PRINCE
“People told him repeatedly
he shouldn’t
give out so much credit,”
Todd said. “And he chose
to run the store the way
that was aligned with
his values and made him
feel good.”
The walls of his Coney
Island butcher shop
were plastered with
pearls of wisdom for all
his customers to see —
sayings he also shared
at home with his seven
children, with whom he
worked hard to instill a
positive attitude.
“He used to have
quotes up in the store,”
Todd told Brooklyn Paper.
“‘Treat others as you
want them to treat you’
was one of his favorite
sayings. ‘Kill them with
kindness’ was another.”
The personality many
came to love in the market
was no different than
the one Prince shared at
home with his wife and
children, his son said,
adding that he doesn’t
have one memory of his
dad yelling at him. Instead,
his dad would sit
down with him and his
siblings and explain
what they did wrong.
“As a dad, he was incredibly
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kind, never
yelled, always had a
smile. When we were upset,
he was always trying
to cheer us up and encourage
us,” Todd said.
“That’s the way he always
was. I wouldn’t say
he had a different personality
from work and
home — even at work he
was like that, always trying
to encourage people.”
His dad’s dedication
to his business did keep
him away from home a
lot, the son said, and he
rarely ever took a day
off. “From 1980 to 2009 …
he probably worked 363
days a year. I remember
two four-day vacations
in the 1980s.”
In lieu, Prince would
travel far and wide by
pouring through the
monthly editions of National
Geographic he received
for decades, and
vicariously through the
travels of his many children,
who now live all
over the country.
“He was a big National
Geographic collector
and we would go
Jimmy Prince was like “everyone’s grandpa,” locals said.
Michael Quinn
TENANTS
up for two out of the four
days they were going to
be working. That was
all he would do was two
days.”
More than money
Discounted rent aside,
tenants are also asking
the landlord to keep up
with regular maintenance
of the building,
and to be proactive about
fi xes so to avoid another
long-term shutdown, as
there was with the cooking
gas.
“We have to beg for
something to be fi xed
and for the superintendent
to handle it appropriately,”
said another
resident, Laura. “We are
simply asking for regular
maintenance for our
building, that’s it.”
At the April 30 press
conference, an aide from
area Councilmember
Justin Brannan’s offi ce
blasted the landlord for
requesting patience from
his tenants when the
gas needed to be fi xed,
only to turn around and
threaten residents with
eviction shortly after it
was up and running.
“It is absolutely preposterous
... to now be
handed rent demands as
a precursor to an eviction,”
said Kayla Santuosso,
Brannan’s deputy
chief of staff.
Assemblymember
Mathylde Frontus has
also been advocating for
residents and attended
a protest on Thanksgiving,
along with Brannan,
when residents’ cooking
gas was still out during
the holiday.
For now, tenants are
weighing their legal options,
according to Jared
Watson, a representative
from the Park Slopebased
economic justice
group Fifth Avenue Committee,
and have found a
lawyer to represent them
in court if they cannot
come to a deal with their
landlord.
While their plight is
all too common, Watson
said, he expects a judge
will hand down a more
favorable directive than
the zero-offer Polen has
put on the table.
The landlord could
not be reached for comment.
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through them together,”
his son said, “and that
had a bit of an infl uence
on me and I ended up
moving overseas when
I fi nished university.”
The late Prince was
also a baseball enthusiast
and grew up a Brooklyn
Dodgers fan until
the team left for Los Angeles.
He later conceded
to root for the New York
Mets, taking his kids to
a game each year.
“My father was a
huge Brooklyn Dodgers
fan and he was devastated
when they left
Brooklyn,” Todd said.
“He switched to the Mets,
but not immediately.”
To honor his father,
Todd said, he hopes to
start a new tradition
with his family: attending
a Mets away game
in his new home of
Washington, DC with
the new Jimmy Prince
— his nine-month-old
son.
“I think I will make
it a tradition of taking
him to a game on Father’s
Day,” he said.
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