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Brooklyn Today September 21: Day Mayor Creates Night Mayor

September 21, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Happy Thursday, Brooklyn! Mayor de Blasio creates an Office of Nightlife, a Brooklyn judge disappoints El Chapo, and there’s a mysterious Hasidic developer changing the borough. Plus, income levels are up in Brooklyn, we take you back to the ’80s, and a German man gets in a bit of a predicament. Travel + Leisure selects the best European city to visit in 2017, a fifth-grade teacher asks her students to justify being a KKK member, and a mother purposely drives over her daughter’s leg.
 
IMPRINT: A zombie from “The Walking Dead” is featured on the September cover of Esquire Spain.  
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The Rundown
 
~THE DAY MAYOR CREATES A NIGHT MAYOR: Mayor Bill de Blasio was the life of the party on Tuesday at Bushwick nightclub House of Yes. But it wasn’t for his dancing skills. In a room filled with hundreds of artists, musicians and business owners, de Blasio officially signed into law Councilmember Rafael Espinal’s legislation to create an Office of Nightlife and Nightlife Advisory Board. The newest city agency will be controlled by a night mayor, which de Blasio described as “one of the coolest job titles you could ever hope to have.” The new position’s responsibilities will include regulating the nightlife industry, helping DIY venues stay open and creating a safer partying environment. “I’m not going to announce any names yet — there is a massive competition going on — but the office will be led by someone who undoubtedly will be more popular than me and will wield tremendous power,” said de Blasio. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
 
~INCOME LEVELS UP IN BROOKLYN: Since the recession, Brooklyn’s average income has seen a large spike, up to $55,150 per household in 2016, but that wealth only seems to be applicable to a few throughout the borough. Brooklyn poverty levels have hardly changed in that time period and neighborhoods like Brownsville and East New York have yet to see any economic boom. While certain neighborhoods in a frenzied state of development make the borough look as if it’s forever rising, the 0.5 percent decline in poverty since 2008 paints a different picture. “I think overall these numbers point to the level of poverty going in the right direction, being reduced,” Emily Miles of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agenciessaid. “We shouldn’t undersell it, but we can certainly do better.” (via amNew York) 
 
~BKLYN JUDGE DENIES EL CHAPO’S REQUEST TO DISMISS CASE: A Brooklyn federal court judge denied a motion to dismiss charges against Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman after his lawyers argued that the U.S. government violated international law. El Chapo’s lawyers claimed that the U.S. government charged him with different crimes than the ones for which he was extradited from Mexico last January for. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Cogan denied the request and claimed that Guzman had no standing to raise the violation of international law without objection from Mexico. “It is well-settled law in the Second Circuit law that absent protest or objection by the offended sovereign, [a defendant] has no standing to raise the violation of international law to challenge his indictment,” Cogan wrote. “Here, there is no protest or objection by Mexico, nor is there an express provision in the extradition treaty between the United States and Mexico. Therefore, defendant’s motion to dismiss the indictment based on an alleged rule of specialty violation is denied.” (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
 
~HASIDIC DEVELOPER BUILDS SKYWARD: While the country was plummeting into a recession during the financial crisis of 2008, Yoel Goldmanwas getting ready to take advantage of the times and buy. He bought property in Brooklyn neighborhoods with severely low value, ready to capitalize on the dollars they could bring in. His recent projects show that capitalization. The 23-story William Vale Hotel in Williamsburg and the redevelopment of the former Rheingold Brewery site in Bushwick clashed with the stereotypical idea of an ultra-Orthodox Satmar Hasidic Jew and surprised Goldman’s colleagues. “I was surprised, and consistently surprised, by his knowledge of what’s going on – what’s cool and what’s hip and what’s done in other places,” said Eran Chen, founder of the ODA New York architecture firm. Goldman and his team All Year Management, filled with 50 to 100 people, plan to continue transforming Brooklyn from the ground up on his same business plan. (via Commercial Observer)
 
~THE RETURN OF THE ’80s: There’s now an interactive way to return to 1980s New York, back to a time where Brooklyn wasn’t quite so tall. Two history buffs, Brandon Liu and Jeremy Lechtzin, have teamed up to compile public records into “80s.NYC,” an aerial map that allows viewers to explore what New York looked like when much of Brooklyn was an industrial wasteland. The map of the whole city shows pictures for every block that the Municipal Archives took photos of in the ’80s, as well as some pieces of history about the areas for certain blocks. The project is in its early stages, but the pair plans to crowdsource more photos to add to the New York story. (via Brokelyn)
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Bulletin Board
 
***The New York Building Congress hosts its 2017 Industry Recognition Gala on Thursday, November 16, at the Grand Hyatt New York,109 East 42nd Street. Reception starts at 6:00 PM followed by dinner and program at 7:00 PM.  Individual tickets start at $975. Tables of 10 are available starting at $9,500. For more information on reservations and sponsorship opportunities, contact Jeanine Badalamenti at 212-481-9099 or email[email protected]. To register online, visitwww.buildingcongress.com.***
 
Staff Picks:    
 
LONG READ: “Behind the Bloodshed: The Untold Story of America’s Mass Killings” (via USA Today, 
 
ANOTHER LONG READ: “The boy who killed – and the mother who tried to stop him” (via the Guardian)
 
HEALTH: Can a breakup make you physically sick? (via Time)
 
TRAVEL: This Italian city is the best European place to visit, according to the 2017 Travel + Leisure World’s Best awards. (via Travel + Leisure)
 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: A mother in Ohio intentionally drives over herdaughter’s leg…A South Carolina teacher asks her fifth grade students to justify being a KKK member…And Donald Trump Jr. gives up secret service protection. (via Time and NYT)                                             
 
FOREIGN FLASH: Watch Mexico’s deadly 7.1-magnitude earthquake make abuilding collapse….Spain becomes the fourth country to kick out its North Korean ambassador…And a German man gets his penis stuck in a dumbbell plate (via, Miami Herald, WaPo and Fox 11)

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ROYAL WATCH: 
Here’s a list of Donald Trump’s controversial interactions with the Royal Family. (via Town & Country)
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BROOKLYN TONIGHT  
 
10:00AM — Bowl Hashanah at Brooklyn Bowl. Details.
 
1:00PM – 3:00PM — Craft Room at Jewish Children’s Museum. Details.
 
6:00PM — Nickodemus and Friends Live at DUMBO Archway. Details.
 
6:30PM — Eleanor Roosevelt: New Yorker at Graduate Center, CUNY. Details.
 
7:30PM — Kingsborough Musical Society Chorus Auditions at Kingsborough College Campus. Details.
 
7:30PM — An Evening With Europa Editions at Greenlight Bookstore. Details.
 
7:30PM — Sebastian Barry at Irish Arts Center. Details.
 
8:00PM — “Annie” at Gallery Players. Details.
 
8:00PM — “Pagliacci” at Old Bus Station. Details.
 
9:30PM — “Literati” at Union Hall. Details.
 
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 EAGLE SPORTS: The captain should always go down with his ship. Unless of course, he’s just as likely to get $80 million elsewhere. The New York Islanders, on the verge of opening their third, and perhaps most important, season here in Downtown Brooklyn in a few short weeks, insist their undisputed leader John Tavares is still very much with them, and pushing them toward what they hope will be a banner campaign. “He’s a presence,” said Islanders head coach Doug Weight. “That’s what great players are, great people and he has that presence and respect and people want to follow him.” But Tavares, a two-time Hart Trophy (MVP) finalist, has yet to sign what many predict will be a 10-year, $80 million extension to remain in New York, something general manager Garth Snow and the rest of the organization hoped to accomplish before the start of camp.
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MILESTONES
 
Happy birthday to Shinzo Abe, Ethan Coen, Cecil Grant Fielder, Fannie Flagg, Artis Gilmore, Faith Hill, Stephen King, Bill Kurtis, Ricki Lake, Rob Morrow, Bill Murray, Nicole Richie, Kay Ryan, Nancy Travis and Luke Wilson!
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