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GET POOCH THE BALL: A dog lounges in the ball pit at “Best Dog Day Ever,” a pup-up PERFECT
spot offering an indoor place for dogs to play, starting on Oct. 4. The Dodo
Massive canine wonderland comes to Williamsburg
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
It’s a doggy heaven on earth!
A new Fido-friendly amusement
park will romp into Williamsburg
this weekend! “Best
Dog Day Ever: Halloween Edition”
will open on Oct. 4 for a
month-long stint of offering
mutts a dog-gone adorable twohour
extravaganza of puppy
play, said a rep with the company.
“It’s a place where you can
really pamper your pooch,”
said Venus Ferrer. “Everything
in the space is from the
perspective of putting pups
first.”
The spot has a Halloween
theme, but it is no doggy
haunted house — instead, it is
an indoor wonderland of wags,
with play spaces, grooming opportunities,
a canine costume
closet, and a Halloween watering
hole, all designed to celebrate
your fuzzy little buddy.
Even the spacious play pen and
the lengthy obstacle course
will capture images and reward
canine accomplishments,
said Ferrer.
“There’s a ball pit with a sixfoot
slide so dogs can go in head
first — with a slow-motion camera
attached so you can get an
image of that,” she said. “And
we have a corn maze where the
dog goes through, and we time
the dog on how quickly he goes
from one end to the other.”
Tail-waggers looking for
tasty treats can cool down at a
Halloween-themed treat shop
— featuring healthy ice cream
and nutritious non-alcoholic
“beer,” said Ferrer.
“We have a trick-or-treat
shop, where you and your dog
can share an ice cream sundae
together — we have dogfriendly
ice cream, and dogfriendly
toppings,” she said.
“You can also share a dogfriendly
beer with your dog.”
There will also be actual
human-friendly beer for the
human companions, she said.
The entire experience is designed
to be picture perfect for
social media-savvy dog owners
who want to capture fur-fect
photos of their fuzzy compan-
Kings Plaza
arsonist
sentenced
Federal judge
slaps vandal with
fi ve-year sentence
BY CHANDLER KIDD
A Flatlands arsonist will
spend five years behind bars
for setting a massive blaze that
engulfed the parking garage of
Kings Plaza Shopping Center
last year.
Federal Judge I. Leo Glasser
slapped 23-year-old Evon Stephens
with the lengthy sentence
on Sept. 25 for igniting
the inferno that injured 25 people
and damaged more than 135
vehicles in the garage on Avenue
U in Mill Basin, according
to prosecutors.
Surveillance video captured
Stephens entering the parking
lot in the early morning hours
of Sept. 17 of last year, before
breaking into a Mercedes Benz
and setting fire to the car’s interior,
according to prosecutors.
The blaze soon spread
through the massive parking
structure, leading to a three
hour firefight.
“This crime senselessly endangered
the lives of FDNY
members and the public, and
caused tremendous property
damage,” said Fire Department
Commissioner Daniel Nigro. “I
commend our Fire Marshals...
for their outstanding investigative
work that led to the apprehension
and sentencing of
this dangerous arsonist.”
Police arrested Stephens
several hours after the fire began
— when he reportedly told
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