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VOLUME 48 | NUMBER 3

January 23, 2020

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Transformative twin towers talk

Community board hears pro-and-con reaction to Williamsburg waterfront development plan

Here’s a glimpse of the planned River Street park. See page 3.

Rendering by James Corner Field Operations and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group courtesy of Two Trees Management

North B’klyn locals protest National Grid pipeline Dozens of North Brooklyn residents and environmental activists grilled National Grid officials at a meeting last Tuesday over a controversial gas pipeline the utility wants to run beneath Williamsburg and Greenpoint. RIGHT: Residents and members of the Sane Energy Project presented their views at the meeting.

Gazette photo by Paul Frangipane See page 4.

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NEWS IN BRIEF: Compiled by Raanan Geberer

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Lentol sponsors bill on youth suicide prevention Assemblymember Joe Lentol (D-Greenpoint-WilliamsburgBushwick) and State Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) have introduced a bill in Albany known as the Student Suicide Prevention Act. The new legislation would require school districts to adopt a comprehensive policy on student suicide prevention, intervention and support for the bereaved in those cases when a student takes his or her own life. The bill also urges policies that specifically address the needs of high-risk groups, such as LGBTQ youth, youth experiencing homelessness, and those with mental health concerns and disabilities.

“We must do more to put an emphasis on mental health treatment and suicide prevention. The Student Suicide Prevention Act will help to save lives,” said Lentol.

••• ‘The Heat Is On’ doesn’t apply to Williamsburg project NYCHA’s Independence Towers in Williamsburg has had 17 heating failures this winter, and once the heat is off, it takes more than 10 hours to get it back on, according to the New York Post. Officials say a $120 million project that includes new pipes and new boilers is slated to begin in February and will be completed in February 2022. In the meantime, tenants are having a hard time. “We have to turn on the oven and leave it open to keep the place warm,” said Liliana Arin, who has lived in the towers for four years.

Independence Towers was built in the 1960s as a statesponsored development but was transferred to NYCHA in the 1990s.

NYC health officials on high alert as deadly Coronavirus spreads around globe

By Mary Frost

Greenpoint Gazette

Wash your hands “a little obsessive compulsively” if you want to reduce your chances of catching a new, rapidly spreading and potentially deadly virus, says Dr. Jorge Mercado, director of the pulmonary medicine section of NYU Langone Hospital — Brooklyn.

First detected just last month in Wuhan, China, the previously unknown 2019-nCoV — or “novel Coronavirus” — has now been detected in Thailand, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea. The first case in the United States was confirmed Tuesday in Seattle, Washington.

China said that it is shutting down all public transportation to and from Wuhan starting Thursday morning, according to China Daily, the official state media outlet.

Currently the Centers for Disease Control is checking travelers from China for fever and other symptoms at JFK airport in New York City, as well as at airports in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Some people, however, may be carrying the virus but not yet show symptoms, Dr. Mercado told the Greenpoint Gazette.

Brooklyn neighborhoods like Sunset Park have a high Chinese population. “We do have a large Chinese community where my office is. With Chinese New Year coming up, we’ll see increased traffic from all over the world,” Mercado said. “This is a historically high travel time in China.”

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Women’s group urges support for Lentol A group of 50 women who are supporting Assemblymember Joe Lentol’s bid for re-election in North Brooklyn have formed a group, “Women for Lentol.” The group has written a letter in support of Lentol, urging the community to vote for him in the upcoming primary election on June 23.

“I am proud to have the support of these community leaders and activists. Together, we have fought for reproductive rights, environmental protections, tenants’ rights, criminal justice reform and protections for sexual assault victims,” Lentol said.

Airports, including JFK in New York City, have begun screening for a new and mysterious contagious disease — “Novel Coronavirus” — as it spreads around the globe from China.

With a large Chinese population in Brooklyn, area health officials are on alert.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung

The New York City Department of Health said it is working with state and federal agencies in a coordinated response.

“CDC and WHO are learning more about this new Coronavirus every day,” Health Commissioner Dr. Oxiris Barbot said in a release Wednesday. “At this time, the actual risk to New Yorkers is low, but our level of preparedness is high and we are monitoring the situation daily to determine if our plans to protect New Yorkers need to be adjusted accordingly.”

NYC Health + Hospitals is distributing clinical information about the virus to public hospitals and providing training on “donning and doffing” personal protective gear. The public hospital system has also started putting travel records into the electronic health record system so any patient walking into any public facility can be identified and isolated.

At NYU Langone, “We have a high alert,” Mercado said.

The virus spreads through bodily secretions — coughing, sneezing or touching a secretion left on a door knob, subway pole or elsewhere could transmit the virus. That’s why washing hands is so important, Mercado said.

Wearing a face mask may offer some protection, but it has to be rated at least N95 — a rating that indicates the mask is designed to remove 95 percent of particulates from inhaled air — and even then there’s no guarantee. Most of the flimsy masks being worn in Asia, as pictured in recent news photos, are “not helpful, almost like a placebo,” according to Mercado.

Still, if you are around people who are coughing or your immune system is low, “you might want to try it,” he said. “The CDC doesn’t suggest one thing or another.”

As of noon on Wednesday, the virus has been detected in 440 people and it has killed 17, but these figures are very preliminary. Coronavirus can mutate and is easily transmissible, alarming the World Health Organization and the CDC. The virus causes a form of pneumonia. Unfortunately, with a bad influenza season already underway, the initial symptoms of the novel Coronavirus can be confused with the flu.

The symptoms are “fever, chills and a productive cough, the same as influenza,” Mercado said. He went on to say that the CDC protocol for diagnosing the virus is “if someone has viral symptoms, plus contact with someone from Wuhan, or any contact with health providers or researchers in contact with Coronavirus.”

So be very aware if you are around someone who recently returned from China, especially if they are sick, he said.

It still pays to get a flu shot, Mercado said, because having the flu increases the odds that the Coronavirus will have a more serious effect on your immune system.

The virus is related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), responsible for a pandemic that killed at least 800 people around the world. Like SARS, Coronaviruses are “zoonotic,” meaning they are transmitted between animals and people.

The World Health Organization on Wednesday formed an emergency committee with members representing countries around the globe, including the U.S., to determine whether the outbreak constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, and what recommendations should be made to manage it.

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Transformative twin towers talk

Here’s Two Trees Management’s proposed River Street development.

By Lore Croghan Greenpoint Gazette

Two Trees Management’s plan to build slender high-rise apartment towers and a park with a beach and breakwaters on Williamsburg’s East River shoreline drew both support and opposition at a Community Board 1 meeting on Wednesday night.

The Walentas family’s company is seeking to rezone the River Street site, which it bought from Con Edison for $150 million, in order to construct two towers.

Those in favor of the plan expressed their excitement about what would be a wholly new type of waterfront access for the city, while those against the plan mostly cited concerns about displacement and affordability.

Two Trees Principal Bonnie Campbell and landscape architect Lisa Switkin of James Corner Field Operations gave meeting attendees a rundown on the details of the proposed development, which was unveiled in December. It consists of a 600-foot-tall tower and a 650-foot tall tower designed by high-profile architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group. The towers will contain 1,000 apartments, 250 of which will be affordable for low-income tenants, and a YMCA with a swimming pool in the base of one of the buildings.

Wednesday night’s meeting was a follow-up to a Jan. 6 Community Board 1 meeting about the project that was held in a room too small to accommodate everyone who turned out. (This time around, the board picked a larger space, and it was still packed with people.)

The River Street property is currently zoned for manufacturing uses. Two Trees will go for R8 zoning, which allows high-density residential construction, when it begins a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, many months from now.

The River Street development will have 57,000 square feet of office space and 30,000 square feet of space for small retailers. The towers will have small footprints to allow more space for an innovative park that will have a protected cove for boating and natural habitats such as a salt marsh, freshwater wetland and tidal pools that will allow visitors to engage with the East River.

“I’m for the positive sides of the project,” Rich Mazur, executive director of the North Brooklyn Development Corp., a resident since 1950, said at

the hearing. “For me, it’s about doing the right thing for the kids, doing the right thing for people who need housing and open space. I actually had no access to the waterfront when I grew up here.

We used to sneak onto the river.”

Another man said the development would bring “increased business, increased education, increased revenue, increased housing, increased ecological impact in terms of the positive,” which is preferable to “having just an empty lot sitting there staring at everybody in perpetuity.”

Zora Anderson said she opposes the River Street plan because of already crowded mass transit.

“There’s 1,000 apartments. And that doesn’t mean one person per apartment. That’s a lot of people for a tiny, tiny park. And as far as I’m concerned, for a tiny, tiny park, that kayaking gets me excited. No, it doesn’t get me excited when I’ll be getting on the L train,” she said.

“A beautiful presentation. I’m totally against it,” long-time neighborhood resident Roberto Rodriguez said. “Rezoning equates displacement. It’s happening all over. We need a moratorium. This is what we need. All this rezoning needs to be stopped.”

Some residents expressed support for the River Street project because they love Domino Park, which the developer constructed as part of the mammoth mixed-use Domino Sugar Refinery development, right near the River Street project.

“I think that this is a team that seems to be really invested in the community to meet the needs and also deliver something that’s game-changing.

So thank you for that,” said a man named Dillon, who said Domino Park has turned out really well.

Other supporters of the River Street plan have worked with Two Trees at Domino Park.

“I’m just here to kind of promote for it,” Will Nieves of Will Nieves Latin Dance Studio said of the River Street project. He said he has done events at Domino Park that drew more than 600 people.

Craig Heitczman of NYC Social said his organization gets space at Domino Park to provide free sports programs for kids.

“We’ve been very impressed with their focus on building community along the waterfront and just their support for small businesses like ours,” said Andrew Mullins of Oddfellows Ice Cream, a Two Trees tenant in DUMBO that’s opening a shop this summer at One South First, a new

Rendering by James Corner Field Operations and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group courtesy of Two Trees Management

apartment building in the Domino Sugar Refinery development.

One woman said the project’s affordable housing wouldn’t be sufficiently affordable for neighborhood residents.

“As someone who used to go to community board meetings for years and years and years and quit, I understand that there is no truth in rezoning. We’ve been sold a bill of goods for the last fifteen years,” she said.

Long-time Williamsburg resident Bea Hanson said the greatest need for affordable housing is among extremely low-income and very lowincome residents.

Campbell, the Two Trees principal, said during a question-and-answer period that the River Street project’s affordability levels under the city’s mandatory inclusionary housing program will range between 40 percent to 80 percent of area median income. Individuals earn $29,880 per year at 40 percent AMI and $59,760 at 80 percent AMI. Stu Sherman, who runs a legal clinic at Woodhull Hospital, said CB1 should not approve the development plan.

“There are a lot of benefits to this building.

The benefits don’t go to people that live here.

They will go to people moving in. The park is not for us. It is for people that will be moving to this building,” Sherman said.

“Let’s make sure that the value that we’re giving if we offer a rezoning is consonant with what we’re getting in return,” said a man named Matt, who said the River Street plan has “a lot of blind spots in it and it pays no attention and no heed to the impact on the community.”

Rob Buchanan, a founder of the New York City Watershed Association, supports the planned development, which will give kayakers and rowers a new landing spot.

“I understand the derision that’s felt for kayakers as elitist people who are playing in the harbor. But I think you have to look at it as the harbor is the city’s biggest open space. And the more access points that we have, the better off we are and the more that we’ll use it and keep it public,” Buchanan said.

Pete Malinowski of the Billion Oyster Project applauded the eco-friendly design of the proposed River Street park. His organization spearheads public education initiatives that restore oyster reefs in New York Harbor.

“Connecting people to the water is a key part of proactive planning for global climate change.

Throughout the city, that work is hobbled by vertical bulkheads and fences. So it’s really exciting for someone in my position to see a plan speaking specifically about the land, a plan that actually incorporates water into the park and provides ways for young people and people interested in restoring the environment to actually get down into the water and participate,” Malinowski said.

In addition to the voluntary Jan. 6 Community Board 1 meeting, Two Trees held design charrettes with community residents while River Street’s plans were being drawn up. Two Trees Principal Jed Walentas said during Wednesday night’s question-and-answer period he is willing to continue to meet with the community and get their input.

“We think that dialogue is really helpful and respectful, and leads to better projects,” he said.

The 3.5-acre River Street development site is the former home of Con Edison North First Street Terminal’s decommissioned No. 6 fuel oil storage complex. The fuel tanks have been removed.

The property includes lots at 87 River St. and 105 River St., which are located on either side of Metropolitan Avenue, and a strip of land whose address is 4 North 1st St. The park will consist of 2.9 acres of dry land plus a 3-acre area in the water that will be protected by three breakwaters. The park will fill the gap in a string of waterfront spaces that extends from Domino Park to Bushwick Inlet Park.

In a statement to the Greenpoint Gazette, a Two Trees spokesperson thanked people for turning out and expressing their opinions on Wednesday.

“We are committed to a transparent public review process, conducting productive meetings with the community and tailoring the plan based on community input,” the spokesperson said.

“The plan we’ve put forward brings a robust package of public benefits to the Williamsburg community including 250 units of affordable housing, a beautiful park that will connect residents to the waterfront and reinstate local habitat and forward-thinking resiliency measures that will protect the shoreline and surrounding neighborhood from rising sea levels and the effects of climate change.”

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North B’klyn locals protest National Grid pipeline

By Scott Enman

Greenpoint Gazette

Brooklyn Eagle photo by Paul Frangipane

Dozens of North Brooklyn residents and environmental activists grilled National Grid officials at a meeting last Tuesday over a controversial gas pipeline the utility wants to run beneath Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

The utility company plans to install roughly 14,000 feet of a new underground gas main and is asking customers to foot the $185 million cost for the final phase through rate hikes.

Opponents of the Metropolitan Natural Gas Reliability Project allege that the pipes are not safe, that the process will exacerbate climate change and harm the immediate surrounding environment.

They also argued they’ve been left in the dark, with little to no communication from National Grid regarding the work that they’re doing.

Public Advocate Jumaane Williams said he was calling on Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Public Service Commission to say “no” to National Grid’s rate hikes and said the project was “deceptively undertaken.”

“I’m asking them to not reward last year’s egregious behavior with a prize when, like a school yard bully, the corporation held customers hostage by denying them services because they were not getting what they wanted,” Williams said. “The MRI Project is a project that fills National Grid’s coffers, a project that was largely and deceptively undertaken to install transmission pipes that will not serve the community being put at risk and which will harm our environment by increasing our reliance on fracked gas.”

National Grid is installing new transmission pipes, which do not bring additional gas into the city, but rather allow for current gas to move around more flexibly. The project “reinforces and upgrades our local distribution system to improve safety, reliability and resiliency for customers,” according to National Grid.

The project, which was approved by PSC in 2017, is 80 percent complete. Phase one started in Brownsville. Phase four, which is already underway, will extend from Wilson Avenue to Montrose Avenue and is expected to be completed this fall.

Phase four in Bushwick and East Williamsburg has already disrupted businesses, according to residents. One attendee at the meeting said a coffee shop in the neighborhood was forced to shut off its water for a day — and it was not reimbursed.

Phase five, if approved, would extend from Montrose Avenue to Maspeth Avenue near Newtown Creek and is expected to be completed next year.

Attendees at the meeting alleged that National Grid has not been transparent and has done little to no outreach.

“I live two blocks from where National Grid is ripping up our streets to install this pipeline, but only found out about it because my organization got involved in their opaque rate case process, where they are asking for $185 million more in rate hikes,” said Bushwick resident and Sane Energy Project Director Kim Fraczek.

“If National Grid had come to our community from the start, like they claim, they would have learned right away that we absolutely reject our bills going up to pay for a dirty fracked gas pipeline that will harm our safety, health and climate and put tens of thousands of people in the evacuation zone.”

Deborah Spiroff argued that if National Grid were able to contact all of its customers to urge their elected officials to support the controversial Williams Pipeline, then it could have alerted North Brooklyn residents of the work they are currently doing and the work they plan to do.

“Throughout the construction process we have maintained an extensive community outreach program and a website, which is updated regularly to provide information about the ongoing work,” said Karen Young of National Grid. “We are modernizing and reinforcing our energy infrastructure to make them safer, stronger and more reliable for our customers.”

Councilmember Antonio Reynoso demanded answers at the meeting on Tuesday, which was hosted by Community Board 1 and Assemblymember Joe Lentol’s and Councilmember Stephen Levin’s offices also had representatives present who scrutinized the project.

Attendees shared fears of potential explosions, especially in light of the fact that the project runs adjacent to McCarren Park.

Dozens of people attended Community Board 1’s Tuesday meeting to protest National Grid building a pipeline through North Brooklyn.

This map shows where the pipeline will be built through North Brooklyn.

National Grid officials tried to assuage attendees by saying that the company has long been embedded in the North Brooklyn community and has given back in countless ways, including donating money to local environmental organizations and leading a cleanup along Newtown Creek.

Willis Elkins, executive director of Newtown Creek Alliance, challenged that assertion and referenced the fact that the company is one

of the main parties responsible for the pollution in Newtown Creek and that it wants residents to pay for its portion of the cleanup.

“I have some issue with the statements you made earlier about your commitment to the community and being embedded here as a responsible partner,” Elkins said, adding: “You are identified as one of the potentially responsible parties and responsible for the cleanup, and yet part of your seeking an

Map courtesy of National Grid

increase in ratepayer is to offload 100 percent of the Superfund cost onto the communities that have been burdened by the pollution that your parent company Brooklyn Union Gas caused.

“So my question is: How is that being a responsible community partner?”

National Grid officials said they would have to refer Elkins to their environmental department for that answer.

News From Your Neighborhood TREYGER: TRASH COMPANY MUST PAY AFTER DEADLY HIT-AND-RUN

BENSONHURST — As police continued their search for a private sanitation truck driver who struck and killed a pedestrian in a hit-and-run accident at 86th Street and Bay Parkway on Thursday, Councilmember Mark Treyger called on the city to revoke the license of the company that employed him, according to the Brooklyn Eagle website. The name of the company whose driver was involved in the fatal hit-and-run has not been released by authorities. Treyger, noting that the woman’s body had been “split into two pieces,” pointed out that early risers that day had to view the gruesome sight of two body bags lying on the street. U.S. Rep. Max Rose (D-Southwest Brooklyn-Staten Island) called the incident “a disgrace,” but added, “We’re going to get to the bottom of it.” Sarah Anders, deputy chief of staff for State Sen. Andrew Gounardes (D-Bay Ridge-Gravesend-Marine Park), urged the State Legislature to pass the Hit-and-Run Prevention Act, which would increase the penalties against drivers who flee accident scenes. 

ADAMS TELLS NEWCOMERS TO ‘GO BACK TO IOWA, OHIO’

BOROUGH HALL — Borough President Eric Adams has caused controversy because of a speech in which he urged some recent residents of New York City to “go back” to Iowa or Ohio, according to Gothamist. “Go back to Iowa, you go back to Ohio. New York belongs to the people who were here and made New York City what it is,” Adams said during a speech at the National Action Network’s Martin Luther King Day celebration. Adams, who was born in Brownsville and grew up in Jamaica, Queens, spoke of past problems in the city, such as crack addiction and heroin addiction, and their impact on black and Latino communities. 

PHILANTHROPIST’S DEATH RULED A HOMICIDE

FORT GREENE — The death of a philanthropist who was stabbed in the neck just before a house he owned in Fort Greene was set on fire has been ruled a homicide, according to NBC4. Antonio Litman lived in New Jersey, but a family member said Sunday that he was at the building on Adelphi Street on Friday when the fire occurred. Litman founded the charity Virginia’s House of Hope, which has distributed school supplies, food, clothing and educational toys to more than 10,000 families. Litman once said in an interview, “I grew up on a farm in South Carolina, and was raised by my family to give to those in our community who were less fortunate. We shared what we grew on our farm with anyone in need.” 

ESPINAL LEAVES RACE FOR BOROUGH PRESIDENT

BROWNSVILLE — Councilmember Rafael Espinal (D-Bed-StuyBrownsville-Bushwick-Crown Heights) announced his exit from the race for borough president on Wednesday. His statement read, in part: “I want to be clear. Given my record and ability to work with all Brooklynites, I truly believe that I could have put together a strong and winning campaign. Right now is just not the time for me.” 

NEW ICE CREAM SHOP COMING TO PROSPECT PARK WEST

PARK SLOPE — Ample Hills Creamery, a well-known ice cream chain that has outlets from New York to California, will soon open a new location in Park Slope, according to New York YIMBY. The ice cream shop will be located at 192 Prospect Park West next to the former Pavilion Theater across from Prospect Park. Hidrock Properties, the developer responsible for the Prospect Park West location, commissioned Building Studio Architects to renovate and repurpose the site’s existing one-story building that was designed in the 1920s. Hidrock’s owner, Steven Hidary, told The New York Times in 2016 that the team had decided against building a new condo on the site. 

COPS PROBE REPORTED RAPE, KIDNAPPING IN EAST NY

EAST NEW YORK — Authorities are investigating a reported rape and kidnapping in East New York, according to NBCNewYork. Law enforcement sources said a 28-yearold woman was walking near Liberty and Alabama avenues around 5 a.m. on Tuesday when a stranger in his 60s walked up to her and jabbed her with a sharp object. She told police that she was taken into a silver van and lost consciousness.

The next day, at Rockaway and Pitkin avenues, she got out of the van and walked home, according to police. 

DEAF MAN SUES PORN SITE OVER CLOSED CAPTIONING

BOROUGHWIDE — A deaf man from Brooklyn has filed a class-action lawsuit against a site known as Pornhub, saying he can’t fully enjoy the videos because they don’t provide

Airports, including JFK in New York City, have begun screening for a new and mysterious contagious disease — “Novel Coronavirus” — as it spreads around the globe from China. With a large Chinese population in Brooklyn, area health officials are on alert.

AP Photo/Kin Cheung closed captioning, according to the New York Post. Yaroslav Suris claims the porn site has violated his and others’ rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Suris tried to watch a variety of videos on Pornhub and several associated sites, such as “Sexy Cop Gets Witnesses to Talk” and “Aunt Babysits Disobedient Nephew,” the Post reported. Suris said he pays for a premium subscription on Pornhub, which hosts millions of adult videos. 

GROUP BUYS VERIZON PROPERTY IN CLINTON HILL

CLINTON HILL — Daten Group has closed on 540-554 Waverly Ave. in Clinton Hill, according to Real Estate Weekly. The property was sold by Verizon New York for a price of $17.5 million.

Daten will attempt to consolidate the zoned lots in the block that run adjacent to Atlantic and Clinton avenues, an act that needs the approval of the Board of Standards and Appeals.

Plans filed with the city indicate that a new nine-story mixeduse building is planned for the site, which is now occupied by a series of one-story warehouses. 

SENIORS’ HEALTH TOPICS ARE SUBJECT OF MEETING

BAY RIDGE — Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis (R-Brooklyn-Staten Island), State Sen. Diane Savino (D-Brooklyn-Staten Island) and several other Staten Island state representatives took part in an AARP question-and-answer session at the Staaten in West Brighton, Staten Island, on Friday morning. Malliotakis told attendees that issues involving Brooklyn and Staten Island seniors are “non-partisan” issues and almost always receive unanimous support. She also applauded the removal of the pharmacist “gag order,” which prevented pharmacists from telling patients that their medication would be cheaper if it wasn’t processed through insurance and instead paid for with cash. Savino expressed opposition to a proposal that the United States buy U.S.-made prescription drugs from Canada because it places a cap on drug costs. 

ANDY WARHOL FOUNDATION AWARDS BROOKLYN GALLERY

PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is awarding $100,000 to A Blade of Grass, an organization that helps artists and is located on Prospect Place in Brooklyn. The grant is part of an overall $3.93 million that the foundation is giving to 35 organizations from 19 states. Joel Wachs, the foundation’s president, said in a statement, “We are proud to further the important work that each of these organizations does to give artists a platform from which to meaningfully engage with the world around them, whether that means their neighborhood community, their regional context, the contemporary art world or the broader culture.” 

12 B’KLYN RESTAURANTS ARE IN WINTER RESTAURANT WEEK

BOROUGHWIDE — Only 12 Brooklyn restaurants are part of New York City Winter Restaurant Week, according to Patch.

They span an area, mainly in Western Brooklyn, stretching from Bay Ridge to Williamsburg. Among them are the Greenhouse Café in Bay Ridge, French Louie on Atlantic Avenue, the Osprey in Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Yellow Magnolia Café at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Benchmark Restaurant in

Park Slope. For a full list, see the New York City Restaurant Week website. 

FIRE ON OCEAN PARKWAY KILLS 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL

KENSINGTON — An 11-year-old girl died and a firefighter was injured Monday night after an apartment fire in Kensington, according to The New York Times. Around 10:20 p.m. on Monday, firefighters received a call about a fire in a three-story building at 761 Ocean Parkway. Twenty-five units and 106 firefighters and EMS personnel responded to the scene. Shirr Teved, a yeshiva student, was pulled from the scene and declared dead. Neighbors and classmates said that Shirr loved animals, field trips to the beach at Coney Island and doing gymnastics. The cause of the fire is under investigation, the Times said. 

CREWS REMOVE TAINTED SOIL IN RED HOOK

RED HOOK — Crews are at work digging up 13 contaminated ballfields in Red Hook, according to The New York Times. NYCHA’s Red Hook Houses and the ballfields were built on top of a lead-smelting site dating back to the 1920s. The ballfields were closed five years ago, and the city started moving the contaminated soil out in August. Since then, nearly 2,800 tons of dirt have been hauled from the area, the Times said. The city says several of the ballfields should be ready this summer, although some locals doubt this. While work is going on, the site is periodically sprayed with water to keep dust to a minimum, the Times said. 

REHAB COMING TO PARKS IN SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN

BAY RIDGE — City Councilmember Justin Brannan (D-Bay Ridge-Dyker Heights) and Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Marty Maher met last Monday to discuss projects taking place in local parks and playgrounds in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Gravesend, Bensonhurst and Bath Beach, according to the Home Reporter. Construction will soon begin on the basketball and tennis courts at Fort Hamilton Field at Colonial Road and 83rd Street. The project includes the reconstruction of two fullcourt basketball courts with three-tier bleachers, a drinking fountain, landscaping and a two tennis courts. Additionally, work on a new Shore Road Park dog run at 100th Street is slated to begin in fall 2020, to be completed by fall 2022. And the 97th Street and Shore Road Park loop path will be repaved and restored so it makes a full lap around the entire park, with a projected 2021 completion date, the Home Reporter said. 

FRENCH ARTIST WORKS ON PROJECT AT DOMINO SITE

WILLIAMSBURG — French photographer and street artists JR, currently the subject of an exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum, is working on a new project at the Domino Sugar site in Williamsburg. The installation features 16 blue shipping containers stacked on top of each other. It’s not clear if they will soon be adorned with the large-scale portraits that JR typically pastes on to surfaces, according to Brownstoner. The artist appears to be working on the project with architectural design studio LOTEK, which has been posting pictures of the installation’s progress on Instagram.

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REAL ESTATE Take a winter walk through Brooklyn Bridge Park

Brooklyn Bridge Park is an inviting place for a stroll in every season of the year.

By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Brooklyn Bridge Park is so popular that it’s easy to forget how new it is.

The park first opened just 10 years ago — and at that time, Pier 1 and Pier 6 were the only places that were built. But the 85-acre waterfront recreation area became an instant visitor draw thanks to its innovative design by landscape architecture firm Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates and its stunning location.

The park stretches for 1.3 miles along the East River shoreline at the edge of Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO. The views of Manhattan skyscrapers are dazzling, and you get up-close looks at both the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge.

A stroll through Brooklyn Bridge Park will soothe your winter-saddened soul. I promise. I’ll tell you the park’s origin story while we walk.

It doesn’t much matter what the weather’s like — the scenery’s going to look great anyway. For instance, I was in the park two years ago when fog rolled down the river and wrapped around the Brooklyn Bridge. It was a spectacular sight.

A PORT AUTHORITY FACILITY If you don’t live within walking distance of Pier 6, which is at the foot of Atlantic Avenue at the edge of Brooklyn Heights, the NYC Ferry is a good way to get there. Various ferry routes include stops at Pier 6.

In warm weather, people flock to this pier to play volleyball on courts made of sand and drink on the roof of pizza maker Fornino, which has an outpost here.

In winter, you can spend time on the pier’s vast lawn, which is green and inviting and affords a stellar view of the skyscrapers lining the tip of Lower Manhattan. And at the edge of Pier 6, there are benches where you can sit and watch the river flow (yes, that’s a line from a Bob Dylan song).

This would be a good moment to explain why this section of Brooklyn Bridge Park is composed of piers. They were part of a cargo-ship facility the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey operated until 1984.

It took years for the fate of the shut-down shipping center to be decided. Henrik Krogius, the late editor of the Brooklyn Heights Press, co-wrote a book about the process with Brooklyn Bridge Park Corp. Director Joanne Witty. “Brooklyn Bridge Park: A Dying Waterfront Transformed” was published in 2016.

Initially, the Port Authority wanted to sell the piers for private development. The Brooklyn Heights Association mustered opposition to this proposal, and promoted the idea of a “harbor park,” Krogius told my colleague Mary Frost in 2013.

A SOUND ATTENUATING BERM Now, back to our walk. Pier 5 comes next. It’s got a dazzling expanse of artificial turf that’s divided into multiple fields for soccer and other sports such as lacrosse.

Once again, the water-facing view is of Lower Manhattan’s mighty skyscrapers. When you face inland, you see the backs of Brooklyn Heights brownstones and apartment houses that line the Promenade above the BQE. At the water’s edge on Pier 5, there are coin-operated binoculars if you want a closer look at Lower Manhattan’s skyline.

Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 2, which is protected by roofs, has five acres of sports facilities.

A marina that’s adjacent to Pier 5 is nearly empty of boats this time of year. But along the shore, there’s a Picnic Peninsula with weather-resistant umbrellas that remain standing year-round.

On the Pier 5 uplands, there are hillside lawns ringed with trees.

A grassy ridge was constructed as a “sound attenuating berm,” which is what Brooklyn Bridge Park’s website calls it. The berm dampens the noise of vehicular traffic on adjacent Furman Street and the BQE. At every turn on your walk, there are spots that will tempt you to sit and soak up the serenity. Just remember the days are short this time of year. If you want to see the entire park before sunset, you might want to walk first and return to your favorite spots afterwards.

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When you come back down from Pier 5’s hillside, take a minute to watch seagulls swimming beside the sandy shoreline of Pier 4 Beach.

This beach serves as a boat launch for kayaks and other non-motorized vessels.

Nearby Pier 3 is lovely and calm. On the edge of its vast lawn, there’s a labyrinth with mirrors and salvaged artifacts such as bollards and bits of railroad tracks.

When I took my stroll, the labyrinth was closed. It had just snowed the day before. I imagine the ground was soggy.

At the water’s edge on this pier, when you turn your head to the right, you get a good view of the Brooklyn Bridge.

When you head for terra firma, inviting paths lead you through the Pier 3 uplands. Seeing all this greenery in the middle of winter will lift your spirits.

OPEN-AIR BASKETBALL COURTS As you walk towards Pier 2, I’ll tell you a bit more about Brooklyn Bridge Park’s origin story.

Pro-park advocates coalesced into an organization called the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. It now produces the park’s programming and cultivates the support of volunteers and philanthropists.

The public planning process for Brooklyn Bridge Park started in 1998. In 2002, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor George Pataki signed off on city and state funding for park construction and created the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation to oversee it, the park’s website says.

The park’s groundbreaking took place in 2008.

Pier 2 is covered with roofs that keep the rain off five acres of basketball courts and other open-air sports facilities.

A sidewalk on this pier’s perimeter affords an excellent view of Pierhouse, the condo and hotel complex Toll Brothers and Starwood Capital Group constructed at the edge of the park.

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Back on dry land, you’ll notice that grass berms are being constructed near Pierhouse. These ridges are enclosed by a chain-link fence, so you can get a good look at them even though you can’t stroll on them quite yet.

If you need coffee or tea at this point, there’s a cafe at 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge, which is part of the Pierhouse complex.

SILENT SENTINELS

As you approach Pier 1, you’ll notice a “pile field,” which consists of rows and rows of wood posts that stand like silent sentinels in the water. The World Trade Center and other Lower Manhattan towers form a backdrop for the pile field.

The pile field draws a lot of photographers — especially at sunset.

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy uses one of Pier 1’s lawns for its summer free-film series, Movies With A View.

St. Ann’s Warehouse, at right, was a tobacco storage facility constructed in the 1860s.

Empire Stores’ neighbor is the DUMBO Clocktower Building at 1 Main St., which is across the street from Brooklyn Bridge Park. This centuryold Industrial Neo-Classical landmark is made of reinforced concrete.

Gallery owner, art dealer and collector Lio Malca bought the building’s threefloor penthouse for $15 million in 2017. The condo’s four walls have 14-foot glass clock faces embedded in them.

Visitors gather on Empire Stores’ rooftop before sunset (seen here).

PEBBLE BEACH

Another Pier 1 lawn is periodically used to display artworks. For instance, it’s where British artist Anish Kapoor installed “Descension,” which was a whirlpool, in 2017. This lawn is near NYC Ferry’s Pier 1 dock.

Visitors congregate on a promenade near the dock because it’s an excellent place to take photos of the Brooklyn Bridge and the World Trade Center.

The dock that NYC Ferry uses floats alongside the historic Fulton Ferry Landing.

The latter was the site of a ferry service that launched in 1642.

In the 1800s, before the Brooklyn Bridge was built, steam-powered boats shut-

tled passengers, and horses and wagons as well, to and from Manhattan via Fulton Ferry Landing.

GLAMMED-UP TOBACCO AND COFFEE WAREHOUSES To get from Pier 1 to the DUMBO side of Brooklyn Bridge Park, you leave the park and walk down Water Street beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

Then continue on Water Street as it hooks right until you find St. Ann’s Warehouse, a 700-seat theater at 45 Water St. Until its redesign by Marvel Architects, this theater was the landmarked Tobacco Warehouse, which was constructed in the 1860s.

Dead-end streets on either side of the theater lead you into Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Across from St. Ann’s, there’s a section of the park that’s referred to as Brooklyn Bridge Plaza. It’s going to be reconstructed.

In 2018, community engagement workshops were held to gather input from Fulton Ferry Landing and DUMBO residents about what design elements they hope will be included in the rebuilt plaza.

The next landmarked property you’ll see in Brooklyn Bridge Park is Empire Stores. A joint venture led by Midtown Equities has restored this 19th-century coffee warehouse complex for office, retail and restaurant use.

I’m not going to step inside Empire Stores just yet because I plan to return after I’ve reached the edge of Brooklyn Bridge Park.

A prime place to stand when you want to photograph Empire Stores, the clocktower, the Brooklyn Bridge or the World Trade Center is Pebble Beach. It’s located in the park beneath the Manhattan Bridge.

Pebble Beach is also a hot spot for taking sunset snapshots.

It’s got a stone amphitheater — but make sure there’s no melting snow on it before you sit down.

When you’re ready to resume your walk, follow the path beneath the Manhattan Bridge that leads you to the section of the park that’s located alongside condo tower One John St. There’s a tidal salt marsh here — and a lawn that affords a vantage point for photographing the Manhattan Bridge.

Paths through this part of the park continue on past 10 Jay St., a former 1890s sugar refinery that now houses commercial tenants. The side of the building that faces Brooklyn Bridge Park is covered with a glass and metal curtain wall whose design was inspired by sugar crystals.

Brooklyn Bridge Park ends at the bottom of Jay Street.

I’m going to retrace my steps through the park to get back to Empire Stores. Because I spent an obsessive amount of time taking pictures, I’m running a little short on daylight.

If you walk through DUMBO’s streets to get there, of course you should stop at the intersection of Washington

Street and Water Street. This is the spot where crowds gather to take pictures.

Red-brick buildings frame a view of the Manhattan Bridge — and in the void between the bridge supports, you can see the Empire State Building.

ROOFTOP IGLOOS By the way, Empire Stores’ street address is 55 Water St. if you want to look it up on your phone.

I’m going up to its rooftop park. The views are really something.

Empire Stores is actually a cluster of warehouses constructed between 1869 and 1885. John and Charles Arbuckle stored unroasted coffee beans there. Its red-brick exterior walls are two feet thick.

How’s that for a fine piece of architectural-history trivia?

Walk through its entrance doors and into an open-air atrium to find the stairs to the roof.

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Time Out Market has a building on the roof with restaurants and bars in it — and outdoor tables, too. This time of year, the tables are enclosed in transparent igloos, so there’s no fear of frostbite.

As for the views, you can see the Brooklyn Bridge, the World Trade Center and the setting sun when you look towards Manhattan, and see the Manhattan Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge when you look towards Williamsburg.

And when you look straight down, you see Jane’s Carousel, a restored 1920s merry-goround that originally stood in Youngstown, Ohio.

The renovated carousel was David and Jane Walentas’s gift to Brooklyn Bridge Park. High-profile architect Jean Nouvel designed its protective pavilion, which is made of acrylic panels.

If the light’s just right, the pavilion takes on an otherworldly glow before sunset.

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NOTICE OF SUBMISSION OF PROPOSED STIPULATIONS PURSUANT TO PUBLIC SERVICE LAW, ARTICLE 10 Siting Board Case 18-F-0758

Astoria Generating Company, L.P. (“AGC”) is proposing to submit an application for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need (the “Application”) to the New York State Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment (the “Siting Board”) to repower certain existing electric generating units and retire certain other existing electric generating units, all located in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, pursuant to Article 10 of the Public Service Law (“Article 10”). This notice announces that on or about January 21, 2020, AGC filed with the Siting Board its proposed stipulations as to the scope and methodology for the studies to be conducted in support of the Application (the “Proposed Stipulations”). The Proposed Stipulations will be filed under Siting Board Case 18-F-0758. Upon filing, a 30-day public comment period will commence.

Summary of the Project. AGC operates two existing electric generating stations on floating barges, the Gowanus Generating Station (“Gowanus”) and Narrows Generating Station (“Narrows”), in Sunset Park, Community District 7, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. AGC is proposing to repower the older less efficient electric generating units at Gowanus and replace them with new, more efficient electric generating units, and then permanently retire the generating units at Narrows (the “Gowanus Repowering Project” or the “Project”). The Gowanus facility includes approximately 25 acres of piers and submerged land. The Narrows includes approximately 12 acres of piers and submerged land. The current megawatt (“MW”) rating of Gowanus and Narrows is 640 MW and 320 MW, respectively. The Project will result in no greater than 590 MW at Gowanus, 50 MW less than the current Gowanus facility. Upon the commencement of operation of the repowered Gowanus, AGC will retire the Narrows units resulting in an additional decrease of 320 MW of traditional generation in Sunset Park. The Gowanus Repowering Project will result in cleaner, more efficient electric generation and provide the electric reliability required for the area, especially as renewable energy production, transmission and distribution expand over time. In addition, since the repowered Gowanus will continue to be situated on barges, the Project will maintain the critical infrastructure resilience demonstrated by the existing Gowanus facility. As the City and State move toward greater reliance on renewable energy sources, should the Gowanus units no longer be needed for reliability, the barges may be easily removed without leaving vast abandoned infrastructure in the community.

Status of Article 10 Process. Pursuant to Article 10, on May 14, 2019, AGC filed with the Siting Board a Preliminary Scoping Statement (“PSS”) for the Gowanus Repowering Project, summarizing the proposed scope of studies to be conducted in support of the Application to be filed at a later date. Thereafter, the public and stakeholders had an opportunity to submit comments to the PSS. Following the comment period, on July 17, 2019, AGC filed and served its summary of and responses to such comments. In addition, on July 16, 2019, a procedural conference was held wherein the Siting Board awarded $88,175 in pre-Application intervenor funding to UPROSE, a community-based organization representing residents of Sunset Park. The Siting Board’s Ruling Confirming Pre-Application Award of Intervenor Funding was issued on July 30, 2019. Pursuant to Article 10 and 16 NYCRR 1000.5, on August 8, 2019, AGC filed a Notice of Commencement of Stipulation Process, providing notice of its intention to confer with agencies and other stakeholders interested in participating in negotiations with respect to stipulations to address the studies to be included in the exhibits to the Application.

Proposed Stipulations. The Proposed Stipulations were developed through confidential negotiations between AGC, New York Department of Public Service, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, New York State Department of Health, City of New York and UPROSE (represented by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest and Earthjustice). Any interested parties, whether or not participants in the negotiations, may sign on to some or all of the Proposed Stipulations. Pursuant to 16 NYCRR 1000.5(k), any party that executes a stipulation may not raise objections at the evidentiary hearing on the Application as to the methodology or scope of any study or program of studies performed in compliance with such stipulation. Article 10 requires that before the Proposed Stipulations may be executed by interested parties, the public must be given notice and a reasonable opportunity to comment on the Proposed Stipulations. Pursuant to 16 NYCRR 1000.5(j)(2), this notice serves as a summary of the Proposed Stipulations and notice of the comment period on the Proposed Stipulations.

The Proposed Stipulations provide for agreements on the studies to be conducted for the following exhibits: Exhibit 1: General Requirements; Exhibit 2: Project Overview and Summary of Public Involvement; Exhibit 3: Location of Facilities; Exhibit 4: Land Use; Exhibit 5: Electrical Systems Effects; Exhibit 7: Natural Gas Power Facilities; Exhibit 8: Electrical System Production Modeling; Exhibit 9: Alternatives; Exhibit 10: Consistency with Energy Planning Objectives; Exhibit 11: Preliminary Design Drawings; Exhibit 12: Construction; Exhibit 13: Real Property; Exhibit 14: Cost of Facilities; Exhibit 15: Public Health and Safety; Exhibit 16: Pollution Control Facilities; Exhibit 17: Air Emissions; Exhibit 18: Safety and Security; Exhibit 19: Noise and Vibration; Exhibit 20: Cultural Resources; Exhibit 21: Geology, Seismology and Soils; Exhibit 22: Terrestrial Ecology and Wetlands; Exhibit 23: Water Resources and Aquatic Ecology; Exhibit 24: Visual Impacts; Exhibit 25: Effects on Transportation; Exhibit 26: Effects on Communication; Exhibit 27: Socioeconomic Effects; Exhibit 28: Environmental Justice; Exhibit 29: Site Restoration and Decommissioning; Exhibit 31: Local Laws and Ordinances; Exhibit 32: State Laws and Ordinances; Exhibit 33: Other Applications and Approvals; Exhibit 34: Electrical Interconnection Description; Exhibit 35: Electrical and Magnetic Fields; Exhibit 36: Gas Interconnection Description; Exhibit 37: Backup Fuel; Exhibit 38: Water Interconnection; Exhibit 39: Waste Water Interconnection; and Exhibit 40: Telecommunications Interconnection Description. The Proposed Stipulations include: scope and types of studies to be conducted; content and analysis to be supplied with each exhibit and/or study; types of maps, drawings or explanations to be provided; methodologies to be used in performing the studies; data to be collected and compared in the studies; impact avoidance and mitigation measures; agency consultations where required; and other information to be provided in the Application in compliance with the Article 10 regulations.

This notice will be distributed to parties to the Article 10 proceeding as well as a large stakeholder list and will be published in various local newspapers and publications. Comments on the Proposed Stipulations must reference Case 18-F-0758 and be submitted within 30 days after filing of the Proposed Stipulations to Hon. Michelle L. Phillips, Secretary to the Commission, by mail: New York State Public Service Commission, Empire State Plaza, Agency Building 3, Albany, NY 12223, or email: secretary@dps.ny.gov, copied to AGC at the address or email below.

The Application. After execution of the final stipulations, AGC will submit its Application. In accordance with the stipulations agreed to by interested parties and requirements set forth in 16 NYCRR 1001, the exhibits to the Application, as applicable to the Project, will include a description of the Project, an evaluation of environmental and health impacts, a summary of public involvement activities, an evaluation of reasonable and available alternative locations, a statement of why any local substantive standards should not be applied, an electric interconnection study including general design study, security and emergency plans, statement demonstrating compliance with the most recent State Energy Plan, and other information. Upon filing the Application, AGC will provide additional intervenor funding in the amount of $400,000.

Once an Application is filed and determined by the Siting Board to be complete, the Siting Board will schedule an evidentiary hearing on the Application. The Siting Board will also issue a notice of availability of the additional intervenor funds that are available to be used by parties to participate in formal review of the Application. A pre-hearing conference will be scheduled to award intervenor funds, identify issues for hearing, and establish a case schedule. Additional conferences and hearings regarding the Application will be scheduled by Presiding Examiners as needed. After the hearings, the stakeholders may brief their positions and the Presiding Examiners will issue a recommended decision upon which the Siting Board will base its decision. Article 10 requires that all proceedings on the Application, including a final decision by the Siting Board, must be completed within 12 months of when the Application is determined to be complete.

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ON JAN. 22, 1901, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “London — The long reign of Queen Victoria is at an end. News of her death was officially announced in London at 6:55 o’clock this evening. The end came at 6:30 … The Queen is said to have bid farewell, in a feeble monosyllable, to her family, assembled at her bedside, at midday. She first recognized the Prince of Wales, to whom she spoke a few words of great moment; then Emperor William and the others present filed past and heard a whispered goodbye. All those in the bedroom were in tears … The following telegram from the Prince of Wales was received by the Lord Mayor at 7 p.m.: ‘Osborne, 6:45 p.m. – My beloved mother has just passed away, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. (Signed) Albert Edward.’ … The news of the Queen’s death spread quickly over New York. Almost as soon as the cables flashed the message across the sea, the tickers in hundreds of offices and public places were printing off the death notice. In a few minutes, flags on the big buildings began to descend to half mast. Nearly all the flags in the city were lowered out of respect to the memory of the dead Queen. On some of the buildings, British flags were run up to half mast where they dropped sadly in the still air.”  ON JAN. 22, 1922, the Eagle reported, “Buck Weaver, suspended in connection with the 1919 World Series scandal, has applied for reinstatement on the ground that while he knew all about the crookedness, he failed to tell the club owner because he did not want to be put in the light of snitching. Yea, and presumably if he saw a house on fire at night he would not turn in the alarm for fear someone would accuse him of ungentlemanly conduct in rudely waking the sleepers.”  ON JAN. 22, 1936, the Eagle reported, “London (AP) — A shrill fanfare of trumpets, climaxing a colorful age-old pageant with modern touches, formally proclaimed Great Britain’s new flying monarch today as Edward VIII. Before a great crowd outside historic St. James’ Palace, the medieval-clad Garter King of Arms, Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, stepped to the balcony over the Friary Court. In a firm voice he proclaimed the 41-year-old Edward King, Emperor and Defender of the Faith. Blasts from silver trumpets rang out as Sir Gerald, a member of the Herald’s College, pronounced the resounding words: ‘God save the King!’ The throng stood silent, the battery of St. James’ Park crashed out with the first of its salute of 41 guns — one for each year of King Edward’s life. The new ruler was seen to appear momentarily at a tall window adjoining the crimson-hung balcony. Otherwise he took no part in the traditional ceremonies. The ‘faith and constant obedience’ of all his subjects was pledged to the new sovereign, confirming his succession to the throne of his late father, the 70-year-old King George V.”

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A round-up of local Lunar New Year events

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Ringing in the Lunar New Year, Brooklyn style.

On Saturday., Jan. 25, the Year of the Rat will kick off and the borough-wide festivities will begin, with events around the borough.

On Saturday, Jan. 25, from 10 a.m. -2 p.m. the Sunset Park Recreation Center, 4200 Seventh Ave, will host its annual Chinese Lunar New Year celebration with performances, raffles, giveaways, prizes, games, and more.

The Brook lyn Chinese-American Association will host its annual Chinese New Year Celebration Parade on Sunday, Jan. 26 at 12 p.m. Community leaders as well as public and elected officials will join in and offer welcoming remarks and greetings, immediately followed by a spectacular fireworks display, a traditional lion dance, Performances are all part of the fun during the bora Kung-Fu demonstration, and ough’s Lunar New Year festivities. performances by local children as well as other cultural activities. with the Chinatown Young Li- State Sen. Andrew Gounardes, The celebration will officially ons and learn about Lunar New Assembly member Peter begin at 11 a.m. at the grand- Year with Brooklyn-based au- Abbate and Councilmember stand at Eighth Avenue and 50th thor Michele Wong McSween Justin Brannan. Activities will Street, with performances and who will read her new book, include a lion dance, martial cultural activities. Then at 1 p.m., “Gordon & Li Li: Celebrate arts performances, dance and the head lion and VIP guests, Chinese New Year.” musical performances, games, followed by marching teams, On Friday. Feb. 7, Borough raffles and more.

In addition, every weekend will lead the parade along Eighth President Eric Adams in conAvenue toward 61st Street. Lions junction with the Sino America in February, the Prospect will dance in front of each store New York Brooklyn Archway Park Zoo, 450 Flatbush Ave., to bring good luck and fortune Association, will host a Lunar will celebrate the festival of to the community.

New Year Cultural Celebration the new moon and animals of the Chinese Zodiac. Meet one On Sunday, Jan. 26, Indus- from 6-9 p.m. at Brooklyn try City, 268 36th Street, will Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon of the tiniest rodents in the host its Lion Dance event from world, the Eurasian Harvest St. Among the highlights will 2-4 p.m. It is believed that the be celebratory giveaways, Mouse, and learn how the longer the dragon in the dance, children’s activities and live Wildlife Conservation Society the more luck it will bring to cultural performances. is helping animals in China the community.

On Sun. March 1 from 11 and Southeast The Brooklyn Children’s a.m.- 2:30 p.m., New Utrecht Asia. Special Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave., High School, 1601 80th St., activities and a will host its celebration of will mark Lunar New Year on zodiac scavenger Lunar New Year in conjunc- hunt will all be a Sun., Jan. 26. Attendees can parade throughout the museum tion with U.S. Rep Max Rose, part of the fun.

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Black Lives Matter leader demands history education overhaul

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The lessons school children learn about the African-American experience should be taught in school all year around, not just during Black History Month, according to the founder of Black Lives Matter Brooklyn, who has launched a petition drive to push for passage of a state bill to revamp the education system.

Anthony Beckford’s petition on www.change.org has garnered nearly 1,500 signatures. “My goal is to push past 10,000,” he told the Home Reporter.

Beckford, who organized Black Lives Matter Brooklyn a few years ago and ran unsuccessfully for a City Council seat in Flatbush in 2019, said he’s hoping his petition drive will galvanize support for a bill sponsored by Democratic State Sen. Brian Benjamin of Harlem and Democratic Assemblymember Diana Richardson of Crown Heights to create a commission to develop a Black history curriculum in public

schools.

The bill, which Benjamin and Richardson introduced in their respective legislative chambers in 2019, is getting renewed attention now that the new legislative session has opened.

Richardson introduced a similar bill in 2018. “The significance and humanity of African American history is often treated with blatant indifference, but through the implementation of this history into the curriculum of our schools, the undeniable contributions women and men of color have made towards society, can help strengthen understanding and awareness,” she told Kings County Politics at the time.

The year 2019 marked the 400th anniversary of the first African slaves being brought to Virginia in 1619.

The time is right for a major change in education, Beckford said.

“The new legislative session in New York State has started and it is very crucial for state legislators in both the Senate and Assembly to make sure

that the African American exposure to black history is Education Bill, aka the Black all too brief. Teachers may History Education Bill, is voted pause during Black History on to pass through the commit- Month in February to throw tees and be brought to a vote in a lesson about Rosa Parks, in the chambers and passed,” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Beckford said. or the civil rights movement, The legislation would create while other teachers may a year-round Black history use a current rap or hip-hop curriculum for students from song as their homage to the kindergarten through 12th debt that African-Amerigrade. cans continue to pay to this The New York City public country. This is not a good school system has 1.2 million approach, as it in many ways students, 25.5 percent of whom perpetuates the system of are Black, according to Depart- ‘otherness’ that pervades the ment of Education statistics. experiences of black people,” February is National Black Pitts wrote.

History Month, a time when The Benjamin-Richardson schools focus attention on the bill would help empower Black youngsters by giving struggles and achievements of Black Americans. But them the chance to learn about those lessons should be taught the richness of their history throughout the entire school “and to teach them that their existence did not start and year and not be squeezed into will not stop with slavery,” the space of a single month, according to Beckford.

Beckford said.

In a 2018 opinion piece A mandatory Black history in Education Week, Jamilah curriculum in schools would also help children who aren’t Pitts, a history teacher, argued Black, he said. “It could help against relegating the lessons to just one month out of the non-Black children combat year. the racism and biases taught “For many students, their to them at home. When you

Photo courtesy of Anthony Beckford

Black Lives Matter Brooklyn founder Anthony Beckford is stepping up his efforts for a mandatory Black history curriculum in schools. hear a child speaking in such hateful language, you don’t blame the child. You know where it’s coming from,” he said.

“Education is a vital tool,”

Beckford added.

The petition can be viewed here: https://www.change. org/p/new-york-state-senateassembly-pass-the-black-history-education-bill

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