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Brooklyn Today April 14: Cyclone Daze in Coney Island and more

April 14, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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Weather, Brooklyn Borough Hall (NWS): Day 65°, Night 47°, sunny

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THE LEDE: Good Friday morning, Brooklyn! This morning, the death of JusticeSheila Abdus-Salaam leaves a hole in the Brooklyn legal community,Brooklyn real estate continues to climb to astronomical heights, and one advocate argues for why NYC government buildings should relocate to East New York (at least one pol is on board). Plus, Coney Island Cyclone fanatics are in business for the season, and the “high tech cowboys of the deep seas” have a job to do…Have a sunny weekend!

IMPRINT: Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung knows what we’re all dreaming of this (and every) Friday.  

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The Rundown

~BROOKLYN REMEMBERS FIRST FEMALE MUSLIM JUDGE: Justice Sheila Abdus-Salaam died on Wednesday, leaving behind a Brooklyn legal community that will remember her as a “trailblazer” and a great judge. Abdus-Salaam was found dead on Wednesday on the bank of the Hudson River near Harlem, and police believe she committed suicide. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and the NYT)    

~THE PIERHOUSE FILES: A Brooklyn Heights couple sealed the deal on thepriciest purchase to date of a Pierhouse condo: $10,669,579. Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise, considering it’s more expensive than ever to live in Brooklyn. First quarter sales reports are in for our borough, and the average sale price of a Brooklyn home will now set you back $993,955…meanwhile,Brooklyn Heights Association’s Pier 6 lawsuit seeking to block construction on two towers will stay in Manhattan. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and Curbed NY)  

~A NEW NEIGHBOR IN GOWANUS: A seven-story charter school is coming to Gowanus in 2019. Brooklyn Prospect Charter School bills itself as “intentionally diverse,” and will be open to all students in NYC via lottery (although District 15 students will get preference). The school aims to break ground at 160 17th Street between Third and Fourth avenues this year. (via DNAinfo)

~FROM BK TO THE PHILIPPINES TO D.C.: The Big Apple Honor Flight willmake its maiden voyage from NYC to Washington, D.C. this month, carrying 50 veterans from the NYC area for a day-long visit to the country’s capital.Harold Simmons, a 92-year-old vet born and raised in Williamsburg, says.“I reminisce about those days all the time, I was stationed in the Philippines…We were there first when they chased [General] MacArthur out of there. He said, ‘I shall return,’ and I returned with him and we made it. We made it.” (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)

~COMMENTARY OF THE DAY: MOVE GOV’T JOBS TO EAST NEW YORK: The city will pump $136 million into Sunset Park for a new manufacturing center, and Gov. Cuomo promised Central Brooklyn $1.4 billion for revitalization efforts. But one advocate argues that the best place to spur job creation and revitalization is in East New York….and the best way to start is by relocating government jobs to the area…Brooklyn Borough PresidentEric Adams is on board. (via The Bridge and Kings County Politics)

~ICYMI//CYCLONE DAZE: A group of Coney Island Cyclone coaster fanatics have made it a tradition to line up for the coaster’s front row seats on opening day ever since they were stranded on the Cyclone when it malfunctioned on opening day in 2015. Only four of the original crew of seven were able to make it this year, but they weren’t the only ones staking out their spots at 3 a.m. on opening day–Brooklynites reflect on the tradition of the Cyclone. (via Brooklyn Paper)

~PHOTO OF THE DAY: It’s the little things  (via@brooklyndailyeagle)

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Staff Picks

UNEXPECTED READ: What to do when a cargo ship the size of two football fields tips to a precarious angle in the middle of the ocean? Call the “high tech cowboys of the deep seas”, of course. (via Wired)

NOSTALGIC READ:64 Highlights of the Internet’s Early Years, from the First Webcam to a Net Art Gallery.” (via Hyperallergic)

EAT: Is there such a thing as “healthy comfort food”? There is at The Kitchenin Cobble Hill.  

ICYMI//FYI: Brooklyn through the eyes of British people. (via the Telegraph)

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NATIONAL BULLETIN: The Trump administration currently has enough money to cover only seven miles of the 1,000+ mile wall…social mediamay not be reinforcing our political beliefs quite as much as popular opinion thinks…POTUS signed legislation yesterday that aims to strip Planned Parenthood of funding…and Americans are adopting fewer children from overseas. (via ProPublica and the NYT)

FOREIGN FLASH: The U.S. dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal on an ISIS complex in Afghanistan…Canada aims to legalize marijuana by summer 2018…North Korea has had enough of Trump’stweets…and if news from this world has become too much to handle, considerlife on Saturn. (via the WSJ, WaPo, the AP and the NYT)

ROYAL WATCH: How does Queen Elizabeth get that perfect broken-in feel to her shoes? By hiring a helper to walk around in them first. (via Today)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT

6:00pm – The Hairy Ape & New York City: Class vs. Identity at The Park Avenue Armory. Details.

6:30pm – The World According to Sound at The Greene Space. Details.

7:00pm – Think Olio: The Psychology of Relationships: How Experimental Science, Empirical Data, and Seinfeld Help Us Understand Love at The Strand.Details.  

8:00pm – Perilous Times at Kings Theatre. Details.

9:00pm – BAMcafe Live at BAM. Details.

SATURDAY

3:00pm – Bushwick Brooklyn Art Gallery Tour at various locations with New York Gallery Tours. Details.

7:00pm – Twilight Tour at Green-Wood Cemetary. Details.

8:00pm – Bargemusic Masterwork Series at Fulton Ferry Landing. Details.

SUNDAY

12:30pm – Tour and Wine Tasting at Rooftop Reds, the World’s First Rooftop Vineyard. Details.

1:00pm – 6:00pm –  Art: Dry Heat 2017 at STUDIO10. Details.

7:00pm – The Ranger Zone at Branded Saloon. Details.  

7:30pm – Dear Evan Hansen: Ben Platt and Michael Greif in Conversation with Ira Glass at 92nd Street Y. Details.   

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ON THE PITCH: Heading into the weekend like…http://bit.ly/2oE54hs

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