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Beep locks out EXCLUSIVE anti-arena folks Ratner invites By Jess Wisloski chosen few to The Brooklyn Papers DONE DEAL Bruce’s deal with state nearly complete Borough President Marty Mark- See page 7 owitz invited leaders of a select draft agreement few groups and elected officials to Heights stretching from the intersec- a closed-door meeting Wednesday tion of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, By Jess Wisloski to “participate in dialogue” about has spurred the creation of neighbor- The Brooklyn Papers developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic hood associations, employment and For the past two months, community board leaders, Yards project, leaving critics of the housing advocacy groups, and devel- plan out in the cold. opment coalitions over the past year Borough Hall staffers and members of select organi- The media was also barred. since it was announced. zations have been attending closed-door meetings A small group of protesters showed A Markowitz aide said those were with developer Bruce Ratner to negotiate a contract up outside Borough Hall for the 4 pm exactly the groups they tried to avoid that would guarantee certain benefits to the communi-

meeting to draw attention to Mar- bringing into the meeting, and instead Callan / Tom ties surrounding his Atlantic Yards site. kowitz’s perceived blacklisting of favored “neutral” and “longstanding The so-called community benefits agreement, or CBA — groups outspoken in their condemna- civic associations” that were not are- which is said by both Forest City Ratner and sources involved tion of the Forest City Ratner propos- na-specific. in the negotiations to be swiftly approaching a final form — al to build a basketball arena, housing Borough Hall spokesman Michael would include a labor agreement negotiated with unions to and office skyscrapers. Kadish described the exclusion as a guarantee that a quarter of the construction jobs generated by “This thing is really a sock in the measure to sidestep overly con- the project go to local residents. The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn face,” said Patti Hagan, co-founder of tentious discussion and avoid drifting Borough President Marty Markowitz, former New York Knick Bernard King, and mega-developer Bruce Rat- But judging by reactions to news of the agreement this the Prospect Heights Action Coalition. off topic, which he said was about the week, community members, both those in favor of and those ner at last October’s announcement of plans to bring the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn. “PHAC, Brooklyn Vision, Develop- “process of offering community in- against the Atlantic Yards plan — which includes a basketball Don’t Destroy Brooklyn; all these put” to the developer and the state, arena, 4,500 units of housing and three office skyscrapers — groups have been working relentless- which is expected to lead the applica- Councilman David Yassky left the done smaller.” Yassky said he wanted tarily, informed the group outside, “You don’t feel either represented or included. ly for more than a year to bring this tion through environmental review. meeting at 5:30 pm, Hagan ap- to see a secure plan for traffic, but that have infiltrators,” saying their exclusion Ideas of having a CBA have been whispered since Ratner problem to people’s attention, espe- “We’re coming up with a way that proached him and asked what was go- the meeting wasn’t really discussing was the predominant topic of discussion announced his plan late last year. The term community bene- cially the lack of process.” the community can have input to ing on inside. that. later in the meeting. fits agreement came from an initiative to hire locally for the She stood outside with fliers outlin- this,” said Kadish, and indicated that “Well, right now they’re discussing “We never really got to substance, Saunders, who is also involved with development of the Staples Center basketball arena in down- ing the footprint of the planned devel- the other groups would be part of the the need for broader participation,” he but we talked about process and com- BUILD, a job advocacy group in nego- town Los Angeles, and this would be the first of its kind on opment area, and tried to engage any- process. said. munity outreach,” he said. tiations with Forest City Ratner for a the East Coast. one headed towards Borough Hall in Still, the select attendees of the pri- Hagan asked Yassky’s own thoughts Duke Saunders, a 40-year resident of community benefits agreement [see sto- Forest City Ratner’s version promises that 50 percent of the discussion. vate community meeting could not on the plans?. Prospect Heights and head of the Van- ry at right], which was also excluded rental and condominium apartments will be “affordable hous- The 24-acre plan, which would avoid the topic of exclusion. “I’d like to see it come in and done derbilt Avenue Merchants Association, from the meeting, said the general feeling” for various incomes, that there will be a minimum hiring engulf a substantial portion of Prospect When Downtown-Brooklyn Heights right,” he replied. “I’d like to see it who ducked out of the meeting momen- See MARTY on page 17 See RATNER on page 17 Should I stay or should I go? Smith St. bar owner asks nabe to decide

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/ Greg Mango / Greg Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Mel Brooks and Gov. George Pataki at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Tuesday, where Brooks announced he will film his musical re-make of “The Producers.” The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn A Boudoir Bar patron fills out ballot and places it into the The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn Navy Yard named box. Final tally will determine if bar moves, says owner. By Jess Wisloski The Brooklyn Papers Hot enuff for you? ‘Producers’ home Talk about democracy in action. By Lisa J. Curtis that threaten chile peppers and how to protect your The self-proclaimed “sexiest little bar in Brooklyn,” the GO Brooklyn Editor spicy crops, chef Roberto Santibanez, of Rosa Mex- By Michael Weissenstein Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Boudoir Bar on Smith Street in Carrol Gardens is asking icano restaurant in Manhattan, will demonstrate Because of the burning success of past Associated Press George Pataki credited new state and local patrons, neighborhood residents and everyday passersby to how to make “Salsa Mexicanas,” and the Tourism tax credit programs with attracting Brooks’ vote on whether the bar should stay in its current location, Chile Pepper Fiestas, this year’s annual event Authority of Thailand will host demonstrations of Mel Brooks said Tuesday that he will film to New York. or move out. at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has doubled the art of Thai fruit and vegetable carving. shoot the film version of his hit Broadway Mayor Bloomberg said, “Every year, hun- A piece of paper taped to its front glass display window in length. Chile-heads will overrun the nor- Kids can learn to appreciate the food-that- musical “The Producers” at a new movie dreds of films and television shows use our — amid the regular notices advertising live burlesque, mally genteel garden for two days, this bites-you-back with chile pepper-inspired crafts, studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. city as a backdrop, and these productions play comedy shows and musical performers — provides an Saturday and Sunday — Oct. 2-3 — as they a temporary tattoo parlor and educational work- City and state officials hailed the announce- a huge part in our local economy generating $5 open call to the neighborhood to vote by “secret ballot” on celebrate the harvest, culinary uses and cultur- shops just for them. ment as a sign that the recently opened Steiner billion a year as well as 100,000 jobs … that’s the sometimes risque bar’s fate al significance of these spicy little numbers. Not even inclement weather could put a damper Studios was succeeding in its quest to draw why we invested about $28 million in infra- The reason for the referendum, says Boudoir Bar’s own- on this fiery fiesta which will be held rain or shine, more film production to New York. structure improvements at the Navy Yard to er, Garrett McConnell, is the result of increasingly costly More than 60 chile-inspired acts, representing from noon to 5:30 pm on both days. The fies- City officials have bemoaned the loss of spur development of Steiner Studios.” fines the bar near Sackett Street has been racking up. the worldwide love of the chile pepper, will be on ta is free with garden admission ($5, $3 stu- film and television production work to the Brooks, a Brooklyn native, shot the 1968 McConnell, who opened the bar in June 2001, said that hand, including the off-Broadway Korean per- dents and seniors, free children under West Coast and Canada production costs are film original “The Producers” in the city. He while they had always dealt with complaints of noise cussion troupe “Cookin’”; the 13-piece Haitian 16). Enter the garden at Washington often lower. said that the new incentives helped persuade from neighbors, not to mention dirty looks from some dance band, Tabou Combo; and the Delta blues- Avenue and Eastern Parkway in “The Producers: The Movie Musical” is a him to shoot in New York. who just pass by and get an eyeful of their bustier-clad New Orleans swing trio the Wiyos. Prospect Heights. For more in- $45 million production to star Nathan Lane, Then he focused on another reason. mannequin in the window, there has recently been a While bug expert Mike Bohne of the Depart- formation, visit www.bbg.org Matthew Broderick, Nicole Kidman and “The bagels, just the bagels alone,” “continual barrage of complaints.” ment of Agriculture answers questions about insects or call (718) 623-7333. Will Ferrell. It begins shooting in late Febru- Brooks said. “You go to Toronto, they’re See BOUDOIR on page 17 BEGINSPAGE ON 9 ary, Brooks said. mushy.” ––––––––––––––– FREE SENIOR SEMINAR FREE see ad on Presented By The Law Firm of Linda Faith Marshak, Elderlaw Attorney page 12 Wine PRESERVE YOUR ASSETS FOR YOUR LOVED ONES Grand Prospect Hall THIS WEEK! Seating is limited Tastings CALL TODAY! 263 Prospect Avenue Tues., Oct. 5, 11:30am & 6:30pm –––––––––––––––see ad on page 11 (betw. 5th & 6th Aves., Park Slope) Thurs., Oct. 7, 6:30pm 800-395-5762

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The husband and wife Saturday Mornings George S. Popielarski ings are run-of-the-mill over- Street Saloon. “It’s going to be gorgeous,” laughed. “A baguette plate?” Rabbi Carie Carter stock (plain white cereal Torah study 9:00 a.m. Park Slope’s Egalitarian, –––––––– Attorney at Law ––––––––– Lenovitz said the compa- he said assuredly. “It’s in the said the man. Services 10:30 a.m. Conservative Synagogue bowls, glass butter dishes and ny’s been looking to expand works right now but will be Gaines shook her head. Brooklyn’s Largest 768-1453 R28-31 • 45 Years Experience a variety of airline silverware into Brooklyn for a few years here for the opening.” “Olive tray,” she said, set- Reform Congregation scrapped for plastic after 9- • Accidents 31 Smith Street but hadn’t been lucky in find- Dena Gaines, 23, who ting out the sign. Eighth Avenue and Garfield Place 11), the appeal to passersby is ing something right for their works at an Upper East Side Nicole Skalla, 27, a Brook- PARK SLOPE • Workers Compensation (bet. Livingston and Fulton) the giant marked-down prices, Shabbat Shalom! typically boxy, open, ware- Fishs Eddy, lives in Cobble lyn Law School student, 768-3814 R44 • Criminal Defense Brooklyn, NY 11201 which are scrawled out in house-like display room. Hill and is one of the handful seemed resigned to her pur- Presented by • Admitted to all courts, marker on the surface or on When 122 Montague St. be- of employees who were pulled chase of wineglasses. Cong. 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IN THE FAMILY COURT OF THE FIF- the Civil Court, Kings County on the 13th Day of September, 2004, bearing the Index Number • Over 500 spaces $175 TEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT CASE NO.: 04-DR- 26-0708. HIAWATHA JANE JOHNSON, Plaintiff, N00600/2004, a copy of which may be examined v. Quondell Alexander Stockton, a minor under at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL TAX INCLUDED the age of fourteen (14) years, and DOUG COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, STOCKTON, Defendants. SUMMONS FOR Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants RELIEF. TO THE DEFENDANT DOUG STOCK- me rights to: Assume the name of: Caroline TON: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and Elizabeth Covert. My present name is: Caroline required to answer the Complaint in this action, Elizabeth Weiner, born Caroline Elizabeth a coy of which is herewith served upon you, and Covert. My place of birth is: Ann Arbor, to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Michigan. My date of birth is: 05/03/1970. 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It was parked on which was parked on Prospect an Olympus camera, a neck- and Children 369-4969 Sixth Avenue between St. Fourth and Fifth avenues Park West between 13th and lace and an electric shaver. Shabbat Services was broken into on the John’s Place and Lincoln 14th streets, was stolen on Place. Sept. 25 around 9:30 pm. 1st Friday evey month, 6:30 pm morning of Sept. 20. In between the time when Among the items stolen The 59-year-old man had Other Friday evenings, 8:15 pm the woman left the house and were two cameras, a Colum- parked his car momentarily, Saturday mornings, 10:30 am returned, 8:10 am to 11:50 bia double-layer coat, a day but when he returned, the blue am, the thief forced his way pack, an internal frame back- 2003 Jeep Cherokee had been ✡✡✡✡✡ into her apartment by damag- pack and several rolls of film. removed from the place where he’d left it. New! 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A witness saw the thug beat am and 11 am, said he did not the Prospect Heights woman grocery store, a Park Slope First Sunday of Every Month see or hear anything suspi- about the head with a ham- woman discovered her home 11:00 am - 1:00 pm cious. The burglar made off mer. The woman reported the had been broken into and she with a Dell laptop computer, a incident to police, and was had been robbed of thousands ✡✡✡✡✡ computer monitor, and a print- treated at New York of dollars worth of valuables. er-fax-scanner machine. The apartment, on Sterling Methodist Hospital, on Sev- Family Service Place between Seventh and Some visit enth Avenue, for treatment of Flatbush avenues, was fine & Potluck Dinner An Oklahoma native stay- swelling and bruises to her when she left it at 10:45 am on Bring a dish for 8 and celebrate ing in Park Slope was robbed head. Sept. 20, but when she returned of $2,100 worth of outdoor The next day, officers from Offering Shabbat with family and friends. at 1:30 pm, she noticed her gate gear and camera equipment the 78th Precinct arrested a was bent, and that somebody Friday, Oct. 1 • • that was locked in his car suspect they found on the cor- had crawled through the rear Massage Therapy Facial Treatments Service at 6:30 pm; Dinner at 7:30 pm sometime between Sept. 19 at ner of Washington Avenue window to gain entry. • Body Treatments • Pedicure/Manicure 7 pm and Sept. 20 at 10 am. and St. John’s Place, for as- • • ✡✡✡✡✡ A neighbor said that a man Hair Removal Spa Packages The 26-year-old discovered sault. in his 40s had knocked on her Simchat Torah door at 11 am, in search of a Bring this ad in for 10% off your man named John. She watched first treatment. 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It was a demeaning site was chosen. initiation, a forced act of sub- Then, according to most mission.” When loud noises versions, he was shunted Eisenman remembers it aside when the developer differently, said his spokes- brought in his own architect woman, Cynthia Davidson. to redesign Libeskind’s signa- “When Danny showed up ture Freedom Tower. on the first day of the institute Libeskind doesn’t see it opening in the fall, Peter was become intolerable that way. His version, that his sweeping the floor and he ground zero plan has largely welcomed Danny and said, survived a painful process of Q: “My grandson has a Why, and what can we do to much. One preschool teacher ‘We’re all cleaning up now, gives her 3-year-olds the op- compromise and collabora- why don’t you take this problem with noise such as make his life easier?” Parent-to-Parent tion, is laid out in a new book singing, clapping and laugh- — a grandmother tion of hearing the birthday broom and I’ll take another song sung quietly on their spe- that also chronicles the har- one,”’ she said. “He refused.” ing to the point where he has A: A mother doesn’t take rowing lives of his immigrant to coverX?!00,)#?!$-)33?%$)4PDF0- his ears. Birthday her 5-year-old daughter to cial day. Frederic Schwartz, a mem- What’s fun for some chil- parents and his own cir- Mango / Greg ber of the THINK team parties cause him terrible birthday parties because the cuitous route to architecture’s stress, especially the singing. noise and stimulation are too dren makes others fall apart: whose design was the runner- Movie theaters and malls; ar- top ranks. up to Libeskind’s, is de- cades and theme parks; The book, “Breaking scribed grabbing Libeskind crowded school hallways and Ground: Adventures in Life by the collar at the Venice Bi- and Architecture,” offers a ennale, shaking him and cafeterias. Papers The Brooklyn discourse on architecture: But why? Parents have to growling, “I’m a New Yorker, Libeskind compares it to mu- WTC architect Daniel Libeskind spoke about his new book be sleuths to sift out answers damn it! Don’t tell me how to sic and choreography but at the East Midwood Jewish Center Wednesday. build my city!” among several medical and quotes Philip Johnson as say- developmental possibilities. Schwartz called the ac- ing “all architects are prosti- count “inaccurate and defam- Depending on how much dai- tutes.” Libeskind feels the need to at- and I think when it’s built, ly life annoys a child, earplugs tack so many of the partici- people will forget the squab- atory.” On Wednesday, he came to “I never grabbed his collar can ease the pain and give him the East Midwood Jewish pants in that effort.” bles.” a sense of control. Occupa- When the cornerstone for Libeskind’s plan for the and I never shook him,” Center on Ocean Avenue in Schwartz said in an e-mail. “I tional therapy makes some Midwood to discuss the book the Freedom Tower was laid trade center site was chosen children less sensitive to noise By Betsy Flagler July 4, its symbolic height of by the Lower Manhattan De- don’t use the word ‘damn’ or and his life. ‘damn it.”’ until they outgrow the prob- 1,776 feet remained — after velopment Corp., a city-state It also is the story of a re- Asked about the attacks on lem. of sensitive hearing, Bonham markable marriage and busi- an epic battle that, according agency created to rebuild Concerns related to hearing says, and even tumors in rare his rivals, Libeskind said, ness partnership between to “Breaking Ground,” re- downtown after the Sept. 11, “Life is not just about heroes, are complex and not as simple cases. Libeskind and his wife, Nina, quired the intervention of 2001, terrorist attacks, in a as “One plus one equals two,” A mother first noticed her it’s also about villains. ... I whom he met at a Yiddish New York Gov. George Pata- drawn-out and highly public think it gives people the idea says Robert E. Bonham, MD, 12-year-old’s sensitivity when summer camp when he was 20 ki. But the building’s design process. he held his ears through a that architecture is flesh and an ear, nose and throat (ENT) and she was 17 and he thought was a compromise that some He tells unflattering stories specialist. movie as a preschooler; a trip blood, it is not just creating she was “so beautiful she must critics called the worst of both about several of the other ar- “There’s a lot more out to Disney World at age 7 was some sort of machine for liv- be stupid.” And it’s a chance to worlds. chitects who submitted there than we know,” he ex- rough. He has outgrown it ing. ... It involves struggles settle scores with trade center “People have different schemes. which are not only intellectu- plains. “The child is not being somewhat, but still cannot tol- leaseholder Larry Silverstein opinions,” Libeskind said, Peter Eisenman, part of a al but emotional and often a problem kid. We just don’t erate fireworks, close thunder- and his architect, David “but I think it’s a great design team that included Richard spiritual.” know what’s wrong in many storms or loud amusement Childs, and with others. cases.” park rides. Earplugs help him Libeskind, though, was up- As sounds get louder, some in certain situations. beat and relatively diplomatic children are really bothered The mother recalls that at in an interview in his firm’s and leap more quickly than age 9 months, her son would lower Manhattan office. As others to a point where they hear musical notes, usually in always, he wore black except can’t stand the decibel level, church, and hum them on key. for an American flag lapel pin the intensity of a sound, Bon- He is now a gifted musician. and spoke in a rushed stacca- ham says. That’s more than coinci- to. Continuum Health Partners, Inc. Have an ENT physician ex- dence, says a reader who re- “People often criticize me,” Department of Plastic Surgery amine your child, he suggests. calls having to leave school he said. “I compromised here An abnormality of the ear dances because the music was and I negotiated there. ... But drum, chronic ear infections painful to listen to. Having I believe in it. Affordable Cosmetic Plastic Surgery or scarring from infection are perfect pitch makes the ears “You have to be flexible, among several possible causes extremely sensitive to sound you have to be able to accom- and can make them hurt dur- modate future needs ... but at The Department of Plastic Surgery at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary ing levels that don’t bother the same time, you have to conducts a program of affordable cosmetic plastic surgery as part of their others. create a plan that has integrity service to the community. The Department is one of the largest Plastic She’s among several read- and strength and that can Day ers who suggest: Strive to de- withstand all these changes.” Surgery programs in the country with all staff certified by the American Board sensitize your child by work- Libeskind, 58, devotes a of Plastic Surgery. ing with an audiologist or chapter of “Breaking Ground” Patients enrolled in this program are operated on by a Fellow in Plastic Surgery School, occupational therapist, and to his “forced marriage” to buy him a pair of well-fitting Childs and his firm, Skid- who has completed a residency in Plastic Surgery and is spending an extra year Inc. ear plugs. more, Owings and Merrill. of specialist training in cosmetic plastic surgery at the Infirmary rather than Occupational therapy can Relations between SOM and immediately entering private practice. The operations are all done in the pres- A fully licensed and certified preschool help a child’s central nervous Studio Daniel Libeskind be- system calm down and better ence of one our Board Certified Private Plastic Surgeons who assists at the entire came so strained, he said, that operation. The Department insists that the care of each patient be comparable regulate incoming sounds, the situation “recalled the or- I 2-4 year old programs I 2, 3, 4 or 5 mornings, says Carol Stock Kranowitz, chestrated arrangements be- to that given in each surgeon’s private office, thus assuring our patient's highest author of “The Out-of-Sync tween North and South Korea possible levels of satisfaction and comfort. I Child” (Perigee, 2002). Licensed teachers afternoons or full days at the very tense border at With the cooperation of the Infirmary a standard fee has been established of When overactive hearing Panmunjom.” I Optimal educational equipment I Spacious Classrooms gets past minor annoyances, An SOM spokeswoman, $2000, which covers the cost of surgery and all hospital costs; anesthesia may the brain needs help to cor- Elizabeth Kubany, responded: incur a further cost of $500 dependent upon the individual needs of each surgery. I I rectly process information Exclusive outdoor facilities Enriched Curriculum “Every creative process has The procedures covered are: brought in by the senses, says its tensions, and this one was I Indoor Gym facilities I Caring, loving environment Kranowitz. Her Web site is no different. 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The disorder is charac- fice space without regard for • Liposuction procedures terized in part by a lack of so- the public plazas, parks, me- • Facial resurfacing and dermabrasion operations cial common sense — how to morials, and streets of the make friends, take turns, use master plan.” Botox treatments are also available at a fee of $250 per treatment. eye contact to pick up on so- Bay Ridge Howard Rubenstein, a Consultations are complementary, but because of the high demand, appoint- cial cues. spokesman for Silverstein, An elementary school said, “With so many different ments are necessary. Please call 212-979-4493 for an appointment. teacher in Atlanta says she has stake-holders, it certainly was seen many students with As- a challenging process to ar- The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary perger’s and high-functioning rive at the Freedom Tower de- Preparatory School autism who are supersensitive 310 East 14th Street, New York, NY 10003 sign. But the result is spectac- to noise, and who are particu- ular. We regret that Daniel larly anxious in cafeterias. A private “With some, I have even ex- 8101 Ridge Blvd. / 7420 Fourth Ave. cused them to eat in quieter K-12 college parts of the building, or re- Brooklyn, NY 11209 • (718) 833-9090 preparatory mained with them while they eat,” she says, and suggests school seeing your healthcare provider www.bayridgeprep.com and an occupational therapist. To make a child feel like sounds are not bombarding him, an occupational therapist might use strategies such as Please join us for an Kindergarten - Grade 5 lotion, powder or a surgical Thursday, Dec. 9th - 9:30am scrub brush — similar to a massage, followed by joint ********** compressions. Come and share a few hours with us this weekend. You may Schedule of Services Grades 6 - 8 Another treatment method, have some reasons why you donít attend church. 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At a meeting of the Carroll from being a national trend, it. had stacks of the brochure on The Brooklyn Papers “It’s not so much purse Gardens Association on Sept. most people don’t know the The officers, posted on the either side of the teller ma- grabs,” said Lt. Jessica E. 15, the precinct’s top officers extent of it. corners of Sackett, Degraw, chines, bars volunteered to A recent wave of purse Corey. “We’re here to raise said the most common crimes “It’s more than just cancel- Douglass and Butler streets, put them on tables or in the and wallet snatchings awareness to people leaving they see in the precinct, which ing their credit cards — it’s didn’t seem to be having any bathrooms, and one restaurant and the along Smith Street over their property unattended.” covers Carroll Gardens, Red theft of your whole identity,” problems engaging folks who owner even said he’d send Joan Murray Tapestry Team the summer brought out Corey, commanding officer of Hook, Cobble Hill and parts she said. passed in conversation, or at them out with all his takeout more than a dozen officers the citywide Crime Prevention of Gowanus, are public urina- Among the biggies men- the very least, slipping them a and delivery orders. from the 76th Precinct and Unit, said the recent rash of tion and purse or wallet grabs tioned in the brochures was to brochure. “It’s a very good idea,” are thrilled to welcome the NYPD’s Crime Pre- thefts seen on Smith Street are at local bars. avoid carrying around evi- “We’ve had a lot of people said Vinny Cataldo, owner of Vinny’s of Carroll Gardens, a vention Unit last Friday. usually the work of oppor- In one of their first at- dence of a Social Security say that this happened to tunists, not “hardened crimi- tempts to reach out to bar and number, and Corey elaborat- them,” said Corey, describing restaurant at 295 Smith St. Brooklyn Heights Master The officers posted them- nals.” restaurant owners, the pre- “I’m very surprised,” he selves on corners and talked ed, saying people should how friendly and receptive the The Sept. 24 action was cinct’s own crime prevention “minimize what they keep on neighborhood had been. She said about the thefts. “It’s so colorist/stylist with bar and restaurant pa- taken as part of an ongoing at- officer, Police Officer Ginger quiet here. In 14 years I’ve trons. them at all times.” said one shop owner even said tempt by the 76th Precinct to Ortiz, went door-to-door The pamphlet also instructs she’d had something stolen never had a problem.” The message focused on cut down on the petty, and handing out aesthetically people not to leave any re- from her own bag in the store But the police know that the responsibility of careless even quiet neighborhoods are preventable, crimes they see passable, laminated informa- ceipts that might have your when she went to get some- carousers to protect their own cropping up regularly. targeted by criminals. MYKEL FRANK tion sheets for proprietors to credit or debit card informa- thing in a back room. “This is not just a problem post in a visible location in tion on them at ATMs, gas Besides being able to pass their establishment. on Smith Street,” said Lt. Jose pumps, store counters or in them off easily, the brochures Frias, deputy commanding of- While Deputy Inspector public trash cans. serve another purpose: they Joseph Cassidy, the precinct’s ficer of the 76th Precinct. “It’s Topping the list is to refrain are getting higher visibility a problem nationally. You’ve commanding officer, said the from giving Social Security than the carefully designed reception was good, only seen it on ‘60 Minutes.’” numbers on forms, question- posters did. Park Slope faced its own shop owners actually posted naires, or registration cards Washington Mutual’s new the info sheets, while some sweep of identity thefts in the TAPESTRY just because the form asks for ATM foyer on Smith Street past week. 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By Jess Wisloski Journal News. state-run MTA is involved in negotia- the value of the land, and suspects the The Brooklyn Papers Ratner plans to bring his recently tions, bids or advances by Ratner’s MTA will do the same. According to purchased New Jersey Nets to the new group. the MOU mandate, both of the esti- Bruce Ratner and state and city arena. When asked if any headway had mates would be accessible to public agencies are close to signing a A Ratner spokesman, Joe DePlasco, been made, or if they were involved in scrutiny, he said. memorandum of understanding clarified the comment, saying the devel- negotiations, MTA spokesman Tom “An MOU is a recording of under- that would get the ball rolling on oper is “hopeful that the MOU is com- Kelly replied, “No. No. Nothing’s hap- standing,” he said. “It is not a legally the developer’s proposed Atlantic pleted soon,” but said he didn’t know if pened yet.” binding contract, and it ultimately enti- Yards project, a Westchester daily 60 days was a target for signing such an A spokeswoman for the Empire tles the public to have the ability to newspaper reported this week. agreement, at which time the process State Development Corporation, how- comment,” on the process, he ex- One of the soon-to-be lead agencies would be announced publicly at each ever, confirmed her agency’s involve- plained. on the application confirmed for The juncture of review and approval. ment. Still, ardent community activists are Brooklyn Papers that talks with the de- Forest City Ratner Executive Vice “The talks are moving along, the hoping that a public bidding process veloper were progressing and Ratner, in President Jim Stuckey spoke at a public talks are going very well, and things are may yet be in the cards. an interview with the Journal News, meeting Thursday night, but would not moving along rapidly. We’re working “There is no MOU signed on it as far said the state public review process for comment on what stage agreements be- jointly with MTA and [the city Eco- as I know. There is no NBA agreement his plan to build a professional basket- tween the state’s lead agencies, the nomic Development Corporation], but to let the Nets move, as far as I know,” ball arena, 4,500 apartments and three Metropolitan Transportation Authority, there are still some issues we need to said Councilwoman Letitia James at soaring office towers emanating from which owns 13 acres of rail yards over work out,” said Empire State Develop- the meeting, hosted by the Downtown the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic which Ratner hopes to build, and the ment Corporation spokeswoman Debo- Brooklyn Leadership Coalition, nearly avenues was just two months away. Empire State Development Corpora- rah Wetzel. She said no agreements had singing to the riled up audience of 200 “The major thing now is going tion, which as the lead sponsor could been made by the MTA. local residents. through the public process, which will wield the power of eminent domain to At the community meeting in Fort “Again, I don’t know all that’s hap- start probably in about 60 days. There capture the remaining 11 acres of the Greene, Stuckey did say that when the pening behind closed doors, but as far will be hearings. That will take about plan’s Prospect Heights footprint from MOU is signed, Forest City Ratner, as I know there is no state legislation or eight months. And then hopefully in private owners. which has offered to pay market-price city legislation [in place]. So as far as I about a year, a year and a quarter, we’ll “I don’t know,” Stuckey told The for the MTA’s property, will hire an in- know, and as far as you know, this is Papers File The Brooklyn start construction,” Ratner told the Brooklyn Papers when asked if the dependent appraisal firm to determine not a done deal!” Model of proposed Nets arena near the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues.

Supreme Court will find Land grab goes to court when cities may seize land

By Jess Wisloski Daniel Goldstein, a member of the front hotel, health club and offices. The March that the mere promise of addition- tourists to the Thames riverfront, comple- The Brooklyn Papers anti-arena group Develop-Don’t Destroy residents refused to budge, arguing it was al tax revenue justified the condemnation. menting an adjoining Pfizer Corp. re- Brooklyn, was encouraged by the deci- an unjustified taking of their property. “The U.S. Supreme court taking the search center and a proposed Coast Guard The U.S. Supreme Court agreed sion of the highest court in the nation. They argued the takings would be New London case could have a direct Tuesday to settle a Connecticut land museum. “We were overjoyed today to hear proper only if they served to revitalize bearing on the proposed Nets arena and “The record is clear that New London dispute case that could have major they’ve decided to hear the case,” Gold- slums or blighted areas dangerous to the the Forest City Ratner plan for Prospect was a city desperate for economic rejuve- implications for Forest City Ratner’s stein said. “It is a milestone. We believe public. Heights,” said Siegel. “Eminent domain nation,” the city’s legal filing states, in proposed Atlantic Yards project in that the use of eminent domain is uncon- “I’m not willing to give up what I have has run amok. Perhaps the U.S. Supreme asking the high court to defer to local Brooklyn. stitutional and we’re happy to see the just because someone else can generate Court will decide that eminent domain is governments in deciding what constitutes The ruling will ultimately decide Supreme Court is ready to listen to that more taxes here,” said homeowner limited to public use, and not for econom- “public use.” whether governments may seize private argument after 50 years of eminent do- Matthew Dery, whose family has lived in ic redevelopment.” According to the residents’ filing, the property for privately developed proj- main abuse.” the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New Callan / Tom Nationwide, more than 1,000 proper- seven states that allow condemnations for ects, a key question as New York and oth- Goldstein’s group, in representing var- London for more than 100 years. ties were threatened or condemned be- private business development alone are ious members of the community — in- Patti Hagan, a resident and community tween 1998 and 2002, according to the er cash-strapped cities seek ways to gen- Connecticut, Kansas, Maryland, Michi- erate tax revenue. cluding those who face losing their leader in Prospect Heights, the area in Institute for Justice, a Washington, D.C., gan, Minnesota, New York and North At issue is the scope of the Fifth homes for the construction of a 19,000- Brooklyn where most of the Atlantic public interest law firm representing the Amendment, which allows governments seat basketball arena for Ratner’s New Yards proposal falls, echoed the same New London homeowners. Dakota. In light of the Supreme Court’s deci-

to take private property through eminent Jersey Nets, 4,500 new housing units in sentiment, and hopes the ruling will result Papers File The Brooklyn In many cases, according to the group, domain, provided the owner is given “just high-rise buildings and four office sky- in dropping the plans in her neighbor- cities are pushing the limits of their pow- sion, Siegel urged a halt to any negotia- compensation” and the land is for “public scrapers — has hired attorney Norman hood altogether. Bruce Ratner er to accommodate wealthy developers. tions involving the proposed footprint of use.” Siegel, former executive director of the “If — and they will — come out with Courts, meanwhile, are divided over the Ratner’s plan. Developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic New York Civil Liberties Union. a decision in May or June against it, that plans serve a “public purpose” — such as extent of city power, with seven states “The state and the city, in view of the Yards project calls for the taking of more If it comes to it, they are ready to file a will just knock this dead. That will be- boosting economic growth — and are saying economic development can justify U.S. Supreme Court taking the Connecti- than half of its 24 acres of land from pri- lawsuit, as did Susette Kelo and several come the law of the land,” she said. therefore valid “public use” projects that a taking and eight states allowing a taking cut case, should not proceed on any emi- vate owners. The other half would come other homeowners in a working-class “[Ratner] cannot have the state seize their outweigh the property rights of home- only if it eliminates blight. nent domain projects,” Seigel said, “in- from Ratner’s purchase of air rights over neighborhood in New London, Conn., af- property and kick them out.” owners. In New London, city officials envision cluding Forest City Ratner’s and the Nets the state-run Metropolitan Transportation ter city officials announced plans to raze New London contends the condemna- The Connecticut Supreme Court replacing a stagnant enclave with com- arena, until the U.S. Supreme Court’s rul- Authority’s Long Island Rail Road yards. their homes to clear the way for a river- tions are proper because the development agreed with New London, ruling 4-3 in mercial development that would attract ing.” — with Associated Press Why Red Hook Ikea project should be rejected

By Mary Campbell Gallagher •How many jobs in large retail • So does New York City need a commercial and residential uses. It did Somerville, Mass., and [even stores are there in Red Hook now? big box store located near Red REAM THAT YOU is an urban, not suburban, plan that nearby] Gowanus. ANSWER. According to John Hook Houses? ANSWER. No. will result in city growth in sur- The City Council will have 50 are returning to New GUEST OPINION McGettrick, co-chairman of the rounding blocks and more jobs days to act. Tell the City Council York three years from Questions for D Red Hook Civic Association, there than Ikea. that for Ikea to degrade the New now, in September 2007, flying already are, or soon will be, more er city uses on city blocks. says, the plan seeks to improve the Ikea foes: • What is the best use for the pedestrian environment, capitalize ••• York City waterfront is a nightmare. over the harbor. Ahead are the than a thousand retail jobs in Red N ORDER TO PROVIDE a Hook. Employee turnover in retail • How would Ikea affect the Red Hook waterfront? ANSWER. on Red Hook’s historic resources Gallagher, who lives in Man- sparkling towers of lower few jobs for Red Hook Houses Manhattan. is 40 to 60 percent a Brooklyn waterfront? ANSWER. The City Planning Commission ap- and support maritime activity. The hattan, runs a bar exam prepar- year, so there is a constant avail- With Ikea, the waterfront will turn proved Red Hook’s community- Baltimore firm of Struever Bros. Ishould New York allow a tax- taion business. She has had arti- To your left, the Statue of Liber- into suburban sprawl, with more subsidized big box store on the ty raises her flaming torch 395 feet ability of retail jobs. originated plan, a so-called 197-a Eccles & Rouse has proposed a cles published in The Nation and New York City waterfront? New above the water, a symbol of Amer- • If we permit Ikea’s tax-subsi- parking lots, highways, traffic, pol- plan, in 1996. As Antonia Bryson, beautiful mixed-use project for Red Weekly Standard on planning ica. But what is this? On the Brook- dized store on the waterfront, how lution, and big box stores, and few- attorney for a Red Hook coalition, Hook that emphasizes maritime, Rochelle recently rejected Ikea, as and education issues. lyn waterfront to your right rises a many jobs does Ikea promise to new structure as big as five football Red Hook’s people? ANSWER. fields. Thousands of cars head to- None. Not even one. wards it, it is surrounded by 1,500 • What does Ikea promise? AN- parked cars, and it is the blue and SWER. Ikea promises only that it yellow colors of the Swedish flag. will consider applications from Ikea spokesman rips Brooklyn Papers Unfortunately, that giant blue box Brooklyn’s 11231 ZIP code two with yellow lettering is a symbol, weeks earlier than other applications. ing burdened with the mega-traffic the mega- the plan pending a deal with the Watchtower too, just like Lady Liberty. It is not a • Ikea says it will offer “close to To the editor: store would bring. Society. (In July, at a Community Board 2 land symbol of America’s hope and great- 600” jobs in Red Hook. In the New Your Sept. 25 article regarding Ikea’s use committee meeting, residents of the 79 ness, however, but of New York Haven, Conn., store it just opened, planned local hiring efforts in Red Hook LETTERS however, Ikea has only 350 em- [“Ikea: We won’t promise Red Hook Watchtower plan Bridge St. condo were the sole dissenters testi- City’s desperation. For on Sept. 8, fying against the Watchtower proposal.) When 2004, the City Planning Commission ployees in a 311,000-square-feet jobs”] was yet another sad chapter in a store. Why would Ikea need 600 right thing by the Red Hook community, even rejected by civic that deal fell through, however, DNA resumed voted to sell out our peerless New two-year legacy of anti-Ikea partisan- its public opposition to the plan. York City waterfront to a Scandina- employees in a store in Brooklyn if its residents won’t be able to read about it with 346,000 square feet? Lots of ship by The Brooklyn Papers. group in DUMBO vian company named Ikea. in The Brooklyn Papers. greeters? ANSWER. Silence. There One had to read a full 16 paragraphs into the Yes, it is a nightmare. But wake — Pat Smith, Real Estate director To the editor: Don’t threaten a is no answer to this question. story to learn about the thoughtful — and un- up! We are still in 2004. New York- Ikea Red Hook As recent events on the national level have • Does Ikea offer employee bene- precedented — local hiring and job training ini- local businessman ers can still tell the City Council to tiatives proposed by Ikea for Brooklyn residents. Editor’s note: Asked about guaranteeing a shown, sometimes the media don’t get things fits? ANSWER. Ikea offers employ- exactly right. In your Sept. 25 article on 85 keep the Brooklyn waterfront from ee benefits, including health benefits We have made it clear from the outset of this percentage of the Ikea Red Hook jobs to To the editor: turning into sprawl. project that our ideal goal is 100 percent local neighborhood residents — at a public infor- Jay St., you listed us as “one-time supporters” I was horrified to read that some of my and tuition reimbursement. The ma- of the Witnesses’ plans. Ikea’s argument for its gigantic jority of Ikea’s employees will work hiring (common sense dictates that the closer mation meeting on the plan in April at the neighbors in Park Slope are using threats of tax-subsidized store is that it can pro- your employees live, the better), and our writ- PAL Miccio Center on West Ninth Street — In fact, since June 2003, DUMBO Neigh- violence to prevent an honest businessman fewer than 20 hours per week, and borhood Association (DNA) has consistently vide jobs for tenants in the Red Hook they will get no benefits for six ten commitments to free pre-employment train- an Ikea representative did, indeed, say that from running an honest business in our neigh- expressed two major concerns with the Wit- Houses, a public housing project. months. Considering the high ing and a two-week “head start” for local resi- federal law prevented the company from borhood [“Mr. Wonton told to lay off nesses’ proposal: 1) the towers are too tall and Ikea’s reps have divided the turnover in retail, Ikea may never dents are concrete manifestations of this goal. adopting such a hiring policy. In the months ZuZu’s,” Sept. 25]. are out of context with DUMBO and Vinegar community: the residents of the pay even one worker from Red Despite your tabloid-worthy “Exclusive” since, Brooklyn Papers’ reporters have asked I was reminded of Germany in the ’30s Hill; and 2) the lack of retail will deactivate Red Hook Houses, who are largely Hook Houses any benefits at all. headline, the fact is that I never referenced “fed- Smith serveral times about that provision. when members of a different out-of-favor eth- our streets, including those adjacent to the F African-American, from their • Won’t Ikea destroy other jobs eral law” in any conversations with The Brook- The Papers was told that it existed, but that nic group had their businesses destroyed. Let train station at York and Jay. neighbors who have refurbished di- in Red Hook? ANSWER. Building lyn Papers and Ikea has always been open Smith could not cite the specific law. the customers, not the mob, determine which In our testimony before Community Board lapidated structures. the Ikea store will destroy 80 to 100 about the fact that a “guarantee” of a certain He finally referred us to Ikea lawyer Jamie businesses will be successful on Seventh Av- 2 we did call for infrastructure improvements Ikea says it will create “500 or jobs on the Erie Basin. Hundreds of percentage of jobs in Red Hook is neither en- Van Bramer, who told us no such law pre- enue. The people who most ardently preach (fixing Bridge Park 2, renovating the subway 600 jobs.” The Red Hook Civic As- other jobs in Red Hook will be im- forceable nor permitted by current city policy. vents Ikea from guaranteeing a percentage of tolerance to the rest of us should try a little of station, installing lighting, etc.) as part of the sociation, meanwhile, says that Ikea periled by the streets being clogged Though we tried at great length to explain jobs to residents of a particular ZIP code. it themselves. — Gary S. Popkin, Park Slope will attract 50,000 cars a week to with traffic. this to your reporter, somehow this complex As for enforceability, experts say that Ikea development package to help activate our the point of the Red Hook peninsu- • Isn’t it an open secret that big box issue ended up with a completely irrelevant lawyers could easily draft language into an streets and serve as mitigation for the lack of la, which has no highway, no sub- stores like Ikea do not create retail comparison between a publicly funded stadi- agreement that would make it enforceable in retail. To construe this call for neighborhood way and narrow cobblestone streets. jobs, they destroy jobs? ANSWER. um project on public land in California and a court of law. Ikea could consult developer amenities — which the Witnesses declined to Send us a letter provide — as “support” is incorrect and mis- Questions that the Yes. In fact, there is a slight bump up our privately funded retail project on private Bruce Ratner, who is in the process of forging By mail: Letters Editor, Brooklyn Papers, in retail employment after a big box land in New York. a CBA in Prospect Heights for his propsed leading. — Nancy Webster, President 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 City Planning store opens, but within a year, the to- We have been honest and up front about Atlantic Yards [see story; Page 1] that would DUMBO Neighborhood Association Fax: (718) 834-9278. Commission has tal number of employees goes down our commitment to local hiring from day one, guarantee local jobs. Editor’s note: DNA was initially opposed to By e-mail: [email protected] to a figure lower than would have and we are proud that our efforts have earned The reason this is so important, as the Sept. the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society plan for All letters must be signed and include failed to ask Ikea: been anticipated given statewide eco- us the support of local tenants associations, 25 article points out, is that the so-called 85 Jay St., urging that Watchtower scale back the writer’s home address and phone num- •Exactly how many unemployed nomic growth. A big box store puts the community board and virtually every lo- “promise” of jobs is cited by Ikea supporters the plan and provide infrastructure improve- ber (only the writer’s neighborhood and people are there in Red Hook local stores out of business, and then cal elected official (including the council- as making the Ikea project worthwhile for ments to the neighborhood. However, in July, street name are published with the letter). Houses? ANSWER. There are 569 it needs fewer employees to sell the woman and the borough president). Red Hook — proponents argue that jobs the group agreed, at the urging of Councilman Letters may be edited and will not be unemployed people. same amount of goods. Be assured that we will continue to do the would be a fair exchange for Red Hook’s be- David Yassky, to support, or at least not protest, returned. October 2, 2004 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM AWP 7 Accuser of Gentile cites councilman’s advances By Jotham Sederstrom Martin also charges that Gentile per- suits against Gentile and the city based end, I have now retained counsel whose The Brooklyn Papers sistently asked him to move into his on the grounds that Gentile had created expertise is in employment and discrim- apartment after Martin broke up with a a hostile work environment. Callan said ination law.” Four days after filing a sexual ha- girlfriend with whom he had been liv- that because the city is the employer of The statement from Martin was re- rassment claim with the City Council, ing. He said he turned down the council- council members that it, too, would be leased Thursday. Hours later, the weekly an aide to Councilman Vincent Gen- man’s offer no less than four times. Af- included in the lawsuit, typically filed in Gay City News published an article on tile broke his silence, revealing that he ter he found a new apartment, Martin federal court. its Web site that alleged a consensual af- had been on the receiving end of claims, Gentile repeatedly insisted that “We’re still exploring it,” Callan told fair between Gentile and a gay civil “constant and unremitting” advances the staffer allow him to help him move The Brooklyn Papers on Sept 24. “He rights lawyer who had worked on his from the Bay Ridge legislator. in. hasn’t decided yet. It will depend large- first campaign for state senate. John Martin, Gentile’s 26-year-old During the Republican National Con- ly on how Gentile publicly reacts. If he’s Gentile stated this week that he is not chief of staff, claims in a four-page vention, in August, Gentile invited Mar- straightforward about what’s happening, gay and has never engaged in homosex- statement that the councilman relent- tin to come over to his apartment to that may be enough. I’m disappointed ual relations. lessly extended invitations to movies watch President George Bush’s accept- about his denials that harassment oc- On Friday, Thomas Bello, a civil and bars while also suggesting that the ance speech, said Martin, who declined, curred and I think an apology is in or- rights and employment lawyer retained aide, 20 years Gentile’s junior, share an instead suggesting they meet at a Bay der.” by Gentile to handle the complaint, said apartment with him. Ridge bar to watch. “I frankly felt more He added: “One of the critical factors Martin’s allegations fail to rise to the “I looked forward to assuming the re- comfortable dealing with Councilman will be based on the candor and honesty level of sexual harassment and also sug- sponsibilities of this important and chal- Gentile in a public place than at his with which Gentile publicly addresses gested that the former aide’s story has lenging position,” Martin, who resigned apartment,” Martin said. these allegations. If he tries to spin this been constantly changing. Initially, he last week, said of his promotion to chief “Unfortunately, the councilman re- and create a false story then the result said, the complaint consisted of only of staff in June. “Sadly, Mr. Gentile’s fused to meet me at the bar … but in- will be a lawsuit.” several charges but had grown to in- treatment of me as both an employee stead insisted upon meeting me in front In a statement, Gentile characterized clude a much longer list of allegations. and as a human being has caused me to of my apartment,” Martin said. From Martin’s claims as part and parcel of a “His allegations are changing daily,” submit my resignation.” there they went to the bar. Afterwards, larger political agenda, but he stopped said Bello. “They started out to be a few Martin had initially submitted a letter Martin claims, Gentile walked him short of suggesting Republicans had instances, none rising to the level of sex- of resignation to Gentile that gave as his home and inferred he could get him waged the attacks. ual harassment. And that he stayed on reason for leaving his intention to study money from his district budget. “Once again, any suggestion that my even after sending his letter of resigna- for the Law School Admission Test. The Said Martin, “When I arrived at the interactions with John Martin amounted tion — that doesn’t sound like someone resignation was to be effective Sept. 28, front door of my apartment building, to harassment is utterly false and frivo- to me who’s enduring a hostile work en- Callan / Tom but someone leaked word of the harass- Councilman Gentile pointedly men- lous,” Gentile said in a statement re- vironment.” ment complaint to the press, causing tioned that he had received more money leased by The Advance Group, a public Bello, a professor at Columbia Uni- Martin to cut short his final week at the in his personal budget and that I might relations firm he has retained. versity, said that he would contest the district office, where he had worked for be able to benefit from that money. He Gentile declined to address the spe- council’s decision to seal the charges,

more than a year. then asked to come inside my apart- cific allegations but said he has retained which he said Gentile had not yet seen. Papers The Brooklyn In the statement, Martin outlined a ment.” a lawyer to defend him against the “This has opened the windows for list of instances in which he said Gentile Martin has retained attorney Paul charges. everyone who has a political agenda, like made inappropriate advances, most of Callan, a Manhattan-based lawyer who “I will not dignify every rumor and the gay rights groups that are bitterly op- which took place outside of the district represents such stars as Leonardo Di- malicious innuendo. I welcome this in- posed to Gentile because of his vote A plate of Oy! office. Caprio and Quentin Tarantino. Callan vestigation of the facts to expose these against SONDA. All they’re doing now is Mark Garrison and Katheryn Pitts enjoy a plate of — you guessed it — oysters during Among the allegations in Martin’s said that Martin was considering law- frivolous and absurd claims and to that seizing on this opportunity,” said Bello. Guinness Oyster Festival Sunday on Water Street in DUMBO. statement was an attempt in August by Gentile to be included in a personal trip to Maine that Martin was planning for a friend’s wedding. Martin alleges that af- removal. idential apartment next door ter Gentile’s persistent suggestions that Fitzgerald was reminded that had been set out near her the two take the excursion together and what he was there for, by a building. share a room, the councilman cited a Atlantic merchants feeling trashed persistently raised-hand — to “It’s so evidently residen- colleague who had earlier suggested that answer the questions of the tial trash — that pisses me Gentile take time off work. By Jess Wisloski partment in mid-September, in between pickup cycles — to everybody, but it’s not change in residential enforce- merchants who were facing off! I’m not going to spend “‘[Park Slope Councilman] Bill De- The Brooklyn Papers storeowners along the At- the Atlantic Avenue Better- anything new,” said Balboza, ment officers’ schedules from hundreds of dollars worth of my money and effort,” Mas- Blasio has been telling me that I need to lantic Avenue strip suffered ment Association hosted a giving an example of one of a 24-hour day, to checking tickets. tel said, on what she per- take a break and go on vacation. If we Atlantic Avenue mer- added scrutiny as inspectors spokesperson from the De- the tasks required of the mer- only two hours a day, from 8 “I’m so livid!” said Elissa ceived as erroneous charges both go up there together, we could save chants were left fuming targeted their strip, where partment of Sanitation at chants. am to 9 am and noon to 1pm. Jane Mastel, the owner of by Sanitation workers. money by sharing a hotel room, and following a recent ticket residential units exist above their Sept. 23 meeting. Others, she said, had prob- He pointed out the up side of Urban Monster, an Atlantic Fitzgerald said he couldn’t don’t worry about having time for your- blitz targeting trash in front store. The president of the or- lems with neighboring shops’ this arrangement by saying, Avenue children’s clothing answer her questions based self. You can just read and take a nap or of their establishments. whatever you want. Your friends don’t Meanwhile, merchants ganization, Sandy Balboza, violations, or residential “at least now you’ll know store. “I normally can’t make on her summons alone, but have to know about it and no one at But what was even more with their own inspection said they called on the de- dumping in front of their when we’re coming.” these meetings because of did note it was difficult for work has to know about it either,” Mar- galling to the business own- schedule changes, which partment’s community affairs stores. Some merchants had The spokesman said the my [baby]-sitting schedule,” the enforcement agents to is- tin quoted Gentile as saying. ers is that the tickets came as were issued around the same spokesman Tom Fitzgerald been issued tickets of up to rat problem was worsened by she said. sue tickets when they are “The councilman was extremely per- a result of change in enforce- time. because merchants had no- $300. residents dumping in public Mastel explained that, al- dealing with property owners sistent and I viewed his conduct as utter- ment not of commercial es- In an effort to educate the ticed an abundance of tickets “We want to do anecdotal litter baskets, and he ven- though she paid a “ridiculous who aren’t present, like Mas- ly and totally inappropriate,” Martin tablishments but residential merchants about responsibili- appearing, often for neglect- things so they can understand tured that the biggest issue amount of money” to have tel’s neighbor, who, she said, said. “When I finally said ‘no,’ yet property owners. ties — and conversely, the ing duties they didn’t know the merchants’ situation,” facing the city was garbage, her garbage removed by a lives in Great Neck. again, he replied by saying, ‘Whatever.’ When the new residential respondibilities of their land- they had. said Balboza prior to the not crime or education. He private carting company, she “The problem is, you can’t But he was obviously very deflated by routing hours were put into lords, whose residential ten- “Sweeping 18 inches into meeting. also talked about new, mon- had been issued a $300 ticket issue summonses to someone the rejection.” effect by the Sanitation De- ants were dumping garbage the street seems to be a shock Fitzgerald explained the ey-saving initiatives for trash for trash belonging to the res- if they’re not there,” he said. 8 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM October 2, 2004

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EVENT Let’s dance On Oct. 2, Stepping Out Dance Studios (pictured) will offer free dance lessons at the Brooklyn Museum. The hour-long clinic, which begins at 8 pm, will teach visitors how to cut a rug in time for a 9 pm dance party featuring music and tango dancing by Pablo Aslan’s Avantango. In addition to the museum’s First Saturday dance party, there will be screenings of films including Paul Grimault’s 1980 family-friendly an- imated film “Le Roi et L’oiseau” (about a palace where portraits come to life); a performance by the French band Bebe Eiffel; a clay (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings October 2, 2004 sculpture class; and lectures by sculptor Roz Kochman (about Au- guste Rodin) and Eric Monacelli (about images of the body in Victorian and modern art). Admission to the Brooklyn Museum (200 Eastern Parkway at Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights) is free from 5 pm to 11 pm. The cafe will be open and a cash bar will offer wine and beer. For more information, call (718) 638-5000 or visit the Web site at ‘Brooklyn’ karma www.brooklynmuseum.org. — Lisa J. Curtis Chance meeting DINING on promenade Flower power On Aug. 26, a fire in 81 and 81A Seventh Ave. sparks musical destroyed ZuZu’s Petals, Fonda Sara’s flower shop which had served the Park Slope community for 33 By Lisa J. Curtis years. GO Brooklyn Editor Sara has found a new location at 374 Fifth he songwriting team of Mark Schoenfeld Ave., between Fifth and and Barri McPherson will have the ca- Sixth streets, to transplant Mango / Greg Treer-crowning glory of seeing their first her blooms. To help with musical open on Broadway this month. the renovation costs, chef And they’ve never been to a Broadway Bill Snell and his wife show. Christine (pictured) will

Schoenfeld, a Brooklyn native, and hold a fundraiser on Papers File The Brooklyn McPherson are the dynamic duo behind the Tuesday, Oct. 5, from 7 grungy, soulful “Brooklyn the Musical” pm to 11 pm, at their restaurant Cocotte (337 Fifth which began previews last week. Ave. at Fourth Street). “Brooklyn” director Jeff Calhoun (“Big The Snells will supply French hors d’oeuvres and River”), talking to reporters at a rehearsal a cash bar to toast Sara’s next venture. Park Slope studio on 42nd Street last month, extolled Councilman Bill DeBlasio and Borough President Schoenfeld and McPherson’s novice status, Marty Markowitz are scheduled to attend. saying it was part of their charm. The hors d’oeuvres are free, but checks made “They are loving, unique people not yet out to ZuZu’s Petals for $100, seed level; $150, spoiled by this commercial [business],” said leaf; $200, petal; $250, flower; and $300, garden Calhoun. Mango / Greg — or whatever you can afford — will be accepted Schoenfeld, who was born in the Red at the party. Checks can also be mailed to ZuZu’s Hook Houses projects, told GO Brooklyn, “It Petals, 81A Seventh Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217. feels to me like we didn’t even write this For more information about the fundraiser, call show. It gives me goose bumps!” (718) 832-6848. — Tina Barry

He and McPherson, who together wrote Papers The Brooklyn the music and lyrics for “Brooklyn,” ex- Soul sisters: “Brooklyn” stars, Eden Espinosa (title role) and Ramona Keller plained their collaborative effort. (Paradice), pose for pictures on Manhattan’s 42nd Street on Sept. 9. (Inset, “When we started writing so long ago, we had 165 pages,” said Schoenfeld. Working left to right) Composers and lyricists Mark Schoenfeld and Barri McPher- NIGHTLIFE with Calhoun, the work was whittled down son with music supervisor John McDaniel. to its current size, an intermission-less hour and 40 minutes. But this time he was a homeless street per- Before coming to Broadway, “And the wonderful thing about Jeff,” said former. she played Brooklyn at the Denver

McPherson, “was that he made sure we were When asked if Schoenfeld remembered Civic Theater for six weeks, where Mango / Greg

always a part of [the process].” McPherson after all of that time, he beamed, the production premiered on May Callan / Tom “Brooklyn the Musical” is, in part, in- “She’s gorgeous! Of course I remembered her. 7, 2003. The opening night of spired by Schoen- And I was just blown “Brooklyn” at the Plymouth The- feld’s time as a away by the talent atre in Manhattan is Oct. 26.

homeless person and THEATER she shared that day.” Ramona Keller, who plays the Papers The Brooklyn

the generous spirit McPherson invit- role of Paradice, was born and Papers The Brooklyn that moved McPher- “Brooklyn the Musical” is in previews now ed him to come raised in Brooklyn and now lives in Canar- Paradice is made from discarded potato chip through Oct. 20 at the Plymouth Theatre (236 son to take him into West 45th St. in Manhattan). Opening night is home to live with sie. bags and a form-hugging dress is cinched her home to live with Oct. 21. Performances are Monday through Sat- her family and the Calhoun explains the spelling of that char- with crisscrossed duct tape. her husband and urday at 8 pm, Saturday matinees at 2 pm. Be- two collaborated on acter’s name, “Paradice — the villain — was The musical is not a panorama of well ginning Oct. 26, Tuesdays at 7 pm, Wednesday Jazzing it up children. through Saturday at 8 pm, and matinees on writing the songs born with nothing more than a pair of dice heeled Brooklyn Heights residents and Schoenfeld’s fam- Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2 pm and Sun- about a band of around her neck,” he said. “She’s the wicked brownstone architecture, but rather the over- Just when you thought Palmira’s in Brooklyn ily moved from Red days at 3 pm. Tickets are $25-$95. For tickets, street people that be- witch of the ’hood.” looked homeless people on its corners and Heights couldn’t get any grander, owners Roger and call (212) 239-6200. For more information, go to Hook to the Bronx the Web site www.brooklynthemusical.com. came “Brooklyn.” The characters in the musical are a motley subway platforms. Victoria Desmond have surprised customers with a new and then as an adult Now the creative crew of soulful, R&B-wailing street-corner “I love it when the audience talks about lounge area in the front of their already spacious estab- he moved to New team has expanded singers and storytellers. They tell the fairytale moving performances instead of moving lishment. England. He was a composer and McPherson to include music supervisor John McDaniel about Brooklyn against a backdrop of gritty scenery,” said Calhoun. “This was an oppor- “We noticed that sometimes people just want to hang a singer, who had spent one day recording a (former bandleader of “The Rosie O’Donnell sets designed by Ray Klausen out of materi- tunity for me to deliver that kind of show.” out and drink, not sit at a table and eat, so this is the ap- song together. Show”) and a cast of talented performers. als that could be found on the street. For in- Because Calhoun saw the heart in “Brook- propriate space,” said their daughter manager Laura The “Brooklyn” legend is that eight or The star of the show is Eden Espinosa, stance, the characters imagine that they are lyn,” he has given the lyricists their own fairy Desmond. nine years later, McPherson, then living in who plays Brooklyn, a young woman search- watching a “sing-off” inside the ring at Madi- tale ending. Audiences are paying $95 a ticket, One wraparound, red leather banquette adorns one New Hampshire, was in Brooklyn Heights to ing for her father in the borough for which son Square Garden because a square has rather than throwing quarters in a paper cup, to wall, while several red leather booths decorate two oth- perform at a private party. Walking on the she was named. Espinosa was an understudy been erected with surgical tubing. hear Schoenfeld and McPherson’s music. ers. A windowed wall, lit by sets of candles overlooks promenade, she discovered Schoenfeld for the roles of Nessarose and her sister El- Their ballgowns, by costume designer To- “Can you beat that name?” said Schoen- Clark Street. again. phaba in the Tony-award winning “Wicked.” bin Ost, are colorful tatters. A headpiece for feld. “Just the name is magical.” The new lounge is home to live jazz, which Palmi- ra’s features every Friday and Saturday at 8:30 pm and during Sunday brunch. Recent performers included Sheila Cooper and the Roz Corral Trio (pictured). On Oct. 2 and Oct. 8-9, the Keisha St. Joan Quartet will perform, while Cooper will continue her Sunday brunch performances. “We’re looking to expand, to be more than just a restaurant,” said Roger Desmond. Moor drama at BAM DJ Ryan Brown who spins a variety of music — from Tony Bennett to Janet Jackson — recently moved Cheek by Jowl’s Declan Donnellan on ‘Othello’ his booth from the dining room to the lounge to enter- tain Palmira’s guests throughout the evening. By Paulanne Simmons Donnellan’s Cheek by Jowl has become ten as the actors are doing it. The actors Although there is no cover or drink minimum at for The Brooklyn Papers world famous for its original approach to make the words seem inevitable. The most Palmira’s, customers are free to choose from one of their European classics, particularly Shakespeare. important thing is that the piece of art is many menus. The newest addition is a lounge menu, eclan Donnellan, director of Cheek Yet Donnellan says he makes no special ef- alive.” also known as “Small Plates of Savory,” which includes by Jowl’s “Othello,” which will be at fort to be original. It is rather the natural out- Donnellan says he loves Shakespeare be- items such as spinach pie, a Mediterranean plate with DBAM’s Harvey Theater Oct. 5-10, growth of his method. cause his plays are about art, not because hummus and tabbouleh, and the Palmira’s Burger. originally studied law at Cambridge Uni- “I would never, ever try to be original,” they are museum pieces. Palmira’s is located at 41 Clark St. at the corner versity but gave it up at age 22 to try his he told GO Brooklyn in a telephone inter- “Shakespeare’s plays are about the ab- of Hicks Street in Brooklyn Heights. Happy Hour is hand at drama. view from London, where his company is solute essentials of human nature. They take from 4 pm to 7 pm daily and includes free food

Keith Pattison The world of theater has good reason to based. “I try to ignore tradition. I always try us to the extremes of feeling and the things and half-price drinks. Palmira’s accepts American Jonny Phillips as Iago (left) and Nonso Anozie as Othello in the be grateful for the change in career path. to do a work as well as I can. The audience we have in common as human beings,” he Express, MasterCard and Visa. For further informa- Cheek by Jowl production directed by Declan Donnellan. Founded with Nick Ormerod in 1981, should have the idea the play is being writ- See OTHELLO on page 13 tion, call (718) 237-4100. — Chiara V. Cowan

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BROOKLYN Neighborhood Let ’em eat Bites Dining Guide cupcakes This week: MYRTLE AVENUE ‘Cupcake Queen of Bklyn’ Castro’s 511 Myrtle Ave. at Grand Avenue, (718) 398- allows a behind-the-scenes 1459 (Cash only) Entrees: $6-$11.50. The smell of grilled meats and rice and beans greets customers at Castro’s, while the sounds of Mexican peek at successful home biz music boom from the jukebox up front. “Customers love our mole poblano because the sauce is homemade,” boasts owner Humberto By Chiara V. Cowan night visions a reality. Castro. Chef Alberta Mendoza combines various Mango / Greg for The Brooklyn Papers Today, Walton spends three to four peppers, toasted sesame seeds, garlic, chocolate, raisins and cinnamon to make this typical Mexican days a week working part-time at Urban dish. Vegetarians can try the burrito with broccoli, he does not wear a dazzling crown Monster in Clinton Hill. Weekends are cauliflower, carrots, zucchini, jack cheese, rice, beans, nor is her home a palace. No train dedicated to her cupcakes. On Fridays, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, sour cream and gua- of large, beefy men protect her she makes herself at home in the kitchen camole. (Pico de Gallo is served on the side.) All S entrees come with chips and salsa and a side of rice every move and her chariot rarely at Jive Turkey on Myrtle Avenue where and beans. Papers File The Brooklyn awaits. Still, Shanah Walton, 26, the she bakes cakes and cupcakes. Instead The Jubilee Smoothie at Karrot. In warmer months, enjoy a meal in the backyard self-proclaimed “Cupcake Queen of of paying rent to Jive Turkey owner Ar- patio. Castro’s also offers an array of breakfast burri- Brooklyn,” considers herself royalty icka Westbrooks, Walton pays her in tos and morning specials. Delivery and takeout avail- products from small producers, some of which are able. Open daily from 7 am to 11 pm. exclusive to the store. because of the rich, sweet treats she baked goods to be sold at the counter. At According to Aguila, his inventory is priced 10 to 15 whips up in the kitchen. the end of every month, Walton also Five Spot Supper Club percent lower than most Manhattan and Brooklyn “If I’m not confident about what I’m pays Westbrooks for her share of bor- health food stores. Open daily. 459-461 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, selling, then who else is going to be?” rowed ingredients. (718) 852-0202, www.fivespotsoulfood.com (Disc, said Walton on a recent afternoon at the On Saturdays and Sundays, Walton MC, V) Entrees: $7.95-$13.95. Kum Kau Urban Monster boutique in Clinton prints menus, takes orders, creates new A 60-foot bar, hardwood floors and an intricately pat- 465 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) Hill. “If I don’t think I’m the Queen, no recipes, plasters Brooklyn neighbor- Mango / Greg terned tin ceiling decorate Five Spot’s dining room, 638-1850 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $5.95-$12.75. while exposed brick, crushed red velvet and a wood- one else will believe it.” hoods with fliers and delivers cupcakes. At Kum Kau, anything is possible. burning fireplace adorn the walls where co-owners Walton’s confidence stems in part When she is unable to deliver, she relies Malik and Kim Armstead have been serving down- “Customers are free to customize their own din- from her years of experience. She has on either Newell or her younger brother, home cooking since 1996. Southern fried chicken ners,” boasts manager Peter Cheng. While co-own- and hickory-smoked spare ribs are just two of their ers and chefs Jimmy and Amy Cheng make all of the been dipping her fingers in cake mix Jordan Simon, to deliver the goods.

popular dishes. Five Spot offers a daily lunch special sauces, other chefs divide duties depending on their since she was a little princess growing up “Shanah is very accommodating,” Papers The Brooklyn for $5.95 that includes meat (or fish for $6.95) and specialties. A favorite at Kum Kau is the crispy baked in East New York where her mother and said Cupcake Queen customer Lynette Queen for a day: “Cupcake Queen” Shanah Walton frosts her red velvet two side orders. Side dishes range from black-eyed shrimp with mild spices and rice. On Wednesdays, grandmother spent Richardson, of peas and collard greens to macaroni and cheese and Kum Kau offers an “all you can eat” buffet lunch cupcakes with cream cheese frosting then sprinkles them with pecans. candied yams. Homemade cornbread is served with ($5.99) and dinner ($10.99) including Chinese cake. many evenings Clinton Hill. Rich- all dinner entrees. Each week the buffet menu changes to allow cus- cooking and bak- DINING ardson has ordered tomers to enjoy various traditional Chinese entrees. For dessert, try Five Spot’s individual pecan pie or ing. As an adult Walton’s cupcakes Among some of the Queen’s most Customers throughout the city order Kum Kau offers a special family menu for two or To place an order with Shanah Wal- peach cobbler. In the evenings, live music or DJs per- more people including soup, an appetizer, an entree, living in Crown three times since popular flavors are yellow cupcakes from Walton for birthday parties, bridal form on stage. Check the Web site for a calendar of ton, the “Cupcake Queen of Brooklyn,” rice and dessert, all for $11.95 per person. Takeout Heights, she does call (646) 251-3923 or e-mail swcater- discovering her topped with a fluffy chocolate butter showers, baby showers, bachelorette upcoming performers. Open daily for lunch and din- and private parties also available. Open daily. ner. Open for takeout from noon to midnight. the same. Only [email protected]. Cupcakes range in fla- business card at Ur- cream frosting and the red velvet cup- parties and even barbecues. Walton has vor and price. The classics are $12 per Peaches & Cream now she gets dozen, and the specialty cupcakes are ban Monster four cake dripping with cream cheese frost- never taken an advertisement out in a Gourmet Kitchen paid to do it. $18 per dozen. Cupcake minis are avail- months ago. “One ing and pecans. The red velvet cup- local publication, because she relies on 402 Myrtle Ave. at Vanderbilt Avenue, (718) 643- Cafe “I used to bake able in vanilla and chocolate for $6.50 time I had to have cakes owe their deep ruby color to a lot her cupcakes to sell themselves via 9423 (Cash only) Lunch entrees: $5.25-$12.60. 436 Myrtle Ave. at Clinton Avenue, (718) 852-2243 per dozen. Delivery is free in Brooklyn birthday cakes for and $10 to the outer boroughs. them by a certain of food coloring and a bit of cocoa. fliers and business cards, but mainly In traditional diner style, Gourmet Kitchen serves (Cash only) Paninis: $4.95; sandwiches: $4.95. an architectural time to get out of Their rich and moist texture is achieved through the taste sensation customers eggs, grits, home fries, french toast, pancakes, Lunchtime brings people in for the panini, sandwich- bacon, sausage and “omelets galore” for breakfast es, wraps, soups and salads, and later they return for firm in Manhattan town, so Shanah with a “secret” ingredient Walton will experience after chowing down. to hungry customers sitting at the counter. They a scoop or two of the cafe’s homemade ice cream where I worked,” Walton said. “It be- brought them over herself. Nothing I only say is used instead of the butter- Richardson has already recommended even serve homemade crab or salmon cakes on the ($2 a scoop, $2.75 for two, $4.25 a pint). While the came a monthly thing and before I knew asked for was too much.” milk that most other bakers use. Walton’s cupcakes and services to sev- side. For lunch, the menu offers soups, salads and vegetarian lentil soup and turkey panini with pepper sandwiches, among other entrees. The over-stuffed jack cheese and roasted red peppers sounds deli- it, I was selling them at Christmas.” The difficulty for the consumer “What makes [my cupcakes] differ- eral of her friends. Reuben sandwiches, packed with your choice of cious, let’s be frank here — it’s the banana pudding But after giving birth to her daughter comes in deciding which flavor of cake ent and taste so good is butter,” Walton “I would use her again and again,” either pastrami, roast beef or corned beef, and ice cream you really want. Or the ginger ice cream Aminah Newell in August 2003, travel- and frosting to choose. She offers four said. “Butter is my friend.” Even with Richardson said. “I’m already thinking topped with melted Swiss cheese and sauerkraut, with honey grahams. Or the strawberry cheesecake are a real treat. ice cream. Heck, get a slice of sweet potato cheese- ing to and from Manhattan with catered cake flavors, adding a fifth one with the her love of butter, the cupcakes are not about Halloween and Thanksgiving.” foods and baked goods became too change of seasons. For the summer, the too heavy. No one leaves feeling full, Walton, too, is thinking about the fu- “It is so big that when you go to eat it, you don’t cake or red velvet cake while you’re at it. Individual even leave a bite mark,” says owner Jimmy pies such as sour cream apple walnut or cherry are cumbersome. Having already catered additional flavor was strawberry “short- which could be a problem; it seems im- ture. While no grand opening date has Iliopoulos. Open daily for breakfast and lunch from 7 also available. Open daily. and baked for numerous luncheons at cup-cake” filled with strawberries and possible to eat just one. been set, she hopes to one day own a am to 5 pm. the architectural firm, Walton, with help topped with whipped butter cream and So where did the Queen acquire her storefront where she can bake and sell Sushi Okdol from fiance Mark Newell, began some fresh strawberries. For the fall, a cherry secrets? Although she has dabbled in a cupcakes all day. Jive Turkey 497 Myrtle Ave. at Hall Street, (718) 789-1373, strategizing of her own. cheesecake cupcake will grace the few culinary courses at the New York “My mother and grandmother make (Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $7.95-$19.95. 441 Myrtle Ave. at Waverly Avenue, (718) 797- After having spent many dollars at Queen’s menus and in the winter, her College of Technology, in Downtown fun of me,” Walton said. “They don’t 1688 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Whole turkeys: $44.95- It’s always sushi time at this Japanese and Korean $74.95. restaurant. Just look at the clock in the dining room — Magnolia bakery in the West Village, Black Forest cupcake will return. Brooklyn, and the Institute of Culinary take me seriously yet. They want me Jive Turkey looks just like your mom’s kitchen. The it tells time in sushi! And although the small restaurant, she was suddenly waking at night with The best part about Walton is that Education, in Manhattan, Walton prides to get a real job.” Still she envisions a wooden countertop and cabinets hold recipe books decorated in various shades of blue, is located on the cupcakes on her brain. So Walton dug she is open to suggestions. Perhaps herself on being self-taught. rotating menu of cupcake flavors and second floor of a two-story building, outside, the enor- and turkey figurines, while the curtained window just out her recipes for three-layer carrot cupcake lovers will soon see a pumpkin “I’ve gone to school to perfect my warm drinks such as lattes and espres- above the “kitchen sink” displays a flower box wait- mous sign bearing its name is hard to miss. Co-owners, ing for warm weather. Eumnu Kang and Lee Taeyeon, customized their menu cake with ginger cream cheese frosting cupcake for Thanksgiving. skills,” Walton said, noting that as part sos. so it appeals to both native Korean and Japanese as and began baking. “I explore flavors and try different in- of her royal reality, she still takes recre- “That’s it,” said the Queen. “That The signature dish at Jive Turkey is the whole fried well as American customers. The most popular dish turkey. “We deep-fry the turkeys in very hot oil for 18 among Pratt students of Korean descent is the In January 2004, Walton officially gredients,” Walton said. “If you want to ational and development courses to would make me happy. This is what I to 24 minutes. The result is much juicier on the inside “BiBimBop,” a mildly spiced combination of rice, veg- crowned herself queen and made her do a tiramisu cupcake, I can do that, too.” learn new techniques. live for.” with a light crisp on the outside,” says Jive Turkey etables, eggs and your choice of meat or bean curd. owner Aricka Westbrooks. The turkeys come in 15 dif- Here’s the fun part: the sides are served in separate ferent flavors ranging from honey pecan and lemon compartments and you get to mix them yourself. pepper to peach bourbon and Mexican mole. On the Japanese side of the menu, the dragon roll, Westbrooks not only fries whole turkeys, but also made with eel and crab and adorned with artfully serves a menu of housemade desserts including sliced pieces of avocado, wins in popularity. Lunch Pillow Cafe wakes up Myrtle Ave. extra large Rice Krispy treats, cookies, cupcakes and specials are served Monday through Friday, from tarts. While Jive Turkey offers limited seating, there is 11:30 am to 3 pm. Open daily. a “grab, gobble and go” menu of salads, sandwich- Do you ever just want to sit back, re- 12 years, Richardson and Odunewu de- es, meats and sides. Jive Turkey serves homemade lax and sink into a heaping pile of pil- cided to open a lounge where they lemonades, particularly popular on summer days, Thai 101 including flavors such as mango, strawberry, pink 455A Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) lows as you read your favorite book and could create meals they would normal- lemonade and ginger mint. Whole turkeys can be 855-4615 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $5.95- sip a ginger honey shake? Perhaps you ly eat at home. shipped nationwide. Open daily. $12.95. just wish to indulge your health-con- Continuously customizing the selec- The effect of the orange art deco lamps reflecting off scious taste buds with the homemade tion of food to their customers’ desires, Karrot Thai 101’s crisp, whitewashed brick walls, gives it a modern and airy feel. Thai 101 favorites include goodness of an organic sandwich. Pillow Cafe has abandoned its standard 431 Myrtle Ave. at Clinton Avenue, (718) 522-9753 deep-fried duck or fish served with their special Whether you’re thirsty, hungry, menu. Currently, the most requested (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Smoothies: $3.75-$4.75. house sauce, mixed vegetables and pineapple. Also starting your day or winding down — item, the signature goat cheese and sun- The best smoothie in Brooklyn can be found in Karrot, popular is the pad Thai because customers have the owner Carlos Aguila says about his hip health food option of eating it with beef or chicken versus solely or just need someone to talk to — Pil- dried tomato sandwich, served with store. He offers two different types of organic with vegetables or shrimp. Check for the weekly soft- low Cafe and Lounge has something homemade pesto on sourdough bread, smoothies: the Jubilee with blackberries, strawber- shell crab special with either panang curry sauce or for everyone. is rivaled in popularity by their avoca- ries, blueberries, bananas, soy milk and mango juice peanut sauce. For dessert, owner Angelia Chou rec- As its name suggests, Pillow Cafe do salad with fresh spinach leaves and ($3.75) and the other with almonds, bananas, soy pro- ommends the FBI (Fried Banana Ice cream) or the tein and almond milk ($4.75) — “And lots of love,” pumpkin custard. Lunch specials served daily for and Lounge, which opened on Myrtle goat cheese. adds Aguila. $4.95. Open Monday through Saturday for lunch and Avenue in Fort Greene in March, is Although the choice of food offered, On Karrot’s shelves are international teas, fresh organic dinner. Sundays are dinner only. very cushy, with pillows and little ot- ranging from a peanut butter and jelly dairy products and eggs and natural beauty supplies. tomans scattered all over the place. Al- sandwich with banana to a smoked The store, which opened in September 2003, even

Zaytoons / Jori Klein stocks natural pet foods. though the pillow-covered window seat salmon salad, changes from month to 472 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) 623- looks particularly inviting, the lounge month, one thing is constant: every- “We’ve got lots of quick cuisine stuff, lots of low-carb 5522 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $4.50-$13.50. breads and boxed goods for the low-carb crowd, cere- also offers a bar with four stools (with thing is made from organic ingredients. According to Zagat, co-owners and chefs Ahmad als, you name it,” Aguila said. The natural food mini Samhan and Faried Assad, serve the No. 1 Middle- padding of course) and four tables with Thirsty or not, diners should experi- chain — two additional locations are at 283 Grand Ave. Eastern food in New York City. Tapestries and cushioned chairs. ence the magic of Pillow Cafe’s ginger and 854 W. 181st St. in northern Manhattan — stocks antique lamps adorn exposed brick and warm, red Co-owners Biola Odunewu and Papers The Brooklyn honey shake (small $4.50; large $5.50), walls, while brightly patterned fabric covers comfy benches, couches and chairs. The chicken “shawar- Robin Richardson provide their cus- a concoction of low-fat yogurt, mango = Full review available at ma,” lemon-marinated chicken from the rotisserie tomers with a bookshelf stocked with earth tones — matching the shades of they let Leo make a mess of the place,” nectar, ginger and honey. If you’re not served with rice and salad and a choice of hummus titles ranging from classics to contem- autumn leaves. joked Fernando Musiq, holding his 9- a ginger-lover, you will be. or babaghanouj, has been a customer favorite since the restaurant opened in late 2002. Another favorite porary. The book lending operates on The choice of colors is for pragmatic month-old son. Pillow Cafe and Lounge (372 Myrtle among customers is Zaytoons’ variety of “pitzas,” a an honor system — they trust that reasons as much as for mood. All the specialty sandwiches, salads Ave. at Adelphi Street in Fort Greene) combination of pizza and pita. (All of Zaytoons’ pita you’ll return what you take home. “We wanted something warm and and drinks are made inside the lounge, accepts cash only. Entrees: $3.95-$7.50. is made fresh to order.) Try the “lahmbajin pitza,” The atmosphere inside the cafe, with inviting but also durable,” said behind the cafe’s wood-framed bar, by The restaurant is open daily (Monday Abbreviation Key: AmEx= American covered in lamb, beef, onions, tomatoes, parsley and Express, DC= Diner’s Club, Disc= Discover spices. A belly dancer performs two shows every walls painted red, brown and beige, is Odunewu. Durability is key, since the owners. through Friday, from 7:30 am to 8 pm; Card, MC= MasterCard, Visa= Visa Card other Friday. (Reservations are recommended on reminiscent of a warm fall afternoon. many Pillow Cafe regulars include “We’re not chefs, but we love to Saturdays and Sundays, from 8 am to 7 those nights.) Open daily. The furniture and the decor adorning families with young children. make food,” Richardson said. Having pm). For more information, call (718) the smallish interior are all in the same “I come here most mornings because been on a health-food kick for the past 246-2711. — Ajla Grozdanic

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Terry Riley’s multimedia work ‘Sun Rings’ They are most interested in making a high-energy, new music performance.” By Kevin Filipski And that’s what “Sun Rings” is. The for The Brooklyn Papers Dessof Choirs, as the composer himself says, “adds a real dimension to the erry Riley may be the founding fa- piece. I didn’t want it to be only about ther of minimalism — his 1965 space but also about humanity’s role in Tcomposition, “In C,” was the piece the universe. Much of the piece is that begat the hypnotically repetitive mu- about Earth, and the choir adds a celes- sical genre made famous by Philip Glass, tial but human element.” John Adams and Steve Reich — but the With visuals by Willie Williams 69-year-old composer could never be ac- (who has designed rock tours for the Specially selected wine from around the world cused of working with minimal means. likes of U2, REM and David Bowie), A case in point is “Sun Rings,” an 80- sound design by Mark Grey and light- 765 Fulton Street ~ Fort Greene minute work receiving its New York pre- ing by the Kronos’ usual collaborator Between So. Portland & So. 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Music opera house Oct. 6, 8 and 9. surrounded onstage by lights that sug- a relaxing meal As Riley recently told GO Brooklyn gest rings, like Saturn’s. So it has a very Enjoy in a telephone interview from his Califor- “These sounds were recorded millions “I had actually quite a bit of material dynamic effect overall.” nia home-studio, “NASA came to Kro- of miles away, and it stimulated my — I never added it up — but I had sever- Like many other artists, Riley found caffé and people watching at nos and asked them to find a composer imagination.” al tapes that were at least a couple of himself affected by the 9-11 attacks. our sidewalk café. to work with these sound detectors that The sounds that Riley mentions are, hours total to listen to all of them,” he ex- “I started writing [‘Sun Rings’] the buon they had recorded much more figura- plains. “They’ve recorded thousands and month before, so when Sept. 11 hap- over the years tively than literally, thousands of hours of sounds, and these pened, it made me stop in my tracks a from various MUSIC outer-space music: were selected by NASA for their bit,” he says. “Since NASA has worked gusto space stations. It deep-space light- ‘sound,’ so to speak, and how interesting with the military, I wanted to make sure was kind of an op- Terry Riley’s “Sun Rings” will be per- ning and solar they are. I got a selection of these sounds, this piece was not about [war], that’s ER formed at the BAM Gilman Opera INN portune time for winds are but two which was more than sufficient for me to for sure. • D House (30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland NCH EEK Place in Fort Greene) on Oct. 6, 8 and 9 RU A W me because I was of the magnificent work with.” “Of course, I always have been a H • B AYS at 7:30 pm. 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Sinclair is trapped under people who stand out as individuals, not Music and Food 9/11” plays through Oct. 3 (Saturday at spite warnings of 8 pm and Sunday at 3 pm) at the Produc- the day our inno- fallen concrete and suffers from a con- generic heroes. treacherous wa- ers Club Grand Theater (358 W. 44th St. cence died?” (The cussion and a smashed leg. Although he In place of character and plot, Marese at Eighth Avenue in Manhattan). Tickets a ters, and proper lyrics to “Where is enduring excruciating pain, he man- gives the audience a play-length “reach b n are $25, $15 students. For tickets, call u i safety precautions Were You” were ages to remark when Rourke arrives, “It out and touch” moment. Sinclair and Wine and t (212) 352-3101 or visit www.theaterma- C had never been put nia.com. All profits will be donated to the written by Marese must be almost impossible for you to ne- Rourke exchange confidences. They talk o in place. Uniformed Firefighters Association Wid- and McHugh, to gotiate your way through all this debris” about their families: Rourke is happily Tapas Bar e In 1941, 2,403 ows and Children’s Fund. music composed — a sentence many people might have married and devoted to his wife and g military personnel by Bronwen Cole- trouble enunciating under the best of cir- children; Sinclair is stuck in an apparent- Loun and civilians were man.) cumstances. ly loveless marriage. They examine their killed when the Japanese launched a It’s not a bad song, and the event was The rest of the play continues with a ideals (in Sinclair’s case his lack there- sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. certainly sorrowful, but this reviewer mind-boggling assortment of platitudes. of). They find out that they were both • Yet none of these events seems to would like to know why the angels only Here’s an inadequate taste: “Maybe you raised in Brooklyn. But nothing is ever Breakfast Lunch have had the psychological and emo- cried on this particular date and how need a reality check,” “Youth is truly explored in any depth. tional impact of Sept. 11, 2001 — the these heavenly beings decide whether or wasted on the young,” “You are who Under Rourke’s tutelage, Sinclair • fear, the anger, and the conviction that not a tragedy is worthy of tears — let’s you are and there’s no turning back,” comes to realize that he needs to make a Brunch Dinner nothing will ever be the same again. say the death of Americans versus the and “I’m too busy playing the game.” change in his empty life, dedicated to the (bet. Cranberry and Henry Sts.) One way of dealing with this emotional death of Sudanese. The problem is Marese is so busy pursuit of material goods. 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OTHELLO BUSH E.M. Forster’s FÜR DIE KINDER VON GESTERN, HEUTE THE CHAIRS Cheek by Jowl Bangarra Dance Theatre A PASSAGE TO INDIA UND MORGEN (For the Children of Eugene Ionesco Declan Donnellan / Nick Ormerod Stephen Page / Frances Rings Shared Experience Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow) Pick Up Performance Company OCT 5—10 OCT 19—23 Martin Sherman Pina Bausch David Gordon / Valda Setterfield “This production is wonderfully true; a Australia’s leading indigenous dance Nancy Meckler Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch DEC 1—4 fast-paced, emotional and beautifully acted company returns to BAM with its trademark NOV 2—6 NOV 16—21 Judson Dance Theatre pioneer Gordon rendition of the old tragedy that is fresh fusion of contemporary dance and Award-winning, London-based Shared A contemplation of dancers’ lives across directs and performs Ionesco’s two-character and compelling.”—Sydney Morning Herald Aboriginal storytelling. Experience takes on Forster’s story of the generations, and one of Bausch’s most Absurdist play with partner Setterfield. Indian and British states of mind during affecting works. SUN RINGS THE TEMPTATION OF ST. ANTHONY the waning days of the Raj. CALIFORNIA Terry Riley / Kronos Quartet Robert Wilson / Bernice Johnson Reagon BAM, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Fondo John Jasperse Company OCT 6—9 OCT 19—24 NEAR LIFE EXPERIENCE Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, and Teatro de DEC 7—11 Arena’s production of Combining sounds and images captured Carl Hancock Rux and Helga Davis lead a Ballet Preljocaj / Angelin Preljocaj Postmodern choreographer Jasperse’s FAUST/HOW I ROSE by NASA, Riley’s score for Kronos and the music-theater adaptation—created by Music by Air abstract and, at times, spiritual reflection John Jesurun / Martín Acosta Dessoff Choirs features dazzling 40-foot Sweet Honey in the Rock founder Reagon NOV 3—6 on a state that fails to conform to our NOV 16—20* projections of the universe and explores and visionary director Wilson—of Flaubert’s Known for technically dazzling, uncom- projected fantasies. Mexico-based director Acosta and NYC the relationship between humans and spiritual novel. promisingly modern works, Preljocaj playwright/multimedia artist Jesurun present ISABELLA’S ROOM the cosmos. presents this U.S. premiere, set to an a cinematic, contemporary retelling of Faust. Needcompany / Jan Lauwers COME HOME CHARLEY PATTON original composition by French electro THE DYBBUK *Nov 17 in Spanish; all other perfs in English. DEC 14—18 TR Warszawa / Krzysztof Warlikowski Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy pop duo Air. This captivating mix of text, music, and Cross Performance Inc. / Ralph Lemon OCT 13—16 NORA (A DOLL’S HOUSE) LOST OBJECTS dance focuses on Isabella, an old woman OCT 26—30 Polish director Warlikowski makes his U.S. Henrik Ibsen / Schaubühne am Lehniner Bang on a Can / Concerto Köln who has undergone experiments that cause The Choreographer Lemon completes his debut with his haunting adaptation of Platz Berlin / Thomas Ostermeier Michael Gordon / David Lang / Julia Wolfe her to question whether her memories are Dybbuk acclaimed Geography Trilogy with a , a penetrating inquiry into what it NOV 9—13 Deborah Artman / François Girard actually her own. cross-generational exploration of African- means to be a Polish Jew. “...you leave the theater...seething with NOV 30*—DEC 4 In French and English with English surtitles. American history and myth in rural America. In Polish with English surtitles. the same intensity and excitement that *For Next Wave Gala info, Call 718.636.4182 audiences must have felt when it was first A large-scale work of music-theater, staged...”—The Guardian (UK) exploring the myriad implications of loss. In German with English surtitles. Featuring Concerto Köln, DJ Spooky, solo vocalists, a 28-voice choir, and musicians on electric instruments.

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vestigates and feels and re-feels has also directed Tony Kushn- acting and its many acting but is defeated by it in the Tonight Stay Home In Brooklyn everything about love. In ‘Oth- er’s “Angels in America” and schools. end. He may be the true OTHELLO... ello,’ love is bound to jealousy “Homebody/Kabul.” Recently, the Bolshoi Ballet FALLEN... tragic figure in the play. As and envy.” (British actor Nonso “I love Tony’s plays,” says invited him to direct an opera for Giltz as Sinclair, he has Continued from page 9 Anozie will perform the title Donnellan. “He has the quali- but he decided instead to direct Continued from page 11 about three modes — angry, DINE &DANCE explains. “In Shakespeare there role at BAM.) ties that many great writers the ballet, “Romeo and Juliet,” give away the ending in case pained and remorseful. He are fantastic coincidences of If the theme of racial preju- have. He is fascinated by love which will be on tour in Boston anyone actually decides to see sounds best when he just planes — supernatural, person- dice is emphasized at the end of September. this one. keeps quiet. al, political, sexual, romantic — in British and Amer- “I’ve always been in love Dunsten J. Cormack, who Marese has written in a T H E all those things that are perma- ican productions for THEATER with ballet,” he explains. In directs the play, makes a surprise ending that would nently interesting.” social and historical fact, Donnellan says it was see- heroic attempt to give it some make even the most ardent Donnellan sees a separate reasons, Donnellan Cheek by Jowl and Theatre du Nord’s ing Kenneth MacMillan’s meaningful action. He has supporter of deus ex machina production of “Othello” plays Oct. 5 and world of imagery in each of does not believe this Oct. 7 through 8 at 7:30 pm, Oct. 6 at 7 pm, “Romeo and Juliet,” and also Rourke (who has already said blush. If the surprise is not Shakespeare’s plays. In “Lear” is justified by the Oct. 9 at 7:30 pm and 2 pm and Oct. 10 at 3 Peter Brook’s “A Midsummer there’s no way out and he will entirely unexpected, howev- the imagery is all about the hor- text. pm at BAM Harvey Theater (651 Fulton St. at Night’s Dream,” when he was just have to wait with Sinclair er, it certainly is welcome — Flatbush Avenue in Fort Greene). Tickets are ror of nothing, in “Macbeth” it’s “Othello seems $25, $40 and $60. For tickets, call (718) 636- 16, that caused him to fall in until help arrives) checking mostly because it signals the evil. “Othello,” he says, “is very well assimilated at 4100 or visit www.bam.org. love with theater. various spots here and there end of the play. different from other tragedies the beginning of the Donnellan’s “As You Like on the stage with his flash- The nicest thing about because it’s not about the fall of play,” he says. “Iago It,” at BAM’s 1994 Next Wave light and trying manfully to “The Fallen 9/11” is that all a head of state.” gets him to turn against himself. and how it breaks down.” Festival featured an all-male lift heavy slabs. It’s never profits from the production RESTAURANT & SUPPER CLUB “‘Othello’ is about a domestic He has the intuition of the psy- Donnellan has his own cast, yet the director says there clear exactly what he’s trying will be donated to the Uni- tragedy, the murder of a wife — chotic and finds the trigger to group of actors in Russia with will be no major changes in the to do, other than give the au- formed Firefighters Associa- lunch 12-4 • dinner 4-10 and the state goes on quite hap- Othello’s madness.” whom he works, assisted by an staging of this month’s “Othel- dience something to watch. tion Widows and Children’s sunday buffet brunch pily,” says Donnellan. “‘Othello’ Donnellan’s love for Shake- interpreter. He says he is at- lo.” But one can expect that his As Rourke, Davis — who Fund. But there certainly is about love. The great thing speare, however, is not to the tracted to the Russian theater definitive personal style will be is a good actor — struggles must be better ways to collect live music every sat about Shakespeare is that he in- exclusion of other works. He because of its tradition of fine very evident on the BAM stage. with his ridiculous material, money for a good cause. swing dancing, latin dancing Wine Spectator Award Winner Players presents “Good Samaritans.” Warehouse, 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. Compiled $25. 8 pm. St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 MUSIC: BRIC Studio presents “Sonic Water St. (718) 254-8779. Calligraphy,” a duo that performs jazz by Susan with Chinese and Taiwanese folk- The ultimate retro night out! songs. $10, $8 students. 8:30 pm. 57 Rosenthal THURS, OCT 7 Rockwell Place. (718) 855-7882. 263 PROSPECT AVENUE • PARK SLOPE Where to (718) 788-0400 • VALET PARKING Jewish festival of Simchat CHILDREN BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: SAT, OCT 2 Torah begins tonight presents Go Kids! Health Weekend. GARDEN WITHIN GARDEN: Brooklyn $4. 11 am to 6 pm. 145 Brooklyn OUTDOORS AND TOURS Botanic Garden hosts a tour of the Ave. (718) 735-4400. Hosting parties of MONTAGUE STREET FEST: Montague Japanese Hill and Pond Garden. Study PUPPETWORKS: “Hansel and Gretel” Street Business Improvement District botanical artists and learn approaches by The Brothers Grimm. For ages 4 50 to 1000 guests hosts a family event featuring music, to garden sketching. Morning offers and up. $8, $7 children. 12:30 pm puppets, African drumming, stilt guided preparation and discussion; and 2:30 pm. Reservations required. for the past 114 years. dancing, walking tours, storytelling, afternoon focuses on sketching. $75. 338 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-3391. rock climbing wall, petting zoo and 10 am to 4 pm. Registration required. AUDITION: Dancewave invites kids to other activities. 11 am to 6 pm. Mon- 1000 Washington Ave. (718) 623-7220. try out for its Kids Company. 3 pm. tague Street between Clinton and HEALTH TALK: New York Methodist Berkeley Carroll School, 181 Lincoln Henry street. (718) 522-3649. Free. Hospital offers a talk on complemen- Place. (718) 522-4696. CHILE PEPPER FIESTA: Brooklyn Botanic tary medicine. 10 am to noon. 263 www.GrandProspectHall.com Seventh Ave. (718) 780-8700. Free. OTHER Garden annual event celebrating har- SOLO SHOW: Brooklyn Waterfront vest, culinary use and cultural signifi- BREAST HEALTH: Long Island College www.OakRoomRestaurant.com Hospital hosts a panel discussion on Artists Coalition presents The Solo cance of the chile pepper. Cooking Art Show and Solo Performance demos, music and dance performanc- breasts. Learn about the role of diet in cancer prevention, the latest tech- Series. Noon to 5 pm. 499 Van Brunt es. More. $4. Noon to 5 pm. 1000 St. (718) 596-2506. Free. Washington Ave. (718) 623-7333. niques of early detection, lifestyle FLEA MARKET: Old stuff and new stuff CRANBERRY FAIR: Cranberry Street Fair choices and more. Noon to 1 pm. 339 Hicks St. (718) 780-1234. Free. in Red Hook. 10 am to sunset. 399 Seniors: 15% Discount features food and drink, book sale, Van Brunt St. (718) 369-1515. games, live music, raffle and flea mar- AWARDS DINNER: Neighborhood every Tuesday night (dine-in only) ket. 11 am to 3 pm. Children’s events Improvement Association of St. OPEN HOUSE: Open House New York begin at 10:30 am. Pet parade starts at Rosalia-Regina Pacis hosts its sixth explores sites of historic and contem- noon. Cranberry Street between Hicks annual community dinner. $85. 6:30 porary significance in neighborhoods and Columbia Heights. (718) 403-4567. pm. Gargiulo’s Restaurant, 2911 W. throughout the boroughs. Brooklyn GARDEN DAY: Residents of Williams- 15th St. (718) 236-5266. Historical Society participates in the burg and Greenpoint celebrate the OPERA: American Opera Projects pres- event and invites the public to explore area’s community gardens. Event fea- ents “Composers and the Voice.” Six its landmark building. 10 am to 4 pm. tures floats, banners, musical instruments composers each present a new scene 128 Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111. Free. and costumes. parade travels from Berry from an opera in progress. $40. 7 MEETING: Older Women’s League Street Community Garden to the 10 Pianist Adrian Frey and jazz singer Peggy Chew of “Sonic Calligra- pm. South Oxford Space, 138 S. meets to discuss issues of the Eyck Community Garden. 11 am to 5 phy” will perform at BRIC Studio on Oct. 9 at 8:30 pm. Oxford St. (718) 398-4024. upcoming election. 10:30 am. pm. Main event at 10 Eyck Com- SYMPOSIUM: RC Church of St. Finbar Brooklyn College, New Ingersoll Hall, D • E • L • I • C • I • O • U • S munity Garden. (917) 693-4236. Free. hosts a four-week symposium on “A room 432. (718) 891-2490. BROOKLYN 101: New York Like a Native Avenue and Garfield Place. (718) 768- with Dr. Herb Rader. 6 pm. 252 86th Portrait of America.” Learn about the SUNDAY PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society Chinese Cuisine & Vegetarian Nutrition hosts an eclectic tour of Brooklyn’s 1453. Free. St. (718) 238-2991. Free. issues before voting. 7:30 pm. 138 for Ethical Culture offers the talk history, architecture, lore and land- FILM FEST: Coney Island Film Festival. DANCE CLASS: Spoke the Hub begins Bay 20th St. (718) 236-3312. Free. “Defining Moments: Stories From 162 Montague Street Our Family Trees.” 11 am. 53 • Fast Free Delivery scape. Neighborhoods of Park Slope, $20 day pass. See www.coneyisland- its fall term. Classes for adults and BARNES AND NOBLE: Reading and Brooklyn Heights Prospect Park and Brooklyn Heights. filmfestival.com for complete schedule. kids. Call. 295 Douglass St. (718) 408- musical performance with One Ring Prospect Park West. (718) 768-2972. $13. 2 pm to 4:30 pm. Call for meet- 3234. Zero with Jonathan Ames. 7:30 pm. STUDIO STRUT: Bedford-Stuyvesant • Open 7 Days a Week (718) 522-5565/66 ing place. (718) 393-7537. 267 Seventh Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free. Artists’ Association presents works by fax (718) 522-1205 (24hr) members. Noon to 5 pm. Work is dis- OCTOBERFEST: Bratwurst, sauerkraut, SUN, OCT 3 ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: presents “Good • Party Orders Welcome Mon - Thurs 11:30am - 10:00pm beer and other German delicacies MON, OCT 4 Samaritans,” a new work written and played throughout Bedford-Stuyvesant. Pick up tour maps at Skylight Gallery, Fri - Sat 11:30 am - 11:00pm along with music and dancing. 4 pm OUTDOORS AND TOURS directed by Richard Maxwell. $25. 8 We Only Use Vegetable Oil Sunday 2:00pm - 10:00pm to 8 pm. Zion German Lutheran WATER AND WILDLIFE: Experience the pm. 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. 1368 Fulton St. (718) 919-8014. BIRD WALK: Urban Park Rangers hosts a Harbor Estuary at Brooklyn Bridge Park. Church, 125 Henry St. (718) 852-2453. NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of MEETING: AARP Ovington Chapter Natural Cooking $7.00 walk through Prospect Park and looks 10 am to 2:30 pm. Empire-Fulton Ferry meets. 1 pm. Bay Ridge Center for FREE PERFORMANCE for sparrows. 8 am to 10 am. Meet at State Park. www.bbpc.net. Free. Music presents “Othello.” 7:30 pm. and Fresh Vegetables DELIVERY min. See Sat., Oct. 9. Older Adults, 6935 Fourth Ave. Audubon Center. (718) 287-3400. Free. DANCE: Dancewave offers an after- RECITAL: All Bach organ program. 7 pm. ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: New York City BROOKLYN NOIR: Reading by authors St. Francis Xavier RC Church, corner NEWTOWN CREEK TOUR: Take a tour school dance program for kids. Tim McLoughlin, Arthur Nersesian, of this canalized creek which forms the Classes begin today. Call. Berkeley Players presents “Good Samaritans.” of Sixth Avenue and Carroll Street. 8 pm. See Sat., Oct. 9. Luciano Guerriero and Thomas Mor-ris- (718) 230-3191. Free. boundary between Brooklyn and Queens. Carroll School, 181 Lincoln Place. sey. 2 pm. Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Center for the Urban Environ- (718) 522-4696. Brooklyn Heights branch, 280 Cadman CHILDREN ment hosts tour. $45, $35 seniors and Plaza West. (718) 596-6972. Free. FRI, OCT 8 BROOKLYN MUSEUM: Stories and art students. 9:30 am to noon. Meet at BROOKLYN WRITERS SERIES: Show- hour presents “Faces and Bodies.” Fulton Ferry Landing. Reservations TUES, OCT 5 case of some of Brooklyn’s most tal- Nancy Gallo necessary. (718) 788-8500. THRIFT SALE: Clothing, toys and house- $6, $3 seniors and students, free for wares for sale at Our Saviour’s Lutheran ented writers in the sixth season of children under 12. 11 am and 2 pm. THIRD AVE FEST: Bay Ridge Third WORKSHOP: United Cerebral Palsy of “Brooklyn Writers for Brooklyn NYC hosts workshops, a technology Church. Admission: 25 cents. 11 am to Portrait Photography 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Avenue Festival features live music 4 pm. 414 80th St. (718) 745-0020. Readers” series. Today: Monique including a performance by Closenuf. fair, product and service demos and PUPPETWORKS: presents “Hansel and NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of Truong reads from her debut novel. 2 Gretel” by The Brothers Grimm. 1 pm. Stage at Third Avenue at 71st displays for people with disabilities pm. Brooklyn Public Library, Central Street. (718) 745-3511 or (718) 836- and their families and educators. 9 am Music presents Terry Riley’s “Sun Recommended for ages 4 and up. $8, Rings,” a concert event fusing sci- branch, Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230- $7 children. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. 6700. Free. to 4 pm. NYC Marriott at the Brooklyn 2100. Free. Bridge. (212) 979-9700, ext. 707. Free. ence with space imagery and record- Nancy Gallo, Reservations required. 338 Sixth Ave. FOOTRACE: Flatbush four-mile race. 10 ed galactic sounds. $20, $40. 7:30 REUNION: New Utrecht HS classes (718) 965-3391. SUKKOT: Brooklyn Children’s Museum am. Meet at Park Circle entrance to pm. BAM Howard Gilman Opera 1954, 50th anniversary. 6 pm. School formerly of RAGAMUFFIN PARADE: 38th annual Prospect Park. (718) 859-3800. celebrates the Jewish holiday of Suk- gym, 80th Street and 16th Avenue. kot, a harvest holiday. $4. 1 pm to 5 House, 30 Lafayette Ave. Also, parade along Third Avenue. Kids are STREET FAIR: North Flatbush Avenue “Othello.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., Sat. 9. By reservation (631) 424-8680. Boro Photo invited to wear Halloween-type cos- pm. 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. Business Improvement District hosts BEER GARDEN: Brooklyn Historical SINGLE PARENT NIGHT: Brooklyn Child- (Montague St.) has opened tumes and homemade outfits. Toddlers its first annual street festival. Music, BROOKLYN NOIR: Reading by authors ren’s Museum annual event. Families to pre-teens welcome. 1 pm. 67th to Tim McLoughlin, Thomas Morrissey Society features beers of Brooklyn dance, art, fashion, contests, prizes Brewery. Beers: $2. Admission: $6, $4 meet and mingle, participate in a har- her own studio in 92nd street, Bay Ridge. (718) 833-4928. and more. 11 am to 6 pm. North Flat- and Lou Manfredo. 6 pm. Brooklyn vest activity and explore the museum. Public Library, Bay Ridge branch, 7223 students and seniors. 6:30 pm to 8 Brooklyn Heights. READING: Author Mary-Joan Gerson bush Avenue, from Atlantic Avenue to pm. 128 Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111. $7 per person. 6 pm to 8 pm. 145 reads her children’s story “Fiesta Plaza Street. (718) 783-1685. Ridge Blvd. (212) 433-1875. Free. DINNER DANCE: hosted by RC Church Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. Studio hours are available Femenina.” 3 pm. Patrias, 167 Fifth STUDIO GLASS: Scanlan Glass hosts an DANCE LESSONS: Federation of Italian LECTURE: The Bookmark Shoppe hosts Ave. (718) 857-9091. Free. American Organizations tango and of St. Finbar. $75 per person. 7:30 by appointment only. open house with hot glass blowing pm. Gargiulo’s Restaurant, 2911 W. “Writers’ Roadshow.” Learn how to demos. Items for sale and an oppor- ballroom dance lessons open to teens ARTISTS WORKSHOPS: YWCA of 15th St. (718) 236-3312. break into professional writing. 6 pm. The quality studio Brooklyn begins its fall term of art les- tunity to make your own paper- and adults. 6 pm. Seth Low IS 96, 99 6906 11th Ave. (718) 680-3680. Free. sons in fine arts, drawing, painting, weight. Cost: $45. 11 am to 5 pm. Ave. P. (718) 232-2266. Free. READING: Latina authors read. 7:30 portraits Nancy has shot clay sculpture and cartooning. 103 14th St. (718) 369-3645. DINNER: Columbian Lawyers Associa- pm. Patrias, 167 Fifth Ave. (718) 857- 9091. Free. in the past are now Programs for all age groups. 30 Third HOUSE TOUR: Brooklyn House and tion of Brooklyn hosts a meeting. Guest SUN, OCT 10 Ave. Call. (718) 857-8855. Garden Tours takes a tour of homes in speaker Steven Finkelstein discusses OPERA: American Opera Projects pres- available again at Prospect Heights. $15. Noon to 5 pm. “Surrogate’s Court for the Personal ents “Composers and Their Voice.” OTHER Call for location. (718) 707-1277. Injury.” 6 pm. Rex Manor, 1100 60th Six composers each present a new OUTDOORS AND TOURS very reasonable rates! SOLO SHOW: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists PARK SLOPE WALK: Big Onion Tours St. Call for ticket info. (718) 875-0158. scene from an opera in progress. EVERGREENS CEMETERY: Danny Coalition presents Solo Art Show and explores Brooklyn’s “Gold Coast.” AGING RELATIVE SERIES: Heights and $15, $12 students and seniors. 8 pm. D’Addario, foreman and official histo- Solo Performance Series. Noon to 5 pm. Stops include The Montauk Club, Litch- Hill Community Council offers a series South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford rian of the cemetery, leads a tour of • Children 499 Van Brunt St. (718) 596-2506. Free. field Manor and other sites. $12, $10 for families. Today’s topic: “Intro- St. (718) 398-4024. the quick and the dead. 11 am. Meet FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museum students and seniors. 1 pm. Meet at duction to Caregiving.” 6:30 pm to ONE NIGHT STAND: BRIC Studio pres- at front gate of the Evergreens, • Animals celebrates the romance and the mys- southeast corner of Plaza Street West 8:30 pm. 160 Montague St. (718) ents five writers, five directors and 10 Conway Street and Bushwick Avenue. tery of the tango, along with art, film, and Flatbush Avenue. (718) 439-1090. 596-8789. Free. actors in new plays specifically creat- (718) 455-5300. Free. • Families food and fun with a French twist. Live WALKING TOUR: Brooklyn Historical CONCERT: Congregation B’nai Avraham ed for this evening. $10, $8 students. BROOKLYN BRIDGE: Brooklyn Center for music and French tango lessons. Family Society takes a tour of Fort Greene. hosts a live concert by Jewish singer 8:30 pm. 57 Rockwell Place. (718) the Urban Environment leads a tour entertainment. 5 pm to 11 pm. 200 Tour explores the diverse and multi- Chaim Fogelman to celebrate Sukkot. 855-7882. across the bridge. Dress for the weath- Also available for Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Free. cultural community. $15, $10 mem- 7 pm to 9 pm. 117 Remsen St. (718) ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: presents “Good er. $11, $9 members. 11 am to 2 pm. parties and events COMMUNITY FESTIVAL: Sunset Park bers. 2 pm. Meet in front of the HSBC 596-4840. Free. Samaritans.” 8 pm. See Sat., Oct. 9. Meet at Fulton Ferry Landing at foot of Old Fulton Street. (718) 788-8500. hosts an all-ages celebration featuring Bank, 1 Hanson Place. (718) 222-4111. NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of Music PARTICIPANTS NEEDED: Third annual pageantry, food, music and fun. CHILE PEPPER FIESTA: Brooklyn Botanic presents Cheek By Jowl’s “Othello.” Brooklyn Alternative Small Press Fair STUDIO GLASS: Scanlan Glass hosts an [email protected] Carnival-style games, pony rides, Garden hosts its annual event. Noon Declan Donnellan directs Shakespeare’s is looking for small press and author open house with hot glass blowing face-painting, speeches from candi- to 5 pm. See Sat., Oct. 2. legendary tragedy. $25, $40, $60. 7:30 participants for next year’s event. demos. Items for sale and an oppor- dates running for local political pm. BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton Event is scheduled in early June tunity to make your own paper- offices. More. 10 am to 6 pm. 53rd PERFORMANCE St. (718) 636-4100. 2005. Call. (718) 832-2310. weight. Cost $45. 11 am to 5 pm. please call 718 596 2478 103 14th St. (718) 369-3645. Street between Fourth and Fifth OPERA: Regina Opera Company pres- WRITING WORKSHOP: Barnes and Noble avenues. (718) 439-0077. ents “Opera and Pops” concert. $8, offers a fiction workshop. 7:30 pm. EVERGREENS CEMETERY: Tour guide ITALIAN CULTURE: Federation of Italian- free for children. 4 pm. Regina Hall, 267 Seventh Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free. SAT, OCT 9 Danny D’Addario explains tombs of American Organizations offers a pro- corner 65th Street and 12th Avenue. cemetery’s “permanent residents.” gram to improve Italian language (718) 232-3555. 11 am. Corner Bushwick Avenue and skills and learn about the culture. OUTDOORS AND TOURS MUSIC FROM GOOD SHEPHERD: WEDS, OCT 6 Conway Street. (718) 455-5300. Free. Kiddie Korner Presents: Saturdays from 10 am to noon. STUYVESANT HEIGHTS: Brooklyn Center GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Tour Register today. IS 96 Seth Low, 99 Thomas Piercy plays clarinet at Good for the Urban Environment offers a tour Shepherd’s ninth annual chamber HEALTH TALK: New York Methodist Hos- guides John Cashman and Frank Ave. P. (718) 259-2828. Free. of the Landmark District of Bedford- Mescall lead a tour of Brooklyn’s music series. 6 pm. Avenue S pital participates in “Take Your Man to Stuyvesant. $11, $9 members. 11 am to BOOK EXTRAVAGANZA: Brooklyn biblio- the Doctor.” 11 am to 2 pm. 263 Victorian necropolis. Learn about the between Brown and Batchelder 1 pm. Meet outside train station and in philes are invited to Park Slope United streets. (718) 998-2800. Free. Seventh Ave. (718) 780-5367. Free. architectural structures and the per- Methodist Church for its autumn book front of Boys and Girls High School, sonalities who lie beneath. $6. 1 pm ENGAGING ENTERTAINMENT: Day of DANCE: St. Joseph’s College presents intersection of Stuyvesant Avenue and sale. Only books (no CDs, videos or the Calpulli Mexican Dance Company. to 3 pm. Meet inside main entrance other media). 9 am to 4 pm. Sixth Aven- movies, boardwalks, hotdogs, rides Fulton Street. (718) 788-8500. and other entertainment including the 12:40 pm. 245 Clinton Ave. (718) 783- at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street. (718) ue at Eighth Street. (718) 499-0925. 0374. Free. WORKING WATERFRONT: Brooklyn 469-5277. DANCEWAVE: Open house for kids and Coney Island Film Festival. Screening Historical Society one-hour guided Tuesday October 5th teens and adults. 9:30 am to 12:30 of film “Blur,” a drama. 6 pm. Side- OPENING: Works by late Ukrainian boat tour along the East River water- PERFORMANCE pm. Berkeley Carroll School, 181 shows by the Seashore, 1208 Surf artist, Petr Belenok, are showcased. 5 front. Pick up from Fulton Ferry Land- NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of Lincoln Place. (718) 522-4696. Free. Ave. (212) 924-9149. pm to 7 pm. Long Island University, ing at 11:05 am. $20, $18 members. Music presents “Othello.” 3 pm. See DeKalb Avenue and Flatbush Avenue Dancing in Street Reservations needed. (212) 742-1969. Sat., Oct. 9. THRIFT SALE: at Christ Church of Bay CHILDREN Extension. (718) 488-1198. Free. Ridge. 10 am to 3 pm. 7301 Ridge COMEDY: “Nunsense.” 5 pm. See Sat., PUPPETWORKS: presents “Hansel and WINE AEROBICS: Teddy’s Bar and Grill PERFORMANCE Outside Cong. B’nai Avraham, 117 Remsen Street Boulevard. (718) 745-5478. Gretel.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. See Oct. 9. FLEA MARKET: Old stuff and new stuff hosts a trial class featuring New York NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of Sat., Oct. 2. state wines and food. 10 wines to try- GOSPEL MUSIC: Mauricio Lorence hosts in Red Hook. 10 am to sunset. 399 Music presents Cheek By Jowl’s an event featuring gospel music. Tour Simchat Beit HaShoeiva Van Brunt St. (718) 369-1515. out and discuss. 6:30 pm to 8 pm. 96 “Othello.” Declan Donnellan directs OTHER Berry St. Reservations necessary. (718) of Downtown Brooklyn follows per- During temple times, Sukkot was a OPENING: Atlantic Terminal branch of Shakespeare’s legendary tragedy. $25, formance. $25. 10 am to 1 pm. Meet SOLO SHOW: Brooklyn Waterfront 384-9787. Free. $40, $60. 2 pm and 7:30 pm. Harvey period of Nisuch HaMayim (water Carver Federal Savings opens. Artists Coalition presents The Solo Art at Marriott Hotel, 333 Adams St. at Festivities include music with gospel TOASTMASTERS: Perfect your public Theater, 651 Fulton St. Also, Terry Tillary Street. (718) 789-0430. libations). The Talmud records that Show and Solo Performance Series. speaking and presentation skills. 6:45 Riley’s “Sun Rings,” concert event fus- group Lady Peachena, limbo perform- Noon to 5 pm. See Sat., Oct. 2. ances, face painters, stilt walkers and pm to 7:45 pm. VA Hospital, 800 Poly ing science with space imagery and CHILDREN this event was the greatest joy the FARMERS’ MARKET: Park Slope Far- more. 11 am to 3 pm. Also, WBLS Place, room 2-415. (718) 748-9622. recorded galactic sounds. Kronos PUPPETWORKS: presents “Hansel and world had ever seen. In honor of radio van and Dr. Bob Lee makes a mers Market offers New York state- MEETING: Concerned Citizens of Quartet performs. $20, $40. 7:30 pm. grown vegetables and fruits. Also, Gretel.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. See this special time we are hosting a guest appearance. Noon to 2 pm. 4 Bensonhurst presents guest speaker BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Sat., Oct. 9. Hanson Place. (212) 330-7515. Free. pasture-raised poultry and meats, Carmen Cognetta, Jr, Legislative 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. breads, pastries and more. 8:30 am to Street Party. BROOKLYN NOIR: Reading by authors Attorney for the NYC Council. 7:30 COMEDY: Strivelli Players perform the mu- OTHER 3 pm. Rain or shine. JJ Byrne Park, pm. Bath Avenue and Bay 20th sical “Nunsense.” 8 pm. St. Bernadette’s Tim McLoughlin, Arthur Nersesian, Fourth Street. (914) 923-4837. SOLO SHOW: Brooklyn Waterfront Luciano Guerriero and Thomas Street. (718) 688-0097. School auditorium, 8201 13th Ave. Call Artists Coalition presents The Solo Art WHAT: Street Party Morrissey. 2 pm. Brooklyn Public FLEA MARKET: at St. Finbar Center. 9 NEXT WAVE: Brooklyn Academy of for reservations. (718) 907-3422. Show and Solo Performance Series. Library, Carroll Gardens branch, 396 am to 3 pm. Bath Avenue and Bay Music presents Terry Riley’s “Sun ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: “Good Samaritans,” Musicians Tina Jenny Hill and Todd WHERE: Outside 117 Remsen , Btw Clinton & Henry Clinton St. (718) 596-6972. Free. 20th Street. (718) 236-3312. Rings,” a concert event fusing science a new work written and directed by Isler perform. Noon to 5 pm. 499 Van (Indoor if raining) BAMCINEMATEK: Adventures of John BAMCINEMATEK: Adventures of John with space imagery and recorded Richard Maxwell. $25. 8 pm. St. Ann’s Brunt St. (718) 596-2506. Free. Boorman. “Point Blank” (1967). $10. 2 Boorman series. “Deliverance” (1972). galactic sounds. $20, $40. 7:30 pm. TIME: 7pm-9pm pm, 4:30 pm, 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. $10. 2 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:50 pm and 9:15 BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. 30 Lafayette Ave. Also, “Othello.” 7 Live Music, Prizes for Children, Refreshments READING: Spiral Thought Magazine SUNDAYS AT SUNNY’S: Open reading. pm. See Tues, Oct. 9. hosts a reading. 7 pm to 9 pm. $3 donation. 3 pm. 253 Conover St. CONCERT: One World Symphony begins ~Special Performance~ (718) 625-8211. LIST YOUR EVENT… Shakespeare’s Sister, 270 Court St. its fourth season with “Falstaff and Jewish Music Superstar – Chaim Fogelman (718) 832-2310. Free. OPENING: Goloborotko’s Studio pres- The Magic Flute.” $30 admission with To list your event in Where to GO, please give us two weeks notice or more. Send SUKKOT EVENT: Park Slope Jewish ents “Rudiments,” recent monotypes refreshments; $20 students and sen- your listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 Washington St., Suite Center offers a Havdalah service in by GG Stankiewicz. 4 pm to 7 pm. 64 iors with refreshments. 8 pm. St. Ann **FREE ADMISSION** the Sukkah, followed by kid-friendly John St. (718) 855-6862. Free. and the Holy Trinity, corner of Montague 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed movie shorts. $5 per family. Appro- LECTURE: Salvation Army of Bay Ridge and Clinton streets. (718) 462-7270. on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. For further information, please contact: Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin priate for kids 8 to 13. 7:30 pm. Eighth offers a talk “Creation vs. Evolution” ARTS AT ST. ANN’S: New York City (718) 596-4840 ext.18 14 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPERS WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM Oct. 2, 2004

funk Sessions with DJ Sport Casual, 10 pm, FREE; Oct. 2: NRG Magazine Party with live performances and DJs, 8 BROOKLYN pm, FREE (2 hour open bar); Oct. 3: Antilles Connection (calypso jazz), 8:30 pm, Rootless featuring DJs Queazy, Wonka, Darkness, Bleep, and more, 10 pm, FREE; Oct. 5: Open mic, 8 pm, Liondub Sounds, 10 pm, FREE; Oct. 6: Unkl (rock from Berlin), 9 pm, FREE; Oct. 7: Karin Okada (jazz vocalist), 8 pm, FREE, Sambafreak featuring DJ Azu and guests spinning Brazilian roots and world-wide beats, 10 pm, FREE. Nightlife The LuLu Lounge (Under TacuTacu) 134 N. Sixth St. at Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 218-7889, The Backroom www.ricerepublic.com/specials.html. (Inside Freddy’s Bar) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue in Sundays: Jose Luis Martinez Trio, 7 pm, FREE; Mondays: Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035, www.Freddysback- “Random Ass Stand-Up,” 8 pm, $6 (includes free drink); room.com. Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays: “Karaoke Nights,” 8 pm, Oct. 2: John Sharples record release party with guests FREE. Robin Aigner, Dan Killian and more, 9 pm, FREE; Oct. 3: Dirk Richardson, Time TBA, FREE; Oct. 4: Comedy Night, M Shanghai Bistro & 9:30 pm, FREE; Oct. 5: “On the Way Out” music from the NY Underground, 9:30 pm, FREE; Oct. 6: Daniel Kelly’s Den Duets with Ghosts, 9:30 pm, FREE; Oct. 7: Old Time Jam, 129 Havermeyer St. at Grand Street in Williamsburg, 9:30 pm, FREE; Oct. 8: Boggie, 9:30 pm, Kelly Slusher, (718) 384-9300. 10:30 pm, The Bitter Poet, 11:30 pm, FREE. Sundays: Hip-hop karaoke w/Dynamic Damien and DJ Harry Ballz, 10 pm, FREE. BAM Cafe 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene, Magnetic Field 60 Cycle Media (718) 636-4100, www.bam.org 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, Oct. 8: Raga Roni, 9 pm, $10 food/drink minimum. Wheat (from left to right, Ricky Brennan, (718) 834-0069, www.MagneticBrooklyn.com. 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Sandy Balboza, president of the Atlantic Avenue Betterment As- COURT JESTERS sociation, huddled on the steps of Borough Hall rubbing her exposed arms on the chilly early autumn evening with a glum expres- sion on her face. She appeared the unwitting protester, and stayed seated while the others handed out flyers. Brooklyn barristers take on stand-up stage For Balboza, this was personal. “I didn’t know what to do,” she said, when she learned that the By Jotham Sederstrom lawyers battling for the title of people who are really from with a law degree and having meeting required an invitation letter, which she and her 7-year-old The Brooklyn Papers “Legal King of Laughter,” a Brooklyn. I value my knee- no money. I do some political organization never received. Like many of the invitees, her group competition hosted by the caps,” goes one of her jokes.). stuff, some racial stuff and ob- just recently joined DDDB’s coalition against the proposal. By day, Lorca Morello Laugh Factory in Times But tucked between those gags servational stuff. That’s about The letters, dated Sept. 22, identified invitees as “active resi- is a lawyer for the Legal Square that began in July. Af- are observations that Jerry Se- it.” dents” and proclaimed Markowitz’s commitment to “finding solu- Aid Society, representing ter several rounds of the com- infeld would die for — if he Matt O’Brien, a Fort tions to community concerns … for your neighborhoods and for all indigent people faced with petition, the final four will face were a lawyer performing for Greene resident, actually con- of Brooklyn.” charges ranging anywhere “I’m on four task forces at Borough Hall. I’ve been to 200 meet- off this month for the top other lawyers, that is. siders his standup stint a full- ings here,” said Balboza. “I’m not some radical nut.” from mooning a cop to prize, a trip to the West Coast “Law school was a disaster, time job. Like Morello and Lucy Koteen, a member of the Fort Greene Association as well murder. to battle, you guessed it, L.A. I didn’t know what they were Wexler, the 28-year-old per- as Develop-Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, signed in to the meeting with Among her clients, says lawyers. The competition is talking about,” Morello riffs in forms several times a week, at her married name, Young, to avoid being recognized and ejected as Morello, is a man named one in an ongoing series of ca- her monologue. “When exam places like Gotham in Mid- a member of DDDB. Michael Taylor, who is cur- reer-oriented contests hosted time came around, I’d just fill town and the Village Lantern. Outside, in a hushed voice, Koteen told The Brooklyn Papers that rently facing a death sentence by the comedy club at Eighth up the bluebook with, ‘This Unlike them, however, he re- the biggest request at the meeting was to have the developer come in Alabama for a triple homi- Avenue and 42nd Street. page is intentionally left cently hung up his suit and tie and talk to the group about the state process of review for the land. cide she believes he was false- “It’s been great,” said Megan blank.’” to dedicate his time to per- “[The borough president’s office] made assumptions that it would ly convicted of 10 years ago, Waldrep, a spokeswoman for Morello said that joke drew forming and writing new ma- go through the Empire State Development Corporation,” she said. when he was 19. the club. “It’s actually launched an uproar from lawyers in the terial. But that doesn’t mean “They did not want us to even talk about the possibility of ULURP,” But like the cop who cack- a whole new genre. Pretty soon audience, who understand the he’ll be doing legal jokes any- Koteen said, referencing a much more stringent and publicly accessi- les when the crook accidental- we will be doing funniest po- law school practice of includ- time soon. ble city-level review process that was recently urged by three local ly shoots himself, or the psy- liceman, funniest taxi drivers, ing blank pages in legal texts. “I stay away from it,” said community boards. chiatrist stifling guffaws at the you name it.” She said that most of her peers O’Brien, who until recently Though Prospect Heights resident Gib Veconi, founder of the whimsies of her most anxious Waldrep said the series, have distanced themselves worked in a private practice Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council, which he subjects, Morello believes that which initially drew more than from judicial jests. in Manhattan. “The legal pro- started this past February, said the meeting was a positive step, he for life’s maladies laughter is 40 lawyers cum comics from “It’s the first time I’ve been fession brings nothing but was dismayed at the turnout. truly the best medicine. the tri-state area, has been a able to do material about law,” tears.” “Even though the project is located almost entirely in Prospect success, thanks in part, to the said Morello. “When I try this Morello said that although Heights, in a meeting of 30 people, only two were from [the neigh- As proof, take her night job: borhood],” he said. “I think that’s an issue. Not to infer it was standup comedian. country’s newly embraced Callan / Tom at other clubs, it takes a really moonlighting as a comic has planned that way, but I think, going forward, in order for processes As conflicting as it may knowledge of basic law termi- long setup and I usually have its perks, separating her two like this to gain traction, people in the community have to feel like seem — especially working in nology. to explain what terms like loves sometimes poses a chal- they’re being well represented.” a profession that’s the brunt of “Having Court TV on has ‘preservation’ mean.” lenge. As a lawyer with a so many jokes — the oil- helped a lot,” said Waldrep. For the legally blind, or clientele composed primarily meets-vinegar combo coa- “From watching that, and es- rather those blind to legalese, of accused criminals, the side lesces as hilariously as Oscar pecially some of these big cas- Papers The Brooklyn William Wexler may be the gig is a potential deal breaker Madison and Felix Unger. es like Kobe Bryant and William Wexler, of Brooklyn Heights, performing at the Vil- cure. A Brooklyn Heights resi- for those worrying that their “Comedy is very strenuous Michael Jackson, people have lage Lantern in Manhattan, pokes fun at his financial prob- dent, the election lawyer case could become a laughing in its own way — it’s certainly become really well versed.” lems and religion — anything except the practice of law. prefers to highlight his reli- matter. RATNER… more fun than going to court, A graduate of Brooklyn gion, financial problems, slice- When contacted by The but I think there is a sort of Law School and the American laymen. Because the audience, A result of the city’s in- of-life tales and personal Brooklyn Papers, for instance, Continued from page 1 connection somehow,” said Comedy Institute, Morello so far, has been comprised creasing property values, foibles — in other words, any- she sighed in relief after learn- quota of minority and women for available jobs, that seven acres of Morello. “You just have to said the series has given her a mostly of lawyers — with a Morello’s monologue is filled thing other than his career. ing that the reporter wasn’t the project will be devoted to open space for a mix of recreational laugh at some of these things rare opportunity to show off sprinkling of the club’s regular with riffs on her unwanted “I do very little on the prac- calling from the Law Journal. uses, and the icing on the cake: a project labor agreement that labor that are so ridiculous.” her most legal-minded materi- tourist fare — the courthouse move from Manhattan’s Up- tice of law,” said Wexler, a “They all read it in prison,” unions have reportedly signed on to, allowing 25 percent of the hires to come from the neighborhood by providing temporary union sta- Morello, a Park Slope resi- al, an oeuvre that she says comics have been unleashing per West Side to Brooklyn five lawyer since 1979. “I talk she said. “And that, for me, tus to employees of local contractors. dent, is one of four Brooklyn tends to fly over the heads of their most jargon-ridden jokes. years ago (“I don’t want to dis about the pain of being a Jew would be a bad thing.” Until this week, Ratner’s commitment was still unknown to the larger community. But the group, which has been meeting every Tuesday for the past eight weeks, has recently stepped up efforts to hurry the CBA along and is targeting a Nov. 1 completion date, according to sources. The players Borough President Marty Markowitz has been overseeing the discourse, a Markowitz spokesman confirmed, and the three community boards that will be affected by the project — CB2, CB6 and CB8 — have been represented by their district managers and chairper- sons. Three other organizations were hand-selected by Ratner last March and April to represent the community. Sharing seats at the table are the ACORN Housing Corporation, a local chapter of a nationwide advocacy group; Brooklyn United for Innovative Local Development (BUILD), a Prospect Heights- based community group; and the Downtown Brooklyn Oversight and Advisory Committee (DBOC), which has played a longstanding role in negotiating hires for minorities and women. Tensions boiled over when the invitation from Forest City Ratner to the DBLC, a dynamic and sizable group of local clergy and politi- cians, never seemed to materialize. At a Town Hall meeting organized by DBLC Thursday night at the Hanson Place Central United Methodist Church in Fort Greene, DBLC members presented Forest City Ratner Executive Vice Presi- dent Jim Stuckey a draft of their own CBA, with a demand for a seat at the table. A boycott of Ratner’s new Atlantic Terminal shopping / Tom Callan / Tom center was threatened if they were denied. “We’re no longer going to sit around and let people come into the community and assume that people will sit back and be silent,” said the Rev. Anthony Trufant. “That day has come, and that day is gone. It is a new day.”

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn When Stuckey’s turn came to speak he wasted no time. “You were invited to the wedding, the seat’s been open for eight weeks. Please come to the reception,” was Stuckey’s response, to which several of the reverends rose and shook his hand, but others Awesome Antic remained seated and fumed. Sunday’s 30th anniversary Atlantic Antic, along Atlantic Avenue from Furman Silence from community boards Street to Fourth Avenue, drew a huge crowd (at left, as seen from above Third Word that community board leaders have been meeting with the Avenue) including (below) Atlantic Avenue LDC President Candace Damon, developer, coming just two weeks after the boards publicly demand- state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery, Assemblywoman Joan Millman, Borough ed that Ratner’s project be subject to the city’s land use review President Marty Markowitz and City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, holding aloft process rather than the less stringent state review, had some commu- his son, who helped cut the anniversary cake. Above, members of the New York nity members scratching their heads in disbelief. City Flyers perform on a trampoline. “What I find surprising is that the community boards are in meetings that they haven’t made public,” said Daniel Goldstein, a leader of the anti-Atlantic Yards group Develop-Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. Goldstein was surprised to hear about the meetings. “It’s an ille- gitimate negotiation,” he said, noting the board chairs were attending the meetings on behalf of a constituency ignorant to the plans. Community Boards 2, 6 and 8 all drafted resolutions urging May- or Michael Bloomberg and Gov. George Pataki to put the plan through city oversight, yet one of the foregone conclusions of participants in the CBA meetings is that the land disposition and review will take place on the state level. “Was their resolution for show?” Goldstein asked rhetorically. “What does it mean if they’re behind the scenes accepting and negotiating a private agreement?” The leaders of the community boards, however, did not feel the one act was contradictory to the other. “Ongoing negotiations are not something that is typically done in the public forum,” said Craig Hammerman, district manager of Community Board 6, who said he’d been attending meetings with board chairman Jerry Armer. / Tom Callan / Tom / Tom Callan / Tom Hammerman said they were invited to participate “mostly in ob- servation” and that it would have been irresponsible not to attend. Asked why their fellow community board members were not ap- prised of their attendance at the meetings, Hammerman said an- nouncing their participation at community meetings wasn’t neces- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn sary. “You’re a guest at a party; it’s generally not your role to invite other guests,” Hammerman said. Anti-arena plan activist Patti Hagan, of the Prospect Heights Ac- of money.” “People lived here for years incident two weeks ago. expand her venue, as she has tion Coalition, was livid at hearing the news. Although McConnell said with no bars,” said Canham. “They were out there mak- talked about, to include more “ That the communities and the community groups have been ex- BOUDOIR… she’s made an effort to reach “You cannot stop an individual ing hysterical loud laughter, ragtime, soul and piano music, cluded — it’s a miscarriage of democracy!” she said. “How can out to residents by attending from calling 311 or 911, but like a comedy scene — it was she may have to look else- [Ratner] call it a community meeting?” Continued from page 1 many other Smith Street bars community board meetings when you have one individual horrific,” Buxbaum said, but where for the space. Hagan said she wasn’t sure if her group would take action, but “We’ve had less music this cope, McConnell suspects that and going to the president of that constantly complains, you admitted she wasn’t entirely Buxbaum said she doubted didn’t think it was fair for the community boards’ leaders to both ad- year,” McConnell said, citing the salacious theme of the bar the Sackett Street Association, have to respond.” sure whether it was coming the bar could ever succeed vocate a ULURP in public and privately negotiate for a state-level the neighbors and a push from in a neighborhood disdainful of Jim Canham, nothing seems to Located on one of the busier from Boudoir Bar. with music in such a residen- process. “I thought you only made one such agreement with the commu- three people in particular. change may have contributed work. blocks of ultra hip Smith In general, she said, Mc- tial area. And Shawn to the slew of complaints and nity,” she said, adding, “I think its weird.” “Those three people have cost “I’ve written letters saying Street, the bar has high-end Connell “has made every effort Schwartz, owner of Halcyon, Robert Perris, district manager of Community Board 2, echoed me $5,000,” she said, both in DEP investigations that have I’ll throw a party, a tea, for restaurants on either side with recently to curb the excess noise. once a coffeehouse cum record Hammerman’s sentiment, and confirmed that he and board chair- fines from the city Department been lodged against her. free,” McConnell said, as an outdoor street-side cafes, both I’m hoping that it continues.” shop that was a pioneer of woman Shirley McRae were “sitting in on discussions about a CBA of Environmental Protection, Of course, it doesn’t help offering after she got calls for of which have been subject to Police at the 76th Precinct Smith Street’s hipster vibe, primarily in an advisory capacity.” which handles noise complaints, that the bar has been barely playing rap music too loud. extraordinary fines — one hit say they haven’t had problems said he never could have Perris said that the whole district’s understanding would be more and the money she’s spent on at- staying afloat financially, now “Then I got my ticket,” she with a $10,000 fine for putting with the bar. Bar owners, mean- grown in Carroll Gardens. important once the deal was formalized, at which time it will review torneys and in court, fighting stripped of its use of the gar- said, which happened two takeout menus on parked cars. while, have formed an associa- “There was an overall the agreement and “address public facilities,” the review of which is summons after summons. den after 10:30 pm, and of the weeks ago — a $750 fine from A resident of Sackett Street tion, which has been holding change in the neighborhood,” mandated by the City Charter. Sitting inside the bar, near ability to play much of any DEP. and enforcement agent for the meetings with community said Schwartz. “It was what Community Board 8 confirmed that they had been involved in the small stage at the back of music without receiving at Canham agreed that Mc- CPA, Diane Buxbaum, said members and restaurant owners we had hoped for going in, but the negotiations, but said their board members were made aware of the room, is a wooden box with least a few phone calls. Connell’s business was taking she has called 311 in the past to discuss the problems. it became something else the fact. a padlock and slot in the top. “You have a staff to pay, strains to appease the neigh- because of noise problems, not “We identify more and along the way.” He said the Stuckey said there was no clause of confidentiality imposed on “I’m not opening up that box you have overhead,” said Mc- borhood group. only at Boudoir Bar, but at ba- more bars and restaurants that concessions they made to their attendees of the meetings, but ventured that the community board for another month,” said Mc- Connell, who wished the role “It seems like the Boudoir sically all the surrounding bars are getting 311 complaints,” neighbors didn’t do anything chairs or district managers, “may have felt uneasy about bringing it to work with as a board,” and were afraid messages would be mixed Connell. “That’s why it’s a se- of bars in increasing property was targeted,” he said. “I feel and even some restaurants. explained Police Officer Paul to lessen the level of com- up as “details are still being hammered out.” cret ballot. Personally, I’d rather values was more appreciated. bad for the woman. She’s do- “I’ve had a problem with all Grudzinsky, a spokesman for plaints they received. After Even an insider to the negotiations, the DBOC’s Bill Howell, re- know if there’s a consensus, or “When I was a real estate ing everything she can do keep the bars for the past three the precinct. “What we do is five years of operation they acted with surprise when he read about the boards’ ULURP resolu- if it’s just these few people that agent in 1992, you wouldn’t her head above water.” years,” she said. “For me its contact the bar owners and the were “hitting a wall,” said tions. are causing me misery.” walk down this street at But he also tried to explain only the noise.” She said, complainants and invite them Schwartz, who with his partner “I wasn’t aware that the community boards had voted to try and Aside from the inevitable night,” she said. “Now peo- the perspective of the neigh- though, that she had seen dif- to join in the meetings.” has since moved the shop to do the ULURP process,” said Howell. “But then, our sole purpose problems of noise with which ple’s buildings are worth a lot borhood. ferences lately, except for an But if McConnell wants to DUMBO. is the discussion of a community benefits agreement.” 18 BWN THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM October 2, 2004 REAL Kensington imam guilty of ‘massive’ visa fraud By Larry Neumeister “The defendant’s unbridled greed gen- massive amount of fraud.” ESTATE erated hundreds and hundreds of thou- Defense lawyer Roger Stavis insisted Associated Press sands of dollars off the backs of aliens in his closing that Khalil operated a legiti- The former director of a basement CO-OPS For Sale / Staten Island desperate to stay in this country any way mate mosque and that prosecutors relied APARTMENTS mosque in Kensington that prosecu- they could,” Burns said. on a “rogues gallery of witnesses” to dis- & CONDOS PARKING tors described as a “cesspool of He said the Dar Ehya Essunnah credit him. 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