Jane Walentas, an artist who spent more than 20 years restoring a century-old carousel as a gift to the Brooklyn waterfront neighborhood that she helped her husband, David Walentas, develop, died on July 5 at her home in Southampton, N.Y. She was 76. The cause was lung cancer, her son, Jed Walentas, said. It took decades to transform the area into the now-prosperous ZIP code of Dumbo, as Mr. Walentas battled the city, which had stalled on rezoning it, and community groups, which were concerned about gentrification. David Walentas got all the ink, good and bad. But Jane, a printmaker and former art director at Clinique, was by all accounts his full partner in the endeavor.

Source: New York Times July 17, 2020 23:26 UTC