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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, AUG. 4, 2019
VIGIL
to 65th Street last year,”
Councilman Brad Lander
(D-Park Slope) told the
crowd. “We’ll never know
if it had been completed,
if Em would’ve been riding
on that protected bike
lane instead of here.”
Biking advocates
blamed elected offi cials
for pandering to motorists
for the mounting cyclist
deaths.
“The parking culture
that generations of mayors
and city council have
upheld are the reason
for these tragedies,” said
Marco Conner, the deputy
director of Transportation
Alternatives, a nonprofi t
dedicated to decreasing
car usage.
Other mourners remembered
the life of Samolewicz,
who hoped to
become a yoga teacher
serving transgender and
impoverished practitioners.
“She was about to
start training to become
a teacher,” Lea Bender, a
friend of Samolewicz from
her yoga studio, said before
reading a statement
Samolewicz had written
about her love for the
meditative practice, and
her hope to become a yoga
teacher.
“There’s nothing quite
like coming off a beautiful
class. I hope to be able to offer
that someday — to use
what I know in a healing
fashion to make space for
transgender and gendernon
conforming people in
yoga, for poor people in
yoga, and for self-discovery,
because I have a lot to
learn, and I can’t actually
imagine I could ask for
much more,” Samolewicz
had written.
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no ill will, but could not
resist taking an ice-cold
jab at his new next-door
neighbors.
“Whether they want to
admit it or not — their ice
cream is mass produced,”
he said. “We make our ice
cream as fresh as possible.
It’s a tale of two types
of businesses.”
Thompson’s most
pointed critique came
for the management at
Brooklyn Bridge Park —
the landlords that forced
him out after nearly two
decades — saying they
failed to respect the
lasting character of the
borough.
“Brooklyn has always
been built on long-term
commitment — but that’s
not there with them,”
he said. “They’ll be out
there next week painting
the Brooklyn Bridge
blue — without any care
for the history there.”
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ANOTHER TRAGEDY: Mourners held up photos of Em Samolewicz
and the names of the 17 other cyclists killed in New York City this
year at Samolewicz’s vigil in Sunset Park. Photo by Trey Pentecost
BLUEPRINT: The newest Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory location in Dumbo will live in a hollowed out
cargo container. Photo by Aidan Graham
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