June 9, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
May 1–xx, 2016
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Giant graffi ti exhibition
comes to Williamsburg
This show will spray it and say it!
A new exhibit in Williamsburg
celebrates graffi ti artists and rule
breakers with a massive display
of street art. “Beyond the Streets,”
opening on June 21 in a newly
built, soon-to-be offi ce building,
showcases more than 150 of the
world’s most important street
artists, with a special focus on
the Brooklyn artists who turned
spraying paint on the side of a
STREET SMARTS: The graffi ti exhibit “Beyond the Street” features this photo
of Lil’ Crazy Legs in Riverside Park during the 1980s. Martha Cooper
Feds, it’s
time to
talk turds
Pride and joy Park Slope gay bar closes
BY COLIN MIXSON
They had a gay old time!
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Park Slope’s top queer
hangout will close its doors
on July 31 after 20 years in
the neighborhood.
Excelsior owners Richard
Kennedy and Mark
Nayden announced the closure
of the Park Slope gay
subway car into a global phenomenon,
said the show’s curator.
“We have a lot of New York-focused
is historical” said Roger Gastman.
“There’s a section that is very hiphop
on activism, highlighting artists
that have used street art to draw
attention to specifi c causes.”
The gallery, which will be
open for about two months, in-
bar in a June 3 Facebook
post , crediting community
pride for the watering hole’s
longevity — and rising
rents for its closure.
“More than ever, rising
costs, like rent and taxes,
make your neighborhood
bars and restaurants struggle
every day,” read the post
pieces, and a lot of work that
oriented, and there’s a section
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signed by Kennedy and
Nayden. “Twenty years of
serving this community
is something we are proud
of, and in this World Pride
Month we plan on celebrating
each and every day.”
The owners of the queer
watering hole between 15th
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Uncle Sam isn’t taking any of
the city’s crap!
Federal environmental offi -
cials are anxiously counting the
turds of some 20,000 new residents
that would move to Gowanus
in the wake of a city-backed
rezoning, and they’re demanding
local offi cials create a plan
to protect the neighborhood’s notoriously
fetid canal from the extra
waste amid a more than $1.2
billion federal cleanup of the waterway,
according to the fed in
charge of cleaning Brooklyn’s
Nautical Purgatory.
“In the coming weeks and
months and years we will be
looking at those numbers and
we will be asking the city and
the developers to take measures
to mitigate any effects that these
big numbers might have on the
remedy,” said Christos Tsiamis
of the Environmental Protection
Agency at the May 28th meeting
of the local watchdog group the
Gowanus Community Advisory
Group.
Current residents fl ush about
BY BILL ROUNDY
This is your guide to Pride!
The borough of Kings
will be fi lled with queens.
This year marks the 50th
anniversary of the Stonewall
Riots, w hich kicked off
the modern gay rights movement,
and the city’s gay community
and its allies are
ready to celebrate — as are
people around the world, fl ying
in for World Pride!
Brooklyn’s own twilight
Pride Parade happens on
June 8, but there are plenty
of Pride-related festivities
before and after the Park
Slope march. We’ve rounded
Continued on page 6
CHEERS!: Bartender and
entertainer Lailah Lancing
raises a glace to Excelsior.
Photo by Stefano Giovannini
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