Library workers Benjamin Perry, Deidra Gadson, and Jason Woodland. Photo by Caroline Ourso
COURIER L 12 IFE, DEC. 6-12, 2019
BY ROSE ADAMS
A two-alarm fi re ripped
through a Flatbush apartment
building on Monday
morning, killing one person
and leaving seven others injured,
according to authorities.
The inferno broke out on
the ground fl oor of a Nostrand
Avenue building between
Clarendon Road and
Avenue D at around 4 am —
before rapidly spreading to
building’s second and third
fl oors, police said.
First responders arrived
on the scene and rushed a
man to Kings County Hospital,
where doctors pronounced
him dead, according
to a Fire Department
spokesman.
Eyewitnesses say that
the deceased victim was an
elderly man who jumped
from his window to escape
the smoke at around 4:10
am.
“An elderly man jumped
’cause the smoke was too
much for him to bare,”
wrote a user on the crimereporting
app Citizen at 4:44
am.
FATAL FIRE: A Flatbush blaze
killed one man and sent two others
to the hospital with serious
injuries. Citizen
Seven others were injured
in the blaze — including one
victim who sustained lifethreatening
burns, and a
police offi cer who suffered
minor wounds, according to
the Fire Department.
The cause of the fi re is
under investigation. Police
are withholding the victim’s
name and information pending
family notifi cation.
BY ROSE ADAMS
The Brooklyn Public Library
will begin lending out
board games at branches in
Prospect Heights and Crown
Heights next spring, allowing
members to take home a wide
array of puzzles, card games,
and brain teasers for up to
three weeks, according to a library
rep.
“There will be some ‘gateway
games’ — which are games
with easy-to-understand rules
to help interest newcomers,”
said Fritzi Bodenheimer. “And,
some more complex games for
experienced players.”
Librarians are staying silent
on which games will be
loaned out through the program
— which will kick off at
the Central Branch in Prospect
Heights and the nearby
Crown Heights library — but
Bodenheimer said that book
lender conducted an extensive
survey of library goers’ preferences
before choosing their
catalogue of analogue amusements.
“The librarians who developed
the proposal surveyed
patrons to learn what games
they liked, what games would
be good for children, and what
games they would be interested
in checking out,” she said.
Funding for the project
will be provided by Bklyn Incubator,
a Brooklyn Public
Library program that funds
creative programming ideas
developed in the system’s 60
branches.
Flatbush fi re fatality
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