May 19, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
May 1–xx, 2016
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Mailbox
plagued
by crime ROCK
OF
AGES It’s teens vs parents in musical
Parents just don’t understand.
A rock musical coming to Park
Slope this week will dramatize
what kids know across the land,
showing the generation gap as a
village where adults are stuck
in the 1890s, but their rock music
loving spawn live in the present
day. This version of “Spring
Awakening,” opening at Gallery
Players on May 18, highlights the
KIDS BOP: The young characters in “Spring Awakening,” which opened at
Gallery Players on May 18, wear modern-day outfi ts and sing rock ballads,
while their parents wear 19th century garb and speak in prose.
Photo by Julianne McShane
Macy’s fi reworks return to Bklyn
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
Talk about a fi re festival!
Macy’s Fourth of July
fi reworks will once again
light up the night sky over
the Brooklyn Bridge this
year, according to a rep
for the famed department
store.
The pyrotechnic display
will launch tens of thousands
eternal chasm between parents
and their offspring through live
music, according to its director.
“The rock music is a metaphor
for the way that parents just don’t
understand their kids,” said Nick
Brennan. “The music represents
the way the kids are trying to
communicate to themselves and
their parents about what’s happening
of shells and effects
from the span and from
four barges off a nearby
Manhattan pier at about
9:20 p.m., stunning spectators
along the East River
waterfront, according to
the department giant’s
master blaster.
“With a barrage of stunning
shells and effects
to them, because the par-
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launching from its grand
span and towers, along with
tens of thousands more effects
coloring the night
from barges on the lower
East River, this year’s display
promises to be a spectacle
to remember,” said Susan
Tercero, the fi reworks’
executive producer.
BY COLIN MIXSON
Crafty kleptos are targeting a
Prospect Lefferts Gardens drop
box — and locals claim no one’s
mail is safe!
The blue mailbox at Midwood
Street and Flatbush Avenue is one
of the single most pilfered collection
points operated by the U.S.
Postal Service in the borough, according
to area advocates, who’ve
created a website called worstmailboxever.
com that locals can
use to petition the city for a more
secure drop box to send out their
rent checks and birthday cards.
“For years right here at Midwood
Street and Flatbush Avenue
our residents have had their
rent checks, bill payments, cards
to loved ones — you name it’s sic
been stolen from this mailbox,”
wrote Seth Kaplan, a longtime
area resident and prolifi c community
advocate, on the petition
site that went live on Sunday.
“It’s one of the worst mailboxes
in Brooklyn!”
The USPS blue box is a frequent
topic of discussion at community
meetings hosted by the
71st Precinct, where cops and
New soccer fi elds
to come to Coney
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
Talk about getting the ball
rolling!
The People’s Playground
will get two new
soccer fi elds by the end of
this year as part of a citywide
initiative to build 50
of the fi elds throughout the
Big Apple.
The pair of green spaces
will give Coney Islanders
who love soccer a place to
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BOOM: Macy’s will bring
its July 4 fi reworks to the
Brooklyn Bridge this year.
Kent Miller
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