March 24, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
May 1–xx, 2016
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OPEN SESAME Dirty trick
Cops take credit
after hoarder
tows campers Heroine headlines
BE MY BABA TONIGHT: A new adaptation of “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,” opening at the Target Margin Theater
space on April 1, puts the focus on Baba’s female slave, Marjana, who actually saves the day. Kelly Stuart
new ‘Ali Baba’ play
City shoring up It’s saved by LaBelle!
B’Beach streets
BY COLIN MIXSON
This festival will have a
new attitude!
Legendary soul queen
Patti LaBelle will rock the
Prospect Park Bandshell on
June 4 as the opening act for
the Bric Celebrate Brooklyn!
Festival, the borough’s
longest-running, mostly
woman who solves every
problem, and saves the day
again and again. The focus
on her really does come from the
story. She drives the action,” said
David Herskovits, founder of the
Target Margin Theater.
The story follows Ali Baba
as he stumbles upon, and then
steals, an extravagant treasure
assembled by 40 bloodthirsty
bandits. When they come for re-
free summer concert series,
according to the media maven
producing the show.
“We are thrilled to kick
off our summer concert series
at the Prospect Park
Bandshell with R&B icon
Patti LaBelle,” said Bric
President Kristina Newman
Scott. “This year’s
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
She’s being honored among
thieves!
A new play in Sunset Park
will put a feminist lens on a
familiar tale from the Middle
East. “Marjana and the Forty
Thieves,” opening on April
1 at the Doxsee theater, tells
the classic tale of Ali Baba
and the titular bandits, but
puts the focus on Marjana,
the story’s overlooked protagonist,
according to the
play’s director.
“Marjana is the slave
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festival will open with a renewed
sense of energy and
commitment to the artistry
that defi nes Brooklyn.”
The Philadelphia-born
crooner rose to fame following
the release of the 1974
disco hit “ Lady Marmalade
,” which she sang with
BY COLIN MIXSON
He’s cleaning up his act!
A self-proclaimed hoarder
took it upon himself to call a
tow truck to haul away his two,
garbage-fi lled recreational vehicles
that for years hogged street
parking near his Flatlands home
— despite offi cers with the local
police precinct taking credit for
removing the campers.
On March 14, the 63rd Precinct
shared photos on Twitter
and Facebook showing notorious
junk collector John DePietro’s
vehicles being towed from
E. 54th Street as local beat cops
Resner Cadet and James Saintil
looked on.
“Neighborhood Coordination
Offi cers Cadet and Saintil are
hitting the streets towing illegally
parked vehicles,” read the
post on the precinct’s Twitter
account.
But in truth, DePietro himself
arranged to remove the
campers that for years annoyed
neighbors living near his Avenue
L home, according to a Police
Department spokeswoman,
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Bergen Beach drivers
should brace themselves
for years of traffic delays
in the neighborhood, after
the city kicked off a
multi-million-dollar project
to shore up local roads
that will take no less than
four years to complete, according
to a civic guru.
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LADY MARMALADE: Legendary
singer Patti LaBelle
will open the 41st-annual
Bric Celebrate Brooklyn!
Festival on June 4.
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