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SWEET AND STOUT Ridge pol taps
SWEET!: Other Half Brewing owners Andrew Burman and Matt Monahan showed off one of their new dessert-inspired
beers. Photo by Trey Pentecost
Park Slopers mourn Coney venue under repairs
local store’s closure
BY BILL ROUNDY
Call it an intermission.
The beloved arts group
and performance venue
Coney Island USA is currently
shut down for renovations,
but will return at
the end of this month, according
to the head of the
organization. The property’s
Brewery hosting
dessert-beer fest
What could possibly go wrong?
A popular Carroll Gardens
brew house will host a festival
that pairs professional wrestling
with highly potent pours of beer!
The Pastrytown fest at Industry
City on March 16 will feature pastry
fl avored with unlikely “adjunct”
ingredients, at an event that
promises to be simply magical,
according to an organizer.
“Basically it’s an adjunct fantasy
land,” said Matt Monahan,
co-owner of Other Half Brewery.
The bonanza of unusual brews
will showcase 35 top-notch brewers
pouring beers fl avored with adjuncts
the main ingredients of hops,
yeast, malt, and water — including
pretzels, sea salt, coconut, macadamia
lots of other zany additions that
sound more at home in a dessert
dish than a stout beer.
Coney Island Museum,
the Freak Bar, and the
Sideshows by the Seashore
theater all closed on Feb. 25
to allow necessary repairs
to the ceiling of the antique
structure.
“We’re in a 102-year-old
landmarked building, and
landmarked buildings are
BY COLIN MIXSON
stouts and fruited Berliners
from across the country, each
— a term referring to anything
added to beer aside from
bananas, vanilla, almonds,
nuts, cinnamon, and
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not only interesting and
historic — sometimes they
are pieces of s--- that are
falling apart,” said Dick
Zigun, the neighborhood’s
unoffi cial mayor.
After a chunk of ceiling
in the Freak Bar fell down
in early July, the venue in-
locals to make
streets safer
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
He’s taking a walk on the safer
side.
A Southern Brooklyn pol is
turning to his constituents in a
bid to create safer streets within
his district. Democratic state
Sen. Andrew Gounardes tapped
more than a dozen local leaders
to staff his offi ce’s new pedestrian
safety task force, hoping
their experiences navigating the
car-heavy and subway-strapped
22nd state Senate district will
result in practical proposals to
improve conditions on thoroughfares
in neighborhoods he represents,
including Bay Ridge,
Dyker Heights, Gravesend, Bensonhurst,
Bath Beach, Marine
Park, Manhattan Beach, Gerritsen
Beach, and parts of Sheepshead
Bay, Borough Park, and
Midwood.
“We have a lot of car volume,
and we have to change this
speeding culture that we have,”
Gounardes said. “We want to
brainstorm ways of increasing
awareness of the importance of
street safety among all the different
people who share the roadways.”
Gounardes on Feb. 28 held
BY COLIN MIXSON
Park Slope is going off the
Pot.
Slopers are sobbing over
the looming closure of yet
another long-standing local
business, Seventh Avenue
retailer The Clay Pot,
whose owner will shutter
the store on March 10, just
months after it celebrated
its 50th anniversary.
“It’s really sad,” said
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TAKING A BREAK: Dick Zigun
says the building will
re-open on March 31.
File photo by Trey Pentecost
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