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Hate crime rampage
Cops investigating attacks against Jewish men in W’burg
By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
The Police Department’s
Hate Crimes Task Force is
investigating a series of brutal
attacks targeting Hasidic
Jewish men in Williamsburg
on Aug. 12, according to authorities.
Barneys shutters in Brooklyn
Shop’s closure will ‘leave big shoes to fi ll’ on Atlantic
By Cate Corcoran
for Brooklyn Paper
Unlike fine dining, luxury
retail isn’t doing so hot in
brownstone Brooklyn.
Barneys on Atlantic Avenue
will close, the retailer
announced earlier this week,
and despite speculation a new
owner could bring a change
of plans, the store was shuttered
last Thursday.
“We’re seeing a lot of bigger
brands go into bankruptcy
— both high end and
low end, and they’re shuttering
stores all over the place,”
said Daniel Lebor, TerraCRG
partner.
Retail’s troubles have been
widely ascribed to the rise of
online shopping, Amazon in
particular, but in the case of
Barneys and others, the store
was under new ownership —
in this case, Perry Capital,
a hedge fund — and deeply
in debt.
Barneys leaves behind
11,000 square feet of luxury
retail at 194 Atlantic Ave. in
Boerum Hill — “big shoes to
fill,” commented Lebor.
Atlantic Avenue and other
pockets of retail in the area
have had their ups and downs
over the years, particularly
when it comes to fashion.
Earlier this year, troubled
clothier Steven Alan folded
its large men’s and women’s
store farther down the avenue
at No. 347. At one time, it ran
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along the commercial corridor
are going gangbusters,
with Trader Joe’s around the
corner so crowded it’s sometimes
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The first assault occurred
on Ross Street between
Wythe Place and Bedford
Avenue, when three men
punched a 71-year-old Jewish
man in the face and searched
his pockets, before fleeing
empty-handed at around 5
a.m., cops said.
Paramedics rushed the
victim to Bellevue Hospital
in stable condition, according
to police.
A half hour later, three
men approached a 67-yearold
Jewish man on Clymer
Street near Juliana Place
— just three blocks from
the first incident — and
punched the victim in the
face before, yet again, running
away empty handed,
cops said.
And just 10 minutes after
that, the trio punched a 56-
year-old Jewish victim just
steps from where the first
attack took place. First responders
also took that victim
to Bellevue Hospital in
stable condition as well, police
said.
Authorities confirmed
that all three victims were
Jewish, but noted that one
of the victims was not wearing
any religious garb at the
time of the attack, according
to a spokesman.
A local lawmaker took to
Twitter on Monday to condemn
the apparently anti-Semitic
attacks.
“Terribly shocking and
sad to see multiple elderly
Orthodox Jewish residents of
Williamsburg attacked early
this morning,” wrote Councilman
Stephen Levin . “We
need to collectively stand up
against hate and violence in
our community.”
Following a 46 percent
spike in hate crimes through
the first quarter of 2019 over
the same period last year,
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced
the formation of
the Office for the Prevention
of Hate Crimes in June
— which is designed to coordinate
hate-crime prevention
efforts across city
agencies, including the Police
Department Hate Crime
Task Force.
“We will never stand idly
by while our fellow New
Yorkers are targeted because
of their race, religion, sexual
orientation or any other
quality that makes them who
they are,” de Blasio said at
the time. “The Office for the
Prevention of Hate Crimes
will work to root out hate and
make our streets safer.”
No arrests have been made
in connection with Monday’s
attacks, and the investigation
remains ongoing, cops
said.
The Barneys New York store on Atlantic Avenue will
close, the retailer announced last week.
and manufacturing decimated
by leveraged buyouts
and consolidations starting
in the 1970s, Brooklyn has
started to attract higher-end
national and international
brands in increasing numbers
only in the last 10 years
or so, at the same time many
beloved mom and pop concerns
have retired or cashed
out. Now with the national
retail picture looking bleak,
that trend could ebb.
Just a few blocks away,
beloved greengrocer Pacific
Green lost its lease amid rising
rents and rumors Jcrew
was moving in. The store
was forced to close in 2018
and the space remains empty
today. Literary phenomenon
BookCourt shut after selling
its historically significant
buildings to developer Eastern
Capital for $13.6 million,
which is replacing them with
a bigger, modern structure.
Key Food on Smith Street is
now a radiology center.
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