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Giving
back!
Southern BK group
donates donuts to
nursing homes
BY JESSICA PARKS
Frontline workers at a Manhattan
Beach nursing home
enjoyed desserts on-the-house
courtesy of a southern Brooklyn
community group hoping to
show their appreciation for the
dedicated workers during the
ongoing pandemic.
“Individually and collectively
you deserve the recognition
and appreciation of all people
for the care and service you
have provided during this time
of extreme physical and emotional
trauma,” said Maurice
Kolodin, president of Shorefront
Partnership Alliance.
With contributions from a
slew of southern Brooklyn representatives,
the good samaritans
gifted hundreds of kosher donuts
from Dunkin Donuts to feed
the nearly 300 workers at Menorah
Center for Rehabilitation
and Nursing Care on June 25.
‘HE CHANGED
THE WORLD’
Massive mural memorializing
George Floyd unveiled in Canarsie
High-speed crash leaves three kids dead
BY TODD MAISEL
Detectives believe high-speed antics
may have led to a tragic car crash that
claimed the lives of three young Sheepshead
Bay residents at Floyd Bennett
Field on the night of July 11.
Police say a group of teens were riding
in a 2020 Toyota traveling at a high speed
westbound on the 440 Runway of Floyd
Bennett Field when the car smashed into
the driver’s side of a Kia Forte traveling
at a similarly high speed.
According to authorities, the 16-yearold
driver, Emil Badalov, and two of its
passengers, 11-year-old Daniel Sidgiyayeva
and 18-year-old Margarita Sidgiyayeva,
were killed in the wreck. A
fourth passenger, 17, was transported to
NYU Langone-Brooklyn, where he was
listed in critical condition.
The three who were traveling in the
Toyota are said to be in stable condition
at Kings County Hospital. Law enforcement
sources say the driver of that car
was also 16 years old.
Police from the NYPD Collision Investigation
Squad and federal police from
Gateway National Recreational Area
were probing whether the teens were
drag racing on the long runway — a part
of the Gateway National Park system at
Floyd Bennett Field, the city’s fi rst municipal
airport.
BY LLOYD MITCHELL
A sprawling mural painted
in memory of George Floyd was
unveiled near the corner of East
80th Street and Flatlands Avenue
in Canarsie on July 13.
The mural took about a month
to create, according to artist
Kenny Altidor, who in the past
has paid tribute to fallen police
offi cers, fi refi ghters and other
fi rst responders.
“This makes me feel good,” he
said. “It was something I defi -
nitely had to do, just like I’ve done
for fallen police and fi refi ghters
in the area.”
On May 25, Minneapolis police
offi cers arrested Floyd, a 46-yearold
Black man, for allegedly using
a counterfeit bill. During the
arrest, Police Offi cer Chauvin
knelt on Floyd’s neck for eight
continuous minutes, killing him.
The incident sparked global outrage
about police brutality and
prompted ongoing protests which
have continued across the city.
On July 13, elected offi cials
and neighborhood residents
came together for the mural’s unveiling,
which State Senator Roxanne
Persaud said would serve
as reminder of how far the Black
Lives Matter movement has come
— and how much work still needs
to be done.
“This will be a reminder that
we are overcoming daily struggles
and that Black lives still matter,”
she said.
“My brother changed the
world just like how he said he
would,” Floyd’s brother Terrence
said Monday at the unveiling. “I
still wish I could see him. Now I
will jump on a bus to see him in
Canarsie.”
The mural depicts George
Floyd’s face sitting above a halfearth,
with the inscription “Black
Lives Matter.”
Police offi cers from the 69th
Precinct also helped lend a hand
in the painting, according to Altidor.
A new mural memorializing George Floyd was unveiled in Canarsie on July 13.
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
Police at the crash scene. Photo by Jon Farina
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