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Slopers blast
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shelter plan GINGER SALE
GINGER MAN: Josh Morton, the founder of Barrow’s Intense Ginger Liqueur, stands in front of his new tasting room.
Photo by Bill Roundy
Spicy liqueur
distillery opens
tasting room
‘Wilde’ musical returns
BY BILL ROUNDY
Oscar is getting Wilder.
An immersive nightclub
musical about Oscar
Wilde, which ran for three
sold-out weeks earlier this
year, will return this weekend
to start an open-ended
run. The second coming
of “Oscar at the Crown,”
Sunset Park’s liquor scene has
gotten Intense.
A new liquor tasting room offi
cially opened in Industry City
last weekend. Barrow’s Intense
Ginger Liqueur Tasting Room
has been quietly pouring cocktails
last six months, but the opening
party on May 2 has allowed them
to really spice things up, said the
company’s founder.
“We believe in not doing it
fast, but doing it right,” said Josh
Morton, who started making the
spicy yellow spirit in his Manhattan
Industry City in 2013.
The newly opened tasting
room menu includes nine cocktails,
Morton’s signature spicy liquid.
Prices range from $8–$14, includ-
which starts previews at
Bushwick’s 3 Dollar Bill on
May 11, offers even more
thrills than the fi rst, said
its creator and star.
“It’s bigger, better, faster
— all of that!” laughed
Mark Mauriello. “We’ve
been able to level up the
aesthetic of the costumes,
BY BILL ROUNDY
and offering samples for the
apartment before moving to
each of which showcases
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the set piece. We’ve built
ourselves into the space.”
The musical is set in a
dystopian bunker, where
hunted queer outcasts
gather to celebrate pop culture
and the life and death
of Victorian playwright
Oscar Wilde. The new ver-
BY COLIN MIXSON
A city scheme to house homeless
families within a pair of Fourth
Avenue residential developments
was met with outrage during
a public meeting at Seventh
Avenue’s John Jay Educational
Campus on May 1, where locals
shouted, heckled, and booed at
presenters from the Department
of Homeless Services and its chosen
operator for the upcoming refuge.
And it’s not because they don’t
like homeless people — they’re
just not willing to pay developers
to house them, according to one
Park Slope man.
“You want to pit the working
class people of this city against the
homeless,” said Bo Samajopoulos.
“This is not about the homeless
people — Brand Lander and
Mayor Bill de Blasio are bailing
out developers.”
Park Slope Councilman Brad
Lander organized the meeting to
discuss the city’s plan to install
shelters in buildings at 535 and
555 Fourth Ave. slated to open this
fall. The properties were originally
built as market-rate rentals,
before offi cials at the Department
of Homeless Services worked out
City eliminates one
spot for Coney boat
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
Call it dead in the water.
City offi cials have eliminated
one of the three sites
in Coney Island Creek that
they studied as a possible
location for a ferry landing,
honchos announced at a
community meeting in the
People’s Playground on May
6, adding that they will instead
install the dock at one
of two sites in the neighbor-
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POINT OF SOME RETURN:
Mark Mauriello will reprise
his role as Oscar Wilde.
Ted Alcorn
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