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We don’t have to travel to
Manhattan to get the best
vascular medical care because
we have Dr. Enrico
Ascher, Chief of Vascular
and Endovascular Surgery
at NYU Langone Hospital
Brooklyn, and founder
of the Vascular Institute of
New York.
Dr. Ascher is an internationally
recognized vascular
surgeon who pioneered several
techniques that are now
utilized worldwide. In addition
to being one of the most
experienced surgeons in this
country with over 25,000 procedures
and operations performed
over a 3 decade span
he finds time to author and
co-author over 300 scientific
articles in addition to be the
Chief-editor of a classic textbook
in vascular surgery.
His enormous contributions
to the minimally invasive
management of vascular
diseases including aortic
aneurysms, stroke prevention,
wound care, varicose
veins and angioplasty and
stenting for PAD have not
gone unnoticed. Dr. Ascher
is the only surgeon in the
tristate region to be elected
as President of the Society
for Vascular Surgery as well
as The World Federation of
Vascular Societies. During
his tenure as leader of these
societies Dr. Ascher was able
to help shape the specialty
and reached out to the medical
community in a partnership
to improve the vascular
health of the US population.
Dr. Ascher conceived and develop
the first clinical guidelines
for the management of
vascular diseases and he is
recognized by his peers as a
superb surgeon with tremendous
talent. As an example
of one of his creative contributions
one can describe
his technique of performing
balloon angioplasty and
stenting (in patients who
experience pain in the legs
upon walking) without the
use of potentially harmful
contrast material and with
no exposure to radiation!
Dr. Ascher also developed
the mini-incision carotid
surgery where a life threatening
plaque can be safely
removed from the artery via
one inch small cut instead of
5-7 inch incision in the neck.
“We have the lowest rate of
complications in the country
since I have not had a single
major issue with hundreds
of patient treated with this
technique” - says Dr. Ascher.
His groundbreaking techniques
have been adapted
worldwide as they causes
less trauma to the patient.
Limb salvage is yet another
field in which Dr. Ascher
has earned acclaim.
“We are the first to create
a comprehensive care plan
that has vascular medical
specialists and surgeons
working together to treat
patients,” he says. For the
most part, vascular surgeons
elsewhere work separately
from vascular medicine
physicians, he says. But by
working as a team, the patient
is assured of optimum,
unbiased treatment.
Patients from New York
City and surrounding states
have sought Dr. Ascher’s
services, after being told
by other institutions that
their limbs could not be salvaged,
and that amputation
was the only option. Yet, Dr.
Ascher and his team were
able to transform their lives
by utilizing techniques they
developed to save the limbs.
“These patients are now
walking on their own two
feet,” he says.
Research, studying, and
learning are Dr. Ascher’s
passions. He was the first
to perform bypass to the
plantar arteries of the foot,
and this is now widely considered
standard procedure
for limb salvage.
Swelling of the legs is
a common problem that
causes tremendous pain,
inhibiting lifestyles. This is
another area in which the
Vascular Institute can help,
as Dr. Ascher has published
extensively on the subject
of varicose veins. He and
his team of board certified
vascular specialists have
performed more than 15,000
laser procedures for the
treatment of varicose veins
and leg swelling, offering
several different devices to
customize treatment plans
for the patients who come
to his Vascular Center for
relief of symptoms or for aesthetic
reasons. He notes that
swelling of the legs can be
caused by veins that are not
visible, so a thorough examination
is really important
to detect the cause of these
problems and to fix them to
obtain a meaningful result.
More than 20 years ago Dr.
Ascher was helping people
with aortic aneurysms – ballooning
of the arteries in the
stomach or chest.
“We are so comfortable
with the new, modern techniques,
we are sending patients
home the same day.
Just 5 years ago we were
keeping patients for at least
2 days in the hospital,” he
says. “They leave with a small
puncture in the groin, go
home with no pain, and have
dinner with their families.”
This potentially life-threatening
issue is more common
than people realize,
he says, and is often found
accidentally when patients
undergo ultrasounds or
CAT scans.
“When it becomes painful,
these aneurysms (ballooning
of the arteries) are
ready to pop with critical
consequences. So it’s better
to fix them when they
achieve a certain size,”
he says.
Notably, the Vascular Institute
was the first wound
care center in New York,
and remains one of the busiest
wound care centers in
the area.
Dr. Ascher’s esteemed
staff includes Dr. Anil Hingorani,
Dr. Natalie Marks,
Dr. Sareh Rajaee, and Eleanora
Iadgarova, a nurse
practitioner.
The practice is open every
day, including weekends,
and the staff can always
find an opening to ac
- commodate patients who
need immediate treatment,
says the doctor.
Vascular Institute of
New York 960 50th St.between
Ninth and 10th avenues
in Borough Park,
(718) 438-3800, www.vascularnyc.
com. Open every
day, 8 am – 5 pm. Additional
locations: 9920 Fourth Ave.
in Bay Ridge; 5801 Woodside
Ave., Queens; 97-32 63rd Rd.,
Queens; 432 E. 149th St. in
the Bronx.
BUSINESS, BROOKLYN STYLE
borhood ball court, according
to Travisano.
“I don’t know why they
did that,” he said. “Before,
the park was exactly what
it should be for a neighborhood
park.”
And before the court reopened,
the California movie
studio duped locals by posting
drone footage showing the
correct lines superimposed
on the mural using Photoshop,
Travisano pointed out
on Twitter .
Warner Bros. employed
artists Evan Rossell and Dee
Rosse to paint the mural, the
latter of whom said that they
used Parks Department-approved
paint for the project,
and that what locals are actually
walking on is an overcoat
applied by the city after
they had finished.
“The paint used was courtapproved
paint by NYC Parks
and Rec on our end (the actual
cartoon). WE DID NOT
PAINT LINES OR TOP
COAT. Parks and Recs is
fully responsible for the top
coat used - we had absolutely
no hand in that!” Rosse said
on social media .
The court’s center lines do
cut through the artists’ signatures,
indicating that they
were painted after they completed
the artwork.
Travisano does admit that
the city got something right
by raising basketball hoops at
the court to regulation heights
during the renovation, but that
doesn’t come close to making
up for turning their blacktop
into a slip ‘n’ slide.
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Police arrested a Queens
teenager Wednesday on
a laundry list of charges
nearly two weeks after he
blew through a red light in
Midwood and killed a Park
Slope cyclist.
Officers cuffed 18-yearold
Umar Mirza Baig on
felony charges including
manslaughter, criminally
negligent homicide, vehicular
assault, reckless endangerment,
assault, criminal solicitation,
and reckless driving,
according to police.
Cops also slapped Baig
with several moving violations,
including disobeying
a traffic device and speeding,
authorities said.
Baig was driving southbound
on Coney Island Avenue
behind the wheel of a
Dodge Charger when he ran
a red light at Avenue L and
T-boned another car heading
east at 12:27 p.m. on Aug. 11,
according to police.
The second vehicle then
violently slammed into 52-
year-old Park Slope cyclist
Jose Alzorriz, killing him,
cops said.
Investigators quickly obtained
harrowing footage
showed both Baig running
a red light and the other vehicle
crushing Alzorriz from
multiple angles, but police
declined to immediately
charge the Queens resident,
and the decision to allow him
to walk free drew condemnation
from safe street advocates
and local politicians, including
Mayor Bill de Blasio
and local state Sen. Andrew
Gounardes.
Baig was arraigned before
Brooklyn Supreme Justice
Danny Chun at 12 p.m. on
Aug. 21, when Jennifer Nocella,
the prosecuting attorney
for the District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez’s office, requested
a $100,000 bail in
bonds or $50,000 cash bail,
and that Baig hand over his
United States passport because
she said he could leave
the country to Pakistan,
where he has family.
Nocella also requested that
Baig hand over his driver’s
license, which has not been
suspended, according to Oren
Yaniv, a spokesman for the
DA’s office.
Defense attorney Jeffrey
Lewisohn asked Justice Chun
to lower the bond and said the
scene depicted in the video
footage was merely a tragic
accident.
Judge Chun ultimately set
the bail bond at $50,000 and
$10,000 in cash bail and ordered
Baig to hand over his
passport, but did not ask him
to surrender his driver’s license.
Baig’s next court date
is set for Oct. 23.
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
Hail to the Kings
County!
A group of plucky Brooklyn
amateurs ventured beyond
enemy lines — the
Bushwick-Ridgewood border
— to challenge a band of
Queens rivals in a series of
cunning challenges to determine
once and for all which
is the greatest borough of all
time.
There were tears and there
was pain, but in the end the
Kings County underdogs
emerged victorious, forcing
the vanquished foes from
Queens to swallow the bitter
pill of defeat in the inaugural
Arbitration Rock Battle
of the Boroughs.
“I’m okay with it,” said
Queens resident Bob Temkin,
whose team was trounced by
brainy Brooklynites in the
“I’ll study for next year.”
Gladiators young and old
journeyed to the hallowed
turf arena beside Arbitration
Rock — a historic boulder
now in Ridgewood, Queens,
but which once marked the
boundaries of rival Long
Island townships Newtown
and Bushwick — to represent
their beloved boroughs
in a battle royal of truly epic
proportions, according to the
event’s organizer.
“It was the first time we
did it and we had a nice turnout,”
said Virginia Comber of
the Greater Ridgewood Historical
Society. “We might
Contestants from Brooklyn and Queens faced off at
the inaugural Battle of the Boroughs at the Dutch
Colonial Vander Ende-Onderdonk House at Flushing
Avenue in Ridgewood, Queens.
Arianna Stimpfl/Greater Ridgewood Historical Society
make it an annual thing
now.”
The contest took the form
of various competitive challenges
— including a babiesonly
diaper dash, a hula hoop
challenge, pie eating, eggspoon
relay, limbo, two
dance-offs, and two Tugs-o-
War — all events that, while
arbitrary and arguably childish
when taken separately,
combined to form the most
dramatic sporting match in
Brooklyn history.
Queens took an early lead,
scoring big in the hula hoop,
limbo, and juniors Tug-o-
War, but Brooklyn rallied for
the dance off, trivia, and adult
Tug-o-War, winning with the
day by just 10 points, according
to one volunteer.
“It was a really small margin,”
said Diane Cusimano,
who was serving food and
refreshments.
And so the champions
celebrated with their trophy
— which sports a miniature
sculpture of Arbitration Rock
and will remain on display at
the historic house in Ridgewood
— and will bring back
home eternal glory and the
admiration of the thankful
borough.
“They have the honors of
bragging rights for this year,”
said Comber.
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