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According to Crain’s New York Business, the number of contenders being considered to develop a residential and hotel property at Pier 1 in Brooklyn Bridge Park has decreased to three from the original seven.

The driver of this silver SUV tied up rush hour on Cadman Plaza West at Pierrepont Street in Downtown Brooklyn Tuesday evening by inadvertently driving over – and getting stuck on -- a section of the center median. Part of the vehicle’s undercarriage suffered damage, and a liquid leaked out onto the street. Multiple FDNY and NYPD emergency vehicles responded to the scene and poured absorbent onto the spill. The driver, seen here inside the SUV, appeared to be unhurt.

Elinore Lincoln Bachman died February 17 at her residence on Montague Terrace. She was 93 and had lived on the Heights since 1944.

She had served on many community boards and as president of the Junior League and Mrs. Field’s Literary Club. In 1968 as chair of the Yuletide Ball Committee benefiting the Brooklyn Kindergarten Society, Elinore was instrumental in dispensing with debutantes and returning the benefit to the Heights Casino from the St. George Hotel.

SUNSET PARK — At a recent luncheon, the Lutheran Medical Center Auxiliary elected and installed new board and nominating committee members. The 123-member auxiliary appointed Jane Kelly, who has served on the auxiliary for more than 20 years, as president; Eleanor Petty, a three-year veteran, as first vice president; and Claireann Gent, who has been with the auxiliary for 29 years, as second vice president.

According to Yeshiva World News, nine city firefighters were hospitalized on Monday after battling a four-alarm fire in a building in East Flatbush that contained a large distributor of kosher sushi products. The fire started around 10:30 a.m. inside an Auto Zone at 561 Utica Ave., then spread to the building's other tenants, including Natural Earth Products, the sushi distributor.

State Senator Daniel Squadron, Borough President Marty Markowitz and other officials recently sent a letter urging the MTA to lessen the impact of weekend L train shutdowns on Williamsburg and Greenpoint small businesses. The officials held a meeting with more than 30 local merchants, who stressed that the L is essential in bringing customers from Manhattan. Their suggestions included scheduling work on weeknights, running buses over the Williamsburg Bridge on shutdown days, and not shutting down the L and the nearby G at the same time.

CONEY ISLAND (AP) — Brooklyn’s Coney Island boardwalk may be getting a makeover — from wood to plastic.

The New York Times reports that the city Parks Department is proposing to replace stretches of the aging 2.7-mile boardwalk with a combination of concrete and a type of recycled plastic that looks like wood.

Initially the Parks Department planned to replace the boardwalk entirely with concrete, but that met with resistance from community residents. The plastic plan may not be warmly accepted either.

RED HOOK — The Queens-based Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center has purchased South Brooklyn Health Center (SBHC) at 120 Richards St. in Red Hook from New York Methodist Hospital (NYM).

Through referral agreements between NYM and Addabbo, patients at  SBHC will continue to have ready access to a broad array of health services at New York Methodist.

Along with basic adult primary care services, pediatrics and HIV/AIDS care currently being offered, SBHC will provide OB/GYN, dental, podiatric, ophthalmologic and endocrinology services.

Purchase of the facility was facilitated with $1.125 million in financing from the Primary Care Development Corporation.