April 7, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
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Free bird FRESH MAKERS!
PLAY BALL: Former pro football player Derrell Smith (right), with Suleky Roman, returns to Smorgasburg with Amazeballs,
which offers classic meatball subs served with special sauces inspired by his Nana. There is also a convincingly
meaty tofu version for non-carnivores. Kevin Duggan
Sick hawk nursed
back to health
Iconic Sheepshead Cop spins at Taste of Fifth
restaurant closes
BY NATALLIE ROCHA
He’s New York’s fi nest disc
jockey.
A police offi cer with
Park Slope’s 78th Precinct
will spin some tasty tunes
at the neighborhood’s biggest
annual food festival.
Visitors to “A Taste of
Fifth,” at Grand Prospect
Food fest back
with two dozen
new vendors
Time to get your grub on!
market will emerge from its winter
popsicles, pizza cupcakes, and
Afghan comfort food to hungry
Kings Countians each weekend
from April 6 through October.
grub at Williamsburg’s East
River State Park on Saturdays,
and to Breeze Hill in Prospect
Park on Sundays.
will team up with Vice to offer a
“night market” at Williamsburg
venue Villain on alternate Friday
29, and some of its vendors will
join the Brooklyn Bridge Park
summer fi lm series “Movies
Hall on April 10, will sample
Brooklyn’s most popular food
The ninth season of Smorgasburg
will feature two dozen exciting
new vendors slinging their
In addition to its two Brooklyn
park locations, Smorgasburg
dishes from more than
50 local eateries while Lieutenant
Acu Rhodes, also
known as DJ Ace, puts together
a music mix to make
them bust a move.
Rhodes, a 22-year veteran
of the force, spends
most of his evenings leading
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
cocoon next weekend, bringing
outdoor dishes of pro-biotic
nights, starting on March
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the platoon assigned
to Barclays Center. But on
his nights off, he scratches
old-school records at local
shindigs. As DJ Ace, he
often wears an offi cial police
department t-shirt or
jacket, making his sets into
a kind of community out-
BY COLIN MIXSON
This bird’s prospects are
looking up.
A Kings County hawk found
poisoned in Prospect Park last
week will survive thanks to the
efforts of a Queens fi refi ghter
and his animal-loving wife, who
look forward to releasing the
downy hunter next week at a
more hawk-friendly park.
“We know there’s poison out
there,” said Bobby Horvath, who
runs the Wildlife in Need of Rescue
group with his wife, Kathy
Horvath. “If this happens again,
it may not be so lucky.”
The on-the-mend hawk fell
deathly ill last week after snacking
on a mouse, or rat poisoned
with Rodenticide, a deadly toxin
commonly employed by city exterminators,
and the big-hearted
fi refi ghter swooped in for the rescue
after Prospect Park Alliance
Forestry, Wildlife, and Aquatic
Technician Marty Woess spotted
the bird unable to take fl ight
near the park’s Le Frak ice-skating
rink on March 26.
It was touch and go for a few
days as the Horvaths pumped the
bird full of fl uids and Vitamin K,
but the hawk managed to survive
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
The kitchen’s closed.
Loyal patrons of a
Sheepshead Bay Turkish
restaurant took to social
media this week to
mourn the loss of the community
staple as it shut
its doors for good earlier
this month.
“I know Sahara Restaurant
Brooklyn wasn’t doing
well in recent years, but to
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PARTY WITH THE PREZ:
Lieutenant Rhodes with Borough
President Adams.
Park Slope Fith Avenue BID
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