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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, NOV. 25, 2018
GOT HIS GOAT: Jack Costas reigned victorious in the contest to name Prospect Park’s new weedharvesting
boat with his suggestion the “Floating Goat.” Photo by Colin Mixson
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S f ti t
RELIEVES BACK PAIN
Local doctor treats herniated and bulging discs, sciatica, and serious lower back pain
BY COLIN MIXSON
This kid is the greatest of
all time!
A Windsor Terrace
tyke suggested the winning
name for Prospect
Park’s recently acquired
fl oating weed harvester,
which green-space offi cials
offi cially christened the
“Floating Goat” at a Nov.
16 ceremony near the Boathouse
in Brooklyn’s Backyard.
Eight-year-old Jack
Costas joined leaders of
meadow steward the Prospect
Park Alliance and local
offi cials at the naming
event, where the youngster
stressed the importance
of the vessel that sucks up
unwanted plants on the
surface of Prospect Park
Lake and spits them out as
mulch .
“If there wasn’t anything
to clean up weeds,
there wouldn’t be anywhere
to play, because it would be
covered in weeds,” he said.
Costas’s “Floating
Goat” moniker was one of
some 300 that locals suggested
to the Alliance
for its quasi-democratic
process, in which green
thumbs whittled down the
hundreds of options to a
short list of nine they could
live with, according to a
spokeswoman for the park
keepers.
“We didn’t want to be
copy cats of Boaty McBoatface,”
said Lucy Gardener,
referencing the popular,
but overruled, crowdsourced
moniker for a British
ship offi cials asked the
public to name in 2016.
Alliance leaders then
asked locals to vote for their
favorite of the nine fi nalists
— which included such
inspired names as “Weedzilla”
and “Chompy” — and
more than 700 weighed in,
with Costas’s submission
winning by a slim 30-vote
margin, Gardener said.
The youngster’s inspiration,
of course, was the cloven
footed farm hands the
Alliance hired to help clear
weeds and unwanted vegetation
in the park’s Vale of
Cashmere in 2016 and 2017 .
And his whole family
partied when they found
out he won the competition,
his mom said.
“It was just a huge celebration
in our house,” said
Jaime Costas.
In addition to eternal local
fame, the lad received
Brooklyn’s Backyard swag
including a frisbee, water
bottle, and temporary
tattoos — along with the
prized opportunity to cut
class early to attend the
naming ceremony, he said.
“My friends are only
jealous that I got to leave
early,” said Costas, a student
at PS 154 in Windsor
Terrace.
The boy also got what he
called a once-in-a-lifetime
chance to drive the vessel
he christened, after Alliance
president Sue Donoghue
and pols including
Flatbush Councilman Mathieu
Eugene formally announced
its new name.
“I felt really good, because
I usually only get to
ride on the boat,” Costas
said.
Park’s fi rst mate
Windsor Terrace boy wins contest to rename
Prospect Park Lakes’s new weed-eating boat