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By Natallie Rocha
Brooklyn Paper
Across the Brooklyn Bridge
they went.
Thousands of Catholics
walked across the Brooklyn
Bridge for the 24th Annual
Way of the Cross procession
on April 19.
The yearly event took place
on “Good Friday,” a holy day
of significance in the Catholic
faith which marks the day
Jesus of Nazareth carried a
cross to his death.
The walk, sponsored by
the Movement of Communion
and Liberation, a Catholic
movement that originated
in Italy, lasted from 10 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. The walk of believers
emulates Christ’s walk to
Calvary and is marked by reflective
prayer and songs at
five New York landmarks, according
to a member of the
movement.
“We try to remember the
suffering of people everyday
and bring it to everyone,” said
Joan Russo, a Catholic and
Staten Island resident. “What
this walk means to us is to be
a witness.”
The procession takes people
from St. James Cathedral-
Basilica in Downtown to
four other local sights that
the group aligns with Jesus’
walk to Calvary and ends in
downtown Manhattan at St.
Peter Roman Catholic Church
— the first Catholic church
in New York City.
Joshua Layugan, a young
member of the Movement of
Communion and Liberation,
carried the wooden cross as an
acknowledgement of Christ’s
suffering.
The original walk started
with a handful of people walk-
Joshua Layugan, a New York member of the Communion
and Liberation movement, carries the
wooden cross alongside thousands of Christians at
the 24th annual Way of the Cross over the Brooklyn
Bridge procession on Good Friday.
ing the bridge because the pillars
of the bridge reminded
them of the architecture you’d
find at a grand cathedral, according
to Russo. As a participant
and representative of the
Human Adventure Corporation
— a do-good group that
supports the Way of the Cross
— Russo said the number of
people who joined the walk
across the bridge shot up after
the tragedy of the Sept.
11 attack.
With the majority of the
walkers being Catholic, they
acknowledged the tragic burning
of the Notre Dame Cathedral
in France at the start of
holy week, one Catholic participant
from Dyker Heights
said.
“I believe that there is hope
for the future in the church
and in the face of tragedy,”
Carlos Cruz said. “There is
hope for tomorrow.”
While some out-of-towners
snapped photos and went
along for the walk, Cruz and
his wife Maria opted to silently
pray the rosary.
Russo said that the flood
of people walking the bridge
shows everyone in the city an
optimistic sign of unity for
people within the church and
beyond.
By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Paper
A seaman fleeing the
wreckage of Sheepshead Bay’s
outlawed party-boat business
faces community opposition
to his plan to call Sunset Park’s
Pier 4 his next port of call, after
neighborhood civic gurus
slammed the dock’s existing
party boat business as a nuisance
at a Community Board
7 meeting April 17.
“Now that it’s become a
party boat pier, it’s filthy and
it’s disgusting,” said board
member Joan Botti. “I understand
that they discovered two
dead bodies floating in the water
at the pier, so it seems to be
going downhill very fast.”
Tour boat operator Pete
Guoba, captain of the Sheryll
Princess, first came to the
board’s Public Safety Committee
on Monday seeking
the group’s endorsement for
transferring his existing liquor
license from his dock on Sheepshead
Bay’s Emmons Avenue
to Pier 4, after the city’s Economic
Development Corporation
offered him a berth there
in the wake of Mayor Bill de
Blasio’s call to forbid party
boat captains from boarding
passengers in the Southern
Brooklyn neighborhood.
De Blasio’s edict — which
allows party boats to dock, but
not board passengers in Sheepshead
Bay — followed area Assemblyman
Steve Cymbrowitz’s
efforts against the industry
earlier this year on behalf of
community members, who
complained that patrons had
become a public nuisance, citing
routine tailgating ahead of
cruises, and rowdiness upon
their disembarkation.
But members of Community
Board 7 argued that Sunset
Park’s party boat scene is
equally debauched, and the local
civic gurus had only to point
to the wild shooting and police
chase that devolved from a dispute
aboard a party boat last
year as evidence of the business’s
deleterious effect upon
the neighborhood.
And, true to Botti’s words,
two bodies did wash up beside
Pier 4 in March, although the
police department has not released
any information connecting
those grisly finds to the
area’s party boat scene.
A representative for Gouba
argued at the committee meeting
that he runs a tight ship,
which shouldn’t be lumped in
with his booze-slinging colleagues,
claiming his four-hour
tours to and from the Statue of
Liberty are monitored by a topnotch
security outfit headed
by a veteran of the US Coast
Guard and that he always ensures
his berths are cleaned
up at the end of a trip.
“This is a model, exemplary
licensee who’s done everything
by the book for 20 years,” said
Rosa Ruiz, a business consultant
representing Gouba in his
application.
In the end, the board voted
overwhelmingly against Guoba’s
application.
The board’s vote is advisory,
and it’s up to the State Liquor
Authority to give Guoba
his transfer.
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