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MICHELLE STERN WANTED TO BE A LAWYER WITHOUT CLIENTS BUT GOT 2,800 OF THEM INSTEAD

By Rob Abruzzese The Record

MICHELLE STERN HAS A background in working in state politics that prepared her perfectly to serve the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers as its executive director for the past 13 years. See page 3.

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Judges Mostofsky and Montalbano nominated for Supreme Court in Brooklyn

Prosecutors wanted terrorist supporter to get 30-50 years, but EDNY judge gave 48 months

Hon. Jack Weinstein, U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of New York, denied prosecutors who sought a harsh sentence for an ISIL supporter and cited her abuse while also calling upon the government to improve rehabilitative programs so she can be a productive citizen after her sentence is up. See page 2.

Brooklyn Eagle file photo by Rob Abruzzese

JUSTICE OTTLEY PRESIDES OVER COURT INTERN MOCK TRIAL IN BROOKLYN SUPREME COURT: As the theme song from the famous TV show “Law & Order”blared from a radio, the court all-female team of Kings County Supreme Court interns filed into the courtroom recently for the annual Summer Youth Employment Program Mock Trial. Justice Ottley, who volunteered to help the interns by presiding over their mock trial, watched keenly as they presented their arguments and cross examinations, and offered a wealth of legal know-how without ever breaking character: Justice Lisa Ottley is seen here with the jurors from the Brooklyn Eagle photo by Caroline Ourso recent mock trial. See page 2.

Judges Steven Mostofsky and Rosemarie Montalbano were nominated at the Brooklyn Democratic Party headquarters last Monday. See page 3.

Brooklyn Eagle file photos by Rob Abruzzese

Justice Lisa Ottley presides over court intern mock trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court

By Caroline Ourso Special to the Record

As the theme song from the famous TV show “Law & Order” blared from a radio, the court allfemale team of Kings County Supreme Court interns filed into the courtroom last Wednesday for the annual Summer Youth Employment Program Mock Trial.

That bit of drama was only a preview of what

would happen at the mock trial that the interns put on in front of Justice Lisa Ottley in her ninth floor courtroom in Downtown Brooklyn.

The case that revolved around female plaintiff Julia Stone was fake, but the interns treated it as if it was the real deal when they sought an order of protection against a potentially violent love interest, John Burton.

Naomi Brown plays her role as lead attorney for the plaintiff during a mock trial in the Kings County Supreme Court in downtown Brooklyn recently.

Court interns presenting as the defense during a mock trial in the Kings County Supreme Court in downtown Brooklyn on Wednesday.

Eagle photos by Caroline Ourso The interns were trained to play each role in the courtroom, including plaintiff, defendant, jurors and witnesses. The only actor who had actually passed the bar exam was Justice Ottley.

Justice Ottley, who volunteered to help the interns by presiding over their mock trial, watched keenly as they presented their arguments and cross examinations, and offered a wealth of legal know-how without ever breaking character.

Once the trial started, heated cross examinations were quickly underway and the entire case was wrapped up with passionate closing arguments delivered by Victoria Lee for the defense and Naomi Brown for the plaintiff.

Cheers and clapping from the plaintiff’s attorneys immediately ensued after the announcement that the jury had decided in favor of Brown and her client and granted the order of protection. The defense team offered a much more muted response and their faces showed how obviously important this trial was to the interns.

“This makes me want to go to law school,” said

Brown, who was beaming in her lilac pantsuit and stillettos. She explained that the entire group had been eagerly awaiting the mock trial since the start of their internship. “It was so fun.”

Brown and her team of interns were prepared for the trial because of the hard work that court employees Henderson Brathwaite, Xavier Carr, Natasha Delille, Inga Keeara Treleven takes O’Neale and Raymi Ramseur put into it. part in a mock trial.

They helped with every detail of preparation, Brown said, down to advice about making eye contact and the proper way to walk. Brown also said that she personally had received a lot of help from her parents in preparation.

“We’re just very argumentative,” she joked.

Justice Ottley laughed a bit at the interns for their aggressiveness at trial; she noted that while this is also an issue in real-life trials, she warned them that it would be better to tone it down a little, the next time they were in court.

“All of you were extremely aggressive,” the judge said lightheartedly. She said that they all did a fantastic job, but warned, “if you’re being aggressive, always keep an eye on the jury to see what their reactions are. Sometimes it can throw them off.”

“I know you were nervous,” said Justice Ottley, who also encouraged the students to pursue careers in the legal community. “Obviously, you’d done your research and had great prep teams. The more you practice at it, if you are interested in becoming an attorney, you will get better at it.”

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Prosecutors wanted terrorist supporter to get 30-50 years, but Judge Weinstein gave 48 months Judge calls for rehab and deradicalization programs for U.S. terrorists

By C.B. Abruzzese The Record Federal Justice Jack Weinstein recently went against prosecutor recommendations of a 30- to 50year prison sentence for an American terrorist found guilty of supporting ISIL, and turned around and gave her just 48 months instead.

Twenty-four-year-old American terrorist Sinmyah Amera Ceasar was sentenced on July 30 in federal Eastern District Court by Justice Weinstein.

Ceasar pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, and obstruction of an official proceeding.

Leading up to her arrest in November 2016, Ceasar spent nearly a year actively supporting and assisting ISIL by using multiple social media accounts to upload many images and videos showing support for ISIL, ISIL’s leaders and acts of violence committed in the name of ISIL. Additionally, Ceasar attempted to assist at least four people to join ISIL abroad by connecting people in the United States to ISIL operatives who would then facilitate their travel to ISIL-controlled lands. In one instance, Ceasar was

paid $273 by an ISIL facilitator for doing “big work” after she connected him to someone she had been communicating with about committing violent acts in the US. Ceasar also planned to travel to ISIL territory herself. In the fall of 2016, she received a visa to travel to Afghanistan but was unable to afford the trip. An ISIL agent urged her to wait for him to buy her a ticket to Turkey, where she could secure a visa at the airport.

Arrested in November at John F. Kennedy Airport, Ceasar was never able to leave the country.

After being incarcerated for more than a year, Ceasar was released on bond while awaiting sentencing due to her deteriorating health. At that time, she committed acts that led to the obstruction of an official proceeding charge when she communicated with known ISIL associates and resumed much of her former social media presence. Those acts defied the order of the court which prohibited her from using a computer or cell phone, engaging in social media or communicating in writing in any other language than English.

Sentencing hearings were extensive with more than 1,000 pages of exhibits and testimony from five

experts that stretched over three days. The experts presented an image of a deeply traumatized and abused woman very much in need of emotional, educational and economic support to address the issues that very likely led her to seek out ISIL as a replacement for a normal family life.

Sexually abused by her father at a young age and removed from her chronically ill mother, Ceasar spent years bouncing from one foster situation to another, often being subjected to more abuse along the way.

As an adult, she has been married three times, with each subsequent marriage failing due to extensive emotional and physical abuse.

Throughout his decision, Judge Weinstein asserted repeatedly that the U.S. is failing in regard to the rehabilitation and deradicalization of those convicted of terrorism-related offenses. Citing programs in countries like Denmark and the Netherlands, Weinstein explicitly called on the Bureau of Prisons to “seriously consider designing an appropriate program to deal with American terrorists.” He went on to explain that “without access to treatment while incarcerated or on supervised release [Ceasar] will likely remain an unrehabilitated supporter of ISIL and a continuing danger to the United States.”

An expert called by the defense, Dr. Katherine Porterfield, a psychologist who has worked extensively with victims of torture, explained that continuing incarceration would be more harmful to Ceasar than it would be beneficial, given her PTSD. Also called by the defense, Daisy Khan, an expert on counter-extremism and women in Islam, explained that Ceasar’s attraction to ISIL was personal, not ideological, and that she would benefit the most from access to a supportive and understanding community. She even volunteering to act as Caesar’s mentor.

Although the government requested 30 to 50 years imprisonment, Judge Weinstein sentenced Ceasar to a total of 48 months of incarceration, 28 of which she has already served while awaiting sentencing in jail. That confinement is to be followed by eight years of supervised release for the material support offense and an additional three years supervision for the obstruction offense to run concurrently.

Judge Weinstein concluded that while this sentence was designed to ensure that the public be protected from ISIL and punish Ceasar for her dangerous criminal conduct, it also seeks to rehabilitate her into a productive, lawful citizen of the United States.

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Judges Mostofsky and Montalbano nominated for Supreme Court in Brooklyn

By Rob Abruzzese The Record

A pair of lower court judges in Brooklyn were endorsed by the Kings County Democratic Executive Committee last week, which will put them on the ballot in the general election as New York State Supreme Court justices.

Judges Steven Mostofsky and Rosemarie Montalbano were nominated at the Brooklyn Democratic Party headquarters last Monday.

On Thursday, the judges officially received the Democratic nomination for state Supreme Court judge at a judicial convention held at St. Francis College on Thursday night. This will put them on the ballot for the general election. With no Republican challengers expected, this means both will likely be installed as Kings County Supreme Court justices in January.

Mostofsky is a Yeshiva College and New York Law School graduate who had a private practice based in family and matrimonial law before his election to the Civil Court in 2012.

Judge Mostofsky sat in Family Court in 2013 and 2014 before he was moved to Civil Court, where he sat until 2017. Since then he has

Hon. Steven Mostofsky.

Hon. Rosemarie Montalbano.

Brooklyn Eagle file photo by Todd Maisel

Brooklyn Eagle file photo by Todd Maisel

served as an acting justice of the Brooklyn Supreme Court and has served in the mental hygiene part.

Judge Montalbano, a St. John’s University and Western New England Law School gradu-

ate, is a former law clerk and assistant district attorney before she was elected to the Criminal Court in 2014.

Both judges are active in the local bar associations and regularly attend functions hosted by

the Brooklyn Bar Association, the Columbian Lawyers Association and the Brooklyn Brandies Society.

Judge Mostofsky has hosted a special program in conjunction with the Kings County Supreme Court’s Mental Hygiene Part, where he gave access for judges and lawyers working in the court to Columbia University Medical College’s Dr. Philip Muskin for a question-andanswer session.

That session gave those in attendance an opportunity to ask the doctor questions about psychiatry, diagnosis and psychopharmacology and gave them hypothetical fact patterns so they can better understand trends that they may see before them in court.

Judge Montalbano was asked to speak to the Columbian Lawyers last year about domestic violence as part of the association’s continuing legal education curriculum. As part of that program, she discussed the hidden impacts that domestic violence can have on families and talked about the Brooklyn domestic violence court, which was the first-ever court of its kind, created in the U.S. in 1996.

Michelle Stern wanted to be a lawyer without clients but got 2,800 of them instead

By Rob Abruzzese The Record

After Michelle Stern graduated from Brooklyn Law School, she used to joke that she wanted to

be a lawyer with no clients. Instead, she wanted to focus on advocacy work and lobbying for good government programs.

About a year removed from school, though, Stern took a job as executive director of the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers. It was a small bar association at the time with barely more than 100 members, but now 13 years later that membership is over 2,800 and Stern’s post-law school joke is no longer funny.

“I went to law school not to practice law, but with the intention that it would help me work with nonprofits and advocacy organizing and other political things,” Stern said. “I would joke all the time that I wanted to figure out how to be a lawyer with no clients. Now I realize that I have 2,800 clients. They’re just members.

“I fell into this really unique spot where I get to do advocacy work and event planning and membership recruitment. It’s a really beautiful mix,” she said.

Stern, who was born in the Bronx and raised in Peekskill, graduated from Walter Panas High School before she went to the University at Albany and then Brooklyn Law School.

At Albany, she got involved in state politics working for a nonprofit in school. After she graduated, she worked as a lobbyist who promoted progressive issues such as health care and higher education reforms. She is most proud of her work to get smoking banned from bars and restaurants, even if the actual bill was passed after she left the firm.

She explained that she felt limited in this role, with no strong voice, which is why law school appealed to her. A year out of Brooklyn Law, Stern was recommended for a position with the Academy of Trial Lawyers by Jay Halfon, the academy’s current treasurer, whom she knew from her time in Albany.

“The academy had just been founded,” Stern explained. “It was just over a year old and had a small membership. They were having trouble getting going and they needed a person who went to law school but didn’t want to be a lawyer and wanted to be an activist and an organizer.”

She might have thought that she was getting away without representing clients, but the task that she took on instead was not easy and she described it as “starting a bar association from scratch.”

She and other bar leaders went to work on a bar association that they wanted to be different from other local bars. The focus would be on being a resource and providing services for its members.

“We want to be a resource for our members, a place where they don’t feel drained either financially or in any other way,” Stern said. “We’re there for them. We’re there to advocate for them, for their clients, to provide educational resources.

We’re open — what else do you need?”

Stern said one of the big things that the acad-

emy did was to implement free continuing legal education courses. The academy now offers anywhere from 60 to 70 CLEs each year that are all free to members. More recently, the academy launched a new website with a job bank because members were looking for both jobs and employees.

Michelle Stern

Michelle Stern with her daughter Stella and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Brooklyn Bar Association in February.

Michelle Stern (second from left) with Brooklyn Bar Association Member Services Director Jen Bryan (left) and CLE presenters Michael Ross and Kaylin Whittingham at a CLE co-sponsored by the academy that was held last year at the Brooklyn Bar Association.

Brooklyn Eagle photos by Rob Abruzzese

“It’s easy things like those that make everyone happy,” said Stern. “The free CLEs we’ve done since day one because they’re already paying dues; they don’t want to feel nickel-anddimed as well.”

To do her job effectively, Stern works closely with the organization’s presidents to run the many CLEs as well as other social events hosted by the Academy.

“It’s like every year I get to collect a new amazing trial lawyer,” she said. “I get these one-on-one working relationships with someone who in all likelihood I would not otherwise get to interact with. It’s interesting because they’re all such different people from different regions with different problems.”

The job of the academy’s executive director is multifaceted. Stern is responsible for advocacy work, event-planning and membership recruitment. It’s a bit of sales when dealing with members, sponsors and other organizations. It’s also fundraising for political causes the academy backs, and also for the academy itself. She says that providing member services is most important of all.

Part of the job includes meeting the various trial lawyers from all over the state, which means Stern not only puts a ton of miles on her car, but also is a frequent flyer between New York City and places like Rochester and Buffalo.

“I’m all over the place,” she explained. “Two days a week in Brooklyn, two days a week in White Plains and the other day I kind of float.

CLE season is different. I’m at most of the CLEs. In the fall, we do our annual update series. There are nine of them in nine different cities and I go to all of them.”

Academy President Angelicque Moreno explains that it is no coincidence that the bar association has thrived in the 13 years under Stern’s leadership.

“Her passion for the academy in general is outstanding,” Moreno said. “She is dedicated, and she is committed to all of her members. You can call her at any time and she will say, I will take care of it. I’ve met a lot of different people in my life and there is only one Michelle.”

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JUSTICE LISA OTTLEY PRESIDES OVER COURT INTERN MOCK TRIAL IN BROOKLYN SUPREME COURT: Hon. Lisa Ottley smiles with court interns who played the roles of plaintiff and attorneys after a mock trial in the Kings County Supreme Court.

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BROOKLYN AND ITS COMMUNITY BOARDS Community Board #1 435 GRAHAM AVE., Brooklyn, NY 11211 Phone: 718-389-0009 Fax:718-389-0098 Email:bk01@cb.nyc.gov Flushing Ave., Willamsburg, Greenpoint, Northside, Southside Chairperson: none District Manager:Gerald Esposito Regular monthly board meetings held the 2nd Tuesday of the month/ 6:30pm.

Community Board #6 250 BALTIC ST., Brooklyn, NY 11201 Phone:718-643-3027 Fax: 718-624-8401 Email:info@brooklyncb6.org Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, Cobble Hill Chairperson: Peter Fleming District Manager: Michael Racioppo Regular monthly board meetings held the 2nd Wednesday of the month/6:30p.m.

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Community Board #5 404 PINE STREET, Brooklyn, NY 11208, 3RD FLOOR Phone: 929-221-8261 Fax:718-345-0501 Email:bk05@cb.nyc.gov East New York, Cypress Hills, Highland Park, New Lots, City Line, Starrett City Chairperson: Andre T Mitchell District Manager:Melinda Perkins Regular monthly board meetings held the 4th Wednesday of the month! 6:30pm.

Communi Board #8 1291 ST.MARKS AVE., Brooklyn, NY 11213 Phone: 718-467-5574 Community Board #11 Fax: 718-778-2979 2214 BATH AVE., Email:info@brooklyncb8.org Brooklyn, NY 11214 North Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Phone:718-266-8800 Weeksville Fax: 718-266-8821 Chairperson: Ethel Tyus Email: info@brooklyncb11.org District Manager: Michelle George Bath Beach, Gravesend, Mapleton, Regular monthly board meetings held the Bensonhurst Chairperson: William Guarinello 2nd Thursday of the month/ 7:00pm.

District Manager: Marnee Elias-Pavia Regular monthly board meetings held Community Board #9 2nd Thursday of the month/7:30p.m.

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Community Board #15 KINGSBORO COMMUNITY COLLEGE 2001 Oriental Blvd., Cluster Room C124 Brooklyn, NY 11235 Phone: 718-332-3008 Fax: 718-648-7232 Email: bklcb15@verizon.net Sheepshead Bay, Manhattan Beach, Kings Bay, Gerritsen Beach, Kings Highway, Madison, East Gravesend Chairperson: none District Manager: Laura Singer Regular monthly board meetings held the last Tuesday of the month/ 7:00pm.

Communi Board #16 444 THOMAS BOYLAND ST., ROOM 103 Brooklyn, NY 11212 Phone: 718-385-0323 Fax: 718-342-6714 Email: bk16@cb.nyc.gov Brownsville, Ocean Hill Chairperson: none District Manager: Viola D. Greene-Walker Regular monthly board meetings held the 4th Tuesday of the month! 7:00pm.

Community Board #17 4112 FARRAGUT ROAD Brooklyn, NY 11210 Phone: 718-434-3072 Fax:718-434-3801 Email: bk17@cb.nyc.gov East Flatbush, Remsen Village, Farrgut, Rugby, Eramus, Ditmas Village Chairperson: Aaron Ampaw District Manager: Sherif Fraser Regular monthly board meetings held the 3rd Wednesday of the month/ 7:00pm.

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News Around the Boro ADVISORY GROUP SPLIT ON PACIFIC PARK GYM

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Chelsea Piers has been chosen as the operator of an athletic field and fitness center in the new Pacific Park development in Downtown Brooklyn, but an advisory group was split right down the middle on the city. Atlantic Yards Community Development Corp.’s board members cast their votes in a 4-4 tie on Monday afternoon on a motion to recommend that Empire State Development Corp. not approve the athletic facility project, pending a full-scale environmental review. The athletic field and fitness center would be constructed in the basement of two still-unbuilt residential towers on Dean Street. See story, Brooklyneagle.com. 

BUS STOPS TO BE DECORATED WITH PHOTOS

BUSHWICK — A hundred bus shelters in the city, including 18 in Brooklyn, will be adorned with photos depicting life in New York City as part of a new project from Bushwick-based artist Elle Perez. Sixteen of the 18 Brooklyn photos that are part of exhibit, commissioned by the Public Art Fund, are in an area stretching from Brooklyn Heights to Bedford-Stuyvesant. See story, Brooklyneagle.com. 

TWO BROWNSVILLE WOMEN FOUND DEAD WITHIN HOURS

BROWNSVILLE — Two Brownsville women were found dead in separate incidents Monday night and early Tuesday morning just a mile apart and within hours of each other. The first woman was found in an apartment at East 96th Street near Winthrop Avenue. The second was found with stab wounds outside a building on Mother Gaston Boulevard. See story, Brooklyneagle.com. 

BP ADAMS SAID TO BE USING CHARITY FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES

BOROUGHWIDE — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, a New York City mayoral hopeful, is allegedly skirting campaign rules by raising tens of thousands of dollars from people with business pending with the city for his nonprofit, according to the Daily News. Adams set up the “One Brooklyn Fund” his first year in office in 2014, raising at least $995,000 and as much $2.9 million by March 2018, according to filings with the city’s Conflicts of Interest Board. Candidates for borough president can’t raise more than $320 from individuals in the city’s “doing business” database, and mayoral contenders can’t take more than $400 from them, the Daily News reported. 

RESCUE DOG STARS IN PARK SLOPE SHOW

PARK SLOPE — A rescue dog named Boscoe Barles starred in a one-dog show before a soldout audience in Brooklyn on Saturday, according to the New York Post. “He’s the Emma Stone of dog actors … He’s a natural,” the Shih Tzu’s owner, Charles Quittner, a theater director, told the Post. Quittner organized the Boscoe Barles “Bestival” at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg to celebrate his dog’s one-year adoption anniversary and to raise funds for the shelter he came from. The canine star was seen a series of five short plays — starring as himself, the mayor of a small town and an emotional-support chinchilla.

Human supporting actors carried treats in their pockets to keep Boscoe on track, the Post reported. 

‘DINE IN PARK SLOPE’ IS COMING ONCE AGAIN

PARK SLOPE — Because only nine of 400 spots featured in New York City Restaurant Week were in Brooklyn, according to Patch, Park Slope residents put together a two-week event, “Dine in Park Slope,” in which more than 50 restaurants will offer deals. The event is put on by the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District, the North Flatbush Business Improvement District, the Park Slope Chamber of Commerce and Fourth on Fourth, a program of the Park Slope Civic Council.

Deals range from a percentage off of happy-hour drinks to full three-course meals for a set price.

Recently graduated St. Francis Brooklyn women’s basketball players Dana DiRenzo (left) and Maria Palarino (right) are headed to Ireland this coming season, not as Terriers but as members of a very exclusive club of student-athletes. Palarino and DiRenzo were both selected this week to the class of 2020 Sport Changes Life Victory Scholars program, making them the only two representatives from the entire Northeast Conference. “We are extremely proud of both Dana and Maria on being selected to the prestigious Sport Changes Life Victory Scholars program,” said Terriers head women’s basketball coach Linda Cimino. Photos courtesy of SFC Brooklyn Athletics Among the restaurants offering deals will be Benchmark, Made in New York Jazz Café, Ovenly, Logan’s Run and Le Mistral. 

ROCKROSE SEEKS TO BUY DOWNTOWN SITE

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Rockrose Development, known for its Manhattan apartment towers, is working on its first major deal in Brooklyn. The firm is in contract to buy a development site near the border of Downtown Brooklyn and Fort Greene, according to The Real Deal. The price for the development site, at 98 DeKalb Ave., was not entirely clear, but sources said it was in the mid-$60 million range. The firm is also negotiating to buy adjacent air rights that could push the price higher, possibly in the $75 million range, according to The Real Deal. 

JEWISH GIRLS’ SCHOOL GETS BULLETPROOF DOORS

CROWN HEIGHTS — An Orthodox girls’ school in Brooklyn has installed bullet-resistant classroom doors to keep out shooters, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Bnos Menachem in the heavily Hasidic Crown Heights neighborhood is the first of more than 50 Jewish schools and synagogues in Brooklyn to have the 150-pound metal doors installed by an Israel-based manufacturer. The school was able to secure about $150,000 in a state Homeland Security grant, the New York Post reported. 

CELEBRITY CLOTHING DESIGNER WORKS OUT OF B’KLYN BASEMENT

CROWN HEIGHTS — Brooklyn clothing designer Felishia Noel is featured in four Bloomingdale’s displays based on “The Lion King,” called “Style Kingdom,” according to the New York Post. While it’s the first retail order for Noel, she has designed clothes for the likes of Gabrielle Union, Jordin Sparks and Michelle Obama. Every single one of Noel’s designs is created in her Crown Heights studio, housed in the basement of a three-story building owned by her mother.

Noel has loved fashion since she was a child, and before she established her own business, she worked as an administrative assistant in the Garment District. At the age of 19, she co-founded a streetwear boutique called The Wagon in Crown Heights. 

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MAN BEATEN, ROBBED AT SUBWAY STATION

FORT GREENE — A 65-year-old man was in serious condition at a local hospital after he was robbed at the Clinton-Washington avenues station earlier this month, according to Patch.

On August 1, the man was walking down the staircase to the mezzanine at the A/C subway station when two men punched him in the back of the head, causing him to fall down the staircase and become unconscious. Once the victim landed on the floor, the two perps took his backpack, which included his wallet, headphones, watch, cellphone and Bluetooth speakers. The 65-year-old man was sent to NY Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital with

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BAY RIDGE — City Councilmembers Justin Brannan (D-Bay Ridge-Bensonhurst-Dyker Heights) and Costa Constantinides (D-Astoria-Woodside-Jackson Heights) have asked CNN to host its their Sept. 4 climate town hall in either Brooklyn or Queens. They said at a rally on the steps of City Hall that Democrats vying for the 2020 presidential nomination should have to make their case before communities that are most at risk because of the effects of climate change in the coming decades. “Let’s get them to Coney Island or the Rockaways or someplace else besides Manhattan, where these kind of events usually happen,” said Brannan.

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Battle of Brooklyn events at Green-Wood and Old Stone House

By John Alexander

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Green-Wood Cemetery, the Old Stone House and Washington Park have announced some special events to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn throughout the month of August, culminating with a reenactment of the battle at Green-Wood.

The Battle of Brooklyn, fought in 1776 on land that is now part of the cemetery, was the first battle of the American Revolution to occur after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Green-Wood hosts a day of commemoration on Sunday, August 25, to honor all those who defended the young republic, with parades, cannon fire, horses and reenactments of the battle.

It all starts at 11 a.m. with a trolley tour that visits Revolutionary War sites hosted by author and historian Barnet Schecter and Green-Wood historian Jeff Richman.

Visitors can witness life on the battlefield, and meet soldiers, their horses and famous colonial Americans. Historic re-enactors will demonstrate revolutionary weapons and tactics.

Author Christopher Formant will discuss and sign copies of his book, “Saving Washington: The Forgotten Story of the Maryland 400 and the Battle of Brooklyn,” at noon.

The Battle of Brooklyn Parade takes place at 12:30 p.m. Attendees can follow the Revolutionary regiment and march to Battle Hill with the Regimental Band of the United States Merchant Marine Academy.

The event concludes at 1:15 p.m. with a commemoration ceremony honoring the spirit and heroes of the Battle of Brooklyn on Battle Hill overlooking New York Harbor.

The events are free, except for the trolley tour.

The Old Stone House & Washington Park have also announced some special events and exhibits to commemorate the 243rd anniversary of the Battle of Brooklyn, America’s opening

chapter in its drive for independence.

“As always, we are hosting a variety of events during Battle Week that explore both the historic impact of the battle and why it’s relevant today,” Kim Maier, executive director of the Old Stone House, told this newspaper.

The popular Park Slope destination will host a series of celebratory events that will run through October. Both adults and children can learn about Brooklyn’s rich and entertaining history.

Thursday, August 15, is the opening of ‘No More Water,’ a contemporary art exhibition at the Old Stone House featuring work by Tahir Carl Karmali and Justin Sterling and curated by Katherine Gressel. The exhibit is from 7 to 9 p.m. and will be on view through October 12.

From Saturday, August 17 to Sunday, August 25, there will be a display of 85 Revolutionary War flags and their history at the Green-Wood Cemetery on Fifth Avenue and 25th Street.

On Sunday, August 18, from noon to 2 p.m. the Old Stone House & Washington Park in partnership with the Michael A. Rawley American Legion Post will host the Maryland 400 Remembrance Ceremony.

The Battle of Brooklyn neighborhood walk will take place Tuesday, August 20 from 6 to 9 p.m. It’s led by Old Stone House board member and Hunter College Archaeology Professor William Parry. Those interested are asked to wear comfortable shoes and meet at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park. The cost is $12, which includes light refreshments.

On Wednesday, August 21, the Gowanus Dredgers will host a “Battle Paddle” event.

Guests can join the Dredgers for a canoe tour of the canal’s famous Battle of Brooklyn escape route.

The Prison Ships Martyrs Memorial Ceremony will take place on Saturday, August 24, at 10 a.m. at Fort Greene Park. The event is coordinated by the Society of Old Brooklynites, the American Merchant Marine Association and

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On Saturday, August 24, the Battle of Brooklyn Bike Tour runs from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., starting at the Old Stone House and ending at Brooklyn Bridge Park. The Battle of Brooklyn Neighborhood Walk follows from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. and begins at the Grand Army Plaza entrance to Prospect Park. It’s led by the Old Stone House’s William Parry. The cost is $12 and includes light refreshments.

The Brooklyn Historical Society presents “A Founding Martyr: Dr. Joseph Warren and the Early American Revolution,” a talk with historian Christian De Spana on Tuesday, August 27 at 6:30 p.m. at 128 Pierrepont Street. General

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admission is $10, and for BHS members $5.

The Old Stone House also offers the ongoing “Witness to War,” a permanent exhibit about the Battle of Brooklyn open Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“It is especially important to remember and continue to raise civic awareness of these early historical events during the America Revolution,” said Ted General, first vice president of the Society of Old Brooklynites.

“We must never forget the story of the brave colonial militiamen from the State of Maryland, known as the Maryland 400s, who came here to help us to defend and gain our freedom from Great Britain.”

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I’m thoroughly charmed by the new public green space at NYC Ferry’s South Williamsburg stop. Big fat flowers are to blame.

They are bright red and big as dinner plates.

Two flower beds in the waterfront mini-park are planted with the Instagram-worthy hibiscus blossoms.

The recently opened green space belongs to former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s company, which has just constructed three gleaming glass-clad apartment buildings right beside the mini-park.

I’ll tell you more about these towers at 420 Kent Ave. in a minute. But first, a word of explanation.

Spaces that afford public access to North Brooklyn’s formerly industrial waterfront are opening up in dribs and drabs.

In many instances, developers construct the new waterfront green spaces and pay to maintain them.

This was a requirement of the 2005 rezoning of shoreline Greenpoint and Williamsburg for high-rise residential development.

I recently posted pictures of newly constructed Greenpoint shoreline public spaces.

On the Williamsburg end of the waterfront, there are two new mini-parks — one at the neighborhood’s South Ferry Landing, the other at the North Ferry Landing.

POSIES AND A PERGOLA AT 420 KENT AVE. When you take the DUMBO-to-Greenpoint ferry, the first stop is South Williamsburg.

Long before the ferry arrives at the dock, you’ll get

The scene’s so serene on the promenade behind Spitzer Enterprises’ new South Williamsburg towers. an eyeful of Spitzer Enterprises’ three new Kent Avenue rental-apartment towers.

When you land at the South Williamsburg ferry stop, you turn left and there’s the newly opened green space.

It features a 400-foot promenade along the East River.

Walk with me to the end of it that’s closest to the Williamsburg Bridge, because that’s where you’ll find the eye-catching hibiscus flowers I mentioned.

Other plantings include beautiful grasses, shrubs and trees. Small green lawns are placed here and there.

There’s also a pergola in this new public space. Tables and chairs are placed beneath it in case you want to bring a laptop and pretend to do some work while watching boats churn up and down the river.

ODA NEW YORK DESIGNED THESE TOWERS Architecture firm ODA New York designed Spitzer Enterprises’ Kent Avenue towers.

They look like glass boxes stacked on top of one another.

On sunny days, the glass reflects blue skies and white clouds.

Spitzer — aka the Luv Guv — resigned as our state’s governor in March 2008 after he was identified as Client 9 in an investigation of a prostitution ring called Emperors Club VIP. The disgraced politician has since built a new career for himself at his family’s real estate firm.

The Kent Avenue buildings, which are all 22 stories tall, have a total of 857 apartments, 20 percent of them affordable.

There’s lots of seating along the Kent Avenue complex’s promenade.

The day of my visit, I plunked myself down and watched ominous clouds roll over Manhattan. It was a great vantage point for watching dramatic weather.

A MIX OF MARKET-RATE AND AFFORDABLE APARTMENTS Citi Habitats New Developments is handling the leasing for the market-rate apartments,

which started in January for the first of the buildings, 416 Kent Ave. When I checked the complex’s website the other day, the asking rents for available apartments ranged from $2,599 per month for a studio to $5,830 per month for a two-bedroom unit.

The process of selecting tenants for the Kent Avenue buildings’ affordable units started last year.

In June 2018, the City Department of Housing Preservation and Development issued a call for applications for 65 affordable apartments at 416 Kent Ave. for tenants with three different income levels.

For tenants with 40 percent of area median income, or AMI, there were $565-per-month

studios for individuals with annual incomes as low as $21,247 and one-bedroom apartments priced at $607 per month for two people with a combined annual income as low as $22,766, an online flyer indicates.

The other income levels were 60 percent of AMI and 130 percent of AMI. The priciest apartments for tenants in the latter category were $2,733-permonth, two-bedroom apartments for families of four with a combined annual income as high as $135,590.

Website 6sqft published a story about the affordablehousing lottery and a link to the city’s instructions for how to apply for it.

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Williamsburg ferry landings — Continued from page 12INB — A lottery announced in March 2019 was for 121 affordable units at 420 Kent Ave., all of them for tenants with incomes at 60 percent of AMI. The apartments ranged from $867-per-month studios to $1,123-per-month two-bedroom units. Qualifying annual incomes for the 121 apartments were between $31,680 for an individual to a combined $64,020 for a four-person family, online materials posted by the city indicate.

Website 6sqft also published a story about this lottery as well as a link to city info about it.

TRANQUIL NEW GREEN SPACE AT NORTH WILLIAMSBURG’S FERRY LANDING As hard as it is to leave the hibiscus gardens, you really should see the new green space at NYC Ferry’s North Williamsburg landing, too.

You can hop on a Greenpoint-bound ferry and get there in just a couple minutes. But it’s more fun to walk up Kent Avenue and see all kinds of great buildings as you stroll. If you duck into the OddFellows scoop shop along the way, the olive oil ice cream is really good, in case you were wondering.

Anyway. Turn onto North 6th Street and you’ll wind up at the ferry service’s North Williamsburg location. There have been public spaces behind various buildings here for several years.

But the green space behind the apartment tower furthest from the ferry dock is brand new.

This is a top-to-bottom look at Spitzer Enterprises’ glass towers.

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LEFT: The jetty behind Level BK affords a view of the iconic Empire State Building. RIGHT: Welcome to the South Williamsburg Ferry Landing, where flower beds full of hibiscus flowers will brighten your day.

The building’s name is Level BK and its address is 2 North 6th Place.

An unusual feature of the green space behind Level BK is a gently sloping jetty covered with artificial turf that’s weirdly satisfying to walk on.

The artificial turf extends onto terra firma along the side of the Level BK building.

The views of the Manhattan skyline from the jetty and the green space’s shoreline areas are iconic — with the Empire State Building as the star of the show.

AN APARTMENT PRICED AT MORE THAN $8,000 PER MONTH The plantings in the new green space include trees, shrubs and bee-friendly flowers.

The place had a mellow, low-key vibe when I was there the other day. People walked small dogs. Folks sat and read or watched sea planes buzzing above the East River.

Douglaston Development built Level BK, which is 40 stories tall and has 554 apartments, all of them market-rate.

Architecture firm Stephen B. Jacobs Group designed it.

The building’s most outstanding feature is a swimming pool on the ninth floor with glass-paneled walls that can be removed when the weather’s nice. I saw the pool and its jaw-dropping views when I toured the property in late 2017.

But back to the present. Several Level BK apartments have been leased this month, a posting on StreetEasy.com indicates.

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ON AUG. 15, 1910, the Eagle reported, “The death of Florence Nightingale, at the age of ninety, renews emphasis upon one of the great heroisms of history. During the half century since Miss Nightingale concluded her work for the British soldiers in the Crimea, she has been one of the world’s loved and honored figures, her fame growing through her life of retirement until three years ago King Edward had a statute changed so that she might be invested with the Order of Merit, and a year later the freedom of the City of London was formally conferred upon her, although she was too feeble to attend the ceremony ‌ The success of Miss Nightingale and her thirty-four women nurses in the Crimea is known the world over; it is one of those stories which our love for heroism will not let die.

But the consequences of that work in after years have been of even greater value.â€? ď‚Ťď‚Ťď‚Ť ON AUG. 15, 1914, the Eagle reported, “The Canal Zone celebrated today the opening of the Panama Canal. The festivities, however, were but local and suggested little of the international significance of the event. With the official Panama celebration set for next spring, even the United States was not officially represented today except by the men who have long been in the Canal Zone. The steamship Ancon, owned by the United States War Department and leased to the Panama Railroad for service in the New York-Colon trade, was chosen as the first big vessel to be put through signalizing the opening of the canal to all ships up to 10,000 tons register.â€? ď‚Ťď‚Ťď‚Ť ON AUG. 15, 1944, the Eagle reported, “London (U.P.) — Weapons and fresh supplies of ammunition have been rushed into Warsaw to an underground army of 25,000 or more Polish Patriots, and fierce fighting between the Patriots and German armored forces is continuing inside the beleaguered capital, Polish Government sources said today. There was no immediate indication as to how the supplies were brought into Warsaw, but Polish spokesmen in London said they arrived at the 11th hour just as the Germans launched a powerful counter-offensive to clear the Patriot riflemen from the streets.â€? ď‚Ťď‚Ťď‚Ť ON AUG. 15, 1945, the Eagle reported, “Guam (U.P.) — Two tremendous torpedo explosions sank the heavy cruiser Indianapolis July 30 and caused 1,196 casualties — every man aboard the ship — while she was bound for Guam to Leyte, survivors reported today. The navy announced that 880 of the casualties were killed or missing in one of the worst U.S. naval disasters of war or peacetime history. The other 316 casualties were wounded. The 9,950ton cruiser was sunk shortly after delivering essential atomic bomb material to Guam. Survivors said they watched some 200 of their shipmates perish after five days of helplessness threshing in the sea.

Many of the men went mad from drinking sea water before the group was sighted by search planes 280 miles north of Peleliu.â€? ď‚Ťď‚Ťď‚Ť ON AUG. 15, 1948, the Eagle reported, “Babe Ruth was ‘still critical’ last night. The greatest of the great baseball men fought on for his life in a bed of Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases, on E. 68th St., Manhattan ‌ Shortly before 11 p.m., Father Thomas H. Kaufman of St. Catherine’s parish, directly across the street from the hospital, visited Ruth and applied a relic of Mother [Frances Xavier] Cabrini to Ruth’s throat. Ruth still had his usual smile as he kissed the relic, the priest reported. Mother Cabrini was the first American to be canonized a saint in the Catholic church.

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Welcome to the Eighth Avenue retail corridor in Sunset Park’s Chinatown.

Eagle photos by Lore Croghan

Live lobsters, fruit and small-town feel: Sunset Park’s Chinatown

By Lore Croghan Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Live frogs for $5.49 per pound, face masks made of snail slime and terrific tea.

Welcome to Sunset Park’s Chinatown, one of Brooklyn’s coolest places to shop. You may be familiar with the origin story of the neighborhood’s Eighth Avenue retail mecca, but it’s worth hearing again.

Starting in the late 1980s, Eighth Avenue’s high-vacancy retail corridor was revitalized by entrepreneurs who moved from Lower Manhattan’s Chinatown to Sunset Park, the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association’s website recounts.

The new arrivals to Brooklyn were joined by immigrants, initially from Hong Kong and later from Southeast China’s Fujian province.

Because eight is considered a lucky number in Chinese culture, Eighth Avenue is an especially propitious place to establish a business.

According to the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association’s website, the Chinese words for “eight” and “prosper” even sound similar.

Also, propitious? The presence of the N train’s Eighth Avenue and 62nd Street station, which offers convenient transit for all of us shoppers who live in other neighborhoods.

The subway station simplified the commutes of Chinese immigrants living in Sunset Park but working in lower Manhattan’s Chinatown; it was the first Brooklyn station on the N line to be above ground, according to association’s website.

They called it the blue-sky station. It was immediately recognizable even to people who couldn’t read the English-language subway signs.

Eighth Avenue is vibrant and bustling. But for the most part, the buildings in which the shops and restaurants are located are rowhouses or

other low-rise buildings, which gives the area a small-town feel.

We’ve rounded up our favorite places to shop — window or otherwise.

Fantasyland for foodies First, let me show you the store with the live lobsters — which are $9.99 per pound — and the live frogs.

Fei Long Market at 6301 Eighth Ave. is a paradise for foodies.

The seafood section of the store is spectacular. Gorgeous slabs of salmon range from $7.99 to $11.99 a pound.

Staples for your pantry include $2.49 packages of wide rice noodles from Hong Kong and many different varieties of soy sauce and sweet vinegar.

Intriguing-looking prepared foods can be found in the refrigerator cases. There’s a great variety of candy. Housewares include pretty teacups for 99 cents apiece and $13.99 kettles for boiling the tea water.

The produce I saw on a recent visit included durian — which are spiky as hedgehogs — enormous cauliflower and the longest green beans I’ve ever seen.

There’s a food court that has gotten enthusiastic write-ups. I didn’t eat there because I’d already spent so much time at Fei Long Market that I was in danger of staying all day without visiting any other shops to tell you about.

One last thing. Non-food vendors occupy some of the supermarket space. One of them is selling toys, including a candy-apple-red, rideon Mercedes Benz for kids. It’s priced at $268.

A facial treatment that’s green like Shrek’s skin I bought the $2 face mask made of snail slime at the Face Shop, a cosmetics shop from

Korea that has had a presence in metro New York since 2005. Its Sunset Park store is at 5913 Eighth Ave. The shop has a wide selection of face masks and face packs.

It’s trendy to use snail secretion filtrate, which it’s also called, as a moisturizing agent in skincare products. Don’t worry — the slime is harvested without harming the snails.

A product that will make you smile: a face pack that’s called the Shrek Pack because it’s made with green clay that’s more or less the color of the famous Disney ogre’s skin.

forget this, there are HSBC and Chase Bank branches on the avenue.

This would also be a good moment to mention something that has nothing to do with bakeries but is important anyway. If you like to wear long, flowing dresses when you go out for summer strolls, don’t do so on Eighth Avenue shopping excursions.

Lots of merchants have outdoor displays of fresh fish on ice. They hose down the sidewalks frequently to keep things clean. Your hemline will soak up that fishy water like a sponge. You will not be happy.

Tea for two and two for tea The terrific tea I mentioned at the beginning of this story comes from Ten Ren, where a pound of the shop’s highest-quality jasmine tea will set you back $110. There are several different versions of this tea with several different price levels. The lowest is $18 per pound.

There are some non-caffeinated tea options, such as $12 packages of rose petals.

Ginseng is another one of Ten Ren’s specialties.

The company was founded in Taiwan in the 1950. The Sunset Park shop, which is located at 5817 Eighth Ave., sells excellent bubble tea.

The name Ten Ren means “heavenly love.”

Hot spots for cool produce There are nifty food markets on every block.

I’d particularly recommend two: New Zhong Hua Market at 5709 Eighth Ave. and M & K Market at 5601 Eighth Ave. — the latter because its longan fruit is priced at three pounds for $10.

If you’re not familiar with the longan, its skin is brownish and rough, a bit like the texture of a potato skin.

So many bakeries There are so many Chinese bakeries to choose from in Sunset Park. The one I’m obsessed with is Dragon Bay Bakery at 5711 Eighth Ave. because of its egg custard tarts.

They’re bright yellow like sunshine and cost $1 apiece. I discovered this dessert late in life and I’m trying to make up for lost time by eating it as frequently as possible.

This would be a good moment to mention that many of the restaurants, bakeries and bubble-tea places on Eighth Avenue are cash only. If you

Malaysian lunch and a Seventh Avenue tea house There are lots of options for a great lunch in Chinatown. One of them is Langwaki at 5323 Eighth Ave., which serves Malaysian food.

The previous tenant of this corner storefront was a restaurant named Nyonya, which also focused on Malaysian cuisine.

One of Chinatown’s most charming businesses isn’t on Eighth Avenue, but it’s close.

Prince Tea House at 6122 Seventh Ave focuses on dessert.

When I stopped by the other day, I drank black foam tea, which is iced and really good.

But if you want an old-fashioned tea house experience, order hot tea. It comes in a pot and is served in flowered porcelain teacups.

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Crown Heights comes together at annual Sean Price mural memorial It’s been four years since Brooklyn rapper’s death

By Meaghan McGoldrick Brooklyn JOURNAL

Controversy surrounding a Crown Heights mural faded to the background on Thursday as friends, family members and fans of the late rapper Sean Price came together to observe the four-year anniversary of his passing.

Price — one-half of the Brooklyn hip-hop duo Heltah Skeltah — died in his sleep on Aug. 8, 2015, at the age of 43. The mural went up that weekend at the corner of Bergen Street and Kingston Avenue. The piece includes a portrait of the late Brownsville resident, the Brooklyn Bridge and some of Price’s lyrics: “Use your head for more than a hat rack.”

Like the storied Biggie Smalls mural in Bedford-Stuyvesant, the tribute has drawn crowds from all over the world. Last week was no different: Close to 50 people came out Thursday from as near as the block and as far as South America to remember the family man whose music, many said, got them through hard times.

“The turnout was amazing, as it is every year,” Price’s widow, Bernadette, reflected Friday morning. “It was an honor to be there to greet everyone and to be able to hear some of these stories. All of them still remember the time they had with him.”

“I’m just thankful for everyone who came together, who stuck together and remembered him for the person he was,” Bernadette said.

The mural has banded much of the Crown Heights community — and the Price fandom — together in recent weeks.

When workers were spotted painting over artwork next to Price’s earlier this summer, word quickly spread that the beloved mural might be wiped away. The neighbors mobilized; Price’s friends and family members stationed themselves on the block to keep watch and local lawmakers began to investigate.

Meat, a soon-to-open restaurant across the street that had already made a bad first impression on locals by allegedly skirting trash regulations and turning curious residents away, found itself in the limelight until, at the end of a community meeting, the focus shifted to the owner of the building the mural is painted on.

One month after the rumors began, the Price

Artist MeresOne at the foot of the Sean Price memorial mural early Thursday evening. memorial appears to be safe — though an online petition is still garnering signatures. By last Monday, the push had more than 20,000 names attached to it.

That same spirit of support was in the air on Thursday, but there were no signs of drama.

Instead, Price’s music echoed through a portable speaker, children danced to the beat of live drumming and loved ones posed for pictures with the mural.

Those in attendance also included 5Pointz cofounders Marie Cecile Flageul and Jonathan

Cohen. Flageul, a resident of the block, helped facilitate the mural and Cohen, the artist known as MeresOne, brought it to life.

The pair said the evening’s turnout touched on what truly makes Brooklyn, Brooklyn.

“This yearly vigil and tribute was such a beautiful showcase of what Brooklyn is about,” they said in a joint statement Friday morning.

“So much love, music and emotions dedicated to Sean Price’s memory.”

A pair of Crown Heights residents who have shown support to Meat also stopped by the vigil

Eagle photo by Meaghan McGoldrick

to pay their respects. Yaacov Behrman, founder of the Jewish Future Alliance, lit a candle in Price’s memory.

Assemblymember Diana Richardson came to the corner equipped with a lawn chair and a group of summer interns at her side. Planning to stay a while, the lawmaker said she was excited to show the high school students firsthand what it looks like to come together as a community, fight for what is right and honor one of Brooklyn’s own.

“This is a celebration of life,” she told them.

When bodegas are more common than supermarkets, health suffers, says report

By Meaghan McGoldrick Brooklyn JOURNAL

For every one supermarket in Bedford-Stuyvesant, there are more than 50 bodegas, according to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s most recent Community Health Profiles.

The profiles, compiled by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets using late-2016 figures, underscore a present-day issue of food inequity, or, inaccessibility to high-quality foods, an issue City Council Speaker Corey Johnson has recently targeted with a multi-pronged plan.

Bodegas are less likely to have healthy food options than supermarkets, according to the profiles, and shoppers are more likely to make healthy choices when nutritious, affordable food is readily available.

In simpler terms: the lower the ratio of supermarkets to bodegas, the healthier the community.

Bedford-Stuyvesant’s ratio — 57 bodegas for every supermarket — is the highest in all of New York City. Sunset Park is close behind, with 45 bodegas to every supermarket.

In the communities of Flatlands and Canarsie, on the other hand, there are nine bodegas for every one supermarket.

“It’s outrageous that not all New Yorkers have the same access to healthy food,” said Johnson. “Something as basic as having a supermarket within a reasonable distance of your home is a big part of that.”

For 10-year Bed-Stuy resident Rae Gomes, food justice coordinator at the Brooklyn Neighborhood Health Action Center (a part of the Health Department’s Center for Health Equity), the issue is

This type of healthy produce bin is a rarity in some low-income neighborhoods. both personal and professional.

“It’s not particularly profitable for bodegas to sell fresh fruits and vegetable,” she told the Brooklyn Journal, stressing that, while there are already initiatives in place to help make bodegas health-ier, there’s often pushback from storeowners.

“Bodegas have to buy these products in bulk, and they’re not always able to sell them as quickly as a supermarket might. A lot of this stems from the fact that there is no food distribution system that is not prof-it-based.”

It’s largely about coming together as a community to work towards a common goal, she said.

“It would benefit bodegas if we had a food distribution system that allowed them to sell these fresh fruits and vegetables based on community good versus profit,” Gomes said, pointing to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Vital Brooklyn Initiative, currently in the feasibility stages of creating a Central Brooklyn food hub.

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