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Cold cuts STATE OF MIND
THE BAND IS BACK: Members of Billy Joel’s old backing band — known as the Lords of 52nd Street — will play some of
their original rock hits at a May 4 show at On Stage at Kingsborough. Kevin Mocker
Joel’s band
plays Bklyn
Dancer brings show home
BY COLIN MIXSON
Talk about a homecoming
dance!
A Brooklyn-born jitterbug
is bringing his international
dance act to
his home borough for the
first time on May 9, when
his show “Black Velvet”
will make its Kings
The band is back!
of the Piano Man’s greatest hits
at On Stage at Kingsborough on
May 4. The Lords of 52nd Street
take pride in playing the iconic
tunes that they helped make famous,
drummer.
tribute bands out there doing
our stuff, so why don’t we do it,
the original guys?” said Liberty
DeVitto, who calls Clinton Hill
home.
the sextet will play songs including
Italian Restaurant,” “New York
State of Mind,” and “Movin’ Out,”
among others, according to De-
Vitto.
members include saxophonist
and keyboarder Richie Cannata
County premier at Brooklyn
Members of Billy Joel’s original
backing band will play some
“We said, there are a lot of
At the Manhattan Beach show,
The group — whose main
Academy of Music.
“For me to bring my
work to Brooklyn Academy
of Music feel monumental,
and it feels like
a homecoming,” said
Shamel Pitts.
The Bedford-Stuyvesant
raised dancer and
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
according to the band’s
“My Life,” “Scenes From An
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choreographer developed
his multidisciplinary
dance performance as a
visual expression of his
partnership with fellow
dancer Mirelle Martins,
who attended a dance
workshop Pitts taught
in 2013, leading to an in-
Key Food workers
locked out amid
union negotiations
BY COLIN MIXSON
These workers are being treated
like a piece of meat.
Butchers and meat wrappers
at the Fifth Avenue Key Food in
Park Slope have been locked out
of work for more than 10 days
amid ongoing union negotiations
with the store’s owner, who has
replaced his meat men with temporary
workers as he seeks to
eliminate their existing health
and retirement benefi ts, according
to the out-of-work workers.
The meat vendors have not
been idle during their forced suspension,
and the scorned Key
Food staff have placed infl atable
pigs and rats outside the market
in an effort to expose the boss’s
cutthroat tactics to their longtime
customers. The dramatic
sidewalk display is necessary for
the workers to get their jobs back
and support their families, they
said.
“I got my wife and two daughters,
my granddaughter and
grandson, and I have a mortgage
to pay,” said Alexander Torres,
a Key Food butcher for 21 years.
Canarsie board OKs
plan to redesign street
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
A plan to make
Canarsie streets safer is
speeding along.
Local civic gurus gave
the city their blessing last
week to overhaul a problematic
Canarsie street
corner.
Community Board 18
voted unanimously to
approve a plan for the
redesign of Seaview
Avenue and E. 80th
Street — a problematic
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BEAUTY: Dancers Shamel
Pitts and Mirelle Martins in
“Black Velvet.” Rebecca Stella
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