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By Ariella Cohen BROOKLYN’S REAL NEWSPAPERS The Brooklyn Papers The political battle over the State big to Brooklyn: BATTLE FOR BROOKLYN biggest real-estate development in Brooklyn’s history is over — and Bruce Ratner has won. The state’s Public Authorities 2,000 show up, only 100 get a chance to speak Control Board voted Wednes- day to approve Forest City Rat- Including Brooklyn Heights Paper, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, Downtown News, Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper and the DUMBO Paper ner’s Atlantic Yards project, giv- By Gersh Kuntzman Markowitz could barely be heard over the ing a final governmental nod to Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages •Vol. 29, No. 50 AWP •Saturday, December 23, 2006 • FREE and Ariella Cohen boos and cheers. the $4-billion, Frank Gehry-de- The Brooklyn Papers “Thank you very very much,” he said. “What signed mini-city of 16 towers, you just heard was a Brooklyn cheer. It’s OK. I hundreds of thousands of square You’re Manhattan now Supporters and opponents of Bruce believe Atlantic Yards is the right project, at the feet of office and retail space, MAKING HEADLINES Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-develop- right time, at the right place.” ment clashed loudly and repeatedly during 6,430 apartments, and a 19,000- His biggest applause line came when he said seat basketball arena. Wednesday’s state hearing on the project that Ratner would build his project with “100 Circus may — and in doing so put forward two distinct percent union labor!” The historic vote capped three Clock starts on 66-day ‘review’ of massive Yards project visions of Brooklyn’s future. But the cheering abruptly stopped when the years of rancorous debate, but the Seats were in short supply — and so was civility Beep changed gears. battle now becomes a judicial one, — at a NYC Technical College auditorium, as op- “This project needs to be reduced,” he said. “The with suits challenging eminent By Ariella Cohen ponents of the project were roundly jeered by sup- Williamsburgh Savings Bank should remain domain condemnations pending The Brooklyn Papers porters, who, in turn, were booed by opponents. Brooklyn’s tallest building! The height of [the 62- in state and federal courts. parade into Atlantic Yards will cost more to build and benefit the public less Because the hearing’s modera- story] ‘Miss Brooklyn’ must be “I trust that the courts will give than Bruce Ratner said it would — and carry with it environmental tor chose to alternate pro-Atlantic reduced. Next, build a school! this project a thorough review, Yards impacts that can not be mitigated, a state analysis disclosed this week. Yards speakers and anti-Yards And next, insure public safety. speakers, the visceral chasm be- And get real about traffic and But the state’s development czar said the publicly subsidized mega-de- tween the two sides was abundant- parking. Finally, make the open velopment would be worth the price because it advances the Manhat- Coney Island ly on display. space accessible and integrated tanizaion of Brooklyn. For every unemployed speak- seamlessly into the neighbor- EDITORIAL protest “We are a city of skyscrapers,” said Charles Gargano, chairman of the Em- er begging the state to approve hood.” By Dana Rubinstein pire State Development Corporation, which released the project’s Draft Envi- the project — whose backers pre- After exceeding his allotted The Brooklyn Papers ronmental Impact Statement on Tuesday. “We are a city of towers.” dict will create “jobs in the com- three minutes by at least two, he THE STEAL OF Now, he says, it’s time the towers came to Brooklyn. Greenhood / Aaron Running away to the circus might soon be as easy as taking the D munity” — there was a seeming- left the podium to a resounding train to Stillwell Avenue if Coney Island real-estate magnate Joseph Gargano promised that if signif- ly more affluent activist ticking chorus of boos, as project support- THE CENTURY rallies icant environmental impacts of the MORE INSIDE off the traffic, transit, open space, ers felt betrayed and opponents Sitt has his way. Bruce Ratner won ugly. The Big Apple Circus has confirmed that it met recently with Sitt’s Thor Eq- 16-skyscraper, 18,000-seat arena, NEWS P5 • EDITORIAL P4 noise and pollution shortcom- felt that Markowitz’s concerns residential, hotel, retail and office ings of the project. about the project came “too little, Whether you support Atlantic / Craig Dilger uities to discuss incorporating the circus into the $2-billion condo-and-amuse-

complex can’t be mitigated, the For every Rev. Herbert Daugh- Papers The Brooklyn too late,” as one man yelled out. Yards or oppose it, all New York- ment neighborhood Sitt has proposed for the dozen-odd acres of Boardwalk- benefit, calling the state’s calcula- ers should be disgusted by the front property he owns in the neighborhood. state “will respond.” tions “conservative.” try, who got $50,000 from Ratner Bruce Ratner on Wednesday As the second speaker of the 2,000 Coinciding with Tuesday’s re- after he came out in support of the night — state Sen. Marty Golden endgame of the public approval “There was one very preliminary exploratory meeting a couple of months In addition to the shrinking pub- lease of the 2,000-page analysis, project, there was a Lee Solomon, a resident of Fort (R-Bay Ridge) — approached the podium, for- process for Ratner’s $4-billion ago,” said Joel Dein, a Big lic benefit, the project’s costs are mega-development. Apple spokesman. By Ariella Cohen Gargano’s ESDC formally en- ballooning. Now Ratner’s project Greene, whose opposition to the project has not mer Community Board 8 member Connie Lesold Papers The Brooklyn dorsed the project. earned her a dime. could not hold her tongue. Given the “three-men-in-a- Dein emphasized that a The Brooklyn Papers would cost at least $4.2 billion, up room” culture of Albany, it was potential relationship with The action begins a 66-day peri- from an initial $2.5-billion pricetag, For every union ironworker making brownie “It’s not right that he should speak,” she said More than 2,000 people — all hot of public “review.” points with his union to testify, there was a com- as she was escorted out. “He’s from the far inevitable that so vital a project Thor would not undermine and bothered by Bruce Ratner’s plan to itself inflated to a more-recent would come down to the OK of Happy Ho Ho Ho! Lincoln Center’s status as Beyond the project’s size and $3.5-billion figure. munity activist hoping to testify quickly so she southern end of Brooklyn. His neighborhood build 16 skyscrapers and a 18,000-seat scale, the DEIS revealed the fuzzy could save on babysitting. hasn’t lost firehouses. This project is a giveaway just one man, Assembly Speaker A home on 84th Street between and 11th and 12th avenues in Dyker Heights is one of many in the neighborhood that really the circus’s home base. / Aaron Greenhood / Aaron basketball arena in Prospect Heights — Stuckey said the cost of the Greenhood / Aaron Sheldon Silver. Thor has also reportedly / Joshua Janke math behind Atlantic Yards. decade-long construction project has The see-saw night started before the first to rich corporations!” gets into the Christmas spirit. assembled Sunday at Grand Army Instead of generating $2.1 billion speaker even approached the podium in the Klit- Adozen elected officials got to speak at the Earlier in the week, Silver been talking to Nickelode- jumped due to “a general increase in grumbled that he had not been on and Disney about col- Plaza in the largest opposition rally in tax revenue over the next 30 prices,” and an “incredible amount gord Auditorium on Jay Street, Downtown, with “public hearing” before the public itself, while since Ratner’s Atlantic Yards proposal years, as Ratner promised in pro- a request from the moderator for civility — hundreds of people waited their turn or, worse, given evidence that the project’s laborating on the beachfront of design work” by Frank Gehry. financing — which already in- development, although those was unveiled three years ago. motional materials and press releas- “Now we have a better idea of which was almost immediately ignored as Bor- waited outside just to get into the hearing (see The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn cludes a $200-million payout by reports could not be con- The protestors — toting bicycles, dogs, ba- es, the plan certified Tuesday shows what the project will cost,” he said, ough President Markowitz, who is the public of- story on page 5). The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn the state and city, plus more than firmed. bies in stylish papooses, and skyscraper-em- that the project would gross just Opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-project made their point ficial most identified by his outspoken support of Any politician who supported the project was …while supporters, including this woman holding a “Yes in my back yard” Umbrella group: More than 2,000 opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project — including these bumbershoot-toting adding that Ratner paid more than a billion dollars in future subsi- Coney Island insiders blazoned signs furnished by Develop Don’t over $1.9 billion — $1.1 billion for anticipated for homes, businesses clear at Wednesday night’s seven-hour hearing on the development the project, made the first speech. See BATTLE on page 5 sign, cheered the development as a source of jobs and affordable housing. activists, who fear the project’s shadows — rallied at Grand Army Plaza on Sunday, July 16. dies underwritten by Mr. and Gowanus toxic plume this week applauded the idea Destroy Brooklyn — crowded around a the state and $845.5 million for the and shops within the footprint. Mrs. New York Taxpayer — rep- of the Big Apple on the makeshift stage at the entrance to Prospect city — over the next 40 years. Stuckey declined to reveal the resented a good investment. Boardwalk, saying the cir- Park and cheered Atlantic Yards foes who “do the right thing.” “Do the math,” Barron told The Brook- communities. After subtracting $500 million company’s projected profits from Lo and behold, at the 11th cus would fit as nicely into ranged from the elected to the absurd. “Jay-Z needs to slow down a bit and lyn Papers after coming down from the Most of the support that Atlantic Yards in subsidies already committed by the project. MORE COVERAGE OF THE ATLANTIC YARDS HEARING IS INSIDE, ON PAGE 5 look at what it is really being proposed,” stage. “The economic formula for this de- has, after all, has come from blacks (and hour, state officials rushed to Sil- the community as a sword In the latter category, Reverend Billy and the state and city, the overall bene- Forest City Ratner has main- ver’s office and supposedly gave his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir compared Perez said after stepping off the stage. velopment means that 90 percent of the elected officials whose districts are far from down a freak-show perfor- fit to the public drops to $1.4 bil- tained that the project’s mammoth him heretofore unseen docu- targeting Park Slopers mer’s throat. “[Ratner needs to] build a better plan be- people moving in are going to be white.” the mega-project). Bruce Ratner to the Devil. lion over those 40 years — $35 size — which the New York Ob- ments that show that Atlantic cause this one isn’t benefiting the poor,” the It was clear from the anti-project crowd Noticeably absent from last week’s rally “As long as you’re Somewhere in the middle were actors million a year split between the server reported Wednesday would Yards is indeed a great deal for millionaire movie star added. that surrounded Barron that the area is get- were many of the very people caught in the bringing in amusement op- Steve Buscemi and Rosie Perez. Buscemi, state and city. be the most densely populated area taxpayers. By Ariella Cohen Acall to Verizon was not re- And among the elected officials, City ting whiter and will likely continue to do so middle: the rent-stabilized tenants who live erators, rather than shop- a fixture on the anti-Ratner circuit, began “[The tax revenue shortfall] is in the United States — was neces- Wouldn’t you know! The Brooklyn Papers turned. his speech with the first-ever airing of an Councilman Charles Barron (D–Canarsie) as more luxury development is built. in Ratner-owned buildings in the Prospect Towns: Bush needs ping malls and condos, big, it’s not a small difference,” sary in order for the company to But we have our doubts. First The underground toxins don’t unnamed political poem that began, “Roses stood out, calling the project “instant gentri- Though most of the speakers selected by Heights footprint that the developer will An underground cloud of tox- Slime doesn’t pay bring it on!” said Dick Zi- said Evan Thies, a spokesman for make a reasonable profit, provide of all, those documents have nev- present an immediate threat to gun, who runs Coney Is- are red/I like William Shatner/But I am op- fication,” bringing up concerns that the “su- DDDB were black, the majority of their au- soon tear down. City Councilman David Yassky affordable housing and build public SHILLARY! ins that has already invaded the The tenants have been offered help find- er been seen by the public, so neighbors, according to DEC. land’s legendary Sideshow. posed/to the Atlantic Yards project.” permall” would be super-white and drown dience wasn’t, again demonstrating the or- (D-Brooklyn Heights). space. there is no way of knowing future home of the Whole Foods But the public health costs could For her part, Perez implored her pal, rap- out political support for black leaders who ganization’s difficulties in tapping into ac- ing new apartments and have been guaran- supermarket, is moving from “There traditionally were Forest City Ratner Vice Presi- No members of the ESDC board whether they reflect reality or be high if the movement of circuses at Steeplechase, per and Atlantic Yards investor Jay-Z, to have traditionally ruled at the polls there. tivist networks in the area’s minority See PROTEST on page 5 dent Jim Stuckey downplayed the raised any objections to the project’s to apologize to the just part of the elaborate fantasy the industrial neighborhood chemicals isn’t stopped. Dreamland and Luna Park,” Five who changed Hil’s along the Gowanus Canal discrepancy in projected public See TOWERS on page 5 See STEAL on page 6 “Benzene causes cancer,” said added Zigun. “The circuses toward Park Slope, an engineer Patricia Culligan, a professor of scattered when the amuse- told state officials this month. civil engineering at Columbia ment parks closed.” tune on a-park-ments something that has not happened Dangerously high levels of University. Michael Immerso, the benzene — a gasoline byproduct “The bigger the [contaminated UN for war in Iraq in any legislative body,” City author of the authoritative

that can cause cancer if it is in- area], the higher the probability history of the entertainment / Bertrand Guay Councilwoman Letitia James (D- haled — have seeped into the soil GO that people will come into contact By Dana Rubinstein After the barrage of phone WANUS community, agreed — Prospect Heights) said. “Until the CANAL The Brooklyn Papers calls, Clinton sent a letter to below the Third Avenue site with it.” though he warned that Four-faced liar By Gersh Kuntzman went to the U.N. and indicated we’d go it alone if courts rule on the pending and where Whole Foods is building The benzene detected on the Coney Island’s entertain- Brooklyn Bridge Park Devel- The Brooklyn Papers we had to.” Who got to Hillary? upcoming cases, Atlantic Yards its first Brooklyn store. Whole Foods site is not the first ment diversity must be pre-

opment Corporation President Big Apple Circus Borough’s top clock slow on the uptick Only an abject apology, Towns said, would get That was the question on the as we know it cannot be built.” The engineering report traces T sign that toxins are traveling to- served. President Bush needs to beg the nations of Wendy Leventer that suddenly HI Zaïda (upside down) and Aumor of the Big the United Nations to now send peacekeepers to minds of Brooklyn insiders — Brooklyn would forever be al- the Whole Food site’s toxins to a RD wards some of Brooklyn’s most- “One would hope that the world for forgiveness if the United States supported the waterfront devel- S Iraq — allowing for a complete U.S. pullout. and conspiracy theorists — af- Whole T. Apple Circus may soon be showing off The Brooklyn Papers ing its landmark property. is going to get out of the “mess” in Iraq. opment — acknowledging that tered by this project, whose chief canal-front parking lot and fuel desirable residential areas. Thor would also reach out “Number one, we’ll get [back] the $2 billion per ter the New York junior sena- station owned by Verizon at Third Foods Last year, Keyspan engineers their skills in Coney Island. Time — the right time — healed all her flip-flop came as a result of state advocate, Empire State De . to more cutting-edge local The four-sided clock atop the That’s what Rep. Ed Towns (D-Fort Greene) told week that we’re spending [in Iraq], which could go Markowitz site E wounds. But then the clock slowed tor’s stunning flip-flop last “information provided to me.” velopment Corporation Chair- Street, a block west of the epi- V detected benzene-laced ground- entertainment visionaries,” Williamsburgh Savings Bank — The Brooklyn Papers this week, in an exclusive in- into education and health care and all these other A down again. week from her initial opposi- curean grocer’s future home. H water traveling west towards hip said Immerso, author of “Coney Island, the People’s Playground.” A coincidence? Local oppo- man Charles Gargano, said T easily Brooklyn’s most-recogniza- terview. things that we need to have money for,” said R tion to a state plan to build lux- “[High levels of benzene are] / Leah Mitch Smith Street from a former gas “If you [relocate] the same things you could find at Times Square, then you “When we bought the building, we nents to the plan think not. would bring a “Manhattan” sen- U ble building — is broken. And only “The president needs to go back to the Towns, who voted against the use of force before ury housing and open space on were told that the clock would be the most likely related to [that] gaso- FO production plant at Fourth Street don’t have Coney Island, you just have American pop culture transplanted in time will tell when it will be back in United Nations and apologize for his the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. “The letter uses the exact sibility to the borough. biggest headache and that’s turning out the Brooklyn waterfront. phraseology not of Clinton, but line source located off-site,” said and the canal. Coney Island.” business. behavior,” Towns said. “He ABush apology, Towns added, would “get the As reported in The Brooklyn “Atlantic Yards will transform right,” said Andrew MacArthur, a of the handlers of this botched the report, presented by Whole Still, state environmental offi- As The Brooklyn Papers has reported, Sitt has been snapping up land in Not only are all four faces studded was actually pretty arro- United Nations and these other nations to pay, Papers two weeks ago, Clinton a largely underutilized and blight- spokesman for the Dermot Company, plan,” said Judi Francis, the Foods to the state Department of The epicenter of the toxic plume is 175 Third Street. cials don’t know how large the Coney Island for more than a year. With his purchase of the famed, but dilapi- with burnt-out lightbulbs, but the hands gant when he like we did in Afghanistan.” first came out against the ed area into one of the most which is converting the landmark into president of the Brooklyn Environmental Conservation as But reports indicate that it has reached the Whole latest cloud of toxins is, or how dated, Astroland last month, he now owns 13 acres of prime real estate between all display different times. “He needs to go back and say, ‘Look, “housing-in-the-park” scheme, spectacular and dynamic mixed- luxury condominiums. Bridge Park Defense Fund, part of its two-year-long, state-su- Foods site and may continue to spread. far it has traveled. West 10 and 15th streets on which to build his restaurant, hotel, amusement, On a recent Wednesday night at we want your involvement. We understand saying that the plan was “disin- Connor use communities in the nation,” pervised cleanup. MacArthur blames the problem on Papers graphic The Brooklyn See TOXIC on page 14 See CIRCUS on page 14 10:31, the clock’s south side read 11:55, that this is a mess, I made a mistake, but we which is suing to block the Gargano said in a statement. “gear stuff,” refuting a popular local genuous” and “yet another lux- its eastern face read 9:30, its north face want your help.’ ” ury housing project.” construction of housing in what myth that the high winds atop the tower The project’s most-visible read 2:10 and the western face couldn’t Areporter reminded Towns that the What followed was “a sense is supposed to be a public park. throw off the clock’s hands. The controversial project Brooklyn backer, Borough Pres- even be read because the bulbs on one president has actually been moving further of surprise and confusion ident Markowitz, focused on the

Not everyone is upset at the clock, Greenhood / Aaron hand were completely extinguished. away from such an apology. Greenhood / Aaron among local electeds,” said one calls for a 1.3-mile waterfront seeing its quirkiness as a symbol of an In fact, as Towns was speaking to The development and recreation “thousands” of union construc- Mechanically, there’s no excuse for source, who asked to remain tion jobs and the 2,250-units of such problems, because the clock fea- off-beat borough. Brooklyn Papers, the president was hold- anonymous. area stretching from DUMBO

/ Tom Callan / Tom Marty’s Xmas “When you see two different faces it J.L. Maher / WCS ing a press conference in Washington, to Brooklyn Heights that is below-market-rate rentals that tures a single motor with four axles that But just one week later, after EW YEAR’S proponents say would be created N run the hands. is like seeing two different paintings,” sounding very unapologetic about the at least five big-time Brooklyn supposed to be self-sustaining The Brooklyn Papers said Robert Goldstrom, an artist who has war. Millman thanks to fees levied on the res- by the project.

It’s not the first time that the clock has Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn pols called her, Clinton did a “There are a lot of people in the De- idents of the luxury housing. Markowitz also cheered Rat- We always look forward to receiving holiday wishes from Bor- been down for the count. It didn’t work chronicled the clocktower in more than He knows how to cool it! sudden about-face, saying she ough President Markowitz — if only so we can share the Beep’s 50 watercolor paintings. mocrat Party who believe that the best Clinton condemned that very ner for bringing Brooklyn back to for most of the 1970s and 1980s — a fit- supported the park and had Christmas card with the many Brooklynites not on his list. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn ting symbol of Brooklyn’s decline, some “I have an affection for its current Ayveq, the famously frisky walrus at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island, found a nice way to beat the heat course of action is to leave Iraq before aspect of the plan on August 9 at the “major leagues” almost 50 come to understand that private Last year, we deconstructed a handful of coded symbols that The Williamsburgh Savings Bank tower and its said — until then-owner Republic Na- state of misoperation,” he said. this week, playing with one of his balls in a nice, cool bath. A spokeswoman for the Aquarium said that all the the job is done, period,” Bush said. “And luxury housing was “neces- a campaign stop in Sunset Park. years after the Dodgers aban- tional Bank sunk millions into renovat- — Ariella Cohen they’re wrong … We’re not going to leave Clock block She questioned the notion of Markowitz had embedded within the card, including his trademark famously incorrect clocks. animals get toys to play with — “though Ayveq has another toy he loves to play with.” sary.” doned the borough. Ratner plans Iraq before the job is done, and we’ll com- white tuxedo. This year’s card — which celebrates the first season for The Brooklyn Papers Borough President Marko- self-sustainability, and even rec- to move his New Jersey Nets into 1 plete the mission in Iraq. I can’t tell you ex- witz’s office, state Sen. Martin ommended that reporters read the Atlantic Yards arena. of pro volleyball at Coney Island — is again chock full of excite- actly when it’s going to be done.” Brooklynites better start investing in their own Connor (D-Brooklyn Heights), the autobiography of Nobel ment, as our analysis shows: — Gersh Kuntzman Opponents of the project com- Callan / Tom That, Towns said, is exactly the prob- timepieces, because that new scaffolding atop the Assemblywoman Joan Mill- DeBlasio Peace Prize winner Wangari 2 lem. Williamsburgh Savings Bank’s famous clock Maathai, a Kenyan environmen- plained of an approval process 1. Marty’s wife, Jamie, the Beep’s 3. Four against two doesn’t seem man (D-Park Slope), City tainted by cronyism, sweetheart “Without him going back to the UN, (above) won’t be going away anytime soon. Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D- talist who fought luxury housing ultimate cheerleader, looks far fair, especially when Marty is join- deals and billions of dollars in less like Michael Jackson than in ed by bi-racial Santas and a Has- 90% off your initiation EASTERN ATHLETIC we can’t fix the mess that’s there now,” said Renovations of the historic tower and clock — which Park Slope) and Brooklyn in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park. Towns, who was seeking The Papers’ endorse- began with the enshrouding of the four-faced timepiece last After The Brooklyn Papers re- hidden public subsidies. previous years. idic rabbi, volleyball legends said. Bridge Park Conservancy pres- 4 ment in his Sept. 12 primary race against City Coun- “The community deserves to Papers The Brooklyn PROSPECT PARK BROOKLYN HEIGHTS week — will take a year, according to Andrew MacArthur, ident Marianna Koval — all ported Clinton’s comments, local 2. Marty’s head looks out of scale 4. Most litter on the Coney beach + 4 free Personal Training sessions cilman Charles Barron (D-Canarsie) and Assembly- a spokesman for the company that is renovating the former officials went ballistic — diplo- know how much this project 3 with his body. Is this a comment is festive in Markowitz’s card, but Welcome 2007: GO Brooklyn’s guide to 718 789-4600 718 625-0500 staunch supporters of the plan (worth $320) Offer ends August 10th ? man Roger Green (D-Fort Greene). dental epicenter into luxury apartments. — confirmed they contacted matically speaking, of course. will cost — and we do not,” said on the well-documented success one empty bottle was included, a restaurants celebrating the New Year, includ- “We need to reach out and get other countries to “They are repairing the façade — ensuring that the Clinton or her senior staff after “I called to giver her a fuller Councilwoman James. of his diet? nod to reality, we suppose. ing Stonehome Wine Bar (above). See page 7. See APOLOGIZE on page 13 See BLOCK on page 13 the senator’s first comment. Clinton See HIL on page 13 See RATNER WINS on page 12 Cristian Fleming

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Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 20 pages •Vol.29, No. 13 BWN •Saturday, April 1, 2006 • FREE THIS WEEKEND NOT ENOUGH ARBORCIDE! INSIDE OH MAMA! State gives Parks Dept kills Heights trees — SUPERSIZED JAIL RATNER: I WANT NUDE BRITNEY City to double capacity of House of D SCULPTURE IN CASH then charges a patsy with murder BOOMIN’ BILLYBURG By Ariella Cohen “We thought as long as we are build- “We can build a little more and have terment Association. “We hear the offer jail still standing in Brooklyn and since / Julie Rosenberg By Gersh Kuntzman trees were thriving. If they were not, York Boro’s housing prices reach record highs CUT! The Brooklyn Papers ing, why not add more cells?” said Cor- capacity for all the people that are trav- and we don’t accept.” it closed in 2003, inmates have been sent $ promised to replace them. rection spokesman Tom Antenen. eling through [Downtown Brooklyn] to One letter demanding a better expla- to Rikers Island. But officials say crime Ratner 33M The Brooklyn Papers But the company got no response until The city Department of Correc- The proposal will add 800 beds to get to the court,” said Antenen, adding nation for the new plan has already gone levels could easily rise and Rikers could After complaints, movie tions will double the prisoner A QUARTER BACK Five Brooklyn Heights residents in the last week, when Parks Department workers By Gersh Kuntzman For years, Spinola’s numbers are a savior that isn’t afraid to better than that: $1,128,000) in Fort Greene, 51 jail, which at present is home to 760 that the new cells would reduce the out to the city. become overcrowded. prime of their lives were murdered in broad showed up with chainsaws and started re- The Brooklyn Papers have been the stuff of Manhattan walk on water to Brooklyn. Across • Apartment prices in Fort percent (now $760,000) in Clinton capacity of the Brooklyn House of cells. The jail sits at the rapidly gentrify- number of wire-mesh windowed jail “If the jail can’t go away we need to “The jail population is down now but daylight last week — and a man who fought moving the trees. homeowners’ dreams, chronicling the borough, co-op and condo Greene went up 81.9 percent last Hill, and 28 percent (now Detention as part of a scheme to ing intersection of Atlantic Avenue and vans shuttling prisoners through Brook- know why,” said Sue Wolfe, president of there are fluctuations that we need to be “One of the workers stopped cutting after Real-estate prices in Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn the seemingly uninterrupted rise of prices went up 35 percent, while year — and now average $1,341,000) in Park Slope. add retail to the jail’s first floor. Cash for prep work on still- to keep them alive has been charged in the are surging at Manhattan-like crews banned in Heights Smith Street. lyn and help lessen traffic congestion. the Boerum Hill Association. ready for,” Antenen said. “A city needs he removed the first branch and called his apartment and townhouse prices in one- and two-family home prices $456,000. The average price per (Numbers for other popular crime even though he didn’t pull the trigger. rates, with the borough’s average The retail proposal was first reported Inmates were moved out of the jail in Area residents said this week that The city says the answer is obvious. jails in multiple areas.” supervisor because the tree was alive,” said “the city.” rose 20.5 percent. square foot in the neighborhood neighborhoods such as Bay Ridge, in The Brooklyn Papers earlier this 2003, but sometimes shuffle in and out they would fight the expansion. “Why build a new jail when you can When the House of Detention was Looking to sell 25 percent of Nets The actual killers of two London plane trees and the York engineer. “He said, ‘Are you sure I apartment going up by 35 percent By Ariella Cohen For some Brooklyn Heights residents, the deci- three gingkoes — which stood for decades in front But soaring real-estate values But some neighborhoods did far was up 114 percent during the Bensonhurst and Dyker Heights month — but the city withheld its plan as they await trials in nearby court- “We want retail, but not if it comes add onto one that is in pretty good shape built in 1957 architectural critics com- have the right tree?’ But he was told to keep last year, and units in some neigh- same period. were not broken out from the bor- The Brooklyn Papers sion to restrict new filming permits didn’t come a of a large apartment tower at 75 Henry St. — were borhoods jumping by more than to expand the 11-story jail with a rear rooms, which can be accessed through with doubling the jail,” said Sandy Bal- and already in the inventory,” said Antenen. pared its harsh modern lines to Manhat- unapproved $3.5B project Babies of cutting. That’s how crazy this whole thing • In DUMBO, the average — ough-wide statistics.) moment too soon. By Ariella Cohen The Nets lose between $20 and Ratner told the Star-Ledger that the in the midst of the project’s first — Ratner’s increasing reliance on workers for the New York City Parks Department. Cut — that’s a wrap. In Brooklyn Heights, at least. annex facing State Street until this week. an underground tunnel. boza, president of Atlantic Avenue Bet- The House of D is the only municipal tan’s UN Headquarters. is.” 80 percent. Last week, the already cramped neighborhood The Brooklyn Papers $30 million annually, according to company was “looking to and time-consuming — legal private investment partners doesn’t the AVERAGE — apartment now / Dima Gavrysh The Case of the Terminated Trees reads like a Average sale price, Condos & Co-ops When Spinola read out the Fort After three big-budget movie crews turned the But as with any good murder story, And that’s good news for the sells for $1.255 million, up from Greene numbers at Tuesday’s was overrun with film crews — and their big movie Bob-ing the Star-Ledger. But the team, which raise new equity to increase skirmish with project oppo- surprise those in the sports world. scenic neighborhood into a Hollywood backlot last The Brooklyn-bound New Jersey By Ariella Cohen “Buffalo Building Demolition.” mystery novel — except this isn’t a whodunnit, but owners of brownstones, townhous- $1,400 Ratner originally said would move liquidity.” nents. “The owner of a franchise is often George Della Latta, president of the build- $987,000 the year before, an in- breakfast briefing, real-estate agent star trailers, catering trucks and equipment rigs. Nets need cash. The Brooklyn Papers On Friday, the Assembly was a whydunnit. es, co-ops and condos — but bad week, the city announced that it would bar future to Brooklyn for the 2007-08 season, This latest search for Delays in construc- someone who built an empire on pri- the New ing’s co-op board, thinks nefarious forces $1,200 crease of 27 percent. Terry Robinson whooped — liter- On Thursday and Friday, Warner Bros. rented set to vote on the Education, La- The roots of this tall tale go back to November, filming there for three months. Nets owner Bruce Ratner is try- new financial backers tion of the most-expen- Legislators in Albany have are at work. news for young people, Manhattan • In Clinton Hill, an apartment ally, he whooped — with joy. St. Ann’s and the Holy Trinity is now expected to remain in its New vate investment,” said David Carter bor and Family Assistance budget

ing to sell a $60-million stake in the Associated Press when contractors renovating the cement plaza at $1,000 Jersey moneypit until the 2009-10 comes at a critical time sive arena ever are “The way I figure it, the lifespan of a exiles and other Brooklyn wanna- typically now costs $349,000 — a “I love selling in Fort Greene,” Church to film the Kirsten Sher- of the University of Southern Cali- handed developer Bruce Ratner and the Senate was expected to BRUCE: I WILL the apartment building may have damaged the 35- street tree is, what, 20 years?” Latta said. bes who want to join the ranks of for team he laid out $240 million for in season or longer, judging from a for the project, just prior something Ratner des- fornia Sports Business Institute. his first public subsidy for his At- 31-percent increase from the year he said. “Of course it’s surging be- idan-helmed “August Rush.” follow suit later in the day. year-old trees. $800 2004 — a move that would help conference call with investors last to the release of an envi- perately wants to avoid. “And if you are building a new lantic Yards project, allocating Year are “So the Parks Department figures they’re the landed gentry. 2004 before. cause it has beautiful houses, great And on Thursday, author-ac- Both votes would come one Or maybe not. 2005 keep the team afloat while it’s stuck week in which Ratner predicted that ronmental assessment As The Brooklyn Pa- venue [in addition to just operating going to have to replace these trees anyway, “We don’t see any downward $600 White Yassky $33 million for the still-unap- • Apartment is Cobble Hill proximity to trains and, yes, a tor-director Ethan Hawke was Seeing red day before the start of the fiscal “We got hit with summonses and received a let- in the Meadowlands pending ap- construction of the entire Atlantic that is supposed to detail pers reported last month, the team], it means more risk in- proved mega-development. so why not find a way to make someone trend [in prices],” said Real Estate jumped 36 percent and now aver- Frank Gehry-designed stadium on / Julie Rosenberg on the Promenade shooting the year, when real budget negotia- $400 provals for an arena in the proposed Brooklynite Erin Mullen lets her hair down — or, more ac- BUILD ARENA ter from the Parks Department saying we damaged Yards project could take 15 years, up the project’s impacts and the developer has said he los- vestors will have to take on for a else not only pay for their removal, but pay Board of New York President age $753,000. the way.” film version of his angst-ridden Three weeks after Ratner dis- tions begin between Assembly

the trees and they had to be removed at our ex- Mango / Greg laughs Atlantic Yards mega-development, from his earlier prediction of a maxi- mitigation costs. In es $4 million every much bigger return.” curately, up — at the annual “Best Redhead Contest” last to replace them, too?” patched his troops to Albany to here! Steven Spinola, who journeyed to Price (in thousands) $200 • Single- and two-family homes Robinson said that a brownstone novel, “The Hottest State.” Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Man- By Lucky Ngamwajasat

Enrique Norten / TEN Arquitectos City: Free pense,” explained an engineer from York Restora- Latta has been sharing his theory with the Brooklyn Marriott this week to Paws to reflect the Star-Ledger of Newark reported mum of 12 years. addition, Forest month that he does If history is any guide, new in- week, part of the pre-St. Patrick’s Day festivities at Manhat- lobby for a $100-million handout, are also off-the-charts in some hattan), Gov. Pataki and Senate on Fort Greene Park that sold for Hawke also stars in the film. City Ratner is not build. The Brooklyn Papers A rendering of the proposed Brooklyn Public Library Visual and Performing Arts branch (right) at Flatbush and Lafayette avenues in Fort Greene, next to the proposed Frank tion, who requested anonymity because the murder elected officials and even reporter David release his organization’s first-ever $0 this week. A spokesperson for Forest City See RATNER on page 18 tan’s Fitzpatrick Hotel. state officials this week ear- l l l l neighborhoods. They went up 54 leader Joe Bruno (R-Brunswick). l s s l l t e e s k l e $600,000 in 2000 would now go And the next morning on n i t i i e O t r i c ly H h n H H e B n p h a H k g e r e lo g P ra barred from charge is being appealed. i d n e t M e i r r A piece of sculptor Daniel Edwards’s “Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston.” Photos of the en-

o Beach Volleyball o Despite months of delays and false starts in realiz- Diaz, who does the “Shame on You!” seg- m e r l U r S e t a marked one-third that amount for Gehry-designed Theatre for a New Audience (center). The two buildings would stand next to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Neo-Itlaianate structure (left). o o S e residential sales report for the bor- r u H a t b D G k H e g T Assemblymembers speculated r G n b a r s e percent (to an average of for $1.8 million — and have peo- Cadman Plaza West, dog-walk- B e n l li o i rt t n n r Newhart plays b o f o y l C C Pa c u i s The company’s owner, George York, hired ar- o B l ro m Fo e S V l k r u p d tire scupture are posted online at www.BrooklynPapers.com. l Papers The Brooklyn his $3.5-billion project in Pros- ing his vision of building a Brooklyn arena for his ment on WCBS-Channel 2 news. o s n A a l i ough. ro C o ro $1,293,000) in Boerum Hill, 28 ple lining up to pay it. ers were displaced by a white this week that another $66 million B C P W borist Don Venezia, who inspected the allegedly AVP Pr Wegman show kicks off at B’klyn Museum By Ariella Cohen To jumpstart the latest fundraising in serious doubt. poration, while another $3 million “It is very seductive and appeal- Papers The Brooklyn The Parks Department did not return re- “People want to live in Brook- percent (now $2,722,000) in Or course, not everyone was How high will it go?: A tower rises along York Street in DUMBO, on trailer labeled “Lucy” and pect Heights. would soon be allocated from New Jersey Nets, Bruce Ratner remains convinced wounded trees. Neighborhood parking on The Brooklyn Papers campaign, on Tuesday, the library “In a perfect world, we are talking was given by the City Council and ing, but you have to ask some hard Four of the five tree stumps that remain in peated calls for comment. lyn,” he added. Brooklyn Heights, 82 percent (now “Desi” that served the crew of a Brookyn Center But more money may be on other economic development that everything is going according to plan. “At this time,” Venezia wrote, “the trees have set See BOOM on page 15 the site of the former Between the Bridges pub. By Dana Rubinstein an icon of their cause. something equally difficult: For once, had Norten show off tweaks in his about building in the next four or directly from the Bloomberg admin- questions about how a project like front of 75 Henry St. after the Parks Depart- The irony is that the trees were allegedly Castle Rock remake of “Mostly “Crass sensationalism in the name Culture Warriors on both sides agreed the way, several Assemblymem- budgets controlled by the gover- “These things do get delayed, [but] I have a very a good The building is clear, but who bud and in my opinion are alive and healthy.” By Lisa J. Curtis graphs of those sad-eyed dogs. The Brooklyn Papers well-received design to the library’s five years,” said Cooper. “But we stration. Another $2 million came this will be subsidized and sus- damaged during ongoing construction that Martha,” starring Catherine Zeta- black debate By Chiara V. Cowan of an important movement is still ex- that the use of Britney Spears as an bers told The Brooklyn Papers. nor and the Senate — although a track record of getting things done,” Ratner told The Brook- ment chopped down their 35-year-old tops. Venezia said that one of the gingkoes has “some GO Brooklyn Editor “I wanted to give a sense of a mind will pay for it remains murky. board of trustees. have to find funding first.” from Albany. tained,” said Marilyn Gelber, execu- will transform the barren cement plaza at 75 Jones Even in clay, Britney Spears is on ploitation,” said Charmaine Yoest, abortion debate icon is just plain bizarre. The $33 million was stuffed Bruno spokesman denied that. lyn Papers and other reporters before a Nets game at the small root damage, less than one inch,” but sug- Sights of summer that races, and I think that comes through for The Brooklyn Papers Brooklyn Public Library admitted Henry St. into a lushly landscaped sitting Willoughby plaza at into the $387-million 2006-2007 The project’s glistening architec- Raising money for projects in Down- Part of Norten’s presentation was tive director of Independence Com- As a result of the celebrity in- William Wegman is not just a dog the front lines in the Culture War. vice president of the pro-life Family “As a mother of three daughters, I By Assembly tradition, law- Meadowlands last week. gested that the problem could be remedied by trim- trees are removed due to root damage ASAP,” T in this installation,” said Trevor Fair- By Rachel Monahan represented,” Yassky told The Brooklyn Bob Newhart hasn’t changed. last week that it is struggling to raise tural benchmarks remain, but now town Brooklyn — even ones attached simply to remind the library board of munity Bank Foundation. area. the block vasion, the Mayor’s Office of photographer. Sculptor Daniel Edwards’s new Research Council. think Britney has thrown away her Education, Labor and Family As- makers often defer to local elect- “You look at the kind of development [Forest City Ratner Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project remains controversial, but there’s nothing ire-provoking about Papers. “The majority of voters are African- enough money to build a chic — and include more commercial space than to a brand-name architect — has the spectacular qualities of the pro- In July, the Foundation gave the ming “the damaged roots.” Matthew Wells, a department forester, wrote back. Some of the lost trees actually appear in brother, the exhibit’s curator. for The Brooklyn Papers He acts the same, sounds the same, sistance budget. The cash will go ed officials before signing big Company] does, almost everything winds up taking longer his latest initiative — a deal to bring Kerri Walsh (above) and other top pro volleyball stars to Film, Theatre and Broadcasting So at a press conference at the Brook- American, and I’m running to represent work depicts a naked Spears on all But the gallery, at 121 Roebling St., chance to be a positive role model for expensive — Visual and Performing the prior version, a revision that re- proven tricky. And the fund-raising posed design. Library $500,000 towards a new au- The Parks Department did not accept Venezia’s York offered a compromise — namely that the the architectural renderings of the $4-mil- Wegman said he felt the exhibition makes audiences laugh the same, and — towards widening streets and im- checks. But even though two of than we anticipate. This is how it is … Normally, there placed waterfront blocks of Rem- lyn Museum on Wednesday, there was The only white candidate for an open the community as energetically as I can.” fours atop a bear-skin rug giving birth says it will go ahead with its plan to young women, said Yoest. Arts Library at Flatbush and ditorium and plaza at the main diagnosis. “Brooklyn forestry requests that these trial be put on hold until the spring to see if the lion project. Coney Island this summer. See story, back page. was nearly “suffocating” with the crowd- lucky guy — even looks the same. It must proving infrastructure in the the four Assemblymembers who wouldn’t be a matter of great consequence [but] here every- flects the need for private sources of pitch comes as budget cuts have left But he also showed off the in- Eye resident permits sen, Pierrepont and Montague Wegman, graciously displaying the same congressional seat in a predominantly Any group that holds a forum should to her son. It debuts next week at the display the birthin’ Britney. “It’s funny how an artist will take a Lafayette avenues in Fort Greene. branch on Grand Army Plaza. But ed amount of work it displayed, but felt Callan / Tom be his ability to find humor in any situation. Prospect Heights neighborhood body [is] watching, asking questions … So it’s not unex- income to sustain the building’s Brooklyn’s neighborhood library creased the amount of inside space Yassky’s all white streets on the moratorium “hot patience towards dog-obsessed reporters black Brooklyn district was barred from invite all candidates and “trust voters” to Capla Kesting Fine Art gallery in Co-owner David Kesting said he’s celebrity and try to insert her into the represent areas in or surrounding SPECIAL REPOR that “the advantages are that it’s easy to Be it himself, Dr. Robert (Bob) Hartley, Designed by architect-of-the-mo- costs. branches with limited hours and less- devoted to children and teens. The Gelber couldn’t say if more money list.” that he employs when arranging his a candidate forum held by a coalition of Marriott nears OK Williamsburg. received 4,000 angry e-mails about nation’s discussion around abortion,” where Ratner wants to build. the Yards’ 24-acre footprint op- pected from my point of view.” By Ariella Cohen make up their minds, Yassky said. ment Enrique Norten, the slinky, all- “It is not easy to fund cultural in- senior librarians. older kids will lord over their own was being earmarked for the sexy Such filming bans are rare, make connections between different Dick Loudon, Papa Elf or Morty Flickman Edwards calls his work “Monu- the piece, countered by 1,000 in sup- said Robert Jaffe, spokesperson for The capital budget line, labeled pose the project, the initial Ratner Ratner originally predicted that the Frank Gehry-designed The Brooklyn Papers beloved weimaraners into poignant and black churches last weekend. The district has had a black representa- glass, ship-bow-shaped library will stitutions,” said Norten, “Not only The library has raised just $18 wing on an upper-level of the library performance library — and even said a spokeswoman for the city pieces.” — just some of the characters he’s played ment to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean port. But all buzz is good buzz. NARAL Pro-Choice New York. “Atlantic Yards Railway — Nets subsidy was expected to pass arena — at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues hilarious Polaroids. “I’m glad that it’s all mixed up, that The decision to block City Councilman tive since 1969, and the seat is viewed as By Ariella Cohen cost between $70 and $85 million. will cafes and shops on the ground million of the $85 million it needs to while children will have a large sec- questioned the need for such an eye- Black contributors to his congressional Planners from the Department of Transportation have be- film office. In 2003, the entire Some reporters, after all, were frustrated in his more than 40-year career as funny- Preston.” The “pro-life” tag has the “Dan Edwards is a hallmark sculp- “There are millions of American wom- project,” sits low on page 750 of handily. in Downtown Brooklyn — would be finished in time for the it’s not chronological or by media,” said David Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights) from having symbolic importance because it man extraordinaire — he’s still the same The Brooklyn Papers “The biggest question right now is catching design. Papers The Brooklyn 2007 season. floor work financially, they will build Norten’s design. Roughly $10 tion on the library’s main floor dedi- gun studying a parking permit system that would discour- DUMBO neighborhood was that Wegman hadn’t brought even one of the March 11 event — which drew was held by Shirley Chisholm, the first fur flying. tor of our times,” said Kesting. “The en who have given birth who define the Assembly budget, sandwiched “Enough of a case for spending where we will find the money to “How does such a gorgeous de- Wegman. talented guy he was at the start. Construction of new pedestrian Now he says it will be finished for 2009. As a result, the bring life to the public space.” million has come from the city, cated to them. The tweaks did little age commuters from parking in residential neighborhoods temporarily made off-limits to the grey pups with him for the photo-op. A 40-story condo is under construction at Myrtle Avenue and Flatbush Avenue Extension in Fort Greene. about 30 people — was part of black woman to serve in Congress. Anti-abortion activists are chafing avant-garde movement appreciates themselves as pro-choice.” between a $1-million allocation public money has been made,” sign contribute to the overall goals of And in most of what this witty rural And from the looks of his list of credits, plaza between Fulton Mall and Nets are negotiating with New Jersey to extend their lease, build,” said Brooklyn Public Library But they can only do that if it gets through its financial partnership with to dull the overwhelming enthusiasm Sad day for campaign are few and far between surrounding Downtown — which could reduce the num- filmic auteurs, thanks to resi- But Wegman is quite serious about his an effort by Churches United Owens followed her in the seat. at the suggestion that a sculpture of the discussion his work is creating.” Expect more contractions when the for a building project at Clarkson said Assemblyman William Col- Massachusetts native has tackled, you’ll his career is far from over. In fact, he’ll per- which runs through next season, at the Meadowlands. Executive Director Ginnie Cooper. built — something that appears to be the BAM Local Development Cor- for Norten’s design. See GLASS BUILDING on page 4A ber of cars clogging the streets of Brownstone Brooklyn. dents’ complaints — a move art, which ranges far further afield than for Worldwide Action to the Brooklyn Marriott hotel could the naked singer, crouched in a clearly Beyond the artistic achievement, Ed- pregnant piece makes its debut next University in Potsdam and $5 ton (D-Bensonhurst). find a smidgen of humor, a lighthearted- With one white candidate form in this borough — for the first time Ratner’s company has said in court papers that it loses $4 If the plan moves forward, residents of Brooklyn Heights, Fort that emboldened other over- those reporters knew. And that’s the sub- ensure that a black person begin as early as May, city offi- sexual position, is being offered up as wards’s sculpture has accomplished week. million for a project identified as See RATNER on page 6 Cocoa without pier By Gersh Kuntzman nearest competitor, state Sen. Carl An- the plurality is from the black part of the ness that’s a breath of fresh air in the jad- facing four blacks, race was ever — as part of Brooklyn Center for the million every month his Atlantic Yards mega-development Greene and Boerum Hill will be able to buy curbside spaces with filmed neighborhoods to start text of “Funney/Strange,” the museum’s is elected to replace retir- bound to be factor in the cials said this week. The Brooklyn Papers drews (D-Crown Heights). district. ed art world. Performing Arts’s series at Brooklyn Col- — of which the Nets arena is a small part — is delayed. Op- a monthly pass. complaining louder. first retrospective of Wegman’s work in Callan / Tom ing Rep. Major Owens. But experts caution that unless the LYN But of the astounding $354,516 he For Yassky, the money is not the issue The exhibition took its name from a campaign. Yassky has con- lege in Midwood on Saturday, March 25. ponents have kept Ratner’s lawyers busy, first objecting to As he campaigns to replace Rep. Boston, Washington, London and San Francisco already have The film office heard plenty 15 years. D’Town glitz jumps The 11th Congression- sistently raised the issue in depressing retail mix along Willough- single freaks IN K raised in the last quarter of 2005, only — a single contribution from Jonathan simple 1982 ink-on-paper which depicts a plans to begin demolition of some old buildings on the At- BR O such systems, but the Downtown study is the farthest the contro- of gripes from Brooklyn Heights Spanning 40 years of his creative out- Keeping busy by Street between Pearl and Adams O Major Owens in Congress, David $2,125 — nine contributions — came Tisch, or combined contributions from al District “was carved his standard stump speech, Weiner: City foolishly losing federal food funds last week. ladder going down into a circle, a straw lantic Yards project site as well as the state’s use of an envi- City: Move it from Hook to Sunset Park Yassky does not fail to address from residents of the black Cyrus Vance, Carl Weisbrod, Floyd versial idea has moved in New York, where free street parking is put, it includes paintings, collages, out for a minority repre- saying that despite his skin Last summer, Newhart, 76, spent some streets is changed, the new plaza won’t ronmental lawyer who was on Ratner’s payroll. considered a birthright. “The film companies idle their works-on-paper, artist books, black-and- going into a circle, the word “strange” sentation,” said the group’s time in South Africa shooting the sequel to succeed. the fact that he is the only part of the 11th congres- Abrams and Nina Libeskind (yes, they color, he will be a “progres- The lawyer, David Paget, was ordered off the case (see story By Ariella Cohen fingerprinted before receiving benefits. “If you took the number of Brooklyn residents The center’s executive director said they’re “By not encouraging commuters to park, you may discourage trucks,” said Judy Stanton, exec- white as well as color photography, and and the deliberately misspelled, “funney.” leader, Rev. Jacob Under- sive” voice in Congress. the 2004 TV movie “The Librarian: Quest “There has to be cafes and lively re- Dick Zigun is off the market Papers The Brooklyn Yassky meets Weiner’s new year resolution is to introduce living in households where someone is going now seeing more working poor people. By Ariella Cohen the Ivory Coast — touching on such third ed whether to make port space available Heights), as a circle of dockworkers gath- white candidate in the sional district. all contributed to Yassky’s campaign), “He’s always playing on multiple mean- on page 6), but the demolition of the buildings is proceeding. The Brooklyn Papers The district gerry- provide the same financial support as the commuters from driving Downtown,” said Ryan Russo, DOT’s utive director of the Brooklyn video works that Wegman directed and wood. The moderator of the fo- for the Spear” with Noah Wyle (from “ER”). tail that lets people relax,” said Vanes-

/ Julie Rosenberg Ratner’s Atlantic Yards has not been approved by the state. legislation that would help religious and hungry or at the brink of hunger, it “People with jobs are coming to the food man curiosity at Coney Island’s fa- The Brooklyn Papers rails as city politics, the future of the Port of elsewhere. ered around the ship last week. majority-black district Downtown Brooklyn coordinator. “But by making it easier for Heights Association. “They take starred in. It will truly be an eye-opener ings,” Fairbrother explained. “He finds (Top) a detail of William Wegman’s chromogenic print, Flatbush Avenue The district, which stretches rum, the Rev. Kermitt Willi- At the end of the month, he’ll embark on a sa Gruen, director of special projects at ATE TO BREAK the news manders its way nine contributors from the black part of

/ Steven Sunshine “It’s fair to say when we get to Brooklyn, it’s going to be The city is refusing valuable welfare community-based organizations to would be one of the 50 largest pantry for a meal,” said Anthony Butler. mous Circus Sideshow, is engaged New York and even the development of the Walk’s bittersweet cargo had been strand- “The city is not willing to let these piers and that he will faithfully residents to park, you may also be encouraging more driving.” up parking and move our cars. for those who think the multi-talented something twisted, then twists that, too.” “Washed Up.” (Above) The artist in the Brooklyn Museum in from East Flatbush through Crown three-city stand-up tour to Philadelphia, En- Raising the bars the Municipal Arts Society. “A space to you, Rubber Girl, Insecta- A cocoa-filled freighter — unable to across central Brook- the district. ams, of Agape Fellowship the moment this franchise has been waiting for probably since subsidies while hunger in the city is grow- better assist eligible residents enroll cities in the United States,” said Last year, a surge in the number of prosper- to be married. Brooklyn Bridge Park. ed on the East River since January 15, when keep going,” Yassky added. artist only does splashy color photo- See WEGMAN on page 7 front of “Untitled, 1998,” also featuring his famous dogs. Heights and Park Slope to include a glewood, NJ, and Brooklyn. The back and needs something that will make it a vora, Helen Melon and unload its cargo because of a dispute Artist Erin Hudek plans to install her pink acrylic artwork on Valentine’s Day on the hill at Washington and represent all his con- lyn to include a But in a district that was drawn to See PARKING on page 12 See BANNED on page 12 Church in East Flatbush, re- Cheap beer and good times blacks, branded it got into NBA,” said Nets CEO Brent Yormack. “Everyone ing, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-Flatbush) for federal aid. coalition Executive Director H Caught in the middle is Kip Walk, whose the Port Authority refused to allow Ameri- Pier operators had hoped to unload the ship destination, not just a pass-through.” ous residents snapping up homes in Brooklyn Kerosene Queen, but the cliche is fi- To a human being, no less! Prospect streets in DUMBO. The words “in Brooklyn” were inserted by The Brooklyn Papers. stituents, black or white. tiny portion of the help elect an African-American, where Construction begins on Myrtle condos small piece of Brooklyn Heights, was ceived the loudest applause when forth, however, is nothing out of the ordinary runneth over on Atlantic Ave. charged this week. “There is a bureaucracy that is Joel Berg. between the Port Authority and the Blommer Chocolate is the largest cocoa can Stevedoring, which operates Pier 9, to at Pier 6 — but that site is now earmarked for That “something” never made a that works for this team realizes that, we believe it and we’re was seen with every new organic grocery nally true: the good ones are all gone. But she’s a freak at heart. Zigun’s But there’s one racial Brooklyn Heights Yassky takes great pains to outline why drawn under Civil Rights-era legislation in he declared: for Newhart who has been city-hopping to feeding hungry New Yorkers red Weiner’s findings match operators of Brooklyn’s last working processor in the world and depends on the unload the 600-foot cargo ship at the nearby a high-rise developement that is part of the destination of the large pedestrian betting on it.” Between July and October, food pantries and store, every discussion about rising rents and fiancee, Pat Mukuro, is not only a problem Yassky doesn’t bring district Yassky rep- race shouldn’t matter, the bottom line By Ariella Cohen Avenue Extension from Forest City [Manhattan] bridge onto Flatbush, response to two centuries of black disen- “As we know there is a candidate who make people laugh since 1960. SEE PAGE 7 tape,” added City Councilman what Brooklyn soup kitchens Dick Zigun, the king of all the port — has been ordered to drop The Brooklyn Papers The National Basketball Association takes a very dim Red Hook pier. Pier 6, saying that the company was mis- “park” plan, so the city ruled it off-limits. Papers The Brooklyn plaza a few blocks northeast of The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn franchisement. The district is currently 60 is campaigning for this seat who’s not His routines are infamous. A few of his soup kitchens served 3,550,837 meals across the every overheard conversation about new geeks, freaks and wonders of hu- Nigerian pop singer, but, if you be- Tusk, tusk up: blacks aren’t buying it. resents in the City can be drawn in black and white. The Brooklyn Papers Ratner’s Metrotech office campus. you would see nondescript buildings view of gambling. city — an eight percent spike from the same peri- Eric Gioia (D-Queens), who are seeing every day. neighbor, “Brokeback Mountain” star Heath anchor and unload downriver at a “I’m just trying to move some cocoa here, managing its port traffic. While the city, Port Authority and American The 309-unit building — its address and gas stations,” said Michael Burke, percent black and 27 white, according to black. The fact that’s even being allowed ’60s recordings topped the charts; “The But- Willoughby Street — a commons area a carpetbagger While you plan your little Valentine’s Day trysts and A bar’s eye view of Hank’s Saloon on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill. sponsored a law making ap- lieve the entirely untrustworthy Zi- The divorce rate still hovers around 50 per- According to a line-by-line Council. The candidate said he was “not sur- Hindy Krausz holds her baby boy (top photo), un- od last year, the congressman reported in a study. The borough’s largest Ledger. vacant Sunset Park pier. but New York City politics keep not letting “When you have cargo that wants to un- Stevedoring negotiated, Blommer decided not match.com escapades, consider this: Love still eludes Ayveq, The first fruit of Downtown is 306 Gold St. — is the first residen- director of the Downtown Brooklyn the Census. to be pursued by someone that is not a part ton-Down Mind of Bob Newhart” hit No. 1. at the center of Forest City Ratner’s plications available online food pantry, St. John’s Bread gun, she’s also an Urhobo princess. analysis of Yassky’s most-recent The fundraising prised” by the results of The Brooklyn named at press time, who was born at 12:29 am on Weiner, who ran against Mayor Bloomberg But there’s a flip side to that hot market. THE BROOKLYN The decision ended a two-week stalemate me,” Walk said. load, why is the [city] telling them they to risk another shipment to governmental cent, New York’s urban lifestyle remains just as the randy walrus at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island. Brooklyn’s massive upsize re- tial high-rise being built following ap- Council. Underwood suggested to reporters that of our struggle and someone who is not He recorded seven more after it and won Metrotech office campus. and in food pantries. and Life in Bedford-Stuy- “All that Josephine Baker was to campaign finance filings, residents numbers reveal that Papers’ investigation. By Gersh Kuntzman New Year’s Day. The timing of his birth, at Long Island this fall, blamed city leaders for the swell in “Rents rise. Costs rise and people make whose implications go beyond the fate of Walk said that his company lost $3,000 a don’t know where they can go?” asked paralysis in New York and rerouted a second alienating as ever and everyone is bundled up Ayveq’s licentiousness is well-documented — in fact, there Yassky has filled “The bulk of my support is from the zoning will be a squash court on proval in 2004 of the skyscraper- “Now, you will see a nice-looking Yassky, who lives in Brooklyn Heights, black is of great concern to us. three Grammys. During his upcoming tour, Though well-maintained and safe, For the past six years, the vesant, gave away 10,000 more By Gersh Paris, Princess Pat will be to New of so-called “black” portion of the The Brooklyn Papers College Hospital in Cobble Hill, made him the first baby Kuntzman 250,000 burlap sacks of cocoa beans from day as the city and the Port Authority debat- Councilman David Yassky (D-Brooklyn ship hauling $8 million in cocoa to Baltimore. in thick clothing. Yet an intense investigation Myrtle Avenue. friendly Downtown Brooklyn Plan. building with beautiful streetscapes.” would be invited to future events. “But what is of greater concern to us,” he’ll perform two of the tried and true — the planter-bedecked Metrotech plaza hunger. On Monday, he slammed city policy- number of hungry people in packaged meals in 2005 than in choices,” said Butler. “They pay those bills ANGLE York,” Zigun said. “The world of the 11th congressional district are not con- less than one percent people I represent in the Council now,” Demolition begins for Nets arena “I think [the district] is designed to Williams continued, “is the fact that we most likely “The Driving Instructor” and feels more like a parking lot with born this year in Brownstone Brooklyn. Krausz’s son, makers for failing “to enroll all eligible food first and then deal with how to eat.” weird better watch out for the John by The Brooklyn Papers allows us to report tributing to Yassky’s campaign. of his war chest from he said. “They know me and they know Ground has been broken on a 40- Downtown Brooklyn planners The building, which sits between City Councilman David Brooklyn has been drifting 2004. story luxury condo building on Myr- were crowing this week. Johnson Street and Myrtle Avenue, make sure the African-American commu- fear, with four black candidates running “Sir Walter Raleigh,” he told GO Brooklyn benches than a vibrant public space. Yassky finally got a chance her first baby, tipped the scales at 8-pounds 8-ounces. stamp participants,” a failure, he says, that cost steadily upwards, experts said. The Lewis Street pantry attracts In 2005, 212,158 Brooklynites received and Yoko of the 21st century.” that the State of Love in the borough is strong Yassky has raised $557,000 for the the part of the district that includes more that I will work hard for the district in JERSEY SWAMP than 61 percent of the population. Congress.” By Ariella Cohen Solitude,” the Underberg Building stares out at Rat- tle Avenue directly across Flatbush “For years, when you crossed the See GLITZ on page 4 nity is energetically and enthusiastically See DEBATE on page 4 in a recent interview. He’ll throw in a new Who should public schools The Willoughby Street plaza would to speak to a group of black Below, Tomasa Howard holds her baby girl, who was race so far — the largest war chest of New York millions of dollars in available fed- Between 1999 and 2004, hundreds of people each morning who food stamps. Many of them still frequent Zigun claims the pair met in (with a few notable exceptions). Here’s why: ner’s Atlantic Center and Atlantic Terminal malls — be managed by the Metrotech Busi- born at New York Methodist Hospital in Park Slope at eral food assistance. community kitchens or pantries. Anti-hunger any Democratic congressional hopeful During the same period, Andrews Yassky attributed the lag in fundrais- The Brooklyn Papers routine as well, something sure to make au- church leaders in East New the percent of Brooklyn resi- stop in for a sack of packaged or hot food 1997 at the Mermaid Parade. Years two very 20th-century projects that typify Ratner’s diences laugh — nothing about politics. ness Improvement District. 5:31 am. Brooklyn’s first New Year’s baby was born one According to Weiner, only 33 percent of eli- advocates say that in addition to giving these in the nation and nearly five times his raised only $45,650 from 80 donors, but See YASSKY on page 6 Bruce Ratner’s demolition of buildings York last weekend — and dents who depend on meals from to take to work. later, she became renowned for her Statistics don’t lie prior work in Downtown Brooklyn. “I’ve never thought of myself as an edu- Community Board 2 voted this PEOPLE READY minute after midnight in Coney Island Hospital. For a gible Brooklyn residents are registered for food benefits to more residents, the city must take within the Atlantic Yards footprint has begun later learned what people the soup kitchens or pantries rose from 12.71 Day laborers fill up before their daily drops butchery of the national anthem. After a year, city admits In Brooklyn, there are 450,000 single guys and 630,000 Forever looming over Atlantic Avenue’s traffic, cator,” said Newhart. “I see myself as an week to endorse the project, which “She didn’t really know the say about him, and his / Zachary Braziller “Tale of the Tape” on The Brooklyn Papers’ New Year’s stamps, and New York is only one of four to 17 percent, according to data gathered by at construction sites. Retail clerks pick up bag steps to address the rising cost of living in the single women. With 1.4 women for every man in the bor- Hindy: — albeit one brick at a time. the Underberg Building had a cult status among nos- entertainer. With politics you automatically serve first: rich kids or poor would close the Willoughby Street tune, and halfway through, she for- babies, see page 11. states that requires food stamp applicants be the Coalition Against Hunger. lunches before their morning shifts, he said. city. ough, Brooklyn’s hunks are enjoying happy hunting. And On Wednesday, workers started dismantling the talgia buffs and preservationists who appreciated the alienate half of your audience.” block to vehicular traffic and place ta- dream of defeating four got the words and it became a B’KLYN INVASION there’s obviously a whole lot of shaking going on, judging by first of six Ratner-owned buildings in the area of his contrast between its moody geometric outline and Park Slope activist Fresh material bles, chairs, benches and bike racks black candidates in the crazy a capella moment,” said Fred proposed arena for the New Jersey Nets. malls’ bright flags. By Ariella Cohen in the defunct class. “Everyone over the streetbed, possibly revitalizing mostly black 11th Con- the soaring rates of some sexually transmitted diseases here. His new routine will involve observa- By Lucky Ngamwajasat Kahl, a.k.a. The Great Fredini, a guilt in Hook child’s death The first to fall will be a forlorn former food sup- On March 23, project opponents will return to The Brooklyn Papers agrees that at-risk populations what has long been a “dead zone.” gressional District, once he Most-recent city stats show that chlamydia cases are up, Tower dentists know the drill longtime sideshow performer. tions on the “crazy” planet we inhabit, trav- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn ply building at the intersection of Pacific and At- Manhattan Supreme Court to appeal last month’s need resources first, but the “At times [it has] been a difficult / Julie Rosenberg leaves the room. Mukuro returned to her native while gonorrhea is down. So as they used to say on “Hill I’m all in eling today, everyday experiences and reli- Do public schools exist lantic avenues long known by the name stenciled question is, is there enough left one domed roof. ruling that paved the way for the demolition. Callan / Tom battle pushing the Department of “David Yassky shouldn’t Here’s an unanticipated downside to the New Jersey Africa to pursue her recording ca- By Gersh Kuntzman bureaucracy finally changed tactics. the Department of Sanitation found Street Blues,” let’s all be careful out there. — Susan Cosier OOT CANAL patients Jackie Connor, 63 gion. (Newhart was raised Catholic, which for the poor to get a basic THE BROOKLYN “If you needed a consult on across its back and sides: Samuel Underberg. Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn (DDDB) had for other programs?” Transportation to put human beings even be running in this race,” Nets’ plan to relocate to Brooklyn: Wave after wave of Gar- reer, but visa problems kept her The Brooklyn Papers A spokeswoman for the city Law “nothing conclusive that would con- and Novocaine junkies By Gersh Kuntzman allows him to poke a little fun, based on education or to discourage Department said the agency had ad- nect the department to the accident.” Naughty fun shuddered at the news By Gersh an X-ray, you could get a sec- The building is too old to go down by wrecking challenged Ratner’s right to take down the building It’s a question that is being ahead of motor vehicles,” Aaron said City Councilman Charles den Staters will come, too. from Zigun’s side (among other The Bloomberg administra- R ANGLE Kuntzman The Brooklyn Papers ball, according to demolition workers at the site, so before winning state approval for his project. DDDB By Louise Crawford Her memorial service Sunday at personal experience.) middle-class families from asked more and more by both ‘Global’ champions Auster’s Park Slope mitted guilt. In fact, investigators were in pos- last year that the Williams- ond, third and fourth opinion in Naperstek, project director for the non- Barron, who spoke to the same That’s at least the hope of the team’s front office, which The Pink Pussycat Boutique does not have any Valentine’s parts of his body — ooof!). tion this week marked the one- Let the boycott really begin! it will be torn down brick by brick. argued that by razing the building, the developer was for The Brooklyn Papers the St. Francis Xavier School audito- On average he makes 30 to 35 stand-up fleeing to the suburbs? the “haves” in upscale areas like profit Open Planning Project, said at group after Yassky had left. Stars from Cobble Hill’s School for Global Studies whoop it up in upstate Glens Falls after winning their The marriage is now scheduled The spokeswoman, Kate O’Brien session of hair and blood samples Day specials, but the pre-Valentine’s week is a good time for burgh Bank Building — once upper floors of this celebrated an instant,” he said. “It was a performances per year. All of that, on top Papers The Brooklyn has been aggressively courting its foam-finger-wearing New year anniversary of the death of home to 150 dentists, oral university environment.” Opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards A moody work of 19th-century architecture im- actually causing the very neighborhood blight that is rium attracted a cross section of Park The removal of Joyce Saly as Brownstone Brooklyn, who Tuesday’s CB2 hearing, at St. Francis “David Yassky is an opportunist first-ever state title last week with a 78-73 victory over New Rochelle’s Blessed Sacrament. The Jaguars Jersey fans, even as it markets the still-Jersey-based team to Ahlers, said, “The city has expressed taken from one of the snow plows — the seller of lingerie, sex toys and ointments. Brooklyn store Sitting on the steps of Old First Papers The Brooklyn City Councilmember David Yassky ad- for next week in Cyprus, chosen spire are so gorgeous that it’s of movie roles and TV appearances. His Callan / Tom mortalized in Jonathan Lethem’s novel “Fortress of Slope and surrounding neighbor- / Steven Sunshine 10-year-old girl under a city in writing to Maria Jimenez, Markita and that tissue matched Weaver. surgeons, hygienists and their Another dentist, who re- project renewed their call for a boycott of Brook- See ARENA on page 4 Reformed Church at Carroll Street principal of PS 58 in Carroll share the public elementary College in Brooklyn Heights. who sees the black vote divided were fueled by an amazing fourth-quarter eruption by Richard DeJesus, the team’s top scorer last year Brooklynites in advance of the possible 2009 cross-rivers re- Latest novel set amongst the brownstones for obvious reasons. employee Juan Baerga expects sales to “go through the roof” worth getting simple chronic hoods, a testament to Connor’s re- three-episode guest appearance on “ER” Gardens has done nothing to schools with the “have nots.” dresses black church leaders in East New / Greg Mango / Greg snowplow in an odd manner — Weaver’s mother, our profound re- “I have no idea why this admis- victims — was being con- quested anonymity because his lyn Brewery beer after owner Steve Hindy offi- and Seventh Avenue in an old flannel “The Willoughby-Adams pedestrian and thinks he can sneak himself who was, nonetheless, benched for most of this season to make way for new stars. The 6-foot-3 center, “When Zeus was killed, his gen- on certain items, especially on toys that couples can use to- halitosis just to sit in a den- garnered him an Emmy nomination in York — but not everyone is listening. location. by finally admitting that a city verted into luxury condos new lease agreement hasn’t cially declared himself in favor of the $3.5-billion shirt and baseball cap, chatting up nown. Everyone from neighbors to dapen the emotions surrounding Between 1990 and 2002, the plan represents a small, but significant, in there.” who lives in Red Hook, entered late in the game with his team down five points. He promptly scored nine

/ Steve Sunshine gret and sorrow on her daughter’s sion took a year, but the NYPD way she held and touched her children. feints in the book. She ends up not really itals were thrown into the ocean gether. He did not explain any further. — Cosier 2004, and most recently, he’s been check- this question. Controversy still number of school-age children “We want them [the New Jersey fans] to follow us to By Gersh Kuntzman worker did indeed kill her. death.” claims it was using a new kind of But this hard-bitten colum- tist’s chair and watch the sun been inked yet, added that he mega-development this week. strangers and friends, Jackie Connor friends, to pols and cops, were on change in these priorities,” he said. As Barron spoke, slamming He had never seen maternal love ex- being a major character, but merely win- and they landed near Cyprus,” Zi- Papers The Brooklyn ing in on ABC’s hit series “Desperate consumes the school, this time living in school district 15, en- straight points to give his team the Class B tournament title. — Zachary Braziller Brooklyn,” Nets CEO Brent Yormark told reporters at a rare The Brooklyn Papers Friends and family marked the ac- forensic test,” said Beth Schlossman, No Hollywood hookups nist has learned that the pain sinking over Staten Island. wants to stay because the build- Hindy had toured the site of the project last looked to some like a street person. hand not to bury Connor, but to praise Downtown Brooklyn planners and his fist onto the podium for emphasis, church leaders bobbed their heads up and pressed so eloquently or simply, with dow dressing for the most gun said. “And Aphrodite was The Department of Sanitation had Housewives.” over the loss of a music program compassing Carroll Gardens, roundtable discussion before a Net game last week. Ayveq’s got a lot of love to give — he just can’t find any From its vantage point, near week with members of Develop Don’t Destroy her. DOT officials believe the drab Papers The Brooklyn down, at least one saying, “That’s what I’m talking about!” Who is the B.P.M.? born out of the sea foam.” long denied that one of its drivers tual one-year anniversary by building the Weaver family lawyer. Birds do it. Bees do it. And, in Brooklyn, even celebrities will linger on long after ing is “a part of the great histo- But those people didn’t know Jack- “I was highly complimented when Papers The Brooklyn “We have spent the last 12 months developing a theme — more tenderness or outright joy Brooklyn of Auster’s works. takers at the New York Aquarium in Coney Island. the intersection of Atlantic and ry of dentistry.” Brooklyn, who hoped to persuade him that Rat- “I don’t think the people of Park established under Saly’s tenure. Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Red Willoughby Street block could be Yassky had addressed the group — Churches United for Worldwide Action — The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn crushed Red Hook resident Markita a makeshift memorial at the corner of The family is suing the city for $85 do it: move to the borough and find their bliss. Brooklyn’s tallest building ie Connor. Of all the many recognizable denizens … To watch her sit- Certainly, the 58-year-old Zigun said Mukuro will eventu- Slope realized just how much they [‘Desperate Housewives’ creator] Mark Saly, at once much-loved and Public School 58 in Carroll Gardens is having a hard time ad- Hook, Windsor Terrace and Brooklyn’s Bryant Park — a flower- ‘If you like us in Jersey, you’ll love us in Brooklyn’ — and of Park Slope who make guest appear- Recently engaged Dick Zigun Nicole Weaver as she played with her Richards and Walcott streets, where million At the same time Jimenez Among the couples happily living in Brooklyn are “Broke- goes upscale. Flatbush avenues, the Empire “We survived when this ner’s plan was out-of-scale with the surrounding Connor, who died on March 8 after Purim it on after being barred from appearing at the organization’s candidates forum two weeks ally assume her rightful place as a / Julie Rosenberg Cherry called my agent,” Newhart said. justing to the gentrification of its surrounding neighborhoods. ting on the front Sloper has written about New Papers The Brooklyn it’s really helped. Sources said that more State Building stands out in the neighborhood was almost de- community. a vigorous battle with lung cancer, owe their quality of life to Jackie,” Two rabbis whose congregations are doors apart on Remsen Street in much-reviled by parents, left in Sunset Park, rose 12 percent. studded space where workers and stu- earlier. “Bygones are bygones,” Yassky said, explaining why he accepted the ances in Paul Auster’s new book, “The steps of her house York before. The city, in fact, photographed in a fun house sideshow star: “I’m thinking friends in the snow on Jan. 23, 2005. Weaver died. was receiving the city’s apology let- back Mountain” stars Heath Ledger and Michelle Williams, has been incessant press coverage of his near-constant masturba- Brooklyn Heights — Aaron (Zorro) Raskin of the Orthodox Congrega- “They could’ve gotten anyone in the world. Marty O’Green “I’ve told them, ‘Don’t vote with your wallets yet.’… I’m Stuffed animals and balloons mark the corner where 10- stroyed by heroin in the But after the fact-finding mission, the beer was a civic activist, a crime watch- said City Councilman David Yassky January following a scandal re- And many parents of those dents linger over coffee, or take in the group’s invitation to speak at Grace Baptist Church in East New York Saturday. Brooklyn Follies,” this one character — mirror at Coney Island. Madame Twisto for her.” But as reporters started preparing Witnesses had long said that a city ter, Schlossman said she received a who, with their baby Matilda, show up just as often on Smith tion — but only now can The Brooklyn Papers reveal the root than a dozen dentists will be Midtown skyline like a tooth tion B’nai Avraham and Serge (King Tut) Lippe of the Reform Brooklyn They probably could’ve gotten [Dick] Ch- with her arms is a main character in “The 1960s,” he said. “We’re not go- meister — who last week said he supported dog, a tenant advocate, a self-describ- (D-Brooklyn Heights). lated to standardized tests; she’s ple, they cited private funding students who weren’t measuring children are choosing neighbor- sunshine before descending into the Borough President Markowitz (left) never comes empty handed. Here “Any time I get a chance to present my record and ideas, it’s a good thing.” Hey B’klyn, betting on the fact that they will follow us.” year-old Markita Nicole Weaver was killed by a snowplow. their one-year anniversary stories, the snowplow had crushed Weaver, but letter to initiate settlement talks. Street as they do on “celebrity-sighting” blogs. And while al- cause of his insatiability: he’s living with three frigid females! given new leases by the waiting to be pulled. the “Beautiful Perfect Mother” — will wrapped around those New York Trilogy,” and his bringing the Ratner-owned New Jersey Nets to There were platters of Italian food, Heights Synagogue — adopt an ecumenical pose during celebrations eney. He’s probably tired of all the flack for now working in a Department of she located to bring in Guggen- up to increasingly tough stan- hood schools over the suburbs, nearby train station at Jay Street. he is handing out green bagels to Gerard Chipura and daughter If the arena is completed, Nets brass expect it to attract most every Hollywood married couple ends up moving to a “He’s ready, but they’re just not up for it yet,” confirmed building’s owners, an invest- “That’s what I’ll miss the ing to leave now.” ed agent provocateur and, according Good, but not always easy. Yassky’s host, the Rev. Kermitt Williams, repeat- undoubtedly provoke many a spirited de- two small kids was movie, “Smoke,” is set in Brooklyn, yet was neutral on the larger project — bakery cookies, live doo-wop music, marking the Purim holiday Tuesday. At left (top) Jolee Coen, 9, and sis- the recent [shooting] incident. He probably Education district office. heim artists to teach dance. dards. local school administrators say. “With development, some of it Catherine, age 6, before Sunday’s St. Patrick’s parade in Park Slope. many events besides the Nets. sad little town called Splitsville, Jennifer Connolly and Paul ment group that includes most,” said Yakov Eisenberg, Brooklyn Chamber of Com- to Michael Gordon, the former owner ter Shavna, 7, enjoy pizza at the Bay Ridge Jewish Center; (bottom) edly questioned Yassky on whether his candidacy violated the spirit of the Vot- bate about her identity. enough to bring a flut- a Park Slope candy store. Aquarium spokeswoman Fran Hackett, who said that the fe- had the opposite reaction: would have said, ‘to hell with it.’ ” Many of the school’s more- But poorer parents said Saly “I’m a nice liberal guy,” said “More parents are willing to large-scale, coming to Downtown, we “Obviously, the anchor is Nets basketball, but this is go- Magic Johnson, which whose practice will be moved merce President Ken Adams of the Mojo Cafe, “more effective and presentation boards with photo- Weinberger siblings Tova, 10, Akiva, 6, and Adina, 7, party at B’nai Mayor Bloomberg and Sen. Charles Schumer also celebrated Ireland’s ing Rights Act, a 1965 law that increased black enfranchisement and outlawed Everyone knows a Park Slope B.P.M. Bettany are also going strong in Park Slope, where you can males Uupa, Nuka and Kulusiq are all around age 13 — too Papers The Brooklyn ter to an old curmud- And Auster himself is a “After meeting with the opposition and touring graphs, newspaper clippings, and See NEWHART on page 8 affluent parents said Saly treated the less-fortunate harshly Jim Devor, whose third-grade consider local schools now,” need open space and places for stu- patron saint. Bay Ridge’s version kicks off on Sunday at 1 pm at the dilution of black voting power through gerrymandering. eat this! ing to be almost a community center,” Yormack said. Indeed, aren’t all the moms in Park Slope find them nuzzling their kids at the Tea Lounge. young in walrus years to do the submarine samba. bought the building last May. from the 13th floor to a space understands that feeling. than 311 in improving life in Park Avraham. Purim commemorates the salvation of Jews in ancient Persia geon’s heart.” very recognizable figure Dentist Harvey Moskowitz the site, we are more than ever convinced that the Slope.” catered to them — as an exam- and acted too quickly to relocate daughter was learning the violin See PS58 on page 6 See PLAZA on page 6 As a result, the 11th district — which has been served by Shirley Chisholm Brooklyn gourmands stormed Borough Hall Tuesday “We’re anticipating dates, concerts, shows. We’ll have B.P.M.s? In naming this character as he Even though they’re not raising kids, there are plenty of And while Ayveq continues to take matters into his own flip- Since then, dentists have one story above street level. “They branded the building, See JACKIE on page 4 Papers The Brooklyn (now Iran) after a regent named Haman proposed their extermination. Fourth Avenue and 95th Street. The identity of the on Seventh Avenue and and the Williamsburgh Atlantic Yards project is good for Brooklyn,” and successor Major Owens — was drawn to help ensure that the voices of to chow down at the official launch of this year’s “Dine something for everyone, in and around the community.” did, that is probably Auster’s point. It’s a B.P.M. is hidden for sev- the focus of substantial Brooklyn celebs who are giving birth: Jonathan Safran Foer pers, Wendell the penquin has also been celibate. In Wendell’s been fleeing the tower like kids He would relocate his prac- so naturally they want to stay,” Bank Building. Hindy told The Brooklyn Papers. “Not only will black voters are heard and that they are properly represented. Not surprisingly, opponents of the Atlantic Yards project bit of a wink to his neighbors that will – Marshall McLuhan (author of the best book of the past 50 years, “Everything is case, the dry spell dates back to the death of his mate, Cass, from a periodontal exam. To- he said. “People always won- in Brooklyn Restaurant Week.” The third annual foodie eral pages of “The Brook- lust among some read- tice were it not for the build- it bring a professional basketball team, it also will But what that means is emerging as a persistent question regarding Yassky. ‘The future of work consists of learning a living.’ Canadian educator, philosopher, scholar, and one day, the hallways have a desert- der why all those dentists want- fest — which runs from Monday, April 3, through Tues- accused Yormack of not knowing the community in which probably go unrecognized by readers lyn Follies,” yet once it is ers. Illuminated”) and his wife Nicole Krauss (author of “The about two years ago. ing’s historic pull. bring much-needed affordable housing, jobs and / Greg Mango / Greg “Our understanding is that the [Voting Rights Act] carved out the 11th dis- revealed, it becomes ho- “He’s a world-class of the founders of the study of media ecology ed, Barton Fink feel to them, isenberg said he’d also ed to be in the same place, but day, April 11 — features 170 restaurants, all offering he hopes to move his team. outside of Brownstone Brooklyn. History of Love”) are still cranking out weighty tomes from Feel free to insert your own “Brokeback Mountain” joke here. “Everyone knows this as a economic development to downtown Brooklyn.” trict because of a lack of representation,” Williams said. “Is it different today? miss the dental cama- it offered them great economies Callan / Tom Callan / Tom “[She sat] on the front stoop of her hum. (Her name is Nancy writer, a real inno- their Park Slope lovenest. “Yes, we had gay penguins before the Central Park Zoo did,” what with all but a handful of such a deal: a three-course meal for $20.06. Here, “The arena is not a community center, it is a for-profit TV practices closed tighter than a dental building, and that’s a raderie. No, he’s not of scale. If the X-ray machine Hindy said he felt the need to clarify his posi- This is not racism. It’s about representation.” building with her two young children, Mazzucchelli and she makes vator,” one woman There is also buzz that actress Rachel Weisz and her fiance, Hackett said. “But it’s sad because ever since Cass died, Wen- E Community Board 2 member Leslie Lewis tastes a studio that is inappropriate at an overburdened intersection BE A WINNER IN 2006 – JOIN THE PAPERS TEAM Great people, great company, great career – great life! teenager’s mouth after his first huge thing for getting pa- talking about those leg- repair man was in the building, tion after critics complained that no self-respect- Need a good corkscrew? Yassky responded that the district is drawn “so that African- and Caribbean- in a residential neighborhood,” said Daniel Goldstein, a

Need a good corkscrew? Callan / Tom waiting for the yellow bus to arrive and jewelry in her brownstone recently posted on director Darren Aronofsky, will move back to his stomping dell has been all alone.” pastrami sandwich from the legendary Mill Basin experience with chewing to- tients,” he said. “Most of all, endary all-night ether parties, he could fix a bunch of ma- ing Brooklynite could support bringing the Nets Americans will have their voices heard, not shoved aside as was done for years.” take them to school,” writes Auster. “She studio.) Like many other char- the blog, http://onlythe- grounds, adding yet another famous pair to the Brooklyn He just couldn’t quit him. — Gersh Kuntzman See our ad See our ad Kosher Deli. More than a dozen eateries, including the spokesman for Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. BEGINSPAGE ON 5 Immediate openings in EDITORIAL, SALES and WEB departments See our ad under EMPLOYMENT in classifieds section bacco. the building was a symbol of but the academic environ- chines at once.” to the borough, yet not have a position on the rest But he disputed that the person who carries their torch must have black skin. was remarkably attractive … with long acters and moods in “The blogknowsbrooklyn.com, which is Papers The Brooklyn “The YWCA is a community center … Mr. Yormack under- scene. — Cosier See LOVE IN BROOKLYN on page 13 It’s too bad, because the quality and professionalism. ment that came from having And then get a quick of the Atlantic Yards project. on page 11 on page 11 “In the Council, I represent Gowanus Houses, which are almost entirely black Waterfront Ale House on Atlantic Avenue and Scotta-

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Jurors who convicted Bay JURY FINDS NO ENTRAPMENT The Brooklyn Papers RICHES nal — the latest in a series of Ridge resident Shahawar Matin loses its moniker Boymelgreen has coveted the inspired tallest tower Leave it to a queen to come between broth- moves that could transform the massive, windowless building — Siraj this week for plotting to Police Department said Pasha’s job By Dana Rubinstein industrial area into a village of which until 1965 was a Transit Au- Ratner’s blow up the Herald Square sub- was to spy on the Bay Ridge Muslim ers. By Gersh Kuntzman Tuesday’s fire in Greenpoint — community. Red Hook dock workers — brothers in the same The Brooklyn Papers Callan / Tom housing, stores, art galleries and thority facility — since he began way station rejected the defense The Brooklyn Papers Outside the presence of the jury, longshoreman’s union — will split up on Saturday Pataki OKs $100M waterfront esplanades. snapping up canal-area land two the biggest since 9-11 — sent contention that Siraj had been Nellie Bly Amusement Park, home of the Whirl Green light project Stolar told judge Nina Gershon that if morning, April 15, one group unloading passengers “We are very excited about the years ago, according to property smoke billowing across the bor- The “bride” will wear aluminum. entrapped by a paid informant Among the environmentally friendly artists who will be showcasing / Bebeto Matthews Wind, the Flying Dumbos, and the childhood memo- ough. For more on the story, Architecht Frank Gehry unveiled slightly slimmed Siraj’s opinions were held to show a and baggage from the glamorous Queen Mary 2, By Ariella Cohen In the Senate last week, only Sen. Velmanette acquisition of the JP site,” said Sara owners nearby. their work at Bklyn Designs, May 12-14 in DUMBO, is Nicholas Fur- poster and an undercover police officer Montgomery (D-Prospect Heights) — in whose ries of tens of thousands of Brooklynites, will get a With the Jewish Press building see page 15. down towers and an update on the classic Brooklyn pre-disposition to terrorism, it “would the other taking lumber and steel off a freighter The Brooklyn Papers Mirski, spokeswoman for develop- row, whose “Red Light District Lamps” recycle vintage glass lamp- who spied on the neighborhood’s put the entire Muslim community called the Brasilia. district Ratner’s project would rise — voted facelift under its new management — and it will also in his portfolio, Boymelgreen now stoop, in fresh renderings for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn er Shaya Boymelgreen. “The site GREEN large Muslim community. around Bay Ridge in a predisposition / Dana Rubinstein shades and consume only 1- to 5-watts. For more about Bklyn De- In the wake of $66 million in public sub- against that body’s $33-million subsidy. lose its famous name. controls more than two acres sur- Yards mega-development revealed Thursday. He also The long-awaited arrival of the QM2 is a his- provides improved access opportu- Siraj’s defense maintained that his mode — that everyone has a predis- signs exhibitors, see GO Brooklyn on page 7. Associated Press toric moment in Red Hook — and not just because sidies approved by the state legislature for Ratner’s triumph in Albany offered a chance The family that until last year ran the Bensonhurst “fun nities to [a] proposed waterfront es- rounding the canal — land he told how he came up with the design for the project’s Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner, center” owns the rights to the “Nellie Bly” name, so the girl is most controversial building — the 62-story “Miss Brook- views that the United States govern- position to commit an attack.” Brooklyn is welcoming the largest cruise ship in for critics to charge that legislators are putting the planade and park” along the canal. wants to turn into “Gowanus Vil- The ugly truth behind ment was involved in the 9-11 attacks park’s moniker will change — possibly to the less-colorful lyn Tower” — likening it to a bride. Pasha also testified that Siraj the world. Gov. Pataki promised this week carrot of public subsidies before the stick of The sale of the building, on lage,” a mixed-use neighborhood were “community-based notions” held “Adventures Amusement Park.” The heat is on Opponents of the 22-acre, $3.5-billion project were praised Osama bin Laden and Pales- It also puts front and center two competing vi- Lousy bagels to make it a cool $100 mil- public review of, and approval of, Atlantic Third Avenue between First and designed by a glamorous interna- among many Bay Ridge muslims. Gowanus Canal The park’s new father-son team — Martin and Marc Garin unimpressed. tinian suicide bombers. sions for the Red Hook waterfront — namely, lion — even if he doesn’t Yards. Tanning enthusiast Samantha Ranieri christens a new salon in Bay Ridge, just in time for GO Brooklyn’s Third streets, coupled with con- Papers The Brooklyn tional architect, Enrique Norten. “In fact, in that entire Muslim — recently signed a 20-year lease with the Parks Department Muslims in Bay Ridge, some who whether Brooklyn’s last working container port know how. “There seems a fair amount of dis- Fashion Issue. See page 7 to find out what you’ll be dying to wear this summer. And if your 9-year- struction of a Whole Foods market Park Slope on the Gowanus? The Jewish Press building on Third Boymelgreen would transform unhappy “It’s a Frank Gehry sheen on repudiated, 1960s-style community in Bay Ridge, the to take over the badly worn 4.5-acre amusement park on beautiful block contest knew Siraj and some who did not, will survive or succumb to the newly arrived cruise “We don’t exactly know cussion … when it comes to the Yan- one block south and development Avenue was just bought by developer Shaya Boymelgreen. See CANAL on page 5 NOT JUST NETS • THE NEW BROOKLYN • NOT JUST NETS • THE NEW BROOKLYN urban renewal,” said Daniel Goldstein of Develop Don’t thought that the American govern- Shore Parkway. The Garins say they have begun more than old is anything like the Oh So Feisty One, follow Smartmom’s shopping experience on page 6. expressed anger at the disclosure ship industry. where the funds will come kees and the Mets stadiums, but no con- Destroy Brooklyn. ment was responsible for bringing $1 million of renovations. that the NYPD spied on them. Many longshoreman are hedging their bets. from, but an appropriate fund- versation at all on the Ratner project — AHARA MEER IS STILL ANGRY. Prospect Heights resident Patti Hagan quipped, “I By Dana Rubinstein down the towers on 9-11 was com- “We want to get it into the new millennium,” said Marc “This was a confirmation of what rom a Hasidic rabbi in Prospect Heights who sion among Smith Street skeptics, to the Santeros reputation as “the borough of churches” was where even some non-believing “Faitheists” go to Nearly 100 union baggage handlers will jump to ing stream will be found,” said which is getting more money then either Place a copy of Bruce Ratner’s recent At- guess this is the ‘Ratner/Gehry Diet,’” calling the slim- The Brooklyn Papers mon,” said one of Siraj’s attorneys, we already knew … and have Garin, adding that he hopes to have all the work completed in Associated Press teaches Torah over beer (far right, above), to practicing an Afro-Caribbean mysticism in Pros- forged centuries ago, thanks to firebrand preach- church every week (page 3). A guide to the ad- the cruise ship terminal from the container port to- state budget spokesman John project,” said Daniel Goldstein, a Dan Zanes says Slantic Yards mailing on the table, and down miniscule compared to the weight the project put OVERT SURVEILLANCE, cut- Martin Stolar. known since 9-11,” said Linda Sar- time for a partial opening on Memorial Day. day. Sweeney. spokesman for Develop Don’t Destoy he doesn’t write she’ll put her handbag over it. Show her the on in since its initial unveiling in 2002. throat competition, midnight attacks, The undercover cop, identified in In this photo released by the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office, an uniden- sour, a Muslim activist who prays at

the Buddhist monks of Vinegar Hill who hold pect Park (second from left), to the gospel singers ers (and abolitionists) like Henry Ward Beecher dresses and phone numbers of the many religious But on Monday, with just six weeks to go, the amusement Zanes’s / Julie Rosenberg F Two hundred others will remain with the far- Pataki’s $34-million addi- Brooklyn. Toddler troubadour overtly political pictures of happy Brooklynites smiling for Rat- Discussing “Miss Brooklyn,” which would sit at the strategic plotting — more the stuff of court by the pseudonym “Kamil tified police informant (right) is shown with alleged bomb plotter Sha- the same Islamic Society of Bay less-feted cargo, their fate in the hands of city offi- tion — which will make good Ratner has championed Atlantic Yards park seemed more like the old Haunted Hotel than a function- ner’s cameras and she’ll cringe. intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, Gehry C fire ceremonies every Friday (second from right), at Boerum Hill’s House of the Lord Church (far left), (center) of Plymouth Church on Orange Street in institutions featured in this special issue can be songs, but his a TomClancy novel than a gardening com- Pasha,” had testified that “not every- hawar Matin Siraj of Bay Ridge (center) and his alleged co-conspirator Ridge mosque where Siraj occasion- cials, who say they will not renew the container on the state’s promise to pro- as an economic engine that will create jobs ing carnival. Blacks Meer, you see, is one of those smiling said, “When we were studying Brooklyn, we happened new tune, “Wan- body felt that way.” The New York to uprooted Mormons pitching their religious vi- Brooklyn is a wondrous borough of faith. Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Heights. Faith remains a rock in this burg, found online at www.BrooklynPapers.com. With so much work to be done, it would help to have a guy Brooklyn petition. But then again, winning the annual James Elshafay, on the eve of the Republican Convention in 2004. See TERROR on page 15 port operator’s lease when it expires next year. vide $100 million to the and affordable housing. But he’s also NEW ODD COUPLE der in the Sum- Brooklynites — except that she doesn’t support upon a wedding, a real Brooklyn wedding. And we decid- / Jori Klein like Paul Bunyan around — but Bunyan, a fixture in the old Chief Coney Island freak “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” contest is no Through it all, the union brothers vow to get still-unapproved $3.5-bil- backed by a prominent lobbying firm, mer Wind,” was Ratner’s plans for Atlantic Yards. ed that ‘Miss Brooklyn’ was a bride.” park’s Wild West Land, was out of commission, lying near- easy feat. Sharp gardening shears — and a along. lion development — Meyer, Suozzi, English and Klein. A sen- Callan / Tom So she’s definitely not smiling. Gehry showed off the renderings at a packed press inspired by a vi- Papers The Brooklyn / Cunard Cruise Lines / Cunard sings against Ratner “I’m not going to yell at anyone for working comes as both Assembly ior labor partner at the firm was appointed horizontally against a wooden fence. blues sion of Brooklyn Meer, a sometime actress with a “No emi- conference at Ratner’s Atlantic Center Mall, where a willingness to use them — are required. tually asked to see my horns. So I took And the Funhouse is in pieces, too Sahara Meer doesn’t support Bruce Ratner’s over there,” said one crane operator at the contain- Speaker Sheldon Silver by Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao to serve Spitzer & Carey do Slope that, he says, is jeopardized by Bruce Rat- nent domain” sign in her Prospect Heights win- large third-floor space was converted into an “Atlantic Just ask Hazel Foster, president of the 300 By Gersh Kuntzman gos frontman has been singing to kids. ner’s track record: Atlantic Center, Atlantic Yards development, but was fea- them to a soccer game and shared a few er port. “The cruise ship terminal is better than the No late-night cabs (D-Manhattan) and Senate Majority Leader Joe on an advisory board on employee welfare and “We’re going to tear it down and replace it with something ner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development. dow, was between paying gigs when she be- Yards Information Center.” East 25th Street Block blast Papers The Brooklyn tured prominently in his latest propaganda. drinks. After they got to know me, they one in Bayonne, better than the one in Manhattan. Bruno (R-Brunswick) have lambasted the gover- pension benefits. more modern,” said Marc Garin. weds Nigerian princess The Brooklyn Papers But in this fight, he’s playing to the adults. Atlantic Terminal, Metrotech. Is came a “poster girl” in Ratner’s Atlantic Yards The renderings of Miss Brooklyn showed a shimmer- Association in Flatbush, By Dana Rubinstein “I was like everyone else who had heard this the guy we want doing the Here are the excerpted lyrics: apologized for hating something they did- Associated Press But it will only be beautiful as long as we still have nor for more than 200 budget cuts, including cuts “For housing, for economic development and Nearby, concessions manager Joseph Fowler quipped, If you’re under 10, this is your Wood- propaganda campaign. ing, wavering, aluminum-clad tower, with a 120-foot SPECIAL which won first place in The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn “I’m sure this was up to code — 30 years ago.” The Brooklyn Papers about the project — busy with work and single biggest development in 2004. Callan / Tom n’t understand.” A ‘Witness’ to The Queen Mary 2 will be docking at its new Brooklyn home — in Red Hook — on Saturday. our jobs over here.” in education and Medicaid spending. for job creation, this project will meet the impor- stock: Children’s folk singer Dan Zanes Take a left on Kane Street And do you think you would It was a day like any other day last summer, mega-development that actually made the glass-walled atrium called “the Urban Room,” a hotel in family and I thought, well, it’s ugly, but it’s New York City?” “Two hundred and 50 hot diggity dogs! The brainstorm of having beer-soaked The difference with Atlantic Yards is that all tant needs of Brooklyn residents and their fami- More work is to come. Once the Garins acquire the demoli- By Gersh Kuntzman trials just to get to this day that The lanky attorney general — the Bob Dylan of the pre-school set — Another one on Henry Like to wander in the sum- when Meer got an email from a photographer 19,000-seat basketball arena disappear into a the first few floors, dozens of stories of office space, and inevitable,” said Zanes, who’s been so And then Zanes issued his Designers bust out REPORT He-brews Bible study came to Tali as a spin off to his Chuck E. Cheese three Albany leaders support it. lies,” state Sen. Marty Golden (R-Bay Ridge) tion permits, the Haunted Hotel, the Ferris Wheel and the The Brooklyn Papers you can’t help but see how badly and portly former governor made has joined the opposition to Bruce Rat- Take a look around us mer wind friend asking whether she’d pose for a “day in lush green meadow. residental condos up top. forty-four blocks com- busy, in fact, that he even let his member- most-damning edict (at least For anyone we know We can take the F train peted when we won,” Friday night beginner’s minion class. One “They are working together on this to commit said in a statement. “For today’s generation and Bumper Cars will be replaced. And Cap’n Video, the old arcade, Here it is, freak show fans, he wanted this. It’s a great thing.” an odd couple as they toured ner’s Atlantic Yards project and will head- Bruce the park” photo spread. The photos were being “I admit I have no one to blame but myself,” “She’s a bride with flowing veils,” Gehry said. “OK, I As part of BK Fashion Week(end), May 5-7, in DUMBO’s Tobacco Warehouse, up- ship in the Park Slope Food Co-op lapse. from the perspective of a Up the hill and down again Right on up to Ninth Street of the students who could not read Hebrew the $100 million,” said Sweeney. for the future, the construction of the Nets arena Mini-parade will be renovated into a combination arcade and food stand. The Ghana wedding did have Park Slope on Wednesday. line an anti-project concert next month. shot by the Getty agency and would be sold as she said. “I signed the release. I got my $100 got carried away. But if you’d seen that bride, you’d un- and-coming designers unveiled their latest collections. On Saturday, Lopeti Etu took said Foster, raising an eyebrow. “It’s competitive.” the first photo of Mr. and Mrs. When he took the time to consider the dewy-eyed 10-year-old Park Hand in hand Walk on to the park confessed that he was too embarrassed to The money will go towards widening streets and is something that will bring Brooklyn to new “If they want Dr. Pepper, they’ll get Dr. Pepper [and] if its share of hitches. For one stock photos — the kind of generic, “happy” [for the shoot]. But I’m still mad at Ratner.” “a stab at sexism and the war” with his exaggerated, bomb-shaped top (above), cre- But Foster doesn’t just have to contend with Papers The Brooklyn American poised to gain ‘Nathan’s’ belt Rabbi, students bond over beer Richard Zigun — aka the Would-be governor Eliot Spitzer Zanes, a resident of Cobble Hill, be- “nuts and bolts” of the project — the 17 Slope Zanes fan): “Ratner gave We’ll be feeling grand To where the steel drums derstand. I fell in love with her.” ask anyone except the less-intimidating improving infrastructure in the Prospect Heights heights, to a dominance as a borough and as a Wearing their Easter-best while strolling down Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights they want Dr. Brown’s, they’ll get Dr. Brown’s,” said Marc thing, Mukoro wasn’t at the air- came a member of the advisory commit- When we wander in the play shots you see in dating service ads or when Meer called her experience “the seedy un- Another building, also near the corner of Flatbush and At- ated for the H.O.R.R.S. line from recycled clothing. For a glimpse inside this private gardening opponents — she also has to deal Grace Henry’s block in Flatbush won the the congregation King of the Coney Island was in town to receive an endorse- skyscrapers, the basketball arena, the us Chuck E. Cheese. Is that the Ex-Panther says with vandals. break down the walls between Believers newspapers need that hard-to-find image of derbelly of Ratner’s marketing campaign.” Tali. neighborhood where Ratner wants to build. county.” last Sunday are Shannon, 8, and Siobhan O'Hea, 2. See NELLIE on page 2 port in Accra to meet Zigun two ment from Hugh Carey, who held tee of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn summer wind Dance around in circles lantic, was reduced in size by 165 feet, but Gehry and his de- event, see GO Brooklyn on page 9. “Greenest Block” contest in 2004. By Gersh Kuntzman By Hollie Rosenberg and non-Believers, Jews and non-Jews, and Sideshow — and his Nigerian 6,900-units of housing, the thousands of best we can do for our kids?” With anyone that we meet Last week, the block suffered a severe blow “I befriend everyone I meet because weeks ago because she not only last month and now hopes to spread his people without a care in the world. “What, he couldn’t find actual people to signers said that the differences between the latest designs The Brooklyn Papers for The Brooklyn Papers princess bride. the office himself from 1975 to cars, the use of eminent domain to con- A spokesman for Ratner declined I’ll take you to the river All this could happen Ratner ‘disrespects even Jews and anti-Semites, is to get reli- there is always something I can learn,” By Dana Rubinstein Watchtower tour guide. didn’t have the right immuniza- anti-Ratner message through song. Meer said she spent five hours being pho- smile for his cameras? He needed to buy stock and earlier renderings are not just a matter of size. to its chances when many of its garden plots, gion out of the congregations to the places New Dems locked out Dick Zigun 1983 — but it turned into a two- demn buildings where people are currently to comment. Maybe down to Red Hook On a summer Saturday tographed. “It was fun, and it was a pretty good images of people having fun?” garden pots, and tree pits were torn apart. if there’s any indication that people are out on In an astounding triumph that could change A Rabbi, a Catholic, five Orthodox said Tali. Not only does the Watchtower have everything, it’s also EXCLUSIVE tion card, but she also “mouthed “My opposition is mostly about saving where people actually congregate. The Brooklyn Papers and Pat Mukoro hour episode of “Hugh Carey Re- living — Zanes said he could ignore it no Although Zanes will headline the Eat a few tamales us, denigrates us’ deal because I’m an actress and they offered to The greater irony of Ratner’s flyer is that the See GEHRY on page 18 “Early morning, I looked outside, and my their blocks working together,” said Kirby. the course of American history, a California Jews and two non-practicing Semites “Tuesdays with Tali” is open to anyone a great place to acquire new job skills. Hemmelgarn, for off” to security guards, Zigun the soul of Brooklyn,” Zanes (pictured Over by the soccer Jehovah’s Witnesses make up 11 percent of the finally made it members.” more. Saturday, June 3, concert at the Han- gate was closed,” said Foster, shaking her head “Secondly, we look for overall horticultural walk into a bar; the punch line is they And beer helps. who can hold his own in a theocratic dis- example, is learning public relations, and his wife, who said. right) told The Brooklyn Papers. “Every- games let me use the photos, too,” she said. people in the pictures, smiling and enjoying college student has gone where no American “Back in England, I worked with these Brooklyn Heights population; their Watchtower By Gersh Kuntzman But Owens and others slammed IND official in Ghana last week — “I always thought this was the “I thought, ‘Well, I live in Cobble Hill, son Place Central United Methodist She had virtually forgotten about that day — their lives in Brooklyn, actual send a subtle in anger. “A little later, I looked out the window, beauty,” which includes variability and sustain- has ever gone, eating 50 hot dogs and buns in were there to talk about the Torah. cussion and also hold his beer. had no hair-cutting skills before coming to Brooklyn, now right back — leveling pretty much the Next, Mukoro — who is not most intelligent district,” said thing I do is about community — in my Basketballs are flying By Dana Rubinstein two neo-Nazis,” Tali explained. “They ac- turrets define the borough for people making their The Brooklyn Papers the culmination of a trip to the al- that’s not going to affect me.’ But this Church in Fort Greene, don’t expect Over by the school- until the phone rang last week. anti-Ratner message: “Don’t change a thing, and the gate was ajar.” ability, and good maintenance practices. 12 minutes last week. On Underhill Avenue, just up Eastern See HE-BREWS on page 7 works in the barbershop. same charge. Meow! only a princess in the Urhobo Carey, 87, who was a seven-term case, the spirit that comes from making project is not just in ‘someone else’s’ any overt anti-Ratner songs. The Brooklyn Papers QM2 here: So what’s in it for us? tar that began in the late 1990s, yard “Why the hell are you doing posing for Mr. Ratner. We like things the way they are. And her colorful front-yard garden was miss- “Over half of those 250 residential blocks first trip over the Brooklyn Bridge; their 33 proper- Clubhouse politics in Brooklyn tribe, but also a Nigerian pop star After big fire, Joey Chestnut, a journeyman on the competi- Parkway from Grand Army Plaza, is Bar The building at 25 Columbia Heights is the brain — or K “Changing the endorsement vote is an congressman from the neighbor- music. That’s what Brooklyn means right neighborhood,” he said. “I’m not that kind of songwriter,” I hear the breeze will be elevated to the second round of judging was thrown into turmoil last week E City cats have been doing it like was interrupted by a post-9-11 Is Bruce Ratner’s basketball card a Bruce Ratner?!” a friend asked. That’s why we’re smiling.” ing some flowers. tive-eating circuit, stunned the world — and maybe ties are omnipresent in the Heights and DUMBO. soul — of the Witnesses’ worldwide operations. It sits like E — finally signed the pre-nup Sepia, which many customers know for its injustice against anyone who joined prior deportation, was hindered by at hood before moving to the big now. That’s why we came here. But Rat- Zanes, who is known by virtually every- said Zanes, who will sing protest Call your name race card? Huh? Meer said she wants to channel her anger Across the street, stray pink petals and a hole — which is when it gets really competitive,” after one supposedly influential W Overdevelopment By Ariella Cohen and Gersh Kuntzman from Portugal. “I’ll be staying in Manhattan for the rabbits on Spring Break, so Brook- put a scare Mediterranean decor and its wireless In- When they’re not out preaching or “spreading the good a behemoth across from the Hillside Park dog run. A to the long-stated deadline,” said Owens, (yes, Dick Zigun, whose worldly house in Albany. “It elected the ner’s project is in direct opposition to all one with a kid under age 12, said his job songs like “We Shall Not Be Moved,” Borough Houses of worship S least four governments, and re- That question was raised by two fiery Meer later received the “Atlantic Yards: A and is now volunteering with Develop Don’t in the ground were all that remained of an azal- said Kirby. into five-time news,” as Witnesses call it, they hole up in an enormous bridge connects its two sand-colored buildings. club barred more than 100 new I whose IND membership precedes the The Brooklyn Papers food, drinks, and the jazz.” lyn’s kitten population is soaring. To possessions include vintage that’s good, soulful and communal about High and low ternet. H sulted in the loss of thousands of same man seven times.” will be to spread the word to “busy, self- “I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister,” black leaders at an Atlantic Yards forum last Vision for Downtown Brooklyn” pamphlet — Destroy Brooklyn. ea in bloom. By the time it gets to the third round — when world hot dog- THE BROOKLYN But at 8:30 most Tuesday nights, the Prayerland Brooklyn complex — vast in size and function. Given that it’s a world unto itself, it’s not surprising that members from its upcoming T current rhubarb and, as such, says it is Although the city spent $56 million to build the new save these button-nosed darlings, Coney Island postcards, a Fiji Carey — who was elected as a / Dana Rubinstein Brooklyn. centered” people like himself. and the more-subtle “Wander in the People that we know Manhattan 1,099 The Queen Mary 2 christened the new cruise cruise ship terminal at Red Hook’s Pier 12, very little dollars for the groom. They say, “Hey there” week at First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn which not only featured her photo, but even “And one thing is for sure,” she added, “I’ll Neither Foster nor her neighbors have any only 12 residential blocks are left in the game eating cham- By Gersh trendy crowd is replaced by a motley crew Brooklyn has long been known as “the bor- Think of anything one might need in modern society — the building feels like another country — the Midwest. endorsement vote — even though his “job” to find new members. the city’s Center for Animal Care mermaid skeleton and a closet Democrat but severed his party “We need to remember what we love “I tell people: get informed about the Summer Wind,” a classic Zanes yarn Chase backs out Kuntzman — the contest is a near-brawl (a good-natured ship terminal in Red Hook last week, drawing has been spent on keeping passengers like The couple had been set to And “How’ve you Heights. featured a deceptive rendering of the sprawling never do stock photo shoots again.” idea who uprooted and carted away so many of pion Takeru ANGLE of the religious and the a-religious, drawn ough of churches,” but the nickname actually lawyers, dentists, engineers, architects, painters, plumbers, People are friendly. They greet each other with a smile and they all signed up on time. “I know I brought in nine people,” he and Control has lowered adoption full of zoot suits, has a pre-nup!). registration several years after leav- about Brooklyn and stop this.” entire project and then make up your that celebrates the serendipity of just been?” brawl, of course). The Bronx 991 plenty of oohs and ahhs from onlookers, lots of Koutouduian in Brooklyn. wed in Cyprus in February, but A centerpiece of Ratner’s project is a bas- their prize-winning possessions, but they don’t Kobayashi together by curiosity and, of course, beer. goes back to the days when Brooklyn was its electricians, a gym, swimming pool, pharmacy, cafeteria, a hello. Their gentle voices are marked with inflections The board of Independent Neighbor- said. “And I know they joined on time. prices to $30 per kitten ($45 for Then, the bride’s niece couldn’t ing office — endorsed Spitzer in Across nearly a decade and on his eight mind,” he said. “Atlantic Yards is every- taking a walk in a low-rise borough Good, good, good With so many aggressive competitors vying — by setting a new American record just two immigration officials blocked Collection of Dick Zigun ketball arena for his Brooklyn-bound New By Ariella Cohen suspect their competitors. own city. With real estate values soaring and Reform-minded clubs should stick to the platitude-filled speeches from politicians and Cunard, which operates the 23-story boat, did little be found, even though she had just The rabbi — British-born, 28-year-old laundry facility. You name it, they’ve got it. from outside the tri-state area. hood Democrats voted in secret to two). The fee includes spaying, Mukoro’s passage from Nigeria. the 2006 election, but the press best-selling albums, the former Del Fue- thing Brooklyn is not. Check Bruce Rat- (see sidebar). Arthur Elgort The Brooklyn Papers The race to be the most beautiful block can for top seed, a green thumb — attached to a months before the annual July 4 contest at Nathan’s churches being converted into luxury housing Brooklyn 2,873 one unanswered question from skeptics, to encourage the Queen’s passengers to remain in Coney Island’s head freak Dick Zigun smootches his Nigerian Jersey Nets. EXCLUSIVE Tali Frankel of the Chabad of Brownstone In fact, 117 Adams Street, where the Witnesses used to The carpeted Watchtower lobby, lit with recessed light- move up its long-scheduled May 18 en- rules.” Bones on the subway called from the lobby. Turns out, conference rambled over four Papers The Brooklyn strong hand like Foster’s — is necessary. And in Coney Island. / Tom Callan / Tom neutering, vaccinations and one The French government “[He] has the audacity to talk about a bas- get ugly, they say, but not that ugly. Brooklyn — is the guy doing the pouring. faster than you can say the Lord’s Prayer, is the have their printing presses, now serves as laundry central ing, is tastefully dim. Rob the “official greeter,” stands be- dorsement vote so that the flood of Though independent in name, IND is “What’s in it for Brooklyn?” Kings. The company’s Web site, for example, refers to bride, Princess Pat Mukoro, after last week’s wedding in Ghana. she was at La Palm Royal Beach decades of history. Chase bank has pulled out of deal to “This is the greatest thing to happen in the histo- Queeens 1,760 free vet visit. The CACC Brooklyn blocked a subsequent effort to In Park Slope on Wednesday, former governor Hugh Carey (left) ketball stadium, like black people would be “We’ve had fierce competition in the past, like any good general, she marshals her forces. nickname still true? Hallellujah, it is, as this for the whole Brooklyn operation. hind a long counter. Kitschy biblical scenes painted by members — supporters of congression- affiliated with Assemblywoman Joan More than 2,000 luxury cruisers spewed forth from its new port of call as “New York, New York.” hotel — but the one in Togo, not Spitzer and Carey chatted in open a branch in a converted DUMBO nity,” said a former resident of 247 Water St., ry of American sports,” said Richard Shea, presi- Easily mistaken — and he has been — chart shows: center (2336 Linden Blvd. in East get married in the supposedly ro- endorsed Eliot Spitzer for his old job in Albany. impressed,” said Bob Law, a radio commen- and no one’s ever done that,” said Vera Toney, “You are looking good,” she told one of her al candidate Chris Owens and others Millman (D-Park Slope) and state Sen. of the world’s largest passenger liner on Saturday into “See the bright lights of the Big Apple,” it reads. Ghana. (A simple 16-hour round- front of the same stoop on St. industrial building owned by the same a DUMBO loft building. “Then, he evicted dent of the International Federation of Competitive for a member of ZZ Top, Tali (as he prefers — Source: New York City Department of Buildings “You have 2,500 hundred people. That’s a lot of dirty Witnesses decorate the walls. The place feels like the ille- mantic city of Paris. And even have been far worse. Zigun’s carny pals — the Great tator, Prospect Heights restaurateur and for- who lives across the street from Foster. neighbors during one of her regular inspections Staten Island 334 Martin Connor (D-Brooklyn Heights). the Red Hook sun and then promptly got on buses to “Some come just for the shopping: there’s Blooming- New York) is open every day from trip drive by the bride’s brother developer whose Greenpoint warehouse Eating, the governing body of all stomach-centered to be called) believes that the best way to laundry to clean each week,” said Bryce Hemmelgarn, a See WITNESSES on page 3 from the anti-Atlantic Yards group, De- the Brits weren’t helpful with Zi- “By African tradition, I should Fredini, Insectavora, Helen Mel- John’s Place where Carey and mer Black Panther. “Like hoops is something us two days before Christmas [2004].” Local cops agree — but aren’t 100 percent on the block. When the flood of new members Manhattan or the airport. dale’s on Lex, Tiffany’s on Fifth, Barneys and the unique 12 to 7 pm. For information, visit solved that problem.) added, triggering another history handful of reporters squeezed into burnt down last week in a suspicious fire. A suspicious blaze later gutted that build- sports. velop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn — gun’s plans to marry in Black- have purchased a present for on, the Kerosene Queen, and the then-Sen. Robert Kennedy fought THE BROOKLYN we would really need. sure given what’s at stake. “This should be on target shortly,” said Fos- would not be eligible to pick candidates rolled in, Millman and executive board Papers The Brooklyn “This is a very nice terminal, but Brooklyn means boutiques along Madison. Or head downtown and ex- www.nycacc.org or call (212) 788- pool (their Coney Island). Pat’s relatives and paid for three other “wonders of human curiosi- But at last, the couple was in 1966 for the restoration of neigh- lesson, this one about Fort Greene an elevator for an awkward ride to Negotiations to open a branch at 68 Jay St. ing. The fire’s cause was never officially de- “Sometimes young kids have nothing better ter, surveying the yard of an abandoned house “Chestnut’s accomplishment may change the Chairman Kenn Lowy dove into the surf, Park and the Revolutionary War. the third floor. “We are really not going to sit quietly and course of a nation.” for the club to endorse. See QUEEN on page 3 Najiyyah Ali wed. Now all that remains is a termined, but Guttman’s insurer, Alea North A bag-piper plays for the Queen in Red Hook. nothing to me,” said Hoanes Koutouduian, a visitor 4000. — Dana Rubinstein Fortunately, Ghana provided a cows to be slaughtered,” he ty” — said Zigun’s relentless pur- borhood brownstones. By Gersh allow you to disrespect us and denigrate us ended abruptly on Friday — just hours after to do than destroy things,” said Sgt. Denis whose garden is cared for by a neighbor. The board’s April 6 vote set off a sources said. safe haven. wrote from Ghana. “Cows are suit of Mukoro was inspirational. few months of immigration red “It’s about time we had a man of Then both men hopped into Carey shuffled comfortably and Kuntzman Ratner’s glossy fantasyland the Greenpoint blaze had been linked to four America, refused to pay for damages on the Burke of the 67th Precinct. “It’s probably noth- “These are some folks who just moved in,” At the very least, the masterful mastication last ANGLE … [This] rings with a kind of contempt for week in Las Vegas earned Chestnut a plate at the D round of charges that the board didn’t “Joan and Kenn were looking over the Despite the circuitous route to not cheap! So even with paying “I tend to have a cynical heart tape and Mukoro will take her vision and leadership,” said Carey, Spitzer’s waiting limo for the two- proudly down the hallway of the other deliberately set fires on properties grounds that Guttman’s claim was fraudulent. ing personal against Mrs. Foster. But she does said Foster, eyeing an unkempt front lawn. “We N poor people and black people.” table of champions on July 4. E want Owens to “steal” the endorsement list and saying, ‘This is trouble,’” said nuptial bliss — and thousands of for two weddings (one unused in about marriage,” said Fred Kahl, rightful place at Zigun’s side dapper in a gray suit and blue block journey to Helen Owen Ca- center — named for his late wife — owned by the landlord, Joshua Guttman. The building remains vacant, its windows have very nice plants.” have to give them a chance to get themselves K State Development Corporation of- Law hammered all night on the race issue, Kobayashi has treated the contest as his own Bruce reamed over Yards ‘concession’ E for the 11th congressional district from one club member. dollars in lost deposits and airline Cyprus and this one in Ghana), I a.k.a. “The Great Fredini. “But (and, he said, in the Madame handkerchief. rey Day Care Center. and both men peeked in on some OU NEVER KNOW what Chase declined to comment on how the covered with unsightly plywood. Foster is a dainty woman with a gentle yet together. We are preparing a welcome package.”

E which has bubbled up at other forums, but personal buffet for the last five years, setting the / Jae C. Hong City Councilman David Yassky (D- The club was particularly threatened tickets — Zigun said it could suppose I am getting off easy!” Dick has been through so many Twisto case in the Sideshow). “We’re in a battleground,” he Once there, Carey, Spitzer, and a napping children. Some were star- you’re going to get in the fice? Nice brownstones, Bruce! ongoing investigation of the arson-afflicted Nearby, at 50 Bridge St., tenants are suing potent art of persuasion. That package will include a few not-so-subtle W Page 6: Ratner now says his was also the driving force behind the Com- all-time record of 53-1/2 hot dogs and buns S Brooklyn Heights) — and counter- by a flood of new members who might tled from their sleep by the intru- morning mail: a glossy cata- landlord affected the bank’s decision — but Guttman for ignoring building and safety She’s galvanized her neighbors to participate hints — a plant and a gardening book. I Y Too bad Atlantic Yards munity Benefits Agreement Ratner signed (“HDB” in competitive-eating circles) in 2004 and project will “provide approximately H charges that Owens and others were support Ken Diamondstone, a former OOKS sion. logue, a piece of political literature, the bank’s broker admitted it was a factor. codes when he converted the 19th-century in the Greenest Block contest for 10 of the con- And if they can’t get their act together, after a Ratner cuts mega-development by 5 percent; critics cry foul T / Craig Schwartz Traffic never being challenged. B Spitzer and Carey tried to charm 3,800 permanent jobs,” down from doesn’t include any of them. with eight minority groups. “packing” the club at the last minute. community board member who is chal- Sugar substitute … and spice some junk mail. “It’s never any one thing [that ends lease factory into luxury condos. test’s 12 years. few door-knocks and talking-tos, Foster and her But last year, he ate “only” 49 HDBs — and “[Ratner believes that] because you are BAM the sleepy children anyway, includ- a claim three years ago that 10,000 “These 100 people came in to pack lenging Connor, a founding member of Or, in the case of Bruce Ratner’s negotiations],” said broker Faith Hope Con- “We thought we were getting a good price “She’s the mover and shaker,” said Denese cohorts will take it to the next level. Associated Press Lice poor, you ought to accept any job you can some experts think that he’s peaked. By Ariella Cohen everyone was looking for.” Now, that Frank Gehry-designed The developer also widened Sixth our club and I’ll be damned if I’m go- the club. ing one tyke with corn-rows. latest mailing to thousands of Brook- new jobs would be “created.” solo. “Let’s just say [other spaces] are more on our apartment, but the problems were struc- Alexander, secretary of the block association. “If they aren’t able to [garden], we adopt (some things never change) get, like, ‘You poor little ignorant Negroes,’” “You know how this sport is,” said George Shea, Joey Chestnut shoves in the last of his record-setting 50 hot dogs last week in Las Vegas. The The Brooklyn Papers Most important among the changes pedestrian mall will be referred to as Avenue between Atlantic Avenue and ing to let ’em get away with it!” said “Think about how embarrassing it “I wish I could wear my hair lyn residents, a little bit of all three. Page 8: That smiling woman isn’t desirable right now.” tural,” said Darren Karp, a condo owner. “To Foster’s group didn’t compete last year be- their gardens,” she said. “We ask permission, of Seeing Red-grave Law said. executive director of the IFOCE. “An athlete can new American record is one dog more than five-time champion Takeru Kobayashi ate at the is Ratner’s decision to scrap the con- the “Urban Room.” Dean Street, a nod to traffic concerns, Buddy Scotto of Carroll Gardens, a would be if Connor lost IND’s endorse- Snubbed Sweet’N Low heir reveals all in new memoir Jail like that, but I don’t have enough The man who wants to build 17 smiling anymore. Actress T. Sahara Architect Frank Gehry unveiled tweaked renderings of his designs for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic The centerpiece of Gehry’s design is “Miss Brook- In DUMBO, Guttman owns at least a half- fix the problems, you’d have to tear down the cause the contest’s rules require first-place win- course.” remain at the top of this game for so long. I saw it Developer Bruce Ratner said dos — and trim the project by 475,000 Another modification shrunk a pri- and pushed back the completion date Actress Lynn Redgrave stars in Oscar Wilde’s “The Impor- FREEDOM ROAD hair,” said the follicly challenged Meer (pictured at left), the woman This project is The Rev. Dennis Dillon of the Brooklyn Yards mega-development (above), which feature slightly thinned towers that still rise above the lyn,” a shimmering, 62-story skyscraper that, he famed July 4 contest last year at Nathan’s in Coney Island. founding member of the IND. ment,” the source said. “The club could- skyscrapers in between low-rise Fort dozen large warehouse properties, which he condos and reconstruct them again.” ners to take a one-year hiatus. Alexander has adopted one of her neighbor’s with [Frank “Hollywood”] Dellarosa. I saw it with last week that he would shave square feet. Beyond that, revisions ap- vate open space on the rooftop of the Spitzer. “And I love finger-paint- in the picture, told The Brooklyn Christian Center in Fort Greene joined Law for buildings around the arena by one “[Candidates] went out and rounded tance of Being Earnest” at the BAM Harvey Theatre, April n’t let that happen.” crazy aunt Gladys — but on one condition: that Cohen Greene and Prospect Heights sent out between famed Williamsburgh Bank Building (far left) and neighboring Fort Greene and Prospect Heights. says, was inspired by a “real Brooklyn bride.” rented as residences in the 1980s and ’90s. Karp was not surprised to hear that Chase The contest draws as many 250 residential lawns, after the block association pleaded with [Ed “The Maspeth Monster”] Krachie. And I saw it 450 condos from the most-recent pear largely cosmetic. arena from two acres to one, endan- By Gersh Kuntzman himself through law school, only to graduate on the eve ing,” added Carey. Angle that she posed for the photo in his opposition to Atlantic Yards — but Dil- who doubled Arai’s record in 2001 by eating 50 for see only our nation’s failures — the war in Iraq, year, from 2009 to 2010. up relatives and friends. That ain’t 18 through May 14. An interview with director Sir Peter Lowy agreed that a Connor loss would not tell Gladys that he spoke to Marvin. Cohen agreed, his latest flyer this week, painting At- Though such conversions were illegal, they had pulled out of the 68 Jay St. deal days af- blocks a year, according to the Ellen Kirby, di- the homeowner to care for his own garden. with [Hirofumi “The Tokyo Terror”] Nakajima. version of the Atlantic Yards For example, the developer re- gering an arena-top wildflower mead- The Brooklyn Papers of the Great Depression; how Eisenstadt eventually At another classroom, Carey re- because she was “between gigs” — Fort Greene lon focused on the type of permanent jobs the first time — have won all but once since 1997. stratospheric gasoline prices, a skyrocketing nation- But the 620-foot skyscraper across cricket.” Hall is in GO Brooklyn, page 7. See PACK’EM on page 3 opened a cafeteria that served hungry sailors at the Navy but then Marvin called Gladys and told her that he had Fresh support for RR protest lantic Yards as an urban utopia. did play a large role in transforming the once- ter the suspicious fire in Greenpoint. rector of Brooklyn GreenBridge, the communi- “He didn’t seem to care at all about the “Plus, it’s also increasingly difficult to motivate mega-development — but the named the flashy, glass-sided edifice ow shown in plans presented in No- galed the kids, all born in 1998, with only to find out that the photographer and Prospect Ratner says will be created at the arena. In 1999, a newcomer, Steve “Ralph” Keiner, al debt, poverty, homelessness. But George Shea the street from the “Urban Room” did- The story of the invention of Sweet’N Low is a Yard; how Eisenstadt, disgusted by open bowls of sugar at spoken to Cohen. So when Cohen showed up to inter- But it’s just a four-color fantasy. gritty neighborhood into its current and future “The guy is a complete criminal. No bank ty horticulture program of Brooklyn Botanic neighborhood, and after many efforts to get him for all the training and conditioning when you’ve that will connect the arena to the At- vember by the project’s landscape war stories about himself and RFK. sold the photo to Ratner. “That inno- And he was more circumspect in his rhet- won five times — not that I, personally, have ever beat Nakajima — an event so out-of-the-ordinary said he chooses to see a nation reborn by Chestnut’s project is still one million square n’t change at all — though it is no great tale of post-World War II America. It is a his- most diners, invented the sugar packet; how Eisenstadt got view Gladys, she was enraged at him for concealing By Ariella Cohen noring the real history of the site. The Brooklyn Papers Indeed, the flyer offers no render- Heights. Calling identity as a post-industrial Babylon. should rent from him,” he said. Garden that runs the contest. There is also a to garden himself, I asked him if we could adopt lantic terminal mass transit complex. architect Lauri Olin. After that, the dynamic duo cent day in the park [is] one of the oric. “He rented us really great lofts and let us Guttman and his lawyer declined repeated it,” said Alexander. “Of course, he’s okay with it. won anything even once,” Shea added. that it has come to be known in competitive-eating record-setting victory. feet larger than the plan he first See RATNER on page 18 tory of the national diet. It is a cautionary tale of screwed out of the millions that such an innovation should that he had spoken to Marvin — the very man who The Brooklyn Papers Moore says the city is better at ings of the 17 Frank Gehry-de- it “Downtown” business block category. unveiled to considerable opposi- political corruption. preserving history in white neighbor- Boerum Hill residents packed a jumped into Carey’s car for the signed, Vegas-style towers. Instead, most nightmarish experiences of my “The black community is not all about stay until we had built a really great commu- requests for comment. The judging is severe. He’s going to get free flowers and free labor. “But just ask Lance Armstrong. He could have circles as “the Burp.” “Certainly, we are demoralized as a nation right have brought him; how Eisenstadt turned saccharin, then a asked him not to mention their conversation! The destruction of a row of hous- City Council hearing Tuesday to two-block (uphill!) ride to the Park some low-paying jobs that will force us to kept winning the Tour de France, but he walked As a result of nearly a decade of Japanese domina- now,” he said. “But Chestnut’s achievement puts us tion in 2003. But mostly, it is an amazing Brooklyn story. hoods than in black neighborhoods. it showcases the very low-rise life: I have become Bruce Ratner’s is just an attempt Censored art students “We’re looking at overall citizen participation But in the end, it makes the block look better.” drug for diabetics, into the world’s first mass-produced fake “The classic no-win situation,” Cohen said. “But es near Fulton Mall would “contin- beg the city to sell the Brooklyn Café on Seventh Avenue, where poster girl,” said Meer, who has a live elsewhere anyway,” said Dillon, who away. Why? To be honest, I don’t know; he’s kinda tion at our national pastime on our national holiday, on the verge of a new era of national confidence. Ratner called his new plan a “con- Sweet’N Low is still made today where it was invented sweetener; and how his factory later became infiltrated by what are you going to do? It’s family.” “My analysis of 34 Underground Brooklyn that Ratner’s project to justify 17 — how many people seem to be involved, and See GREEN on page 15 ue a legacy” of losing valuable bits Railroad-related sites [shows] that al- House of Detention and build a they met with district leader Alan “Stop Eminent Domain Abuse” sign evoked the civil rights movement as a model tough to get on the phone, but you get the idea.” many Americans believe that the Mustard Yellow In- And if he wins, it will be front-page news. And cession to critics” — but those very in 1957 — in a low-slung, gray factory across from the the mob and linked to alleged campaign finance abuses of would overwhelm. Beetles are back in Brooklyn See SWEET on page 11 of black history, a member of the most all still survive in Brooklyn new pen elsewhere in the borough. Fleishman. in the window of her Prospect skyscrapers. for black opposition to Atlantic Yards. Kobayashi did not return repeated emails for ternational Belt will always be worn by a foreigner. when I say that, I, of course, mean in The Brooklyn critics were not mollified by a five- Brooklyn Navy Yard. From the outside, it looks no differ- former Sen. Al D’Amato. Deception is lurking everywhere city’s Landmarks Preservation Heights,” he wrote. But Corrections officials reasserted Spitzer ordered coffee, and (see my annotated Page One, far Heights home. “My only hope for re- “We believe, like Martin Luther King did, comments, but Chestnut — who is also the nation- Indeed, many Americans today look around and Papers.” percent cut in the bulk of the larger, Free parking for FCR crew ent than all the buildings where, decades ago, this bor- But Cohen also dives into gory details of the Commission charged last week. al grilled cheese (32-1/2 sandwiches in 10 min- E’S BAAAACK. She’s Gittleman, the USDA’s Asian beetle tions, make phone calls, but people Underground tunnels connect the their plan to reopen the House of D Carey had iced tea. Both were ex- that justice must roll down like waters and could find new home demption is to fight harder. So, ough hammered out its reputation: “Brooklyn makes, the wacky Eisenstadt-Cohen family that only a right), so read the mailing with care: most-recent version. baaaack. And their kids are authority, leading a team of four tree THE BROOKLYN only respond when we physically hit As reported recently in The wood-frame houses on Duffield after a $240-million renovation that ceedingly polite to the waitstaff. thanks, Bruce, for fueling my fire, righteousness like a mighty stream,” he said. utes), pork rib (5-1/2 pounds in 12 minutes), The Brooklyn Papers parking” during construction of the blog broke the story. “You’ll be seeing world takes.” member of it could know. For instance, one of Brooklyn Papers, preservationists Page 3: Atlantic Yards will “create “It’s a fraud,” said Atlantic Yards Botanic Garden Brooklyn will double the jail’s capacity, while waffle (148 ounces in 10 minutes), jalapeno / Kathryn Kirk baaack, too. Fortunately, so are saviors on Quincy Street in Bed-Stuy. By Gersh the block. People see us and realize Street. Historic records of the Under- Carey sweetened his tea with my anger, my ire, my hatred of you.” But there was another man of god in the By Ariella Cohen closed the very next morning after Works in the exhibition included Atlantic Yards project, according to a parking lot for about a decade.” H Those walls can’t talk, but, fortunately for us, writer have stepped up a two-year-old fight thousands of needed apartments, of- (118 in 10 minutes) and chicken wing (173 opponent Patti Hagan. “It’s like ‘Alice Eisenstadt’s daughters, Gladys, didn’t leave also adding retail to the ground floor. State officials will allow Forest City the unsung heroes of the United First stop, the backyard of Kuntzman it’s not a scam. They say, ‘Is this ground Railroad in Brooklyn show Splenda, but was quickly reminded Page 10: Ratner claims that his Wow! He made the arena house who defended the Ratner project The Brooklyn Papers Brooklyn Borough Parks Commis- the usual contemporary coterie of new documents released by the pro- The agreement stipulates that the ANGLE Rich Cohen can — and does. to save two Downtown Brooklyn fice space [and] local retail space.” wings in 30 minutes) champion — thinks in Wonderland.’ Ratner says it’s small- Ratner to use land along a two-block States Department of Agriculture — Dorothy Sherman, who happily al- free? Well why didn’t you call me Manhattanification Baby discrimination her house in Flatbush for 30 years — living in routes that may have included the Relocating the jail is not an option that the politically correct choice community benefits agreement was “Ratner’s always been fair, just, concerned sioner Julius Spiegel declared it video art and abstract installations ject’s lead agency, the Empire State area can be used for parking only until Even more fortunately for us, Cohen is not only a gift- homes where the city wants to build being considered, they said. Yes, apartments are needed, but if of- disappear! Only Ratner They courted controversy, Kobayashi should be scared. Banned er, but it’s actually bigger.” stretch of Atlantic Avenue for a mas- Petal pushers who are back on the streets in a vio- lows Gittleman’s team to inject her in the affected area,” Gittleman says, about my tree?’ ” an icebox of a room and ruling the empire with houses as way station between aboli- would have been Sweet’N Low, negotiated by eight local organiza- and compassionate to me,” said the Rev. Her- “inappropriate.” as well as a sculpture of a hand Borough Hall Borough ed journalist — his prior books include “Tough Jews: Fa- a parking lot, but they claim is a his- fice space is so badly needed, why are “I haven’t peaked yet,” Chestnut told The Some saw at least a little good sive above-ground parking lot. Development Corporation. the arena’s 3,800-car indoor lot — lent, block-by-block, house-to-house, 50-foot silver maple, planted by her “but not everyone lets us into his In most cases, the USDA did — nothing more than a phone, a fax machine and tionist churches and nearby Fulton Homeowners in the shadow of the which is made just a few miles could turn a 19,000-seat bert Daughtry of the House of the Lord Pen- they got it, and now they don’t He told the artists that some of holding a penis, and a painting of a Borough President Markowitz joins From April 8 to May 28, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden HE PASSOVER CELEBRATION — marked by Jews worldwide this week — thers, Sons and Gangster Dreams” and “The Avengers: A toric site where well-known 19th- Street, which served as a conduit for 11-story holding pen don’t know all the top floors along Fulton Street tions. But only two of them — Brooklyn Papers. “And I’ll be at the table on news. “It’s a start,” said Sam Cooper, Several of the company’s develop- “One little line gives Forest City the near the corner of Sixth and Atlantic tree-to-tree battle against the Asian father more than a half-century ago. backyard.” hoping to limit the beetles’ consump- conspiracy theories. Another of Eisenstadt’s away. ACORN and the New York State arena into a leafy meadow. tacostal Church in Boerum Hill. know what to do with it. the controversial works violated a man’s torso with an accompanying art on Bruce Ratner in Coney Island on celebrates its beloved collection of flowering cherry Jewish War Story” — but he is also the son of Ellen Co- century abolitionists lived and har- slaves traveling to the Fulton Ferry who to blame for their property-val- being prepped for residential conver- July 4th having eaten more than he ate last year.” a spokesman for Assemblywoman ment parcels east of the proposed Nets ability to park cars wherever there is- avenues — is complete in 2016. longhorned beetle. “It’s a member of the family,” says Almost on cue, a woman at the tion to just a few areas and prevent a features a recitation of the 10 plagues visited upon the ancient Egyptians offspring, Ira, lives on the Upper West Side Carey and Spitzer discussed the sions? And if Brooklyn is so desperate Association of Minority Contractors “He’s one of the more liberal, progressive A group of student artists who six-year-old verbal agreement he narrative about a homosexual entrees with “Hanami.” For more about the Japanese- hen, the daughter of Sweet’N Low’s inventor, Ben Eisen- bored slaves on their way to freedom. docks and then to Canada. ue-draining neighbor — city offi- (It’s actually a private Last year, Chestnut ate 32 — very impres- Joan Millman (D-Brooklyn Heights). Tuesday to promote Ratner’s up- arena, between Sixth and Vanderbilt n’t construction,” said architect Jon- Forest City Ratner did not return Violent? Sure. When you’re dealing Sherman (“like the tank,” she adds next house refuses to allow the crew recurrence of what happened in Tas punishment for enslaving the Israelites. Inspired by the story, read every with a few dozen cats. And the lawyer who 11th congressional district race (off for more retail space, why does Rat- — existed before the deal was inked, developers in the country.” were kicked out of a city-run has with the college to use the war counter involving a man named stadt. In a letter to the consulting team As a centerpiece of the Downtown cials, or the real-estate brokers who sive for a rookie, but not enough to challenge “But [the reduction] is not quite what coming volleyball tournament. avenues, can be used for “interim athan Cohn, whose Brooklynviews calls for comment. — Ariella Cohen themed events, see GO Brooklyn on page 9. when asked how it’s spelled). Greenpoint, when the under-arbored the record, of course). Occasionally, gallery because their works were memorial for art shows. Dick Cheney. the run with an implacable foe who has killed in, even though the USDA has a fixed Betty’s will did not know she was not hired by the city to evaluate the site’s sold them their million-dollar digs ner’s Atlantic Center Mall fill out its as the New York Observer has re- roof garden.) Daughtry argued that Ratner’s project 2,200 trees since landing in Greenpoint While the pesticide drains into the neighborhood lost 900 trees in the year from the Passover Seder’s Haggadah, The Brooklyn Papers asked renowned Her mom, Betty, later wrote a will that disinherited Brooklyn redevelopment plan ap- a Brooklynite stopped by the table “inappropriate” haven’t decided Spiegel refused repeated re- World War II veterans hailed Kobayashi. signed release from her daughter. Ellen “and her issue.” (By “issue,” grandma meant Cohen “of sound mind” when she disinherited “Ellen history, Christopher Moore urged the proved two years ago, the city would without mentioning the city's plan. tenant list with a DMV and an Empire ported. See BLACKS on page 14 Like many eaters in the highly superstitious Fans of art — and con-

in 1996, you can’t be afraid to pump roots, the team inspects the tree with beetles’ first assault. graphic artist Roxanna Velandria, of Park Slope, to create a modern set of / Julie Rosenberg to wish Spitzer luck or give regards whether to accept a DUMBO de- quests for comment from The Spiegel’s decision to lock out the Gittlemen’s team reschedules the and his two siblings.) and her issue.” city to keep the houses intact. seize the property using the power of “No one really told me it would competitive-eating world, Chestnut refused to troversy — flocked to some defenseless street tree binoculars. Gittleman thinks he’s spot- appointment. Now, with crews working six days plagues, suitable for 21st-century Brooklyn. All your favorite pet-peeves about “I knew all the stuff that had been reported “Nearly all [Underground Rail- reopen,” said Brad Andrews, who to Carey. veloper’s offer to host the show in Brooklyn Papers — but his boss, student artist. DUMBO Wednesday night “All they have left me is this story,” Cohen writes in / Julie Rosenberg eminent domain and redevelop it into reveal the secret of his newfound success. with eight cups of pesticide. ted the perfectly round holes that the Seconds later, though, a a week, Gittleman hopes they’ll hit before, but the family stuff was even weirder road sites] … where most of the a parkland-topped underground ga- bought a condo last spring in the lux- One constituent wanted to feel P6 one of his posh buildings. city Parks Commissioner Adrian “[Spiegel] would not want to our Kingly lives are here — from the traffic we endure to the lice our schoolchild- Callan / Tom “Let’s just put it this way: Since last year, I for the opening of “Plan And you can’t be too timid to not beetles chew on their way out of an in- all 22,000 elms, planes, maples, the introduction to “Sweet and Low” (Farrar, Straus and Spitzer out on area real-estate de- “We are going to be careful Benepe, stood by him, saying that disgrace the memories of sailors homeowner from down the and even more painful,” Cohen told The African-Americans resided have rage for a Willoughby Square hotel. ury building at 53 Boerum Pl. — and Callan / Tom / Gersh Kuntzman spent a lot of time on the circuit, training and B,” the Brooklyn College $ knock on every door in Greenpoint, fested tree, so he orders a team of horsechestnuts and other tooth- ren pick up to the chicken bones that we find underneath the subway seat we Giroux), his memoir of how the world’s most-famous ar- velopment, including the contro- about where we put our work and two “obscene” works violated the and marines killed in World War block strolls over and begs the tificial sweetener saved plenty of teeth, but rotted his fam- Brooklyn Papers this week, days after the pub- been destroyed,” Moore, research co- “All we're saying is, 'What's the can see straight into the jail’s cells REAL ESTATE getting better,” he said. “Like any athlete, com- student art show that had Williamsburg, Bedford-Stuyvesant, climbers to return for a face-to-branch team to inspect his tree. some trunks favored by didn’t get. Our Passover coverage also includes news of a radical (and raucous) ordinator at the Schomburg Center from his bedroom window. versial Atlantic Yards mega-proj- In search of BROOKLYN how we portray our story,” said agreement that all work shown II,” said veteran Roy Vanasco, 80. Save 300 on this couch lication of his book. “Why was my mom dis- rush?'” said Bill Batson, a Democratic Papers The Brooklyn BURY THE petitive eaters get stronger. This is a physical ily to the core. been kicked out of a Parks inspection. the Asian long- ect. Spitzer responded judiciously, HOME Marni Kotak, one of 18 Masters of must be “suitable for children and But the vets stood apart from / Gersh Kuntzman East New York and Ridge- Gittleman and company are Haggadah written by opponents of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-develop- “To be disinherited is to be set free!” inherited? It’s insane.” for Black Culture, wrote in an April candidate for state Assembly. “Why is He doesn’t fault the broker who P16 sport, of course, but it’s also a mental one. –––––––––––––––––– See our ad on page 7 ––––––––––––––– wood — all neighborhoods Sherman again wel- pleased to oblige. horned beetle. Papers The Brooklyn 15 letter to the consultant, AKRF. there such a rush to judgment on sold him the condo — but he's not saying only one thing of substance SERVICES SMART Fine Arts candidates at Brooklyn families.” many of their fellow New Yorkers, Department building earli- Cohen certainly lives up to that promise. His book cov- How insane is this family? When Cohen in- Heath and GOWANUS! ‘Full’ is just a feeling, like being tired. The trick ment (see page 4). So join us as we lift a glass or two (or four!) of Manischewitz Papers The Brooklyn er in the month for alleged that have been affected by comes the attention. “That kind of thing hap- “Luckily,” he ‘SWEET’ MEMORIES: The cover of Rich Cohen’s book “Sweet and “Destroying the houses on things that affect Brooklynites?” pleased, either. within earshot: “People are desper- DELIVERED College featured in “Plan B,” an “If [the works were] on a hand- who challenged the borough com- is to suppress it.

ers the growth of this famous Brooklyn product, recount- terviewed his uncle Marvin for the book, Mar- IN EXILE: Rich Cohen, author of “Sweet and Low,” in Man- Papers The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn the winged, Far Eastern Other Brooklynites are said, “there are a lot Duffield Street would certainly con- But the city said no decisions have ‘Earth’ angels “She never said that it would re- ate to live here, but can’t afford it.” THROUGHOUT art show that opened last Wednes- ball court, we would’ve painted missioner’s right to single-handed- indiscretions. The show will pens a lot,” he said lat- and toast the holiday season. L’chaim! — Gersh Kuntzman Low” features caricatures of his dysfunctional family. ing how an orphaned Eisenstadt raised himself and put vin told him that he could also interview his hattan last week. BRIEFS SEE PAGE 15 A detail from the plantings on East 25th Street between Clarendon Road and Avenue D, “I set a goal and forced my body to accept it.” scourge. not so inviting. er. “We put out flyers, of trees they don’t eat. tinue that legacy,” said Moore, who been made yet, despite Moore and Environmentally sensitive tykes help out at the Park Slope Civic Council Earth Day event at Old open, but she never said it wouldn’t,” Carey munched on his tuna sal- Michelle Parks workers remove pieces from the war day night in the World War II over [them] as a matter of prac- ly determine what is appropriate A building at 68 Jay St. where Chase bank planned to open a branch, but will now which is a favorite to win the “Greenest Block” contest. Japanese eaters — first Nakajima, then Kazu- run through June 16 at 70 The other day found Joe “We’d like to get all 22,000 trees send out notifica- Yet.” claimed in 2004 that the city was ig- Batson's suggestions to the contrary. Stone House, Fifth Avenue at Third Street, also sponsored by the Friends of J.J. Byrne Park. he said. — Ariella Cohen ad platter. BROWNSTONE BROOKLYN memorial art show in Cadman Plaza Park. Memorial in Cadman Plaza — and tice,” he said. See CENSOR on page 7 not because of a shady DUMBO developer linked to the recent fire in Greenpoint. EMPLOYMENT mom toyo “The Rabbit” Arai, and finally Kobayashi, Papers The Brooklyn Washington St. PHOTO CREDITS — At top of page, “Letter” photos by Tom Callan, Julie Rosenberg, Callan, Liz Cooper, Rachel B. Schwartz, Callan, Greg Mango, Nicole Caldwell, and Callan. “Faith” photos by Callan, Schwartz, Callan, Mango, and Sarah Kramer.

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Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 20 pages •Vol.29, No. 27 DTZ •Saturday, July 15, 2006 • FREE The Brooklyn Papers “disingenuous.” public land to private developers. biography of Nobel Prize recipi- the book. is suing the state over the financ- By Gersh Kuntzman Senator Hillary Clinton cri- “It’s not luxury housing we “Public land should be public ent Wangari Maathai, a long-time Opponents of the state “park” ing scheme. By Dana Rubinstein Atlantic Yards IT’S NOT need,” she added. “We absolutely land,” she said. green crusader in Kenya. plan applauded Clinton for speak- The Brooklyn Bridge Park De- and Ariella Cohen ANALYSIS The Brooklyn Papers ‘does not work’ ticized Brooklyn Bridge Park need affordable housing.” The senator’s summer reading “One of her great accomplish- ing out. “We are extremely heart- velopment Corporation, the agen- The Brooklyn Papers ROOM$ WITH A VIEW Bruce Ratner has been as “yet another luxury condo The project site spans the may have prompted her to speak ments was stopping luxury hous- ened by her remark,” said Judi cy overseeing the development, accused of many things, but project” — and in doing so, be- Brooklyn Heights and DUMBO out on the thorny issue. She’s just ing in Uhuru Park in Nairobi,” Francis, president of the Brooklyn refused to comment. City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke to energize his father’s base — but the P came the highest-profile elect- now he’s being accused of AGE 16 waterfronts, from Atlantic Av- trounced Councilman David Yas- problem is, there wasn’t any. African- FORZA ed official to speak out against WORST enue to the Manhattan Bridge. sky and two other rivals on Tuesday stealing the sun from the sky. FORZA PAYING OFF RATNER American power in the 11th District is the housing, commercial and $2.4M in $3M in old According to a new analysis The first housing is planned to win a promotion to Congress in slowly being supplanted by Caribbean- by a Pratt Institute professor open-space development that’s for the foot of Atlantic Av- an often-bitter campaign that ex- American voters. and two students, shadows being promoted as a park. enue; in addition, the massive As developer slims project, posed rifts between Brooklyn’s Af- “I was planning to create a base in APARK! ON THE CHEAP Leaders of the Empire State industrial building on Furman from the developer’s Atlantic ITALIA! rican-American, Caribbean-Ameri- Brownsville for Chris, but the move- DUMBO Yards mega-project would Development Corporation — the Street, between Joralemon can and white communities. ment wasn’t as strong as it once was,” bank building START Hotel driveway in greenspace state agency that owns the “park” Street and Atlantic Avenue, darken a wide swath of Brook- Bensonhurst’s 18th Avenue It was a race that the white Yassky Major Owens admitted on primary night. / Dana Rubinstein has been transferred from city By Gersh Kuntzman lyn from Prospect Heights to site — have insisted that the proj- had hoped to win by While the 11th Dis- By Ariella Cohen Supreme Court last week that the John erupted in jubilation after ect be self-sustaining. As a result, to “park” property, allowing public bill is likely to soar The Brooklyn Papers Downtown — including a facing three black can- trict was created for The Brooklyn Papers Street hotel — and other buildings with- Throngs seek out Bruce’s Italy’s stunning World Cup win they plan to construct luxury its owner to expand the build- How much would you pay to see this strip in Fort Greene that won in the “park” footprint — shouldn’t be didates who would 11th Congressional District African-Americans, its the “Greenest Block in Brook- Supporters of a park along the housing as a precursor to recre- ing and convert it to residen- Caribbean-American view out your window? Too late: Some- considered a part of the publicly funded on Sunday. See page 2. By Ariella Cohen supposedly split the Yvette Clarke 31.2% lyn” contest in 2002. Brooklyn waterfront this week ational development. tial use while skirting city re- “black vote.” Fear of a population is now dom- one already paid $2.4 million for it. EVER! “park” at all. Papers The Brooklyn “If parks had to be self-sus- view. The Brooklyn Papers At its worst — at 9 am on blasted the state’s proposed com- Empire State Development Corpora- Yassky victory in the David Yassky 26.2% inant. That was the price paid for the 1,300- Dec. 21 — the shadow from Sen. Hillary Clinton at the Sunset Park Se- taining, would anyone have ever Clinton echoed the pro- mercial, residential and greenspace tion lawyer David Paget argued that re- If Atlantic Yards shrinks, the majority-black 11th “Now the racial ‘di- square-foot penthouse apartment atop the the 62-story “Miss Brooklyn” low-rent Yards apartments nior Center on Wednesday. built a park?” Clinton asked. ject’s opponents, questioning Carl Andrews 22.9% vide’ in the district is Beacon Tower condominium in DUMBO. development known as Brooklyn gardless of their joint use of the name public will pay more. District caused many building, proposed for the cor- Chris Owens 19.6% African-American, Ca- You can get that much space, albeit with a Bridge Park after new renderings “Brooklyn Bridge Park” — and shared Forest City Ratner brass said this black leaders to call Yanks crush ner of Atlantic and Flatbush av- / Joshua Janke By Ariella Cohen nomic empowerment.” week they plan to tweak the mammoth for two black candi- ribbean-Americans and showed a hotel driveway inside geography along the Brooklyn waterfront lesser view, for under $1.4 million in Park enues, would extend all the EDITORIAL P4 whites,” said a Demo- Slope and $900,000 in some other Brown- one entrance. — the “development” and the “parkland” The Brooklyn Papers Forest City Ratner officials said $4.2-billion mega-development by dates to drop out so way to Fulton and Gold streets. their communities could be united cratic strategist. “And Caribbeans run the stone Brooklyn neighborhoods. Under the current state proposal, the are distinct entities. 225 apartments will be reserved for eliminating a few hundred luxury ap- “Shadows from September More than 2,000 New Yorkers lined up fy for the housing if their earnings against Yassky. show now.” “DUMBO is the new Tribeca,” gushed so-called Brooklyn Bridge Park will in- “They are not the same thing,” he families of four that earn between artments and reducing the height of the Clones 18-0 to March will be severe,” said this week hoping for a shot at a cheap rent- didn’t fit into any of the develop- $21,270 and $28,360. Most of 620-foot “Miss Brooklyn” tower — But a unified front was ultimately not Debra Greco, the building’s real-estate told Justice Lawrence Knipel at the first • Is there such a thing as the “white Brent Porter, the Pratt profes- clude more and more private develop- al within Bruce Ratner’s proposed $3.5-bil- ment’s income-dependent pro- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn units will go to families that earn but the cost will be additional public necessary. Clarke got 31.2 percent of

manager. All but 14 of the 79 condos had ment within its Brooklyn Heights and hearing in the landmark case. Callan / Tom vote”? sor. “Once those buildings go lion Atlantic Yards development — but many grams. above $42,540. the vote to Yassky’s 26.2 percent On hot night, public subsidies for the 2,250 units of below- Callan / Tom been sold on the eve of Monday’s “top- By Vince DiMiceli DUMBO footprint, opponents charge. Park opponents weren’t impressed by If Yassky was going to win, he needed up, the shadowing will be for- left the developer’s affordable housing pre- Even one of the project’s FCR Vice President Jim Stuck- (14,946 to 12,570). State Sen. Carl An- ping off” ceremony. The Brooklyn Papers AT Paget’s linguistic legerdemain. market-rate rentals that Ratner’s prom- / Becky Holladay THRE ever.” “The planners are catering to income- biggest boosters — Bertha Lewis, to rack up votes in the white portion of PLE- E sentation disappointed by the harsher reality. ey conceded that the audience ised to include in the plan. drews (D-Crown Heights) got 22.9 per- The Beacon Tower, at 85 Adams St., is The Brooklyn Cyclones sixth home TRI AG The Christina Porter Memorial Lighting Lab, Pratt Institute; Roman Strazhko Architect; Porter, Brent Prof. producing venues and now land that “It’s all a little glib,” said Jo Anne Si- Mermaids ascend on Coney Island the sprawling district. But two things got ER Porter said he and his stu- executive director of New York one of several DUMBO buildings devel- COV mon, a Downtown lawyer and Democrat- “I’m not sure what kind of chance I have to get was less-than-enthusiastic about Real-estate executives were not sur- cent (10,983) and Chris Owens, the opener was over before it started. dents — Roman Strazhko and A Pratt Institute study produced this rendering of winter shadows that would be was supposed to be park is becoming Of course Saturday’s wet weather didn’t dampen the spirits of hundreds of mermaids who showed up for their annual parade in Coney Island. The march down ACORN — didn’t paint a pretty congressman’s son, got 19 percent in the way of that plan: Chris Owens and oped by Shaya Boymelgreen. service areas for the development,” said ic district leader. “The fact is, the buildings one of their nice apartments,” said Canarsie resi- the salary figures, but said after- prised. Well, actually, it was over the minute Samantha Sommers — do not Surf Avenue and the Boardwalk featured the usual suspects of bare-chested sea goddesses and the landlubbers who adore them. picture. Papers The Brooklyn white guilt. Condo buyers will enjoyed a healthy cast on Fort Greene if Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards is built. The existing Williams- dent Jennifer Haynes, a retiree who left Tuesday wards that the numbers wouldn’t “If a part of their profit is gone [by (9,403). Kyle Larsen — the Staten Island Yankees DUMBO resident Lucy Wilner, follow- are part of the park because they are on vents about A’Yards Papers The Brooklyn “We’re not going to blow smoke Early on, Owens staked out a posi- city subsidy in the form of the 421-a tax See SHADOWS on page 16 burgh Savings Bank building is the thin tower at the far left. night’s presentation at the Brooklyn Marriott be- change. eliminating some of the project], they How did she do it? Why did Yassky power-hitting first baseman — stepped up ing a public meeting with project plan- land that was supposed to be park.” Papers The Brooklyn fore it ended. in your faces,” explained Lewis, “We can’t revise based on a few The Brooklyn Papers review of Atlantic Yards during the CB2, said the hearing was disap- have to come up with a way to make the lose? When you break it down, it all tion to the left of Yassky, making him Yvette Clarke won the Democratic primary for the seat being vacated by

abatement. Greenhood / Aaron ICELI ners last Thursday at Metrotech. Robert Chiara, the attorney for the pro- to the plate in the first inning and smashed DIM ZMAN whose group endorsed the project last Dogs swim at “Dog Beach” in Prospect Park’s Long Meadow, during off- makes sense: the clear alternative for liberals who T / Gary Thomas question,” he told The Brooklyn Papers. Rep. Major Owens. Former City Councilwoman Una Clarke, her mom, and Boymelgreen’s son, Zvi, said “the pro- KUN “They make a driveway for a hotel and ject’s opponents, argued that the state must Ratner billed the event as an “affordable hous- summer and left too little time — just pointing because the board is charged income back,” said Real Estate Board of Standing tall an 0-2 fastball into the Keyspan Park ARE Three community boards sur- leash hours on Monday. SPE year in exchange for the promise from / Becky Holladay SHAKE ing information meeting,” promoting it with full- “Maybe I will explain the answers to their 66 days — for public review. with seeking “technical” information New York President Steven Spinola. • Political endorsements mean no- See CLARKE on page 4 former state Comptroller Carl McCall, look on. gram gives developers a head start to build. bleachers, quieting an exuberant Opening 15 call it a park drop-off,” she fumed. divulge all agreements made between the rounding Bruce Ratner’s proposed As seen from Bay Ridge’s 69th Street pier, the famed Towers of Light reach to- / Dana Rubinstein GE Ratner that half the housing in the project questions better next time.” A lot of new construction would not happen EE PA Wilner’s complaint underscored the park planners and developers of the con- page newspaper ads and targeted postcard mail- The hearing started off with a pres- about the DEIS, rather than merely “Public subsidy is a way to do that.” wards the heavens from Ground Zero on Monday night to honor New York’s 9-11 thing. Union endorsements mean a lot. Night crowd and putting the Yanks up for S P8 would be affordable — a promise that has already The numbers are based on federal housing Atlantic Yards mega-develop- without the 421-a. Land is too expensive.” ongoing debate surrounding the 1.3- dos and commercial spaces within it. ings in neighborhoods far removed from the site entation by Forest City Ratner Vice compiling “general” complaints Estimates of public subsidies likely to All of the candidates touted big-name good 2-0 Tuesday. LETTERS been broken. guidelines, an FCR spokesman said later. ment held hastily scheduled, lit- victims and mourn the city’s fractured skyline. For now, Beacon Tower is the tallest “There may be deals with other devel- For Vito, fact-finding pays well of the 22-acre, 6,860-apartment, basketball arena President Jim Stuckey, making his about Atlantic Yards. flow Ratner’s way remain in the billion- endorsers — Andrews had gubernatori- mile-long project. And before the over-capacity crowd of 9,004 “It’s too early for an application and all that, but Papers The Brooklyn building in the neighborhood, towering and office space development, which the devel- The tremendous turnout Tuesday demonstrated tle-publicized and legally irrele- dollar-or-so range, yet city and state of- al frontrunner Eliot Spitzer and former The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Opponents — including the Sierra opers,” he said, according to court papers first of three stops on the night. Stuck- “With the very short timetable that could even finish their first round of Chef One fried oper says would include 2,250 units of low, mod- we want to hear about your needs,” she said. not only the strength of Ratner’s public relations vant public hearings last week to ficials have consistently claimed that the over the renovated warehouses and artists’ Club — have sued, claiming that it is il- obtained by The Brooklyn Papers. ey defended the 16-skyscraper, arena, the state’s given us for responding … Papers The Brooklyn mayor David Dinkins, for example — dumplings — the newest savory treats at the ball- Brooklyn Cyclones catcher Joan Martinez hangs his head during The standing-room-only crowd offered up an effort, but also the dire need for affordable hous- lofts that give the neighborhood its cachet. Papers The Brooklyn erate and middle-income rentals. give Brooklynites a chance to vent. public payoff to Ratner is small com- but Clarke had the backing of Service / Julie Rosenberg park — the Clones were down 10-0, thanks to a Tuesday night’s thrashing by the Staten Island Yankees. legal to put private development within Developers have sought to be included News: Ridge Rep. misused campaign cash — and Muppets! hotel, office space and 6,860-unit resi- people haven’t had a chance to re- But the Beacon Tower is like a latter- Attendees shared a common frustration over earful, including concerns about the ACORN-run ing in New York City. / Sara Vogel Little was said that wasn’t said be- pared to the project’s overall benefit. DOGS WIN! Employees International Union locals The clock tower of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank. seven-run second inning that was punctuated by a a public park. in the park zone because such projecs cir- dential project on the grounds that it view the tremendous amount of in- Here’s how lottery that would choose who gets one of the af- Tonics for sticky temps day Chrysler Building. While its work- But a state lawyer argued in Brooklyn cumvent local review and tax assessments. the lack of affordable options in the city. Those “People don’t leave Brooklyn for a better life, fore at the Aug. 3 hearings. would create jobs, affordable housing formation” in the DEIS, he said. Developer Bruce Ratner has said that 1199 and 32BJ, two unions that gave Tony Roth three-run dinger to left. By Dana Rubinstein from political consultants and corporate tiny in the wake of corruption scandals that fordable units, and the cost of rent. Ghosts of 9-11 Atlantic Yards must be big in order to men were enjoying the topping-off party, frustrations were not resolved on Tuesday. they leave because they can’t afford it,” Borough Community Boards 2 and 6, and tax revenue while not unduly af- — Rachel Monahan Ayse Telgeren pours the Kasatini, a blend of citrus soda, sparkling wine and fruit juice, at Zipi Zape in her hundreds of ground troops in the Thus began a horrible evening at ing up. Graffiti as sponsors for “fact-finding missions,” in- have rocked the national GOP, including “They are offering what is already out there,” A mural on the door of the firehouse on Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights — one of dozens of rembrances borough-wide cover his costs of renovating the MTA Off-leash hours survive builders a block away were adding more By Dana Rubinstein The Brooklyn Papers Some complained, for example, that they re- President Markowitz said at the event. which cover tony areas such as fecting the surrounding area. Williamsburg. For a roundup of more cool summer cocktails, see page 9. Low turnout at two weeks before the election. the sold-out seaside ballpark in The game ended, mercilessly, at cluding a $5,000 stay at Turnberry Isle Re- the fall of lobbyist Jack Abramoff and House The Brooklyn Papers ceived a survey rather than an application for an said Queens resident Rachel Giordiani. “They But many in the predominantly-black crowd Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope and Community Board 6 — serves as a memorial to the lives lost during the Sept. 11 attacks five years ago next Monday. For more about artists reflect- rail yards at Flatbush and Atlantic Av- The unions — which are said to have floors to the J, another luxury condo Coney Island, which has been host- close to 11 pm with the score 18-0 art at Bay Ridge’s four-term Republican After Stuckey, 29 area residents By Dana Rubinstein president of the Juniper Park Civic The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn sort near Miami, which he charged to a po- Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas). apartment. Others wondered if they would quali- aren’t talking about anything new to create eco- Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, ing on 9-11, see GO Brooklyn on page 12. See RATNER on page 2 more than 32,000 members within the building that will eventually rise 33 stories See RATNER on page 8 Papers The Brooklyn Fort Greene, heard almost universal People used to go to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank ing record crowds since it was — the worst loss in Cyclone history, Brooklyn congressman has been dipping into litical consultant’s credit card. Clear links between Abramoff and Fos- offered familiar reasons for opposing The Brooklyn Papers Association, the Queens group that opposition to the project. Community Red Hook, Cobble Hill 11th CD — strongly urged a vote for they finished — the Empire State Building in this ex- This is the $2.4-million view from the 1,300-square-foot penthouse of the Beacon Tower at 85 Adams St. in DUMBO. The 297-foot, 23-story tower an illustrious five years that have in- the project: its size and density; the sued to end the unofficial policy. building to have a tooth removed. Now, to get into the opened in 2001. Museum ICE BREAKER campaign funds to finance pleasure Fossella also failed to disclose a free sella were previously reported. Records Under fire from leash-law stick- Clarke and ran a massive “get-out-the- tended skyscraper metaphor. is the largest (so far) to go up in the rapidly developing neighborhood. It got worse the next night on cluded one championship, plenty of Board 8, which covers a much-less- traffic it would create; the supposed- Fireworks erupted at this other- “Someone will be attacked, and building, they’ll have to give up a right arm, too. PAGE 9 trips to exclusive resorts in Florida, roundtrip to Miami on the private jet of the show that Abramoff hosted a 2002 well-off area extending from Pros- lers, the city will enshrine in law a vote” effort on primary day. playoff drama and a dozen players Cyclones finally win a game! wise routine public hearing when a there will be an outcry.” Ratner hearing The Brooklyn Papers Staten Island, when the Cyclones ly undemocratic, state-run approval Residential condos in the famed tower — still the tallest Colorado, Nevada and California, late Richard Adeo, cited by federal author- fundraiser for Fossella at a Yankees/Ori- pect Heights to Brownsville, heard two-decade-old unofficial policy “Many of their members are nurses blew a five-run lead, allowing the sent to the majors. TRIPLE-THREAT coverage P15 ities as a Gambino crime family associate. oles game in Baltimore that raked in process; the public subsidies being representative of a Ratner-backed Yet Holden also feels vindicated building on Long Island — were officially put on the mar- according to published reports. more support. that has allowed Lassie, Rusty and or hospital workers who can really re- Tuesday’s Primary Election had it all for political junkies: A landslide Yankees to win, 8-7. But this week, the Yankees were He even sent out a taxpayer-funded $1,000 a ticket. Fossella has denied that handed to a private developer. church group slammed the CB 6 by the city’s sudden admission that it ket this week, as developer Magic Johnson hosted real-es- Rep. Vito Fossella violated federal law community for choosing to “ignore” Sparky to roam free in city parks. needs to formalize its “unofficial” of- By Ariella Cohen late to Yvette,” said one insider. “The win by Hakeem Jeffries (right, with Borough President Markowitz) for tate agents eager to see how the building — atop a cathe- But on Tuesday night, the Key- crowing. mailing in which it appeared that Muppets Abramoff was involved in the event. Community Board 2 Only two community members No electric irks Hurst The Brooklyn Papers / Julie Rosenberg The proposed rule change — which unions turned out the vote for her. She a Prospect Heights Assembly seat, a close contest between longtime span faithful, as ever, were undaunt- “This was a good start to the FIX YOUR HOME when he took $53,142 from his campaign Elmo and Rosita were endorsing him — a Steve Harrison, Fossella’s Democratic Brooklyn Heights, Boerum Hill, spoke in support of the project. Sur- the concerns of black people who ficial policy. dral-like space that was occupied by the former bank’s BROOKLYN would formally allow dogs to remain “We caught them,” said Holden. won some election districts in East Flat- Rep. Ed Towns (D-Fort Greene) and always-exciting City Councilman ed by the Yankee fusillade, sticking year,” said Larsen, a second-year Find a HOME IMPROVEMENT CONEY BARD’S P5 war chest to pay for fun-filled trips to the no-no in the public TV world (see photo). opponent in November’s election, said: DUMBO, Fort Greene rounded by four fellow supporters in support the project. By Dana Rubinstein One group of Atlantic Yards oppo- home office — has been transformed. Hoping for extra innings Welcome back to reality off-leash between 9 pm and 9 am in “They’re essentially admitting that bush almost unanimously.” Charles Barron (D-Canarsie), and even an Assembly race in Dyker around — and continuing to suck Yankee, who had an MVP-caliber P19 HOT DOG ODE Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas A Federal Election Commission spokes- takes have been made,” but attributed the “There seem to be some legs to [the CB 2’s meeting featured familiar hard hats and orange vests, both said Omar Wilks, who identified him- The Brooklyn Papers nents boycotted, and another group of “This will always be Brooklyn’s landmark building,” / Gary Thomas RATS! Health Dept. closes ‘Chuck’ specialist in CLASSIFIEDS most parks — is an end-run around [letting dog owners ignore leash laws • What happened to the “black Heights that wasn’t over when the sun came up on Wednesday (the two down the delectable potstickers — season for the NY-Penn League and the Lodge at Vail, according to the man would not confirm whether Fossella confusion to poor bookkeeping. charges], by virtue of the fact that he has ad- complaints against the project, plus a they supported the project because it self as speaking on behalf of the Rev. over-eager public speakers — elected said Borough President Markowitz, before giving Johnson SEE PAGE 2 Nostalgic for Old Brooklyn? Just take opponents of the off-leash hours, who between certain hours] is illegal.” vote”? candidates are separated by a mere 96 votes with scores to be counted). Rene Perez BRIEFS By Dana Rubinstein 10 with the state so thoughtfully releasing the a Brooklyn Dodgers cap and a cheesecake from Junior’s — long enough to see the Yanks tack champs last year. “It was good to see Daily News. is under investigation, saying “enforce- “Everything we’ve done has been con- mitted that he made some mistakes and has familiar new one: That the Empire would bring construction jobs. See MEETINGS on page 13 . Brooklyn bikes the D train to 8705 Bay Parkway in Ben- have sued the Parks Department on But the city contends that the un- officials — was otherwise detained, To win, Owens would have needed See page 2 for The Brooklyn Papers’ Decision 2006 coverage. By Gersh Kuntzman Approximately 60-70 mouse droppings big fan of Charles Edward Cheese. on three more runs in the third, the team come out strong. This was FIREWORKS The trips often included his wife and ment matters are confidential under law.” sistent with rules and regulations,” he said. had to amend 18 forms over the years, State Development Corporation re- and Rebecca Ballhaus Thousands of cyclists will bike Atlantic Yards draft environmental impact Papers The Brooklyn a gift that five out of five dentists would disapprove of. Couple ties the knot on field after Cyclones game Robert Perris, district manager of the grounds that the practice is illegal official policy — which has been in thanks to the Primary Election, so this on floor in electrical closet in kitchen.” “The noise is deafening, the food is thanks to slopping fielding and a fun game.” leased its 2,000-page environmental sonhurst, where tenants have been living The Brooklyn Papers Brooklyn as part of the NYC Centu- statement this summer, and then holding its The Brooklyn Papers At the zenith of the 512-foot Fort Greene landmark will be BROOKLYN CONEY ISLE two children, the News reported. If found guilty, Fossella would, at He did not return calls from The Brook- which seems to an awful lot.” and endangers human safety. week’s public hearing on the Atlantic In all, the restaurant and video- awful, and the place is only marginally Larsen’s second homer of the young But not some much fun for Cy- without proper electricity for two weeks. ry Bike Tour. There are five differ- lone “public hearing” a few weeks later, but place for more than two decades — a $3-million, 2,500-square-foot penthouse whose balcony of- Class of 2006 P6 In addition to the alleged misuse of cam- most, face a fine, the spokesman said. lyn Papers. “This hurts his chances for re-election — Nostalgic for summer already? Have The new rules would render moot PAGE 7 Chuck E. Cheese has a cute Papers The Brooklyn LOVES DICK Brooklyn’s Community Boards are officially is not only legal, but has balanced the Yards mega-development gave some game palace racked up 81 violations clean, but it can provide several hours of fers a commanding view of the borough and beyond. season. clones fans. At Pratt Institute, one graduate showed up ready for his first day on the BRING ON WAL-MART! paign funds, the congressman took $11,000 Fossella told the Daily News that “mis- Fossella has been under increased scru- he’s clearly out of touch with the people.” By Gersh Kuntzman his move (some Cyclone fans It’s a real nostalgia-killer. ent routes, and none includes Staten mouse for a mascot — and lots of The Cyclones made five errors on The only time the crowd came alive you already forgotten that summer is a back in business. See below for a schedule of a forthcoming ruling in the case, needs of a wide range of users. real people a chance to be heard. — and was shuttered rather hastily, bliss for the kids on a rainy day.” Only a handful of dentists remain in the tower, renamed Sandy the Seagull rides in to Keyspan Park job. See how college and high school students commemorated the first BRIEFS SEE PAGE 2 The Brooklyn Papers wish the hometown pitchers had “Obviously, 50, 60 years ago, it wouldn’t Island. If that isn’t incentive enough, lawyers working on the case say. dirty mice in the kitchen. the night — six if you count show- See OPENER on page 15 such a good move). be such a big deal,” said Bruce Lafroscia, mixed bag, filled with balmy evening every participant will get a com- their first full board meetings of the fall. “The policy is consistent with pub- It was a stark contrast to the first public customers said. The health department re-inspected One Hanson Place. Sources said a Borders bookstore is ne- with the “longest first pitch ever.” day of the rest of their lives, in our graduation special, pages 16-17. Dog owners’ groups are heartened The fast-food restaurant and arcade, “I went to order lunch, but the staff the restaurant this week and cleared it The bride wore white, the The groom’s brother said Fish- landlord of the 16-unit building. “But now, cocktails at Gowanus Yacht Club and mid- memorative organic cotton T-shirt. CB2: Sept. 13, YWCA (Third Avenue at Atlantic lic health concerns and appropriate hearing on the project, an Aug. 23 smack- Gaphattan builder: Stay small gotiating a lease for the ground floor. Avenue, 6 pm. (718) 596-5410. by the development, although they’re park use,” said Paula Van Meter, sen- housed on the third-floor of Bruce Rat- told me the kitchen was closed,” said to re-open. Johnson says he’ll move into one of the 189 luxury units groom wore a tux and the er was perfect for Kerpen. people are used to certain things, and it’s, like, afternoon brunches on Alma’s rooftop — www.nyccentury.org or (212) 629-8080. down that drew thousands, lasted until nearly guests of honor wore dirty uni- yet punctuated by heat waves, brownouts CB6: Sept. 13, St. Peter St. Paul Church (190 too cautious to start yelping for joy. ior counsel for the Law Department’s ner’s Atlantic Terminal Mall, was shut Park Slope mom Deborah Majerovitz, “We did have some violations, but in the building, a short walk from Bruce Ratner’s proposed “She’s the most-similar person their inalienable right.” 12. Court St., between Congress and Wyckoff streets), midnight and was populated by windy law- By Gersh Kuntzman Weighing in on the ongoing debate “Other builders can build tall, but that’s / Tom Callan / Tom Primary day “We’re not criminals, we’re not administrative law division. down last week by the city’s Department who was at the arcade with son, Benjy. we have corrected them,” said Brenda forms. to my brother I’ve ever met — ex- By “certain things,” Lafroscia means mod- and the smells wafting across the Narrows? 6:30 pm. (718) 643-3027. makers, loud union leaders and earnest com- arena for the Brooklyn-bound New Jersey Nets. At long last, voters in the 11th crazy,” said Mary McInerney, presi- The courtesy hours, which were The Brooklyn Papers over the “Manhattanization” of Brook- not for me. I build to Brooklyn scale.” of Health after inspectors found — oh, “This seemed weird because the Holloway, a spokeswoman for the Irv- Keyspan Park hosted its first cept that she’s a beautiful woman ern-day appliances like, you know, lamps. So bid summer goodbye with a touch of CB7: Sept. 20, Community Board Offices (4201 munity group officials while hundreds of reg- “I’ll be able to walk to a Nets game,” said the former Los Congressional District get a breather. dent of FIDO, a Prospect Park dog established by former Parks Com- Manhattan architect Richard Mei- lyn, Meier sided with starchitects who Meier was on hand at last Thursday’s the irony — mouse droppings through- salad bar and drinks were still open. I ing, Texas-based chain. “These viola- Angeles Lakers star, whose Canyon-Johnson Urban Funds As far as hot dogs go, this could be our year wedding on Saturday night — the and he’s not,” said Phil Kerpen. “The lights go off and on, up and down,” relief — especially since there’s so much to Fourth Ave., at 43rd Street), 6:30 pm. (718) 854-0003. ular citizens waited outside to testify on appreciate Brooklyn’s unique look and “topping off” party for his new 15-story Other hot races include the 57th As- owners group. “[Off-leash hours] of- out the kitchen. marriage of Dave Kerpen and Car- To pay for the wedding, the look forward to this fall: CB10: Sept. 19, Shore Hill Community Room missioner Henry Stern in the 1980s, er — famed for his iconic, celebrity- figured they were just giving them- tions are not common at our centers.” spent an undisclosed amount to renovate the $70-million he added. “We’re getting a fifth of [the elec- sembly District battle among Bill (9000 Shore Road, at 91st Street), 7:15 pm. (718) fer a legitimate form of recreation for exist in a legal penumbra. Bruce Ratner’s $4.2-billion, 16-tower, arena, character. building, the awkwardly — and inaccu- Make that a lot of mouse droppings. selves a break, so about a half-hour Holloway said the Atlantic Termi- B-CAT fight over kitty comedy rie Fisher — and despite the kitsch- couple shilled for some of their tricity] we should be getting.” filled glass-walled towers on West “Brooklyn has its own scale, a human rately — named “On Prospect Park.” building. 745-6827. hotel, office space and residential project.

SEPTEMBER Batson, Hakeem Jeffries and Freddie Greenhood / Aaron / Tom Callan / Tom HIS COULD BE the year ashi, on July 4 at Coney Island. an exclusive interview (“exclusive” Hot Dog,” and, more recently, “The downing all those hot dogs and all and spit, bun, bits of mystery meat 2. The fear factor: Kobayashi millions throughout the city.” The hours technically violate the “Approximately 30 mice droppings iness of the setting, the union of the sponsors, including appearing in a Papers The Brooklyn Street in Manhattan — celebrated his later, I went back. This time, the nal Chuck E. Cheese will receive While the well-heeled VIPs sipped martinis, a dozen mem- Can Chestnut — who never even because I once stole his cellphone Breslin of the Bowel.” those buns. and sweat — I know a bona-fide has never been challenged. In fact, In response, residents have had to prioritize Hamilton, and the 46th Assembly Dis- 16 But opponents, who want the city Health Department code, which re- The Brooklyn Papers spoke to residents Fall fashion scale — that’s why Brooklyn is great,” he It’s a sleek, 114-unit condo tower at the on paper goods storage shelf near staffer pointed to the yellow ‘Closed’ more-frequent visits from its pest-con- when I get to see a grown two big-time baseball fans was a cheesy video for their jeweler that their modern-day luxuries. 9. Harvest fair . Brooklyn reads first Brooklyn building last week said, in an implicit criticism of Frank intersection of Eastern Parkway and bers of ACORN, an affordable housing advocacy group, Japanese man cry. That’s competed in the Nathan’s contest un- number off my caller ID, “interview” But you newbies should know And before Kobayashi, it was phenom when I see one. Chestnut is no one has even come within a A long line of speakers — a few seen here in a Brooklyn Papers’ photo composite — grabbed the micro- Kathleen Thompson inside her home at 8705 Bay Parkway, where a lack of electricity trict race between former Soviets Ari Jonathan Ames, Jhumpa Lahiri and Jen- to muzzle the free-ranging pooches, quires that dogs be on-leash all the who testified this week. Here are their stories: kitchen entrance,” read the June 8 in- signs plastered along the windows.” trol company, Eco-Lab. picketed outside to protest the absence of low-cost units. T moving celebration of love. was shown on the Keyspan video Do you wonder how your cucumber meas- Brooklyn style with a warning to his fellow master Gehry’s skyscraper-filled design for Plaza Street East — not technically on Local cablecasters to sue Animal Planet for stealing feline reality format til last year, when he ate a mere 32 because he picked up the phone). that for the past five years, I have sat Kazutoyo “The Rabbit” Arai. And the real deal. dozen HDBs of beating him. A phones at three community board hearings on the Atlantic Yards project held simultaneously last week. See HURST on page 13 has caused food in her refrigerator to spoil. Kagan and Alec Brook-Krasny. A race nifer Egan may make odd bedfellows, but are foaming at the mouth. time. On the other hand, the City Henry Charles Marrahan, Park Slope spection report, a copy of which was Majerovitz said Cheese employees She said the site is “one of our right, sports fans, it all grills down More than 1,000 people lin- screen, which did elicit a groan ures up to the competition? Visit the annual builders: Keep it small. Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards. But Johnson defended the project. Who am I to make such an out- inches below Kobayashi as he masti- before him, Steve “Ralph” Keiner. And there are at least three factors dozen. pitting state Sen. Velmanette Mont- “[The new rules] are real, real stu- Charter allows the Parks Commission- Opponent (pictured at left) See SMALL on page 3 obtained by The Brooklyn Papers. to this: Joey Chestnut — a new- hot dogs and buns — beat Koba- gered after the July 8 loss to the from the sellout crowd. GreenThumb Harvest Fair, where hard-core they all write books, and that fact will hurriedly shut down the arcade games largest [revenue] producers.” “It would be unfair to say we haven’t tried our hardest,” Then again, there are some differ- playing in his favor next week: But this time, Kobayashi is look- gomery (D-Park Slope) against for- pid, and are really going to jeopard- er to promulgate rules within the city’s By Dana Rubinstein comer who ate 50 hot dogs and yashi, whose personal best is more landish claim that Chestnut can beat cated his way into history. And before him, Hirofumi “The bring them together at the first annual Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Sandy the Seagull even wore a “I got a PhD in military relations and this / Aaron Greenhood / Aaron State College Spikes — rising for community gardeners face off over the quali- “Approximately 10-20 mice drop- and began carrying black trash bags The 521-store chain raised the ire said Johnson. “But if the numbers don’t work, they don’t ences, too. 1. Age before booty: At 27, ing fear in the face — not the tem- mer Councilwoman Tracy Boyland FALL PREVIEW ize the public,” said Robert Holden, The Brooklyn Papers than 20 HDBs better? Kobayashi? This columnist certainly It’s a dirty job — no, it’s a really Tokyo Terror” Nakajima. And before See DOGS on page 3 pings on shelf floor of rear exit. Evi- out of the kitchen. of some Park Slopers last year for The Chuck E. Cheese restaurant at the Atlantic Terminal Mall was work … We have to answer to [our] investors.” buns in May — is poised and several standing ovations for the tuxedo. ty of their homegrown pumpkins, tomatoes, See PREVIEW on page 18 This week’s public hearing on Atlantic SOB [Bruce Ratner] is railroading eminent Kobayashi is practically ancient by porary fear that comes from eating started out promisingly, but Boyland Ed Velandria Animal Planet’s version has a host, a ready to defeat the greatest athlete In a word, yes. needs no introduction among the dirty job — but somebody has to him, Ed “The Maspeth Monster” bride and cheering wildly when Cyclone players, who participat- and zucchinis, among other choice produce. domain. Remember Pfizer in Connecticut? dence of mice or live mouse present in “That’s when I got out of there,” showing military recruiting videos in closed down by the Health Department this week when a routine Buyers of luxury apartments in the building will benefit It’s the purr-fect crime. voiceover, and a laugh track, while competitive-eating standards. By age a few pounds of pan-seared cow is MIA on the campaign trail. Yards — held on the same night as the Tail of the Tape of all time, five-time world hot- “I do feel I’m getting stronger,” frankagencia, who know me as “The crouch below the table of champions Krachie. Kerpen smashed the traditional ed, creating a “Field of Dreams”- In this competition, size definitely matters. Visit the Board of Elections at www.vote.nyc. Primary Election — drew a tiny crowd “This project is going to take our land facility’s food and non-food areas … she said, adding that she’s not such a its arcade. inspection turned up — you guessed it — mouse droppings. from the city’s 421-a tax-abatement program. The creator of BCAT’s “Cat Haus” is BCAT’s does not. 25, Frank “Hollywood” Dellarosa — brains or downing bowl after bowl dog-eating champ Takeru Kobay- Chestnut told The Brooklyn Angle in Bard of Bull,” “The Homer of the to verify that Kobayashi is indeed Covering myself in such glory — wine glass at home plate. style canopy of baseball bats Hattie Carthan Garden (654 Lafayette Ave., at ny.us or call (212) VOTE-NYC. (below). But by the end of the night, and cost a billion dollars in cost overruns BCAT producer Steve de threatening to sue Animal Planet for al- De Seve threatened to sue Animal unforgettable after his then-record- of mayonnaise. This time, The Jewish wedding was non- through which Kerpen and Fisher Marcy Avenue), 12-5 pm. www.greenthumbnyc.org. 13 everyone who wanted to testify got a like all these stupid projects. I have seen this legedly ripping off his two-year-old low- Planet if it went ahead and broadcast its setting “21 in ’91” performance — Kobayashi is facing a challenger Papers The Brooklyn . Conservative ladies Seve says Animal Planet traditional only in so much as the took their first married steps. 9. Mother, may I? chance to say his peace. Henry Charles time and time again.” Cyclones’ chicken stole his feline reality budget show in its own prime-time ver- show. The network did not cower. had already moved to LaLa Land for who could actually beat him. “I think he’s found someone H -WOE! Some of the hottest up-and-coming Brook- groomsmen and bridesmaids were sion. his staring “I think P15 2 Ringolevio, Lemon and Lime, and Be on lyn Republican women will be at this event, Climax in Fightin’ 11th: Marrahan (above) was one. See YARDS on page 3 show, “Cat Haus,” for its “They said they were going to air it arranged on the foul lines and vir- who will be there for him forever,” Animal Planet’s “Meow Mix House,” role in “Kiss that’s the big- DOGGONE DISGUSTING Time. This is not some bass-ackwards at- show “Meow Mix House.” anyway and risk a lawsuit,” said de tually all the guests were strangers Cyclone relief pitch- so, to all conservative single men out there, is a three-minute spot that aired for the Tail of the tape Me, Guido” THE BROOKLYN gest thing,” Slope mom tempt at poetry. These are children’s games here’s your chance! For the ladies, it’s half- Black Democrats: Yassky is Here’s how the two shows Seve. munching peanuts and Cracker er Grady Hinchman from the days or yore. If you’d like to learn first time last Friday at 9 pm. (he played Chestnut said. price drinks and a chance to win a copy of stack up. — Rubinstein “We’re looking for the right [lawyer], By Gersh Jack. said of Kerpen. more, the Gowanus Houses are hosting a Like “Cat Haus,” “Meow Mix and we’re suing them for at least $3 mil- Takeru “Tsunami” Kobayashi* CONTESTANT Joey “Jaws” Chestnut one of the “He’s never TR Ann Coulter’s latest, “Godless: The Church cooked by Yanks ANGLE Kuntzman It was even traditional right IPL Hinchman, 24, is wants you to daylong event called “Learning to Play the Donut hurled at Yassky guidos). Hi- PAUL E- House” is a reality-show spoof featuring lion” — an amount de Seve estimates been pushed down to the rabbi, who stuck a lit- THRE the only player on the of Liberalism.” It doesn’t get better than this. rofumi “The COV AT Old-School Way,” for “children, ages 1-99.” Cat Haus CAT REALITY SHOW Meow Mix House live cats with “personalities” voiced by his show would have been worth before Nagano, Japan Hometown San Jose, Calif. before.” tle too closely to his script. ERA team who is married Peggy O’Neill’s (8123 Fifth Ave., between 81st / Aaron Greenhood / Aaron GE humans. At the end of each episode, one Tokyo Terror” Nakajima — who did Chestnut knows how to do that, GIAMATTI stop drinking Just be careful out there, Gramps. The and 82nd streets), 7 pm. (347) 408-7923. stealing ‘our’ seat in Congress “Meow Mix House” destroyed its com- “Play ball!” one bored fan (for all of a month!), three-legged race can be tough on the hips. By Rachel Monahan Bloomberg at the very hous- is set for Tuesday, Sept. 12. being given a chance to speak. ens, in the race. “This [event] is Nine kitties, some Ten formerly feral kitties 27 22 more for the sport of competitive eat- pushing Kobayashi for seven min- Swept away by Baby Bombers Kitty population cat gets voted off the show. mercial value. Age SPEAKS! yelled out at one point. but he had a good feel- 13, 19, 20. It’s over The chocolate-covered ar- The donut quickly became a all to support Yassky.” of them formerly feral ing than anyone since the Roman utes of the eight-minute Krystal Gowanus Houses (bounded by Wyckoff, Hoyt, for The Brooklyn Papers ing project where he launched Could two producers have independ- “Who will buy my show once it’s al- Kerpen and Fisher, both 29 and ing about the Kerpen- bottled water Douglass and Bond streets). Noon. (718) 858-1076. Not that they got much vacation, what tery-clogger landed just a few symbol of an underlying issue Yassky has the support of

Vann’s memo was first reported by the New Bob Lenartz By Dana Rubinstein ently come up with the same genius 132 Weight 230 gladiator Vomitus Minimus — was hamburger-eating competition re- Still facing criticism that his campaign in May. By Gersh Kuntzman clones were overmatched by to be with them. I’ve been with York Sun. ready been done commercially?” said de both Mets fans, met years ago Fisher nuptials. The stated purpose of the La- feet away from the mayor and in the campaign, namely that Charlene Nimmons, head of the and Gersh Kuntzman Strictly public access Budget Beyond basic cable idea? finished in his mid-20s. cently. True, Kobayashi munched his white skin makes him an The Brooklyn Papers the Yankees, who won the first some of these folks from Day Vann and an estimated two dozen minority lead- Seve, who is also the producer of when they worked for Radio Dis- “If he’s found a PARK SLOPE MOM IS easy- bor Day appearance at the Wy- briefly interrupted his remarks some black residents of the 11th complex’s tenants’ association, The Brooklyn Papers Competitive eater Full-time job College student As former champion Ed “The ahead in the last few seconds to Papers The Brooklyn PA Steve de Seve, the BCAT producer, “Brooklyn vs. Bush,” another popular ney in Boston. Kerpen was smit- SHAK ULY woman who will get throwing cold water on a to-digest bullet inappropriate choice to repre- game, 5-2, and the second, 9-0 One in spring training, and they ers held a strategy meeting Monday to discuss sup- FIX YOUR HOME ESPEAR ckoff Gardens Houses was to and sent state banking superin- District do not want to be repre- and Marguerite Scott, her Go- The wild ride of the 2006 Meow Meow La Pew, Promiscuous pussy Bambi, thinks not. “Their show was clearly Maspeth Monster” Krachie used to pluck victory from the jaws of de- Dave Kerpen, of Brooklyn, and Caroline Fisher, of Queens, married on E — a game in which the Cy- were with me for a long time Minority legislators last week reduced a BCAT show. ten, but Fisher was married, so he KU married on a baseball hot-weather staple: bottled points (you can thank me sent a predominantly black wanus Houses counterpart. Nim- porting one of the three black candidates: state Sen. 53 1/2 Personal best (in HDBs) 50 say, “I just want one more contest. feat, but he was scared. I saw it in NTZMAN A publicize $600,000 Yassky had tendent Diana Taylor, the may- sented by the white Yassky. Brooklyn Cyclones ended Find a HOME IMPROVEMENT clones managed just two hits. central Brooklyn congressional race to a zero- from France from Manhattan stolen from our show,” he said. The producers of “Meow Mix” said had to bide his time. July 8 in front of 1,000 friends, family and baseball fans after the Cyclones- SEE field, he’s found the right aqua — and no, she’s not crazy from later): congressional district, City or’s girlfriend, scurrying. “This is a game,” shouted mons was on hand at the press and they’re probably sick of me Carl Andrews (D-Crown Heights), City Council- Just one more,” like a chain-smoking his Adam’s apple. P20 P11 PA earmarked for long-sought se- not with a bang, but with the “They even have fake mini-commer- they were stunned at de Seve’s charges Papers / The Brooklyn specialist in CLASSIFIEDS When she divorced, he made Spikes game at Keyspan Park. GE girl,” he said. the heat. • Bottled water bottles are made But given his team’s heroic by now. It was really a thrill for sum game: a person cannot claim to be a sup- woman Yvette Clarke (D-Crown Heights) and Eating 17.7 pounds Also known for Winning this year’s Wing Bowl, housewife at a slot machine thinking Kobayashi 16 Councilman David Yassky curity cameras there and in the No more high-calorie projec- Beverly Corbin, 52, a 21-year conference, where the mayor Al E. Cat and Cali Cat Texan cat(s) Sam cials, which is one of our trademarks,” he — mostly because they never heard of 3. Fire in the belly: Saying she wants to play a role in from oil, a limited resource. Just weakest of whimpers, thanks effort to even get to the play- me to be with them and learn porter of civil rights yet also support City Chris Owens, the congressman’s son. of pan-seared cow brains downing an all-time record her luck is going to change with has won five times. It’s unprece- had a donut hurled in his neighboring Gowanus Houses. tiles were forthcoming — but resident of Wyckoff Gardens stopped short of his own en- added. “The cats have all been given per- de Seve. combating global warming, Barbara making the containers alone con- to a two-game playoff sweep offs, manager George Greer from them.” Councilman David Yassky’s bid for Congress. The group held a press conference later in the in 15 minutes 173 wings in 30 minutes. every next quarter. It never did. direction in a racially charged The four-way primary to suc- there was plenty of the verbal who admitted she supports the dorsement, but called Yassky “a / Gary Thomas sonalities, [including] a streetwise cat and dented. It’s astounding. It’s the Kancelbaum has called for her fel- sumes more than 1.5 million barrels by their cross-Narrows ri- said the season’s disappointing He did admit that his team Rep. Major Owens, who currently represents the day at which Vann decried Yassky’s “opportu- One floating cat head Opening graphic Ten floating cat heads “Neither ‘Meow Mix,’ [sponsor] Del Let’s go crazy! At 22, Chestnut is the same age equivalent of the Mets winning the press conference with Mayor ceed retiring Rep. Major Owens kind: Yassky was booed before congressman’s son, Chris Ow- See FIGHTIN’ on page 2 a Texas cat. My show has these personali- low New Yorkers to stop buying of oil annually, enough to fuel vals, the Staten Island Yank- ending would not leave a lin- could have gone out on a better 11th congressional district, is retiring — and four nism” and “political ambition.” Monte Foods nor [public relations firm] “I am honored that Quote “Full is just a feeling, as Kobayashi when he first came to World Series — every year for the ties. Our show is tongue and cheek. Their Prince dropped in unexpectedly at the opening night of Celebrate those ubiquitous bot- 100,000 cars for a Greenhood / Aaron ees last weekend. gering aftertaste of bitterness. note, of course. candidates are drooling over the rare open seat. Last week, a fourth black candidate, Assembly- Personify cats Human role Host, voiceovers, Grand Central Marketing have previous- the fans in America have like being tired. I can Coney Island, a mere wisp of a next decade. show is tongue and cheek.” Brooklyn last Thursday. The white-suited song-and-dance man jump- tles of Fiji, Poland year, according to After finishing a topsy-turvy “I just spoke to the team, and “You have to tip your hat to Yassky is the man Nick Perry (D-Flatbush), dropped out of the laugh track ly heard of or seen the program refer- embraced me so.” suppress it.” man with an eating resume as thin It’s also going to end. Kobayashi Those aren’t the only similarities. In ed onto the stage just as headliner, saxophonist and sometime col- Spring and Aquafina. THE BROOKLYN the Earth Policy In- season in grand style — quali- I told them how proud I was of [Yankee starter] Tim Norton. only white person race and ripped Yassky while endorsing Clarke. enced by Mr. de Seve,” said Keith Fern- as his torso — and proceeded to knows it. The fans know it. Even, on both shows, “Meow” is the greeting of bach, a spokesman for the show. “The laborator, Maceo Parker, was beginning his encore. The fuchsia-fa- * Stopped using nickname out of respect for victims of the 2005 Southeast Asian tsunami. — Kuntzman Like so many By Gersh stitute. (Maybe we Papers The Brooklyn fying for the wild-card spot the effort,” Greer told reporters He pitched great and then we running in the dis- “A million-dollar, special interest candidate has Friskies Buffet, Chicken Favorite cuisine Meow Mix down 50 HDBs. some level, the hot dogs know it. Lawsuit leaves dog owners fit to be tied ANGLE Kuntzman THE FIGHTIN’ voring funkster performed one seven-minute song from his new campaigns these should get rid of the Yankees mascot Scooter the Holy Cow holds the Cyclones’ with a come-from-behind win after the Game 2 defeat. “[I got behind.” trict, drawn decades chosen to disrespect our political compact, which (NOT Meow Mix) choice. And both shows have a certain claims asserted by him have no merit.”

raunchy sense of humor. Me-ouch! album, “3121.” — Brendan Mysliwiec days, this one start- cars, but that’s a top- Papers The Brooklyn Rally Chicken in a noose on Sunday on Staten Island. in their last game — the Cy- told them] I was really thankful See CYCLONES on page 14 / Christina Santucci ago under the Vot- ELEVENTH! all decent politicians respect: this district was cre- By Dana Rubinstein lion dog owners use public parks — the hours has been in place for nearly 20 years. The lawsuit has its share of Brooklyn- park during those times.” triever name Scout, both of whom favor ed as a passionate posting on the hy- ic for another time.)

ing Rights Act / Gary Thomas ated to give minorities in Brooklyn a seat at the The Brooklyn Papers Juniper Park Civic Association has sued The informal rule was devised by for- based supporters, who argue that parks Meanwhile, the assault on the courtesy Prospect Park’s Peninsula in the wee hours per-environmentally-aware Park • It takes a lot of oil to transport with the goal of

table,” Perry said. / Julie Rosenberg Brooklyn dogs will have their off- the Parks Department, claiming that its mer Parks Commissioner Henry Stern, have become, for all intents and purposes, hours has dog-advocacy organizations in a of the morning. Slope Parents Web site. bottled water from supposedly pris- concentrating black voting power. “No decent politician would raise a million dol- off-leash “courtesy hours” violate the law and current Commissioner Adrian Benepe dog runs. One of them has even started a lather. When McInerney walks her dogs then, “Global warming is not some- tine springs all over the world to us. / Julie Rosenberg leash privileges curtailed — no more “[Supporting Yassky] flies in the face of the lars to steal a seat and cause a minority group, and endanger the public. has continued the practice, calling the blog — brooklynparks.blogspot.com — to “Everyone is extremely concerned, to she rarely encounters anyone but dog thing we can resolve locally — it That bottle of Fiji water really does legacy of our struggle,” said City Councilman Al which is already under-represented in Congress, to Frisbee in Prospect Park’s Nether- Darrin’s The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn During the “courtesy hours” — be- courtesy hours “a very Solomonic policy.” document abuses of courtesy hours. put it mildly,” said Mary McInerney, pres- owners — aside from a few joggers and will require a major international po- come from Fiji — and it doesn’t Best Buys Vann (D-Bedford-Stuyvesant). lose a seat at the table. The candidate elected should mead, no more swimming at its Dog tween 9 pm and 9 am in most parks — “The system has worked pretty well for “Dog owners display an attitude of en- ident of FIDO (Fellowship in the Interest birders, she said. Papers The Brooklyn litical and corporate response,” walk here by itself. Vann had sent out a call to arms — using the come from the African-American community.” Beach, no more romantic walks in dogs are allowed to roam unleashed as the last 20 years,” he said on WNYC this titlement when it comes to using public of Dogs and Their Owners), a Prospect The presence of dogs — and their own- Kancelbaum wrote in her Aug. 2 TAKING FITNESS TO NEW HEIGHTS TAKING FITNESS TO NEW HEIGHTS Papers The Brooklyn • Thirty million bottles end up in for September will City Council’s email system — to “Black Elected Clarke was asked whether she shared Perry’s the Long Meadow — if a Queens long as they are under the supervision of week. places as dog runs,” said Rob Jett, the Park group. ers — increases public safety, she argued. posting. “But here’s … something

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Us- “If the proposal becomes law, it will city coffers, but instead pays for the develop- Canal SLIP IS SHOWING ing PILOTs, a city can take land off the generally raise financing costs for er’s debt servicing or maintenance of the de- rules could scare tax rolls in exchange for fixed rent-like developers,” said George Sweet- velopment — another cozy arrangement that LAWN payments — but the payments are ing, deputy director of the has drawn the attention of the IRS bean- Mega-project’s typically less than property taxes city’s Independent Budget counters. Ratner jobs lights off investors and, in Ratner’s case, would not Office. PILOTs are routinely used for public MASKED BANDITS public benefit By Ariella Cohen even end up in the city’s coffers. This could hurt Ratner in projects like hospitals. But critics — in- Holiday lights shining down from State to holdouts: If the new rule goes into ef- two ways: cluding city Comptroller Bill Thompson, Ad-nauseam! CARNY-VORE the Fat Cat reflect on the Gowanus The Brooklyn Papers fect as expected next year, de- For one thing, the IRS who called the incentive rife with “costly Canal by the Carroll Street Bridge. drops again Bruce Ratner’s sweetheart deal velopers would no longer be al- rule change would force PI- flaws and misuse” — argue that when used AND Raccoons return to steal our garbage, hearts What’s yours is ours REJECTED may be about to turn sour — thanks to lowed to use federally subsidized, LOTs to be pegged to a piece as a development incentive, the program New document reveals Yards’ mega-billboards By Ariella Cohen the IRS. low-interest bonds for projects that of land’s fluctuating value. But cheats ordinary, tax-paying citizens. The Brooklyn Papers By Dana Rubinstein decimate your vegetable garden, go through the trash, Developer adds Astroland The Brooklyn Papers Just in time for the final approval of Rat- involve PILOTs, unless the pay- the investors who are expected to “It’s a slight of hand that allows the city By Gersh Kuntzman FINAL VOTE WEDNESDAY! fall short The Brooklyn Papers turn over pots.” The Atlantic Yards project approv- Dear interested party: Bruce ner’s Atlantic Yards project, the Internal ments reflect taxes based on a prop- buy the bonds to underwrite Rat- to stick it to taxpayers on behalf of devel- WELL BLOW Log on to BrooklynPapers.com Ho / Dennis W. Where they came from is anyone’s guess (see Vince The Brooklyn Papers Ratner is taking your home. Revenue Service has proposed the reform erty’s actual value. ner’s construction don’t like such fluc- opers,” said Neil DeMause, author of Field ed last week by state officials would for the breaking news after the Brooklynites are rabid with gossip about DiMiceli’s view below). But Brashear believes that re- The Atlantic Yards project is a threat More than 30 property owners CB6: Ratner’s mega-plan of a development-friendly tax program — a The change would “better assure a tuations. As a result, they’ll demand a of Schemes, which focuses on the massive Bruce’s malls haven’t met projections ME DOWN! generate almost $500 million less in historic vote on Wednesday. ORDER some of their newest and most mysterious cent development in the area is forcing raccoons out of to one of America’s national treasures within the footprint of the develop- tax revenues than its developer and bond-financing scheme that happens to pro- reasonably close relationship between eli- higher return on their investment to compensate public cost of stadium financing. neighbors — raccoons. The scoop on Bruce’s stoop vide a funding foundation for Atlantic Yards. gible PILOT payment and generally appli- for the added risk, experts said. long-established hiding places. to his Coney Island kingdom — Brooklyn’s brownstone blocks — its Albany boosters promised just er’s Atlantic Yards project were told See RATNER on page 14 By Ariella Cohen Sightings of the black-masked bear cousins have “Trapper John” Terpo, a Queens-based exterminator, this week that state officials had com- 11 to seek “judicial review” of the “de- / Tom Callan / Tom two preservation groups charged this PAGE 14 five months ago. been on the rise in Green-Wood Heights and Carroll termination” that the state could take Papers The Brooklyn Witness’s green thumb The Brooklyn Papers who’s been trapping raccoons for years, agreed that de- week, citing new state renderings that Now the Empire State Development menced eminent domain proceedings Gardens in recent months, causing some to coo at velopment might have something to do with it, and — beginning the condemnation of their property and turn it over to Ratner. The number of retail jobs that state offi- show 15-story illuminated advertising pared final environmental impact state- Corporation says that the 16-skyscraper the cute little varmints, and others to shiver in fear. added that the raccoon population has definitely grown. Historic park private property for the $4-billion No condemnations can take place would ‘damage’ Brooklyn keeps DUMBO shining cials say will be created by Bruce Ratner’s Monica Stabin has lived on 21st Street across billboards on either side of the devel- ment for the $4.2-billion project (see ren- residential and arena mega-development until the state’s Public Authorities residential, office and arena project “Over the years, I’ve seen somewhere between a would generate $944 million in tax mon- A Major party for Owens Atlantic Yards mega-development ignores from Green-Wood Cemetery for nine years, but saw Thor Equities opment’s main building. dering left). before it even wins final approval. Control Board approves the mega-de- moderate and big increase in raccoons in Brooklyn,” ey over 30 years — $456 million, or one- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn The National Trust for Historic Preser- Such billboards are illegal under New Friends and supporters of Rep. Major Owens hosted a retirement bash for the 12-term congressman, who opted not to the reality of his two existing shopping her first Brooklyn raccoon just a few weeks ago. Haas / Tania The jargon-heavy letter — whose velopment. It is expected to consider By Gersh Kuntzman said Terpo. “But, I have never seen a rabid raccoon in to shut down third, less than the ESDC said this sum- By Ariella Cohen Rabbi Simcha Weinstein, the Chabad emissary to Downtown Brooklyn colleges, prepares for the malls directly across the street, where job “I was sitting in the backyard, and someone said, vation and the group Scenic America both York City zoning — but that law is one of salutation was “Dear interested party” the plan on Wednesday. run for re-election this year. More than 400 people attended the soiree at the Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope to / Dennis W. Ho / Dennis W. Brooklyn.” The Brooklyn Papers said that the 16-tower arena, residential many local codes being superceded by the mer when a slightly larger version of The Brooklyn Papers Jewish New Year — and autumn, which begins on the same day — by blowing a shofar on the performance has fallen short, according to ‘Is that a black cat?’ ” recalled Stabin. “I looked up The exact number of raccoons in Brooklyn is un- — told owners they had until only Jan. Lawyers said the condemnation toast, roast and fete the well-liked, but low-key, lawmaker. But what is Major Owens’s legacy? See page 12. and office space project would over- state in its approval of Atlantic Yards. Atlantic Yards was going through the Bruce to build City Tech tower: P 4 Brooklyn Heights Promenade. Year 5767 on the Jewish calendar begins at sundown on Friday. The season is finally over for the Lawnmower Man Ratner’s own data. and there was a raccoon!” known. But, there have been no recorded cases of ra- after 2007 notice would be moot if the PACB re- Atlantic Yards will cause Greenhood / Aaron public approval process. of DUMBO. Stabin, for one, is a fan of the bushy-tailed crea- whelm the brownstone blocks in neighbor- “Times Square should not be exported jects the project. “irreparable damage to the Ratner’s Atlantic Terminal and Atlantic Center Callan / Tom bies in any animals in Brooklyn this year, and there At that time, the city and state each That’s how most people refer to Tom Combs, an elusive tures. “I kind of like hearing them hoot and chortle.” ing Prospect Heights, Fort Greene and to Brooklyn,” Fry said at a press confer- The condemnations could also be malls created a combined 1,680 jobs — a whop- See RACCOONS on page 12 By Ariella Cohen Papers The Brooklyn quality of life in the borough figure seen many summer evenings atop an old riding Boerum Hill. ence this week on low-rise Fort Greene coughed up an initial $100 million for in- blocked by a federal suit filed in Oc- ping 42 percent, or 1,220 jobs, less than what But her neighbor Aaron Brashear, with whom she’s The Brooklyn Papers of Brooklyn,” members of Papers The Brooklyn mower as he cuts the grass along the Brooklyn-Queens Ex- Family-owned Astroland was sold this week to developer Joe Sitt, who will demolish the water- And Scenic America raised a new issue: Place, just two blocks from where the 620- frastructure improvements around the site, tober on behalf of 10 businesses and should have been created according to the state’s been swapping raccoon tales, is more ambivalent. Community Board 6 decreed pressway. Coney Island’s Astroland amusement park front amusement park that has been in business since the 1960s. Two 150-foot-tall illuminated billboards on foot “Miss Brooklyn” tower would rise. largely on the promise that this small in- residents within the 22-acre site THIS WEEKEND standard job-projection formula. “We have a mother who has a litter every spring vestment would later fill public coffers last week, calling for Bruce Few know who Combs is, but they all recognize his in our neighbor’s backyard,” said Brashear. “They Papers The Brooklyn was sold this week to a real-estate developer either side of the “Urban Room” atrium at Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner where Ratner plans to build. That state formula — one job for every 300 composite based on state data with Atlantic Yards tax revenues. The $200 Ratner’s mega-development handiwork: where once there were only overgrown weeds Papers The Brooklyn nest in this 50-foot-tall gingko tree. The babies are Carroll Gardens resident Mary Tarsio recounts how a raccoon lunged at her who plans to tear down the family-run carni- kinds of retail, the water park, a hotel where people the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic has said that light from the signs would One could-be-evictee said the no- Teacher killed by truck Trick and treat square feet of shopping area — is now being RACCOON SIGHTINGS L’shana tova and erosion scars, there are now three perfect lawns, ideal could hold trade shows.” avenues would constantly bathe “Brook- only be turned up to maximum settings million is just a small part of a multi-bil- tice hadn’t yet reached him, but the to be redrawn before it is Chloe Kate-Barton displays her bounty at the Cobble Hill Park Halloween used to create the impression that Ratner’s At- really, really cute. But when they get big, they can when she went to feed a stray cat outside her bedroom door. val to make way for a $1.5-billion fantasy- CONEY ISLAND’S lion-dollar public subsidy of the project in approved by state authorities. for picnics or sunbathing at the gateway to the rapidly gen- CARROLL land of hotels, movie theaters, neon-lit shops, The project earned praise from the official “un- lyn’s famed brownstones ... in the light on game nights — but Fry retorted that news had. Parade on Tuesday. During Park Slope’s parade, a reveler in costume rob- lantic Yards’ proposed 247,000 square feet of GARDENS the Atlantic Yards approval process gave the form of tax abatements, low-interest By Christie Rizk In a series of four motions, trifying former factory area. beachfront luxury condos and even a few ROLLER COASTER official mayor” of Coney Island, Dick Zigun, this from 15-story beer ads,” said Kevin Fry, “I saw my property [on the list],” bed a bank on Fifth Avenue (see page 14). Combs has been the neighborhood’s anonymous mow- retail space would generate 824 jobs. Election the group’s president. Speaks Brooklyn him little reason to believe Ratner could loans and reduced price for Ratner to ac- for The Brooklyn Papers week. said Henry Weinstein, who owns a CB6 crystallized criticisms of the But if the job-generation history of Atlantic new rides. HISTORY quire publicly and privately owned land in ing man since 1971. “We are in for a new age of Coney Island heavy The billboards only came to light last Illuminated signs on the Miss Brooklyn tower would be 150-feet tall. City zon- be reigned in. building on Pacific Street and on one Brooklyn’s legal establish- scale and traffic impact of the 16- from Smartmom Terminal, which opened in 2004, and Atlantic The Albert family operated Astroland for 44 the 22-acre Atlantic Yards footprint. “It’s just a neighborly thing to do,” said Combs, now 67. week, as part of the state’s hurriedly pre- ing that forbids signs that big is being superceded by the state. See BIG SIGNS on page 14 Carlton Avenue. ment mourned a beloved tower residential, hotel, arena and / Julie Rosenberg on amusement and entertainment,” said the founder That’s nice for a press release, but there’s a method to Center, which opened in 1996, repeats itself, years before selling the land to developer Joe Sitt’s PAGE 14 Originally, Ratner claimed the project was brought up by atheists, who were very com- Area of detail of Coney Island USA and producer of the annual Weinstein, who is planning his Brooklyn Law School profes- office-space development. HE WEEK BEFORE Rosh Hashanah, Atlantic Yards will only create 477 jobs — 347 elation Varmints owe lives to Jimmy Thor Equities for an undisclosed sum. would generate $6 billion in tax revenues. this man’s mowing madness. own lawsuit, copped a line from actor “Within a quarter-mile [of the Smartmom was meditating in her bed- mitted to their Jewish heritage and their lox and Sitt plans to use the two-acre site for a hotel and Mermaid Parade. sor who was run down by a Combs, a Jehovah’s Witness, moved from Oregon to the fewer that Ratner that promised in his “Jobs, Her victory for a Brooklyn congressional The latest numbers are in the final en- and gun owner Charlton Heston: “If arena], the population will in- room. Her attempts to meditate at bagels from Barney Greengrass on Sunday IMMY BALDASSANO WOULDN’T HURT A FLY. Well, let wildlife uncommon in other, PARK SLOPE other attractions, including a 150-foot water slide, a Many believe that Deno’s is next on Sitt’s “to “Now we must challenge the developer to build garbage truck while crossing T sect’s world headquarters in Brooklyn in 1958. He’s Housing and Hoops” scheme. seat was virtually guaranteed — she vironmental impact statement approved Mr. Ratner wants my deeds, he will crease by 60 percent. No mitiga- buy” list. the best of fantasy architecture, something that Montague Street on Wednes- home are usually a comedy of errors and this mornings. worked in the print shop cranking out the latest issues of Officials at the Empire State Development won with 90 percent of the vote — but me rephrase that: Jimmy Baldassano wouldn’t hurt a raccoon. less-rustic settings in the city. In multi-level carousel and the city’s first new roller unanimously by the ESDC board last week. tion scheme can prevent the dan- Sitt has spent a reported $100 million acquiring wouldn’t be built in New Jersey, something that is SHELLY’S Page one of the state’s letter an- have to pry them from my cold dead day morning. Still, on the high holidays, something deeply Papers The Brooklyn And the next time you see one of those masked mammals while fact, a couple of weeks ago a coaster since the Cyclone was built in 1927. was no exception. The fragrance of burning Haas / Tania Still ‘sweet’ “Awake” magazine, plus Bibles in virtually every lan- Corporation would not comment on the jobs City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke still J See RATNER on page 12 nouncing condemnation plans. fingers,” he said. — Cohen

gers that such overcrowding will / Adam Husted KING land throughout the once-vibrant “people’s play- worthy of New York City and the brand name Sara Robbins, 54, was at incense seems to attract her offspring like personal and profound compels Smartmom to guage, but his calling has been those overgrown hills. Tom Combs, a Jehovah's Witness, mows the lawn on three Brooklyn-Queens Express- shortfall. pressed the flesh on Election Day. walking in Carroll Park or deer — yes, a DEER — was The Cyclone itself, which is owned by the Parks UNIVERSE Ratner to pony-up rent create,” said board member Jeff struck and killed on Hylan Department but run by the Albert family, was not ground” of Coney Island — an area he now wants ‘Coney Island.’ ” Montague and Henry streets flies to honey. seek the sound of the shofar See GRASS on page 4 way berms — for free — at the gateway to DUMBO. See RATNER’S JOBS JIVE on page 4 strolling through Park Slope, of the garbage-eating buggers Strabone. Boulevard. So along with ants, part of this week’s sale. to turn into a mini-Las Vegas. Sitt isn’t the first deep-pocketed dreamer to de- shortly after 6 am when a pri- The Oh So Feisty One tip- and the stirring melody of Kol you can thank Jimmy. were being reported in places OF KINGS PROSPECT Atlantic Yards would bring termites, cockroaches and the “We want jaws to drop,” said the developer’s Of course, if Ratner never builds At- Community Development. “But there is vate garbage truck hit her. toed into the bedroom and as- Nidre. Or curse him. where they hadn’t been seen for By Vince DiMiceli PARK Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park was also not includ- scend onto Coney with a vision of a new golden By Ariella Cohen 2,581 new cars, 14,410 residents When Smartmom was 10, You see, I’m of the opinion a generation: Coney Island and feared house centipede, Jimmy ed in the sale. That park is the biggest of the re- spokesman, Lee Silberstein. age (see timeline). The Brooklyn Papers lantic Yards, all bets are off, according to still insecurity for the tenants if the proj- Robbins was a well-known law / Tom Callan / Tom The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn

sumed her very best lotus posi- Museum Brooklyn and — on game nights — 20,500 “This is going to be the largest expansion of the librarian and professor at Brook- tion and scrunched her eyes her parents decided that she on Brooklyn that Jimmy Baldassano’s giant Bensonhurst. was sometimes called in to re- maining funlands in Coney Island, but it sits right More than a decade ago, the founder of Kansas the new deal, which is contained in the ect falls apart.” basketball fans to Prospect SMART move larger, fluffier pests. amusement district that Coney has ever seen. There Fried Chicken chain, Horace Bullard, attempted to Bruce Ratner is paying the rent. lyn Law. She joined the faculty in shut tight. After a minute or so: and her sister needed to go to Workers from the Brooklyn Museum deliver sculptor Ron Mueck’s lifelike creation heart is the reason that Brooklyn At the time, Jimmy was a cop and he was one of the best exter- between land already owned by Thor Equities and After and Before: Thor Equities’ vision for Coney Island’s Riegelman Boardwalk (above) would state’s final environmental impact state- It’s more than insecurity, said George A confused time of year Heights, according to engineers Associated Press minators on Staten Island, where Back in the mid-1990s, when the Astroland site bought this week. will be jobs, restaurants at every price point, all Answering criticism from fair-housing 1985 after holding librarian posi- “I’m bored,” she said. “Is it Hebrew school — it was time through a back door for his solo exhibition, which opened on Friday. For Lisa J. Curtis’s By Ariella Cohen granulated sugar substitute in 1957, the is once again home to a large at the 62nd Precinct on Bath Av- GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY See ASTROLAND on page 14 make it a year-round destination. The same boardwalk was practically empty on Wednesday. ment certified last week. Locker, an attorney for 13 rent-stabilized hired by the developer. to get some of that old-time re- Raccoons, sighted in Bensonhurst and Coney Island in the mid- populace of raccoons. enue in the ’Hurst. But he had a he grew up and still lived. I heard something crawling advocates, the Atlantic Yards developer The estimated 55 renters, of course, tenants in the 22-acre Atlantic Yards foot- tions at Yale Law School and Car- okay if I bang your singing review of the Brooklyn Museum’s Annie Leibovitz show, see page 11. The Brooklyn Papers year the Dodgers left his hometown. Avenue of death — and destruction Yet even as they criticized the Baby on boards A few years back, sightings second job: as a bug buster — Staten Island has some says his company is guaranteeing to pay ONDAY NIGHT, HEPCAT, dozo School of Law. bowl really, really softly?” mom ligion. Just in case. 1990s, have made their way to Park Slope and Carroll Gardens. See JIMMY on page 12 must still pay their base rent, lest they be print. And for the past 49 years, Eisen- Papers The Brooklyn $4.2-billion Atlantic Yards, the The little Brooklyn biz known City Council The Brooklyn Papers were recently told by the Department of Transportation that there were 123 accidents along this stretch of Atlantic Avenue between the difference between the current rent of Smartmom, and OSFO bought “Her thoughtful guidance, Grrrrr. So much for Inner By Louise Crawford It seemed hypocritical, but it stadt’s saccharine blend has been considered in breach of contract and “If this project isn’t built, these people board members emphasized that Jan. 1, 2005, and mid-October, 2006. But new data, furnished by the NYPD, shows that there were actually 583 accidents along the same strip during the a Christmas tree from the gen- generosity of spirit and kindness A Brooklyn Heights woman was struck and killed by a private sanitation truck early Wednesday Peace. Then the phone rang. It probably was a good experi- for creating Sweet’n Low cele- mixed, packed and shipped from a soon-to-be-evicted tenants within the ruled no longer eligible for Ratner’s pay- will lose their homes and get nothing in M they supported development at same period. The chart below reveals the shocking new NYPD data, with the DOT-furnished numbers in smaller type. See TEACHER on page 12 was Groovy Grandpa reminding Smartmom about ence, even if the future Smartmom thought it was brated its 500 billionth carnation- footprint of his development and the rent ments. return,” he said. The agreement still vio- tle Canadian man, who sell trees in front morning. Sara Robbins, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, was dead at the scene. the site abutting the intersection low-slung factory across from the Rosh Hashanah dinner on Saturday. dumb at the time. colored packet this week, remind- Navy Yards in Fort Greene. for “a comparable unit,” until the tenants One housing advocate cautiously com- lates state [relocation] law. This is not of the CVS drugstore. of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues. are relocated into a Yards building. “The trees are from Nova Scotia,” the ing a Splenda-iferous City: Raccoons YOUR problem Ho / Dennis W. mended the developer this week. state law, this is Ratner law.” Going to Hebrew school meant no more Sun- “It’s a beautiful, lovely goes batty “We want to work with the Smartmom returned to the half-lotus position, * day morning bike rides in Central Park, a cher- world that the old pink place,” said Brenda This man stopped Ratner Initially, Ratner only promised to pay “It sounds like an improvement if ten- Forest City Ratner Vice President Jim man told them. “But I live in Montreal.” state,” said Jerry Armer, chairman her right hand resting on her left palm, but she Taxidermist to hipsters: Stuff it! With the Atlantic Yards project near- For seven lady of sugar-free is 123 the rent for three years — but many wor- Forest City Ratner Forest ished family ritual and one of the great pleasures Holland, a Sweet’n Low ants can have confidence that they can Stuckey declined a chance to comment of CB6. “But it is impossible to had a hard time quieting her mind because of that 25 Finding history in DUMBO ing state approval, Sheldon Silver is years, he has Rosh Hashanah call. Should they go to shul? If of Smartmom’s youth. Sitting in the basement of still going strong. packer who estimated her 45 27 47 42 80 ELLIST PAUL ROTHBLATT HAS very popular. See who’s in his orbit. ried that tenants would get burned if con- have their rent paid until they are moved when approached by The Brooklyn Pa- know if we will be able to sup- 43 2 21 sent Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Healthy varmints won’t be touched by Animal Control been coming SMART so, which one? Congregation Rodef Sholom learning Hebrew, By Dana Rubinstein And let the sugar puns share of the 500 billion over wood 22 7 27 48 8 54 PAGE 14A struction of Atlantic Yards dragged on into a new unit,” said Brad Lander, exec- pers at a Ratner-sponsored tree-lighting port Atlantic Yards until we see 9 9 13 F to Brooklyn, Civil War-era home is saved The Brooklyn Papers begin! packets produced by the 11 project crashing to a halt — albeit for beyond that time frame. utive director of the Pratt Center for this week. mom 4 l Papers The Brooklyn how they plan to mitigate the The religion thing nags at Smartmom: Nag, and discussing anti-Semitism and the Holocaust, 1 19 19 a C By Dana Rubinstein where he lives Antics on Atlantic “It’s pretty sweet,” company as “a lot.” By Christie Rizk tb just a few days. By Louise Crawford things we see as problems.” nag, nag. Especially during the Jewish holidays. was not. A chic bar in Park Slope host- u Landmark district in ‘new’ nabe still nameless in a truck and s The Brooklyn Papers By Christie Rizk Italianate mansion at 70 Lef- “I’m astounded and ab- Former New Jersey Nets legend Albert King ran a mini-basketball clinic — and helped Forest City Ratner pro- deadpanned Borough His- Eisenstadt’s company, Cum- for The Brooklyn Papers h The keen-eyed community activist (photo RACCOON SIGHTINGS The board — residents and busi- It’s not like she grew up religious or anything. Smartmom dropped out after a year. Maybe ed a master class on how to sells trees 24/7 until Christmas Day, when he ferts Pl. solutely thrilled,” said Patti torian Ron Schweiger before turning berland Packing, donated the 500 bil- A for The Brooklyn Papers mote its Atlantic Yards development — at this year’s Atlantic Antic. The 32nd annual street fair was a success, v right) noticed that his testimony hadn’t been names pretty much every 50 years as ‘DUMBO’ and it goes back to the Raccoons are popping up across CARROLL ness owners in Park Slope, Cobble Hers was a secular Jewish upbringing on the Up- that’s why she’s so ambivalent about going to syn- mount dead animals. A City Council proposal to ban aluminum bats e By Ariella Cohen Raccoons got nuttin’ goes back home. The LPC said it acted so Hagan, wiping away tears of despite some store owners who boycotted after hearing that FCR was a major sponsor. serious about the decline of Brooklyn lionth packet to the Brooklyn Histori- . included in the final environmental analysis since it first appeared on European history,” said former borough histo- the borough, from Jacuzzi covers to GARDENS A Civil War-era man- See CB6 on page 4 per West Side of Gaphattan. In other words, she See SMARTMOM on page 5 Taxidermy, of course, is an activi- cal Society. got a “standing O” from some baseball players, The Brooklyn Papers Smartmom felt funny picking out a tree. quickly because Morris, him- joy.

industry. Hicks St. Henry St. Clinton St. Court St. Boerum Pl. Smith St. Hoyt St. Bond St. Nevins St. Ave. Third Fourth Ave. of Ratner’s project — a violation of state maps in the 16th century. rian John Manbeck. backyard kiddie pools, and the city’s Growing up in a secular Jewish family on sion set to be torn down ty more commonly associated with “Domino Sugar left. The oil indus- The Pink Panther, as the sweetener while others hoped the bill would go down on An existential conundrum is self a resident of historic Dit- Various neighborhood his- union halls upstate than with Union law. As a result, the report is being rewritten The first name was Rapailie, after So far, the commissioners are un- advice? Calm down and call 311 — the Upper West Side of Manhattan, her fam- for luxury condos was mas Park, had applied for a try left, the Navy is gone. At least we is now trying to re-brand itself, has strikes. brewing in the neighborhood on snow-white squirrel / Wildlife Conservation Society torical societies, preservation Hall, the bar on Union Street. to include Rothblatt’s comments, delayinig the family who owned most of the decided: “It’s not a forgone conclu- even though calling the city hotline Area of detail ily did celebrate Christmas — but a Christ- saved Tuesday by a city demolition permit on Dec. 8. kept something indulgent,” he said. seen its fate shift along with the tides From the high-school diamonds of Bensonhurst to the known as “Down Under the Man- * committees and concerned But at 5:30 pm last Saturday night, the approval process for a week or so. land. But in the centuries to follow, sion that ‘DUMBO’ will be the name won’t solve your varmint problem. mas tree? That was crossing the line. landmarks panel after a “This house has special neighbors testified on behalf of The scion of the company, Ben of American culture and health. sandlot fields of Red Hook, traditionalists said they sup- PARK SLOPE ARK SLOPERS MAY Scott Bibus, a member of the Min- This is an annoyance, at least, to state hattan Bridge Overpass”: what do the area would be called “Olympia,” of district, but we will look at how “If they are healthy raccoons, we would Sure, they thumb-tacked their red felt month-long crusade by its character and special histori- the 15-bedroom home (right). Eisenstadt, invented the world’s first The diet craze of the 1970s, and port the ban, while teenagers with the major leagues in “Fulton Landing” and finally the neighborhood is known to the be furious about the re- Julie Maher / Dennis W. Ho / Dennis W. officials who are rushing to approve Atlan- you name a historic district whose Donating to state pols pays off stockings to the non-working fireplace and nesota Association of Rogue Taxider- Clinton Hill neighbors. cal value,” said LPC chair- 1980s brought prosperity, their sights begged the city to let them keep their super- ordinarily not remove them,” said Richard cent raccoon invasion, “Do we really want to de-

Activist “Gairville,” after the early-20th cen- people in the community that exists McTaggart / Claire mists, sat down at a long table in the tic Yards before Gov. Pataki leaves office. name is a modern concoction? Gentles, the spokesman for the city’s Cen- P left notes for Santa Claus. Her parents deco- Faster than a speeding man Robert Tierney. No one stroy these beautiful homes to but like TAB, the no-cal charged bats. DOT’s numbers don’t add up but the neighborhood famous pub’s trendy basement, for once Pataki is a Ratner supporter who’s known City officials are moving ahead with tury industrialist Robert Gair, who now,” said Lisi de Bourbon, a By Paul Koepp But as a result of a lawsuit by the campaign contributions were more grams. Over the years, the senator Thomas, a Park Slope resident, got a $2,000 grant from the assem- rated the house with foil-covered paper bells drink with a similar after- “They should really pass the ban,” said Dave Serrano, ter for Animal Care and Control, which re- for its peaceniks and organic Hard to shop for? wrecking ball — and more on the panel questioned Tier- put up yet another luxury con- Adams church-like in its silence. Brooklyn’s mega-developer since their law plans to create a historic district in manufactured paper bags and corru- spokeswoman for the Landmarks PROSPECT Albany Times-Union, the state leg- than matched by the subsequent has received $2,500 in campaign also gave $250 to state Sen. Marty blywoman. and velvet ribbons. And Christmas morning sponds to 311 calls about raccoons. for The Brooklyn Papers powerful than condo developer ney’s move to fast-track the do tower?” said Sharon Barnes, taste, the growth of the manager of a team of court officers that practices in Red * PARK produce consumption loves its Bibus put his scalpel to the breast school days. DUMBO — whose acronymic name gated cardboard boxes at 45 Wash- Preservation Commission. islature was recently forced to re- grant of state money to their organi- contributions from the agency’s vice Golden (R-Bay Ridge) — and this • Sandy Balboza of the Atlantic Simen, one of Prospect Park Zoo’s beloved Hamadryas baboons, was a gift fest — something she and her who lives nearby. nation’s multi-billion-dol- Hook Park and only uses genuine lumber. “The kids can “If they’re on private property, the albino squirrel. Carroll Gardens Assembly- Christopher Morris — the vote. Evelyn of a white-feathered chicken, and Police provide real statistics for Atlantic Avenue crashes Also this week, anti-Yards City Council- was created by developer David Wa- ington St. The DUMBO Neighborhood As- veal all of the recipients of such zations. president Avrohom Schonberger and year, her organization received a Avenue Betterment Association, do- opens up a Christmas present last week. The box contained fruits and equally Jewish twin sister Diaper Diva Landmark’s Preservation Com- The lightning fast discus- She did acknowledge the The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn lar diet industry brought really hurt each other with metal bats.” property owner would have to call a * Yes, even as raccoons contin- sliced it down the middle, all the way woman Letitia James huddled with lobby- lentas when he started buying up build- Gairville has the best claim, histo- sociation wants the district enshrined wildlife removal service.” woman Joan Millman and Bay grants — and the name of the mem- In Golden’s case, he has sent treasurer Leon Goldenberg, state $5,000 grant from him. nated $400 to Millman over six veggies (what, no Baboon Barbie?), and is just one way that zookeep- looked forward to all year. mission voted unanimously to sion and decision was unex- need for more affordable hous- Having played with metal bats before, Serrano and GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY

/ Dennis W. Ho / Dennis W. ue to pester the locals, a bright to its “vent,” an industry euphemism Scott Bibus gestures as he removes the skin from a chicken with the competitors and flagging The Brooklyn Papers The original story was based on sta- No wonder they’re called “New “We do not routinely give out the ings in the 1980s to evoke an earlier rians say, but the name is unlikely to before more old buildings are lost. New sightings Ridge state Sen. Marty Golden bers who funneled the money. $140,000 in taxpayer grants to records show. Thomas said her contributions to years. This year, her group received teammate Chris Gallo know that the advantage of a met- ists for the owners of Madison Square Gar- And chances are, they are healthy rac- * white squirrel has become so ers ward off the blues among animals in captivity. See SMARTMOM on page 12B grant landmark status to the pected, but not unwelcome. See SAVED on page 12 Papers file The Brooklyn for anus. help of Serena Brewer during his taxidermy lesson on Saturday. profits to Cumberland. The “Avenue of Death” is even tistics provided by the Department of York’s Finest.” ‘non-reported’ accident numbers,” he uber-hip neighborhood, Soho. even be suggested. Why? Because Last week, notorious landlord have repeatedly given state grant While members often brag in HeartShare Human Services, which Millman deals in much smaller the pols had anything to do with $2,000 to produce shopping guides. quits A mob scandal and un- al bat is also its disadvantage. Transportation, which chose not to tell A DOT spokesman claimed that he said. den and the New York Knicks — the same coons. Brooklyn hasn’t seen a rabid rac- beloved that at least one Sloper Ortner Then he took his latex-gloved fin- more violent than we’d imagined. people credited with working with Assem- “What to name the district is an Landmarks designation is about mar- Joshua Guttman began to demolish a coon since at least 1992, according to the Callers to The Brooklyn Papers have money to groups and organiza- press releases about their role in se- is headed by Bensonhurst bigshot grant, but doles them out to more their contributions to the group she Balboza said her relatively small “A ball comes off a metal bat like a dart,” said Gallo. broke the law — the law of Na- ger and inserted it into the carcass to in the master class, likes to make As Bibus carefully removed the proven links to cancer in us about accidents without injuries or had not willfully withheld information The new numbers, while horrifying, ironic question,” said Rob Parris, dis- ketability, just as much as history. 19th-century foundry built by Brook- curing some grants, a complete list William Guarinello. contributors, records show. For ex- leads. donations to Millman had nothing And in this day and age, you have to be careful. Two weeks ago, we reported that bly Speaker Sheldon Silver to kill the West city’s Health Department. also spotted raccoons in Bay Ridge ture, certainly, but also city and tions whose leaders have made begin separating its delicate skin gaffes, or fake animals, by combin- skin from the body (and lectured the 1990s didn’t help — with less than $1,000 in reported dam- from The Papers. were a relief to local activists. trict manager of Community Board 2. “Can you imagine saying ‘let’s go lyn Bridge builder E.W. Bliss. The has, until now, been secret. Guarinello, who is also chair of ample: “I give to people if they represent to do with the grants her group gets but the nation’s battle “You give a metal bat to a 17-year-old kid who’s juic- there were 123 accidents, including age to the cars involved. “It is our policy to only release ‘re- “We always said there were more ac- Side Jets stadium last year. Yards oppo- See RACCOONS on page 15 and Borough Park backyards. federal law — to save the critter contributions to their campaigns, from the “inner anatomy.” ing the body parts of different about diseases carried by dead ani- Papers The Brooklyn “We know it as ‘DUMBO,’ but out for dinner in ‘Gairville’?” said slim brick building at 205 Water St. Critics have called the legisla- Community Board 11, and his fam- • Prospect Park Alliance Presi- me personally,” she said. “These are from Millman. three fatalities, along Atlantic Avenue nents have long hoped that the MSG offi- from becoming another ani- a Brooklyn Papers investigation Mango / Greg Taxidermy is the craft of skinning species. She’s the kind of person who mals, such as the leprosy carried by with diabetes — the sixth ing, and you might as well give him a gun.” But the NYPD provided us with statis- ported’ accidents,” said the spokesman, cidents than they indicated,” said Sandy Simeon Bankoff of the Historic Dis- would be within the boundaries for ture’s $170-million member-item ily have given Golden more than dent Tupper Thomas has given good representatives who support “I’m a citizen and I support peo- dies at 82 Baseball player Chris Gallo from the river to Flatbush Avenue. cials are up for another fight — this time certainly in history there have been mal’s lunch in the Ninth Street an animal, preserving that skin, and would put antlers on a squirrel skin armadillos), audience members fired leading cause of death in Such firepower was the motivation for Councilman tics on all the accidents — right down to Craig Chin, using the bureaucratic term Balboza of the Atlantic Avenue Better- names more associated with [it].” trict Council. the historic district suggested by the has revealed. pool a “slush fund” because of the $17,000 in campaign donations $475 to various Millman campaigns wonderful programs for the commu- ple running for office who address prefers a wood bat. But there were actually 583 crashes. against Ratner’s plans to build an arena playground last week. B’klyn then mounting it onto a form sculpt- to create the legendary “jackalope.” a barrage of questions. the Brooklyn — has the See BATTY on page 6 minor fender-benders — on the notorious for “over $1,000” accidents or acci- ment Association. “Now we have the The area between Fulton Ferry But other historians say that histo- DUMBO neighborhood group — Like all of their legislative col- lack of oversight. since February 2002. — plus hundreds more to other nity, and I don’t think that has any- our issues,” she said. “And that’s that would cut into their buusiness. “My husband was in the park BAM bash caps off hot 2006 By Christie Rizk ed to represent the original animal Like most members of the Associ- “What’s the best way to preserve pink lady no longer Why the discrepancy? strip that saw two fatalities in October. dents with an injury. proof.” — Gersh Kuntzman State says anti-Yards leagues, Millman and Golden con- / Dennis W. Ho / Dennis W. In the case of Millman and Gold- “Obviously, we don’t think it’s elected officials. thing at all to do with contributions.” personal. What we do with that Landing (the old name for where the Beacon Tower on York Street could ry does not need to be lost to real-es- but city officials said they can’t stop with our son, and [the squirrel] for The Brooklyn Papers body. ation, Bibus and Brewer rely on road cat whiskers?” one person asked. singing the blues (except See stories on page 5. / Julie Rosenberg trol thousands of dollars in grant en, a review of the just-released quid pro quo,” said HeartShare This year, Thomas received • Matthew Pintchik of the Park money is make the community bet- / Dennis W. Ho / Dennis W. River Cafe now is) and Wallabout tate hipsterism. Guttman until the neighborhood is By Dana Rubinstein not have been built if DUMBO had GO FISH! suit is threadbare came very close to being cap- By Lisa J. Curtis The event on And as she thread- blondes: Jessica Lange, Holly Hunter The Rogue Taxidermists use the kill for their carcases. But the chick- Mothballs in Tupperware. in diners where only money, often called “member state documents alongside their spokeswoman Tricia Fleming. $18,000 in grants from various As- Slope Volunteer Ambulance Corps ter. That’s economic development.”

Anthony DelMundo Bay (the Navy Yard) has changed “ ‘Olympia’ sounds just as good landmarked. / Aaron Greenhood / Aaron Evelyn Ortner, whose four decades of * for about a week been a historic district. tured by a hawk,” GO Brooklyn Editor Tuesday night ed her way through and Claire Danes. The Brooklyn Papers traditional craft as an artistic medi- en was store-bought. “If you want to just preserve the Equal is offered). items,” that they steer to local organ- Balboza added that grant money Papers file The Brooklyn preserving Brooklyn’s unique character By Ariella Cohen Empire State Develop- tower, residential, office one woman noti- campaign finance records revealed Golden steered $370,000 to Agu- semblymembers, including those on gave $1,000 to one of Millman’s promised plenty the densely packed The party’s pre- and post-show um. Bibus, for example, likes to “Step one is skinning,” said Bibus, bones, can you use maggots?” anoth- “As terrible as it is, di- THE BROOKLYN izations with little oversight. many civic leaders whose personal dath Israel for youth and senior pro- her contribution list. campaigns — and the corps later Joan Millman Some may think 2006 is winding Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce head started with a single brownstone on The Brooklyn Papers ment Corporation lawyer space, retail and arena fied her neighbors, See MILLMAN on page 14 of bold-faced GIRL crowd, GO Girl’s decor, by Josh Hickey, echoed the make his finished specimens look giving a play-by-play. “Remove the er would-be animal stuffer asked. abetes has been good for Douglas Krause called the project. By Gersh down, but GO Girl’s party-studded Ken Adams is leaving his post to take the Papers The Brooklyn names, what star-spotting Turkish theme of the evening’s dance Berkeley Place in Park Slope and ended ghoulishly dead, in contrast to the skin as intact as possible, with as few Beetle larvae work better. us,” said company CEO ANGLE Kuntzman via the Park Slope The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn State lawyers this lawsuit, which was filed But with Atlantic Yards year hadn’t hit its noisemaker- with fashion designer Narciso dreams came true. While Vegas might top job at the Business Council of New with her opposition “Heinrich of Bavaria,” a multiple-species creation, conventional practice of making incisions as possible. Any meat left These weren’t the questions of au- Papers The Brooklyn Steven Eisenstadt, the Parents Web site. theater work in the BAM Opera House, York State, starting Nov.1. week slammed a suit last month by 10 residents speeding towards final “The squirrel probably blowing crescendo until she got her Rodriguez — who’s dressed a attract ho-ho-holiday nightlife addicts “Nefes,” which is choreographer Pina The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn to Bruce Ratner’s You call THAT a Brooklyn pie! stands proudly at the Great Autumnal Taxidermy Get- dead animals look ghoulishly alive. behind will shrivel and be plagued by dience members who came merely to The 500-billionth packet of Sweet’n Low rolled third-generation Eisen- Like the Chamber, the state Council advo- seeking to block the and business owners who state approval before the would have been caught had invitation to the Brooklyn Acad- few red carpet beauties in his still- like Paris, Britney and Lindsay, BAM Bausch’s ode to Istanbul (formerly Just beyond that gray wall near Columbia and Halleck streets in Red Hook, a company hopes to build the first biodiesel refinery in New York. Atlantic Yards proj- Together at Union Hall in Park Slope last Saturday. Sarina Brewer, who assisted Bibus bugs.” See STUFF IT! on page 14 off the Fort Greene assembly line this week. stadt to run the company. cates for member businesses, but it has hun- Arch friends Atlantic Yards mega- would be evicted to make end of the year, the plain- the parents not thrown things at emy of Music’s 2006 Next Wave young, but already-brilliant, career — attracted not one — but a trio! — of in- Constantinople). ect, died Tuesday. She Brooklyn artist has ‘date’ with Iraq room for Atlantic Yards, tiffs are seeking access to the hawk to drive it away.” serving as gala chair. finitely classier, critically acclaimed dreds more members, all over the state — and, Gala. was 82. The Daily News sponsored the new lights at the arch in Grand Army Plaza, plus sim- development as nothing See GO GIRL on page 10 ever the business geek, Adams is looking for- Domino’s new ‘Brooklyn’ pizza not fit for Kings but a “fishing expedi- “without merit.” thousands of pages of e- The woman admitted that An early advocate for INSIDE ilar illuminations at Bartel-Pritchard Square in Windsor Terrace and Park Circle in Ken- mails and other corre-

Sara Bethell A Chrismukkah scandal! ward to broadening his portfolio. ICHAEL RAKOWITZ’S IRAQI Iraqi dates goes back to Aug. 10, when awry (and yet provides fascinating read- spectors sign off on the dates, which At issue in the case is she was “upset” at the people sington — and informed its readers of its largesse by running a black-and-white pho- tion” designed to delay “There are chambers and individual business restoring Brooklyn’s dates have finally completed a he made e-contact with Atheer Al Aza- ing on Rakowitz’s blog, www.creative THE BROOKLYN could be shipped to a Sunset Park ware- whether the state broke spondence between de- who challenged the natural order K, THIS MAY An energy solution on Hook crumbling brownstone OU KNOW WHAT THE MAIN to of Publisher Mort Zuckerman’s kid. The Brooklyn Papers, of course, would never the imminent approval the law when it con- fendants in the case, who Prospect Park’s camouflage-challenged leaders across the state eager to work for policy wi, an exporter who said he could ship a time.org/programs/archive/2006/whocares house (owned by the Sahadi family, problem with Domino’s “Brook- THE BROOKLYN M6,000-mile, three-month jour- By Gersh squirrell sitcks out like a sore thumb. See SQUIRREL on page 15 seem like a com- Park Slope rallies against my new tome changes that New York needs to enhance its neighborhoods, Ortner ney from Baghdad to New York City — ton of the delicacy to Rakowitz by the /projects_rakowitz_blog.html): which is officially a co-importer) for the stoop to such self-promotion. Pictured here is a color photo of Editor Gersh Kuntz- of the $4.2-billion demned private property include Mayor Bloom- lyn-style” slice is? It stinks. By Gersh ANGLE Kuntzman pletely gratuitous competitiveness,” said Adams. By Ariella Cohen biodiesel, a clean-burning gasoline Street near Halleck Street to the green petroleum to form a less-toxic fuel — along with her hus- Y beginning of October. • Sept. 7: Rakowitz’s order for a ton final FDA inspection this weekend. man’s daughter Jane Kuntzman (left) and pal Ella Marriott at Monday’s ceremony. project. for Bruce Ratner’s 16- See RATNER on page 16 O Evelyn Ortner Smartmom keeps tabs ‘As the Slope Turns’ Sorry, that wasn’t a fittingly “Brook- Kuntzman but it’s unclear if the fruit will make the column about my new and hair featuring Hasidic- entology and Kab- YMCA (which stands for substitute made with vegetable oils gas outfit, Tri-State Biodiesel. that can be used in all diesel engines. band Everett, himself a ANGLE The Council is betting on Adams’s record in The Brooklyn Papers last six miles to Rakowitz’s Atlantic Av- Rakowitz had no reason not to be op- of dates is inked with Al Azawi’s com- Rakowitz is finally allowing himself balah is nothing Young Men’s Chrismukkah Brooklyn, where he doubled the Chamber’s and animal fats rather than 100 per- Tri-State, which now operates in a The fuel produces 78 percent less noted preservationist — lyn-style” put-down. Domino’s new pie ascus. Al Azawi advises against paying book, but it is actually a style side curls (in white, to THE BROOKLYN Forget Venezuela — the latest so- doesn’t merely stink. It freakin’ stinks like INVESTIGATION enue store. timistic. After all, didn’t America go to pany. the bribe because “eventually, these to believe that the end is near — and story about how intoler- match his beard, of course). compared to Gersh Association, doesn’t it?), but membership and multiplied its budget by more cent petroleum. smaller facility in the neighborhood, carbon-dioxide emissions than stan- reversed Park Slope’s steady decline in the 1960s HE NEW FILM WITH KATE WINSLET And the unmistakable con- But life doesn’t imitate art. As we went to press, the dates — 11 war to help the Iraqi people build better • Sept. 18: Rakowitz received the art- that the dates could go on sale at his By Gersh Executive Director Sean An- than eight times to $6.6 million. lution to the energy crisis may be “It’ll be clean, green and the only has already applied for a $4-million dard diesel. and ’70s, by demanding that city and state offi- clusion is this: Don’t let your When Smartmom’s pal To- the Gowanus canal after a big rainstorm. large boxes of dates will be blocking ant a neighborhood fa- As far as I’m concerned, Kuntzman Kuntzman’s gospel and hunky Patrick Wilson, “Little Chil- real as the scars on my backside). boxes of Iraqi’s most-beloved treat (af- lives and businesses? work for his date boxes — stamped with store this weekend, a fitting ending to an ANGLE drews said, “At this time, I Those who have worked with Adams think in Red Hook. thing of its kind in the area,” said grant from the city to build a plant Even before the plant is online, the cials protect a historical and architectural signifi- libidinous selves get carried futta had a massive crush on a The Michigan-based chain unveiled something ... and they will move [them] mously liberal Park Slope you can judge this of Chrismukkah. Tdren,” reminded Smartmom of something its latest test-lab creation last week, run- To judge the essential “Brooklyn- ter oil, that is) — were tied up at JFK Perhaps, but since that first joyous e- the words “Product of Iraq,” the first time as we requested.” art project that revealed painful truths Associate Editor book by its cover. SCANDALWATCH have no comment.” it’s a sound bet. A renewable-fuel upstart has sub- Gowanus Industrial Park owner John and “tank farm” where cooking oils news is energizing environmentalists, cance that others had overlooked. away, Slopers. It won’t solve stay-at-home dad she met at Distribution can be. Oy to the world!” she’s known for a long time: extra-marital sex SMART ning “dese,” “dose,” and “fuhgedabou- ness” of Domino’s “Brooklyn-style” Airport, where American officials are mail exchange, things have gone a bit such words would be seen on American • Nov. 1: Syrian officials indeed re- about the toll of President Bush’s failed To me, that Jew- He said he’d call me back, “He’ll do a tremendous job,” said Marty mitted plans for the city’s first large- Quadrozzi, who plans to lease a from restaurants would be collected diesel car owners and everyone who “They were both pioneers and legends,” said any of your real relationship Tots-on-the-Go, she barely Jump start As tout le But when I just isn’t worth the bother. dit”-filled commercials ad nauseum pie, we ordered two of them to be deliv- deciding whether to release them to shelves in more than two decades, thanks lease the dates — but the weeks of heat war in Iraq. ish-leaning Santa but I’m still waiting. (He did- See ADAMS on page 18 scale manufacturing facility for 15,000-square-foot lot on Columbia and mixed with methanol and some See NEW FUEL on page 17 See ORTNER on page 17 issues: kids, money, sex, ca- had enough time to go to the monde knows, week, when organizers of the showed up for the reading, The film, which follows Sarah and Brad, (ironically, a similar word can be used ered to Front Street Pizza, a DUMBO Rakowitz, an artist and would-be date to wars and embargoes. and poor storage have left them in such “It’s amazing when you think about SALES EDITORIAL DELIVERY Supervisor is a cute icon that n’t attend my reading, either, reer unhappiness or bad com- bathroom, let alone plan an Requires a passionate interest in Brooklyn’s Great the cover of my Writers on the Rooftop series the poster had been altered to two dissatisfied parents in a high-end suburb institution that is about as genuine a importer. • Oct. 5: The dates leave Baghdad by horrible condition that Al Azawi cancels how this sweet, innocuous fruit, which cultural renaissance and experience in news- Monitor delivery of The Brooklyn Papers, su- perfectly cap- by the way.) munication. afternoon interlude. to describe the pizza). mom / Dima Gavrysh your career! remove our “Jewish” Santa not unlike Brownstone Brooklyn, makes han- By Louise Crawford Brooklyn pizza shop as you can get. “The red tape is not unexpected, but I truck, headed for Jordan and a flight the is actually a symbol of good things to paper or magazine writing and editing. pervise and assist distribution staff and ven- book, “Chris- at the Prospect Park YMCA Given my devout atheism, The ad generated the usual hue and cry the shipment out of fear that American tures the spirit of Vari / Jeff In the film, Sarah married And there was just nowhere Assist in production of GO Brooklyn and The dors, work with business owners who distrib- ky-panky seem even more transgressive than from the usual Defenders of Brooklyn — And then we waited. never thought the dates would become U.S. inspectors will block it anyway. come in both Muslim and Jewish cele- mukkah: The Chrismukkah. created a large poster to ad- and Wolf’s quotation. As a I admit that I might not be the wrong guy, an older man to go for their intimate interac- F/T and P/T openings. In the Brooklyn Bride (in print and on the Web), ute our Paper, verify newsbox maintenance jobs Official Guide to vertise my reading on Dec. 4. direct result (I am certain), Smartmom ever expected. Why, it’s right up “We don’t tawk like dat!” said one Kings And waited. part of a counter-terrorism effort,” said • Oct. 10: The dates are turned back • Nov. 7: Eleven new boxes are sent brations, got trapped in the barriers that including original reporting, writing and fact and compliance, and open new distribution But to some the best person to judge who’s obsessed with Internet porn. When she tions. His wife worked at home and “doing it” / Julie Rosenberg office or in the field. Great And waited. Rakowitz, 32, a former Fort Greene res- at the Jordanian border and sent to Bagh- are put up between the two countries in checking, as well as crafting assignments for outlets. Requires good communication skills, the World’s Most- Park Slopers, The poster featured the the reading’s walk-in crowd whether “Hasid Santa” is of- Darrin’s Best Buys there with being a pedophile or something. falls head over heels for Brad, a former jock, in her marital bedroom would have been just partisan — but complaints about the com- to the United States by air. dad for radiation testing. a period of war,” said Rakowitz, whose support, salary, hi commissions. and editing work from our team of free- ability to lift 40 lbs, clean driving record. F/T Beloved Holi- “Santa of David” image, plus was, how you say, poor. fensive or not. So I called the Sure, “Little Children” is meant to be a mercials ignore the substantive issue here: Two hours after our first call — and Associated Press ident who set up a storefront on Atlantic • Nov. 17: The dates arrive in the open it’s an offen- who is easy to talk to and easier to land in the plain weird. Plus, Tofutta’s husband’s dirty • Oct. 18: The truck returns to the Jor- grandfather, an Arab Jew, came to New lance writers and photographers. Immediate or P/T, including all day Fridays and Saturdays. day,” features a ABC News producer Buck One of the organizers told book cover’s designer, Judith broad satire about marital infidelity among the Domino’s is using the good name of after four additional calls — the Avenue as an art project examining the U.S., but are blocked at JFK airport, Email Celia Weintrob opening. sive, horrifying for September will sack, it’s just lucky she has a gigundo subur- socks on the floor were probably not much of Papers The Brooklyn “Brooklyn-style” pies showed up. progress in American-Iraqi relations. danian border, only to be turned back subject to inspection by the Food and York from Iraq in 1946. Email: [email protected] statuette of Santa image that Wolf’s promotional quotation me that the poster was cen- Stagnitto Abbate, who was stroller set. But it’s also a watershed cultural ban house with a tiny attic room with a mat- an aphrodisiac. Brooklyn to sell pizza you wouldn’t serve [email protected] ! Strike one: Progress? Rakowitz certainly isn’t again for “security concerns.” The driv- Drug Administration, the Customs bu- “The sanctions were lifted in May, [email protected] now Claus wearing a must be cen- from the back cover of the sored as a result of “com- also stunned that Park Slope The Brooklyn Papers Editor Gersh Kuntzman (right) sings a Chrismukkah carol with Allen moment for parents of small children: a refer- tress on the floor. She considered trying the new Holiday Inn your worst enemy (except that jerk who (718) 834-9350, ext. 250 Lombard-Freid Projects Lombard-Freid used to beat you up in middle school). Papers The Brooklyn We Brooklynites don’t wait for pizza. Heath speaks! hanging any “Mission Accomplished” er heads to Syria. reau, and the federal Department of 2003, yet there is virtually no trade be- (718) 834-9350 ext. 204 (718) 834-9350 ext. 203 belt adorned with a sored! book: “What Tom Cruise and plaints” by Y customers. sensibilities had been so of- Salkin, author of "Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us" in this rare cooperation be- Smack your lips! endum on what happens when privileged Yup- There, Sarah and Brad can hump and moan New Line Cinema Delight & Surprise Express on Union Street, but realized that it Elena Olivo Stephanie Berger See our ad on page 10 But you don’t have to believe me Front Street Pizza pizzaiolo Luis Calderone isn’t impressed by Domino’s Isn’t that why Tony Manero in “Saturday banners. • Oct. 25: Syrian officials demand Agriculture. tween U.S. and Iraq. How can Iraqis not Artist Michael Rakowitz inside his Iraqi date 55 Washington St., Ste. 624, Bklyn, NY 11201 gold Jewish star The trouble started last Madonna are doing for Sci- I immediately called the See SCANDAL on page 14 tween the major fictional religions. Stephanie Berger pies let their mid-life blues and marital blahs as loudly and passionately as they want because was too close to the school where Mrs. Kravitz This ain’t Smartmom: In the new movie, “Little Children,” suburban moms and dads (Patrick Wilson and Boerum Hill-based actor Heath Ledger smiles for the cameras at the Cinema Society’s Iraqi dates are said to be the world’s (except about the beatings — they’re as Pizza’s new, tiny “Brooklyn Pizza.” See DOMINO’S on page 16 “Candy” screening at the Tribeca Grand Hotel on Nov. 6. See interview on page 8. His long, strange attempt to import best. $1,200 to allow the dates to leave Dam- • Nov. 21: USDA and Customs in- be disillusioned?” store on Atlantic Avenue. Shantala Shivalingappa with Jorge Puerta Armenta in Pina Bausch’s “Nefes” at the BAM Opera House. Narciso Rodriguez and Claire Danes at the gala. Dancer Rainer Behr in a sopping wet sequence from “Nefes.” get the best of them. their toddlers take long naps in the afternoon. See SMARTMOM on page 7 Kate Winslet) have affairs to ward off the marital blues. But Smartmom says it never works in the real world.

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The wide stone or concrete stair remained a talisman of fine homes until the 1920s, when street widening and building Who you callin’ stoop-id? modernizations put it out of fashion. Air conditioning and TV hastened their demise. YIN YANG YOGA titled, “Sit Here.” But even as their numbers Students seek Briganti said the project aims to under- dwindle, stoops play an impor- stand and address “the decreasing culture tant role in the borough’s social ‘stoop culture’ of social interaction formerly known as fabric, Bankoff said. GRAND OPENING!! ‘stoop culture.’” “The stoop has always been The Brooklyn Papers So far the findings have been depress- the intermediary between the Relax, Restore, Renew It’s the white-collar economy, stoop- ing. The youngest wave of Park Slope public and private realm,” he said. “It becomes almost an out- id! residents prefers bars to stoops. 15% Off ‘Til 12/31/06! “They all say they wish there was more door room.” Brooklyn’s legendary brownstone stoops The students’ discovery that are little more than speed bumps for the bor- public culture,” Briganti said, “but they go 748 Myrtle Avenue to Southpaw [a Fifth Avenue rock club]” stoop use is declining is a bit ough’s career-addled, stroller-burdened and ironic, considering a national Brooklyn, NY 11205 iPod-addicted residents, a new Parsons instead of sitting on stoops. (718) 875-2648 At the same time, Brooklynites say preservation group recently School of Design study has found. called Brooklyn’s brownstones “There are not a whole lot of people they wish they had the time to kick back on their million-dollar urban verandas — “a national treasure” right up www.yinyangyoga.com * [email protected] taking the time to sit on stoops anymore,” there with the Grand Canyon. but Briganti sensed that it was just a pipe said Chelsea Briganti, one of three Par- — Ariella Cohen sons undergraduates working on a report dream. and an awareness campaign that they’ve “We interviewed a lot of those people in, like, three minutes, as they rushed somewhere else,” she said. / Gersh Kuntzman The Parsons study plays on that sepia- Correction toned Brooklyn of nostalgia where neigh- An article about a live crèche in Ben- bors had time to gossip and kids played sonhurst (“Hurst’s living nativity scene hits outdoors (skullies, anyone?). half-century,” Dec. 23) misidentified the But the stoop — from the Dutch church hosting the event. The church was Papers The Brooklyn “stoep,” or stairs — came to “Breuckelen” 7+(1$785$/&85/·66(&5(7:($321 the New Utrecht Reformed Church, a Parsons School of Design researchers Essence Rodriquez, right, and Sarah even before the Dodgers, as a vestige of a Protestant congregation. The Papers re- Feldman are studying why Brooklynites don’t use their stoops anymore. traditional class system that separated resi- grets the error. Here they enjoy a picturesque stoop on First Street in Park Slope. dents from servants and hired help, who were required to use the ground-floor entrance below. “In the old days, people would load coal from the street into the basement while the burke talon family that lived there and its guests would step up from the street into the house,” said 192 Amity Street Simeon Bankoff, director of the (between Court St. & Clinton St.) It’s our Historic District Council. LEGAL NOTICES

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Meanwhile, aspiring presi- if history is anything to go by. The Brooklyn Papers country well and will continue to spokesman, Craig Donner. found the percentage of recruits Many experts have said the dential candidate Sen. John Mc- As Fossella pointed out in his serve this country.” “A recent study by the Her- from the wealthiest ZIP codes in- military is spread so thin, with Cain (R-Arizona) has called for letter, the House voted another New York City’s sole Repub- In taking his anti-draft stance, itage Foundation [a conservative creased marginally during that 141,000 troops now in Iraq, that significantly raising the number version of Rangel’s bill down in lican Congressman and most and sending out a press release think tank] found that the per- same time period.” it would not be able to engage of troops in Iraq to quell what 2004, with a resounding tally of hawkish supporter of the war in about it, Fossella is directly chal- centage of low-income recruits Rangel’s office would not other members of the so-called NBC News famously now calls 402 to 2. Iraq is trying to stymie the city’s lenging his more dovish col- (from the poorest one-fifth of comment on Fossella’s opposi- “Axis of Evil” (Iran and North a civil war. And incoming Speaker Nan- most anti-war Democrat in his league, who argues that children won a purple heart in the Kore- America’s ZIP codes) has been tion to the draft legislation. Korea), let alone meet ongoing With or without Fossella’s cy Pelosi (D-California) came efforts to reinstitute the draft. of the elite should bear the same an War. on the decline, from 18 percent But the issue is not just one challenges in the still-unwon support, Rangel’s legislation out in opposition to Rangel’s Rep. Vito Fossella (R–Bay burdens of warfare “How can [supporters of the in 1999 to 13.7 percent in 2005,” of class. It’s also one of sheer war in Afghanistan. doesn’t stand much of a chance, legislation in November. Ridge) wants the soon-to-be- as the children war] not support the military Democrat-controlled Congress of minorities draft when the growing burden to bring Manhattan Rep. Char- and under- on our uniformed troops is ob- lie Rangel’s legislation to a vote privileged vious, and the unfairness and — so he can vote no, of course. who comprise absence of shared sacrifice in “I oppose the draft,” Fossella the bulk of our the population cannot be chal- told The Brook- troops. lenged?” asked Rangel. lyn Papers. “I “Decision- The Brooklyn Papers asked Calf with a beef goes on the lam don’t think makers would nev- Fossella — who never served we need er have support- in the military — if he thought By Matthew Lysiak upstate New York. Herbie remains a bit skeptical of peo- Henderson also said Herbie allows it. I ed the invasion there was anything inconsistent for The Brooklyn Papers It’s no surprise that Herbie feels safe at ple, though. handlers to pet him and feed him with a think [of Iraq] if in being pro-war and anti-draft, the sanctuary, whose motto is “Make “He was freaked out because his for- bottle. an more of his reply was succinct: “No.” “Herbie the Hereford” is enjoying a Love, not Burgers” and offers a poster of mer owner treated him like a piece of “Calves are just as smart as dogs,” Hen- all- them had He refused to elaborate, but well-deserved rest in upstate New York a rabbit holding a protest sign reading, meat,” Henderson said. “But we have all derson said. “Just think about Herbie the family mem- later his office did. as a new owner appears ready to give “Get your own damn fur!” been just loving on him.” next time you want to eat a hamburger.” bers in line “To the extent that it’s rele- the wayward calf a permanent home. for deploy- vant, the makeup of the mili- “We have someone interested in pro- ment,” said tary is mostly representative viding Herbie a loving home with eight Rangel, who of America, based on race, in- acres and a barn,” said Robin Henderson, an animal care giver at Woodstock Farms. “This calf has been through a lot of trauma and this new owner could be Who you callin’ stoop-id? the perfect fit.” The 4-month-old Hereford calf was Loose Dentures? on the way to the slaughterhouse last Wednesday when he escaped into the Searching for the lost ’stoop culture’ GO AHEAD.... streets of Bay Ridge, setting off a wild goose chase that briefly cowed local au- The Brooklyn Papers of sitting on stoops. Eat what you want! thorities. It’s the white-collar At the same time, Brook- “This cow could sense what was economy, stoop-id! lynites say they wish they Visit Dr. Tony Farha in the morning, about to happen and did the right thing,” had the time to kick back on Brooklyn’s legendary have the “Mini-Implant System” placed in said Najiyya Ali of the Center for Animal their million-dollar urban ve- Care and Control. brownstone stoops are little randas — but Briganti less than two hours, then go out and enjoy your The excitement began when “Herbie,” more than speed bumps for sensed that it was just a pipe the borough’s career-addled, favorite lunch. No more messy adhesive or pastes. saw an opportunity to bolt as the owner dream. attempted to transfer the calf into a truck stroller-burdened and iPod- “We interviewed a lot of addicted residents, a new Par- As recently demonstrated by Dr. Tony for the trip to the slaughterhouse near a those people in, like, three busy Sixth Avenue intersection. sons School of Design study minutes, as they rushed on ABC & Fox News The calf’s run for freedom was an un- has found. somewhere else,” she said. usual brand of excitement for residents “There are not a whole lot The Parsons study plays who are still getting accustomed to the of people taking the time to on that sepia-toned Brooklyn / Gersh Kuntzman idea of sharing Bay Ridge with wild rac- sit on stoops anymore,” said of nostalgia where neighbors coons. Chelsea Briganti, one of had time to gossip and kids • This advanced system is FDA-Approved. Video of the cow chase posted shortly three Parsons undergradu- played outdoors (skullies, afterwards on the Internet showed the ates working on a report and anyone?). • It is a one-step, non-surgical procedure. an awareness campaign that

calf in a furious gallop with police in hot But the stoop — from the Papers The Brooklyn • No sutures, nor the typical months of healing. pursuit. they’ve titled, “Sit Here.” Dutch “stoep,” or stairs — Parsons School of Design researchers Essence Ro- • No pain or discomfort. The excitement was short lived as au- Briganti said the project came to “Breuckelen” even aims to understand and ad- driquez, right, and Sarah Feldman are studying why thorities quickly had the animal tranquil- before the Dodgers, as a ves- Brooklynites don’t use their stoops anymore. Here they • Affordable (Payment Plans available and Insurance coverage) ized and in custody, but instead of hand- dress “the decreasing culture tige of a traditional class sys- of social interaction formerly enjoy a picturesque stoop on First Street in Park Slope. Dr. Tony is recognized as a Professor of the Mini Dental Implant. ing the cow back to the owner, a tem that separated residents Christmas miracle of sorts occurred (at known as ‘stoop culture.’” from servants and hired least as far as the cow was concerned). So far the findings have help, who were required to the house,” said Simeon and TV hastened their demise. Call today for your FREE Consultation “The owner did not have the appropri- been depressing. The young- use the ground-floor en- Bankoff, director of the His- The students’ discovery that *ONLY $495 ate paperwork to be transporting the est wave of Park Slope resi- trance below. toric District Council. stoop use is declining is a bit FOR DENTURE! 718-833-6895 calf,” Ali said, who was responsible for dents prefers bars to stoops. “In the old days, people The wide stone or concrete ironic, considering a national the nickname “Herbie the Hereford.” “They all say they wish would load coal from the stair remained a talisman of preservation group recently Limited Time Offer 461 77th St – Bay Ridge • 1412 Richmond Rd – Staten Island Without the paperwork, the cow was there was more public cul- street into the basement fine homes until the 1920s, called Brooklyn’s brownstones *with a puchase of MDI confiscated by police and brought to the ture,” Briganti said, “but while the family that lived when street widening and “a national treasure” right up www.oraldentalcare.com CACC, which turned him over to the they go to Southpaw [a Fifth there and its guests would building modernizations put it there with the Grand Canyon. Woodstock Farm, an animal sanctuary in Avenue rock club]” instead step up from the street into out of fashion. Air conditioning — Ariella Cohen

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The victim, a 16-year-old The gym, on 89th Street be- train, woke to discover that SUV. At least twice in the past Two black-clad cyclists ped- Staten Islander, had his lip tween Fourth and Fifth av- someone had reached into his week, four masked men in a aled up behind a woman walk- stitched up at Staten Island Uni- enues, lost a $5,000 Sony bag and stolen his credit cards dark SUV have driven up to a ing down Kings Highway near lone pedestrian, jumped out of versity Hospital. Nothing was stereo system, a $300 fax ma- and electronics. reported stolen. chine, two flat-panel monitors West Eighth Street on Dec. 18 the car wielding a baseball Fenced in at 10 pm and snatched her bat, and attacked and robbed The precinct did not return worth a total of $500, and $120 in cash. Aman approached a woman purse. the victim. phone calls about the possible relationship between these sus- from behind, shoved her into a The 49-year-old victim re- In the first incident, a woman piciously similar incidents. 62nd Precinct metal fence and swiped her ported that the act of purse- was walking down Bay Ridge purse on Dec. 21. snatching was a graceful one — Avenue near Ridge Boulevard Bank job The 23-year-old was walking she was neither pushed nor on Christmas Eve when three A short man with brown Bad dreams along West Eighth Street to- grabbed. men emerged from a double- eyes walked into a Bay Ridge Two Bensonhurst residents ward Avenue U at around 7:45 The two men then sped away parked red SUV, their faces bank last Thursday afternoon may have been dreaming of a pm when the purse-snatching down Kings Highway. covered in “cloth” and one and slipped a teller a note: “I white Christmas as they dozed occurred. 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KIDS TEENS THE YEAR2006 IN REVIEW SCHOOL CAMPS Marty’s humble opinion STYLE MUSIC Beep sits down with The Papers, says we’re biased PARENT When Borough President Mark- owitz agreed to sit down for a year- in-review interview with our editor, Gersh Kuntzman, the fur started flying from the moment Kuntzman Smartmom’s top ten things pressed “record” on his MP3 player. Markowitz didn’t waste any time getting into the year’s biggest story — Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards that went RIGHT in 2006 development. (Hear the interview at BrooklynPapers.com.)

N THESE LAST DAYS OF John F. Kennedy famously Q: Did you see our banner headline the year, Smartmom is said, “Ask not what your coun- on the front page this week? “AP- Ibusy, busy, busy organizing try can do for you; ask what ® PROVED.” drawers and closets. Christmas you can do for your country,” A: Look, The Paper, in my humble opinion night, she took all of Oh So but he should have added, TRIPP TRAPP — and I have a right to criticize — is over- Feisty One’s shirts ™ whelmingly anti-[Atlantic Yards]. Not just out of her shirt draw- BY STOKKE the editorials, which you have every right to er, refolded them and The chair that grows with the child™ do, but the stories are tilted every freaking put them back in by SMART time. That’s my humble opinion. I’m sorry, color and style. 10% off all store merchandise with this ad! it is NOT a balanced newspaper. It’s not. Then she hit the ar- (minimum $75 purchase) Editorially, you can blast away ’til King- moire in the foyer, mom dom Come. But it is so overwhelmingly which is stuffed full By Louise Crawford 315 Court St., Brooklyn against Atlantic Yards. Everyone knows of art supplies, chil- bet. Sackett and Degraw that if there is any way to attack the project, dren’s games, and all olá baby 718.422.1978 • olababy.com The Brooklyn Papers will be there to do so. manner of miscellaneous junk “…and when you run out of SPECIALTY SHOP like Littlest Pet Shop figurines, ideas, the cabinet underneath Q: Do you think any paper in the city bottles of dried non-toxic poster the sink is a whopping mess.” has analyzed this project credibly paint, file folders filled with Yet daily life goes on. The and with integrity? Teen Spirit’s pre-school art, and clock ticks, the Internet connec- A: I think the Times has. They have seri- more ceramic bowls from Paint tion hums, the children need Brooklyn ously written things that were definitely Your Own Pottery than anyone dinner and there is the laundry pro, middle and anti. Whatever issues that could possibly need. (cleaned at the seriously nice the antis have raised, they have definitely The day after Fencing not ignored it. Your paper says, “We’re Christmas, against it, so f— it.” Smartmom, re- / Julie Rosenberg folded everything Center Q: Has there been a story in The Pa- in her own shirt • Group Classes pers that had a factual inaccuracy? and sweater beginner to advanced A: What is fact? If you’re going to put in drawers. 5 years to adults your paper that Ratner put up [surveillance] Later she went • Open Fencing cameras on his building — Papers The Brooklyn through Teen Monday - Saturday Q: We never wrote a word about Spirit’s dresser • Private Lessons that! riffraff and bop bop bop bop bop. and pulled out And then some people tell me they can everything that • Summer Camps A: He has a right to put up cameras and protect the area. One of those nut jobs — you live with the arena, but there is too much doesn’t fit any- housing and it’s too tall, there’ll be shad- more. Black Parties up to 20 kids don’t know who can come by [and cause a] FENCING BIRTHDAY PACKAGES! Ages 6 & up fire — and then put the blame on him! ows, I’ll get in my car … I don’t know why jeans with a size- they need a car in Brooklyn, with the great- 30 waist: Out. 62 Fourth St. (corner of Hoyt) • (718) 522-5822 Q: Did we write about that? est public transit system in the world, but Small or medium

Hugh Crawford it’s their right; I have a car. But, yes, it may Threadless brand www.BrooklynFencing.com A: I didn’t say you wrote about it! But all I Despite troubled national and interna- can tell you is that he has to protect what he take a minute or two minutes longer to t-shirts: Out (no transverse Atlantic Avenue [but] you know matter how cool has there. But let’s get on with your questions. tional affairs, some things (and people) what, it’s a public benefit to the city. And the design). make Smartmom’s life just “Ducky.” REGISTER NOW FOR 2007 Q: I didn’t bring it up. I merely said I Then, she put I’m convinced that there will be enormous thought our headline last week, “Ap- steps taken to mitigate the traffic issues. It’s all these non-fit- proved,” was a good headline. Peruvian laundry on Sixth Av- Gan Menachem important for the city and the developer for ting items in a bag for Housing A: You were being factual. OK. Great head- Works and folded the rest. Neat enue) to be put away. this project to work. line. / Julie Rosenberg as a pin. It should stay that way HE DAILY GRIND Kiddie Q: Are you’re taking that on faith? for at least five hours. keeps Smartmom going Q: What were the three best things A: More than on faith, but because of my Later, when OSFO was busy T when nothing else does. that happened to Brooklyn this year conversations with the developer and the playing with her new Nintendo So, from the home office on KORNER and why? city. We’re all pulling together to mitigate DL, Smartmom made a beeline Third Street, here’s Smart- A: The cruise ship terminal opening in the traffic. You know, in the mornings, it’s for the toys on her over-stuffed mom’s top 10 list of the ordi- JEWISH PRESCHOOL Brooklyn. Promise made, promise kept. It Papers The Brooklyn not going to impact at all. During rush shelves. Out with the old, in nary things that helped her get will be a growing industry and opens the hours, if you’re driving, perhaps right be- with the new; Smartmom filled through a lousy 2006: Warm, loving, experienced care for babies, toddlers and young children up to 5 years. doors to a lot of tourism opportunities, fore the games, perhaps there will be addi- a couple of shopping bags full 1. Smartmom’s solitary first making Brooklyn a destination of choice, tional traffic issues. But there will be addi- of toys that OSFO never touch- cup of coffee of the day, while especially if the cruise ship industry ex- tional traffic agents and off-site parking to es. She doesn’t have enough In the heart of Brooklyn Heights - Close to all transportation listening to NPR in the kitchen pands to the other pier … And someday, get that traffic moving. space for what’s she’s got let (and the new toaster that does- Call Shternie Raskin for a tour: (718) 596-4840 x25 Brooklyn will be a port of call. alone all of her new Christmas Q: When we talk about public subsi- n’t burn her toast). 117 Remsen Street (between Clinton & Henry Sts) The second thing of course is Democratic and Hanukkah gifts (Uh oh, she dies, those traffic agents are part of 2. The innocent post on Park ddkddk control of the House of Representatives and noticed…). Slope Parents that sparked a that subsidy. Taxpayers pay for it. So what gives? Why all this the Senate. Brooklyn, like most urban centers, flurry of gender-related contro- is impacted by federal policies as they relate A: We pay for it at Madison Square Garden, straightening? versy: “Friday, at the corner of too! In order to make money, you have to in- Smartmom doesn’t need her to health care and under-employment and af- 11th Street and Eighth Avenue, FAMILY CLASSIFIEDS fordable housing. Also, we lost a significant vest money! You have to invest! … It’s all part fabulous therapist to tell her that [I found an] adorable navy blue, of a vibrant, exciting downtown. The oppo- she gets a feeling of control number of men and women in the war in Iraq or maybe black, fleece hat with nents even argue that Atlantic [Avenue] isn’t from all this organizing. … It all impacts the quality of life that we triangles jutting out of it of all Entertainment Instruction want to improve in Brooklyn. Downtown. It’s definitely Downtown! They The world is going to hell in different colors.” Just don’t call think only the corner of Junior’s is Downtown. a Key Food basket, and there’s Rico the Clown And Atlantic Yards! I feel it is the project it a “boy’s” hat in Park Slope! SLOPE MUSIC / Julie Rosenberg (Pensively) I really regret that those who not a whole lot she can do Magician & Comical Nerd of the early part of the 21st century. It will 3. Her daily breakfast con- Instrumental & Vocal oppose the [Atlantic Yards] project rejected about it. propel Brooklyn into the 21st century and versations with Teen Spirit be- Birthday parties and special Jazz • Classical • Folk • Rock will create, in my humble opinion, a fantas- an opportunity to work together. They said HERE’S A WAR ON IN occasions — Adults & Kids. Comedy, fore OSFO and Hepcat wake Call for free interview tic new city center and create synergy be- no, we don’t want this project. They didn’t Iraq, and hideous conflict Magic, Balloon Sculpting, Puppets, slopemusic.com up. Games, M.C., Comic Roastings. tween the downtowns. want the arena. Look at your notes. Develop all over the world. Glob- Bands available 4. 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T Papers The Brooklyn al warming is an inconvenient 718-768-3804 Q: OK, on that subject. Many Brook- dependent OSFO with her 718-434-9697 A30-07 na. They didn’t want the high-rise housing. truth and the Atlantic Yards school friends on Seventh Av- lynites do not like this project’s aes- They supported Extell because there was no project was approved. AIDS is 917-318-9092 enue during lunch hour. A30-45 Photography thetic, scale, impact on traffic in and arena. So there was never an opportunity [for destroying Africa and there are 5. Watching two-year-old around Downtown Brooklyn; its more impoverished people than compromise] — and I tried. My hand was al- Ducky push her toy stroller and overriding of existing city zoning; ways extended, seriously, to say, “How can voters on American Idol. bunny baby down First Street. and the manner in which Bruce Rat- There’s little she feels she “Quality Magic At Affordable Prices” we reason together?” They said, “We’re And Ducky kisses. ner was selected by state officials. against it. We don’t want a modification. We can do in her daily life to allevi- Magicians • Clowns • Jugglers 6. Hepcat’s photographs of ate the pain and suffering of Facepaint • Cotton Candy • Bounce Tents What convinces you that it is going don’t want it.” It’s difficult to find a comprise the Gowanus at dusk. And his Shows Starting @ $99 those around the world, right to be a net gain for Brooklyn? with people who say, “We don’t want it!” scallop risotto. www.MagicalEntertainmentPlus.com around the corner, and in her A: An arena with a national sports team that Q: They don’t want the arena. very own extended family. 7. Mr. Kravitz’s new kidney 917.549.1272 calls Brooklyn home. That’s a big thing. courtesy of Mrs. Kravitz. A: But that’s the line in the sand. The arena. A30-39 Maybe not for your readers, but it’s big. So the cleaning is her way of That’s the anchor of the project. coping with feelings of hope- 8. The Smartmom readers And the thousands of jobs we anticipate, lessness. Things may fall apart who stop her on the street and Instruction not just in the Atlantic Yards development Q: But then you’re the one being un- and the center may not hold, tell her which column they itself, not just in the arena, not just in serv- reasonable [to compromise]. but, boy, can she re-fold liked (or didn’t). ices to the arena, but what the impact of 9. Standing with OSFO in- DRUM LESSONS A: I regret the fact that some of the hostility OSFO’s shirts. All Styles, Levels, & Ages (6+) Call for Holiday Packages 6,000 new apartments will mean to families and some of the anger could not have been

side a voting booth at John Jay / Julie Rosenberg Carroll Gardens Studio living in and around Atlantic Avenue that High School and giving George 718.369.0244 nikibistudio.com overcome. But whatever names these peo- Will travel to you! will propel life along Vanderbilt, Washing- ple call me — and they’ve called me every- W. Bush a thumpin’. Call Jordan (B.F.A., M.M.) A48/02/05/30-43 ton, Atlantic, Flatbush avenues. 10. That blessed time of day (347) 262-7614 thing — I’m still glad they live in Brook- And that will inspire [development] fur- lyn. They’ve brought excitement to when Smartmom clears all the www.JordanYoung.net A49 Tutors ther east on Atlantic Avenue … And there Brooklyn. I have no hatred at all, but they books, coins, and Build-a-Bears are thousands of affordable units for very off her bed, lies in it, reads a SAT Test Prep/Tutoring Papers The Brooklyn don’t see what I see: Brooklyn no longer low income as well as working people, being a backwater to Manhattan. BY LEON FREILICH book, and drifts slowly off to Now Online Princeton Grad - 1500 SAT 10+ teachers, civil servants, and middle-income sleep. Ahhhh. yrs exp teaching SAT and writing Q: But does Brooklyn need to be skills. Tutoring or small group [tenants]. And even the market-rate rentals our borough. And [you can] build high-rise Once again, we invited Leon Louise Crawford, who lives in will attract the richness of diversity, making some kind of mini-Manhattan? Park Slope, also produces the instruction. At my office in Park buildings only in certain areas. And this is a Freilich, the poet laureate of Park slope or your home. Ed Antoine Atlantic Yards one of the most successful A: This is the ultimate renaissance. And Web site, “Only the blog knows prime area … because it works here. Slope, to weigh in with some (718) 501-5111. A30-08 developments. other renaissances only benefited the very low-cal verse. This week, he Brooklyn.” The benefits — the creation of eight All of that overwhelms, significantly, acres of open green space, which will pro- affluent. But here is one where, for the first steered into controversy with his some of the impacts that might result. I am time, the renaissance will benefit people of poetic offering, “I like bike.” vide a tapestry that will knit together confident that between the city, state, local Prospect Heights and Fort Greene, as op- every income. And we’re taking a space elected officials and the developer — who posed to a moat that we’ve had for 100 that was empty and barren and creating a I think no one can ever ex- wants this project to work because he has plain years — overwhelm those who say the project that will benefit everyone … I billions riding on it — The actual use of the bicycle Day buildings are too high. wouldn’t put it on Sixth Street and Eighth lane. Q: Billions of our money, too. Avenue in Park Slope … But here, unlike Q: You realize that’s not their only other neighborhoods, you have the greatest It cuts the cruising space for School, A: They have billions of dollars of their cars, argument against the project. public transit hub. … When we had Ebbet’s own riding on it! Yes, they got some public A: Listen to me, their arguments come down Field in the middle of a neighborhood, we Reducing them to creeping subsidies. But let me say this: Some, in- jars. Inc. to the following: the heights of the building, had cars, but it worked! cluding some elected officials, said, “If the shadows they cast and the traffic. And when one’s forced to A fully licensed and certified preschool he’d cut down the affordable housing, we Q: Not as many cars. double-park, could cut down the size of the buildings.” I Q: And the public subsidies! A: We had plenty of cars! And it worked. It The car’s at sea, like a sleep- ■ 2-4 year old programs ■ 2, 3, 4 or 5 mornings, don’t buy into that argument. Some people A: The public subsidies are appropriate. worked. And it’s going to work again. And ing shark. would rather see the affordable housing cut Though nobody’s apt to go Every project in this city, the government tomorrow’s kids will get to have the same afternoons or full days significantly [to] cut the size of the build- does provide infrastructure. [The Atlantic sweet memories I had as a kid. And that’s and abuse it, ■ Licensed teachers ings. And I call that selfish! Who’s ever seen a biker use Yards subsidy] goes above that to assist the what this is all about. I wish everyone a ■ Spacious Classrooms affordable housing component. If we didn’t good year. All of this is immaterial com- it? ■ Optimal educational equipment Q: I think you’re putting words in Two-wheelers can’t be beat for the opponents’ mouths. I don’t think have the affordable housing, this wouldn’t pared to terrorism and world peace. be necessary. transit. anyone called for less affordable Q: Bring us up to date on your diet. ■ ■ Enriched Curriculum But it’s all a ruse. When they raise the But a lane? Here’s hoping the ■ Exclusive outdoor facilities housing. fight about public subsidies, bop bop bop A: I walk five days a week for at least a half city bans it. A: If you spoke to them privately and said, “If hour. I dropped about 25 pounds and now I’m ■ Indoor Gym facilities ■ Caring, loving environment bop bop, they’re really saying, “We don’t The opinions expressed — we reduce the buildings size in half, but have want this project.” down to 180 or 179. I’m not trying to get to in verse! — by Leon Freilich to cut the affordable housing, how do you 150 … I keep away from the foods I know I should never be construed as feel?” it would be interesting to see what Q: They don’t. shouldn’t eat. I altered all my suits to make the official position of The Call: 230-5255 • 763 President Street (bet. 6th & 7th Aves.) they’d say. They won’t be honest! … I’m sor- A: Some say they can live with the housing, sure I won’t go back to the way I was. I can’t Brooklyn Papers. ry, Gersh, but there is a demand for housing in but don’t want the arena. It’ll bring traffic and afford to re-alter all my suits. December 30, 2006 AWP 5 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 8FDBOOPUEJSFDUUIFXJOE CVUXFDBOBEKVTUUIFTBJMT BROOKLYN o#FSUIB$BMMPXBZ $IBOJF4DIXBSU[ Weird home saved by 5. $&35*'*&%'*/"/$*"-1-"//&3

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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT Covering Atlantic Yards VER THE LAST 12 MONTHS, NO STORY sweetheart deal Gov. Pataki’s cronies cooked up in Ratner’s economic projections, even as they has been as important to Brooklyn — and, as Albany to make this project work for Ratner. (See dropped and dropped again during the public ap- O a result, to this newspaper — as Bruce Rat- the Markowitz interview on page 4 or listen to it at proval process. And everyone was happy to accept ner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development. www.BrooklynPapers.com). the already-inaccurate traffic analysis provided by With its 16-towers, 19,000-seat basketball arena, Given how we’ve been attacked for such cover- Ratner’s state partners. 6,000 units of housing and hundreds of thousands of age — and the overwhelming support the project So why did we persist in our aggressive report- square feet of office and retail space, Ratner’s mini- enjoys among city and state powerbrokers — many ing? Markowitz contends in the interview that we city is the biggest single-developer project in the his- of our readers have wondered why we even both- did it because we simply hate Bruce Ratner. We ac- tory of Brooklyn. ered. Indeed, it would have been far easier for us to tually do not hate Bruce Ratner. This isn’t personal. blow off Atlantic Yards, as did the daily papers, and Our obsession with the project’s taxpayer-support- As such, it deserved — and got — our attention, our weekly competitor, the New York Post-owned, ed financing, its outright lies about job creation, and sometimes obsessively so. As we prepared our year- Sheepshead Bay-based, Courier-Life chain. its preposterous density is a reflection of exactly what in-review issue, we noticed that not a single issue For most of the year, the supposedly ravenous journalists are supposed to do: question authority and this year was devoid of coverage of some element local press corps took a pass on Atlantic Yards, ensure that elected officials are doing their jobs. of the Ratner proposal. swallowing whole such Ratner myths as the notion Yet the elected officials ignored our objective Yet our laser-like focus has earned us little praise that the project would be a boon to the lower and and non-biased reports, which week in and week and sometimes even outright scorn from local elect- lower-middle classes (actual state analysis shows it out demonstrated the flaws of Atlantic Yards. ed officials. In an interview in this week’s Papers, would hasten, not forestall, gentrification in They did so at their own peril, setting the stage the project’s biggest booster, Borough President Prospect Heights), and that Brooklyn needs lots of for a costly, permenant change in the heart of Markowitz, calls us “biased” because our coverage shiny new skyscrapers to feel good about itself (as Brooklyn. revealed the shocking density of the project, the Markowitz says in the interview). However this plays out, The Brooklyn Papers traffic it would cause, and the subsidy-enriched For some reason, everyone seemed to accept will continue to aggressively cover this story.

LETTERS Cristian Fleming Ratner foe says DDDB is not a loser To the editor, Brooklynites, as well as city and state tax- lower-income residents currently living other new development that has been ap- Your “Atlantic Yards Scorecard” (Dec. payers. Daniel Goldstein, Prospect Heights along Fourth Avenue will be forced out. proved for Brooklyn. Traffic from Down- Opting out of 23), we understand, was meant to be some- The writer is spokesman for We believe affordable housing in Brook- town Brooklyn development will spill ac- what tongue-in-cheek. You may dub us “los- Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn lyn can be achieved without violating the ross the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges ers,” but your newspaper’s powerful “Steal low-rise, small-scale character of our creating gridlock in Lower Manhattan. home delivery of the Century” editorial in the same issue neighborhood. Atlantic Yards planners admitted that the Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc. Every week, we deliver copies of could not have been written without the Pleading the 4th Jerry Speier, John Gordon, Park Slope project would create gridlock conditions in at 55 Washington St, Ste 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201 The Brooklyn Papers to homes tremendous effort of our organization and so To the editor, Downtown Brooklyn, but refused to evaluate Phone (718) 834-9350 The writers represent the Fourth Avenue Established 1978. Copyright 2006. • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) throughout Brownstone Brooklyn. many others to expose “Atlantic Yards” as a Your article on the Fourth Avenue Preser- Neighborhood Preservation its effects on the Brooklyn-Queens Express- Our unique system limits deliveries self-serving, destructive land grab. vation group (“Seek downzone on Fourth 3 way or Lower Manhattan lest you figure out to two Papers per building (eliminat- PUBLISHER Celia Weintrob (ext 104) Forest City Ratner had 10 lobbying years late, Nov 25) had some errors. the true consequences of this project. EDITOR Gersh Kuntzman (ext 119) ing the kind of clutter caused by cir- firms, at least three PR firms, bottomless This was the second, not the first, large cular and menu delivery services). Silver messed up Adding 100 million vehicle miles of SENIOR EDITOR /PRODUCTION MANAGER pockets and many slick avenues to buy off neighborhood meeting about the need to Vince DiMiceli (ext 125) We hope everyone appreciates To the editor, travel will increase congestion and lost pro- our free home delivery, but realize political and community support. downzone Fourth Avenue. ductivity for motorists and truckers, will in- GO BROOKLYN/BROOKLYN BRIDE EDITOR I wrote this letter to Assembly Speaker Lisa J. Curtis (ext 131) there are exceptions to every rule. A political fix was established from day Your article said that only state Sen. 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Spike Lee, and the media Craig Blankenhorn / HBO being whacked. In fact, NIGHTLIFE can cut both ways. a little more culture and excitement into his or her frenzy that’s sure to ignite Imperioli’s so smitten “It’s weird,” he said. “[Fans] have enough life — without spending a fortune — might want to in April when the final season of “The Sopra- with the woman, with whom he raises Isabel- Death of Fashion, La Dolce Vita and Gen- trouble seeing me play something other than check out the Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Sat- erals and Majors will perform at Southpaw (125 nos” kicks off, one can’t help but wonder: la, 16, Vadim, 9, and David, 5, that his band Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope) on what I play, let alone going into another ven- urday series. why is Imperioli launching a rock band now? is partly named for her. (“Vita,” Imperioli ex- Jan. 5. Doors open at 8 pm. Cover is $8. For ue — especially rock ‘n’ roll — because peo- On the first Saturday of each month, the Brook- With a steady gaze, and some fidgeting plained, is her Russian nickname that he’s more information, call (718) 230-0236 or visit the ple have very strong opinions about music… lyn Museum opens for a free evening of art, music, with his cell phone, the Tribeca-based actor also had tattooed on his body.) Web site www.spsounds.com. “But in other ways, it’s great because dancing and film. Although the lineup changes explained that in part, his decision was based Imperioli, 40, also revealed that LDV’s set they’re willing to check you out because they each month, the program always runs from 5 pm to on “living through that 9-11 shit.” list primarily consists of original songs — writ- Tighe, whom he describes as “great musicians. know you from someplace else.” 11 pm, allowing guests plenty of time to attend that “Life is obviously short, and I’ve been ten by the band as well as material Imperioli “I’m not doing this for any other reason be- Summing up their sound as New York-in- night’s special events, as well as to study its perma- wanting to do this for so long,” he said in an penned between 1986 and 1996. (While that sides I found guys I really like to play with, fluenced, raw and gritty, the trio is humming nent collections and tour the museum’s latest exhi- exclusive interview with GO Brooklyn last might sound like a unibrow-raising confession, and I’m passionate about what we create.” with excitement over their upcoming South- bitions, such as “Annie Leibovitz: A Photograph- week, revealing that 16 years have passed Imperioli is no stranger to the world of letters. And while Imperioli does find some simi- paw date, where they will share the bill with er’s Life, 1990-2005” which includes snapshots of since he’s played with a band. He has written five episodes of “The Sopranos” larities between acting and rocking onstage, Death of Fashion and Generals and Majors. her family alongside portraits of celebrities, such as The Emmy Award-winning actor shares and written and executive produced Spike “The audience is not as reverential as they Rather than focusing their energies on long- Jamie Foxx (pictured). the limelight with fellow LDV members, Lee’s “Summer of Sam.”) are in the theater, where they’re afraid to term achievements like contracts and record- The first program of 2007 is scheduled for Jan. 6 drummer Olmo Tighe and Park Slope bassist “In some ways, [my songs] were written in a open a piece of candy,” he observed. “Part of ing CDs, the LDV boys are just happy for and features a performance by French guitarist Elijah Amitin. different time period,” said Imperioli, who the rush is that your ass is on the line ... another opportunity to share their music. Stephane Wrembel and screenings of the contem- Although Christopher may not have been claims to be a fan of Robert Pollard of Guided There’s no hiding, no second take.” Said Imperioli, “The goal is just to have a porary classics, “The Muppets Take Manhattan” lucky in love on “The Sopranos,” it seems by Voices and Courtney Love. But Imperioli’s While some would assume that his “Sopra- lot of people there on the fifth. If we do, I’ll and “Moulin Rouge!” as well as the 1944 crime safe to say that Imperioli’s real-life wife, Vic- material is being arranged now with Amitin and nos” fame would draw a crowd of adoring fans be very happy on the sixth.” thriller, “Laura.” Brooklyn College film historian Foster Hirsch is expected to introduce the film-noir masterpiece and lead a question-and-answer discussion afterwards. winning playwright decided to write a play Guests can also view iconic New York images every day for a year, and beginning last from the museum’s permanent collection alongside month, all of her plays began to be simulta- curator Terry Carbone and discuss the institution’s neously performed in various locations current exhibition, “Tigers of Wrath: Watercolors across the country as part of the “365 of Walton Ford” with art scholar Elizabeth Watson. Days/365 Plays National Play Festival.” After an evening of intellectual stimulation, visi- What’s in store Parks made a name for herself as both a tors are invited to get their waltz on with the Vien- screenwriter and a playwright. Among her na Festival Orchestra at the museum’s Winter Ball. Parks play fest pops up in odd locales most memorable projects have been penning Brooklyn Museum’s Target First Saturdays the scripts of Spike Lee’s 1996 film “Girl takes place at 200 Eastern Parkway at Washing- By Jovana Rizzo church, a bar, an art gallery and a home sup- 6”; the 2005 ABC television movie “Their ton Avenue in Prospect Heights from 5 pm to 11 for The Brooklyn Papers ply store — will transform into theatrical Eyes Were Watching God,” produced by pm. Admission is free (although some programs venues for the New York City premieres of Oprah Winfrey; and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize- require tickets) and parking is $4. For more infor- ll the world’s a stage — even your local seven of Suzan-Lori Parks’s plays, produced winning play “Topdog/Underdog.” mation, call (718) 638-5000 or visit the museum’s Applause and spatulas: Polybe + Seats will perform seven kitchenware store. by Polybe + Seats theater company. Polybe + Seats is producing the eighth Web site at www.brooklynmuseum.org. new plays in Williamsburg’s the Brooklyn Kitchen on Jan. 6. A Brooklyn locations — including a In November 2002, the Pulitzer Prize- See PLAYS on page 11 — Karen Butler Featuring 2 Days of 10 Big Screens & New Years Celebrate 35 Flat Screens Celebrations! Award-Winning Wings New Year’s Eve The Hottest Sports Action STARTING December 31, 2006 . . . With a Sumptuous Four-course Dinner at

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A Champagne Primer Baci & Abbracci (204 Grand St. between Driggs and Bedford avenues in Williamsburg) accepts American Express, By Darrin Siegfried MasterCard and Visa. Entrees: $14-$24. Lunch and dinner are served daily. Brunch is available on weekends, from Taste of 2006 noon to 4 pm. Subway: L to Bedford Av- ew Year’s Eve approaches, and there Different Styles enue. For reservations and more information, call (718) 599-6599 or visit the is no better way to toast the coming Most Champagne is labeled “Brut” for Reflections on the Top 10 meals & trends Web site, www.baciabbracciny.com. New Year than with a glass of N dry, meaning low in sugar. Even dryer in Black Pearl (833 Union St. be- Champagne. Here is a quick guide to under- taste is “Brut Zero”, Brut Sauvage” or “Brut tween Sixth and Seventh avenues in standing this most magical of drinks! enjoyed throughout the borough this year Park Slope) accepts American Express, Natural”, and these are Champagnes to Diner’s Club, Discover, MasterCard and What is Champagne which no sugar has been added after the sec- Visa. Entrees: $12-$28. The restaurant ond fermentation. “Demi Sec” is “off dry”, By Tina Barry serves dinner daily. Brunch is available Champagne is both a region of France and for The Brooklyn Papers on weekends, from 11 am to 3:30 pm. showing a faint bit of sweetness, and is fine Subway: R to Union Street. For reserva- the name of the wines made there. Only tions, call (718) 857-2004. sparkling wines made in Champagne are with brunch or at the end of a meal with t’s been another good year of eating. fruit or plain cookies. Champagnes marked Cocotte (337 Fifth Ave. at Fourth Champagnes. Other sparkling wines can be Yes, 2006 has brought a surfeit of Street in Park Slope) accepts Master- quite good, but they are not Champagne. A “Doux” are sweet and, while hard to find, culinary riches to Brooklyn — and Card and Visa. Entrees: $13-$23. The I restaurant serves dinner Tuesday are well worth the effort of locating, for they with them, of course, a few trends. small amount of non-sparkling wine is made through Sunday. Brunch is available, in Champagne and carries the designation are wonderful wines to drink with desserts. Nearly every chef I spoke to is “sourc- from 11 am to 3 pm, on weekends. “Coteaux Champenoise”, but we will con- ing mostly organic ingredients from Closed Mondays. Subway: F to 9th Champagne Houses and Vintage Street; R, M to Fourth Avenue. For centrate on the more familiar “Bubbly”. sustainable, small farms.” more information or reservations, call Each Champagne house has its own style, And more small-plate eateries (718) 832-6848 or visit the Web site, The climate of the Champagne district is which shows through in each of its different opened — some that actually serve www.cocotterestaurant.com. cool and the grapes grown there, even when single portions on small plates. fully ripe, have a pronounced, crisp acidity. wines. I feel that the best expression of the Lunetta (116 Smith St. between individual style of any Champagne house This year also saw foie gras-topped Dean and Pacific streets in Boerum Hill) This trait is what gives the wines of designer burgers taking their place beside accepts American Express, MasterCard can be best tasted in its Non Vintage Brut, and Visa. Dishes: $3-$16. Dinner is Champagne their clean, focused tastes and classic cheeseburgers; and pastry chefs available Tuesday through Sunday. what makes them such a wonderful match which is made by blending wines from are realizing just how good it is to pair Closed Mondays. Subway: F or G to with so many foods. dozens of vineyards and several years. The something sweet with something salty. Bergen Street. For more information, wine maker uses these wines he way an artist call (718) 488-6269 or visit the Web Champagne can be made from any one, Narrowing the group of great eateries site, www.lunetta-ny.com. uses colors, to make a finished wine that will that I reviewed for GO Brooklyn over the or any combination of only three grapes: Melt (440 Bergen St. between Fifth taste the same, year after year. Non Vintage past 12 months down to 10 for this annu- Chardonnay, Pinot Noir (which produces and Sixth avenues in Park Slope) ac- Champagne makes up about 95% of all the al year-in-review roundup wasn’t easy, so cepts MasterCard and Visa. Entrees: the red wines of Burgundy) and Pinot $16-$23. The restaurant serves dinner Champagne made, and represents the best I added an honorable mention section to Meunier. Champagnes made from daily and brunch on weekends, from 11 value. A vintage is declared in Champagne acknowledge talented runner-ups. am to 4 pm. Subway: 2, 3 to Bergen Chardonnay only (a white grape) are often But don’t assume anything by the or- Street. For reservations, call (718) 230- labeled “Blanc de Blanc”. If made from the only in years when conditions are outstand- 5925. ing, and the wine from the best vineyards is der of the places listed. Like a good other two, black grapes, “Blanc des Noirs” mother, I’m not picking favorites among Nouvelle (8716 Third Ave. be- often appears on the label, meaning a white bottled without adding wines from other the group. I’ll just say I admire each tween 87th and 88th streets in Bay years. Ridge) accepts American Express, Dis- wine from black grapes. The black grapes are restaurant equally. cover, MasterCard and Visa. Entrees: $12-$22. “Omikase” is $50 for five pressed gently and their skins are not left in I fell for Baci & Abbracci, which is courses. The restaurant serves lunch contact with the juice, so the wine is white. all “hip Williamsburg” on the inside yet and dinner daily. Subway: R to 86th Pink or Rosé Champagnes are most often reflects the soul of an Italian grandmoth- Street. For more information or reser- made by adding a splash of red still wine to er in the cooking. I sat in the restaurant’s vations, call (718) 238-8250 or visit the the nearly finished wine in the bottle. Sunday December 31st roomy garden one balmy summer night, Web site www.nouvellerestaurant.com. drank wine and shared the best pizza Palo Santo (652 Union St. between Champagne is unique in that is goes at Red White & Bubbly I’ve had all year. Pizzaiolo Frank Maste- Fourth and Fifth avenues in Park Slope) through a second fermentation in the bottle. accepts cash only. Entrees: $15-$25. lione turned out an ethereal, char-crusted Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served This is the “Champagne Method”, also beauty with a crisp, flavorful crust and daily. Brunch is available, from 10 am called the “Methode Champenoise” and to 4 pm, on weekends. Subway: R to smoked mozzarella, pancetta and Union Street. For more information, “Mothode Traditionelle”. The wine maker caramelized onion toppings. call (718) 636-6311 or visit the Web adds a small amount of yeast and a touch of Join us between 2 and 6 PM to meet Just thinking of that pie makes my site, www.palosanto.us. sugar for the yeast to convert into alcohol our good friend Mario Rinaldi, and to heart thump. Porchetta (241 Smith St. at Dou- and carbon dioxide gas. This is where taste the Champagnes from the house of Former chef Franco Migliorine glass Street in Boerum Hill) accepts Champagne gets its bubbles from. After the (Stephano Scala is now behind the American Express, MasterCard and Paul Goerg that he imports. Paul Goerg Mango / Greg Visa. Entrees: $17-$20. The restaurant yeast has done its job, the sediment it leaves stove) turned out penne with a briny an- serves dinner daily. Each evening, a Champagnes range from a bone-dry Brut chovy sauce that was as bracing as a three-course, $25 prix-fixe dinner is of- behind is removed from the bottles in a fered. Brunch is available on weekends, process called dégorgement. Dryness or Absolut, through Blanc de Blancs, Cuvée dive into the drink. from 10 am to 4 pm. Subway: F, G to sweetness is then adjusted by the (optional) Lionel Hampton, Brut Tradition (my cur- People appreciate a good deed, espe- Bergen Street. For reservations, call cially if it means offering fine food to an (718) 237-9100. addition of a small amount of sugar. The rent favorite!), a wonderful Cuvée Fabergé Papers The Brooklyn familiar cork and wire bail is attached, the underserved community. The locals of Egg-cellent combination: In Bay Ridge, Nouvelle’s chef Andy Yang com- Royal’s Downtown (215 Union St. and a delightful Demi-Sec. between Clinton and Henry streets in foil capsule added, the bottle is labeled and Ditmas Park let Allison McDowell and bined several kinds of sushi with lobster, caviar and a quail egg to create Gary Jonas know just how happy they Carroll Gardens) accepts American Ex- packed and shipped, ready for your enjoy- Fine wines, great spirits, no attitude! his “Mission 06.” press, MasterCard and Visa. Entrees: $18- were with The Farm on Adderley, by $32. The restaurant serves dinner Tues- ment. (Excellent Champagnes, too!) packing the place every evening since its day through Saturday. Closed Sundays and Mondays. Subway: F, G to Carroll launch in July. “Our customers would revolt if we ing the restaurant, Yang was the execu- Street. For more information or reserva- Chef Tom Kearney’s summer menu ever got rid of it,” says McDowell. tive chef at Nobu in Los Angeles, tions, call (718) 923-9866 or visit the Web featured a cauliflower soup with a I like Japanese food as much as the owned by Nobu Matsuhisa. site, www.royalsdowntown.com. 211 Fifth Avenue plump oyster fritter that was all about next girl, but by last spring, I had con- I ordered the “Omikase,” or chef’s The Farm on Adderley (1108 the perfect harmonizing of the two in- sumed one too many ho-hum designer choice, a tasting menu of what seemed Cortelyou Rd. between Stratford and (bet. Union & President) PARK SLOPE Westminster roads in Ditmas Park) ac- gredients. And he decided that enough rolls. That’s the reason it took me a few like 200 dishes. (Reality brings the cepts American Express, Discover, Mas- Open: Mon-Sat, 10am-10pm, Sun, 12-8pm was enough with banal desserts and put months to get over to Nouvelle, a pan- number down to a still-hefty six.) terCard and Visa. Entrees: $11-$16. The something on the menu that knocked Asian eatery that opened in September. There’s one dish that I doubt I’ll for- restaurant serves dinner daily. Brunch is www.redwhiteandbubbly.com • 636-9463 available on weekends, from 11 am to 4 diners off their mismatched wooden I was sorry I waited so long. get (and the way I eat, that’s saying a pm. Subway: Q to Cortelyou Road. For seats: A silky chocolate mousse with a This modern, Bay Ridge restaurant lot): The “Mission 06.” The pieces of more information or reservations, call dollop of truly salty, soft whipped and lounge serves as the showcase for raw tuna, striped bass and Spanish (718) 287-3101 or visit the Web site at www.thefarmonadderley.com. cream. You can still order the dessert. chef Andy Yang’s dishes. Before join- See TASTE on page 9

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thoughtfully prepared and creative. And inside, it’s like TASTE... stumbling into a quirky, old countryside inn with a roaring Continued from page 8 fireplace. mackerel resembled a flower Chef Alex McWilliams and tasted as if it bloomed in (who has since moved on and the mouth. Iced with a thin been replaced by his sous layer of black caviar, a small chef, Omar Clemente, former- mound of sweet lobster meat ly of Le Bernardin) prepared a and a quail egg, it was pure risotto scattered with white decadence and pure pleasure. truffles and dusted with (Yang is now a consultant Parmesan. It was rich, yet to the restaurant. The new silky and light with an aroma chef, Steve Ling, executes both woodsy and sharp. many of Yang’s recipes.) I loved it. There were sad faces on I also fell for McWilliams’s Smith Street when Adam Shepard pulled the plug on Taku, his well-respected but under-patronized Ja- panese restaurant. It turns out, he’s as good at bold Italian Callan / Tom fare as he is at Asian cuisine. Lunetta, his small plate eatery, opened in the same

Smith Street location Papers file The Brooklyn in October. Like its predecessor, Lunetta Say cheese: Goat cheese cheese- possesses that dis- cake at Carroll Gardens’ Royal’s tinctly Brooklyn, Downtown. homey-yet-chic am- bience. His artichokes, sliced goat cheese cheesecake with a into razor thin shards and per- swirl of pomegranate and fumed with rosemary, are lavender syrup. fried so crisp they crackle, Sea bass, wrapped in thin then disappear, on the tongue. potato slices then roasted, was And, once you’ve tasted his an iconic dish in the 1980s. fried chicken with sweet and tart I’d almost forgotten about it, “agrodolce” sauce, you’ll never until this summer when I no- think of the bird as something to ticed the entree on the menu pair with biscuits and mashed at Black Pearl, another ex- potatoes again. cellent Park Slope restaurant Not far from Lunetta on that opened in November Smith Street is Porchetta, an 2005. Chef Alfredo Duarte amusing Italian eatery that seared the filet to crisp the opened in July. Inspired by the potato cloak, and then slow- restaurant’s ingratiating mascot, roasted it until the center was chef Jason Neroni served an like moist silk. Caramelized unctuous fried pork belly with a fennel and leeks served as a brittle crust, over nutty, “melted” licorice-tinged bed for the cauliflower. He deepened the fish. It’s still on the menu and dish’s flavor with dried figs marinated in red wine. Equally lush was a “raviolo,” a single, loosely assembled ravioli filled with

sauteed mushrooms. Mango / Greg He topped the pasta square with a poached egg and a grating of sharp

Parmesan cheese. Papers The Brooklyn I’d almost forgot- Soup’s on: Chef Adam Ross, of ten about in Cocotte Park Slope’s Cocotte, scores with Park Slope when I heard owners Chris- his pea soup. tine and Bill Snell hired a new executive chef, worth a trip over. Adam Ross. My visit there That’s the Top 10 for 2006. last spring, followed by sever- Whether they made the list or al more over the months, re- were included in the honorable minded me of why this place mention below, all the talent- continues to be such a gem. ed chefs who fed me so well Ross’s bowl of fresh, slightly this year receive my thanks. chilled pea soup was like in- haling the scent of a dew- Honorable mentions sparkled garden. He played up Bay Ridge’s Amelia’s Ris- the sweetness of the vegetable torante … because chef Ken with a strip of salty, brittle Deiner is in the kitchen turn- pancetta. ing out exuberant, sophisticat- A location off of Fifth and ed Italian fare; Gribouille in Seventh avenues, Park Slope’s Williamsburg … for its hearty, two restaurant rows, may be the French classics that include a reason that the American bistro, robust hanger steak “au Melt, doesn’t get as much buzz poivre” and lush potato gratin; as more conspicuously placed Provence en Boite on Smith eateries. Chef Brian Bunger’s Street … for the “Le Jean- ALL pan-seared shrimp with jalapeño-cucum- TICKETS ber relish; his opulent, ONLY crisp, quail with foie gras; and fabulously $12! crunchy frites with aioli made great eating. (The new executive chef, Kevin Mil- Callan / Tom isauskas, started in November; his menu Justin Roberts has similar American bistro-style dishes.) and the Another Park Slope Papers The Brooklyn Gem of a dish: Park Slope’s Black winner that opened in Naptime Players July is Palo Santo. Pearl restaurant serves sea bass on Not Ready for At the helm of this a bed of fennel and leeks. eclectic Latin eatery and wine bar is chef-owner Jacques burger,” a pile of short Sunday, January 7, 2007 at 2:00 PM Jacques Gautier. His smoky ribs, black truffles and foie tuna — seared just until the gras that’s worth every penny With a folk-rock style that has been likened to James Taylor, Justin Roberts has quickly become edges are charred, and part- of its $25 tab; and Habana one of the hippest children’s musicians on the scene. Disney’s Family Fun Magazine hails him nered with lightly dressed Outpost in Fort Greene … string beans and radish slivers for owner Sean Meenan, who as “one of the most exciting children’s artists out there...it’s because he really gets kids!” — is an example of the chef’s puts his money where his insouciant style of ingredient mouth is and does good for the Walt Whitman Theatre, one block from the junction of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues. On-site paid parking available. pairing. community in so many ways. Like Melt, Royal’s Down- (His solar-powered restau- town may be too hidden rant/flea market is equipped away for its own good. Situat- with a smoothie-making “bike ed on a shady, brownstone- blender” that you have to see Last minute plans? lined street in Carroll Gardens, to believe.) 2006-2007 SEASON the elegant bistro is a bit too I have to acknowledge Fair- For a roundup of restaurants celebrating far from the area’s action to at- way, the mother of all super- Program support provided by: tract much foot traffic. Too markets, for its fantastic, well- bad for those who miss this priced selection of everything, New Year’s Eve, visit www.BrooklynPapers.com spot. Once there, the service is and a waterside cafe that offers pampering without being in- an unparalleled view of Lady Tickets and info: and click on “Brooklyn Dining Guide.” trusive, and the food is Liberty and the city beyond. www.BrooklynCenterOnline.org (718) 951-4500 10 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 December 30, 2006 Recycling Tips for the Holidays! After all the gifts have been opened, here are some tips to reduce New York City’s waste: Recycle your holiday cards and promotional mail This time of year, we get inundated with mail and catalogs. When you’re done with these, recycle them with your mixed paper and cardboard. Do this year round with all unwanted mail! Recycle paper gift wrap and cardboard boxes Paper gift wrap and cardboard tubes are recyclable. So are the cardboard boxes that held your presents. Recycle these along with your other mixed paper and cardboard.

Recycle your tree! Remove all lights, ornaments, stands and plastic bags. Trees with lights and tinsel can’t be composted and will be collected as trash.

Sanitation Collection: MulchFest: Friday, January 5 Saturday and Sunday, thru Tuesday, January 6 & 7 January 16 10 am – 2 pm The Department of Sanitation will collect Bring your clean Christmas tree to clean Christmas trees left at the curb designated parks, where it can be chipped on the dates shown above. into mulch. Bring a bag if you want to take away mulch for your own use. Clean trees are chipped, mixed with fall leaves, and recycled into rich For MulchFest locations, call 311 or visit compost for NYC’s parks, community www.nyc.gov/parks. gardens and residents like you!

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City of New York, Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor Department of Sanitation, John J. Doherty, Commissioner 12/06 Call 311 or visit www.nyc.gov/sanitation December 30, 2006 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM AWP 11

Dolce Vita (featuring Michael Imperioli of HBO’s “The Sopranos”), PLAYS... Generals and Majors, 9 pm, $8; Jan. 6: The Re-CONNECT Party with Michele Louis and all her friends and guest DJs, 9 pm, $5. Continued from page 7 BROOKLYN Tea Lounge week of the New York project, from 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 789- Jan. 3 through Jan. 7. 2762, www.tealoungeny.com. Jan. 4: Shot X Shot, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: Brewed by “From the beginning, we wanted Noon, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, FREE. to do all seven plays as a collage in one evening in a collage of venues,” Two Boots 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 499- said Stacey McMath, Polybe + 3253, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. Seats’s producing director, who is di- Nightlife Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve Bash with the Brooklyn Boogaloo Blowout, recting play numbers 50 through 56 Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan 10 pm, FREE. of the 365. “[We picked] places in Union Hall Brooklyn where theater doesn’t usu- BAY RIDGE (Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, ally happen. We wanted unconven- (718) 638-4400, www.unionhallny.com. Kitty Kiernan’s Dec. 30: Wasabassco Burlesque’s Night Before New Year’s Eve tional locations to put them in, to 9715 Third Ave. at 97th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) Show, 9 pm, $7; Dec. 31: New Year’s Party, 7 pm, $10; Jan. 1: Harry show that the plays can be done any- 921-0217, www.kittykiernans.com. & the Potters, Jason Anderson & the Best, Animal Hospital, 5 pm, where and any place can be a theater, Dec. 30: The Gerald Donnelly, 9 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: New $10; Jan. 3: Secret Science Club presents Night of the Year’s Eve Party, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 6: Paul Zumo, 9 pm, FREE. Doppelganger with neurobiologist David Sulzer and a performance you just have to have a right set up by The Spinozas, 7:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 4: The Curtains, Inlets, 8 pm, and desire to do it.” The Salty Dog $8; Jan. 6: Tim Fite, O’Death, Beat the Devil, 8 pm, $10. In addition to the performance 7509 Third Ave. at 75th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) Inspired location: Among the unusual venues Polybe + Seats will be 238-9260, www.saltydogbar.com. PROSPECT HEIGHTS spaces’ neighborhood feeling, the Wednesdays: Karaoke Night, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 4: Dirty performers might be some of your staging New York premieres of plays by Suzan-Lori Parks is Green- Jersey, 10:30 pm, FREE. The Backroom neighbors. Polybe + Seats actors point Reformed Church on Milton Street. (At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue in Prospect The Wicked Monk Heights, (718) 622-7035, www.freddysbackroom.com. Elaine O’Brien and Katya Schapiro 8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 921- Dec. 30: The Brooklyn What, 9:30 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve live in Williamsburg, while Andrew ended with “Call Girl,” which is 0601, www.wickedmonk.com. Blow Out with The Divas, 9:30 pm, Scumbo, 11:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 1: Gilchrist is a Fort Greene resident. simply about “two guys who live to- Dec. 30: Atomic Dog, Time TBD, $TBD; Dec. 31: New Stand-up Comedy, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 2: Diorama Lodge, 8 pm, FREE; THEATER Year’s Eve celebration, 9 pm, $15 before midnight, $TBD Jan. 3: Cecil, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 4: Old Time Jam with Zot’s Dream, Each night, all seven plays will be gether, a woman who calls a lot, and after midnight. 9:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: Karl Walters Jr. Trio, 8 pm, Woody Guthery performed. Polybe + Seats, like all Polybe + Seats presents the the problems that that creates in their and Pete Segar Tribute Night, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 6: Paris Gun, 9:30 pm, Caveman Go, 10:30 pm, Brendon Mazur, 11:30 pm, FREE. of the participating theater compa- eighth week of “365 Days/365 life.” BEDFORD-STUYVESANT Plays” on Jan. 3 at 8 pm at Union- nies, had creative control of the pro- Docs [322 Union Ave. at South First Because many of the plays are Food 4 Thought RED HOOK duction’s outcome. Street in Williamsburg, www.union- about American life in general, docs.org]; Jan. 4 at 8 pm at Green- 445 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at MacDonough Street in “The plays range in length from Polybe + Seats is hoping that these Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 443-4160. The Hook point Reformed Church [138 Milton one page to five pages,” said Mc- shows will attract general Brook- Saturdays: Open Mic, 9 pm, $6; Mondays: Fade to Black 18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street in Red Hook, (718) 797- St. at Manhattan Avenue in Green- Mondays a.k.a. Movie Night, 8 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: 3007, www.thehookmusic.com. Math. “Some are very simple, some point, (718) 383-5941, www.green- lynites in addition to the usual fans Game Night, 7 pm, FREE. Dec. 30: The More Escapes, 10 pm, Live Girls, 11 pm, $8; Dec. 31: are allegorical. A lot of the people pointchurch.org]; Jan. 5 at 8 pm at of theater. Stuck on Earth Entertainment and Illusion Productions presents A Pete’s Candy Store [709 Lorimer St. Solomon’s Porch Trip to Neverland, 10 pm, $30; Jan. 6: Jen Urban and the Box, 8 have chosen to do all kinds of differ- at Richardson Street in Williamsburg, “We were thinking about a core ‘Glam & Grit’ at Galapagos: On Dec. 31 at 9 pm, All Grown Up, 8:45 pm, El Jefe vs. Demons, 9:30 pm, Bless the (718) 302-3770, www.petescandys- 307 Stuyvesant Ave. at Halsey Street in Bedford- pm, Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg will Nation, 10:15 pm, Mia Riddle and her Band, 11 pm, Chief, 11:45 ent things with them. It was very fun audience that knows each venue for Stuyvesant, (718) 919-8001. tore.com]; Jan. 6 at 8 pm at The ring in the new year with a burlesque per- pm, 6 Ex, 12:30 am, $10. to be able to [locally] premiere a Brooklyn Kitchen [616 Lorimer St. at its intended purpose to come to it Tuesdays: Open Mic, 8 pm, $5 (ladies FREE before 10 pm). Suzan-Lori Parks play and to have Skillman Avenue in Williamsburg, and to see theater in this place that formance by the Peach Tartes with DJ Boy Hope and Anchor the artistic license to do whatever (718) 389-2982, www.thebrook- they know, and experience [theater] BOERUM HILL Racer on the turntables. 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in Red Hook, (718) 237-0276. lynkitchen.com]; and Jan. 7 at 3 pm Thursdays: Karaoke hosted by Dropsy Dozzman, 9 pm, FREE; you like with them.” and 7 pm at The Public Theater [425 in their home as an intersection be- Hank’s Saloon Fridays and Saturdays: Karaoke hosted by drag queen Kay Sera, 9 The first play Polybe + Seats de- Lafayette St. at Astor Place in Man- tween the venue and the plays,” Mc- 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, (718) Dec. 31: Emile and the Mandingo Kings and DJ Moh, 10 pm, $10 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: Karaoke Party with Dropsy Dozzman and veloped was “Here We Go,” written hattan, (212) 539-8500, www.pub- Math said. “We’re working with 625-8003, www.hankssaloon.com. ($50 includes prix-fixe dinner). friends, 9 pm, FREE. by Parks on Jan. 1, 2003. lictheater.org]. There is a suggested each venue to get the word out to Sundays: Shotgun Shack, 6 pm, Sean Kershaw and the New donation of $5 for all performances. Jack Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Mobscenity, 10 Reign SHEEPSHEAD BAY pm, FREE; Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve with Sean Kershaw and “It’s the first play of the New Year For more information and to reserve their constituents who wouldn’t ordi- 46 Washington Ave. at Flushing Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) and really has only about six lines of tickets, visit www.polybeandseats.org narily come to see theater. The goal the New Jack Ramblers with special guests, 10 pm, FREE; 643-7344, www.myspace.com/reignlounge. Anyway Cafe or e-mail [email protected]. Jan. 4: Black Yodel, 10 pm, FREE. text,” said McMath. “We’ve turned it of the venues is for people to come Saturdays: “Your Space Saturdays” with DJ Hud, 11 pm, FREE 1602 Gravesend Neck Road at East 16th Street in Sheeps- before 12:30 am, $20 after 12:30 am. head Bay, (718) 934-5988, www.anywaycafe.com. into a dance piece. The actors wear to them who may not have a high BRIGHTON BEACH Mondays: Open Mic, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Jazzy funk with Karin hats and a wig that are in various level of exposure of theater. Sputnik Okada and guests, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Grace Garland, 9 ways traded between people, and at but never met each other,” said Mc- “[Polybe + Seats] has a strong National Restaurant 262 Taaffe Pl. at DeKalb Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 398- pm, FREE; Thursdays: Susan Tobocman, 9 pm, FREE; Fridays: Eric 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Second Street in 6666, www.barsputnik.com. Nicholas, 9 pm, FREE. the end, the hat becomes engrained as Math. “[The play shows] their first Brooklyn-based audience, so I think Brighton Beach, (718) 646-1225, Saturdays: French Beats International, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: part of [the character’s] personality, meeting, and is also about New that our core audience will be a www.come2national.com. Around the Way and Electric Soul with DJ Kwame Akbar, 9 pm, Crossroads Saloon and they leave with different hats.” Year’s resolutions.” strong part of that, but we also want Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance show, 9 pm, FREE FREE; Thursdays: DJ Nicole Leone, 9 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: New 2079 Coney Island Ave. at Kings Highway in Sheepshead (with $65 prix-fixe dinner); Fridays: Live Russian music and Year’s Eve with Afrokinetic featuring Chris Annibell & Amon on per- Bay, (718) 339-9393. Many of the other plays slated to Parks was in a more absurdist neighborhood audiences. We’ve dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $50 prix-fixe dinner); cussion, and Vikter Duplaix, Waajeed, Malena Perez, and DJ OBaH, Saturdays and Fridays: Karaoke, 9 pm, FREE. be staged are snapshots of American mood on Jan. 4, 2003 when she been flyering and talking to local Sundays: Live Russian music and dance show, 7 pm, FREE 9 pm, $35 in advance, $40 at the door. (with $50 prix-fixe dinner). life, and McMath said American wrote “News is Here” about a cou- businesses, trying to get people to WILLIAMSBURG rock ‘n’ roll from the ’50s and ’60s ple who finds a baby and have to de- come to out.” FLATBUSH BROOKLYN HEIGHTS is mixed in with many of them. cide what to do with it: should they Not only is the “365 Days/365 Black Betty The Cornerstone Pub 366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, On Jan. 2, 2003, Parks wrote “We keep it, leave it alone or sell it? Plays” project trying to bring theater Magnetic Field 1502 Cortelyou Rd. at Marlborough Road in Flatbush, (718) (718) 599-0243, www.blackbetty.net. Are Fresh Out of Canned Laughter, Jan. 5, 2003’s play, “ ‘Star of In- to a new audience, but it also gives 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, 940-9037, www.cornerstonepub.com. Saturdays: DJ Concerned, 11 pm, FREE; Sundays: Brazilian Beat (718) 834-0069, www.magneticbrooklyn.com. Saturdays: Alegba & Friends, 9 pm, FREE (donation suggested); with DJ Sean Marquand and DJ Greg Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Get Some Off the Television.” dia’ takes place in sort of a the participating companies a fresh Dec. 30: The Miscreants, The Anything People, 8:30 pm, $6; Tuesdays: Dan Pratt Quartet, 9 pm, FREE (donation suggested); Rev. Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, 10:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: “It’s a story about a family who is slideshow,” said McMath. “There’s sense of importance. Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve at the Field with The A-Bones, The Thursdays: Stephane Wrembel, 8:30 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: New Hot Rocks, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: The Greenhouse with DJ Swingin’ Neckbreakers, The Great Gaylord, 8 pm, $15; Jan. Year’s Eve Party, 9 pm, FREE. MonkOne and DJs Emskee and MC G-man, 11 pm, FREE. living together at the present time. an emcee and a character who is the “The amazing idea [behind ‘365’] 3: Dick Swizzle’s Sudden Death Game Show, 8 pm, $5 per There’s a tired mom and a tired dad star of India. It’s a vaudeville kind of was to incorporate theater companies contestant; Jan. 4: Live band karaoke, 8 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: Vox Po p Galapagos Lungs of a Giant, The Exotic Profiles, 8 pm, $7. and a rambunctious kid, and it’s just piece.” and give opportunities to people who 1022 Cortelyou Road at Stratford Road in Flatbush, (718) 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 782- what one evening in their life is like, Vaudeville is followed by an alle- would never ordinarily premiere 940-2084, www.voxpopnet.net. 5188, www.galapagosartspace.com. CLINTON HILL Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack minimum; Dec. Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; Dec. 30: Commodore and how TV plays a part in that,” gorical play, called “Birth of Suzan-Lori Parks plays. It’s amazing 31: New Year’s Eve Open Mic! with Alexander Nixon of The Violets, Duchess, Jimes, The Way it Is, Rahu-Ketu, 7:30 pm, $7, In Progress, said McMath. Tragedy,” which is the annual cele- we got this opportunity,” said Mc- Dakar Cafe 7 pm, FREE with 2-drink minimum; Jan. 1: Tom Peters, 8 pm, FREE; 10 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: Glam & Grit — Burlesque by The Peach Jan. 3: John Nevins and friends, 8 pm, FREE; Jan. 4: Michael Tartes with DJ Boy Racer, 9 pm (early show), $30, Your 33 Black The next day, Parks wrote about bration of a tragic event, with Math. “We’re delighted to be doing 285 Grand St. at Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Hill, Nahmias, 8 pm, Kind Monitor, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: Comedian Scott (718) 398-8900, www.granddakar.com. Angels, 1 am (late show), $10, (Frontroom) Fuse with Jeremy Fogel, Blakeman with writer J. Freed, 7:30 pm, Ellsworth, 9 pm, FREE. 8 pm, $7, The Looseness, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 4: “Heroine Chic” fea- “two women named Mary who hap- tragedy as a personified character. this and to be bringing it to Brooklyn Sundays: DJ Contra Sounds, 6 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: turing DJs Sean Allen Fenn and Mike Dextro and Ark of Limbs & Kiss Songhai Djeli, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Live band, 10 pm, FREE; pened to live next door to each other Parks’s eighth week of writing ... We feel honored to be a part of it.” Kiss performing live, 10 pm, FREE before 11 pm, $5 after 11 pm; FORT GREENE Jan. 5: Crashin’ In and Bloodsugar present The Modern Temper, 11 pm, Shock Cinema, Midnight, The Mystic Underground, 1 am, Dear BAM Cafe Dead City, 2 am, $8; Jan. 6: “Open Wide,” The 2nd Annual Brooklyn Academy of Music, 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Galapagos Staff Show-Off Festival, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation. BLOOMING BABIES: Tiny tots are invited to Place in Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100 www.bam.org. Compiled learn about baby animals. Appropriate for Dec. 30: Charanga Soleil, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: Shakers n’ Bakers, 9 Laila Lounge ages 18 months to 2.5 years. $4, free for pm, FREE. members. 11 am to noon. Brooklyn Children’s 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) by Susan Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. Night of the Cookers 486-6791, www.lailalounge.com. COLONIAL CRAFTS: Lefferts Historic House Mondays: Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Blue Grass Tuesday, 9 Rosenthal Jay 767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Jezebel Music Showcase with an open hosts an arts and crafts session. 2:30 pm to (718) 797-1197. 3:30 pm. Children’s Corner, inside the mic, 7:30 pm, Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE; Fridays: OHM and spe- Where to Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Live jazz, 8 pm, cial guests, 9 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve 2007, 3 pm (doors park’s Willink entrance at the intersection Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine. 5 pm FREE; Fridays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve cel- open, 8 pm party starts), $10; Jan. 5: The White Noise Supre- SAT, DEC 30 of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard. ebration with DJ Ras, 9 pm, $30 in advance (includes a buffet and macists, 9 pm, $TBD. to 11 pm. Refreshments served. 7803 Third (718) 789-2822. Free. champagne toast at midnight). Ave., between 78th and 79th streets. (718) OUTDOORS AND TOURS 833-1700. Free. OTHER The Lucky Cat TARGET FIRST SATURDAY: at the Brooklyn GREENPOINT 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williamsburg, (718) 782- ICE SKATING: The Wollman Rink is open. $5, 0437, www.theluckycat.com. $3 seniors and children. $5.50 skate rental. Museum. Learn to waltz with Stepping Out WED, JAN 3 Dance Studio. Films, gallery talks, family Club Europa Tuesdays: Jezebel Music Open Mic Night hosted by Dave Cuomo, 10 am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm; 7 pm to 10 7 pm, FREE, Organ Grinder Tuesday, 10 pm, FREE; Dec. 30: Kats, pm. Prospect Park. Access through the art-making, and live music. Family movie is 98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) HERE WE GO: Polybe + Seats presents 383-5723, www.europaclub.com. 8:30 pm, Pre-NYE Warm-up featuring The Hidden Ratio, The Parkside/Ocean avenues entrance or the “Muppets Take Manhattan” (1984). Classic Spores, and guest DJ Cloak & Dagger, 10 pm, $TBD; Dec. 31: The “Here We Go: 365 Days/ 365 Plays, Week Saturdays: VIP Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after Lincoln Road/Ocean Avenue entrance. noir film is “The Naked City” (1948). 5 pm New Year’s Eve Celebration, 9 pm, $TBD. (718) 287-5252. 8.” $5 suggested donation. 8 pm. Union to 11 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638- 10:30 pm; Tuesdays: Karaoke Night, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Sexy Docs, 322 Union St. (212) 967-7555. 5000. Free. Progressive/Dance party, 10 pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after INTRO TO BIRDWATCHING: Audubon 10:30 pm; Dec. 31: Sylwester 2006, a New Year’s Eve Party with Northsix Society takes you on a tour of Prospect EAT FOR ENERGY: Nutrition support for the active mover, hosted by the Pilates Brazilian group Samba Novo and DJ Berni spinning all night, 9 pm, 66 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 599- Park. Find out why the park has been des- $100 at a table, $60 at the bar (and $4 processing fee per person). 5103, www.northsix.com. ignated an important bird area. Noon to THURS, JAN 4 Garage. Lecture helps participants to stay lean, decrease bloating, avoid negative Dec. 30: (Downstairs) Mind Eraser, War Hungry, Meltdown, Staring 1:30 pm. Enter park at Lincoln Road and WINTER MIXER: Post-holiday festivity. Heart Club Exit Problem, 9 pm, $8, (Upstairs) The Sword, Stinking Lizaveta, Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. effect of sugar, and enjoy positive effect of Motherboar, 9 pm, $10 in advance, $12 day of the show; Dec. 31: of Brooklyn hosts a mixer. After-hour office fat. $35. Noon to 2 pm. 291 Eighth St., 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence hosts the mingling, trolley riding, and hot cider and (718) 349-6969, www.club-exit.com. The Slip, Meowskers, 9 pm, $25; Jan. 5: The Fiery Furnaces, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. Reser- Emergency Party, Michael Mayham and the Mike, 9 pm, $15. Metro Tour Service and takes a walk malt wine sipping. 6:45 pm. Heart of Saturdays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, $15 (ladies FREE until 11 pm); through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and vations necessary. (718) 768-1235. Brooklyn offices, 789 Washington Ave. PROSPECT PARK IN LIGHTS: Holiday light- Fridays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: “Top Secret,” a Brooklyn Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. RSVP needed. (718) 638-7700. Free. New Year’s Eve Party with a James Bond theme with DJs Cedrick Pete’s Candy Store Meet at Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, 333 ing installation, with performers represent- / Gregory Cross / Gregory BK & Harry with special guests Chris & Tony DiAngelis, 9 pm, $40 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in Williamsburg, (718) Adams St. (718) 789-0430. ing the best of Brooklyn’s diverse ethnic in advance, $50 day of the show. 302-3770, www.petescandystore.com. and cultural communities. 5:30 pm to 7 DISCOVER TOUR: Explore the secrets of FRI, JAN 5 Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, FREE; Dec. 30: The Parking Lots, nature with naturalists from the Prospect pm. Free hot chocolate and candy sticks. 9 pm, I Feel Tractor, 10 pm, So L’il, 11 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: Drive Like Bartel-Pritchard Circle, Prospect Park. (718) PARK SLOPE Park Audubon Center. 3 pm to 4 pm. Enter HERE WE GO: Polybe + Seats presents “Here July, 8:30 pm, Shot Heard Round the World, 9:30 pm, TBD, 10:30 park at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue. 965-8999. Free. pm, FREE; Jan. 1: Monday Evening Stand-up, 7:30 pm, Andy We Go: 365 Days/ 365 Plays, Week 8.” $5 ORIENTATION: Sheepshead Parents Without Barbes (718) 287-3400. Free. suggested donation. 8 pm. Pete’s Candy Guthrie, 9:30 pm, Tom Vollman, 10:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 2: Bingo, 7 Partners hosts a singles event. 8 pm. 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 965-9177, pm, Richard Alwyn, 9 pm, FREE. CHILDREN Store, 709 Lorimer St. (212) 967-7555. Perry’s Restaurant on Nostrand Avenue www.barbesbrooklyn.com. The Brooklyn Papers file The Brooklyn ART OPENING: “Social Justice in America,” TOT SWAP: Bring gently worn clothing your and Avenue U. Kids welcome. Reservations Sundays: Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $8 suggested donation; Stain ‘Subway’ scribes: Contributors to featuring artwork by Leon Nicholas Kalas, necessary. (718) 790-6040. Tuesdays: Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10; Dec. 30: Danny Kalb, 8 pm, child no longer wears or uses and new opens. Artist reception on Jan. 12. On dis- 766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street in Williamsburg, (718) 387- items. All baby and kid items welcome. CARNIVAL: La Troupe Makandal, New York’s $8 suggested donation, River Alexander & his Mad Jazz Hatters, 10 7840, www.stainbar.com. “The Subway Chronicles,” including play through Jan. 31. 10 am to 5 pm. Fill- pm, $8 suggested donation; Dec. 31: 5th Annual New Year’s Balkan Center for Afro-Haitian Traditional Art Mondays: “Paint Stain,” 5 pm (often accompanied by the jazz gui- Swap and take home other items for free. more Atlantic Gallery on Atlantic Avenue at Bash with The Zagnut Cirkus Orkestar, 10 pm, $10; Jan. 1: Joel Tim McLoughlin (above), will read presents its closing performance of “Rising tar of Noboru, 8 pm), FREE; Wednesdays: JAMstain, an informal $5 admission and a grocery bag full of Hoyt Street. (718) 797-3943. Free. Forrester, 10 pm, $8 suggested donation; Jan. 2: Jenny Scheinman, Sun.” $15, $10 students and seniors, $5 open mic hosted by singers/songwriters, 9 pm, FREE; Dec. 30: items to swap. 10 am to 4 pm. Carriage from their works at Sunny’s, a bar in 7 pm, $8 suggested donation, Talat, 9 pm, $8 suggested donation; ages 12 and younger. 8 pm. South Oxford Manny Anthony, 8 pm, Tom Vollman, 10 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: End of House, Carroll Street between Bond and Red Hook, on Jan. 7. Jan. 3: Walter Thompson Quartet, 8 pm, $10, Map, 10 pm, $8 sug- Nevins, next to the Gowanus Bridge. For Space, 138 South Oxford St., between Prohibition Circa 1933 New Year’s Eve Extravaganza, 8 pm, FREE. SAT, JAN 6 Atlantic Avenue and Hanson Place. (718) gested donation; Jan. 4: Rachelle Garniez, 10 pm, $8 suggested info, contact [email protected]. donation; Jan. 5: Les Chauds Lapins, 8 pm, $8 suggested donation, ART MAKING: Brooklyn Museum hosts “Arty 953-6638. The Moonlighters, 10 pm, $8 suggested donation. The Sugar Factory service includes mixed drinks, wine, beer 269 Kent Ave. at South Second Street in Williamsburg, (718) Facts.” Explore the galleries, enjoy a family and champagne toast. Cocktail reception OUTDOORS AND TOURS activity and create art based on “Head, BIRDING: Salt Marsh Nature Center hosts an Biscuit 384-1000. from 9 pm to 10 pm. Complete five-course SUN, JAN 7 Dec. 31: Sweet & Sexy New Year’s Eve Gala with live DJs and per- Shoulders, Knees and Toes.” Appropriate dinner (main course is filet mignon borde- exploration of its marsh. Learn about the 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, (718) 399- for ages 4 to 7. 11 am to 2 pm. $8 adults, migrants who claim the marsh as their 2161, www.nightanddayrestaurant.com. formances by The Crooners, Radeus, The Coldhands Collective, DJ laise). 10 pm to 3:30 am. Full Viennese hour Depth, DJ The Shift & Scotti B, DJ Nyck, 9 pm, FREE until midnight, free for kids ages 12 and younger and mem- and breakfast to go. $175 per person. 263 home in the winter. 8 am. 3302 Ave. U. OUTDOORS AND TOURS Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve celebration, 9 pm, $TBD. bers. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. $20 after midnight. Prospect Ave. (718) 788-0777. (718) 421-2021. Free. EARLY BIRD WALK: Explore the secrets of COLONIAL CRAFTS: Lefferts Historic House TWO BOOTS: Live music from 10 pm. Special MULCHFEST 2007: Bring holiday tree with- nature with naturalists from the Prospect Cafe Steinhof Trash Bar hosts an arts and crafts session. 2:30 pm to out decorations to Prospect Park, and turn 427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park Slope, (718) 369- festive menu. Call for information. 514 Park Audubon Center. 8 am to 10 am. 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 599- 3:30 pm. Children’s Corner, inside the it into mulch. 10 am to 2 pm. Prospect Park; 7776, www.cafesteinhof.com. Second St. (718) 499-3253. Enter park at Lincoln Road and Ocean 1000, www.thetrashbar.com. park’s Willink entrance at the intersection enter at any park entrance. At Third Street, Jan. 3: The Useless Bastards, 10:30 pm, FREE. PARTY ON THE BRIDGE: 12th annual Brook- Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. Dec. 30: Aion, 8 pm, Debra Desalvo, 9 pm, The Walks On, 10 pm, of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard. you can watch your tree go into the chipper ICE SKATING: The Wollman Rink is open. $5, (718) 789-2822. Free. lyn Bridge walk hosted by Dr. Phil’s NY and take home some mulch for your garden. The Shills, 11 pm, Bugs in the Dark, Midnight, $6; Dec. 31: New Year’s Walks and Talks. $40 includes light refresh- $3 seniors and children. $5.50 skate rental. Cattyshack Eve Party with The Swedes, 8 pm, One Last Shot, 9 pm, Mattison, 10 PROSPECT PARK IN LIGHTS: Holiday light- Other locations include Fort Greene Park ments; $20 for kids ages 15 and younger. 10 am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm; 7 pm to 10 249 Fourth Ave. at Carroll Street in Park Slope, (718) 230- pm, Rise NYC, 11 pm, Trigger Club, 12:05 am, $7; Jan. 2: DJ Mojo ing installation, with performers represent- (Washington Park and Willoughby Street) 10:30 pm and 11:15 pm. Meet at pm. Prospect Park. Access through the 5740, www.cattyshackbklyn.com. Presents, 8 pm, $5; Jan. 3: Rabbit Hole Wednesdays with DJ Mojo ing the best of Brooklyn’s diverse ethnic and Amazing Garden (Carroll and Columbia Parkside/Ocean avenues entrance or the Saturdays: Shack 249 with DJs BK Brewster, Daryl Raymond, and Presents, 8 pm, $6; Jan. 4: Bad Ash, 9 pm, Hard Rock Zombie, 10 pm, Blimpies, 38 Park Row, lower Manhattan. streets). (718) 965-8999. Free. and cultural communities. 5:30 pm to 7 (212) 964-6670. Lincoln Road/Ocean Avenue entrance. more, 10 pm, $5, $7 after 11 pm; Mondays: Chump Change, 10 $6; Jan. 5: The Shames, 10 pm, The Suicide Dolls, 11 pm, $7. pm. Free hot chocolate and candy sticks. HISTORY ON THE HILL: Urban Park Rangers (718) 287-5252. pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Trivia Night, 7 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Bartel-Pritchard Circle, Prospect Park. (718) CELEBRATION: Party at Kitchen Bar. 687 explore Fort Greene Park. Learn about the Sixth Ave. Call for info. (718) 499-5623. MULCHFEST 2007: See Sat., Jan 6. 10 am to Karaoke with Sherry Vine, 9 pm, FREE ($2 after 10 pm), Oink Boys Triple Crown 965-8999. Free. park’s colorful history and its 148-foot-tall Party (ladies welcome with sexy boys), 10 pm, $5; Thursdays: NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY: at Five Front Res- 2 pm. 108 Bedford Ave. at North 11th Street in Williamsburg, (718) Martyrs’ Monument. 1 pm. Meet at Visitor Shitkickers, 8 pm, FREE ($5 after 9 pm), Poison Ivy (glamorously 388-8883, www.triplecrownpage.com. taurant. Five course, prix-fixe Cuban meal Center, near the Myrtle Avenue and Wash- dirty rock ’n’ roll), 10 pm, $5; Fridays: R.P.M. with DJ Lug Nut, 7 pm, with champagne. $85. Call for reservations PERFORMANCE Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve Party with Live DJs, 8 pm, $80. SUN, DEC 31 ington Park entrance. (718) 421-2021. Free. CHAMBER MUSIC: Brooklyn Friends of FREE, Frisky Fridays with live DJs and go-go dancers, 11 pm, $5 ($7 and time info. Also, three-course dinner at WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence hosts a after midnight); Dec. 31: The 12th Annual Fur Ball, a New Year’s Eve 5:30 pm. $55. 5 Front St. (718) 625-5559. Chamber Music presents ECCO (East Coat Union Pool New Year’s Eve tour of Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Brook- Chamber Orchestra), a 16-member orches- celebration, with live DJs and go-go dancers, 8 pm, $10 in advance, HOLIDAY DINNER: at Baci and Abbracci. $55 $8 before 10 pm, $20 after 10 pm. 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) lyn Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. Marriott tra. $15, $10 in advance, $5 students. 3 OUTDOORS AND TOURS includes several courses. 204 Grand St. Hotel, 333 Adams St. (718) 789-0430. 609-0484, www.myspace.com/unionpool. pm. The Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Dec. 30: Late Night Back Room Party with DJ Melanie, 11 pm, FIREWORKS IN THE PARK: Annual Prospect Call for seating times. (718) 599-6599. Church, 85 South Oxford St. at Lafayette Magnolia www.baciabbracciny.com. PERFORMANCE 486 Sixth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Slope, (718) 369-4814, FREE; Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve, 9 pm, $TBD; Jan. 6: Late Night Park fireworks display, shot off from the Avenue. (718) 855-3035. Back Room Party with DJ Alianna & Nikki, Time TBD, FREE. park’s northern Long Meadow. Sponsored HAITIAN MUSIC: La Troupe Makandal pres- www.magnoliabrooklyn.com. by Borough President Markowitz and Key ents “Carnival Dawn,” a performance that CHILDREN Mondays: Monday Night Football, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Live music, Williamsburg Music Center Span. Midnight. Also, music and refresh- MON, JAN 1 marks the transition from winter ceremoni- FAMILY FUN: Brooklyn Center for the Per- 9:30 pm, FREE. ments at 11 pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) als to pre-vernal rites. $15, $10 students 367 Bedford Ave. at South Fifth Street in Williamsburg, (718) forming Arts presents Justin Roberts and 384-1654. 965-8999. Free. New Year’s Day and seniors, $5 ages 12 and younger. 8 the Not Ready for Naptime Players. $12. 2 Melt ICE SKATING: at the Wollman Rink. $5, $3 pm. South Oxford Space, 138 South 440 Bergen St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 230-5925. Jan. 5: Live Jazz Jam Session, 10 pm, $5; Jan. 6: Live music from FUN RUN: 3.3 mile-run. Prizes and giveaways, pm. Walt Whitman Theater at Brooklyn the Gerry Eastman Quintet, 10 pm, $5. with fireworks at the finish line. 11:15 pm. seniors and children. $5.50 skate rental. 10 Oxford St. (718) 330-1234. College, one block from the intersection Saturdays and Fridays: Meet and Mingle, 11 pm, FREE. $20 before Dec 31; $25 day of race. Refresh- am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm; 7 pm to 10 HERE WE GO: Polybe + Seats presents “Here of Flatbush and Nostrand avenues. (718) ments provided. Register at www.active.com. pm. Prospect Park. Access through the We Go: 365 Days/ 365 Plays, Week 8.” $5 951-4500. The Perch Cafe Zebulon Grand Army Plaza entrance, Prospect Park. Parkside/Ocean avenues entrance or the suggested donation. 8 pm. Brooklyn 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, 365 Fifth Ave. at Fifth Street in Park Slope, (718) 788-2830. (718) 218-6934, www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. (718) 230-4686 or www.slopesports.com. Lincoln Road/Ocean Avenue entrance. Kitchen, 616 Lorimer St. (212) 967-7555. OTHER Dec. 31: New Year’s Eve Brunch with Karaoke, Midnight, FREE; Jan. 4: Dec. 30: Meta and the Corner Stone, 10 pm, FREE; Dec. 31: New (718) 287-5252. SUNDAYS AT SUNNY’S: presents “Subway Amy Cervini Quartet, 8:30 pm (two sets), $5 suggested donation; Jan. Year’s Eve with Baye Kouyate et les Tougarake, 10 pm, FREE. PARTIES CHILDREN Chronicles.” Readers include David Eber- 6: Jamie Reynolds Trio, 9:30 pm (two sets), $5 suggested donation. NYE PARTY: Grand Prospect Hall hosts a cel- DANCE: MC Dance Theater invites kids, ages shoff, author of “The Danish Girl and Pasa- ebration in its Victorian ballroom. Ring in TUES, JAN 2 3 years and older, to classes in hip-hop, dena,” Amy Holman, poet and author of Puppet’s Jazz Bar the New Year with Jack Goodman Dance ballet, tap, African and more. 10 am to 4 “Wait for Me, I’m Gone,” Megan Lyles and 284 Fifth Ave. at First Street in Park Slope, (718) 499-2627. Orchestra. DJ music between sets. Prospect GRAND OPENING: of My Thai Cafe, a Pan- pm. Sioloam Presbyterian Church, 260 Tim McLoughlin. Suggested donation, $3. Dec. 30: New Hype Jazz, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; Dec. 31: TALK TO US… Follies Dance Troupe. Light show. Open bar Asian restaurant specializing in Thai, Jefferson Ave. Call for info. (646) 246-7521. 3 pm. Sunny’s, 253 Conovor St. between New Year’s Bash with Alex Blake, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; FAMILY DANCE: Brooklyn Arts Exchange Beard and Reed streets. (718) 625-8211. Jan. 5: Randy Johnston Trio, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; Jan. To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us begins winter classes for babies and tod- MEMORIAL: “An Ethical Life and Its Legacy: 6: Mark Johnson Smooth Players, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5. as much notice as possible. Include name of venue, address dlers. 10:15 am to 11 am. 421 Fifth Ave. Charles Horwitz, BSEC’s Ethical Action with cross street, phone number for the public to call, Web Call for fee info. (718) 832-0018. 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We e-mail: [email protected]; by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 Dec. 30: Medina in Medina on the Eve of the Eve, 9 pm, $TBD; Shoulders, Knees and Toes.” Appropriate for CAFE STEINHOF: presents the film “Where Dec. 31: It’s The Rub New Year’s Eve Party with DJ Ayres, Cosmo regret we cannot take listings over the phone. Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and ages 4 to 7. 11 am to 2 pm. $8 adults, free the Buffalo Roam” (1980) with Bill Murray. Baker & DJ Eleven with guests DJs Catchdubs, Caps, & Jones, 9 The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the printed on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. for kids ages 12 and younger and members. 10:30 pm. 422 Seventh Ave. (718) 369- pm, $50; Jan. 4: Wingdale Community Singers, The Snow, Lucinda venue before you go to confirm event details. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. 7776. Free. 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