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Greenpoint residents win battle against backyard bar By Scott Enman Greenpoint Gazette

Residents of the Greenpoint Historic District, fed up with excessive noise coming from restaurants and bars, have successfully dissuaded a new venue from operating out of its backyard — a small victory but one that sets an important precedent, according to neighbors. Members of the Milton Street Block Association reached an agreement with Fulgurances NYC LLC, a business that is planning to open an eatery in the former space of a Laundromat at 132 Franklin St. “We’ve come to a dedicated agreement that we proposed to that applicant, so the use of the backyard was entirely excluded,” said Sante Miceli of the neighborhood group. He stressed at a Community Board 1 meeting on Tuesday that he and his neighbors are not against business activity as a whole, but rather they are “battling” against the “uncontrolled” number of liquor license applications in such a small radius. The vast amount of bars leads to incessant noise, which they say severely disrupts their lives. Miceli told the board that residents are also working on protecting an adjoining building from sound provocation. He argued that as more businesses hope to come to the neighborhood that they too should follow stipulations put forth by the neighbors. “I believe it’s an important precedent,” he said. “We want to build on this legacy of people applying for liquor licenses and planning to open a restaurant. To come into the community, they have to come and agree on the parameters that the community [is] proposing.”

Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint.

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Take a wintry stroll to Queens on Gates Ave. — Part Two The eye-popping Beaux-Arts building (right) at 1396 Broadway, which currently houses the Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology, was originally a vaudeville house called the Bushwick Theatre, which was built in 1911. The architect was William McElfatrick. A posting on Cinema Treasures says that a year after it opened, the B.F. Keith vaudeville-theatre chain acquired it. And in 1930, it became an RKO movie theatre. It stopped operating as a movie theatre in 1969. The eyecatching Bushwick Theatre can be seen from the Gates Avenue Station’s train platform. SEE INB Greenpoint Gazette photo by Lore Croghan PAGES 24-25.

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James Corner Field Operations and BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group/Two Trees ManagementJames Corner Field Operations and BIG-Bjarke

Transformative Waterfront Solution Two Trees plans twin towers and beach park for tidal flow Two Trees Management will seek residential rezoning for its proposed River Street development, seen in the center of this image.

By Lore Croghan Greenpoint Gazette

Two Trees Management, the developer of the mammoth Domino Sugar Refinery site, is expanding its dominance of the Williamsburg waterfront with the $150 million purchase of a nearby site from Con Edison, where some neighbors oppose any residential development. Two Trees, the Walentas familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real estate firm, unveiled its plans last Thursday for

the River Street project, which it plans to build on the property it just bought from Con Edison. The project includes two towers with 1,000 apartments, 250 of which will be affordable units for lower-income tenants, and a water-centric park with a public beach and natural habitats such as a salt marsh, freshwater wetland and tidal pools. Two Trees must get the River Street site rezoned in order to do residential development, but it faces opposition from neighborhood res-

idents who started mobilizing several months ago, before the identity of the purchaser of the property became public knowledge. The property is on the East River shoreline. It includes lots at 87 River St. and 105 River St., which are located on either side of Metropolitan Avenue, and a strip of land at 4 North First St. The 3.5-acre site is Con Edison North First Street Terminalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decommissioned No. 6 fuel oil storage complex. The fuel tanks have been removed.

Affordable housing, retail and offices One of the apartment buildings will be 600 feet tall, and the other will be 650 feet tall, Two Trees Principal Jed Walentas told reporters on Thursday. Those heights are the equivalent of 60 stories and 65 stories respectively. There will be a YMCA with a swimming pool in the base of one of the apartment buildings. Continued on page 3

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Two Trees plans twin towers and beach park for tidal flow Continued from page 2

Architecture firm Bjarke Ingels Group designed the towers. The firm’s notable New York City designs include the XI/The Eleventh, which consists of a pair of modern twisting towers on 11th Avenue between West 17th and West 18th streets in Manhattan. The architects also proposed a concept for the BQE overhaul that would expand Brooklyn Bridge Park to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The income levels for River Street’s affordable apartments will be negotiated, but will likely be a mix of units for tenants with incomes at 40 and 60 percent of area median income, Walentas said AMI is the formula used to determine income requirements for affordable housing. An individual at 40 percent of AMI earns $29,880 per year; an individual at 60 percent of AMI earns $44,820 per year. The affordable housing is a requirement of the mandatory inclusionary housing program, a de Blasio administration initiative to spur construction of below-market-rate housing. The River Street Waterfront Master Plan also calls for 30,000 square feet of space for small retailers and 57,000 square feet of office space.

A vision for a resilient, recreational waterfront The planned park, devised by landscape architectural firm James Corner Field Operations, is composed of 2.9 acres of dry land plus a 3-acre area in the water that’s protected by breakwaters. The company previously designed Domino Park, which Two Trees built as part of the 11-acre residential and office complex it’s developing on the site of the former Domino sugar factory. It also designed the High Line in Manhattan. Two Trees is building River Street’s park to fill the gap in a string of Williamsburg shoreline public spaces that extends from Domino Park to Bushwick Inlet Park. There will be nature trails on walkways that extend out into the river with an outdoor tidal classroom at the end of one trail. The other trail will have a picnic and hammock grove and a “bird hide,” which is a shelter for observing birds and other wildlife. Plans also include a circular boardwalk, an amphitheater and community kiosks that the developer envisions being used for kayak rentals and other amenities. Since the planned park extends into the river, the developer requires approval of the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, she said.

Here’s a glimpse of the planned River Street park. It’s currently zoned for manufacturing and commercial use, which means that buildings with office, light manufacturing and retail space can be constructed as of right. The petition now has nearly 1,600 signatures. In May, members of Sustainable Williamsburg spoke out against the possible residential rezoning at a Community Board 1 meeting, the Greenpoint Post also reported. When asked how Two Trees will respond to this opposition to rezoning, Walentas said the company will run “a very broad-based community engagement plan” with private and public sessions. “Like all of our projects, we think that the more people know about them, the more they’ll like them, the more they’ll understand them and the more they’ll come to understand what choices we have and what our decisionmaking process was and how we arrived at certain solutions,” he said. Two Trees doesn’t want to stick with the River Park site’s current zoning because industrial uses “make less and less sense on the urban waterfront” and parks, housing, schools and shops make more sense, Walentas said.

“And from a density standpoint, the world gets a lot of public good from density,” Walentas said. “Just like we demonstrated at Domino, without any public money, by using density as a value-creation tool, we created hundreds of millions of dollars in public good between the park that we built and all the affordable housing that we created.” Two Trees’ goal is to complete a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure — or ULURP — for rezoning River Street in the next two years, before Mayor Bill de Blasio leaves office, Walentas told reporters. After that, he expects the project’s construction to take five years. Two Trees will build one of the apartment towers and the park first, then construct the second apartment tower, Walentas said. Two Trees can expect to encounter opposition from Sustainable Williamsburg during the ULURP process. “What’s already being built on the Williamsburg shoreline is proving to be a strain on the infrastructure and has significant impact on the texture and the dynamic of the neighborhood,” Matt Emmi, a Sustainable Williamsburg member, told the Greenpoint

Gazette last Thursday. Just one subway line serves the waterfront area, and its one southbound street is congested, said Emmi, who has lived in Williamsburg for 10 years. This is an ideal moment for Two Trees to seek rezoning for the Con Edison site, Emmi said. “Nobody has earned the goodwill of the neighborhood like Two Trees,” he said. Thanks to its construction of Domino Park, which is universally loved, Two Trees currently enjoys “strong goodwill” in the neighborhood, according to Emmi. Two Trees paid a high price for the property because it anticipated it would be able to get the site rezoned for residential use, Emmi said. “Whether they bully or charm the neighborhood — and I personally appreciate that it seems that they’re taking the ‘charm’ approach — I still don’t think it’s right,” Emmi said. “They have the audacity to pay this much for a piece of land with the confidence that they will have the zoning overturned. What’s the point of the zoning if it can just ultimately always be overturned and changed?”

Opposition is already taking shape In March, a group called Friends of the Northside Waterfront, which later changed its name to Sustainable Williamsburg, launched an online petition calling on Community Board 1 to reject any residential rezoning of the Con Edison site, the Greenpoint Post reported.

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Amid rise in package theft, a new service relies on the kindness of neighbors By Michael Stahl Greenpoint Gazette

The holiday season is all about giving and receiving — and, in New York City lately, thieving. As online shopping continues to flourish, package theft has reached unfortunate new heights. With e-commerce retailers and package carriers offering little recourse, package theft is a growing source of frustration for residents; citywide, 90,000 packages disappear every day, according to The New York Times. One technology company that launched its services a few months ago in Williamsburg is looking to solve the problem. Founded by Gabriel Cepeda, a 23-year-old New Jersey resident, Pickups matches online shoppers with neighbors who are willing to store their package deliveries in their homes for a fee. Shoppers download the Pickups Google Chrome extension, coded to interact with 150 online retailers, including Walmart and Amazon, and fill out a form that includes their location and when they’d like to retrieve their packages. At checkout, the extension automatically fills in the shipping address to a neighbor who’s registered with the service, ready to hold on to the delivery once it arrives at their residence. The service costs shoppers $5.99 per order. The vetted neighbors get between $3 and $5 for each pickup — supplementary income for the freelancers, elderly people and military veterans who make up the bulk of the receivers. A subscription service, costing about $10 to $15 a month for unlimited pickups, will be rolled out soon. Cepeda, who grew up in Washington Heights, has been the victim of package theft himself — more than once. He lost some valuable items, including a pair of pricey headphones, he said. The violations inspired him to found Pickups. “Everybody knows between the hours of 12 to 3 o’clock, FedEx trucks, DHL trucks, UPS trucks are on the move, and they’re making deliveries,” Cepeda told the Gazette. “People think it’s something where, like, packages are left for days [and then stolen]. Usually it’s dropped off and picked up [by thieves] several minutes later because there are people watching these deliveries.” Cepeda decided to launch Pickups in Brooklyn because, upon visiting relatives who live in the borough, including his grandmother, he noticed vestibules, hallways and lobbies overflowing with packages, so much that delivery people would simply leave them out on the street, begging to be snatched up. Williamsburg seemed the logical place to start. There is just one post office in the neighborhood — arguably two, depending on the boundaries one subscribes to — serving the area’s 150,000 residents. Cepeda hopes Pickups will eventually expand into Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens, skipping the less-dense Staten Island, at least at first.

Pickups founder Gabriel Cepeda.

The explosion in online shopping has led to porch pirates and stoop surfers swiping holiday packages from unsuspecting residents. AP photo by Robert Bumsted/AP “Potential customers, potential neighbors, have given us feedback like, ‘Wow, I need this,’” Cepeda said. “People have been asking, ‘When are you coming to the Bronx?’ ‘When are you coming to Queens?’ ‘When are you hitting Orlando, Florida?’ … It just goes to show you how big of a problem [package theft] is.” In the short term, he said residents in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Greenpoint can look forward to their own neighborhood launches soon. Those areas have garnered more prospective receivers than elsewhere, and Cepeda said it doesn’t make sense for Pickups to offer its service in a neighborhood if not enough people want to store deliveries. The NYPD does not maintain data on package theft explicitly, so the extent of the trend is not entirely known. Instead, police designate the crime as one of grand larceny, if the package is valued at more than $1,000, or petit larceny, if it’s valued below that figure. When asked what steps the NYPD is taking to prevent, combat or deal with package theft in any way, and what advice the department has for residents who do not want to be victimized, a representative referred the Gazette to a tweet from the Midtown South precinct, providing citizens with advice on how to deter package theft. The steps include shipment tracking, choosing a shipping option that requires a signature upon delivery, scheduling packages to arrive when shoppers expect to be home, shipping packages to workplaces, and installing motion-sensor lighting, cameras and package lock boxes. The United States Postal Service has its own department of investigations, the U.S. Postal Photo courtesy of Gabriel Cepeda Inspection Service, that handles

package theft cases. That body also provided the Gazette a list of preventative measures, which include picking up packages at the local post office, signing up for a P.O. box and providing package carriers with customized delivery instructions. The Postal Inspection Service also encourages vigilance on the part of residents. “If you notice an unfamiliar vehicle following behind the USPS truck or unknown persons loitering around mailboxes, immediately report the activity to your local police department and then call the U.S. Postal Inspection Service,” a press release said. “The package you save may be your own.” A representative of the Postal Inspection Service did not wish to reveal their package theft investigative measures, but told the Gazette that during the holiday season its agents are on high alert, particularly in areas where they field multiple complaints, either directly or from a local police department. In such scenarios, “Inspectors would start investigating in the hopes of identifying who was actually responsible for stealing the packages and, subsequently, make an arrest,” the representative said. “We hope to bring those individuals to justice.” The representative also could not offer statistics on any prospective recent increases in package theft cases, but said, “One report of mail theft is too much for us,” and the growing attention to the issue is in and of itself helpful to the enforcement cause. In 2018, 13 billion parcels were shipped in the U.S. At such a rate, and with thieves following conspicuously branded delivery trucks through neighborhoods, grabbing packages almost instantly after they’re dropped off, package theft enforcement is challenging to say the least. “It’s extremely difficult to try to get real results when you’re dealing with package theft in any part of the country, mainly because nobody wants to take responsibility, nobody wants to cover the cost,” Cepeda said. “Ultimately, you will get to a point where the majority of the people in one building are getting everything delivered … We’re at the beginning stages of these problems.” ____________________________________________ Michael Stahl is a New York-based reporter covering business and technology across the borough. You can find him on Twitter.

Greenpoint residents win battle against backyard bar Continued from page 1

Last month, residents stood before the board brandishing signs reading, “No more bars! “Hardworking people and their children need to sleep at night!” “Basic quality of life is under threat,” and “Preserve the

sanctity of the Greenpoint Historic District.” Jane Clark, another member of the block association, said at November’s meeting that their quality of life was severely threatened by all the noise, which she said feels like “sound ricocheting in a canyon.” “We feel inundated and we feel invaded,

and the privacy and simplicity of our lives is being violated, and it’s coming at us from all angles,” she pleaded. In 2014, the block association was successful in pressuring the community board to disallow Budin, a Nordic café, from serving alcohol in its yard.

There are at least 20 operating liquor licenses in the Greenpoint Historic District, according to the State Liquor Authority’s mapping tool. Three additional licenses are pending approval, including 132 Franklin St.

News From Your Neighborhood FORMER FIREHOUSE TO BECOME MUSIC SCHOOL

COBBLE HILL — The city this week unveiled a $6.5 million plan to transform the long-closed Engine 204 firehouse on DeGraw Street between Court and Smith streets into a music school, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The funding includes $3 million from Mayor Bill de Blasio, $2.5 million from the City Council and $1 million from Borough President Eric Adams. The school will be operated by the Neil Pointer Foundation, which teaches both classical and modern music as well as music theory and composition. The firehouse was one of several closed in 2003 amid bitter protests — and one of the protesters who was taken to jail was de Blasio himself, then a councilmember. 

REAL ESTATE COMPANY REFINANCES KINGS PLAZA

KINGS PLAZA — On Dec. 3, the Macerich Company, a real estate investment trust, closed a $540 million loan on the Kings Plaza shopping center in the Marine Park area. The new loan has a fixed interest rate of 3.62 percent and matures on Jan. 1, 2030. In 2018, the firm also invested $110 million to redevelop the former four-level Sears store with Primark, Zara JPenney and Burlington Coat Factory and helped to renovate the mall’s exterior along Flatbush Avenue. 

DESIGN FIRM TO RENT NEW HQ SPACE IN B’KLYN

GOWANUS — The Van Alen Institute, a well-known design and planning firm, plans to move this spring from its long-term Manhattan headquarters to a ground-floor space at 303 Bond St., Gowanus. The new space will house new workspaces and a home for the organization’s public programming. “Since our founding 125 years ago, Van Alen has been providing exemplary education within the design fields and creating opportunities to rethink how cities work,” said Deborah Martin, executive director. “With this move to another storefront space, we’re committed to turning outward to encourage the kind of work across municipalities, professionals and communities that can bring about meaningful change.” 

ESPINAL WELCOMES PROGRAM ON CUNY FOOD INSECURITY

BROWNSVILLE — City Councilmember Rafael Espinal (D-Cypress Hill-Brownsville-Bushwick) recently applauded Council Speaker Corey Johnson’s $1 million pilot plan to address food insecurity among CUNY students. “Almost half of college students are food-insecure, and this hunger crisis perpetuates poverty in New York,” Espinal said. “Without nutrition, students can’t perform.” In the fall and spring semesters, 1,250 qualifying students will each get $400 that they can spend in the campus cafeteria. The students were selected from a pool of low-income students who met the basic eligibility criteria. 

B’KLYN’S CAPTAIN AMERICA NOW WEARS SANTA HAT

SUNSET PARK — A 13-foot-tall bronze statue of Captain America in Industry City is now wearing a red Santa Claus hat, according to CBR, a comics-industry website. The statue bears the quote “I’m just a kid from Brooklyn” from “Captain America: The First Avenger.” The statue, constructed in 2016, was first exhibited at the San Diego Comic-Con, then was moved temporarily to Prospect Park and was finally moved to Industry City. 

BROOKLYN STARTUPS ENCOUNTER PROBLEMS

BOROUGHWIDE — While Brooklyn’s startup scene is booming thanks to tax credits and business incubators, some company founders have discovered that growing in the borough can be a problem, according to the Wall Street Journal. Quoting a recent study by the Center for an Urban Future, the Journal said that transit difficulties, tech-talent shortages and real estate limitations can hold companies back. One problem is access to skilled tech personnel, and there are more of them in Silicon Valley than there are here. While Brooklyn has strong workforce-training programs, “most are serving a few dozen people when they need to be serving hundreds, if not thousands,” said Jonathan Bowles, CEO of Center for an Urban Future. 

BROOKLYN MAN’S INVENTION TARGETS PACKAGE THIEVES

BOROUGHWIDE — Brooklyn resident Bob James has invented the Bob Box, an all-wood device that he claims protects all packages left on a front porch or in an apartment-house lobby. He quotes a report saying that 90,000 packages a day are stolen or lost in New York City, according to the New York Post. The low-tech device is made of plywood and is secured by lock and key. James is a retired city transit electrician and a “graduate of YouTube University,” the Post reported. 

New Yorkers who didn’t identify as male or female in life will no longer be labeled as such in death, the Health Department announced Tuesday. Beginning in January, the roughly 54,000 death certificates the department issues each year will have a third gender option — “X” — in addition to male and female markers. Trans men and women will still be identified as male or female on their death certificates, according to a spokesperson for the department. Eagle photo

NEW B’LDG PLANNED FOR BERGEN ST. IN CROWN HEIGHTS

CROWN HEIGHTS — Permits have been filed for an eight-story residential building at 910 Bergen St. in Crown Heights, according to New York YIMBY. The site is five blocks north of the A and C trains’ Franklin Avenue station and three blocks north of the Franklin Avenue shuttle train’s Park Place station. Plans call for the building to have 13 residents, most likely rentals, as well as community space. Constant and Brown Engineering is listed as the architect of record, and Deborah Jones is listed as the owner. 

DE BLASIO SUPPORTS PAID TIME OFF BILL

BROWNSVILLE — Mayor Bill de Blasio, speaking at a Pentecostal church in Brownsville, recently pitched his legislation that would provide all New Yorkers with paid time off at work, according to amNewYork. The church, Bethesda Healing Center, has a membership of many low-income individuals and families. The legislation would accrue time off at a rate of about one hour for every 30 hours worked, amNewYork said. It would also allow employers to require workers to provide up to two weeks’ notice before taking paid time off. 

DETECTIVES SEEK CROWN HEIGHTS THIEVES

CROWN HEIGHTS — NYPD detectives are seeking the public’s help in finding two thieves responsible for a pair of robberies on Dec. 11 in Crown Heights, according to amNewYork. The first robbery took place around 5:20 p.m., when the crooks confronted a 21-year-old man in front of a self-storage facility, took him to a Family Dollar store on Pacific Street and ordered him to withdraw funds from his bank account. About 20 minutes afterward, they approached a 15-year-old boy at Atlantic and New York avenues and stole his cell phone, valued at about $600, amNewYork added. 

COLORFUL CANDIDATE OPTS OUT OF RACE

SOUTHWEST BROOKLYN — Joey Saladino, a 26-year-old internet personality and staunch political conservative, has ended his bid for southern Brooklyn and Staten Island’s congressional seat, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Saladino, who is known as a YouTube prankster, attended a Bernie Sanders political rally recently and asked attendees whether they would house an undocumented immigrant in their home. He also was recorded wearing a Nazi outfit and, most infamously, went viral when he seemingly urinated into his own mouth. Saladino has opted to support Joe Caldarera, a staunch Republican and Trump supporter, the Brooklyn Paper said. 

NEW MURALS CELEBRATE RAPPER BIGGIE SMALLS

WILLIAMSBURG — The XXL website, which focuses on fashion and related subjects for big and tall men, reports that Ohio artist Cinque Smith has designed a new artwork dedicated to the

late rapper Biggie Smalls that is now on display in Williamsburg. Another Biggie Smalls mural, designed by artist Hoa Hong, was recently unveiled in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Both murals were created as part of a contest sponsored by Optimo cigars. Optimo also held a “Biggie inspires” exhibit party at the William Vale Hotel in Williamsburg. 

HEIGHTS RESTAURANT OPENS WINE BAR

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The team behind popular Brooklyn Heights neighborhood restaurant Colonie has now opened a natural wine bar next door called Pips at 129 Atlantic Ave. According to New York Eater, the selection includes 15 to 20 options by the glass, and the food menu is made up of coastal Italian fare, with dishes such as anchovies and clams. Pips seats 20 people at the bar and 30 more at the tables. 

BOERUM HILL TOWNHOUSE BEING SOLD FOR $6.195M

BOERUM HILL — An Italianate corner townhouse at 471 State St. in Boerum Hill is on sale for $6.195 million, according to Brownstoner. A recent renovation has doubled the price of the circa-1871 home since it was last sold in 2013. Among the historic details are a parlor-level oriel projecting over the side façade with arched windows and wood shutters, stained-glass transoms in the vestibule, walnut doors surrounded by fluted trim and white-marble fireplace mantels. Among the new features are a wine cellar and storage room in the refinished basement, a landscaped backyard and roof terrace and a library with built-in bookshelves. 

MAN CRITICALLY INJURED IN EAST NEW YORK FIRE

EAST NEW YORK — A 19-year-old man was critically injured when a fire broke out on Saturday night in a 12th floor apartment in East New York, according to the New York Post. Firefighters found a frantic woman in the hallway of the Glenmore Avenue building, begging them to save her son. The semi-conscious young man was carried from the burning building in a “heroic move” by Firefighter Conor Norman, FDNY Capt. Daniel Kudlak told the Post. The 19-year-old, whose name was withheld, was taken to Brookdale Hospital for smoke inhalation. The fire was extinguished after about 35 minutes, the Post reported. 

ENY WOMEN’S SHELTER RESIDENTS GET THE BOOT

BEDFORD-STUYVEANT — Residents of a Bedford-Stuyvesant women’s shelter have been given less than a month to leave because the city seeks to convert the facility to one housing homeless men, according to the Brooklyn Paper. The shelter at 85 Lexington Ave., operated by Bowery Residents Committee, is slated to have a special focus on men with mental illnesses. “Nobody had notice, the case managers told us that it was a surprise to them as much as it was to us,” Tonya Williams, who has lived at the shelter for nine months, told the Brooklyn Paper.

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London Tandoori 524 Metropolitan Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11211 347-889-6401 If you’re looking for a tasty, low calorie shrimp entree, give this one a shot. Jalfrezi is a cross between a curry and stir fry with shrimp, peppers, tomatoes and special spices. London Tandoori has some of the best Indian style cuisine in Brooklyn. And customers love the fresh Shrimp Jalfrezi. It’s a favorite on the menu and it’s served with basmati rice. The newly opened London Tandoori in Williamsburg is the place to go for a variety of prime Indian cuisine including healthy vegetarian items and mouthwatering desserts. And the restaurant is open 7 days a week from 12 p.m. to 11 p.m.

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With family and friends stopping by during the holidays, you want to make sure you have some delicious treats to share. Three Guys has an easy-to-bake recipe for Chocolate Orange Fudge that makes the perfect holiday dessert for any occasion. Just take 2½ cups semisweet chocolate chips, 1 14 oz. can sweet condensed milk, ½ cup chopped pecans and 2 tablespoons grated orange peel. Fruit and chocolate come together like a match made in heaven in a sweet confection that will have you coming back for more. For the complete recipe visit the website: www.3guysfrombrooklyn.com

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Dyker lights, the world-famous display of eye-popping, over-the-top Christmas decorations, is certainly living up to its billing this year! Just ask any one of the thousands of tourists flocking to the Southwest Brooklyn neighborhood to take in the sights and sounds of the holiday season. Or ask Fran Vella-Marrone, president of the Dyker Heights Civic Association, who has enjoyed the show for many years and still gets a big kick out of it. “The Christmas lights in Dyker Heights are like no other,” she told the Home Reporter on Tuesday. “They are recognized not only citywide and nationwide, but worldwide. And they get more and more beautiful each year.” Dyker lights features dozens of homes throughout the community whose owners hire creative decorators to turn their front lawns into spectacular Winter Wonderlands filled with

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Houses across Dyker Heights are festooned with glittering lights and over-the-top decorations are the norm.

thousands of twinkling lights with enough electricity to power a small city. Along with the flashing lights and the holiday music, homes are decorated with giant Santas waving hello to the crowds, dancing reindeer, enormous “Nutcracker Suite” figures, large snowflakes and peaceful-looking angels. The event attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each

year, including tourists who come from thousands of miles away. People arrive on foot, in cars and in tour buses to see the sites. The prime viewing area, where you can see the most spectacular homes, is located between 10th Avenue and 13th Avenue, from 80th Street to 86th Street. The holiday light displays go up on or around Thanksgiving and remain up until New Year’s Day.

Dyker lights is a tradition dating back more than three decades. But in recent years, it has grown so popular that tour operators offer private jaunts through the neighborhood for prices as high as $399. To handle the crush of visitors and the traffic jams, the NYPD has assigned additional traffic cops to the neighborhood. In an effort to reduce litter and ease the traffic congestion, Councilmember Justin

Brannan sponsored a bill to ban food vendors from parking their trucks and selling their wares in the prime viewing area. The bill was approved by the City Council last month. The Home Reporter recently reported, however, that vendors have found a loophole in the law by hiring military veterans to work on their food trucks. Disabled veterans are exempt from certain city restrictions governing sidewalk vendors. Still, local officials said the

law has made a difference and that there are fewer vendors hogging the streets this year. It’s a safe bet that Dyker lights will continue to draw large crowds of enthusiastic admirers all the way through the New Year’s holiday. Vella-Marrone said she hopes visitors enjoy the beauty of the community. “Dyker Heights is a diamond in the rough that becomes a more precious gem each year,” she said.

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Reaching-Out Christmas Spectacular brings toys and joy to children in need BY JOHN ALEXANDER

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For over 30 years now, Reaching-Out Community Services has been doing good works in Southwest Brooklyn by offering a helping hand to those who need it the most. On Saturday, Dec. 14, the nonprofit organization headquartered in the heart of Bensonhurst, hosted its 14th Annual Operation Christmas Smiles Event at St. Mary, Mother of Jesus Church Community Center, 2311 85th Street. The purpose of the event was to bring holiday magic to underprivileged children in the neighborhood. There were arcade games, cookies, popcorn, candy and gifts galore for over 500 kids who were offered the opportunity to meet Santa Claus and all their favorite characters. The children were enthralled as Santa walked the runway to the stage, hugging and high-fiving them along the way. Then, Santa disappeared as an array of Disney favorites joined together to greet the kids. Santa eventually returned to the stage as the children all lined up to meet him.

Thomas Neve, the founder and executive director of Reaching-Out, explained that the event almost didn’t happen. “To be honest with you, we weren’t going to be able to have this big event this year because it costs us thousands of dollars. We were going to cancel it until the Rotary Club of Verrazano stepped in and said they wanted to help the children in our community,” Neve told this paper. “So, they actually financed this operation this year. And we did have some wonderful

people and other organizations that held toy drives for us as well. They all helped make this event possible. But, once again, the Rotary Club of Verrazano helped save Christmas this year,” he said. Reaching-Out began out of the back of a van in 1989, when Neve formed a homeless mobile outreach program that provided hot meals, clothing, health aids and referrals to shelters. His program grew, and the next year, the organization moved into a small storefront

space. When that grew too small, it moved to a new space in 1993, and then again in 2007, opening at 7708 New Utrecht Ave. Currently, Reaching-Out Community Services has over 9,200 people registered for its services in 16 different ZIP Codes across Brooklyn. Reaching-Out also sponsors a back-to-school backpack give away each year as well as its Gobbler Giving program at Thanksgiving through which

the organization distributes free turkeys and fixings to people in need. Verrazano Rotary Club member and Bay Ridge Community Council President Ralph Succar spoke directly to the children. “Everything here was donated by somebody, so hopefully when you grow up you will understand what it is to donate, to help and to reach out,” said Succar. Brooklyn resident Jean Sunvholm explained that the volunteers dressed as Disney characters hailed from Timberline College in Fraser, Colorado. “The college is in Colorado but

the students are from all over the world — Germany, Austria, Mexico, Canada and all over the United States. We spent a whole week in New York City, volunteering at various places,” explained Sunvholm. She said her group happened upon Reaching-Out last year while walking along New Utrecht Avenue. “We liked what we saw and said, ‘How can we help?’” said Sunvholm. “We helped out at last year’s event and the students wanted to come back again and volunteer this year. We’re so glad to have connected with Tom Neve and Reaching-Out,” she added. To contribute to Reaching-Out, call Neve at 917-5099055 or visit www.rcsprograms. org.

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Scenes from the holiday party thrown by Reaching-Out Community Services for kids in need.

The third annual Coats for the Cold & Toy Drive was held at the Salty Dog this month. Originally organized at his office by Elliott Mercado, the drive has grown so large that his wife Myra and their children also help out. Besides coats, gloves, hats, kids’ pajamas and clothing for infants are

collected as well as toys. Also involved is Steve Casatelli from Ho’ Brah, who heads up Love Conquers Cancer and whose family teamed up with the Mercados to make the drive a success. Together, they were able to collect well over 5,000 donations — with more coming in. Donations

are being distributed to many deserving non-profit groups including CAMBA’s women’s shelter and Project Hospitality’s men’s shelter. Generously donating the entertainment for all were local favorites Headin’ South. Shown in photo left to right, the Casatelli family and the Mercado family.

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Take a wintry stroll to Queens on Gates Avenue Part Two: See old theatres, a beautiful bank and a Masonic lodge in Bed-Stuy and Bushwick

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You can walk from Clinton Hill all the way to Queens on Gates Avenue. You’ll see so much old-fashioned architectural eye candy along the way. I recently tried doing this trek in a single day. But I got so involved in taking pictures of landmarked rowhouses and lovely churches in Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant that I only made it to the corner of Tompkins Avenue. I wrote about that initial stroll as Part One of this story. You can read it at brooklyneagle.com if you missed it. The other day, I returned to Gates Avenue and resumed my walk through Bed-Stuy and Bushwick so I could write Part Two of this story, which you are reading now. I saw mammoth movie theaters that have been adaptively reused, historic churches, a bank and a Masonic lodge that were converted into apartment buildings and many blocks of NYCHA complexes. The skies, for the most part, were gray but the buildings were beautiful.

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On the first Gates Avenue blocks after you cross Tompkins Avenue, you will see two mid-rise multi-building brick apartment complexes that belong to a retired Major League Baseball player’s company. For the past 15 years, former Boston Red Sox, Anaheim Angels and New York Mets player Mo Vaughn has focused on renovating and managing low-income housing developments. Bleacher Report named him as No. 8 on its 2011 list of the 20 greatest hitters in Red Sox franchise history. He is the co-founder and co-managing director of Omni New York LLC. Omni acquired the Betty Shabazz Apartments and the Medgar Evers Apartments on Gates Avenue in 2010 and completed their rehab in 2011, the company’s website says.

After you turn onto Gates Avenue, you’ll see New York City Housing Authority’s Stuyvesant Gardens I complex, which extends along the entire block from Lewis to Stuyvesant avenues and also from Stuyvesant Avenue nearly to the corner of Malcolm X Boulevard. NYCHA complex Stuyvesant Gardens II stands on one corner of Malcolm X Boulevard.

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CORNERSTONE BAPTIST CHURCH When you get to the intersection of Lewis Avenue, as you look down the avenue to your right you will notice a slim tower with a turret. It tops Cornerstone Baptist Church, which is a couple blocks away on the corner of Madison Street and Lewis Avenue. Take a momentary detour for a closer look at this house of worship at 275 Lewis Ave., which was recently nominated for inclusion on the State and National Register of Historic Places. The yellow-brick, stone and terra cotta main church that you glimpse from the corner of Gates and Lewis avenues was constructed in 1893. There’s also a red-brick Sunday school and chapel on the Madison Street side of the property. It was constructed in 1889. Visitors are welcome to the church sanctuary, so step inside. Its barrel-vaulted ceiling has painted and gilded wood ribs. Painted Doric columns stand in rows on the ground floor and balcony. There are delicate stained-glass windows. Brooklyn-born Oscar Schutte Teale was the architect. When you backtrack up to Gates Avenue, you’ll see a handsome old-fashioned apartment building at 547 Madison St., which is right across the street from the church, and a row of lovely brownstones along Lewis Avenue.

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— Continued from page 24INB — On the other side of Malcolm X Boulevard, there are handsome rowhouses. As you continue your walk, you’ll discover a beautiful row of brick houses with tall stoops and ornamental iron fences on Gates Avenue between Patchen and Ralph avenues. Just past the corner of Ralph Avenue, there’s a massive brick commercial building with very few windows and a metal fire escape zigzagging up its facade. These are visual hints that this was once a movie theatre. The entrance is at 1340 Broadway. On the sidewalk, a row of red metal lampposts with their light bulbs held by winged dragons was added by the property’s current occupant, Pilgrim Baptist Church. This was the Loew’s Gates Theatre, which opened in 1921 with the films “Alias Lady Fingers” starring Bert Lytell and “Hard Luck” starring Buster Keaton, the website Cinema Treasures says. There were vaudeville acts as well as film showings. The architect was Thomas Lamb, who designed many of New York City’s early movie houses. The Loew’s Gates ended its run as a movie theatre in 1977, Cinema Treasures says.

ROOSEVELT SAVINGS BANK If you need caffeine to fuel your walk, Cup of Brooklyn is located at 1071B Gates Ave. on the same block as the old Loew’s theatre. On the opposite side of the street, you’ll see a Beaux-Arts building at 1024 Gates Ave. that was Roosevelt Savings Bank. (As is sometimes the case in Brooklyn, the addresses on opposite sides of the street don’t match up.) It was built in 1906 and 1907 for Eastern District Savings Bank, which changed its name in 1920 to honor Theodore Roosevelt, architectural history expert Suzanne Spellen wrote in a 2012 Brownstoner story. The designer was architecture firm Helmle, Huberty & Hudswell — which designed the iconic Prospect Park Boathouse. A few years ago, developer Kai Construction built a rooftop addition and converted the savings bank into a rentalapartment complex called the Brooklyn-Roosevelt.

THE BUSHWICK THEATRE Broadway is the dividing line between the neighborhoods of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick. Small shops line Broadway. Subway train tracks loom overhead. Just up the block on Broadway, you find the Gates Avenue J and Z station. In the opposite direction, there’s a huge, white, wedge-shaped building a couple blocks away. You need to walk down the street and get a closer look at the lavish terra cotta ornamentation on it. There are terra cotta cherubs holding musical instruments over the doors and windows of the eye-popping Beaux-Arts building at 1396 Broadway. There is also a band of massive terra cotta figures running beneath the roof of the building.

These handsome rowhouses can be found on the Gates Avenue block between Broadway and Bushwick Avenue. It currently houses the Brooklyn High School for Law and Technology. It was originally a vaudeville house called the Bushwick Theatre. It was built in 1911. The architect was William McElfatrick. A posting on Cinema Treasures says that a year after it opened, the B.F. Keith vaudeville-theatre chain acquired it. And in 1930, it became an RKO movie theatre. It stopped operating as a movie theatre in 1969.

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Before you know it, you’ll reach the intersection of Myrtle Avenue, my favorite Bushwick retail corridor. There’s a White Castle just steps away, which is tempting. After you cross Myrtle Avenue, Gates Avenue continues to the intersection of Wyckoff Avenue, which is blocked off to vehicular traffic to create a plaza in front of the MyrtleWyckoff Avenues subway station. There’s outdoor seating, which is a good thing even in cold weather. It gives you somewhere to sit down and eat Himalayan dumplings called momos that one of the plaza’s food vendors sells. BTW, Starbucks and Dunkin’ Donuts both have shops on this block if you need (yet another) cup of coffee to drink with the dumplings.

After you double back to Gates Avenue and stroll into Bushwick, you will find the block between Broadway and Bushwick Avenue is lined with lovely old-fashioned rowhouses. GOODBYE, BUSHWICK — HELLO, RIDGEWOOD When you get to the corner of Bushwick Avenue, you’ll When you’re done eating and return to Gates Avenue, find a handsome landmarked building with the name “Ridgewood Masonic Temple” carved in stone above towering you’ll find you’re near the Brooklyn-Queens border. In this part of Bushwick, the boundary between it and Ridgewood arched windows. Don’t misunderstand. You haven’t actually arrived in is St. Nicholas Avenue. I feel pretty sure about this because I checked city BuildRidgewood. That’s what the buff-colored brick and rusticated stone building at 1054 Bushwick Ave. was called back when ings Department records for the full addresses of two multithe Masons used it as a lodge. It was designed by architecture family buildings located on opposite sides of St. Nicholas Avenue at the intersection of Gates Avenue. firm Koch & Wagner and built in 1919 and 1920. The one at 310 St. Nicholas Ave. is in Brooklyn and has The Masons moved out almost two decades ago. For a while, the property served as a venue for indie concerts and 11237 as its Zip Code, Buildings Department filings indiparties. In 2016, the Landmarks Preservation Commission cate. The one at 311 St. Nicholas Ave. is in Queens and has approved the lodge’s residential conversion. The Masonic lodge is the only Beaux-Arts building on 11385 as its Zip Code, the records show. Gates Avenue continues into Ridgewood, which is a wonBushwick Avenue — which is lined with mansions, a couple of which are landmarked, that Brooklyn’s beer brewers and derful neighborhood. If you’re not too full from eating momos, you might want a lumber baron built. You really should take a detour and see to try Venezuelan street food at a Ridgewood restaurant the architectural eye candy on this avenue. called Cachapas y Mas, which is on Seneca Avenue near the corner of Gates Avenue. EVERGREEN BAPTIST CHURCH When you’re done getting an eyeful of Bushwick Avenue and return to your Gates Avenue stroll, you will pass a handsome row of limestone houses on the block between Bushwick and Evergreen avenues. The brick rowhouses on the corner of Evergreen and Gates avenues have old-fashioned charm. El Aguila Mini Market occupies one of the storefronts if you still haven’t bought a cup of coffee and really do need one. When you stand outside the market and look down Evergreen Avenue, you’ll notice a church spire a couple blocks away. You should take another momentary detour to go see it. Evergreen Baptist Church is at 455 Evergreen Ave. on the corner of Woodbine Street. Originally, this was the Second German Baptist Church, according to a posting on the website Novelty Theater that also says architecture firm Higgs & Gavigan designed it. Construction began in 1900 on this house of worship.

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When you double back onto Gates Avenue, the next couple blocks are a mix of old-fashioned rowhouses and modern residential buildings. On Knickerbocker Avenue near the corner of Gates Avenue, you’ll see FDNY Engine 277 Ladder 112’s spiffy modern firehouse. At the corner of Gates and Irving avenues, there’s a building with street artists’ murals painted on it. One mural that’s especially great depicts a woman whose eyes are giant daisies. The artist is Dirt Cobain, a Los Angeles native whose work can be found in various spots in New York City.

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