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North Brooklyn Holiday Toy Drive launches with action heroes doing spectacular stunts By Charlie Innis Greenpoint Gazette

The North Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce partnered with STREB on Sunday, Dec. 8, to launch the eighth annual Big Brooklyn Holiday Toy Drive, celebrating with an action-packed stunt performance at the Streb Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM) in Williamsburg. Clad in blue and red, skin-tight spandex, eight gymnasts sprung, twirled, corkscrewed and nosedived off trampolines, suspended beams and colossal metal structures, executing aerial stunts to an array of popular songs. The performance drew gasps and cheers from small children and parents, who recorded and snapped photos of the display of bravura. “The event was successful not just because we raised money and collected toys for the Big Brooklyn Holiday Toy Drive, but also because it brought people, families, together for a truly enjoyable experience during this, the holiday season,” said Paul Samulski, president of the North Brooklyn Chamber, in an email. The North Brooklyn Chamber has a history with STREB that dates back several years, and the performance artist and STREB founder, Elizabeth Streb, has always supported the chamber’s work, Samulski said. The day’s event started off with a group of gymnasts, known as “action heroes” at STREB, who balanced on a 20-foot-tall semicircle structure, tipping back and forth, and belly-flopping onto landing mats. One stunt involved two action heroes, tethered together by rope, who dashed around, collided with and dragged each other across the space. Another stunt involved the action heroes dodging a rotating metal beam while lying supine on the mat, narrowly avoiding concussions. The action heroes saved the most exhilarating stunt for last. All eight of the gymnasts synchronized as they launched themselves off a trampoline, flipping and flying in the air like birds.

Action heroes banged around in boxes as captivated audience members watched.

Greenpoint Gazette photo by Charlie Innis

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Socialist comedian seeks to unseat 26-year congressmember Courtesy of Rep. Maloney’s office

Lauren Ashcraft is ‘here to break the system.’ Lauren Ashcraft, 30, right, is challenging U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, left, in the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th Congressional District. SEE PAGE 4. Photo by Daniel Lehrhaupt

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Opinion | Rezoning: Not for every neighborhood By Steve Hindy

Greenpoint Gazette

I moderated a discussion of the 2005 rezoning of Williamsburg/Greenpoint recently at the Brooklyn Historical Society. The panelists were Frances Lucerna, cofounder of the educational and cultural organization El Puente, Judge Adam Perlmutter, cofounder of the organization now known as the North Brooklyn Parks Alliance and Katherine Thompson, co-leader of Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park. There was general recognition among the panelists that northern Brooklyn was forced to rezone the waterfront or face undesirable developments like garbage transfer stations and power plants. But there also was a strong feeling that the area did not get the benefits that were promised by the city in exchange — truly affordable housing, a big waterfront park and protection for the manufacturing businesses in the area. These are issues that many newly energized community advocates are demanding in rezoning processes that are unfolding in Gowanus, Bushwick, and Sunset Park’s Industry City. There are significant differences between northern Brooklyn and these other neighborhoods. Unlike northern Brooklyn, none of them are facing an onslaught of garbage and power plants, for example. In Industry City, advocates led by Councilmember Carlos Menchaca are demanding development that does not lead to rising rents and gentrification of the area. Frances Lucerna said that those factors in North Brooklyn led to the displacement of many Latinx families in her community. Menchaca also is seeking city oversight of the economic development in Industry City and a ban on hotels in the area. I think the hotel ban is a mistaken idea, born of the fact that allowing hotels and other commercial uses in Williamsburg’s Industrial Business Zone has led to the exodus of most industrial businesses in that area. My company, Brooklyn Brewery, is among the few holdouts, and we will likely be forced to downsize when our leases expire in 2025. There are six hotels within a few blocks of our brewery. For landlords, hotels are much more profitable than industrial tenants.

However, hotels are also important for industrial businesses. We lodge many visiting customers in The Wythe Hotel and we use its meeting rooms from time to time. Hotels also are significant employers: The Wythe has 70 rooms and employs several hundred people. But six hotels in the IBZ is five too many. Also, I think many community advocates mistakenly believe that traditional blue collar industry can thrive in Brooklyn. In my view, that dream perished decades ago. Industry City’s economic development, led by former Navy Yard manager Andrew Kimball, is a model for many communities across the country. Kimball’s worker training program at the Innovation Lab provides skills that are needed for today’s tech and artisanal industries. I don’t think city oversight and city subsidies are going to bring back traditional industry. In Gowanus, the key issue is the fetid canal. It must be cleaned up if Gowanus is to de-

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velop. The federal Environmental Protection Agency and NYS Department of Environmental Protection are collaborating on the canal clean-up. But who will pay to ensure that new development resulting from a rezoning does not again foul the canal? Also, why are the thriving industrial businesses in Gowanus not included in the rezoning? Don’t they deserve the possibility of expanding their operations and adding jobs? What is the point of rezoning Gowanus if not to improve the quality of life in the area? Bushwick, even more than Gowanus, is blessed with many small manufacturers who employ many local people. Given Lucerna’s assertion that rezoning in North Brooklyn has driven many residents out of the area, I wonder why Bushwick needs to be rezoned at all. There is no threat of a garbage transfer station or power plant. It is reasonable that Bush-

wick community groups are demanding proof that rezoning will benefit existing residents. Will the housing be truly affordable? Bushwick is starved for open space; will rezoning result in more parks? Will rezoning enable the industrial businesses to expand and employ more people? At Industry City, the dialogue between Menchaca and Kimball seems to be moving forward. But in Gowanus and Bushwick, there seem to be many important questions with no answers. And if those questions are not answered, why proceed with rezoning? ________________________________ Steve Hindy co-founded Brooklyn Brewery in 1988. He previously served as Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press where he covered wars and assassinations in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Sudan.

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Should axe-throwing and alcohol mix? Greenpoint residents debate By Scott Enman Greenpoint Gazette

An axe-throwing venue in Greenpoint is hoping to start serving up alcoholic drinks — but not everyone in the neighborhood is fan of the idea. One neighbor at a meeting on Tuesday even suggested that tipsy tossing could lead to serious physical harm. “I recently saw a video from last spring where in another business’ hatchet-throwing bar where a woman threw [the axe], it bounced on the floor, hit the wall, came back and almost took her head off and her boyfriend’s head off,” said Community Board 1 member Steve Chesler. “They said it was a one in a million shot, but, if you’re going to go do work in your house with power tools, do you have a few beers first or a couple drinks?” CB1’s State Liquor Authority Review Committee initially voted to approve the beer and wine license. The full board normally concedes to the committee’s recommendations, but after members expressed unease, they decided to put it up for a full vote on Tuesday. It eventually passed with 22 votes for, six against and two abstentions. Chesler said the board initially denied Bury The Hatchet’s license when it first opened in October 2018 based on safety issues and that those concerns have still not been addressed.

Tom Burrows, chair of the SLA Committee, said they were recommending its approval since the bar has been open for more than a year, hasn’t had any incidents and the owners met with them. “They’ve now been here operating without liquor, so they know the neighborhood, they know where the subway station is, they haven’t had people dropping axes on their toes,” he said. “They have a whole procedure in place to not allow people who are drinking to be throwing hatchets.” Bury The Hatchet’s general manager Christine MeehanBerg emphasized that safety is a number one concern for her company. “The staff is TIPS-certified [Training for Intervention Procedures] and in the event that someone is too intoxicated they’ll be asked to sit out,” she told the Greenpoint Gazette when the business opened at 25 Noble St. Its website also states that attendees “must wear or bring closed-toe shoes (save the piggies).” Axe-throwing is similar to darts, but rather than tossing a 6-inch dart, patrons throw a 1.5-foot-long axe at a wooden target. It’s “like darts on steroids,” said Bury The Hatchet’s owner Howard Klotzkin. The chain has 15 other locations across the nation. In Gowanus, a similar venue called Kick Axe Throwing does serve alcohol. It has had no injuries due to intoxication since the bar opened in November 2017, according to

Bury The Hatchet in Greenpoint hopes to start serving Gazette ﬁle photo by Alex Wieckowski alcholoic drinks. Tony Fox, the operations manager. He said that every thrower is under direct supervision and is in a caged area. He also said patrons are only allowed to buy one drink at a time, and if anyone appears to be inebriated, they will be removed from the throwing area. “We’ve had people who have been intoxicated — normally on weekends — but we have a very strict policy where bartenders and ‘axperts’ are trained to spot that immediately and as soon as we do, they are no longer allowed to throw,” Fox said.

Big Brooklyn Holiday Toy Drive

The ﬁrst stunt involved a giant balancing structure.

A toy drive collection box. Continued from page 1

All the while, the action heroes smiled, joked and kept the energy high, making it a toy drive audience members may never forget. The Big Brooklyn Holiday Toy Drive began eight years ago in response to Hurricane Sandy. The drive collects toys and raises money to distribute gifts for local children in need. The toy drive has collected over 28,000 toys since its inception. “Whatever we can get via toy or monetary

donations, thanks to the generosity of the public, is appreciated and put to good use,” Samulski said. Three years ago, the North Brooklyn Chamber teamed up with the NYPD’s Patrol Borough Brooklyn North to combine efforts to amass as many toys as possible for the drive. This year, around Christmas day, a caravan of police cars and trucks will travel from precinct to precinct in a makeshift “sleigh ride,” the vehicles crammed with wrapped gifts, to deliver the toys to local kids.

STREB gymnasts celebrated at the end of the performance.

Officers will dress up as superheroes for the occasion, and Mr. and Mrs. Claus, with a personal DJ on board, plan to make a special appearance. As for next year’s toy drive event, Samulski said the North Brooklyn Chamber plans to partner with STREB again for an even bigger performance. If you want to participate in the drive, drop off a new, unwrapped toy at one of the Big Brooklyn Holiday Toy Drive collection boxes or make a donation through North Brooklyn Chamber’s not-for-profit partner, NYC Together. Go to NYCtogether.org to donate money and include a note that the contribution is for the BBHTD. Collection boxes are located at the following addresses. • Dandelion Wine — 153 Franklin St. in Greenpoint • The Office of Assemblymember Joe Lentol — 619 Lorimer St. in Greenpoint • Dandy Wine & Spirits — 37 South Fourth St. in Williamsburg • Streb SLAM — 51 North First in Williamsburg

Greenpoint Gazette photos by Charlie Innis

• Brooklyn Roasting Company — 25 Jay St. in DUMBO • Front Street Pizza — 80 Front St. in DUMBO • Animal Kind Veterinary Hospital — 365 Seventh Ave. in Park Slope Boxes are also located at the following TwoTrees residential and business locations. • 1 South First. St. in Williamsburg • 325 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg • 45 Main St. in DUMBO • 60 Water St. in DUMBO • 300 Ashland Place in Clinton Hill • 125 Court St. in Brooklyn Heights • 110 Livingston St. in Downtown Brooklyn • 555 West 53rd St. in Manhattan • 550 West 54th St. in Manhattan You can also drop toys off at the New York Waterway ferry terminals in Midtown Manhattan and Weehawken, NJ. Toy collection day for this year’s drive is Thursday, Dec. 19.

Action heroes jumped oﬀ a trampoline.

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Socialist comedian seeks to unseat 26-year congressmember

Lauren Ashcraft, 30, is challenging U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney in the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th Congressional District

By Victoria Merlino Greenpoint Gazette

A 30-year-old comedian and former J.P. Morgan project manager is challenging U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney for her seat in Congress — and hoping her bid gains traction among New York progressives in an increasingly crowded field. Lauren Ashcraft, a democratic socialist, is running against Maloney, a 13-term incumbent, in the Democratic primary for New York’s 12th Congressional District. She is one of three challengers who hope to replace Maloney in a district that includes parts of Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn. The district is diverse, spanning some of the nation’s wealthiest ZIP codes, such as Manhattan’s Upper East Side and Midtown, as well as poor sections, like the Queensbridge Houses — the nation’s largest public housing development. In Brooklyn, the district covers Greenpoint and parts of Williamsburg. The demographics pose unique challenges for meeting the needs of all constituents. Ashcraft said her main concerns are forcing corporate money out of politics, creating better infrastructure for people with disabilities and fostering environmental sustainability. “One of the things that people keep saying is that our system is so broken, and it’s absolutely not,” she told the Eagle in November. “Our system is built to do exactly as it does very well. And what we as a society can’t do any more is to continue to let it work that way. So I am here to break the system.” Ashcraft said her family’s experience inspired her to run for office. Her grandfather, an Air Force veteran and a coal miner, died in a major mine explosion in 1968, leaving her grandmother, an immigrant from Japan, as a single mother with limited means and few options for earning a living. She and Ashcraft’s father were

able to survive off social security checks, Ashcraft said. “That’s something that I have grown up with, just understanding that corporate greed literally kills people,” Ashcraft said. Ashcraft has lived in the district since 2014. She first resided in Manhattan’s Turtle Bay after she landed a job at J.P. Morgan, before moving to Long Island City this year. “I became radicalized by working in the private sector in New York City, and I realized that capitalism is socialism for corporations and billionaires,” she said. She now works at her church. She said she chose to challenge Maloney in part because she believes Maloney’s history of accepting corporate contributions makes her less accountable to her constituents, and she wants a more vocal advocate in Congress who can buck the status quo.

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a 13-term Congressional veteran representing Brooklyn and Queens, is facing a primary challenge this year from democratic socialist Lauren Ashcraft. Photo courtesy Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s oﬃce

“I do hold issue with, first of all, the money she accepts, because it shows me that she doesn’t represent me. She represents all of the corporate PACs that she’s accepted money from. You can’t do both,” Ashcraft said. “You cannot be a progressive if you support corporate PAC money,” she said. “That’s like the number one thing.” Though Ashcraft has never held political office before, she is active as an organizer, hosting comedy shows to benefit causes like Planned Parenthood, and serves as a project manager and emcee for the New York City Women’s March. She is also a member of the Queens branch of the Democratic Socialists of America, and she canvased for public defender Tiffany Cabán during the Queens district attorney race. Ashcraft was not endorsed by the Queens DSA, who chose to back just one Queens candidate — an Assembly challenger — during the 2020 election cycle. The Brooklyn DSA endorsed four candidates, all for state races. From January to September this year, Ashcraft has raised $32,639, according to campaign filings. In that same time period, Maloney raised more than $1 million. Serious challenges from the left are fairly new for Maloney, who has been in Congress since 1993, and on the New York City Council before that. New York University lecturer Suraj Patel, who challenged Maloney during the 2018 primary and lost by almost 20 percent, represents one of her most successful challenges thus far. Patel announced in September that he would be running against Maloney again. He and Ashcraft join lawyer and Sexual Harassment Working Group member Erica Vladimer and housing advocate Pete Harrison as primary challengers. Maloney has long been considered a progressive in her own right, though the definition

has started to shift as democratic socialists like U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reframe the national conversation. Maloney has championed women’s issues, recently netting an endorsement from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, and has been a vocal opponent of President Donald Trump, calling for Trump’s impeachment. A spokesperson for Maloney’s campaign disputed the notion that Maloney is not progressive. “Year after year, the Congresswoman’s hard work on issues like worker’s rights, paid family leave, pay equity, healthcare, the environment, gun violence, women’s rights and more has resulted in endorsements from every major labor union and progressive issue group,” the spokesperson said. “It’s obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention that Carolyn Maloney is a force of nature when it comes to achieving progressive goals.”

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News From Your Neighborhood CAR CRASHES INTO BED-STUY PIZZERIA

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — Police are investigating after a car crashed into a recently closed pizza shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Tuesday. The accident happened around 5 a.m. at the Pizza Wraps pizzeria on Fulton Street, and the car appeared to have gone all the way inside the pizzeria. The owner, Joy Lacoa, had hoped to reopen the space as a Caribbean restaurant, according to ABC7. “I started crying because that’s my livelihood, all of my savings getting taken, now I have nothing you know, and this is it,” Lacoa said. Police are working to determine what caused the driver to lose control. 

MANY QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ABOUT EAST FLATBUSH CAR CRASH

EAST FLATBUSH — A day after a fatal crash at the intersection of East 55th Street and Foster Avenue in East Flatbush, police are still searching for one of the drivers, and parents Collin and Joan Dixon are still searching for answers. Their daughter, Joanna Dixon, was a passenger in a black Mazda SUV, PIX11 reported, and was killed in the collision. The driver of the sedan, whom police say may have been intoxicated, allegedly ran a stop sign, collided with a Nissan GT-R coupe and then ran off, leaving Dixon and another woman behind. There are also questions about the sobriety of Rohan Shaw, the off-duty police officer who was behind the wheel of the Nissan. Shaw was initially charged with driving under the influence, vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, speeding and reckless driving. But he was ultimately released pending further investigation, PIX11 said. 

COBBLE HILL CIVIC LEADERS DECRY CONSTRUCTION TRUCKS

COBBLE HILL — Cobble Hill civic leaders say that officials at the city Department of Transportation are doing a poor job providing oversight at three construction sites within the footprint of the former Long Island College Hospital, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Fortis Property Group is building two 15and 36-story towers on opposing sides of Hicks Street as part of a five-building development project known as River Park. At the same time, New York University plans to build a medical center in front of the taller tower once it acquires the land from Fortis, the Brooklyn Paper reported. Cement trucks and 18-wheelers regularly proceed onto Hicks Street, then struggle to make the turn onto Pacific Street, which leads to the worksite. 

BROOKLYN WOMAN LEFT INFANT IN SUV’S BACK SEAT

CANARSIE — A Brooklyn woman is facing an investigation after she left her 1-year-old child in the back seat of an SUV that was towed away for being illegally parked, according to amNewYork. The incident began when the unidentified woman allegedly left the baby in the back seat of the locked vehicle in the parking lot of the Bayview Houses in Canarsie. A manager with the towing company, A-Twin Towing on East 81st Street, said the company has a contract to tow vehicles with no permits from the parking lot. After the mother called the towing company to say the baby was in the back seat, workers forced open the rear door and called Emergency Medical Services. Officers from the 69th Precinct were also alerted, as well as the Administration for Children’s Services, amNewYork said. 

BROOKLYN ARTIST EATS $120,000 BANANA

MIAMI — Brooklyn artist David Datuna said he has “no regrets” about eating a banana that was part of a $120,000 art installation in Miami Beach, according to Patch. The banana, part of a work by artist Maurizio Cattelan called “Comedian,” was duct-taped to the Emmanual Perrotin Gallery’s outer wall. It sold for $120,000 to an art collector, Patch said. The banana was replaced with another one donated by a spectator. Police declined to arrest Datuna. 

ADAMS DEPLOYS CAMERAS ALONG NOSTRAND AVENUE

CROWN HEIGHTS — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams recently joined the Nostrand Avenue Merchants Association, the 71st Precinct and elected officials to announce the expansion of Operation Safe Shopper, a program under which security cameras have been deployed outside local businesses with the help of the NYPD. The latest installation is along a stretch of Nostrand Avenue running from south Crown Heights to Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. The improvement comes as the holiday shopping season begins and foot traffic increases along major commercial corridors throughout Brooklyn, including Nostrand Avenue. “In the three years since we started Operation Safe Shopper, we have heard numerous success stories, and we look forward to creating a safer, more vibrant Nostrand Avenue with the expansion of this program,” said Adams.

More than 1,000 mourners streamed onto a Williamsburg street Wednesday evening to pay their final respects to two of the civilian victims of the Jersey City shooting. The crowd carried the bodies of the dead through the street before they were taken to their final resting places in the town of Kiryas Joel. Eagle photo by Paul Frangipane 

NADLER INTRODUCES BILL TO HELP CO-OPS, CONDOS

BOROUGHWIDE — U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-Brooklyn-Manhattan) and several other congresspersons from both sides of the political aisle have introduced H.R. 5337, the Disaster Assistance Equity Act. The legislation is designed to ensure that owners of co-ops and condos are eligible for the same FEMA assistance available to other homeowners. The law makes essential common elements of a common interest community (such as a roof, exterior wall, heating and cooling equipment, elevator, stairwell, utility access, plumbing and electricity) eligible under FEMA’s Federal Assistance to Individuals and Households Program. It also makes common interest communities eligible under FEMA’s requirements for the removal of debris in the aftermath of a major disaster. 

COLTON HONORED AT CHURCH GROUP CEREMONY

GRAVESEND — Assemblymember William Colton (D-Gravesend-Bensonhurst-Bath Beach) was honored on Friday by Bishop Dr. Ebony Kirkland at the annual gala of the Worldwide Association of Small Churches. “The Worldwide Association of Small Churches is a global diversified organization with small churches affiliated and partnered in the United States, Central America, South America, India and Africa. They are dedicated to transform, empower and educate small churches and places of worship across all denominational borders to bring people together from all over the world,” said Colton. The gala took place at Paradise Catering, 51 Ave. U. 

ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIR AT HISTORICAL SOCIETY

BROOKYN HEIGHTS — This Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition will host an arts and crafts fair at the Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., according to the Brooklyn Heights Blog. Among the items on sale will be ceramics, prints, fibers, candles and other handmade creations. There will also be live jazz and gingerbread house workshops. In addition, the organization will host a live art auction benefiting BWAC at 3 p.m. on Sunday. 

NEW RESTAURANT COMING TO DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Restaurant operator American Standard Hospitality Group has leased two floors at 519 Fulton St. in Downtown Brooklyn for a new restaurant, according to the Commercial Observer. The hospitality firm hasn’t decided what kind of restaurant will occupy the space, which is owned by Thor Equities. However, it has several other restaurants in Brooklyn, including the Caribbean-flavored Woodland in Park Slope, Imani Caribbean Kitchen and Bar in Fort Greene and pizza spot Forno Rosso in Downtown Brooklyn. Thor owner Joe Sitt said American Standard was attracted to the build-

ing because “the property features unmatched visibility with over 100 feet of wrap-around frontage and serves as an excellent addition to their impressive portfolio.” 

‘NEIGHBORHOODS TO WATCH’ IN BROOKLYN

BOROUGHWIDE — Nicole Wu, economist for the real estate website StreetEasy, has predictions for the New York City real estate market for the upcoming year, according to CBS New York. Of her 10 neighborhoods to watch next year, six are in Brooklyn: Williamsburg, Clinton Hill, Midwood, East Flatbush, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Crown Heights. She also said that the Brooklyn Navy Yard is expected to become more of a destination next year as more large firms move in. 

KWANZAA CELEBRATION SET FOR WEEKSVILLE

CROWN HEIGHTS — On Saturday, Dec. 14 from noon to 8 p.m., the Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights will partner with Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation to bring holiday revelers calypso dance and djembe drumming. You can also make your own waist beads and take part in arts and crafts, storytelling and face painting. The afternoon will also feature live music, DJ music and dance performances. Weeksville Heritage Center is located at 168 Buffalo Ave. 

WOMAN KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED IN A-TRAIN MISHAP

EAST NEW YORK — One woman was killed and another injured after they both fell onto the tracks early Sunday morning from the A train platform at the Broadway Junction station. The first woman was pronounced dead at the scene, while the other was transported to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition, according to Gothamist. Police said the two women were walking arm in arm near the platform’s edge when one of them stumbled and fell in between two train cars. They were both reported to be visibly intoxicated at the time. People tried to bang on the train to get it to stop, but it was too late, Gothamist reported. 

HUGE BATTERY PROVIDES POWER IN EAST NEW YORK

EAST NEW YORK — A huge battery has been quietly powering part of eastern Brooklyn’s power grid, according to Bloomberg News. The 4.8-megwatt device — the biggest battery in New York City — sits beside the Gateway Center mall in East New York and has been quietly running for months at the borough’s edge, according to a joint statement yesterday from the property owner, Related Cos., and the Italian tech firm that installed it, Enel SpA. More huge batteries are on the way, Bloomberg says. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a goal to install 3,000 megawatts of storage by 2030 as part of an effort to curb reliance on fossil fuels. The battery at the Gateway Center mall can supply 16.4 megawatt-hours of electricity.

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ings County Democratic Chairperson F ra n k S e d d io held his much-anticipated house-lighting extravaganza on Friday, Dec. 6. Each year, Seddio invites family, friends, elected officials, community leaders, area residents and children of all ages to attend this festive event. The annual block long “block party” took place at Seddio’s law office at 9306 Flatlands Ave. Hundreds of people came to enjoy the winter wonderland that featured a live nativity scene with animals. There was a special guest appearance by Santa Claus, who was there to greet all the children. Those attending enjoyed Christmas carols sung by the Holy Family Church choir and students from P.S. 115. Seddio has been participating in the event and dressing up as Santa Claus since the 1960s and has been hosting it himself for the

past 33 years. “I love doing this,” Seddio told this paper. “This is my favorite thing in the whole world that I’ve done in my life. I’ve always considered this more like a vocation to me than anything else. It just means so much to me among all the things that I’ve been able to do in my life. It’s like the culmination of giving and that’s what I love most about it.” Seddio said that the greatest feeling was seeing the joy on the children’s faces when they come up to him. “What could be better than seeing the happy faces of the children! If that doesn’t make you happy, then I don’t know what will. It’s the absolute best,” he added. Every year, the display is dedicated to the memory of a local resident who has died. This year’s holiday display was dedicated to the memory of Josephine Bolus, the late wife of civic leader Henry Bolus, president of the Thomas Jefferson Democratic Club, and a longtime activist in her own right. “My wife passed away on

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Santa with Bryston Bristol. July 25 of this year. We were married for 65 years,” said Bolus. “She was a member of many, many community organizations over the years, and she was truly a wonderful person.” Elected officials and civic leaders attending included

Santa with Jacob and Isabella Cruz. New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli; Attorney General Letitia James; City Councilmember Brad Lander; Judge Mark Partnow and his wife Sue Ann Partnow, who serves as the female leader of the 59th Assembly District; Federation of

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Italian American Organizations President Jack Spatola; FIAO Brooklyn Director of External Affairs Joseph Rizzi; Judge Katherine Levine and Deputy Inspector Terrell Anderson, the commanding officer of Canarsie’s 69th Precinct.

“Frank and I go back 40 some odd years and I love coming to this event. If you look around at all the Merry Christmas signs and the way it’s all set up, it’s just truly amazing and inspirational,” Bolus stressed.

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Part One: See historic homes in Clinton Hill and Bed-Stuy On a walk down Gates Avenue, you can see a nice slice of Central Brooklyn brownstones and rowhouses.

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Central Brooklyn’s 19th- and early 20th-century rowhouses are a thing of beauty. Gates Avenue offers you glimpses of some very fine ones indeed, in Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant. If you keep walking, before you know it, this avenue will also take you across Bushwick to the Queens border.

The avenue, which was In a New York minute, named after American Revoyou’ll walk past the Royal lutionary War General HoraCastle Apartments. tio Gates, is walkable in a This six-story, red-brick day if you aren’t obsessively apartment complex at 20-30 photographing the handsome Gates Ave., aka 470-476 homes and churches. But if Clinton Ave., is an individual you’re incapable of walking city landmark. Slow down down a beautiful street withand take a look at the garout taking lots of pictures, goyles on the facade. They’re you’re going to need two humans with serious faces days to make this trip. and hammers in their hands. So. Here is Part One of Gates Avenue starts here at this Clinton Hill intersection. Architecture firm Wortthis wintry stroll. By the mann & Braun designed the way, I’ve said this before but it’s worth mentioning again. If Beaux-Arts complex, which was constructed around 1912 you wear a full-length down coat with a hood, sheepskin and 1913, the city Landmarks Preservation Commission’s boots and heavy-weight gloves, you can walk for hours with- designation report about it says. out feeling cold. The designation report offers an interesting random fact about German-born architect Deitrich Wortmann. He was a member of the U.S. wrestling team at the 1904 Olympics. AN ODDLY DECORATED APARTMENT BLDG.

Gates Avenue begins at the intersection of Fulton Street and Clermont Avenue in Clinton Hill. When you look west on Fulton Street, you can see some of Downtown Brooklyn’s high-rise towers in the distance. When you face east, a small public space called Gateway Triangle is in your immediate line of sight. The first cross street you arrive at is Vanderbilt Avenue. This part of the neighborhood is not included in the Clinton Hill Historic District. But there are handsome brownstones and carriage houses here.

THE GOLD COAST

As you stand on the Gates Avenue corner of Clinton Avenue, take a minute to look up and down the street. It’s one that you should come back to for a separate stroll. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wealthy Brooklynites considered Clinton Avenue a hot spot to construct their mansions. Everybody called it the Gold Coast.

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— Continued from page 16INB — They were following the example of Charles Pratt, the philanthropist who made a fortune in oil and founded nearby Pratt Institute. He built houses on this street as wedding gifts for his sons. The one at 229 Clinton Ave. is now used as a home for Pratt Institute’s president. On the Gates Avenue corner where you’re standing, you can see a magnificent pair of limestone mansions built in 1902 — 463 and 465 Clinton Ave. An architect named Mercein Thomas designed them in 1902. The Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report about the Clinton Hill Historic District says the original owner of Beaux-Arts-style 463 Clinton Ave. was Morgan Bogart. His son, a surgeon named Dr. J. Bion Bogart, was the first person to live in the house. The original owner of neo-Italian Renaissance-style 465 Clinton Ave. was William Berri, the designation report says. He was the owner of a newspaper called the Brooklyn Standard Union and a prominent Republican leader. He was a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, his 1917 New York Times obituary says.

This dour fellow can be found on the facade of the Royal Castle Apartments.

AN 1860S CHURCH

As you continue on Gates Avenue, you leave Clinton Avenue’s mansions behind and see lovely brick and brownstone rowhouses and a couple eye-catching churches. For starters, there are lovely neo-Grec brownstones with mansard roofs on the corner of Waverly Avenue at 63 to 69 Gates Ave. An architect-builder named Joseph Kirby constructed them in 1880 for a grain merchant named Stephen R. Post, the Clinton Hill Historic District designation report says. The next Gates Avenue corner, which is Washington Avenue, is graced by elegant, red-brick Brown Memorial Baptist Church, whose congregation was established in 1916. The congregation won grants from Partners in Preservation and the New York Landmarks Conservancy for the restoration of a Tiffany stained-glass window called “The Pilgrims,” which it completed in December 2014, the church’s website says. The building, whose address is 484 Washington Ave., was constructed in 1860. Its architectural style is early Romanesque Revival, the Clinton Hill Historic District designation report says. The architect was Ebenezer L. Roberts. The congregation that built and originally occupied it was the Washington Avenue Baptist Church, the designation report says.

Limestone mansions 463 (left) and 465 Clinton Ave. stand on the corner of Gates Avenue. The Italianate brick rowhouse on this corner, whose address is 129 Gates Ave., has a storefront on its ground floor that was a drugstore back in the day. The current occupant is Locanda Vini E Olii — a restaurant that Michelin Guide 2020 calls a “jewel.” The Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report about the historic district says Samuel Asman designed 129 Gates Ave. in 1877 for John Bahrenburg. The Italianate rowhouses next to it, from 131 through 143 Gates Ave., were constructed by a builder and lumber dealer named Jeremiah Johnson around 1864. A mansard roof was added to 131 Gates Ave. in the late 19th century and a new brick facade was added in the 1930s, the designation report says. At the intersection of Gates and Grand avenues, you’ll find the Vendome, a property with big historic significance. It’s Brooklyn’s oldest multi-family apartment building. Its address is 363 Grand Ave. An architect named Halstead Fowler designed the Vendome in 1887, the Clinton Hill Historic District designation report says. It’s a Romanesque Revival-Queen Anne-style building. A plaque on the side of the property says it was threatened with demolition in 1987 but saved by neighborhood residents led by the late Ralph Walter.

TWO LOVELY CHURCHES

As you continue your stroll, you will walk through a few Clinton Hill blocks that aren’t included in the neighborhood’s historic district. One of the most eye-catching sights on these blocks is Mount Zion Tabernacle at 182 Gates Ave. on the corner of Irving Place. The church has a beautiful old-fashioned spire. When you cross Classon Avenue, you’re in BedfordStuyvesant. This boundary has been the subject of some debate over the past decade or so. There are no official government-designated boundaries for New York City neighborhoods. But Kenneth Jackson and John Manbeck’s book “The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn” says Classon Avenue is the dividing line between Clinton Hill and BedStuy, and that’s what I’m going with. By the way, there are handsome rowhouses on Classon Av-

INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan

enue at this Gates Avenue intersection. As you keep walking, you’ll notice a cluster of Romanesque Revival rowhouses on the south side of Gates Avenue near the corner of Franklin Avenue. On the north side of this block, the bright white facades of Mount Sinai Baptist Church at 241 Gates Ave. and adjacent homes at 247 through 253 Gates Ave. glow with a serene, almost otherworldly light when the sun is shining. The Baptist congregation has owned the church building since the 1950s, Finance Department records indicate.

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The intersection of Gates and Washington avenues is another fine spot to pause and take in the scenery. The red-painted, brick multi-family building with squareheaded window bays at 461 Washington Ave. is especially eyecatching. Amzi Hill, one of Brooklyn’s distinguished 19th-century architects, designed the four-story building, the designation report says. In 1981, when the designation report was published, this property was abandoned. It has since been renovated and divided into four condos. One of them sold this year for $1.9 million, city Finance Department records indicate. Nearby, on the corner of St. James Place, a renovation project is nearing completion. The address of the Italianate rowhouse is 109 Gates Ave. It has gleaming glass storefronts on its first and second floors which are similar to storefronts that were added to the building in the early 20th century. A builder named John Funk constructed 109 Gates Ave. and the rowhouses beside it in the 1860s, the Clinton Hill Historic District designation report indicates.

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ON DEC. 11, 1893, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “Throngs of shoppers are visiting the dry-goods establishment of Bloomingdale Bros., Third avenue and Fifty-ninth street, New York, to take advantage of the big book sale. Thousands of volumes of fine books were bought of Charles E. Gould, the receiver for the United States Book company, the International Book company, the Horendon Book company and for Lovell, Coryell & Co., in anticipation of the holiday season. These enormous stocks were obtained in some instances at less than the cost of the paper. This is doubtless the greatest sale of books for years, whole volumes of standard works selling in many cases for less than $1. The stock comprises books worthy of any library, such as Cooper, Irving, Byron, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Hawthorne and Macauley. Among the French writers are Dumas and Sand. Many of the books are nicely bound in cloth and gold.”  ON DEC. 11, 1921, the Eagle reported, “Washington (AP) — A new quadruple agreement to preserve peace in the waters of the Pacific was announced to the world today by the United States, Great Britain, Japan and France. As a consideration of the international realignment, Great Britain and Japan agreed to consign to the scrap heap the Anglo-Japanese alliance, long viewed with appreciation in both America and Asia. The provisions of the agreement, which is in the form of a ten-year treaty, are confined to the ‘region of the Pacific Ocean.’ Under them, the Powers are to respect each other’s island possessions and to meet in consultation if a dispute arises or if the rights of any of the four are threatened by any other Power.”  ON DEC. 11, 1941, the Eagle reported, “Washington (UP) — Germany and Italy went to war against the United States today, and Congress prepared for immediate action on an impending request by President Roosevelt for a resolution formally recognizing existence of hostilities. The official German war declaration was delivered to the State Department at 9:25 a.m., while the Italian war notice was handed to the American charge d’affaires in Rome by Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister. The action completed the Axis cycle of aligning its full military and naval forces against the United States, following by four days Japan’s assault on this nation’s Pacific strongholds. The greatest war in the world’s history became a full reality for an America which for months has been on a basis of undeclared shooting with Germany and Italy. Members of Congress pledged full support to the President in the extension of the war and said it might last for years.”  ON THIS DAY IN 1954, the Eagle reported, “Indiana, Pa. (U.P.) — Jimmy Stewart, film actor, plays a ‘supporting’ role today at the wedding of his 82-year-old father to a Canadian widow in a home-town ceremony before about 40 friends. The lanky cinema star plans to be best man for his octogenarian father, Alexander Stewart, a widower who owns and operates the town’s hardware store. Stewart, a life-long resident of this small western Pennsylvania mountain community, will wed Mrs. J.J. Stothart of St. James, New Brunswick, at the home of Mrs. Robert Dingman, a next-door neighbor, and a niece of the bride-to-be. The elder Stewart was reported by his family to be ‘bursting with excitement’ over the impending ceremony. His famous son arrived after an overnight train ride from New York, accompanied by his wife, former model Gloria McLean. Stewart was first married in 1906 to Elizabeth Ruth Stewart, Jimmy’s mother. She was the daughter of a Civil War veteran and steel company founder. She died here Aug. 2, 1953.”

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ON DEC. 12, 1859, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The ship Henrietta, which arrived here on Saturday evening from Leghorn, has on board a very small horse. It is a stallion, of a clear jet black, perfect in shape, with black mane and tail, and is about 7 hands high. During the voyage he has had the run of the ship like any ordinary dog.”  ON DEC. 12, 1861, the Eagle published a letter which read: “Some near and dear relatives of mine crossed the Atlantic and went to London expressly to hear the Oratorio of the Messiah performed by three thousand artists and they tell me that the performance of the glorious Hallelujah Chorus alone repaid them for their trouble and expense. Imagine, dear Mr. Editor, three thousand singers in the ‘King of Kings’ and ‘Lord of Lords’ and ‘He shall reign forever Hallelujah,’ in this great chorus of Handel! This is an age of improvement. Perhaps this time next year under the auspices and influences mentioned, we may hear with delight the grand chorus of the Messiah, the Creation and the Elijah artistically performed by young men and maidens of Brooklyn.”  ON DEC. 12, 1930, the Eagle reported, “Washington (AP) — Twelve thousand tons of granite have been blasted from the stony heart of the Black Hills to make place for a portrait of George Washington. Gutzon Borglum, famous sculptor in charge, has watched with satisfaction the progress being made on the Mouth Rushmore Memorial in South Dakota. So pleased, in turn, was the commission supervising the project that it used Borglum’s poetic words today in its second annual report to Congress. The sculptor had called the job a cool-headed setting down of ‘a few epochal facts regarding the accomplishments of Old World radicals, who shook the shackles of oppression from their light feet and fled despotism to people a continent; who built an empire and rewrote the philosophy of freedom, and compelled the world to accept its wiser, happier forms of government.” Nick Clifford, the last known survivor of the workers who carved Mount Rushmore, died on Nov. 23, 2019. He was 98.  ON DEC. 12, 1941, the Eagle reported, “Manila (UP) — Three daredevil American aviators flew to fame — and one to death — today against the Japanese. Terse statements from military and naval sources in Manila told the story of how American and Filipino aviators struck back against powerful enemy assaults. The name of 26-year-old Capt. Colin Kelly Jr. of Florida, who was killed in action, heads the roll of heroes.” It was also reported, “The metropolitan area went about its normal business today, the people calm and resolute in the face of total Axis warfare, but behind the scenes plans materialized for the evacuation of women and children, the aged and disabled from congested areas in the event of air raids.”  ON DEC. 12, 1952, the Eagle reported, “London (U.P.) — A Congregationalist minister criticized the Royal Family today for giving a toy gun recently to four-year-old Prince Charles, heir to the British throne. The Rev. Hubert Oliver wrote in a church magazine: ‘The Royal Family usually sets us such a good example, but I am amazed by this gift.’”

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