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CADMAN PLAZA PARK: Monday was the ďŹ rst day to break 70 degrees since last fall, and the warm weather brought joyful neighborhood kids out to play at Cadman Plaza Park. Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Paul Frangipane

Coronavirus shuts down private schools in Brooklyn BROOKLYN FRIENDS, POLY PREP, SAINT ANNâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ANNOUNCE THEY WILL TEMPORARILY CLOSE. By Mary Frost

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Several private schools in Brooklyn are closing their doors early due to coronavirus fears. Brooklyn Friends School, a pre-K to high school in Downtown Brooklyn, is shutting down until March 30, Head of School Crissy CĂĄceres told parents in an email late Monday. The school, which operates from two locations on Pearl and Willoughby streets, will also be canceling spring camps in its family center and lower school. CĂĄceres said the school was taking the measure â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of an

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Coronavirus will overwhelm us unless New Yorkers help government fight it Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Mary Frost

Mayor Bill de Blasio shows reporters a novel coronavirus safety tips sheet at a Wednesday press conference. Left is NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot, and right is Dr. Raul PereaHenze, deputy mayor for Health & Human Services.

By Mary Frost Brooklyn Heights Press

The government alone is not going to solve the city’s novel coronavirus problems, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a press conference on Wednesday. Rather, it’s the actions taken by the city’s residents that are going to either slow this thing down or let it run wild. For the most part, New Yorkers have been heading health experts’ advice — washing their hands, using hand sanitizer, coughing into their elbows and avoiding crowds. But as the numbers of sick increase — and they will — people have to realize that much of the defense is in their hands, de Blasio said. The city has been preparing nonstop for five weeks for the massive battle ahead, he said. But New York City is not going to have personnel on the subway platforms checking people for fevers before they board trains. “If you’re sick with a fever and cough, stay home. You don’t need to have someone on the subway platform to tell you if you have a fever. If you don’t have a thermometer, buy a thermometer! The government is not going to do it for you. The people have to participate,” he said. As much as the city has been training and stocking up, “What about the entire rest of civilization? Don’t forget there are other health challenges. Police still have to fight crimes. And people’s livelihoods — it’s dangerous when people don’t have jobs or food. Then there’s the children. Imagine school closed for a month, kids who don’t get meals.” He added, “We can shut down all sorts of things. But we’re not using emergency powers until we have all the evidence.” NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot estimates the outbreak will last at least six months, bringing us to September.

“We want people to see that,” de Blasio said. “We want to acclimate them and help them understand the battle ahead. I’d like to believe that at the end of six months or so we’ll be coming out of it.”

What you can do • Stay away from crowds. Try to change your hours of commute or work from home. • Wash your hands as much as possible, and use hand sanitizer (60 percent alcohol or more) when you can’t use soap. • Cough into your elbow or a tissue. • If you feel sick and have symptoms that include fever and coughing or shortness of breath, stay home. • Don’t go to work or school even if the symptoms are mild. • If you don’t get any better after 48 hours, call your doctor or other health care provider. • Your health care provider should give you a test called BioFire, which checks for 26 common diseases. If you have one of these, your doctor will treat for that. • If you don’t have any of these usual diseases, “Then we want you tested” for COVID-19, de Blasio said — especially if you’ve just returned to the country, or have a direct nexus to someone with COVID-19 and the disease’s symptoms. • Plenty of COVID-19 tests — 5,000 a week — will be available by the end of the week in New York City. New commercial labs are coming online. No one should skip going to the doctor if they can’t afford health care. You won’t be charged a co-pay if you have private insurance, and the city will help you get the city’s insurance if you don’t have any.

AG Tish James to speak at St. Ann’s for women’s suffrage event New York Attorney General Letitia James will be featured at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church on March 29 at 6:30 p.m. for the presentation “Suffrage at 100: Women’s Power Today.” James, the 67th Attorney General for New York, is the first woman of color to hold statewide office, and the first woman to be elected Attorney General. An experienced attorney and public servant with a long record of accomplishments, James will help the church to commemorate the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, and explore how it has shaped women’s power today. She will speak on a wide range of issues that affect all New Yorkers, and share how she uses her political platform and power to better communities. The Sunday Forum will be followed by Compline at 7 p.m., a contemplative, end-of-day service, led by a choir. St. Ann is located at 157 Montague St. Attorney General Letitia James. in Brooklyn Heights.

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Brooklyn Friends, Poly Prep, Saint Ann’s announce they will temporarily close

Brooklyn Friends School in Downtown Brooklyn is one of several private schools in the borough that have shut down due to coronavirus fears. Continued from PAGE 1

ployee and another employee he had contact with over the weekend were both staying home Tuesday as a precautionary measure, Head of School Vincent Tompkins said in a letter to parents on Tuesday. All activities at Saint Ann’s, through March 15 are canceled, Tompkins said. “I will communicate before Monday the decision about whether school will reopen or whether we will be fully online,” he added. Poly Prep campuses in Dyker Heights will be closing for a week starting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, according to its website. Parents can access more information on their parent portal online. As of Monday afternoon, Packer Collegiate in Brooklyn Heights

remained open, though some field trips and meeting were cancelled. On Wednesday, Packer conducted a test of its emergency alert system, according to the school’s website. New York City is not in a hurry to close public schools if it can be avoided, Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a Monday press conference. Rather, the city will selectively close schools with “pinpoint accuracy” to disinfect and clean, then likely reopen after 24 hours, he said. “So many parents depend on that school, not just for a safe place for their children and education, but for meals,” he said. “We’re not seeing much transmission to children. My goal is to have minimal disruption of schools.” If a public school does close, the city will try to find other ways to feed the students, de Blasio said. At P.S. 8 in Brooklyn Heights, parents responded to an appeal

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for hand sanitizer and six touchless dispensers, and delivery is expected this week. They received an email on Tuesday saying that doorstops have been added to keep stairwell doors open (eliminating the use of door handles), and that students will be reminded to wash their hands upon arrival and throughout the school day. Bathrooms have been equipped with antibacterial hand soap, and hand sanitizer is available in classrooms. St. Joseph’s College in Brooklyn also announced late Tuesday that it was canceling all in-person classes and on-campus academic activities for the remainder of the week. Online classes are still in effect. CUNY and SUNY will switch to off-campusdistance learning on March 19.

Brooklyn librarians call for late-fee amnesty for kids By Alex Williamson Brooklyn Heights Press

Book lenders across the city say it’s time to give kids a break when it comes to late fines at the library. Brooklyn Public Library President Linda Johnson joined library leaders from Queens and Manhattan to call for new funding that would grant amnesty to the thousands of New York City children and teens who’ve racked up fees and fines for overdue books. About 60,000 New York City children currently have at least $15 in library fines — enough to bar them from checking out books and using other library services. According to librarians, most of these fines are concentrated in the city’s neediest neighborhoods. “The fact is that for many families across the U.S., library fines are a true barrier to access,” New York Public Library President Anthony W. Marx wrote in a 2017 op-ed in Quartz. He went on to argue that, for higher-income book borrowers, fines aren’t much of an incentive to return library materials on time, while they have a disproportionate impact on the lowerincome patrons who need libraries most. “We know the heartbreaking truth: that there are families who refuse to even use the library for fear of accumulating fines,” Marx wrote.

BPL was one of three branches to give a one-time amnesty from fines to kids and teens in 2017. According to Marx, about 11,000 kids who were previously blocked from borrowing books because of fines, or who hadn’t used the library in at least a year, rekindled their relationship with the library within one month of having their fines waived. Other library systems in Ohio, South Dakota, Colorado and Nebraska have experimented with fine-fee borrowing and reported an increase in circulation without a significant increase in lost items. “By eliminating fines, we are opening the doors for new and lapsed cardholders to reconnect with public libraries and take advantage of all of our services and materials — reinforcing our commitment to equity and opportunity for all New Yorkers,” said a spokesperson for BPL. “As we have seen in libraries in other major cities who have successfully eliminated fines, it is possible to instill a sense of responsibility without denying access.” Before that one-time amnesty, about 20 percent of the New York Public Library’s 400,000 juvenile patrons had blocked library cards, and about half of those kids were serviced by branches in the city’s poorest quartile of neighborhoods. The late fine forgiveness funding is part of a $10 million package that the libraries requested from City Hall. Other earmarked

uses for the funds include programs to boost literacy for toddlers and pre-K children and programs to support research. The three library systems are also requesting $24 million in additional operating funds and $300 million for capital money for emergency repairs and maintenance in the FY 2021 budget.

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The 2020 Census begins March 12. Here’s what you need to know By Alex Williamson Brooklyn Heights Press

March 12 is the start of your chance to take part in the Census, the federal government’s once-in-a-decade effort to get an accurate count of every person living in the country.

The population of Brooklyn is notoriously hard to nail down. According to the Brooklyn Community Foundation, Kings County is the most difficult county in New York State in which to conduct the Census, with over 20 percent of Brook-

lynites living in neighborhoods classified as “hard to count” by the Census Bureau. Roughly 33 percent of Brooklynites did not mail back their Census forms in 2010, giving Brooklyn the lowest mail return rate in the country among

People walk through Times Square in New York City, where census participation was just 62 percent in 2010. AP photo by Bebeto Matthews

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counties with populations over 500,000. The city’s overall Census participation rate was less than 62 percent in 2010, compared with a national average of 76 percent. Brooklyn’s community leaders are hoping for a better return rate in 2020, since the data gathered helps to determine how much federal money the borough gets for local needs like public education, food assistance programs, infrastructure, affordable housing and more — not to mention how many representatives in congress Brooklyn has. The high stakes have led the city to invest $40 million in census outreach, including community-based grants, partnerships with the Brooklyn Public Library, field operations and a multilingual marketing campaign called “Get Counted NYC” to drive home the importance of census participation. Brooklyn households will begin receiving the first Census mailers March 12. The form can

be completed online, by phone or by free return mail. The form is available in 13 languages and asks for basic information about the people living in your household as of April 1, 2020, including roommates, children, partners and tenants. The Census Bureau estimates it takes about 10 minutes to complete. The form will not ask for

your Social Security number, or about your citizenship status, after a major legal battle last year. That last point is important, since, according to a 2019 survey from the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, 42 percent of undocumented immigrants believe a citizenship question is part of the census. See brooklyneagle.com.

News From Your Neighborhood CHIEF LIBRARIANS CALL FOR AMNESTY ON KIDS’ FINES

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CITYWIDE — Brooklyn Public Library President Linda Johnson recently joined library leaders from Queens and Manhattan to call for new funding that would grant amnesty to thousands of children and teens who have racked up fees and fines for overdue books, according to the Brooklyn Eagle website. According to librarians, most of those fines are concentrated in the city’s neediest neighborhoods. “There are families who refuse to even use the library for fear of accumulating fines,” wrote New York Public Library President Anthony Marx. BPL and the Queens and Manhattan systems gave kids a one-time amnesty in 2017. According to Marx, about 11,000 kids and teens who previously were blocked from borrowing books because of fines rekindled their relationship with the library within one month of having their fines waived. 

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REAL ESTATE OPEN HOUSES CALLED OFF DUE TO VIRUS

CITYWIDE — Some New York City real estate brokers have called off open houses because of fear of the coronavirus, according to Bloomberg News. “If the coronavirus for some reason — and I hope it doesn’t — goes out of control and New York City faces drastic increases in the virus, that may have a chilling effect,” said Fritz Frigan, executive director of sales and leasing at Halstead, who compiles a weekly index of open house activity across the five boroughs. Frigan told Bloomberg News that his office has even seen a potential seller who was on the fence about whether even to list a property out of concern about having visitors come look at it. 

KPF DESIGNS RENOVATIONS TO RED HOOK HOUSES

RED HOOK — Architecture firm Kohn Pedersen Fox has designed the redevelopment of a public housing complex in Red Hook that was ravaged by Superstorm Sandy eight years ago. Thousands of residents of NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses were left without power and access to supplies for more than two weeks following Sandy, according to dezeen, an architecture and design website. KPF’s scheme involves a resiliency and renewal program designed to lessen the community’s vulnerability to natural disasters. The measures include a series of raised flood barriers, an above-ground boiler plant and more, dezeen reported. 

THREE-STORY CONDO BUILDING IN RED HOOK NEARS COMPLETION

RED HOOK — Construction is nearing completion at 730 Hicks St., a three-story condo development in Red Hook, according to New York YIMBY. The building is slated to contain 15 residences, 10 parking spaces, basement-level storage and gardens surrounding the property. The building is being developed by Shiraz Saujana and is designed by Marie Architects. 

NEW HOTEL PLANNED FOR 86TH ST. IN BAY RIDGE

BAY RIDGE — Permits have been filed for a six-story hotel at 634 86th St. in Bay Ridge, on the current site of an auto dealership and lot, according to New York YIMBY. The lot, at the intersection of Battery Avenue and 86th Street, is a short walk to the R train’s 86th Street subway station. Xiaojun Chen, under the name Sunshine Brooklyn LLC, is listed as the developer, and Wu Chen of JWC Architect Engineer is listed as the architect. The proposed development would have 76 rooms, a rear yard and eight enclosed parking spaces. Demolition permits for the auto lot were filed last June. 

NEW BAR EMPHASIZES WINE AND CURED MEATS

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — And Sons, which Gothamist describes as “an American ham (and wine) bar,” opened about six weeks ago in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, according to the website. It is owned by former waitress Phoebe Damrosch and former sommelier Andre Hueston Mack, and it is named for the couple’s four sons. Mack told Gothamist that he was inspired during trips to Spain and Italy, where such spots are much more common. “The heart of the And Sons experience,” said Gothamist, “is the sliced-to-order selection of country-styled cured hams.” Both the wines and the hams are mainly from the continental United States. 

ANGRY MAN DEFACES COP CAR IN BAY RIDGE

DYKER HEIGHTS — An angry man snapped and took his anger out on a police car in Brooklyn, footage released on Saturday shows. The unidentified man walked up to an NYPD Traffic Enforcement Division vehicle on Seventh Avenue near 92nd Street, according to brooklynreporter.com. After looking over

his shoulder to make sure no one was there, he hurled an unknown object at the windshield, the footage shows. He then ran up and started rapidly punching the car window. Finally, he whacked the passenger’s-side mirror. He is described as a man in his 30s with a beard and was last seen wearing a bright green sweater, blue jeans and brown shoes. 

BROOKLYN ARTIST VISITS GALLERY IN BINGHAMTON

BOROUGHWIDE — Brooklyn artist Jenny Morris visited the Memory Maker Gallery in Binghamton to showcase her own artwork as well as artwork created by people who suffer from memory loss, according to Fox 40, a local channel in Binghamton. Morris spent months working with people who suffer from conditions such as Alzheimer’s to further her thesis about the relationship between memory and art. “We can’t have propriety over this idea of doing art with people with dementia,” said Christina Muscatello, co-founder of the Memory Maker Project. “The idea of the residency really grew out of the idea that we need to continue giving a voice to people with dementia.” 

MOVIE’S NOODLE DISH IS A HIT IN KOREAN RESTAURANTS

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Ram-don, a noodle dish that was essentially invented for the South Korean movie “Parasite,” has become a hit in the city’s Korean restaurants, according to New York Eater. The name ram-don is an amalgamation of ramen and udon, two types of low-cost noodles, which are combined to make a cheaper meal more interesting. Esther Choi, chef and owner of the Brooklyn restaurant Mokbar at 212 Flatbush Ave., says she makes her own noodles to serve in the dish because it “wouldn’t make sense” to serve instant ramen at an upscale noodle shop. Her version features both seafood and beef. 

COUNCILMEMBER LEVIN HONORS IDA B. WELLS

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Councilmember Stephen Levin (D-Boerum Hill-Brooklyn Heights-Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Greenpoint) and other Brooklyn officials hosted a street co-naming ceremony in Downtown Brooklyn on Saturday to honor Ida B. Wells. Wells was a groundbreaking investigative journalist, civil rights leader and feminist. When living in Brooklyn, she published editorials exposing lynching and helped to found the National Association of Colored Women

in 1898. A plaque for Wells was unveiled on the façade of J.P. Morgan Chase at 4 MetroTech during the street co-naming. 

PROTESTERS SLAM ALLEGED ASSAULT BY POLICE

CANARSIE — Hundreds of protesters rallied outside the 69th Precinct in Canarsie Saturday to demand answers after a video captured police officers tackling a 20-year-old man during an arrest for alleged marijuana possession, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The video posted to Twitter showed a plainclothes officer holding Fitzroy Gayle at gunpoint just before a group of officers tackled him to the group, as the young man screamed. Police said Gayle was smoking marijuana outside 100% Playground on Glenwood Road and had resisted arrest, but his attorney said his client had not committed any crimes, the Brooklyn Paper said. “We had a rally outside the precinct calling on the district attorney of Brooklyn to investigate this heinous kidnapping and assault,” said Rev. Kevin McCall of the Crisis Action Center in Brownsville. 

REFINANCE BOOM HAS LENDERS SCRAMBLING TO MEET DEMAND

CITYWIDE — A sharp drop in mortgage interest rates has sparked a sudden and unexpected refinance boom that has lenders scrambling to handle the large volume, according to CNBC. The stress on the lending market is keeping mortgage rates higher than they could be. Mortgage rates hit 3.11 percent on Monday, CNBC said. One borrower who called Bank of America on Saturday was told there would be a two-hour wait to speak with a loan officer. At Cross Country Mortgage, a small lender in Boca Raton, Florida, phones were ringing before 8 a.m. on Monday. 

CROWN HEIGHTS RESTAURANT OFFERS VEGAN ETHIOPIAN FARE

CROWN HEIGHTS — Crown Heights’ newest restaurant, Ras Plant Based, brings an Ethiopian presence to the neighborhood, according to Patch. The owners, chef Romeo Regali and his wife Milka, also own the Cobble Hill Ethiopian restaurant Awash. The new restaurant features a menu centered around an Ethiopian platter consisting of a variety of vegan options, from collard greens to red lentil stew, served over a traditional spongy flatbread. Other items include a vegan kebab, traditional Ethiopian coffee, vegan desserts and more. The restaurant is at 739 Franklin Ave. near Sterling Place, Patch said.

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Irish eyes were certainly smiling at the Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade dinner dance as elected officials, family and friends gathered to salute this year’s esteemed parade marshals. Honorees for the 27th Annual Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade — which will be held on Sunday, March 22 — were recognized at the gala event

which took place at El Caribe at 5945 Strickland Ave. in Mill Basin on Saturday, March 7. The 2019 parade’s grand marshal is community leader Linda Gallagher-Lomanto. “I’m very humbled and proud that the committee has chosen me to lead the 27th Bay Ridge St Patrick’s Day Parade down Third Avenue,” Gallagher-Lomanto told this paper. “The parade committee and its sponsors have done a wonderful job keeping Irish culture and heritage thriving in Bay Ridge.

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Congratulations to all my fellow honorees, and I’m looking forward to a warm, sunny day on Sunday, March 22.” Deputy marshals for the 27th annual parade include Meaghan McGoldrick, Judy Conway, Tracy McDonagh-Joerss, Eileen Tynion, Kristine Woods-Hansen, Eric DiRamio, Christopher Cody, Steven McEvoy, Billy Murphy and John Ward. “It’s such a tremendous honor to be a deputy marshal at this year’s parade,” said Tynion. “It’s the thrill of a lifetime and I have my family and friends here with me tonight. I’m just delighted,” she added. McGoldrick said that it felt very surreal to be honored. “It’s very humbling to be recognized as a deputy marshal, and I’m just thrilled to keep the tradition going.” The honorary Irishman of the year was Romeo Petric, who was born in Zadar, Croatia, but has served as parish athletic representative for the CYO Sports program at St. Patrick since 2002. He has also been involved in nearly every facet of the parish’s sports programs for over 25 years including soccer, baseball, basketball and

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id you know Bath Beach was named for England’s famous spa town, Bath? I hadn’t strolled around this charming Brooklyn neighborhood in the longest time. When the sun came out the other day, the idea of taking a long walk by the glittering waters of Gravesend Bay, then looping through quiet streets looking for modernized Victorian houses, was irresistible. An escape into the fresh air, where I found fab scenery, flocks of seagulls and a view of one of my favorite bridges, cheered me up immensely. Isn’t that what everybody needs these days — a little cheering up? One of Bath Beach’s most alluring features is a pedestrian and cycling path at the edge of the neighborhood, right on the shoreline, with the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge rising high above the water. So yeah, the Belt Parkway is there too, on the other side of a barrier. But I’m a very finicky person, and I don’t find the highway’s proximity too troubling. The sound of the passing cars is like white noise. Bath Beach’s waterside pathway is an extension of Bay Ridge’s popular Shore Road Promenade. I’m a big fan of the Bay Ridge end of the promenade, and I’ve published photos of it many times, in sunshine and in fog. The Bath Beach end of the path is pretty great, too.

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Feed the birds, tuppence a bag. On Bath Beach’s waterside promenade.

Before you head for Bath Beach, I should mention that you’ll need a heavier jacket than the day’s weather report suggests. Gravesend Bay’s waters are cold this time of year, and the breeze that comes off them is chilly. If you don’t live in Bath Beach, the easiest way to get to the shoreline promenade is to ride the R train to its terminus at 95th Street and Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge. Walk down Fourth Avenue for several blocks. Along the way, you’ll notice Cannonball Park. That’s what Bay Ridge residents call John Paul Jones Park. A 58-ton, Civil War-era cannon is on display there. At the end of Fourth Avenue, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge looms large. The promenade runs beneath it. Turn left, in the opposite direction from Lower Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Gravesend Bay begins at the bridge and stretches down to Sea Gate. If you’re obsessed with taking pictures like I am, you’re going to stop a lot during your walk along the shoreline and turn yourself and your camera back towards the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. It’s America’s longest suspension bridge, with a 4,260-footlong main span. Othmar Ammann, a structural engineer who was Bath Beach’s shoreline promenade offers a terrific view of the born in Switzerland, designed it. It opened in 1964. Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan You probably recall that for a half-century it was the VerrazanoNarrows Bridge with one “Z,” instead of two “Z”s like namesake explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano’s spelling. In October 2018, A MILITARY INSTALLATION’S TWO CENTURIES OLD Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a bill to correct this typo. When you start walking on the promenade, before Bath Beach homes come into view, you’ll see Fort Hamilton. It has the distinction of being New York City’s only active military base. The fort was established in 1825. On special occasions, civilians are invited onto the premises. Several years ago, I had the honor of attending Fort Hamilton’s 9/11 commemorative ceremony. On Sunday, when I was out on my waterside stroll, I saw a cargo ship heading towards Manhattan and a tiny tugboat pulling a big barge beneath the bridge. Runners and cyclists politely gave me a wide berth as I stood at a railing along the water, snapping photos. High clouds made pretty patterns in the azure sky. Whenever I was walking instead of gazing backwards at the bridge, I could see the top of the landmarked Coney Island Parachute Jump in the distance.

As I kept walking, the promenade became a double-lane pathway with a grassy median.

FEED THE BIRDS, TUPPENCE A BAG At Bay 8th Street, there’s a hill with a staircase that leads to an overpass connecting the rest of Bath Beach to the promenade. It’s worthwhile to climb the stairs for a bird’s eye view of the promenade, the bay and the bridge. Back down on the shoreline, there are benches if you want to linger and look at the water. When I was there on Sunday, a gentleman sat on one of the benches and fed seagulls and pigeons. They swirled around him like an avian tornado. A second overpass connecting the shoreline and the rest of Bath Beach can be found at 17th Avenue. These stairs also offer an excellent vantage point from which to see the promenade and Gravesend Bay. When seagulls aren’t being fed, they congregate on the rocky shoreline. Three of the birds flew up onto the railing along the promenade and stayed still long enough for me to snap a photo.

SAY SO LONG TO THE SHORELINE The promenade comes to an end at the edge of Bensonhurst Park, which is at the bottom of Bay Parkway. If you find it hard to leave the soothing shoreline, there’s a cluster of benches where you can sit and take a last look at Gravesend Bay. Eventually you should continue your walk, though. There are beautiful homes and an eye-catching NYPD stationhouse to see on the inland streets. As you turn up Bay Parkway, you’ll see Ceasar’s Bay Shopping Center. According to a posting on the Hey Ridge website, it’s spelled C-E-A-sar like its namesake, Ceasar Salama. Keep walking and you’ll pass a section of Bensonhurst Park that’s undergoing a $6.5 million renovation. It’s at the corner of Cropsey Avenue and Bay Parkway. Any direction you choose is a good direction for a walk in Bath Beach. I decided to turn onto Bath Avenue, then loop around on Benson Avenue back to Bay Parkway.

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Continued from page 12 INB I was afraid I would run out of time, so I left Cropsey Avenue out of my walk.There are lots of beautiful houses there. Several years ago, I took pictures of them. Low-rise Bath Avenue is lined with grocers, medical offices, pharmacies and interesting places to eat.

TERRIFIC TURRETS Many Bath Beach homes are mid-20th century attached brick rowhouses with garages on their bottom floors. I dearly love this type of housing stock, which can be found in numerous neighborhoods outside Brooklyn’s Brownstone Belt. But I also love the standalone Victorian houses that dot Bath Beach. They’ve got turrets and porches and panache. They’ve been modernized with siding. Some have walled-in porches. So what? They’re beautiful. America’s largest concentration of Victorian wooden houses can be found in a cluster of Flatbush neighborhoods that includes Prospect Park South and Ditmas Park. The iconic homes are also scattered through southern Brooklyn neighborhoods such as Bay Ridge and Bath Beach. As I walked along Bath and Benson avenues, I glanced up each side street. If I spotted a Victorian house, I walked over for a closer look. It was kind of like an Easter egg hunt when the eggs are placed out in the open. A quick look is all it took to find them. One of Bath Beach’s Victorian gems is 122 Bay 26th St., which has a turret, a wraparound porch and an enormous yard. It’s not in the best of shape. But it’s lovely.

A STELLAR STATIONHOUSE Another fine sight is a pair of homes at 8730 20th Ave. and 8732 20th Ave. Turrets on the corners of these houses look like silos. To give you a rough idea of how Bath Beach Victorians are priced, the property at 8730 20th Ave., which is a two-family home, sold for $1.4 million in 2015, city Finance Department records indicate. A couple blocks further down Bath Avenue, at the corner of Bay 22nd Street, you’ll see a distinguished wedge-shaped building. It’s red brick with stone cladding on its ground floor and has a band of green-hued ornamentation below its roof. This is the 62nd Precinct Police Station, as the name over the front door tells you. The building’s address is 1925 Bath Ave. The neighborhoods included in the 62nd Precinct are Bath Beach, Bensonhurst and Mapleton.

These similarly shaped Victorian houses are 8732 (at left) and 8730 20th Ave. in Bath Beach. St. Finbar’s present-day church building was dedicated in 1912. A few years ago, volunteers did extensive interior restoration, my colleague Paula Katinas reported.

IN THE SHADOW OF THE TRAIN TRACKS I can’t end this story without mentioning a trio of big, beautiful old houses. They include 79 Bay 25th St., which is on the corner of Benson Avenue, then 75 Bay 25th St., then 67-69 Bay 25th St. The last house I mentioned is clad in green-painted shingles and has an enormous front porch. City Buildings Department records suggest it was constructed in 1924. Even with Daylight Saving Time, sunset arrives all too soon when you’re walking around taking photos. When it got too late to take any more pictures, I turned left on Bay Parkway and headed up to 86th Street, which is considered the border of Bath Beach and Bensonhurst. There’s a D train station on the corner if you want to go home. Or you can get a bite to eat on 86th Street. There are lots of restaurants and cafes. If you’re in the mood for an additional adventure, you can continue east on 86th Street to Gravesend, where you’ll find popular pizzeria L&B Spumoni Gardens.

WITCHES’ HATS As I continued walking on Bath Avenue, a terrific Victorian house at 137 Bay 11th St. caught my eye. The roof on its slender turret is shaped like a dinner bell. I also noticed the skinny turret on the house at 1465 Bath Ave., which is on the corner of 15th Avenue. Some big houses are eye-pleasing even though they don’t have Victorian architectural flourishes — for instance, four homes with sharply peaked roofs at 143, 145, 147 and 149 Bay 8th St. When I got to the end of Bath Avenue, I turned onto 14th Avenue, walked up the block and then turned again onto Benson Avenue. I saw some beautiful homes I couldn’t photograph because the late-afternoon sun was right behind them. I did get a picture of a row of four Victorian houses that have rectangular towers topped with little roofs shaped like witch’s hats. Their addresses are 57 to 69 Bay 11th St.

ENDLESS SUNSHINE As I continued along Benson Avenue, one of the most eyecatching buildings I saw was a modern brick and glass property on the corner of 18th Avenue. This is the Italian-American Cultural Community Center, also known as Il Centro. It has classrooms, a fitness facility, a swimming pool and event space. Nearby, on the corner of Benson Avenue and Bay 20th Street, stunning St. Finbar stands. This Roman Catholic parish was established in 1880, when the village of Bath Beach was a mix of farms, resort homes, hotels and yacht clubs.

This Victorian home at 122 Bay 26th St. has a large lawn. INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan The parish’s website says the man who donated the site where the church was originally built, William Swayne, was from County Cork in Ireland. He asked that the church be named for St. Finbar, who was the first Bishop of Cork. According to a posting on Catholic Online, legend has it that when St. Finbar died, which was around the year 633, the sun didn’t set for two weeks.

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The New York Islanders were happy to get a point in their latest loss Tuesday night in Vancouver. But one look at the Eastern Conference playoff standings might change their rosy outlook. Brock Nelson scored a pair of goals, including the game-tying tally in the third period, but the Isles still dropped their seventh straight game, suffering a 5-4 shootout defeat to the Canucks in front of 18,871 fans at Rogers Arena. “It seems like we’re close, but we just have to find that puck or that play that is going to get us over the hump right now and turn it around,” Nelson said after New York opened a four-game road trip by falling one point behind Carolina and Columbus for the final two postseason spots in the East. “It seems like everything is stacked up against us a bit… We did a lot of good things today; I think we’re close.” Close hasn’t been nearly good enough for the Isles (35-23-10), who have gone 0-3-4 since posting a 4-1 victory over San Jose at the renovated Nassau Coliseum on Feb. 23. Andrew Ladd scored his first goal of the season, Jordan Eberle also tallied and Semyon Varlamov made 30 saves for New York before allowing J.T. Miller’s shootout goal that left the Isles on the outside looking in at the playoff picture. “Good point,” Isles Head Coach Barry Trotz said, putting a positive spin on the worst slide his team has endured during his two-year tenure at the helm. “You have to take every point. You worry about the points you can get,” he added. “Obviously, we put a point on the board tonight and we’ll just have to try to get another point or two next game. Keep doing that and we’ll look up after 82 and see where we are.” The Isles will continue their trip tonight in Calgary before visiting Edmonton tomorrow and Pittsburgh on Sunday. ISLE HAVE ANOTHER: Ladd, who has played sparingly these past two seasons due to a pair of knee injuries, lit the lamp for the first time since Oct. 30, 2018, against the Canucks. “It’s fun to be back in that room, playing with those guys and contributing,” Ladd said. “Hopefully, we can get it going in the right direction here and string a few wins together here. I’m confident if we play like that every night, we’ll get the result.”

Explore the shore and see Victorian houses in Bath Beach ABOVE: Everybody’s taking pictures on the steps of the Belt Parkway overpass.

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“Did you know Bath Beach was named for England’s famous spa town, Bath? I hadn’t strolled around this charming Brooklyn neighborhood in the longest time. An escape into the fresh air, where I (the columnist) found fab scenery, flocks of seagulls and a view of one of my favorite bridges, cheered me up immensely ... Isn’t that what everybody needs these days — a little cheering up?” —“Eye on Real Estate” by Lore Croghan / pages 12-13INB

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