22 MARCH 9 - MARCH 15, 2018 BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP
8721 5TH AVENUE MEDICAL
& OFFICE SPACE AVAILABLE
Prime Corner Commercial
Space in Bay Ridge
Features:
• Fully renovated 1200 square feet
• Ground floor corner space
• Heavy foot traffic
• 4 independent office rooms
• 1 lunch room for employees
• Newly renovated Full BR
• Additional build outs possible and potentially
done by landlord for new tenant.
The building has been approved for Medical
use and Methodist and Lutheran are our other
tenants. They sit above this space. The building
is called LEROS on the corner of 88th street.
Prominent tenants and the most ideal office
location space available in Brooklyn.
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718.440.2006
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BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP/Photos by Corazon Aguirre
Some of the Canine Club’s members at play in the backyard
with Jose Candia.
Bay Ridge goes to the dogs
BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK
MMCGOLDRICK@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
It’s more than just doggie-daycare
– it’s a family, and a feeling.
That’s the motto at Brooklyn
Canine Club – a full service daycare
dedicated to the continued health and
well-being of your pup – which cut
the ribbon on its new Bay Ridge digs
on Friday, February 23.
The club is run by animal lover
and self-proclaimed “pack-leader”
Jose Candia with the help of partner
Salvatore Pernice, a licensed vet who
works for the club’s next-door neighbor,
Brooklyn Veterinary Group. The
new club functions as an in-place sitter
for pooches and offers up to 12 hours
of play on weekdays and up to seven
on Saturdays – all at a price that will
make humans as happy as their furry
loved ones.
“It’s all about positive reinforcement
and love,” said Candia, who gave this
paper a personal tour of the facility at
its grand opening, adding, “I just felt
this need to open up something like
this in the neighborhood. There are
so many dogs but really, nothing like
this anywhere around.”
Candia, who moved to the states
with his family in 1996, is a “tried
and true dog-lover” and is certified in
Animal Care and Handling by the City
of New York.
“I wanted to keep it the way it was to
really create the feeling of outdoors
inside,” he said, adding also that every
aspect of the club – from its rubber
flooring to its cleaning products – is
made especially for canines.
As for its services, a full day (or six
or more hours) at Brooklyn Canine
Club costs just $40 per pup (with
walks and baths available at an additional
cost) and a half-day (3.5 hours
of play) is just $25. Other than that,
pups can enjoy playtime by the hour
at just $10 each. Sibling pricing is also
available for humans with more than
one doggie for Candia to love.
Complimentary for every pup,
Candia said, is access to the facility’s
impressive 150-square-foot backyard
(which Brooklyn Canine Club and
Brooklyn Veterinary Group share),
which comes complete with “doggie
friendly” turf that’s both practical
and playful.
To encourage socialization (and
avoid overwhelming its canine clients),
the club does not take in more than 20
dogs at a time. They must first pass a
temperament test in which Candia
introduces them to his five-year-old
pit bull mix, Lilly – who helped give
Candia and Pernice the idea.
“It felt a lot like fate,” he told this paper,
stressing that, once he and Pernice got
the ball rolling, things just started lining
up. “I told Pernice my idea and he
said, ‘There’s a place next door’ and we
met the landlord literally hours later.”
Most important to Candia, he said,
is the sense of love the club inspires –
both for him and his family (his wife
Doreen assists with day-to-day operations)
and his canine clients (Candia’s
love for whom shines through in his
stories).
“Take Gemma for instance,” he said
of an easily excited, loveable eightmonth
old Dogo Argentino who is
already a frequent flier of the Canine
Club’s. “Her first day here, she fell
asleep in the corner and I noticed she
was whimpering – she must not like
to sleep alone – so I went over and
laid down with her. That’s the whole
point here. I don’t treat them like just a
member, I treat them like one of mine.”
Brooklyn Canine Club is located at
8209 Fifth Avenue.