BY COLIN MIXSON
Brooklyn’s feeling the Bern —
again!
Thousands of left-leaning
locals packed Brooklyn College’s
East Quad on March 2
to watch borough son, Independent
Vermont Sen. Bernie
Sanders, deliver the fi rst rally
of his recently announced
2020 presidential campaign,
where the pol credited his selfdescribed
democratic-socialist
values to his humble Kings
County roots.
“I was born a few miles
away from here on E. 26th
Street and Kings Highway,
and my family and I lived in
a three-and-a-half-room, rentcontrolled
apartment,” Sanders
told the crowd. “My experience
as a child, living in a
family that struggled economically,
powerfully infl uenced
my life and my values.”
The pol, who attended
Brooklyn College for a year
in 1959 after graduating from
James Madison High School,
made a laundry list of progressive
promises — including
Medicare for all, a national
$15 minimum wage, free enrollment
at public colleges,
outlawing for-profi t prisons,
BERN NOTICE: Daniela Umana
came out to support Bernie Sanders.
Photo by Caroline Ourso
and ending the so-called War
on Drugs — to his adoring supporters,
occasionally pausing
as chants of “Bernie, Bernie,
Bernie” erupted from the audience.
And throughout his speech,
Sanders took every opportunity
to distinguish his and his
campaign’s values from those
of the country’s sitting commander
in-chief, whom he derided
as a racist, sexist, homophobe,
and called “the most
dangerous president in modern
American history.”
“I want to welcome you to
a campaign which says loudly
and clearly that the underlying
principals of our government
will not be greed, hatred,
and lies; it will not be racism,
sexism, xenophobia, homophobia,
and religious bigotry; it
will not be tax breaks for billionaires,
and efforts to throw
millions off of the healthcare
that they currently have,”
Sanders said.
Campaign staffers estimated
the rally drew some
13,000 Berners, and attendees
waited for hours in lines that
stretched down Bedford Avenue
for a chance to hear the
two-time presidential hopeful
speak , according to one Brooklyn
College student.
“The turnout was crazy,”
said Daniela Umana. “I was in
shock.”
But the wait was well
worth it, according to another
Sanders supporter from Prospect
Heights, who praised the
Independent politician for
largely sticking to his longtime
agenda of radical social
and economic reform, even as
INSIDE
Sweet and stout
Dessert beer fest coming to Industry City
By Colin Mixson What could possibly go wrong?
A popular Carroll Gardens
brew house will host a festival
that pairs professional wrestling
with highly potent pours of beer! The
“Pastrytown” fest at Industry City on
March 16 will feature pastry stouts and
fruited Berliners flavored with unlikely
“adjunct” ingredients, at an event that
promises to be simply magical, according
to an organizer.
“Basically it’s an adjunct fantasy
land,” said Matt Monahan, co-owner of
Other Half Brewery.
The bonanza of unusual brews will
showcase 35 top-notch brewers from
across the country, each pouring beers
flavored with adjuncts — a term referring
to anything added to beer aside from
the main ingredients of hops, yeast, malt,
and water — including bananas, vanilla,
almonds, pretzels, sea salt, coconut, macadamia
nuts, cinnamon, and lots of other
zany additions that sound more at home
in a dessert dish than a stout beer.
Other Half plans to pour Cookie
Kooks, an imperial stout brewed in collaboration
with Swedish beer-maker
Omnipollo, which will also be at the
festival with its medley of sugary, breakfast
inspired brews. Cookie Kooks boasts
an intoxicating 15.4-percent alcohol by
volume, which is three times more potent
Sweet!: Other Half Brewing owners
Andrew Burman and Matt Monahan
show off one of their new dessertinspired
beers. Photo by Trey Pentecost
than a Budweiser, but is typical of the
type of beers that ticket holders can
expect at Pastrytown.
That big buzz is the big reason that
Monahan and his crew worked hard to
ensure there will be plenty of food options
— including Ample Hills Creamery,
Bien Cuit, Coolhaus, Four and Twenty
Blackbirds, Milk Bar, and Supermoon
Bakehouse — to help fortify stomachs
against the effects of too much sugarladen
alcohol.
“Because of the high ABV, we want
to make sure people aren’t completely
annihilated,” Monahan said. “There’s a
lot of food and a lot of water available at
this thing.”
And because Other Half just happens
to employ several professional wrestlers,
the warriors of the New York Wrestling
Connection will be on hand to duke it
out in a series of catastrophic, bloodsoaked
free-for-alls for the amusement of
Pastrytown revelers.
“It’s so much fun,” said Monahan. “At
some point there’s 10 or 15 of these guys
in the ring at the same time, they have all
sorts of props out, they’re high flying —
it’s bust.”
Drink dessert and watch pro wrestling
at Industry City 220 36th St. Suite
2A, between Second and Third Avenue in
Sunset Park, pastrytown.otherhalfbrewing.
com. March 16; noon–4 pm. $100.
Your entertainment
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Snow day!
Park Sloper Amelia Desai caught
some serious air while careening
down a hill in Prospect
Park’s Long Meadow on March
4, when the fourth-grader at
Park Slope’s PS 107 and dozens
of other youngsters took
to the powder-covered green
space after Mayor DeBlasio
closed city public schools due
to the snowstorm that began
the night before, and blanketed
the borough in several inches
of white stuff before it ended.
Photo by Paul Martinka
many argue he must cater to
more moderate voters to claim
the Democratic Party’s nomination
after failing to do so in
“I was very glad that we
did not see some new message
coming through,” said Robert
Segal. “He was spot on in
2016, and he’s been saying the
same thing for 37 years. If he
suddenly changed his tack in
an attempt to better navigate
the electoral systems, I would
be really disappointed. But he
didn’t.”
Sanders, who opened offi
ces in Gowanus and Flatbush
during his unsuccessful
campaign for the Democratic
Party line ahead of the last
election, returned to Brooklyn
College almost two years
after delivering the school’s
2017 commencement address ,
when he again criticized the
45th president, and received
an honorary degree from the
university — roughly 58 years
after he transferred from it to
the University of Chicago.
Reps for his campaign
could not be immediately
reached about whether or not
the pol again plans to open offi
ces in Brooklyn.
2016.
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