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Cop busted with fake doctor’s note
The home on Eighth Street was gutted and refinished with the latest “on trend” styles and colors.
Gowanus townhouse asks $3.195M
MARATHON...
make anybody faster.”
A whopping 26,803 runners
completed the 13.1-mile
race, setting off from Brooklyn’s
Backyard in the early
hours, before shooting down
Ocean Parkway, and ending
to the roar of cheering
crowds on the Coney Island
Boardwalk in a route that one
Manhattan runner described
as hard to beat in more ways
than one.
“It’s one of my favorites,”
said runner Alex Rush, who
clocked a personal-best time
of one hour, 49 minutes during
Saturday’s race. “The course
is so cool, going through Prospect
Park, getting to run all
the way down Ocean Parkway,
and you can’t beat ending
at Coney Island. It’s so
much fun.”
The race organizers with
the New York Road Runners
distributed an estimated
520,000 recyclable cups of water
and Gatorade for the race,
which was a year in the making,
according to a spokesperson
for New York Road
Runners.
Out-of-towner Louis Serafini,
who traveled from
Somerville, Mass., to compete
in the Brooklyn Half,
annihilated the race record
by a breezy four seconds,
finishing in an impressive
one hour, three minutes,
and beating out Ethiopian
runners Birhanu Dare Kemal
and Urgesa Kedir Figa
for the gold.
West Side Runners Club
member Fein Gudeto Gemeda
won the women’s race with
a time of one hour, twelve
minutes, beating US Olympic
Trials qualifier Roberta
Groner and Harriott Kelly.
Saturday’s joggers were
joined by former New York
Giants running back Tiki Barber
and retired Jets offensive
tackle D’Brickashaw Ferguson,
who ran for New York
Road Runner’s Team for Kids
Ambassador.
Barber finished in one
hour, 52 minutes, while Ferguson
crossed the finish line
after running two hours, 15
minutes.
Other famous finishers
included Broadway actress
Christy Altomare,
model Ruby Aldridge, and
award-winning chef Daniel
Humm.
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Photo by Erica Price
A runner powers through the last leg of the
Brooklyn Half Marathon.
Now on
FROM THE PAGES OF BROWNSTONER.COM
Stephen Zacks
Brownstoner
This Italianate brick townhouse
in Gowanus has already
attracted its shared of press
attention, renovated and decorated
by the designer couple
of Merrill Lyons of Lyons
Design Studio and Charles
Brill of Rich Brilliant Willing
lighting. Featured in Dwell
in 2016, 191A Eighth St. was
gutted and refinished with the
latest “on trend” styles and
colors. The result is certainly
impeccably contemporary —
and priced to match — with
preserved details like marble
mantels standing out all the
more for the streamlined quality
of everything else.
The fluted window frames
with concentric circle rosettes,
baseboards and wainscoting
— all painted in shades of
gray to match the mantels —
gives the whole place a unified
aesthetic. It’s enlivened
by pops of color: Kitchen cabinets
and a powder room are
highlighted with mint hued
tones, the staircase and cement
floor tiles in blue, and the
foyer with bright orange.
A deck was added to the
parlor level, accessed via a
doorway from the open plan
kitchen. Stairs lead down to
an equally soigné gravel-filled
garden, which features a grid
of planting beds bordered with
rusted steel and an irrigation
system.
The garden level rental
beneath the owner’s duplex
is likewise updated with a
cleanly designed new kitchen.
There’s new oak flooring,
mini split air conditioning
and a security system with
an outdoor Nest camera.
Pricewise, it can be compared
to its neighbor to the
west, which we wrote about
when it was on the market
and sold last year for $3.485
million.
It has the same 16.67-foot
width and was also designed by
Lyons, but it has an extra floor
not visible from the street.
This one has about 2,000
square feet of living space
and last sold, before the current
renovation, for $1.41 million
in 2014. Now it’s asking
$3.195 million.
Lindsay Barton Barrett,
Christina Abad and Cristina
Criado of Douglas Elliman
are handling the listing.
Think it will get ask?
Douglas Elliman
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Call it a doctored note!
The Boys in Blue busted one of their
own for allegedly using fake doctor’s
notes at MetroTech Center Downtown on
May 20.
The police cuffed the 30-year-old employee
of the Police Department’s communication
section for allegedly trying to
get paid time off with the fake documents
while on duty near Flatbush Avenue Ext. at
6:35 a.m., according to authorities.
The department’s communications section
facilitates communications among responders,
for example via radio, according
to a spokesman of the police.
Cops arrested a 30-year-old employee of the Police Department’s
communications section for allegedly having fake doctor’s notes at
MetroTech Downtown on May 20.
Lessons Learned
While On The Beat
By Eric L. Adams
Teaching the Value of a
Dollar at an Early Age
As a child, I knew lean times –
times when I had to forego things
my classmates had and could
afford. At one time or another
I’ve heard “sorry, but those
sneakers are just too expensive,
and we can’t afford to buy those
right now.” “I made so many
mistakes as a young man because
I never had a background in basic
financial education, and I wasted
so much money.
I believe we need financial
education taught to every young
New Yorker so they can have
an early start on establishing a
bright financial future. Teaching
these ‘soft skills’ is foundational,
like ensuring the gears of a
machine are properly oiled, to
closing the inequality gap and
helping create self-sufficient
families. Recently, I put my
support behind S.2452/A.1357,
legislation that would establish
a financial education curriculum
in grades 9 through 12 across New
York State. At least five states
currently require a personal
finance course to graduate high
school, including Alabama,
Missouri, Tennessee, Utah,
and Virginia; in September,
New Jersey will require all
middle schools to offer financial
education.
Since arriving at Brooklyn
Borough Hall, I’ve committed to
improving the financial literacy
of all Brooklynites, including an
understanding of how money
works, how one earns and
manages it, and how to invest
or donate to help others in need.
Partnering with organizations in
the financial services, grassroots,
and small business communities,
my administration has organized
and supported hundreds of
free educational opportunities
across the borough since 2014,
which have taught nearly
4,500 residents the necessary
skills to make wise everyday
financial decisions. I declare
every April to be Financial
Education Empowerment Month
in Brooklyn, highlighting the
importance for families to make
smart budgeting decisions,
avoid financial scams, and
monitor their expenses. Still,
these efforts are no substitute
for classroom instruction at an
early age, helping young men and
women avoid the pitfalls that can
handicap their opportunities.
It is of the utmost urgency that
our children and grandchildren
learn to navigate the world of
personal finance at an early
Eric L. Adams
age. Implementing a financial
education curriculum has
been demonstrated to improve
students’ credit scores and
increase savings rates. This is
particularly impactful when
we consider the number of
millennials who are concerned
about their finances. A 2016
survey from Bank of America
found that only 16 percent of
Americans between ages 18 to 26
are very optimistic about their
financial future, which for many
includes part of the trillions of
dollars in student debt that
our nation’s borrowers carry.
Perhaps even more alarming,
a 2018 report by Economic
Well-Being of U.S. Households
indicated that a full forty percent
of American households did not
have enough money to cover a
$400 emergency expense. Many
more families are struggling
on top of that when we note
differences in education levels,
race, ethnicity and geography.
As borough president, I realize
that Brooklyn cannot thrive
if its families can’t survive on
their finances. All Brooklyn
families also want their children
to thrive, and be assured their
children will be able to survive
and overcome challenges that
they may face in the future, by
getting a head-start on financial
literacy. That’s why a holistic
21st century education needs to
include financial education.
Eric L. Adams is borough
president of Brooklyn. He served
22 years in the New York City
Police Department (NYPD),
retiring at the rank of captain,
as well as represented District
20 in the New York State Senate
from 2006 until his election as
borough president in 2013.
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