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New BHA Head Preps for Issues: BQE and Beyond

By Mary Frost

Brooklyn Heights Press

The Brooklyn Heights Association announced last week that it has chosen Lara Birnback as its new executive director, replacing Peter Bray, who stepped down last month.

Birnback lives in Brooklyn Heights with her husband and daughter. This week, she spoke to the Brooklyn Heights Press about her experiences, expectations and priorities as incoming head of the BHA. The incoming executive director of the Brooklyn Heights Association will be taking up the reins of the venerable organization at a time when issues like development and the $4 billion rehabilitation of the BQE have roiled the neighborhood.

Lara Birnback has years of experience with nonprofits, governmental and international development agencies â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including stints in such far-flung corners of the world as Kenya.

Born in California, Birnback attended graduate school at Columbia University, earning an MA in International Affairs. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in 1996.

For the nonprofit organization Public Agenda, Birnback worked on projects across the United States â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in Nebraska, New Mexico, the Mississippi Gulf Coast, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Trying to help people better communicate about issues they really care about,â&#x20AC;? she told the Heights Press.

Birnback has worked to support civil society organizations in Eastern and Central Europe on behalf of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and as a communications specialist for the U.S. Agency for International Development in Nairobi, Kenya.

It was her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work for the United Nations that took the family to Kenya, Birnback said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There I was a contractor at the U.S. Embassy working for the United States Agency for International Development on communications issues â&#x20AC;&#x201D; helping tell the story of what U.S. aid is doing in Kenya. It was an amazing, wonderful interlude,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Three years later, the family was back in Brooklyn, and Birnback took a job with the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Small Business Services.

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Neil Carl Estern, sculptor of monumental works, dies at 93

Estern with his 9-foot tall sculpture of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Photo courtesy of Diane Smook

By Mary Frost

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rooklyn born and raised artist Neil Carl Estern, whose monumental public sculptures can be seen in Washington, D.C., Manhattan and Prospect Park, among other venues, died on July 11 at the age of 93.

He lived with his wife and three children on Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights for 53 years, where his studio was upstairs. About 11 years ago he moved to a pied-à-terre in Manhattan, and also lived in West Cornwall, Connecticut.

Neil Estern’s massive sculpture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his wheelchair, and his dog Fala in Room Three of Photo by Carol Highsmith, via Library of Congress the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington, D.C. Estern, working largely in bronze, was acclaimed for his depictions of presidents, actors and royalty. Unlike many monumental works of famous figures, his sculptures captured both the strengths and the infirmities of his subjects.

Estern spent more than 10 years creating what are perhaps his best-known pieces: a massive seated figure of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a relief of Franklin and Eleanor, and a sculpture of their famous Scottish Terrier, Fala, for the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. Estern’s first public commission was a bronze portrait bust of John F. Kennedy for the Kennedy Memorial at Grand Army Plaza, which was unveiled by Robert F. Kennedy on May 31, 1965.

Other works include life-size relief portraits in Prospect Park of park designers Calvin Vaux and Frederick Olmsted; a 3D figure composition “Expulsion from Paradise” owned by the Brooklyn Museum; a sculpture of Eleanor Roosevelt at the National Cathedral in Washington DC; a sculpture of Sen. Claude Pepper, at the Pepper Museum in Tallahassee, Florida; the statue of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in Greenwich Village; and a relief of Irving Berlin at the Music Box Theater.

Estern created sculptures for several covers of Time Magazine, including J. Edgar Hoover, Prince Charles and Lady Diana and President Jimmy Carter. His work is in many private collections.

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In his Brooklyn Heights art studio, sculptor Neil Estern creates a model of his famous sculpture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. From the book, “Shaping a President: Sculpting Photo courtesy of Diane Smook for the Roosevelt Memorial.”

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Neil Carl Estern, sculptor, dies at 93 Continued from PAGE 2

Photographer Diane Smook and writer Kelli Peduzzi spent five years documenting Estern as he created the FDR Memorial sculptures, from the scale models in Brooklyn to their bronze casting at the Tallix Art foundry in Walden, New York. Their book, published

by Millbrook Press, is called “Shaping a President: Sculpting for the Roosevelt Memorial.”

“Over a period of almost five years, I made thousands of photographs of Neil Estern working on this historic project,” Smook said in a statement she forwarded to the Brooklyn Heights Press on Wednesday. “In each stage of creation, I was struck by the forceful personae emerging out of inert substances. Neil’s concentration was total. The figures, even in armature form, seemed to interact with him and appreciate his perfectionism.”

She added, “Within the final massive nine-foot seated FDR statue, Estern has beautifully captured both the president’s forceful personality and the human frailties he strove to keep hidden. The nine-foot standing Eleanor conveys sensitivity and intelligence.”

Hard working and modest

Estern with the head of Roosevelt.

Photos courtesy of Diane Smook

“He had an incredible gift and he didn’t think anything about it.

He just loved doing his work,” Estern’s daughter Tory Estern Jadow, a film director, told the Heights Press. “People called him a national treasure, which always surprised him. He was almost like an oldschool artisan. He paid incredible attention to detail and had pride in getting it exact and right.”

Jadow said her father had the ability “to infuse his pieces with the personality of the subject. That’s where he stood apart. He was not just a technical perfectionist — there was a huge aura of personality emanating off the bronze.”

Estern got his start as an artist when he took ill at the age of 6 and was bedridden for a short period, Jadow said. His father brought him some clay to play with while confined to bed, and he started making figures. Over the years, his talent became apparent to his teachers, who “funneled him” into art classes and schools.

After starting a family and needing a steady income, he took a job as a model maker for the Ideal Toy Corp. There he created realistic dolls that became hits, including the life-size Patti Play Pal doll.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Patti Play Pal “has gone down in collectible annals as a “masterpiece of American vinyl.”

“That’s the one people are still talking about,” Jadow said. “I remember walking with her to the promenade. She was large, like your imaginary friend.”

Other collectible dolls designed by Estern can still be found online. He modeled the heads and limbs, and his wife Anne designed the wardrobes and created the concepts, his family said.

Punched the clock

Estern working on his sculpture of Roosevelt’s beloved Scottish Terrier, Fala.

Jadow described her father as “warm, friendly, kind and open,” and a disciplined worker who “punched the clock,” working from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. every day, going straight upstairs after breakfast.

“It was like an office for him,” she said.

Estern frequently worked with male and female nudes. “He had a love affair with the human form,” Jadow said. When her father was sculpting nudes in his studio, at lunch time “the models would put on a shift and have lunch with my mom and the kids, then go back up.”

When Estern had his work cast in the foundry in Italy, he took his family there for six months at a time.

“It seemed normal to us. I never understood how unusual our lifestyle was until I was 17 or 18,” Jadow said.

Grew up in Flatbush

Estern working on his sculpture of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Estern was born in Brooklyn on April 18, 1926. He was the only son of Molly Sylbert Estern and Marc J. Estern. He grew up in Flatbush near Prospect Park and graduated from the High School of Industrial Art (now the High School of Art and Design) in 1944.

He attended the Tyler School of Fine Art in Philadelphia (a division of Temple University) and graduated in 1948 with a BFA as well as a BS in Education. He also studied at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, and studied and worked for many years in Pietrasanta, Italy.

Estern married Anne Graham in 1948; Rabbi Stephen Weiss presided.

He was president of the National Sculpture Society from 20052007 and 1994-1997, and a fellow there from 1987-2019. He was an academician at The National Academy of Design from 19962019, and an artist member of The Century Association. He belonged to the Rembrandt Club in Brooklyn.

Estern’s awards are too numerous to list. They include the Medal of Honor from The National Sculpture Society, 2008; the Maynard Award from the National Academy, 1999; Daniel Chester French Award from the National Academy, 1997; the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Award for Fiorello LaGuardia statue in 1996; the Mildred Vincent Prize, National Sculpture Society in 1992 and many others.

He is survived by Anne Graham Estern, his wife of 71 years, and three children: Peter (and his wife Lauren Chan), Evan (and his wife Dawn Hathaway) and Victoria Estern Jadow (and her longtime partner, John Gruen), and three grandchildren: Ethan Jadow, Lucie Jadow and Lucas Estern.

There will be a memorial in the fall. Check back for details.

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The Brooklyn Heights Association’s incoming Executive Director Lara Birnback.

Heights Press photo by Mary Frost

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She worked on programs to improve the resiliency of businesses that had suffered from Hurricane Sandy, then moved into the neighborhood development division, which focuses on creating thriving, economically healthy neighborhoods.

“What I loved about that work — and what I think I will end up loving about this role with BHA — is that it’s the neighborhoods in New York City that makes this a wonderful, livable place,” she said.

“Maybe your initial thought is it’s the big city, the bright lights and all of that — but it’s really your experience of being part of a micro-community in your neighborhood. Where you might know the shopkeeper, the local café, the dry cleaner you’re saying hi to, the pet store owner giving your dog a treat,” she said.

“It’s those kinds of experiences that people have that tie them to the city and make them feel at home here. So that’s what excited me about the neighborhood work, especially since Brooklyn Heights has been my home for a long time, and my husband grew up here,” she said.

“A part of what was really interesting to me … is this idea of people power, and specificly engagement of communities and how that can be a force for change,” she added.

Birnback says she’s very grateful to outgoing Executive Director Peter Bray, “who has helped prepare me with a lot of material and conversations, and been incredibly helpful so far.”

Top priorities The BQE reconstruction will continue to be a top priority for the organization and for herself, Birnback says. While she hasn’t started her new job yet, we asked her for her initial take on the mayor’s BQE Panel.

“I think it's fair to say that to the best of my knowledge, all of the BHA's interactions with the Panel have led the organization to believe that its members take their task very seriously and are working very hard at it,” she said.

“Of course, it's not possible to predict whether the BHA will agree with the Panel's report once it is issued, nor can we predict what the mayor and DOT will do with the Panel's recommendations once they are issued.

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“For now, at least, the organization is extremely pleased to hear that the Panel decided the Promenade Highway was not at all feasible,” she said.

She also listed the jail on Atlantic Avenue and its redevelopment as an expected priority, along with school matters.

“The education question is critical for a lot of people who live in this neighborhood,” she said.

“I’m also interested in continuing the work that the organization has done on recent years to partner with neighboring similar organizations, whether it’s in Cobble Hill or DUMBO or Boerum Hill, our neighbors.

Strengthening and maintaining those relationships is a priority for me,” she said.

“I’d also like to look into how we can continue to let the residents of Brooklyn Heights know that the BHA has been there for them, whether they realize it or not, and will continue to be there for them — whether they are members or not,” she said.

Birnback says she wants to understand how BHA can encourage those who haven’t been active in the organization in the past get involved.

“The demographics of the neighborhood are changing somewhat; there are a lot of new families here. I’m trying to understand how we can help them feel connected to Brooklyn Heights, to encourage the community to come together whether it’s over a big policy question or over a beloved neighborhood event.”

Boots on the ground Birnback says she feels that “walking the streets” will be critical to her new role at BHA.

While she knows some folks just from living in the Heights, “There’s many more people — residents, business owners, leaders in our local institutions — that I’m excited about meeting,” she said.

“There are lots of people who care about Brooklyn Heights and who may or may not be as interested in [big] policy issues,” she said. “I think it’s really important, even if it’s a tricky balance to strike, to address concerns on that micro-level — if the tree is busting out of the tree pit on my block and it’s creating a hazard, or there’s rats that are living exactly here and how do we eradicate them.”

For many residents, “Their day-to-day is much more affected by those types of questions and those issues, and we need to pay attention to them as well,” she said.

“I’m also looking forward to getting to know some of the small business owners in the neighborhood,” Birnback said.

She says she will be trying to understand how the BHA can partner with them, what their needs are, and “what are the relationships and connections there that can be built to make sure we have a thriving business community, a robust mix of retail and services that the community is interested in.”

She added, “The vacant storefront issue is complicated and I certainly don’t pretend that I have the answer or that there even is one answer. However, I still think it’s an important issue and something that we, as an association, should be thinking about.”

News Around the Boro 

BAY RIDGE — The most recent Bay Ridge location of Circles Café and Grill has closed its doors at 6931 Third Ave. and disconnected its phone, according to Brookynreporter.com. The restaurant’s original location, which opened in 1976 was 310 Bay Ridge Ave. The owners opened an addition Bay Ridge location at 9023 Third Ave., which lasted until 2015. “One of [Circles’] chefs died this past year, and they decided to close the business,” Moe Sayed, a real estate broker who is listing the property, told Brooklynreporter.com. Councilmember Justin Brannan said of Circle’s owners, “They were hard workers who lived in the community and were involved in the community.”

Filming for Paramount Pictures’ live-action adaptation of “Clifford the Big Red Dog” took place in Bedford-Stuyvesant this week, with crews setting up on residential blocks near Malcolm X Boulevard and in a nearby playground.

AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek

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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Bedford-Stuyvesant has turned into a “hotbed of construction,” with about 27 percent of all homes on the market being within a football field’s distance of an active construction site, according to Patch. “Moving to Kings County might not necessarily bring you peace and tranquility, at least in the near term as the borough’s building book continues,” said Nur Gonen, data scientist for Localize.city, a real estate research website. Localize.city warned house- or apartment-hunters, especially those who look at properties at night, to investigate the neighborhood before they sign a lease. According to a Patch survey, Bed-Stuy was Brooklyn’s second-busiest neighborhood, just behind Williamsburg. 

BOROUGHWIDE — On Friday, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joined elected officials and health experts at Borough Hall to urge Mayor Bill de Blasio and Police Commissioner James O’Neill to include mediation and mindfulness training in a recently announced NYPD Health and Wellness Task Force. Since the beginning of 2019, six police officers have taken their own lives. “The stress and trauma that our police officers face on a daily basis, where they are frequently forced to make life-ordeath decisions, are all too familiar to me as a former NYPD captain and member of the force,” said Adams, speaking at Borough Hall. “The job of a New York City police officer has always been a stressful one, but policing today is more mentally and environmentally taxing that ever before,” added Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch. 

BROWNSVILLE — On July 27, 30 Brooklyn kids will get a chance to run their own business, according to Brooklyner. Through the National Lemonade Day program, they have been drafting business plans and learning about finance. Finally, they will sell their lemonade at the Brownsville Recreation Center. Children who participate mainly are referred by the Central Brooklyn Economic Development Corp., although some sign up individually. “When you see how inspired kids are when they actually start collecting money, it’s a pretty powerful thing,” said Bryan Guadingo, the National Lemonade Day program’s New York City director. Last year’s event was held in McCarren Park in Williamsburg. 

BUSHWICK — The MTA has announced that it will cut back L-train overnight service between Lorimer Street and Broadway Junction on nights and weekends for the rest of July and for occasional nights and weekends through the end of the year, according to Curbed. Trains are already running only every 20 minutes from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. On weeknights, trains won’t run between Lorimer and Broadway Junction from midnight to 5 a.m.; and on weekends, the closure will begin at 10 a.m. The MTA says it needs access to the tracks in Brooklyn to make repairs as part of its over Canarsie Tunnel project. The L train’s East River tunnel was seriously damaged during Superstorm Sandy. While the Lorimer-Broadway Junction stretch of the L train is closed, shuttle buses will be available to straphangers, Curbed said. 

CANARSIE — Mozelle Brown, who lost her daughter to bullet mean for someone else two years ago, held a party in Canarsie Park recently to honor those who put her daughter’s killers behind bars, according to PIX11.

“You feel like family now,” Brown told the detectives and assistant district attorneys attending the party. After the original shooting, Det. Philip Facenda of the 81st Precinct and Det. Thomas Pisano of Brooklyn North tracked

the killers down to North Carolina. Last month, Nazir Saunders and Anthony Alexander were convicted of second-degree murder. The gathering released dozens of balloons with shouts of “We love you Chynna,” referring to Chynna Battle, the murder victim. 

CONEY ISLAND — The Brooklyn Paper recently listed what it considers Coney Island’s top food spots. They included Al Cavallino, a pizza shop serving “high-end personal pizzas” that opened two months ago; Kitchen 21 in the former Childs Restaurant building, which serves traditional seaside fare such as burgers and seafood with a gourmet twist; Nathan’s Famous, whose hot dogs are synonymous with New York franks for many people; Williams Candy Shop, the home of candy apples and chocolate-covered marshmallows; and Ruby’s Bar and Grill, “your beer and snack go-to while on the beach.”

Conspicuous by its absence from this list was Gargiulo’s Italian Restaurant, a few blocks from the amusement district, which has been a high-end attraction for more than 100 years. 

CROWN HEIGHTS — MTA New York City Transit President Andy Byford thinks handwritten service announcements, such as the hastily scrawled “No Manhattan-Bound Trains” signs found at the President Street station on Crown Heights on Monday, make the subway system “look like a mom-and-pop shop.” The standard 8½-by-11-inch sheets of white paper were the only notices of the closure. Byford added that “Handwritten signs are anathema to me. They are an embarrassment,” according to the New York Post. Station managers have been reminded to stick to official signs. 

DYKER HEIGHTS — Five people were injured when a car in Dyker Heights jumped onto the sidewalk and crashed into a deli on Sunday morning, according to ABC7. The incident happened around 8:15 a.m. at the corner of 14th Avenue and 67th Street. Two people were injured seriously, and three others suffered minor injuries. The victims were taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn and Maimonides Medical Center. 

FORT GREENE — A restored 1850s townhouse in Fort Greene topped luxury real estate sales in Brooklyn last week, according to The Real Deal. The six-bedroom property was sold for $3.9 million. The second most expensive contract was for a condo at 347 Henry St. in Cobble Hill, which went for $3.7 million. Luxury sales in the borough were worth a combined total of $38.9 million,

The Real Deal reported. The properties each averaged 108 days on the market. Stribling, a high-end real estate firm, describes luxury sales as $5 million or higher. 

PARK SLOPE — The Park Slope Civic Council and the Park Slope Fifth Avenue BID are scheduled to present “Art Slope,” a presentation of film shorts, at the Old Stone House in Washington Park on July 19, starting at 8:30. Washington Park is just off Fifth Avenue and Third Street. Eight short films will be shown, and all are suitable for children, according to the Civic Council. 

RED HOOK — Forbes recently reviewed an electric car ride one of its writers took in Brooklyn. The electric car in particular was a Porsche Taycan, the luxury brand’s first battery-powered electric vehicle. This Taycan took part in last weekend’s electric-car races on the Red Hook waterfront. The ride wasn’t a cab ride, but a “demo ride” before Sunday’s race. “The Taycan seemed to handle remarkably well,” Forbes reported. “It was stable through corners with minimal body roll, although it did pitch forward under hand braking.” Bear in mind that through much of the demo ride, the Taycan was going forward at triple-digit speeds. 

SEA GATE — Registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has been getting quite a lot of publicity lately due to his reputed ties to President Donald Trump, grew up in Sea Gate, a gated middle-class enclave at the western end of Coney Island, according to the Forward. The family lived across the street from Kenesses Israel, the area’s oldest synagogue. Epstein and his brother Mark were both gifted students in math, and Jeffrey himself was known as a talented musician. Like most kids in the neighborhood, he attended Lafayette High School, which was then largely Italian-American and Jewish.

Eventually, Epstein went to college, started teaching at the elite Dalton School and moved to Wall Street. “He never looked back,” the Forward said. 

WILLIAMSBURG — The 116 annual Giglio feast is underway in Williamsburg. The feast, dedicated to San Paolino, came to New York from Italy in 1903, according to PIX11. Part of it involves lifting a towering “Giglio” statue. In the past, there were waiting lists for people who wanted to help lift the Giglio. However, many Italians have moved out of Williamsburg in the recent past, and this year the organizers of the feast had to solicit lifters for the 72-foot structure. After outreach efforts, they found 100 new people, according to Giglio lieutenant Neil Dellamonica.

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Seventh annual Play for Pink Golf Tournament raises money for cancer research

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t was a perfect afternoon to golf for a very good cause on Saturday, July 13 at the seventh annual Play for Pink tournament at Dyker Beach Golf Course.

The fundraiser was sponsored by the Brookridge Women’s Golf Club with all proceeds going to support the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

According to event organizer and Brookridge Women’s Golf Club member Katherine Condon this was their best turnout so far.

“It feels awesome to be here,” Condon told this paper. “The weather is perfect and I believe this is our best event ever. We were sold out two weeks ago with 144 players of all levels—from expert to amateur — with men hitting the links as well as women.”

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Brookridge Golf Club President Louise Lawson and club member and event organizer Katherine Condon accept check for $6,300 from Dyker Beach Golf Club.

Lisa Coyle accepting awards for the Coyle family, Brookridge Golf Club President Louise Lawson and Kathy Vocchichio.

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Conlon was also thrilled that this year’s event raised over $28,000, besting last year’s total of $25,000.

“It’s also wonderful that Dyker Beach Golf Course on their own ran different events to collect money for us,” continued Condon. “They donated over $6,300 towards this event and that to me is very special that they would do this for us. I love golf and

it’s just a great event overall.”

The day included a continental breakfast, 18 holes of golf with a cart, hole in one contests and longest drive contests. After playing, golfers enjoyed lunch on the Dyker Beach Golf Club veranda with door prizes, raffles and gifts.

This year’s winners were Eddie Gardner, Victoria Gardner, Terry Tarangelo and Maddie Lopez.

Dyker Beach Golf Course has been hosting the Brookridge Women’s Golf Club since 1955.

Eddie Gardner, Victoria Gardner, Brookridge Golf Club President Louise Lawson, Maddie Lopez and Terry Tarangelo.

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t was a solemn night to reflect and recall loved ones lost on Sept. 11, 2001 and pay tribute to the heroic first responders who risked their lives to save lives at the twin towers.

Over 500 people attended the 12th Heroes Night celebration at the Wall of Remembrance at MCU Park in Coney Island on Friday,

July 12.

Those attending the service included families of first responders, 36 probationary firefighters carrying the American flag, the FDNY Ceremonial Unit and the FDNY Emerald Society Bagpipers.

The event allows the families of first responders to enjoy a Brooklyn Cyclones baseball game following a prayer service at the wall with FDNY Chaplain Msgr.

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This year’s tribute honored the memory of Raymond Goffio, FDNY honorary battalion chief and Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance director. First responder Goffio died last year. Goffio’s brother Joe threw out the first pitch at the Cyclones game.

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Play Nice Theatre has begun its season of lighthearted musicals with positive, life-affirming messages about cooperation and kindness. And they’re looking for their July/August cast, musicians, and backstage helpers.

Relocated from Manhattan, this all-volunteer company’s rehearsals and meetings reflect their mission and message by encouraging its mixed-generation cast and crew (ages 6 to 106) to interact socially and share stories of their own lives on and off stage.

In a welcoming atmosphere, the experienced and new Play Nice actors and crew are encouraged to come early and linger after assigned rehearsal slots in order to get to know each other, help each other memorize their lines, do school homework and play games. Some may choose to help with scenery painting or prop-making.

All ticket sales from main stage shows ($10 admission) is donated to local charities, a prime motivation for many participants who find it rewarding to help raise money for those less fortunate through donating their time and talent.

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The Brooklyn Eagle stopped by the new location at 89 Fourth Avenue, five blocks from Barclays Center, where the two-act musical “The Three Little Pigs Buy a Brownstone in Brooklyn” is running on weekends (2 p.m. Saturdays, 3:30 p.m.

Sundays, through July 1).

The Eagle is mentioned prominently in the Brooklyn-centric script in Scene 6 and the newspaper is used as a prop as well. The show’s target audience is ages six and up, with plenty of humor adults will appreciate.

“Two six-year-olds are among the actors, with the oldest member more than ten times their age, and the family idea is reflected literally: the cast includes two brothers who play two of the pigs; a mother and her son have a scene together as an older pig

“All of our baking is done on the premises with recipes passed down from generation to generation,” Giura told this paper.

After serving in the U.S. Army for three years, stationed in Korea for two years, Mario had the option of going back to school or returning to work at the bakery. He chose tradition and has spent his career dedicated to making and ensuring the quality of all the product lines found at Savarese Italian Pastry Shoppe.

All of Savarese’s best-selling items are homemade including old-world Italian pastries that very few bakeries still offer and items such as cremolata, an old Italian ice cream favorite.

“Our Italian ices are naturally flavored with bits of fresh fruit,” Giura explained.

“Savarese is family-run which makes it more gratifying when our customers leave our store with their favorite delicacies,” Giura continued.

“Savarese stands out because all our baked goods are handmade as old, traditional works of art. Our ingredients are the freshest. Being successful shows how much passion and devotion pay off,” he added.

and hedgehog; two actors are cousins,” we’re informed.

Original lyrics are set to public domain melodies including old folk songs and classic children’s tunes.

The show, which emphasizes “being a good neighbor,” plus patience, perseverance, and pig puns runs through July 1, will be followed by show after show, starting with the summer musical about kids and counselors at an unusual summer camp, titled “Not a Happy Camper.”

The theatre welcomes audition appointments, visits, donations of costumes and supplies, and all inquiries throughout the year. Acting classes, puppet shows, concerts, one-day free workshops, variety shows, and special family events are planned and a fundraising concert on July 20.

For more details, show times, tickets, and contact information, go to www.PlayNicePeople. com.

One of Brooklyn’s most beloved bakeries has had quite a year. Savarese Italian Pastry Shoppe at the corner of 60th Street and New Utrecht Avenue celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2018. But on March 26, a fire at Savarese caused minor damage to the upstairs apartment. Thankfully, the fire was contained, the bakery was not affected and no one was seriously injured. Work immediately on rePhotos arebegan from the current production pairing the3three-story building. of “The Little Pigs Buy a Brownstone in “After the fire we worked around Brooklyn” Photos by Jarrett Scott the clock to get back to normal as soon as possible to ensure that our customers weren’t inconvenienced,” owner and master pastry chef baker Mario Giura told this paper.

Giura wants everyone to know that Savarese is back and better than ever.

“We are thrilled to have celebrated our 100th anniversary last year and we are also proud of our full line of pastries,” he explained.

Savarese provides wholesale gelato Italian ices to pizzerias and restaurants and ice cream shops. It also provides wholesale cannoli and sfogliatelle as well as catering to catering halls with its unique cookie trays, pastry trays and 14INB • INBROOKLYN — A Special Section of Brooklyn Eagle/Heights Press/Home Reporter/Brooklyn Spectator/Brooklyn Record/Greenpoint Gazette • Week of June 14-20, 2018 sought-after wedding cakes.

In fact, wedding cakes are a specialty, with each custom-made for every occasion. Savarese also bakes traditional Italian biscuits, pignoli and rainbow cookies.

The business was established in 1918 when the Savarese family emigrated from Naples, Italy, bringing with them their traditional love of Italian baking. Soon, its reputation grew thanks to the quality and artistry of its baked creations.

In 1962, the Giura family took over the bakery. They also boasted a rich Italian heritage coming from Venosa, a town in Basilicata, Italy.

From the moment they took over, the family was dedicated and committed to creating a product line of handcrafted bakery products in the tradition of old-world Italy Savarese owner and master such as homemade sfogliatelle, cannoli chef Mario Giura working on or gelato using only the finest ingredione of the shop’s renowned ents. wedding cakes.

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with his brothers. Jim owned an auto collision business for many years. He had a great talent for fixing things and making them look brand-new. His skill in this was magical to see. In addition to baseball, he satisfied his competitive streak in a bowling league, playing a high-speed game of ping-pong, and beating everyone at pool, mahjong and gin rummy. In his later years, he loved beach days at Coney Island and the Rockaways or a dip in the pool. But most of all, he loved Annie. His wife and family were precious to him.

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Loving mother of Marian Mondiello (the late Joseph), Michael Walsh, Patricia Gambino (Lou) and Joan Caserta (the late Joseph). Proud Nana of Jillian Gambino, Jenna Anderson (Tim), Jordan Gambino, Louis Gambino, Lisa Mondiello, Taryn Mondiello, Joseph Caserta and Kaylee Caserta. Proud great-grandmother of Sean Anderson and Connor Anderson.

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Actor Vincent Pastore celebrated at Saturday block party in Gravesend

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The neighborhood was out in force outside Our Lady of Grace Church on Saturday, July 13 to celebrate actor Vincent Pastore's birthday a little early at an old-fashioned Brooklyn block party.

Hosted by Gravesend-born actor and filmmaker William DeMeo and Michelle Frantzeskos’s Entertainment and Consultant Inc., there was food, music and dancing aplenty.

Classic cars lined up along the church’s parking lot. Maria “The Ice Cream Girl” Campanella’s ice cream truck, Stella’s Zeppoles, A&S Fine Store’s BBQ and Isabella Creations’ birthday cake provided the food.

Vendors onsite to sell their wares included Brooklyn Brand T-shirts, Wise Girl Wear perfume and Wise Guy Wear cologne. The music was powered by DJ’s McGee Too, Lenny Santawasso and Ross the Boss.

A $20 donation to the church was the price of admission.

Participants also had countless opportunities to take photos with and get autographs from celebrities, including Joseph D’Onofrio, Federico Castelluccio, Robert Gillings and Rick Borgia, as well as DeMeo and, of course, Pastore himself.

A few days prior to the event, DeMeo said he couldn’t wait to bring back, even if for a night, the tradition of Brooklyn block parties, something he said people always looked forward to in the summertime.

“I like events like these, when people can get a sense of how they grew up, coming back to just the way it was,” DeMeo said in a phone interview before the party. “It’s a great feeling to see people you haven’t seen in years. Lots of those who moved on have come back because they want to feel like they did when they were younger. We want to remember how we grew up.”

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event, the hosts had a surprise not only for the guest of honor but also for the “Sopranos” fans in attendance who gathered around a Swan truck, a rented vehicle that provides high resolution screens for video and audio entertainment, to watch clips of Pastore’s most notable

performances on the TV series.

Later, Frances Mignano, a Brooklyn-born actress, producer and singer, took to the microphone to sing “Happy Birthday,” alongside a couple of hit songs, such as Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York,” Pat Benatar’s “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” and Madonna’s “Open Your Heart.”

Domini Monroe, a musical artist, and Biagio Benevenga, an Italian-American singer, drove the excitement of the night forward, as party-goers hit the dance floor.

Monroe performed her own hit songs, while Benevenga brought the crowd back to the ‘80s with Joe Dolce’s “Shaddap Your Face” and Julius La Rosa’s “Eh Cumpari.”

“Everybody from Brooklyn, from Michele, to Willy, my dear friend — he is like my son — thank you,” said Pastore. “You know, I met Willy many years ago. I was doing a project and Willy came up. He handed me a script called the ‘Wannabees.’

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He continued, “I was so happy that he always called me and said, ‘Hey, Vinny, you want to do this, or do you want to do that?’ He always gave me something different, and I amhappy to say that I am working with Willy on ‘Gravesend,’ his

new project.”

“Vinny is a class-act. He is such a talent,” said DeMeo, “And to have him in my projects, it’s so incredible. He’s a great guy, through and through.”

Pastore announced that his band, “Big Pussy’s Gangster Squad,” will be playing at the Bar 360 at Resorts World Casino on July 18, beginning at 8 p.m.

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If you’re staycationing in Brooklyn, there’s a neighborhood to visit that you might not have thought of: Windsor Terrace.

It’s tucked between Prospect Park and Green-Wood Cemetery. So if you’re going to the park’s BRIC Celebrate!

Brooklyn Festival, a stroll around Windsor Terrace’s tree-lined streets is an entertaining preliminary activity.

This is the 41st season of the free outdoor concerts at the Prospect Park Bandshell. BRIC is an arts incubator and presenter of free cultural programming.

If it’s not a concert night at Prospect Park, you can combine your Windsor Terrace stroll with a movie at Nitehawk Cinema. The theater is at 188 Prospect Park West, just steps away from the edge of Windsor Terrace.

People love this landmarked movie house because ...

A. You can drink while you watch the film and eat excellent food that you order from your theater seat.

B. There had been a theater on this spot since the 1920s.

Then a couple years ago, developer Hidrock Realty decided to build condos on the property with just a small movie theater.

There were widespread objections to the condo design.

The developer changed course and sold the building to investors connected to Nitehawk.

It already operated a popular drink-and-dine movie theater in Williamsburg.

Clouds add drama to this Windsor Terrace streetscape.

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Welcome to leafy, lovely Windsor Terrace. you at the corner of Prospect Park West and Prospect Park Southwest, where a pair of eyecatching tall columns marks the entrance to the park.

There’s something else here that might confuse you if you see it on a map before you arrive — a circle that’s a square.

When you’re actually standing here, it makes perfect sense.

Across from Prospect Park there’s a traffic circle lined with handsome old-fashioned apartment buildings with curving facades. A small piece of land in the middle of the traffic circle has a World War I memorial called Bartel-Pritchard Square.

The square commemorates two Brooklyn soldiers who fought and died in that war: Emil Bartel, who’d lived on nearby Windsor Place, and his friend William Pritchard from Bushwick.

So. Let’s start walking already.

When you head down Prospect Park Southwest, there’s all kinds of architectural eye candy.

The great visuals start with limestone rowhouses with angled facades. They are adorned with elaborate decoration on the stonework above their windows and front doors.

On the other side of the street, Prospect Park’s tall trees and lush foliage brighten the scenery.

Further along, there’s an especially charming home at 85 Prospect Park Southwest. The old-fashioned shingled house is painted green and has window shutters, a mansard roof and a weather vane.

There are numerous interesting turns you can take off Prospect Park Southwest.

Whichever direction you go, you’ll find houses with nifty porches, some glassedin and some open-air.

Pretty porches are a feature on two single-block streets called Howard Place and Fuller Place that run parallel to each other between Windsor Place and Prospect Avenue.

In “The Amazing SpiderMan” and “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, a house on Fuller Place served as Peter Parker and Aunt May’s home, the website Movie-Locations.com reported.

Please don’t email me to tell me they lived in Queens. I know they did. The filmmakers used a Brooklyn location to depict that other borough.

A LANDMARKED FIRE HOUSE Another street where the rowhouses are particularly beautiful is Windsor Place.

And on Seeley Street, some homeowners have turned their front yards into picturesque mini-meadows of wildflowers.

Now let’s detour into the 19th century for a minute.

Lots were laid out and some streets were built in Windsor Terrace in the early 1850s, but neighborhood development got off to a slow start, a city Landmarks Preservation Commission report indicates.

Irish immigrants arrived after the Civil War. By 1890, there were about 150 houses in the neighborhood.

Rowhouses were built in the early 1900s. Developer William Calder constructed and sold 700 of them in a 17year span, the LPC report says.

The report’s main focus is the Engine Company 240/Battalion 48 Firehouse.

Danish-born architect Peter J. Lauritzen designed this Romanesque Revival-style FDNY treasure at 1307-1309 Prospect Ave. It was built in 1895. It’s an individual city landmark.

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Check out Windsor Terrace — Continued from page 14INB — One vantage point from which you can see the firehouse is a pedestrian bridge you enter at the corner of Prospect and Greenwood avenues. The footbridge hangs over the Prospect Expressway, which split Windsor Terrace into two parts when it was built in the 1950s.

A BRONZE SCULPTURE OF LIBERTY Pedestrian bridges are such a novelty to me. This one’s got interesting stuff on both ends of it.

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For instance, the ramp on the other side of the footbridge leads to the corner of Greenwood Avenue and East 5th Street.

There, at the edge of Greenwood Playground, there’s a monument to 47 soldiers and sailors from the neighborhood who died while serving in World War I. It’s a bronze relief sculpture of Liberty placing a palm frond — which symbolizes peace — on an altar.

An inscription on the altar says, “They gave their lives in the cause of Freedom.”

The artist who made the sculpture was Charles Keck. His best-known New York City work is the statue of Father Duffy beside the TKTS discount theater-tickets booth in Times Square.

On another corner of Greenwood Avenue and East 5th Street, there’s an ice cream stand that makes slushies out of the Italian ices that are on its menu. They’re staggeringly good.

The shop is called Kathy’s Gourmet Italian Ices and Ice Cream.

It takes a really large serving of Italian ice to make a slushie, in case you were wondering.

The homeowners on the corner of Caton Avenue and East 4th Street display a small cannon on their lawn that commemorates the Battle of Brooklyn.

Caton Avenue was a roadway called Martense Lane during the Revolutionary War. Hessian troops marched on it on their way to the battle.

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This is Fuller Place, where scenes from “The Amazing Spider-Man” and its sequel were filmed.

This pedestrian overpass casts some serious shadows.

There are so many beautiful blocks in this area.

After you weave your way around to the part of the neighborhood where the streets don’t have “East” in their names — which is on the other side of Vanderbilt Street — you’ll find another Prospect Expressway pedestrian bridge. Its entrance is at 10th Avenue and 19th Street.

This photogenic footbridge is enclosed with a semicircle of wire mesh. It’s like you’re walking through a tunnel, but up in the air.

When you get to the other side, on Tenth Avenue and 18th Street, the wire enclosure casts an abstract pattern of shadows on the sidewalk.

Speaking of photogenic, the brick rowhouses on nearby 17th Street are eye-pleasing.

At this point, you’re on the north end of the neighborhood — near Prospect Park West, where there are bars and restaurants for a bite to eat before the BRIC Celebrate! Brooklyn Festival.

If you stroll in the opposite direction and wind up on the south end of Windsor Terrace, there are fun spots to eat on Fort Hamilton Parkway.

There’s also some great housing to see — for instance distinctive redbrick rowhouses on Caton Avenue, which is Windsor Terrace’s southern border.

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Cold war: Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory to open across from rival creamery Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is returning to the Fulton Ferry area by summer’s end.

Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

The city has made it official: Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is coming back to its home turf at the entrance to Brooklyn Bridge Park.

There, the artisanal ice cream maker will face off with Ample Hills Creamery — which took over the Marine Fire Boat Station where Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory’s shop was located for 17 years.

Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory had to move out in December because Brooklyn Bridge Park selected Ample Hills Creamery to be the new tenant of the 1920s building, which is located next to the Brooklyn Bridge and gets heavy foot traffic from park visitors.

The Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved the design for Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory’s walk-up stand. It will be made out of a cargo container that will be installed in the parking lot of the restaurant at 14A Old Fulton St. The ice cream stand will share the site with a restaurant that belongs to River Cafe owner Buzz O’Keeffe. He and Mark Thompson co-own Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory.

Thompson told the INBrooklyn after the LPC’s vote that he hopes to open the ice cream stand before the end of the summer.

He’s pleased to bring his ice cream shop back to the area.

“I feel like it was a fixture in that neighborhood,” he said. “We’re very comfortable giving people something they’ve had almost The white building at right is the Marine Fire Boat Station, where Ample Hills Creamery is now located. It's across the street from Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory's site, which is where the truck is parked.

INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan 20 years’ exposure to.”

Here’s what Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory’s stand will look like..

Rendering by Edward M. Weinstein Architecture + Planning via the Landmarks Preservation Commission

Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory will install a stand where its truck is now parked — just steps away from its former location cargo container to build the ice cream stand ‘I’m really happy to be back’ So what about the potential ice cream war is a way to “pay homage to the Brooklyn wachurning on the street? The fire boat station terfront — which pretty much no longer exis a 51-second walk from 14A Old Fulton St. ists.”

Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory has one “I’m really happy to be back,” is all other shop. It’s in Greenpoint.

Thompson would say.

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He said Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory has “a very loyal following” in DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights. He thinks they’ll come buy ice cream at the Old Fulton Street location.

Ample Hills Creamery did not respond to request for comment.

Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory was supposed to open its original shop in the Marine Fire Boat Station on Sept. 13, 2001.

The ice cream makers canceled their launch because of the 9/11 terrorist attack that destroyed the World Trade Center.

They opened in mid-October 2001, when the city was still mourning the lives lost in the attack.

Thompson thinks the ice cream shop gave people a “glimmer” of good news when “all the news was bad,” he said.

The commission was required to pass judgment on Edward M. Weinstein Architecture + Planning’s ice cream stand design because 14A Old Fulton St. is located in the Fulton Ferry Historic District.

Here’s Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory co-owner So is the Marine Fire Boat Station.

Weinstein said during a presentation be- Mark Thompson at right with architect Edward fore the LPC’s vote that using a repurposed M. Weinstein.

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10-year fight continues: Trees vs. garage at historic Riverside Houses the risk of flooding and threaten the structural integrity of the adjacent ‘triple cantilever’ BQE highway segment.”

In 2009, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the excavation, pending archaeological testing.

The Riverside complex was built in 1890 by philanthropist Alfred T. White as a healthy, cheerful residence for the low-income working class. The treefilled courtyard was chopped in half, however, when Robert Moses ran the BQE along the edge of Brooklyn Heights.

While the Department of Transportation has approved Residents of Riverside Houses in Brooklyn Heights are fighting the project, Mitchell says the their landlord in court over his plans build a 90-car underground BQE’s right of way extends some distance into the courtcommercial parking garage in the courtyard, shown above yard. “We have measured, we for help,” Lenore Mitchell, a

By Mary Frost have sent pictures to the BQE member of the board of the RiverBrooklyn Heights Press committee, all to be ignored,” side Tenants Association, told the she said.

Residents of the historic brick Brooklyn Heights Press last Fisher did not express conRiverside Houses at 24 Joralemon Thursday. cern about the right-of-way.

St. in Brooklyn Heights have “An order came down from “As far as the BQE is constarted an online fundraising effort DHCR [Division of Housing and cerned, we’ll have to see like to fight their landlord’s plan to Community Renewal] just last everyone else what they are build a roughly 90-car under- month, ending the stay on that acactually going to do — and ground commercial parking tion which now also allows the when. Like every property garage in their courtyard. landlord to dig,” she said. “Our atowner and resident in the Tenants at the five-building torneys are now in the process of neighborhood, we support complex have been battling the putting in additional court papers coming up with a better way garage since 2008, and the case attempting to further stay the digthan the original DOT prohas been in and out of court sev- ging permit.” posal,” he said. eral times. Last month, the city The entrance to the garage Last week, a neighbor gave the landlord, the Pinnacle would be just a few feet from the Fifi’s owner says she would miss the courtyard if it disappeared. Heights Press photos by Mary Frost walking her Anatolian ShepGroup (operating through Jorale- wall of the BQE, which looms herd, Fifi, in the courtyard Pinnacle’s attorney Kenneth roughly 350 feet from Brooklyn den-courtyard, which would benmon Realty), permission to exca- over the courtyard, perhaps caussaid the dog would miss the vate the tree-filled courtyard. ing complications during its up- Fisher, says the tenants’ fears are Bridge Park, and would present a efit the tenants. greenery.

Fifi, on the alert for Stephen Dobkin, representing lucrative opportunity for Pinnacle The Riverside Tenants Asso- coming $4 billion reconstruction, without basis. squirrels, rats and other urban the tenants, said it was ridiculous “We are pleased that the state Group’s owner Joel Weiner. ciation hopes to raise $19,000 so Mitchell said. “There is also no adgame, was clearly at home in In 2014, a judge denied Pin- to think that removing old-growth their attorneys can file an appeal equate fire egress as the fire es- Commissioner of Housing reto stop the project. By press time, capes are in the courtyard, and if cently affirmed the decision to ap- nacle Group’s Article 78 Petition trees and installing a garage in the the tall grass.

“Fifi drags us here every the fund had raised $1,770. any digging starts, there will be no prove our application. The to build the garage, but the De- courtyard would benefit the tenThe century-old trees “not access to fire/emergency vehicles.” Department of Buildings had al- partment of Buildings permit re- ants. He also pointed out that hav- time we go for a walk,” her ing so many vehicles near the owner said. only shield our buildings from Once the trees are chopped ready signed off on, as did the mained in effect.

The Brooklyn Heights AsAt that time, the developer play area would be dangerous for 140,000 cars that pass through the down, “there goes half of our Landmarks Commission, and the sociation has asked residents to Brooklyn-Queens Expressway foundation,” Mitchell said. “Then state DOT, city DOT and MTA all claimed that the coming and children and unobservant adults.

An analysis by the New York contribute to the fund. “Your (BQE) each day, but [the] roots once any digging starts, the build- had no objection. In other words, going of 100 cars a day would not help protect our buildings’ foun- ings, which were built around all the professional construction be bothersome to the tenants in Environmental Law and Justice contribution will help protect dation,” fundraiser building resi- 1900, will most likely crumble experts who reviewed it. It’s un- the courtyard, as it would hardly Project, a nonprofit public interest this historic Brooklyn Heights dent Dino Dvorak wrote on and fall. These buildings are not fortunate that someone has been be noticeable in light of the group, proposed in 2014 that the landmark, which is home to its diverse mix of tenants,” the gofundme.com. kept up and are held together with feeding misinformation to scare 140,000 vehicles a day (now excavation of the lot, once part of The tenants have been paying glue … The community should the tenants about safety issues,” 153,000) driving past on the ad- the East River, “could disrupt group said.

Riverside is located in the court fees for 10 years, “and it’s be outraged that buildings of this he told the Heights Press last joining BQE. Pinnacle also said sandy riverbank soils and landfill, that the underground parking lot negatively effect [sic] the water shady southern portion of the reached the point that we have to historic value have been under Thursday.

If built, the garage would be would be covered by a new gar- table below the property, increase Heights known as Willowtown. now reach out to outside sources siege for so long.”

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