SURPRISE Atop Brownfield, Condos Planned Along Canal Shore
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SATURDAY • NOVEMBER 13, 2004 Including The Brooklyn Heights Paper, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper, DUMBO Paper, Downtown News and The Bay Ridge Paper Brooklyn’s REAL newspapers Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages • Vol. 27, No. 44 BWN • Saturday, November 13, 2004 • FREE GOWANUS SURPRISE Atop brownfield, condos planned along canal shore By Jess Wisloski / Tom Callan / Tom The Brooklyn Papers A local developer backed by an Israeli real estate EXCLUSIVE development company plans to turn a contaminated site along the Gowanus Canal into 350 condominium has grown cleaner thanks to the efforts of community ac- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn and rental units, The Brooklyn Papers has learned. tivists and elected officials. The tentatively named Gowanus Village would consist of With the resumption of the flushing tunnel, which four- to six-story townhouses and 10-story loft buildings on keeps water flowing through the long-stagnant canal, en- a more than two-acre site bounded by the canal, Third Av- vironmentalists have seen oysters thrive and other, more enue, and Carroll and Third streets, according to a listing of uncommon aquatic life pass through the industrially pol- Capturing the spirit residential projects on the Web site of Africa-Israel Invest- luted canal. Last year, a passing seal even hopped ashore ments Ltd., which has partnered with Brooklyn developer on the Red Hook end. More noticeably, the canal’s once A runner carries an American flag along Fourth Avenue near 92nd Street in Bay Ridge during last Sunday’s New York City Marathon. Shaya Boymelgreen on several projects. horrific stench has dramatically decreased. Hendrik Ramaala, of South Africa, was the first man to finish the 26-mile tour through the five boroughs, with a time of 2 hours, 9 It would mark the first large-scale residential develop- The Gowanus-side development would yield one-, two- minutes and 28 seconds. Paula Radcliffe, of England was the first woman to complete the race, with a time of 2:23:10. ment along the long-polluted canal, which in recent years See CANAL on page 13 Gotti art Olympic marathon hangs in Red Hook would start in Coney By Jotham Sederstrom The inclusion is a boon for the former beach The Brooklyn Papers resort neighborhood, which had been slated to By Jotham Sederstrom host indoor volleyball until NYC2012 officials Coney Island, which earlier this year EXCLUSIVE The Brooklyn Papers decided instead to place that event at the Conti- lost indoor volleyball in the city’s 2012 nental Airlines Arena in New Jersey. Bruce Rat- It may not bring the kind of exposure as Olympic bid, has instead been awarded Mayor Daniel Doctoroff that is responsible for “Growing Up Gotti,” the cable reality television putting together the city’s bid, positioned the ner’s proposed Atlantic Yards arena in Prospect the start of a marquee event of the sum- marathon to begin in Coney Island and end at Heights is slated for boxing and gymnastics. series starring the daughter of the late organized mer games — the Olympic marathon — crime boss John Gotti, but thanks to a Red Hook the proposed Jets football stadium on Manhat- Until now, the summer of 2012 was shap- according to the city’s final proposal, to tan’s West Side. Along the way, runners would ing up to be a very uneventful one for Coney restaurateur, Brooklynites could soon be be revealed in Switzerland on Monday. “Hanging Up Gotti” — on their walls, that is. cross more than a dozen Brooklyn neighbor- Island, whose leaders were faced with being Sources close to the project told The Brook- hoods on their way to Downtown Brooklyn, left out of the Olympic plans altogether, and For the past couple of weeks, Hope & Anchor, a lyn Papers this week that planners with where they would traverse the Brooklyn whose hopes were dashed that a sportsplex for two-year-old restaurant on Van Brunt Street at Wolcott NYC2012, the private group led by Deputy Bridge. Street, has been showcasing the artwork of a woman See CONEY on page 13 known more for her marriage to the mob than her mar- riage of art deco and surrealism — V. Gotti Sr., the wife of the late Teflon Don, as she signs her paintings. Joseph Bernardo, a co-owner of the popular Red Hook diner-restaurant, said the acrylic paintings have been hanging since just before Halloween and will re- / Jori Klein Condo work on waterfront halted main on sale through January. “I don’t really think she thinks much of herself as By Jess Wisloski The order came as the result of a lawsuit facturing district, 30 feet from piers that currently an artist, even though she really should,” said Bernar- The Brooklyn Papers brought by the Red Hook-Gowanus Chamber house an active shipping port, which are slated to do, who plans on buying a Victoria Gotti original of a of Commerce against the city Board of Stan- dock Carnival and Norwegian cruise liners. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn A Brooklyn judge this week halted con- nude couple embracing on a bed. “It’s not her instinct dards and Appeals seeking to overturn the pan- Community Board 6 issued a negative decla- to market herself. She was completely unpretentious Tim Britt (left), David Snyder and Danny Klein (in red) struction on a $70 million luxury condo- el’s granting of what, the chamber charges, is ration to the variance application, but the BSA about it all and, in fact, she was worried that some of enjoy lunch and some Gotti art at Hope & Anchor at minium conversion in a six-story former book an unreasonable zoning variance. disregarded the board’s recommendation, granti- See GOTTI on page 14 347 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook. warehouse on the Red Hook waterfront. The pricey condos would be located in a manu- See IMLAY ST on page 13 Daughtry wants Nets chapel The Brooklyn Papers developer Bruce Ratner to get a house of what was under consideration, such as be non-denominational, or something “to The Rev. Herbert Daughtry, an ac- of worship built into the planned bas- the chapel. which all religious faiths would have ac- tivist minister and leader of the House ketball arena complex. At the Nov. 9 meeting, Stuckey intro- cess. Like what they have at the United of the Lord Church on Atlantic Aven- Daughtry announced his request at a duced himself to the group, and men- Nations … All the churches of all the re- “truth forum” in his Boerum Hill church tioned that he had once studied to be a ligions in the world have access to the ue, is negotiating with Atlantic Yards Catholic priest. chapel. But it’s no big thing. Its not Tuesday night that was attended by For- “I said that, given the Nets’ situation, something major that people are going to est City Ratner vice president Jim Stuck- they’re going to need a whole lot of fight over,” Daughtry assured. INSIDE ey. prayer,” Daughtry said, referring to Rat- Patti Hagan, a co-founder of the Daughtry’s forums are so named as a ner’s payroll-cutting measures since pur- Prospect Heights Action Coalition and wry answer to what the reverend consid- chasing the New Jersey Nets last sum- vociferous anti-arena activist, called the ers widespread misrepresentations by At- mer, which stripped the team of most of notion of building a house of worship as lantic Yards opponents of Forest City its marquee talent. part of a publicly funded project “ridicu- Ratner’s commitments to the community. Daughtry indicated that he was not lous.” She said only about 20 people He is part of a group that is negotiating entirely serious about the proposed were present for the announcement; a community benefits agreement intended chapel. Stuckey did not comment on the Daughtry said there were 75 to 100. / Jori Klein to secure jobs, housing and — Daughtry’s proposal. “This was a recommendation made main focus — community facilities as “Some people have raised the legality by Reverend Daughtry and we will look part of the proposed $2.5 billion arena, of- of it, and we understand that, but we’re into it,” said Forest City Ratner spokes- Meet the fice tower and apartment building devel- negotiating,” Daughtry said. “We’re put- woman Lupe Todd. opment plan. ting out the things we’d like to see hap- “If, of course, there are any issues re- Papers The Brooklyn He said the weekly forums served to pen. That’s what we’d like to see.” garding city, state or federal law we will The Rev. Herbert Daughtry speaks in favor of the Atlantic Yards development plan at Mets facilitate discussions and inform people He said the house of worship would consider those, too.” Wednesday’s Community Board 2 meeting at the Brooklyn Music School in Fort Greene. 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