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Cobble Hill’s ‘Fix the Ditch’ plan comes roaring back to life:

BQE rehab ‘bigger than just the Promenade’

By Mary Frost Brooklyn Heights Press

Fixing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway is much bigger than just rebuilding the triple cantilever holding up the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, Cobble Hill residents said at a town hall last week.

Now is the time to act to deck over the notorious BQE trench that has divided the neighborhood for more than 60 years, speakers at the BQE Future Vision event said. The event was organized by the Cobble Hill Association. “We can now seize the moment, we can’t let it pass,� New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer told the crowd. “We have to act now and be decisive.�

Last week the Brooklyn Heights Association celebrated the demise of the city’s controversial plan that would have run a temporary six-lane BQE bypass over the beloved Promenade.

But that was just the first step, according to a coalition of about a dozen neighborhood organizations.

The Coalition for the BQE Transformation (bqet.nyc) wants to transform the entire BQE corridor into “an urban highway for the next century.�

For Cobble Hill, this means reviving an 18year-old idea — dubbed “Fix the Ditch� — to build a deck over the BQE trench. The trench was constructed by Robert Moses in the 1950s, and it split Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens off from what is now called the Columbia Street Waterfront District. Since then, the below-grade highway has subjected these neighborhoods to noise pollution and emissions from 14,000 trucks a day. “I think there’s momentum now,� Cobble Hill Association President Amy Breedlove told the crowd at P.S. 29. “We are united in the fight for a plan to combat air quality, create green space and reduce the number of vehicles on surface streets.

Now we have to get a winning plan on the table.�

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From left: Cobble Hill Association President Amy Breedlove, Adam Forman, chief policy and data oďŹƒcer for the NYC Comptroller’s OďŹƒce, and state Sen. Brian Kavanagh discuss a plan to deck over the BQE trench.

Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Caroline Ourso

BQE: 110-year -old BHA hails a new-century victory GROUP PROCLAIMS: PROMENADE IS SAVED! The mood at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual meeting last Wednesday night was upbeat as President Martha Bakos Dietz conďŹ rmed that an existential threat faced by the neighborhood — a temporary six­lane highway over the Promenade — is no longer being considered by New York City. LEFT: Brooklyn Heights Association members are seen inside the St. Francis College auditorium at their annual meeting at St. Francis College last Wednesday.

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Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Paul Frangipane

The old Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn Heights now has 11 lush gardens

By Lore Croghan It’s a blooming miracle.

At the fortress-like compound that was the world headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses for almost half a century, flowering trees will burst forth with blossoms when spring arrives.

Purple perennials will show their true colors.

Passersby will be able to see Mother Nature put on a show at the formerly closed-off complex.

This is the work of landscape architecture firm Terrain-NYC, which tore down an eightfoot wall that hid the Brooklyn Heights property from residents and tourists strolling down the street to nearby Brooklyn Bridge Park.

“When we first walked the site, the entire campus was essentially either walled or gated off from the street and the neighborhood,” TerrainNYC Founding Principal Steven Tupu told the Brooklyn Heights Press in an interview with him and Terrain-NYC Senior Landscape Architect Maggie Condon. “The campus had been locked up and cordoned off and disconnected from the neighborhood for so long,” Tupu said.

The landscape designers created 11 garden spaces, some of them multi-level, with lush plantings, custom-designed planters and custom, built-in timber seating.The job was part of a major makeover of the Watchtower’s former home base into an office and retail complex called Panorama.

Terrain-NYC’s goal was “connecting these buildings, for the first time in 50 years, to their streets, to their neighborhood and to the dynamic neighborhood that’s changed around them over the last 50 years,” Tupu said.

Property owner Columbia Heights Associates, which is a joint venture of CIM Group and LIVWRK Holdings, just released photos of Terrain-NYC’s newly created gardens as it carries out a leasing campaign for the property. Tupu and a colleague, Joe Norman, took the pictures. Panorama has more than 635,000 square feet of office space, more than 35,000 square feet of retail space and more than 15,000 square feet of hospitality space.

Photo courtesy of Steven Tupu/Terrain­NYC

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This dramatic picture shows the staircase and grove behind Panorama’s 58 Columbia Heights, below Furman Street to the right.

Inspired by the Jardin des Tuileries The most dramatic photo Panorama’s owner released depicts a staircase that extends from Columbia Heights all the way down to Furman Street, just outside 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge Park. The photo also shows

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decks where people can stand and look at a curved brick wall that resembles a preserved ruin with trees growing beside it. And there’s a grove of trees with artfully placed lighting.

Along the staircase, there are platforms for people to step aside and look at the landscape.

The space is located behind 58 Columbia Heights, a building at the top of a steep hill.

Panorama’s buildings are lined up on either side of the street.

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Attendees at the BQE Future Vision town hall organized by the Cobble Hill Association.

Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Caroline Ourso

Cobble Hill’s ‘Fix the Ditch’ Continued from PAGE 1

Stringer was the first to offer an alternate BQE plan that included a green deck over the trench.

Adam Forman, chief policy and data officer for the NYC Comptroller’s Office showed the crowd examples of other cities — Dallas, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seoul —where highways had been capped to create acres of park. Capping the Cheonggyecheon Freeway in Seoul resulted in a 5- to 6-degree temperature drop in the surrounding area, he said.

Another proposal, created by DUMBO’s Bjarke Ingels Group (and a similar plan designed by Heights resident Mark Baker) could also be extended to cap the trench, the designers said.

The BQE corridor is 17.4 miles long, but “it’s important to break it into chunks you can build on,” Jeremy Alain Siegel from BIG said. The first chunk needing attention “is the Brooklyn Heights/DUMBO/Cobble Hill section,” but there is potential for a continuous linear park running from DUMBO to Red Hook.

Another approach, one of two recommended by the New York City Council, would replace a section of the BQE with a threemile long tunnel from the Gowanus Canal to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The BQE from Cobble Hill to Clinton Hill could be converted into a surface street and new open space.

Part Two: Strategy and new legislation Now what’s needed is to create “an intergovernmental entity” with the authority over the BQE rehabilitation, Stringer said. “We need a government authority that is a partnership between the state and the city.

“How do we get from A to D? Once the idea phase is done, we have to think politically,” he said. “Part two is strategy. That will involve [State] Sen. Brian Kavanagh and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon in Albany.”

“It’s clear that nothing very good will come of this unless we find a way for engagement and cooperation across all levels of government,” Kavanagh said. “A project of this scale will require some coordinating entity.” And new legislation will be required to create that entity, he said.

“How to make this happen?” Simon asked. “This is going to take some time; strategy doesn’t happen overnight … We have to research governance models; we’re doing due diligence.”

Dan Wiley, district director for U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, said that back in 2010 the Congresswoman secured $300,000 in federal funds to study the idea of capping the trench. The city’s Economic Development Corp kicked off a BQE Enhancement Study, carried out by Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners.

Design workshops held with the Cobble Hill Association (under then-President Roy Sloane) and the EDC produced three different options. But the project was never funded and the state walked away from it.

In the short term, a 1.5-mile stretch of the BQE is in immediate need of repairs to keep it usable while a master plan is being created. That plan needs to include neighborhoods all along the corridor.

At a recent City Council hearing, Councilmember Carlos Menchaca said that Red Hook and Sunset Park must also be included in the discussion. “We have to look at the whole corridor, not just Brooklyn Heights,” he said.

“At the end of the day we have to fix the BQE short term, and we have to reinvigorate the thoroughfare with a boroughwide approach and multiple levels of government,” Wiley said.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer's proposal calls for covering the Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens BQE trench with an el­ evated park. The rendering above is one of several possible designs.

Rendering via Scott Stringer’s Office “There are several things I learned since then,” McCarthy said. “The idea was too small, and we hadn’t factored in the cantilever under the Brooklyn Heights Promenade and the possibility that it might be deteriorating.”

However, the recent defeat of the city’s unloved Promenade Highway proposal is in itself quite an accomplishment, McCarthy said.

“It’s a great first step. Getting rid of bad ideas is really important.”

‘A great first step’ Longtime Brooklyn resident Joseph McCarthy was the man who first came up with the tag line “Fix the Ditch” back in 2002.

“After years of workshops and design reviews, the city resoundingly came back with, ‘No, it’s not going to work,’” McCarthy told the Brooklyn Heights Press last Tuesday.

The BQE trench has divided neighborhoods for more than 60 years, and Cobble Hill residents hope to cap it over as part of a multi­billion Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Lore Croghan dollar BQE rehabilitation plan.

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BQE: 110-year -old BHA hails a new-century victory

By Mary Frost

Brooklyn Heights Press

The mood at the Brooklyn Heights Association’s annual meeting Wednesday night was upbeat as President Martha Bakos Dietz confirmed that an existential threat faced by the neighborhood — a temporary six-lane highway over the Promenade — is no longer being considered by New York City.

“The Promenade Highway is dead. We won that battle,” Dietz said to loud applause.

“You can take down your ‘Highway to Hell’ posters. We

have some new posters and some new buttons.”

Members of the association have spent a large chunk of the past year fighting the city’s preferred BQE rehab plan, which would have brought the noise and pollution of 153,000 vehicles a day to the neighborhood’s street level. Their work won the support of officials and the attention of the mayor, Dietz said.

“And the mayor’s expert panel heard us too, and stated in its report that the Promenade Highway should be taken off the table,” she said.

Now, many of the area’s community groups — including BHA, A Better Way and the Cobble Hill Association — are advocating for transforming the entire BQE corridor into “an urban highway for the next century,” Dietz said. To do so, they have formed the Coalition for the BQE Transformation, or BQET.NYC. The coalition’s new posters show a stylized map of the BQE running its entire length through Brooklyn and Queens, atop a backdrop of multi-colored icons representing people of every background.

As its next step, BHA is advocating for an intergovernmental entity with the authority to see the BQE rehabilitation through to its completion, Dietz said.

In the short term, however, the BQE is in immediate need of repairs to keep it usable while a master plan is being created. BHA has requested that a task force be created to ensure community input for the immediate patch-up plan.

Dietz herself received an ovation and huge bouquet of flowers from the board for her leadership of the organization through an extended three-year term.

“We would not be where we are today without Martha’s stewardship, her firm guidance, her clear-eyed focus, her tireless dedication, and let’s not forget, her ruthless editing. And her very dry humor when a moment of levity was needed,” BHA First VP Erika Belsey Worth said.

Community Service Awards

The Brooklyn Heights Promenade Gardens mapping volunteers.

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Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Lore Croghan

This year’s BHA Community Service Awards went to an individual and a group who have made “significant contributions to the neighborhood’s quality of life and enhanced its

spirit of community.” The awards were presented with humor and aplomb, as always,

by Thirteen WNET’s announcer Tom Stewart.

Architect and urban planner Marc Wouters was honored for working with BHA to develop the first alternative to DOT’s Promenade Highway proposal. His Parallel Bypass plan envisioned a temporary structure away from the Promenade, making repair easier and avoiding six lanes of vehicles rushing by people’s homes. Wouters, who is continuing to refine his plan, opened the city’s eyes to creative possibilities and helped convince the mayor’s

expert panel to reject the “Promenade Highway” concept.

Promenade Gardens Mapping Project volunteers were honored for their work mapping the location of every major planting in the Promenade Garden. The data will be put into a software mapping program to serve as a permanent record.

“The strong likelihood that there may be damage to the gardens during the BQE repair and reconstruction has made this work especially timely and meaningful,” Stewart said.

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News From Your Neighborhood GAGE & TOLLNER PREPARES TO REOPEN

FULTON MALL — The famed 125-year-old Brooklyn institution Gage & Tollner at 372 Fulton St. now has an official reopening date: Sunday, March 15, according to New York magazine’s “Grub Street.” Red Hook restaurateur St. John Frizell, along with husband-and-wife team Ben Schneider and Sohui Kim, will be stewarding this historic steakhouse into 2020 with classic favorites such as steak and scalloped potatoes, clams casino, pork pot pie and she-crab soup.

Among the investors were Elizabeth Warren’s chief strategist and his wife. The rebirth of Gage & Tollner has been extensively covered in the Eagle. 

ABC-TV SPOTLIGHTS SUNSET PARK RESTAURANT

SUNSET PARK — ABC-TV’s “Neighborhood Eats” last week spotlighted Yafa Café, a Yemeni establishment at 4415 Fourth Ave. in Sunset Park. Co-owners Ali Suliman and Hakim Sulaimani were both born in Yemen but grew up in Sunset Park. The café proudly serves Yemeni coffee, with club soda as a chaser. “Yemen is one of the original ancestors of coffee, so it’s great to bring that back into the light,” Sulaimani told ABC-TV. The menu includes a rice bowl with basmati rice, stewed vegetables and chicken; fried chicken with Yemeni hawaij spice; sliced leg of lamb with rosemary, garlic and Yemeni seasoning; and a Ramadan oat stew. 

BAY RIDGE STREET TO BE NAMED AFTER ORTHODOX PASTOR

BAY RIDGE — This coming June, a street in Bay Ridge will be named after the late Very Rev. William Sutfin Schneirla, who served as pastor of St. Mary’s Antiochan Orthodox Church at 81st Street and Ridge Boulevard from 1951 until 2002.

Schneirla, who was known to his congregation simply as Father Paul, was ordained to the priesthood in 1942, according to the Brooklyn Reporter website. Schneirla was born in Alaska in 1916 and served as a priest of the Antiochan Archdiocese for 71 years. Because he was an Orthodox, not a Roman Catholic, priest, he married in 1942 and had several children, the Brooklyn Reporter said. He died in September 2014 at the age of 98. 

BROOKLYN FAMILY HAS TWO LEAP YEAR BABIES

BOROUGHWIDE — While the odds are one in two million, one Brooklyn family now has two “leap year babies” after the birth of their second child. The Demchak family welcomed their new daughter Scout on Feb. 29, also known as Leap Day, according to NBC4. Scout’s older brother, Omri, was also born on Feb. 29. In addition to the two children’s birthdays on Feb. 29, mom Lindsay was born on Feb. 26 and grandmother Irene was born on Feb. 28. The Demchak parents plan to split the birthdays, celebrating Omri on Feb. 29 and Scout on March 1, NBC4 said. 

DRIVERS OWING FINES HAVE CARS IMPOUNDED

BOROUGHWIDE — At least 160 scofflaw drivers had their vehicles towed in Brooklyn during a crackdown on Friday, according to the New York Post. The vehicles, including many Taxi and Limousine-licensed cars and dollar vans, were brought to Grand Army Plaza before being taken to a pound.

Together, the drivers owed millions of dollars, according to the city Sheriff’s Office. Owners of individual vehicles owed at least $2,500 in parking and moving violations, the Post said. More than 100 deputies and workers with scanning devices swept the borough’s streets on Friday morning. 

N.C. INDIE ROCK BAND COMING TO WILLIAMSBURG

NORTH CAROLINA — The North Carolina-based indie rock band Archers of Loaf, which broke up on 1998 but produced its first CD since then this year, plans to visit Brooklyn to promote the CD, “Raleigh Days.” On June 4, the band will perform at the Music Hall of Williamsburg, according to the Brooklyn Vegan website. The group also plans to perform at the Bowery Ballroom two days later. 

FROM DUSK ‘TIL DAWN, THIEVES TARGET ATMs

WILLIAMSBURG — The NYPD is looking for two ATM thieves who were able to steal an ATM one morning in early Feb-

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Photo courtesy of BC Athletics ruary, after unsuccessfully trying to make off with another, according to Fox 5 local news. The men first tried stealing an ATM from a grocery store at 127 Grand St. in Williamsburg around 5 a.m. on Feb. 3 but were unable to do so and fled. About an hour later, they went to the Dusk ’til Dawn Bar at 193 Marcus Garvey Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant, stole an ATM, put it into a vehicle and drove off, according to police. The NYPD recently released video footage from Dusk ’til Dawn showing the crime taking place. 

Feb. 11 incident, which took place at 4 p.m. on the corner of Kings Highway and East 41st Street. Police say the cab driver drove the suspect from the intersection of Flatbush and Church avenues to the location in question. When the driver pulled up, the suspect allegedly got out of the vehicle, took out a firearm and demanded his property. Authorities said the driver ignored the request and drove away. Police described the would-be robber as a Black man between 20 and 30 years of age who wore dark clothes. 

PARK SLOPE — An unusual brownstone in Park Slope was apparently built as an apartment building, not a townhouse, according to Brownstoner. Even so, these apartments appear to be in near-perfect condition. The building at 569 10th St. is a three-story structure with three floor-through apartments inside. When the building was constructed in 1884-85, its owner marketed the “elegant flats” to rent at $20 to $25 per month, Brownstoner said. Among the most unusual features are the two air shafts built into the structure, wrapped around by tall windows. The building was originally a brownstone, but it was re-surfaced with Permastone sometime in the ‘50s or ’60s. 

WILLIAMSBURG — An affordable housing lottery has opened for seven units in a new building at 885 Grand St. at the corner of Olive Street in Williamsburg. The building is called “The Milo,” apparently after the developer, Alphonse Milo, according to Brownstoner. There are three affordable one-bedroom units and four affordable two-bedroom units.

Rents start at $1,060 and top out at $1,193. The lottery is set at an area median income range of 60 percent for all seven units, Brownstoner said. A one-story building housing an auto repair shop previously stood on the property. 

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BOOKSELLER OPENS AT CITY POINT

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Bookseller McNally Jackson’s second Brooklyn store opened on Friday at the City Point development, and the store was crowded on Saturday morning, according to Brownstoner. Strategically placed shelves situate books everywhere in the store, and more books can be found in the stacks upstairs. The ground floor also contains a large section dedicated to stationery items.

The store’s popular Williamsburg location opened in 2018, Brownstoner said. The number of bookstores in the greater Downtown area is growing — the Center for Fiction opened in Fort Greene in 2019, Greenlight Books opened a new location in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Books are Magic opened in Cobble Hill in 2017, among others. 

COPS SEEK MAN WHO TRIED TO ROB LIVERY CAB

FLATLANDS — Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a thief who tried to rob a livery cab driver at an intersection in Flatlands last month, according to amNewYork. On Sunday, the NYPD released video footage of a suspect in the

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ROSE HAILS AFGHANISTAN PEACE TREATY

BAY RIDGE — U.S. Rep. Max Rose (D-Southwest Brooklyn-Staten Island), an Army combat veteran who served in the war in Afghanistan, hailed the peace deal reached in that country on Saturday. “After a generation of warfare and bloodshed, the time to end the war in Afghanistan is now. I applaud the president for his commitment to reaching this historic agreement and bringing our troops home,” he said. 

FRONTUS CELEBRATES CONEY’S AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY

CONEY ISLAND — Assemblymember Mathylde Frontus (D-Coney Island-Bay Ridge-Brighton Beach-Gravesend) recently joined Coney Island residents at a Black History Month celebration at the Carey Gardens Community Center. The gathering celebrated community leaders as part of a proud tradition of African American activism. Those honored were Sophia Williams, Marion Kennedy, Ronald Stewart and Georgeanna Deas who received proclamations from the state Assembly honoring their public service. “Coney Island is fortunate to have these principled leaders, who have dedicated their lives to helping others out of love for this community,” Frontus said.

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Democratic club branches out to provide community service

TJ Cares President and organizer Mitch Partnow gives the event a thumbs-up.

BY BROOKLYN EAGLE STAFF A storied Brooklyn Democratic club is continuing to branch out beyond politics to sponsor community service projects aimed at improving the quality of life of local residents.

TJ Cares, an outgrowth of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, was formed by club member Mitch Partnow less than a year ago and has already made its mark, according to organizers.

The fledgling organization has held three well-attended community service events, including a senior citizens

barbecue, a food drive and a Valentine’s Day party for residents of Mercy Home.

“The community needs to know that we are here for more than petitions and voting,” Partnow told the Brooklyn Eagle.

The first event Partnow and TJ Cares hosted was a senior citizen barbecue, followed by one of the largest food drives in the history of the 59th Assembly District (Canarsie, Mill Basin, Mill Island, Bergen Beach, Gerritsen Beach, Georgetown), the district the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club serves. The food items were distributed to local families in need through the

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On Feb. 16, TJ Cares hosted a Valentine’s party for the clients of the Mercy Home.

The party took place at the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club’s headquarters, where more than 100 Mercy Home residents were treated to a live DJ, dancing, a Chinese food buffet and chocolate desserts.

TJ Cares teamed up with the JASA Senior Center, whose members purchased and presented hats, gloves and scarves to the guests from Mercy Home.

The Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club is the home club of longtime community leader Sue Ann Partnow, as well as Frank Seddio, who served for some eight years as the Brooklyn Democratic Party chairperson.

Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte, who represents the 42nd Assembly District, was recently elected to succeed Seddio as the party’s leader.

TJ Cares bridges the gap between the community and

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TJ Cares Committee members (left to right) Andrea Benjamin, Alan Weissberg and Sue Ann Partnow. politics by letting constituents know that the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club is more than just a political club, according to Mitch Partnow, who has been an active member of the

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club for more than 17 years, still decades away from equaling the tenure of his mother, Sue Ann. “The Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club has been an

integral part of this community for over 64 years. The club has a rich history of community activism, multi-generational service, and I don’t want it to be overlooked,” he said.

TJ Cares takes the community-minded spirit that has always existed in the club and moves it forward, he added.

“As a third-generation Jeffersonian, I understand that these neighborhoods in south Brooklyn have a suburban feel to them and are very close knit.

I feel I have a unique understanding of the needs of the residents of this area because I grew up in and still live in Bergen Beach with my wife and daughter,” Partnow said.

TJ Cares plans to sponsor more community service projects.

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In all matters of the heart, Brooklyn’s NYU Langone Hospital has never skipped a beat. It’s ranked among the top hospitals in the country for cardiology and heart surgery by U.S. News & World Report and its Brooklyn location boasts world-class surgeons that have been at the forefront of cardiovascular care for over 35 years.

On Tuesday, Feb. 25, NYU Langone launched the second season of its popular series of lunch-and-learn lectures revolving around topics such as heart health, men’s health, pulmonary issues and weight loss, with all talks taking place at the Gallery at the Landing at 220 36th St. in Industry City.

The informative inaugural 2020 session, “New Buzz on Heart Health,” attracted about 25 people who came to hear NYU Langone cardiologist Dr.

Archana Saxena and registered dietician and nutritionist Sarah Galanis discuss the best ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle through diet, exercise and medicine.

“Last fall, we launched our educational series here at Industry City,” Paulina Koudellou, assistant vice president for hospital operations, told this paper. “We targeted women’s health and it went really well for us, so we decided to start off the new year with heart health,” added Koudellou.

Saxena began by explaining that the goal was to talk about cardiovascular disease prevention. She broke the topics down into four sections: cholesterol management, the benefits of fish oil, the negative effects of vaping and calcium scoring.

She emphasized the importance of knowing the components of cholesterol. “For your total cholesterol there’s the HDL, which I term the good or ‘happy’ cholesterol

and the LDL, which is the bad cholesterol or what I call ‘lousy’ cholesterol to make it easy to remember,” said Saxena.

“The LDL is the one linked to causing atherosclerosis. It can damage the arteries, and that’s how atherosclerosis starts. And that is what causes a heart attack, and the thing about plaque is that it builds up ebrooklyn media/Photos by John Alexander and can cause a narrowing of the arteries, with shortness of Dr. Archana Saxena and registered dietician and nutritionist Sarah Galanis discuss the breath being one of the signs,” best ways to maintain a healthy lifestyle through diet, exercise and medicine. she added. importance of being able to Saxena explained that fish Galanis picked up the thread example, especially now during maintain a diet once you’ve oil, recently approved by the and focused on the benefits of flu season,” explained Sherwin. started it and explained that “You can book an appointment FDA for people who have had eating a healthy diet in order the keto and Atkins diets are heart attacks, can be a benefi- to maintain heart health. “The online in minutes to schedule harder to maintain and offer cial supplement along with a Mediterranean diet has been a virtual visit with one of our diet consisting of two weekly around forever,” said Galanis. risks, especially to those with doctors.” servings of fish.

“It’s mainly a bunch of leafy high cholesterol.

Upcoming lectures in the green vegetables, fruits, nuts, lunch-and-learn health series She also emphasized the Also speaking at the forum include “Men’s Health” on dangers related to vaping with seafood and olive oil. Another was Jason Sherwin, associate Tuesday, March 17; “Vaping, respect to maintaining heart good choice is the vegetar- director of virtual health at health and the importance of ian and vegan diet which NYU Langone. “Our virtual Cigarettes, and Your Lungs” on eliminates meat products by urgent care is available to having a calcium screen which Tuesday, April 21; and “What substituting more fruits and allows doctors to picture the adults as well as children ages You Need to do to Maintain heart and see how much plaque vegetables,” she added. five or above for simple preven- a Weight Loss,” on Tuesday, is present.

Galanis also stressed the tative measures for coughs for May 19.

Sahadi’s and Deno’s Wonder Wheel honored for over 100 years in Brooklyn

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Two of the most successful and enduring small Brooklyn businesses, Sahadi’s specialty grocery and Deno’s Wonder Wheel, were recently honored by the city for being an indelible part of the fabric of the borough for over 100 years.

On Thursday, Feb. 27, Department of Small Business Services Commissioner Gregg Bishop and other leaders joined together in an inaugural event to recognize the hard work and dedication of 10 centennial small businesses across the five boroughs and their contributions to local communities.

Bishop noted that many small businesses don’t make it past five years. “So I put out the call to all the chambers across the city and said that we want to acknowledge and celebrate businesses that have been around for over a century,” Bishop explained. “We recognize that small businesses are the economic engine of New York City.”

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City Councilmember Mark Gjonaj, Christine Whelan, Ron Sahadi and Commissioner Gregg Bishop.

Councilmember Mark Gjonaj presented the awards to the honorees.

Sahadi’s, with its two locations at 187 Atlantic Ave. and Industry City, boasts 122 years of serving the finest in high quality Middle Eastern food.

The James Beard Award-winning Sahadi’s has it all: dried figs and fruits, pistachios, a

wide-variety of cheeses, meat pies, creamy hummus, nuts, olives, breads, delicious Lebanese sweets, baked goods, baklava and barrels of coffee beans ready for roasting.

The store has an incredibly rich history. In the 1890s, Abrahim Sahadi opened A. Sahadi & Co. on Washington Street in Manhattan. In the

1920s, Wade Sahadi came to America from Lebanon and went to work with his uncle Abrahim. Wade opened Sahadi Importing Co. on Washington Street. The Brooklyn Battery Tunnel construction drove Sahadi to purchase a building on Atlantic Avenue where the business eventually relocated in the late 1940s.

In 1963, Wade’s two older sons Charlie and Richard joined the flourishing business.

In the 1970s, Wade’s youngest son Bob joined the business along with Charlie’s wife Audrey.

When Charlie and Audrey retired a few years ago, their son Ron, daughter Christine Whelan and son-in-law Pat Whelan took over management duties, along with Bob. “It’s hard to be here for more than 100 years but we’re still chugging along,” said Christine. “We’ve opened a new location so we’re definitely looking forward to the next 100 years. We’re fourth generation and my son will be fifth when he starts in June.

“We love being part of Brooklyn, so it makes it even more of a pleasure to be here,” she added.

Deno’s Wonder Wheel is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. It was built in 1920 by Charles Hermann and the Eccentric Ferris Wheel Company and owned by Herman Garms. It remains one of Coney Island’s most soughtout attractions and is unusual in offering its riders the option

of taking a spin in either a stationary or swinging car.

Deno Vourderis bought the Wonder Wheel in 1983 and built other rides around it including Spook-a-Rama. After Deno’s death, his sons added their father’s name to the original Ferris wheel. It has been a landmark since 1989.

“We were extremely honored to be a part of the centennial celebration with so many other iconic businesses,” Deno (D.J.) Vourderis told this paper.

“The Vourderis family has worked in Coney Island for four generations. We didn’t get where we are today without standing on the shoulders of giants. We are thankful to a community that is, and always was, accepting of immigrants, a community that didn’t discriminate based on where you were from, where you played, or whom you loved. As we celebrate our 100th year of happy faces, we invite everyone to come join in the festivities with special events planned for Memorial Day weekend, which is exactly the date the Wonder Wheel first opened in 1920,” added Vourderis.

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Brian Levario as Jack, Kaylie DeLauri as Ann Peggy and Alyson Ryan as Jill, the three best friends that anyone could have!

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The always innovative and entertaining Gallery Players will be performing “Jack & the Beanstalk — Beanman’s Revenge,” an interactive children’s musical that allows children and their families to

participate in a new musical written by Hilary Goldman and Kevin McAuley under their Good Idea Bears banner. “‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ is one of eight completely original interactive musicals that we’ve written for children,” Goldman told this paper. “All of our shows are reworkings of familiar tales but with an

updated twist. Often times, we look to empower our characters more and tell the stories from different perspectives, putting the actions, the consequences and the lessons learned into the characters’ hands rather than allowing it to be circumstantial.

We also like to make them as relatable to children today as possible.”

The plot revolves around adventure-seeking Jack and his mother who are struggling to keep their provincial coffee shop in business when the mysterious “beanman” offers them a seemingly lucrative and exciting solution.

Jack and his best friends must go on the quest of a lifetime where danger lurks along the way. The new play presents the timeless tale of “Jack and the Beanstalk” in a whole new light, complete with a singing harp, a golden egg-laying goose and a helpful gurkle (whatever that is).

“Throughout the story, our characters will invite the audience to be part of the adventure, both from their seats and by joining the actors on stage,” said McAuley. “Audience members will help our characters along their journey and play small roles in songs and action sequences. We can’t make it from ‘once upon a time’

to ‘happily ever after’ without them,” he added.

The production is directed

by Goldman with musical direction by McAuley and costumes and props by Dina Grilli. The cast includes Julie Crane, Kaylie DeLauri, Caitlin Farrell, Danielle Ferretti, Erin Hanraty, Felisha Heng, Karen Mascalo Hagan, Brian Levario, Joshua Lopez and Alyson Ryan.

Ryan, who plays Jill, was born and raised in Brooklyn, and works as a kindergarten teacher in Cobble Hill’s P.S. 32.

“It’s really special to be able to invite my students to our productions and have them join me onstage,” Ryan told this paper.

“I’ve had kids who are too shy to raise a hand in my class, but jump onstage and dance with us without a second thought.

They feel safe and uninhibited, and are able to express themselves through this magic of imagination and theater. It’s incredible,” she added.

Goldman and her group the Good Idea Bears have been writing and performing together for six years, primarily in Brooklyn. “Doing theater for children is so rewarding, especially given the interactive element,” said Goldman.

“We give kids an opportunity to be a part of the story, as opposed to simply watching it from the sidelines. I feel as though we are helping kids be themselves, be comfortable and feel safe.

I’ve seen the shyest of children jump onstage and dance with Petunia the Cow without a second thought,” added Goldman.

The Gallery Players is located at 199 14th Street. The limited run production will be presented at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 29 and Saturday, March 7, and at 12 p.m. on Sunday, March 1 and Sunday, March 8. Tickets for adults and children are $8 and can be purchased at the door (cash only) or at galleryplayers.com.

City Councilmember Mark Gjonaj, Deno Vourderis, Dennis Vourderis and Commissioner Gregg Bishop.

Sahadi’s and Deno’s Wonder Wheel honored for over 100 years in Brooklyn

Continued from page 8 The other small business honorees were Holtermann’s Bakery and Supreme Chocolatier in Staten Island; Sussman-Automatic Corporation and Bellitte Bicycles in Queens; Eneslow Shoes & Orthotics and Russ & Daughters in Manhattan; and Teitel

Brothers and Mario’s Restaurant in the Bronx.

Randy Peers, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, was thrilled to celebrate the rich history of small businesses in Brooklyn.

“Sahadi’s and Deno’s Wonder Wheel have both had a

deep-rooted, positive impact on our communities and Russ & Daughters recently expanded to Brooklyn. These multi-generational companies exemplify how critical local business is to create and grow vibrant neighborhoods by investing for the long-term,” he said.

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The cast of the new interactive production, “Jack & the Beanstalk — Beanman’s Revenge.”

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Have you seen Williamsburg’s new office and industrial building?

Yes, industrial. Smorgasburg’s there this winter.

Neighboring hotels are nifty, too.

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By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Normal people go to Winter Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea to eat fab food, browse through boxes of five-dollar vinyl records and try on $60 vintage hats.

Real estate nerds go so they can see the building where these tandem weekend events are held.

Here’s a glimpse of 25 Kent Ave. as seen from North 12th Street.

Newly built 25 Kent Ave. has lots of eye-catching architectural details.

INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan That’s why I was in Williamsburg on Saturday, up on the eighth floor of 25 Kent Ave. Of course, I stood in line for pork buns from Mao’s Bao and bought an ice cream cone from Bona Bona — which was topped with Italian meringue the vendor toasted with a blow torch.

But the main reason I was there was to check out the vast, high-ceilinged top floor of the job-generating office and industrial building at 25 Kent Ave. I also wanted the opportunity to see the stunning views of the Manhattan skyline, the East River, neighboring Greenpoint and the streets of Williamsburg from its floor-to-ceiling windows.

One of Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea’s past winter locations was the jaw-dropping banking hall at the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Clocktower in Fort Greene, which is arguably Brooklyn’s most famous building. It was quite an experience to see the banking hall, which is an interior landmark, something that’s rare in Brooklyn.

Spec construction

Brand-new 25 Kent Ave., where Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea are now held, is also a wonderful building in completely different ways.

It belongs to Toby Moskovits’ development firm Heritage Equity Partners and real estate investor Rubenstein Partners.

A row of tall columns stands beside the windows on the top floor of 25 Kent Ave. It occupies the entire block bounded by Kent Avenue, North 12th Street, Wythe Avenue and North 13th Street.

If you’re planning to attend Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea, which run through March 29, the building entrance you’re looking for is on North 12th Street.

There are a number of noteworthy buildings on Wythe Avenue.

I’ll show you some of the others later. First I want to focus on what’s important about 25 Kent Ave.: • It was the first new-from-the-ground-up office building to be constructed on spec (meaning with no tenants lined up beforehand) in Brooklyn in four decades.

• The 500,000-square-foot building was designed to appeal to small, medium-sized and large tech, creative and maker tenants — with 87,000 square feet of space designated solely for manufacturing.

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On the glass walls by the entrance doors to 25 Kent Ave.’s two lobbies, a painted message reminds everybody the property is legally obligated to have manufacturing tenants. “This business is subject to Industrial Business Incentive Area regulations which require a minimum amount of space to be provided for specific industrial uses,” the message says.

There are two lobbies because the Kent Avenue building is actually two separate brick and glass buildings with a glassclad connector linking its upper floors. Beneath the connector, there’s a breezeway, which is like a pedestrian-only street.

I should pause my narrative about 25 Kent Ave. for a moment to mention that if you don’t live within walking distance of the property, you can get there by taking the G train to its Nassau Avenue stop, which is just a few blocks away.

I should also mention that if you want to get a good look at 25 Kent Ave.’s exterior, you should go to Vale Park. This publicly accessible green space is located on the roof of a low-rise retail building that’s part of The William Vale. I’ll tell you more about this hotel a bit later.

Three generations of W’burg entrepreneurs

I first heard Moskovits, who is Heritage Equity Partners’ CEO, speak about her development plans for the Kent Avenue site at a real estate roundtable at the Brooklyn Historical Society in November 2013.

Here’s the top floor of 25 Kent Ave., seen during Winter Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Flea.

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At a press briefing in February 2016, she told reporters she wanted the building to provide much-needed growth space for entrepreneurs in Williamsburg, where her family had done business for three generations.

Her immigrant grandfather had owned a business in the neighborhood and her father’s factory had been located there, she said. And her real estate firm’s office was located in Williamsburg.

The 25 Kent Ave. property went through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, process to be rezoned for office and industrial uses.

Two Trees was first out of the gate

The William Vale is one of four glam hotels on a short span of Wythe Avenue. The second one I’m going to tell you about is the Wythe Hotel.

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An anchor tenant

In December, a clothing maker and retailer named Kith signed on as 25 Kent Ave.’s anchor tenant. The company is leasing 57,679 square feet of manufacturing space — which is about two-thirds of the building’s total manufacturing space.

“Creating a makerspace in Williamsburg embodies the ideals we hold as a brand that include creating inclusive and innovative experiences in new exciting surroundings,” Kith Founder Ronnie Fieg said in a joint announcement about the lease with building co-owner Rubenstein Partners.

The amount of rent Kith’s paying was not disclosed. The company is relocating from Soho.

Another interesting industrial tenant has also signed a lease.

Randolph Beer rented more than 12,000 square feet, some of it manufacturing space, for a restaurant, bar and brewery, food-focused publication Eater reported in February. The brewer will put its beer in cans for the first time.

What’s Wallplay?

There’s an art exhibition called “A Romantic Comedy” on the ground floor of 25 Kent Ave. It features more than 50 works by emerging artists. Sophia Sobers and Steven Pestana curated it.

It’s on display through March 31.

The exhibit’s themes are “courtship, domesticity and the workplace — what society presents to the world versus what is hidden,” an online posting about it says.

The exhibition’s at 25 Kent Ave. thanks to a business called Wallplay. It is programming and operating vacant retail and office space at 25 Kent Ave. until long-term tenants move into it.

By the way, Gensler was 25 Kent Ave.’s design development architect. The designer was Hollwich Kushner.

Two Wythe Avenue hotels are the Williamsburg at left and the Wythe at right.

Welcome to the William Vale After your visit to 25 Kent Ave., you’ll want to see other properties on Wythe Avenue. A good place to start is the eye-catching hotel called The William Vale (yes, they capitalize the “T”), which is across the street from 25 Kent Ave. Vale Park is part of the hotel complex.

Zelig Weiss’s Riverside Developers built The William Vale, whose address is 111 North 12th St. The architecture firm that designed it was Albo Liberis. The 21-story building’s lower floors look like they’re standing on stilts.

I took a hard-hat tour of the building in 2015 with my colleague Rob Abruzzese, who snapped wonderful photos. Mordy Steinfeld, Riverside’s director of operations and development, told us all 183 guest rooms would have balconies.

In the 19th century, a man named William Vale owned the land where the hotel now stands. A branding firm hired by Riverside saw Vale’s name on an old map. That’s how the hotel got its name.

The William Vale opened in September 2016. Its rooftop bar, which is called Westlight, has stellar views of the Manhattan skyline at sunset. I took pictures there in February 2017.

Rooftop water tanks are a beloved element of New York City’s built environment. They’re used to boost buildings’ water pressure.

London calling

Rosenwach Tank Co., a water-tower maker founded in the 1860s, owned property on the opposite side of Wythe Avenue from the Williamsburg Hotel. From 1924 to 2012, Rosenwach operated a wood mill at 87 North 9th St. The company sold the property for $10 million in 2012, city Finance Department records indicate.

The Rosenwach wood-mill site is relevant to this story because that’s where the fourth Wythe Avenue hotel was built.

This 175-room hotel is the Hoxton, whose address is 97 Wythe Ave. It opened in 2018.

The Hoxton is an upscale British hotel chain.

The buyer of Rosenwach’s property sold it to Londonbased developer Ennismore, which built the hotel.

This is the Hoxton as seen from the corner of Wythe Avenue and North 9th Street.

This hotel, which is located at 80 Wythe Ave. on the corner of North 11th Street, was the first of the four to open — back in 2012.

Two Trees Management, the Walentas family’s company, created the Wythe Hotel by adding modern floors to the top of an eye-catching factory called the Weidmann Cooperage, which is more than a century old. Distinguished architect of yesteryear Theobald Engelhardt designed the industrial building.

The 70-room hotel was one of the winners of the 2013 Building Brooklyn Awards, which are given out annually by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce.

A bar in a giant water tank

The third luxe lodging property here is the Williamsburg Hotel, which is at 96 Wythe Ave. on the corner of North 10th Street. Heritage Equity Partners built it. Michaelis Boyd Studio designed it.

Shortly after the eight-story, 147-room hotel opened in 2017, I slipped in one afternoon and ordered high tea in the lobby. It was great fun.

A visit to the hotel’s rooftop bar is on my to-do list. It’s called the Water Tower because it’s a giant replica of a cylindrical wooden water tank.

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Caris LeVert scored 37 of his career-best 51 points during the fourth quarter and overtime to help the Nets overcome a 21-point, third-quarter deficit in Boston Tuesday night.

LeVert lights up Celtics for 51 points

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Career-high scoring performance helps Nets end four-game slide

By John Torenli INBrooklyn

Sometimes the best coaching is no coaching at all, especially when a player is as hot as Caris LeVert was in Boston Tuesday night.

At least that’s what Kenny Atkinson intimated after watching LeVert score 37 of his career-high 51 points in the fourth quarter and overtime of the Brooklyn Nets’ improbable, slump-busting 129-120 victory over the host Celtics Tuesday night in front of 19,156 fans at TD Garden.

“It was all him,” the Nets’ head coach said of LeVert, who scored 18 points over the final 4:05 of regulation to force overtime and poured in all 11 of Brooklyn’s points in the extra session to end a four-game losing streak.

“We didn’t run anything. He just kind of took over,” Atkinson added. “I mean, he called what’s in our playbook, but I was definitely not calling any plays. That’s where as a coach you better get back, get out of his way.”

Seemingly everyone did clear the path for LeVert, who went 17of-26 from the floor, including 5-of-10 from three-point range.

The 25-year-old shooting guard also knocked down 12-of-18 free throws, including three from the line with 0.2 seconds remaining to forge a 118-118 deadlock.

“The basket was so big at that point,” admitted LeVert, who fell three points shy of matching Kyrie Irving’s season-best 54-point effort against Chicago on Jan. 31.

“I had hit a couple, got some easy layups going to the rim,” he added. “Like I said, the basket was huge at that point, so you’re just trying to get a good look.”

The basket must have appeared even bigger to LeVert in overtime as he scored the first eight points of the extra session to put Brooklyn in front to stay, 126-118.

“I just tried to stay positive, tried to keep my head in it even when I was on the bench in the third quarter,” LeVert said after

helping the Nets overcome a 21-point, third-quarter deficit by sparking them to a 51-point fourth quarter.

Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot scored 16 points off the bench and Spencer Dinwiddie added 14 points for Brooklyn, which climbed back over Orlando by a half-game for the seventh seed in the Eastern Conference playoff race.

After salvaging the finale of an otherwise dismal four-game road trip, the Nets will return to Downtown’s Barclays Center Wednesday night to host the Memphis Grizzlies.  Nothing But Net: Irving’s season officially came to an end

Tuesday as he underwent successful arthroscopic surgery on the right shoulder impingement that limited him to only 20 games this year after he left Boston for Brooklyn as a free agent last summer. … LeVert’s herculean effort was the Nets’ third 50-plus point game of the campaign as Irving also put up 50 in his Brooklyn debut on Oct. 23 vs. Minnesota. … The Nets’ 51 points in the fourth quarter was a season high for any period by Brooklyn this year. “I’m trying to process it all; 51 points in the fourth quarter against a team like that,” Atkinson noted. “Listen, it’s obvious we got a boost from our bench, those guys that don’t play. It’s like one of those Hollywood movies.”

Isles begin Brooklyn farewell with a dud Get steamrolled by Montreal in first of final three Barclays games

By John Torenli INBrooklyn

Thomas Greiss gets burned for one of three first-period goals by Montreal as the slumping New York Islanders continued their losing ways in the first of their final three games here in Brooklyn Tuesday night.

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The New York Islanders aren’t long for Brooklyn.

They might not be in the Eastern Conference playoff race much longer either if their slumping ways continue.

Playing the first of their final three games at Downtown’s Barclays Center Tuesday night, the Isles put together one of their most putrid performances of the campaign, dropping a 6-2 decision to the Montreal Canadiens in front of 12,788 frustrated fans on the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush.

“It’s frustrating. It’s unacceptable,” New York defenseman Ryan Pulock said after the Isles fell behind by four goals before mustering anything resembling an effort en route to their fourth straight defeat and eighth in the past 10 games.

“This time of year, these points are so important,” added Pulock. “There’s winning and losing, but it’s more frustrating when you don’t bring an effort. We just didn’t have that tonight. We weren’t ourselves.”

It’s difficult to discern exactly whom the Islanders are at this point in the campaign, a team fighting for its playoff life or one simply going through the motions?

“I don’t think they had much to cheer for,” Isles captain Anders Lee said of the Barclays crowd, which booed the team loudly in the closing moments of the opening period.

“We didn’t give them anything. I wouldn’t be cheering either.”

Starting netminder Thomas Greiss surrendered three goals on only 12 shots in the opening period before getting yanked for Semyon Varlamov, and the Isles (35-22-8, 78 points) didn’t appear to be up to the fight against a Montreal team that is trying to

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make a late postseason push.

“We need to raise our battle level a little bit,” Isles Head Coach Barry Trotz ceded after his team remained deadlocked with Columbus for the final two playoff spots in the East, with Carolina sitting just three points back.

“That first period was really important, and we failed,” Trotz added. “We dug ourselves a tremendous hole. We have to put more skin in the game, we don’t have enough skin in the game, and you can’t win at this time of year unless you’re putting more skin in the game to earn points.”

Brock Nelson scored his team-leading 24th goal and Pulock added a power-play tally in the third period for New York, which lost veteran blue-liner Johnny Boychuk to a frightening injury when he was cut on the face by the skate blade of Montreal’s Artturi Lehkonen in the third period.

“There’s a lot of things that aren’t going well,” Lee said. “We’re gripping it tight because we want it to happen. Little mistakes are turning into big mistakes. It’s just snowballing a little bit on us right now.”

If it snowballs any further, the Isles won’t be able to build on the momentum of last year’s charge to the Eastern Conference semifinals.

Just days after learning that they would no longer be playing in Brooklyn after this month, the Isles saw their scoreless streak extended to a gruesome 154:03 before Nelson ended the drought.

“We got exactly what we deserved today,” Trotz lamented as his team prepared to visit Ottawa on Thursday night.  Isle Have Another: The Islanders have two Barclays Center games remaining on March 17 against Calgary and March 22 against Carolina. After that, New York will play its regular-season games at the Nassau Coliseum for the remainder of this season and all of next year before moving into its new arena in Elmont, N.Y., which is scheduled to open in time for the 2021-22 season.

A Brooklyn designer has a solution to fashion’s sustainability problem

By Paul Frangipane INBrooklyn

Lindsay Clinton serves as a judge in the Make It in Brook­ lyn Female Founders pitch contest. The contest featured six female founders from five different startups pitching their businesses.

INBrooklyn photos by Paul Frangipane

In an eighth floor office in Downtown Brooklyn, Amanda Grogan explained one of the perils of the fashion industry to a room full of people and a panel of judges: Burberry burned millions of dollars of clothes last year. Millions of excess garments from overproduction are sitting in warehouses around the globe. And, in closets around the world, old clothes are being snubbed for their newer neighbors.

These garments are referred to as “deadstock,” and companies have the option to discount, trash, burn or recycle them.

Grogan’s proposal: to dye all those clothes black. The idea, the basis of her startup Make it Black, won her a female founders pitch contest on Thursday night organized by the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and NYU Tandon School of Engineering.

“I was wearing different colors so they were staining. I was buying clothes that I wore once and they were ending up in the back of my closet and I was trying to figure out what I could do with these,” Grogan said. “So how do we keep the garment at its highest value in a circular economy? We make it black.”

The 33-year-old fashion designer’s ultimate goal is for virgin black clothes not to exist. Black is currently the most popular color in clothing, with 30 percent of all sales in the fashion industry being black, according to Grogan.

A panel of five judges, each of them entrepreneurs themselves, listened intently to her pitch — and to the pitches of five other female startup founders from four companies – to decide who would receive a $5,000 prize courtesy of JP Morgan Chase and NYU Tandon, and a free consultation with EA Creative Consulting.

The contest was part of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership’s Make It in Brooklyn campaign and was held at the offices of Propel, a former winner of one of the partnership’s pitch contests.

“We need to continue to celebrate female founders,” said Rachel Fleischer, community manager of the Urban Future Lab. “While the shift towards changing the numbers within STEM and the entrepreneurial world is slow moving, we have embraced it here at Tandon.”

Amanda Grogan, founder of Make it Black, finds out she is the winner of the Make It in Brooklyn Female Founders pitch contest.

Judge Wendy Tsu gives feedback to contest participants.

Last year, the incoming first year class at the school was 46 percent female, over 20 percent higher than the national average for STEM schools, Fleischer said.

Grogan, a Dublin, Ireland native, got choked up when the judges announced she was the winner.

“It’s incredible for judges to be as esteemed as they are to give the feedback they did and to pick this as an innovation that they feel could change the landscape of the industry that I’m working in,” she said.

Liz Sisson, one of the judges, commented that she didn’t think anyone on the panel had seen a concept like Make it Black before, but she said a better explanation of the chemical side of the dying process could be important to ensure sustainability.

The company uses synthetic dyes now but Grogan hopes to use biological dyes as they develop further.

With the $5,000 prize, she plans to conduct tests to help the company receive grants to increase funding.

Alongside Make it Black, founders gave business pitches for a peer-to-peer authentication software for photographers, a platform that prepares children for school readiness, a network to help busy parents get clothes for their babies cheaper and greener and an Airbnb concept for medical offices.

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