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Brooklyn Today June 21: Giant Circus Tent for Sale, ~$1,000,000, Negotiable

June 21, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Happy Wednesday, Brooklyn! Today, the battle over the names of two Bay Ridge streets rages on as local pols band together for a renewed push. Meanwhile, Councilmember Rafael Espinal aims to repeal the city’s “historically racist and arbitrarily enforced cabaret law” (yes, such a law exists in NYC). A new political era brings new tensions to Brooklyn’s Little Pakistan, and the Dept. of Cultural Affairs is looking to make a rather significant – and whimsical – sale. Do you make sure to buy the “antibacterial” soap at the store? If so, you may want to reconsider…Finally, a (very) young saleswoman corners a market in Cobble Hill, and experiences sweet success.    
      
IMPRINT: Marine Le Pen should have brought her scuba gear to the shoot for the latest cover of the Economist.

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The Rundown
  

~CIVIL WAR LEGACY LIVES ON IN BROOKLYN: Brooklyn has found itself in the spotlight as local pols angle for the federal government to change the names of two Bay Ridge streets. Democratic House members Yvette Clarke,Hakeem Jeffries, Jerrold Nadler and Nydia Velazquez wrote a joint letter to Secretary of the Army Robert M. Speer demanding that he renameGeneral Lee Avenue and Stonewall Jackson Drive at the Bay Ridge military post. The renewed fight comes as New Orleans and various southern states have begun tearing down their own Confederate monuments. “These generals,” Clarke said, referring to Lee and Jackson, “who disavowed their loyalty to the United States, are not representative of either Brooklyn or the United States Army.” (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~WHO’S GOT WHOSE BACK?: Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis has picked up a key endorsement from one-time rival Rep. Dan Donovan in her fight to clinch the Republican party’s nomination to run for mayor. Meanwhile, Puerto Rican-born acting Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez makes a name for himself among immigrant voters, and receives backing from AssemblymembersRodneyse Bichotte, Tremaine Wright and Latrice Walker. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Caribbean Life) 
 
~TIME TO PUT ON YOUR DANCING SHOES: If New York wants to retain its title as The City That Never Sleeps, then several sweeping changes need to be made, according to city Councilmember Rafael Espinal. “I am officially introducing a bill to repeal the historically racist and arbitrarily enforced cabaret law,” he said. Not-so-fun fact: there are currently only 17 places in Brooklyn where you can legally dance. In addition to repealing the law, Espinal wants to create an Office of Nightlife, which would be led by a “night mayor.” The new position’s responsibilities would include regulating the nightlife industry, helping DIY venues stay open and creating a safer partying environment. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~LIVING IN LITTLE PAKISTAN IN THE TIME OF TRUMP: NYC calculates that roughly 73,000 Pakistanis live in the five boroughs, and the greatest concentration resides in Little Pakistan near Coney Island Ave. betweenNewkirk Ave. and Ave. H. The Brooklyn neighborhood survived through the post-9/11 days, when the F.B.I. arrested Pakistanis across the country (despite none of the hijackers having Pakistani origins). Now, the neighborhoodgrapples with newfound tensions in the time of Trump. (via the New Yorker) 
 
~YOU MAY WANT TO RECONSIDER YOUR FAVORITE ANTIBACTERIAL SOAP: “Antibacterial” is a buzzword that many people look for in hand sanitizers, soaps and toothpastes, but yesterday hundreds of scientists and health professionals warned in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives that we should stay away from products containing certain antimicrobials. Dr. Laura Geer of the School of Public Health at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn said in a statement that antimicrobial substances added to common household products can potentially disrupt the human endocrine system and are known to linger in the environment…plus, they simply work no better than plain soap and water. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
 
~FOR SALE: GIANT CIRCUS TENT, ~$1,000,000, NEGOTIABLE: TheDept. of Cultural Affairs is seeking a home for the Big Apple Circus tentthat it bought for nearly $1 million in 2011. The agency bought the tent for the struggling nonprofit so that it could continue to put on shows, but the circus filed for bankruptcy last year and was purchased months ago. (via DNAinfo) 
 
~SWEET SUCCESS IN CLINTON HILL: A 7-year-old girl cornered the sweet tooth market in Clinton Hill when she offloaded a whopping 1,514 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies this year. Amira Williams of Troop 2537 claims she’s improved two important skills: advertising and counting money. The top sellers? Thin Mints and Samoas, of course. (via Brooklyn Paper)

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READ: Puzzled over a mean boss? Studies show that major increases in power cause changes in the brain that make people act as if they have suffered a traumatic brain injury. The first skill to go out the window? The ability to read other people. (via the Atlantic)    
 
ANOTHER READ: Please don’t throw pears at MTA train conductors. (via the NYT) 
 
READ + LOOK: Barbie’s beau gets a major makeover. Now, Ken is black, and Asian, and cornrowed, and man-bunned, and pan-racial, and so much more. (via GQ) 
 

INTERVIEW: As Katz’s Deli opens a branch at DeKalb Market Hall, ownerJake Dell chats about being a 75-year-old millennial, and why Jewish delis have all but died out in Brooklyn. (via Brooklyn Mag)  

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NATIONAL BULLETIN: Uber’s CEO resigns…The GOP triumphs in the Georgia special election, indicating that Republicans will stick with POTUS…A Pew analysis finds that imprisonment for drug-related charges has no effect on drug problems…A closer look at an Arizona-based charter school reveals that not all kids are tech-heads…Over the past five years, there have been more than twelve cases of inmates attempting to smuggle in contraband via drones…And for a dose of much-needed feel-good news, it turns out thatthere are Good Samaritans scattered across the country who will return misplaced, seriously vast sums of money. (via the AP, Pew Charitable Trusts, WaPo, USA Today and the NYT)
 
FOREIGN FLASH: Opioid abuse in Afghanistan used to be a problem that almost exclusively affected men, but now the tide is turning to create a “silent tsunami” of addicted women…A polio outbreak in Syria leaves 17 children paralyzed…And it turns out manspreading is a problem in Madrid as well.(via WaPo and the NYT)
 

 ROYAL WATCH: Happy 35th birthday to the one and only Prince William!
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BROOKLYN TONIGHT  

 
11:00am – Summer Reading Storytime at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 3.Details.
 
12:00pm – 1:30pm – Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art: A Discussion with Author Judith Stein at 92ndStreet Y. Details.
 
6:00pm – Digable Planets at Coffey Park. Details.
 
7:00pm – NYC Book Launch: Extraordinary Adventures by Daniel Wallace in Conversation with Elizabeth Strout. Details.  
 
7:00pm – An Evening with Albert Einstein at New York Institute of Technology.Details.
 
7:00pm – Think Olio: That Fresh Sound: Modern Poetry, Kanye West, and Shaking Your Mind Out of Its Rut at JWALK. Details.  
 
7:30pm – Drink & DrawBots at Open Source Gallery. Details.
 
8:00pm – Fakear at Baby’s All Right. Details.
 
8:00pm – Rent Party at Union Hall. Details.  
 
8:30pm – “Bronx Man Leads Russian Revolution” and Other Stories of Espionage in New York City at Prospect Heights Brainery. Details.
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 ON THE PITCH: If this goal is any indication of Barcelona’s youth players, then the club’s future is as bright as the city’s lights.
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MILESTONES

Happy birthday to Kris Allen, Meredith Baxter, Berkeley Breathed, Tom Chamber, Ray Davies, Sammi Davis-Voss, Joe Flaherty, Michael Gross, Mariette Hartley, Richard Jefferson, Bernie Kopell, Juliette Lewis,  Nils Lofgren, Chris Pratt, Doug Savant,  Jussie Smollett, Edward Snowden,
Rick Sutcliffe, Lana Wachowski and Benjamin Walker!


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