING

BROWNSVILLE — MTA officials plan to build a permanent enclosed passageway between the L train’s Livonia Avenue station and the 3 train’s Junius Street station in Brownsville by 2024, according to amNewYork. The plan to connect the two stations, which are less than 1,000 feet apart, is part of the MTA’s 2000-2024 Capital Plan, which also includes improvements to make both stations ADA-accessible. The MTA set aside $38.4 million for the project and has already spent $400,000 for pre-design activities. 

STATEWIDE — A judge issued a temporary injunction on a New York State Department of State ruling, intended as a clarification of the new Housing Tenant and Protection Act, that banned tenant-paid rental commissions to landlord-retained real estate agents. The Real Estate Board of New York and several other prominent real estate-related organizations had filed an Article 78 response to the ruling. The plaintiffs said the new “guidance,” as it’s known, would subject real estate brokers to loss of income and jobs.  GREENPOINT — Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 17 Eckford St. in Greenpoint, according to New York YIMBY. The closest subway stop is the G train’s Nassau Avenue station. Yisroel Greenfield, under the name 494 Manhattan LLC, is listed as the owner on the application. The building is slated to have 23 residences, most likely rentals, as well as 12 enclosed parking spaces. Jeffrey Kamen is listed as the architect of record. The site, which borders on Manhattan Avenue, is now occupied by a boarded-up one-story commercial building.

MTA TO BUILD PASSAGEWAY BETWEEN TWO B’KLYN STATIONS

FOUR-STORY BUILDING PLANNED IN BUSHWICK

BUSHWICK — New renderings from Tan Architect offer a first look at a proposed apartment building at 831 Hart St. in Bushwick, according to New York YIMBY. Building permit applications filed by the But Development Group are for a four-story, 54-foot building with seven rental units. When finished, the building will comprise 4,988 square feet plus a rear yard that will include active recreational space, New York YIMBY said.

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at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, New Jersey in September 2012; COM it ultimately won the 2013 ark Slope’s Gallery Tony for Best Play.

Players are gearing “Vanya and Sonia and up for an exciting Masha and Spike” was pronew presentation of the play duced by Kirill Polich and directed by Tom Rowan, “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.” It’s set to open on who said that he was drawn Saturday, Feb. 22, and will to the play because he found run for 12 performances it to be hilarious. through March 8.

“Durang has a distinctive The play is the story of comic voice and a unique, middle-aged siblings Van- offbeat sense of life’s little ya and Sonia, who share absurdities,” Rowan told a home in Bucks County, this paper. “But this play has Pennsylvania, where they a warmth and a sweetness bicker and complain about about it that sets it apart the circumstances of their from many of his earlier plays, which have an anlives. Suddenly, their movie grier edge. That’s what I star sister, Masha, swoops in love about it; it’s a mellow, with her new boy toy, Spike.

Old resentments flare late-career piece that takes up, eventually leading to a wise and empathetic look threats to sell the house. at family relationships. It’s Also on the scene are the also a play that focuses in mysterious and hilarious a light-hearted but honest housekeeper Cassandra, way on the realities that who can predict the future, people face in middle age and a lovely young aspiring — something many of us actress named Nina, whose can really relate to,” Rowan added. beauty somewhat worries the imperious Masha.

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Zach Barela plays Spike. would add extra enjoyment if they were.

“I wouldn’t call it a parody,” said Rowan. “Durang uses Chekhov references and parallels for comic effect and to underline his themes of the passing of time and the bittersweet ironies of life. The play’s echoes of Chekhovian themes and characters add depth and humor to the experience if you happen to be familiar

Director Tom Rowan. with his plays; Durang uses them in all kinds of clever ways, some subtle and some obvious. But the characters and the story are funny enough that you will have a great time, whether or not you know Chekhov.”

The ensemble cast includes Dawn Evans, Jon Krupp, Staci Merritt, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Casterline Villar and Zach Barela who plays Spike.

“Spike’s energy reminds me of when you’re watching Olympic gymnastics or ‘American Ninja Warrior’ and that childish part of you watches and thinks “I can do that!” It’s not coming from a place of cockiness or arrogance; it’s coming from that kid in you that needs to get into the bouncy castle to show everybody that you can do the best backflip in the world. It’s a sense of

optimism I think everybody can relate to,” Barela told this paper.

He also said that the most challenging, but also most enjoyable, part of being in the play was when Rowan allowed him input into his character. “Tom has told me to ‘find something to do during this part,’ when we’re working on a scene,” said Rowan. “I have to throw a bunch of ideas into the room and let go of worrying if they’re funny or make sense and allow myself to just play with the behavior.”

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By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

I took 72 photos of Central Park Slope on Saturday.

I would have taken more. But sunset comes too soon in the wintertime, and historic building facades look prettiest to me when the light of day illuminates them.

Brownstones seem to stretch to infinity when you stand on the sidewalk and try to see to the end of these Central Park Slope blocks.

On the corners of the avenues, there are small apartment houses called flats buildings. Some have shops on their ground floors. My favorites have architectural flourishes like turrets or multi-story rectangular window bays placed right on the corners of the buildings.

There are lovely limestone rowhouses. Clusters of Queen Anne homes remind me of picture-book illustrations of Merrie Olde England. (Decades ago, kids had picture books with stuff like that.)

Nearly all the buildings in Central Park Slope were constructed between 1870 and 1900. It may surprise you to hear that the area has the largest collection of non-landmarked buildings in New York City.

A group called the Park Slope Civic Council is trying to win historic-district status for the area, which is termed “the Center Slope.” The group’s Historic District Committee has launched the Protect the Heart of the Slope Campaign to help accomplish this goal.

Peter Bray, who chairs the Historic District Committee, expects it will take several years for the landmarking campaign to bear fruit. You can read his full interview in a story I wrote last week.

The landmarking campaign focuses on the section of the Center Slope that’s just east of Fifth Avenue and includes Union Street to 7th Street. The fourth border is the existing Park Slope Historic District, which for the most part is just east of Seventh Avenue.

The Center Slope just won a Six to Celebrate award from the Historic Districts Council, which it gives annually to New York City neighborhoods that merit historic-preservation attention.

Because of the award, the preservation advocacy organization will spend the next year assisting the Park Slope Civic Council in its landmarking efforts.

‘Truly the heart of Park Slope’ I want to mention a couple especially Instagram-worthy Center Slope spots before we hear from the head of the Historic Districts Council about why the neighborhood should be landmarked.

There are two eye-catching flats buildings with multi-story rectangular window bays on either side of Garfield Place at the intersection of Seventh Avenue.

Housewares store and gallery Artesana Home occupies the corner retail space at 154 Seventh Ave. Coffee shop Hungry Ghost is in the corner storefront at 156 Seventh Ave. Down the street, there’s a cluster of Queen Anne-style residences on Garfield Place between Fifth and Sixth avenues that architecture firm Langston and Dahlander designed. I know who the architecture firm was thanks to a summary of the neighborhood’s architectural highlights that the Park Slope Civic Council wrote.

Don’t these Garfield Place brownstone facades look like they’re made of Lincoln logs?

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Swedish-born Magnus Dahlander was a prolific designer of Brooklyn housing between 1888 and 1896. Sometimes he worked with architect Frederick B. Langston, and sometimes with Axel Hedman.

The Center Slope is eminently worthy of historic-district designation, Historic Districts Council Executive Director Simeon Bankoff told me.

“The Center Slope is truly the heart of Park Slope. It’s the area which most people envision when they think of Park Slope and, because of transit and the strong commercial presence, the part which Brooklynites, not just Slopers, are most familiar with,” Bankoff said.

“The blocks off the avenues are remarkably intact with architecture to equal the parts of the neighborhood which have been protected by landmark status for almost 50 years,” he added.

Remember Mayor Schieren?

Let me interrupt to point out especially eye-pleasing residential buildings on the corners of 1st Street and Sixth Avenue. The one at 287 Sixth Ave. has a storefront where Four Seasons Laundromat and Cleaners is located.

At 170 Seventh Ave., on the corner of 1st Street, there’s an eyecatching flats building with a multi-story rectangular window bay.

Bareburger occupies the retail space in this property.

The red-brick rowhouse at 472 2nd St. has murals signed by artist Jenna Morello on its facade.

St. Matthews English Lutheran Church is located on one of 2nd Street’s Sixth Avenue corners.

The Romanesque Revival house of worship’s cornerstone was laid in 1895, the New York Times reported (there’s a story about it in the paper’s online archives). Charles Schieren, who was Brooklyn’s mayor at that time, spoke at the cornerstone-laying service.

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These painted window bays can be found on Sixth Avenue between 6th and 7th streets.

Continued from page 12 INB The brownstones on 3rd Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues look especially beautiful when winter sunlight warms their facades. Limestone homes on 3rd Street between Sixth and Seventh avenues have stained-glass windows above their front doors.

Park Slope already has three landmarked areas. The Park Slope Civic Council played leading roles in winning historic-district designation for them.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the original Park Slope Historic District in 1973. It includes the blocks of the neighborhood that are closest to Prospect Park.

The LPC designated the Park Slope Historic District Extension, which is in South Slope, in 2012. And in 2016, the preservation agency designated Park Slope Historic District Extension II, which includes part of northern Park Slope.

‘Thriving under landmarks regulations’ “Obviously, Park Slope has only blossomed and thrived under landmarks regulations — to say otherwise would be absurd,” Bankoff told me.

“Park Slope, as a community, has transformed several times since its original development in terms of who and how many people lived in and used these buildings,” he said.

“What hasn’t substantially changed in all this time have been the buildings themselves, which have served numerous generations of families and residents.”

What historic-district designation could do for the Center Slope would be to “help guide future investment to enhance the area, not damage it,” Bankoff said.

He pointed to the revitalization of the Pavilion, a movie theater constructed around 1928, as an example of appropriate investment in landmarked Park Slope.

Hidrock Realty initially planned a condo conversion of the neo-Renaissance theater at 188 Prospect Park West that included a rooftop addition and the construction of a new building alongside it. After community opposition, the developer sold the Park Slope Historic District Extension property to an LLC with Nitehawk Cinema founder Matthew Viragh as a manager for $28 million, city Finance Department records indicate.

With the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s approval, Viragh renovated and remodeled the historic property and turned it into

INBrooklyn photo by Lore Croghan

Nitehawk Prospect Park. The popular venue offers in-theater food and beverage service, including alcoholic drinks.

Eye-catching terra cotta Now back to the subject of the Center Slope. On the 4th Street block between Sixth and Seventh avenues, brick rowhouses have bands of decorative terra cotta on their facades and barrel-shaped window bays clad in stone.

There are terra cotta decorations marked with the date 1886 on brick rowhouses on the 5th Street block between Fifth and Sixth avenues. I assume that was the year they were constructed.

Historic-district designation could help the Center Slope retain its special sense of place, Bankoff explained.

“The issues facing Park Slope as a community — commercial displacement, rising rents, lessening economic and ethnic diversity — will not be exacerbated by additional landmark designation, nor, unfortunately, will they be cured by it,” he said.

“What landmarking these incredibly meritorious blocks will accomplish will be to help ensure that the area’s fantastic architecture and streetscapes remain for future generations to discover and enjoy.”

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According to materials prepared in 2015 for the National Register of Historic Places, Adolph F. Leicht was the architect of this Gothic Revival-style house of worship, which is made of rough-faced granite blocks. Its construction was completed in 1901.

There’s an especially beautiful row of homes that starts at 448 6th St. and extends to 432 6th St. It’s got grand arched windows, stone stoops and a green-painted turret.

As long as the Center Slope isn’t landmarked, homebuyers can alter the neighborhood’s historic fabric in any way they wish, as long as they follow New York City Construction Codes.

Historically intact Center Slope blocks won’t stay that way indefinitely without the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s guidance, Bankoff pointed out.

“No one buys a $2 million historic rowhouse to just move in as-is; people spending that kind of money have their own ideas. It can be something as innocuous as putting in a barbeque and some landscaping to something as ambitious as building a new kitchen wing and raising the roof to convert the attic into usable rooms,” Bankoff said.

“Landmarks Preservation Commission oversight is critical to ensure that those kinds of alterations are designed to be in keeping with the existing historic building,” he added. “It’s worked across historic neighborhoods in Manhattan facing the same challenges — it can work in Park Slope.”

We all scream for ice cream Homes on 7th Street are also tremendously beautiful. A cluster of rowhouses on the block between Fifth and Sixth avenues is painted in varying ice cream colors — pistachio, vanilla, chocolate, coffee and a hue that reminds me of peach.

On the 7th Street block between Sixth and Seventh avenues, there are snowdrops growing in one house’s front garden. It was my first sighting this year of these flowers, which customarily bloom in the wintertime.

I asked the Landmarks Preservation Commission for comment about the Park Slope Civic Council’s campaign to win historic-district designation for the Center Slope. I included the agency’s response in the story I wrote last week. Here it is again: “Over the years, LPC has designated three historic districts in Park Slope resulting in the protection of 2,855 buildings and sites,” the agency spokesperson said. “We continue to study the surrounding areas in the context of our priorities in all five boroughs.”

Love this ecclesiastic architecture I can’t end this story without mentioning stunningly beautiful All Saints Episcopal Church at the corner of 7th Street and Seventh Avenue.

The cornerstone of this yellow brick and terracotta Romanesque-Moorish house of worship was laid in 1892, the church’s website says.

I should also mention that two of the Historic Districts Council’s 2020 Six to Celebrate neighborhoods are located in Brooklyn.

The other award-winning Brooklyn area is the East 25th Street block between Avenue D and Clarendon Road in East Flatbush. It is lined with Neo-Renaissance limestone and brownstone rowhouses. The 300 East 25th Street Block Association, whose president is Julia Charles, is campaigning to win historic-district status for the area.

I met her in November and wrote a story about her group’s landmarking efforts.

“The amount of development in our community is outrageous,” she told me then.

“Quite frankly, we’re feeling encroached upon.”

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‘Father of Blues’ visits school BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE FEB. 11, 1954

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The South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, who was jailed in 1962 for conspiring to overthrow the state, received a hero’s welcome as he toured the globe following his release. He was given

a ticker-tape parade in New York City, paid a visit to Boys and Girls High School in Brooklyn and spoke at a rally in Yankee Stadium. In 2014, the year after his death, a plaque was dedicated to him in the Stadium’s Monument Park.

In St. Clair McKelway Junior High School, 2163 Dean St., the excited whispering and the talk between periods was almost exclusively of a blind man, age 80, who had overnight become the school’s No. 1 hero: W.C. Handy, “Father of the Blues.”

For an hour yesterday, as a high point in the Brooklyn celebration of Negro History Week, Mr. Handy was an honored visitor among the 12and 13-year-olds on Dean St. He signed autographs for them, he heard the school glee club open a Handy music festival with the singing of his “Afro-American Hymn,” and clarinetist Eugene Friedman, 13, play his “I See Though My Eyes Are Closed.” Then, after Murray Millander, 13, played “St. Louis Blues” on his trombone, Mr. Handy took over.

He talked to the youngsters — and they listened in dead silence — how he learned about music from the singing birds and from the chanting of the roustabouts on the levees and the steamboats.

He sang his own songs,

W.C. Handy, “Father of the Blues,” nods approval and chuckles as eighth-grade pupil Donell Callaway, 13, wails blues on his trumpet in Brooklyn on Feb. 10, 1954.

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“Memphis Blues” and others, and he raised his trumpet and played his famed “St. Louis Blues” … “I hate to see — that

evenin’ — sun — go — down.”

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thing like this trumpet. If you don’t put anything in it, you don’t get anything out. And that’s the truth.”

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HILKE, Irene L. — Was born in Brooklyn on July 25, 1924, and left us peacefully at the age of 95 on February 5. Her maiden name was Irene Louise Cordes. She was preceded in death by her husband Martin Frances Hilke. Irene was a loving mother to her son Glenn Hilke and daughter Janice Malek. She was an amazing mother-in-law to Dr. Samir Malek and Heidi Coleman. She was a remarkable grandmother to Glenn’s three children — Ariel Dab-Hilke, Chelsea Dab-Hilke and Julian Coleman Hilke — and to Janice’s children — Samira Malek Houk and her husband Ian Houk, Matthew Malek and Eric Malek. She is now reunited with her sisters Evelyn Dubay and Madeline Tierney. She has one nephew, Evelyn’s son Dr. Gregory Dubay and great-grand nephew Van Dubay. When Irene was just five years old, her mother sadly passed away, leaving her to live with her grandmother.

She had two loving sisters, Evelyn and Madeline, and the three remained extremely close until they preceded her in death. She married Martin Hilke and they had two children, Glenn and Janice. Her fondest memories as a family were the summer vacations at Sunny Hill Farm in the Catskills. During those young years raising her children, she developed meaningful relationships with lifelong friends that truly enriched her life with wonderful moments.

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years of music and dancing at the American Legion Hall in their neighborhood, Windsor Terrace, until his sudden passing in 1986. Irene worked at the Tablet newspaper as a receptionist in Brooklyn until the age of 65. As she began a new chapter of her life, she met Louise, a co-worker also recently widowed. They became lifetime friends and travel companions, visiting many states, Europe and the Caribbean. One of her most cherished trips was to Egypt with her sister Evelyn.

She also enjoyed many trips to Las Vegas and monthly visits to Atlantic City and Yonkers until she was 93. Most notably, Irene was an amazing grandmother to six grandchildren that she loved dearly. She traveled numerous years, taking the bus to Montreal to be with three of her grandchildren living there.

She also spent many family weekends with her three other grandchildren who lived in Staten Island. Besides her love of travel, she enjoyed going to the theater and her Friday night card group of 40 years, often playing past midnight, and she was a truly dedicated Yankees fan. Living in Bay Ridge, she spent many a day with her friend Ruby taking their granddaughters to the park, or on weekly lunch dates and strolling Fifth Avenue. At the age of 93, she moved to an independent living in Farmington, Connecticut and made some wonderful new friendships, but Irene always said her heart remained in Brooklyn, and her family is sure her spirit is all with them, now happy to be back in Bay Ridge. A Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Monday, Feb. 10 at Our Lady of Angels Church in Bay Ridge.

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was born March 8, 1931 in Clarinbridge, County Galway, Ireland. He is the son of the late Thomas and the late Mary (Bane) O’Dea. Beloved husband to Mary (Collins) O’Dea. Cherished father to Ann O’Dea, Mary O’Dea, Patrick O’Dea (Patricia), Thomas O’Dea, John O’Dea (Pauline, Kristine) and Colleen O’Dea Morris (Liam).

Dear brother to Louis, Mary, Cecilia, Eileen and to those that have passed before him, Fr. Egbert, Frank, Martin and Furzy.

Adored grandfather to Patrick, John, Thomas, Brian, Katie, Margaret, Marykate, Rebecca, James, Anna, Jack, Collin and Sophia. All arrangements handled by Marine Park Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial St. Columba Roman Catholic Church. Committal Calverton National Cemetery.

Cristiano. Beloved husband to Elsa (Ruscio) Cristiano. Cherished father to Gina Rita and Tony Cristiano. Dear brother to Salvatore Cristiano and Maria Gabriele. Adored grandfather to Sofia. All arrangements handled by Marine Park Funeral Home. Mass of Christian Burial Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church. Committal St. Charles Cemetery.

CR ISTIANO, Nunzio A. — Age 58, of Brooklyn, passed away Saturday, Jan. 25. Nunzio Cristiano was born March 14, 1961 in Italy. He is the son of the late Antonino and the late Rosaria (Badalanenti)

BR EWINGTON, Elena — 1951 – 2020. Mass of Christian burial St. Dominic R.C. Church. Burial Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens.

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New Office Building Opens in Boro Park UTRECHT 48 OFFERS MODERN STATE OF THE ART OFFICES A new 3-story luxury office building for community minded organizations is set to open in the heart of Boro Park.

Located on New Utrecht Avenue and 48th Street, long-time residents of the area might remember it as the former site of G & Sons, an iconic general store in the neighborhood.

The building known as Utrecht 48, was developed by NorthEnd Equities, a respected multi-service real estate management and development firm.

Utrecht 48 is ideal for such community services as medical, not-for-profit organizations or other community-based groups. Located in one of the most centrally located blocks in the thriving Boro Park community, it is easily accessible by subway and several bus lines.

Its close proximity to such institutions as Maimonides Medical Center and other notable medical facilities in the area is what makes it so convenient for the community service

industry. Located in the center of one of the world’s most dynamic Jewish communities, it is also within close proximity of many other ethnic neighboring communities.

New Utrecht Avenue is an extremely historic street. It was one of the six towns established by the Dutch and later combined by the British to form Kings County, New York. During the Revolutionary War the British made New Utrecht their base of operations for the Battle of Long Island, the first large-scale British invasion of the colonies. New Utrecht was the last of six towns established by the Dutch in what is today Brooklyn, NY. In 1652, Cornelius Van Werckhoven of Utrecht, Holland, a principal investor in the Dutch West India company, began purchasing land in Brooklyn from the Canarsie and Nyack Indians.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT MR. TIM KING AT 718-687-4210

NEW LUXURY OFFICE BUILDING IN THE CENTER OF BORO PARK • • • •

LUXURIOUS SPACE BUILT TO SUIT 2 FLOORS OF 17,000 SQUARE FEET EACH (DIVIDED AS NEEDED) 2 MODERN ELEVATORS NEAR ALL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 718.687.4210 4822 NEW UTRECHT AVENUE | TIM.KING@SVN.COM

IDEAL FOR PROFESSIONAL AGENCIES OR ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING SERVICES IN BORO PARK AND NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES SVN | CPEX REAL ESTATE

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