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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
It’s a needed flow of
funds.
Three politicians have secured
more than $8 million
in federal cash for repairs to
the Sandy-damaged Red Hook
Recreation Center.
Senator and presidential
candidate Kirsten Gillibrand
(D–New York), along
with her colleague Sen. Chuck
Schumer (D–New York), and
Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez
(D–Red Hook) got
the funding for the city-owned
center through the U.S. Department
of Homeland Security’s
Federal Emergency
Management Agency, which
will protect the damaged below
level part of the structure
from future flooding, one of
the pols said Tuesday.
“This federal funding to the
Red Hook Recreation Center
is a critical investment that
will help flood-proof its basement
facilities to protect the
center from future severe
weather,” Gillibrand said in
a joint press release with her
fellow politicos.
Superstorm Sandy ripped
through the neighborhood in
2012, leveling a swath of local
businesses and homes,
including the Bay Street rec
center — which this paper reported
was out of commission
for two months after the storm
flooded it with harbor water
— and blanketing the rest of
the waterfront nabe in darkness
for weeks.
The center is back in operation
but the Parks Department
still needs to fix its basement
and filter house, a spokeswoman
said.
“While the building is
currently operational, renovations
to the basement and
filter house are needed,” said
Maeri Ferguson in an emailed
statement to this paper.
The federal funds package
Three politicians have secured more than $8 million in federal cash for repairs
to the Sandy-damaged Red Hook Recreation Center.
is a step toward mending the
storm damages but the department
will issue a request for
a proposal to address the full
repairs and their cost, according
to Ferguson.
“This FEMA funding is a
significant step toward needed
improvements to the Red Hook
Recreation Center and pool,
which were badly damaged
by Hurricane Sandy,” she said.
“Parks is currently working to
create an RFP to address a more
comprehensive scope of needs
and final cost estimate.”
Flood-proofing the center
is important to secure the center
for future extreme weather
events that are likely to become
more frequent due to
climate change, according to
Velázquez.
“Sadly, if climate change
continues, we may well see additional
superstorms in coming
years, making it all the
more important that we invest
in storm resiliency. Flood
proofing the Red Hook Recreation
Center is one such step
that can protect this public resource
from future extreme
weather and I’m proud to see
federal funds invested for this
purpose,” she said.
By Colin Mixson
Brooklyn Paper
City health officials identified
two unvaccinated Sunset
Park kids as the first New York
City public school students to
fall ill with the deadly measles
virus on Tuesday.
The students, along with
another infected Sunset Park
resident, all reported spending
time in areas where the measles
virus has been active.
Fortunately, the children,
who were enrolled in school
under a religious exemption
that allows kids to attend class
without a vaccination, were
not in school while infectious,
according to one of the city’s
top health officials, who noted
that high vaccination rates in
city schools should ensure the
safety of students.
“We are confident there
is no increased risk of exposure
at New York City public
schools both because the
recently diagnosed children
from Sunset Park were not in
school while infectious and
because of the high vaccination
rates of students in these
and all NYC public schools,”
said Deputy Commissioner
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis
Since Brooklyn’s first measles
case was discovered in a
member of the borough’s Orthodox
Jewish community traveling
from Israel in October,
Health officials have identified
466 cases of the highly contagious
pathogen, which has
left 34 people hospitalized, including
nine patients who re-
Two Sunset Park public school students have contracted the measles virus, according to city health
officials.
quired intensive care.
To combat the outbreak,
Health Commissioner Oxiris
Barbot issued an emergency
order mandating all residents
of four Williamsburg
zip codes — 11205, 11206,
11211, and 11249 — where
the vast majority of measles
cases have been discovered,
vaccinate themselves and
their children, or else face
stiff fines.
So far, the Health Department’s
so-called “disease detectives”
have issued summonses
to 84 people for failing
to comply with the health order,
requiring them to attend
an administrative hearing and
pay a $1,000 fine if the violation
is upheld. Failing to attend
the hearing results in an automatic
$2,000 penalty.
A group of five Williamsburg
parents filed a lawsuit
against the city in Kings
County Supreme Court last
month for the right to not vaccinate
themselves and their
children, but Judge Lawrence
Knipel swiftly dismissed the
case on April 18.
This as the largest outbreak
of the measles that
New York City has experienced
since 1991, according
to Barbot, who reiterated the
efficacy and safety of the measles
mumps-rubella vaccine,
which has been in use within
the United States since 1963,
before which roughly 3-4 million
Americans fell ill with
measles annually.
Measles is a highly contagious
airborne pathogen
that produces symptoms including
fever, cough, and a
runny nose, and can cause diarrhea,
ear infection, pneumonia,
encephalitis, and death
— with about one of every
1,367 kids infected dying due
to fatal complications from
measles.
Symptoms can appear anytime
from seven to 21 days following
exposure, according to
the Health Department.
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