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THEY WHIP THEIR HAIR BACK AND FORTH: A troupe of artists from the Urban Bush Women will examine beauty, race,
and identity through the lens of hair at “Hair and Other Stories,” opening at Bric Arts Media on Jan. 31. Hayim Heron
City ferry service
coming to Coney
Missed the boat Puppet play set in cemetery
BY JULIANNE CUBA
She’s taking her secrets to
the graves.
A spooky puppet show
in Williamsburg will explore
the shadowy afterhours
world of Green-
Wood Cemetery. “Secrets
of Green-Wood,” debuting
at the Brick Theater on
Show examines
race through hair
Hair! Flow it, show it — long as
God can grow it!
A troupe of artists will comb
through the hairy subjects of
beauty, race, and identity, as expressed
hair don’ts.
The interactive dance and
theater performance “Hair and
Other Stories,” opening at Bric
House in Fort Greene on Jan. 31,
will examine beauty norms and
their connection to racism, classism,
according to the show’s choreographer.
“We’re looking at the standards
standard of beauty, what is considered
systems and institutions that are
upholding this oppression.”
Spies, and other members of
the Urban Bush Women, were inspired
production by the group that focused
Jan. 30, follows a woman
who journeys through the
gravestones in hopes of laying
her troubles to rest, but
the deeper she travels into
the necropolis, the bigger
her problems become, according
to the show’s creator.
“The main character is
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
through hairdos and
and other social scourges,
of beauty, who defi nes the
good hair, what is considered
bad hair, and why,” said Samantha
Spies. “We’re looking at
by “Hair Stories,” a 2001
on black women’s hair. The
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kind of grappling with personal
demons, she goes to
the graveyard to put in a
secret,” said Sarah Krasnow,
who lives in Ditmas
Park. “It’s kind of cathartic,
but she ends up getting
lost and stuck in the graveyard
and things kind of
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
Call it ferry good news for Coney
commuters!
Coney Island will receive a
long sought after stop on the city’s
ferry service as part of a new
South Brooklyn express route to
Manhattan, Mayor DeBlasio announced
on Jan. 10.
“We’ll connect Coney Island
to lower Manhattan,” Hizzoner
said during his state of the city
address delivered on the distant
isle.
The city tentatively plans to
build the dock near the mouth
of Coney Island Creek at W. 33rd
Street and Bayview Ave., according
to Economic Development
Corporation spokeswoman
Stephanie Baez, who said ferries
originating in Coney will stop in
Bay Ridge, before sailing to Wall
Street’s Pier 11 — a trip she estimated
will take a little less than
40 minutes dock-to-dock.
NYC Ferry service to and from
the People’s Playground should
begin by 2021, and when it does,
the system’s current South Brooklyn
route — which sails from Bay
Ridge to Sunset Park, Red Hook,
Brooklyn Heights, and Dumbo
before heading to Manhattan,
with weekend stops at Governors
Canarsie won’t get commuter dock
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The city threw their hopes
overboard.
Canarsie residents’ spirits
sunk following Mayor
DeBlasio’s Jan. 10 announcement
that the city
will create a ferry stop in
Coney Island — but not at
their beloved pier.
“It’s terrible, basically
Canarsie is being neglected
again,” said Marc Want,
the head of civic group the
Canarsie Improvement As-
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GETTING AHEAD: “Secrets
of Green-Wood” creator Sarah
Krasnow and artists cut
fi gures out of cardstock.
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