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BREAKTHROUGH
TECHNOLOGY
RELIEVES BACK PAIN
Local doctor
treats herniated
and bulging discs,
Surgeons perform an estimated
300,000 to 400,000 back surgeries every
year. Annually, neurosurgeons perform
at least 100,000 operations for lumbar
disc disease alone, and orthopedic surgeons
perform a similar number. It is
estimated that between 20% and 40%
of these operations are unsuccessful.
That is why doctors from all over
the country are racing to acquire and
get trained to operate the DRX9000TM,
an FDA approved device that is saving
thousands of Americans suffering from
chronic back pain from going under the
knife.
Dr. Melinda Keller, who treats serious
back pain without surgery explains
how the DRX9000TM works... “Over
10 years ago, NASA began to notice
an unexpected result of space travel:
Astronauts that left with back pain would
come back without it. After investigated
this now phenomenon here’s what they
found: During the anti-gravity state of
the mission there were decompressive
forces on the intervertebral discs and
sciatica,
and serious
lower back pain
back pain was relieved. How? When
you travel through space, the effects
of gravity are removed and you are in
a weightless state. All the pressure is
taken off your spine and discs. Even
better — and this is the key — a negative
pressure is created. This negative
pressure actually sucks the herniated
material back into the disc and allows it
to heal. Thanks to the DRX9000TM, disc
herniation sufferers finally have a nonsurgical
solution.”
The main conditions the DRX9000TM
has documented success with are back
pain, sciatica, herniated and/or bulging
discs (single or multiple), degenerative
disc disease, facet syndromes and a
relapse or failure following back surgery.
Anyone wishing to learn more about
this new FDA approved solution to back
pain or to set up an appointment for a
free consultation call Dr. Keller’s office
at 718-234-6212 or visit Brooklyn Spine
Center, 5911 16th Avenue, Brooklyn,
NY 11204. Brooklynspinecenter.com.
DRX9000TM
WITHOUT
BACK SURGERY
Housing project moves ahead
Crown Heights development promises affordability
Photo by Edelman Sultan Knox Wood/Architects LLP
PIZZA ART... “I bowed to Mr Cattelan
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“Pizza,” along with signage
advertising its sale for a meager
$100,000.
So far, he hasn’t gotten
any offers.
“I took a crack at it,” said
Ayoub. “I’m still waiting on
a buyer though. Cattelan got
four, I didn’t get any!”
Ayoub unveiled his masterpiece
on the pizzeria’s Instagram
page Monday as a tribute
to Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s
now-infamous piece
“Comedian,” which, simply
put, is a banana duct-taped
to a wall.
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for inspiration,” he said.
And while the aptly named
“Pizza” reigns as the chef’s
magnum opus, Ayoub happens
to moonlight as an accomplished
glassblower, and
the culinary artist has displayed
works including a massive
chandelier at his Greenpoint
pizza shop before.
Cattelan’s fruit art caused
a stir at the Miami-based gallery
Art Basel when an anonymous
buyer purchased the
rights to the potassium-rich
piece for a whopping $120,000
— only for Brooklyn-based
performance artist David Datuna
to tear the pricey fruit
off the wall and eat it, upon
which the gallery had the
piece “taken down.”
Ayoub’s pizza piece has
garnered some attention of
its own since he hung it up
Monday, with passersby taking
pictures, as younger customers
ask the tough questions.
“There was this family and
the kid says, ‘daddy daddy the
pizza is on the wall’ and the
father goes, ‘it’s a very long
story,’” Ayoub said.
For reasons of hygiene, the
chef will replace his “art” with
a new pie on a daily basis.
He attributes any difficulty
in selling the pie to his modest
reputation within the art
community.
“I wanted to put the price a
little lower because I’m not as
well-known of an artist.”
By Ben Verde
Brooklyn Paper
A 100-percent affordable
housing development
in Crown Heights is inching
closer to reality after local
land use gurus blessed
a scheme to transfer public
land to a non-profit housing
provider.
Members of Community
Board 8’s Land Use Committee
voted unanimously
on Thursday to endorse the
plan, which would transfer a
large city-owned lot on Prospect
Place near Buffalo Avenue
to the Settlement Housing
Fund, a non-profit provider of
affordable housing.
“This is a very welcome
project,” said Ethel Tyus, the
chairwoman of Community
Board 8.
The eight-story development,
around the corner from
the Weeksville Heritage Center
will contain 45 units, including
22 studios, eight
one-bedrooms, and 15 twobedroom
apartments. Rents
The building will go up around the corner from the
Weeksville Heritage Center and will contain 100
percent affordable units.
will be as low as $377 a month
for some studios, with prices
capping out at $1,623 a month
for a two bedroom.
26 of the 45 units will be
reserved for seniors, while
eight will be set aside for
the formerly homeless. The
building will include a landscaped
garden in the back of
the lot, as well as a community
room, bike storage, and
a shared terrace.
The remaining units will
be offered to residents making
between 30 and 60-percent
of New York City’s area
median income, a figure calculated
by the US Department
of Housing and Urban
Development, which is currently
pegged at $96,100 for
a family of three.
However, the president for
Settlement Housing Fund told
board members that the nonprofit
actively pursues state
and city subsidies on behalf of
would-be tenants in an effort
to qualify them for units aimed
at higher income brackets.
“We very actively help our
residents get subsidies, and
those subsidies count towards
a persons income,” said Alexa
Sewell. “We very often may
rent a 50 percent AMI unit to
a person or a household whose
actual income is quite a bit less
than that, but with the housing
subsidies, they can afford
that higher rent.”
The developer’s deal with
the city requires Settlement
Housing Fund to provide affordable
housing there for at
least 40 years.
The Crown Heights Affordable
Housing development
is as of right so it does
not require a rezoning once
the land swap is certified. Developers
estimate the project
will take 18-24 months once
it is approved.
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