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Brooklyn Today June 28: Grab Your Sword and Hide the Sheep

June 28, 2017 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Good morning, Brooklyn! Legislators are returning to Albanytoday for an extraordinary session, and at least the fourth body since 2014 surfaces in Brooklyn Bridge Park. One of the tallest skyscrapers to ever appear in the borough will rise in Downtown Brooklyn, but don’t think Brooklyn leads the city in new apartment construction. It’s time to bid farewell to two Brooklyn icons, and people with swords and wolves plan to defend at least one of them. Keep reading for a previously unpublished piece by Hannah Arendt, and a rather unexpected love story between two celebrities. Have a great day!
      
IMPRINT: Today’s cover of the day features Donald Trump on TIME, next to glowing headlines. It’s hanging in his estates from Florida to Scotland. It’s also completely fake. (via WaPo)   

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The Rundown
 

~SINCE 2014, FOUR BODIES FOUND IN BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK: A woman’s decomposed body was discovered yesterday morning floating inButtermilk Channel off the shoreline of Red Hook, police sources said.NYPD officials received a call for a body floating in the water shortly after 11 a.m. The corpse was initially seen near Conover Street. This was at least the fourth body found in the waters off Brooklyn Bridge Park since July 2014.(via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 

~WAIT, COME BACK!: That’s what Gov. Cuomo is saying to state Legislators. They’ll return today for an extraordinary legislative session to reconsider a bill which would extend mayoral control of New York City schools for one year. That means there’s one more chance to avoid returning to 32 different local school boards. If the governor’s bill is not approved, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s control of city schools — along with ambitious plans to systematically extend programs like universal pre-K, advanced placement courses and Computer Science for All — expires this Friday(via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle)   
 
~A TALE OF TWO TOWERS (AND TWO PUBLIC SCHOOLS): One tower, designed to soar 925 feet in the air, is among the tallest skyscrapers ever planned in the borough of Brooklyn. The NYC Educational Construction Fund and Alloy Development also want to construct a second high-rise apartment building, a public elementary school, a public high school and a cultural facility at 80 Flatbush Ave. in Downtown Brooklyn, and the public review process for the project is moving forward. Can’t picture how the towers will fit into the neighborhood? Check out these renderings. (via the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~BUT YET…: We know it seems like there’s news of major developments in Brooklyn every day. But, believe it or not, the borough doesn’t lead in new apartment construction across the country, or even the city (althoughWilliamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn come close). Instead, Queens’ Long Island City leads the pack with the most apartments built among neighborhoods across the U.S. (via Curbed NY) 
 
~TAKE A LAST LOOK AT THE WATCHTOWER SIGN: The iconic, red neon sign that has towered over Brooklyn Heights for nearly half a century is coming down. We’ve been wondering since May whose name will replace the Watchtower sign on the “Panorama” complex owned by Jared Kushner’s former company. The answer to that question remains unclear, but we do know that it will cost about $70,500 to dismantle the sign. (via the Real Deal and the Brooklyn Daily Eagle) 
 
~GRAB YOUR SWORD AND HIDE THE SHEEP: A band of makeshift “warriors” will stick up for the doomed Kosciuszko Bridge as it faces demolition this summer, and the group claims they’ll be wielding swords and wolves. Why? When the event’s creator, Bushwick resident Brian Hersey, heard of plans to bid the bridge farewell with a literal bang (and more), he thought “Somebody needs to speak up for this old bridge and that’s what we’re doing.” While Hersey genuinely urges people to come to the eventdecked out in warrior garb, he admits that actual swords are illegal in NYC (though he appears to have made no mention to DNAinfo about the wolves).(via DNAinfo) 
 
~PHOTO OF THE DAY: Would you like to live here? We sure would. (via@brooklyndailyeagle)

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Staff Picks:
 

READ: The formerly incarcerated often find work in restaurants. The jobs help keep them off the street and out of prisons…and in the kitchens(via Eater) 
 
ANOTHER READ: A previously unpublished lecture by Hannah Arendt on poverty, freedom and revolution. (via Lit Hub)   
 
YET ANOTHER READ: Nearly 30 years after Connie Fletcher’s book “What Cops Know,” Chicago mag checks back in with the city’s officers to see what they know now. (via Chicago)    

FINAL READ: Tennis powerhouse Serena Williams + Reddit co-founderAlexis Ohanian = a match made in heaven(via Vanity Fair)    

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: In St. Louis, an off-duty, black cop tried to come to the aid of a white officer. Instead, he was shot by the on-duty officer. The injured officer’s attorney claims race had more than a little to do with it…Like owner, like pet? Not so much. The states with the highest rates of human obesity aren’t the same states with the highest rate of chunky pets…Parents of children killed by undocumented immigrants view Trump as a someone who “speaks for the dead”…What’s the cost of mold in schools and colleges? For two dorms alone at one college, $568,220…And girls are taking action on the silver screen, front and center. (via WaPo, the NYT, the WSJ and the AP)
 
FOREIGN FLASH: For the first time ever, more Australians identify as nonreligious than as Catholic…With the seventh killing of a journalist this year, Mexico is so far the deadliest country for journalists in 2017…A Spanish woman wants to be recognized as Salvador Dalí’s daughter. A court hasordered an exhumation of his corpse to settle the matter once and for all…The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Britain accepts that it won’t be able to pry cellphones from the hands of patrons, and instead embraces the culture and will deliver program notes to audience members mid-concert, via an app. (via WaPo, the NYT and the Telegraph) 
 
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 ROYAL WATCH: Prince Harry doesn’t begrudge his niece and nephew for bumping him further down the line of succession. In fact, he might even be grateful(via Town & Country and news.com.au)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT  
 

6:30pm – Who Is Muslim? at Brooklyn Historical Society. Details.
 
6:30pm – The Writer’s Art: A Conversation with Jean Strouse & Colm Tóibín.Details.
 
6:30pm – Free as Gods: How the Jazz Age Reinvented Modernism at NYPL – Mid-Manhattan Library. Details.
 
7:00pm – Art and Practice with Cecilia Vicuña at the Museum of Modern Art.Details.
 
7:00pm – Double Dutch at Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2. Details.
 
7:30pm – Judaism, Christianity + Animals: Is Religion a Problem…or an Answer? at the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan. Details.
 
7:30pm – The YeahTones, The Blackfires, Strange Majik at Rough Trade NYC.Details.
 
8:00pm – Lazurite at Issue Project Room. Details.  
 
8:00pm – Battle of the Divas: Battle of the Boy Bands at Union Hall. Details.  
 
9:00pm – Comedians You Should Know at The Gutter. Details.
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 ON THE PITCH:  On TuesdayFIFA released the full 430-page “Garcia Report,” which looks into alleged corruption in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding processes. The full report can be downloaded in three parts right here.

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MILESTONES

Happy birthday to Kathy Bates, Don Baylor, Danielle Brisebois, Mel Brooks, John Cusack, Bruce Davison, John Elway, Mark Grace, Thomas Hampson, Alice Krige, Mary Stuart, Masterson and Elon Musk!

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