Brooklyn Today: Netflix is coming to Bushwick

April 19, 2019 Brooklyn Eagle

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THE LEDE: With Earth Day on Monday, we have an extra environmentally friendly newsletter today. First, all new buildings may soon have to invest in green roofs. Plus, on the same day that experts warned that city beaches will close more often due to raw sewage in the water, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden launched an ambitious water conservation project that could have the solution to NYC’s combined-sewer-overflow issue. Lastly, a judge temporarily blocks a development that could cast harmful shadows on the Botanic Garden’s plants.

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THE RUNDOWN

~ GREEN ROOFS MAY SOON BE REQUIRED ON ALL NEW BUILDINGS IN NEW YORK CITY: One hundred percent of new buildings may soon be required to install green or solar rooftops following the passage in the City Council of three bills on Thursday. If signed into law, it would make New York the largest city in the country to pass such a requirement.

~ SEWAGE WILL SHUT DOWN MORE CITY BEACHES IN THE FUTURE, EXPERTS SAY: The good news is New York Harbor is cleaner now than at any time in the last 100 years. The bad news is intensifying rain is increasingly contaminating the city’s beaches with raw sewage and disease-causing pathogens.

~ BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN OFFERS MODEL TO TACKLE CITY’S SEWAGE PROBLEM: The $13 million water conservation project, the first of its kind in North America, uses underground pipes to recirculate rainwater throughout the garden, reducing its water consumption by about 96 percent — from 22 million gallons to just 900,000 gallons per year.

~ JUDGE ISSUES RESTRAINING ORDER TO HALT DEVELOPMENT NEAR BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN: A judge has halted Crown Heightsdevelopments near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a victory for activists who say towers planned for the sites would cast harmful shadows on the famous facility.

~ ICE NO LONGER HAS UNFETTERED ACCESS TO NEW YORK COURTHOUSES. BUT THEY CAN STILL ARREST IMMIGRANTS RIGHT OUTSIDE.: Brooklyn was the site of 35 courthouse arrests in 2018, more than any other borough. Advocates argue the arrests have had a chilling effect on immigrants regardless of citizenship status, resulting in fewer immigrants reporting crimes and showing up for court dates.

~ IT’S OFFICIAL: BROOKLYN POINT TOPS OUT AS BOROUGH’S TALLEST BUILDING: Extell Development’s condo tower at Downtown Brooklyn’smixed-use City Point mega-development has topped out, which means construction workers just put a roof on the slim skyscraper. It’s now 720 feet tall and 68 stories high.

~ NETFLIX IS BRINGING A NEW TV PRODUCTION HUB TO BUSHWICK: The company, which is expected to host thousands of production crew jobs within five years, leased approximately 161,000 square feet to build the spaceat 333 Johnson Ave., a three-story former printing facility.

~ FROM GRIMALDI’S TO L&B, THIS PIZZA TOUR GIVES YOU ‘A SLICE OF BROOKLYN‘: Bensonhurst native Tony Muia founded A Slice of BrooklynBus Tours in 2005. He’s taken hundreds of thousands of tourists through the borough on tours that, since then, still begin and end with two of Brooklyn’s most popular pizzerias.

~ BROOKLYN JUDGE APOLOGIZES TO MURDER VICTIM’S SISTER AFTER DECLINING TO HEAR HER TESTIMONY: A Brooklyn judge apologizedThursday to the sister of a murdered woman for moving ahead with a sentencing last week without hearing her statement — but he didn’t apologize to the prosecutor who he briefly jailed over the incident.

MORE BROOKLYN NEWS

~ The Brooklyn Museum’s Artists Ball raises $1.9 million. (Forbes)

~ A man is arrested for grabbing a 12-year-old’s butt in Sunset Park. (New York Post)

~ This is what Brooklyn looked like in 1949. (Patch)

PODCAST

~ BREAKING DOWN THE BROOKLYN MEASLES EMERGENCY: On this week’s episode, a rabbi and a doctor debunk anti-vaxxer claims, and Councilmember Stephen Levin reflects on the measles outbreak affecting his district.

STAFF PICKS

~ READ: “How a tiny endangered species put a man in prison” (High Country News)

~ EAT: Here are the five restaurants with the best chicken wings in New York City, including two spots in Brooklyn. (Thrillist)

~ LAUGH: Hot off the press! A redacted issue of The New Yorker. (The New York)

~ LIVE: Here are three tips on how to improve your memory. (NYT)

WHAT’S HAPPENING

1:00PM – 3:00PM — The Neuroscience of Improvisation at Columbia University. Details.

6:30PM — Nerd Nite NYC at Caveat. Details.

9:30PM — Two Guys, Two Girls at Brooklyn Comedy Collective. Details.

THE WRAP

⌛ ON THIS DAY
In 1912, the Eagle reported, “Borough President Alfred E. Steers issued orders this morning directing that the flags on every municipal and borough building in Brooklyn be placed at half mast immediately, on account of the Titanic disaster, and to remain so displayed until further notice.”

IMPRINT
Julianne Moore shines on the May cover of Numéro China.

ROYAL WATCH
Can you guess what Prince George’s nickname is at school? (The Cheat Sheet)

SPORTS
Waiting is the hardest part for the red-hot Isles.

BIRTHDAYS

Happy birthday to Hayden Christensen, Tim Curry, Elinor Donahue, James Franco, Joanna Gaines, Kate Hudson, Ashley Judd, Tony Plana, Alan Price, Maria Sharapova and Al Unser Jr.!

Brooklyn Today’s editor is Scott Enman. Contact him at scott@brooklyneagle.com.