LOOKING GOOD: PS 312 faculty and young members of its student council donned mustaches on Nov. 30 to
celebrate the end of their Movember fund-raising campaign. Cory Goodman
Defendant found guilty of fi ring bullet
into passerby outside Barclays Center
Senior killed by hit-and-run driver in Sheepshead Bay
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BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Talk about a ’stache of cash!
Kids at a Bergen Beach
school raised hundreds of
dollars to fi ght prostate cancer
last month as part of a national
effort to promote men’s
health during the so-called
Movember campaign.
The pint-sized pupils may
not yet be old enough to grow
the signature mustaches associated
with the month-long
wellness initiative, but all of
them know men who could
be at risk for prostrate cancer,
testicular cancer, or suicide,
and wanted to lend their
hands to the cause, according
to their teacher.
“Everybody’s father, grandfather,
uncle — they need to
get checked,” said Cory Goodman,
who teaches technology
at PS 312 on Avenue T.
Ten male and female fi fth
graders on the school’s student
council — a body Goodman
formed earlier this year
to get kids involved in the
learning house’s operations
and do-good efforts such as the
Movember initiative — spearheaded
the fund-raising, the
teacher said.
The group spoke to their
peers about men’s health,
made posters, and collected
donations from parents and
other students, netting some
$700 by the end of the fourweek
effort, according to
Goodman, a regular Movember
participant who prefers
growing a full beard to a nose
warmer, he said.
“I usually just do the whole
beard, I don’t think I’m a mustache
person,” Goodman said.
The kids, however, were
more open-minded when it
came to sporting mustaches
— or at least fake ones, which
they all donned on Nov. 30 to
celebrate the last day of the
fund-raiser that one 10-yearold
pupil called a blast from
start to fi nish.
“I love how our school made
a bunch of posters to help donate
to men’s health and prevent
cancer,” said Hana Elfi qi.
Elfi qi made it about two
hours before ripping her faux
facial fur off because she said
it got too itchy, but another 10-
year-old in the group said he
planned to rock his ’stache for
the long term.
“I’ll probably wear it for
the rest of the month,” Jimmy
Friscia said on the last day of
the month.
The kids donated their proceeds
to do-good group Fans
of the Cure, which advocates
for prostate-cancer awareness
and early diagnosis, according
to its founder, sports
broadcaster Ed Randall, who
formed the organization after
surviving the illness.
Goodman said he selected
Randall’s group as the recipient
of the cash after hearing
the journalist talk about its efforts
on his radio program.
BY COLIN MIXSON
A Flatbush man could spend
up to 25 years behind bars after
a jury found him guilty of
shooting and wounding a bystander
outside the Barclays
Center last year.
Sending defendant Jonathan
Cordoba, 30, behind
bars following his Nov. 28
conviction on the top count
of fi rst-degree assault will
make the borough a safer
place, according to District
Attorney Eric Gonzalez.
“This defendant fi red
shots in the middle of the
day in a busy area, endangering
scores of innocent people,”
said the top prosecutor.
“Luckily no one was killed.
This verdict underscores our
commitment to the safety of
the people of Brooklyn.”
Cordoba, 30, got into an
argument with another man
on Flatbush Avenue near
the Prospect Heights arena
at 2:05 pm on June 14, 2017,
when he pulled out a gun and
started shooting at his rival,
according to Gonzalez.
But the Flatbush resident
failed to send a bullet into
his intended target, and instead
struck a 50-year-old bystander
in the ankle, Gonzalez
said.
Police caught up with Cordoba
a week later, on June 21,
using surveillance footage to
track him down, prosecutors
said.
Cordoba is expected to return
to court for sentencing
on Dec. 12.
Hair tactics!
Flatbush man who
shot, hurt bystander
headed behind bars
Local students raise hundreds in Movember campaign
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Cops are hunting for the hit-and-run
driver who killed an oldster after
smashing into him on E. 28th Street in
Sheepshead Bay on Dec. 1.
The motorist behind the wheel of
a Toyota van fatally struck 65-yearold
Iosif Morgenshteyn as the victim
changed his car’s front driver’s
side tire on E. 28th Street near Shore
Parkway just before 6:30 pm, and then
drove away, according to a Police Department
spokeswoman.
Offi cers from the 61st Precinct then
rushed to the scene with paramedics,
who brought Morgenshteyn, a Staten
Islander, to Coney Island Hospital,
where doctors pronounced him dead,
authorities said.
Police later found the white 2014
Toyota Sienna with Pennsylvania
plates unoccupied near Emmons Avenue
and Bragg Street and took it
into custody, according to the spokeswoman.
Authorities are also searching for
passengers who were inside the vehicle
at the time of the deadly crash as
part of the ongoing investigation, the
spokeswoman said.
WEAPON: The 2014 Toyota Sienna.
GUILTY: Jonathan Cordoba.
District Attorney’s Offi ce
SCENE: Cordoba fi red the bullets outside the Barclays Center in Prospect
Heights. File photo by Paul Martinka
Photo by Paul Martinka