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May 1–xx, 2016
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Three Bklyn
cyclists killed
in four days IT’S ARCH
MADNESS
Dumbo music series returns
You can cross that bridge later —
for now, stay underneath it!
Brooklyn’s only music series
located beneath an active subway
fantastic year of tunes on June
13. The Live at the Archway series
Manhattan Bridge echoing with
music each summer and gets
people dancing on its cobblestone
free weekly arts event says that
she loves the challenge of working
beneath the Bridg.
“It’s an honor, and a lot of fun,
to curate this series — to experiment
off its history, its physicality,
its acoustics, and to collaborate
with its community,” said Clara
Schumacher
For the series, the events director
Improvement District looks for
unique musical acts that can fi ll
JUMP FOR JOY: Retro performer Dandy Wellington will lead his brass band
through some hot New Oreleans jazz tunes in the Manhattan Archway Plaza
on Aug. 8. Nina Galicheva
Grooving on to recovery
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
BY BILL ROUNDY
line will return for its fi fth
sets the Archway under the
street. The architect of the
with the cavernous tunnel
with this epic space, to play
for Dumbo’s Business
This musician has gone
pro!
A Bushwick synth-pop
artist will launch her debut
full-length album with
two local shows: at Brooklyn
Bazaar on May 31 and
at Rough Trade on July 11.
One-woman outfi t Pronoun
a tunnel big enough to feel like
the outdoors.
“The Archway is a unique
space, even for New York,” said
Schumacher. “I’m looking for
acts that have an unexpected element,
hold their own in the Archway —
that feel very Dumbo.”
She also looks for acts that refl
ect the diversity of the neighborhood.
“It’s very important to me
that Live at the Archway is inclusive,
the series is eclectic, pulling in
a diversity of musical genres and
performative elements.”
This year’s lineup includes
artists from a wide variety of
genres, opening with Live at
the Archway’s first Congolese
band, Nkumu Katalay and the
Life Long Project, and featuring
Caique Vidal and Batuque, and
1920s-style jazz from Dandy
says that her new record
“i’ll show you stronger,”
traces her recovery from
a painful breakup and her
evolution towards facing
grander struggles.
“This album is that moment
after you break up,
that angry frustrated moment
when you’re over that
that are joyous, that can
welcoming. Collectively,
Afro-Brazilian dance band
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‘I want you back’ feeling.
It’s focused more on that
frustration and fi nding
yourself again,” said the
musician, who goes by Alyse
Vellturo offstage.
Vellturo’s fi rst release, a
2016 four-track collection —
titled “There’s no one new
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
A 16-year-old bicyclist is dead after
a box truck ran him over in
Borough Park on May 15, according
to authorities.
The teen’s death marks the
10th bicyclist fatality in the city
this year, and the eighth in Kings
County, according to city data .
The teenager was cycling along
17th Avenue when he swerved to
avoid an opening car door, causing
him to fall to the ground near
the intersection of 53rd Street.
The trailing box truck then ran
over the teen as he was laying in
the street at approximately 5:38
p.m., cops said.
First responders took the victim
to Maimonides Hospital,
where doctors pronounced him
dead.
Another cyclist, pedaling
through Crown Heights, was
hit by a car and taken to Kings
County Hospital on May 11 and
pronounced dead on May 14, according
to police.
Three days before last
Wednesday’s tragedy, the driver
of an SUV fatally struck 29-yearold
biker Robert Sommer in Marine
Park.
After Sommer’s death on May
B’hurst civic
fi ghts bike lane
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
They want the city to pump
the brakes on its bike plan.
City offi cials must reconsider
their plan to build
a bike lane along the Southern
Brooklyn coast, according
to Bensonhurst
civic gurus, who called the
city’s current proposal unsafe
because it lacks proper
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HERS: One-woman band
Pronoun sings about her
post-breakup struggles.
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