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Brooklyn Paper
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request for a liquor license that
honchos of fast Tex-Mex chain
Taco Bell want in order to pour
booze inside a new Brooklyn
Heights location, claiming
the burrito bigwigs refused
to negotiate when the locals
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By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Paper
Some vandal defaced a
Downtown memorial honoring
locals who died in World
War II by scrawling the name
of a popular YouTube celebrity
on it, disgusting residents
with their choice of canvas
and inspiration.
“Obviously, it shows very
little respect,” said Carroll
Gardener Remko DeJong.
The baddie wrote the graffiti
— which declares “Subscribe
to PewDiePie” — in
chalk on the exterior of the
Brooklyn War Memorial
inside Cadman Plaza Park,
where city officials this
spring are set to begin longawaited
accessibility repairs
to the shrine , whose interior
features the names of more
than 11,500 Brooklynites who
died in WWII.
And, thanks to the criminal,
those names grew to include
the online handle of the
wildly popular video-game
streamer Felix Arvid Ulf
Kjellberg, whose YouTube
channel boasts an audience of
nearly 88-million subscribers
who tune in to watch clips of
him playing games including
first-person shooter “Doom 3,”
zombie-survival sim “Day Z,”
and rhythm game “PaRappa
the Rapper.”
An image of the tag was
posted to a page devoted to
Brooklyn on the social-media
website Reddit on Monday
morning, and the graffiti
remained emblazoned on the
memorial a day later when this
newspaper stopped by around
2 pm on Tuesday.
The command written in
chalk may be a reference to
the so-called “Subscribe to
PewDiePie Movement,” also
known as the “The Great Sub-
A vandal defaced the Brooklyn War Memorial with the online handle of a You-
Tube celebrity popular for streaming video games.
Photo by Colin Mixson
scriber War,” in which the
streamer’s fans promote his
handle in an effort to ensure
his channel remains YouTube’s
most-subscribed-to outlet.
That campaign began last
year, after software called Social
Blade predicted another
video-game-streaming channel,
T-Series, could surpass
Kjellberg as the platform’s
most followed content creator,
according to the website
knowyourmeme.com ,
which researches and documents
viral Internet memes
and phenomena.
And the YouTube star’s
name appearing on the WWII
memorial seems in especially
poor taste considering videos
he posted, and later removed,
after critics condemned them
as anti-Semitic. In 2017, Kjellberg
posted a video featuring
a man dressed as Jesus Christ
saying, “Hitler did absolutely
nothing wrong,” and another
for which the streamer allegedly
hired two men to hold
a sign that read, “Death to
All Jews,” leading bigwigs
at kid-friendly studio Disney
to reportedly kill a distribution
deal with the online celebrity.
“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 many argue he must cater
to more moderate voters
to claim the Democratic Party’s
nomination after failing
to do so in 2016.
“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 offices
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.
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expressed concern about the
outposts’ late hours and alcoholic
offerings.
Members of Community
Board 2’s Executive Committee
on Feb. 25 panned the taco
titans’ application to serve
adult beverages at the location
they plan to open at the
bottom of a Court Street building
between Joralemon and
Livingston streets, because
Taco Bell reps refused to reconsider
its operating hours
at a previous meeting of the
board’s Health, Environment,
and Social Services Committee,
according to the panel’s
district manager.
“They wanted to stay open
to 2 am or so, and the committee
wasn’t comfortable with
that, and when they were trying
to negotiate with the reps
at the committee meeting, the
representatives said they’re not
authorized to negotiate,” said
Robert Perris.
The fact that the reps flat
out refused to negotiate with
the board suggests that the chalupa
chiefs never intended
to sincerely engage with the
community, Perris said.
“How do you go to a review
session without having
negotiation powers,” he said.
“Potentially, it’s an act of arrogance
to say we’re not able
to negotiate, and we are not
going to negotiate.”
Executive Committee
members also took issue
with the request to serve liquor,
which many folks who
live in the building objected to,
according to local Tom Predhome,
who attended the meeting
on behalf of the more than
30 opposed residents.
The building is already
home to O’Keefe’s Bar and
Grill, which also serves food
and booze until 2 am. But that
opened decades ago, and the
board has not received any
complaints, said Perris.
Reps for Taco Bell did not
respond to requests for comment
by press time.
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