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Driver crashes into Bed-Stuy pizza shop
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
A motorist sliced clear
through a Bedford-Stuyvesant
pizza parlor Tuesday morning,
wedging his vehicle in a
back room at the demolished
eatery.
The driver veered off Fulton
Street near Brooklyn Avenue
at 6:15 am, when he shot
through the pie joint, leaving
a trail of broken glass and rubble
in his wake.
It’s unclear how the driver
managed to exit the vehicle,
which appeared to be lodged
tight enough to prevent his
driver, or passenger side doors
from opening, and police speculate
that the motorist escaped
the wreckage through
the hatch at the rear of his vehicle.
The restaurant’s facade
was completely annihilated
and the inside strewn with debris,
but the driver suffered
only minor injuries and remained
on the scene following
the crash.
— Additional reporting by
Lloyd Mitchell
Industry City
supporters
clash with
activists
BY ROSE ADAMS
Advocates opposed to a planned
$1 billion expansion of Industry
City went head-to-head with supporters
of the manufacturing complex
during a Dec. 9 meeting inside
Grand Prospect Hall, where
unionized carpenters gathered in
force to promote the controversial
rezoning scheme.
“Any union who stands on the
side with corporate developers
is not on the side of the workers!”
said protester Corbin Laedlein, following
the testimonies of union
members, who voiced their support
for the Sunset Park complex’s
rezoning plan.
The public hearing came
nearly two months after Industry
City President and CEO Andrew
Kimball submitted the rezoning
proposal to the city, which jumpstarted
the city’s seven-month land
use review procedure. If approved,
the rezoning would pave the way
for a 12-year, $1-billion redevelopment
of the 35-acre campus, which
would add retail space, while permitting
the construction of academic
spaces and two hotels at the
Third Avenue industrial complex,
among other changes.
Critics have long argued that
the plan would lure large corporations
and gentrify the neighborhood
— kicking out small businesses
and low-income residents
— while Industry City proponents
claim that the plan would bring
needed jobs. At the last major public
hearing about the rezoning in
Sept., protesters shouted down
Councilman Carlos Menchaca (DSunset
Park) when he announced
his conditional support of the rezoning,
and several activist groups
have since held rallies opposing
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The male driver suffered minor injuries from the crash. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
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