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29/05 Bwn-Awp P3 P7 POLICE REPORT P13 Sundance Brooklynites share film festival triumphs Arborcide NEWSPAPERS The Parks Department update says it killed trees — BROOKLYN’S REAL FREE only to save human lives • Saturday, February 4, 2006 • BWN 9, No. 5 •Vol.2 16 pages © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • ooklynPapers.com • Phone 718-834-9350 • www.Br 11201. 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, Including The Bensonhurst Paper Published every Saturday — online all the time — by off the race because they have too much “work” re- maining “to do” in the Council. McMahon has been involved in five elections to raise, at a butbare more minimum, likely $1$250,000, million since 2001 (including his wife’s race for civil court) P 5 P 2 and Gentile has also been a regular marathoner, los- Find out who won this ham! RT SMARTMOM to do it right,” said Assem- Brooklynites sing for their supper at monthly karaoke smackdown mom does DUMBO ing a race in 2001, winning his council seat in 2003 Harrison eyesBROOKLYN’S REAL NEWSPAPERS Vito’sblyman John Lavelle, seat chairman of the Staten Is- and being re-elected last year. Including The Bensonhurst Paper Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 14 pages • Vol. 29, No. 4 BWN •Saturday, January 28, 2006 • FREE With the bold-faced-name candidates bowing out, land Democratic Party. SECRET WEAPON “We have some candi- Harrison moved quickly to stake out his issues Dems: We’ll beat Vito with ‘mystery candidate’ By Gersh Kuntzman the Staten Island Democratic but it actually has 170,000 a class of people, not an ideology, which The Brooklyn Papers organization on Wednesday. registered Democrats to Gulino asserted that the 107,000 registered Republi- Staten Island Dem- candidate is “highly viable” cans. For that reason, a host of ocrats have finally found a and will have widespread Democrats believe Fossella is against Fossella, criticizing him for his support for candidate willing to take name-recognition and “pro- beatable — if the congress- on four-term incumbent ven” fundraising ability. man can be linked to a presi- Rep. Vito Fossella (R-Bay That talent would be vital if dent who is unpopular (at Ridge) — but they won’t Democrats hope to dethrone least in New York). dates who could have done I think will make me an attractive can- release the name of the Fossella, who has been repre- McMahon and others have ? trotted out that argument — lucky (or unlucky) bugger senting Staten Island and Bay until next week. Ridge since replacing Rep. one unsuccessfully made by A handful of Democrats — Susan Molinari, who quit in Barbaro, too — in inter- the invasion of Iraq. including City Councilmen 1997. views. Vincent Gentile (D-Bay According to the latest “He has not been voting in Ridge) and Mike McMahon campaign filings, Fossella has the interest of the people of (D-Staten Island), Communi- $500,000 cash in hand — the city and state of New nearly $100,000 more than York,” McMahon told the that, but they apparently indi- didate in both parts of the district.” ty Board 10 member Steve Who will challenge Vito Fossella in November? Harrison, and an unidentified was spent by his 2004 chal- New York Times, in between Ridge lawyer is Democrats’Staten Island professor, trade lawyer John Gulino. He said he would not re- lenger, Frank Barbaro, who dodging phone calls from ‘Secret Weapon’ “Clearly, we were misled [into war],” Harrison unionist and veteran — were “All I can say is we have a lease the name of the mystery got 41 percent of the vote. The Bay Ridge Paper. interviewed by a committee candidate!” Gulino told The campaigner until he could The district has long been “He is a strong supporter of The so-called “Verrazano district” headed by Staten Island Bay Ridge Paper. brief the executive board of represented by Republicans, See DEMS on page 3 cated that they have other 6 Coney volleyball coming said. “Whether the president did it intentionallyon page or By Gersh Kuntzman build a temporary 4,000-seat stadium on bring thousands of people to Coney Is- AVPtournament coming to Coney Is- The Brooklyn Papers the beach at Coney Island. land,” said Community Board 13 Dis- land, the sport has hit the big time — things going on.” The hot and sweaty, two-on-two team trict Manager Chuck Reichenthal, who Brooklyn,” Markowitz said. l consists of Staten Island, Bay Ridge l Get out your overly tight bikinis a tournaments will take place Aug. 17-20. predicted that the stadium plan would For those who don’t want to pay to b y and your SPF 45 — Bruce Ratner is e l It’s the AVP’s first beachhead in New blitz through the review process like a see the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue l o WEAPON bringing professional beach volley- V York City. Kerri Walsh spike. come to life, there will be plenty of pre- merely through incompetence doesn’t matter. We’re h By Gersh Kuntzman c ball to Coney Island. More than 150 of top professionals And Brooklyn’s volleyball-fan-in- liminary contests on the beachfront a e B Brooklyn Sports & Entertainment, an in the “sport” will compete — and the chief, Borough President Markowitz, was flanking the stadium. o See r affiliate of Ratner’s New Jersey Nets op- event will be televised live on NBC. jumping for joy — not as high as Holly While many fans enjoy beach volley- P P eration, has inked a deal with the AVP That last detail was even more impor- McPeak (but, then again, where was she ball for less-than-sportsmanlike reasons, V and Gravesend. A Pro Beach Volleyball Tour (the people tant to Coney Islanders than the skimpy during the transit strike?). it’s important to remember that American Lavelle said he was referring Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project remains controversial, but there’s nothing ire-provoking who brought us the hottest Olympic bikinis. “Beach volleyball may have had its women won the gold and the bronze about his latest initiative — a deal to bring top pro volleyball stars to Coney Island this summer. sport since Greco-Roman wrestling) to “The TV coverage is going to help origins on the West Coast, but with an medals at the 2004 Athens games. paying the price for it.” The Brooklyn Papers “I cross the bridge well,” added Cocoa is without a pier Sad day for to popular Staten Island City The mystery has been solved: Bay Ridge lawyer City: Move it from Hook to Sunset Park single freaks Harrison (he wasn’t crediting his E- Dick Zigun is off the market By Ariella Cohen the Ivory Coast — touching on such third ed whether to make port space available Heights), as a circle of dockworkers gath- Councilman Mike McMahon and The Brooklyn Papers rails as city politics, the future of the Port of elsewhere. ered around the ship last week. ATE TO BREAK the news and they landed near Cyprus,” Zi- gun said. “And Aphrodite was New York and even the development of the Walk’s bittersweet cargo had been strand- “The city is not willing to let these piers to you, Rubber Girl, Insecta- A cocoa-filled freighter — unable to keep going,” Yassky added. born out of the sea foam.” Brooklyn Bridge Park. ed on the East River since January 15, when vora, Helen Melon and unload its cargo because of a dispute Caught in the middle is Kip Walk, whose the Port Authority refused to allow Ameri- Pier operators had hoped to unload the ship H Zigun said Mukuro will eventu- Kerosene Queen, but the cliche is fi- between the Port Authority and the Blommer Chocolate is the largest cocoa can Stevedoring, which operates Pier 9, to at Pier 6 — but that site is now earmarked for ally assume her rightful place as a nally true: the good ones are all gone. operators of Brooklyn’s last working processor in the world and depends on the unload the 600-foot cargo ship at the nearby a high-rise developement that is part of the sideshow star: “I’m thinking Dick Steve Harrison has been plucked by a Democratic port — has been ordered to drop Red Hook pier. Pier 6, saying that the company was mis- “park” plan, so the city ruled it off-limits. Zigun, the king of all the Madame Twisto for her.” Z Pass, but merely pointing out that geeks, freaks and wonders of hu- anchor and unload downriver at a “I’m just trying to move some cocoa here, managing its port traffic. While the city, Port Authority and American vacant Sunset Park pier. but New York City politics keep not letting “When you have cargo that wants to un- Stevedoring negotiated, Blommer decided not man curiosity at Coney Island’s fa- colleague Vincent Gentile (D-Bay mous Circus Sideshow, is engaged The decision ended a two-week stalemate me,” Walk said. load, why is the [city] telling them they to risk another shipment to governmental THE BROOKLYN to be married. Walk said that his company lost $3,000 a don’t know where they can go?” asked paralysis in New York and rerouted a second By Gersh whose implications go beyond the fate of To a human being, no less! Councilman ship hauling $8 million in cocoa to Baltimore. ANGLE Kuntzman 250,000 burlap sacks of cocoa beans from day as the city and the Port Authority debat- David Yassky (D-Brooklyn But she’s a freak at heart.
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