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Angel Guardian developer reveals plans for home

May 2, 2018 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Angel Guardian home. Eagle file photo by Paula Katinas
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Although a confidentiality agreement blocked the buyer of the historic Angel Guardian Home in Dyker Heights from revealing his plans, the developer has decided to speak out, according to the Brooklyn Paper.

Developer Scott Barone plans to build a combination of market-rate condos, affordable housing, senior housing and a senior center on the site, the Brooklyn Paper says. He also says he wants to preserve the century-old main building, which local residents have been seeking to preserve. The Sisters of Mercy used the home as an orphanage at one time, and some of the former orphans who were adopted out of the home have spoken at rallies to preserve the building. Barone said he expects to close the deal for the property — which is bounded by 63rd and 64th streets and 12th and 13th avenues — within two or three months. He also pledged to offer the Narrows Seniors Center, which is scheduled to be ousted, a long-term lease when the new buildings are completed.

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Brooklyn photographer’s hobby: Restoring photos of old New York

Brooklyn photographer Ray Simone, who has been restoring photographs of old Hollywood and its movie stars since age 10, also finds and restores photo negatives showing scenes of old New York, according to Metro New York.

Simone, whose studio is in Williamsburg, acquired his old negatives from flea markets garage sales, antique shops and auctions. Restoring some photos, even with Photoshop, can take an entire week, Metro New York reports. An image of a trolley car on the Brooklyn Bridge taken from a 1910 glass-plate negative took 40 hours to restore. Currently, he’s working on a negative that shows Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig with an unidentified man.

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