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July 31, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Welcome to the new week, Brooklyn! The traditionally violent J’Ouvert festival will be a daytime affair. DA candidates go head-to-head on how to close Rikers, and we find out just how damaging football is to the human brain. Plus, better think twice before you blow out the candles on your next birthday cake. A 69-year-old woman finds out her family heritage was a lie, ponies go for a swim and World War II bombs are washing up on the shores of the south. Finally, China has a high-tech metro station in the middle of nowhere.
      
IMPRINT: The latest cover of The Atlantic asks the scary question: Can North Korea be stopped?

 
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The Rundown
 

~ADOPT A SUBWAY STATION: The Summer of Hell could become the summer of sell for the MTA. As part of the new plan to fix the sickly subways, Governor Andrew Cuomo entertained the idea of offering companiessponsorship in subway stations for an annual fee. The money could be directed to maintenance, security and aesthetics of the stations. The opening of the Barclays Center showcased the idea when Atlantic Ave-Pacific St turned into Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center after the MTA sold the naming rights of the station. However, concern has emerged whether certain stops unlikely for sponsorship could get neglected. (via Curbed)
 
~DAYBREAK COMES EARLY THIS YEAR: This year’s J’Ouvert festival organizers are combating trends of crime at the celebration with more hours of sunlight this year. For the first time ever, the parade will be from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m., instead of beginning at 2 a.m. Recent years have brought violenceamong parade goers in the night, despite increased police presence. Last year, two people were killed and in 2015, aide to Gov. Cuomo, Carey Gabay died from gang crossfire. J’Ouvert City International President Yvette Rennie said the change is “a combination of all our concerns, because we are extremely concerned that darkness is when everything (bad) happens.” Advocacy groups and city officials will also host multiple anti-violence events in the weeks ahead of the Labor Day event. (via NYDN and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~DA CANDIDATES AGREE TO DISAGREE ON RIKERS ISLAND: WhileMayor Bill de Blasio and Republican challenger Nicole Malliotakis fight over de Blasio’s plan to close Rikers Island, the candidates for DA in Brooklyn, including Acting DA Eric Gonzalez, all support closing the island jail, but they have different plans to make that happen. In order for Rikers Island to be closed, members of former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman’s Independent Commission on NYC Criminal Justice Reform have argued that the most important step is to shrink the population from an average daily population of more than 10,000 inmates to something in the 5,000-6,000 range. With roughly three-quarters of that prison population in Rikers being held on bail, one of the most effective tools that a potential DA would bring to the effort would be bail reform. Gonzalez, along with his challengers Anne Swern, Ama Dwimoh, Marc Fliedner, Patricia Gatling and Councilmember Vincent Gentile, have plans. Meanwhile, a “move towards reform is [causing] trouble” at the jail. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and ProPublica)
 
SANITATION COLLECTS $200K FROM CITY COUNCIL: City CouncilmemberVincent Gentile recently announced $200k worth of funding for sanitation services in neighborhoods within his district. The citywide effort is funded through the NYC Cleanup Initiative. The money will be used for a variety of improved services in Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst. A total of $180,000 will go to the Department of Sanitation to fund trash pickups and for a mechanical broom to be used weekly to clean streets in the district. And $20,000 will be allocated to the Wildcat Service Corporation, which works all year sweeping, cleaning sewer grates, eliminating graffiti and shoveling snow for the elderly and disabled. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

 
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Staff Picks:    
 

LONG READ: “A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Artificial Immortality”(via Wired) 
 
ANOTHER LONG READ: A 69-year-old woman lived her whole life thinking she was Irish — until she found out she wasn’t. (via WaPo)
 
HEALTH: Did you know that when someone blows out birthday candles, it increases cake bacteria by 1,400 percent? Yuck! (via The Atlantic) 
 
SPORTS: A neuropathologist studied the brains of 111 football players, and the results were disturbing. (via NYT)

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: Bombs from World War II are washing up on the shores of North Carolina…Roughly 150 wild ponies made their annual swim to Chincoteague Island in Virginia…And a new study suggests happiness comes from ordering takeout and hiring a maid. (via WaPo, USA Today and NYT)  
 
FOREIGN FLASH: An American soldier who made it out alive from a shootout in Jordan tells his story…China built a high-tech metro station in the middle of a field…And the everlasting burkini debate continues. (via NYT, CNN and The Atlantic)
  
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 ROYAL WATCH: The Royal Family’s favorite italian dish has been revealed, and you can make it too. (via Hello! Magazine)

 
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BROOKLYN TONIGHT  
 

8:00AM — Morning Exercise Sessions at Harbor Hill Neighborhood Center.Details.
 
8:00AM – 5:00PM — Books Beneath the Bridge @ Brooklyn Bridge Park.Details.
 
10:00AM — Broadway Dance at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Details.
1:30PM — Sheepshead Bay Book Discussion Group. Details.
 
3:00PM – 5:00PM — Neighborhood Legal Clinic: Free Housing Court Assistance for NYC Residents at Trinity Church. Details.
 
6:30PM — Hollywood Does History… Poorly: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure at Brooklyn Historical Society. Details.
 
7:00PM — Coney Island Flicks on the Beach: La La Land at West 12th Street and Riegelmann Boardwalk. Details.
 
7:00PM – 9:00PM — Why Commemorate Ninth of Av? at Bay Ridge Jewish Center. Details.
 
7:30PM — Siobhan Gallagher: In a Daze Work with Adam J. Kurtz at Books Are Magic. Details.
 
8:00PM — Night Train with Wyatt Cenac at Littlefield. Details.

  
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 EAGLE SPORTS: Check out Eddie The Eagle, strolling in Bay Ridgewith the New York Cosmos! (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

 
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MILESTONES
 
Happy birthday to Dean Cain, Geraldine Chaplin, Susan Flannery, Evonne Goolagong, Gary Lewis, Evgeni Malkin, Don Murray, France Nuyen, Jonathan Ogden, Rico Rodriguez, J.K. Rowling, Wesley Snipes.


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