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Election feverDemocratic Socialist Julia Salazar embraced a supporter after win-ning the Sept. 13 Democratic primary for New York’s 18th District, defeating eight-term state Sen. Martin Malave Dilan and now go-ing on to represent parts of Bushwick, Williamsburg, Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyvesant, East New York, and Brownsville in Albany as she faces no general-election challengers. Attorney Zellnor Myrie (below), also won, delivering a stunning defeat to sitting Crown Heights state Sen. Jesse Hamilton. For more results, see page 3.

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TROUBLED BRIDGEBy Julianne CubaBrooklyn Paper

Brooklyn Heights residents should not hold their breath waiting for the serpentine Squibb Bridge to Brooklyn Bridge Park to reopen following its sud-den July closure, because the problem meadow leaders claimed was a single faulty piece of wood is actually a far big-ger structural flaw, the stewards said.

“I cannot give anybody a timeline as to how long it will take,” said Eric Lan-dau, head of the semi-private Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation, which main-tains the green space. “Sadly, that one piece that showed visual signs of prob-lems is not the only piece where we have deterioration.”

Park keepers shuttered the zig-zag-ging crossing from Middagh Street’s Squibb Park to the waterfront lawn in July , alleging a single plank in “poor condition” necessitated its closure, and recruited engineering firm Arup Group — the same company tapped in 2016 to oversee the span’s previous $3-million repair after meadow stewards fired the firm that created the bridge amidst that fix — to survey the damage.

And the engineers, who wrapped their

By Julianne CubaBrooklyn Paper

They want this pool to make a splash — without dampening neighbors’ privacy.

Brooklyn Bridge Park leaders want the new public swimming hole they’re building in Squibb Park to be more than double the size of the beloved Pop-Up Pool it is replacing, according to consul-tants tapped to help plan the facility, but also asked neighbors to share their con-cerns about foot traffic a larger pool will draw to the tony enclave where residents have complained about unruly park-go-ers in the past .

“How do we design things that im-pact the surroundings?” said Tythe De-sign rep Kristina Drury, whose local firm was tapped by meadow stewards to collect input on the project. “We do want to hear

concerns, we really encourage you to share ideas about how to mitigate them.”

Drury and green-space keepers at the semi-private Brooklyn Bridge Park Cor-poration told locals they hope the eter-nal bath coming to the Middagh Street play space will fit between 150 and 300 people, up from the maximum of 60 that could cool off in the Pop-Up Pool that of-ficials drained for good at the end of the swimming season this year.

Residents also weighed in on the type of facility — whether a lap pool, wading pool, or some hybrid of the two — in ad-dition to floating ideas about other ame-nities they want to see in the space at the Sept. 12 meeting about the project.

Locals can also submit thoughts about the scheme via an online survey — which

Squibb span to Brooklyn Bridge Park has no reopening dateNow, Arup workers must think up de-

sign tweaks to again shore up the once notoriously bouncy span before park-goers can set foot on it, a multi-step project that Landau said would likely drag on for an indeterminate amount of time since the firm’s initial assess-ment of the bridge’s recent damage took longer than planned.

“It took us a lot longer to do the test-ing than we hoped, and it will take lon-ger for us to design the appropriate so-lution than you would like it to take,” he said.

The water damage is a particularly bedeviling problem because the wood used to build the $4-million, taxpayer-funded footbridge — black locust — is supposed to withstand heavy mois-ture, according to Landau.

“Every wood expert we spoke to said black locust is the best there is — you could put it into a vat of water for 100 years and you’d never have deteriora-tion,” he said. “So we were really sur-prised, as was our wood expert, when they discovered that we had a piece with decay.”

Landau shared the news during an

The Squibb Bridge, seen here after park workers barricaded its Squibb Park entry in July.

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inspection last week, found the lone piece of wood is actually among many that are crumbling due to “higher than expected moisture level,” according to Landau, who assured locals his staffers

are as miffed about the span’s second prolonged shuttering as they are.

“We know there are concerns,” he said. “Let me be clear, we are upset about its closure.”

Plus: Floating ideasBig pool proposed for Heights park, but concerns about crowding remain

Brooklyn Bridge Park bigwigs hope the new pool they are building in nearby Squibb Park will fit more than twice the number of swimmers who could cool off in the meadow’s now-closed Pop-Up Pool.

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And … scene.Local theater-lovers now have

to schlep across the East River to score half-price tickets for Broad-way plays after Brooklyn’s lone TKTS window closed earlier this month with no grand finale.

Bigwigs at stage-advocacy group the Theatre Development Fund, which opened the Downtown booth in MetroTech Center next to this newspaper’s headquarters in 2008 , shut the window down on Sept. 1 due to several months of low sales, according to a spokesman.

“In the past year, ticket sales

have declined to where it wasn’t feasible for TDF, a not-for-profit service organization, to maintain an outlet at this location,” said Da-vid LeShay.

The Kings County kiosk — like its three surviving counterparts in Manhattan — sold same-day and next-day discount tickets for shows

on and off Broadway.But the window also hawked

stubs to performances at local in-stitutions such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and was the first of the organization’s booths to accept credit cards when it opened a decade ago.

And the low-cost entertainment

regularly drew queues of locals — who often frustrated this paper’s reporters when they had to bob and weave through the crowds while racing to file a story on deadline — to the booth, where last month a patron waiting in line had to duck and cover after gunfire rang out in the MetroTech campus.

But LeShay assured that plum-meting profits, not the gun shots, were to blame for the demise of the local TKTS outpost, which he claimed struggled to make money since it debuted.

“Since opening in the summer of 2008, sales have always been light,” he said.

Downtown TKTS booth quietly closes

The Downtown TKTS closed booth earlier this month.


Cue the victory music!Preservationists including leg-

endary folk singer Joan Baez suc-ceeded in saving a pair of Carroll Gardens buildings the musician’s family once lived and worked in when officials named the prop-erties as city landmarks on Tues-day.

Advocates cheered the Land-marks Preservation Commission’s decision to preserve the 19th-cen-tury properties at 236 and 238 President St., citing their inter-connected past as integral to the neighborhood’s identity.

“These two structures provide a unique and highly sought after

This schoolhouse a lock!Joan Baez, locals are triumphant in effort to landmark small Carroll Gardens buildings

The city on Tuesday desginated the old schoolhouse at 236 President St., and its neighbor, as landmarks.

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sense of place, and I am thrilled that they have now been for-mally designated as individual landmarks,” said Carroll Gar-dens Assemblywoman Jo Anne Simon.

The two-story building at 236 President St. opened in 1897 as the Hans S. Christian Memorial Kindergarten, the first freestand-ing facility of its kind in the bor-ough, whose faculty moved into its neighboring residential com-plex completed in 1853 shortly thereafter.

Decades later, leaders of the First Methodist Episcopal congre-gation transformed the classrooms into the borough’s first Spanish-speaking church, where clergy including Baez’s Mexican-born

grandfather preached, leading the family of the Staten Island–born songwriter to move into an apart-ment next door.

Baez and locals including many present-day occupants of 238 President St. in March be-gan their push to landmark the old kindergarten and its neigh-bor — a campaign that inspired this newspaper’s former editor to pen his own folk song about the effort — after news spread that a developer sought to buy and demolish the former school to erect a seven-story residential building in its place.

But that deal allegedly col-lapsed after city preservation-ists kicked off the landmarking process for the two buildings weeks later, when the owner of 236 President St. put the property back on the market — where it still sits unsold with a $4,950,000 price tag .

And following the landmarks commission’s ruling, the agen-cy’s approval is now required for most renovations to the ancient structures.

Joan Baez, who with locals pushed officials to landmark the buildings where her fam-ily lived, and her grandfather preached.

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By The Brooklyn Paper Political Postmortem BureauBrooklyn Paper

Former Fort Greene Councilwoman and New York City’s sitting Public Advocate Letitia “Tish” James is one step closer to becoming the state’s first black attorney general after Democratic voters statewide elected her as their party’s nominee in Sept. 13’s New York State primaries. And James wasn’t the only self-described progressive candidate who claimed the blue

party’s line in the elections — Democratic Socialist Julia Salazar formida-bly defeated eight-term Bushwick state Sen. Martin Malave Dilan, and in Crown Heights, attorney Zellnor Myrie won over sitting state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, a former Independent Democratic Conference member. Other incumbents, however, cruised to victory, including Gov. Cuomo, who is now primed for his third term as the state’s top pol. Read on for our roundup of the primary-election results, color-coded for your convenience:

Frank Seddio and other local party leaders — won his place on the bal-lot by beating back former journal-ist Ross Barkan, some 8,572 votes to Barkan’s 6,235 after nearly all bal-lots were counted.

In November, Gounardes will face off with eight-term incumbent Repub-lican state Sen. Marty Golden — who defeated him by about 10,000 votes in a previous race for the seat back in 2012.

20th State Senate DistrictBrooklyn lawyer Zellnor Myrie,

who has never held elected office, won an impressive victory over incumbent state Sen. Jesse Hamilton to nab the Democratic Party line, capitalizing on resentment that many true blues held over Hamilton’s caucusing with Republicans as a member of the Inde-pendent Democratic Conference until the body dissolved in April.

Myrie 22,601 votes to Hamilton’s 19,138 by the time roughly all bal-lots were counted, but his primary victory doesn’t assure him a seat in Albany, as he’ll face the sitting sena-tor again in November’s general elec-tion, when Hamilton runs on the In-dependence and Women’s Equality party lines.

46th State Assembly Dist.The race between the two can-

didates battling to claim the open seat representing Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Brighton Beach, Coney Is-land, and Dyker Heights vacated by disgraced Assemblywoman Pamela Harris was still too close to call by press time days after the election, with Columbia and New York Uni-versity professor Mathylde Fron-tus and Ethan Lustig-Elgrably, a former Chief of Staff and Legislative Director to Coney Island Council-man Mark Treyger, about 100 votes apart after roughly 84 percent of bal-lots were counted.

Frontus held a thin lead with 3,060 votes to Lustig-Elgrably’s 2,990, and locals will likely wait until the end of the month for the final results.

naj, earned some 578,552 votes by the time roughly all ballots were counted, with challengers Zephyr Teachout at 441,640 votes, Sean Patrick Maloney at 356,781 votes, and Leecia Eve, at 48,639 votes, trailing behind.

The Brooklynite will go on to duke it out with Republican nominee Keith Wofford, Green Party candidate Mi-chael Sussman, and Independence Party nominee Vincent Messina in November.

18th State Senate DistrictDemocratic Socialist of America

candidate and political novice Julia Salazar bested state Sen. Martin Ma-lave Dilan in one of the night’s ma-jor upsets, despite revelations that the newcomer lied about being a Colom-bian immigrant while on the trail, and that she was previously registered as a Republican.

Salazar, who ran a grass-roots campaign buoyed by endorsements including that of fellow Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, secured some 20,603 votes to Dilan’s 14,614 by the time roughly all ballots were counted, and will go on to rep-

GovernorGov. Cuomo sailed to victory

last Thursday night, handily defeat-ing his rival, political novice and “Sex and the City” actress Cynthia Nixon, even in the face of criticism that the Queens-born incumbent failed New Yorkers by not maintaining the belea-guered subway system — a center-piece of his challenger’s campaign — and after the Democratic Party sent out a controversial mailer accusing Nixon of anti-Semitism.

Cuomo, who raked in some 963,165 votes to Nixon’s 507,672 by the time roughly all ballots were counted, is now all but certain to be a three-term governor like his father, Mario Cuomo, but still faces a challenge in November from Republican Marc Molinaro — who will also be on the Conservative and Reform tickets — and Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins.

Lieutenant GovernorCuomo’s second-in-command,

Lieutenant Gov. Kathy Hochul, narrowly beat Midwood Councilman Jumaane Williams in her quest for a second term alongside the gover-nor.

The Buffalo-born Hochul faced a stiff challenge from the self-pro-claimed progressive, but ultimately prevailed, netting some 720,655 votes to Williams’s 637,751 with roughly all ballots counted after a neck-and-neck race.

With the win, Hochul goes on to face Republican Julie Killian in No-vember.

State Attorney GeneralTish James, who represented Fort

Greene in Council for nine years be-fore voters elected her to her current office of New York City’s Public Ad-vocate, defeated three other competi-tors to score the Democratic nomina-tion in the race to replace disgraced former Attorney General Eric Sch-neiderman.

James, who received several block-buster endorsements, including nods from Cuomo and rapper Nicki Mi-

PRIMARY ELECTION RECAPTish moves forward, Salazar stuns Dilan

Letitia “Tish” James celebrated her Democratic primary victory in the state Attorney General race last Thursday night.

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resent parts of Bushwick, Williams-burg, Greenpoint, Bedford-Stuyve-sant, East New York, and Brownsville up in Albany as she faces no gener-al-election challengers from other parties.

17th State Senate DistrictIncumbent state Sen. Simcha

Felder comfortably prevailed over his challenger, attorney Blake Morris, winning some 15,197 votes to Mor-ris’s 7,854 after nearly all ballots cast were counted.

Felder, who has represented parts of Borough Park, Midwood, and Flatbush as a Democrat since 2012, will return to Albany for another two-year term, as he is also running on the Republi-can line in the general election.

22nd State Senate DistrictAndrew Gounardes won the

Democratic nomination in the dis-trict encompassing Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend, and parts of Sheepshead Bay, Borough Park, and Midwood. The county-backed candidate — who had the support of borough Democratic party boss


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84TH PRECINCTBrooklyn Heights–

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A group of punks stole their friend’s bag and punched her on Smith Street on Sept. 6, cops said.

The 31-year-old victim got into an argument with the baddies over drugs near Pacific Street around 6 pm, when they socked her in the face and then fled with her Coach purse containing her cellphone, prescription med-ication, and credit cards, ac-

cording to authorities.

Shopping spree A pair of louts stole a bunch

of clothes from a Smith Street boutique on Sept. 14, police said.

The two good-for-nothings entered the shop near Dean Street around 1:15 pm and pushed an employee out of the way before running out with their ill-gotten duds, ac-cording to cops.

Park bully A brute hit a guy over the

head with a metal pipe inside a park on Schermerhorn Street

So-called ‘friends’ punch and rob woman

on Sept. 11, officers said. The 65-year-old victim

told cops he was sleeping on a bench inside the green space near Nevins Street when the villain struck him with the pipe around 5 pm.

Now that’s cold!Some prowlers swiped

thousands of dollars worth of a woman’s jewelry from her Bergen Street home on Sept. 7, cops said.

The victim told police that her engagement ring and ear-rings were inside a drawer in her apartment near Hoyt Street when workers from a heating and cooling company came over to perform unsu-pervised maintenance in her bedroom that day around 5 pm.

The woman couldn’t find the pieces of jewelry the next day, and said her housekeeper and children denied taking them, according to author-ities.

Gym rat A punk stole a guy’s bag

from his locker inside a gym on Boerum Place on Sept. 9, authorities said.

The 71-year-old victim told police he put his bag inside the locker, without a lock, when he got to the gym near State Street around 10 am, and that when he finished working out around 1:20 pm, he noticed his bag was gone.

The crook ran off with his NorthFace bag contain-ing shorts, a shirt, and credit cards, and charged $350 to one of the cards at two dif-ferent locations, according to a report.

88TH PRECINCTFort Greene–Clinton Hill

Slippery suspect A worm stole packs of fish

from an Ashland Place gro-cery store on Sept. 15 and then pushed an employee down the stairs when he tried to stop him, police said.

The sneak grabbed the packages of smoked salmon from the market near Lafay-ette Avenue around 7:40 pm, before hitting the 22-year-old employee in the neck and knocking him down the stairs when he tried to stop the sneak from the flee-

ing with the fish, according to authorities.

Paramedics took the vic-tim to Kings County Hospi-tal for injuries to his neck and shoulder, cops said.

On camera A villain stabbed a man

in the arm inside a Park Av-enue bodega on Sept. 14, cops said.

Video footage from the deli near Cumberland Street shows the snake stab the guy in his left arm around 10:37 pm, according to cops, who said the victim and brute then fled.

Road rage Cops cuffed a guy for al-

legedly socking a woman in the face on Fulton Street on Sept. 14.

The victim asked the sus-pect for help with the bus route near Hudson Avenue a little before 10 pm, but he got agi-tated and punched her, break-ing her front teeth, according to authorities. A good Samar-itan saw what happened and tried to help, but the suspect then stabbed him in his torso and arm, police said.

Paramedics transported the second victim to Meth-odist Hospital to be treated for his stab wounds, and the suspect to Brooklyn Hospi-tal, officials said.

Late-night snack Some jerk swiped a bunch

of electronics and cash from a Myrtle Avenue restaurant sometime overnight on Sept. 13, cops said.

The baddie broke in through the eatery’s unlocked front door near Ryerson Street at some point between 11:30 pm and 10:30 am the next day, and ran off with Apple and Samsung tablets and a wad of cash, officers said.

Jewel thief A burglar swiped a wom-

an’s jewelry from her Wash-ington Avenue apartment on Sept. 13, police said.

The victim told cops she left her apartment near Gates Avenue to head to work around 6 am.

And when she returned around 5:30 pm, she realized the good-for-nothing stole her Kronaby smartwatch, a dia-mond necklace, diamond ring, and silver ring, officers said. — Julianne Cuba

78TH PRECINCTPark Slope

Face the MaceSome creep sprayed a

woman with Mace inside a Flatbush Avenue watering hole on Sept. 9.

The victim, 23, told po-lice she was trying to leave the bar between Bergen Street and Sixth Avenue at 6:25 pm, when a jet of the chemical suddenly caught

her in the face, causing excruciating pain.

The woman was taken to Methodist Hospital for treat-ment following the attack, ac-cording to police.

The case was closed with-out any arrests, cops said.

Battery includedA thief rode off with

a man’s e-bike he parked on Prospect Park West on Sept. 2.

The victim told police he locked his ride to a light post near Third Street at 10:30 am, and returned about an hour-and-a-half later to find his bat-tery-assist bicycle stolen.

No arrests have been made in the case, which remains open, cops said.

CRV you later!Some crook drove off with

a man’s ’99 Honda CRV he parked on Fourth Avenue on Sept. 3.

The victim told police he left his nearly 20-year-old green hatchback between 10th and 11th streets at 9 pm, and returned two days later to find an empty spot where his ride had been.

Police closed the case with-out making any arrests.

Elemental furyA thief raided a man’s ’04

Honda Element he parked on Flatbush Avenue on Sept. 6, taking camping supplies.

The victim told police he left a bunch of outdoor gear inside his car parked near the Prospect Park Zoo at 9:30 pm, and returned about 24-hours later to find his backpack, chair, Swiss Army knife, and sling shot stolen.

Police closed the case with-out making any arrests.

Market bustCops cuffed a 29-year-

old man for allegedly beat-ing another guy inside a Sev-enth Avenue supermarket on Sept. 9.

The victim told police he was arguing with the suspect inside the market between 12th and 13th streets at 5:06 pm, when he started punch-ing and scratching him.

Authorities cuffed the man later that day, charging him with misdemeanor assault, cops said. — Colin Mixson

76TH PRECINCTCarroll Gardens–

Cobble Hill–Red Hook

Butler St. banditA burglar broke into a car

parked on Butler Street some-time between Sept. 15 and 18 and stole a toolbox, po-kice said.

The owner of the car told cops he parked his 2000 Ford

Explorer between Bond and Nevins streets at noon on Sept. 15, and returned at 8 pm on Sept. 18 to discover that a nogoodnik threw a rock through the window and stole his toolbox and a phone charger.

Vehicle vandalsPunks damaged a car

parked on Nelson Street some-time overnight on Sept. 17.

A construction company left the blue 2010 Ford near Columbia Street at 5 pm on Sept. 17.

And when someone from the company returned the next day at 8 am, the person found that vandals went un-der the car and cut the cata-lytic converter, according to a report.

Package goneSomone stole a woman’s

package delivered to a gro-cery store on Union Street on Sept. 12.

The victim told police that she went to pick up a package, containing a pricey woman’s silk blouse, at the store near Hicks Street at 7:30 pm, but discovered it had been sto-len sometime between 2:17 and 7:30 pm.

Dirty crookA purloiner tried to steal

body wash from a drug-store on Smith Street on Sept. 14.

The freebooter tried to steal four different body washes, but was stopped on her way out of the store, ac-cording to police.

The galoot then fled the scene, but left behind her purse, according to a re-port.

Car robberA rogue broke into a car

parked on Bush Street on Sept. 15 and stole cash and valu-ables from inside, authori-ties said.

The victim told police that the louse broke the rear driv-er’s-side window and took an iPhone 6, its case, and $200 near Clinton Street at 7:30 pm.

Bag snatcherA dirtbag pushed a woman

to the ground and snatched her purse on Douglass Street on Sept. 16.

The victim told authori-ties that she was walking to-wards Bond Street at 2:08 pm when the pillager came by her left side and tried to take her pocketbook.

She pulled back and the brigand pushed her to the ground and forcibly took her bag, which contained her credit card and $70, ac-cording to a report.

— Kevin Duggan

POLICE BLOTTERFind more online every Wednesday at

BrooklynPaper.com/blotterBy Julianne CubaBrooklyn Paper

Some fashionable fiend snatched a woman’s wal-let aboard a subway inside Borough Hall station on Sept. 1 and used the vic-tim’s credit card on a pricey shopping spree later that day, cops said.

The thief plucked the victim’s billfold out of her purse while on a moving Brooklyn-bound 2 train around 6:30 pm, before ex-iting the subway and fleeing to the distant isle of Man-hattan, where she charged the woman’s plastic at no less than three stores, ac-cording to authorities.

The scammer first hit up an expensive French brand’s boutique, where she bought a $2,340 hand-bag at 7:11 pm, before us-ing the card to purchase a second bag for $2,710 at a nearby department store eight minutes later, po-lice said.

And less than an hour later, she tried to buy $400 worth of gift cards at a third retailer at 8:15 pm, but the

Pretty larceny!Crook swipes woman’s credit card, spends away

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card was declined, accord-ing to officers, who said the crook was last seen wear-ing a pink denim jacket with two Kiss patches on its front and the rock band’s logo on the back, and a gray fanny pack.

Anyone with infor-mation regarding the incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577–8477. The public can also submit tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at www.nypdcrimestop-pers.com or by texting tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577.

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By Moses JeffersonBrooklyn Paper

Councilman Stephen Levin took a deep dive into what guided his crucial vote on the controversial plan to build the most-dense proj-ect outside of Manhattan on Flatbush Avenue on the lat-est episode of Brooklyn Pa-per Radio.

The Boerum Hill pol joined hosts Vince DiMiceli and An-thony Rotunno (along with in-trepid reporter Julianne Cuba), who immediately asked him to break down the pluses and minuses of the so-called 80 Flatbush plan, which is pres-ently weaving its way through the city’s mandatory Uniform Land Use Review Procedure — a process that needs to be approved by various agencies, Council, and the mayor be-fore any zoning change can be made.

And although he was able to come up with more pros than cons, Levin refused when Ro-tunno asked him to write the headline for Friday’s edition of The Paper, which sadly went to press before the vote took place on Thursday morning.

“I really don’t know,” the councilman said. “I couldn’t say at this point.”

But that didn’t stop your battle-hardened journalists

ON THE RADIO:

The new Flatbush Ave?

— a common practice in the newspaper industry — with Cuba forecasting that the proj-ect will be approved pretty much the way it is planned, DiMiceli thinking it will be a bit smaller, and Rotunno, well, for Rotunno’s prediction you’ll just have to listen.

Brooklyn Paper Radio is recorded and podcast live from our studio in Amer-ica’s Downtown and can be found on BrooklynPa-per.com, on iTunes, and of course, on Stitcher.

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from using every trick in the book to try and pry an answer out of him during a podcast so important, its dialogue was live-blogged by editors at com-peting websites .

Cuba, for instance, put two and two together by explain-ing that, with Yom Kippur cel-ebrations beginning on Tues-day, there really wasn’t much time left for Levin to negoti-ate with anyone until at least

sundown on Wednesday, so he must have known which way he was going to vote.

But Levin said he didn’t.And DiMiceli used an old-

school tactic and simply asked how he planed to vote, hoping to catch the two-term council-man off guard, but that didn’t work either.

Still, Levin’s silence did not stop your local scribes from predicting the outcome

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such as shaded areas, food vendors, and a skating area in the colder months.

The survey additionally asks residents to share ideas about possible changes to the current entrance ramp leading from Co-

lumbia Heights to Squibb Park — which has a second entry point from Brooklyn Bridge Park via the Squibb Bridge, but meadow stewards shuttered that zig-zagging span in July with no reopening date set — because construction of the pool may require reconfiguring the in-cline, according to Drury.

“We have an opportunity to approach that entrance in dif-ferent ways,” she said.

Planners identified the blacktop-covered Squibb Park as the perfect location for the swimming hole based on costs, size, and feasibility, after rul-ing out other options that in-cluded permanently docking a pool-equipped barge similar to the “Floating Pool Lady” that briefly moored at a meadow pier back in 2007 , and build-ing an eternal bath on uplands within the green space, Drury said.

Officials expect the new swimming hole to cost be-tween $10 and $15 million, one-third of which the park will pay for, with builders — including Dumbo-based Alloy Develop-ment, the firm that owns the swanky high-rise at 1 John St. inside Brooklyn Bridge Park and is proposing the contro-versial 80 Flatbush complex in Boerum Hill — chipping in $1.2 million, and the rest be-ing scrounged up by the Brook-lyn Bridge Park Conservancy, the meadow’s fund-raising and programming arm, which will tap local pols and private do-nors for cash.

Green-space keepers hope to request proposals from po-tential pool architects this fall after reviewing all public in-put, according to Drury, who said they hope to start work on the project soon after in or-der to have the pool ready for swimmers by 2020.


They’re fields of night-mares!

Local athletes blasted the city for letting McCa-rren Park’s three grass ball fields deteriorate into wa-terlogged mud pits that they claimed residents are forced to maintain because officials are moving too slow on a plan to reseed the diamonds.

“Why am I looking at a pond at second base?” said Kevin Dailey, whose Brook-lyn Kickball league plays at the meadow’s Gilroy Field ev-ery spring and summer. “The onus is on us to fix the field, the Parks Department refuses to help.”

The hipster kickballer and his league’s nearly 400 members aren’t the only ones miffed about the muck — a Greenpointer who has led a neighborhood softball league in the park for the last decade accused officials of neglect-

What the muck?McCarren ball fi elds are a muddy mess

Blasio promised to funnel $6 million towards repairing the park, specifically its decrepit diamonds, at a neighborhood town hall .

But because of red tape, the cash only recently arrived at the Parks Department, which last week held a public meeting to kick off its nearly year-long project to fix the fields’ drain-age system, plant fresh grass, and make other upgrades, ac-cording to spokeswoman Mae Ferguson, who said the job’s next steps are a nine-month procurement phase followed by construction.

Roth applauded the city for finally dedicating funds to re-store the facilities, but said of-ficials shouldn’t wait for the multi-million-dollar project to patch up the worst parts of the play spaces.

“I’m happy that we got some recognition from the mayor,” he said. “They are spending in the right spot, but they should look into some maintenance for existing prob-lems, because right now it’s just unsanitary.”

Elsewhere in the park, of-ficials are laying new rubber on its track and new artifi-cial-turf on its enclosed soc-cer pitch as part of a separate $4-million revamp.

ing the diamonds for as long as he’s played on them, claim-ing he can’t remember a time when the three fields inside the Lorimer Street green space bounded by Manhattan and Nassau avenues and Bayard and Berry streets weren’t reg-ularly pockmarked by mas-sive craters filled with dirt and stagnant water that smells as

bad as it looks.“The softball fields have

always been the black sheep, drainage has been an is-sue for 10 years,” said Ben Roth. “They’re simply unus-able. When you walk past the puddles you notice the odor — fresh rain is not supposed to smell like that.”

Last October, Mayor De-

Kickballers are fed up with the poor quality of the fields that they claim the city has failed to maintain.

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And as Squibb Bridge’s latest closure hits the two-month mark, its time out of service continues to increase compared to its time in ser-vice, with the span being off limits for roughly 34 months, and open to the public for only about 32, since it debuted in May 2013.

The crossing’s previous 32-month closure ended when it reopened with less spring in its step last April , as buy-ers were shelling out millions to purchase luxury condos inside the then just-finished Pierhouse complex that sits in Brooklyn Bridge Park adja-cent to the span, leading some locals to wonder whether the real reason Squibb Bridge re-cently shuttered is to keep looky-loos from peeking into the swanky homes.

“Maybe the people living in the pricey apartments don’t

like people peering at them,” a commenter who identified herself as Teresa wrote on the Brooklyn Heights blog after the span closed in July.

A longtime neighborhood resident said he could under-stand such privacy concerns, but insisted claims that the bridge shuttered due to condo owners’ complaints are pure speculation.

“If I had a million-dollar condo there and got up in the morning to stretch, I wouldn’t want people looking at me, but buyers bought units knowing the bridge was there,” said Andrew Porter. “People are making assumptions, these are rumors.”

And even though he could not say when, Landau prom-ised locals that the span will reopen as soon as possible, though the cost of getting back in bridgeness won’t be determined until engineers are further along with their repairs, according to a park spokeswoman.

“No matter how long it takes, we are committed to having a bridge that con-nects from Squibb Park to Brooklyn Bridge Park,” Lan-dau said.

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By Colin MixsonBrooklyn Paper

It’s another reason to shop local!

Residents of Park Slope and Prospect Heights can re-ceive free one-day shipping on certain goods from doz-ens of neighborhood mom-and-pop shops via a novel on-line marketplace starting on Sept. 20.

The expedited delivery is part of the stores’ three-month pilot program with digital-re-

tail hub EMain.org, during which participating busi-nesses will offer exclusive deals and fast delivery via promotions on the website, according to a Slope busi-ness booster.

“It’s another tool in the tool box,” said Mark Caserta, the president of the Park Slope Fifth Avenue Business Im-provement District. “And about getting more people to pay attention to what’s avail-able at their local shops.”

Small biz, big dealsMom and pops offer more in new online marketplace

Locals living in zip codes including 11215 and 11217 are eligible to receive next-day delivery on items from some 60 shops participating in the trial, some of which are part of Caserta’s so-called bid or its sister North Flatbush bid, while others are Park Slope Chamber of Commerce mem-bers.

The speedy service will be provided by local post offices, which EMain founder Peter Price tapped to make deliv-

eries for the pilot program’s duration.

Retailers’ EMain deals, which will change weekly, include a mix of services and goods that customers can browse on the website, but must contact merchants di-rectly in order to purchase.

For instance, java shop Kos Kaffe will give a $5 gift card to EMain shoppers who buy one pound of organic coffee; Fleishers Craft Butchery cus-tomers can score a two-for-

one sausage deal; and spa K Skincare is offering $5 eye-brow sculpting, according to Caserta, who said any deals are subject to change.

Those who purchase pro-motions for services or per-ishable products must go to stores to get them, but all other items will be sent via the no-cost, expedited delivery.

The program’s free fast shipping may be a boon for buyers, but EMain’s appeal to small shopkeepers is its ability to drive customers to their brick-and-mortar lo-cations while giving them a web presence that doesn’t require maintaining an on-line storefront, according to Caserta, who said keep-ing a dedicated digital stock

can be challenging. “Putting everything online

is very difficult, especially when it comes to keeping it up to date,” he said.

Following the pilot, Price will review the scheme’s ef-fectiveness in boosting lo-cal business before decid-ing whether to continue the EMain partnerships, which entrepreneurs would have to shell out between $50 and $100 per month to maintain, according to Caserta.

“They’re going to look at the web traffic clicks on of-fers and how the mechanics work with the post office, as well as talk to merchants to see what their experience is, to figuring out if everyone’s comfortable,” he said.

Mark Caserta showed off EMain, an online market-place where many local businesses will offer special deals and free shipping for the next three months.

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It is the best fest!

The holiday of beer and bratwurst launches this weekend in Deutschland

and in Brooklyn! Biergartens and bars all over the Borough of Kings will play Ba-varian tunes and serve massive steins, and we have picked out the best spots celebrate Oktoberfest from now until October.

Double deutsch!Both locations of the Black Forest Brook-

lyn beerhall will be decked out for the four weeks of the German beer festival! Black Forest Fort Greene will feature the Balkan brass band Slavic Soul Party at its Oktober-fest opening and closing parties, on Sept. 22 and Oct. 13! And the Smith Street location will host a pair of parties on Sept. 29 and Oct. 6, also with a live brass band. Each event will start with a keg-tapping cere-mony with free-flowing beer, and guests can compete in the mug-holding competitions! or enter the bar’s dirndl and lederhosen In-stagram selfie challenge for prizes.

Black Forest Fort Greene (733 Fulton St. between S. Elliot Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, www.blackforest-brooklyn.com). Sept. 22 at 9 pm; Oct. 13 at 10 pm. $20–$35 ($14–$24 in advance).

Black Forest Smith Street (181 Smith St. between Warren and Wyckoff streets in Boerum Hill). Sept. 22 through Oct. 13. Sept. 29 and Oct. 6 at 8 pm. Free.

A mighty fine haus! Check out Williamsburg’s popular Ra-

degast Hall on Sept. 22 or 29 for its annual Oktoberfest parties, featuring the High and Mighty Brass Band and the Triad Brass Band, respectively. You will feel like you and in the middle of Munich while sitting on the bar’s classic wooden benches, while servers decked out in dirndls serve steins of beer and endless amounts of pork from the pig roast go around.

Radegast (113 N. Third St. between Wythe and Berry streets in Williamsburg, www.radegasthall.com) Sept. 22, 11 am–10 pm; Sept. 29 at 11 am–2 am. Free.

Garten variety

Get playful at the People’s Playground with classic lawn games (or drinking games)! Luna Park’s first Coney Island Oktober-fest, on Sept. 22–23, will feature plenty of beer, fun, and games, including bier pong, flip cup, cornhole, kan jam, and jenga. And Coney Cones will launch a limited-edi-tion boozy Beer Gelato, which uses Sam Adams Oktoberfest to churn out an alco-holic treat either as gelato or sorbet. The gelato will be available (to people 21 or over) throughout October.

Coney Island Oktoberfest (enter on Stillwell Ave, between Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk in Coney Island, coneyis-landoktoberfest.eventbrite.com). Sept.

22; 11 am–11 pm; Sept. 23, 11 am–7 pm. $18–$40.

Get your freak on! Step down the Boardwalk to the Freak-

toberfest at Coney Island Brewery on Sept. 22. The brew masters there will debut two new cans of beer inspired by monster ce-reals: Count Flocula, a kolsch-style beer brewed with marshmallow fluff, lactose, and cocoa nibs, and Blueberry Boo-liner, a sour beer brewed with blueberries. The day will also feature a stein-hoisting con-test, and a screening of the original “Drac-ula” film at 8 pm.

Coney Island Brewery (1904 Surf Ave. near W. 16th Street in Coney Island, www.coneyislandbeer.com). Sept. 22; noon–3 pm. Free.

Beer BashThe Brooklyn Bavarian Biergarten in

Park Slope will start its annual Oktoberfest celebration with a showdown between two German beers: Hofbrau and Grevensteiner. Help to settle which is best at a party with giveaways, music, and more!

Brooklyn Bavarian Biergarten (265 Pros-pect Avenue between Fifth and Sixth ave-nues in Park Slope, www.brooklynbavarian-biergarten.com). Sept. 22 at 4 pm. Free.

Block partyInstead of German beer at Octoberfest,

sample local beer at Blocktoberfest! The fifth annual event will pour brews from more than 35 New York City breweries in Bushwick on Oct. 6.

The Well (272 Meserole St. between Waterbury Street and Bushwick Avenue in Bushwick, www.nycbrewed.com/blockto-berfest2018). Oct. 6; 1–5 pm. $14–$35.

Deutschland in Dumbo The Dumbo archway will transform into

a Bavarian biergarten for Oct. 5 and 6! On Friday, four-hipster cover band the

Polka Brother will play some classic Bohe-mian tunes, as well as pop songs with a bit of added polka flair. And on Saturday, the New Orleans-inspired Street Beat Brass Band will play German, polka, and oompah tunes.

Oktoberfest at the Dumbo Archway (Water Street between Anchorage Place and Adams Street in Dumbo, www.dum-bo.is). Oct. 5; 5 –10 pm; Oct. 6, 1 –10 pm. Free.

Country boys

They’re jazzing up the folk festival. A pair of former jazz musicians will bring

some bluesy riffs and down-home humor to the Brooklyn Americana Music Festival this week-end, when they play a free show at Dumbo’s Su-perfine on Sept. 23. The Dang-it Bobbys coun-try and bluegrass duo say that they use their jazz roots to compose songs, and keep the tunes ac-cessible with lyrics that tell a story.

“The music really does have the harmonic complexity of a jazz tune but remains listen-able as popular music because people can re-late to it,” said guitarist Luca Benedetti, who lives in Park Slope.

Benedetti teamed up with Kris Bauman, who plays banjo, sings, and writes the music, when they were both working in a music store. The pair blended their various musical interests to form the Dang-it Bobbys, inspired by a wide variety of artists, including Paul Simon, Beck, and Thelonius Monk, said Bauman.

“Stylistically both of us come from pretty large musical backgrounds where we’ve heard all kinds of different music and we kind of bring all that,” he said.

The pair’s songs also tend to have elements of humor and humility, he said.

“There’s some universality of being in a tight spot and somehow getting through it and laugh-ing about it later,” Bauman said.

At Superfine, the pair will play some of their favorite hits, including “Sad Sack” about a guy who cannot get the girl of his dreams, and “The Cow Song,” about a cow who wants to be ab-ducted by an alien.

The humor and unexpected turns of the band’s music matches its name, a catch-phrase from the animated sitcom “King of the Hill,” which ended in 2010 but recently made an Internet comeback.

“The father is always shocked at what the son [Bobby] does, because the son’s not really turning out the way he expected — it happens all the time on the show,” Bauman said. “Now it’s this huge Internet meme.”

Brooklyn Americana Music Festival takes place at various locations between Dumbo and Red Hook from Sept. 20 to Sept. 23. www.bkamf.com

The Dang-it Bobbys at Superfine (126 Front St. at Pearl Street in Dumbo, www.bkamf.com). Sept. 23 at 1 pm. Free. — Julianne McShane

M U S I C

Greenlight Bookstore’s pick: “Palaces for the People,” by Eric Klinenberg

This book is a call to action to improve our quality of life by investing in, building, and grow-ing our “social infrastruc-ture” — shared spaces where different groups can come together.

Klinenberg focuses our attention on our en-vironments, the ways we interact with them, and the people around us. He pro-vides historical context, modern-day examples, and hope for the future. This is a wonderfully in-spiring book that I refer to constantly since reading the book. I cannot rec-ommend it enough.

— Rebecca Fitting, Greenlight Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between S. Elliott Place and S. Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200, www.greenlightbookstore.com ].

Community Bookstore’s pick: “Democracy,” by Henry Adams

An instant bestseller when it was published anon-ymously in 1880, Henry Adams’s “Democracy: An

American Novel” is a hi-larious and scathing farce, depicting Washington cor-ruption and New York high society in all-too-familiar fashion. Melville meets the swamp in Adams’s chis-eled-from-marble prose. This book is your election season must-read!

— Samuel Partal, Community Bookstore [43 Seventh Ave. be-

tween Carroll Street and Garfield Place in Park Slope, (718) 783–3075, www.commu nityb ook-st ore.net ].

Word’s picks: “How Are You Going to Save Yourself,” by JM Holmes

Trying to describe the stories in “How Are You Going to Save Yourself” is almost as disorienting as reading them. You as-sume that you are starting a story with a certain an-gle or narrative structure, and then you find yourself looking through Wonder-land glass at a former ver-sion of yourself. JM Hol-mes accomplishes this not with genre-defying dips into speculative fiction, but with a narrative con-trol over the minds of his characters and readers. This explosive collection asks the questions that we often avoid, and I hope you hang on until the very. last. page.

— Hannah Oliver Depp, Word [126 Franklin St. at Milton Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383–0096, www.wordbookstores.com ].

Reading picksB O O KS

By Alexandra SimonBrooklyn Paper

The show is Port-au-Prince charm-ing!

A new exhibit in Red Hook showcases the diversity of Haiti’s urban artists. “Potoprens: The Urban Art-ists of Port-au-Prince,” on display at Pioneer Works until Nov. 11, features more than a dozen artists based in the country’s capital. Most outsiders have only a single vision of Haitian culture, but this show offers several distinct strands of art from Haiti’s most pop-ulous city, said the exhibit’s Haitian-American co-curator.

“We want to complicate the narra-tive and not just show Haitian art do-ing the same thing. That’s why we iso-

lated groups to show that the diversity of Haiti is more than excellent, and we’re creating something very new that has political, social, and cultural significance,” said Edouard Duval-Carrie. “This shows the complexity of the city.”

Duval-Carrie focused his exhibit on three Port-au-Prince neighborhoods known for their artwork — Bel Air for its Vodou flags and textile art-istry, Riviere Froide, known for its sculptors, and Grand Rue, renowned for Haitian crafts and art made from scrap material.

The artwork consists mostly of sculptures, collages, and photogra-phy, depicting the city’s history, art, religion, political scene, and cultural shifts. Many of the 17 artists in the show

are self-taught, and must overcome dif-ficult conditions to tell their stories, said Duval-Carrie. For instance, artists from the Grand Rue neighborhood, an epicenter of the earthquake, often use material pulled from the ruins around them to construct their work.

“They live in borderline extreme conditions, but the work is strong and make very important statements on the conditions in Port-au-Prince,” he said.

Even if one is not familiar with Haiti or Port-au-Prince, the show of-fers an eye-opening look into a dif-ferent culture and art scene, said Du-val-Carrie.

“It’s a complex city and we have a presentation that mostly captures a place in deep trouble,” Duval-Car-rie. “The artwork shows you all that they are contesting, and I applaud it because it’s different when you’re an artist living in a country where the government is non-functioning, dis-jointed, and dysfunctional really. It’s almost apocalyptic.”

“Potoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince,” at Pioneer Works [159 Pioneer St. between Conover and Van Brunt streets in Red Hook, (718) 596–3001, www.pioneerworks.org]. On display Wed–Sun; noon–6 pm, until Nov. 11. Free.

Wunder barsThe best places to celebrate Oktoberfest in Bklyn!

An art quakeHaitian exhibit shows art from an ‘apocalyptic’ city

Skull in the box: The new Red Hook exhibit “Portoprens: The Ur-ban Artists of Port-au-Prince,” features several sculptures that in-corporate skulls and other creepy motifs.

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Prost with the most!: (Clockwise from top): Both locations of Black Forest Brooklyn will go all out for Oktoberfest, starting with an opening party on Sept. 22 in Fort Greene. The Radegast Hall and Biergarten is a slice of Germany in Williamsburg, with Oktoberfest parties planned for Sept. 22 and 29. And beer is the centerpiece of the Oktoberfest celebration at the Brooklyn Bavarian Biergarten in Park Slope.

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WHERE TOFRIDAYSept. 21

Photo FridayPop down to Photo-ville for its final week-end in Dumbo! The photo festival fea-tures more than 80 exhibits in shipping containers, including images of cute kitties and harrowing shots from photojournal-ists. Tonight in the Beer Garden, photo service Getty Images will show some of its best photos from the past year. The fest continues through Sunday.

7:30 pm at Brooklyn Bridge Plaza (Water Street and New Dock Street in Dumbo, www.photoville.com). Free.

SATURDAYSept. 22

Day and KnightsChill out on the steps of the Plaza at 300 Ashland, where you can catch a dozen performances as part of the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festi-val. The Brooklyn Bal-let will kick things off at 12:15 pm; local orchestra the Knights (pictured) will play at 2:45 pm, and it ends with a salsa dance party from Los Hach-eros at 5 pm.

Noon–8 pm at the Plaza (300 Ashland Pl. at Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene, www.downtown-brooklyn.com). Free.

SUNDAYSept. 23

Antic dealerBrooklyn’s biggest street festival is here! Atlantic Avenue will shut down today from Fourth Avenue to the waterfront (that’s the whole thing) for the Atlantic Antic! Look out for the Dumpling Eating Contest, belly danc-ers, marching bands, a “drone obstacle course,” and country bands playing out-side of Hank’s Saloon.Noon–6 pm on Atlantic Avenue (from Fourth Avenue to Furman Street in Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Brooklyn Heights, www.atlanticave.org). Free.

MONDAYSept. 24

Music manThe TKTS booth may have abandoned Brooklyn, but we can still get musical num-bers from the Great White Way at tonight’s “Broadway Does Brooklyn,” con-cert, a night of musi-cal performances from former “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” star Darren Criss (pic-tured), and a half-dozen other Broad-way stars.

7:30 pm at National Saw-dust [80 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Wil-liamsburg, (646) 779–8455, www.nationalsaw-dust.org]. $55 ($179 VIP).

WEDNESDAYSept. 26

Gut bustingThe Chicago-style stand up showcase “Comedians You Should Know” pres-ents one comedian you definitely do know: Judah Fried-lander (pictured) from “30 Rock,” along with Clark Jones, Kerryn Feehan, Shalewa Sharpe, and more, all laughing it up at com-bined bar and bowl-ing alley the Gutter.

9 pm at the Gutter [200 N. 14th St. between Wythe and Nassau ave-nues in Williamsburg, (718) 387–3585, thegutter-brooklyn.com]. $10 ($5 in advance).

EDITORS’ PICKS

FRI, SEPT. 21FILM, REVOLUTION ME FILM FES-

TIVAL, DAY ONE: A three-day festival of movies from emerging fi lmmakers. $10 suggested donation. Noon–5 pm. Bushwick Public Library [340 Bushwick Ave. at Seigel Street in Bushwick, (718) 602–1348], www.revolutionmefi lms.com.

DINING, BROOKLYN NIGHT MAR-KET: Food vendors offer dishes for $7 or less, happy hour lasts all night at the bar, and dee-jays spin. $15–$25. 4 pm–midnight. The Well [272 Meserole St. between Water-bury Street and Bushwick Place in Bushwick, (347) 338–3612], www.thewellbrooklyn.com.

ART, “AT WHICH THE FLIGHT” OPEN-ING RECEPTION: An exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints that refl ect upon transient encounters with nature in the contemporary world. Free. 6–9 pm. Ground Floor Gallery [630 Flushing Ave. at Tomp-kins Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (919) 606–3565], katembutler.com.

NIGHTLIFE, MILLENNIALSNOW CON-FERENCE GAME NIGHT: The con-ferences for millennials kicks off with a night of games and networking. Millennials love board games, right? $15. 6–8 pm. 100 Bogart (100 Bogart St. between Johnson Avenue and Ingraham Street in Bushwick), www.millennialsnow.net.

DANCE, INTRO TO VOGUING: A workshop introducing the street dance style of vogue to participants at all levels of dance experience, grounding the form as a tool for resistance and queer liberation. This workshop is wheelchair accessible. Free. 7 pm. BRIC Arts Media House [647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place in Fort Greene, (718) 683–5621], www.bricartsmedia.org.

READING, BROOKLYN WRITERS SPACE READING SERIES: With playwright Scott Adkins, short story writer Courtney Zoffness, and essay-ist Greg Gerke. Free. 7 pm. Com-munity Bookstore [143 Seventh Ave. between Carroll Street and Garfi eld Place in Park Slope, (718) 783–3075], www.communitybookstore.net.

THEATER, “DOG SEES GOD”: Exit II Theater Company presents a com-edy about a lightly-disguised version of the “Peanuts” gang as they navi-

gate high school, drugs, and sex. $25. 7:30 pm. Actors Fund Arts Cen-ter (160 Schermerhorn St. between Hoyt and Smith Streets in Down-town), www.smithstreetstage.org.

THEATER, “OLIVER!”: The classic musi-cal about the orphan Oliver Twist making his way in London. $25. 8 pm. Heights Players [26 Willow Pl. between Joralemon and State streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 237–2752], www.heightsplayers.org.

MUSIC, BABEFEST WITH ANI DI-FRANCO: A concert to benefi t Em-ily’s List. Also with Resistance Revival Chorus, Torres, and Amy Leon. $50. 8 pm. Warsaw [261 Driggs Ave. at Eckford Street in Greenpoint, (718) 387–0505], warsawconcerts.com.

DANCE, COLLABORATIONS IN DANCE FESTIVAL: A celebration of movement-based performance developed through collaboration with artists working in fi lm, sound, costuming, visual art, and more. $22 ($18 in advance). 8 pm. Triskelion Arts [106 Calyer St. between Banker Street and Clifford Place in Green-point, (718) 389–3473], www.triskel-ionarts.org.

MUSIC, VIENNESE MODERNISM AT BAM: The Brooklyn Metro Cham-ber Orchestra performs. $40. 8 pm. BAM Fisher (321 Ashland Pl. between Hansen Place and Lafay-ette Avenue in Fort Greene), www.bam.org.

MUSIC, PARK SLOPE BLUEGRASS & OLD TIME JAMBOREE: Two days of performances, workshops, and jam sessions. $5–$25. 8 pm. The Old Stone House [336 Third St. between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 768–3195], theoldstone-house.org.

THEATER, “A CHORUS LINE”: The classic musical offers a heartbreak-ing glimpse at the lives of Broadway dancers. $30 ($20 for seniors and children 12 and under). 8 pm. Gal-

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It’s art and ‘Soul.’

The Brooklyn Museum’s lat-est — and largest — exhibit fo-

cuses on the work of black artists at the peak of the Black Power move-ment. “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963–1983,” on display until Feb. 3, features more than 150 paintings, photos, sculp-tures, and other forms of art pro-duced during a significant era of black American history, said the show’s assistant curator.

“The exhibit looks at ways in which artists responded to the political mo-ment — or did not, and the ways in which they innovated with material related to black identity,” said Ash-ley James.

Each room of the two-floor ex-hibit covers artists from a particular city or region in the United States, since movements in different areas channeled the time period in a dif-ferent ways, said James.

“There is a broad scope and a di-verse range of black artists, and what they were doing during one of the most revolutionary times in Amer-ican history,” she added.

For example, the Chicago-based artist collective AfriCOBRA painted colorful, positive portrayals of pop-ular black figures, including Mal-colm X, Angela Davis, and spiritual deities. And Kamoigne — a pho-tography collective from Harlem — photographed everyday black life in New York.

The exhibit’s most blatantly po-litical piece of art is a door meant to visualize the assassination of former Black Panther Fred Hampton, who was killed by Chicago police offi-cers during a controversial raid at his apartment in 1969. In response, artist Dana Chandler brought to life “Fred Hampton’s Door II,” a bullet-riddled door with a stamp of gov-ernment approval.

“That’s a really powerful work, and he used an actual door for greater emotional impact because it repre-sents a piece of history that was ex-tremely violent, foregrounding the action of Hampton’s killing” said James.

Another notable piece is Betye

Saar’s sculpture “The Liberation of Aunt Jemima,” which reclaims the stereotypical advertising figure and arms her with a shotgun.

Saar and other artists sought to

create empowering art that combated harmful portrayals, said James.

When people think of the Black Power era, they rarely think of art, but it was a key part of the move-

ment, said James, as artist sought to express things they could not put into words.

“Soul of a Nation” at Brooklyn Museum [200 Eastern Pkwy. at Washington Avenue in Prospect heights, (718) 638–5000, www.brooklynmuseum.org]. Open Wed, Fri–Sun, 11 am–6 pm; Thu, 11 am–10 pm. $16 suggested donation.

Black and beautiful!Art from the civil rights movement on display

If you see a dozen people wandering through Dumbo looking lost, best not to talk to them. They might follow you home. That’s especially likely if they are audi-

ence members in “Stars In the Night,” an oddball mess of a play that takes place five times a night through Oct. 14, along a half-mile stretch of Brooklyn Bridge Park and Dumbo. The “intimate, immersive produc-tion” takes no more than 12 audience mem-bers on a journey, with actors leading the group from one spot to another.

Some performers speak directly to the crowd, and ask questions — your answers won’t matter, since this is an immersive, not interactive show. Others ignore you entirely, and you watch them like silent ghosts.

Between segments, there is a bizarre ad-justment period, as you wait in a crowded public space for the next character to appear. Is this person part of the show? No? How about this one? Is this an actress, or are we just following a random woman as she has an ostentatious but not-especially-interest-ing conversation on the phone?

Fortunately, those awkward moments de-crease as the night goes on, as you stum-ble from park to studio apartment to a cock-tail party.

And if you persevere through two mostly inaudible monologues, delivered by actors standing beneath the Manhattan Bridge while trains rattle overhead, you will find a few mo-ments of beauty — a pretty song, a breathy soliloquy in the dark, and an excellent old-fashioned cocktail (provided by sponsor Van Brunt Stillhouse, an actress manages to note without breaking character).

But it adds up to not much at all, moments strung together by a flabby, vague story about family members who don’t get along, and who might be better off if they stopped trying.

Actress Davonna Dehay, as over-the-top real estate agent Alice, is a breath of fresh air, turning every pothole into a neighborhood perk as she leads the crowd about.

When she left us at the end of the show, the audience members bonded as we tried to piece together the story, speculating about which characters were related, and poring over the program for clues. But $125 is a steep price tag, if the real show was the friends we made along the way.

“Stars in the Night” in Dumbo (starting point revealed when you buy a ticket, www.starsinthenight.net). Tue–Sun at 7 pm; 7:30 pm; 8 pm; 8:30 pm; and 9 pm, through Oct. 14. $125.

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MUSIC, MOHAMED ABOZE-KRY AND KASKADÉ: The Egyptian artists play a rare US show. $21–$25. 8 pm. Roulette [509 Atlantic Ave. at Third Avenue in Boerum Hill, (917) 267–0363], www.roulette.org.

SAT, SEPT. 22TALK, A BETTER YOU: United-

Healthcare hosts a series of health and wellness educa-tional events to help seniors and other Medicare ben-efi ciaries learn more about Medicare and their health care coverage options. With music from the Persua-sions. Free. 10 am–2 pm. BAM Fisher (321 Ashland Pl. between Hansen Place and Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene), www.bam.org.

MARKET, SEX EXPO 2018: Vendors present the latest technological innovations to help you get it on. $25. 11 am. Brooklyn Expo Center (72 Noble St. at Franklin Street in Greenpoint).

TOUR, HIDDEN HISTORY STROLL: A walking tour of the Evergreens Cemetery, with a trip inside the nor-mally off-limits Receiving Vault. $5. 11 am. The Ev-ergreens Cemetery [1629 Bushwick Ave. at Conway Street in Bushwick, (718) 455–5300], www.theever-greenscemetery.org.

MUSIC, PARK SLOPE BLUE-GRASS & OLD TIME JAM-BOREE: 12 pm. See Friday, Sept. 21.

MUSIC, BUSTLE’S RULE BREAKERS: Janelle Monáe performs at this brand-cen-tric day of music, food and experiences. $45. 1–8 pm. LeFrak Center at Lakeside [171 East Dr. at Ocean Av-enue in Prospect Park, (718) 462–0010], bustlerulebreak-ers.splashthat.com.

ART, “THE END STARTS NOW” OPENING: A solo art exhibit by RAE, with paintings and sculptures made from cast-off objects. Free. 6–10 pm. RAE Pop-Up (1220 Surf Ave., third fl oor, between Stillwell Avenue and W. 12th Street in Coney Island), www.instagram.com/rae_bk.

THEATER, “A CHORUS LINE”: See Friday, Sept. 21. 2 pm and 8 pm. Gallery Play-ers [199 14th St. between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (212) 352–3101], www.galleryplayers.com.

FILM, REVOLUTION ME FILM FESTIVAL, DAY TWO: A three-day festival of movies from emerging fi lmmak-ers. $12 ($45 weekend

pass). 3:30 pm–midnight. Syndicated (40 Bogart St. at Thames Street in Bushwick), revolutionmefi lms.com.

COMEDY, “PICTURE THIS”: Comedians perform as they’re drawn live by car-toonists and animators. $45–$150. 5 pm. Brooklyn Bazaar (150 Greenpoint Ave. between Manhattan Avenue and Franklin Street in Greenpoint), bkcomedy-festival.com.

ART, “THE END STARTS NOW” OPENING RECEP-TION: A solo show from Brooklyn artist RAE, featur-ing sculpture made from cast-off materials, plus installations and perfor-mances. Free. 6–10 pm. RAE Pop-Up (1220 Surf Ave., third fl oor, between Stillwell Avenue and W. 12th Street in Coney Is-land), www.instagram.com/rae_bk.

COMEDY, LET’S BE FRIENDS: Ninety minutes of comedy and interviews with Saman-tha Ruddy, Courtney Magin-nis, David Tveite, and more. Free. 6:30 pm. Muchmore’s [2 Havemeyer St. at N. Ninth Street in Williamsburg, (718) 576–3222], muchmoresnyc.com.

COMEDY, “ARMCHAIR EX-PERT”: A live evening Dax Shepard’s popular interview podcast (guest to be an-nounced). $35–$65. 7 pm. BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene), www.bam.org.

COMEDY, PUPPETS PRESENT STAND UP COMEDY: Co-medians Kelsey Caine and Carmen Lagala get turned into puppets, but carry on with the show. $8. 7 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.unionhallny.com.

NIGHTLIFE, END OF SUM-MER ROOFTOP PARTY: Head to the top of the Pod Williamsburg hotel for a quiet clubbing part, with three DJs, glow-in-the-dark gear, and a great view. $25 ($20 in advance). 7 pm. RFTP [247 Metropolitan Ave. at N. Third Street in Williamsburg, (800) 833–9281], www.quietevents.com.

THEATER, “DOG SEES GOD”: 7:30 pm. See Friday, Sept. 21.

THEATER, “OLIVER!”: 8 pm. See Friday, Sept. 21.

DANCE, COLLABORATIONS IN DANCE FESTIVAL: 8 pm. See Friday, Sept. 21.

COMEDY, STATIONARY CIR-CUS COMEDY SHOW: A free comedy show in Brook-lyn in the coziest venue in Bushwick, featuring host Casey McGowan, Melissa Diaz, CW Headley, and more. Free. 8:30 pm. The Platform [1178 Bushwick Ave. at Cornelia Street in Bushwick, (347) 377–1336], https://www.theplatform-cafe.com.

SUN, SEPT. 23READING, JOHN STRAUS-

BAUGH: The author dis-cusses his book “City of Se-dition: The History of New York City During the Civil War,” at a spot that served as the “Grand Central Depot” of the Underground Railroad. Free. 1 pm. Plym-outh Church [75 Hicks St. at Orange Street in Cobble Hill, (718) 624–9385], plym-outhchurch.org.

FILM, REVOLUTION ME FILM FESTIVAL, DAY THREE: A three-day festival of movies from emerging fi lmmakers, with an award ceremony at 9 pm. $12 ($45 weekend pass). 3:30–11:30 pm. Syn-dicated (40 Bogart St. at Thames Street in Bushwick), www.revolutionmefi lms.com.

ART, “THE END STARTS NOW”: 1–4 pm. See Satur-day, Sept. 22.

THEATER, “ANGELA DELFINI EXPLAINS IT ALL FOR YOU”: Join Delfi ni and her nervous subject Estrella on a clownesque fi ve-step recovery program full of unique challenges and you-can’t-go-home-again trans-formations. $20. 2 pm. The Brick [575 Metropolitan Ave. between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williams-burg, (718) 907–6189], www.bricktheater.com.

MUSIC, FEAR OF SINGING

WORKSHOP FOR BEGIN-NERS: Learn to sing in a fun, supportive atmosphere! $85. 2 pm. Alliance of Resident Theaters [138 S. Oxford St. between Hanson Place and Atlantic Avenue in Fort Greene, (603) 357–4693], fearofsinging.com.

THEATER, “A CHORUS LINE”: 3 pm. See Friday, Sept. 21.

THEATER, “DOG SEES GOD”: 3 pm. See Friday, Sept. 21.

THEATER, “OLIVER!”: 2 pm. See Friday, Sept. 21.

MUSIC, MARTIN MCQUADE: The crooner will sing many of the classic songs com-posed by George Gershwin. Free. 3–6 pm. Circles Cafe and Grill [6931 Third Ave. at Ovington Avenue in Bay Ridge, (718) 748–4611].

COMEDY, JENNY’S BIRTH-DAY VARIETY SHOW: A birthday-themed variety show and blow-out, hosted by Jenny Gorelick and Addie Weyrich. $10 ($8 in advance). 8 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.union-hallny.com.

MON, SEPT. 24MUSIC, SIGURD HOLE: Ac-

claimed Norwegian bassist and composer Sigurd Hole celebrates the release of his two most recent albums with back-to-back solo and

trio sets. $15. 7 pm. Shape-Shifter Lab [18 Whitwell Pl. between First and Carroll streets in Gowanus, (646) 820–9452], www.shapeshift-erlab.com.

READING, DARNELL MOORE: The author of “No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America” talks with journal-ist Brian Vines. Free. 7 pm. McNally Jackson Books [76 N. Fourth St. at Wythe Av-enue in Williamburg, (718) 387–0115], www.mcnally-jackson.com.

FUND-RAISER, “BROAD-WAY DOES BROOKLYN”: A Dramatists Guild Foun-dation benefi t concert, hosted by Darren Criss and featuring performances by Matthew Morrison, Mark Ballas, Ariana DeBose, Erich Bergen, Lesli Margherita, Ethan Slater, and Kathryn Gallagher. $55—$149. 7:30 pm. National Sawdust [80 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Av-enue in Williamsburg, (646) 779–8455], www.national-sawdust.org.

COMEDY, THE ROAST OF YOUR 15-YEAR-OLD SELF: Comedians come together to mock themselves at 15, with photos, old diary entries, and the occasional angst-fi lled musical number. $8. 7:30 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.unionhallny.com.

COMEDY, THE JONES FAM-ILY RETRO SHOW: Rock and roll drag king sisters Maris Jones and Lavinia Jones Wright present an old-school variety-show look at the last 60 years of rock music, with comedy, drag, live sketches, com-mercials, musical perfor-mances, burlesque, pup-pets, and more. $15 ($11 in advance). 8 pm. Knitting Factory [361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, (347) 529–6696], bk.knittingfactory.com.

MUSIC, KONK PACK TRIO: $25 ($18 in advance). 8 pm. Roulette [509 Atlantic Ave. at Third Avenue in Boerum Hill, (917) 267–0363], www.roulette.org.

COMEDY, SIDE PONYTAIL COMEDY: The Mon-day night comedy show welcomes Alingon Mitra, Doogie Horner, Brittany Carney, and more. Free. 8 pm. Friends and Lovers (641 Classon Ave. between Dean and Pacifi c streets in Crown Heights), www.fnlbk.com.

TUES, SEPT. 25TALK, “UPENDING THE

IVORY TOWER”: Historian Stefan Bradley shares the history of how the Black Power movement took hold in university halls. $5 (Free for members). 6:30 pm. Brooklyn Historical So-ciety [128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222–4111], www.brooklynhistory.org.

READING, AL CONTRERA: The founding member of the Mystics, a Brooklyn doo-wop group, discusses his memoir “Hushabye: The Mystics, the Music, and the Mob.” Free. 7 pm. The BookMark Shoppe [8415 Third Ave. between 84th and 85th streets in Bay Ridge, (718) 833–5115], bookmarkshoppe.com.

COMEDY, STEVIE: A witchy comedy show inspired by Stevie Nicks. With Cole Es-cola, Jess Salomon, Recca O’Neal, and more. Free. 8 pm. Our Wicked Lady (153 Morgan Ave. between Sc-holes and Meserole streets in Williamsburg), www.our-wickedlady.com.

COMEDY, GRANDBABY COMEDY: Join Mary Cella, Cara Weinberger, and Brian Bahe for a comedy show followed by free karaoke. Free. 8 pm. Baby Grand Greenpoint [55 McGuin-ness Blvd. South at Newton Street in Greenpoint, (347) 463–9106].

WED, SEPT. 26FILM, “THE GREATEST

SHOWMAN”: Drive-in screening, with lawn seating and kosher popcorn avail-able. Free. 6:30 pm. Man-hattan Beach Parking Lot (Irwin St. and Oriental Blvd.

in Brighton Beach). DANCE, BENJI HART AND

NIC KAY: Benji Hart per-forms “World After This One (work in progress),” which combines vogue-ing, bomba, and gospel music. NIC Kay continues their ongoing project “Get Well Soon.”” Free. 7 pm. BRIC Arts Media House [647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place in Fort Greene, (718) 683–5621], www.bricarts-media.org.

READING, “CAN WE ALL BE FEMINISTS”: Editor June Eric-Udorie discusses her collection of intersectional essays with some of the book’s contributors. Free. 7:30 pm. Books Are Magic (225 Smith St. at Butler Street in Carroll Gardens), www.booksaremagic.net.

THEATER, “POST;DEATH”: A new, original play directed by Theresa Buchheister and written by Title:Point’s ensemble of collaborators. $20. 8 pm. The Brick [575 Metropolitan Ave. between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, (718) 907–6189], www.brickthe-ater.com.

FILM, KEVIN GEEKS OUT ABOUT DAVID CRONEN-BERG: A video variety show from comedian Kevin Maher and a slew of guests. $16. 9:30 pm. Nitehawk Cinema [136 Metropolitan Ave. between Wythe Avenue and Berry Street in Wil-liamsburg, (718) 384–3980], www.nitehawkcinema.com.

NIGHTLIFE, DREAMBOAT BURLESQUE: Sail away to a fantasy land of 1950s show-girl entertainment. Free. 10 pm. The Starliner [1446 Myr-tle Ave. between Bleecker and Menahan streets in Bushwick, (347) 405–6572], www.thestarliner.com.

THURS, SEPT. 27NIGHTLIFE, LET’S DANCE

2!: Rock the house with rhythmic retro R&B, salsa, and contemporary music. Proceeds go to the Imani House. $20-25. 6 pm–midnight. King’s Beer Hall [84 St. Marks Pl. between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope, (718) 638_2059], www.imanihouse.org.

THEATER, “POST:Death”: 8 pm. See Wednesday, Sept. 26.


FRI, SEPT. 28OUTDOORS, THE GREAT

DUMBO DROP: An annual block party with a spec-tacle twist – thousands of elephants dropping onto Washington Street. With crafts, music, food, a silent auction, and a raffl e for which elephant lands clos-est to the target. Free. 4 pm. (Washington Street at Water Street in Dumbo).

ART, BROOKLYN COLLAGE

COLLECTIVE: A mixed media group exhibition for Bushwick Open Studios 2018. 6–10 pm. Brooklyn Collage Collective [37 Trout-man St. in Bushwick, (201) 655–1714].

COMEDY, JOE PERA’S FALL EVENINGS: The comedian tests new material.Each show will also feature a dif-ferent, incredibly special guest. $15. 7 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.union-hallny.com.

TALK, DRAG MAKEUP 101: Embrace your inner drag queen at this three-hour intensive workshop. $100. 7 pm. NYC Resistor (87 Third Ave., Fourth Floor, between Bergen and Dean streets in Boerum Hill), nycresis-tor.com.

NIGHTLIFE, NEW YORK BURLESQUE FESTIVAL PREMIERE PARTY: More than 20 burlesque beauties shake their stuff at this kick-off party. $15 ($12 in ad-vance). 8 pm. Brooklyn Bowl [61 Wythe Ave. between N. 11th and N. 12th streets in Williamsburg, (718) 963–3369], www.brooklyn-bowl.com.


COMEDY, “RONNIE LUVS COMEDY”: A new stand-up show featuring Casey James Salengo, Carmen Christo-pher, and Martin Urbano, and hosted by Fareeha Khan as Ronnie. $5 (cash only). 9 pm. Vital Joint (109 Meserole St. between Leon-ard St. and Manhattan Ave. in Williamsburg).

SAT, SEPT. 29ART, BROOKLYN COLLAGE

COLLECTIVE: 11 am–6 pm. See Friday, Sept. 28.

ART, COFFEE AND CONVER-SATION WITH MARY MAT-TINGLY: The artist will tour and discuss her new work. Free. 12 pm. BRIC Arts Media House [647 Fulton St. at Rockwell Place in Fort Greene, (718) 683–5621], www.bricartsmedia.org.

READING, RIVERHEAD POP-UP READING ROOM: Celebrate Banned Books week with an afternoon of provocative reads and con-versation on the Brooklyn waterfront. Free. 1–4 pm. Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 3, Greenway Terrace, (212) 366–2203, www.brooklyn-bridgepark.org.

DINING, BREWMINARIES PRESENT “LOCAL”: The home-brewers’ guild throws a beer festival celebrating New York State ingredients. $40. 1–5 pm. The Well [272 Meserole St. between Wa-terbury Street and Bushwick Place in Bushwick, (347) 338–3612], www.thewell-brooklyn.com.

THEATER, “A CHORUS LINE”: 2 pm. See Saturday, Sept. 22.

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Kings of comedy: Sisters Maris Jones and Lavinia Jones Wright will bring their 1970s-style rock ’n’ roll variety show “The Jones Family Retro Show” to the Knit-ting Factory in Williamsburg on Sept. 24.


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“We basically rescue all types of animals, from scaly, to furry, to fish, to wildlife — you name it, it comes through our doors,” Casey said in the video, while sporting camo slacks, a red hoodie, and a brown shirt.

The local mugged for the camera as part of the retailer’s Meet My Crew campaign, which features seven bands of merry do-gooders that “remind us of the simple, optimistic principle that as unique individuals, we’re also better to-gether,” according to its website.

Casey’s “crew,” however, was the only one with members of the tail-wagging variety, and included English mastiff Bear, pitbull Mia, rock iguana Rocky, and sulcata tortoise Godzilla — who is not to be confused with the like-named, mythical snapping turtle rumored to plod among the tombstones at Green-Wood Cemetery .

And the rescuer’s squad wasn’t the only Kings County–based crew featured in the campaign — Casey’s ads appear

alongside spots featuring youngsters enrolled in the Brooklyn United Mu-sic and Arts Program, which teaches kids marching-band skills to promote character development.

Casey, who opened his shelter in 1998 and takes in more than 2,000 critters each year, did not immediately return requests for comment on his modeling gig because he is on vacation.

It’s model behaviorLocal animal rescuer stars in new J. Crew campaign

Do-gooder Sean Casey and several critters from his Windsor Terrace animal rescue are featured in J. Crew commercials and in the retailer’s fall 2018 catalogue.

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A judge on Sept. 12 sen-tenced three gang members to several years in prison each for the fatal shooting of a former aide to Gov. Cuomo during the

early morning J’Ouvert festivi-ties on Labor Day in 2015 .

Supreme Court Justice Vincent Del Giudice slapped 26-year-old Micah Alleyne with a 20-to-30-year sentence, and 33-year-old Kenny Ba-

zile with a 20-to-25-year sen-tence, after a jury convicted both men of second-degree manslaughter and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, but acquitted them of the top charge of

Gang members get prison time for death of gov’s aidesecond-degree murder.

And Giudice sentenced a third defendant, 27-year-old Stanley Elianor, to three-and-a-half to seven years for his first-degree reckless endan-germent conviction.

A fourth defendant, 23-year-old Tyshawn Craw-ford, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter and tes-tified in court in exchange for a promised 14-year prison sentence, and jurors acquit-ted a fifth man of charges re-lated to the deadly shooting back in July.

The men, all members of the Folk Nation gang, were on Bed-ford Avenue in front of Crown Heights’s Ebbets Field Houses around 3:40 am on Sept. 7, when a gun fight broke out between them and rivals in the 8-Trey faction of the Crips gang who wandered near the public-hous-ing complex, which Folk Nation claims as its territory, accord-ing to District Attorney Eric Gonzalez.

At the same time, Cuomo’s former counsel Carey Gabay was walking nearby on Bed-ford Avenue with his brother and some friends, and a stray bullet hit him in the head as the bystanders sought cover behind a parked car.

Paramedics rushed Gabay to Kings County Hospital fol-lowing the fracas, where he died from his injury more than a week later, on Sept. 15.

Earlier this month, Cuomo announced $15 million in state funding for a recreation cen-ter coming to Crown Heights’s Bedford-Union Armory as part of the city-owned prop-erty’s redevelopment into a multi-use residential com-plex, and named the com-munity space for his late staffer , a Harvard-educated attorney survived by his wife Trenelle Gabay, and son Carey Gabay, Jr.

Sentencing in J’Ouvert shooting

By Kevin DugganBrooklyn Paper

A Flatlands man was charged in federal court on Sept. 18 with intentionally set-ting a fire that ripped through the Kings Plaza parking ga-rage the day before.

Evon Stephens, 23, was charged with damaging more than 135 vehicles owned by various local car dealerships, which store their cars in the garage, according to docu-ments from the U.S. Attor-ney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. The ar-son case is going before the

federal court because the dam-aged and destroyed vehicles are used in interstate and for-eign commerce, according to court documents.

The fire raged for more than three hours on the morn-ing of Sept. 17 and injured 26 people, including 20 firefight-ers, although none of the in-juries were life-threatening, according to a spokesman for the fire department.

The mall stayed closed for Monday and Tuesday, but re-opened on Wednesday Sept. 19, according to a statement tweeted by mall officials.

Stephens was captured on surveillance cameras in the garage between 8:10 am and 8:25 am, when the mall was closed and the garage wasn’t open to the public, according to court documents. During this time, he allegedly walked through the garage and tried to open several vehicles.

At approximately 8:15 am, the cameras captured the de-fendant walking through the area in the garage which is used by a Mercedes-Benz dealership, where he entered a parked car and was captured moving around inside it, ac-

Feds charge man in Kings Plaza inferno

cording to court filings, and shortly thereafter, the surveil-lance footage showed the car on fire.

After several minutes, a fire spread throughout the ga-rage, damaging or destroy-ing more than 135 vehicles owned by various local car dealerships.

At 3:30 pm, the police stopped Stephens nearby for questioning relating to the fire, according to the crimi-nal complaint.

After he was arrested, Stephens allegedly waived his right to remain silent or speak with an attorney and then confessed to starting the fire, according to court doc-uments, saying that he did it because he believed that peo-ple used the cars for “sexual activity.”

For now, Stephens will be kept in federal custody. His next court date hasn’t been set.


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Giving mice a re-think. That’s what I’m doing, having just watched the

amazing new 3D film now playing hourly at the Amer-ican Museum of Natural History: “Backyard Wil-derness.”

It is hard — well, let’s say a little hard-er — to hate the whiskered nibblers once you see what they’re up against, including freezing, starving, and staring down the family dog as it peers inquisitively into the mouse hole. Give it up for these mice! “Backyard Wilderness” is a movie that makes you so thrilled to be part of all the living things on earth, you feel a kinship not just to rodents, but to sala-manders, frogs, and even some bugs.

Heck, even to a dead deer.

Let me explain.The movie is about a year

in the life of a suburban New York home and its backyard. But rather than a tale of the family that lives there, the hu-mans are almost comic ex-tras in the film, often seen tapping away at screens — or driving off in their big red cars — oblivious to the drama happening all around them in the natural world.

And that, say husband-and-wife filmmakers Susan Todd and Andrew Young, was pretty much true of their own

film actually shows us, over the course of just a minute or two, the six months it takes for the carcass to decay into the earth. At the end, won-der of wonders, the deer has truly disappeared. And pre-cisely where it died, we see new plants shooting up. It is remarkable to the point of prayer-like: World without end, amen.

The movie makes you laugh, too, especially when you see the parallel existence of the mice, just trying to live their life in the wall, and the suburban kids just trying to do their homework.

Let’s hope that the home-work for many a New York City school child this year is to see this film and go home to look for nature. Hint, kids: You got this.

Lenore Skenazy is presi-dent of Let Grow.

eras (and vastly enhanced by Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’ ”). All told, about 10 ducklings leave the nest, find their mom, follow her to the local pond, and then, in yet another act of derring-do, jump in and start swimming.

And that’s just one spe-cies! The film burrows into a raccoon home and shows a mama with her babies. The filmmakers manage to docu-ment a caterpillar as it morphs into a chrysalis and then into a butterfly. Seeing that makes you want to pump your fist in the air and give it up for Mother Nature. She is un-stoppable!

Of course, that doesn’t mean the animals themselves are unstoppable. We watch a pack of coyotes track a deer. Dear readers, the deer does not win — but we do. Using time-lapse photography, the

coyotes.“There’s all these amaz-

ing animal actions happening right outside, some of them at night, and you’re going to miss them if you’re glued to your screen,” she said.

They set out to prove it. And so, over the course of

four years of filming, they managed to get footage of things even they hadn’t re-alized were happening, like a duck family living in their backyard tree (yes, some ducks live in tree holes).

Thanks to a camera they managed to wedge into the hole, we get to watch as the duck eggs hatch, all at once. Downy little critters peck through their shells to emerge cute as kittens, but braver than Braveheart. How brave is that? Later the very same day of their birth they waddle over to the hole their mom has just blithely flown out of and jump.

Duckling after duckling takes floppy flight, an amaz-ing sight captured by the cam-

family. Although the couple spent several years making na-ture documentaries in places like Madagascar and Alaska, home was just, well, home. They lived in New York City for a while — land of pigeons and squirrels — then moved up to Croton-on-Hudson, land of deer and squirrels. Noth-ing that remarkable.

But once they had kids and read Richard Louv’s “Last Child in the Woods,” they realized this genera-tion wasn’t growing up as connected to the outdoors as previous ones.

“It gave us a feeling of ur-gency,” says Young.

They wanted their kids — and everyone else’s — to understand that nature isn’t only in exotic locations. It’s everywhere, from vacant lots in the city to the lush lawns of Larchmont. There are bea-vers in the Bronx River, says Todd. And hawks and falcons throughout the five boroughs. Snowy owls have been spot-ted in Central Park, as have

Your backyard: Where the wild things are

By Lenore Skenazy

Yes, even Brooklynites have racoons in their back-yards, even if this home isn’t in Brooklyn.

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It tasted good while it lasted!

A new policy offering tick-et-holders unlimited bites at the Sept. 16 Taste Williams-burg Greenpoint food festival was so successful that some vendors had their plates wiped clean long before the event

wrapped at 5 pm, according to a first-time food hawker.

“We ran out around 3:30 pm and I was like ‘Oh, no,’ ” said Nino Coniglio, the owner of Williamsburg Pizza and Brooklyn Pizza Crew. “I was scrambling to order dough from one of our res-taurants.”

Coniglio and more than

Fast foodTaste fest’s unlimited bites devoured quicker than vendors could serve them

(Left to right) Christoffer and Trine checked out the festival while in town from Norway. Corey Cash of Cash Only BBQ showed off his tattoos and finger-lickin’ fare. Brooklyn Brewery’s Rebecca Schwartz poured some beer at Taste Williamsburg Greenpoint.

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40 other vendors came to-gether at East River State Park to feed the masses at the ninth-annual festival, which this year offered all-you-can-

eat samples to anyone who shelled out $55 for a ticket, or $85 for early VIP admission, to the four-hour feast.

And even though Coniglio

ran out of the 170 pizzas and 300 rice balls he prepared long before closing time, the local pieman deemed the day a success and said

he plans to participate again next year.

Williamsburg barbecue joint Cash Only BBQ’s booth also fielded hordes of hungry

eaters throughout the event, according to attendee Isaac Quinn, who said the vendor had enough finger-lickin’ fare for him to try even as other

stations had already closed by the time he arrived at 1:45 pm.

But although he couldn’t sample all of the cuisine, Quinn, who trekked to Taste from his home in the outer borough of Manhattan, still praised the event as a way to get out and see what’s cooking in Kings County kitchens.

“Will iamsburg has changed so much over the past few years and the fes-tival gives you an excuse to explore the city more,” he said.

The fast-disappearing free samples also helped organiz-ers achieve their goal of cut-ting back on festival-related waste, according Taste direc-tor Dana Krieger.


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