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MARCH 17, 2019, BROOKLYN WEEKLY
Building big on the banks
Massive distribution center set to rise near mouth of Gowanus Canal
Back and neck pain make
the simplest tasks nearly impossible.
You may be unable to
walk, bend, work, or drive
as turning your head to
see the car behind you —
a function we barely even
think about under normal
conditions — is not possible.
This kind of debilitating
pain impacts the quality
of life.
It may be that you’ve
tried to get help. You may
have already seen doctors
for traditional medical and
chiropractic care, without
results. Perhaps it appears
the only possibility is surgery.
But this is not your only
option.
Dr. James DiGiuseppi DC
of the Spine and Disc Center
of Brooklyn has been treating
patients with these conditions
for more than 35 years,
reinstating their quality of
AVOID BACK AND NECK SURGERY
life through nonsurgical
treatment. No spinal injections
or drugs are involved.
Instead, he utilizes decompression
therapy, a leading
non-surgical, alternative
treatment for serious neck
and low back pain.
“This gentle treatment
method has been shown to
greatly reduce or eliminate
back and neck pain,” says
Dr. DiGiuseppi. “It has helped
people who are at the end of
their rope.”
Decompression therapy
effectively treats disabling
low back, neck, and radiating
leg and arm pain by
reducing the pressure on
spinal nerves, discs and
joints.
“It renders quick, effective,
and amazing pain
relief that enables most patients
to return to a more
active lifestyle,” says the
doctor. “There is a 98% success
rate — and those are
pretty good odds.”
Research to develop this
procedure was conducted
by prominent physicians,
engineers, and technicians
at major teaching hospitals,
says Dr. DiGiuseppi,
who is trained in these
methods. The certification
course was designed
by the leading expert in
spinal decompression, Dr.
Jay Kennedy, D.C., who
taught doctors worldwide
and treated thousands of
patients using a variety of
decompression systems.
To gain certification involves
more than 40 hours
of instruction, including
hands-on training sessions,
followed by certification
examinations.
“We are pleased that we
can serve our patients and
others in the community
with advanced spinal decompression
therapy,” says
Dr. DiGiuseppi.
Decompression therapy
begins with a series of sessions
that typically run
three or four times per
week. It’s all done while the
patient is fully clothed, either
face down, or face up,
on the table. During each
of these sessions, electrical
muscle stimulation, ultrasound,
or therapeutic laser
may be applied to help
relax muscles and promote
further healing of injured
tissues, says the doctor. In
addition, patients may be
asked to complete specific
exercises designed to help
strengthen muscles.
People with spinal
stenosis, bulging, herniated,
and degenerative
discs, pinched nerves, and
sciatica have found relief
through this method.
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BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
Developers will erect what they
claim will be the country’s largest
distribution center on an 18-acre
site near the mouth of the Gowanus
Canal, after purchasing the massive
swath of land earlier this year.
The four-story facility will occupy
more than 22 football fi elds’
worth of Third Avenue land between
19th and 21st streets, which
real-estate fi rms Bridge Development
Partners and DH Property
Holdings purchased for $255 million
in early January, according to
Bridge Development Partners executive
Jeff Milanaik.
The center will feature a socalled
“intricate ramping system”
to transport goods to awaiting tractor
trailers, which will shuttle its
yet-to-be-determined inventory on
same-day deliveries to fi nal destinations
in Manhattan, Brooklyn,
and Queens, according to the developers.
The builders have yet to court
any prospective tenants for the facility,
said Milanaik, and they currently
do not know how many trucks will
be driving to and from it each day.
But any increase in big rigs on local
streets is likely to rile nearby Sunset
Parkers, who last year demanded the
city conduct a truck-impact study as
offi cials moved forward with their
plans to revitalize the commercial
shipping hub at the neighborhood’s
South Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
Work at the massive site will begin
in about two years, and start
with the demolition of the current
FedEx Ship Center at 20th Street
and Third Avenue and more than
30 other nearby buildings, none of
which are residential, according to
Milanaik.
The builders will construct the
distribution center under the area’s
current zoning law, he said, so their
scheme will not require city approval
via the public Uniform Land Use Review
Procedure .
The developers claim the forthcoming
facility will create new
jobs on-site and in the surrounding
neighborhoods, but Milanaik
said it is too early to determine
the exact amount or types of jobs
that may open up, adding that the
builders will keep locals in the loop
about the project’s progress and
employment opportunities.
“As we get closer to the start of
the demolition and redevelopment
phases, the development company
will coordinate with the local community
to keep them informed as
the project starts and progresses,”
he said.
The top staffer of local Community
Board 7, District Manager
Jeremy Laufer, said the panel does
not have any information about
the distribution center beyond
the details the developers publicly
shared when they closed the deal
to buy the land.
And one of the facility’s builders
is not new to the area. DH Property
Holdings honchos in 2017 purchased
a four-acre plot in nearby Red Hook
from real-estate fi rm 601 West Companies
— the same company that
sold them the Third Avenue land
this year — where they plan to build
a space the size of six football fi elds
for e-commerce tenants, according
to a Real Deal report .
COMING SOON: Developers plan to erect what they say will be the country’s largest
distribution center at an 18-acre site on Third Avenue between 19th and 21st
streets. Bridge Development Partners and DH Property Holdings
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