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De Blasio: City may shut playgrounds People practiced social distancing at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Tuesday. See page 4.

Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Mary Frost

‘Here’s to 2020’: Brooklynites share one last round in the time of coronavirus

By Mary Frost

Brooklyn Heights Press

By order of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, last Monday was the last night bars were allowed to be open in New York City due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. That evening, many establishments in Brooklyn were filled with customers trying to get in a final drink — despite warnings that social distancing was necessary in the time of COVID-19.

The Brooklyn Heights Press went on a pub crawl to gauge the mood. “I think people are just trying to get their last hurrah in,�

Brazen Head’s owner Sasha Kotlyer told the Heights Press. “I don’t know how long we’re going to be closed for,� she said. The city keeps “putting out all these different releases, all these different mandates. There’s a lack of consistency and there’s no real communication.�

The bulk of the Brazen Head’s business comes from the courts and Downtown offices, and most of them are now closed.

RIGHT: “Better to be drunk at the end� the sign outside the Brazen Head bar on Atlantic Avenue read last Monday night.

Continued on page 3

‘Lonely Brooklyn Heights’

As the number of people confirmed with the novel coronavirus in New York City multiplies, the streets of Brooklyn Heights have become increasingly empty.

All unnecessary shops have closed, and there are fewer pedestrians each day as residents obey orders to stay inside if at all possible. These photos were taken mid­afternoon on Wednesday.

Brooklyn Heights Press photos by Mary Fost

In an attempt to block coronavirus transmission, plastic sheeting separates customers from clerks at CVS on Henry Street.

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‘Here’s to 2020’: Brooklynites share one last round in the time of coronavirus Continued from PAGE 1

“We have to lay off all 10 of our employees, unfortunately,” Kotlyer said. “It’s just me and my GM and my assistant GM that are staying on board.”

Social workers Ben (who didn’t want to give his last name) and Paige McIalkcke were having a couple of beers at the Brazen Head Monday night.

“We both do community-based health care with medically frail people,” Ben said. The job requires them to wear masks, use Saniwipes and take other precautions even without the added stress from COVID-19.

“So … no vacation for us,” he said. “We wanted to have one last vent session at a bar before we got quarantined.”

“We still have work tomorrow so we can’t get too drunk,” Paige said.

The mood was sober (so to speak) at O’Keefe’s Bar on Court Street near Brooklyn Borough Hall.

“It’s frustrating because there’s no end date. And no one knows, do we have the resources to help?” said Crown Heights resident Haydn Long, sitting at the bar near the front.

“Can I get unemployment? Are the landlords going to stop collecting rent? The markets are getting — wow. You hear capitalism, then you hear socialism … Maybe if we had health care right now,” he mused.

Long, the former general manager of Cent’anni, an Italian restaurant in Crown Heights, asked people to remember the restaurant owners.

Above: The Brazen Head bar owner Sasha Kotlyar, right, laughs with her bartender on the last night of service for the foresee­ Brooklyn Heights Press photos by Paul Frangipane able future.

A group sits at the bar while a man coughs into his sleeve at O’Keefe’s Bar and Grill.

From Left: The Brazen Head bar owner Sasha Kotlyar, hours before she had to close the bar due to the coron­ avirus pandemic. Owner of Someday Bar Megan Rickerson on the 8­month­old business’ last night of service.

“If you’re going to order from a restaurant, don’t use Seamless, don’t use Grubhub [because of] the fees that restaurants have to pay. Profit margins are so slim,” he said.

The Someday Bar near Hoyt Street on Atlantic Avenue was full of last-minute drinkers. Aaron Curran was enjoying a Finback Sour.

“I go to bars pretty much every night, but I have a lot of friends that work at bars so I’m kind of concerned what they’re going to do,” Curran said. “A friend of mine called and said he’s got at least eight weeks off, and a lot of people don’t have rent saved up months in advance.”

Curran said he’s currently doing bicycle delivery, “and since Thursday it’s been crazy busy. Maybe I’m going to figure out how to do deliver drinks, help my friends out.”

“Sometimes I feel bad because I’ve been going to bars every night to support my friends, and then I feel like I’ll read on Twitter that people were like, ‘Get out of the bars, go home.’ But I’m just trying to support people,” he said.

Owner of Someday Bar Megan Rickerson talks with patrons.

A sign outside the bar Floyd in Brooklyn Heights.

“I have no idea how we’re going to cope,” said Megan Rickerson, Someday’s owner. “I’m hoping that our landlord will understand with the rent. Any longer than a couple weeks I don’t really know, without some forgiveness, what we’re really going to be able to do.”

“We’re kind of worried that a lot of people are leaving the city. So who’s going to be left?” she said.

Someday has only been open for eight months. “That’s why this is kind of devastating, because we just really started catching our stride,” Rickerson said. She added, “I had to lay off my kitchen yesterday. That was really hard because we are so close.”

Elizabeth Stemmer, who teaches in Crown Heights and lives in Boerum Hill, was sitting around the bar’s corner from Curran. She said she thought Cuomo and de Blasio were doing the right thing by closing the bars.

“As a person in my 30s, I very much enjoy going out to the bars. But I’m also very much a fan of social distancing.

I’m petrified of New York becoming the next Italy, the next Seattle. So I think this is the responsible thing to do. That being said, I fully believe in supporting my local businesses.

I love this bar. The people at this bar, I want them to make it

through this crisis, I want to support them in any way that I can in the most hygienic, responsible way that I can.”

She added, “It’s going to be great when we can come back, and we’re going to have the biggest party!”

Next to her, Curran raised his beer. “Here’s to 2020,” he said.

Aaron Curran at The Someday Bar in Boerum Hill Thursday, March 26, 2020 • Brooklyn Heights Press • 3

Mayor warns city may shut playgrounds as coronavirus numbers spike

By Mary Frost

Brooklyn Heights Press

Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is giving New York City residents until Saturday evening to abide by novel coronavirus social distancing rules in parks and playgrounds.

If people don’t keep at least six feet from each other while getting fresh air and exercise, the city may shut the playgrounds, de Blasio said at a press conference Tuesday.

“We’ve very concerned that people don’t congregate,” he told reporters. Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said his patrols are out checking the playgrounds already.

“We’re seeing in most places people are abiding by the guidelines. In other places we have more who are not,” de Blasio said.

De Blasio said the worst is yet to come as COVID-19 cases continue to multiply and the city lacks the ventilators hospitals need.

“New York City has one third the cases in the entire nation. We are the epicenter,” he said. The only way to slow the spread is by social distancing, including in parks, he added.

“We’re working with New York state and the City Council to maximize education and enforcement of people enjoying parks and playgrounds. … I’m giving the process till Saturday evening. If by the end of Saturday it’s sufficiently clear that New Yorkers are not following the rules, I’m prepared to shut down the playgrounds,” he said.

A sign at Brooklyn Bridge Park warns that team sports and close contact in parks is forbidden during the coronavirus pandemic. Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday if people can’t keep at least six feet apart, he might move to shut down play­ grounds.

Brooklyn Heights Press photo by Mary Frost By order of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a “limited number of streets will be opened up, two per borough, as a pilot program” to reduce park congestion. The initial number is limited because there needs to be adequate law enforcement, the mayor said.

The streets will be chosen by tomorrow.

Gov. Cuomo said on Sunday he had been shocked to see the number of people crowding into parks and outdoor farmers markets during a visit to the city. He singled out Prospect Park in Brooklyn, which had been packed last Saturday around the farmers market.

Cadman Plaza Park in Downtown Brooklyn was al-

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most empty on Tuesday, with just a couple of family groups kicking balls around. Gone were the soccer teams that usually dominate the artificial turf on warm days.

On good behavior at Brooklyn Bridge Park Tuesday’s sunny weather brought families and joggers out to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Most people there seemed conscious of the need to stay at least six feet from others.

“We are very aware not to get too close,” said one Brooklyn Heights mom who brought her two young children to the park to play. (She did not wish to give her name.) “We stay in-

side most of the time. We just came out about ten minutes ago,” she added. The family lives in One Brooklyn Bridge Park, so the park is like their backyard, she said.

Another park-goer rode her e-bike all the way from East New York. She wore a cheetah face mask and a helmet with a Garmin action video camera mounted on top.

“This is my first video that I’m filming … for people who are interested in seeing what things are like right now,” she said.

“People are out and about, wearing their masks,” she observed. Workers were also “seizing the moment all over the place — planting stuff in the park, finishing up construction.”

Most of the park-goers she saw seem to be abiding by social distancing rules, she said.

“Yeah, I see it. I give people their space anyway, because I see people are intimidated by bikes, especially e-bikes.”

On Instagram she’s known as The Sweetest Cheetah (thesweetestcheetah), she said.

“As a joke, the bike shop guys were like, ‘You’re cheating, you’re riding an e-bike.’”

A different reality Brooklyn Bridge Park President Eric Landau told the Brooklyn Heights Press that the park was still open, but park users faced a different reality, one of “passive use and solitary recreation.” He urged parents to enforce social distancing and noted that playground equip-

ment is not sanitized.“We will assess how it goes this week,” he said.

Brooklyn Bridge Park is not operated by the New York City Parks Department, but rather by a Public Benefit Corporation under city control. It follows the same social distancing guidelines as city parks, however.

All permits for team play have been suspended, and areas where social distancing is not practical have been closed. The volleyball courts on Pier 6 and the basketball courts on Pier 2 have been closed since Friday, and signs explaining the new rules have been posted, Landau said. The Environmental Center is also closed, as are most of the bathrooms, for various reasons.

(The bathrooms near Pier 5 and Pier 6 are still open.)

The park shut down the Picnic Peninsula and its barbecue pits on Monday. The roller rink, climbing wall, Jane’s Carousel,

St. Ann’s Warehouse, Empire Stores and 1 Hotel are all closed.

“The Park Enforcement Patrol is making the rounds,” Landau said. About three quarters of the staff are working from home, but core essential operations like cleaning and trash are still going on.

As of Tuesday evening, 15,597 people in New York City had tested positive for coronavirus. Of these, 4,407 were in Brooklyn. Queens had slightly more, with 4,467. Manhattan registered fewer cases at 3,013, and the Bronx had 2,505. Staten Island had 999 cases. Across the city, 192 people had died from the disease.

Mayor de Blasio noted that those fatalities included the stupendously talented 2019 Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, known as “the bard of American theater.” De Blasio called him, “The greatest playwright in recent memory.”

News From Your Neighborhood BROOKLYN PRINCIPAL DIES OF CORONAVIRUS

BROWNSVILLE — A Brooklyn principal is among 125 city residents who have died of the coronavirus, according to CBS New York. Dezann Romain was principal of the Brooklyn Democracy Academy in Brownsville. She was the first known New York City public school staff member to die of the virus, CBS New York said. In a statement, Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza offered his condolences, saying, in part, “We’ll be there for the students and staff through whatever means necessary.” 

NYC HAS 5 PERCENT OF CORONAVIRUS CASES

CITYWIDE — Three weeks after its first coronavirus infection was discovered, the New York City region reached an alarming milestone on Sunday, according to The New York Times. It now accounts for roughly 5 percent of the world’s confirmed cases, making it an epicenter of the pandemic and increasing pressure on officials to take more drastic measures. Moving to stem the crisis on multiple fronts, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York pleaded with federal officials to nationalize the manufacturing of medical supplies and ordered New York City to crack down on people congregating in public. He suggest� ed some streets could be closed, allowing pedestrians more space, the Times said. 

RIDERSHIP DOWN ON SUBWAYS AND BUSES

CITYWIDE — Ridership was clearly down yesterday on all MTA transit systems, but some straphangers are still taking trains and buses, according to amNewYork. If ridership continues to stay down, it could create a multimillion-dollar loss to the system that might lead to massive cuts in services. Most riders have been advised not to enter fully-loaded trains, amNewYork reported. The MTA reported a 60 percent drop in ridership on Monday. 

COME ON AND TAKE A FREE RIDE

CITYWIDE — With dwindling ridership on New York trains and buses due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced recently that riders could essentially ride for free on all local bus routes, the Brooklyn Reporter website said. Additionally, it was implementing a rear door policy to keep passengers at a safe distance from the bus driver. On express buses, riders will board as normal and pay a fare. However, they will not be permitted to sit in the first three rows of the bus to ensure customers are a safe social distance from bus operators. 

WILLIAMS WANTS DE BLASIO TO SUSPEND CONSTRUCTION

CITYWIDE — New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams is calling on Mayor Bill de Blasio to suspend all non-essential construction work to prevent the further spread of coronavirus, according to the New York Post. “This painful step is needed as part of the city’s aggressive social distancing policy, to protect the health of construction workers, their families, and the general public,” Williams wrote in a letter to de Blasio that was also signed by Councilmembers Brad Lander and Carlos Menchaca of Brooklyn. The three lawmakers wrote the letter after the Post revealed that some construction workers are showing up for work even while sick. 

RANKS OF BROOKLYN VOLUNTEERS GROW

PARK SLOPE — Volunteers have flooded signup lists across Brooklyn and New York City with offers of help for people at risk from the new coronavirus, according to Patch. Park Slope resident Lily Pollak helps to manage one such list, “COVID-19 Support for Elderly and Immunocompromised in Brooklyn.”

So far, 125 volunteers have signed up, Patch said. One volunteer, Lauren Yaffe, posted that she can do “whatever is needed” for people living in Park Slope and a wide assortment of Brooklyn neighborhoods. “I love to walk!” she wrote. “Have shopping cart, will travel.” 

BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY PROGRAMS GO ONLINE

BOROUGHWIDE — The Brooklyn Public Library system has moved several community services to the web, according to

A woman wears a mask and gloves while waiting for a Manhattan bound R Train at the 77th Street Station in Brooklyn on March 12.

Eagle photo by Paul Frangipane

the Brooklyn Paper. Library staffers have worked tirelessly to continue to offer their many free programs by computer, such as story time for kids, creative writing contests, gaming sessions and career services. Librarians have started recording story-time sessions with their phones from their living rooms and broadcasting them live on the library’s Facebook page. 

CRISIS UNVEILS SHORT-STAFFING PROBLEMS IN NURSING HOMES

CITYWIDE —About two-thirds of the nursing homes in New York City are staffed below the national average, according to Gothamist. Before the lockdown, many people visited their relatives in the homes for several hours every day.

Now, however, those hours are curtailed. In fact, the state Health Department has instructed nursing homes to stop all visits. However, hospice patients can still receive patients.

“We have always been worried about nursing home staffing levels, and we are even more worried now,” said Susan Dooha, director of the Center of the Independence of the Disabled. Dooha wants state health inspectors to step up their presence. 

RENDERINGS SHOW EAST FLATBUSH BUILDING

EAST FLATBUSH — Renderings from S. Wieder Architect offer a look at a planned seven-story, mixed-use building at 2708 Snyder Ave. in East Flatbush, according to New York YIMBY. The corner property will eventually contain 105 rental apartments, two stories of commercial space and a 53-vehicle garage. Amenities will include a laundry room, a theater, an exercise room, a yoga room and bike storage. Residents will also have access to shared space on the roof, New York YIMBY said. Developer Anshel Friedman has not yet revealed a timeline for the project, although construction is already under way. 

INDUSTRY CITY HAS NEW CORONAVIRUS CASES

INDUSTRY CITY — Industry City, the 16-building complex on the Sunset Park waterfront, had two additional cases of COVID-19, according to the New York Post. The commercial-industrial complex sent emails to tenants and employees in Buildings 2 and 4, notifying them that people who had recently worked there had tested positive for the virus. In Building 2, the infected person was last seen on campus on March 4. The Building 4 patient was there as recently as March 10, according to the Post.

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BROWNSTONER FEATURES $2.1M BED-STUY BROWNSTONE

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Brownstoner is spotlighting a five-bedroom brownstone at 773 Hancock St., Bedford-Stuyvesant. In the dining room, period details such as the original tin ceilings, mantel and built-in china cabinet are still in place. A walk-through bar area connects the kitchen and dining room.

A screened-in porch extension leads to a backyard garden.

The home also has stained-glass windows in some areas. It is several short blocks to the J train’s Halsey Street station and near neighborhood cafes such as the MacDonough Café, Chez Alex and L’Antagoniste, Brownstoner said. 

NADLER, MALONEY WANT ASSISTANCE FOR MUSEUMS

BOROUGHWIDE — U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-Brooklyn-Manhattan) and Carolyn Maloney (D-Brooklyn-Queens-Manhattan) have requested that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy include $4 billion in federal assistance for nonprofit museums in their recovery package. They said in a recent letter, “Museums in New York State support 61,000 jobs and generate $5.4 billion in revenue.” Funds for museums usually come through fundraising, exhibits, educational programs and retail sales, but “without patronage, the earned revenue stream has evaporated overnight,” the legislators said. 

THREE INJURED AFTER FIRE BLAZES THROUGH HIGH-RISE

CONEY ISLAND — Three people were injured in Coney Island Tuesday after their seventh-floor apartment was hit by fire, according to amNewYork. The two injured civilians, a couple in their 50s, were taken to Coney Island Hospital in stable condition. A firefighter was also treated for minor injuries at the same hospital, amNewYork reported. The fire broke out around 5:50 a.m. at the Harborview Complex at 2920 West 21st St., a 12-story subsidized apartment building. Nearly 100 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to the incident, as well as police officers from the 60th Precinct. Firefighters found the injured couple in a stairwell. 

SOMEWHERE, OVER THE RAINBOW

COBBLE HILL — Residents of Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill and Gowanus have begun hanging rainbows in their windows, according to Pardon Me for Asking. One mother told the well-known blog that “It is a lovely reminder for all of us that in a storm, there is still something to look forward to.” There is even a Google “rainbow map” to which you can add your own multi-colored arch, along with pictures of other rainbows that you spot around the neighborhood.

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eye on REAL ESTATE See eye-catching homes on the perimeter of famous Green-Wood Cemetery

By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Brooklyn residents are going to Green-Wood Cemetery to take walks in its wide-open spaces during New York’s novel coronavirus lockdown. The graveyard is an excellent alternative to parks, where some people have been congregating in groups instead of practicing social distancing.

As visitors head towards the famous 478-acre cemetery’s main entrance on Fifth Avenue at 25th Street, they get an eyeful of industrial buildings and construction sites. They may not realize the neighborhoods surrounding it are full of beautiful housing stock — and there’s a transit depot named for an old-school Brooklyn TV star.

Here’s a look at some of the eye-catching homes on these peaceful blocks. If you don’t live within walking distance of this area, and therefore won’t be visiting it for the foreseeable future, this story can serve as a virtual tour for you.

Neighborhoods along the cemetery’s perimeter include Greenwood Heights and a snippet of Sunset Park.

I’m starting my story with Sunset Park because it’s the closer of the two neighborhoods to my Bay Ridge apartment, where I’m working during the coronavirus pandemic. To comply with social distancing rules, I am staying off subways and buses to leave more room on them for people who absolutely need to ride them.

The areas on the perimeter of Green-Wood Cemetery are full of handsome housing stock.

POBLANO PEPPERS AND MEXICAN SPICES On Sunday, when I walked around the area near GreenWood Cemetery, it took me one hour and one minute to get there from my apartment. (As I’ve mentioned, I stroll so slowly I’ve been told a sloth is probably my spirit animal.)

Rowhouses including 3904 Fifth Ave. (at right) extend down the block to 40th Street.

The first place I stopped was the corner of Fifth Avenue and 39th Street. This location is close to the portion of the cemetery’s border that runs along 36th Street from Fifth Avenue to Seventh Avenue.

On one corner of 39th Street, a grocery store called Guadalupita II occupies the ground floor of 3901 Fifth Ave. The shop is stocked with foods and spices from Mexico.

In happier times, when Brooklyn wasn’t in the middle of a pandemic, I bought ingredients from this shop, schlepped them home on the subway and cooked (err, tried to cook) a Mexican dish called Poblano soup.

On Sunday, food stores remained open on Fifth Avenue because they are deemed essential businesses. Several restaurants were open for takeout and delivery only, as bilingual signs in English and Spanish reminded customers.

To give you a rough idea of what rowhouses with apartments and storefronts are worth in this part of Sunset Park, 3901 Fifth Ave. was sold for $3.2 million in 2015 to an LLC with Alan Wasserman as general manager and member, city Sunset Park Diner stands on this corner of Fifth Avenue and Finance Department records indicate.

39th Street.

INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan On the opposite side of the street, there’s a handsome row of red-brick houses with storefronts that starts at 3904 Fifth tion, they do not.

Ave. and extends south to the corner of 40th Street.

So don’t be surprised that 889 Fifth Ave. is the address of the handsome building with barrel-vaulted window bays at the A HOTEL AMONG THE ROWHOUSES northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 39th Street. Sunset Park Here’s a bit of Brooklyn trivia I should mention: The num- Diner is located on its first floor. bering system for Fifth Avenue addresses changes at the interThere are also 12 apartments in this four-story property, section of 39th Street. On the south side of the intersection, city Buildings Department records indicate. the first two digits in the address refer to the closest cross street Continued on page 9INB that’s north of the property. On the north side of the intersec-

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eye on REAL ESTATE See eye-catching homes on the perimeter of famous Green-Wood Cemetery Continued from page 8 INB A modern hotel, Wyndham Garden, can be found a few doors down from a beautiful brick apartment house on the fourth corner of 39th Street. The apartment house’s address is 888 Fifth Ave. and its ground-floor tenant is a restaurant called China Wok. CCL Management LLC, with Daniel Chen as member, built the hotel at 457 39th St. a few years ago. The LLC assembled the hotel site by buying two adjacent properties for a combined total of $1.545 million in 2012, Finance Department records indicate.

HOW SWEET IT IS

These rowhouses can be found on 36th Street near the cemetery.

On the corner of 36th Street, directly across from GreenWood Cemetery, there’s a mammoth brick and concrete building whose address is 871 Fifth Ave. It’s not much to look at. But a sign near the roof depicts a full moon and a city skyline and is emblazoned with the words “The Jackie Gleason Depot.”

This NYC Transit System building is named after Brooklyn-born Jackie Gleason, one of the great comedians during broadcast television’s early decades. In his hit sitcom “The Honeymooners,” his character Ralph Kramden was a bus driver.

The 919,000-square-foot depot’s dedication took place in 1988 with a crowd of about 1,200 people present, the Associated Press reported at that time.

By the way, Gleason’s famous line, “How sweet it is,” was not something Ralph Kramden said in “The Honeymooners.”

It’s from a 1963 movie called “Papa’s Delicate Condition.”

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There’s a long-running debate about exactly where Greenwood Heights is located, and some people question whether it’s actually a neighborhood unto itself.

But Community Board 7, in whose district it’s located, recognizes it as a neighborhood. And the use of the name Greenwood Heights to describe the area near the cemetery was used as long ago as the 1840s by the Brooklyn Eagle, a 2013 Curbed.com story notes.

THERE’S EYE CANDY ALL OVER THE PLACE On the corner of 34th Street, a siding-covered rowhouse whose address is 822 Fifth Ave. is painted with a colorful mural by a graffiti artist who uses the name VERS 718.

A modern apartment building on the corner of 33rd Street and Fifth Avenue stands beside a row of beautiful, old-fashioned houses. To give you a rough idea of property values on this block, one of the homes in this row, namely 219 33rd St., sold for $1.295 million in 2016, Finance Department records indicate.

There’s a pair of squared-off, flat-roofed houses at 219 and 221 31st St. Both have red awnings over their front doors.

The facade of 219 31st St. is creamy-colored brick with red accents, and the facade of 221 31st St. is red brick with white accents. They’re pretty as a picture together.

Further down the block, close to the intersection of Fourth Avenue, stucco-covered and siding-covered rowhouses looked serene in the mid-day sunshine.

At left is the development that, as originally planned, would have blocked views of the Statue of Liberty from INBrooklyn photo by Lore Croghan Battle Hill.

PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS NAMED AFTER PRESIDENTS On Fifth Avenue just north of the corner of 30th Street, there are yards with lush foliage growing on fences and brick rowhouses, some painted and some not. They’re an unusual and eye-pleasing sight.

These are the backs of homes whose front entrances are on a pedestrian pathway called Roosevelt Court, which runs parallel to Fifth Avenue. To describe the setup more precisely, there are two sidewalks with homes facing each one, and garden space between the sidewalks.

To give you an idea of what these houses are worth, 5 Roosevelt Court was sold in January for $975,000, Finance Department records show.

When you stand on 30th Street in front of Roosevelt Court and do an about-face, you will see another set of homes and sidewalks laid out pretty much the same way. This is Woodrow Court.

In 2015, the house at 10 Woodrow Court sold for $980,000 Finance Department records indicate.

PITA CHIPS AND A HIGH-PROFILE GREENHOUSE On 29th Street off Fifth Avenue, beautiful 2½-story rowhouses in varying shades of caramel and orange seem to stretch to infinity.

On 27th Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues, oldfashioned red-brick rowhouses delight the eye.

At Baked in Brooklyn at 755 Fifth Ave. near the corner of 26th Street, social distancing is being enforced. A sign on the door says a maximum of 10 people at a time are allowed to go inside.

This is a division of Aladdin Bakers, which makes pita chips, flatbread crisps and crunchy breadsticks. The retail store, which is attached to a production facility, also sells fresh bread and pastries.

There’s a construction fence obscuring all but the top of the Weir Greenhouse at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, across from Green-Wood Cemetery’s main entrance.

The cemetery is in the process of renovating the landmarked commercial greenhouse, which was built in 1895, and turning it into a visitors center.

Green-Wood Cemetery bought the greenhouse for $1.625 million in 2012, and purchased an adjacent property for $1.5 million in 2015, Finance Department records show.

‘NUESTRO ANDAR FLORECE’ Green-Wood Cemetery’s Fifth Avenue border ends at 24th Street, where it turns east and extends to Sixth Avenue. There’s a Con Edison substation on this block, which I didn’t photograph.

Before I leave Fifth Avenue, I should point out a former factory building on the corner of 23rd Street. Pablito’s Taqueria

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and Restaurant occupies its storefront, whose address is 723 Fifth Ave. The Mixteca Organization, which offers programs and services for Mexican and Latin American immigrant families, has a community center in the building that uses the address 245 23rd St. The building’s 23rd Street facade is decorated with a vivid painting which is titled “Nuestro Andar Florece.” (The English translation is “Our Journey Blooms.”) Mexican women immigrants who now live in Brooklyn collaborated on this mural project, which was led by artists Michelle Angela Ortiz and Federico Zuvire.

While I was taking photos on 23rd Street, a man wearing a big backpack and clutching a shopping bag in one hand rode by on a unicycle. His ability to balance on the one-wheeled vehicle was impressive.

Further up the block, a handsome blue-hued house at 291 23rd St. caught my eye. It has changed hands four times in the past decade and a half.

Finance Department records show the sale price was $220,000 in 2003, then $529,000 in 2005 and after that $850,000 in 2016. And in 2019, it sold for $1.325 million.

MINERVA’S VIEW OF LADY LIBERTY The border of Green-Wood Cemetery extends along Sixth Avenue from 24th Street to 23rd Street, then runs along 23rd Street to Seventh Avenue. Then it stretches along Seventh Avenue from 23rd Street to 20th Street.

As I strolled through this area, another residential property with a beautiful blue-hued exterior got my attention. Its address is 301 23rd St. It has six apartments in it, Buildings Department records indicate.

On the corner of 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue, there’s a lowrise condo development on a site that caused a big controversy.

In 2005, property owner Chaim Nussencweig’s plan to construct a 70-foot-tall building at 614 Seventh Ave. came to light.

The development would have blocked Green-Wood Cemetery visitors’ view of the Statue of Liberty from up on Battle Hill.

That’s where a statue of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and war, stands as a tribute to the brave soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary War’s Battle of Brooklyn on the terrain where the cemetery is situated. Minerva holds up her hand in a salute to Lady Liberty, in a gesture that mirrors Lady Liberty’s raising of her torch.

In 2006, the developer signed an agreement with Green-Wood Cemetery to construct a shorter building at 614 Seventh Ave., which would allow the Statue of Liberty to remain visible to visitors on Battle Hill. The agreement was binding in perpetuity.

So it remained in effect after another developer, Aaron Lebovits, bought the property for $1.04 million in 2008, Finance Department records show. He constructed 11 modern townhouses that look like a single building.

And the view of Lady Liberty remains intact.

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ON MARCH 24, 1900, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Many a spadeful of earth has been upturned on Manhattan Island, but never was an upturning attended by so much significance as that performed with a silver spade in front of the City Hall this afternoon. For years New Yorkers, official and unofficial, rich and poor, have thought and talked about rapid transit, the ever growing problem of the metropolis. During the past twelve months, in municipal circles, there has been no topic to rival it in public importance, and today Mayor Van Wyck, in the presence of the Rapid Transit Commission and the invited guests of the city, made the work a reality and not a scheme. Millions of dollars will have to be spent before New York can be equipped with a transit system such as the commissioners have planned. To complete the project in its entirety will take a long time, but a start is everything, and this afternoon New York’s greatest public improvement had its formal beginning.”  ON MARCH 24, 1943, the Eagle reported, “WASHINGTON (U.P.) — The Office of Price Administration served notice on Americans today that they will do well to stop dreaming of steak and focus their appetites and point purchasing power on hamburger, stew and such delicacies as pigs’ ears, pork kidneys and beef brains. The OPA published the official list of points which housewives will have to fork over for meat, cheese, butter, fats, cooking oils and canned fish when rationing of those foods goes into effect next Monday. There are 16 points per person per week.

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order last Friday mandating sweeping restrictions on businesses and social life across New York State due to the exponential spread of the novel coronavirus.

The order, which he dubbed “PAUSE” (Policies Assure Uniform Safety for Everyone) went into effect last Sunday evening.

“We’re going to take the ultimate step,” Cuomo said.

Only essential businesses will be allowed to have employees working outside of the home, and all residents must remain indoors except for essential activities, he said.

“One hundred percent of the nonessential workforce must work from home,” the governor said. This order does not apply to essential businesses, which include health care services, mass transit, police, fire and emergency responders, banks, caregivers, grocery stores, pharmacies and the internet and utilities among other essential services, he said. “You have to go to the ATM and get money. But not like luxury services. You want a massage, that’s not essential.”

There are currently no penalties planned for individuals who violate the order, only businesses. “This is not voluntary. There will be civil fines and there could be mandatory closure for businesses that don’t comply,” Cuomo warned.

The governor said the restrictions were necessary because of the acute shortage of hospital beds, medical protective supplies such as masks and gowns, and especially ventilators, coupled with an expected onslaught of patients with respiratory failure due to the virus.

“Ventilators are to this war what missiles were to WWII,” he said, declaring to manufactures that the state will pay a premium to businesses that have or can make

the scarce devices.

“I’m increasing the mandates because the numbers are increasing. You have the density control valve. If the numbers start to go up, tighten the valve,” Cuomo told reporters.

To allow more businesses to work online, the state has asked internet providers to increase data capacity, and to do this at no charge, Cuomo said.

Noting that there was some disagreement from some other state officials on the tighter restrictions, Cuomo said, “This is a statewide order. I take full responsibility.”

Earlier last Friday, Cuomo announced that hair salons, barber shops, tattoo parlors and other personal care services would be closed beginning Saturday at 8 p.m. to slow the spread of the virus. That order didn’t have time to go into effect before it was superseded by the more sweeping “PAUSE” order.

“This is not life as usual. Recognize it, accept it and deal with it,” Cuomo said.

Mayor Bill de Blasio had warned New Yorkers last Tuesday that a “shelter-in-place” order similar to the one in effect in the Bay Area, and now throughout California, could be coming to New York City, a term that the governor quickly shut down.

“I believe communications are important and words are important,” Cuomo said last Thursday, adding that the term shelter-in-place was more appropriate for an active shooter situation or, in past days, a nuclear disaster.

“Say what you mean and don’t say what might alarm people,” he said.

He added that years from now he wants to be able to look back and say, “I did everything we could do.”

Individuals are still allowed to leave their homes for exercise, the governor said.

“You need to get out and get some fresh air? Sure, go out and take a walk,” Cuomo said, with the provision that exercise be solitary. “Run, hike. Not basketball.”

He also said that the state would stop evictions of residential or commercial tenants for 90 days and noted that the deadline for filing federal taxes has been extended to July 15.

The strictest rules would apply to the most vulnerable: Seniors over the age of 70, immuno-compromised people and those with underlying illnesses. People in these groups must remain indoors with the exception of “solitary exercise.” They have been told to pre-screen all visitors and aides by taking their temperature, not to visit households with multiple people and to wear a mask when in the company of others. People in vulnerable categories must stay at least six feet away from others, and not take public transportation unless absolutely necessary, Cuomo said.

To the greatest extent possible, everyone in the presence of vulnerable people should wear a mask as well, the governor said.

For those who are not in the vulnerable group, another set of rules applies.

These include a ban on nonessential gatherings of any size for any reason, such as parties. At any essential gathering, social distancing must be in effect. This means staying at least six feet from others. Essential businesses must put in rules to maintain the six-feet standard. Outdoor recreation must be limited to non-contact activities.

Commuters should limit the use of public transportation and must space themselves out by at least six feet. Sick people must not leave their homes except to go to medical appointments, and only after a telehealth appointment. Young people should try to limit their contact with vulnerable populations, even family members.

The governor said that as of Friday morning, there were 7,102 confirmed cases in New York State, an increase of 2,950 since yesterday. By far the greatest number of these are in New York City, with 4,408 cases, up 1,939 since yesterday. Some of the increase is due to increased testing, the governor said.

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