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Rise of the machines
Young engineers vie for gold at robotics competition
would-be coders to programming
and engineering, said one
14-year-old participant.
“I love programming, and
I really wanted to get started
with it,” said Talib Folberg,
who competed with the New
Lots branch.
Folberg helped program
his team’s bulky grey robot
on wheels to perform simple
functions while following a
line along the course, such
as interact with a crane and
a swing, or move in a circle.
After more than five hours
of competition, engineers from
Sheepshead Bay’s Kings Bay
branch took home the gold, and
will go on to represent Brooklyn
in a citywide tournament
with NYC First, a non-profit
designed to promote STEM edThe
Photo by Zoe Freilich
New Lots Library team during the competition. ucation in the city’s youth.
W’Terrace rezoning panned
The proposed development on Coney Island Avenue
the rezoning would allow.
Photo by Renderings by FXcollaborative
ing between $856 for a studio
and $1,504 for a three-bedroom.
Of those 36 would be reserved
for parishioners attending
service at a new International
Baptist Church
planned for inclusion inside
the new development, which
would also feature a community
space, school, and medical
offices.
Many locals at the meeting
on Wednesday spoke in
favor of some form of residential
development at the
site, but most expressed serious
concerns over the project’s
size, which one man said
was out of scale compared to
surrounding buildings.
“The scope and the breadth
of this is really the thing that
I bring into question,” said
Mark Duffin, an Ocean Parkway
resident.
Board members offered to
support of a more modest zoning
request, such as an R7-A
designation, which would allow
the developer to erect a
residential building of about
eight stories in height, and
featuring significantly less
housing units.
However, an attorney for
the developer, Zachary Bernstein,
told community members
at a preliminary hearing
on Jan. 30 that if his client’s
rezoning application was unsuccessful,
the firm would instead
build a 17-story hotel
at the site, in a project that
would require no rezoning,
and which the community
would have little opportunity
to influence.
“We strongly believe this
is a residential neighborhood
and should remain so,” said
Thiago Viana. “The design
was carefully planned to shift
the bulk of the building to
Ocean Parkway and Machate
Circle, all while transitioning
to an 11 story building on Caton
Place and Coney Island
Avenue.”
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By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
A legion of pint-sized robotics
gurus flocked to the Brooklyn
Public Library’s central
branch on Feb. 22 to face off
in the finals of the book-lender’s
Robotics League competition.
The youngsters, who ranged
in age from 9 to 17, were
grouped into 13 teams that
represented their local library
branches, and worked together
to create robots that competed
in various tasks, such as delivering
objects and navigating
obstacle courses.
The 13 finalists had been
victorious during last week’s
28-team semi-final round.
The program is an interactive
way to introduce young
By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
Windsor Terrace civic
gurus rejected a developer’s
scheme to demolish a local
church and build a 13-story
mixed-use tower in its place,
with residents claiming the
proposed edifice is simply too
big for the neighborhood.
“We heard very clearly
many of the community
members who came to the
public hearing, height was
a huge issue for them,” said
John Fontillas, chairman of
Community Board 7’s Land
Use Committee.
Members of Community
Board 7 voted 30-2 to disapprove
JEMB Realty’s application
to rezone land surrounding
the International Baptist
Church on Coney Island Avenue
near Ocean Parkway as
R8-A, which it requires to tare
down the four-story house of
worship and construct the
145-foot-tall tower.
The new building would
contain 278 units, including
70 so-called “affordable”
units, with rents rang-
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