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ONCE HE DREAMED OF BEING AN FBI AGENT; JOE ROSATO BECAME MR. BAR ASSOCIATION INSTEAD

By Rob Abruzzese The Record Joseph Rosato, right, is known affectionately as Mr. Bar Association because he is the president of the Nathan R. Sobel American Inns of Court, has served as president of the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn and Catholic Lawyers Guild of Kings County, and will be president of the Brooklyn Bar Association in four years. See page 3.

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Presiding Justice Scheinkman gains attention from decisions in family law cases

Process begins to select next Supreme Court Civil Term administrative judge

Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for New York City Courts George Silver will serve as acting administrative judge in Queens Supreme Court, Civil Term until a permanent judge is selected to replace outgoing Administrative Judge Jeremy Weinstein. Visit brooklyneagle.com.

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BROOKLYN BAR ASSOCIATION OFFERS ONLINE STREAMING FOR CLE COURSES: The Brooklyn Bar Association has begun offering online streaming of some of its most popular CLE courses, including one titled, “Practical Tips for Avoiding Grievances,”that included (pictured from left): Pery Krinsky, Richard Klass, Andrea Bonina, Steve Cohn and Daniel Antonelli. See page 2.

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Hon. Alan Scheinkman, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, has drawn positive attention for his recent decisions involving family law cases. See page 2. Brooklyn Eagle photo by Rob Abruzzese

Brooklyn Bar Association offers online streaming for CLE courses

By Rob Abruzzese The Record

will also be periodically be taken down as the information in them becomes outdated.

The most current courses include a civil practice law and rules update by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Devin Cohn. There is also a lecture by attorneys Gena Usenheimer and Nila Merola on the #MeToo movement,

including new laws pertaining to it and suggestions for best practices for attorneys how to run their own offices.

There are currently 16½ CLE credits available to stream online including courses that fulfill all ethics and diversity, inclusion and elimination of bias requirements.

The law is constantly changing, so New York State requires lawyers to take 24 credits worth of continuing legal education every two years to stay on top of the most recent changes.

The Brooklyn Bar Association is one of the best providers of continuing legal education in the borough, and now it has made access to those courses easier than ever by introducing online streaming.

“We partnered with this company called Vocalmeet,” said Jen Bryan, member services director at the BBA. “We’ve got eight of our most popular courses posted right now. We’ll be adding more in the next few weeks.”

Now, attorneys too busy to attend an evening course can access lectures from the top legal minds instantly on their computers.

“This is available to anyone at any time,” Bryan said. “They can watch it on their laptop, cellphone, tablet, whatever they have.”

Previously, the BBA did offer courses available through video over the internet.

However, under the previous setup, members could only request that videos of former CLEs be mailed to their office on a DVD. Now, the setup only requires a computer and internet access for instant availability of the lecture.

“I hope I don’t have to burn CDs anymore,” Bryan joked.

Courses cost $35 for members and $45 for non-members. There are eight courses A CLE by Christina Golkin on how lawyers can pro- Justice Devin Cohen lectures on civil practice law currently available, but more are going to be vide culturally competent services to the LGBTQ+ and rules during a CLE that is available online added within the next few weeks. Courses community is available. Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese from the Brooklyn Bar Association.

To access these videos, attorneys should head to the BBA’s website and click on the “New Online Streaming CLE” box or go to https://bba.vocalmeet.com/home/. In an effort to promote the website, the BBA is offering a limited time discount: The first 25 users should enter “nyfirst25” to receive $10 off.

A CLE is available online in which David Doyaga and Gregory Messer (not pictured) discuss updates in the Bankruptcy Court.

Presiding Justice Scheinkman gains attention from decisions in family law cases Aimee Richter: We couldn’t have a better steward to guide the ship

By Rob Abruzzese The Record

Justice Alan Scheinkman, presiding judge of the Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, was recognized in a New York Law Journal article this week for a pair of recent decisions that attorney Dolores Gebhardt claimed, “showcase how his mastery of the practice area is shaping case law in the Second Department.”

The article focuses on two decisions from Newton v. McFarlane, published on June 5, 2019, that reversed a Family Court order and dismissed the mother’s petition in a custody case, and Matter of John, published on June 26, 2019, that involved a single, gay man who had his adoption petition dismissed in the Family Court.

In the case of Newton v. McFarlane, a mother sought sole custody of her 17-year-old child for the third time even as testimony from the child stated her desire to remain with her father.

The Family Court granted that testimony; however, Justice Scheinkman reversed the decision on a couple of grounds.

First, he ruled that the attorney for the child had standing to appeal the case; second, Justice Scheinkman found that a child may be aggrieved by a custody order even without being a party to the litigation.

“It seems self-evident that the child is the person most affected by a judicial determination on the fundamental issues of responsibility for, and the environment of the child’s upbringing,” Justice Scheinkman wrote in the decision. “To rule otherwise would virtually relegate the child to the status of property, without rights separate and apart from those of the child’s parents.”

Justice Scheinkman went even further and explained that the Family Court failed to establish the requisite change of circumstances for the change in custody, and failed to consider the child’s desire to remain under custody of the father. The Family Court order was reversed and the mother’s petition dismissed.

Gebhardt then explained that the Matter of

John involved Justice Scheinkman properly applying “20th century law to a 21st century situation.”

In that case, the man entered into a surrogacy contract with an unpaid friend who agreed to carry embryos to term before relinquishing any parental rights. The Family Court initially dismissed the adoption petition because the adoption would validate an illegal surrogacy contract and it said a biological parent cannot adopt his own child. (The man used his own sperm to produce the embryo).

Justice Scheinkman noted that the contract was not for profit, thus not subject to fines and potential criminal prosecution, and noted that gestational surrogates may validly terminate their parental rights. Thus, Justice Scheinkman’s decision stated that there was no legal basis for the adoption petition to be thrown out in court.

Finally, Justice Scheinkman ruled that the adoption statute does not preclude a biological parent from adopting his or her own child. He went on to say that the purpose of the adoption statute is to create a parent-child relationship in

the best interest of the child and that recent bills passed in the New York State legislature would permit such adoptions.

Gebhardt was hardly the only person to notice the impact Justice Scheinkman’s decisions have had on Family Law. Aimee Richter, a past president of the Brooklyn Bar Association and cochair of the matrimonial and family law section of the law firm Lee Anav Chung White Kim Ruger & Richter, said that she and other practitioners have noticed the common-sense decisions coming out of Scheinkman’s court.

“Those of us who practice family law know that the justices of the Appellate Division, Second Department have long championed children’s rights,” Richter said. “With the scholarship and experience of our presiding justice Alan Scheinkman in these difficult matters, recent decisions have shown that the Court continues to modify and correct the trial courts where necessary.

“As the times change, and with it the practice of family law, we couldn’t have a better steward to guide the ship into the future,” Richter said.

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Joe Rosato affectionately known as Mr. Bar Association

By Rob Abruzzese The Record

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Growing up in Brooklyn, Joe Rosato always dreamed of being a law enforcement officer. His goal was one day to join the FBI, and he even took the test to join the NYPD before he graduated from Xaverian High School.

Around that same time, though, he also took the test to become a New York State court officer. He did well on that test and started working in Manhattan as an officer even before graduating from New York University.

Joe Rosato in his court officer’s uniform in 1982 when he worked in the Manhattan courts.

Rosato never intended on giving up the dream of becoming an FBI agent, but he got married to his wife Fran shortly later and his priorities shifted. He was eventually transferred to Brooklyn Supreme Court, Civil Term and began to clerk for Hon. Elliott Golden.

It was a good job with a pension and benefits, but he still felt an itch to do something more so he decided to go to law school. After all, sitting in the courtroom every day made him realize that despite the fact that he had struggled a bit in high school and college, he was capable of doing what the attorneys in his courtroom did every day.

“I was really nervous, quite honestly,” Rosato said. “It’s a job that people stay in their whole lives and for good reason. It has great benefits, good salary, but for some reason I just felt limited and I wanted an opportunity to do something more.”

While making that decision wasn’t easy, neither was going to law school. Rosato began attending Brooklyn Law School at night while working in the court during the day, all while he had a 4-month-old daughter back at home.

“It was not easy at all,” Rosato recalled.

“I worked full time, I had a 4-month-old, and

truthfully from Monday through Thursday I wasn’t home. My wife Fran was truly instrumental in helping me to do this. There is no way I could have done any of the things that I have been fortunate enough to do without her.”

Immediately after law school, Rosato joined the firm Cullen and Dykman doing insurance defense work. He did that for three years before he left to work for an insurance company. Finally, in 1996, he got a careerchanging opportunity to work for the firm Schneider, Kleinick, Weitz, Damashek and Shoot where he got to second seat Ivan Schneider and Harvey White on some big cases.

“I wasn’t even sure if I would be trying cases there, but I was thrown right into it,” Rosato said. “These were premier plaintiff’s personal injury attorneys and I got the opportunity to work with them and secondseat them.”

Eventually, Johnnie Cochran became associated with the firm and it became the Cochran Firm, Schneider, Kleinick, Weitz, Damashek and Shoot, which Rosato said gave him access to a great legal mind who took the time to help younger attorneys even though he didn’t have to.

In 2007, Rosato struck out on his own with his partner Gerard Lucciola to create the firm Rosato and Lucciola. In 2017, the pair split and it became simply the Rosato Firm.

Over the years, Rosato has represented insurance companies and plaintiffs in personal injury cases. These days, a lot of his work involves trying cases for other lawyers.

“I would say that 40 to 45 percent of my practice is trying cases for other lawyers,” he said. “I help lawyers who don’t go into court, who don’t deal with the rules of evidence, who don’t deal with jury selection, who don’t try those cases, and I’m able to offer those services.”

In the background of all of his professional success has been the Brooklyn Bar Association, and many of the other local bar associations. While many lawyers have at least some involvement in their local bar associations, Rosato has become Mr. Bar Association.

Over the last 10 years, he has been the president of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Brooklyn and the Columbian Lawyers Association of Brooklyn, and he is set to become the president of the Brooklyn Bar Association in four years. In addition to that, he is the current president of the Nathan R. Sobel American Inns of Court and is an active member of the Bay Ridge Lawyers Association and others.

Rosato was originally encouraged to join the Brooklyn Bar Association, and get involved as a board member, by John Lonuzzi and Gregory Cerchione.

Rosato also credited Anthony Lamberti, who worked as a court officer and went to school at night with Rosato, Gregory Laspina and Justice Matthew D’Emic for being big influences early in his career.

“It’s been so rewarding professionally and it has been a big part of my social life as well,” Rosato said. “I’ve met true friends, people I care about both in the legal community and family-wise. That’s what has made it really fulfilling. To have the support of the people in the Brooklyn legal community has had a tremendous impact in my life.”

Rosato said that he has no regrets about the way his career has gone, since he loves his job and being involved in the legal community the way he is. He explained that it is fulfilling being involved in the bar associations through which he is able to make a positive impact on others’ careers and in the local community as well.

“A big part of the reason why I’m so involved is because I had opportunities that other people didn’t have where I got to work with some of the premier people in the i n d u s t r y, ” Rosato said. “It might not have worked out the way I planned, but it certainly worked out, which is what makes me want to be involved, want to give back in a way where maybe I can give others opportunities that they might not have otherwise had.”

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B’klyn lawyers and judges beat Staten Island counterparts to take the coveted Verrazano Cup Once again Brooklyn reigns supreme, as judges and lawyers from the borough of Kings took on and beat their counterparts from Staten Island to win the annual Verrazano Cup at the Silver Lake Golf Course in Staten Island over the past weekend.

Photo courtesy of George Farkas

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News Around the Boro NO GAS, NO BURGERS

BOROUGHWIDE — Two Brooklyn deli owners say National Grid may cost them $400,000 by refusing to supply natural gas to a new burger restaurant they’re planning in Brooklyn, according to Bloomberg News. The two men are victims of a face-off between the gas utility and state regulators since New York and New Jersey have denied approvals for the planned $1 billion Williams Cos. Pipeline expansion. Williams Cos. plans to reapply, but in the meantime, National Grid is declining to approve any new contracts to supply gas.  BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The buyers of the $9.8 million Brooklyn Heights townhouse at 16 Sidney Place are horror movie producer Jason Blum, known for “Paranormal Activity” and “The Purge,” and his wife, television writer Lauren Schuker Blum, according to the New York Post. The house previously belonged to the late hedge-fund manager Sanjay Valvani, who killed himself after being charged with insider trading. The 22-foot-wide, five-story property features six bedrooms, four full bathrooms, an elevator, radiant-heated floors, an open-air cabana and a dining patio. The master suite includes built-in cabinets, a spa-like bathroom, office space and a terrace. 

CHURCH RECEIVES GRANT FOR MURAL

STUYVESANT HEIGHTS — The New York Landmarks Conservancy has given the 146-year-old Stuyvesant Heights Christian Church a $30,000 grant to repair a large stained-glass mural, according to the Brooklyn Paper. “We feel it is very important to help maintain religious structures that provide a sense of history and place to communities,” said Peg Breen, leader of the conservancy. The church, at 69 MacDonough St., is an example of 19th century Gothic Revival architecture. In addition to worship services, it sponsors a preschool, after-school program and food pantries. 

AMAZON, PRO AND CON

SUNSET PARK — Sunset Park residents are divided about the possible impact of the storage and shipping facility that Amazon reportedly wants to build in Industry City, according to the Brooklyn Paper. Adrian Roman, a member of a community group called El Grito, said, “Those are low-paying jobs.

They don’t really help the community.” Councilmember Carlos Menchaca said that in its existing facilities, Amazon “terrorizes immigrants and treats its workers like robots.” But real estate lawyer Jeffrey Cintron said, “It’s going to be a huge plus. A distribution facility has to have blue-collar jobs.” 

GOWANUS COALITION SEEKS ZONING INPUT

GOWANUS — The Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition for Justice, made up of groups that advocate for the area’s low-income tenants, has called for the city to create an Environmental Special District within the area in Gowanus that it wants to rezone. One of the area’s challenges is to mitigate the untreated waste spewing into the Gowanus Canal when the city’s sewers are overwhelmed by runoff from heavy rains.

The city estimates that the rezoning would create 8,200 new apartments in the neighborhood, and environmentalists fear the impact that added waste could bring. The coalition also wants the city to invest in local parks, increase the number of street trees and address critical needs at the area’s three NYCHA projects. 

BODY DISCOVERED NEAR HOME DEPOT

CONEY ISLAND — A man’s body was discovered in a wooded area behind a Coney Island Home Depot on Sunday, according to the New York Post. A passerby came across the victim, who police said was probably in his 30s, around noon on Sunday in the woods behind the store. The victim was lying face down and bleeding from his head, police said. 

BIKE LANE PROPOSAL SLAMMED

SHEEPSHEAD BAY — Southern Brooklyn community boards criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio for saying he would “just give the order” to install new bike lanes if the boards obstruct city efforts to build them. Theresa Scavo, chair of Community Board 15, which includes Sheepshead Bay and Brighton Beach, says the city has often ignored the board and “unilaterally decided to remove parking in southern Brooklyn.” Bob Tracy, a member of Marine Park’s CB 18, said that rather than protect bikers from cars, the mayor’s plan would put pedestrians in danger from cyclists. The mayor’s plan would add 80 miles of protected bike lanes to city streets. 

BRA STOPS SHOOTER’S BULLET

BROWNSVILLE — A woman’s bra strap stopped a bullet from penetrating her back during a Brownsville shooting on Saturday night, according to Newsweek. Daniesa Mardaugh was one of thousands of people who attended the Old Timers Day event where the mass shooting broke out around 11 p.m., leaving one person dead and at least 11 injured. When EMS

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HORROR PRODUCER BUYS HEIGHTS MANSION

A small but vocal group of Coney Island residents held a rally on Saturday to protest a proposal to put a ferry landing at the Kaiser Park pier in their neighborhood, charging that having ferries coming and going all day long will ruin their quiet oasis and bring an abrupt end to fishermen’s enjoyment of the waterfront. See brooklyneagle.com for the full story. personnel unhooked Mardaugh’s bra, the bullet was just sitting in the strap and fell out, police said. Police Commissioner James O’Neill said the NYPD is looking into whether the shooting was gang-related. 

TAXI DRIVERS OFFER REWARD

BROWNSVILLE — Taxi drivers’ advocates are upset over the robbery and murder of cabbie Nomen Saleemi on Williams Avenue in Brownsville on Friday. “This was a young man, a brother, a son, a nephew, a cousin, a good human being whose life was taken senselessly,” said Fernando Mateo, spokesperson for the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. The group is offering a $5,000 reward for anyone with information about Saleemi’s death. They are also calling on the city to make cabbies’ jobs safer. Saleemi’s family said he had been driving with the Everywhere Car Service for about two years and was about to start a new job at a pharmaceutical company. 

PHYSICIAN, HEAL THYSELF

FORT GREENE — A female anesthesiologist who was heartbroken after a fellow physician ended their romance threatened to kill him and his mother with a muscle relaxant, according to the New York Post. Pik Lee allegedly refused to end the relationship, even groping Francisco Sebastiani while he performed surgery at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, according to a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court. Even as Sebastiani went through residencies in various hospitals, Lee “spewed a barrage of lewd, profane, explicit and threatening text messages and emails … that included gun, bomb, knife and syringe emojis,” the lawsuit alleged. 

IRON MAIDEN STORMS BARCLAYS

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Forbes’ Derek Scancarelli recently reviewed Iron Maiden’s two nights of concerts at Barclays Center in Downtown Brooklyn. The British heavy metal group “pummeled through decades of hits among an evolving assortment of stage props, thematic backdrops and pyrotechnics,” the review said. Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickinson changed his attire for each song’s theme — from fighter pilot goggles to the parka of an Arctic soldier. Guitarist Dave Murray said the group performs “an adrenaline driven show. There are quiet, moody parts in some songs, but it’s basically full-on.” 

POST OFFICE ROBBERS SOUGHT

BEDFORD-STUYVESANT — A group of men is wanted for repeatedly stabbing and then robbing a young man behind a post office in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to PIX11. The group confronted the victim on July 20 at the rear of 1205 Atlantic Ave. The victim was stabbed three times in the upper torso and arm, police said. The robbers took $20, then fled in an unknown direction. 

BABY PRONOUNCED DEAD

EAST FLATBUSH — A 25-day-old baby was pronounced dead in East Flatbush on Saturday after authorities responded to a call about an unconscious child, according to silive.com.

Police responded to a 911 call of an unconscious child inside an apartment at 1242 East 72nd St. EMS workers transported the male child, who was later identified as Nio Kiellman, to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. 

PARK SLOPE CO-OP FEATURED

PARK SLOPE — The New York Times, in its “What’s Selling Now” real estate column, recently wrote about “Homes That Sold for Around $1.5 Million.” The only Brooklyn home mentioned in the column was 397 Seventh Ave. in Park Slope, a co-op in a prewar building that includes a “breakfast bar,” a washer-dryer and a living room with fireplace. The co-op sold for $1.325 million, with monthly maintenance charges of $748. 

CAR BREAK-IN IN THE HEIGHTS

BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — A thief broke into a car in Brooklyn Heights and stole a backpack with $40,000 in cash inside, according to the New York Post. The suspect, a young white man who wore a blue-hooded sweater and brown shorts, was caught on video on July 11 on Joralemon Street near Hicks Street. He used a wrench to break into the Jeep’s passenger window, quickly stole the backpack and fled on foot. The owner, a 52-year-old man, had left the backpack unattended in the car, police said. 

DOMINICAN CHOCOLATE SHOP OPENS

WILLIAMSBURG — Rizek Cacao, a well-known manufacturer of chocolate bars in the Dominican Republic, has opened its first shop in the United States. The store, Kahkow, is located at 97 N. 10th St. near Berry Street in Williamsburg. Kahkow sells chocolate bars, chocolate for cooks, baked goods and other ingredients, according to The New York Times. Soon, the café expects to start roasting cacao on the premises. 

DISTURBED MAN THREATENS COPS

EAST NEW YORK — The Sergeants Benevolent Association on Sunday tweeted a video of a man walking into the 75th Precinct in East New York with what they say was a drawn knife.

When the man refused to drop his weapon, one of the officers tased him, causing him to fall to the ground and allowing the cops to subdue him, according to PIX11. NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan commented on Twitter, “Cops face split second, life & death decisions every day. When an emotionally disturbed man holding a long knife walked into the NYPD75Pct and asked to be shot, these cops reacted quickly.” 

GREECE VS. PERSIA IN BAY RIDGE

BAY RIDGE — The Federation of Associated Laconian Studies recently held a commemoration of the Battle of Thermopylae and a tribute to King Leonidas of Sparta, according to the National Herald, a Greek Orthodox publication. The room was packed at the federation’s headquartered in Bay Ridge on July 28. The Battle of Thermopylae, in 480 B.C., pitted an alliance of Greek city-states led by King Leonidas against the Persian Empire led by King Xerxes.

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“Ask the Lawyer” host Mike Connors honored at American Heritage Dinner

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Community leaders and elected officials came together for the Conservative Parties of Kings and Queens Counties’ American Heritage Dinner on Tuesday, July 23, at Russo’s on the Bay in Howard Beach.

This year’s recipient of the Thaddeus S. Dabrowski American Heritage Award was attorney Mike Connors of Connors & Sullivan Attorneys at Law, host of the popular “Ask the Lawyer” radio show on AM970.

Connors is a community leader who has been honored by numerous civic organizations in the borough, including the Bay Ridge Community Council, the Boy Scouts of America, the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, the Bay Ridge Center and the American Legion.

The entire evening was a heartfelt tribute to Connors, who was born in Manhattan and moved to Bay Ridge when he was four years old. After graduating from Pace University, he served in the Army.

Upon his return from service, he enrolled in Brooklyn Law School and graduated in 1979 as a member of the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity.

Connors opened his private practice in Bay Ridge in 1981 and formed Connors & Sullivan, an elder law firm that specializes in trusts and estates and estate planning.

He resides in Bay Ridge with his wife Beth and son Michael and is an active member of the Brooklyn Conservative Party.

Brooklyn Conservative Party Vice Chair David Ryan hosted the event. Among the elected officials in attendance were Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, New York State Conservative Party Chair Jerry Kassar, Brooklyn Conservative Party Chair Fran

Vella-Marrone, Queens County Conservative Party Chair Thomas Long, Queens City Councilmembers Eric Ulrich and Robert Holden, Brooklyn Councilmember Kalman Yeger

Brooklyn Conservative Party Vice Chair David Ryan with comedian and radio talk show host Joe Piscopo. and New York State Assemblymember Simcha Eichenstein.

Also attending were former State Sen. Marty Golden and former New York State Conservative Party Chair Mike Long. Msgr. Alfred LoPinto, president and chief executive officer of Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens, delivered the invocation. Dozier Hasty, publisher and owner of daily and weekly newspapers including the Brooklyn Eagle, Home Reporter and Spectator, was also in attendance.

Comedian, singer, radio talk show host and former star of

“Saturday Night Live” Joe Piscopo was at the event to salute his friend Connors. Piscopo said that it was an honor to be at the dinner and credited Connors with helping him straighten out his life. Piscopo introduced Connors, saying, “It is with great pride and great respect that I introduce a great New Yorker who doesn’t forget about his religion, his family or his community.

He’s the most dedicated man I know and one of the most brilliant men I know.”

Republican New York businesswoman Scherie Murray and retired NYPD Police Officer John Cummings were also at the dinner; both are running for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s seat in New York’s 14th District.

Ryan called the event one of the most successful dinners the party has ever had and credited Connors’ selection as honoree as the reason for the large turn-out. LoPinto praised Connors’ “level of conviction to great moral values and how he promotes those in the most exceptional of ways, most especially with the radio station he is involved with.”

Vella-Marrone called Connors “simply a great man and one of the first people I met in the Conservative Party back in 1980.” She explained Connors became an elder care lawyer because of his concern for his aging parents at the time. “He

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Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, New York State Conservative Party Chair Jerry Kassar, honoree Mike Connors, Brooklyn Conservative Party Chair Fran Vella-Marrone, Queens Conservative Party Chair Thomas Long and Queens Councilmember Robert Holden. wanted to help other people so he chose a field where he could concentrate on that. Mike embodies the principles of God, country and family,” she added.

Connors appeared deeply touched by the outpouring of love for him in the room. “I want to thank everyone for being here tonight. It’s really appreciated,” he said before asking everyone from his law firm to stand up and be recognized.

“Sometimes when I go out of state or go to visit relatives in Texas, people ask me ‘what’s the Conservative Party, and why are you a Conservative?

Why aren’t you just a Republican, aren’t Republicans good enough? Well, the reason I’m a Conservative is because Conservatives stand for principles and values,” he explained.

Honoree Mike Connors with his son Michael, comedian and radio talk show host Joe Piscopo and staff of AM970 The Answer radio station.

Members of the Catholic War Veterans and the Civil War Roundtable.

Congressional candidate Scherie Murray, second from left, with Republican District Leader John Quaglione, center, among friends and supporters.

Former State Sen. Marty Golden, Msgr. Alfred LoPinto and former OLPH Pastor Charles McDonald.

Malliotakis thanked Connors, calling him a proud American who truly believes in his conservatism and in his nation and for “all he does for senior citizens, the Brooklyn community, the Catholic community and the veterans community.”

Kassar also praised Connors for his many contributions to

the community. “Mike Connors is one of those special people that contributes so much in so many different ways to the people of Bay Ridge and our city,” Kassar told this paper.

“I applaud the Brooklyn and Queens Conservative Parties in recognizing his contributions at a wonderfully successful dinner.”

John Seravalli, Fran Clyne, Arlene Rutuelo, John Quaglione and Serena MacLellan.

Thomas Long, Mike Connors, Fran Vella-Marrone, Beth Connors and Michael Connors.

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The new tour, dubbed the “Made in Industry City Tour,” kicked off on June 20 with a curated selection of Brooklyn makers based at the century-old manufacturing complex.

Dom Gervasi, founder of the tour company and a one-time Sunset Park resident, said that Industry City had approached him about doing the tour.

“They reached out to me and asked if I was interested in going out there and designing a tour around the makers of Industry City,” he said. “For so many years, it was empty. I’m sure there were things going on but it wasn’t something a lot of people knew about.”

The goal for Gervasi — who launched his business in 2011 — was designing a tour that showcases both Industry City’s rich history and its variety of businesses. “Every neighborhood has a story and IC has its own interesting one and I have to develop that. I try to capture the story and nature of Industry City,” he said.

The tour covers several popular areas including Innovation Alley, Li-Lac Chocolate and Japan Village, and also reveals the inner workings of the complex.

“My challenge was to try to contrast the different types of businesses,” he said. “I wanted to contrast old school and new school, and traditional artisan versus what’s new

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Glass Art of Brooklyn is one of the stops on the tour. today. That was a story I was trying to tell with Industry City.”

“The maker community here is an integral part of Industry City, as well as the great landscape of light manufacturing in cities around the country,” said Lauren Danziger, the complex’s chief marketing officer. “The ability to bring people inside maker spaces opens the doors of creativity and accessibility, dispelling the idea that it’s not possible to thrive as a creative business in New York City.

These tours are providing a platform for this type of accessibility.”

The Made in Industry City tour takes place every Thursday at 10 a.m. Tickets are $40. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.madeinbrooklyntours.com.

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John Philip Bigolski, a Williamsburg stalwart, Army veteran and city servant, dies at 71

BY JOHN NICHOLAS BIGOLSKI AND NED BERKE John Philip Bigolski, a father, husband and longtime fixture of the northside Williamsburg community seen frequently chatting up storeowners on Bedford Avenue and doling out wisdom from local barstools, died on July 28 at the age of 71.

As a special investigator for the Office of Midtown Enforcement during Rudy Giuliani’s mayoral administration, Bigolski played a part in the resurgence of Times Square and Midtown Manhattan by bringing businesses up to code and ensuring safety for visitors. He stayed in the office until 2016, having served three mayors in the role.

He took his job seriously and with an open mind, according to his son, John Nicholas Bigolski.

“He would go into sex shops and gay clubs when no one else would want to. And he’d work with anyone so long as they focused on the job,” the younger Bigolski said. “He took assignments no one else would take; he’d take it and do it well.”

Born on Dec. 22, 1947, Bigolski witnessed another of modern New York City’s most dramatic transformations closer to home, passing

most of his seven decades within the few square miles of Williamsburg’s northside. He moved to the neighborhood as a child from Jersey City, New Jersey, with his three sisters and his parents, John Biegalski and Mary Pryma Biegalski. He graduated from Eastern District High School in 1965, having previously attended P.S. 17 and J.H.S. 126.

His father, a Greenpoint native, owned several bars and restaurants catering to the neighborhood’s longshoremen and dock and factory workers, who Bigolski would later see replaced by artists, entrepreneurs and throngs of tourists.

“He’d say a lot of new people were not honoring the history of the neighborhood, and how it was growing up, and how it was a world renowned shipyard,” Bigolski’s son said. “[Yet] he always supported and was friendly with the artists who were moving in, because he always had an affinity for the arts. Artists and musicians alike.”

From his stooped brownstone off Bedford Avenue at North Sixth Street, Bigolski watched much of that transformation alongside his wife, Mary Voloshin, to whom he was married for 38 years until her death in 2011.

Voloshin and Bigolski were friends when he was drafted to the Army

Photo courtesy of John Nicholas Bigolski

John Philip Bigolski. in early 1968. He saw service as a military police officer at Checkpoint Charlie in East Berlin until 1970. He earned commendations as an expert in rifle and pistol, and received the National Service Medal and Army of Occupation (Berlin) Medal. Bigolski received an honorable discharge in early 1970.

During his time overseas, Bigolski and Voloshin corresponded frequently. After he returned, they married on June 25, 1973. Their first and only

child, John Nicholas, was born on Nov. 12, 1984.

Prior to his service in the Mayor’s Office, Bigolski worked several odd jobs throughout the ’70s, including fabric salesman, counselor in an inner-city charity and day school, gas station and gas truck inspector, and short-order cook. He completed his bachelor’s degree in sociology through City College in 1980 and took on a series of state and city jobs until he joined the Mayor’s Office of Midtown Enforcement in 1994, staying until his retirement.

Bigolski was an avid fisherman, casting his line along the New York City and Long Island waterfronts.

He had a thorough knowledge of the region’s beaches, inlets and bays.

“On Long Island, as a kid, when we would go fishing and I’d see him haul in a really, really big fish it would impress upon me as a kid the strength and the power of staying in the fight.

That’s a strong memory in my mind,” Bigolski’s son recalled.

Bigolski was a lifelong Mets fan, having been a devout Brooklyn Dodgers fan and an enemy of the Yankees. He frequently recounted early childhood memories of hopping local buses with other kids down to Ebbets Field. As a Mets fan, he watched

nearly every game — except when the Mets disappointed too deeply.

“He would usually turn on the game for at least a little bit, but sometimes he’d get so disgusted with the Mets he’d say, ‘I’m not watching them again.’ And then a day would go by and he’d watch again,” said his son.

Bigolski’s oldest sister, Barbara Johnston, died on the same day as he did, July 28. He is survived by his son, John Nicholas, as well as his sisters, Virginia Bonofiglio and Eleanor Schub, and many nieces, nephews and extended family.

He will be remembered as a neighbor, a public servant, a veteran, a gruff voice with an impish smile — and, ultimately, as a caring, generous father and a loving husband.

Viewing hours for John Philip Bigolski will be held at Evergreen Funeral Home (133 Nassau Ave., Brooklyn) on Saturday, Aug. 3, 7-9 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 4, 2-5 p.m.

Services will be held on Sunday, Aug. 4, 7-9 p.m. Interment will be at Calverton National Cemetery (210 Princeton Blvd., Calverton, NY) following a short service at the funeral home on Monday, Aug. 5 at 9 a.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to a charity of your choice.

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Eye on REAL ESTATE Check out Greenpoint’s new waterfront green spaces

By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

I’m the nerd who always exhorts you to walk, walk, walk to see the best of Brooklyn. Today I’m going to encourage you to loaf around instead.

How else will you experience Greenpoint’s two new waterfront parks the way they deserve to be experienced?

They’re best appreciated by visitors who plan to stay a while, and just sit here and watch the river flow, as Bob Dylan famously sang.

So bring friends, bring a book, bring a blanket so you

can enjoy some leisure time on the green lawns.

One of the two parks is revamped and refurbished rather than absolutely brand-new. I’ll tell you more about it in a minute.

If you don’t live within walking distance from Greenpoint, your most entertaining way to get there is, as always, the NYC Ferry.

The route from Brooklyn Bridge Park to Williamsburg to Greenpoint offers a big dose of Brooklyn waterfront scenery — and vistas of skyscrapers in Lower and Midtown Manhattan, from the World Trade Center to the Chrysler Building.

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There are two newly opened green spaces on the Greenpoint waterfront. This one’s Newtown Barge Park.

Also, if you take the ferry, you’ll disembark on a dock that’s right beside the first new green space I want to show you, which is outside a new residential tower called The Greenpoint at 21 India St.

WATERFRONT PUBLIC SPACE IN FRONT OF THE GREENPOINT

When you walk to the end of the dock, you find the entrance to the new green space is right there.

This appealing public waterfront space is located in front of a residential tower called INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan The Greenpoint.

This waterfront space belongs to the city Department of Parks and Recreation. It has a 275-foot promenade on the edge of the East River, 33 trees, low-rise plantings, a lawn and 312 linear feet of benches.

The 29,500-square-foot green space stands in front of a driveway that leads from India Street to The Greenpoint’s front entrance.

Mack Real Estate and Palin Enterprises are the codevelopers of the 40-story tower in conjunction with Urban Development Partners.

Ismael Leyva Architects designed the building, which has rental apartments on the lower floors and condos on the upper floors.

When I looked at The Greenpoint’s website the other day, available rental apartments ranged in price from $3,060 per month for a studio to $5,380 per month for a two-bedroom unit.

Some condo sales have closed at The Greenpoint.

For instance, city Finance Department records indicate, a unit on the 29th floor sold for $2,235,058 and a 36thfloor apartment sold for $2,158,690.

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The waterfront green space also has a 4,000-square-foot playground whose construction

wasn’t quite finished the day I was there. Some of the playground equipment looks a little bit like abstract sculptures.

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You can also sit and watch the sunset. I did. It was splendid.

But the pictures I took at dusk are prettier than the sunset shots.

A dinner-time picnic would be fun at Newtown Barge Park.

There are nearby restaurants that would be good places to get a to-go dinner.

A promenade was added to imThe Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory is a few blocks away on prove public access to the shoreline. Commercial Street. You might want to eat dessert there beThis particular bit of shoreline is the cause if you carry ice cream all the way to the park in this East River, very near where Newtown weather, you could wind up with a drippy mess.

Creek empties into it.

The park has a lovely swath of lawn, pretty plantings and a fenced-in sports field suitable for baseball and soccer.

If you’re at Newtown Barge Park when the weather’s nice, you’ll see the sun glinting on the windows of an adjacent apartment tower whose address is 41 Blue Slip.

It’s part of a 22-acre, multi-building shoreline development called Greenpoint Landing that Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group are building.

By the way, these developers were also obligated by the 2005 rezoning to construct publicly accessible waterfront space. Last year, they opened a section of that green space. It runs between

Check out Greenpoint’s new waterfront green spaces

Grasses grow in neat rows in the green space outside The Greenpoint.

— Continued from page 10INB — The Greenpoint’s developers were required to build the waterfront green space, give it to the city and promise to fund its maintenance. A 2005 rezoning imposed this requirement on developers of the neighborhood’s waterfront sites.

By the way, the park outside The Greenpoint is open from dawn until dusk. It’s a tranquil spot to watch the sunset.

If you point your camera in the right direction, you’ll be able to include the Empire State Building in your pictures.

A NEW PROMENADE AT NEWTOWN BARGE PARK

The second green space I want to show you is Newtown Barge Park.

To get there from The Greenpoint, Here’s the playground equipment outside The Greenpoint. walk inland to Franklin Street and 41 Blue Slip and another tower of theirs, 37 Blue Slip. stroll several blocks north to Commercial Street.

Newtown Barge Park was an existing city park. Plans to expand it were made several years ago.

SUNRISE, SUNSET, SUNRISE, SUNSET Also by the way, the construction of residential towers marks a new phase in the history of the Greenpoint waterfront. In the 19th century, the area was a shipbuilding mecca.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden is deploying a new tool to muster public opposition to Crown Heights’ high-rise Spice Factory development: education.

It’s an exhibit called “Fight for Sunlight,” which details the harm that would be done to rare and endangered plants in the garden’s greenhouse and conservatory complex by shadows that two planned 39-story towers would cast for up to 4 1/2 hours per day. The Spice Factory site, where the towers would stand, is just 150 feet away from the garden.

Ian Bruce Eichner’s Continuum Co. and codeveloper Lincoln Equities are seeking rezoning for the site at 960 Franklin Ave. in order to build a 1.37 million-square-foot residential and retail project with 1,578 apartments.

Half of them would be affordable units for people with four different income levels. The lowest-income individual tenants could make up to $36,550 per year, and the highest-income residents could earn as much as $125,160 annually for a family of four.

“It’s a false proposition to pit so-called ‘affordable’ housing against open space,” BBG President and CEO Scot Medbury told reporters during a tour of the greenhouses and conservatories on Tuesday, the day the exhibit opened.

The garden’s top officials think the project plan is “inappropriate” and hope the developers withdraw it, Medbury said.

Zoning in the area near the famous 52-acre garden was changed in 1991 to protect its access to sunlight. The zoning capped new-building heights at seven stories.

If Continuum and Lincoln Equities are going to develop the Spice Factory site, they should stick with the current zoning, said Medbury, who is stepping down from his post as the garden’s president and CEO in January.

The greenhouse and conservatory complex has 31 separate chambers, or growing spaces, with tens of thousands of different plants with specific light and temperature requirements.

Shadows that would blot out sunlight for 4 1/2 hours per day will cause some plants to succumb to fungal diseases, Medbury said. Some plants may not flower; others won’t grow at all.

In one of the conservatories, a semi-transparent exhibit scrim shows an outline of the Spice Factory’s proposed 464-foot towers looming over 54-foot conservatory buildings.

In a nearby room in the Aquatic House, a sign that’s part of the “Fight for Sunlight” exhibit stands beside a huge hanging contraption that holds a tiger orchid Medbury said is as big as a Volkswagen.

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1997,” says the message on the sign, which is from curator Dave Horak.

“It remains one of the rarest events in a botanic garden in this country. Reducing natural sunlight would make it a virtual certainty that these plants would not bloom again at BBG,” Horak’s message concludes.

Curators will be posting messages about Spice Factory shadows beside other plants in the weeks to come. The exhibit will be in place through the end of the year.

Another element of the “Fight for Sunlight” exhibit is a video comparing what shadows at the garden currently look like on the longest day of the year to longer-lasting shadows that would be cast by the Spice Factory towers.

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“With reduced sunlight, many plants would get sick, weaken and die,” the video warns.

It’s playing on a wall outside the Desert Pavilion — which would be hit especially hard by shadows from the towers.

BBG’s collection of 400 bonsai trees is threatened by the shadows that Spice Factory towers would cast. Some of the miniature trees are several hundred years old.

Medbury took reporters to an outdoor nursery that’s not open to the public, where the bonsai spend their summers soaking up the sun.

The Spice Factory developers have suggested artificial light could be used in the greenhouses when shadows fall over them. Medbury said that wouldn’t help.

During his walk with reporters, Medbury said Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s youth education programs, which were first established a century ago, make extensive use of its greenhouses and conservatories.

The Brooklyn Botanic Garden draws 825,000 to 1 million visitors per year, depending on how wet the spring weather is. “We know New Yorkers care about us,” Medbury said.

“This is a very special place.”

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is also running a petition campaign against the Spice Factory’s proposed rezoning. A spokesperson for the developers did not immediately respond to request for comment about the new exhibit.

Medbury and numerous BBG employees testified in March at a public scoping meeting about the harm that would be caused by shadows from the towers. The meeting was a prelude to a Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, or ULURP, which is required when zoning changes are sought.

At that meeting, numerous Crown Heights residents expressed their opposition to the proposed Spice Factory high-rises, including members of Movement to Protect the People, an organization founded by activist Alicia Boyd. Numerous members of construction unions, on the other hand, expressed their support for the developments.

Brooklyn Botanic launches protest exhibit about proposed high-rise development

Brooklyn Botanic Garden President and CEO Scot Medbury takes reporters on a tour. See opposite page for more.

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