“Family Day,” an annual event organized by the Prospect Park Alliance for its members, features carousel rides, pedal boats, and tours of the park’s Audubon Center.

The 75-seat club, located in a performance space on the second floor of the eatery, will be open four days a week for now and feature comedians from across the country.

The decree, published in Hebrew in the Orthodox newspaper Hamodia and signed by 33 rabbis, warned that the sight of dancing and singing performers would cause “ribaldry and lightheadedness” that would lure young people away from spiritual purity. It prohibited Orthodox Jews from attending the concert and called on Mr. Schmeltzer to back out.

The ban has inflamed tensions among ultra-Orthodox Jews over how to address the influences of popular culture, and it has thrust what has largely been an internal debate into public view.

Assemblyman Dov Hikind, whose Brooklyn district includes many Hasidic neighborhoods, said the ban had triggered unprecedented dissent and outrage among Hasidim. “In all my 26 years of representing this community, I can’t remember anything that has so shaken the people,” Mr. Hikind said on Sunday.

The growing fame of Mr. Schmeltzer, who weaves pop melodies with traditional Hasidic songs, has troubled some Hasidim, who have chided him for introducing Jewish youth to secular musical styles. Others fear his popularity could rival that of the rabbis, who wield spiritual authority over Hasidic daily life.

In an effort to assuage those fears and uphold the religious practice of modesty, the concert organizers had promised separate entrances and seating for the more than 5,000 men and women who had been expected to attend, and Mr. Schmeltzer had agreed to perform only traditional Hasidic songs.

Leigh-Taylor Smith, 22, captured the sparkling tiara Saturday afternoon and promptly whisked it across the East River, forcing the borough to wait at least another year before it can crown one of its daughters with top honors.

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. . . Smith, whose main qualification for being Miss Brooklyn — other than her looks, talent and charm — is that she is a parishioner at the Brooklyn Tabernacle on the Fulton Mall in Downtown.

Plus, she’s made the hajj to Junior’s and the Coney Island Boardwalk since moving to New York after graduating from the University of Virginia last year.

“Living in Manhattan, it’s nice to come to a low-key place like Brooklyn,” she told The Brooklyn Paper.

Before Brooklynites take umbrage at Smith’s victory, partisans should remember that it might never have happened had more genuine Brooklynites signed up.

“Dear scumbag” the 71-year-old crank wrote after the decorations were torn down and unceremoniously dumped on his doorstep. “If I catch you, I will kill you where you are. You don’t want to f- – – with the Irish.”

Most of his tenants are from the Middle East, and Martin doesn’t hide the fact that he’d be happy if they went back whence they came.

In another note, Martin wrote, “To all tenants. If you don’t know how to read, there are 3 airports, pick 1 and keep going and don’t come back.”

“He’s crazy,” one tenant said. “He’s nuts.”

Standing outside the four-story building at 278 91st St. holding his cuddly Pekinese dog, Pretty Girl, the potty-mouthED senior told The Post that most of his notes are geared toward tenants’ inability to follow orders on how to throw out trash.

“They’re Arabs, they don’t give a f- – -,” said Martin, sporting a Ground Zero memorial baseball cap.

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Martin, a former transit employee who became a super in 1994, said he started writing the notes a few years ago because the building regularly received summonses for trash collection.

He said in the past week, he’s received two summonses worth $125 in fines. That led him to post new notes, telling tenants to “put garbage inside the cans and not on top of [trash can] covers,” adding, “This is the last warning.”