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VOLUME 91 NUMBER 2

JANUARY 17-23, 2020

BUILDING BIG Private homes on Shore Road to be replaced by new eight-story apartment buildings SEE PAGE 2

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EXCLUSIVE:

BY JAIME DEJESUS

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The New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) has revealed its plans for an extensive community engagement process, launching a new website focused on proposals for the Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) on Thursday, Jan. 9. Led by the EDC and New York City Department of Transportation (DOT), the city team will use the site to provide new

information and seek opinions from community members on the $2 billion-plus streetcar proposal that would connect a dozen neighborhoods along an 11-mile corridor from Red Hook to Astoria. The BQX as currently proposed would connect 13 subway lines, over 30 bus routes, nine NYC Ferry landings, over 100 Citi Bike stations and 400,000 people that reside along the route, according to EDC. According to the EDC, the city team will offer briefings with elected officials, communi-

ty board presentations, email blasts, webinars, on-the-ground outreach, public workshops and environmental review scoping hearings. The team will make a minimum of five Community Board (CB) presentations in Brooklyn and Queens, including at CB 2 and CB 6 in Brooklyn, to explain the current plan for engagement and environmental review, as well as to go over details in the Conceptual Design Report. They will also conduct five community workshops to reach community stakehold-

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City reveals new website, community engagement plans for proposed BQX

Conceptual rendering of the BQX on Berry Street in Williamsburg. ers, collect public input through the project website, and meet with members of the BQX Task Force of the New

York City Council as well as city, state and federal elected officials whose districts would be impacted by the project,

according to EDC.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

Board 11 to bring in experts Hot Bay Ridge for traffic study at Ceasar’s Bay real estate market BY PAULA KATINAS

PAULA@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

A heavily trafficked section of the neighborhood is going to become even busier this year and Community Board 11 officials are taking steps to

mitigate any potential problems that may come up. Board 11 voted at its monthly meeting on Jan. 9 to approve a plan suggested by District Manager Marnee Elias-Pavia to commission a traffic study of four key inter-

sections located within the Ceasar’s Bay Shopping Center located on Bay Parkway at Shore Parkway. The vote was unanimous. The community board is going to hire an engineering firm to conduct a traffic study

The intersection of Cropsey Avenue and Bay Parkway is one of the corners Community Board 11 would like traffic experts to study. ebrooklyn media/Photo by Paula Katinas

of the following intersections: Shore Parkway and Bay Parkway; Cropsey Avenue and Bay Parkway; Cropsey Avenue and 23rd Avenue; and Shore Parkway and 26th Avenue. The study will be funded by $30,000 secured by the City Council. The Council set aside $30,000 for each of the city’s 59 community boards in the Fiscal Year 2020 city budget. Commercial and residential developments coming to the area are part of the reason the community board is eager for a traffic study, Elias-Pavia said. Target, the nationwide chain of department stores, is planning to open a two-story, 90,000-square-foot store at the former Kohl’s department store site at Ceasar’s Bay in July. The opening of Target is likely to cause thousands more shoppers to flock to the mall, local officials said. The 14,000-acre Ceasar’s Bay property is located next to the Belt Parkway’s Bay Parkway exit.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

gets even hotter

Plans call for eight-story buildings on Third Avenue

BY PAULA KATINAS PAULA @BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

The far western corner of Bay Ridge is about to undergo a major change, the latest indication that the neighborhood’s hot real estate market is getting hotter by the minute. Plans for two separate construction projects to be built on the same Third Avenue block have been filed with the New York City Department of Buildings. A developer plans to demolish three one-family homes at 9952, 9956 and 9960 Third Ave. and construct an eight-story residential building at that site. Separately, the owner of a one-family home at

9964 Third Ave., a dwelling located next door to 9960 Third Ave., has filed paperwork with DOB to build an eight-story residential dwelling on his property. DOB has not yet given approval for either of these two projects, said Abigail Kunitz, deputy press secretary for the agency. But if the projects eventually get the go-ahead from DOB, it would mean that four one-family homes on a single block are going to be torn down. New York YIMBY was the first to report on the plans for the two new buildings.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

Two-way tolling returning to bridge, but when? Two-way tolling, also known as split-tolling, is returning to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge after more than 30 years. But there is no date set for its implementation. ebrooklyn media/File photo by Lore Croghan

MTA to take steps before adjusting pay system BY PAULA KATINAS

PAULA@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

Drivers who cheered when Congress approved a measure last month to reinstate twoway tolls on the VerrazzanoNarrows Bridge might want to save their applause. It’s not going to happen for a while. There are steps that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has to take before a two-way toll system is put in, officials said. The MTA oversees bridges and tunnels in New York City. For one thing, while Congress has approved the measure and President Trump has signed it into law, the MTA

hasn’t approved it yet. That is expected to happen but there is no timetable, officials said. In addition, the MTA will have to make adjustments to the bridge’s toll plaza before drivers can expect two-way tolling. “We must follow a process that includes, but is not limited to, seeking MTA board approval for implementation, as well as structural changes to the facility,” Meredith Daniels, an MTA spokesperson, told the Home Reporter. “We are in the early stages of this process,” Daniels added.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

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Elegante Pizzeria, Gino’s featured Rose endorses Mike Bloomberg on Barstool’s One Bite Pizza Review for president BY JAIME DEJESUS

JDEJESUS @BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM

Former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, pictured at a Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy event in 2015, picked up his first endorsement from a member of Congress when U.S. Rep. Max Rose announced his support. ebrooklyn media/File photo By PAULA KATINAS

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David Portnoy reviewing a slice from Elegante Pizzeria

Brooklyn GOP Party unanimously endorses Malliotakis for Congress BY JOHN ALEXANDER JALEXANDER @BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

Five-term Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis has her party solidly behind her in her bid to unseat first-term U.S. Rep. Max Rose. Malliotakis, the last standing Republican lawmaker in Brooklyn, whose 64th Assembly District includes portions of Staten Island and Bay Ridge, received a unanimous endorsement from the Brooklyn GOP Party Executive Committee and its Chair Ted Ghorra on Thursday, Jan. 9. “Nicole Malliotakis is the daughter of immigrants and understands the American Dream because she’s lived it,” said Ghorra. “She’s a seasoned campaigner and fundraiser who has the skills and the resources needed to win this race.”

Photo courtesy of Nicole Malliotakis

Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg has picked up his first congressional endorsement, courtesy of U.S. Rep. Max Rose, who announced on Monday that he’s backing the former New York City mayor in his run for the White House. Rose, a Democrat representing several neighborhoods in Southwest Brooklyn and all of Staten Island, said Bloomberg’s ability to get New York City back on its feet after the devastating Sept. 11 terrorist attack is a key reason for his endorsement. “The city Mike Bloomberg inherited in

2002 was reeling from the worst terrorist attack in American history and facing economic recession. There were real fears nothing would ever feel or be the same again. Mike Bloomberg took the reins, brought New York City back to life and put us on track to lead in the 21st century,” Rose said in his endorsement statement. Rose, who was elected to the House in 2018, has sought to paint himself as a moderate Democrat willing to work with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to get things done. He sees Bloomberg as a kindred spirit in that regard.    For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

Photo courtesy of Barstool Pizza Review Facebook

“One bite. Everybody knows the rules.” Two Bay Ridge pie havens, Elegante Pizzeria and Gino’s, recently got their 10 minutes of fame on popular sports and pop culture blog Barstool Sports’ fan-favorite segment, Pizza Reviews, in which Barstool’s founder David Portnoy — who has visited hundreds of pizza joints over the past few years, from upscale establishments in Manhattan to chains such as Little Caesar’s and Costco — assessed the local favorites. On Tuesday, Jan. 7, Portnoy, who rates each slice he samples on a scale of 1-10, posted his review of famous local Bay Ridge spot Elegante Pizzeria, 6922 Fifth Ave., after a viewer kept suggesting he try it. “A guy hit me up on this place,” he said as he walked

out of Elegante with a pie. “He’s like Elegante. DM after DM. ‘Hey, wake up you jerk. Go to Elegante. How many times do I have to tell you about this place?’ No frills. He’s like, go to this place.” Portnoy, who is known to be a tough grader, acknowledged that the place appears old school, referencing the vintage cash register and lettering. “I have high hopes,” he said. “It’s a very basic football-looking pizza. It’s a big pie. Let’s see what we got.” After taking a bite and pondering the taste, he said, “A little greasy. It’s good pizza.” He then gave the Elegante slice a score of 7.4. Nonetheless, “Is it worth that guy calling me [expletives] because it’s that good?” he mused, adding, ”I don’t think so.”  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

Brooklyn GOP Vice Chair Georgea Kontzamanis, Brooklyn GOP Chair Ted Ghorra, Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis and Brooklyn GOP Director Stephen Maresca. Malliotakis’ father is an immigrant from Greece and her mother is a Cuban exile of the Castro dictatorship. She was the

first Hispanic-American elected from Richmond County. She graduated from Wagner College and has served in the Assembly

since 2011.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

Census concerns lead Board 11 leader to take action Bill Guarinello mounts grassroots effort to prevent an undercount BY PAULA KATINAS

PAULA@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

As the U.S. Census gets closer, concerns are mounting among Southwest Brooklyn officials over the possibility that its citizens will be undercounted in the big national tally that will determine the number of seats New York will have in the House of Representatives as well as the distribution of millions of dollars in federal funding. In an effort to raise awareness of the importance of Census 2020, Community Board 11 Chairperson Bill Guarinello announced at the board’s monthly meeting on Jan. 9 that he has established an ad hoc Census Committee and has appointed board mem-

Board 11 Chairperson Bill Guarinello (pictured at a previous meeting with District Manager Marnee Elias-Pavia) announced on Jan. 9 that he has formed an ad hoc committee to boost local participation in the Census.

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bers to sit on the panel. Dr. Tim Law will chair the new ad hoc committee. The members are Irene Chu, Sonia Valentin, Steve Yeung, Eileen LaRuffa and Laurie and Andrew Windsor. Their task will be to come up with ways to convince local residents, many of whom have been reluctant in the past to disclose personal information to the government, to fill out their Census forms. “We want to make sure we not are not undercounted,” Guarinello told board members at the meeting. Board leaders are eager for members to “get the word out and encourage your neighbors,” he added. Census Day is April 1.  For the full story, see brooklynreporter.com.

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Upcoming repairs and renovations are planned for local parks, playgrounds across southwest Brooklyn BY JOHN ALEXANDER JALEXANDER @BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

It looks like the perfect time to take a walk in the park. With a slew of improvements coming to parks across southwest Brooklyn, City Councilmember Justin Brannan and Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher met on Monday, Jan. 13 to discuss projects taking place in local parks and playgrounds in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Bath Beach. “My constituents work hard and pay plenty of taxes — they deserve a solid return on their investment. Making sure my district has world class parks, playgrounds, courts and fields is one of my top priorities as a local elected official,” noted Brannan, who added, “And we are just getting started.” According to Brannan, construction will soon begin on the basketball and tennis courts at the Fort Hamilton Field at Colonial Road and 83rd Street. The project includes the reconstruction of two full-court basketball courts, with three-tier bleachers, bottle-filler drinking

fountain, drainage and landscaping. The two full-court tennis courts will be completely reconstructed with drainage, paving, windscreen and fencing. The construction will begin in fall 2020 and end in fall 2021. This follows the full reconstruction of the synthetic turf track and field at Fort Hamilton along with water fountains by the School Construction Authority in August 2019. In addition, the building in Shore Road Park at 95th Street, which has been under construction since last spring, is scheduled to be completed by fall 2020. Additionally, work on a new Shore Road Park dog run at 100th Street is scheduled to begin in fall 2020 and be completed by fall 2022. And the 97th and Shore Road Park loop path will be repaved and restored so it makes a full lap around the entire park again, with a projected 2021 completion date. Further down the line is the proposed complete renovation of the Shore Road Park Vinland Playground at Shore Road and 94th Street. This all follows the completion in June 2019 of the long-awaited ramp in Shore

Road Park at 97th Street, a project that took over two years to finish. In addition, the tennis courts and parking lot at John J. Carty Park on Fort Hamilton Parkway between 94th and 101st streets will be reconstructed this year, with a garden added to the oasis; plus there will be a complete renovation of the adjacent playground between 94th and 99th streets. Across the Gowanus, the asphalt field in Dyker Beach

Park will undergo a complete reconstruction beginning in fall 2020. Further south, construction has already begun on a new comfort station at the Gravesend Calvert Vaux Park that includes new bathrooms, athletic league storage and a park headquarters. The projected completion date is spring 2021. In Bensonhurst Park, a completely reconstructed playground with an adjacent path and sitting areas is scheduled to

be completed by fall 2020. Other upcoming projects include a resurfacing of the Shore Road Parkway bike path between the Verrazzano Bridge and Ceasar’s Bay that’s scheduled to begin this spring. A complete reconstruction of the playground in Owl’s Head Park at Fourth Avenue and Shore Road is awaiting confirmation of funding. Additionally, there’s a $5.6 million renovation of Bath Beach Park at Bay 16th Street and

Shore Parkway in the pipeline; that project includes paths, a sitting area, a flagpole, drainage, benches, café seating, lighting and landscaping. Construction is scheduled to start in spring 2021 with an estimated completion date of spring 2022. “From day one, I have been focused on increasing access to parks and investing in the future of these great, open spaces,” Brannan said. “They really are the soul of our crazy, busy and crowded city.”

The newly reopened Shore Road Park Ramp at 97th Street. ebrooklyn media/Photos by John Alexander

News From Your Neighborhood BENSONHURST BOARD FORMS CENSUS COMMITTEE

BENSONHURST — As the U.S. Census gets closer, Bill Guarinello, chair of Brooklyn Community Board 11, which represents Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and portions of Gravesend, has announced that the board has established an ad-hoc Census Committee, according to the Home Reporter. Dr. Tim Law, a retired Department of Education administrator and longtime community volunteer, will chair the group. Its task will be to convince area residents, some of whom have been reluctant to disclose personal information, to fill out their Census forms. Census Day is April 1. Afterward, temporary Census Bureau employees will hit the streets to interview people who didn’t fill out their forms. Fifty-six percent of Board 11’s employees are foreign-born. 

‘LOVE TRIANGLE’ REPORTEDLY LED TO DEATH IN CONEY

CONEY ISLAND — A man who had been stabbed several times as a result of a “love triangle” apparently tried to flag down passing cars before he eventually collapsed and died on a Coney Island street early Sunday morning, according to amNewYork. None of the drivers stopped to help the dying man, police said. James Santiago, 42, of the Bronx, was with a married woman at her home on West 15th Street when her husband reportedly walked in on them. The husband then stabbed Santiago several times in the torso, amNewYork reported. Officials say they are holding the wife as a person of interest for allegedly helping to drag the wounded man into the street when he was completely naked and then abandoning him. 

IMAGINING DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN WITHOUT BQE

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — An op-ed in Streetsblog by Brooklyn-based urban designer Michael King criticizes current plans to rebuild the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to accommodate repairs to its cantilevered section in Brooklyn Heights. He pointed out that some of the land beneath the BQE could be reclaimed for shopping, offices, housing and parkland. Without the highway, he said, neighborhood streets that once existed in longer versions, such as York and Duffield streets, could be rebuilt. Furthermore, he said, the approach to the Brooklyn Bridge, without the ramps to the BQE, could be rebuilt as a giant plaza. Rather than creating traffic jams, he believes, the removal of the highway would deter traffic in general. 

UNTAPPED CITIES OFFERS TOURS OF BAM ARCHIVES

FORT GREENE — Untapped Cities, a website and organization focusing on hidden aspects of the city, is offering several tours during the next few months of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Hamm Archives. The archives, named after banker Charles Hamm, a major benefactor of BAM, go back 150 years to tell the story of BAM and the neighboring communities. The archives are located inside a former Studebaker dealership building. The tours will be led by Louie Fleck, BAM’s archive manager. More information is available on the Untapped Cities website. 

TIMES GIVES KUDOS TO GREENPOINT RESTAURANT

GREENPOINT — A New York Times review of Pierozek, a new Polish restaurant in Greenpoint, focuses, appropriately, on its pierogi, which are dumplings filled in this case with butter, fried onions, potatoes and cheese. Radek Kucharski, one of the owners, says many second- and third-generation families of Eastern European immigrants come to Pierozek because they are “in love with the taste and memories that we bring them.” Kucharski, who was born in Brooklyn, co-owns the restaurant with his wife Alexandra, who was born in Brooklyn to a Polish family. The Times review also mentions the meat version of pierogi, which contains pork shoulder; the sauerkraut-and-mushroom version; and the sweet version, which contains cheese and fresh berries. Pierozek is located at 592 Manhattan Ave. 

FULTON FERRY LOFT IS GOING FOR $2.6M

FULTON FERRY LANDING — A unit at a loft building at 8 Old Fulton St. in Fulton Ferry Landing is on the market for $2.6 million, according to Curbed. The Italianate-style building was built in the early 1860s as an office for the Brooklyn City Railroad Company. It offers views of the Brooklyn Bridge, the East River and Lower Manhattan. It has two bathrooms, a large living area, an area downstairs that can be used as office space and an in-house washer-dryer, Curbed said. 

SCHOOL BOARD SEEKS MEMBER’S SUSPENSION

SUNSET PARK — A Brooklyn school board member is set to face suspension over remarks about Asian-Americans in an

More than 100 anti-violence activists and nonprofit leaders from across New York City gathered on the steps of City Hall Wednesday to kick off the 10th Annual New York Peace Week, a series of events designed to uplift communities affected by gun violence. They also sang happy birthday to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who would have been 91 years old on Jan. 15. Photo: Emma Whitford/Brooklyn Eagle online forum in November. Community Education Council 22 President Jessica Byrne says the council approved a resolution to ask the schools chancellor to suspend Jackie Cody for two months, according to CBSNewYork. Cody had referred to Asian-Americans as “yellow folks” and “yellow children.” Another resolution, which called upon Cody to resign, did not pass. 

DYSLEXIA SCREENINGS COME TO PARK SLOPE-AREA SCHOOLS

PARK SLOPE — Last week, the city Department of Education and State Assemblymember Robert Carroll (D-Park Slope-Windsor Terrace) announced that the DOE had launched a pilot program for a new method of dyslexia screening, known as the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen, at P.S. 107 in Park Slope and P.S. 130 in Windsor Terrace. “I have been lobbying DOE to universally screen for dyslexia since I was elected in 2016,” said Carroll. “As someone who is dyslexic and benefited greatly from early detection which allowed my teachers and parents to take proper curriculum interventions, I know that early childhood screening of dyslexia will change the academic lives of countless children.” 

BED-STUY BROWNSTONE IS SELLING FOR $2.36 MILLION

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — A stately 19th century brownstone at 195 Hancock St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant is selling for $2.36 million, according to Brownstoner. The neo-Grec rowhouse was designed by well-known architect Isaac Delamater Reynolds. The two parlors include elaborate woodwork, shutters, parquet floors, mirrors, build-in display cabinets and an elaborately carved fireplace. The home has been owned by the same family since 1974. 

BAY RIDGE PIZZERIAS FEATURED ON POPULAR BLOG

BAY RIDGE — Two Bay Ridge pizza havens, Elegante Pizzeria and Gino’s, recently were featured on the popular sports and culture blog Barstool Sports’ Pizza Reviews segment. In Pizza Reviews, Barstools founder David Portney, who has visited hundreds of pizza places, assessed the two Ridge favorites. Portney gave the Elegante slice a score of 74 and the Gino’s slice a score of 76. 

BATH BEACH DISPUTE LEADS TO VIOLENCE

BATH BEACH — Two people are in the hospital and two others are being questioned by police after a dispute in Bath Beach turned violent on Sunday, according to CBSNewYork. The incident happened just after 5 p.m. on Bay Seventh Street. Police said the two men had an argument over their children that led to one man being stabbed in the neck. 

DEVELOPER SEEKS TO BUILD COMMERCIAL-INDUSTRIAL B’LDG

WILLIAMSBURG — A developer known as 307 Kent Associates is seeking zoning amendments so it can construct a nine-story non-residential building, according to New York YIMBY. The property at 307 Kent St. is currently occupied by an event space knows as Villain. If the zoning amendments are ap-

proved, the building would contain 9,000 square feet of retail space, 70,000 square feet of commercial and light manufacturing space, and 22,000 square feet of medical office space. The amendments are also expected to spur the construction of a similar building on a neighboring lot known as “Development Site 2,” New York YIMBY said. 

LAUNDROMAT-COFFEEHOUSE OPENS IN WILLIAMSBURG

WILLIAMSBURG — A combined laundromat-café has opened in Williamsburg “where you can do your laundry while also enjoying a nice cup of coffee or tea,” according to Travel and Leisure. Sisters Corinna and Theresa Williams worked to create an “environmentally aware” place where people could both do their weekly laundry and also enjoy café drinks. The first floor of the establishment, known as Celsious, contains the laundromat, while the second floor contains the café, whose food is made with “sustainable ingredients,” Travel and Leisure reported. Celsious is located at 115 N. Seventh St. 

DESIGNER-ILLUSTRATOR INKS SEXY GRAPHIC NOVEL

BOROUGHWIDE — Brooklyn resident Sylvan Migdal, who works as a web designer and illustrator for the Brooklyn Paper, has written a 520-page graphic novel, “The Complete Curvy.” The story, which Migdal began while at college, is full of “sexy princesses, wizards and caramel cockroaches,” the Brooklyn Paper said. The story focuses on a Brooklyn resident who meets a princess from another world who has run away from an arranged marriage to a super-villain. The two explore their sexuality while fighting against the villain, according to the Brooklyn Paper. 

SPACE IS THE PLACE, SAYS ARTIST EXHIBITED AT BPL

GRAND ARMY PLAZA — A Texas artist recently unveiled a series of delicate sculptures at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Central Branch that he says is inspired by the search for alien life. Dario Robleto, one of two creators behind the library’s “Stars Down to Earth” exhibit, plans to show off his work at an opening reception . “Robleto’s sculptures, built from domes of clear acrylic, hand-cut paper, and polished seashells, are designed as gifts for potential visitors from outer space,” the Brooklyn Paper said. Robleto recently worked as artist in residence at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute in California. 

VELAZQUEZ SEEKS FEMA RESPONSE TO PUERTO RICO EARTHQUAKES

BOROUGHWIDE — U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-Brooklyn-Manhattan-Queens) and U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-New York) have asked FEMA in a letter to use all its authority to ensure the safety of lives and property across Puerto Rico. They urged the administration to release withheld disaster aid and to grant full disaster relief status. “Puerto Ricans remember all too painfully how this administration fumbled and failed in response to Hurricane Maria,” said Velazquez. “During that disaster, incompetence and indifference cost thousands of Americans their lives.”

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Beat the winter blues with a stroll in landmarked Brooklyn Heights Do you know the way to Love Lane? By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Hey. All of you who are fighting the January doldrums and wishing Valentine’s Day would get here to cheer you up. Did you know that Love Lane is a real street? It’s in the middle of Brooklyn Heights, in the oldest historic district in all of New York City. What a fine place to take a loved one for a stroll. So yeah, there’s a CVS at the entrance to Love Lane as opposed to some romantic, candle-lit cafe where you can sip champagne together. But the drugstore is situated in a sweet little brick house with shutters on the windows. And Love Lane leads to College Place, which is one of the prettiest streets in Brooklyn Heights. That’s saying a lot in a neighborhood full of landmarked homes built before the Civil War. Do you know the way to Love Lane? Let me show you. It’s part of today’s stroll through the north side of Brooklyn Heights. I promise we’ll walk around the rest of the neighborhood on another occasion. To get to Brooklyn Heights, you can take the 2, 3, 4, 5 or R train to the Borough Hall stop or the A or C train to the High Street/Brooklyn Bridge/Cadman Plaza East stop. You’ll wind up on the corner of Court and Montague streets, or a couple blocks away, depending on which train line you take.

A walk around landmarked Brooklyn Heights should help you beat the winter blues. This lovely street is College Place. Below: Beautiful brownstones line this block of Pierrepont Street. INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan

Just like Romeo and Juliet When you walk down Montague Street, one of the most eyecatching things you’ll see is a pair of century-old bank branches on the corner of Clinton Street. Both of them are city-designated landmarks. Both were constructed in an era when bank designs were invariably grand and regal. One is meant to look like a palace and the other a temple. Architecture firm York & Sawyer designed the Brooklyn Trust Company Building, which is directly on the corner at 177 Montague St. It is now a Chase Bank branch. It’s modeled on a palazzo in Verona, which is of course Romeo and Juliet’s hometown while we’re on the subject of Valentine’s Day and Love Lane. You must take a minute to step inside the neo-Italian Renaissance-style bank. This gives you a reason to stand on its front steps and get a close look at the Instagram-worthy lampposts on either side of the entrance door. The bases of the lamps feature big winged lions and little tortoises.

Then when you step inside, you will find a landmarked interior, which is a rare thing in Brooklyn. This banking hall has a vaulted ceiling, super-dramatic chandeliers, vast arched windows and an elaborately patterned mosaic floor.

Herman Behr House The second bank property, whose address is 181-183 Montague St., is the People’s Trust Company Building. It looks like a Classical temple, with a row of columns outside the front entrance and above them, a triangular pediment with fabulous sculptural figures. Architecture firm Mowbray & Uffinger designed the neoClassical building, which was constructed from 1903 to 1906. It is now a Citibank branch. From here on out, most of the neighborhood falls within the boundaries of the Brooklyn Heights Historic District. Entire blocks are landmarked. Turn up Clinton Street to the corner of Pierrepont Street, and you’ll find one of Brooklyn Heights’ most dramatic buildings. The Brooklyn Historical Society, designed by architect George Browne Post, was constructed in 1881. The Queen Anne-style brick building’s facade is decorated with terra-cotta busts of famous folk including Shakespeare and Beethoven. Turn left on Pierrepont Street, which has stately brownstones. There’s an eye-catching Beaux-Arts apartment house at the intersection of Henry Street. Kitty-corner from this apartment house, whose address is 161 Henry St., you’ll find Herman Behr House. This Romanesque Revival mansion’s address is 82 Pierrepont St. Frank Freeman was the architect. It’s currently used as an apartment building. Over the decades, it has by turns been a hotel, and belonged to a monastery, and reportedly housed a brothel.

Picturesque College Place Head up Henry Street. And in short order, you’ll be at the entrance to Love Lane. Cupid’s favorite Brooklyn street is one block long. In the middle of it, you turn right onto scenic cul-de-sac College Place. One side of College Place is lined with painted brick carriage houses with arched garage doors and shutters on the windows. Head back out onto Love Lane, which exits onto Hicks Street. The brownstones on Hicks Street are really something. If you’re in the mood to look closely at architectural details, there are Tudor-style doorways on side-by-side homes 131 and 135 Hicks St., Clay Lancaster’s “Old Brooklyn Heights: New York’s First Suburb” says.

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BEAT THE WINTER BLUES WITH A STROLL IN LANDMARKED BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Continued from page 2 INB — By the way, this is the book version of building-by-building historical research that Lancaster did, which neighborhood residents used in their successful efforts to get the city to create the Brooklyn Heights Historic District in 1965. If you need caffeine as you head up Hicks Street, you’ll find Joe Coffee Company in the storefront of a beautiful apartment building on the corner of Pineapple Street. Right next door to the apartment building, a lovely carriage house at 31 Pineapple St. is sure to catch your eye.

Let it rain In 2014, when Steven Spielberg was filming “Bridge of Spies,” he temporarily turned the storefront where the coffee shop is now located into a 1950s dress shop. As a crowd of Brooklyn Heights residents watched, Spielberg

used an enormous machine to pour simulated rain on this intersection — and actor Tom Hanks. Further up Hicks Street, take a quick detour onto Orange Street to see Plymouth Church, which was founded in 1847. Eminent abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher was the preacher there. His statue is on the church lawn. When you’re back on Hicks Street, keep walking. On the corner of Cranberry Street you’ll find a beautiful house constructed in 1829. The corner storefront is home to Jack the Horse Tavern, whose address is 66 Hicks St. Beloved wood-frame houses are sprinkled here and there on these blocks on the north end of Brooklyn Heights. Turn left on Middagh Street, and you’ll find them on both sides of the road as you head towards the corner of Willow Street.

Cher’s ‘Moonstruck’ house On that corner, you’ll find 24 Middagh St. This Federalstyle gray clapboard home has crimson-colored window shutters and a backyard with a carriage house. This eye-catching abode is nicknamed “the Queen of Brooklyn Heights Houses.” Accounts of its age differ. Some people think it has been around since 1790. Lancaster’s book says it was constructed in 1829. When you face the opposite direction on this Middagh Street corner, you’re overlooking the BQE. And beyond the highway, you see the top floors of Panorama, the office complex at 25 Columbia Heights that was formerly the world headquarters of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Remember the movie “Moonstruck,” which won Cher an Oscar for Best Actress? Her house in the film is on another Willow Street corner, at 19 Cranberry St. The brick house has a small plaque on the front of it that gives the year of its construction as 1833.

The unpainted brick, which is what you now see, is red. Continue down Willow Street. You’ll soon pass a fabulous 1920s hotel that was called The Towers. The toppaid Brooklyn Dodgers stayed there back when they were our borough’s baseball team. The property, whose address is 21 Clark St., later belonged to the Jehovah’s Witnesses. It’s now being turned into a rental building

for seniors called The Watermark at Brooklyn Heights, with a mix of independent-living units, assisted-living units and memory-care units for residents with dementia or Alzheimer’s disease.

The Promenade’s epic views Further down Willow Street, there’s a home where playwright Arthur Miller lived. The Federal-style rowhouse at 155 Willow St. was constructed in the 1820s. At the corner of Pierrepont Street, turn right. In just a minute, you’ll reach an entrance to the Promenade. The fate of the landmarked walkway hangs in limbo while a panel studies ways to repair the BQE beneath it. My colleague Mary Frost is keeping

everybody up to speed on this complex topic. For a moment, set the subject of the BQE aside and simply take in the views that the famous esplanade offers. There’s the World Trade Center with other Lower Manhattan skyscrapers. In the near distance, a new grass berm is taking shape at Brooklyn Bridge Park. To the north, the Brooklyn Bridge stretches across the East River. On the Promenade’s inland side, the backs of Columbia Heights brownstones brighten up the scenery. If you’ve taken your walk late enough in the afternoon, you’ll be right on time to see the sunset, which is always a thing of beauty. If it’s too early, you could go get a bite to eat on Montague Street.

Truman Capote lived on Willow St. Literature lovers appreciate Willow Street because Truman Capote lived on it when he worked on “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and “In Cold Blood.” The house at 70 Willow St., where the author lived in a basement apartment from 1955 to 1965, belonged to Broadway set designer and American Ballet Theatre codirector Oliver Smith. Visitor guides like the one on NYC & Company’s website say the Greek Revivalstyle house’s facade is yellow. But when the current owners renovated it a few years ago, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission gave them permission to remove the paint from the facade. of January 16, • INBROOKLYN — A Special Section of Brooklyn Eagle/HeightsPress/Home Press/HomeReporter/Brooklyn Reporter/BrooklynSpectator/Brooklyn Spectator/BrooklynRecord/Greenpoint Record/Greenpoint Gazette Gazette • 3INB January 16 – January 22, 2020 Week • INBROOKLYN — A2020 Special Section of Brooklyn Daily Eagle/Brooklyn Eagle/Heights

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Want to hunt dinosaurs without leaving Brooklyn? In Gowanus, you can At Gotham Archery in Gowanus, archers can brush up on their hunting skills or just aim at foam animal targets for fun when the winter weather keeps them inside. Each animal (right) is given a different point amount. At the end of the night, the shooters tally their point totals and are added to a leader board.

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A raccoon stands atop a trash mound, surrounded by rats. A black widow hangs feet away from a turkey, and a ram shares a perch with a Tyrannosaurus rex. An arrow whizzes through the air and pierces the abdomen of a foam deer, which shakes back and forth before it regains its footing on a wooden stand. This isn’t a hunting ground — it’s a Gowanus archery studio, which transforms into a faux hunting range on the first Saturday of every month. With a relatively short hunting season in New York, bow hunters take to events like Gotham Archery’s 3D Hunt to brush up on their skills alongside archers who are just shooting to switch up the monotony of aiming at paper targets. “It’s much, much more difficult than shooting in one distance,” said Oleg Vykrest, who started shooting three years ago with his now 12-year-old son, as a way to focus his son’s weakening vision.

In Gotham’s main room, archers stand in a line in front of a field of more than 30 animal targets, each with different point values. Some shoot at 3D targets from stepladders, while others sit down in fake shrubbery and aim at others. At the end of the night, they tally up their point totals to be added to a leader board. Three-D archery is typically shot outdoors and is a national tournament, said Gotham manager Pat Carroll, but in Brooklyn, it’s easier to find opportunities to shoot inside. The majority of the studio’s clientele just shoots 3D for fun. “Normally, I shoot bare bow, which means I shoot traditionally, without a sight or anything like that, and shooting 3D at different

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Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, Faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to who God has given such great assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. St. Jude, pray for all who invoke your aid. Amen. Say 3 Our Fathers, 3 Hail Marys and Glorias. Publication must be promised. This novena has never been known to fail. Prayer to St. Jude. God who through Thy blessed Apostle Jude has brought us into the knowledge of Thy name, grant that by advancing in virtue we may set forth his everlasting glory, and by steering forth, his glory we may advance in virtue through Our Lord Jesus Christ, thy Son, who livest and reignest with Thee in the united of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen, “Blessed Apostle, with confidence we invoke thee! St. Jude, help of the hopeless, aid me in my distress!”

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Kids quiz Gounardes on climate change, public safety at town hall BY PAULA KATINAS PAULA@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

hildren as young as five asked policy questions of State Sen. Andrew Gounardes at a special town hall the lawmaker hosted on Jan. 12. The Kids’ Town Hall, a two-hour session sponsored by Gounardes, took place at Edward B. Shallow Intermediate School on 16th Avenue and featured a discussion on a wide variety of topics, including climate change, vaping, public safety and discrimination. The town hall was aimed at children from elementary school age to high school students. The youngest person to ask Gounardes a question was a five-year-old who inquired about trash and littering in her neighborhood, according to the lawmaker’s office. Gounardes, a Democrat, represents Bay

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State Sen. Andrew Gounardes fielded questions from youngsters on a wide variety of issues at his Kids’ Town Hall in Bensonhurst on Sunday.

Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst and several other Southwest Brooklyn neighborhoods. He came away from the town hall impressed by the questions the children asked. “The kids of today will inherit the future we provide, and they deserve a seat at the table. Listening to young people inspires me and helps me focus on what’s important,” Gounardes said in a statement. At one point, the town hall was interrupted by protesters, according to Gounardes, who wrote about the interruption on Twitter. “Unfortunately, some anti-vaccine advocates disrupted the program, taking time away from the kids despite my repeated offer to meet with them after & were removed from the event. It’s a shame, but was necessary to continue & was out of respect for those who were waiting to ask Q’s,”

Gounardes tweeted. Despite the protest, Gounardes labeled the town hall a success and said he would like to host another one. “I’m excited to continue hearing from young people about their ideas to change the world, and look forward to the next time we can do this,” he tweeted. The session was designed to give youngsters the chance to ask questions of the local lawmaker on the issues they care about and to offer their ideas on how to make their communities and the world better places to live, according to Gounardes’ office. The town hall also included a resource fair. The participants included the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, the Sunrise Movement, the Board of Elections and the Department of Health.

Sunset Park teen’s book celebrates Black History Month BY JOHN ALEXANDER JALEXANDER@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

unset Park resident Agatha Edwards is just 16 years old, but she is already a published author with six books under her belt including “The 100 Most Important African Americans.” Now, the Stuyvesant high school junior is raising funds via GoFundMe in order to give away 3,000 free copies of the book to kids in Brownsville for Black History Month. “The 100 Most Important African Americans” details the lives of important African Americans including activists, public servants, soldiers, lawyers, writers, painters, athletes and many more. “I wanted to give something back for the kids in Brooklyn,” Edwards told this paper. “I wanted them to be inspired by stories of real people who overcame huge odds, slavery and oppression to make a great contribution to America. These are 100 heroes who kids don’t know about. If they knew about them, they could use them as a model and be inspired,” she added. Heroic historical figures discussed include abolitionist Harriet Tubman, civil rights icon Rosa Parks, rebellion leader Nat Turner, writer W.E.B. Du Bois, and composers and musicians Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong, as well as Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Rep. Barbara Jordan, novelist

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ov. Cuomo’s State of the State address last week was notable for several items he did not address. There was no mention of amending the bail reform legislation which has been returning violent and repeat offenders to the street for the past three weeks. The new law also changed the discovery requirements, which in practice will force district attorneys to drop prosecutions as well as providing personal information on victims to the accused. The governor also failed to address the unusually large $6.2 billion state budget deficit. He did indicate that local governments needed to do more to rein in Medicaid costs. That is all well and good, but fails to take into account that his budget office has been kicking Medicaid costs

down the road from year to year, resulting in much of the deficit. Many legislators and budget-oriented good government groups warned him in early 2019 — warnings he did not heed. He also failed to acknowledge that the large migration of New Yorkers to other states was a growing problem. To this point, some of the wealthiest New Yorkers are taking their homes and their pocketbooks to other states, further hurting the state economically. What the governor did do in his address was create a heavily dramatized version of all he believes he has done to make the state better. This included a few slides of him involved in emergency operations. Hugh Carey of Brooklyn, a gubernatorial predecessor of Andrew Cuomo’s, in

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Martin Luther King Jr., at least in some fashion, on the third Monday of January. For years, Idaho and New Hampshire called the holiday by other names that didn’t cite Martin Luther King Jr. at all, instead choosing generic labels of “Civil Rights” or “Human Rights” for their official state observances. In the years following Martin Luther King Jr. Day becoming a federal holiday, Arizona went back and forth on the matter, until voters finally approved a 1992 referendum creating Martin Luther King Jr./Civil Rights Day. Their inability to commit to the holiday led the NFL to pull Super Bowl XXVII hosting duties from the state. Until 2000, employees of the state of South Carolina had to choose whether they wanted to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day or one of

three Confederate holidays. The idea of making citizens choose between Dr. King and the Confederacy may seem about as insulting to his legacy as one can fathom, but four other southern states took the indignity a step further. Until 2000, employees of the state of South Carolina had to choose whether they wanted to observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day or one of three Confederate holidays. Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi and Virginia decided that their observances would pay tribute to the birthdays of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee. In these states, the day honoring the United States' greatest African-American civil rights hero would simultaneously

increasing taxes. Republican legislators, to a person, support rolling back the bail reform law and oppose tax increases to address the budget deficit. You should ask your assemblymember and state senator where they stand. Clearly fixing this crazy bail law should have been done on day one. Instead, in the State Senate, the first business taken up was the establishment of automatic voter registration through contact with various government agencies including DMV. Who knows? Maybe this will increase the pool of voters who feel that the legislators who are running for re-election should

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Montgomery bus boycott, but Montgomery was also the literal birthplace of the Confederacy when southern states formed their new slaveholding republic there. Alabama was where civil rights marchers were brutally beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, but Selma was also the site of one of several Civil War battles commanded by the Confederacy’s Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Mississippi was where 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered and where Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers was gunned down in his carport as he returned home to his family, but was also the second state to secede and the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Alabama and Mississippi

featured prominently in both our Civil War and Civil Rights movement. This week, they once again recognize Dr. King and Robert E. Lee together. Both men, on the same day. One man who gave his own life, fighting to bring civil rights to African-Americans, and another man who took others’ lives, fighting a civil war to deny rights to African-Americans. Southern Brooklyn’s Fort Hamilton still has a street named General Lee Ave. Since Lee only attained the rank of general in the Confederacy, this U.S. base commemorates the period of Lee’s life when he killed U.S. soldiers as he fought to preserve slavery. On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let’s honor a man who deserves it and renew our efforts to remove honorifics for those who do not.

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Focus on Bay Ridge By Charles F. Otey

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While many are bemoaning the Amazon takeover of too much local retail business, some — especially attorney Bob Howe and his Merchants of Third Avenue team — are actually taking a positive attitude and championing what he calls “the unique service and sense of identity that local business can mean for a local community.” “We believe that the ‘human touch’ implicit in shopping on our avenue, which is so important in our daily lives, will ultimately sustain our members in the long run,” Howe said. His positive appraisal echoes news developments that are finally making government and other leaders realize that the huge tax breaks granted to Amazon and other mailorder behemoths should be slowed, along with a reduction of storefront taxes in this city and beyond. Another Bay Ridge leader, who asked for anonymity, agreed, telling us that “Congress may be slow in finally putting the brakes on the runaway internet, but the hearings finally being held in Washington indicate that, with political support, small businesses — which are the beating heart of the economy — deserve more support, especially lower and more equitable taxation.” Meanwhile, for the past 25 years, Howe has directed the proactive Merchants of Third Avenue Business-Civic Association. He reminds all that talented Pioneer Committee Chair Lori Pedone is preparing the 27th Pioneers of Third Avenue Reception, which will take place March 16 at the Bay Ridge Manor.

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ew York City Fire director Brooklyn Bishop academic, leadership and STEM teams from Junior Commissioner Dan- Nicholas DiMarzio. iel Nigro will be The dinner co-chairs ROTC units from 10 other are Cama and Green-Wood giving the keynote address high schools. Those schoolsauditorium. Also conGreen-Wood Cemetery Domenick our good friend, school Its first march was bytoformer BrookCommunity Education Council 20, which is Martin Cottingham, with atGreen-Wood the off 120thits anniversary were Francis Lewis Highled Cemetery Cemetery our good friend, Green-Wood school auditorium. conkicked sesquicentenhoncho Richard gratulations St. Also Patrick’s lyn Mayor John Ward Hunter, and the 2014 headed by Laurie Windsor, will be highlightSchool in Queens, Hempdinner ofoff the Cathedral Club Monsignors Jamie Gigantikicked its sesquicentenCemetery honcho Richard Pastor, gratulations to St. Joseph Patrick’s nial commemoration of the Moylan. Monsignor was ledNagle, Society President and ing monthly meeting with a march of its Brooklyn Thursday ello Kieran stead School onby Long nial commemoration of this theandagenda Moylan. Pastor, Monsignor Joseph start ofJune the on Civil War On Harrington Memorial Day,High the who just marked his Brooklyn historian Ronald Schweiger. special salute to the PTA/PAs that serve all evening, the Grand serving asOn honorary co- Island, High start of Feb. the6, inCivil War this cemetery Memorial Day,James theO’Neill Nagle, who just as marked his past Sunday with a posse hosted its 13th 40th anniversary a memchairs. The current presiBallroom of the Sheraton School in Highland Falls, On Sunday, June 22, at 12:30 p.m., the sothe public schools in District 20. The laudatopast Sunday with a posse cemetery hosted its 13th 40th anniversary as a memof mounted cavalry, foot solannual free concert with ber of the clergy. New York Hotel in Time Newburgh Free Academy dent of the Cathedral Club ciety will be celebrating its 134th anniversary session will take place on Wednesday, June of mounted cavalry, foot solannual free concert with ber of the clergy. diers with muskets, bayonets, the ISO Symphonic Band ••• Square. Nigro, former is Brian Long. Tables of 10 ryinat High the BayMorris Ridge Manor, 476 76th Street. 11, at with 7 sabers, p.m., atacolor P.S./I.S. 30, 7001 Fourth Avediers muskets, bayonets, the Symphonic Band ••• swords, guards, led byISO founder andNewburgh, director, The Fort Hamilton High chief of the department, is range in price from $4,000 to School in the Bronx, EleaThe keynoter for the occasion will be society nue. swords, sabers, color inguards, led by founder and director, The Fort Hamilton High drummers and ladies Civil Bay Ridge Maestro Brian School Alumni Association the 32nd also of $15,000 andfor individual seats member nor Roosevelt School. andHigh New York Supreme Court Ita will an opportunity parents drummers andbeladies in eCivil Bay RidgeSeveral Maestro Brian School Alumni Association W r - commissioner r a Worsdale. members held itsState recent pre-show For reservations in Manhattan, Uniondale Justice Arthur Schack will be from other schools to see interior of Several WtheaFDNY. r ecost rthe a$400. Worsdale. members held its recent pre-show of the band are current and annual dinner atwho Chadwick’s prestigious club has andthat additional information, High School on Long Island, talking about the history of the the The district's newest school was of the band are current and Restaurant, annual dinner 8822 at Chadwick’s former graduates of Fort Third also on announced its 2020 Xavier High School in ManBoy Scouts, prominent Eagle built the former site ofvisit thecathedralclub.org. Bay former of Fort Avenue. Restaurant, 8822 Hamiltongraduates High School. The dinner was Third hosthonoree will be Thomas Church *** hattan, Theodore Roosevelt Scouts, and since he was Ridge United Methodist Hamilton High Avenue. TheAlice dinnerFarkouh, was host-a •••School. ed by Dr. Grech, and CEO The Army Junior ROTC High School in the Bronx, Photo courtesy FDNY former attorney for Major (aka thepresident Green Church). ed past by Dr. Alice of Farkouh, Michael ••• Connors, the principal FHHS of the Queens program at Fort Hamilton and Wyandanch Memorial NYC Fire Commissioner League Baseball, a few * * Chamber * Michael partner Connors, the past principal of FHHS founding and and the Daniel current president of Commerce, and it will High School hosted its High School on Long Island. Nigro. hits, runs and strikes. What an absolute terriffounding partner and and the current president president of the Connors of the Alumni Association. presenting annual Academic Bowl at The schools competed Also the proicbeturnout fora Lifetime the street president of the Connors of the Alumni Association. and Sullivan law firm, is another Farkouh is on Achievement Award to the the Shore Road school. It against one in military map exams, STEM gram will be former co-naming ceremonies in and Sullivan law firm, is click Farkouh is the new Kings County comclub’s longtime spiritual included participation by written exams, tests, projects, Robotics and Brooklyn Borough Preshonor of the late, great

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First Class David fromis thethat FHHSIROTC. “My outstanding quality am super melJACKSON GALAXY: “My Cat From Hell” TV pro gram is seen on Animal Planet Saturday nights showing the new Kings County commander of the Catholic War * kitty. ** low, and a very low maintenance I am okay ident Marty Markowitz Tom Kane. The block that gram is seen on Animal Planet Saturday nights showing a calm behaviorist at a cat’s worst! His unique methods mander of theyear, Catholic War Veterans. Last Connors The United Military Vetwith cats, dogs children. However, would esdiscussing his new role Kane grew up on 88th a calm behaviorist atsaved a cat’sfrom worst! His to unique method work. Many catsand are a trip aI kill shelter. Veterans.the Last“Veteran year, Connors received of dress. erans of Kings County held That pecially enjoy being the only cat in the house. as vice president of borstreet Colonial Roadfor the work. Many cats biting are saved a trip a kill shelter Hissing, spitting, catsfrom make eyetocontact with received “Veteran dress.near Year” the Award from of We tagged along its first executive board would beand my preference. ough promotion and enwas formally dedicated Hissing, spitting, biting cats make eye contact with Jackson, trust and hope begin... the New Year”York Award from We grand tagged alongthat for the BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP/ State the procession meeting in preparation for “I am an easy cat to take, as I am meticulousgagement for NYC and Tom Kane Way and was Photos by Ted General Jackson, and trust and hope begin... the New York State the grand procession that division of the CWV. passed throughout the cemethe Brooklyn Memoly clean. I am“Even looking for 153rd a we new home, a life-long Co. even blessed by Reverend Tom Kane’s parents holding HEY JUDE: though live together, we do division of County the CWV. passed throughout the cemeKings tery and by candlelit graves of The rial Day Parade on May 25, friend. I am looking for YOU. Would you like to come The event is open Gerard Sauer, theboth pastor new sign. HEY JUDE: “Even together. though we live together, weold. do not have to be adopted We are nine years Thethe Kings tery and by candlelit graves of Chapter is County holdfallen soldiers from sidesof at the Bay Ridge Postyellow of the eyes, and meet me? Look into my stunning to the public. Reservations St. Mel's Church, a former asnotwill have toscratch be adopted together. We are nine years old We not or damage your furniture. Hi, I am Chapter is holdsoldiers As from sides ing its annual offallen the conflict. weboth trekked American Legion. Peter and I’llacapture youror loving This could be the are only $46 which includes sociate pastor at Ridge's We will not scratch damage furniture. I am Raven, sweet, little girl whoheart. isyour half Siamese. IHi, love to ing itsdance annual of the conflict. AsBay we trekked dinner on through the pathways, there St. DeAngelis is chairperson start of aa sweet, new and friendship. I my am purrfect for you. Ito a full sit-down dinner. Contact Patrick's Church and athere personal Raven, little girlwith who is toys; half be affectionate, play you would think dinner dance on through the pathways, Thursday evewere uniformed re-enactors emeritus; Ray Siamese. Aalbue is I love am spayed with my vaccinations and micro chipped.” Sherman Silverman at 718-748friend. affectionate, with my toys; you would think Ibe was a kitten. I and will play give board you all the love and attention Thursday uniformed re-enactors June 2,eveat --were soldiers standing guard, ning, chair; Connie RanPlease contact cats@zanisfurryfriends.org. 3165 or send him a check payable to the A host of dignitaries were on hand to join I was a kitten. I will give you all the love and attention you seek. I am spayed, housebroken. Unfortunately we ning, June 2, at -soldiers standing guard, occhia is president; Cary musicians and singers per- 7:30 p.m., at the Society of Old Brooklynites, 340 Marine AveKane's family, friends and associates on this you seek. I am spayed, housebroken. Unfortunately we are seeking a new home because my mommy has severe 7:30 p.m., at the musicians and singers perSpickler is vice president; Polonaise Terrace, Sgt. First Class David Freeland forming Civil War songs. *** to keep nue, Brooklyn, NY 11209. auspicious occasion. City Councilmember are seeking a new home because my mommy has severe allergies and is no longer able us. I hope to join Barry Berger is treasurer Polonaise Terrace, with members of the Fort forming Civildrew War thousands songs. 150 Greenpoint The event Zani’s Furry Friends is aAnthony 501(c)3 non-profi t or* * *Robotics Francis Lewis your Vinnie Gentile -- who ensured full Counallergies and is no longer able tobekeep us. I hope loving family. You will not disappointed…Hello and Giovinco is to join High School won the 150 Greenpoint Hamilton High School The event drew thousands Avenue. of relatives, Civil War buffs, the ganization committed to rescuing companion ani-I Former and a ROTC cil approved the co-naming, inCommittee. the proyour loving family. You will not disappointed…Hello there, I am Figaro a tuxedo cat,becuddly, loving boy. Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade Team. Science Assistant Principal top Junior Award. secretary. Avenue. ofThe relatives, Civil War buffs, This year, the group amateur historians andwrote mals from New York City shelters where, unfortuBay Ridge Community Council Presigram, "A lifelong Ridge Tom's there, I am Figaro a tuxedo cat,toys, cuddly, loving love to snuggle up, play with my act silly andboy. am Thisbeyear, the past group amateur historians and resident, will honoring its genealogists, local Bay residents nately, they areup, atand signifi cant risk for euthanasia dent, Tom Greene was back at Denyse Wharf tremendous contributions and achievements love to snuggle play with my toys, act silly and am great with animals people. Please call our mommy, be honoring its genealogists, residents willNational Commander and hundreds local of out-ofdue to overcrowding. Beyond directly helping the and the adjoining small beach under the left an indelible mark on the community he great with animals and people. Please call our mommy Stephanie 732-864-5990.” National and hundreds of out-ofFredCommander Schwally, towners. According animals save, their rescue creates space at shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for loved so much." Stephaniethey 732-864-5990.” Fred Schwally, towners. According New York State to cemetery histhe shelter—thus giving cat old, or his group's 25th Bi-Annual Wharf and Beach Close friend Frankie Marra sang and JASPER, DARWIN, AND another VESTA –shelter three year New York State to cemetery Commander torian, authorhisdog an opportunity to await a chance for adoption Cleanup. This year, he was joined by 75 high played "Forever Young" by Bob Dylan. Kane JASPER, DARWIN, – three year old spayed, neutered with AND shots,VESTA affectionate cats need Commander torian, author J o h n the Principal of and attorney or rescue and thereby potentially saving yetThese anschool grade school volunteers. big, DylanON fan!THIRD? Savings Bank was plumbing supply A BID Twenty-five later, somenew volunteers do nothing andaction hope for the best? we cats spayed, with shots, affectionate need homeneutered due to legal against aDo tenant. JKeyes o aand h n the and the of years and Jwas e WHY fafattorney r e ybig A.Principal Fantis parochial school other life. Greene continues to Fantis press to estab* *Rite * Aid at store, 79th Street wason a garage, haveefforts dropped offschool andin the remaining vol- loving become alegal homebound community new home due tocats, action against aare tenant. wonderful, which are loved,defined white These with Keyes and Jeffrey the A. parochial the past Richman, Schermerhorn Street The group’s mission is to help you find the perfect s you may have heard, a steering and the parking lot for Brooklyn Market unteers are 25 years older. No one is lining by Amazon, Uber Eats and Netflix? lish a Marine Environmental Science Lab at Among the marching groups in the recent wonderful, loving cats, which are loved, are white with some black or gray, and two would love to go to a good the past Richman, on Schermerhorn Street in National Downtown Brooklyn. 4,600 Civil furry companion forand your family and to help every committee consisting of Third was a Mobil gas station. up to volunteer nights and weekends to The members of the Bay Ridge Third the site. He is also currently a professor at 147th annual Brooklyn Memorial Day Pasome black or gray, two would love to go to a good home as a pair. They are brothers and sister rescued as National 4,600 Civil Downtown Brooklyn. Chaplain, War vetAmong the attendees were animal they rescue fiFormation nd the forever home it deserves. Then, in 1978, Mayor Ed Koch and Al NaAvenue property owners, business produce the events we now have. Avenue BID Steering Committee Kingsborough College. rade was the Society of Old Brookynites. The home as a pair. They are brothers and sister rescued a kittens from a backyard. Mistie, a tuxedo cat, is a big War vetattendees were FChaplain, a t h e r twoAmong erans are past the FHHS Assistant The group’s foster home network allows itand to become owners and community members has inihas, an art dealer on Third Avenue, struck Even if there were more volunteers, want to define the future of the avenue Maria Makrinos, the new president of the civic organization has been marching in evkittens from a backyard. Mistie, a tuxedo cat, is a big couch potato and very laid back. Contact Troyens44@ F a t h e r Principals erans are two pastDavid FHHS Assistant Anthony buried in Whitebook fully familiar with each of back. the available cats and there is much Associamore that can yahoo.com. be done on notand tiated an effort to form theDay ThirdParade Avenue since up a its relationship. The mayor started to be defined by other forces. A BID will Fort Hamilton High School Alumni ery Brooklyn couch potato very laid Contact Troyens44@ Anthony buried in Memorial Principals David Whitebook Dell’Anno. Green-Wood, and Tom Greene. Both are dogs and helps ensure the best possible match with the avenue such as marketing, streetsBay Ridge Business Improvement District. visit Third Avenue on a regular basis and tion, stopped, bringing free doughnuts for founding 1880. yahoo.com. provide a structure to grow for the future Dell’Anno. Green-Wood, and Tom Greene. are Tickets are by making it inthe former presidents of Both the Bay adoptive families. Zani’s Furry Friends is a memAl Nahas opened a spectacular restaurant For decades, the Merchants of Third cape improvements, additional still maintain the events that the cat Bay in search all volunteers. “Hi,events, I’m Tali,and a gorgeous, white long-haired are Ridge making it Civil the formerCommunity presidents ofCouncil, the Bay $75Tickets perthe person. largest ber of the Mayor’s Alliance and a New Hope Avenue has relied on the leadership of a called Nightfalls. The avenue started*to* * government advocacy and facilitating a Ridge community currently enjoys. “Hi, I’m Tali, a gorgeous, white long-haired in search of a new home to call my own. I’m 11 years cat oldPartner but still $75••• per person. and largest Ridge Community Council, War burial Civil site in Whitebook serves as a few dedicated community volunteers to become knownThe as “Restaurant Row.” About Republican meaningful internet presence, so that BayAnimal Third Avenue is doing fine inyears 2019 so with the Care & Control of New York City. Kings County Party is of a new home to call my own. I’m 11 old but stil have quite a lot of spunk left. I’m strictly an indoor cat. ••• Warnorth, burialeven site surpassing in and Whitebook serves as a Congressmember Michael the t r u s t e e and scholaradvocate for resources, produce events the same time, in 1981, its New2014 York City en- Ridge businesses canand adapt toThere the digital we don’t need the word “Improvement” in are Cat and Dog Adoptions Every Sunday at holding Lincoln Day Reception a lotyour of spunk left. up, I’mI strictly anI only indoor cat Ihave won’tquite scratch furniture promise. have Congressmember Michael the north, Pennsylvania. even surpassing Grimm trustee and scholarwill be the guest Gettysburg, ship and generally look after the neighborhood. acted legislation to create BIDS, Business era. All of this is nottopossible with just a the BID definition. Ratherbetween we insert the Petco, 1280 Lexington Avenue, East 86th Dinner on Sunday, June 22, from noon 3 I won’t scratch yourbeen furniture I promise. have back claws. I have livingup, with my momI only all these Grimm will be the guest Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. s h i p speaker at the next meeting Also as part of the comword “Investment” –Manhattan if we do not invest So… why NOW do we need a BID? Improvement Districts. Almost 40 years handful of volunteers. and 87th Streets in from 12:30p.m., at Gargiulo’s in Coney Island. Among backEast claws. I there have been living withbaby my is mom all these years, but now is a toddler. The sweet, but I speaker at the next meeting Also as part of the comof St. Patrick’s Men’s Club, on memoration there were We get asked that question a lot lately. later, New York City has 76 BIDs. Also, take an honest look at5:30pm. the avenue.Hope in our avenue, some not-so-good things to see you soon. the honored guests will be Westchester Counyears, there is afingers toddler. Thegrab babymy is sweet, but am not but usednow to pinching that tail. I need of St. Patrick’s Men’s Club, on memoration there were Tuesday, June 7, at 7:30 p.m., encampments of Union and Today, Bay Ridge’s Third Avenue enjoys a Today, Bayty Ridge’s Third Avenue has 30+ Are we able to attract a vibrant mix of qual- could happen, and may be happening Executive Astorino, the state GOP’s not where used toI pinching fingers that grab my tail. need aam space can be the queen. Can you find a Iplace Tuesday, June 7, atadjacent 7:30professional p.m., Roboffices encampments offorUnion and in the eateries, club room Confederate re-enactors who great reputation shopping, dining and boutiques, ity retailers? Are the current vacancies a already. ***queen. Can you find a place candidate for governor. a space where I can be the for me in your quiet home?” in the club room adjacent Confederate re-enactors who to St. Patrick’s gympitched tents the main strolling, butnear it wasn’t always that way. and salonsschool of every type. We have festi- harbinger of a brick-and-mortarHEY decline? We hope youWOOF: all will support theheartbroken effort to JUDE...WOOF “I am to He has been tapped as the county’s “Man for me in your quiet home?” Kim 718-344-9697 to St. Patrick’s school gympitched tents near the main nasium at 97th Street and gate, on both Sunday and In the 1960s and 1970s, Third Avenue vals, strolls, parades, summer lights and Did we ever foresee our kidsgive and neighdefine, stabilize and strengthen the avenue up my two half-Pointer-mix, 10-month-old pups. of the Year.” Other honorees include former Kim 718-344-9697 nasium at 97th Street and gate, Sundaystepand Fourth Avenue. Memorial Day. While had on a lotboth of vacancies and not much holiday lights, and are the envy of many bors driving to WilliamsburgSabrina and Sunsetandfor the next 25 years. Join ball us as we start to around. Tyson love to play and run GOP Assembly Candidate Tom McCarthy PURRFECT MEWS: All of Third Jenny’s rescued kitties Avenue. Memorial Day. step- up,Fourth ••• ping along in theWhile nighttime investpeople, in our Bay Ridge Avenue. retail. Storefronts were bricked and other shopping avenues. Things are great, Park for dinner or shopping,Both as they do love pups are lap dogs, love to sit with as “Counselor of the Year,” past City CounPURRFECT MEWS: All of Jenny’s rescued kittie have been adopted into loving homes. ••• ping along in the nighttime Moreso why news from St. procession, we came across Sheila Third Avenue business and do we have to change? many building owners rented out their now? you. Sabrina givesBrody, kisses but sometimes gives a litcil candidate and President of the Brooklyn have been adopted into loving homes. More Well, news from St. procession, we came across On Sunday, June 5, much of what Susan Pulaski, a former owner storefronts as apartments. What is Patrick’s. today for the past 25 years, So, as we look forward, the tleproperty love biteproperty before kisses. She hates the vacuum Youngconcert Republicans Russell Gallo as “Young Patrick’s. On Sunday, June 5, Susan Pulaski, a former after a 2 p.m. special president of the Bay Ridge owners and business owners have a known as “Restaurant Row” only had happened on Third Avenue was the result Robert Howe, Third Avenueloves property and barks at it. Tyson loves people, to play and Republican of volunteers. the Year,” plus the following after aof2the p.m. special concert president of ofthe Baya Ridge in St. Patrick’s Church, thereof Historical Society and comc h afor i rla- future. Do we owner decision to make the a handful restaurants. Ridgewood efforts of a handful watch his sister play ball. He loves to play tug of dies, as “Women of the Year” Phyllis Carbo, in St. Church, there person of the Kassenbrock Historical Society and a com- will ch a i rbe Patrick’s an unveiling and dedimittee chair at Community war. They are lap pups. He also makes noises like Francenia Joan Braunstein and Mary Members of Obviously, the Society of Old Brooklynites march will beof an unveiling mitteeTen. chair at Community person of the Kassenbrock cation a portrait ofand the dedilateHall,Brothers Board pleased Memorial Chewbacca from ‘Star Wars.’ It is very cute. I am in John. in the recent Brooklyn Memorial Parade of with cation a portrait of the late Scholarship Board Ten.big Obviously, pleased Brothers Fund.Memorial with the turnout, wasDayMaestro Aldo Bruschi in the Also in Lynbrook, New York.” – Jackie, 516-6980-5669. Tickets are $200 a pop and available at Society President Brooklyn Historian Ron Aldo Bruschi in the Scholarship Fund. Also in with the big and turnout, was Maestro

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