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KINGSBOROUGH
COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Still owned and operated
by the Nieberg Family
NIEBERG MIDWOOD CHAPEL, INC
has relocated to
60 Brighton 11th Street, Brooklyn, NY
(1 Block from Emmons Avenue)
Our telephone number remains the same
718-377-2700
COURIER L 12 IFE, NOV. 23–29, 2018 M
NOT VERY SCENIC: The future inn’s lot between Foster Avenue and Farragut Road is bordered
by the busy Kings Highway and a freight train track, and is surrounded by auto-repair
shops and scrap yards. Photo by Kevin Duggan
HOTEL
fi rm Kings Hwy NY LLC, records
show.
But any building that goes up there
should benefi t locals — not visitors —
according to a neighborhood leader,
who said the developer should scrap
the project and instead erect a commercial
facility such as a grocery store
that would improve residents’ everyday
lives.
“We want something here that will
benefi t the community on both sides,”
said Roy McKenzie, who runs neighborhood
improvement group the E.
59th Street United Block Association.
Weinstein echoed McKenzie’s criticism,
saying no constituent has requested
an inn in the neighborhood in
her decades representing it in Albany,
and that offi cials should fi rst prioritize
other projects, including the development
of more so-called affordable
housing in the area.
“In my 30-plus years of representing
this community, not a soul has
come to me to say, ‘We need a hotel,’ ”
she said. “This is not an asset that our
community has asked for, or needs.”
And critics expressed concerns
GOLDEN
Nov. 13, and began counting them the
following day, but reps for the state
and local board did not immediately
comment when asked about the status
of the abentee-ballot count.
A rep for the state board, however,
previously told this newspaper that the
county board has until Dec. 3 to fi nish
its count, before the state board’s Dec.
14 deadline to certify the results.
Golden, a former cop whose general
election-loss is the pol’s fi rst in his
eight terms as a representative in Albany’s
upper house, said he is proud of
his record as a legislator, and that he
looks forward to continuing to serve
his district as a private citizen.
“I am so proud of what I have accomplished
for my city, my state, and
the neighbors I have been honored to
represent,” Golden said. “Although we
came up just short this election, I am
grateful my career in public service
has been full of much success as a police
offi cer and as an elected offi cial.
As I think of the future, my supporters,
neighbors, and friends can be sure
that I will still always look for opportunities
to make our neighborhoods
an even better place to live, work, and
raise a family.”
And Gounardes promised to work
with the outgoing pol to ensure a
smooth transition, so that he can hit
the ground running upon taking offi ce
in Albany in January.
“Now that the election is over, I am
grateful to people of Southern Brooklyn
for their support, and humbled by
their trust in me to be our community’s
voice in Albany,” he said. “I look
forward to coordinating with Sen.
Golden on a smooth transition between
now and January, so that our
community can come together and
move forward.”
Continued from cover
that the out-of-the-way location of the
so-called “transient hotel” could bring
undesirable activity to the neighborhood,
with Williams noting some residents’
concerns that it could turn into
a hot-sheet hotel for bad actors looking
to get up to no good.
The East Flatbush residents aren’t
the only Brooklynites up in arms over
new lodges going up in neighborhoods
where locals say they don’t belong.
Civic gurus on Community Board 7
established a committee to address the
city’s habit of turning newly built Sunset
Park hotels into homeless shelters,
a trend Mayor DeBlasio promised to
phase out by 2023, two years after his
second term wraps.
And Mill Basinites in 2015 rallied
against an inn rising there , which
they feared would also become a hotsheet
hotbed.
But that hotel, like the Kings Highway
project, was built as of right,
meaning there was little opponents
could legally do to stop it.
Still, McKenzie has no plans to stop
protesting the East Flatbush inn.
“We are going to picket,” he said.
The property owner could not be
reached, and reps for the developer did
not return a request for comment by
press time.
Continued from cover
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