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Dyker Heights Officials Urge City to Solve Trash Problems PRAYERS

BY PAULA KATINAS paula@brooklyneagle.com I read countless attempts to Unfortunately, whatever Heights Christmas is getting state The one’sDyker contempt for the effortslights were display made then and in extra and attention from the city subsequent this year, according a local shooter the anti-semitic years to toaddress lawmaker said theinDepartment of Sanitation willillbe views he held who that resulted the hate and often mental into theoccurred neighborhood more often pickhave up litter thecoming massacre that in ness behind thetohate falltossed by Pittsburgh at visiting the Treetourists. of Life en short. I would like to Councilmember Justin Brannan, whotherepresents the Congregation. believe that Tree of Life Occasionally, there isofficials an attack is an isolated event, but area, said Sanitation had agreed to his request for event so horrific that there of aretrash as from I mentioned historyonhas additional collections litter baskets the no streets. words to describe your shown that it is not. feelings.

You tryDyker and you try, residents We react as abeen society and as Longtime Heights have complainbuting you cannot fully about wrap litter a government.

We pass some to local officials baskets overflowing with yourself it withAnd words. and create trash.around “It’s a mess. we’renew not laws the ones doingsome it. It’snew the The Pittsburgh attacktold on thisprograms.

It is a Band-Aid tourists,” one woman newspaper. many The levels crossed into thisof Dyker approach that atstreets best hashas resulttrashy condition Heights also territory. is oneof ofdiscussion a growing onedsocial in themedia use ofsites bigger been aIt topic likeBandFacenumber of what has become a Aids as the years have gone by. book, where dozens of residents have posted comments. long and continuing string of I do not know the solution.

In another development, New York Departpremeditated actions designed the To put us on thePolice right trail, we ment has assigned cops to the community for to tear through the very additional fabric first need to accept that our trafficAmerica controlisand to ensure public safety, of what about. problems are Brannan systemic, said. due to “I requested additional to help things Attacks against black cops changes in keep society that under have controlattacks + to direct traffic.

NYPDaggravated agreed and by will breakgive us churches, against teach-Thebeen resources.

I also forrequested additional trash family. cans and ers more and students at school, downs in the nuclear garbage pick-ups and thatThis was also granted does

by DSNY,” eignmore terrorist attacks against breakdown not Brannan wrote in Facebook post. the hate or mental ordinary Americans at awork all cause The thing residential areas of Heights do lead not normally have one in common – Dyker issues, but can to such unadulterated hate unaddressed festerhave litterhate. baskets. But during thegoing Christmas season, with The wake-up call came ingtofor periods Brooklyn of time thousands of visitors attracted thelong Southwest immediately after each Columbine. until it bubbles neighborhood night, Sanitation officialsover. had agreed in previous years to requests from Community Board 10 and the Dyker Heights Civic Association to place litter receptacles at several locations throughout the neighborhood.

“This is something we ask for every year and they always give us,” DHCA the President In it theto meantime, only Fran Vella-Marrone told this newspaper. words that come to mind conThisthe year, Brannan said, he requested a larger number of cerning Pittsburgh massacre litter baskets are, May Thosethan whousual.

Perished expressed RestBrannan In Peace.

May concern, those however, that more will still have tomake be done to address injured a full recovery.litter problems in the neighborhood.

And may all the affected families “Nothing and friendsruins find some level spirit faster than seeing garthe holiday I wouldforlike to believe ofbage comfort in knowing millions all over the place.

I thank Sanitation providing the thatthey thewon’t Tree of Life are praying extra binsfor butthem.

I am still concerned be enough,” Brannan told this newspaper viaattack email. is an isolated but as menLast week,Heights the Home The Dyker Christmasevent, lights display is a IdynamReporter endorsed State tioned history has shown ic, community-wide event that has been going on for many Senator Marty Golden thatbecome it is not. years. Scores of local(whom homeowners holiday season I stars serve by as chief of staff) for reerecting larger-than-life Santas, dancing reindeer, election.

Of course, Suite” I do not giant “Nutcracker figures, illuminated snowflakes, claim to be non-partisan when essentially a civic activist consuper-sized snow globes and other elaborate decorations it comes to the re-election of stantly looking for new ways to on their assist and improve the neighborstate Sen. lawns.

Golden.

Once a homegrown event, the holiday lights display has hoods he represents.

Regardless, the Home grown immensely in popularity inI recent would years. add, as the staffer Reporter — which serves priButthe the90,000 success of thewho event has to traffic jams well wholed also oversees hisas Albany marily people as an in increase noise and according to CB legislative agenda, that10noand one reside the Bayin Ridge and litter, leadersHeights of DHCA. Dyker communities has passed more legislation Visitors purchase creaminto and lawhot by chocolate the gover— in its editorial madecandy, some icesigned from food vendors and then the wrappers nor in thedrop past eight years. excellent points regarding the carelessly Of course, passing billsresithat and cupslong on tenure the sidewalk, to some fed-up senator’s in office.according The bottom line for the Home the governor signs is not the true dents. measurement of a“So, senator’s sucReporter was had that aGolden Brannan specialhas message for visitors. tourists, cess. Itaficionados: is what the new lawssee do. been forLights decades andinflatable remains Santa Dyker fans, if you a garbage can overflowing, please take your garbage with you and throw it away elsewhere. Throwing garbage on somebody’s lawn is not how we say Merry Christmas in

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There are literally thousands  of new jobs in the region that There are many other eleconly exist because of the film tions on the ballot. Locally, and television tax credit that Republican/Conservative Golden wrote. All sorts of senior Steve Saperstein is in a comcitizen programs only kept pace petitive election for State with economic changes due to Assembly against Democrat the senator’s efforts. Hospitals in Mathylde Frontus in a district Brooklyn that seem to always be that stretches from Bay Ridge in financial trouble benefited by to Seagate. Congressmember Golden’s work at the budget Dan Donovan faces off negotiating table and billions of against Max Rose. Repubnew dollars for education made lican/Conservative Assemblytheir way into the city to help member Nicole Malliotakis is create thousands of new seats in running in a very quiet race our end of Brooklyn. against Democrat Adam There is a lot more to be done. Baumel.

The tragedy of opioid affliction Next Tuesday, November 6 has once again raise its evil head. is election day. It is important Golden has authored a package that you mark it on your calWhen sunwith comes up and endar the tourists gone of billsthe to deal this issue. and makehave a commitment home after seeing thefor Dyker Christmas lights, And 9/11 remains current all Heights to vote. Polls are open from 6 the the neighborhood with are sights to 9filled p.m. There counttoo streets many of families of first a.m.are like this: anNo overflowing Photo Tomone Hilton less examples ofbyhow vote responders. one has donelitter and basket. continues to do more on this made a difference. Do not be the one vote that did not vote. issue than Sen. Golden.

Dyker Heights,” he said.

Brannan vowed to “continue to work closely with Sanitation, NYPD and other city agencies to monitor the Dyker Lights situation.”

— LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — One Person Critical After Fire Breaks Out In Fort Hamilton Parkway Building

DEBATE OVER THE DEBATE

candidate Adam Baumel, I was there when the debates were over and heard a lot of I read with disappointment comments from the senior citJerry Kassar’s column in which izens who attended the he criticized Peter Killen’s debates. chairing of the debates at the Andrew Gounardes is a Interagency Council of theALEXANDER

BY JOHN “gentleman’s gentleman,” Aging’s debates jalexander@brooklyneagle.com of the candiwho coupled with his intellidates.

One resident is reportedly in critical condition after a I consider a friend, gent way of discussing an morning fire inJerry Bay Ridge. issue, would represent us with and while weresponded represent to two The FDNY the conflagration that would started in the demeanor that bendifferent political parties, and a fourth floor apartment at 9524efit Fort Hamilton Parkway on Bay Ridge greatly. may disagree with some of his Tuesday morning at 9:46 a.m., according to an spokesHowever, theFDNY hecklers in the party’s positions, I also agree person. audience did a disservice to with him on several issues.

“There my apartment I went to Andrew, because so they didn’t That iswas whysmoke I wascoming disap-up to the apartment belowheand saw smoke, I started banging on “read”sotheir audience.

Senior pointed about what wrote. the door,” saidisBrendan Fitzgerald, a resident the bad building citizens do notoflike manPeter Killen a gentleman for years. who36has done a great job of ners, whether in a debate or on food buffet I heard,was not According debates to Fitzgerald, cat,line.

Squirrel, moderating in thethe avictim’s several, but his many, seniors say found intakes the that hallway, apparently making escape when past. He responsibiltheapartment. hecklers were so ity seriouslybroke and down is therefore firefighters the doorthat to the that they impartial.

A woman who lives on the annoying fourth floor saidmight that conshe siderblack votingsmoke, Republican. think SinceoutI her amwindow the male looked and saw andI then Jerry’swere angerburning. should be Democratic leader of thewindow 64th that saw that her kitchen curtains “I directed towards hecklers.

AD, and the managgrabbed mycampaign dog in my nighties, grabbed mythe jacket and —make Ralphsure Perfetto er forknocked Democratic Assembly then on my neighbor’s door to they

IN MARTY’S CORNER

A drowning man will grab the blade of a sword. I don’t know who said this first, but it’s perfect for this piece.

State Sen, Marty Golden has been vilified by extremist over the last several months and it is a shame, misstating his record in the Senate, particularly in regards to school speed cameras. By the way, he sponsored these bills, I believe twice.

Back when the senator ran against Vincent Gentile they attacked his police record and when the facts came out, Marty won by a pretty big margin.

I am hoping that Andrew Gounardes does not hide behind left-wing trolls, and sticks to the issues at hand.

— Dan Texeira

FROM THE RIGHT

the same.

Why? Is sitting down with your opposites and trying to compromise so difficult? As President Obama once said, “Elections have consequences” I don’t understand how anyone can believe that free education or free health care will be free!

Who’s going to pay for it?

The left keeps saying the top one percent will have to pay. They already pay more than 50 percent-plus of the government’s revenue when 50 percent of the people pay nothing.

The social programs the left are saying they will instill will bankrupt the country. JFK said, “Ask not what this country can do for but what you can do for the country.” The present Democratic Party is not the same as it was. For the first time, I can’t see voting for one.

— Bob Panico

nomically viable and appealing for advertisers.

I have been to every forum and debate and they have not been pleasant experiences.

Only the Malliotakis-Baumel debates were civil, but that is in part because Nicole is all but untouchable politically and ethically, and very respected.

Mr. Baumel, I believe, after talking to him, is a nice fellow, and he knows that about her.

The other debates were entirely uncivil, raucous and outrageous. The moderator at the end of the GoldenGounardes debate at Xaverian sarcastically thanked the audience for being so “civil.”

The Frontus-Saperstein debate at Xaverian ended in a near fight off stage involving her campaign manager, Joe Herrera, and Golden supporters such as Jerry Kassar. It was equally uncivil, mostly from the audience. Saperstein was especially aggressive on stage.

The Dyker Heights debate was the worst of all, causing a St Philip's church leader to demand decorum saying "This is a House of God!.” Eighty percent of the screaming there was from "Team Gounardes" which initiated all of it and did so early on with rude and mocking comments about the Conservative candidate challenging Peter Abbate.

I will say bluntly that Paula Katinas's report of this was

specious by her failure to identify the source of the partisan raucous yelling and chanting.

Bob Capano who was next to me later agreed that it was 80 percent Gounardes backers, and he supports Gounardes.

The Xaverian debates were closer to 55-45 GounardesGolden supporters in terms of screaming. The tone had been set at Dyker Heights.

Now, the "Golden support Nazis" graffiti appears at his office in chalk on the sidewalk.

Of note, the Donovan-Rose debate at Xaverian was not nearly as bad, perhaps in part due to the questions asked, which were local in nature, and as supporters and plants were not very active no doubt as directed by the campaigns..

MY POINT? All sides deserve opprobrium for this but Gounardes does especially. I voted for him in 2012 and know him as a good guy. Why he allows this I do not know.

But, although there may be some middle ground left, the divergence is so great politically — as seen also on social media — that what you did with the Home Reporter and Spectator is justified.

So, I expect few "tart tweets" directed at you. I do hope in coming years and campaigns all sides can rein in the fanaticism and attacks. But I doubt it, sadly.

— Thomas Hilton

The question for the CHANGE IS GOOD upcoming election is: Are you I agree totally with this better off today then you were change [in editorial and politithe last 10 years? I am! cal focus for the Home I understand the left was Reporter and the Spectator], upset by the results of the last and allow me to say why. presidential election. There Despite some apparent were some on the right that efforts by [Bob] Capano, were also, but without the [Craig] Eaton, [Ralph] help of the politicians on the Perfetto and others to establish left we now have the best some middle ground, there economy, maybe ever, the really is virtually none. The lowest unemployment for all divergence is extreme, politigroups, and more jobs than cally. Changes had to be made people. to make the papers more ecoI am a fiscal conservative, not The scene of the fire on a Republican or a Democrat. I Fort Hamilton Parkway. am a registered independent that ebrooklyn media/ Photo by John Alexander has voted for both parties at one time or another and for who I for young attorney, believed would be the best perof Ladder 149 rescued the 71-year-old man who was found were son to out,” do theshe bestrecalled. job. perfect for recent school beneath debris. law He was suffering grad. from burns to his leg and Responders from multiple FDNY ladder companies I don’t understand the lack arms, and was unconscious but office; alive. were present on the scene including 109, 114, 168 and FT in Canarsie-based law of civility especially going on The blaze in the six-story multiple dwelling was brought 149. with the left. HRC said we salarytheir commensurate with under control at 10:43 a.m.experience.

Thehave firefighters initially can’t civility until they had trouble completing According to the FDNY, the victim was quickly transported searches dueWaters to clutter in the affected apartments. win. Maxine hasconditions incitSend resume to They had enterbythe apartments by breaking the windows to Staten Island University Hospital in critical condition. ed lack of to civility demandAlong with the apartment of the victim, two other aparting Republicans be the confronted and throwing out clutter, according to an FDNY spokeswherever they can. Cory ments were reportedly damaged in the fire. person.

Booker (Spartacus) done Todd Maisel contributed reporting for this article.

Sources told this has paper that Firefighter Michael Monaco

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MTA WOES PRAYERS

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At least have one thing in common –– have one thing in common that is what I hope he was unadulterated unadulterated hate. hate. doing.

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Golden (whom I serve as In the meantime, the In of thestaff) meantime, the only only chief and Assemblywords come mind words that thatNicole come to toMalliotakis mind conconmember cerning the Pittsburgh massacre cerning Pittsburgh massacre had on the a regular basis introare, Those Perished are, May May Those who who Perished duced legislation to provide Rest In Peace.

May those Rest In of Peace.

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The budof of comfort comfort in in knowing knowing millions millions getary costfor was around $21 are them. are praying praying for them. million per year. Gov. Cuomo   would go for it.

Last the Lastnotweek, week, the Home Home *** Reporter State Reporter endorsed endorsed State Senator Marty (whom I watched large parts of Senator Marty Golden Golden (whom Ithe as of restate funeral for for PresiI serve serve as chief chief of staff) staff) for reelection.

Of II do not dent George H.W. Bush. election.

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whelmed with grief.

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Even assist and andworld improve the neighborneighborhoods represents. with ahe lifetime hoods he represents.of training, II would as the one wants add, some to would add, as privacy the staffer staffer who also oversees Albany who also with oversees his Albany be alone one’shis grief.

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Locally, Sen. Bob Dole: Hefilm showed means to only exist because of the tions what on the itballot.

Locally, and tax that Republican/Conservative andbetelevision television tax credit credit that “Greatest Republican/Conservative a member of the Generation.”

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Brooklyn that seem to always be that from Bay Brooklyn that seem to always be that stretches from Bay Ridge Ridge zero inasmuch as Pelosi has *** in Seagate.

Congressmember in financial financial trouble trouble benefited benefited by by to to Seagate. Congressmember a well-documented history What will Max Rose do Golden’s work at the budget Dan Donovan faces Golden’s work at the budget Dan Donovan faces off off of punishing now? He table painted himself negotiating and of Max Rose. negotiating table and billions billions of against against Max opposition.

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He opposed her against our end of Brooklyn.

Brooklyn. against Democrat Adam is be pointed in his actions conin There conference.

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There is aa lot lot more more to be done. done.

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— LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — Albany Pay Hikes Costs Taxpayers, Conservative Leader Says

DEBATE DEBATE OVER OVER THE THE DEBATE DEBATE

candidate nomically the IN candidate Adam Adam Baumel, Baumel, II nomically viable viable and and appealappeal- specious specious by by her her failure failure to to idenidenthe same. same.

IN MARTY’S MARTY’S tify Why? was ing for for advertisers. advertisers. tify the the source source of of the the partisan partisan Why? Is Is sitting sitting down down with with ing was there there when when the the debates debates CORNER CORNER II have your were have been been to to every every forum forum raucous raucous yelling yelling and and chanting. chanting. your opposites opposites and and trying trying to to were over over and and heard heard aa lot lot of of II read A read with with disappointment disappointment comments A drowning drowning man man will will grab grab compromise and debate and they have not Bob Capano who was so difficult?

As from the senior citand debate and they have not Bob Capano who was next next to to compromise so difficult?

As comments from the senior citJerry Kassar’s column in which the blade of a sword.

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Focus on Bay Ridge

By Charles F. Otey

Digital Behemoths Are Wreaking Havoc on Local ‘Mom & Pop’ Retail Shops Business Improvement District Vital to Sustain Healthy Third Ave.

Thanks in large part to the innovative Merchants of Third Avenue Business Civic Association, led by President Bob Howe and leaders like Festival Chairman Chip Cafiero, Co-Treasurer Brian Chin and a handful of others, this busy, almost charming thoroughfare, which stretches from 65th Street through Marine Ave., is one of the most active and appealing in all of Brooklyn.

Howe would be the first to tell you, “This couldn’t have happened anywhere else except Bay Ridge, where we’ve long been known as the leading volunteer neighborhood in the city.”

For more than two decades, his team has capitalized on this “do it yourself” community ethic and worked to sustain local traditions like the colorful Ragamuffin Parade and parades for Memorial Day and St. Patrick’s Day, and to launch and develop the city’s most successful “Weekend Walks,” known here as the Summer Stroll on 3rd program, attracting thousands on summer Friday nights.

Third Ave. Festival Highlights Unique Sense of Community

Then there’s the famous Third Avenue Festival, which, for almost 45 years, has earned its deserved reputation as the safest and tastiest in Brooklyn — thanks in good measure to legendary Cafiero.

Only a substantial, consistent and well-run organization could devise and carry out a civic awards program like the Third Avenue

Merchants of Third Avenue President Bob Howe ebrooklyn media/File photo by Paula Katinas

Pioneers Reception, which is now celebrating its 25th year!

The Pioneers agenda celebrates and recognizes those whose volunteer and other service provides our part of Brooklyn with a well-known quality of life that is attracting thousands of new families from other parts of Brooklyn and beyond.

Digital Giants Would Swallow Up Our Local Retail Shops

As some smaller businesses are being virtually wiped out by huge online retailers like Amazon, Howe and other leaders — aided by a start-up fund obtained through Councilman Justin Brannan — are taking action.

In a nutshell, they’re forming a Business Improvement District (BID), Fill out the Needs Assessment Survey at www.surveymonkey.com/ which will ensure that the very positive r/BayRidge3rdAve. initiatives that characterize Third Avenue in Bay Ridge will not only be sustained, but Avenue leadership has been able to engage Condren, Jim Clark, Sandy Vallas, Marty Perch Advisors, a firm specializing in aiding Golden, Basil Capetanakis, Andy Sichenze improved.

Once a Third Avenue BID is formed, it’s local organizations to become Business and others succeeded in achieving a BID. It now has a strong web presence as the Bay been learned, the financial load now shoul- Improvement Districts.

In Bay Ridge, the bustling 86th Street Ridge Fifth Avenue BID. dered by a responsible minority of businesses Howe and his team, working with the and building owners will be spread out so that shopping strip has enjoyed improved safeall who benefit from a vibrant Third Avenue ty, sanitation and promotional programs Perch organization, are distributing literature since it was converted into a BID in the — including questionnaires — on the web will do their bit.

1990s. and in person that examine the needs of the Fifth Avenue in Bay Ridge — historically a community and also explain the benefits that Third Ave. BID Would Aid bustling thoroughfare — had years of diffi- will flow to residents and merchants alike Existing Businesses and Attract culty recovering from the devastation when BID status is achieved.

More Small, Local Shops Such a BID would be able to open up marThanks to the financial grant obtained wreaked by the construction of massive through Brannan, the Merchants of Third bridge approach highways that evicted thou- keting options — with local and online prosands of shoppers. motion — that require more expertise and That troubled environment changed when financial support than could be within the a group of businesspeople including Mike reach of a a hardy band of volunteers, no matLong, John Logue, Zoe Koutsoupakis, Pat ter how dedicated.

Councilman Justin Brannan

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Chip Cafiero

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Merchants of Third Avenue Co-Treasurer Brian Chin Photo courtesy of Brian Chin

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POLICE BEAT

Compiled by Jaime DeJesus

Woman Arrested Inside Sunset Park Hotel, Charged With Assault, Robbery

BY JAIME DEJESUS

jdejesus@brooklynreporter.com

Police arrested a 23-year-old woman for allegedly assaulting and robbing someone inside a hotel in Sunset Park.

According to authorities, on Weds., Dec. 5 at around 6 a.m. Ijena Smith began arguing with the victim about rooms in the hotel, which is located on 38th Street between Third and Fourth Avenues. Smith then allegedly picked up a large milk crate and hit the victim in the face with it, also punching the victim in the face.

Smith allegedly ran out of the room with the victim’s cellphone. When she was stopped in the hallway, cops say she claimed the phone belonged to her. Police, however, say they recovered the allegedly stolen phone from the suspect’s hand while she attempted to conceal her own phone between her legs.

Cops also told this paper that while in the police vehicle, the suspect banged herself multiple times against the car’s interior.

The victim sustained swelling and bruising to the left eye and was treated on the scene by EMS while the suspect was taken to NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn, where she was said not to have injuries.

Smith was charged with third degree robbery, second degree assault, criminal possession of stolen property and harassment.

Cops Seek Man Who Stabbed Woman in Prospect Park Train Station

The scene outside a Sunset Park hotel where a woman was arrested and charged with robbery and assault. ebrooklyn media/Photo by Loudlabs News NYC

68th Precinct

The 68th Precinct serves Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Fort Hamilton.

BAR FIGHT: A 29-year-old woman was hit by a glass thrown by another customer inside a bar near 87th Street and Third Avenue on Sun., Dec. 9.

According to reports, at around 4:20 a.m., a fight occurred inside the bar and the woman, who was not involved in the dispute, was struck with the glass. The victim received cuts to the forehead and was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn for treatment. No arrest has been made.

ROBBED AT KNIFEPOINT: A 55-year-old deliveryman was robbed at knifepoint by a man on Marine Avenue between Third and Fourth Avenues on Fri., Dec. 7. Reports say that at around 4:42 p.m. the victim was delivering food when he was accosted by the perp, who was waiting there, and who approached him, took out a knife and demanded money. The victim gave him around $105 before a witness confronted the perp and scared him off. He then fled northbound on Third Avenue. No arrests have been made.

A surveillance image of the suspect.

Photo courtesy of the NYPD

BY JAIME DEJESUS

jdejesus@brooklynreporter.com\

Cops are looking for a man wanted in connection with the stabbing of a 36-year-old woman in the Prospect Park area.

According to authorities, on Tues. Dec. 4 at around 5:05 a.m., the victim was inside the train station at 15th Street and Prospect Park when she got in an argument with the attacker who then took out a kitchen knife and stabbed her in the torso.

The woman was removed via ambulance to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where she was admitted in stable condition.

The perp fled the train station.

Police describe the suspect as a male Hispanic, around 30 years old, 5’7” tall, 165 pounds, with a light, blotchy complexion, medium build, black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing an orange coat, a gray hooded sweatshirt, black jeans and black sneakers.

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the CrimeStoppers website at www.nypdcrimestoppers.com, on Twitter @NYPDTips or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577.

All calls are strictly confidential.

HOLIDAY BURGLARY: Over $400 was stolen from a department store near 87th Street and Fourth Avenue by an unknown crook on Thurs., Dec. 6. According to reports, at around 8:38 a.m., an employee arriving at work discovered that his office had been ransacked.

While the safe had been damaged, no money was taken from it; however, the change box containing $470 was missing. Cops say that the crook broke in from the construction site next door. No arrests have been made.

ROAD RAGE: A 25-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 24-year-old man on the southwest corner of Fourth Avenue and 91st Street on Weds., Dec. 5. Cops say that at around 4 p.m., the two got in an argument over double-parked cars.

The suspect approached the victim who was in the driver’s seat of his vehicle and allegedly broke the window. He then allegedly punched the victim who was taken to NYU Langone Hospital – Brooklyn.

BAY RIDGE BURGLARY: An apartment near 99th Street and Third Avenue was burglarized on Mon., Dec. 3 at around 11:03 a.m. Cops say the unknown burglar broke into the apartment through the kitchen window and stole commemorative coins, jewelry and more, worth around $6,233. The vic-

tim, a 73-year-old man, was on vacation when the theft took place. No arrests have been made.

62nd Precinct

The 62nd Precinct serves Bensonhurst, Bath Beach and Gravesend.

DASTARDLY DUO: A pair of perps threatened three people near 66th Street and Bay Parkway on Weds., Dec. 5 at around 10:34 p.m. Cops say that the two men, one said to be 41 years old, were riding in a gray Hyundai sedan when they approached the victims. One of the perps simulated a gun and told the victims to get inside their own vehicle and follow them. When the victims refused, the perp repeated the demand, simulating a gun again by pressing an unknown object against one of the victims’ shoulders, and telling them to get inside the vehicle or he would shoot. One of the victims fled the scene while the other two stayed. One of the victims was then punched in the head by the two perps, who stole $650 and a phone before driving off. No arrests have been made.

MAN ARRESTED FOR ALLEGED DOMESTIC ASSAULT: A 48-year-old man was arrested for allegedly assaulting his 48-year-old wife inside an apartment on 82nd Street between 18th and 19th Avenues on Sat., Dec. 8 at around 6:50 p.m. Cops say the suspect started to strangle his wife, also punching her.

BROTHER BUSTED FOR ALLEGED ASSAULT: A 37-year-old man was arrested for allegedly hitting his 30-year-old sister with a hammer inside an apartment near Bay 38th Street and Bath Avenue on Mon., Dec. 3 at around 3:50 p.m. According to reports, the suspect and victim got into an argument when he allegedly punched her in the face, then grabbed a hammer and hit her in the back with it. The victim was treated at the scene.

BENSONHURST BURGLARY: Two burglars broke into an apartment near 17th Avenue and 77th Street on Thurs., Dec. 6. The victim, a 52-year-old man, told cops that his daughter went inside the apartment at 9 a.m., and discovered that the front door lock had been broken. A neighbor told cops that he saw the crook, possibly the landlord, and another man break the lock and enter the apartment. The victim claims $500 was stolen. No arrests have been made.

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Riders Alliance Takes a Hike to Protest Subway Fare Increase

ebrooklyn media/Photos by Steve Solomonson

Protesters marching from the 86th Street R train station to the 77th Street station.

BY PAULA KATINAS PAULA@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

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hey took a hike to protest the hike.

Members of the transit advocacy group Riders Alliance came to Bay Ridge on Sun., Dec. 9 and took a hike from the 86th Street R train station to the 77th Street station to protest a proposal by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to increase subway and bus fares in 2019.

“As a Medicaid recipient, my income is limited, and this fare increase would make it difficult for me to survive. If the fares continue to rise, while able-bodied people will be able to walk or ride a bike, I will be left without an affordable and

accessible transportation system, and no way to get around this city where I have lived for 14 years,” Riders Alliance member Elizabeth Melas of Gravesend said in a statement.

The MTA announced last month that it is considering raising transit fares. The agency is currently holding a series of public hearings to gather feedback from New Yorkers.

Under one proposal, the base fare would remain at $2.75, but the bonus that riders get when they purchase a Metrocard with multiple rides would be eliminated. Under a second proposal, the base fare would increase to $3 and a 10 percent bonus would be given to riders who put $6 or more on their Metrocards.

The MTA is looking at raising the price of Seven-Day Unlimited Ride Metrocards from $32 to $33.

The agency is mulling two proposals on 30-Day Unlimited Ride Metrocards, which currently cost $121. Under one plan, riders would pay $127, while a second proposal would increase the cost to $126.25.

The demonstrators said they were also protesting rotten service on the R subway line.

As they walked along Fourth Avenue from 86th Street nine blocks north to 77th Street, protesters carried signs reading, “Don’t make my commute harder” and “UnReliable,” depicting the letter R in a yellow circle similar to the familiar logo of the R subway line.

Using statistics from the MTA, the Riders Alliance claimed the on-time performance level of the R subway line has drastically decreased from 10 years ago, when it was an impressive 90 percent. In October, only 48 percent of R trains reached their terminals on time.

During Sunday’s protest, the Riders Alliance renewed its call for Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature to begin congestion pricing in Manhattan.

Under congestion pricing, motorists would be charged a fee to drive into Manhattan below 96th Street.

The money would be used to make subway system repairs.

Assemblymember Mathylde Frontus, a Democrat

whose district includes parts of Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Coney Island, attended the protest.

“I am promising today to use the full weight of my office and my seat in the New York State legislature to fight for fully funding the MTA repairs that we need.

When we talk about fare hikes, I am always amazed that we are not thinking about the people on whose backs this would be hurting.

That is to say the poor and working class, they are actually the people who are getting up early in the morning to make our city run,” Frontus said.

MTA spokesperson Shams Tarek said NYC Transit, which is part of the MTA, has made progress in improving subway service.

“NYC Transit is working tirelessly to improve service – as evidenced by improved performance in recent months thanks to the Subway Action Plan, which provided additional resources following the governor’s declaration of a subway state of emergency, and recent initiatives led

by President Andy Byford,” Tarek told this newspaper via email.

Tarek also noted that Cuomo has stated his support for congestion pricing.

“We welcome the governor’s strong support of congestion pricing. Funding NYC Transit’s long-term capital needs will require city, state and federal streams of sustainable, reliable funding,” Tarek wrote.

Sunset Park Man Indicted in Stabbing of ACS Staffer

BY JAIME DEJESUS JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM

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Sunset Park man was indicted on Wed., Dec. 5 on attempted murder charges for allegedly stabbing an Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) employee.

Authorities charge that, on Thurs. Nov. 8 at around 8 p.m., at 52nd St. and Fifth Avenue, 61-year-old Quanyi Feng stabbed the 55-year-old victim in the back and lower torso with a knife.

According to Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez, the victim was a Cantonese interpreter working with an ACS social worker who was making a home visit following reports of Feng’s grandchildren appearing messy and unkempt while attending school.

As the social worker spoke to the child’s mother, a dispute ensued, according to the investigation; cops say Feng then entered the room and began arguing with the Cantonese interpreter.

As the social worker and interpreter attempted to leave the apartment and make their way down the stairs to exit the building, Feng allegedly approached the interpreter from behind and stabbed her in the left side of the lower back.

The social worker called 911 and the defendant was arrested at the scene. The knife allegedly used in the attack was recovered in the kitchen.

Feng has been charged with second-degree attempted murder, first and second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon.

eBrooklyn Media/file photo

The stabbing suspect being arrested.

The victim was hospitalized and treated for multiple stab wounds that damaged various internal organs, requiring surgery.

“This interpreter and social worker were merely trying to do their jobs and follow up on a neglect report when the defendant allegedly stabbed the victim,” Gonzalez said. “Such an unprovoked attack is especially disturbing because it can have a chilling effect on dedicated professionals doing important work to keep our children safe. We’ll now seek to hold the defendant accountable.”

Bail was set at $250,000. Feng has been ordered to return to court on January 16, 2019. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the top count.

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Woman Commits Suicide, Jumping Off Apartment Building in Coney Island

BY JAIME DEJESUS JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER. COM

Ebrooklyn media/Photos by Mark Mellone

The victim being put into the ambulance.

Bath Beach Man Shot and Killed; Suspect in Custody

BY JAIME DEJESUS JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM

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ops have arrested a 23-year-old man in the shooting death of another 23-year-old in the Bath Beach area.

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Third Avenue Merchants Give Back at Annual Holiday Get-Together

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t’s the most wonderful time of the year, indeed.

The Merchants of Third Avenue celebrated as such on Mon., Dec. 3 at the group’s annual party, held this year at Tanoreen, 7523 Third Avenue.

The yearly shindig doubles as a holiday gift drive.

This year, admission to the party was one or more new “unwrapped” toys or gift cards for the Olivia Boccuzzi Foundation.

The local toy collection – now in its seventh year – was founded by Dyker Heights parents Enza and Frank Boccuzzi in November, 2012, just three months after their three-year-old daughter Olivia lost an 11-month battle with a PNET brainstem tumor.

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All toys are donated to children up to 18 years old at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and other New York and Brooklyn hospitals, just in time for the holidays.

“We had a fabulous time,” Merchants of Third Avenue President Bob Howe said of the soiree. “The theme of the night was benefitting the Olivia Boccuzzi

Patrick Condren, Assemblymember Mathylde Frontus, state Sen.-elect Andrew Gounardes, Trevor Howe and Bob Howe.

Foundation and once again reminding people that it’s not all about the glitz and glitter of the holiday – it’s about doing something good for a really needy cause.”

The Olivia Boccuzzi Foundation, Howe said, was the perfect organization to spotlight.

“The Olivia Boccuzzi Foundation supports kids

with pediatric cancer and it really is so deserving of our recognition, and community-wide recognition,” he said.

Also noteworthy, Howe said, were the evening’s entertainers.

“Tanoreen was a spectacular host,” he told this paper. “Jumana [Bishara] and her staff really put themselves out there

Bob Howe, Councilmember Justin Brannan, Maria Ingardia, Sheila Brody and state Sen.elect Andrew Gounardes.

to make it a memorable evening.”

Also on hand, Howe said, were the “new crew of legislators.” Among them, state Sen-elect Andrew Gounardes, Assemblymember Mathylde Frontus and Councilmember Justin Brannan.

“I think it was a good community gathering focused on the fact that we all made

it another year on Third Avenue as merchants – which is a tough thing to do,” Howe said. “And on top of that, we get to recognize an organization that is doing something special and that is doing so quietly.

“It’s a reaffirmation of all things that are good in Bay Ridge,” he went on, “and there’s never anything wrong with that.”

Nick Chamberas, Diana Howe, Serena Maclellan and Bob Howe.

Reaching Out for Christmas Party Volunteers

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eaching-Out Community Services Inc. is reaching out for help.

The Bensonhurst-based non-profit organization that provides social services to underprivileged families is looking for volunteers to help make its annual Christmas parties for children a big success.

Thomas Neve, executive director of Reaching-Out, sent an email blast out to hundreds of people in the community asking volunteers to step forward to help out with the organization’s 13th Annual Operation

Santa Smiles event on Saturday, Dec. 15 and its 13th Annual Santa on Wheels party on Saturday, Dec. 22.

Volunteers are also needed to dress up as cartoon characters to entertain the children at the Dec. 22 party. Anyone interested in playing a cartoon character should contact Neve by emailing tomneve@ rcsprograms.org or calling 917-509-9055 no later than Dec. 17.

Operation Santa Smiles will take place at Saint Mary, Mother of Jesus Church Hall, 2311 85th St., from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Neve is asking volunteers to arrive an hour early, at 10 a.m.

But help is also need

to decorate the church hall and assist with the arrangements, according to Neve. That will be done on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. “for those who would like to help set up,” Neve wrote in his email.

The Santa on Wheels event will take place on Sat., Dec. 22, at Reaching-Out headquarters, 7708 New Utrecht Ave., from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

If you are planning to volunteer, the best time to arrive is 3:30 p.m.

For more information on the Christmas events sponsored by Reaching-Out Community Services Inc., visit the organization’s website: https://rcsprograms.org/.

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It takes a lot of people to help Reaching-Out Community Services Inc. organize its annual Christmas parties for children. The organization is seeking volunteers from the community.

HOLIDAY GUIDE Danish Club Hosts Annual Festive Scandinavian Christmas Ball

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Continuing a beloved Bay Ridge tradition, the Danish Club of Brooklyn, 741 65th Street, hosted its annual Scandinavian Christmas Ball on Sun., Dec. 9.

The event featured tons of games, music, food and holiday spirit for attendees young and old.

Coordinator and member of the band Smorgasbandet Jeanne Eriksson --who performs with Wayne Söderlund, Chad Widman and Johnny Söderlund -- described the day as fabulous.

Among the highlights, she said, was the Lucia pageant, which features participants clad in white and wearing candle-studded crowns or carrying candles in a celebration of light during the darkest time of year.

In addition, said Eriksson, there was traditional music and dancing around the Christmas tree.

“It was a nonstop, high-energy Christmas party,” she added. “We had a lot of kids there. Santa was there. We do a traditional children’s game called the fishing game. They go fishing with a pole and they come up with goodie bags. It’s important to pass on these traditions to the next generation.”

Over 100 people were in attendance. “We had people that came as far as Norway who attended,” recalled Eriksson. “We had people from Raleigh, North Carolina. It’s basically a cominghome-to-Brooklyn Scandinavian party because at one time the largest Scandinavian community in the United States was Bay Ridge and we try very hard to carry on the Scandinavian heritage and traditions, especially here in New York.”

Eriksson -- who was born and raised in Bay Ridge -- was named Swedish American of the Year in 2005. “I’ve actually been knighted by the King of Sweden,” she said, citing her musical efforts. “It’s a pretty big honor.”

The event is extra special to her and the community.

“I’ve been doing this since I was a little girl,” she said. “People always compliment us and say thank you for keeping the traditions alive. I also hear a lot that it brings back memories from their childhood.”

Scenes from the Scandinavian Christmas Ball at the Danish Club.

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Local Law Firm Celebrates its 17th Annual Tree Lighting

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A local law firm was in full holiday spirits on Weds., Dec. 5 for its 17th annual tree lighting event.

The staff of Strazzullo Law Firm, P.C. was once again joined by family, friends, clients and area residents as their festive Christmas tree was decorated and all lit up for the holidays.

The event was hosted by Salvatore Strazzullo and featured a guest appearance by Assemblymember Peter Abbate.

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brought 70 children with him from the St. Athanasius Church CCD program. Santa Claus stopped by as the Strazzullo staff gave gifts to the children, while music played courtesy of DJ Cousin Anthony.

Gifts were also givenout to the children of the community. Games and food were catered

by Lucy’s Sausage.

“The tree lighting event was started by t he f i r m’s president and founder, Salvatore Strazzullo, who continues to keep

this festive tradition going,” remarked Rosanne Miller of

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The Strazzullo Christmas tree is decorated and ready for the holidays.

The Strazzullo family— Annuziata, Sal, Michele and Alison.

Msgr. David Cassato with children from CCD and Assemblymember Peter Abbate.

Strazzullo Law Firm. “He loves this time of the year and enjoys doing this for the children. He’s the father of two daughters and appreciates everyone’s support in the neighborhood. Overall, it was another successful tree lighting event.”

Strazzullo Law Firm is located at 7101 18th Ave. and also at 8418 Third Ave.

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Bay Ridge Artist to Host Art Exhibit to Raise Funds for Toys for Tots

BY JAIME DEJESUS

Rexach was inspired at an early age to give back during COM the holiday season.

“When I was at Fort HamUsing art to bring holiday ilton High School, we did an spirit to the less fortunate in outreach program kind of similar to the toy drive that we’re Bay Ridge.

Freelance photographer, doing now,” she explained. business owner and Bay Ridge “We collected toys around the resident Tiffany Rexach is school and neighborhood and giving back to kids for the we all dressed up as elves and Christmas season with her Santa. We went to the comevent “Arts for Tots: An Art munity shelters and homeless Gallery Fundraiser.” shelters and we handed the To be held on Sat., Dec. 15 at toys out to kids. It really just Catch 22, 7221 Third Avenue kind of changed my view and from 2-6 p.m., the event will gave me a whole different showcase the work of seven perspective.”

Now as an adult, she wants different artists, and three musical performance artists, with to continue to impact youngfunds raised going to Toys For sters and make their Christmas Tots, which sponsored by the day better.

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understand how hard it is to be able to financially get everything together to give someone else that holiday cheer,” Rexach said. “I want to be able to keep that cycle going and bring a whole community together so that way they can feel a part of a bigger purpose.

In September, she hosted her first art event in Bay Ridge, called All Together Now, which met with great success.

“It was a risk because I didn’t know the outpour of support from the community,” Rexach said. That said, “We saw at least 100 attendees rotating at the bar. The turnout was incredible. We had three different performers. We had a great outpour of support.

Photo: Khatia Photography

A scene from Tiffany Rexach’s prior art event.

Everyone was buying artwork from different artists. Drinks were pouring. The owner said, I didn’t expect this turnout on a Thursday and he is very eager to do this again.”

Because of the great turnout, Rexach got the idea to use art to hold a fundraiser.

“I figured that art is universal and brings everyone together,” she explained. “What better way to bring the community together than having different people from all different walks of life come together and showcase their work for this great cause. If we had this many people come out and buy art last time, let’s help some people in the process.”

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Bay Ridge Jewish Center Celebrates Festive Chanukah Party

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The Bay Ridge Jewish Center held its annual Hanukkah party on Sunday, December 9 to much fanfare.

The celebration included a menorah lighting, latkes and

other snacks, arts and crafts, a toy and coat drive, a blood drive and more.

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Judd credited the Hebrew School Parents Association for putting the event together.

“They’re in charge of planning and setting up and cleaning up and making sure everything runs smoothly,” Judd said. “Hebrew school parents really open it up for the entire community.”

He added that the turnout was great.

“We had a lighting towards the end of the program when we set up a lot of menorahs,” Judd explained. “Every family came up and I lit the first candle. Then we passed it to somebody and they passed the light on before they lit their menorah. As I taught last night, a candle can keep giving light and it’s never diminished.”

Events such as this are important to the Jewish community, according to Judd.

“It shows we are a viable presence and we want to be part of the larger Bay Ridge community,” Judd said. “We open our doors and anyone that wants to come in can.”

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The Andrea Domenici Trio will perform on Friday, December 14th at St. Francis of Paolo.

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Brooklyn School of Music presents Home for the Holidays on Friday, December 14th.

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Image courtesy of BAM Gilman Opera House

OnStage at Kingsborough presents The Nutcracker on Friday, December 14th. BAM presents The Hard Nut through December 23rd.

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Art SCHOOL OF PAIN The exhibition School of Pain draws on the work of Leopold von SacherMasoch and Marquis de Sade, the first two thinkers of economies of desire. Sade with his ironic demonstrations may be seen as a predecessor to the attitudes of twentieth century modern and conceptual art. The libidinal economy, unleashed by modern reason, turned out to easily adopt such subversions in the constant mutations of advanced capitalism. The originally subversive imagery of Sade’s mechanised, accelerating and coldly executed desire therefore turned out to be a very literal image of our time. The exhibition poses the question of whether the related but oppositional position of Masoch, based on suspension and

humor, couldn’t be the answer to both a return of contemporary art from theory to the sensual, but also meaningful art’s attitude towards an overly alienated world. The exhibition features work by artists Than Hussein Clark, Anna Daučíková, Chiara Fumai, Mark Ther and BRUD (Aditya Mandayam) and is curated by Michal Novotný, Director of Centre for Contemporary Art FUTURA in Prague.

When: Tuesdays-Saturdays through December 16th, 12 – 6 p.m.

Where: DUMBO/Art in General (145 Plymouth Street) SIXTEEN MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM An exhibition featuring the works of our 2018 Season IV artists-in-residence. The exhibition takes its title from Italo Calvino’s ‘Six Memos for the Next Millennium,’ a series of Charles Eliot Norton Poetry Lectures he was invited to give at Harvard

University over the course of the academic year between 1985-1986 regarding the literary values he identified as being of most importance for the coming millennium.

He had intended to deliver eight lectures in total, but at the time of his departure to Massachusetts, he had written only five of them, which are teeming with references to stories of folklore, mythology, philosophical thought, etc.

The sixth, his wife Esther Calvino revealed in the forward of the book, was planned to refer to Herman Melville’s story of ‘Bartleby,’ the scrivener who ‘preferred not to.’

When: Daily through December 16th, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Where: NARS Foundation (201 46th Street) HERE, RIGHT NOW. A new series of large format oil paintings by New York Artist member Jane Swavely. This new body of work functions as a vessel, carrying omens that mark the shifting landscapes we reside in.

When: Tuesdays-Saturdays through December 16th, 12 – 6 p.m.

Where: DUMBO/A.I.R Gallery (155 Plymouth Street) EMPATHY In an increasingly polarized political climate, empathy

has proven to be a challenging emotion to conjure for many Americans.

Both the public and its leaders seem to show little interest in understanding the viewpoints and experiences of others across the divide. The disruptive rhetoric of the current administration, and of media pundits, has only exacerbated the disjuncture in this country.

This exhibition features artists who reveal a capacity for empathy, a willingness to reflect on another’s point of view or to understand those whose backgrounds differ from their own.

Through photography, video, sculpture, drawing, embroidery, installation, performance, and virtual reality, the artists engage in projects that employ deep listening, compassion, care ethics, and other empathic skills.

Bundith Phunsombatlert collaborated with seniors at Rosetta Gatson Neighborhood Senior Center through a series of workshops, inviting senior residents to share their stories while teaching them the cyanotype photographic printing process. All of the participants were Caribbean immigrants and several of their migration narratives were collected into an artist book that is being published

by the artist. Appalled by news reports of immigrant children being separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border, Michael Kelly Williams was moved to create a new work for the exhibition, which addresses the immigrant crisis in this country.

When: Wednesdays-Sundays through December 30th, 12 – 6 p.m.

Where: DUMBO/Smack Mellon (92 Plymouth Street) FIVE CENTS TO DREAMLAND: A TRIP TO CONEY ISLAND This special exhibition brings together highlights from both permanent collections to explore Coney Island’s history from a new and unique perspective.

When: Saturdays & Sundays through December, Saturday: 12 – 6 p.m., Sunday: 2 – 6 p.m.

Where: Coney Island/ Coney Island Museum (1208 Surf Avenue) ANNE PEABODY A site specific installation by Anne Peabody.

When: Daily through January 4th, 2019 Where: DUMBO/Main Window (One Main Street) MASCULINEUS Photographs by Sheba Legend.

When: Thursdays-Sundays through December 18th, 1 – 6 p.m.

Where: Prospect Heights/

FiveMyles (558 St. John’s Place) VITTORIA CHIERICI: THE PHILOSOPHER’S CLOTHES The artist presents large paintings she has dedicated to Raphael’s famous fresco School of Athens.

When: Thursdays-Sundays through December 15th, 1 – 6 p.m.

Where: Crown Heights/ FiveMyles (558 St. John’s Place) BEACH AND QUIET (A REST STOP) Coaxing the unnameable. A room, an actual condition.

Dubious utility. Situated images, objects, events.

Ambiance, silence, vibration.

Wind, clay, trees, cloth.

Without the synthetic, the rote, the mannered, the cautious, the mercenary, the logical. Inclination towards still. Liberated assumptions, hovering reference. Delight in the role of delivery. Pause, option, breath, freedom.

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When: Thursdays-Sundays through December 16th, 1 – 6 p.m.

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the NYC Parks Department and the DUMBO Business Improvement District to display the powerful work of photographer **Griselda San Martin’s very powerful project on the already existing wall that divides the United States and Mexico, as a large scale photographic public art exhibition in DUMBO Brooklyn at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge pedestrian entrance.

When: Daily through December 20th Where: DUMBO SUBVERT CITY Conceived by gallery artist Vincent Como, this exhibition brings together a group of five artists, each of whom are engaged in varied yet distinct forms of painterly heresy.

Apophatic meditations on the modern canon which endeavor to honor tradition by undermining, over-saturating, or inverting it. From the subtle to the sublime, that which was once deemed non-objective

by Malevich, has become radicalized into a planar lucidity of the material object-in-itself.

When: Wednesdays-Saturdays through December 22nd, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Where: DUMBO/Minus Space (16A Main Street) HOLIDAY PARR-TY Food Photographs by Martin

Parr brings together the best of Parr’s food observations.

Since 1995, when this “British Food” series originated, Parr has been capturing the delectable, the gross, the ridiculous, and the adorable in food and food consumption throughout the world.

When: Tuesdays-Saturdays through January 19th, 11 a.m.

-5 p.m.

Where: DUMBO/Janet Borden, Inc (91 Water Street) PENELOPE UMBRICO: MONUMENT Penelope Umbrico’s MONUMENT explores the monolithic state of current technologies in relation to their obsolescence. Umbrico begins with the idea that all technologies–including the electronics we use at home and in the workplace– are in effect “black boxes” whose contents are largely incomprehensible to end users. Although we tend to think of screens as invisible and we never see the workings of our technologies, almost everything we learn and know these days is mediated through the filters of technology. Umbrico aims to demystify the black-box device and to engage the public in creative modes of transforming and visualizing the electronic detritus that accumulates in our homes

and in landfills.

When: Tuesdays-Saturdays through January 20th, 10 a.m.

– 6 p.m., Sun: 12 – 6 p.m.

Where: Fort Greene/Gallery at BRIC House (647 Fulton Street) TOWARDS A NEW ARCHEOLOGY This group show brings together artists who reevaluate the history of material culture — presenting installation and sculptural works that speak to a mystical, transcendent, and visionary future.

Towards a New Archaeology features work by Amy Brener, Leeza Meksin, Sheila Pepe, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, Ester Partegàs, Jean Shin, and Rachel Eulena Williams.

When: Daily through January 2019, 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Where: Fort Greene/BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building (30 Lafayette Street) SOUL OF A NATION: ART IN THE AGE OF BLACK POWER Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power shines light on a broad spectrum of Black artistic practice from 1963 to 1983, one of the most politically, socially, and aesthetically revolutionary periods in American history. Black artists across the country worked in communities, in collectives, and individually to create a range of art responsive to the moment—

including figurative and abstract painting, prints, and photography; assemblage and sculpture; and performance.

When: Wednesdays-Sundays through February 3rd, 11 a.m.

6 p.m., Thursdays: 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Where: Crown Heights/ Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway) TOM BENNETT: PAINTINGS AND MASTER PRINTS A solo exhibition and sale of Tom Bennett’s artwork.

Tom Bennett’s artwork is recognizable for its impassioned brushwork, bold compositions, and rich subject matter. His work embraces art history, abundant with homages to heroic works, bucking horses and classical nudes.

In addition to his dynamic paintings, Tabla Rasa will feature a series of unframed mono-types for acquisition by both the seasoned and novice collector. Among them are images of figures that seem to breathe with life force, and storms that roil on the horizon. Mono-types, a form of print in which an image is created on a plate and then transferred to paper, is an ideal vehicle for the spontaneity of Mr. Bennett’s drawing talents.

The inked plate yields only one “unique” image, not

an edition of multiples as in other printmaking techniques.

When: Thursdays-Saturdays through February 9th, 1 – 5 p.m.

Where: Sunset Park/Tabla Rasa Gallery (224 48th Street) PROCESSING: A GOWANUS SWIM SOCIETY EXHIBITION A n exhibition of current work by the eight members of the artist collective Gowanus Swim Society.

Participating Artists: Jessica Dalrymple, John Fisk, Natalie Fisk, Abigail Groff Hernandez, Kristen Haskell, Melissa Johnson, Suzy Kopf, Mary Negro. Katherine Gressel, Curator.

When: Fridays through February, 3 – 6 p.m.

Where: Park Slope/Old Stone House (336 3rd Street) THE BUSINESS OF BROOKLYN In conjunction with the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, BHS presents The Business of Brooklyn, an exhibition exploring the past 100 years of business in the borough. The story spans booming factories, family shops, iconic innovation, and labor struggles. The exhibition showcases images and objects from companies large and small that thrived in Brooklyn, including Domino Sugar, Squibb Pharmaceuticals,

Schaefer Beer, Drake Bakeries, Abraham & Straus, Gage & Tollner, and many others. It includes numerous artifacts from the Brooklyn Chamber’s history, including a gavel that the Chamber used to convene meetings in the 1920s, the telephone the Chamber used in its first offices at 75 Livingston Street, and a program for the Chamber’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, which honored entertainer Danny Kaye. It also includes treasures from BHS’s collections, including Eberhard pencil sets, Virginia Dare bottles and glasses, coasters and trays from Brooklyn’s illustrious beer brewing history.

When: Wednesdays-Sundays through Winter 2019, 12 – 5 p.m.

Where: Brooklyn Heights/ Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont Street)

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Each week children and caregivers explore art in the SPARK studio, experiment with materials, discover hidden objects from the BCM collection on scavenger hunt challenges and create masterworks in this onehour class When: Thursday, December 13th, 9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Where: DUMBO/Sparks by Brooklyn Children’s Museum (1 John Street)

MURDER MAYHEM AND DISASTER Serene, beautiful GreenWood is the final resting place for victims who met of violent ends. Join veteran tour guide Ruth Edebohls to hear some of their fascinating, and mostly tragic, tales, including the sinking of the SS Morro Castle and possible murder of her captain; the Malbone Street Wreck, the deadliest accident in New York City subway history; Evelina Bliss, whose poisoning by arsenic-laden clam chowder sent shock waves through the Gilded Age; the mass grave to the victims of the Brooklyn Theatre fire, and many more.

When: Saturday, December 15th, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Where: Greenwood/GreenWood Cemetery (500 25th Street)

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Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association Honors Justice Jeanette Ruiz

The Brooklyn Women's Bar Association and other legal groups honored Justice Jeanette Ruiz, administrative judge of the NYC Family Court, during its annual Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. Pictured from left: President Carrie Anne Cavallo, Hon. Jeanette Ruiz and Hon. Joanne Quinones. Visit brooklyneagle.com for story. Brooklyn Eagle photo by Mario Belluomo 16INB • INBROOKLYN — A Special Section of Brooklyn Daily Eagle/Brooklyn Eagle/Heights Press/Home Reporter/Brooklyn Spectator/Brooklyn Record/Greenpoint Gazette • Week of December 13 - 19, 2018

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with Santa, craft making, face painting, and a free buffet with refreshments. The holiday celebration and toy distribution is one of the many ways that Healthfirst demonstrates its commitment to the community.

When: Saturday, December 15th, 12 – 5 p.m.

Where: Brownsville/ Van Dyke Community Center (392 Blake Avenue) WINTERFEST Celebrate the holiday season with the whole

family. Wander inside the Holiday Market, and sip a hot chocolate or mulled wine. Buy a day pass for the whole family which gives you access to all attractions.

Start with visiting the Maze and playing our scavenger hunt, slide down Snowzilla, get a thrill at bouncy, take a family photo inside the giant snow globe, visit Santa and go inside the beautiful dome to experience our Chocolate story.

When: Daily through

December 31st Where: Crown Heights/ Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway)

Flea Markets MINI BOOK SALE If your holiday budget is stretched thin and you are still in the giving mood, the Library’s Mini Book Sale is the place to be. A small selection of curated books and media for people of all ages will be available for $3 and under. Cash only; all proceeds will benefit the Library.

When: Sunday, December 16th, 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Where: Grand Army Plaza/ Central Library (10 Grand Army Plaza) BKLYN ARCTIC ADVENTURE The Holiday Virtual Reality Experience, created by the experts at YokeyPokey, offers something for everyone – from an excursion to a Winter Wonderland to real life snowball fights and a chance to meet Santa – virtually, of course. Plus, Holiday photos for avid VR fans and their families and a Joybird Lounge where parents can relax while their kids are traveling through time.

When: Friday-Sunday through December 24th, 12 – 9 p.m.

Where: DUMBO/Citypoint (445 Albee Square West)

Film EYES WIDE SHUT After a provocative Christmas party hosted by the wealthy and unconventional Victor Ziegler, Dr. Bill Hartford and his wife Alice (played by atthe-time real-life couple Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman) set sail on a psychosexual journey caught between reality and illusion, jealousy and obsession. When Alice admits to have sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes hell bent on having an illicit encounter but after he sneaks into a secret society sex party, he quickly discovers he’s in way over his head. With its intimate dialogue and sweepingly vibrant scenes, Eyes Wide Shut is a befitting finale to Kubrick’s stunning cinematic legacy.

When: Friday & Saturday, December 14th & 15th, 11:45 p.m., Where: Williamsburg/ Nitehawk Cinema (136 Metropolitan Avenue)

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When: Tuesday, December 21st, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Where: Brooklyn Heights/ Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza (209 Joralemon Street)

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Grand Canyon Restaurant owner Cesar tells Faces that it offers breakfast all day long. He says that Grand Canyon has the best Chilaquiles and Huevos Rancheros in the borough. Oh, and Cesar, who was a waiter at Clark’s Diner for many years, says that the eatery also features a great vegan menu!

Clark’s Diner owner Mark tells Faces that customers keep back for his incredible breakfast menu including the pancakes with a variety of toppings. He showed Faces a picture of a mouth-watering stack with butter, blueberries and strawberries. The perfect way to start the day! www.Clarkdiner@gmail.com

Soigne Restaurant owner Gregg Berk told Faces that his passion is to feature locally sourced artisan ingredients of the highest quality.

The restaurant strives for the best tasting meals using only the freshest seasonal ingredients. This holiday season, make plans to try the amazing four-course market-inspired Chef’s Tasting Menu! www. Soignebrooklyn.com

Tan at Wanisa told Faces that one of the most requested items on the menu is chicken breast, pork loin or tofu with green curry. He explained that Green curry is a Thai favorite that gets its color from the fresh green chilies cooked in coconut milk, bamboo shoots, bell peppers, eggplants and basil leaves! You can also enjoy it with top sirloin beef, tiger shrimp or a combo of four meats or mixed seafood! www. wanisahome­kitchen. com

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Eye on COBBLE HILL

Welcome to the Cobble Hill Historic District, which is full of eye-pleasing spots such as Verandah Place.

INBrooklyn photo by Lore Croghan

COBBLE HILL This neighborhood was settled in the 1640s, when Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant, he of the artificial leg, began to allow farming north of Red Hook.

The Dutch farmers originally called it Ponkiesbergh, meaning Cobbles Hill, because of the cobblestones then being dumped in the area. The cobblestones were used as ballast on trading ships arriving from Europe, South Brooklyn being a major cargo port and Cobbles Hill then considered a part of South Brooklyn.

The largest mass of cobblestones was dropped at the corner of present-day Atlantic Avenue and Court Street, making it a cone-shaped hill that was later known by the British as Bergen Hill. Because of the commanding view of the harbor from there, Gen. George Washington built Fort Cobble Hill there to help protect against the British invasion in the Revolutionary War. Fort Cobble Hill was also called the “Corkscrew Fort,” after the spiral road that was paved to move cannon to its top.

Washington used it as an observation post when the British invaded Brooklyn in 1776. The defenders of the fort were routed, the Americans retreated from Brooklyn, and the top of the hill was torn down by the British.

The area remained mostly rural until 1836 when the South Ferry started running between Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue and Manhattan’s Whitehall Street. The neighborhood then developed rapidly, but it wasn’t until the 1950s — when a real estate broker saw the name on a 1766 map — that Cobble Hill was really reborn.

Situated between Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Heights, its boundaries are considered to be the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Hicks Street on the west, Court Street on the east, Atlantic Ave. on the north and Degraw Street on the south.

—Norm Goldstein

Come See the Cobble Hill Historic District

By Lore Croghan Once upon a time, novelist Thomas Wolfe lived in the Cobble Hill Historic District.

Recently, James Bond actor Daniel Craig and “The Favourite” co-star Rachel Weisz reportedly bought a brownstone there.

The landmarked Brooklyn neighborhood is full of old-fashioned architectural eye candy, much of it built before the Civil War.

LEFT: Celeb couple Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig reportedly own a brownstone in Cobble Hill.

RIGHT: Here's novelist Thomas Wolfe, who lived at 40 Verandah Place for a couple years. This picture was taken in Berlin in 1935.

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One of its many Instagramworthy spots is Verandah Place, which is lined with brick carriage houses and former stables.

It's where Wolfe lived.

Another photogenic location is the Cobble Hill Towers complex at 431 Hicks St., a cluster of thoughtfully designed apartment buildings for workers that philanthropist Alfred Tredway White constructed in the 1870s.

There was a toilet in every apartment, which you wouldn't have expected in tenements of that era.

See brooklyneagle.com to find out more about this historic neighborhood.

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Eye on COBBLE HILL

Here’s The Cobble Hill House, right, a 27-unit condo building constructed by Vega Management. The Cobble Hill House, left, is located on Hicks Street, right beside the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

Swift Sales for Condos on a Corner of the LICH Site Developer Duo Built The Cobble Hill House Beside Fortis’ River Park Project

By Lore Croghan INBrooklyn

Silence is golden.

It’s pin-drop quiet inside The Cobble Hill House — although the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway runs right past it.

The condo building’s developers have an acoustical consultant to thank for that.

Married business partners Brandon Hornbeck and Yvonne Lee hired the consultant to help them soundproof the new building on the corner of Amity and Hicks streets in Cobble Hill. It’s located on a small corner of the mammoth former Long Island College Hospital site.

The sound that needed to be blocked out is the constant rumbling of trucks on the highway.

“It’s not the sirens that you worry about, it’s the low rumble,” said Lee, who like Hornbeck is a principal of Vega Management.

A machine outside The Cobble Hill House’s windows recorded noise from the BQE for 24 hours.

The acoustical consultant used the playback to test the building’s custom-designed windows in a sound booth, Lee and Hornbeck told Eye on Real Estate in a recent interview.

The windows muffle sound thanks to the differences in thickness between the two panes of glass they’re made of, the size of the air gap between the panes and the window frames’ design.

The developers’ engineering team also put heavy insulation behind the walls of the five-story, 27-unit building at 78 Amity St. to help keep things quiet.

COBBLE HILL: Brief History

The area that is Cobble Hill was first settled in the mid-17th century when Dutch governor Peter Stuyvesant began to allow farming north of Red Hook.

The location played an important part in the Revolutionary War, with the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Court Street offering a commanding view and becoming the site of Cobble Hill Fort.

By the 1800s, the neighborhood’s name died out and it became considered part of Brooklyn Heights until the 1950s when a realtor gave the name back after seeing it on a map from 1766.

Cobble Hill’s connection with the financial center of New York City prompted its development, with middle-class residents moving into its row houses. In the 1950s, brownstone enthusiasts moved into the area and renovated it block by block.

The neighborhood now boasts an activist spirit to preserve its low-rise identity, reminiscent of a Cobble Hill community that once blocked construction of a supermarket, leading to the construction of Cobble Hill Park.

—Norm Goldstein

Sixty Percent Sold in Two Months

Deborah Rieders of the Corcoran Group, the project’s broker, convinced Hornbeck and Lee to hold off on The Cobble Hill House’s sales launch until the building’s construction was far along.

Instead of opening an off-site sales office, they waited until they’d constructed a model apartment with the soundproof windows.

They also installed the soundproof windows throughout the floor on which the model apartment was located so visitors’ walk to it wouldn’t be noisy.

The model unit overlooked Hicks Street and the BQE — so potential buyers got an eyeful of the apartment’s views of the waterfront and Manhattan and also heard how quiet it was.

The condos on that side of the building were the first ones to be sold, Rieders said.

In just two months since the sales launch, contracts have been signed for 60 percent of the units.

Brandon Hornbeck and Yvonne Lee of Vega Management show us a terrace view at The Cobble Hill House.

INBrooklyn photos by Lore Croghan Construction at The Cobble Hill House is nearly finished.

Move-ins are expected to start in early 2019.

Fortis Is Building a Skyscraper Nearby

The Cobble Hill House caught our attention because it’s a jewel box of a building surrounded by the nearly 1 millionsquare-foot residential project called River Park that Fortis Property Group is constructing on the LICH site.

The Cobble Hill House is a completely separate, independent project from River Park.

The Fortis project includes a new glass-clad skyscraper and the residential makeover of the landmarked Polhemus Building.

In 2015, Fortis bought LICH’s property portfolio on Hicks, Amity, Henry and Pacific streets for $240 million. Afterwards, Fortis sold several brownstones.

The developer also sold a package of four decrepit low-rise buildings at 385 Hicks St. and 74, 76 and 78 Amity St. to Vega Management for $18.25 million. This is the site where Hornbeck and Lee have built The Cobble Hill House.

They and their four children live near the new condo building.

“We’re here all the time,” Lee said. “We see every screw that goes into the walls. For us, this is a labor of love.”

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Here's a glimpse of the spacious living room in a model apartment at The Cobble Hill House.

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Momentary sunshine brightens our view of Cobble Hill Towers.

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A Second-Generation Cobble Hill Architect

Lee and Hornbeck wanted the apartment house to be contextual with the Cobble Hill Historic District although their property is located outside the landmarked area’s boundaries. No glassy towers for them.

They hired a second-generation Cobble Hill architect, Brendan Coburn, to design The Cobble Hill House. His firm is called CWB Architects.

“This building could be here for the next 100 years,” Lee said.

“Our kids go to school here. We have neighbors here,” she said. “We wanted to walk by and be proud, not embarrassed.”

The developers started demolishing the old buildings on their construction site in summer 2016.

They began foundation work in February 2017. They poured the concrete on the first floor in November 2017.

Several years ago, LICH’s threatened closure caused protests by many Cobble Hill residents, by LICH doctors, nurses and other workers, by community activists, union leaders and politicians.

At the time, Hornbeck and Lee lived further away from the hospital site than they do now. Their immediate neighbors didn’t get caught up in the controversy surrounding LICH and neither did they, they recalled.

Keeping Common Charges Low

Rieders said condos at The Cobble Hill House have sold swiftly thanks to a combination of factors.

She said the building’s mix of layouts appeals to buyers, as does its amenity package, which includes onsite parking, a gym and a children’s playroom.

Also, it has low monthly common charges because the building will have a virtual doorman instead of a full-time door staff.

This will reduce the common charges by about $1,500 to $2,000 per month for a twobedroom or small three-bedroom apartment, Rieders said.

A virtual doorman is an off-site person watching the apartment building’s door with a camera, who can let in delivery workers and dog walkers and contact the police if necessary.

A list Rieders gave Eye on Real Estate says asking prices for condos that are still available at the building range from $1.645 million for a two-bedroom unit to $3.675 million for a three-bedroom penthouse.

‘A Very Methodical and Go-Slow Approach’

Over time, the couple searched for small buildings to buy in Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Park Slope and Carroll Gardens.

They began fixing up their rental units.

They started small — a kitchen here, a bathroom there — then graduated to full-scale interior renovation of entire townhouses.

Later, they began constructing new buildings from the ground up. The Cobble Hill House is the fourth such project they’ve done.

Previously, their largest new development was a 17-unit apartment building.

“We’ve always had a very methodical and go-slow approach,” Lee explained. “We just

wanted to make sure that we could always maintain control with every single subsequent project. We didn’t want to bite off more than we could chew.”

Hornbeck quit his day job a decade ago to work full-time at Vega Management. Until last year, Lee worked on Wall Street during trading hours and focused on real estate at every other possible moment.

“Yvonne would be pregnant and we’d be at some tile distributor at 6 a.m. And we’d pick out tile and then she’d go to work,” Hornbeck recalled.

“No one would ever say that I’m lazy, that’s for sure,” Lee said.

Sunlight and Herringbone Floors

Our meeting with Hornbeck, Lee and Rieders took place in a three-bedroom model apartment facing the back side of Fortis construction sites on Amity Street.

The apartment was very quiet. Enormous windows let in lots of light. It had a balcony that will be a welcome amenity in less wintry weather.

The bathroom connected to the master bedroom was as big as some Manhattan studio apartments we’ve seen. The kitchen was a substantial size, too.

Lee pointed out herringbone floors, which are an old-fashioned touch.

Rieders pointed out a spacious front entrance, like you’d find in a brownstone.

From Tokyo to Cobble Hill

A block from The Cobble Hill House, work is underway on Fortis Property Group's 5 River Park development.

Now, some details of how Hornbeck and Lee built Vega Management.

They grew up in different New Jersey towns. He graduated from Princeton, she graduated from Cornell.

They met in Tokyo while she was doing a project for her job as a Price Waterhouse technology consultant and he was an IT employee at Japanese company NEC Corp.

They got into real estate after moving to New York City, where Hornbeck was a web developer for a digital advertising firm and Lee had a tech job for a Wall Street firm.

The couple started small — by renting out their Greenwich Village condo after moving to Cobble Hill in 2003.

They’d fallen in love with the Brooklyn neighborhood when a friend invited them to dinner there.

“It had a good vibe,” Hornbeck said.

In 2004 they bought a Cobble Hill brownstone as an investment property and rented out the units in as-is condition.

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By Stephen Vorvolakos, Director – Investment Sales

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Brooklyn is undeniably one of the hottest destinations for multifamily properties, with the asset classes’ steady returns and capital preservation being significant draws.

As some regions become overwhelmed with supply, investors will likely turn their attention to neighborhoods that are poised to become the “next big thing,” and Sunset Park is high on their list.

In the first three quarters of 2018, New York City’s biggest borough recorded 284 multifamily transactions consisting of 372 properties, totaling approximately $2.75 billion in gross consideration, according to Ariel Property Advisors’ Investment Research Division. On a year-over-year basis, transaction and building volume held steady, but dollar volume soared 71% due to a noticeable increase in large and institutional caliber sales.

For the past three years, Brooklyn has comprised almost 50% of NYC’s multifamily transaction volume. So far in 2018, the borough has constituted roughly 46% of NYC’s 500 multifamily sales.

After an active 2017, investors took a breather from Sunset Park’s multifamily market this year, a trend likely to prove transitory given the area’s slew of amenities and attributes. From its proximity to Manhattan and favorable zoning to its huge industrial waterfront, rapid population growth and strong retail landscape, multifamily buildings are poised to appreciate. And Sunset Park’s spectacular hillside views of Manhattan are icing on the cake.

Nearby Gowanus is in the midst of a major transformation, with Whole Foods, Royal Palms Shuffle Board, Dino BBQ and Ample Hills Creamery all planting their flag in the area. Residential demand followed, so it is no surprise that real estate developers, restauranteurs and artists have turned

the once working class neighborhood into a trendy hot spot that is comparable to Williamsburg just ten years ago. Now investors are searching for the “Next Gowanus,” and their answer lies squarely on Sunset Park, which is quite similar in demographics and scenery.

Gowanus is awash with new development, with 1,650 new residential units in the pipeline, according to data collected by Recity. Sunset Park, on the other hand, is just getting started. Last year, Fairstead Capital purchased a 42-building portfolio comprised of 403 total units for north of $100 million.

In mid-August, New Empire Corp. revealed plans for three mid-rise towers totaling well over one million square feet across multiple blocks, spanning from 8th Avenue to Fort Hamilton Parkway. The sheer size and scope of this massive complex is unprecedented for Sunset Park and is likely a sign of more to come.

Flurry Of Favorable Factors Sunset Park is located within the New York City Economic Development Corporation’s Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Business Zone. This zoning provides firms with economic incentives for relocation to the area, including business income tax credits of up to $3,000 per employee, property tax abatements and reduced energy costs.

With these improvements, major technology/advertising/media/information (TAMI) businesses have moved into the area. The decline in brick-and-mortar retail demand due to the rise of e-commerce continues to take a toll on retailers, namely in Manhattan and Downtown Brooklyn. As a result, stores have increasingly set their sights on more affordable rents, which can be found Sunset Park. The Brooklyn Nets’ practice facilities, Bed Bath & Beyond, Saks Off 5th, Five Borough Brewing Company, Brooklyn Kura Sake Distillery and World Market are all situated in the area.

The above attractions should continue to bring new residents. Since 2000, Sunset Park’s population has grown 7.2%, sharply above Brooklyn as a whole, which grew

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Right now, residential rents in Gowanus average about $38 per square foot, while Sunset Park’s average rent is only $28 per square foot, showing there is still plenty of upside to be unlocked for multifamily investors. Excluding residential homes and townhouses, about 30% of the properties located in Sunset Park are multifamily buildings. As developers begin to realize the future potential, this number will surely grow.

Through the first three quarters of 2018, property values in Sunset Park have spiked.

The price per square foot for a multifamily building sale averaged $444, a remarkable 22% increase from 2017. Meanwhile,

the average price per unit was $350,757, an impressive 25% increase from last year.

Despite higher property values, there is still significant upside due to many of the above-mentioned reasons.

Lastly, while other Brooklyn neighborhoods that rely on the L-train face uncertainty next year when it closes for 18-24 months, Sunset Park will be largely unscathed due to its copious transportation options.

Looking ahead, the multifamily property market in Sunset Park is a bastion of opportunity. The region’s favorable zoning, beautiful waterfront views, thriving retail sector and relative affordability should continue to entice investors and residents alike, all but guaranteeing a strong investment sales market for the foreseeable future.

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NOT Have to Hurt By: Richard M. Rosenfeld, MD, MPH, MBA

An anterior (in the front) tongue tie is often readily visible as a thin band of tissue that tethers the tongue to the lower gum, causing the tip of the tongue to indent (heart-shape) when protruded.

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be administered due to allergies or kidney cause of breastfeeding difficulties, because it prevents the baby from lifting and sticking out the tongue, both of which are needed for effective feeding.

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Improve life expectancy with some healthy habits “Who Wants to Live Forever” is a song that appeared on the 1986 album “A Kind of Magic” by the rock band Queen. The song often sparks conversation about the potential benefits of immortality .

Immortality may not be possible, but many people aspire to improve their chances to live a long and prosperous life. A study published in the journal “Lancet” analyzed data from the 2016 Global Burden of Diseases project to generate life expectancy predictions from 2017 to 2040 for most countries.

The United States saw the largest decline in ranking among high-income countries, as life expectancies in the United States are projected to fall from 43rd in 2016 to 64th by 2040, with an average life expectancy of 79.8. Life expectancy in the U.S. has dropped in each of the past two years, according to annual reports by the National Center for Health Statistics.

But there may be hope for Americans yet. Doctors and scientists continually study the

lifestyles of people who outlive their life expectancies. While genetics can play a role, so can following healthy habits, which have been identified to promote longevity.

• Don’t smoke. Many smokers have been told that smoking trims 10 years off their life expectancies, and that statement is corroborated by a study published in 2013 in ‘The New England Journal of Medicine” that tracked participants over a span of several years. The good news is people who quit before the age of 35 can usually regain those lost years.

• Avoid drug use. Accidental drug overdoses contributed to 63,600 deaths in the United States in 2016, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Usage of prescription opioids and heroin has skyrocketed in recent years. Drug use also may exacerbate mental illnesses, potentially making drug users more vulnerable to suicide.

• Maintain healthy body mass. Moderate to vigorous exercise regimens and diets loaded with healthy foods can

keep weight in check. Maintaining a healthy weight has a host of positive side effects, including reduced risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.

Cardiovascular disease is a leading killer in North America. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, nearly four in 10 adults and 18.5 percent of children in the United States are obese. According to the 2015 Canadian Health Measures Survey, 30 percent of adults in Canada are obese and may require medical support to manage their disease.

•Limit alcohol consumption.

Some evidence suggests that light drinking can be good for cardiovascular health.

However, a paper published in the “Lancet” suggests every glass of wine or pint of beer over the daily recommended limit will cut half an hour from the expected lifespan of a 40-year-old. The paper says the risks are comparable to smoking.

Simple, healthy lifestyle changes can help people increase their life expectancies.

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It’s easy to fret about the upcoming holiday menu if you care for an elderly loved one who manages chronic medical conditions or simply needs to keep an eye on what he or she eats.

As a registered nurse at Partners in Care, a licensed home care agency affiliated with the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, I communicate often with concerned family caregivers while providing care for their loved ones at home.

During the holiday season, two pieces of advice often come up: 1) Facilitate incremental changes in loved ones’ diets, giving them a chance to get used to each change before making a new one and 2.) Don’t skip out on holiday treats – but do moderate!

In the spirit of the holidays, here are some suggestions for healthier versions of favorite celebratory dishes!

• Did you know that one cup of mashed potatoes made with butter and whole milk contains about 240 calories, nine grams of fat and 35 grams of carbohydrates? With all their flavor and creamy, rich texture, mashed potatoes may seem like a holiday staple, but there is a healthy alternative growing in popularity that is sure to be just as popular at your holiday dinner: mashed cauliflower. The mashed vegetable has the same texture and similar flavor and is loaded with Vitamin C! • Skip the high-sodium dips and the crisp-fried and salty chips! Greek yogurt and hummus are delicious and much healthier substitutes for mayonnaise, sour cream and cream cheese dips.

On the chip front, try switching it up with your favorite vegetable. If carrots or celery sticks don’t appeal, try bell pepper strips, broccoli florets or

grape tomatoes.

• The bad news is that the traditional green bean casserole found on so many “favorites” lists, despite its name, is mostly made from overly processed foods that are high in sodium and fat.

The good news? There are delicious alternatives to getting creative and cooking greens. Kale and collards, in addition to brussels sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli, are all high in sulfur compounds that provide many health benefits and taste best roasted!

• In Latin cooking, food is highly seasoned – but not necessarily salty or spicy. Take, for instance the popular dish sofrito (also popular in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese cooking), which is made from tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic and cilantro and is used in just about everything, from rice to seafood! Adding seasonings and skipping salt to add flavor to your favorites will still taste delicious and your heart will thank you.

• When it comes to cookies, cakes, and pastries, you face the double-whammy of sugar and trans fats. Trans fats can raise cholesterol and put you at risk for heart disease and diabetes, so do your loved one a favor and skip the cake – and most pies – for a (surprisingly) healthier alternative: pumpkin pie. Because the seasonal favorite is missing the top layer that most pies have, it is, in fact, lower in saturated fats. For an even more nutritious alternative, try instead making the pie crust from dates and nuts and eliminating butter altogether.

For year-round recipe ideas, check out https:// bit.ly/2SHDHPi. Jennifer Brullo is an RN, senior vice president and the leader of Partners in Care, an affiliate of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York.

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Sean Casey Animal Rescue has shared these photos of pets up for adoption with us.

Toby is an eight-year-old Pit bull mix.

Toby loves everyone and every dog that he meets. He loves going out for walks but also loves cuddling at home.

Charlie is a three-month-old Domestic Short hair. Besides being absolutely adorable, he is also super sweet and loves to play!

Sean Casey Animal Rescue (718-4365163) is located at 153 East Third St.

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The Starks, being the lords of the North, strive to always be prepared for the coming of winter, which hits their lands the hardest.

• Every winter, at least one septillion (that’s 1, followed by 24 zeros) snow crystals fall from the sky. And ten inches of snow melts down to only one inch of water.

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Holiday Bliss: Bay Ridge Celebrates At Annual Owl’s Head Tree Lighting

BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK MMCGOLDRICK@ BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM

Lucky number seven.

Owl’s Head Park played host to its seventh annual Christmas tree lighting on Monday evening, Dec. 10.

The ceremony, held in front of the park house across from Bliss Terrace and 68th Street, boasts live musical performances, a formal flipping of the switch and, of course, a visit from old St. Nick.

The annual event is organized by the Owl’s Head Park Horticulture Group of the Shore Road Parks Conservancy, with help from state Sen. Marty Golden and Councilmember Justin Brannan.

“The Owl’s Head Park volunteers have made something very special for our community in their annual Christmas tree lighting in the majestic park we all know and love,” Golden told this paper. “I am proud to have partnered with them for the past seven years to make this event a holiday season highlight, and I know through their efforts this fun, festive and spirited night will continue.”

Brannan shared similar sentiments.

“The Owl’s Head Park

Eric and Erika Landa in front of the lit tree.

Horticulture Group does great work all year-round and this event is really the icing on the cake,” he said. “I was so thankful to help pull it off this year and I look forward to many more to come. It is precisely traditions like this that

make Bay Ridge the small town in the big city that we all know and love.

“If someone asked me what makes Bay Ridge so special, I’d probably invite them to the Owls Head Christmas tree lighting,” he added.

Cara and Jack Depiero with Santa.

ebrooklyn media/Photos by Steve Solomonson

Not Everyone Is Merry About Dyker Christmas Lights

BY PAULA KATINAS PAULA@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

Behind the twinkling lights, there is tension.

Longtime residents of Dyker Heights have expressed concern over the size and scope of the Dyker Heights Christmas lights display and are gingerly questioning whether the city can adequately handle the crush of tourists who descend on the residential neighborhood every December.

No one is trying to spoil the holiday merriment, but residents said they are also growing weary of what they called a proliferation of food vendors setting up shop on streets, on sidewalks and in some cases, in homeowners’ driveways.

Visitors purchase candy, ice cream and hot chocolate from vendors and then carelessly drop the wrappers and cups on the sidewalk, causing an increase in litter, according to residents.

“How come everyone was against the food trucks and now it seems they’re doing exactly the same thing they do every year? We were told the city was going to do something about it this year. But I still see them all over the place,” one woman told this newspaper.

The woman asked that her name not be published. “I don’t want my neighbors to think I don’t like the Christmas lights. I love them!

I think they’re beautiful. I just think some of this other stuff has got to go. The whole thing has become excessive,” she said.

The beautiful displays of Christmas lights in Dyker Heights are a popular event, but some in the neighborhood are worried the community-wide show has grown too large. ebrooklyn media/File photo by Steve Solomonson The Dyker Heights Christmas lights display is a community-wide event that has been going on for many years and features homes adorned with Santas, dancing reindeer, “Nutcracker Suite” figures, illuminated snowflakes, giant snow globes and other elaborate decorations on their lawns and front steps.

It has grown in popularity in recent years.

Tourists by the thousands board buses and come to

Dyker Heights to enjoy the nighttime show.

In another sign that the event has hit the big time, hotels in midtown Manhattan advertise the Dyker Heights Christmas lights display to their out-of-town guests as something special to do in New York City during the holidays, like seeing the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree or looking at Macy’s windows.

But the success of the event

has led to traffic jams on narrow side streets as well as an increase in noise and litter, according to Community Board 10 officials and leaders of the Dyker Heights Civic Association.

Josephine Beckmann, district manager of CB 10, admitted that the food vendors are a cause of great concern, largely because many of them do not have permits from the city.

Beckmann added that it’s a violation of city regulations

for a homeowner to rent space in his or her driveway to a food vendor.

If residents spot something amiss, “they should immediately call 311 to report it,” Beckmann told newspaper.

The community board cannot send inspectors out, Beckmann said. “We’re not an investigative agency,” she said.

The Department of Health is the agency that would issue fines to food vendors violating the law.

Meanwhile, another resi-

dent, who also asked to remain anonymous, questioned the legitimacy of charity drives that take place alongside the holiday season extravaganza.

The woman pointed out that homeowners have approached tourists on the sidewalk, or have had helpers dressed as Santa’s elves approach them, and have asked the visitors to make donations to charities.

“How do we know they are legitimate? Some of these charities, I’ve never heard of,” she told this newspaper.

And in cases where the donations are being sought for wellknown charities, the woman questioned whether the donations are actually forwarded by the homeowners to the charities.

“I don’t mean everyone. I know that a lot of these homeowners have been doing this for years and that they’re legitimate. But not everyone is. We don’t know where the money is going,” she said.

A spokesperson for New York State Attorney Barbara Underwood emailed to this newspaper a list of tips on how to avoid being scammed when it comes to charitable giving.

The key is to be informed, according to the attorney general’s office.

Donors should consult the website www.charitiesny.com to make sure that a specific charitable organization is registered.

Donors should also find out whether a charity has authorized a group or an individual to collect donations in its name.

Another tip: the attorney general’s office recommends that people avoid giving donations in cash.

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Ridgeite Helps Raise over $4,000 during March of Dimes ‘Prematurity Awareness Month’

BY JOHN ALEXANDER JALEXANDER@BROOKLYNEAGLE.COM

B

ay Ridge community leader John Quaglione, co-chair of March of Dimes Brooklyn Committee, is a man with a mission.

He has a stellar resume of neighborhood involvement in Bay Ridge. A part of state Sen. Marty Golden’s team since 2001, most recently as Golden’s deputy chief-of-staff, he is also the chair of the board of directors at St. Anselm Catholic Academy.

Quaglione’s fundraising efforts helped raise more than $4,000 in November to support March of Dimes during Prematurity Awareness Month.

This is a personal endeavor for John and Kerry Quaglione, whose daughter Natalie Grace was born prematurely. Kerry is the assistant principal at P.S.127 in Bay Ridge. Natalie was born two months premature in 2011.

Although Natalie is a healthy young girl now, the Quagliones are aware that other children and their families who aren’t as fortunate need the help and support of the March of Dimes.

“For my family and me, the March of Dimes is important to our lives because my first daughter was born eight weeks early,” said Quaglione. “And for my second baby, my wife was treated by medicine developed in the March of Dimes research labs. We are blessed to have two beautiful and healthy daughters, and that is why we have committed ourselves to the fight to end premature births.”

Two “Painting for Preemies” events held on Nov. 17 officially recognized as World Prematurity Day, raised over $2,000. The events were held at Pinot’s Palette in Dyker Heights and in Park Slope.

Children and families who took part, spent the afternoon painting

a penguin-themed canvas, enjoying pizza, and taking chances to win a wide array of donated prizes.

“During Prematurity Awareness Month, Brooklyn families truly stepped up to the plate to support March of Dimes,” said Quaglione. “I want to thank everyone who made our World Prematurity Day painting parties so successful in raising both funds and awareness. Those of us involved in the Brooklyn Committee, support the work the March of Dimes is doing to help improve the health of all moms and babies.”

In addition to the World Prematurity Day events, a number of local schools joined efforts to raise funds through various activities including Wonder Walks, “Wear Purple” school events and “dress down” days. Through the efforts of P.S 127, 160, 186 and St. Anselm Catholic Academy, an additional $2,000 was raised, according to Quaglione.

Photo courtesy of John Quaglione

John Quaglione (rear center), co-chair of the March of Dimes Brooklyn Committee, with wife Kerry, their daughters, Natalie and Olivia, and friends Angel, Liz, Evan and Isabella at the March of Dimes “Painting for Preemies” event.

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GATE’S COURT - KINGS COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO Conor Matthew Lee any and all unknown persons whose names or parts of whose names, and whose place or places of residence are unknown, and cannot, after due diligent inquiry, be ascertained, distributees, heirs at law and next of kin of said Yok Lee and if any of the said distributees, heirs at law or next of kin of deceased, be dead, their legal representatives, their husbands or wives, if any, distributees and successors in interest whose names and/or places of residence and post ofce address are unknown. A petition having been duly led by Liu Xue Ping, who is domiciled at 268 Cumberland Street, Unit 1A, Brooklyn, NY 11201. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County, at 2 Johnson Street, Room 319, Brooklyn, New York, on January 24th, 2019, at 9:30 o’clock in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Yok Lee lately domiciled at 268 Cumberland Street, Unit 1A, Brooklyn, NY 11201 admitting to probate a Will dated June 26, 2014, as the Will of Yok Lee, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters of Administration c.t.a. issue to Liu Xue Ping. Dated, Attested and Sealed December 3rd, 2018, Hon. John G. Ingram, Acting Surrogate Doreen A. Quinn Chief Clerk, Hartley Bernstein, Attorney for Petitioner, 212-381-9684, 767 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

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YOU. Would you likeyears to come The event is open Gerard Sauer, the pastor of the new sign.

HEY JUDE: “Even though we together, weold. do not have to be adopted Welive are nine The Kings County tery and by candlelit graves of Chapter is holdfallen soldiers from both sides in front of the Bay Ridge conducted by past County Hospital in Dyker Heights.

Armed Forces veterans and meet me?

Look into my stunning yellow eyes, to the public.

Reservations St. Mel's Church, a former asnotwill have toscratch be adopted together.

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As weboth trekked Besides providing food and affiliated with its the Brooklyn and I’llacapture youror loving heart.

This couldIHi, be the are only $46 which includes sociate pastor at Ridge's St. We will not scratch damage your furniture.

I am Raven, sweet, little girl who is half Siamese. love to ing its annual oflive theentertainment, conflict.

AsBay we trekked dinner dance on through the pathways, there they Council of the Kings County mander Jack Sanford. Also lic Library on the northeast start of aa sweet, new and friendship.

I my am purrfect for you.

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Contact Patrick's Church and a personal Raven, little girl who is half Siamese.

I love be affectionate, play with toys; you would think dinner dance on through the pathways, there Thursday evewere uniformed re-enactors provided an assortment of VFW met on Bay Ridge’s participating were current corner of Ridge Boulevard am spayed with my vaccinations and micro chipped.”

Sherman Silverman at 718-748friend. affectionate, mythe toys; you would think was a kitten. I and will play give with you all love and attention Thursday uniformed re-enactors ning, JuneMemo2,eveat VFW District Commander and 73rd Street at 12 p.m. on Ibe --were soldiers standing guard, books, pajamas, socks, slipAmerican Veterans Please contact cats@zanisfurryfriends.org.

3165 or send him a check payable to the A host of dignitaries were on hand to join I was a kitten.

I will give you all the love and attention you seek.

I am spayed, housebroken.

Unfortunately we ning, June 2, at -soldiers standing guard, pers, handkerchiefs, sweat- perrial Pier to commemorate 7:30 p.m., at the Gary Wasserman and Sunday, Dec. 16. Birthday musicians and singers Society of Old Brooklynites, 340 Marine AveKane's family, friends and associates on this you seek.

I am spayed, housebroken.

Unfortunately we are seeking a new home because my mommy has severe 7:30 p.m., at the musicians and singers perVFW Brooklyn/Queens shirts. gloves, card songs. decks, the 77thPolonaise anniversary of the cake will be shared with all Veterans gather near the 9/11 Monument to Terrace, forming Civil War *** to keep nue, Brooklyn, NY 11209. auspicious occasion.

City Councilmember are seeking a new home because my mommy has severe allergies and is no longer able us.

I hope to join attendees.

DVDsevent andCivil many other thousands items.

Japanese attackGreenpoint on Terrace, Pearl Ladies Auxiliary President start the Pearl Harbor Day ceremonies.

Polonaise forming War songs.

150 The drew Zani’s Furry Friends a 501(c)3 non-profi *** Vinnie Gentile -- who ensured full Counallergies and is no longer able tobekeep us.

I hope ttoorjoin your loving family.

You willis not disappointed…Hello 150 Greenpoint The event drew thousands Avenue. of relatives, Civil War buffs, the ganization committed to rescuing companion ani-I Former Science Assistant Principal and a cil approved the co-naming, wrote in the proyour loving family.

You will not be disappointed…Hello there, I am Figaro a tuxedo cat, cuddly, loving boy.

Avenue. of relatives,historians Civil War buffs, This year, the group amateur and mals York where, unfortuBay Ridge Community Council Presigram, "A lifelong Ridge Tom's there, I amNew Figaro a City tuxedo cat,toys, cuddly, loving love tofrom snuggle up, play withshelters my act silly andboy. amI Thisbeyear, the past group amateur historians and resident, will honoring its genealogists, local Bay residents nately, they are at signifi cant risk for euthanasia dent, Tom Greene was back at Denyse Wharf tremendous contributions and achievements love to snuggle up, play with my toys, act silly and am great with animals and people.

Please call our mommy, be honoring its genealogists, residents willNational Commander and hundreds local of out-ofdue to overcrowding.

Beyond directly helping the and the adjoining small beach under the left an indelible mark on the community he great with animals and people.

Please call our mommy Stephanie 732-864-5990.”

National and hundreds of out-ofFredCommander Schwally, towners.

According animals save, their rescue creates space at shadow of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for loved so much."

Stephaniethey 732-864-5990.”

Fred Schwally, towners.

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This year, he was joined by 75 high played "Forever Young" by Bob Dylan.

Kane JASPER, DARWIN, – three year old spayed, neutered with AND shots,VESTA affectionate cats need Commander torian, author J o h n the Principal of and attorney or rescue and thereby potentially saving yetThese angrade school volunteers. big, Dylanonfan! provides the necessary n the we are dealing with the school adsotoand can al- new will dominate much thecats spayed, neutered withaction shots, affectionate need home due to legal against a of tenant.

JKeyes hpromote n the and the of Revenue and Jwas e fafattorney r 2012, e ybigI stood A.Principal Fantis parochial school other life.

Greene continues to Fantis press efforts estab** revenue to invest in in- which allowing floor and consequences of * Governor Cuo- on soto be generated conversation, as it should. new home due to legal action against aare tenant. wonderful, loving cats, are loved, white These with Keyespast and J e f fAssembly rey theSchermerhorn A. parochial school the Richman, Street in The group’s mission is toplan help you find the perfect warned my colleagues this transportation authormo’s failed by ending the frastructure and upgrade I to bring represenlish a Marine Environmental Science Lab at Among the marching groups in the recent wonderful, loving cats, which are loved, are white with some black or gray, and two would love to go to a good the past Richman, on Schermerhorn Street in National Downtown Brooklyn.

4,600 Civil furry companion forand your family and to help every Start-Up NY that raising the MTA’s ity to grow too big, borrow state’s collecour transit system to keep tatives from Move New the site.

He is also currently a professor at 147th annual Brooklyn Memorial Day Pasome black or gray, two would love to go to a good home as a pair.

They are brothers and sister rescued as National 4,600 Civil Downtown Brooklyn.

Chaplain, War vetAmong the attendees were animal they rescue find the forever home it deserves. p r o g r a m , debt limit by $7 billion too much and spend on tion of bond up with population and York to Bay Ridge to present Kingsborough College. rade was the Society of Old Brookynites.

The home as a pair.

They are brothers and sister rescued as kittens from a backyard.

Mistie, a tuxedo cat, is a big War vetattendees were FChaplain, a t h e r twoAmong erans are past the FHHS Assistant The group’s foster home network allows itTroyens44@ to become a nd cor to $37 billion was unsuseconomic growth without megaprojects that were not fees from their plan and have an open Maria Makrinos, the new president of the civic organization has been marching in evkittens from a backyard.

Mistie, a tuxedo cat, is a big couch potato and very laid back.

Contact F a t h e r Principals erans are two pastDavid FHHS Assistant Anthony buried in Whitebook fully withvery each of back. the available cats and ruption like the M TA, yahoo.com. tainable andMemorial would leadDay priorities. treating everyday commutdialogue with residents on Hamilton High School Alumni Associaery Brooklyn Parade since its Fort couchfamiliar potato and laid Contact Troyens44@ Anthony buried in Principals David Whitebook Dell’Anno.

Green-Wood, and Tom Greene.

Both are dogs and helps ensure the best possible match with the allowing the notorious ers like ATMs. how, if implemented, it can to toll and fare hikes and With bus service on the tion, stopped, by bringing free doughnuts for founding 1880. yahoo.com.

Dell’Anno.

Green-Wood, and Tom Greene. are Tickets are former making it inthe presidents of Both the Bay adoptive families.

Zani’s Furry Friends is a memrevenue collect“Buffalo Billion” I believe Sam Schwartz’s service cuts. chopping block, unreliable all the volunteers. the neighborhood “Hi, I’m Tali, a gorgeous, benefit white long-haired cat in search are Ridge making it Civil the formerCommunity presidents ofCouncil, the Bay $75Tickets per person. largest ber of the Mayor’s Alliance and a New Hope ed through the of Then again, in 2016, when service getting worse due that landed the Move NY plan is the best and improve their quality * * * “Hi, I’m Tali, a gorgeous, white long-haired in search a new home to call my own. I’m 11 years cat oldPartner but still $75••• per person. and largest Ridge Community Council, War burial Civil site in Whitebook serves as a MTA police to starting point to develop the governor and legis- to outdated subway signals, The governor’s as- County

BY ASSEMBLYMEMBER ofControl commute. with the Animal Care & of New York City.

Kings Republican Party is of a new home to call my own.

I’m 11 years old but stil have quite a lot of spunk left. I’m strictly an indoor cat.

••• Warnorth, burialeven site surpassing in and Whitebook serves as a Congressmember Michael the t r u s t e e and scholargo back to the There ahave system that will reduce lature voted to allow the and toll and fare hikes on holding sociatesits in jail.

NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS It’s important that are Cat and Dog Adoptions Every Sunday at 2014 Lincoln Day Reception and a lotyour of spunk left. up, I’mI strictly anI only indoor cat I won’tquite scratch furniture promise. have Congressmember Michael the north, Pennsylvania. even surpassing Grimm trustee and scholarwill be the guest Gettysburg, sinstead hip MTA traffic congestion on our commuters We must also MTA to kick the can down the horizon, things have Dinner are part of the Petco, 1280 Lexington Avenue, between East 86th on Sunday, June 22, from noon to 3 I won’t scratch yourbeen furniture I promise. have back claws.

I have livingup, with my momI only all these Grimm will be the guest Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. s h i p speaker at the next meeting Also as part of the comof to Island. municipalities, and and the road further and issue gotten desperate. demand a lockbox onin allConey streets, provide moreStreets tran- discussion so that whatever 87th in Manhattan from 12:30p.m., at Gargiulo’s Among backEast claws.

I there have been living with my is mom all these years, but now is a toddler.

The baby sweet, but I speaker at the next meeting Also as part of the comof St. Patrick’s Men’s Club, on memoration there were by cracking down on 5:30pm. state transportation fundup to $55 billion in debt, However, before we col-the honored guests will be Westchester Counsit options for commuters solution is ultimately deHope to see you soon. years, there is afingers toddler.

Thegrab babymy is sweet, but I am not but usednow to pinching that tail. I need of St. Patrick’s Men’s Club, on memoration there were Tuesday, June 7, at 7:30 p.m., encampments of Union and which cost and bring toll equity to the cided on serves the people enabling this one agency to lect another penny from ty ing dedicated toRob the MTA to fare-beating Executive Astorino, the state GOP’s not where used toI pinching fingers that grab my tail. need aam space can be the queen.

Can you find a Iplace Tuesday, June 7, atensure 7:30 p.m., encampments of Union and in the we club adjacent Confederate re-enactors fare-payers, take on more debt than thewho needroom to candidate money is not later the MTA $215 million this region, greatly reducing most affected. New Yorkers ***queen. for governor. a space where I can be the Can you find a place for me in your quiet home?” in the club room adjacent Confederate re-enactors who St.what Patrick’s school gympitched near the main with we have. entiretents state of New York, I work to raided as it has been in the year and will force the rest theHEY Verrazzano Bridge toll WOOF: have been for JUDE...WOOF “Ivictimized am heartbroken to He has been tapped as the county’s “Man for me in your quiet home?”

Kim 718-344-9697 to St. Patrick’s school gympitched tents near the main nasium at 97th Street and gate, on both Sunday and This includes putting an said this move “strikes a fapast to fund “pet projects.” of us to make up the short- give burden onmy thetwo residents of too long by misguided pol- pups. up half-Pointer-mix, 10-month-old the Year.” honorees include former Kim 718-344-9697 nasiumAvenue. at waste97th of Street and Other gate, on both Sunday and Memorial Day. While tal blow” to efforts to bringstepend toFourth government’s I co-sponsored the lockbox fall with the proposed fare Sabrina Southwestand Brooklyn and that don’t take their Tyson loveicies to play ball and run around.

GOP Assembly Candidate Tom McCarthy PURRFECT MEWS: All of Jenny’s rescued kitties Fourthsuch Avenue.

Memorial Day. ••• ping along in theWhile nighttime fiscal accountability to thestepful spending as the bill that passed the legisla- hikes.

Staten Island. everyday lives intolove account.

Both pups love people, are lap dogs, to sit with as “Counselor of the Year,” past City CounPURRFECT MEWS: All of Jenny’s rescued kitties have been adopted into loving homes.

••• ping along we in the nighttime More news St. procession, came across MTA’s mismanagement of from MTA. ture twice but was vetoed Most importantly, we you.

As the state legislature Assemblymember Nicole Sabrina gives into kisses but homes. sometimes gives a litcil candidate and President of the Brooklyn have been adopted loving More news from St. procession, we with came across Patrick’s.

On Sunday, June 5, Susan a debt former the Long Island East Side returns session Malliotakis por-vacuum ThePulaski, problem by the governor in 2013 must rethink our entire tle love to bite beforeinkisses.

She represents hates the Youngconcert Republicans Russell Gallo as “Young Patrick’s.

On Sunday, June 5, Susan a you former a 2tens p.m. special president ofeventually the Bay Ridge Accessafter tunnel, of milis thatPulaski, and the governor refuses transportation network and January, the future of our loves tions ofpeople, Bay Ridgeloves and Staten barks at it. Tyson to play and Republican of the Year,” plus the following after aspent 2 p.m. special concert president of the thebill.

Bay in St. Patrick’s Church, there Historical and a Ridge comh a i rlaand develop acmodel that have to Society pay Now lions of dollars on TV to sign this year. transportation system Island. watch his sister play ball. He loves to play tug of dies, as “Women of the Year” Phyllis Carbo, in St. Church, there person of the Kassenbrock Historical Society and a com- will ch a i rbe Patrick’s an unveiling and dedimittee chair at Community war. They are lap pups. He also makes noises like Francenia Joan Braunstein and Mary Members of Obviously, the Society of Old Brooklynites march will beof an unveiling mitteeTen. chair at Community person of the Kassenbrock cation a portrait ofand the dedilateHall,Brothers Board pleased Memorial Chewbacca from ‘Star Wars.’ It is very cute. I am in John. in the recent Brooklyn Memorial Parade of with cation a portrait of the late Scholarship Board Ten.big Obviously, pleased Brothers Fund.Memorial with the turnout, wasDayMaestro Aldo Bruschi in the Also in Lynbrook, New York.” – Jackie, 516-6980-5669.

Tickets are $200 a pop and available at Society President Brooklyn Historian Ron Aldo Bruschi in the Scholarship Fund. Also in with the big and turnout, was Maestro

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BRANNAN, DEUTSCH AND DIAZ, JR. INTRODUCE BILL FOR CITY TO PAINT HYDRANTS AND BUS STOP CURBS

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ity Councilmembers Chaim Deutsch (D-Sheepshead Bay-Midwood) and Justin Brannan (D-Bay Ridge-Bensonhurst-Dyker Heights), and Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr. have introduced a bill that would require the city to paint curbs next to fire hydrants and bus stops red for the exact distance that parking is illegal. The colored paint would be used to alert motorists as to where they can and cannot park.

The legislation is in response to tickets that are frequently issued to motorists who are unaware of the exact distance they must clear from a fire hydrant, or of exactly how far a bus stop extends.

The bill aims to remove the guesswork when a driver goes to park close to the space reserved for a hydrant or bus stop.

“This is a commonsense measure all about getting everyone on the same page,” Brannan said. “If the city is going to make people pay for parking illegally, it owes them absolute certainty of where they can and can’t park.

We all know that street signs can be hidden or unclear, making life harder for drivers and enforcement alike.”

The bill would provide clarity to people who park on the streets, according to Brannan, both to prevent illegal parking by drivers and to make it easier for enforcement to ticket those drivers parked illegally.

Having been introduced, the bill must pass through committee hearings and a final Council vote. —JA

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he Alliance for Coney Island, in partnership with Councilmember Mark Treyger (D-Coney Island-Bensonhurst) hosted a Coney Island Holiday Toy Giveaway on Tuesday, Dec. 11.

Children were invited to enjoy an evening of entertainment, arts and crafts and refreshments at the MCU Park Gallery located at 1904 Surf Avenue in Coney Island.

Close to 250 children from the neighborhood ranging in age from nine months to 13 years of age were invited to celebrate the holiday season a little early this year in partnership with local schools, local faith-based institutions and NYCHA tenant associations.

Children were able to take photos with Santa and enjoy a variety of holiday-themed activities, and each received a toy to celebrate the holidays.

The event was made possible with support from Treyger, the Brooklyn Cyclones, Con Edison, Deno’s Wonder Wheel, Live Nation, the New York Aquarium and Turner Construction.—JA

MALLIOTAKIS GIVES TESTIMONY AT HEARING ON FARE, TOLL HIKES

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ssemblymember Nicole Malliotakis (R-Bay Ridge-Staten Island) has slammed the MTA for the time and date chosen for hearings held regarding the MTA’s proposed fare and toll hikes.

She felt that the Staten Island meeting, held at 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, was concerning because the Staten Island meeting was held on the second day of Hanukkah; additionally, she contended, most Staten Island residents do not get home until 7:30 p.m., she wrote in a letter to the MTA. “And in Brooklyn, which is home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the state, the hearing is scheduled for the final day of the holiday,” Malliotakis wrote. “The insensitivity of this schedule has lent credence to the concern of many that these hearings are dog and pony shows without any real intention of gathering input from those affected by MTA toll hikes.”

As a legislator who represents both Staten Island and Brooklyn, Malliotakis is adamantly opposed to increasing the toll on the Verrazano Bridge.

“We cannot keep demanding more money from hard working commuters to fund a transportation system that fails to provide adequate service for its customers,” she wrote.

She said that her constituents in Brooklyn “have had enough with toll and fare increases as the R train, which so many Bay Ridge residents depend on, is plagued by interruptions and delays that wreak havoc on a daily commute.”

She called the proposed $19 (up from $17) hike in tolls for the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge ridiculously high and promised to continue to advocate for a fare discount.—JA

HAMILTON HELPS RAISE FUNDS FOR HATE CRIME VICTIM

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tate Sen. Jesse Hamilton and Crown Heights community activist Anthony Beckford have organized a fundraising drive to assist a Brooklyn woman who was brutally attacked in the Church Avenue subway station last month.

The fundraising drive has exceeded expectation, according to Hamilton (D-Crown Heightsparts of Park Slope, Sunset Park), who said $10,000 has been collected to date.

The victim, Ann Marie Washington, an African-American, was attacked by a white male in the Church Avenue B/Q subway station on Nov. 9. The suspect yelled racial slurs at Washington as he stabbed her, police said.

Washington suffered a collapsed lung, multiple bruises and emotional distress, Hamilton said.

Hamilton and Beckford stared a www.GoFundMe.com page to raise money to help Washington with her medical expenses.

“With the support of Anthony

Photo courtesy of state Sen. Jesse Hamilton

Ann Marie Washington, who was the victim of a brutal attack in a subway station, will be getting help paying her medical bills, thanks to a fundraising campaign organized on her behalf by state Sen. Jesse Hamilton and community activist Anthony Beckford.

Beckford and other community activists, we set a goal of raising $10,000 to help the family with medical and related expenses.

We have now exceeded that goal and I am thankful to all of those who contributed to supporting Ms. Washington and her family in this difficult time,” Hamilton said in a statement.

Washington, who is still recovering from her injuries, appeared in a YouTube video to thank people for donating to the fund. The video can be seen here: https://bit.ly/2QrurlR. Hamilton called on Brooklyn residents to “come together to reverse the damage hate crimes inflict.”– PK

CLARKE HOLDS TOWN HALL ON TRUMP VISA PLAN

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.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-Central Brooklyn) held a town hall last week for constituents at Lenox Road Baptist Church at 1356 Nostrand Ave. to get public feedback on a controversial plan by the Trump administration to change the way the federal government awards visas and green cards to immigrants.

If a proposal by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is adopted, the Trump administration would look at whether immigrants are likely to apply for Medicaid coverage or other social service benefits in deciding whether to grant visas or green cards to them.

Clarke charged that such a major change to the government’s public charge rule would affect a large portion of Brooklyn residents and making it harder for working and

middle-income people to obtain visas or green cards.

“The proposed public charge rule change, if enacted, would affect a large portion of the Ninth Congressional District. It is important that our community is informed and prepared. With the help of immigration experts, we began a healthy dialogue that I hope will help protect members of our community from harm,” Clarke said in a statement.

Clarke held the town hall in partnership with the New York Immigration Coalition, Undocublack Network, Brooklyn Defender Services, Council of People’s Organization, and Caribbean Women’s Health Association.

The federal government’s public comment period ended Dec. 10. – PK

BROOKLYN DISTRICT ATTORNEY CREATES A DEDICATED HATE CRIMES BUREAU

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rooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez has announced the creation of a dedicated Hate Crime Bureau, staffed with senior and experienced prosecutors who will follow investigations from the beginning and enhance charges when appropriate.

According to a statement, the bureau will also reach out to vulnerable communities to help educate their members about their rights and how to protect themselves from bias-motivated attacks.

The Brooklyn DA’s Hate Crimes Unit was previously part of the Civil Rights Bureau.

“Protecting everyone in Brooklyn is my highest priority and it is simply unacceptable that members of certain protected groups are fearful to walk the

streets of our borough,” said Gonzalez. “The creation of a dedicated bureau with more resources and experienced prosecutors will help my office to offer the most adequate response to the growing problem of bias-motivated crimes. This diverse group of assistant district attorneys will also work with community members to improve trust and cooperation.”

Recent statistics have indicated an uptick in reported hate crimes across the city, with over half targeting Jewish people, according to the statement. The Brooklyn DA’s Office’s Hate Crimes Unit handled over 70 cases in the past two years with the top targeted groups being LGBTQ individuals, Jews and African-Americans.—JA

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Fifth Avenue BID Gets in Holiday Spirit with Tree Lighting, Trolley Rides

The Children’s Chorus of Bay Ridge performed.

BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK MMCGOLDRICK@ BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM

I Santa and his elf by the holiday tree.

t’s the most wonderful time of the year for one of Bay Ridge’s busiest shopping strips.

Keeping in theme, the Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue Business Improvement District (BID) presented its annual holiday trolley and tree lighting extravaganza on Sat., Dec. 8.

The afternoon affair

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featured free trolley rides for kids and families from noon to 4 p.m. The excursions spanned from 65th to 85th Street and were followed by a bright blue tree lighting at the corner of Bay Ridge Parkway and Fifth Avenue.

The celebration also included a performance by the Children’s Chorus of Bay Ridge and appearances by St. Nick and his favorite elf.

The event was sponsored

by Apple Bank, 7415 Fifth Avenue.

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Pols Back Small Businesses Slammed by Sign Busts

BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK

“We need to get rid of these insane civil penalties.

Otherwise we are allowing MMCGOLDRICK@ people to weaponize the 311 BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM system,” Brannan added. o fines for our signs. “Right now anyone with That was the mes- a grudge can call 311 and sage at an “emer- cripple a small business.” gency rally’ held Weds., Dec. Brannan is no stranger to the ups and downs of 5 on the steps of City Hall in defense of small businesses owning a small business. He which have been blindsided once owned the Art Room, a by the Department of Build- fine art school for children ings (DOB) for sign and aw- on Third Avenue, alongside ning violations, they claim, his wife, Leigh, who has carhaven’t been enforced at ried the torch herself since this volume in years. his election.

According to city building The Art Room is also no ebrooklyn media/Photo by Todd Maisel codes, signs larger than stranger to this type of fine. six square feet require a Brannan told this paper that, Mike Sinno of United Home Center at 7905 Third Avenue has the store special installation permit, only after he started speak- in the family for more than 40 years and never had a problem with the though, local pols say, small ing out against the onslaught sign, but still got a summons. mom-and-pop shops are of violations, Leigh received efforts; rather, our inspecthe DOB, there were 1,046 one of her own. suddenly getting slammed City Office of Administrative complaints made year-totors typically investigate by surprise fines.

“Even my wife’s been Trials and Hearings, where sign “Our government should complaints in a neighfined,” he said. date re: illegal signage – up those on the receiving end borhood when they are in of violations are ultimately not have an arrow in its When reached for com- 736 complaints from 2017’s given the chance to defend ment, Andrew Rudansky, quiver that can effectively 310. Manhattan has seen the area for other matters,” their signage, and, in turn, Rudansky said. “There is the DOB’s senior deputy 251 complaints year-to-date close a small business with press secretary, stressed nothing wrong with an the stroke of a pen. Fines to (down four, thus far, from their business. last year’s 255) while the small businesses should be that the agency only enforcRudansky also said that, owner wanting to hang a Bronx racked up only 97 es what it’s tasked to by the while falling signs remain reserved exclusively for issign outside their business as of November – up only City Council. sues that put public safety a rarity in New York, it does to draw in customers, but slightly from last year’s “As laws are passed, we are for the safety of pedestriat risk,” Councilmember happen, as one did in Bay ans walking underneath, Justin Brannan told this Ridge earlier this summer, legally required to enforce end-total of 69. paper. “Is the business though that storefront’s them,” he told this paper, Each complaint, Rudansky it must be permitted by the pointing to two new laws making people sick? Is the stressed, does not end in a vi- non-permitted work spanned city and put up by a licensed olation. He also said that the business putting custom- passed in 2017 pertaining well beyond its signage. professional who can do the DOB does not issue the fines ers in danger? Is the busi- to these types of violations: “We are not targeting work properly.”

Local Law No. 188, which – just the violations. The rest businesses around Brookness ripping people off or Still, Brannan mainresulted in the creation of a tained, there are fairer treating people unfairly? is handled by the New York lyn for sign-enforcement real time enforcement unit Anything else is punitive within the DOB, and Local and arbitrary.”

The issue, he said, could Law No. 156, which upped the very well shutter stores in penalties for work without a his district. According to a permit to its current minireport by NY1, United True mum of $6,000.

Value Hardware at 7905 The latter, Espinal helped

BY JAIME DEJESUS Second Street when the have made a difference.

Third Avenue had a large introduce. As did Brannan’s JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER. driver attempted to make “Had the state Senate maa left turn onto Avenue Y, jority put politics aside and awning outside of its store predecessor Vincent GenCOM striking LaBarbara, who acted in the best interest for at least three decades. tile and more than 30 other was crossing Avenue Y. of New Yorkers, we might No one cited it as an issue councilmembers. suspect has been until several months ago, arrested in a hit- The van did not stop after have had a speed camera Signs have needed a and-run that left a the impact. when the DOB fined the biz permit since the 1968 buildin place at or near this very 57-year-old woman dead almost $8,000. ing code came into being, Police found LaBarbara intersection – just a couple Brannan is certainly not Rudansky went on, adding in Gravesend. lying on the roadway, un- of blocks from a UPK site – alone in his concerns. He that the DOB is not doing According to authorities, conscious and with trauma and this tragic death could was joined on the steps of anything differently now 55-year-old Susan Liebow- to her head and body. EMS possibly have been avoidCity Hall Wednesday by than it has done in over five itz of Brighton Beach was rushed her to Coney Island ed,” Treyger contended. “I charged with leaving the Hospital where she was hope that the arrest made Councilmembers Rafael Es- decades and that the majorscene of an accident, fail- pronounced dead. pinal (Brooklyn), Peter Koo ity of violations issued on by the NYPD late last night (Queens) and Mark Gjonaj signage are for not having ure to yield to a pedestrian On Weds., Dec. 12, Bor- is a step toward justice, but (the Bronx), as well as Brook- had a permit to put it up in and failure exercise due ough President Eric Ad- that is not enough. lyn Borough President Eric the first place (permits, he care in the death of 57-year- ams and Councilmember “Many children, parents Adams and representatives said, are meant to discourold Francine Labarbara.

Mark Treyger were at the and families walk to and age shoddy workmanship of small businesses from all On Tues., Dec. 11 at intersection to hold a press from the nearby UPK site and corner-cutting which around 8 a.m., LaBarbara conference addressing the or P.S. 216 on Avenue X.”, he five boroughs. was struck by a vehicle incident.

“Small businesses are the can prove dangerous). added. allegedly driven by Liebbackbone of our community, “In general, we inspect “How many serious In addition, he said, business signs when we employing more workers owitz at West Second Street incidents resulting in cata- “There are seniors who visit than any other industry,” receive complaints from and Avenue Y. strophic injury or death do the Key Food and adjacent the public about them,” he urged Espinal, who has According to the pre- we need to witness before small businesses on Aveliminary investigation, measures are put in place nue Z or the commercial penned a bill which would stressed.

Liebowitz was allegedly to prevent tragedies like area on Avenue X to do That said, there has been place a temporary moratoridriving the white Ford this from taking place?” their shopping and day-toum on signage enforcement a sizeable increase in the number of 311 complaints activities. “Let’s stop giving Econoline van that author- Treyger asked, pointing day transactions. There is our tax dollars to billion dol- made about signage – most ities say hit LaBarbara. The out that the school zone also an entrance to the Belt lar corporations and invest notably in Brooklyn. van, cops say, was travel- speed camera program — Parkway at the end of West ling southbound on West had it been enacted — might Second Street, and many it in those that need it most According to figures provided to this paper by – our small businesses.”

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ways to go about this.

“I appreciate that the Buildings Department is obligated by law to respond to these complaints,” he said. “What I’m trying to do is change the law so that if a Buildings Department inspector sees that a sign is secure and in no danger of falling down, they should close out the complaint and issue no fines or penalties to the business owner.”

Espinal agreed, and pointed the finger right back at the DOB. “Whether you call it investigating or targeting, small business owners should not have to pay the price when agencies don’t follow the law themselves,” he told this paper. “Legislation dating back to 2005 (Int. 0668-2005) states that the Commissioner of the Department of Buildings is obligated to create an educational outreach program concerning awning regulations. The fact that awnings and signs that have been up for decades are now receiving DOB violations, which do result in fines, whether or not the fines are administered by DOB, only goes to show that this educational program failed those it was intended to serve.”

Suspect in Fatal Gravesend Hit and Run Arrested, Treyger and Adams Demand Safety Measures

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cars are clearly racing through these streets to get there.”

To that end, besides speed cameras, Treyger said, “We are calling for a traffic light at this intersection, and we need speed bumps on West Second Street, between Avenues X and Y, as well as Avenues Y and Z,” as well as a traffic light at Avenue Z and West Street. “DOT must study every possible measure related to street and traffic pattern redesign to reduce speeds in this area,” Treyger concluded.

According to Adams, LaBarbara was a single mother of twin teenage sons and marketing director of the Bagel Store in Williamsburg. She was returning home from the grocery store when she was struck. Some neighbors have called the intersection dangerous because of speeding drivers.

2ND DEPARTMENT/ PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICES ACCOUNTING CITATION File No.2014-100/B THIRD SUPPLEMENTAL CITATION SURROGATE’S COURT, KINGS COUNTY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Rosalind Ransom, whose whereabouts are unknown and if she be dead, to their heirs at law, next of kin and distributees whose names and places of residence are unknown and if the persons died subsequent to the decedent herein, to their executors, administrators, legatees, devisees, assignees and successors in interest whose names and places of residence are unknown and cannot after due diligence be ascertained, An amended Petition and an amended Account having been duly led by Public Administrator Kings County, whose ofce is located at 360 Adams Street Room 144, Brooklyn, New York 11201, United States.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Kings County, at 2 Johnson Street Room 319, Brooklyn, New York, on January 17, 2019, at 09:30 o’clock in the fore noon of that day, why the account of Public Administrator Kings County, a summary of which has been served herewith, as Administrator of the estate of Alice M. Ransom, should not be judicially settled. [X] Further relief sought (a) Why The Public Administrator of Kings County should not be paid his commissions in the amount of $8,867.07 as set forth in Schedule I of the Account, or such other amount as the Court may x and determine; (b) Why The Public Administrator of Kings County should not be paid his administrative expenses in the amount of $1,966.76 as set forth in Schedule J of the Account, or such other amount as the Court may x and determine; (c) Why The Court should not x, determine and approve the legal fees of Charles G. Fiore, P.C., counsel to Petitioner, in the amount of $11,268.57 as shown in Schedule J of the Account, or such other amount as the Court may x and determine; (d) Why The claim of the New York State Department of Taxation, if any, should not be xed and determined and if not so xed and determined deemed rejected; (e) Why The claim of the New York City Human Resources Administration, if any, should not be xed and determined and if not so xed and determined deemed rejected; (f) Why The Petitioner should not be permitted to distribute the net estate equally to the distributee(s), as determined by the Court as their interests may appear, and to deposit any amount not so distributed with the Commissioner of Finance of the City of New York to be held for the benet of decedent’s unknown distributees or for the benet of any distributees of the decedent who are under disability for whom no guardian of the property has been appointed; (g) Why The Petitioner, upon fully complying with the Decree to be made in this proceeding, should not be released and discharged of and from any and all liability, responsibility and accountability with respect to the Petitioner’s acts and proceedings as Administrator as set forth and embraced in said account and the Court grant such other and further re-

lief as it deems just and proper; (h) Why Process should not be issued to all necessary parties who have not appeared to show cause why the relief requested should not be granted; and that an order be granted directing the service of process pursuant to the provisions of SCPA Article 3 upon such persons named in Paragraph (6) whose names or whereabouts are unknown and cannot be ascertained or who may be persons on whom service by personal delivery cannot be made; (i) Why The Petitioner should not be authorized to reserve, such amount as counsel recommends for the preparation of Federal and/or state duciary income tax returns and for the payment of any tax that may be due. Dated, Attested, and Sealed, HON. John G. Ingram, Acting Surrogate John G. Ingram, Acting Surrogate November 19, 2018 Doreen A. Quinn, Chief Clerk Seal Chief Clerk Charles G. Fiore Attorney Name Lewis & Fiore (212) 285-2290 Firm Telephone 225 Broadway Suite 3300, New York, New York 10007 Address NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed that you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you, and you or your attorney may request a copy of the full account from the petitioner or petitioner’s attorney. 22NYCRR Sec. 207.7 Proof of service of process shall be led on or before the second day preceding the return date. SUMMARY PRINCIPAL ACCOUNT CHARGES: Schedule A Principal Received 196,505.04 Schedule A-1 Realized Increases in Principal 0.00 Schedule A-2 Income Collected 171.60 Schedule G Unrealized increases in principal 0.00 Total Charges $196,676.64 $196,676.64 CREDITS: Schedule B Realized Decreases in Principal 0.00 Schedule C Funeral and Administration Expenses 4,644.00 Schedule D Creditor’s Claims Actually Paid 0.00 Schedule E Distributions of Principal 0.00 Schedule G Unrealized decreases in principal 0.00 Total Credits $4,644.00 $4,644.00 Charges Minus Credits $192,032.64 #165316

DIVORCE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF KINGS Index No. 53400/18 Date Summons Filed: 07/10/2018 Plaintiff designates Kings County as the place of trial. The basis of venue is Plaintiff’s residence. SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Plaintiff resides at 2628 Linden Blvd., Apt 2a, Brooklyn, NY 11208. Lise Gonzalez, Plaintiff, -against- Heriberto Cintron, Jr., Defendant. ACTION FOR DIVORCE To the above named Defendant: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiff’s Attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below. Dated: July 5, 2018 Colleen M. Vitali, Esq., Law Ofces of Marina Shepelsky, Esq., Attorneys for

Plaintiff 2415 Avenue U, Suite 2R, Brooklyn, NY 11229 (718) 769-6352 NOTICE: The nature of this action is to dissolve marriage between the parties, on the grounds DRL Section 170 subd. (7) - the relationship between the Plaintiff and Defendant has broken down irretrievably for a period of at least six months. The relief sought is a judgment of absolute divorce in favor of the Plaintiff dissolving the marriage between the parties in this action. The nature of any ancillary or additional relief demanded is: That the Family Court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Supreme Court with respect to any future issues of maintenance and support. That the parties do not require maintenance and no claim shall be made by either party for maintenance. The Plaintiff is not seeking maintenance as payee as described in the Notice of Guideline maintenance.

That the parties do not require payment of counsel and experts’ fees and expenses. That the Court grant such other and further relief as the Court may deem t and proper. The parties have divided up the marital property, and no claim will be made by the Plaintiff under equitable distribution. NOTICE OF ENTRY OF AUTOMATIC ORDERS (D.R.L. 236) Rev. 1/13 FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THESE ORDERS MAY BE DEEMED A CONTEMPT OF COURT PURSUANT TO the Uniform Rules of the Trial Courts, and DOMESTIC RELATIONS LAW Sec. 236 Part B, Section 2, both you and your spouse (the parties) are bound by the following AUTOMATIC ORDERS, which have been entered against you and your spouse in your divorce action pursuant to 22 NYCRR Sec. 202.16(a), and which shall remain in full force and effect during the pendency of this action unless terminated, modied or amended by further order of the court or upon written agreement between the parties: (1) ORDERED: Neither party shall transfer, encumber, conceal, assign, remove, withdraw or in any way dispose of, without the consent of the other party in writing, or by order of the court, any property (including, but not limited to, real estate, personal property, cash accounts, stocks, mutual funds, bank accounts, cars and boats) individually or jointly held by the parties, except in the usual course of business, for customary and usual household expenses or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action. (2) ORDERED: Neither party shall transfer, encumber, assign, remove, withdraw or in any way dispose of any tax deferred funds, stocks or other assets held in any individual retirement accounts, 401k accounts, prot sharing plans, Keogh accounts, or any other pension or retirement account, and the parties shall further refrain from applying for or requesting the payment of retirement benets or annuity payments of any kind, without the consent of the other party in writing, or upon further order of the court; except that any party who is already in pay status may continue to receive such payments thereunder. (3) ORDERED: Neither party shall incur unreasonable debts hereafter, including, but not limited to further borrowing against any credit line secured by the family residence, further

encumbrancing any assets, or unreasonably using credit cards or cash advances against credit cards, except in the usual course of business or for customary or usual household expenses, or for reasonable attorney’s fees in connection with this action. (4) ORDERED: Neither party shall cause the other party or the children of the marriage to be removed from any existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage, and each party shall maintain the existing medical, hospital and dental insurance coverage in full force and effect. (5) ORDERED: Neither party shall change the beneciaries of any existing life insurance policies and each party shall maintain the existing life insurance, automobile insurance, homeowners and renters insurance policies in full force and effect. IMPORTANT NOTE: After service of Summons with Notice or Summons and Complaint for divorce, if you or your spouse wishes to modify or dissolve the automatic orders, you must ask the court for approval to do so, or enter into a written modication agreement with your spouse duly signed and acknowledged before a notary public. NOTICE CONCERNING CONTINUATION OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE (Required by Section 255(1) of the Domestic Relations Law) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that once a judgment of divorce is signed in this action, both you and your spouse may or may not continue to be eligible for coverage under each other’s health insurance plan, depending on the terms of the plan. NOTICE OF GUIDELINE MAINTENANCE If your divorce was commenced on or after January 25, 2016, this Notice is required to be given to you by the Supreme Court of the county where your divorce was led to comply with the Maintenance Guidelines Law ([S. 5678/A. 7645], Chapter 269, Laws of 2015) because you may not have counsel in this action to advise you. It does not mean that your spouse (the person you are married to) is seeking or offering an award of “Maintenance” in this action. “Maintenance” means the amount to be paid to the other spouse for support after the divorce is nal. You are hereby given notice that under the Maintenance Guidelines Law (Chapter 269, Laws of 2015), there is an obligation to award the guideline amount of maintenance on income up to $178,000 to be paid by the party with the higher income (the maintenance payor) to the party with the lower income (the maintenance payee) according to a formula, unless the parties agree otherwise or waive this right. Depending on the incomes of the parties, the obligation might fall on either the Plaintiff or Defendant in the action. There are two formulas to determine the amount of the obligation. If you and your spouse have no children, the higher formula will apply. If there are children of the marriage, the lower formula will apply, but only if the maintenance payor is paying child support to the other spouse who has the children as the custodial parent. Otherwise the higher formula will apply.

Lower Formula 1. Multiply Maintenance Payor’s Income by 20%. 2. Multiply Maintenance Payee’s Income by 25%. Subtract Line 2 from Line 1 = Result

Week of December 14 - 20, 2018 • HOME REPORTER • 21 1 Subtract Maintenance Payee’s Income from 40% of Combined Income* = Result 2. Enter the lower of Result 2 or Result 1, but if less than or equal to zero, enter zero. THIS IS THE CALCULATED GUIDELINE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE WITH THE LOWER FORMULA. Higher Formula 1. Multiply Maintenance Payor’s Income by 30% 2. Multiply Maintenance Payee’s Income by 20% Subtract Line 2 from Line 1 = Result 1 Subtract Maintenance Payee’s Income from 40% of Combined Income* = Result 2 Enter the lower of Result 2 or Result 1, but if less than or equal to zero, enter zero. THIS IS THE CALCULATED GUIDELINE AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE WITH THE HIGHER FORMULA. * Combined Income equals Maintenance Payor’s Income up to $178,000 plus Maintenance Payee’s Income. Note: The Court will determine how long maintenance will be paid in accordance with the statute. #165691

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS NYCTL 19982 TRUST and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Collateral Agent and Custodian for the NYCTL 1998-2 Trust, Plaintiff -against- HALIFAX GROUP LLC, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated October 11, 2018 and entered on November 23, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on January 10, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the northerly side of Stanley Avenue, distant 110.00 feet Westerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Westerly side of Sapphire Street with the Northerly side of Stanley Avenue; being a plot 20.00 feet by 94.00 feet by 20.00 feet by 94.00 feet. Block: 4519 Lot: 131 Said premises known as 1419 STANLEY AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $59,825.98 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 521931/2016. MICHAEL D. BENJAMIN, ESQ., Referee Bronster, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 156 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019 #165534

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS HSBC BANK USA, N. A. , AS TRUSTEE FOR THE REGISTERED HOLDERS OF ACE SECURITIES CORP. HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2004-IN1, ASSET BACKED PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Plaintiff, Against Index No.: 507724/15 ASHANTI DOUGLAS AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE STATE OF CLAUDETTE BRUNSON TANYA DOUGLAS AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF CLAUDETTE BRUNSON, ET. AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered on 5/30/2018, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on 1/10/2019 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 2036 East 54th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11234 and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected,

situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 8545 Lot 56 The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $375,028.23 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 507724/15 If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The Purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. Joseph Vasile, Esq., Referee. Leopold & Associates, PLLC, 80 Business Park Drive, Suite 110, Armonk, NY 10504 Dated: 11/12/2018 PB #165529

NOTICE OF SALE US BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 20131T Plaintiff, Against RACQUEL HENRY AS ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF SHIRLEY HENRY, ET AL., Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered on 12/13/2016, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction in Room 224 of Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on 1/10/2019 at 2:30 pm, premises known as 466 E 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11226, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the being in the City of Brooklyn, (late town of Brooklyn) County of Kings, and State of New York, and designated on the tax maps of the Kings County Treasurer as Block 5211 and Lot 56. The approximate amount of the current Judgment lien is $913,344.69 plus interest and costs. The premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 28557/2011. FRANK RIO, Esq., Referee. SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY 11570 Dated: 11/5/2018 File Number: 22408 MNB #165525

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS NYCTL 19982 TRUST AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN, Plaintiffs -against- OSCAR ARDON; GREG ARDON, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered herein on October 23, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on January 10, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, known and designated as Block: 8374 Lot: 1048 on the 2015 County Tax Assessment Map. Said premises known as 1413 ROYCE STREET, UNIT 22, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $11,047.48 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment and Terms of Sale. Index Number 502065/2016. DOMINICK J. MINGIONE, ESQ., Referee Phillips Lytle LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiffs 28 East Main Street, Suite 1400, Rochester, NY 14614 #165535

22• HOME REPORTER • Week of December 14 - 20, 2018

2ND DEPARTMENT/ PUBLIC LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE

SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against DONAVAN DENNY, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP, 28 East Main Street Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered February 6, 2018, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on January 17, 2019 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 60 Lott Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11212. Block 3621 Lot 38. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $729,022.21 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index No 2351106. Gregory T. Cerchione, Esq., Referee FWMC049 #165675

NOTICE OF SALE In pursuance and by virtue of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly granted and entered in an action entitled NYCTL 2016-A Trust and The Bank of New York Mellon as Collateral Agent and Custodian for the NYCTL 2016-A Trust v. Roger Francis, et al., bearing Index No. 507139-2017, by The Honorable Mark I. Partnow, IAS Part FRP2, on or about December 4, 2018, I, the Referee, duly appointed in the action for such purpose, will expose for sale and sell at public auction to the highest bidder on January 17, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court located at 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, the liened premises designated as Block 5044, Lot 46, in the City of New York, County of Kings and Borough of Brooklyn, State of New York and known as 1194 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11225, directed in and by said judgment to be sold.

The approximate amount of the judgment is $10,082.70 plus interest and other charges, and the property is being sold subject to the terms and conditions stated in the judgment, any prior encumbrances and the terms of sale which shall be available at the time of sale. Dated: December 12, 2018 New York, New York M. Randolph Jackson, Esq. Referee 335 Park Place Brooklyn, New York 11238 DAVID P. STICH, ESQ. Attorney for Plaintiffs 521 Fifth Avenue 17th Floor New York, New York 10175 (646) 554-4421 #165742

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS NYCTL 19982 TRUST and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Collateral Agent and Custodian for the NYCTL 1998-2 Trust, Plaintiff -against- HALIFAX GROUP LLC, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale dated October 11, 2018 and entered on November 23, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on January 17, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of

Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Northerly side of Stanley Avenue, distant 130.00 feet Westerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Easterly side of Sapphire Street with the Northerly side of Stanley Avenue; being a plot 20.00 feet by 94.00 feet by 20.00 feet by 94.00 feet. Block: 4519 and Lot: 132 Said premises known as 1417 STANLEY AVENUE, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $64,933.46 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment and Terms of Sale.

Index Number 521952/2016. SIMON SHAMOUN, ESQ., Referee Bronster, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 156 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019 #165678

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE OLIVE PARK CONDOMINUM, Plaintiff, vs MATHLE LEYES, ET AL., Defendants(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly led on January 3rd 2018, I the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on January 10th 2019 at 2:30 pm., premises known as Condominium Unit 3J and Roof Unit R27, Brooklyn NY. At All that certain plot, Piece of parcel of land, with the buildings and improvement thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 2907-lot 1125 and Block 2907-Lot 1214 together. Approximate amount of judgment is $108,115.68 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index #511095/2015.

Michael Benjamin, Esq., Referee Gallet Dreyer & Berkey, LLP., 845 Third Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10022 #165523

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS THE STANDOFF, LLC, Plaintiff against TOBIAS I. ALEXANDER, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on March 8, 2016. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Courthouse, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 10th day of January, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises described as follows: Beginning at a point on the westerly side of Vermont Street, distant 100 feet southerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the westerly side of Vermont Street with the southerly side of Dumont Avenue; Running thence westerly parallel with Dumont Avenue, and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet; Thence southerly and parallel with Vermont Street, 20 feet; Thence easterly parallel with Dumont Avenue, and part of the distance through a party wall, 100 feet to the westerly side of Vermont Street; and Thence northerly along the said westerly side of Vermont Street, 20 feet to the point or place of beginning. Said premises known as 528 Vermont Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11207. (Section: 12, Block: 3807, Lot: 30). Approximate amount of lien $ 367,732.98 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to pro-

visions of led judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 2302307. Jack Segal, Esq., Referee.

DeRose & Surico Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 213-44 38th Avenue Bayside, N.Y. 11361 #165460

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION SUCCESSOR

BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NA AS TRUSTEE FOR WAMU MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES SERIES 2007-0A6 TRUST, Plaintiff against PORFIRIO POLANCO, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Fein, Such & Crane, LLP 28 East Main Street, Suite 1800, Rochester, NY 14614 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered October 31, 2017 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on January 3, 2019 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 266 Hemlock Street, Brooklyn, NY 11208. Block 4147 Lot 47. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $777,536.30 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index No 2424/2011. Sol Needle, Esq., Referee SPSNC397 #165365

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., also known as Wachovia Mortgage a Division of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., formerly known as Wachovia Mortgage, FSB, formerly known as World Savings Bank, FSB, Plaintiff AGAINST Sharon Rudder as Heir to the Estate of Alica Rudder; Sharon Rudder as Proposed Administratrix of the Estate of Alicia Rudder; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 14, 2017 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on January 3, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1462 East 92nd Street, Brooklyn, NY 11236-5008. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 8256 Lot 62. Approximate amount of judgment $622,893.49 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index# 12250/2011.

Donald M. Zolin, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: November 2, 2018 58747 #165333

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF KINGS NYCTL 2016A TRUST and THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON as Collateral Agent and Custodian for the NYCTL 2016-A Trust, Plaintiff -against- 2745 WEST 16TH STREET LLC, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale

entered herein and dated October 4, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Courthouse 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY on January 3, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. premises situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Westerly side of West 15th Street, distant 400 feet Northerly from the corner formed by the intersection of the Westerly side of West 15th Street with the northerly side of Neptune Avenue, being a plot 237.62 feet by 40 feet by 118.81 feet by 40 feet by 118.81 feet.

Block: 6996 Lot: 77 Said premises known as 2748/2754 WEST 15TH STREET A/K/A 2743/2745 WEST 16TH STREET, BROOKLYN, NY Approximate amount of lien $72,183.66 plus interest & costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment and Terms of Sale.

Index Number 511470/2017. M. RANDOLPH JACKSON, ESQ., Referee Bronster, LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 156 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019 #165279

NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: KINGS COUNTY. U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, Pltf. vs. MARCO TAIPEREZ AS PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF MARIE MICHEL A/K/A MARIE C. MICHEL A/K/A MARIE C. MICHEL RUIZ A/K/A MARIE COLETTE MICHEL RUIZ, et al, Defts. Index #504406/2017.

Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered Nov. 7, 2018, I will sell at public auction in Room 224 of the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams St., Brooklyn, NY on January 10, 2019 at 2:30 p.m. prem. k/a 1375 East 99th Street, Brooklyn, NY a/k/a Block 8283, Lot 10. Said property beginning at a point on the Easterly side of 99th Street 67 ft. Northerly from the intersection of the easterly side of East 99th Street and the Westerly side of Avenue N, being a plot 60 ft. x 33 ft. Approx. amt. of judgment is $680,483.62 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of led judgment and terms of sale. GREGORY LASPINA, Referee. COHN & ROTH, Attys. for Pltf., 100 East Old Country Rd., Mineola, NY. #95979 #165050

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS, EMIGRANT FUNDING CORPORATION, Plaintiff, vs. 78A UTICA AVENUE INC., TITUS BROWN, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly led on October 15, 2018, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room 224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on January 10, 2019 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 78A Utica Avenue & 479 McDonough Street, Brooklyn, NY, which shall be sold in separate parcels. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, Block 1342 and Lot 50, and Block 1672 and Lot 56. Approximate amount of judgment

is $802,391.12 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index # 513889/2016. Simon Shamoun, Esq., Referee Borchert & LaSpina, P.C., 19-02 Whitestone Expressway, Suite 302, Whitestone, New York 11357, Attorneys for Plaintiff #164908

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT KINGS COUNTY M&T BANK, Plaintiff against MILTON FONTANEZ, et al Defendants Attorney for Plaintiff(s) Schiller, Knapp, Lefkowitz & Hertzel, LLP 200 John James Audubon Parkway, Suite 202, Amherst, NY 14228 Attorney (s) for Plaintiff (s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale Entered December 19, 2017 I will sell at Public Auction to the highest bidder at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on January 3, 2019 at 2:30 PM. Premises known as 1105 Winthrop St., Brooklyn, NY 11212. Block 4614 Lot 46. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York. Approximate Amount of Judgment is $966,482.77 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index No 23136/09. Richard A. Klass, Esq., Referee 14-3657 #165367

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings PENNYMAC CORP., Plaintiff AGAINST JACOB ALVIN CHANGLEE A/K/A JACOB A. CHANGLEE, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 1/17/18 and entered on 2/27/18, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on January 10, 2019 at 02:30 PM premises known as 249 Troy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 1383, LOT: 10.

Approximate amount of judgment is $787,705.16 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index # 25640/2007.

Bruce Goldstein, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 #165436

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT, Plaintiff AGAINST AFUA BROBBEY, INDIVIDUALLY, AND AS ADMINISTRATRIX OF THE ESTATE OF MARTIN BROBBEY A/K/A MARTIN K. BROBBEY A/K/A MARTIN KENNETH BROBBY, AND AS GUARDIAN OF 2 MINOR INFANTS; IRENE BROBBEY, ENTEL BROBBEY AKA ENTEL OWUSU BROBBEY AKA ETHEL BROBBEY; OSEI BROBBEY AKA OSEI BONSU BROBBEY; YAW BROBBEY AKA YAW OWUSU BROBBEY, AKA YAN OWUAU BROBBEY, AUGUSTINA OWUSU BROBBEY, AKA AUGUSTINA ORELYSU BROBBEY, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 29, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, Room

224, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, on January 10, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 2409 ALBERMARLE ROAD, BROOKLYN, NY 11226. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK 5110, LOT 73. Approximate amount of judgment $916,729.89 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment for Index# 21391/2013. MICHAEL D. BENJAMIN, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 58730 #165387

NOTICE OF SALE Supreme Court County Of Kings US Bank National Association, as Trustee for Adjustable Rate Mortgage Trust 2005-2, Adjustable Rate Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certicates, Series 2005-2, Plaintiff AGAINST Mousa Khalil, et al, Defendant Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 9/18/17 and entered on 10/17/17, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, NY on January 10, 2019 at 02:30 PM premises known as 432 97th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11209. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the County of Kings, City and State of New York, BLOCK: 6127, LOT: p/o Lot 32 f/k/a 33. Approximate amount of judgment is $723,572.70 plus interests and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index # 32302/2008. Dominic J. Famulari, Referee FRENKEL LAMBERT WEISS WEISMAN & GORDON LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 #165434

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF KINGS The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor In Interest to JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association f/k/a JP Morgan Chase Bank f/k/a The Chase Manhattan Bank as Trustee for GS Mortgage Securities Corp., Mortgage Participation Securities, Series 2000-1, Plaintiff AGAINST Evan Lockhart as heir at law and next of kin of Marcia Lockhart; Shanell Lockhart as heir at Law and next of kin of Marcia Lockhart; Trevor Lockhart as Administrator of the Estate of Marcia Lockhart and as heir at law and next of kin of Marcia Lockhart; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 4, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Room 224, Brooklyn, NY 11201 on January 10, 2019 at 2:30PM, premises known as 1158 East 88th Street, Brooklyn, NY 112364711. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of NY, Block 8053 Lot 63. Approximate amount of judgment $330,089.07 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of led Judgment Index# 508533/2015. Helene E. Blank, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: November 2, 2018 58746 #165417

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