2 BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP • SEPTEMBER 2 - SEPTEMBER 8, 2016 First ever Fort Hamilton ComicCon coming Comic Con is coming to Fort Hamilton this October. That’s right, on October 15 at the Fort Hamilton Community Club, Brooklyn comic fans and cosplay enthusiasts alike will be able to enjoy their own version of the largest pop culture convention that highlights comic books and science fi ction/ fantasy related fi lms, television and arts. The all-day event, beginning at 10 a.m. at the Community Club (207 Sterling Drive), will feature live panels, vendors, artists and prizes for best cosplay costume. The event is open to the public with registration at http://conta. cc/2c2zmTt and will cost $15 for DoD ID cardholders, $20 for Non DoD ID cardholders and $10 for children 10 and under. For more information, visit www.hamilton. armymwr.com. Colson Patisserie opening third Brooklyn location Get your sweet tooth ready, Sunset. Colson Patisserie will be opening up in Sunset Park, at 253 36th Street, in September, and will boast the same rich and traditionally Belgian fl avors as its two predecessors in Park Slope and Industry City. While offering extensive sandwich/ soup, quiche and salad menus, the eatery is more widely known for its breakfast pastries and dessert selections. For more information, visit www.colsonpastries.com. Café owner responds to theft with forgiving letter Instead of attempting to fi nd the thief who stole thousands of dollars from his store, Abdul Elenani, owner of Cocoa Grinder (8511 Third Avenue), has had an over-seven-foot poster printed and hung on the window of the store reading, in part, “I didn’t report this and I didn’t check the cameras to see who you are. If the money you stole was to better you and your family’s living, then I forgive you. If it was stolen for you to go out there and ruin yourself and health, I still forgive you and ask of you to fi x yourself. “You do not do evil to those who do evil to you,” Elenani wrote on the poster quoting the Prophet Muhammad, “but you deal with them with forgiveness and kindness.” --Anna Spivak Bay Ridge Prep high school plans to be reviewed by local panel A rendering of what the proposed school would look like. BY MEAGHAN MCGOLDRICK [email protected] Community Board 10’s Zoning and Land Use Committee will meet on Tuesday, September 6 to discuss a special permit that would allow Bay Ridge Prep – a co-ed, K-12 college preparatory school in the neighborhood – to go ahead with plans to build a six-story, 49,594-square-foot facility at 429 89th Street. The board’s recommendation (which is advisory only) will be submitted to the city’s Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA), which will ultimately decide whether the school can get the zoning relief it is asking for. Specifi cally, Bay Ridge Prep needs a waiver of existing zoning to build a school in a heavily commercial/ manufacturing zoning district (C8-2, currently occupied by many car dealerships and related facilities) where housing is not permitted. Generally, schools can be built anywhere housing is allowed. In addition, Bay Ridge Prep’s plans call for a building that is considerably denser than what would be allowed as of right, to accommodate its needs, which Photo courtesy of Erbach Communications Group/Edward I. Mills & Associates exceed what would be permitted by the as-of-right fl oor area ratio (FAR) of 2.0, a measurement that refl ects the ratio between the total fl oor area of the building and the square footage of the lot on which it is built. The school, established in 1998 by co-founders Dr. Charles Fasano and Dr. Michael Dealy, began with a student body of just 35. Today, the school boasts an impressive 400 students, but, according to Fasano, both its home-base at 8101 Ridge Boulevard and its second-coming at 7420 Fourth Avenue were quick to outgrow themselves. “We currently have fi ve different facilities that are servicing our high school,” he told this paper in April. “We’ve outgrown the building that we’re in, and we’ve tried to compensate for that by taking on other spaces but, in the meantime, we’ve been looking for a home that we can consolidate into. “We had an opportunity with some land that became available in Bay Ridge, and we’ve done a feasibility study for the last year and a half,” Fasano went on, “and it looks like this is something that is doable for us.” Pending approval from the community board (and ultimately, the city), the space – which will house over two dozen classrooms, a 200-seat theater, a full-size gymnasium, science labs, a fi tness room, two squash courts and dedicated space for music, dance and the visual arts, and more – will become the sole building for Bay Ridge Prep’s upper grades. The lower grades, Fasano said, will continue to learn out of Bay Ridge Prep’s Ridge Boulevard building, though all other leases and rental agreements will be terminated with those funds currently going towards rent pouring back into the new project. Initial plans for the facility – which will also include a rooftop terrace featuring a garden and additional green space – were fi led with the New York City Department of Buildings in March of this year, with a goal of opening the new building by September, 2018. The Zoning Committee meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in the board’s district offi ce, located at 8119 Fifth Avenue. The full board will vote on the application at its September 19 general meeting, to be held at Shore Hill, 9000 Shore Road, at 7:15 p.m.
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