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COMING SOON: Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory co-owner Mark Thompson poses in front of a temporary ice cream truck to mark the upcoming opening of the newest
ice cream shop in Dumbo. Photo by Aidan Graham
GAME OF CONES
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory plots return to Dumbo
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
It’s a dish best served cold.
A beloved Dumbo ice cream
shop recently forced out of the
neighborhood is making a sweet
comeback. Brooklyn Ice Cream
Factory — which operated out of
the historic fi reboat house at Fulton
Ferry Landing for 17 years
before closing last December —
will open a new storefront just
steps from its old shop, facing off
against the rival that scooped it
out, said the Factory’s co-founder.
“The Ice Cream Factory was
a fi xture in the neighborhood,”
said Mark Thompson. “We were
forced out of the space, and I left
gracefully — but I couldn’t get ice
cream out of my blood.”
Thompson hopes to open his
new space, at 14A Old Fulton
Street, in October. The location
will be a walk-up window based
in a hollowed-out cargo container,
near the entrance to Brooklyn
Bridge Park.
“We wanted to keep it simple,
because it’s all about making
great ice cream,” said Thomson.
“And it’s perfect with the park
right there. People can walk up,
get their ice cream, and enjoy a
day in the park.”
The new location sets up a
showdown with fellow Brooklynbased
sweet treat chain Ample
Hills Creamery, which took over
the Ferry Landing space after outbidding
the Brooklyn Ice Cream
Factory for a contract on the
space, which is operated by Brooklyn
Bridge Park Conservancy.
“Now I’m forced to look at the
building every day,” said Thompson.
“It’s a hard pill to swallow.”
Thompson insists he harbors
Sunset Park
mourns loss
of cyclist
BY ROSE ADAMS
Mourners gathered on Tuesday
evening to hold vigil for a fallen
Brooklyn cyclist, whose life was
cut short by a tractor-trailer
that struck her on Third Avenue
in Sunset Park Monday.
“She was kind, she was generous,”
said a teary-eyed friend
of slain cyclist Em Samolewicz.
“We were both doored last week,
but she didn’t make it.”
Samolewicz, a 30-year-old
Sunset Park resident, was traveling
north along Third Avenue
near 36th Street at 9 a.m. on July
29, when she swerved into the
path of a massive Freightliner
truck while trying to avoid being
doored by a parked van, cops
said.
Paramedics rushed the victim
to NYU Langone Hospital-
Brooklyn, where she was pronounced
dead, according to
police.
Samolewicz’s death marks
the 18th cyclist fatality citywide,
nearly double the 10 bikers who
died in 2018 — the safest year on
record. She’s the 13th cyclist to
die in Brooklyn, where more cyclists
have perished compared
to other boroughs in eight of the
last 12 years.
Last week, Mayor Bill de Blasio
called the cyclists’ deaths “a
crisis and emergency,” and announced
his plan to dramatically
expand the city’s bike lane
network , adding 80 miles of protected
bike lanes — including
a two-way path along Sunset
Park’s Fourth Avenue. But to
many mourners at Samolewicz’s
vigil, the mayor’s plan is too little,
too late.
“The Fourth Avenue protected
bike lane was supposed
to be completed from Atlantic
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