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owner, the Post reported.
Both drivers pulled over on the side
of the parkway near Exit Four to 14th
Avenue-Bay Eighth Street following
the collision, which damaged the driver’s
side of the suspect’s four-wheeler,
cops said.
Offi cers from the 62nd Precinct responding
to a 911 call following the
incident arrived at the scene around
4:50 am, and found 33-year-old Ditmas
Parker Faizal Coto — a member of New
York’s Bravest with Coney Island’s Engine
245 — unconscious and unresponsive
on the pavement next to his car,
cops said.
Paramedics then rushed Coto to
Coney Island Hospital where doctors
pronounced him dead, police said.
The city’s medical examiner determined
Coto died from blunt force
trauma to the head, according to a
spokeswoman, and the suspect reportedly
smashed the victim in the skull
with an unknown object during the fatal
DECEASED: The suspect allegedly killed
fi refi ghter Faizal Coto, a member of Engine
245 in Coney Island. FDNY
attack, according to CBS News .
But the medical examiner’s spokeswoman
could not confi rm whether the
suspect hit Coto with an object, and
a Police Department spokeswoman
could not confi rm that the pair got
into an argument that resulted in the
deadly blow.
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And the bottom two fl oors of the
tower rising near Aurelia Court will
contain retail space, according to
plans shared with CB14.
Some residents of the neighborhood’s
20-story Philip Howard Houses
co-op complex, which is just across
the street from the development site,
came out to oppose the project at a Dec.
5 public hearing, claiming the proposed
tower would cast detrimental
shadows, block views from their apartments,
and invite more traffi c to local
streets with its retail spaces.
But those locals live within the
boundaries of Community Board 18,
whose members don’t get to formally
weigh in on the rezoning as it applies
to a property outside of their district.
Still, CB14 members took some of
the concerns to heart, issuing their approval
with stipulations that included
the builder fi nd ways to mitigate parking
and traffi c problems its tower
could bring, conduct a shadow study
in order to minimize any shade cast
by the structure, and set aside more affordable
units.
SL Green bigwigs agreed to work
with the city on the recommendations
regarding traffi c and parking, noting
they will consult with the Department
of Transportation on the possibility
of relocating loading zones for the
tower’s planned retail space from the
residential Aurelia Court to the busier
Flatbush Avenue.
But the developer has yet to provide
proof of any shadow study, nor offered
to add more below-market-rate units to
the project, according to the chairman
of CB14, who said offi cials may further
push those points as the rezoning request
moves through the city’s lengthy
Uniform Land Use Review Procedure
— which also requires input from
the borough president, City Planning
Commission, Council, and Mayor De-
Blasio.
Following the board’s purely advisory
vote to support the builder’s
rezoning request, the proposal now
heads to Borough President Adams,
who will host a public hearing about
the project on Dec. 17 before issuing
his own recommendation.
“We took her to a grooming place
because we wanted her to be clean.
They gave her a hair cut, and then we
discovered she was covered in fl eas,”
said Collazo. “She was infested.”
The groomers gave Babydoll a
three-hour cleanse that included
a fl ea bath to get rid of the pests,
which made her anemic because they
sucked so much of her blood, according
to the Queens resident.
Babydoll remained in the care of
Collazo — the owner of two other felines
— for months, and when the foster
mom moved to faraway Texas this
past January, she decided to become
the kitty’s real mom, adopting her
out of fear the cat would not fi nd another
home in New York City.
“We weren’t sure if she would get
adopted,” she said.
Babydoll still suffers from an autoimmune
disease, however, which
Collazo treats by giving her medication
and steroids every other day — a
regimen she said has already helped
the cat develop a fuller, healthier fi gure.
TOWER
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BABYDOLL
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