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BY NOAH HUROWITZThey’re fl oating a new therapy, and that ther-apy is fl oating.

A pair of Carroll Gardeners have opened what they say is Brook-lyn’s only sensory depri-vation center, and one of the owners swears that ly-ing in a pitch-black tank of salty water saved her from a lifetime of anxiety and in-somnia.

“The fi rst time I fl oated I remember walking out onto busy city streets and just feel-ing an overwhelming feel-ing of calmness,” said Gina Antioco, who launched Lift Next Level Floats on Court Street at Sackett Street with business partner David Lev-enthal earlier this month. “I remember sleeping well.”

Visitors to the one-stop fl oat shop spend their hour-long therapy session en-sconced inside a space-age pod, which immerses the fl oater in total darkness and silence. Antioco and Leven-thal add 1,000 pounds of Ep-som salt to the water in each

BY NOAH HUROWITZIt may be an eyesore, but it isn’t illegal.

Developers can now finish building a luxury

hotel and condominium project in Brooklyn Bridge

Park after a judge last Fri-day threw out a lawsuit filed by local activists hoping to preserve an iconic view of the titular bridge.

The judge found that the so-called Pierhouse develop-ment at Pier 1 does not ex-ceed established height re-strictions, as activists had argued, and, regardless, it is now too late for them to challenge a plan that had been hashed out over years of compromise between gov-ernment agencies, commu-nity groups, and developers. Still, he agreed, it does ruin the view.

“The casual passerby walking along Brooklyn’s majestic Promenade is struck with the indelible im-pression that these build-ings, now nearing comple-tion, are simply too large,” said Brooklyn Supreme Court judge Lawrence Kni-pel in his decision.

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BY SHAVANA ABRUZZO“The question isn’t who’s go-ing to let me, it’s who is going to stop me,” famously said late American novelist Ayn Rand, who should have been at our Women of Distinction awards night to see some fi erce fe-males get their dues.

Courier Life Publica-tions and Com-munity News Group honored 25 of the bor-ough’s best and bright-est during a June 10 gala at Sirico’s Cater-ers in Dyker Heights, the accolades capping our 2015 Brooklyn’s Women of Distinc-tion magazine, which came out last month and profi led honorees whose ranks in-cluded volunteers, executives, small business owners, and animal experts.

The honorees — nominated by their peers and selected by independent judges — were picked for turning simple work-days into exceptional opportu-nities to improve our lives and

advance Brooklyn, claimed the publishing giant’s president, Jennifer Goodstein, who was master of ceremonies.

“These are the women who are shaping our borough and infl uencing our present and future,” she said. “Whether volunteers, government offi -

cials, or business own-ers, they bring their own unique skills to

improve Brook-lyn.”

Their sto-ries were in-spiring: A retired ho-

meowner became a leading civic activist — on a dare. A microbiologist gave up her globe-trotting career to min-ister and serve impoverished Brooklynites. A dance teacher took it upon herself to fulfi ll the holiday wishes of 600 chil-dren in need.

Their combined efforts contributed to raising public consciousness about impor-tant issues, remarked key-note speaker and Park Sloper Ophira Eisenberg, a stand-up comic, writer, and host of Na-

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These artists are changing the color guard.A group of music stars organized by rock

legend David Byrne will perform along with hundreds of f lag-twirling color guard members in a pair of concerts on June 26 and 27 at Barclays Center. In addition to the former Talking Head, musicians in the project include Nelly Furtado, Money Mark and Ad Rock, How to Dress Well, opera composer Nico Mulhy, and Tune-Yards, among others.

The seeds of the performance, called “Contemporary Color,” started in 2008 when a high school color guard team asked Byrne to lend a composition for one of its competitions. Byrne knew little about color guards, but he started researching and was impressed at the routines he discovered.

“I was stunned at what I was seeing,” he said. “And being a musician I naturally wondered to myself: what if these performances had really great live music? Wouldn’t that lift it to another level?”

Color guards, which evolved out of military maneu-vers, incorporate dance and music with military props like rif les, sabers, and f lags. They usually perform

during suburban football games at halftime or in marching band competitions.

For the concerts, Byrne reached out to some of his musical friends and teamed them up with ten color guard teams from around the country. During the show, the members of each color guard team will spin, jump, and march through a routine created to match the musician’s live performance.

“Contemporary Color” is presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and is its first production held at Barclay Center. The two organizations have long planned to collaborate, said BAM president Karen Brooks Hopkins, and this show offered the perfect opportunity because the staging is too large to fit in one of the Academy’s concert halls.

“This creates a space in New York to do all kinds of things we would never see because of the scale,” said Hopkins. “It is another great venue for interesting work from all over the world.”

“Contemporary Color” at Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, (917) 618–6700, www.barclayscenter.com]. June 27 and 28 at 7:30 pm. $25–$135.

Rock stars and color guards team up at Barclays

Letting their freak flag fly: The Eamon color guard team performs with indie rocker Tune-Yards in “Contemporary Color” at Barclays Center on June 26–27. Jake Naughton

Color coordination

Byrne-ing down the house: Former Talking Head David Byrne led the collaboration between color guard teams and rock stars that resulted in the “Contemporary Color” show. Catalina Kulczar-Marin

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MIGHTY WOMEN: (Clockwise from top) Gina Aragno, “Ms. Zumba Lady,” who helps children in need, with CNG Vice President of Advertising Ralph D’Onofrio. Laura McKenna, who helps Superstorm Sandy victims, with CNG Classifi eds Sales Manager Amanda Tarley. Limor Ziarno and Sylvia Uziel, co-owners of four Edible Arrangement franchises that help boost the local economy, with Sales Associate and Women of Distinction coor-dinator Stephanie Stellaccio, left, and Women of Distiction Coordinator Jennifer Stern, right. Borough President Adams addresses the crowd. Photos by Steve Solomonson

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MEET YOUR WOMEN OF DISTINCTION: Courier Life’s honorees gather outside Sirico’s Caterers in Dyker Heights. Photo by Steve Solomonson

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tional Public Radio’s hit trivia comedy show “Ask Me An-other,” which is recorded in the borough.

“I am moved by the wom-en’s commitment to their com-munities and their desire to constantly help other people,” said Eisenberg after bring-ing the house down with her comic stylings.

The event was coordinated by senior account executive Stephanie Stellaccio, with help from administrative as-sistant Jennifer Stern.

Check out a PDF version of our 2015 Brooklyn’s Women of Distinction magazine, along with more photos and video interviews of our honorees at BrooklynDaily.com.

LEADERS OF THE BOROUGH: (Above) Irene LoRe, Aunt Suzie’s restaurateur who pioneered the economic revival of Park Slope, with Courier Life publisher Clifford Luster. (Left) Sharon Content, who helps children who have a parent in prison, with D’Onofrio. (Below) Sanna Ezri, Millennium Theater di-rector, casts a spotlight on Brook-lyn, with Stellaccio. Photos by Steve Solomonson

A regular riot actOphira Eisenberg’s keynote knocks ’em dead

BY SHAVANA ABRUZZOThat ritzy borough across the East River doesn’t hold a can-dle to Kings County, accord-ing to the keynote speaker at our Women of Distinction awards night — a new and notable Park Slope resident.

“Brooklyn is so much bet-ter than Manhattan,” said comic, writer, and National Public Radio’s Ask Me An-other host Ophira Eisenberg, who read her adopted quarter the riot act and lobbed gags like grenades during a side-splitting gig at Sirico’s Cater-ing Hall in Dyker Heights on June 10.

“If anyone is doing drugs on my street, they are doing organic, free-range drugs, artisanal, small-batch drugs that were grown in a com-munity garden,” cracked the Canadian spark plug, one of New York Magazine’s “Top-10 Comics that Funny People Find Funny,” and author of “Screw Everyone: Sleeping My Way to Monogamy,” which “Airplane!,” which producers Zucker Productions optioned recently for a movie.

Eisenberg and her hus-band moved to Brooklyn six years ago, settling in Boerum Hill across from the Atlantic Avenue prison before soar-ing rents forced them out.

“Now the only way I could get a place in Boerum Hill is if I commit a crime and get in that jail,” she quipped.

The couple relocated to

the Slope last month, around the same time the renais-sance woman discovered she was expecting a baby.

“As soon as you fi nd out you’re pregnant, you get a notice in the mail that says you’re required to move to Park Slope,” said Eisenberg, who is equally at home play-ing silly games with John Turturro, Ethan Hawke, and Dr. Ruth as she is tickling millennials and centennials with her deadpan deliveries.

She performs at Union Hall in Park Slope and the Bell House in Gowanus, in ad-dition to storytelling with the Moth crew at the Brooklyn Historical Society and hold-ing court in Bushwick lofts.

She fi nds the borough and its audiences mesmerizing.

“There is no end to great and unexpected venues in

Brooklyn,” Eisenberg said. “People here are smart, artsy, edgy.”

The borough-phile un-winds at Lavender Lake, Henry Public, and Bar Ta-bac, and schleps across the borough on marathon walks to take in the local sights. One six-hour amble from Downtown to Williamsburg was an eye opener.

“We walked through so many different neighbor-hoods and cultural enclaves, and got caught in three dif-ferent festivals,” she said. “It was like a tour of the world.”

Eisenberg says she lost her virginity at 15 in a hotel bathroom to a guy she picked up in a bar and nicknamed Goose , but she is thrilled to be on virgin territory again.

“I love that I don’t even know Brooklyn yet,” she said.

CAN WE TALK?: Comedian and Keynote Speaker Ophira Eisenberg of National Public Radio’s “Ask Me Another” (which is recorded in Brook-lyn), left the audience in stitches. Photo by Steve Solomonson


BY NOAH HUROWITZThe owners of an imperiled Boerum Hill deli have staged an “artisanal takeover” of their 25-year-old corner store, re-branding products with yuppifi ed names and jacking up prices to illustrate the kind of shop that could afford the 250-percent rent hike they say the store’s landlord is demand-ing.

Tongue-in-cheek posters advertising a “landlord price hike sale” at Jesse’s Deli, on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Bond Street, show what neighbors can expect to pay if a new store hopes to cover the infl ated rent, said one worker.

“That’s how much stuff is going to have to cost,” said Abed Hussein, who has worked at the shop for eight years. “It’s easy to get a lease, but not so easy to get people to buy stuff that expensive.”

The store re-branded pack-ets of Goya Sazon sauce as “Oaxacan Sea Salt Taco Rub” — yours for just $18! — Slim Jims as “Hand-Cured Salami Tubes” — a steal at $5.99 a pop

— and Raid as $15.99 “Artisa-nal Roach Bombs.”

The stunt — inside the products and prices have not actually changed — is a pro-test against landlord Karina Bilger’s plan to jack up the rent by two-and-a-half times the current rate, said Mohamad Itayim, son of eponymous founder Jesse Itayim. The store is currently paying $4,000 a month, and Bilger plans to raise that to $10,000 when the store’s lease expires at the end of July, he said.

A pair of advertising pros

and Jesse’s regulars said they came up with the concept and constructed the post-ers after they learned of the deli’s plight and wanted to put their public relations know-how to good use.

“We kinda put our heads together and decided it would get more attention if we could show how ridic-ulous the neighbor-

hood is getting,” said Tommy Noonan, who lives in Carroll Gardens but frequents the deli with his pal, Douglas Cam-eron, who lives nearby. “There are all these different baby stores and everything has like, the word ‘Berkshire’ in it.”

The community has rallied around the shop, gathering sig-natures and holding a meet-ing last month to brainstorm ways to save their beloved bo-dega. The owners say they are looking for a new location, and now that they have seen how much their little store means

to neighbors, it will have to be somewhere nearby.

“We didn’t know how appre-ciated we were until now,” said Itayim. “After all the support we got, we’re only looking in this neighborhood.”

Rents have risen all along Atlantic Avenue, once a bas-tion of antique stores and inex-pensive Middle Eastern food, during the past decade, as the neighborhood has changed and

real estate brokers re-branded the area itself as “BoCoCa.” Itayim said he appreciates some of the transformations — for one, it is now safe to be out-side after dark — but they have come at the literal expense of humble stores like Jesse’s.

“What mom and pop can afford that kind of rent?” he said.

Bilger could not be reached for comment.

Deli re-brands as artisanal emporium to fi ght rent hike

WHAT A DEAL!: Tongue-in-cheek posters promise yuppie-friendly prod-ucts at wallet-hurting prices at Jesse’s Deli. Photo by Jason Speakman

SIGN OF THE TIMES: Deli employee Abed Hussein said the shop would have to charge ludicrous prices to afford a threatened 250-percent rent hike. Photo by Jason Speakman

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BY DANIELLE FURFARONow someone’s seizing his assets.

Disgraced former Williamburg as-semblyman and Brooklyn Democratic party boss Vito Lopez must cough up the $330,000 in fi nes he owes for sexu-ally harassing his female staffers, or the state will seize his real estate and cars, says New York’s top lawyer.

“A legislator guilty of wrongdoing should be held to the same standard as any other individual, and we will take all appropriate action to recover this money on behalf of the people of New York,” said Matt Mittenthal, a spokes-man for Attorney General Eric Schnei-derman.

A state judge last Tuesday gave Sch-neiderman a green light to pursue Lo-pez for the fi ne, which the legislative ethics commission slapped him with two years ago. Lopez claimed that he shouldn’t have to pay the penalty be-cause he wasn’t given a fair chance to fi ght the accusations — in part be-cause he never received the paperwork notifying him of the charges. But the judge found that Lopez refused multi-ple opportunities to plead his case, and that there was a reasonable chance he had just avoided collecting his mail.

Lopez’s attorney also said the fi ne was too damn high — claiming that it is 33 times the maximum penalty al-lowed for ethics violations. He said the judge didn’t understand the law, and vowed to fi ght the decision through the court system until they fi nd one who does.

“We intend to appeal the decision to the Appellate Division, and on up until we fi nd a court prepared to allow Mr. Lopez the same rights as any citizen of the United States,” said Gerald B. Lef-court.

The assembly’s ethics commission in 2012 found Lopez guilty of breaking its harassment rules after two young,

female staffers accused him of a laun-dry list of creepy behavior , including groping and trying to kiss them, tell-ing them to “dress sexy” in the offi ce, and asking one of the women give him a manicure.

After the ruling, the assembly stripped Lopez of his powerful posi-tion as the chair of the Committee on Housing, and all the perks of senior-ity that he had racked up over 28 years in offi ce. Lopez stepped down from his position as borough Democratic party boss the following week, but didn’t resign from his assembly seat until 2013, when he made a failed bid for city council .

The state settled a lawsuit earlier this year with the two women who made the accusations, costing taxpay-ers $545,000, and Lopez an additional $35,000.

Former Assembly speaker Sheldon Silver also secretly paid off two other Lopez sexual harassment accusers with $100,000 in taxpayer-funded hush money.

Assemblyman can’t avoid harassment fi ne

PAY UP: Disgraced assemblyman Vito Lopez must pay the $330,000 fi ne the legislative ethics commission slapped him with after fi nding him guilty of sexually harassing staffers. File photo by Steve Solomonson

Judge rules Lopez must pay $300K

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78TH PRECINCTPARK SLOPE

Defi ne emergencyCops arrested a man who they

say swiped a lexus from Fifth Av-enue after the owner left his ride idling and unlocked on June 1, ac-cording to a report.

The owner of the car left his wheels, a 2008 Lexus GS, unlocked and idling as he ran into a store between Second and Third streets shortly before 2 pm, and while the car was unattended the alleged brigand hopped in and took off, cops said.

The victim notifi ed police of the theft, and cops caught up with the suspect at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Degraw Street, accord-ing to a report. The alleged highway robber attempted to fl ee but cops managed to nab him, a report said.

Upon his capture, the alleged thief told cops “I had an emergency, so I took the car,” police said.

In and outA burglar broke into a Third Av-

enue apartment and made off with with thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment from a pair of roommates on June 4, cops said.

The cat burglar broke into the apartment between 10th and 11th streets through a rear window sometime between 8:35 am and 5 pm, according to a report. When the res-idents, two 20-year-old women, re-turned home, they found the sneak had swiped two Macbook Pros and a silver Michael Kors watch.

Do not hire that guySome ungrateful lout robbed a

Vanderbilt Avenue restaurant after inquiring about a job there on June 2, cops said.

The brute entered the restaurant between Prospect and Park places and told the owner he was looking for employment, a report said.

When the owner’s back was turned, however, the brigand swiped his wallet and $300 from the cash register and made his escape, according to police.

76TH PRECINCTCARROLL GARDENS-COBBLE HILL–RED

HOOK

Shots fi redA gun-wielding maniac shot

three men in a brazen daylight at-tack on Wyckoff Street on June 10, according to cops.

The unknown shooter opened fi re near Bond Street shortly be-fore 6 pm, and managed to wing one 28-year-old man in the an-kle, caught a 25-year-old man in the leg, and plugged a 29-year-old man in the back before running

off, a police report said.None of the victims sustained

life-threatening injuries, cops said. Paramedics took one man to Lu-theran Hospital and another to New York Methodist Hospital Center, ac-cording to a report.

There was no available descrip-tion of the suspect other than that he was male, a police spokesman said.

Stay in your carCops arrested a driver after he

allegedly attacked another motor-ist following a crash on Congress Street on June 7, according to a re-port.

The two drivers collided near Co-lumbia Street in the Columbia Wa-terfront District shortly after 4 pm, cops said. Police said the alleged aggressor, in town from upstate, hopped out of his vehicle and con-fronted the other driver, asked him to step out of his car, and punched him in the face.

Police arrested the wannabe traffi c cop and paramedics trans-ported the other driver to New York Methodist Hospital, according to a report.

Two-in-oneBurglars looted multiple apart-

ments in the same President Street building during work hours on June 12, according to a report.

The thieves broke into both apartments in the building be-tween Columbia and Hicks streets by forcing open bedroom doors that opened onto a communal hallway, cops said. One victim, who said he had never used that door, returned home at 5:30 pm to fi nd the door ajar, his bedroom ransacked, and a lap-top and an iPod missing, according to a report.

The other victim, who returned home from work at 6 pm, found her apartment rummaged through and a Macbook Pro and an estimated $200 worth of women’s jewelry miss-ing, according to a report.

— Noah Hurowitz

90TH PRECINCTSOUTHSIDE–BUSHWICK

It’s a snapPolice arrested a man who they

said stole a woman’s smartphone and broke her purse strap on Gra-ham Avenue on June 14.

The victim told police that she

was near Metropolitan Avenue at 4:05 am when a guy grabbed the strap of her pocketbook, breaking it.

He then grabbed the woman’s smartphone out of her hand and ran into the Graham station of the L train, where cops nabbed him, of-fi cials reported. They charged him with robbery.

Bus stopA yahoo robbed a woman who

was waiting for the bus on Flushing Avenue in broad daylight on June 8.

The woman told police she was waiting for the bus between Broad-way and Humboldt Street at 3 pm when the scoundrel came up behind her and threatened her.

“This is a hold up,” he reportedly said. “Do not make a scene or do anything or I will hurt you.”

The victim handed over $40 in cash and the robber went away, cops reported.

Raise a glass A bully threw a glass bottle at a

guy on S. Fourth Street in the early morning of June 12, cutting him.

The victim told police that he was between Keap and Hooper streets at 5 am when someone suddenly threw a glass bottle at his neck, cutting to his neck and arm.

The victim said he could not give a description of his attacker. Emer-gency personnel took the him to Bellevue Hospital for treatment.

Power of persuasionA schemer swindled an elderly

Boerum Street woman out of $19,000 by calling her twice and asking her to send money to his bank account in Poland.

The 81-year-old victim told us that she fi rst got a call from the man while inside her apartment be-tween Lorimer and Leonard streets at 1:17 pm on April 30. He asked her to send him $15,000 in cash to his bank account in Poland. She did as he asked.

She said he called her again at 1:09 pm on May 6 and asked her to send another $4,000. She again sent him the money.

She reported the calls to police on June 10, and told offi cials she sent the money because she was afraid of what would happen if she did not. She told police that the man never threatened her.

At gunpointA trio of bullies held up a man

at gunpoint on McKibbin Street on June 8 — and got away with his smartphone, wallet, and hat.

The victim told police that he was near Bogart Street at 11 pm when a guy walking with two other punks put a gun in his face.

“Make it easy give me your stuff,” the robber said, according to the police report.

The victim told cops he handed over his phone, wallet, and hat. The three robbers ran off down McKib-bin Street, he told authorities.

Grab and runCops cuffed a man who they said

grabbed cash out of an elderly man’s hands on Debevoise Street on June 9.

The victim told police he was standing between Graham Avenue and Humboldt Street at 7 pm and counting cash when a guy came up from behind and grabbed $15 out of his hand.

The alleged robber walked away and the victim followed him for sev-eral blocks, demanding his money back, states the police report. The victim saw an offi cer and fl agged him down, telling him that the man took his money, offi cials said. Cops charged him with robbery.

Small talkA gun-crazed robber held up a

man in the Hewes Street subway station on June 7 and stole his phone and wallet — and then took money out of his debit account.

The victim told police that he walked into the station at the corner of Broadway and Hugh Street at 2 am. A man asked him to swipe him into the station, so the victim did.

The deadbeat then chatted with the man for a while before he pulled out a gun and ordered the victim to empty his pockets, police reported. The victim took $10 in cash, his wallet, and a smartphone out of his pocket, he told cops.

Police say the lout then made the victim go with him to a cash ma-chine and withdraw $540. The rob-ber then took the victim back to same station and waited for him to board the next J train, the report states. — Danielle Furfaro

68TH PRECINCTBAY RIDGE—DYKER HEIGHTS

Caught nappingA brute bashed the window to a

78th Street home and stole a purse on June 13, but the homeowner slept through the break-in.

The burglar broke into the home between Ridge Boulevard and Third Avenue in Bay Ridge at 9 pm, but the resident snoozed right through the invasion, police said. — Max Jaeger


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The school, which adopted the Ben-sonhurst-born author and illustrator’s moniker after he passed away in 2012, hopes to make “Sendak Day” an an-nual event, said the principal.

“We feel that we needed to develop a ways to honor his spirit and his mem-ory,” said principal Elizabeth Garr-away.

The school threw the birthday bash with the help of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, which works to promote the eponymous author’s work and the arts in general. The foundation also donated a large mu-ral for the school’s main hallway that features a scene from “Where the Wild Things Are” and was painted by a friend of the author, illustrator Michael Hagen.

Park Slope children’s book author Brian Selznick, another longtime friend of Sendak’s and a renowned au-thor in his own right, joined the party to give a spirited reading to some of the youngsters and lead them in a rous-ing rendition of “Happy Birthday.” Selznick said it was an honor to have been invited.

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Thousands of revelers swarmed Fifth Avenue in Park Slope on Saturday to celebrate all things here and queer at the 19th Brooklyn Pride festi-val.

Mayor DeBlasio — who re-portedly showed up 20 min-utes late for the parade kick-off — said that he remembered when the event was much smaller, and that this year’s turnout was testament to how

far both the city and the coun-try have come in embracing equality for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.

“It says something that it has grown and become a pa-rade that everyone joins in,” said the former Park Sloper, one of many rainbow-fl ag-wav-ing pols who took part in the march. “That says something about how this city has moved forward. Our nation is moving forward.”

This year’s festival was one for the ages, according to one attendee who said he was thrilled by the (eventual) pres-ence of elected leaders.

“I think that was the best Pride I have ever been to,” said Tivaun Cooper of Canar-sie. “DeBlasio’s participation meant a lot. He was just going around and greeting people, and I think that sent a really strong message.”

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BY DANIELLE FURFAROThe dancers at this prom had two left feet.

More than 100 dogs from around Brooklyn showed up dressed to the canines for a “puppy prom” in a Dumbo warehouse last Thursday night, where they danced the night away alongside shelter pooches looking for new homes. No one spiked the water bowl, but the dance still got pretty messy, said an organizer.

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The doggie dance was a fund-raiser for the Manhattan shelter Animal Haven as well as an opportunity for some of its rescue dogs to meet poten-tial new owners, Travis said.

Humans looking to meet a new pet were paired with a

pooch as a blind date for the evening — though they were not required to adopt that dog. Several puppy-love matches were made during the night, and the event raised $3,000 for Animal Haven, Travis said.

A handful of celebrities and their four-legged friends also at-tended the prom, including hu-man-fashion designer Rachel Antonoff, whose dog Lafi tte came dressed in a tux but, in true prom fashion, ended up na-ked by the end of the night.

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“I wanted them to experience what it’s like for the kids, rather than stand around being asked to contribute” said InspireCorps founder Stepha-nie Thompson, who also writes The Brooklyn Paper’s famed “Fearless Par-enting” column.

Thompson started InspireCorps in 2013 as a way to get music, dance, drama, and other creative pursuits back into schools that have had to cut their arts programming. The orga-nization pays dancers, musicians, il-lustrators, and writers to give one-off workshops and performances in their area of speciality.

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THEY LIKE TO BOOGIE: InspireCorps supporters got a fi rst-hand look at the organization’s arts programming at a benefi t on June 11. Photo by Stefano Giovannini

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Knipel said that the parties that negotiated the plans had known about the extra rooftop accouter-ments for years and everyone ap-peared to be a-okay with the situ-ation. The activists should have brought this lawsuit back in 2006, when the park’s general project plan was settled on, or in 2013, when the final plan was filed with the city and construction began, he wrote in his ruling. The statute of limitations has well and truly passed, he said.

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Cor-poration, the semi-private body that operates the park, has long argued that the open-air watering hole and equipment were always part of the plan, and that activists were aware of it. But the influential Brooklyn Heights Association, which helped broker the deal in 2006, remembers the negotiations differently, claim-ing that park honchos pledged to keep the rooftop utilities out of sight and that neighbors only realized the

building was going to have some ex-tra baggage once the towers had al-ready gone up. Knipel said the court could find no evidence of such an agreement.

Save the View Now’s chief says the group still believes the develop-ment violates the height restriction, but hasn’t decided if it will keep fighting the almost-completed condo and hotel complex in court.

“We’re obviously very disap-pointed with the decision,” said Ste-ven Guterman, who lives near the park. “We think the judge may have gotten facts and issues incorrect, but we haven’t really huddled with law-yers yet to figure out what’s next.”

Save the View Now and other preservation groups have previ-ously argued that the development infringes on legally protected views of the bridge from the promenade, but the judge said that the activ-ist group has now given up on that claim.

A representative from Toll Broth-ers and the company’s partner Star-wood Capital Group said the devel-opers felt vindicated by the judge’s decision.

“We are very pleased with the court’s decision and findings of fact that confirm the Pierhouse develop-ment complies with the height re-strictions imposed on the project which were adopted after years of extensive community review and in-put,” said spokesman Bud Perrone.

If nothing else, Save the View Now’s campaign may have saved the views in a different part of the park. Park administrators agreed last month to specifically include roof-top equipment as part of the height restrictions on two apartment tow-ers slated for construction near Pier 6, as part of a court settlement with a different group of activists.

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VIEW ASKEW: The still-rising Pierhouse development, as viewed from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Photo by Jason Speakman

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Picture imperfect! It’s not

a crime to ruin an iconic view,

claimed a judge who ruled in favor

of a skyscraper in Brooklyn Bridge

Park that is within legal height

limits, but conceded the posh de-

velopment would prevent passers-

by from admiring the bridge and

skyline (“Parks and declarations:

Judge gives Pier 1 condos and ho-

tel the all-clear,” online June 15).

The online commentariat rose

in judgement.

I guess the bribes made it through. I’m from Cobble Hill

Wonder if these condos will be affordable housing or poor doors. bkmanhatman from nubrucklyn

If it isn’t affordable nobody will live there. ty from pps

Since the decision makes one fi nd-ing, but then loosely says they were too late anyways, I would expect the judge is gilding the lily to get the de-sired result. Look deeply into that de-cision and look for basic absurdities. freddy from slope

Actually, no. The decision estab-lishes a series of milestones from which to measure the statute of limi-tations and plaintiff is too late by any standard. Nothing loose about it. eddie

Taking public views and land for private development. Shame on us all, again. Charles from Bklyn

I have to say that this project has vastly improved my view of the East River and the Brooklyn Bridge. There’s now a massive park where I can stroll around taking it all in, while enjoying trees and plants and recreation facilities. I don’t happen to own one of the handful of multi-million dollar properties where the view is slightly changed. And the Brooklyn Bridge Park is far better than the promenade. Keep in mind, the Brooklyn Heights gentry whined about building the promenade when Robert Moses proposed it, saying it would attract riffraff. Why do the

multi-millionaires on the front edge of Brooklyn Heights have any more right to the view than the multi-mil-lionaires closer to the river? Jimmy from Flatbush

This is the legacy of Michael Bloomberg’s approach to develop-ing open space with the private sec-tor. Incredible that the destruction of this magnifi cent park and view of one of America’s great historical landmarks was fostered to what end? Is Bushwick Inlet Park next? GPSkip from Greenpoint

Eddie, you didn’t read the same decision. For now I will assume that the plaintiffs are cognizant of its fail-ings. freddy from slope

They are taking your park. They are taking your hospital. They are taking your shops. They are taking your apartment. They are taking your neighborhood. And you will do nothing. Barry from Flatbush

Umm... GPSkip, “The destruc-tion of this magnifi cent park?” You mean, the park that wouldn’t have existed without any of the things you object to? Last time I checked, this area was basically collection of rot-ting piers and crumbling buildings mixed with vacant lots. When this area was taken over, the building of the parks and recreation facilities happened chronologically fi rst. The private development was always part of the mix. I don’t disagree that there are fundamental problems with this version of a public-private approach used here, but there was and is no “destruction of a magnifi cent park.” Not to mention, the park that is there right now is not changing. So, I’m not sure what park you’re whining about being destroyed. Wait you’re not whining about the view from the promenade are you? That can’t be the park you’re suggesting is being “de-stroyed” right?

Jimmy from Flatbush

The Port Authority caused this by holding onto waterfront property long after shipping and manufactur-ing were, effectively, dead. It could have happened years before other-wise, as there would have been plenty of developers willing to stick to the envelope. What Bloomberg cronies wouldn’t do for less than $100-million profi t, someone else would have done for only $90-million profi t. freddy from slope

Get ready for more marks for mug-ging. If any muggers out there are looking at this, you’re gonna get paid for sure catching one of these affl uent know-it-alls coming out of their condo building. We’re tired of bull like this being built, with little or no regard to the existing residents. If any future residents of this crap gets stuck up for a laptop, iphone, etc., then good. jjm from c. hill

Last time I went to the park (a cou-ple weekends ago), it was packed with people, including the pretty awesome recreation facilities on the piers (soc-cer, roller skating, handball, bocce, basketball, etc.) Seems like lots and lots of “regard for existing residents” is taking place, because thousands at any given moment are loving the park. Jimmy from Flatbush

Bought and sold. Where’s our Bill? bob from brooklyn

The next thing you will fi nd is the lawyers representing this hotel will fi nd a way to not pay for the main-tenance of the park. That’s how you steal prime real estate land from the public. Joe from Brooklyn Heights

You can either have Brooklyn Bridge Park paid for by the taxpay-ers like you and me or you can have a bunch of rich suckers pay for it for us at the price of a slightly diminished view, one tiny section out of a large expansive waterfront. But you can’t have it both ways. Dan from Boerum Hill

Can’t believe this was able to go through. Whoever didn’t step up in Brooklyn government to protect the views really needs to be run out of town. Sickening. brent from WT

Leaving the machinery hanging out there all willy nilly like an after-thought reveals a total lack of design sense driven by greed. xo from gp

La FinkaTo the editor,

The Parks Department has sold off some of our Boardwalk’s wood to Milan, where it has been used to con-struct a small boardwalk as part of the Milan Expo (“Reclaimed portions of Coney Island Boardwalk is now Italian esplanade,” online June 10).

What a travesty, shipping our Boardwalk’s wood off to another country to be repurposed and enjoyed

there, while we have plastic and con-crete shoved down our throats!

How ironic that the very agency tasked with preserving and enhanc-ing the Boardwalk, the Parks Depart-ment, is the one that’s responsible for it’s diminishment and destruction. Their use of the Boardwalk as a high-way for their heavy sanitation trucks is what’s most responsible for the damage the Boardwalk has incurred for many years. Combined with their almost complete lack of timely, ongo-ing maintenance of the damage they cause, it’s a wonder the Boardwalk is still standing at all.

Positing that they need a concrete lane for emergency vehicles is an out-right lie! The Boardwalk has existed for nearly a century without one and there is no rational need for one now, since no emergency vehicles ever come on to the Boardwalk. Travers-ing the crowds makes it impractical, as well as the fact that for vehicles like fi re engines, the Boardwalk was not built to support them.

With so many people opposed to their plan for such a sustained length of time, one would think that they might reconsider the wisdom of their plan. The fact they refuse to do so, and cite lies and half truths to justify it, speaks to a hubris that leaves one both speechless and very angry.

Rob Burstein

The writer is president of the Coney-Brighton Boardwalk Alliance

To the editor,It is comforting to know that

the parks department is saving our Brooklyn citizens and visitors from the rest of the world the dangers of actual wood on the “Boardwalk” and replacing them with concrete and plastic. Thank heaven those fools over there in Milan took them off our hands. What suckers!

So, let me try to understand this event. The wood from our own Boardwalk isn’t good enough for the intended purpose that it had served for well over 100 years, but it is good enough to represent some of the great things about America over there in the American pavilion at Expo 2015 in Europe, where visitors can experience what it is like to walk on a wooden boardwalk in America? Too bad we here in Brooklyn won’t be able to do the same for very much longer, if the Parks Department gets their way with it. Ironic isn’t it? I must be missing something.

Nelson Levine

Brighton Beach

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effrey Deskovic is curi-ous about everyone and everything. He goes to

lectures and reaches out to people, including me, just for the heck of it. When I met the 41-year-old Throggs Neck ac-tivist for breakfast at City Coffee in Jackson Heights last week, he asked the weary waitress where she was from.

“Peru,” she replied, and she perked up when talk turned to her country’s purple corn drink — chicha morada.

“It is very delicious but you must drink it ice-cold.”

“Bring me one of those!” said Jeff.

Jeff is making up for lost time: the 16 years he spent be-hind bars for a rape and mur-der he didn’t commit.

Jeff was exonerated in 2006. A new DNA test matched a convict doing time for another rape and murder. Since get-ting out, he has been bringing attention to wrongful convic-tions and false confessions — like the one he made, at age 16.

You may remember the case. It was up in Peekskill, New York where Jeff was born and raised by his mom and grandma. The victim was a

15-year-old girl at his high school. Jeffrey caught the at-tention of police for a bizarre reason: he seemed too deeply upset. The cops spent the next six weeks focusing on Jeff.

“Half the time they talked to me as if I was a suspect. The other time they would pretend they needed my help to solve the crime,” said Jeff. “They’d say, ‘Kids won’t talk freely around us. They will around

you.’ They were asking my opinions and congratulating me on my insights.”

For a shy young man who’d dreamed of becoming a police officer, these were heady, con-fusing times. One day the cops said they had new, special in-formation to give him, but it was so sensitive that first he would have to take a lie detec-tor test.

He skipped school for this incredible privilege and three cops drove him out of town. There, for the next six hours, they kept him in a small room, giving him endless cups of cof-fee — as if he wasn’t shaky enough — but no food.

“After 40 minutes, the po-lygrapher started giving me the third degree. He raised his voice and kept asking me the same questions over and over. As each hour goes by my fear escalates, and toward the end he said, ‘What do you mean you didn’t do it! You just told me through the test results that you did! We just want you to verbally confirm it!’ That shot my fear through the roof. It was then that the cop who pretended to be my friend told me the other cops were going

to harm me — he said he’d been holding them back but couldn’t indefinitely. And he added if I did as they wanted, they would stop and I could go home afterwards.”

Jeffrey fell to the floor and curled into fetal position, sob-bing. But he gave them their confession. The false one that sent him to prison.

There was no other evi-dence against him. His semen did not match that found on the victim, but the prosecutor said it didn’t matter because the girl was promiscuous — even though police interviewed 19 friends who confirmed that she was sheltered and had never had a boyfriend, much less sex. But those interviews were kept from Jeff’s Legal Aid lawyer, who never both-ered to interview Jeff’s alibi — the boy with whom he had been playing Wiffle ball with at the time of the murder.

After 15 years behind bars, Jeff finally came up for parole. He still said he was innocent. To the board, this meant he was not taking responsibility for his actions.

Parole denied. He was freed only after

the Innocence Project took his case and did the new DNA test.

Jeff sued the prosecutors who kept the evidence from his lawyer, and his lawyer who didn’t interview his alibi, and the polygrapher who said the test had “proven” his guilt — and won.

With that money, he set up a foundation to help the unjustly imprisoned. Now a lawyer, in-vestigator, and paralegal, he’s working on exonerating peo-ple behind bars for no reason — and helping them once they get out.

But most of all, he’s work-ing to prevent wrongful con-victions in the first place.

There’s a bipartisan bill in Albany that would create a commission on prosecutor con-duct, Jeff says. The commis-sion would punish prosecutors who railroad defendants.

And with that he finished his story, his chicha morada, smiled at the waitress, and headed out into a beautiful June day.

He has lots to do. Visit www.deskovic.org or

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By Danielle Furfaro

These artists are changing the color guard.A group of music stars organized by rock

legend David Byrne will perform along with hundreds of f lag-twirling color guard members in a pair of concerts on June 26 and 27 at Barclays Center. In addition to the former Talking Head, musicians in the project include Nelly Furtado, Money Mark and Ad Rock, How to Dress Well, opera composer Nico Mulhy, and Tune-Yards, among others.

The seeds of the performance, called “Contemporary Color,” started in 2008 when a high school color guard team asked Byrne to lend a composition for one of its competitions. Byrne knew little about color guards, but he started researching and was impressed at the routines he discovered.

“I was stunned at what I was seeing,” he said. “And being a musician I naturally wondered to myself: what if these performances had really great live music? Wouldn’t that lift it to another level?”

Color guards, which evolved out of military maneu-vers, incorporate dance and music with military props like rif les, sabers, and f lags. They usually perform

during suburban football games at halftime or in marching band competitions.

For the concerts, Byrne reached out to some of his musical friends and teamed them up with ten color guard teams from around the country. During the show, the members of each color guard team will spin, jump, and march through a routine created to match the musician’s live performance.

“Contemporary Color” is presented by the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and is its first production held at Barclay Center. The two organizations have long planned to collaborate, said BAM president Karen Brooks Hopkins, and this show offered the perfect opportunity because the staging is too large to fit in one of the Academy’s concert halls.

“This creates a space in New York to do all kinds of things we would never see because of the scale,” said Hopkins. “It is another great venue for interesting work from all over the world.”

“Contemporary Color” at Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Prospect Heights, (917) 618–6700, www.barclayscenter.com]. June 27 and 28 at 7:30 pm. $25–$135.

Rock stars and color guards team up at Barclays

Letting their freak flag fly: The Eamon color guard team performs with indie rocker Tune-Yards in “Contemporary Color” at Barclays Center on June 26–27. Jake Naughton

Color coordination

Byrne-ing down the house: Former Talking Head David Byrne led the collaboration between color guard teams and rock stars that resulted in the “Contemporary Color” show. Catalina Kulczar-Marin

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By Trupti Rami

These performers have no balls.

Ten female dancers will create an over-the-top, immersive soccer game on a Gowanus stage on June 24–26, but their blend of sports, comedy, and dance will be missing one thing — a soccer ball, says the show’s creator.

“ ‘Invisiball’ is watching a soccer game without a ball. Literally,” said director and cho-reographer Nadine Bommer, who grew up in Israel. She says the whole experience of the perfor-mance will be like going to a match — but she does not actu-ally know what that is like.

“The funny thing is I have never seen a game in my life. Not on television or in real life,” said Brommer.

The choreographer got all of her knowledge of soccer second-hand, from enthusiastic Israeli men for whom soccer is almost a religion, she said.

“It’s only through the enthusi-asm of Israeli men in my life and all around me that I have any connec-tion to this game,” said Bommer.

She remembers walking her dog on game nights and hearing the excitement from the streets.

“I could almost understand the game just from the shouts and cheering,” said Bommer.

That almost-understanding led her to create a show with a stage

that mimics a soccer field, danc-ers in teams with yellow or red uniforms, and an audience that transforms into soccer fans.

Her theatrical style, called Animato, is all about getting into character, she said. Every story or situation she chooses comes from a humorous place and is expressed in a physically exaggerated way. In “Invisiball,” the show’s ten dancers turn themselves into buff jocks.

“The fact that delicate female dancers are portraying hard-soccer playing guys brings out the humor for me and for them,” said Boomer. “Having the freedom portray ‘guys’ with all their extreme and private behavior without a filter, it ends up being very funny.”

Fans can even nosh on hot

dogs ($3) and slurp down beer and wine ($5) to help get into the stadium mind-set.

The show, which has traveled to Berlin, Prague, Copenhagen, Bologna and Macau, has had enthu-siastic receptions since it began touring three years ago. Boomer said the audience does as good a job as the performers.

“They really got attached to their teams like it was a real soc-cer game and also came away with a great appreciation for the art,” Bommer said.

“Invisiball” at 501 Union [501 Union St. between Nevins and Bond streets in Gowanus, (347) 529–6486, www.gowanusartand-production.com]. June 24–26 at 8 pm. $40 ($35 in advance).

By Max Jaeger

It’s a hole ’nother world.A photographer who

embedded himself in a dere-lict Brooklyn sub-district offers a glimpse of life in “the Hole” with an exhibit at Boerum Hill’s Invisible Dog art center, opening on June 25.

Initially the picture-maker went to the Hole — a small section of East New York bordering Queens with dirt roads, no sewers, and more than a few dicey denizens — for a one-day project, but his inter-est was piqued after a local family invited him to follow them on their evening’s activity.

“That night, the husband and nephew broke into neighbor’s base-ment to steal power for their RV,” said Allen Agostino. “I said ‘holy s---, this is something I’m going to work on for a while.’ ”

The Hole sits 30 feet below sea level and is best known as a body dumping ground for the Mafia, he said.

Agostino’s art captures life on the margins of society, but it also captures the circumstances that can drive people to those margins.

“A lot of the people have a sordid history,” he said.

But the Hole is also a place for rebirth — many folks living there came to escape their past and rein-vent themselves, and the attempts are sincere, Agostino said.

“I always felt like I could trust them — right from the beginning,” he said of his host “Bam” — a former heroin dealer and avowed murderer — and his family.

And finding humanity in the city’s seedier spots is the goal of the “Rear Windows” exhibition goal,

an organizer said.“It’s not even the photographer

that matters, it’s the people that are being photographed,” said curator Pauline Vermare,

Other Rear Windows exhibi-tors followed members of the Latin Kings, drug addicts in a tent city, and compulsive gamblers at the Aquaduct Race Track. And

A group of teens have uncovered the secrets of the sewers.

A new exhibit at the Brooklyn Historical Society explores the history of the borough’s sewer system, researched and curated by a team of high school stu-dents through Ex Lab, the soci-ety’s after-school program.

The teenagers discovered no ninja turtles or alligators, but they unearthed a com-prehensive timeline of both “above ground” and “below ground” stories told through historical photographs, maps, drawings, and various arti-facts related to whisking away people’s waste — including an antique chamber pot.

Student curators were sur-prised to find that New York is among the few communities still using a combined sewer system, which can allow sewage to overflow into canals during heavy storms, and that Coney Island opts for septic tanks over a sewer system. And they learned to appreciate the mod-ern pipes that separate drinking water from toilet water.

“For most of the history that we were learning about it was so dangerous to be drinking the water,” said Caroline Zuba, a rising senior at Brooklyn Technical High School. “You would be getting cholera and you wouldn’t even know what was going on, just because you wouldn’t think that your doo-doo was getting into the water.”

Their newfound knowledge opened their eyes to the unseen (but not, historically speaking, unsmelled) side of Brooklyn.

“I’ve learned more about the city in general,” said Zuba, who enjoyed harboring new ‘water facts’ discovered through her

research. “It’s seeing a differ-ent perspective on how the city operates, and it’s cool to know a little more about New York.”

And no mutagenic ooze was required to transform how the teenagers think about using water at home — just knowledge.

“You don’t really notice how much water you’re using and where it’s going,” said Ana Beirne-Meyer, a rising soph-omore at Edward R. Murrow High School.

“I don’t take one-hour show-ers anymore,” agreed Zuba.

Zuba and Beirne-Meyer joined their teammates for two-hour, twice-a-week meet-ings from February through June while putting the exhibit together. All those hours cre-ated tight bonds — the girls in the group call themselves the “sewer sisters.”

The leaders at the society were impressed with the stu-dents’ boldness in expressing ideas and collaborating to create a museum-worthy work of art.

“We could actually see every-one’s growth as they did this,” said Shirley Brown-Alleyne, the Manager of Teaching and Learning at the society. “Doing Ex Labs is not just learning about the exhibit and learning about New York City. Each and every one of them had some type of personal growth that expanded them.”

“Brooklyn Sewers: What’s Up Down There?” at the Brooklyn Historical Society [128 Pierrepont Street between Clinton Street and Monroe Place in Brooklyn Heights, www.brooklynhistory.org, 718-222-4111]. Open Wed–Sun, noon–5 pm. $10 (free for students).

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Sewer sisters: Caroline Zuba and Ana Bierne-Meyer at an exhibit on the history of the sewer system they researched and curated for the Brooklyn Historical Society. Photo by Jason Speakman

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“Breaking a Monster,” a new documentary about Brooklyn’s most brutal middle school metal band will screen at BAMcinemaFest on June 20. The film, a fly-on-the-wall look at the first days of fame for kiddo head-bangers Unlocking the Truth, is more of an unusual coming of age story than a classic music docu-mentary, said the filmmaker.

“It tells the story that is much more complex and more universal than the story of any one band,” said filmmaker Luke Meyer. “It just so happens to touch on all this stuff happening to them that is really remarkable.”

For the uninitiated, Unlocking the Truth is a teenage metal band from Flatbush whose searing riffs and baby-faced scowls went viral in 2013. Frontman and guitar-ist Malcolm Brickhouse, bassist Alec Atkins, and drummer Jarad Dawkins just finished eighth grade, but they have also melted faces at major festivals like Bonnaroo and Coachella.

The young headbangers honed their craft by playing in Manhattan’s Times Square, and Meyer began filming them in early 2013 for a short documentary. That film was part of the viral wave that

launched the band onto big stages and into a five-album, $1.8 million contract with Sony — and Meyer was there to capture it.

“They were not your average kids, but they were still kids with relatively normal lives for their age,” he said. “Now they’re going on tours, working on an album, they were just on ‘The View.’ It’s a massive change.”

Meyer considers himself lucky he was able to get in with the band before their big break. The film captures the boys as they meet with record executives, perform at South By Southwest, and nego-tiate seventh grade. These kids can shred, but it is impossible to

forget how young they are. The contrast between their youth and the demands of fame and the music industry is the key to the film, said Meyer.

“It’s been a pretty dramatic ride they are on,” Meyer said. “I really got to see them go through learn-ing how to keep their own identi-ties as people, go through adult decision processes, and letting go of their childhood.”

“Breaking a Monster” at Brooklyn Academy of Music [30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene, (718) 636–4100, www.bam.org/bamcinemafest]. June 20 at 4 pm. $10.

By Max Jaeger

Dad’s rockin’ the Ridge. Sunday is Father’s Day, and there’s nowhere bet-

ter to hear music much loved by “men of a certain age” than Bay Ridge — the home of the dad rock cover band.

On Friday, get started at Schnitzel Haus (7319 Fith Ave. between 73rd and 74th streets) at 9 pm, where Potentially Unstable will perform a rock-solid set of tunes your dad no doubt jammed to when he was working on his beloved Five-Oh Mustang — before you came along and forced him to get a minivan.

Then take Pops to the Greenhouse Cafe (7717 Third Ave. between 77th and 78th streets), where Long Island’s Sound Chaser will chase the 1960s starting at 10 pm. They literally play the song “Those Oldies, but Goodies” by Little Caesar & The Romans — Dad will love it.

It is a dad rock hat trick (prob-ably some kind of moth-eaten base-

ball cap with grass stains), because we have a third band to cap off your Friday night. Take the pater famil-ias to the Wicked Monk (9510 Third Ave. between 95th and 96th streets) at 10:30 pm for the Robert Santa band. But brace yourself, because when Santa and his band mates take the stage, Dad will ask the burning question: “Why doesn’t

your band have a saxophone player, son?” No Dad, just no.

Find common ground at The Hideout (8415 Fifth Ave. between 84th and 85th streets) on Saturday, where the Social Zoo will be play-ing a mix of old and new-ish tunes ranging from Sabbath and Zeppelin classic rock to ’90s-era grunge like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, and Sound Garden.

After you’ve cooked your dad his ceremonial three pounds of bacon for Father’s Day breakfast, fly over to Owl’s Head Park for free music during Make Music New York’s annual city-wide con-cert series. Get there by 3 pm to catch Staten Island dad jammers Snugs. Pops will leap out of his Dockers when he hears these guys play the trinity of dad rock genres — classic rock, blues, and folk. Broaden your father’s horizons after Snugs, and stick around for traditional Palestinian music from Zafer Tawil at 3:45, and an “inter-active rhythmic experimentation” with PaulomM at 4:30 pm.

By Bill Roundy

Call her the artist from Down Under — the Manhattan Bridge.

An Australian-born singer and songwriter has opened a Dumbo shop where she sells artwork based on her songs. Natalie Ackerman, who has recorded five pop albums and performed with Sting and Billy Joel, said that the impulse to draw is the same one that fuels her music.

“It’s just pouring out of me,” said Ackerman. “I’m not the type to put a lid on anything creatively. If the muse says, ‘Okay, now we’re going to write an album.’ Okay, that’s what I’m doing. If the muse says to draw, that’s what I do.”

Some of her colored-pencil drawings are literal depictions of the song lyrics, which are printed on the back of each piece, while others are more abstract renderings. Each also comes with a download code for the depicted song.

Ackerman sees her melodic pop music as a way to tell personal stories of struggle and triumph. And creating the art by hand and selling it at Natchie Art is another way to reach out to people, she said.

“The stories are always

emotional and vulnerable, very human, I guess. And I think that’s why this all works. Because I feel like today, especially with digital art, we’ve lost that human connec-tion,” she said. “And I feel like between my drawings and music I’m trying to make those connections.”

Ackerman will reach out to audiences on June 25 with a concert in the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge, just a few steps from her storefront. The event is part of the Live at the Archway series, which hosts free summer concerts on Thursday evenings. Ackerman will perform with her full eight-piece band, the Harold Pinter Orchestra.

“At first I was just going to do a little band, a little set-up, and then I thought — ‘No, I’m going to go for it!’ ” she said. “I’m bringing everyone. It is a huge event!”

Nadia Ackerman and the Harold Pinter Orchestra at the Archway (Pearl Street at Anchorage Place in Dumbo). June 25 at 6 pm. Free.

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The sight of music: Australian songwriter Natalie Ackerman sells art based on her songs from a Dumbo storefront. Photo by Stefano Giovannini

Sleeping dragon: The boys of heavy metal band Unlocking the Truth rest in the back of a car in a still from “Breaking a Monster,” a new documentary about their rise to fame, playing at BAM on June 20. Luke Meyer

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In each instance, the photog-raphers had to gain their sub-ject’s trust. Agostino found a fixer in the first person he met in the Hole, because — despite their disparate backgrounds — they shared similar dispositions.

“I’m sort of fat and Canadian and funny, and she’s fat and Puerto Rican and funny,” Agostino said. “At first, she called me an idiot and said I was gonna get robbed. We ended insulting each other and then getting along.”

“Rear Windows” at the Invisible Dog (51 Bergen St. between Smith Street and Boerum Place in Boerum Hill, www.theinvisibledog.org). June 25–27, 1 pm–7 pm; June 28, 1 pm–5 pm. Free.

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SUN, JULY 26MUSIC, NICKI MINAJ:

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WED, AUG 12MUSIC, MOTLEY CRUE:

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WED, OCT 7MUSIC, DOCTOR WHO

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ness (FAB) hosts a lively performances for kids to sing, dance, and play musi-cal instruments along to. Free. 10–11 am. Putnam Triangle Plaza (Fulton Street and Grand Avenue in Prospect Heights), www.faballiance.org.

ART, “HYBRIDS”: Marcia Neblett explores hybrid human and animal forms in her drawings and prints. Free. Noon–6 pm. A.I.R. Gallery [155 Plymoth St. between Pearl and Jay streets in Dumbo, (212) 255–6651], www.airgal-lery.org.

FILM, “A DAY AT THE SE-NIOR CENTER”: Shot over the course of 6 months, the video answers the question: “What does the Senior Center mean to you?” Free. 2 pm. Park Slope Senior Center (463A Seventh St. at Seventh Av-enue in Park Slope), www.nyc.gov/culture.

MUSIC, LAURIE M. TAYLOR, SOUL MOVEMENT, KA-RISMA JAY: A night of dance inspired by a range of sounds, including the music of Gregory Porter, Childish Gambino. and Robert Glasper. Part of SummerStage. Free. 7–9 pm. Herbert Von King Park (670 Lafayette Ave. between Tompkins and Marcy avenues in Fort Greene), www.cityparks-foundation.org.

MUSIC, MICHAEL HIX, LUD-WIG PERSIK, WILSEN, SALT CATHEDRAL: Free. 7 pm. Paper Gardens Records (170 Tillary St. between Gold and Duf-fi eld streets in Downtown), www.papergardenrecords.com.

THEATER, “THE TWO GEN-TLEMEN OF VERONA”: William Shakespeare’s timeless play of shifting devotions among mis-matched lovers and their errant love letters. $60 ($20 for full-time students or those under 30). 7:30 pm. Theatre for a New Audience, Polonsky Shake-speare Center [262 Ash-land Pl. between Fulton Street and Lafayette Av-enue in Fort Greene, (212) 229–2819], www.tfana.org.

THEATER, DARK WON-DERLAND: A nighttime festival of music, dance and theater marking the 150th anniversary of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adven-tures in Wonderland.” $25. 7:30pm–10:00pm. Green-Wood Cemetery [Fifth Avenue and 25th Street in Greenwood Heights, (718) 210–3080], www.green-wood.com.

THEATER, “THE FIZZLES”: Performance collec-tive Piehole adapts “The Fizzles,” an enigmatic art book produced from a one-off collaboration of Samuel Beckett and Jasper Johns. $15. 8 pm. Jack (505 Waverly Ave. between Ful-ton Street and Atlantic Av-enue in Clinton Hill), www.jackny.org.

MUSIC, WISHING ON STARS, LIZ KELLY, DIRT BIKES, MARK GILDAY JR., JEDIDIAH CROOK: Free. 8 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth

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THEATER, “DEBUTAUNT”: Mary John Frank’s satire lifts the curtain on eti-quette and excess in the world of Southern debu-tante balls through an im-mersive multi-media expe-rience. $35. 8 pm. Atelier Roquette (63 Commerce St. between Van Brunt and Richards streets in Red Hook), www.debutaunt-ball.com.

MUSIC, THE NEW JEWEL MOVEMENT, SOFT CAC-TUS, VITAL G, THE OX ON THE ROOF: $8. 8 pm. Trash Bar [256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williams-burg, (718) 599–1000], www.thetrashbar.com.

MUSIC, ANA MATRONIC: Free. 11 pm. C’mon Every-body (325 Franklin Ave. at Clifton Place in Fort Greene).

MUSIC, PETER FONDA, SM-HOAK MOSHEEIN, MA-TURE, TEXTILES, TECATE PREDATOR: $7. 11:59 pm. Palisades [906 Broad-way at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.palisadesbk.com.

SAT, JUNE 20TALK, DRUNK TED TALKS:

Intelligent people talking about weird stuff while extremely drunk. Tonight’s topic: Kanye West. $5. 2 pm. Littlefi eld [622 Degraw St. between Fourth and Fifth avenues in Gowanus, (718) 855–3388], www.littlefi eldnyc.com.

DANCE, “SOLSTICE”: Award-winning acrobatic troupe LAVA hosts an af-ternoon of performances, food, and music. Free. 2–7 pm. Jane Bailey Memorial Garden (329 Greene Ave. between Franklin and Clas-son avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant), www.bam.org.

MUSIC, BROWNSVILLE HER-ITAGE HOUSE JAZZ 2015: The Wade Barnes Tribute Band presents the Word on the Street Ensemble. Free. 3–6 pm. Browns-ville Heritage House [581 Mother Gaston Blvd. be-tween Dumont and Livonia avenues in Brownsville, (718) 385–1111].

MUSIC, DEAD MOON, J MASCIS, BORBETOMA-GUS, DAS AUDIT: $25. 6 pm. Pioneer Works [159 Pioneer St. between Imlay and Conover streets in Red Hook, (718) 596–3001], pioneerworks.org.

MUSIC, FUMIYO NARITA: Shore Park Conservancy’s “Sing for Hope Pianos” 2015 series presents classi-cal musician Fumiyo Narita. Free. 6:30 pm. Shore Road Parks (90th Street and Shore Road in Bay Ridge), ww.shoreroadparks.org.

MUSIC, HEARTS OF MEN: Hearts of Men Ensemble is a community based, all-male dance company cre-ated to honor the passion, determination, potential and beauty of all men. Part of SummerStage. Free. 7–9 pm. Herbert Von King Park (670 Lafayette Ave. between Tompkins and Marcy avenues in Fort Greene), www.cityparks-foundation.org.

MUSIC, SCAM AVENUE, GHOST COP, HARRISON SCOTT: EP Release party for Scam Avenue. $8. 8 pm. Cameo Gallery [93 N. Sixth St. between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue, (718) 302–1180]. www.cameony.com.

THEATER, “ALICE ARE YOU”: Mark Morris Dance Group presents a new take on the classic tale “Alice in Wonderland.” For children 5 and older. $20–$25. 7:30 pm. Mark Morris Dance Group [3 Lafayette Ave. between Nostrand Avenue and Bedford Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 624–

8400], www.markmorris-dancegroup.org.

MUSIC, ATEN RAYS, SHINES, BAILE: $7. 11:55 pm. Palisades [906 Broad-way at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.palisadesbk.com.

COGNAC, KICKS & CIGARS: Therapy Wine Bar has a Father’s Day cookout, featuring cigars, haircuts, manicures, bowties and more. Free. 1–5 p.m. Ther-apy Wine Bar (364 Lewis Ave. between Halsey and Macon streets in Bedford-Stuyvesant).

MTA BIRTHDAY CELEBRA-TION: Come and celebrate the 100th anniversary of Brooklyn Manhattan Transit with a day of live music, historic trains, meet conductors and a birthday cake. $65; $40 children (under 2 years old free; $175 for a family pack of 4). 9 am–11 am. New York Transit Museum [Boerum Place at Schermerhorn Street in Downtown, (718) 694–1600], www.mta.info/mta/museum.

SPORTS, BROOKLYN CY-CLONES OPENING DAY: The Brooklyn Cyclones open their 15th season at MCU Park, taking on the Staten Island Yankees. Fol-lowed by a postgame fi re-works display. Admission is free, and the fi rst 500 fans receive a free ticket to a 2015 Cyclones home game. $10. 6:30 pm. MCU Park [1904 Surf Ave. at W. 17th St. in Coney Island, (718) 449–8497], www.brooklyncyclones.com.

ART, “AFROS: A Celebration of Natural Hair” opening reception: An exhibition of photographs by artist Michael July celebrat-ing Afros and natural hair. Opening reception includes a talk with the art-ist, music, wine, and more. Free. 7–10 pm. House of Art Gallery (408 Marcus Garvey Blvd. between Halsey and Macon streets in Bedford-Stuyvesant), www.hoagallery.com.

SUN, JUNE 21MUSIC, REGINA OPERA,

AMISTAD WITH TIM PEREZ, CLOSENUF: The Sunset Park Business Im-provement District hosts free entertainment around the neighborhood. Free. Noon–5 pm. [5120 Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street in Sunset Park, (718) 439–7767], http//www.sunset-parkbid.org.

TALK, “INTO THE WOODS”: A reunion of the original cast of the musical, it will be part retrospective; part moderated panel with Sondheim, Lapine, and the cast; and part perfor-mance, with cast members performing songs from the show. $35. 2 pm and 7 pm. BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Place and St. Felix Street in Fort Greene), www.bam.org.

THEATER, “ALICE ARE YOU”: 2 pm. See Saturday, June 20.

MUSIC, LAURIE BERKNER, SOMETHING POSITIVE, BROOKLYN UNITED MARCHING BAND: Part of SummerStage. Free.

Synth you been gone: Brooklyn-based electro-pop band Scam Avenue delivers New Order-esque anthems on its EP “Mercury,” debuting at Cameo on June 20. Brad DeCecco.

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FILM, RIC BURNS DOCU-MENTARY SCREENING: Weekly screening of a fi lm by American fi lmmaker and writer Ric Burns. Free. 7:30 pm. The Diamond [43 Franklin St. between Calyer and Quay streets in Greenpoint, (718) 383–5030].

MUSIC, SUPER FM, THICK, FLESH PANTHERS, PSY-CHIATRIC METAPHORS, WHITE ROPE: $7. 8 pm. Palisades [906 Broad-way at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.palisadesbk.com.

COMEDY, THE BIG TERRIFIC COMEDY SHOW: Standup comedy, hosted by Max Silvestri. Free. 8 pm. Cameo Gallery [93 N. Sixth St. between Wythe Avenue and Berry Street in Wil-liamsburg, (718) 302–1180], www.cameony.net.

THURS, JUNE 25DANCE, SALSA PARTY:

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MUSIC, AL B. SURE: Part of the 21st annual BAM R&B Music festival, which features a roster of both well-known and emerg-ing musicians of R&B and world music. Free. Noon. MetroTech Commons [1 MetroTech Roadway at Lawrence Street in Down-town, (718) 875–1780].

MUSIC, DRAINOLITH, CHICKLETTE, SILK PURSE, CYANIDE TOOTH, HIMOMITSDAD: $8. 8 pm. Palisades [906 Broad-way at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.palisadesbk.com.

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MUSIC, THE BULLITT, DJ SPINNA WITH A SCREEN-ING OF “THEY DIE BY DAWN”: Performances by the English musician The Bullit and DJ Spinna, followed by a screening of Black cowboy Western “They Die by Dawn.” Part of SummerStage. Free. 7–9 pm. Herbert Von King Park (670 Lafayette Ave. between Tompkins and Marcy avenues in Fort Greene), www.cityparks-foundation.org.

MUSIC, KAITLYN ROSATI, MILK, WASTED BABIES: $7. 8 pm. Trash Bar [256 Grand St. at Driggs Av-enue in Williamsburg, (718) 599–1000], www.thetrash-bar.com.

MUSIC, RVIVR, WAR ON WOMEN, ARM CANDY, RIPS: $10. 8 pm. Palisades [906 Broadway at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.pali-sadesbk.com.

MUSIC, FORCE MAJEURE: Monthly vaudeville show Force Majeure brings together an eclectic mix of performers, including circus musician Sxip Shirey, lead Cirque du Soleil clown Daniel Passer, magician David Kaye, and sideshow artist The Lady Aye. $10. 8:30 pm. The Cobra Club [6 Wyckoff Ave. between Jefferson and Troutman streets in Bushwick, (917) 719–1138], www.cobra-clubbk.com.

MUSIC, PIER KIDS: Celebrate the arts with music from Robbi K featuring Bakithi Kumalo. Free. 11 am–noon. Pier 6 [Joralemon St. and Furman St. in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 802–0603].

YOU AND ME TOUR: Best selling children’s per-former Laurie Berkner brings her talents to the 30th anniversary season of City Park’s Foundation’s SummerStage Festival. Free. 5 pm. Herbert Von King Park [670 Lafayette Ave. and Greene Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 622–2082], www.nycgovparks.org/parks/herbert-von-king-park.

MON, JUNE 22KINGS THEATRE TOUR:

Take a guided tour of the former movie palace, with facts about its history and architecture, and restora-tion into a state-of-the-art live performance venue. $20. 11 am. Kings Theatre (1027 Flatbush Ave. be-tween Beverly Road and Tilden Avenue in Flatbush), www.kingstheatre.com.

TALK, LESLIE JAMISON: Contributing author Leslie Jamison joins artist Ryan Spencer to launch the new powerHouse book “Such Mean Estate,” in which scenes from classic movies are transformed into un-settling noir images. Free. 7 pm. PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. at Water Street in Dumbo, (718) 666–3049], www.power-housearena.com.

TALK, HOLLY MADISON: Former Playboy Bunny

Holly Madison talks the bi-zarre world inside the leg-endary Playboy Mansion in her new book, “Down the Rabbit Hole.” Free. 7 pm. The BookMark Shoppe [8415 Third Ave. between 84th and 85th streets in Bay Ridge, (718) 833–5115], www.bookmarkshoppe.com.

MUSIC, NAOMI PUNK, PC WORSHIP: $10. 8 pm. Palisades [906 Broad-way at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.palisadesbk.com.

MUSIC, JILL SCOTT: $55. 8 pm. Kings Theatre (1027 Flatbush Ave. between Beverly Road and Tilden Avenue in Flatbush), www.kingstheatre.com.

COMEDY, THE MEHRAN SHOW: Iranian come-dian Mehran Khaghani hosts a weekly comedy show, with celebrity and comedian guests joining him on stage. $10 ($8 in advance). 9 pm. Union Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Av-enue in Park Slope, (718) 638–4400], www.union-hallny.com.

TUES, JUNE 23MUSIC, TICA DOUGLAS,

BREAKFAST IN FUR, DOUBLE KING, BABY-DRIVER, THELMA: $8. 8 pm. Palisades [906 Broad-way at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.palisadesbk.com.

WED, JUNE 24BRAIN AND BODY EXER-

CISE: For those 60 and older. Free. 2 pm. Park Slope Senior Center (463a Seventh St. between Sixth and Seventh avenues in Park Slope), www.park-slopeseniorcenter.org.

DANCE, BALLROOM DANCE PROGRAM: Free ballroom dance classes. Students learn merengue, foxtrot, tango, cha cha, and swing. 6 pm. IS 96 [99 Avenue P between W. 11th and W. 12th streets in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 232–2266].

TALK, “PERSON, PLACE, THING”: Radio interviews radio in this installment of “Person, Place, Thing.” Randy Cohen records his broadcast program with Kurt Andersen, the host of Peabody Award-winning Studio 360. $5. 6:30 pm. Brooklyn Historical Soci-ety [128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222–4111], www.brooklynhistory.org.

MUSIC, BALKAN BANDS AT FREDDY’S: Freddy’s Bar showcases the sounds of the Balkans. Various international artists will take the stage, represent-ing music from Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, Ro-mania, and more. Free. 7 pm. Freddy’s Bar [627 Fifth Ave. between 17th and 18th streets in Greenwood Heights, (718) 768–0131], www.freddysbar.com.

READING, LAURA O’NEILL, BENJAMIN VAN LEEU-WEN, PETER VAN LEEUWEN, AND OLGA MASSOV: The owners of Van Leeuwen Ice Cream discuss their new book and offer samples. Free. 7–9 pm. PowerHouse Arena [37 Main St. at Water Street in

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MUSIC, DESTRUCTION UNIT, VANITY, SHRED-DED NERVE, LIVE DRUM PUNISHMENT: $12 ($10 in advance). 8 pm. Palisades [906 Broadway at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.pali-sadesbk.com.

MUSIC, F----- UP, DOOMS-DAY: $15. 8 pm. The Wick [260 Meserole St. at Bush-wick Place in Bushwick, (347) 799–1049], www.the-wicknyc.com.

MUSIC, MYKKI BLANCO, PSYCHO EGYPTIAN, VIOLENCE, AMNESIA SCANNER: $12. 11:59 pm. Palisades [906 Broad-way at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.palisadesbk.com.

SAT, JUNE 27THEATER, “PUPPETRY ARTS

FESTIVAL OF BROOK-LYN”: Puppet shows in-cluding special guest Tuffy Tiger performing songs from his new CD, Star Wars characters, and puppet-making crafts. Free. 11 am–3 pm. JJ Byrne Park (334 Fifth Avenue between


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THEATER, “A USO CAN-TEEN”: This musical show from the Brooklyn Theater Wing for Seniors benefi ts the Wounded Warrior Proj-ect. $10 ($5 for children). 3 pm. Soul Cafe at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (7420 Fourth Ave. at Bay Ridge Parkway in Bay Ridge).

THEATER, MAGMANUS: Swedish circus company Magmanus Company that combines circus skills, humor, and audience inter-action to present a show with Bollywood juggling, unique teeterboard acro-batics, and a high fl ying ac-robatic grand fi nale. Free. 4 pm and 7 pm. Brooklyn Bridge Park (334 Furman St. at Middagh Street in Dumbo), www.cityparks-foundation.org.

MUSIC, BROOKLYN PASS-PORT LAUNCH PARTY: Join the festivities of the launch for the Brook-lyn Passport, a pocket-sized booklet of 2-for-1 drink specials in Brook-lyn. Featuring margaritas, beers, and DJ music. Free. 5–8 pm. Hoja Santa (250 Dekalb Ave. at Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene).

MUSIC, OSHUN, PRINCESS NOKIA, MAL DEVISA: $10 ($8 in advance). 7:30 pm. C’mon Everybody (325 Franklin Ave. at Clifton Place in Fort Greene).

MUSIC, WASHER, LAUGH-ING FINGERS, SWINGS, FERN MAYO: $7. 8 pm. Palisades [906 Broad-way at Stockton Street in Bushwick, (201) 214–7444], www.palisadesbk.com.

MUSIC, RICH MEDINA: $10 ($8 in advance). 10 pm. C’mon Everybody (325 Franklin Ave. at Clifton Place in Fort Greene).

MAGMANUS: The Swedish circus company combines circus skills and audience interaction. Presented by SummerStage Kids. Free. 4 pm and 7 pm. Pier 1 (Fur-man St. and Middagh St. in Brooklyn Heights).

COMEDY, DANIEL TOSH: “Tosh.0” comedian Daniel Tosh comes to Kings The-atre. $60. 6 pm and 9 pm. Kings Theatre (1027 Flat-bush Ave. between Beverly Road and Tilden Avenue in Flatbush), www.kingsthe-atre.com.

ART, TAG-A-WATER-TOWER: What Brooklyn symbol is more iconic than a water tower tagged with graf-fi ti? Create a personalized tower by customizing a Boundless Brooklyn water tower in this ‘drink and draw’ class led by artist Robert Plater. $15. 7:30 pm. Brooklyn Historical So-ciety [128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222–4111], www.brooklynhistory.org.


BAY RIDGE

Long-time educator Carney Hab-

erman is hanging up the chalk and erasers and retiring after 43 years of service to William McKinley JHS.

Our pal Carney has a long, long history with the school. She learned her ABCs there as a student, then re-turned as a teacher, and is ending her academic career as assistant principal — wow, she sure liked the place.

She imparted her civic-mindedness and love of the arts to all the students, as evidenced in the many concerts, arts fairs and community parades she participated in.

Fellow teachers and staff celebrated her retirement at the school’s End of Term Party on June 12 at Gennaro’s

Restaurant. Standing O wishes Carney a very

happy and well-deserved retirement. William McKinley JHS [7301 Fort

Hamilton Pkwy. at 73rd Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 833–1000].

SUNSET PARK

Welcome trusteesStanding O hears that NYU Lu-

theran welcomed fi ve new members to its board of trustees: Dr. Andrew

Brotman, Michael Burke, Joseph

Lhota, Douglas Phillips, and Carla

Solomon, PhD. These fi ve join the NYU Lutheran board as part of its af-fi liation agreement with NYU Lan-gone Medical Center.

Standing O wishes the new appoin-tees much success and a long tenure.

NYU Lutheran [150 55th St. at First Avenue in Sunset Park, (718) 630–7000].

BOROUGH WIDE

Summer tipsStanding O is sharing some handy

summer tips provided by the Skin

Cancer Foundation on how to stay safe in the season:

Use a broad-spectrum sunscreen, cover up with clothing, avoid tanning, and stay in the shade when possible.

Most importantly — do not burn. At any age, a person’s risk for melanoma doubles if he or she has had fi ve or more sunburns. Lastly, keep the tiny ones safe and out of the sun, especially newborns.

Scholarships aplentyThe following students were

awarded with the 2015 Bryan Cave

LLP Edward I. Koch Scholarship fund. The four seniors are all students at the Brooklyn School for Collabor-

ative Studies:Luis Andino, a techie who enjoys

re-building computers, plans on at-tending Brandeis University in the fall

and studying engineering. Nicole Guzman, the 2015 vale-

dictorian, is also an active volunteer in the school. Guzman is not only a sportswoman, a founding member of the girls’ varsity softball, volleyball and basketball teams, but she is pas-sionate about social justice. Her plans include the College of Staten Island in September.

Andre Knight is a founding mem-ber of the school’s chorus and glee club, and committed to the arts. He plays fl ute, piano and percussion and is involved with the Irondale Ensem-ble Project. Andre is heading to Sarah Lawrence College.

Angela Rodriguez serves as the president of her church’s youth con-gregation, performs with its choral

STANDING Brooklyn’s Biggest Boosterby Joanna DelBuono

WINDSOR TERRACE

Seniors rejoice! There’s a new day care center in town. Owners Steve Orlov and Yuri Smolyak have cut the ribbon on Sunnyville

Adult Day Care Center. If you are 65 or older and want

a fun place to spend your days, Sunnyville is your kind of place. Owner Yuri told the O there is plenty to do, including crafts, cro-chet, light physical exercise, mov-ies, and even day trips. Along with fun programs, breakfast and lunch are provided, as well as transporta-tion to and from home.

Colleagues Steven Mednik and

Natafi a Sterline, both of Eyes on

Flatbush, were on hand at the cen-ter’s open house on June 10 to help Yuri and Steve celebrate, along with Sharrise Andrews, who co-ordinates activities.

There are two sessions daily at the center, Monday through Fri-day, 9 am–1 pm and 2 pm–6 pm. The best part is that if you have medi-care, there are no out of pocket ex-penses.

Sunnyville Adult Day Care Cen-ter [251 E. Fifth St. at Albermarle Road in Windsor Terrace, (646) 572–9009].

SHEEPSHEAD BAY

100 candles & countingRaise those glasses for Jo-

seph Dary. The new centenarian hit the milestone B-day on June 8 and celebrated with family and staff at the Crown Nursing and

Rehabilitation Center, where he has resided for the past 10 years.

Niece Myrlande Dary and daughter Eves-Rose Dary helped him blow out the candles on his cake. Eves-Rose said that her sis-ter Nicole Hoo-Chong, husband Leslie, and nephew Nicholas, had traveled up several days be-fore to Brooklyn for a family gath-ering held at cousin Myrlande’s home as well.

Born in Haiti in 1915, Mr. Dary was a customs agent and emigrated to the United States in 1955.

According to daughter Eves-Rose, longevity runs in the fam-ily, “It’s genetics, his dad lived to 103,” she said. Adding, “my dad walked a lot and was not one to worry about anything in life,” she explained.

He also loved Haitian cuisine and had a drink or two on the weekends.

Susannah Providence, his recreational aid at the center for the past four years, told Stand-ing O: “He loves his exercise, bowling, basketball, and going for walks. He also loves his word puzzles and trivia games.”

She added, “Mr. Dary is a gen-tlemen, he opens the door for you and always helps. He is a very nice man, you don’t come across too many like him anymore.”

Standing O wishes Mr. Dary many more candles.

Crown Nursing and Rehabili-tation Center [3457 Nostrand Ave. at Avenue U in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 535–5100].

SNIP, SNIP, HOORAY!: Steven Mednick, Natafi a Sterling, Steve Orlov, Sharrise An-drews, and Yuri Smolyak celebrate the grand opening of Sunnyville Adult Day Care Center. Photo by Georgine Benvenuto

Care, fun for seniors at new center

Beloved McKinley educator retires

group, and volunteers with its Build-ing Management Committee. She is also a founding member of the Brother and Sister Support mentoring pro-gram at the school. Angela plans to at-tend Fordham University and hopes to become a teacher.

This is the third year that Bryan Cave LLP, a diversifi ed international legal practice, has presented the schol-arships, named in honor of former mayor and partner in the fi rm Edward I. Koch, to deserving high schoolers.


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• ‘After last year, we knew we had something to prove.’

• ‘They made be feel like I was wanted.’

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Xaverian’s John Bini didn’t know what he was getting him-self into while warming up in the Catholic league bullpen be-fore entering the Mayor’s Cup baseball all-star game.

“When I came back every-one said, ‘Hey, don’t blow it,’ ” Bini said.

The Catholic league was no-hitting its Public School Ath-letic League counterparts as Bini was set to toss the sixth inning. New Utrecht infi elder Andrew Nathan was originally credited with a hit in the third inning, but the offi cial score correctly switched it to an er-ror. A change only a few of the players noticed right away.

“I didn’t realize it until the sixth inning when they took it off the board,” Xaverian ace Rob Amato said. “I knew it was an error, but it was crazy.”

Amato tossed a perfect game during the regular sea-son, but his teammates would ultimately have to settle for a one-hitter in a 7–2 victory over the Public Schools Athletic League in the senior showcase game on June 14 at MCU Park in Coney Island.

The lone hit was a double off the bat of George Washington starter Wesley Rodriguez with no outs in the seventh inning. St. Joseph by the Sea’s Mike Russell was on the mound. Rodriguez, who was recently drafted by the Arizona Dia-mondbacks, said he didn’t feel any extra pressure to get his team a hit.

“It’s an all-star game, any-thing can happen,” Rodriguez said. “It’s all fun here, so no pressure.”

Amato said he went in just looking to put up strikes and not make it easy on the oppos-ing batters during a perfect fourth inning.

Bini set three up and three down, including a strikeout in the sixth. They were two of seven Catholic league pitchers used in the game. James Madi-

son standout Chris Karnbach did not allow a hit and struck out two over the fi rst two in-nings and Telecom hurler Evan Layne also tossed a scoreless frame for the PSAL.

“It was fun to be here with the kids from the Catholic League,” Amato said. “A no hit-ter in an all-star game would be sick.”

While Amato and Bini did their thing on the mound, Xaverian teammate Nick Me-ola contributed with his bat. He reached on a fi elder’s choice in the third and the fi rst Cath-olic run came in on an errant

throw home on the play. His team opened up the game with a six-run sixth inning that in-cluding a two-run single by Salesian catcher Andy Camilo, a Long Island University com-mit.

Clippers teammate An-thony Scotti started the game at third for the Catholic schools and Abraham Lincoln’s Greg Poleon suited up for the public schools.

Having the city’s best se-niors in one place made for a memorable night.

“It’s so much fun doing

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI The play devised just for the championship delivered Leon Goldstein’s fi rst fl ag-football title.

Dolphins coach Salva-tore Prestianni tweaked his team’s traditional option-pass play into a hook-and-lad-der version two days before the title game. He knew two-time defending fl ag-football champion Tottenville would be well prepared for the for-mation’s usual pass to the left behind the line of scrimmage and then a long toss down fi eld.

Prestianni, who felt he was too conservative in last year’s fi nal loss, called it on third down with his team up six and its back up to its own fi ve-yard line.

“I said if I ever got back, I was going to be aggressive,” he said. “It’s the only way to be.”

Instead of tossing side-ways, quarterback Nancy

Palumbo hit Emily Ourzdeen short over the middle. She quickly lateralled the ball left to speedster Rorie St. Lawrence for a 36-yard run. It gave Goldstein a fi rst down and put it in position for an eventual fi ve-yard touch-down run by St. Lawrence through four defenders. The score put the Dolphins up two scores and the team never looked back.

“It changed the game up,” Palumbo said.

Fourth-seeded Goldstein then cruised to a 32–13 vic-tory over No. 3 Tottenville in the Public School Athletic League fl ag football cham-pionship game at Aviator Sports Complex on June 12. It is the Dolphins’ fi rst crown in program history.

“After last year, we knew we had something to prove,” St. Lawrence said. “We had to show everyone we are a re-ally great team.”

— Leon Goldstein’s Rorie St. Lawrence on winning the flag-football title on the second try

— Nazareth hoops star Brittney Jackson on her decision to accept a scholarship

from Detroit University

Continued on page 40 Continued on page 40

WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS: Leonard Goldstein celebrates its victory over Tottenville in Public School Athletic League fl ag-football champi-onship game at Aviator Sports Complex on June 12. Photo by Steven Schnibbe

HANGING ZEROS: Xaverian ace Robert Amato tossed a perfect fourth inning to help the CHSAA throw a one-hitter in the Mayor’s Cup all-star game. Photo by Steven Schnibbe

Trick play ensures Goldstein fi rst

fl ag-football title

Xaverian pitchers lead Catholic league to Mayor’s Cup win

Heroic hurlers

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P aulie Malignaggi’s long-awaited return to the ring just got a

whole lot more interesting.The former world-cham-

pion boxer from Bensonhurst was supposed to be back in the squared circle on May 29 to face Boston brawler Danny O’Connor at Barclays Center. But a deep cut above the eye he got two weeks be-fore the bout forced him to pull out. It would have been the 34-year-old Malignaggi’s fi rst fi ght in 13 months.

Instead, he will have to face a much stiffer test — against a more proven op-ponent, in the undefeated Danny Garcia — when the two square off at Barclays on Aug. 1. The bout will head-line the live Premier Boxing Champions card on ESPN.

Malignaggi can’t wait to get back in front of the Brooklyn fans against such a formidable challenge.

“Although I have a ton of respect for Danny and his father Angel — both for what they’ve accomplished in the ring as well as the bond they share as father and son — I am a competitor through and through, and in this sport it’s all about testing yourself against the elite,” Malignaggi said. “So I look forward to defend-ing my home turf of Brook-lyn and matching my skills against Danny’s at Barclays Center on Aug. 1.”

O’Connor would have been new to the big stage that Malignaggi has thrived on during his career. Ma-glignaggi, who is also a re-nowned boxing commenta-tor, was the clear favorite in that bout despite the layoff. Garcia, on the other hand, has fought four times at Bar-clays Center. He is a former world champion at super lightweight and one of the rising stars in the sport.

The one advantage Ma-lignaggi may have is that the 27-year-old Garcia is making his debut at welter-weight (147 pounds). Garcia forfeited his previous title to take this fi ght and try to be-gin his assent up his new di-vision, and said he feels con-

fi dent going into the bout. “I’m looking forward to

getting in the ring again, in my fi fth appearance at Bar-clays Center, and putting on a great show for the East Coast fans in attendance, and the fans watching all over the world,” Garcia said. “By the end of the night, I will still be the undefeated Danny ‘Swift’ Garcia.”

The undercard has yet to be announced, but this fi ght sells itself: the boisterous hometown hero Malignaggi versus the talented Garcia and his talkative father An-gel. The press conference alone will be must-watch.

Remember that the last time Malignaggi attempted to beat an undefeated fi ghter in his fi rst welterweight fi ght things didn’t turn out well. He lost a 12-round split decision to Adrian Broner back in June of 2013. This bout may be a tougher one.

“Danny Garcia has laid waste to the junior welter-weight division, and instead of easing his way into the wel-terweight division, he’s fi ght-ing a former world champion in Paulie Malignaggi,” said Brian Kweder, senior direc-tor of programming and ac-quisitions at ESPN.

Brooklyn fans will have to wait an extra three months to see Malignaggi back in the ring, but it will be worth the wait, because he is back on a bigger stage, with a bigger fi ght, and more dangerous opponent.

JOEKNOWS

by Joe Staszewski

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Brittney Jackson’s patience was fi nally rewarded — just about when it was running out.

It was getting harder and harder for the Nazareth senior guard to keep the faith that a college hoops scholarship was going to come her way. Schools like Rider and St. Peter’s were interested, but like many oth-ers they went with other play-ers or ended up not needing a point guard.

Her peers kept asking where she was heading. Her answer was always, “I don’t know yet.”

“My parents, my mom were really worried about every-thing, and I was more worried than her,” Jackson said.

Her break came when for-mer Canisius assistant Tara Fleming joined the staff of fi rst-year Detroit University coach Bernard Scott. Flem-ing was a fan of Jackson at her previous stop, but the Golden Griffi ns didn’t need a point guard. Detroit did. Fleming remembered Jackson, got in touch with her and everything fell into place.

“We are elated,” Nazareth coach Ron Kelley said. “I’m just happy there is a home for her.”

Jackson fell in love with the school and the staff on her

visit and signed a National Letter of Intent with the Ti-tans of the Horizon League earlier this month. Jackson was happy to fi nd a place that made bringing her in a prior-ity, and gave her a chance to play right away.

“The coaching staff ac-cepted me as if I was already playing on the team,” Jackson said. “They just made me feel at home, especially the play-ers. They made be feel like I was wanted.”

She said jumping to differ-ent travel teams last summer might have hurt her visibility with coaches. Kelley said that Jackson isn’t a fl ashy player and her contributions don’t always stand out as much as others.

Nazareth graduated fi ve Division I scholarship play-ers two years ago, and this season it watched players like Niya Johnson, Shanix Heinz, and Ericka Russell step into star roles. Jackson’s impact on their development — and the Lady Kingsmen winning the state Federation Class A title — wasn’t lost on him.

“She was a great leader for us this year, a fantastic com-municator,” Kelley said. “Her jump shot got a lot better. She played the real point guard po-sition for us. It wasn’t fl ashy. It wasn’t spectacular, but she did a great job for us.”

He can see her being the same type of player at the next level for a Detroit program looking to rebuild. Jackson can be a versatile piece for the Titans. Jackson heads there

BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Don’t run on Telecommunica-tions’s Emily Bianchino and Susen Gutrkenst. That’s what the Catholic league players learned early in the Mayor’s Cup softball all-star game.

Both playing away from their normal positions, Bi-anchino and Gutrkenst none-theless each threw out run-ners from right fi eld to keep the Public School Athletic League squad in the game be-fore it fell 9–0 at the annual se-nior contest at the College of Staten Island on June 12. The feat hadn’t hit the duo until af-ter the game.

“I didn’t really think of it

until just now. That’s kind of cool,” said Bianchino before receiving a celebratory high fi ve from Gutrkenst.

Bianchino, who is the Yellow Jackets’ center fielder, started the game in right. She chased down a drive by Molloy’s Alexan-dra Yule and made a perfect, deep cutoff throw to Forest Hills second baseman Max-ine Sanchez. She cut down Yule at third as she tried for a triple.

Gutrkenst did her one bet-ter in the fourth. She is Tele-com’s catcher during the sea-son, but will play the outfi eld

Recruiting journey lands Naz’s Jackson at Detroit

BATTER UP: Off the plate, Tele-com’s Emily Bianchino helped throw out a runner at third for the PSAL in the Mayor’s Cup all-star game. Photo by Steven Schnibbe

HEADED TO DETROIT: Nazareth guard Brittney Jackson has signed up to play women’s basketball at the University of Detriot next sea-son. Photo by Ken Maldonado

WORTH THE WAIT

Telecom softball stars show off at Mayor’s Cup

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BY JOSEPH STASZEWSKI Most-valuable-player hon-ors were the furthest thing from Andy Camilo’s mind as the rain began to fall at MCU Park.

The Saleisan catcher and Long Island University com-mit was instead just soaking up the experience of leading the Catholic-school all-stars to a 7–2 victory over their Pub-lic School Athletic League counterparts in the Mayor’s Cup All-Star Game on Feb. 14. When he heard his name called as the game’s most valuable player, it was just an added bonus to a memorable night and season.

“I was surprised,” Camilo said. “I wasn’t even waiting for that. They called me and I’m proud.”

Seven Catholic League pitchers held the public school stars to just one hit, but Camilo came off the bench to be the team’s big bat at the plate. He collected two hits, scored twice, and had the big blow in a six-run sixth inning. He drilled a two-run double to left that put his squad up 7–0.

“When it was my time to go in, I did what I always do,” Camilo said. “I did my job.”

It was certainly a much bet-ter ending to his high school career than was scripted days earlier. Salesian was a strike away winning its fi rst Cath-olic Class AA crown before

Monsignor Farrell rallied for a 12-inning win and then beat the Eagles the next day to take home the title.

The tough defeat doesn’t take away from the ascension of the Salesian program that Camilo and his classmates or-chestrated. They took the Ea-

gles from a solid Class A club to a being power in the ultra-competitive AA league.

“To take this little school from New Rochelle that no-body knew to the big spot we were at,” Camilo said. “Last year we made it to semis and this year we made it strong.”

He hopes to bring that win-ning mentality to Long Island University along with Salesian and Mayor’s Cup teammate Luis Arias, also a Blackbird commit. The Brooklyn team is coming off a 16–35 season, but it’s adding a skilled and gritty catcher in Camilo who knows how to win. He is happy to be staying in New York City, and believes he is joining a pro-gram that will grow like the one he is leaving.

“They got a good program building up too,” Camilo said. “They are trying to get guys to build up a new program just like Salesian.”

His Catholic league team-mates were impressed with Camilo not only during the Mayor’s Cup game, but also throughout his career. He caught fi ve innings as his pitchers dominated the oppos-ing hitters.

“I have a ton of respect for him,” Xaverian hurler John Bini said. “He’s a great hit-ter. Just being able to throw to him was awesome. Just play-ing against him we saw how good of a catcher he is.”

ON HER WAY: Rorie St. Lawrence gains some good yardage. Photo by Steven Schnibbe

BEST OF THE BEST: Salesian catcher and Long Island University commit Andy Camilo took home the Most Valuable Player award at the Mayor’s Cup baseball all-star game. Photo by Steven Schnibbe

LIU commit Camilo earns Mayor’s Cup MVP honors

Her team trailed 13–6 with 6:18 to play in the fi rst half. Tottenville (11–3) would not score again. Touchdown passes of 34 and 50 yards re-spectively from Palumbo to Ourzdeen, the game’s most valuable player, put Gold-stein up 19–13 with 1:30 to go before the break. St. Law-rence intercepted Tottenville quarterback Jamie Quadrato with 15 seconds left to ensure the Dolphins (12–2) ended the half ahead.

“It was a really good confi -dence booster,” St. Lawrence said.

She proceeded to have her way with the Tottenville de-fense in the second half. The Pirates had no answer for her speed, agility, and ability to change direction quickly. Her shifty fi ve-yard touch-down run put Goldstein up 32–13 with 4:13 to play.

“The second she gets her one good cut she is off and is gone,” Ourzdeen said.

The Goldstein defense didn’t let Tottenville go anywhere after the break. Victoria Italico was excel-lent at pulling flags before Pirates players could get into open space. Ashley Sa-gesse put plenty of pressure on Quadrato in the pocket. Prestianni felt his team did a better job of disguising its coverage and disrupting Quadrato’s rhythm.

The complete perfor-mance was enough to crown Goldstein champion. The players rushed the fi eld, Palumbo was lifted on her teammates’ shoulders, and Prestianni received a Gato-rade shower.

“Last year we were heartbroken,” Palumbo said. “This year, we said we were going to come back and we were going to show them that we didn’t deserve to lose.”


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this,” Bini said. “All of these new guys out there with dif-ferent jerseys. It was a great experience.”

Watching seven different pitchers combine for a no hit-

ter would have made it that much better, but Amato and his teammates were happy to settle for a win they could boast about.

“It gives us a lot of brag-ging rights,” Amato said. “Anytime they want to talk about us we can just say we almost no hit them.”

with a small chip on her shoulder, motivated to prove herself not only to her new team, but to the programs who passed on her.

In the meantime, Jack-son is enjoying the fruits of

her hard work. She fi nally has a Division I scholar-ship, a home for the future, and more recently her high school diploma — making her aggravating wait seem like a distant memory.

“I’ve been really happy these last two weeks,” Jack-son said. “I feel like I haven’t been mad at all.”


JACKSON in college at Hunter. St. Ed-mund’s Nicole Quintana lifted a fl y ball to right. Gutrkenst caught it on the run and threw a perfect strike to home to nail Bishop Loughlin’s Essence Walker at the plate to keep the score 5–0 in favor of the Catho-lic schools.

“I was just going through all the situations before the play,” Gutrkenst said. “I knew the girl was going to try to tag up. I fi gured on a fl y I needed to go home, and I guess it just worked out.”

Fontbonne head coach Frank Marinello sent Walker from third. In an all-star game you are never sure of the other players’ skills, but he called Gutrkenst’s toss to the plate “a perfect throw.” Bianchino

knows wherever Gutrkenst is on the fi eld, her arm will be a factor.

“No matter where she plays, she will have a good arm,” Bi-anchino said. “It’s no surprise she got the girl thrown out at home.”

But their defensive prow-ess wasn’t enough to stop the Catholic league from picking up its fourth-straight Mayor’s Cup victory. It scored four times in the fi rst inning with help from two errors, and added another run in the sec-ond to make it 5–0.

Fontbonne Hall third base-man Ariana Dillon played a big role in the four-run eighth inning that put the game well of reach. She singled to left to score Sacred Heart’s Madison Carlo for the game’s fi nal run. Dillon also walked and scored a run back in the second in-ning.

“It’s sad that my high school career is now over,” she said, “but it’s cool that it ended with a hit. It’s emotional for sure.”

The victory made the ex-perience even better for Dil-lon, but it wasn’t what she enjoyed most. Dillon was able to play alongside team-mates Jill Nixon and Rapha-ela Sicurelli-Gerber one more time, and teamed up with girls she and the Bon-nies have been trying to beat for four years. St. Edmund’s Stephanie Samir and St. Sav-iour’s Natalie Gil also took part in the game.

“It’s amazing,” Dillon said. “Usually, we are competing against each other. To come together and see each other for the true people that we are, and not just for someone we face, is amazing. You see dif-ferent sides of people.”


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