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‘Artificial wetlands’ might clean up Newtown Creek Environmental firm poses installing wetlands to treat pollution in waterway By Paul Frangipane Greenpoint Gazette

A Long Island environmental consulting firm says it has the latest solution to help reduce New York City’s sewage water contamination problem. The firm, Roux, gave a presentation to the North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Friday morning to pitch Constructed Treatment Wetlands, or CTWs, to help reduce the pollution from sewage water flowing into the city’s waterways, using the federal Superfund site Newtown Creek as an example. CTWs are an engineered system designed to improve water quality using the natural treatment processes of wetlands, said Kelly Coulon, a senior engineer at Roux. Once a system that would require large expanses of space, CTWs have evolved to maintain a smaller footprint that Coulon said could give them CONTINUES ON PAGE 4

Two layers of booms were installed last year to help to contain oil from entering the main body of Newtown Creek and eventually New York Harbor. Photo courtesy of Newtown Creek Alliance

BQX streetcar could be the great transit equalizer The proposed BQX streetcar would run through Downtown Brooklyn. See page 3. Rendering courtesy of Friends of the BQX

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Explosions, health risks, higher bills: Why North Brooklyn residents are fighting this project ‘Stop lying to our community.’ By Scott Enman Greenpoint Gazette

Citing risks of explosions, health hazards and higher bills, Community Board 1 unanimously opposed a controversial gas pipeline this week that National Grid wants to build underneath Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

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Cops seek gang that assaulted deliveryman Police recently released a video of a violent assault and robbery of a pizza deliveryman in Williamsburg. The robbery and assault were not only caught on camera, but in high definition, according to ABC7. The incident happened last Saturday at 32 Walton St. A group of young people wearing masks roughed up the deliveryman before robbing him and stabbing him in both legs. They stole his bike, phone, jacket, $70 in cash and a pizza.”

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Adams forecasts ‘dirty campaign’ for 2021 Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams last Wednesday said that the 2021 mayoral race is “going to be a dirty campaign,” according to the New York Post. Adams joined two other mayoral hopefuls, Council Speaker Corey Johnson and Comptroller Scott Stringer, at a rally promoting the city’s new ranked-choice voting system. Later, Adams’ campaign spokesperson Evan Thies said Adams was joking, and that “we are going to focus on the issues.”

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Papa’s got a brand new reusable bag The much-discussed plastic bag ban is set to take effect on March 1, and on Monday, Sanitation Commissioner Kathryn Garcia, local Councilmember Antonio Reynoso and others gave away free reusable bags in Williamsburg. The giveaway effort was part of the agency’s drive to distribute 100,000 free reusable bags to city residents as the plastic bag ban nears. “We really don’t want people to be using single-use paper or plastic bags,” Garcia said. More than 23 billion bags are used annually across the state.

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Brooklyn, other NYC rents rise, says report The latest New York City rental report from Douglas Elliman is out, covering January 2020, and it shows rents rising throughout the city, according to Curbed. The median rent in Brooklyn is $2,987 a month, a year-over-year increase of 5.5 percent. In Manhattan, the median rent is up 5 percent YOY, with the face rent (without concessions included) at $3.595 per month. And in Queens, the figure is $2,993 per month, a 6.3 percent increase.

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A cottage for sale An 1850s country cottage in upstate Gallatin, N.Y., transformed by Brooklyn’s Workstead firm is on sale for $549,000, according to Brownstoner. Founded in Brooklyn in 2009, Workstead is known for its custom interiors, like the public spaces in the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg. Co-founders Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith purchased the Gallatin house in 2011 as their weekend retreat. The house was showing the toll of alterations over the years, Brownstoner said. It was covered with asbestos shingles and had a small porch added to it. The Brooklyn couple removed these outer layers, added a period-sympathetic front door, installed new windows, removed linoleum to reveal the original floor and painted the interior white.

••• Work wraps up at Domino Park building Work is wrapping up on the exterior of One South First, a 45-story tower at 260 Kent Ave., Williamsburg, that is part of the Domino Park development, according to New York YIMBY. The project includes 330 rentals, 66 affordable units, 150,000 square feet of office space and 13,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. COOKFOX is the architect, and Two Trees is the developer, New York YIMBY said.

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 bill through rate hikes for the final phase of the project. It’s “a transmission pipeline project that will bascially proliferate the use of fracked gas and build piping infrastructure under residencies and businesses that propose great danger,” aid board member Steve Chesler. “This is not about modernizing our system for heating and cooking. It’s about an excuse to charge ratepayers more money, more profits for National Grid shareholders.” The board will be sending a letter to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio and John Pettigrew, CEO of National Grid, officially stating their opposition.

In addition, nearly two dozen politicians representing areas where the pipeline is being planned have come out against the project. They will also be sending a letter to Cuomo and Public Service Commissioner John Rhodes urging them to reject it. The project was approved by PSC in 2017 and is 80 percent complete. The pipeline has already been built in East New York, Brownsville, Bushwick and East Williamsburg. Phase four, already underway, will extend from Wilson Avenue to Montrose Avenue and is expected to be completed this fall. That portion of the project has already disrupted businesses in Bushwick and East Williamsburg. Phase five, if approved, will extend from Montrose Avenue to Maspeth Avenue near Newtown Creek and is expected to be completed next year. There have been a total of 639 pipeline incidents across the country, according to Chesler, who said those episodes have led to deaths, dozens of injuries and has cost the public $600 million. “As a longtime resident of East Williamsburg and Greenpoint — neighborhoods that have for decades been environmentally abused by fossil fuel purveyors — I challenge National Grid to stop lying to our community about this pipeline and its true purpose: to fleece New Yorkers through rate hikes, while establishing deeper infrastructure that clings to dead-end fossil fuels,” said Sarah Lilley, a community leader in Greenpoint. National Grid’s proposed transmission pipes do not bring additional gas into the city, but rather allow for current gas to move Citing risk of explosions, health hazards, higher bills and climate impacts, Commu around more flexibly. The gas from nity Board 1 unanimously opposed a controversal pipeline that National Grid wants the pipeline will be shipped out to to build in Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Photo by Erik McGregor Long Island and Massachusetts and will not serve North Brooklyn residents. The project “reinforces and upgrades our local distribution system to improve safety, reliability and resiliency for customers,” according to National Grid. The utility company presented at CB1’s general meeting in January at the urging of Assemblymember Joe Lentol, who felt it was important for “accountability and transparency,” according to his staffer. Tamara Gayer, co-president of the Brooklyn Arbor P3 Association, expressed caution about building the pipeline so close to schools in the neighborhood. “Emissions from these types of fuels are particularly toxic for young children,” she said, adding: “This pipeline in proximity to so Residents and members of the Sane Energy Project also opposed the project at Jan many schools should automatically disallow this plan.” uary’s meeting. Gazette photo by Paul Frangipane A rally against the pipeline will take place on Saturday at 9 a.m. at Manhattan and Moore streets in Williamsburg. This is not the first time that National Grid has come under fire. The company refused to supply gas hookups to new customers in Brooklyn, Staten Island, parts of Queens and Long Island earlier this year after the state denied its application to build a $1 billion gas pipeline known as the Williams Northeast Supply Enhancement Project. Cuomo threatened to revoke the company’s certificate to operate its downstate gas franchise if it didn’t lift the moratorium. The governor also demanded that National Grid turn gas back on to customers and businesses — some of which came close to bankruptcy. New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams ripped into the company as well, calling the moraDozens of people attended Community Board 1’s January meeting to protest Na torium a “political ploy” to have the tional Grid building a pipeline through North Brooklyn. Gazette photo by Paul Frangipane Williams Pipeline built.

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BQX streetcar could be the great transit equalizer By Darold Burgess and Christopher Torres Brooklyneagle.com

New York City’s transit system has long been designed to funnel people from surrounding boroughs into Manhattan, harkening back to a time when it was considered the economic heart of the city. But in the 50 years since the MTA took over control of the subway, the makeup of how people need to get around the city has changed dramatically. Brooklyn is set to outpace Chicago in population in the next few years and “outer borough” job hubs like Long Island City and the Brooklyn Navy Yard are booming. But our transportation network has yet to reflect those seismic shifts. The proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector streetcar (BQX) that would run 11 miles from Red Hook to Astoria would finally start to change that. In an important new step forward for the project, the city is holding a series of community engagement sessions about the project. Last week’s meeting was held in Downtown Brooklyn, and we were there along with other supporters — from transit advocates to NYCHA residents and civic groups. The more the public learns about the project, the more they’ll come to realize its importance for the future equitable growth of the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront. We looked forward to Thursday night’s meeting in Red Hook. The BQX is designed to boost inter-borough connectivity, while also serving to complement existing transit links. With no direct subway link connecting Astoria to nearby Long Island City, let alone Brooklyn, residents often have no choice but to take the subway from Queens, into Manhattan and back out to Brooklyn, or vice versa. That or wait for the bus, which has experienced a drop in ridership for six years in a row as its service continues to decline. In the Downtown Brooklyn area, the argument for the BQX is a strong one. As residents of Ingersoll, Farragut and Whitman Houses learn more about the benefits of the project, they are lining up to support it. For too long, many of those residents have been stranded by the bus while watching others enjoy rideshare services along the route. They’ve come to realize that quality transit can serve as an equalizer, and that the BQX could provide a convenient, ADA-accessible link to workforce and job opportunities, healthcare and parks, and schools and cultural activities. These meetings held by the city will provide more opportunities for NYCHA residents to learn directly from the city about the project. We hope small business owners attend the meetings, too. The BQX would also serve as a benefit for many of them, including along Atlantic Avenue. Last spring, we convened small businesses along the route, and heard from some of their peers from different parts of the country who had experienced light rail or streetcar construction. The feedback was universal: while any construction of course comes with temporary disruption, the long-term benefits ultimately far outweigh those inconveniences. Whether in Minneapolis, Seattle, Kansas City or Portland, business owners said the transit system was a boon for business. With good communication, construction mitigation and planning, this could be the case along Atlantic Avenue and other retail corridors. Although some customers do drive and park in front of some of those businesses, the loss of some of the already extremely limited parking could be offset by increased foot traffic produced as a result of a new mass transit system that would serve 60,000 riders per day on day one. The BQX is far from a cure-all for the city’s transit woes and it is not a substitute for fixing the subways (and, remember, it wouldn’t take away funding from subways or buses, either). But there are critical gaps in our transit infrastructure that upgrades to our existing system will not address — and the BQX would help to fill those gaps, connecting to 13 subway lines, nine ferry landings and more than 100 Citi Bike stations. At the same time, it’s clear that a bus is not the answer to moving people along the route either. Brooklyn and Queens’s complex, narrow and winding road networks, marred by frequent traffic signals and irregular loading — a far cry from Manhattan’s grid system — have rendered many SBS and local buses ineffective, inefficient and unreliable. A streetcar would enable passengers to bypass these predictable pitfalls, with

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A rendering of the BQX, which would run from Red Hook to Astoria, as it might look on a route through Downtown Brooklyn. Rendering courtesy of Friends of the BQX

A crowd gathered at Brooklyn Borough Hall last week to discuss the BQX proposal. only five to ten minutes between arrivals at peak times. Finally, the BQX would provide a viable model for future city-run streetcar lines in other transit deserts across the city. The city’s meetings will continue in February and into March, with meetings scheduled for Thursday in Red Hook, and later in Williamsburg/Greenpoint, Long Island City and Astoria. This all comes at the outset of a big year for the BQX, as its environmental review wraps up and the project heads toward

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its full public review. We encourage our neighbors to join us at these meetings to learn more about how the BQX will address a longstanding transportation need for communities along the corridor. Darold Burgess is the resident association president at Ingersoll Houses and has lived there for more than 50 years. Christopher Torres is the executive director of Friends of the Brooklyn Queens Connector.

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Newtown Creek Continued from page 1

the opportunity to find their place as a means of reducing the impact of CSOs on waterways like the creek at Brooklyn’s northern border. More than 1.2 billion gallons of combined sewer overflow, or CSO, enter the creek each year. CSO occurs when stormwater runoff and wastewater overwhelm the city’s

sewer system during heavy rainfall, causing the toxic mixture to pour into local waterways. As part of a long-term control plan between the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the city, a massive tunnel to be installed underneath the waterway is expected to reduce the amount of CSO in the creek by about 63 percent by 2040.

The extremely polluted Newtown Creek. Gazette photo by Paul Frangipane

Roux used a conceptualization at Maspeth Creek as an example to demonstrate how CTWs would work on polluted waterways. The firm proposed installing a treatment wetland of two separate floating bays lined with plants that send their roots into the water. One bay would help eliminate odors and provide protection against direct contact and act as pre-treatment, Coulon said. The other would sit on a gravel bed and focus on treating the excessive levels of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and nitrogen in the water. High levels of BOD and nitrogen indicate polluted water. As of now, Roux has not helped install any CTWs in New York City, but has over-

seen several upstate. One of the reasons it’s been hard to push for them in the city is because many professionals in the field still consider CTWs to use an excessive amount of space, said Christopher Proce of Roux. The status quo of using gray infrastructure, like the proposed CSO tunnel, is also a hurdle, according to Proce. “People are traditionally going toward gray infrastructure,” Proce said. “It’s simpler, it’s straightforward, there’s concrete costs. This hasn’t been done on the scale of New York City CSO.” CTWs have been used for over 100 years and began as people putting wastewater into wetlands and realizing it made the environment cleaner.

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Abby Anderson scored 13 points and ripped down 13 rebounds to help the St. Francis College Terriers knock off the LIU Sharks last Saturday afternoon in Downtown Brooklyn.

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Dinosaurs will be invading Brooklyn during the Jurassic World Live Tour at Barclays Center, according to the Brooklyn Reporter website. Jurassic World Live Tour is an all-new arena show that combines live action, stunt work and puppetry with a storyline that is directly linked to the Jurassic World movies. “If you want to just go see dinosaurs, you can go to museums,” said Nicholas Moran who plays Dr. Eric Bordoff, the villain of the show. “What we give you is dinosaurs with a storyline that comes right out of the movies that you are already familiar with.” 

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WORK WRAPS UP AT DOMINO PARK B’LDG.

WILLIAMSBURG — Work is wrapping up on the exterior of One South First, a 45-story tower at 260 Kent Ave., Williamsburg, that is part of the Domino Park development, according to New York YIMBY. The project includes 330 rentals, 66 affordable units, 150,000 square feet of office space and 13,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. COOKFOX is the architect, and Two Trees is the developer, New York YIMBY said. 

WINNIE THE POOH WOULD NOT APPROVE

EAST FLATBUSH — Detectives are looking for three shoplifters who beat up a dollar-store employee to steal batteries and an oversized teddy bear, according to the New York Post. The incident happened on Feb. 4 at the Ralph Avenue Dollar Store, 1590 Ralph Ave., East Flatbush. Cops say the suspects, who are seen on video, got into a dispute with an employee while trying to return merchandise. During the argument, the suspects grabbed $89 worth of batteries and a teddy bear, then went for the door. When the employee confronted them, she was kicked in the abdomen, the Post reported. 

REPORT SAYS BROWNSVILLE HAS HIGH HOMELESS RATE

BROWNSVILLE — Brownsville has one of the highest shelter entry rates of all New York City neighborhoods, according to a new report from the Institute for Children, Poverty and Homelessness. The report explores how high rates of poverty and unemployment, insufficient and unaffordable housing, and high rates of domestic violence and incarceration can all result in high rates of homelessness. More than two in five residents are living in poverty, according to BK Reader. Student homelessness in Brownsville saw a 31 percent increase since 2011-12, with nearly one in five Brownsville students experiencing homelessness. 

ALLEGATIONS OF CHEATING HIT BROOKLYN PRINCIPAL

PROSPECT-LEFFERTS GARDENS — A Brooklyn principal allegedly gave copies of embargoed exams to teachers, who in turn used them to coach their students, according to the New York Post. Addam Amauri Jones, a Spanish teacher at Parkside Preparatory Academy in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, claimed that his refusal to take part in Principal Adrienne Spencer’s scheme cost him his job, the Post said. Another employee, guidance counselor Ebony Valentine, claimed that when Spencer received the tests, which are not supposed to be removed from their wrapping until the day of the test itself, she had teachers physically cut up the test questions and paste them onto their own practice tests. However, the Department of Education dismissed the cheating allegations as unfounded. 

NEW BUILDING PLANNED IN BROWNSVILLE

BROWNSVILLE —The Bridge Rockaway Housing Development Fund Co. plans a new mixed-use housing development in Brownsville that would include 124 affordable homes and 62 supportive housing units, according to New York YIMBY. Also included would be 39,000 square feet of light manufacturing space and 3,400 square feet for community facility space. The development designed by Think! Architecture would incorporate two residential buildings, one of which would be seven stories tall, the other of which would be six stories tall. A landscaped roof garden would be above both roofs. 

BROOKLYN BALLET TO PERFORM BALLET WITH MULTI-ETHNIC CAST

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The Brooklyn Ballet’s upcoming performance of the classic ballet “Pas de Quatre” will be danced by four multi-ethnic and diverse ballerinas, according to ABC 7. The dancers are Paunika Jones, who is African American and Native American; Christine Sawyer, who is Jap-

anese, black and Cuban; Courtney Cochran, who is African American and Irish; and Miku Kawamura, who is Japanese. The school says this is the first time the ballet will be performed by a multicultural cast. 

LIU-BROOKLYN DEFEATS CENTRAL CONNECTICUT

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Raiquan Clark scored 22 points as the Long Island-Brooklyn Sharks defeated Central Connecticut 90-74 on Thursday night, according to The New York Times. Ty Flowers added 21 points, 13 rebounds and four blocks for the Sharks, while Jermaine Jackson Jr. had 15 points and seven assists. Jashun Agosto added 14 points and 10 rebounds. The Sharks improved to 2-0 against the Blue Devils this season. 

URBAN-BASED RIET ACQUIRES MIDWOOD B’LDGS.

MIDWOOD — Urban Edge Properties, a real estate investment trust focused on urban retail real estate, has acquired two mixed-use buildings in Midwood for $165 million. The company plans to increase the value of the buildings through attracting more tenants. Anchor tenants in the buildings include TJ Maxx, Target, Marshalls, New York Sports Club and Visiting Nurse Services. “We are excited about the acquisition of these high-quality, mixed-use assets in a prime Brooklyn location,” said Herb Eilberg, chief investment officer for Urban Edge. 

ADAMS SEEKS AIRLINE RULES AGAINST DISCRIMINATION

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN —Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joined last week with lawyer Roger Archibald and Archibald’s client Julie Goggin, who alleged that she was a victim of discrimination on a recent JetBlue flight. Goggin alleges that on Dec. 22, 2019, her two sons, both in their teens, boarded a flight from JFK to Long Beach, California. Even though she had paid for extra leg room for her sons, they were escorted to the back of the aircraft. When Ms. Goggin complained, a flight attendant asked for her to be removed. Adams said, “It’s clear that JetBlue must undertake far-reaching, comprehensive reforms, including racial sensitivity training for employees, to ensure this pattern does not continue,” 

THIEVES ROB ALMOST $90K FROM KENSINGTON APARTMENT

KENSINGTON — Four men broke into a Brooklyn apartment and robbed a woman of almost $90,000 on Thursday, according to the New York Post. Soon after she arrived home near

East 22nd Street around 2 p.m., four young men who had been hiding in the apartment held her up at gunpoint, police said. At one point, one of them hit her on the back of the head with the gun. The thieves demanded that she open a safe and removed $35,000 in case as well as jewelry valued at about $50,000. 

WINNING LOTTERY TICKET SOLD AT B’KLYN GROCERY

EAST FLATBUSH — A winning lottery ticket was sold at a Brooklyn supermarket, according to amNewYork. The winning Take 5 ticket was sold at J&W Supermarket at 9004 Avenue A in East Flatbush. The ticket is worth $55,868. The winning numbers for the Feb. 17 drawing were 07-1115-16-28. Take 5 numbers are drawn from a field of one through 39. 

A COTTAGE FOR SALE

WILLIAMSBURG — An 1850s country cottage in upstate Gallatin, N.Y., transformed by Brooklyn’s Workstead firm is on sale for $549,000, according to Brownstoner. Founded in Brooklyn in 2009, Workstead is known for its custom interiors, like the public spaces in the Wythe Hotel in Williamsburg. Co-founders Stefanie Brechbuehler and Robert Highsmith purchased the Gallatin house in 2011 as their weekend retreat. The house was showing the toll of alterations over the years, Brownstoner said. It was covered with asbestos shingles and had a small porch added to it. The Brooklyn couple removed these outer layers, added a period-sympathetic front door, installed new windows, removed linoleum to reveal the original floor and painted the interior white. 

HOUSING WORKS EMPLOYEES SEEK FEDERAL OVERSIGHT

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Employees at Housing Works are asking the government to oversee their unionization efforts after the nonprofit’s chief executive refused to recognize a companywide vote to organize under the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, according to the Brooklyn Paper. About a half dozen employees dropped off signed union authorization cards by 402 of the roughly 650 Housing Works employees at the National Labor Relations Board offices in Manhattan. Charlie King, the nonprofit’s CEO, dismissed a plea by a group of his employees to recognize the union voluntarily during a confrontation at Housing Works’ Downtown Brooklyn headquarters on Thursday, the Brooklyn Paper said. Housing Works has a network of thrift shops around the city, including one in Park Slope and one in Brooklyn Heights.

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Bensonhurst-born actor Brian Wolfe gives a powerful performance in the new Adam Grannick-produced short film “American Quartet,” which will premiere on March 5 at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens as part of the Philip K Dick Film Festival. The science fiction film was directed by Jesca Prudencio, head of directing at San Diego State University, and stars Yekta Khaghani alongside Wolfe in his first lead role. The futuristic fantasy is set in 2037 and reveals a world of discrimination and injustice. The story revolves around the newest digital device, a telepathic diary. The popular diary records emotions and memories for the purpose of re-experiencing them. The film is set in a small town bitterly divided over who belongs, as a young Muslim-Amer-

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This is a story about Brooklyn’s other canal — the pretty one — and the neighborhood where it’s located. If you’re old enough to read, you know all about the Gowanus Canal, a Superfund site with poisoned waters that’s nevertheless deeply loved. The 1.8-mile-long Gowanus Canal is often in the news because a rezoning proposal has been drawn up for the neighborhood through which it runs. Also, the Gowanus Canal got a lot of attention last fall when a floating statue of President Donald Trump suddenly appeared in it. But there’s another Brooklyn canal you should know about, too: Shell Bank Canal, which is so beautiful I’ll gladly ride the B31 bus in 20-degree weather to go see it. Shell Bank Canal, which is around one-third of a mile long, runs right down the middle of Gerritsen Beach. This waterfront residential neighborhood is on Brooklyn’s southern shoreline, on a peninsula across from Sheepshead Bay (by which I mean the neighborhood called Sheepshead Bay, not the body of water with that name). The banks of Shell Bank Canal are lined with houses and boat docks. There are a couple dead-end streets where you can glimpse the canal when you stroll through the neighborhood. Walk with me, and I’ll show you the canal and tell you a little bit about Gerritsen Beach’s history.

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Head for Fane Court The B31 bus runs down Gerritsen Avenue. Get off at the Gotham Avenue stop. This is the street you should walk down to find my favorite spot for viewing Shell Bank Canal. Before you start your stroll, go inside Gerritsen Beach Library for a moment. It’s located across from the bus stop. The library, which opened in 1997, underwent 11 months of repairs after Superstorm Sandy. The head of Shell Bank Canal is located right behind the library. You can catch a glimpse of the calm waters through the library windows. The canal ends at a body of water called Shell Bank Creek. When you go back outside, walk down Gotham Avenue. By the way, Marine Park (meaning Marine Park the public recreation area) is located on the opposite side of Gerritsen Avenue from the library. New nature trails opened in the park last year. You should come back another day and check them out. As you walk down Gotham Avenue, you’ll see winterized bungalows and stand-alone houses with small front yards. The backs of the homes with even-numbered addresses are on Shell Bank Canal. About halfway down Gotham Avenue, you’ll find Fane Court, which is where you turn left. This street dead-ends at the beautiful canal.

Houses line sun-drenched Gotham Avenue in Gerritsen Beach. ‘Artificial pleasurecraft waterway’ A developer called Realty Associates created Shell Bank Canal in the 1920s as an amenity for Gerritsen Beach, the neighborhood the firm brought into being on a salt marsh it filled in with sand. The Brooklyn Eagle’s electronic archives from the 1920s and 1930s — which can be accessed through a portal the Brooklyn Public Library maintains — contain numerous articles about the development of Gerritsen Beach. A story the Eagle published in July 1924 referred to the canal, where bulkheads had recently been installed, as an “artificial pleasurecraft waterway.” The canal is 145 feet wide and 1,500 feet long, this story said. If you decide to search the Eagle’s archives for stories about the neighborhood, you need to know that in some of them, its name is spelled “Gerrittsen Beach” with two T’s. By the way, it’s worthwhile to walk to the end of Gotham Avenue so you can get a look at Shell Bank Creek. There are lots of boats docked on the creek, even though it’s winter.

The streets in Gerritsen Beach’s Old Section are narrow, which is part of their charm; and the homes so picturesque.

Alphabet soup Whatever direction you choose to walk in this neighborhood is scenic. When I was there the other day, I focused mostly on the Old Section of Gerritsen Beach, which is south of Shell Bank Canal. Gotham Avenue is north of the canal in Gerritsen Beach’s New Section. When I was done strolling down that street, I doubled back and headed for Gerritsen Avenue, where I turned right. I passed St. James Lutheran Church, which was built in 1924 and 1925. A September 1924 Eagle story that mentioned the construction of St. James also said Realty Associates sold a site on Gerritsen Avenue to Bishop Thomas Molloy for the Catholic Parish of the Resurrection’s construction.

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See the neighborhood with Brooklyn’s prettiest canal — I don’t mean the Gowanus Continued from page 10 INB I walked down to Bartlett Place, which is on the south side of Shell Bank Canal, and turned onto the closest side street, which is called Abbey Court. The side streets are laid out with their names in alphabetical order. The streets are very narrow, which is part of their charm. After that, I walked along Lois Avenue, and also Noel Avenue. The houses on both these streets are especially beautiful.

If you’re going to be literal about it, several things stand between Gerritsen Beach and the Atlantic Ocean seashore: Plumb Beach Channel, then Plumb Beach, then Rockaway Inlet and then the Rockaway Peninsula. The advertisement offered houses for sale priced at $4,550 and up.

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West of Noel Avenue, there’s a cluster of short, picturesque streets between Seba and Cyrus avenues.

This is beautiful Shell Bank Canal. Do you know what neighborhood it’s in? Poetic license Realty Associates built Gerritsen Beach with astonishing speed because the developer used factory-cut lumber and standardized construction plans and deployed a corps of 500 laborers, historian Thomas Campanella wrote in a 2018 CityLab.com story. Many of the side streets in the Old Section dead-end at Plumb Beach Channel. Gain Court properties on the Plumb Beach Channel shoreline are especially pretty. A Realty Associates advertisement published in the April 6, 1930 edition of the Eagle used a little poetic license in describing Gerrittsen Beach — the ad spells it with two T’s — as “an ideal all-year home community at the seashore in the city.”

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And the work continues. In September, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development decided to buy three flooded Gerritsen Beach properties so affordable one- or two-family homes can be built on them, Clifford Michel reported in The City, in a story the Eagle republished.

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These sweet streets — Nova Court, Melba Court, Lester Court and Keen Court — dead-end on Shell Bank Creek, where you can get good looks at docked boats in the serene water. The view of Shell Bank Creek from the end of Cyrus Avenue is pretty great, too. By the way, William Greve, who headed Realty Associates, is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in a tomb that looks like a miniature Classical temple.

Storm surge North of Cyrus Avenue, there’s another grouping of short streets you need to see: Merit Court, Landis Court and Kay Court. And just north of them, the end of Bartlett Place affords yet another good view of Shell Bank Creek. You’re either a big fan of Gerritsen Beach, like me, or you’ve never visited the neighborhood. If you fall into the latter category, you possibly know about Gerritsen Beach anyway because of news stories about the damage Superstorm Sandy inflicted on the neighborhood in October 2012. Residents have worked hard to renovate and rebuild their homes after the killer storm. The city mistakenly classified Gerritsen Beach as a Zone B area before Superstorm Sandy blew into town, which meant that evacuation wasn’t mandatory in the neighborhood. The experts wrongly assumed the nearby Belt Parkway would protect Gerritsen Beach from inundation. Instead, a 10-foot storm surge flooded nearly all of Gerritsen Beach’s approximately 1,800 houses.

More alphabet soup I took so many photos in Gerritsen Beach’s Old Section that I ran out of time for a full-scale walk through the New Section, which is north of Shell Bank Canal. The side streets in the New Section are also laid out in alphabetical order. But the names are completely different from the ones in the Old Section. There’s Aster Court, Bevy Court, Celeste Court, Dictum Court, Ebony Court and others in the New Section — charming names for charming, narrow streets. I did get a chance to watch the sunset over Shell Bank Creek at the end of Devon Avenue, which is in the New Section. It was a sight worth seeing.

Rebuilding continues In Superstorm Sandy’s aftermath, residents had to do mold cleanup as well as home repairs. Gerritsen Beach’s volunteer fire department, Gerritsen Beach Cares and the Gerritsen Beach Long Term Recovery Project played major roles in reviving the neighborhood. Some houses had to be torn down. Many property owners constructed new foundations to raise their homes several feet above the ground to comply with flood-protection regulations. The city-administered, federally funded Build It Back program and the state Project UPLIFT program have channeled rebuilding funds to the neighborhood.

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Jury deliberations have begun in the New York City rape trial of once-revered Hollywood titan Harvey Weinstein, 67. The jury of seven men and five women started deliberating Tuesday in the closely watched #MeToo trial. To convict or acquit Weinstein on any charge, their verdict must be unanimous. What is Harvey Weinstein accused of? Scores of women have come forward in recent years to accuse Weinstein of sexual misconduct, but his New York City trial stems from just three allegations. The “Pulp Fiction” producer is charged with raping a woman in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013 and forcibly performing oral sex on another woman, TV and film production assistant Mimi Haleyi, at his apartment in July 2006. The most serious charge, predatory sexual assault, requires jurors to decide two things: if he raped actress Annabella Sciorra in the mid-1990s and if he committed one of the charged acts. The Associated Press has a policy of not publishing the names of people who allege sexual assault without their consent. It is withholding the name of the rape accuser because it isn’t clear whether she wishes to be identified publicly. What are the charges against Harvey Weinstein? The charges against Weinstein are one count each of firstand third-degree rape for the March 2013 allegation. The first-degree charge alleges Weinstein used physical force or an implied or expressed threat that led the alleged victim to fear immediate death or injury. The third-degree charge alleges only that there was a lack of consent. In addition, he faces one count of criminal sex act for Haleyi’s forced oral sex allegation and two counts of predatory sexual assault, one for each of the charged acts. How does the predatory sexual assault charge work? Under New York law, one way a person can be found guilty of predatory sexual assault is if he or she committed certain sex offenses in the past, even if that conduct didn’t result in criminal charges. In Weinstein’s case, prosecutors allege that he raped Sciorra in late 1993 or early 1994 — an accusation that is too old to be the basis for criminal charges on its own because of the statute of limitations. Does the jury have to reach a verdict on all charges? No. Weinstein is charged with five counts, but the way the verdict form is designed, jurors won’t have to make a decision on all of them. The form instructs the jury to start by reaching a verdict on the predatory sexual assault counts, which encompass the other charged acts. Depending on what they decide on those counts, they can move onto or skip other charges. For example, if jurors find Weinstein guilty of the predatory sexual assault count, alleging he both raped Sciorra and assaulted Haleyi, then the jury does not need to decide the criminal sex act charge involving Haleyi. If the jury finds Weinstein guilty of the second predatory sexual assault count, alleging that he both raped Sciorra and raped the woman in 2013, then the jury does not need to decide the standalone rape charges involving the woman. If the jury decides Weinstein didn’t rape Sciorra, then it can’t find Weinstein guilty of either predatory sexual assault count. If jurors acquit Weinstein of the second predatory sexual

Judge James Burke, left, instructed the jurors before they began deliberating in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial on Tuesday. Elizabeth Williams via AP assault count because they don’t feel it was a first-degree rape, they must find him not guilty of that charge but can still consider a separate third-degree rape charge involving the woman. What is Harvey Weinstein’s defense? Weinstein maintains the encounters were consensual. His lawyer said that the allegations are “regret renamed as rape.” The defense grilled Haleyi and the 2013 accuser about meetings they had with Weinstein after the alleged assaults and highlighted friendly, flirtatious emails they sent him. How much time could Harvey Weinstein face? Each of the predatory sexual assault counts is punishable by 25 years to life in prison. The first-degree rape and criminal sex act counts each carry a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. Third-degree rape carries a maximum sentence of 4 years in prison. What’s the worst-case scenario for Weinstein? He’s convicted of predatory sexual assault. Even if the jury finds Weinstein guilty on just one of those top-level counts, a minimum sentence would keep him in prison until he’s in his early 90s. Would he have to register as a sex offender? Yes. If Weinstein is convicted on any of the charges, he would be required to register as a sex offender under New York’s version of what’s known as Megan’s Law. Would he be hauled off in handcuffs right away? If Weinstein is convicted on any of the charges, there’s a

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good chance his bail will be revoked, and he’ll be taken to jail right away. Prosecutors could argue he’ll have extra incentive to flee and that he’s rich enough to do it. Even before the trial, prosecutors say he was showing signs of restlessness. A judge hiked his bail in December after prosecutors accused him of futzing with his electronic monitoring bracelet. What’s next for Harvey Weinstein? Win or lose, Weinstein faces more criminal charges in a California case announced last month, just as his New York trial was getting underway. In that matter, Weinstein is accused of sexually assaulted one woman and raping another on back-to-back nights, days before the Oscars in February 2013.

Streets of ‘Old New York’ shine through at new subway exhibit By Alex Williamson INBrooklyn

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When construction of New York City’s subway system first began, transit officials of the early 20th century did what any modern builder would do: They dispatched professional surveyors to measure, photograph and document the areas where tunnels were to be dug. The resulting photographs gave the city more than it bargained for. Not only did the photographs serve their original purpose by providing precise documentation of the survey area, but the surviving prints, now on display at the Transit Museum, offer a fascinating glimpse at daily life in a city that was changing rapidly alongside its mass transit system. The museum’s “Streetscapes & Subways” exhibit features photographs by brothers Pierre P. and Granville W. Pullis, who, over a 30-year period in the early 1900s, documented the beginning, middle and end of the subway system’s construction. The photos not only captured the digging of the tunnels and trenches where trains would

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later run, but children playing in the streets, shopkeepers vending their wares and old-school architectural elements that have long since been replaced. The Pullis brothers created most of the exhibit’s photos on glass plates using an 8×10 camera — a piece of cutting-edge technology favored by surveyors of the time because, unlike film, the glass plates weren’t susceptible to bending. The plates were often washed for reuse, so that any of the brothers’ photos survived is remarkable, according to museum curators. “The Transit Museum is incredibly proud to be the stewards of the Pullis collection, which is recognized as one of, if not the, most comprehensive repositories of images related to original subway construction in existence,” said Concetta Bencivenga, director at the Transit Museum. “Streetscapes & Subways: Photographs by Pierre P. and Granville W. Pullis” is open to the public through January 17, 2021 at the New York Transit Museum, located in a decommissioned subway station at 99 Schermerhorn St. in Downtown Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Law School continues its business boot camp winter course By Rob Abruzzese INBrooklyn

Eight years ago, Brooklyn Law School developed Business Boot Camp, a four-day intensive winter session course designed to introduce students to alumni while also giving them a crash course in the world of business and financial law. In January, that camp continued for its eighth years with 30 alumni and 53 students participating in what is known as a “miniMBA.” Leading the event was Prof. Michael Gerber and Prof. John Oswald, who also sits on the school’s board of trustees. The camp is arranged so that there are lectures and panels hosted by alumni. Topics often continue into breakout sessions that feature both students and alumni. One of those sessions was a question-and-

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