Feb. 17, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
May 1–xx, 2016
LOCAL
CLASSIFIEDS
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DANCE
WITH
DEATH
Play steps into dark woods
This show has deep roots.
A mother and daughter will
act out their sometimes strained,
cross-cultural relationship,
while portraying characters in
a new bilingual nightmare play,
“Suicide Forest,” debuting at the
Bushwick Starr on Feb. 27, according
playwright.
“The play kind of takes a sharp
FAMILY MATTERS: A mother and daughter will act out their cross-cultural
relationship while portraying characters in a new bilingual nightmare play,
“Suicide Forest,” debuting at the Bushwick Starr on Feb. 27. Sasha Arutyunova
Gowanus rezoning
meeting sows chaos
Locals: Third rehab Eatery wins dining honor
center bad for Coney
BY ALEXANDRA SIMON
And the award goes to…
BY JULIANNE CUBA
to its Japanese-American
A Bedford-Stuyvesant
Caribbean eatery was recognized
as one of the country’s
best community restaurants
this month. The
A&A Bake and Double and
Roti Shop, run by Noel and
Greeta Brown, was announced
turn where it really becomes this
revelation of a mother-daughter
Haruna Lee, who lives in Sunset
Park. “I use the space of the play
to talk about a mother-daughter
relationship that’s had a lot of
obstacles and language barriers,
means for us to be carrying this
intergenerational pain.”
as a recipient of
the James Beard Foundation’s
American Classics
award on Feb. 1. The
honor recognizes spots
with “timeless appeal,”
that refl ect the character
of their community. Of this
year’s fi ve recipients, the
Roti Shop is the only New
relationship,” said Kristine
culture barriers, and what it
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York area restaurant, and
the only one serving Caribbean
cuisine.
The thrilled restaurateurs
said there was a simple
reason they were selected
for the prestigious
award.
“Our food is excellent
Loud, but
not clear
BY JULIANNE CUBA
A long-awaited public meeting
about the city’s proposal to rezone
a massive chunk of Gowanus devolved
into a shouting match, after
its hundreds of attendees arrived
to fi nd that offi cials would
not present their plan, but instead
expected locals to passively
learn the future of their neighborhood
by staring at posters on the
walls.
The lack of a city-led presentation
about the scheme — which
Gowanusaurs and pols spent the
better part of two years crafting
— was a slap in the face to locals
hoping to hear more from offi -
cials after they hosted a similar
session following the release of
the plan last year.
“We want a real meeting today,
we don’t want to just put signs on
a poster, we want questions and
answers,” said Karen Blondel,
a member of community group
the Gowanus Neighborhood Coalition
for Justice, who lives in a
nearby Red Hook public-housing
complex. “We’re demanding that
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
City and state leaders must
revoke their approvals for a
new outpatient substanceabuse
recovery center in
Coney Island, and instead
help area addicts by shuttering
booze vendors in the
neighborhood, according to
a local who panned the center
at a recent community
board meeting.
“I’m not really for it,”
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JUST LIKE HOME: Geet and
Noel Brown at A&A Bake and
Double.
Photo by Caroline Ourso
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