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Brooklyn Today April 20: A Hot Dog Bus Is Coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park This Summer

April 20, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Happy Friday, Brooklyn! The Pop-Up Pool enters its final season, Green-Wood Cemetery hosts film screenings, and a Hot Dog Bus is coming to Brooklyn Bridge Park. Plus, New York City’s poop stinks up an Alabama town,Chris Christie’s official portrait will cost New Jersey residents $85,000, and we go inside the cockpit of the Southwest plane that lost one of its engines. Finally, the U.K. will ban plastic straws, Time announces its 100 most influential people, and we share the 20 best rooftop bars in New York City. Have a great weekend.                     
 
IMPRINT: The angelic Jennifer Lopez appears on the April/May cover ofTime.  

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The Rundown
 

~EDIBLE ART: A HOT DOG BUS IS COMING TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK THIS SUMMER: Get your hot dogs here! Brooklynites won’t have to travel to Nathan’s in Coney Island to get delicious (yet dangerously greasy) hot dogs this summer. Public Art Fund’s summer series kicks off with Erwin Wurm’s “Hot Dog Bus,” a modified, vintage Volkswagen Microbus that has been transformed into a bloated and bizarre hot dog stand. The “absurd, yet approachable” 11-week exhibition will open in Brooklyn Bridge Park on June 9and will be parked on Saturdays at Pier 1 and Sundays at Pier 5. Parkgoers can enjoy franks for free. It’s an art attack in all sense of the word. In addition to the vehicle itself, the act of eating the frankfurters is a further sculptural element, according to Wurm. “The hot dog, originally an immigrant food and one with Brooklyn roots, has become so ubiquitous and so quintessentially American, that to have it served from the bus is a way to encourage a generous component of the exhibition,” the art fund’s Associate Curator Daniel Palmer said. (via Brooklyn Eagle)
 
~SUMMER FILM SCREENINGS TO KICK OFF AT GREEN-WOOD: Forget film screenings in Bryant Park. This summer, Brooklynites will be able to kick back with the likes of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Leonard Bernstein to catch flicks as the sun goes down. Rooftop Films is starting their summer series of movie showings at Green-Wood Cemetery next month for the first time with various short films. The series’ opening night will feature live music, an after party and global films. The lineup has yet to be released for the May 19event, but Rooftop Films wrote on their website that the selections will be “highly entertaining films that tear apart tired old structures and display the creative potential of the cinematic form.” (via Patch)
 
~TIME TO GET CRACKING ON A PERMANENT POOL IN BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK, OFFICIALS SAY: The insanely popular Pop-Up Pool in Brooklyn Bridge Park will be dismantled after this summer’s season, and the pressure is building to get a substitute in place before the dog days of 2019. “The pool fills a gap in Brooklyn, which has too few public pools,” state Sen.Brian Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon and CouncilmemberStephen Levin said in a letter to the park’s President Eric Landau this week. They called the pool “an indispensable and treasured amenity.” The park can either come up with a temporary solution, such as moving the Pop-Up Pool elsewhere in the park for another season, or get started on building a permanent pool, the officials said. In a statement, Landau responded, “We look forward to working with our local elected officials and the community as we explore future options for swimming in Brooklyn Bridge Park.” An official source told the Eagle that no date has been set for discussions about pool options, but he felt that the park and the public are “all on the same side” on the issue. (via Brooklyn Eagle)
 
~HIGH LEAD LEVELS FOUND IN 4-YEAR-OLD BROOKLYN BOY: A Brooklyn mother living in the Red Hook Houses public housing development is urging other parents around the city to test their children for lead after her 4-year-old son tested positive for elevated lead levels. “My son is affected by lead. I never thought it would happen to me,” Sherron Paige said. Paige’s son had a blood lead level of 12. Anything above level 5 is considered blood poisoning, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. New York City Housing Authority workers said they will start repairing her apartment, but Paige is still worried that there may be lead. “We can and must do better to provide residents with the safe, clean and connected communities they deserve,” a NYCHA spokesperson said. (via Pix11)
 
~NEW PLAN WOULD DESIGNATE OFFICIAL ‘LITTLE HAITI’ DISTRICT IN FLATBUSH: Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte is leading an effort to designate an area — bordered by Avenue H, Brooklyn Avenue, Parkside Avenue and East 16th Street — as the Little Haiti Business and Cultural District. Many prominent members of the community are still angry about President Trump’s slights about Haiti (“a s—hole country”) and believe the designation could be a rebuke to his policies. Others in the area, however, feel such a designation would be redundant, since the city last year designated an area bounded by Flatbush, Church and Nostrand avenues as the Little Caribbean Cultural District. Brooklyn has 90,000 Haitian-American residents, according to the Migration Policy Institute. (The New York Times via Brooklyn Eagle)

~COMMUNITY CALLS FOR NATIONWIDE BOYCOTT OF STOP & SHOP: Residents of Flatbush and the family of a man who was killed by three Stop & Shop employees who reportedly caught him shoplifting rallied outside the Flatbush Avenue grocer on Thursday to call for a nationwide boycott of the chain — and to demand that the Brooklyn District Attorney charge the man’s killers. “Don’t shop at Stop & Shop!” demonstrators yelled, protesting the death of Ralph Nimmons last Saturday inside the store. Family members shared their grief, hoping to use it for change. “It was wrong what happened to my nephew,” yelled Nimmons’s uncle, Bonezelee Nimmons. “I’m fed up with it! I want justice!” Nimmons, 51, was stealing food inside the store when three workers threw him to the ground and pushed on his head, chest and legs even as he yelled out he couldn’t breath, witnesses said. Nimmons died later at Kings County Hospital. (via Brooklyn Eagle)

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Staff Picks:   
 

LONG READ: Go inside the cockpit with Tammie Jo Shults, the heroic pilot who successfully landed the Southwest plane that lost one of its engines. (via WaPo)
 
ANOTHER LONG READ: “Who Killed Tolstoy?” (via Granta)
 
DRINK: Here are the 20 best rooftop bars in New York City, including five in Brooklyn. (via Eater)
 
CARTOON: President Trump fires his golden toilet. (via The New Yorker)

 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: The national school walkout for gun violence is today…Former Gov. Chris Christie’s official portrait will cost New Jersey residents $85,000…And New York City’s poop stinks up an Alabama town.(via NYT, AP via CNBC and AP via Brooklyn Eagle)      
 
FOREIGN FLASH: The U.K. will ban plastic straws and cotton swabs…Time announces its 100 most influential people…And meet Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s new president. (via USA Today, Time and NYT)                                      
 
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 ROYAL WATCH: Take a tour of the Royal Family’s private London hospital. (via Independent)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT   
 

8:00AM – 5:00PM — Architects of Creativity at Weeksville Heritage Center.Details.
 
9:30AM — Spanish at SPARK with Espáñate! at 1 John St. Details.  
 
12:00AM – 6:00PM — Fear of Nature of Fear at Asphodel. Details.  
 
12:00PM – 6:00PM — If Only We Knew. Nothing’s New. at A.I.R. Gallery.Details.
 
6:00PM – 9:00PM — Friday Night Flights at Coney Island Brewery. Details.
 
7:00PM — Mahamat-Saleh Haroun: “Modern Griot” at BAM Rose Cinemas.Details.   
 
7:00PM — Where Do We Go From Here? at Brooklyn Museum. Details.
 
7:00PM – 9:00PM — Adult Art Classes: Watercolor Exploration at Private Piccassos Art Studio. Details.
 
7:30PM – 10:00PM — Dreamland Disco at Lefrak Center at Lakeside. Details.
 
8:00PM — Revisionist History at The Mark O’ Donnell Theater. Details.
      
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EAGLE SPORTS: Adrien Broner spent most of the early stages of Thursdayafternoon’s Barclays Center press conference to promote Saturday night’s bout against Jessie Vargas bopping his head to the music blaring on his headphones. He should have kept them on. Known as “The Problem” during his mercurial career, one that has seen both its apex and nadir here on the corners of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, Broner became a major one for the fight’s promoters, his opponent and everyone watching what ultimately escalated into a shocking rant once he took center stage. After placing his headphones on the microphone in front of him to reveal his tune of choice, Vanessa Carlton’s2001 piano-driven pop hit, “A Thousand Miles”, Broner went on to utter a thousand mostly unprintable words, aiming them at the host of the press conference, the fight’s promoters and, of course, Vargas. (via Brooklyn Eagle)

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MILESTONES
 
Happy birthday to Felix Baumgartner, Carmen Electra, Crispin Glover, Danny Granger, Miranda Kerr, Jessica Lange, Joey Lawrence, David Leland, Don Mattingly, Shemar Moore, Ryan O’Neal, Pat Roberts, Steve Spurrier and John Paul Stevens!
 
Brooklyn Today’s editor is Scott Enman. Contact him at[email protected]. 


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