August 18, 2019 Your Neighborhood — Your News®
Aug. 23-22, 2019
Pastry shop
to open in
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Park Slope LOCAL
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CHIC!
Bollywood-style girl group
to perform in Brooklyn
These women are ready to
groove!
A Brooklyn girl group will
bring a blend of disco and Bollywood
sounds to the Archway Under
the Manhattan Bridge this
week. The band Say She She,
performing on Aug. 22 as part of
Dumbo’s Live at the Archway series,
draws inspiration from ’70s
soul singers, Motown, and an Indian
and Indian classical music, said
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID: The three-part harmony of the band Say She She
will ring out in the Archway under the Manhattan Bridge on Aug. 22.
Photo Via Say She She
Bridging the divide Former NBA star sentenced
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
BY CHANDLER KIDD
diva known for blending jazz
Onetime American professional
basketball
player Sebastian Telfair
was sentenced to
three-and-a-half years in
prison for illegal weapons
possession, Brooklyn’s
top prosecutor announced
Monday.
The nine-year NBA
one of its three lead singers.
“Think Minnie Riperton
meets the Supremes, with a sprinkling
Malik. “All this doused heavily
in the rhythmic wah-guitar, melodic
and badass horn section.”
Malik and fellow singers Sabrina
Parker Brown lead the eight-part
band. The group’s name pays
homage to one of their favorite
veteran was slapped with
felony charges for carrying
a loaded .45-caliber
handgun, which police
discovered during a traffic
stop in June 2017, according
to District Attorney
Eric Gonzalez.
Cops stopped Telfair
and another man after
spotting the athlete pull
of Asha Puthli,” said Piya
synths, bansuri fl ute lines
Cunningham and Nya
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an illegal U turn on Atlantic
Avenue near Classon
Avenue and then
drive towards Prospect
Heights with his headlights
off at 2:50 a.m. on
June 11, according to
Gonzalez.
The officers detected
an odor of weed, and after
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
A Bensonhurst pastry chef
is opening a new bakery on
Park Slope’s Fifth Avenue in
the wake of a failed online fundraiser,
which may not have raised
any cash, but garnered some
great press!
“So, that wasn’t successful fi -
nancially, but I think it was worth
doing anyway, because I got a lot
of publicity,” said Lindsey Hill,
owner of Miss American Pie.
Hill — who’s operated a pieonly
digital storefront since 2017
— will celebrate the grand opening
of her debut brick-and-mortar
location between Warren Street
and St. Marks Place on Aug. 17,
where she’ll offer a variety of
tasty treats, without neglecting
the dessert that’s served as her
bread and butter for the last two
years, she said.
“My signature pie is my best
seller. It’s apples, peaches, and
blueberries with an oak crumb
topping and a butter lattice
crust,” said Lindsey Hill, owner
of Miss American Pie. “Also, my
coconut cream pie. It’s very fresh
and delicious. Even people who
don’t like coconut like it.”
Hill originally migrated to
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will
invest $5.6 million to create
new pedestrian crossings
to connect Downtown
areas separated
by the Brooklyn-Queens
Expressway.
The elevated, cross-borough
highway separates
Downtown Brooklyn from
Dumbo and residents of
Fort Greene’s massive Ingersoll
Houses from the
Navy Yard and Commodore
Barry Park, creating
dicey street crossings and
casting a literal shadow
over much of the neighborhood.
The state cash infu-
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Sebastian Telfair was found
with a .45-calber gun in his
car on Atlantic Avenue.
AP Photo/John Minchillo
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