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TAKE YOUR SEATS: Nitehawk Cinema bigwigs are hosting a private screening for members of a Park Slope civic group at the Pavilion Theater on
Dec. 16, ahead of its imminent grand opening to the public. Photo by Colin Mixson
SHOW TIME!
Pavilion will open for private show this weekend
on the invitation.
“They had problems with
the 14th Street Block Association
and so they want to pander
them,” said Tom Prendergast,
a Windsor Terrace
resident who said he is the
only non-Block Association
member privy to the group’s
weekly newsletter, which advertised
tickets for the special
screening in an edition sent
on Tuesday morning.
The invite-only event will
serve as a test run for the cinema’s
new staff, according to
a rep, who said Nitehawk bigwigs
want to iron out any operational
kinks as they make
fi nishing touches to the theater
they plan to open to all
Brooklynites “very soon.”
“The upcoming private oc-
BY COLIN MIXSON
Nitehawk Cinema bigwigs
are opening the historic Pavilion
Theater they’ve been
renovating for years on Dec.
16 to members of a Park Slope
civic group, who will screen
the movie house’s debut fl ick
ahead of its looming grand
opening to the public.
The exclusive sneak peek
at the long-awaited theater
is Nitehawk brass’s way of
giving back to members of
the 14th Street Block Association,
who had to share
their residential street between
Eighth Avenue and
Prospect Park West with a
steady stream of construction
vehicles since renovations
of the 90-year-old movie
house nearby began in 2016,
according to a local gadfl y in Continued on page 40
Bravest
killed on
Belt Pkwy
Cops reportedly
cuff suspect after
deadly incident
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Police reportedly arrested the
man whom they suspect killed
an off-duty Coney Island fi refi
ghter during an apparent
bout of road rage that turned
deadly after his and the victim’s
cars collided on the Belt
Parkway on Dec 9.
Authorities with New
York’s Finest and United States
Marshal ls
cuffed the
2 9 - y e a r -
old at a
New Jersey
motel, acc
o r d i n g
to a Tuesday
New
York Post
report citing
law-enforcement
s ou r c e s ,
which a Police
DECEASED: Firefi
ghter and Ditmas
Park resident,
Faizal Coto. FDNY
Department rep could not
immediately confi rm.
The crash occurred before
sunrise, as the man driving
a 2006 Infi niti G35 sedan and
the victim merged their vehicles
onto the Gravesend-bound
side of the Belt Parkway via
the on ramp from Fourth Avenue,
according to authorities,
who later identifi ed the suspect
as the Infi tini’s registered
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 col-
Continued on page 40
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