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Brooklyn Today January 26: Cuomo Defies FCC on Vote to Reverse Rules on Net Neutrality in New York

January 26, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Happy Friday, Brooklyn! Gov. Cuomo defies the FCC, a new burrito spot comes to Greenpoint, and a rendering of LICH’s latest high-rise is revealed. Plus, a dessert festival is coming to NYC in March, the last American slave ship may have been found off the coast of Alabama, and an East New York pregnant mom has been without heat for three months. Finally, an East Village bar bans customers from using the word “literally,” we share the most popular ads from last year’s Super Bowl, and America plans to send its first aircraft carrier to Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. Have a great weekend.
 
IMPRINT: America is all alone on the latest cover of Time.


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The Rundown
 

~LATEST LICH HIGH-RISE REVEALED; JOINS GROWING WALL OF TOWERS ALONG BROOKLYN WATERFRONT: A rendering of the latest development in the wall of high-rises spreading across the western Brooklyn waterfront has been posted at a construction site at 347 Henry St. in Cobble Hill. Called 5 River Park, the 15 story tower is part of the River Park megaproject being developed by Fortis Property Group on the former Long Island College Hospital campus. The project was met with intense opposition by Cobble Hill residents and Brooklyn officials, who called it out of scale with the traditional low-rise district. River Park is just a stone’s throw away from another hotly disputed waterfront project — two towers rising at Pier 6 at the southern end of Brooklyn Bridge Park, and not far from another controversial development, the Pierhouse hotel/residential complex, also in the park. These projects, along with the development of Williamsburg and Greenpoint and the plans for Gowanus, are rapidly transforming the Brooklyn waterfront into a series of residential towers. (via Brooklyn Eagle)
 
~CUOMO DEFIES FCC ON VOTE TO REVERSE RULES ON NET NEUTRALITY IN N.Y.: Defying the Federal Trade Commission, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on Wednesday directing the state not to enter into any contracts for internet service unless the internet service providers (ISPs) agree to follow net neutrality principles. In December 2017, FCC voted along party lines to reverse net neutrality rules. Without net neutrality, Cuomo said, there is nothing to stop ISPs “from creating ‘fast and slow lanes’ on the internet, favoring content they have a financial stake in over content they do not profit from.” Cuomo’s order may be challenged by the federal government, however. FCC specifically included a provision blocking states from passing their own rules. While many major technology companies, including Yahoo!, eBay and Amazon support net neutrality, others oppose it, including ISPs and broadband and telecommunications companies like Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, IBM and Intel. PayPal Co-Founder and venture capitalist Peter Thiel said in an interview in National Review, “Government attempts to regulate technology have been extraordinarily counterproductive in the past.” (via Brooklyn Eagle)

~BROOKLYN MOTHER WITHOUT HEAT, HOT WATER, GAS: An East New York mother expecting a second child has been living without heat, hot water or gas in her home for three months. Millie Beniquez says her son already had the flu this season and they’ve been wearing coats inside. “The landlord isn’t taking my calls,” Beniquez said. “I call 311 and it’s a run around.” The mother said she just wants her son to be warm at night and to be able to cook him a hot meal. A spokesperson for the Human Resources Administration told Pix11, “The safety of our clients is a priority for HRA. We are taking immediate action on this case and are contacting the client and the landlord to address this situation.” (via Pix11)
 
~ROCKAWAY BURRITO SHACK OPENS AT BROOKLYN BAZAAR: Some West Coast inspired Mexican cuisine that made shape on the Rockaway beaches has come to Greenpoint’s Brooklyn Bazaar. Super Burrito features a simple menu of tacos, nachos, and of course, burritos. Its owners, Sam Neely and Eugene Cleghorn hail from San Francisco and moved to New York in 2007 before opening the Rockway spot to fulfill a culinary void on the East Coast. Just steps away from the Greenpoint G station, Neely and Cleghorn brought their roots to the restaurant with a raised San Francisco flag. “The biggest key will be establishing the new, year-round restaurant as its own destination,” Cleghorn said. “We’re gonna make it happen – we’ve got ideas.”(via Bklyner)
 
~BROOKLYN SLUMLORD WHO WRONGFULLY EVICTED TENANTS CAN’T AVOID JAIL TIME: A Brooklyn real estate developer previously convicted of subjecting tenants to harsh conditions to push them out of rent-controlled apartments was cuffed at Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday to serve 20 days in jail. Daniel Melamed paid $200,000 forfeiture to secure 20 days in jail instead of 30, but when his attorney offered to pay $250,000 to dodge time all together, the judge denied. “The court declined that request,” Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun said. “Even 30 days, the sentence is more imposed as symbolic.” Chun said he didn’t want to give the impression criminals could pay their way out of jail whenever they wanted. When he offered an option to pay $150,000 for only 15 days in jail, Melamed chose the handcuffs. The slumlord previously appeared in a red-lined suit to plead guilty to grand larceny, residential mortgage fraud and forgery charges on Nov. 27, 2017, a case aside from the wrongful evictions. (via Brooklyn Eagle)

 
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Staff Picks:   
 

LONG READ: “Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People?” (via The Atlantic)
 
ANOTHER LONG READ: The last American slave ship may have been found off the coast of Alabama. (via AL.com)
 
INTERVIEW: Read this Q&A with novelist Ursula Le Guin, who says “there’s always room for another story.” (via Interview Magazine)
 
EAT: New York City’s dessert festival returns this March. (via TimeOut)

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: An East Village bar bans customers from using the word “literally”…Meet the people who don’t want “Dreamers” to receive legal status…And here are the most popular 2017 Super Bowl ads. (via Eater, NYT and USA Today)            
 
 
FOREIGN FLASH: America will send its first aircraft carrier to Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War…A train derails near Milan, killing three people…And a Scottish woman becomes the first female to lead a whisky distillery by herself. (via NYT, CNN and USA Today)   
 

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 ROYAL WATCH: Here are the 20 most unforgettable trips that Royal Families from across the world took. (via The Telegraph)


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BROOKLYN TONIGHT   
 

10:45AM — French for Little Ones at Brooklyn Children’s Museum. Details.
 
12:00PM — The Body: Fashion and Physique at 92nd Street Y. Details.
 
2:45PM — Creative Writing for Kids at Cortelyou Library. Details.
 
6:00PM — Bernstein Findings: What is American Music? at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Details.
 
6:00PM – 8:00PM — Drugs and the Darknet: Challenges and Opportunities Open Society Foundations–New York. Details.
 
6:00PM – 8:00PM — Nature in the City: The Transit Connection at TransitCenter. Details.
 
6:00PM – 9:00PM — Ultraluminous Party at Red Bull Studios New York.Details.
 
6:30PM — Bitter Allies: China and North Korea at Asia Society and Museum.Details.
 
7:30PM — PhiloSonia presents “Liaisons II:Bartók & Kodály” at The Old Stone House. Details.
 
10:00PM – 4:00AM — The Jook Jam at The Emerson. Details.   
 

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 EAGLE SPORTS: Their new arena in Elmont, N.Y., won’t be ready until at least 2021, leaving the Brooklyn-based New York Islanders to find a place to call home between now and then. According to several published reports, the NHL franchise will have a pair of options. Newsday reported earlier this week that the Islanders, Barclays Center and NHL are nearing a deal that would allow the team to play up to 12 of its regular-season games at the renovated Nassau Coliseum beginning next season. The Isles could wind up hosting up to 20 games a year in their former long-time Uniondale, N.Y., arena from the 2019-20 campaign until the state-of-the-art facility adjacent to the legendary Belmont Park is complete. All this is contingent on the Isles opting out of their Barclays Center lease by the end of this month and coming to a new, short-term agreement with Brooklyn Nets and Barclays Center owner Mikhail Prokhorov, who has been losing money on the original pact since the franchise moved here to begin the 2015-16 season. (via Brooklyn Eagle)


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MILESTONES
 
Happy birthday to Anita Baker, George Harold Clements, Angela Davis, Mark Dayton, Ellen DeGeneres, Jules Feiffer, Scott Glenn, Wayne Gretzky,Jose Mourinho, Andrew Ridgeley, David Strathairn, Bob Uecker and Eddie Van Halen!
 


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