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By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
The chicken has landed!
Southern fried chicken
chain Chick-fil-A celebrated
the grand opening of its inaugural
Kings County location
in Prospect Heights on
Thursday.
Brooklynites hankering
for the Georgia-based poultry
purveyor’s golden-fried
fowl endured long lines
that stretched out the door
and down Flatbush Avenue
from the eatery’s newly renovated
storefront between Pacific
Street and Fifth Avenue,
where one fan said the wait to
get inside was nothing compared
to the wait for Chickfil
A’s Brooklyn debut.
“It’s about time they had
one around here,” said Crown
Heights resident Jared Foyer.
“I’m very excited.”
The chicken chain’s arrival
across the street from Barclay’s
Center sets the stage
for a food-fight with next
door neighbor Shake Shack
— which sat mostly empty
on Thursday as Chick-fil-A
staffers struggled to fry up
enough chicken to satisfy the
overwhelming demand.
But the owner of the new
Chick-fil-A location didn’t
Hundreds of diners lined up to try the first Chickfil
A outpost in Brooklyn on Sept. 12.
Photo by Aidan Graham
want to boast, saying he
only hoped to be a good
neighbor.
“I’m so excited to open our
doors to this community and
to offer our guests an environment
where they can enjoy
great food and comfort
with friends and family,” said
Brandon Hurst.
Hurst’s neighborly talk belies
the cut-throat recruiting
tactics the eatery employed
in the weeks prior to Thursday’s
opening, when a Chickfil
A operative allegedly tried
to poach staff from a nearby
juice bar — much to its owner’s
chagrin.
Hurst denied any involvement
in that incident and
blamed the incident on a rogue
corporate employee.
While the restaurant’s
new workers may or may
not have juicing experience,
the eatery expects to employ
approximately 120 staffers
to run the chicken joint
everyday except Sunday
— when all Chick-fil-A
locations are closed to
conform with the Southern
Baptist values of its nowdeceased
founder.
Those religious roots have
landed the chain at the center
of multiple controversies, including
forking over big bucks
to fund Christian organizations
that discriminate against
the LGBTQ community, according
to a Think Progress
report .
But Hurst said everyone
is welcome to enjoy his tasty
fried chicken, saying politics
in Georgia won’t affect his
business here in Brooklyn.
“If you can love yourself,
that’s all we care about here,”
he said.
By Aidan Graham
Brooklyn Paper
Police arrested a Brownsville
man on hate crime
charges on Sept. 12 for allegedly
beating a rabbi with
a paving stone in Crown
Heights.
The 26-year-old suspect,
who was cuffed on charges
including assault as a hate
crime and criminal possession
of a weapon, was immediately
hospitalized following
his arrest, cops said.
Police Department spokeswoman
Officer Arlene Muniz
could not comment regarding
why he was hospitalized.
The 63-year-old Jewish
leader was walking through
Lincoln Terrace Park near
Buffalo and East New York
avenues in the early morning
hours of Aug. 27, when
the 26-year-old suspect threw
a rock at him, which missed,
according to police.
A scuffle ensued when the
rabbi confronted the stone
hurler, leading his alleged
attacker to savagely smash
a massive paving stone into
the victim’s face, knocking
out his two front teeth, cops
said.
First responders took the
victim to Maimonides Medical
Center in Borough Park for
treatment of non-life threatening
injuries, authorities
said.
The victim’s son-in-law,
popular Hasidic singer Benny
Friedman , took to Twitter the
day after the attack to praise
his father-in-law and blast his
attacker as an anti-Semite.
“This is absolutely frightening,
and obviously something
that a civilization should
never tolerate,” said Friedman.
“This morning my father in
law was back in the park. He
refuses to be afraid, and he will
not let evil or hate determine
how he lives his life.”
Police arrested a 26-yearold
Councilman Chaim Deutsch
Brownsville man for
allegedly assaulting a
63-year-old Jewish rabbi
in Crown Heights with a
massive paving stone.
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