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Brooklyn Today April 30: Brooklyn NRA Supporters Finally Meet in Dyker Heights

April 30, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
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THE LEDE: Happy Monday, Brooklyn! NRA supporters gather in Dyker Heights, Sheepshead Bay boasts old-style Russian dumplings, and businesses fight against Fulton Street’s bus-only lanes. Plus, a Brooklyn company creates state-of-the-art spacesuits, a group of women say the NYPD is failing rape victims, and we share the best places to get tea. Finally, a four-year-old boy is pulled out to sea in North Carolina, a man kills at least seven children in China, and the royal baby’s name is revealed. Have a great week.                           
 
IMPRINT: Welsh actor Luke Evans wears a suit on the May cover of Style Magazine Italia.  

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The Rundown
 

~FULTON STREET BUSINESSES FIGHT OWN BID OVER CITY’S BUS-ONLY LANES: Dozens of business along Fulton Street in Fort Greene andClinton Hill are fighting their own business improvement district over a city plan to take away parking spaces and add bus-only lanes in front of their stores. The city says the bus lanes will speed up snarled service for the roughly 20,000 riders who take the B25 and B26 lines every day, and transit advocacy groups like Riders Alliance applaud the plan. Roughly 80 shopkeepers, however, petitioned Small Business Services Commissioner Gregg Bishopdemanding that the city stop the project, arguing that the lanes will mess up deliveries and drive away customers. They also claim that the local business improvement district and the Department of Transportation made the decision to add the lanes without reaching out to them. Fulton Area BID Executive Director Phillip Kellogg said, “Misinformation is being pedaled to the businesses.” (via Brooklyn Eagle)
 
~BROOKLYN NRA SUPPORTERS FINALLY MEET IN DYKER HEIGHTS:About 100 members of Brooklyn’s Friends of the NRA were met by roughly a dozen anti-gun protesters as they gathered at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Dyker Heights — which allowed the controversial group to meet after two other venues had canceled on them. “Sieg heil!” yelled one group member as he entered the hall on 86th Street. Protester Doug Schneider couldn’t believe what he’d heard. “What did you say?” demanded Schneider, a candidate for Democratic District Leader. “What did you say to me?” But the man had already disappeared inside. Another attendee offered protestors both middle fingers before heading up the steps. None of the NRA supporters — all but three were men — gave their names to reporters, who had gathered after hearing that the group would be meeting. Two earlier attempts to meet — first at Gargiulo’s restaurant in Coney Island and then at the Grand Prospect Hall in Windsor Terrace — were scrubbed after the venues discovered that a pro-gun group would be meeting in decidedly Democratic Brooklyn. (via Brooklyn Eagle)
 
~RUSSIAN DUMPLINGS SERVED UP OLD-STYLE IN SHEEPSHEAD BAY:It’s not exactly right on the bay but since last June, Luda’s Dumplings has been offering authentic Russian-style dumplings, or pelmeni, out of its table-free shop in Sheepshead Bay. The cooked-to-order pelmeni recipes come from owner Eugene Tulman’s mother Luda who used to whip up dumplings for neighbors’ parties when she first came to Brooklyn in 1996. Tulman pledged to follow his mother’s guidelines to always use fresh ingredients and mix everything by hand. Those practices are put to use in six fillings that include a Siberian-style beef and pork blend and a mash of potato and Cheddar filling. And for dessert, the spot offers farmer cheese pelmeni with cocoa-infused skins muddled with cherries and chocolate flakes. (via The New York Times)
 
~BROOKLYN-MADE SPACESUITS BEING TESTED FOR MESOSPHERIC TRAVEL: Brooklyn-made spacesuits are currently being tested to bring astronauts into the Earth’s most mysterious layer of the atmosphere to investigate the highest clouds in the world. The outfits featured as the first spacesuit developed outside a government contract, come from Brooklyn’s Final Frontier Design. “It is more mobile and lighter-weight than prior suits – 18 pounds total,” said Ted Southern, the company’s president. Brooklyn’s spacesuits also cost more than half the price of NASA’s at $125,000 down from the space agency’s $300,000 price tag. (via Inside Science)
 
~CENTRAL PARK BOATHOUSE REOPENS AFTER RENOVATIONS: The Central Park Boathouse has reopened with a shiny new look after closing for three months to renovate its 64-year-old structure. The $2.9 million renovation added seats, installed new furniture, finishes and lighting and fixed its water-damaged surfaces. “Aesthetically, it’s all going to be more appealing. It will feel like a porch overlooking the lake,” said owner Dean Poll, who worked at his family’s Sheepshead Bay restaurant when he was younger. The boathouse now boasts 185 seats and 30 new high-top seats with a full view of the lake. As for the menu, chef John Greeley prepares a seafood-heavy and expensive set of dishes. (via New York Post)

 
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Staff Picks:   
 

LONG READ: A group of women says the NYPD is failing rape victims. (via Newsweek)
 
ANOTHER LONG READ: Can Paulette Jordan become the first Native American to serve as governor? (via BuzzFeed)
 
Q&A: Famed musician Van Morrison speaks about his influences, the current state of the music industry and his latest album “You’re Driving Me Crazy.” (via NYT)
 
DRINK: Here are the 11 best places to get tea in New York City, including one spot in Williamsburg. (via Eater)

 
 
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NATIONAL BULLETIN: A four-year-old boy is pulled out to sea in North Carolina…The Boston Red Sox change the name of Fenway’s Yawkey Way…And Sprint and T-Mobile could merge soon. (via New York Post, Boston Globe and NYT)             
 
FOREIGN FLASH: A man kills at least seven children with a knife in China…Three women are injured in a bridge collapse in Brazil…And the world could lose thousands of low-lying islands due to sea rise. (Aljazeera, New York Post and USA Today)                                    
 
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 ROYAL WATCH: The royal baby’s name is revealed: Say hello to Louis Arthur Charles. (via NYT)

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BROOKLYN TONIGHT     
 

8:00AM – 5:00PM — In Terms of Performance at BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building. Details.
 
10:00AM – 6:00PM — Elizabeth Riley: The Life of a City at BRIC House.Details.
 
6:30PM — How NYC Became America’s Cultural Capital at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. Details.
 
6:30PM — Public Art Fund Talks: Anselm Kiefer at The New School. Details.     
 
7:00PM — Jason Moran: Staged at The Cooper Union. Details.
 
7:00PM —A Wilder Time: William E. Glassley at McNally Jackson. Details.
 
7:00PM — Modern Mondays: An Evening with Tamer El Said at Museum of Modern Art. Details.  
 
7:00PM — Impossible but True at Franklin 820. Details.
 
7:30PM — Women of Letters at City Winery. Details.
 
7:30PM — Mark Bittman: How to Grill Everything at Books Are Magic.Details.
      
 
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EAGLE SPORTS: “Would Nets be interested in Kawhi Leonard?” (via NetsDaily)

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MILESTONES
 
Happy birthday to Dianna Agron, Jane Campion, Kirsten Dunst, Anthony Foxx, Gal Gadot, Johnny Galecki, Stephen Harper, Sam Heughan, Perry King,Cloris Leachman, Kunal Nayyar, Willie Nelson, Adrian Pasdar, Isiah Thomas and Burt Young!
 
Brooklyn Today’s editor is Scott Enman. Contact him at[email protected].


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