To promote his latest venture, Niels Neudecker invites me to meet him at the All Saints Old Catholic Church in Ridgewood. Along with his wife, Viola, he runs the Brooklyn Surf Club out of their somewhat new home in Bushwick; as German nationals, they first landed in the Upper West Side but they eventually found it to be stifling. Now, they’re here and selling surf lessons – starting at $85 – promising paying customers that the money lets Neudecker, a Walmart executive by day, afford to give free lessons to kids from historically underprivileged communities. At places like All Saints, where Father Mike Lopez runs a local charity group called Hungry Monks, Neudecker tries to get word out.
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