8 BAY RIDGE
BROOKLYN WEEKLY, JAN. 13, 2019
SKIN & CANCER
DERMATOLOGY, P.C.
DAVID BIRO, M.D., PH.D.
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Dear Dr. Biro,
What can I do
to keep my skin
looking good
in the winter
months?
It’s important to moisturize
day and night to hydrate skin
in the winter.
In addition one can exfoliate
dry, fl aky skin to promote a
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To this end a series of glycolic
or salicylic acid chemical
peels or microdermabrasion
can be used. There is little or
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during the winter months, as
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Be sure to get your skin
checked yearly, and for severe
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to evaluate and
treat properly.
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THE ALTERNATIVE: Pooch owners now use this small patch of fenced-in dirt near Greenwood Playground
as an unoffi cial dog run. Photo by Colin Mixson
DOG RUN
BREWERY
Brewery, which is slated to
open in June, will include
its current Surf Avenue
spot — which can fi t up to
45 ale-admirers inside, and
200 more in the outdoor
beer garden — along with
the now-empty space next
door, which was formerly
the home of Steeplechase
Beer Garden until it closed
last September.
That storefront will allow
the brewers to pack
240 more people inside,
and another 150 outside,
according to Telesca, who
said they plan to expand
their current beer garden
to include a swath of
Surf Avenue sidewalk that
stretches all the way from
W. 17th Street to MCU
Park.
“It’ll be pretty similar
to the beer garden we had
before, with much more
seating, much more space,
room for beer garden
games and things like that,
and we’ll have outdoor taps
as well,” she said.
Patrons will have to wait
to grab a celebratory pint at
the brewery, however, because
its chief beer makers
temporarily shuttered the
spot for about a month on
Monday in order to accommodate
construction on a
nearby sidewalk as part
of the city’s controversial
plan to raise Surf Avenue
between W. 16th and W. 21st
in three phases, which began
last September.
But the brief closure is
a small price to pay for the
promise of a bigger brewery,
according to Telesca,
who said the staff hopes
to reopen the spot on Feb.
8, and to break ground on
the expansion that same
month.
“It’s a tough situation
right now, but it’s all going
to be worth it in the summer,”
she said.
2020, disappointing those
locals who hoped their
four-legged friends could
start sniffi ng butts and
chasing balls at the new
park sometime this year ,
one of the project’s chief advocates
said.
“It’s a bummer,” said Sal
Garro, a leader of the Kensington
Dog Run Association
and the owner of terrier–
grey hound mix Pocky.
Locals banded together
to form the Association
back in 2015, following their
years of trying to bring a
dog run to the area, which
included a 2009 scheme
leaders of Windsor Terrace’s
Sean Casey Animal
Rescue hatched to build a
facility at Greenwood Playground
that ultimately fi zzled
out.
That failed plan hasn’t
stopped many pooch owners
from using a dusty,
fenced-in space at the triangular
playground near
Fort Hamilton Parkway
as an unoffi cial dog run,
however, where they’ve
let mutts run off-leash for
years while waiting for an
offi cial alternative.
But Parks Department
leaders refuse to permit
public use of that site due to
conditions including poor
drainage and exposed tree
roots.
And cops will stop by every
so often to issue fi nes to
folks who let Fido run freely
there, according to Garro,
who said those violations
are a big reason why his
group wants the city to get
a move on with the offi cial
Parade Ground run, which
the local dog owners designed
along with leaders
of meadow conservancy the
Prospect Park Alliance.
“Over the years, there’s
been the occasional complaints
and police come
and ticket people who come
with their dogs off leash,”
he said.
Plans for the dog run
in Brooklyn’s Backyard,
which Borough President
Adams, Park Slope Councilman
Brad Lander, and
Ditmas Park Councilman
Mathieu Eugene all set
aside taxpayer funds to create,
include making dedicated
areas for large and
small pups, and laying synthetic
grass tailor-made
to be soft on paws, which
should result in an excellent
space for community
canines to roam — however
long it takes to build,
Garro said.
“I’m so excited for it,” he
said. “This neighborhood
has been yearning for a dog
run for a long time.”
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