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Around Brooklyn: Nets coach Steve Nash buys Cobble Hill townhouse

December 22, 2020 Brooklyn Eagle Staff
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Nets coach Steve Nash buys Cobble Hill townhouse

Brooklyn Nets coach Steve Nash recently closed on a 20-foot wide townhouse in Cobble Hill for $5 million, or about $1,190 per square foot. The 4,200-square-foot home on Amity Street has a landscaped rear garden, roof deck and a finished basement. Nash is getting the five-bedroom house at a discounted price, compared to last year’s asking price of $6.49 million, according to The Real Deal.

Brannan gives out vegan roasts for holidays

City Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst, Bath Beach) on Friday teamed up with NYCLASS and PETA to give away vegan roasts in time for the holidays. “After our last giveaway was such a success, we figured we would make a tradition out of it! As a vegetarian myself, I love giving our constituents an opportunity to try a karma-free holiday dinner, and hopefully this is another opportunity to make sure no one goes hungry this holiday. Thanks to NYCLASS and PETA for once again making this possible in our district” said Brannan.

Apple signs lease at Pioneer Building

Apple has signed a 14-year lease for the Pioneer Building at 41 Flatbush Ave. in Downtown Brooklyn, where it plans to establish a private lounge for workers at the nearby Apple Store at 123 Flatbush Ave. The tech giant has been operating on a month-to-month lease at the building since Nov. 1. The former warehouse was acquired by Quinlan Development and turned into Class A office space, to the tune of $35 million. Also coming into the building are Local Locker, which offers consumer-based storage units; and Shady Grove Fertility, which has clinics in six states.

Ortiz: Think before you shop

Assistant Assembly Speaker Félix W. Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) is calling on people to think before they shop this holiday season to protect worker’s rights and the environment. Consumers buy 43 percent more clothing items during the holiday season. Much of what is purchased is considered “fast fashion” attire sold in stores that receive new shipments of clothing each week. Most of it is made from oil-based polyesters and synthetic fabrics. The overseas factories, where much of the clothing is manufactured, do not follow appropriate labor standards. “I want to thank Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA) for bringing this issue to the forefront during the holiday season,” he said.

Brooklyn Pride Center welcomes new director

Brooklyn Pride Center has named Sonelius Kendrick-Smith as its new president of the center’s board of directors. Kendrick-Smith joined the board in 2016 and has served as treasurer and chair. He is head of corporate treasury and taxable fixed-income solutions for DWS and brings a vision of continuing its work to build Brooklyn Community Pride Center into the borough’s premier place for LGBT people.

COVID rent relief program continues through April

The New York State Department of Housing and Community Renewal’s COVID Rent Relief Program will be reopened for application with expanded eligibility criteria in an effort to serve New Yorkers who may have not had the opportunity to initially apply and those who may have been previously ineligible. DHCR will accept applications from households from now through Feb. 1. Residents that previously applied for COVID rent relief will not have to reapply to be considered. “HCR is acutely aware that this pandemic has put more pressure on New Yorkers who were already housing insecure, and these improvements to the Legislature’s original program will expand access to rent relief while building on Governor Cuomo’s eviction protections,” Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas said.

 

Video shows gunman firing into parked car

A video released by the NYPD shows a gunman firing into a parked car in East New York. The incident took place on Dec. 13 on Pitkin Avenue. The video shows the suspect walking down the street before suddenly producing a firearm and firing several times into a nearby parked car. Cops say a 31-year-old woman in the passenger seat was shot twice in her arm, while a 27-year-old man sitting in the driver’s seat avoided injury. EMS crews responded to the scene and took the woman to Brookdale Hospital, where she was treated and released. Police describe the suspect as an adult male with a dark complexion. He was last seen wearing a white protective face-mask, a black jacket with red piping, a black t-shirt, a blue and black hooded sweat jacket, black sweatpants, white sneakers and an Under Armor black backpack, according to Fox 5 News.

Vandals paint swastika on Jewish school

Members of the NYPD Hate Crimes Unit are searching for two vandals who defaced a Jewish high school with graffiti and a swastika last week. The incident occurred on Friday afternoon outside the Mesilas Bais Yaakov High School, at 420 19th St. Police said they painted the words “Ace” and Rico,” possibly their nicknames, as well as swastika on the south side of the school, then fled the area. Video footage released by the NYPD shows one of them as a man with man with a medium build and a medium complexion wearing a blue jacket, blue jeans and black sneakers, while the other was a man with a dark complexion, a full beard and large build wearing a black face mask, a black shirt, a jacket, blue jeans and brown sneakers, according to published reports.

Driver dies after smashing into garbage truck

A 32-year-old man died in Canarsie early Sunday morning when his car smashed into the back of a garbage truck. Photos from the scene show the 2002 Nissan mangled at the front where it crashed into the sanitation truck around 4 a.m. Kenneth Pamphile was found unconscious and responsive at Flatbush Avenue and 88th Street, police said. He was cut out of the car by firefighters and was pronounced dead on arrival on arrival at Brookdale University Hospital. Two sanitation workers attached to the stationary truck were not injured, according to the New York Post.

Nets owners announce Social Justice grant recipients

Clara Wu Tsai and Joe Tsai, owners of the Brooklyn Nets, New York Liberty and Barclays Center, earlier this month announced the first grant recipients of the Joe and Clara Tsai’s Social Justice Fund to drive economic empowerment and address the systemic imbalances that produce racial gaps in health care, education and wealth. The first honorees are Dr. Uche Blackstock, an emergency physician who worked at a Brooklyn urgent care center at the height of COVID; Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, the founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank dedicated to advancing climate politics in coastal cities; Natasha Alford, senior correspondent and vice president of digital content for The Grio; Rafiq Kalam id-Din II, the founder of Ember Charter Schools, a Black-led charter school in Bedford-Stuyvesant; and Michael “Zaki” Smith, a barbershop owner and former prisoner who seeks to dismantle the barriers that prevent formerly incarcerated Americans from reintegrating into society.

Compiled by Raanan Geberer.

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