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CULTURE CLUB Repairs to
CAVE MUSIC: Taylor Ashton performs in the vaults of the Crown Finish Caves in Crown Heights. Photo by Caroline Ourso Continued on page 6
BY BILL ROUNDY
She plans to keep it rolling!
The founder of a brightly
colored disco roller rink
that opened in Sunset
Park’s Industry City last
December hopes to make it
a rink for all seasons. Over
the last four months, the
Dreamland Roller Rink has
attracted sell-out crowds
Like music to
my cheese
so popular among Kings County
music fans that its operators
have chosen to ditch their fi rstcome,
in favor of a lottery system. They
hope the new system will even
the playing fi eld between quickclicking
casual attendees.
out less than a minute after tickets
owner Benton Brown. “People
were furious.”
built by 19th century beer-maker
Nassau Brewery to hold barrels
of lager as it aged. Brown and his
wife Susan Boyle use one of the
three sprawling, 1850s-era vaults
beneath their Bergen Street
property as a cheese-aging facil-
for its dance nights and allage
The Crown Heights underground
A monthly concert series located
“The last three concerts sold
The tunnel was originally
parties, said its owner.
“It has been going
incredibly well,” said
skate queen Lola Star.
“It’s exceeded all my
expectations.”
The winter skating rink
was originally scheduled
to vacate its space on April
21, but Star says that she is
BY COLIN MIXSON
music scene is tight!
inside a century-old subterranean
tunnel has become
fi rst-served ticket policy
cyber-jockeys and more
went on sale,” said property
negotiating to extend her
time in Industry City. The
skating advocate, who has
run roller disco events in
Prospect Park each summer
since 2014, said that
the events in Industry City
have attracted a whole
new crowd.
“We’re getting a lot of
BY COLIN MIXSON
Contractors failed to meet their
November deadline for a $2.4-million
project to repair sidewalks
and install other beautifying elements
along Flatbush Avenue bordering
Prospect Park, according
to a Parks Department spokeswoman,
who said the agency
chose not to fi re the company behind
the job, which could lead to
additional delays.
The so-called Flatbush Avenue
Perimeter project is one of several
capital initiatives meant to improve
the borders of Brooklyn’s
Backyard, and was originally
set to be completed well before a
roughly $3 million scheme to construct
two additional Flatbush
Avenue entrances to the park between
Grand Army Plaza and
the Prospect Park Zoo kicked off
this summer, according to spokeswoman
Maeri Ferguson.
But contractor Akal Builders
ran into trouble early on in the
project, and work stalled in the
spring when workers unexpectedly
stumbled upon problematic
underground infrastructure, and
then again in the fall due to heavy
rains, Ferguson said.
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
The city must give a raise
to New York’s Finest, according
to a Sheepshead
Bay councilman, who
claimed local cops struggle
to make ends meet
with the wages they earn
protecting and serving the
Big Apple.
“Mayor DeBlasio
should pay them a salary
that means police of-
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DANCE REVOLUTIONS: The
Dreamland Roller Rink has a
new crowd.
Lola Star
Continued on page 10 Continued on page 6
sidewalk
delayed
Pol: City must S’Park roller rink stayin’ alive
give cops raises
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