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Brooklyn Today February 26: Authentic Belarusian Cuisine Comes to Sheepshead Bay

February 26, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Happy Monday, Brooklyn! Advocates fight for a former orphanage in Dyker Heights, a new Belarusian restaurant opens in Sheepshead Bay, and we explore Frederick Douglass’ relationship with Brooklyn. Plus, four courts say assault rifles are not protected under the second amendment, President Trump blames violent video games for America’s mass shootings, and Florida Gov. Rick Scott says people must be 21 to buy a gun. Finally, Attorney General Jeff Sessions vows to fight for the elderly, a $1 million stolen painting by Edgar Degas resurfaces on a bus in Paris, and America is no longer the “nation of immigrants.” Have a great week.    
 
IMPRINT: Natalie Portman poses on the most recent cover of TimeOff.

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The Rundown
 

~ADVOCATES SEEK LANDMARK STATUS FOR ANGEL GUARDIAN HOME:In a last-ditch effort to save the Angel Guardian Home in Dyker Heights from possible demolition by its new owners, senior housing advocates are throwing a Hail Mary pass to try to get Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration to designate four buildings at the site as city landmarks. The effort to save the buildings is being led by Guardians of the Guardian, an ad hoc group of residents who live near the site and are advocating for senior citizen housing to be built there. The Guardians recently filed an application with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to have the buildings declared landmarks. The group received assistance from the Historic Districts Council in filing the application, according to Brian Kaszuba, chairman of the Zoning and Land Use Committee of Community Board 10. Located at 6301 12th Ave., the Angel Guardian Home was sold by its owners, the Sisters of Mercy, to an unnamed buyer in late 2017 at a price reported to be $23 million. It’s not clear what the new owners plan to do with the land. The home was established in 1899 as a foster care home for orphans. (via Brooklyn Eagle)
 
~AUTHENTIC BELARUSIAN CUISINE COMES TO SHEEPSHEAD BAY: A new Belarusian restaurant in Sheepshead Bay with an emphasis on the culture’s customary birch sap connects New York to Eastern European tradition. Brooklyn’s Belarussian Xata, headed by Marat Novikov, a businessman from the Belarus capital of Minsk and his family members, is the second location for the spot that originally opened overseas in 2012. Novikov’s refuge from the unstable Soviet Union to Brooklyn settled him down with a menu that presents increasingly rich dishes onto tables draped with ceremonial linen towels surrounded by wooden fences in the high-energy eatery. Belarussian Xata is located at 1655 Sheepshead Bay Road. (via The New York Times)
 
~U.S. ATTORNEY IN BROOKLYN ASSISTING WITH SESSIONS’ ELDER FRAUD SWEEP: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced one of the largest coordinated law enforcement sweeps for elder fraud cases in the country, one which he will rely upon the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District in Brooklyn. There are more than 250 defendants expected to be involved in the sweep, people who primarily targeted the elderly across the country. In total, the elder fraud schemes are said to have caused more than $500 million in losses, according to the attorney general. “When criminals steal the hard-earned life savings of older Americans, we will respond with all the tools at the department’s disposal — criminal prosecutions to punish offenders, civil injunctions to shut the schemes down and asset forfeiture to take back ill-gotten gains. Today is only the beginning.” (via Brooklyn Eagle)
 
~A LOOK INTO FREDERICK DOUGLASS’ RELATIONSHIP WITH BROOKLYN: He may have received his fair share of love and hate from Brooklyn, but a new book explores how the borough and former city became a powerful forum for runaway slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the mid-19th century. “Frederick Douglass in Brooklyn” by Theodore Hammincludes eight of Douglass’ speeches in Brooklyn, which shows that even though Douglass didn’t live in Brooklyn, he was still able to join the ranks of abolitionists there. One of his biggest local critics, however, was The Daily Eagle. The Democratic paper dismissed him as an activist and doubted his legacy until the year he died. “It was not because he advanced the interests of the Negro that men will honor his memory today,” The Eagle editorialized, “but because by advancing the interest of the Negro he raised the level of all mankind and made the whole world better by living in it.” (The New York Times)

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Staff Picks:   
 

LONG READ: “Hawaii’s Last Outlaw Hippies” (via Hakai Magazine)
 
ANOTHER LONG READ: Actor Brendan Fraser was a rising star in “The Mummy,” but then he disappeared. Here’s what happened to him. (via GQ)
 
TRAVEL: “36 Hours in Mendoza, Argentina” (via NYT)
 
CARTOON: President Trump goes skiing. (via The New Yorker)

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: Four courts say assault rifles are not protectedunder the second amendment…President Trump blames violent video games for America’s mass shootings…Florida Gov. Rick Scott says peoplemust be 21 to buy a gun. (via WaPo, NYT and USA Today)     
 
FOREIGN FLASH: A $1 million stolen painting by Edgar Degas resurfaces on a bus in Paris…The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services says America is no longer a “nation of immigrants“…And here’s how Norway won so many gold medals at the Winter Olympics. (via NYT, USA Today and Time)         

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 ROYAL WATCH: “Did you know that Queen Elizabeth II is a fan of the Netflix series “The Crown?” (via PopSugar)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT   
 

6:00PM — The Climbers at The Explorers Club. Details.
 
6:30PM — A Dangerous Woman: A Conversation with Susan Ronald andMeryl Gordon at Shakespeare & Co. Details.
 
6:30PM — Alabama v. Hamilton and the Fight for Racial Equality at New-York Historical Society. Details.
 
6:30PM – 8:30PM — Tarot Card Basics at Windsor Terrace Brainery. Details.
 
7:00PM — Considering Tania Bruguera’s Untitled (Havana, 2000) at Museum of Modern Art. Details.
 
7:00PM – 9:00PM — Addicted to Don Juan: Misusing Sex Addiction Across Art, Neuroscience and Psychology at Caveat. Details.    
 
8:00PM — The Brobot Johnson Experience at The Bushwick Starr. Details.
 
8:00PM — Brooklyn Winery Tour & Tasting at Brooklyn Winery. Details.
 
8:00PM – 10:00PM — Living For It! Benefit Comedy Show feat. Sasheer Zamata, Tom Thakkar at The Living Gallery. Details.
 
11:00PM — Whiplash at Bell House. Details.  
 
 
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 EAGLE SPORTS: “Despite losing record, Nets players, coaches and Sean Marks see improvement” (via NetsDaily)

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MILESTONES
 
Happy birthday to Erykah Badu, Michael Bolton, Marshall Faulk and Tim Kaine!
 
Brooklyn Today’s editor is Scott Enman. Contact him at[email protected]. 


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