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Brooklyn Today June 19: Sunny Days Ahead in Red Hook

June 19, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Happy Monday, Brooklyn! Good news for loyal bar-goers in Red Hook: Sunny’s Bar isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. It’s a different story in Crown Heights, where tonight’s Community Board 9 meeting over the proposed Bedford-Union Armory redevelopment is expected to get very heated. Meanwhile, the long-shuttered Greenpoint Hospital remains vacant, but not empty. Monday morning at the office have you daydreaming aboutbygone Memorial Day? We report on the inaugural three-day camping and music festival that was held in the woods of Pennsylvania over that weekend. Finally, a local filmmaker retreats from A-list Hollywood and returns to the streets of Sunset Park.
      
IMPRINT: In very complicated times, the latest cover of The Economist nails it with simplicity.

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The Rundown
 

~SUNNY DAYS AHEAD IN RED HOOK: The stalwart Red Hook bar Sunny’swill rise to see another day, thanks to $65,000 in donations. Tone Johansen, the widow of Sunny Balzano, managed to buy out 18 members of Balzano’s extended family after he died last year. The bar will continue to serve up cheap beer and live music into its 128th year. (via Brooklyn Paper) 
 
~NOT-SO-SUNNY DAYS IN CROWN HEIGHTS: The rapidly changing neighborhood of Crown Heights has made headlines this year for various gentrification-related tensions, and tonight’s Community Board 9 public hearing on the Bedford-Union Armory is shaping up to be the next issue to rock the neighborhood. Opponents of the $195 million redevelopment project plan to show up in force to the meeting. The project would include a mix of affordable and market-rate rentals and condos, but opponents have been pushing hard for all-affordable units. The hearing will take place tonightat 6:30 p.m. at M.S. 161 at 400 Empire Blvd. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~MEANWHILE, IN GREENPOINT…: Plans to convert the old Greenpoint Hospital complex into affordable housing have been long-stalled, but the building isn’t unoccupied. Locals say that squatters have claimed the abandoned buildings…and their neighbors are not happy about it. Locals have been pushing the city to convert the site into affordable housing units since the hospital’s shutdown…in 1982. (via DNAinfo and Curbed NY) 
 
~MILES FROM WOODSTOCK, DEBAUCHERY IN THE WOODS: On Memorial Day weekend, thousands of revelers gathered in the woods of The Keystone State to attend Elements Lakewood, BangOn!NYC’s inaugural three-day camping festival. The debauchery-filled celebration, which took place just miles away from the original site of Woodstock, boasted four stages, large-scale art installations, fire breathers and some of the world’s top DJs. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~SCENES OF BROOKLYN: Movies set in Brooklyn often fall into a handful of categories: mob flicks, hipster mumblecore, etc. But filmmaker Jim McKay (of “The Wire” and “Big Love” fame) has returned to Brooklyn to debut a ground level, low-budget movie set and filmed in Sunset Park and Carroll Gardens. On his preference for working on his own turf (McKay lives in South Park Slope), his attitude is simple: “I just feel like, why not?”, he told the NYT. The film, “Séptimo Día,” traces the lives of Mexican immigrant soccer players in Sunset Park, and debuted yesterday at BAM. (via the NYT)    

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READ + LOOK: It’s been a rough three years for Flint, MI. But high school students hold a glittering prom that takes them far away, in more ways than one. (via the NYT) 
 
LONG READ: Meanwhile, a high school in Chicago operates on the motto“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” (via Chicago) 
 
CULTURE: Mark your calendars for the Brooklyn Book Festival, Sept. 11-17. The recently released line-up this year includes Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead and Elif Batuman, among other literary giants.    
 
TIP OF THE DAY: For the Monday morning blues: “How to Make Yourself Work When You Really Don’t Feel Like It.” (via Science of Us)

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: As we inch toward the official beginning of summer this week, the NYT re-ups a list of tips to keep your space cool…Due to a “hopelessly deadlocked” jury, the Bill Cosby case ends in a mistrial…A new study shows that wildfires in the Great Plains have more than tripledover three decades…Harvard rescinds its admissions offer to 10 incoming freshman due to offensive Facebook posts…And researchers are soliciting10,000 New Yorkers to share a trove of data for 20 years in order to conduct a major study called “The Human Project.” (via the NYT, WaPo and the AP) 
 
FOREIGN FLASH: You may need to reevaluate your travel plans to Cuba, thanks to POTUS’ latest flourish of a pen…One of the worst forest fires in Portugal’s recent history leaves 62 dead…Yet another attack occurs in London, this time with a driver plowing into a crowd…And in Serbia, a country where more than half of the residents consider homosexuality a “sickness,” agay woman has just been nominated for prime minister. (via the NYT, WaPo and the AP)
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 ROYAL WATCH: Queen Elizabeth apparently makes an excellent pen pal. (via Lansing State Journal)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT  
 

10:00am – 11:00am – Broadway Dance at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2.Details.
 
12:00pm – Exceptional America: What Divides Americans From the World and Each Other at 92nd Street Y. Details.
 
6:30pm – Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights with Lawrence Weschler at NYPL Mid-Manhattan Library. Details.
 
7:00pm – How the Internet and Games Are Changing Our Brain at 92nd Street Y. Details.
 
7:00pm – ScreenTimes: “The Beguiled” with Sofia Coppola and Kirsten Dunst at The TimesCenter. Details.  
 
7:00pm – Staged reading of “Yellow” at Kumble Theater at LIU. Details.
 
7:30pm – Unbound with Arundhati Roy at BAM Gilman Opera House. Details. 
 
8:00pm – Dams of the West, Gemma at Baby’s All Right. Details.
 
9:00pm – “Neon Joe Werewolf Hunter” release party at The Bell House.Details.  
 
10:30pm – Reverend Vince Anderson and the Love Choir at Union Pool.Details.
 
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 ON THE PITCH: Lionel Messi was recently immortalized in Barcelona in a mural by street artist and illustrator Axe Colours. What do you make of the painting? (via @axe_colours)
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MILESTONES
 
Happy birthday to Paula Abdul, Aung San Suu Kyi, Hugh Dancy, Jean Dujardin, Andy Lauer, Macklemore, Brian McBride, Poppy Montgomery, Dirk Nowitzk, Phylicia Rashad, Gena Rowlands, Salman Rushdie, Zoe Saldana, Aiden Turner, Kathleen Turner, and Ann Wilson!


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