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Brooklyn Today June 16: More Trees, Please

June 16, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Hello and happy Friday, Brooklyn! After simmering for a week, the mayor’s office introduces a very green plan to beat the heat. In bleaker news, the numbers show that drug overdoses in NYC climbed to record highs in 2016. Take a walk down memory lane and relive your most hellish commutes of 2017 with a new visual representation of the subway’s grinding decline. Some good news: both the Brooklyn Heights Library and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pop-Up Pool live on (albeit with caveats). AGowanus resident will represent the borough on Jeopardy! on Monday, and finally, controversial nightclub The Brooklyn Mirage will open its doors once again, with a blockbuster lineup to boot. Have a great weekend and a happyFather’s Day!
      
IMPRINT: PM Magazine uses a common printing error to its advantage on itslatest cover.

 
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The Rundown
 

~MORE TREES, PLEASE: An average of 450 New Yorkers land in emergency departments each year due to extreme heat, and after three sweltering days this week, the city announced that it will drop $106 million on green rooftops and tree planting. About 80 percent of the $106M investment will be funneled into Central Brooklyn, South Bronx and Northern Manhattan, and the benefits of tree planting extend far beyond heat reduction…for example, large pit trees can reduce flooding during heavy rains, which in turn lessens the likelihood of sewage seeping into rivers. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Gothamist)    
 
~OPIOID CRISIS CONTINUES TO GRIP NYC: The Department of Healthhas revealed some unsettling stats: overdose deaths increased 46 percent across the city last year, and increased in all demographic groups and in nearly all neighborhoods. Heroin was to blame for 55 percent of those cases. That means drug overdoses reached a record high in 2016. (via DNAinfo) 
 
~“A VISUAL TIMELINE OF THE SUBWAY’S EPIC 2017 MELTDOWN”:2017 has been a helluva year for the subways. While the trains hobble and lurch through the tunnels, the wifi has remained on platforms…allowing disgruntled passengers to meticulously document the subway’s slow, sad, staggering demise. Curbed NY presents a visual timeline of the events, so you can relive six months of hellish commuting all over again. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Curbed NY)  
 
~WHO IS JEREMY FASSLER?: He’s a Gowanus resident and writer for The Daily Banter who will appear on Jeopardy!. Fassler says he prepped for the competition for about a month, with lots of help from his girlfriend. The show is pre-recorded, so he already knows how his efforts paid off, but Fassler must keep mum until the show airs on WABC-TV on Monday. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~BROOKLYN HEIGHTS LIBRARY LIVES ON: The Cadman Plaza building may be a pile of rubble, but the reading must go on at the library’stemporary location on Remsen St., which is attracting new patrons as well as loyal followers. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)  
 
~BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK POP-UP POOL LIVES ON, TOO (FOR NOW):The Pop-Up Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park will be back this summerstarting on June 29, but only for one more year. The agency overseeing the park granted only a one-year extension, but locals are already circulating apetition to ensure the pool’s return after this summer. (via DNAinfo) 
 
~OPINION//BUT WHAT ABOUT CONEY ISLAND?: The NYC Ferry is here, and wildly popular. The service has been lauded for connecting far-flung areas like Bay Ridge with Downtown Brooklyn, but one area feels shunted. For at least 10 years, the idea of a ferry stop in Coney Island has been avidly discussed by politicians, community groups and others. It’s not a new idea, either–from the 19th century until the 1930s, the Iron Steamboat Companyran paddleboat ferries from various Manhattan locations to Steeplechase Pier. Why not bring it back? (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~WELCOME TO THE WEEKEND, BROOKLYN: The infamous East Williamsburg club The Brooklyn Mirage will host its opening party onJuly 1. Artists on the bill for the outdoor venue’s holiday weekend bash include Berlin-based duo Tale of Us, Stephan Bodzin and Recondite. The Brooklyn Mirage is run out of an industrial lot at 140 Stewart Ave. and is operated by Zurich-based entertainment company Cityfox. Don’t think the buck stops at the July 1 party–Cityfox announced an additional four parties over the course of the summer. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

 
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Staff Picks:
 

LONG READ: The iPhone turns 10 this month. Here’s the device’s (formerly top secret) origin story. (via the Verge)   
 
LONG-TERM READ: Brooklyn and NYC’s stalwart, independent bookstores recommend a summer reading list. (via the Village Voice)  
 
QUICK READ: Is Brooklyn losing its spot as an artists’ hotbed? Lit Hub presents “5 Reasons Why a Writer Should Move to St. Paul.” (via Lit Hub)
 
INTERVIEW: Rapper Miss Eaves considers Brooklyn v. Canada. (via Brokelyn)  

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: POTUS is officially under investigation, but what would a President Pence look like?…Following the shooting at a congressional baseball game, some pols stick to their guns, and some pick them up…Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders supporters grapple with the implicationsof the attack…The lack of wifi in rural areas results in far-reaching economic consequences for residents…And no, chocolate milk doesn’t come from brown cows (but if you thought it did, you wouldn’t be alone). (via Wapo, FiveThirtyEight, POLITICO, Vox, the NYT and the WSJ) 
 
FOREIGN FLASH: The Netherlands is sinking, and most of it sits below sea level. That’s why the small country has come to dominate the global market in high-tech engineering and water management…Following the deadly high-rise blaze in London, the NYT reflects on five fires that shaped the city…Former NBA player Dennis Rodman presents North Korea’s Kim Jong Un with a gift: a copy of “The Art of the Deal”…And a Swede who spent 13 years behind bars is acquitted, partly thanks to Serial-like Swedish podcast called Spår. (via the NYT, WaPo and Nieman Lab) 
 

 ROYAL WATCH: Check out this old-timey video of Elizabeth attending the ballet and dressed to the nines in her pre-queen days. (via People)

 
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BROOKLYN TONIGHT  
 

6:30pm – Finnegans Wake: Approaching and Appreciating James Joyce’s Baffling Masterpiece at Prospect Heights Brainery. Details.
 
7:00pm – New Traditions Festival 2017: Our Caribbean Spirit at Mark Morris Dance Center. Details.
 
7:00pm – O’Keeffe’s Contemporaries: Four (More) Modern Women at The Strand. Details.
 
7:00pm – Bloomsday on Broadway XXXVI at Symphony Space. Details.
 
7:30pm – Lola Star’s Dreamland Roller Disco at Lakeside. Details.
 
8:00pm – The Maribor Uprisings: A Live Participatory Film at MetroTech Commons at MetroTech Center. Details.
 
8:00pm – Elizabeth Warren: This Fight Is Our Fight at The Town Hall. Details.
 
11:00pm – Straight to Hell: The Clash Tribute at Gold Sounds. Details.  


 
SATURDAY
 
9:00am – 4:00pm – Dog Days of Summer Car Show and Dog Adoption Event at Ben Ma Chree Boat Club. Details.
 
10:00am – 3:00pm – Kayaking at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Details.
 
3:00 – 4:30pm – Mark Morris Dance Group at Atlantic Terminal Plaza.Details.
 
4:00pm – 5:00pm – Bargemusic at Fulton Ferry Landing. Details.
 
8:00pm – Earthquake & Friends Father’s Day Comedy Show at Kings Theatre Brooklyn. Details.


 
SUNDAY
 
9:30am – 10:30pm – Rooftop Yoga at Northern Territory. Details.
 
12:00pm – Basketball Clinics at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2. Details.
 
12:30pm – Father’s Day Family Concert: The Music of Bob Marley with David Langlois and the Brookliners at Brooklyn Bowl. Details.
 
7:00pm – The Isley Brothers at Kings Theatre. Details.
 
 
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 ON THE PITCH: If you’re still in search of a Father’s Day gift, look no further. Introducing the “Soccer Ball Phone!” 

  
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MILESTONES
 
Happy birthday to Sonia Braga, John Cho, Roberto Duran, Abby Elliott, Cobi Jones, Laurie Metcalf, Phil Mickelson, Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Van Ark and Kerry Wood!


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