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33 28 AWP.Indd LOOK FOR BREAKING NEWS EVERY WEEKDAY AT BROOKLYNPAPER.COM Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2010 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN EDITION AWP/16 pages • Vol. 33, No. 28 • July 9–15, 2010 • FREE INCLUDING DUMBO, COBBLE HILL, CARROLL GARDENS AND BOERUM HILL Watch a video tour of the post-holiday horror at BrooklynPaper.com FREAK SHOW Chestnut wins at Coney, but Kobayashi is arrested! By Gersh Kuntzman 54 HDBs 60th Pct The Brooklyn Paper It was double disappointment MAN-EAT-DOG at Coney island on July 4 as three- So, how hard is it to eat 54 hot dogs and buns in 10 min- Community Newspaper Group / Julie Rosenberg time world hot dog–eating champion Joey Chestnut triumphed over 15 utes? Consider that 54 HDBs The lakeshore in the southeastern portion of Prospect Park was an comprises: unholy mess on July 5, a scene that has grown increasingly familiar. challengers at the annual Nathan’s contest — but he not only failed to • 16,038 calories (normal come close to his history-making daily intake is 2,500). performances of the past, he also • 983.34 grams of fat had to watch as his greatest chal- (normal is 65 g) lenger, Takeru Kobayashi, rushed • 37,371 miligrams of so- the stage at the end of the contest dium (normal is 2,400 mg) PARK VS. and was arrested. • 587.52 grams of protein It was a bizarre footnote to a fort- (normal is 50 g) night of confusion that began when Kobayashi, a six-time world champ, refused to sign a contract with Ma- conditions. jor League Eating, the governing “I was not firing on all cylinders,” body of all stomach-centric sports, the champ told us seconds after win- PARTIERS Photo by Butch Moran Photo by Butch Moran and was, therefore, not assigned a ning the Mustard Yellow International spot at the table of champions. That ONE WORE THE MUSTARD YELLOW BELT, ONE WORE CUFFS: Belt for the fourth straight year. “Of Last year’s messiest barbecue absence allowed Chestnut, who set Chestnut won for the fourth straight year, but his victory was overshad- course, I wanted to set a record, but it the world record last year with 68 owed by the antics of rival Kobayashi (pictured on his perp walk). was hot out there. If Kobi had com- wants permit, as trash piles up hot dogs and buns, to cruise to vic- peted, his numbers would have been tory under scorching conditions with been consuming a steady diet of reports broken by this paper . down, too.” just 54 HDBs. that he would not be at the contest be- Chestnut said Kobayashi’s absence As Chestnut basked in the victory, By Stephen Brown tures had neither sought, nor obtained, Kobayashi’s re-emergence stunned cause he had failed to sign a contract had nothing to do with his sub-his- Kobayashi created a major distur- The Brooklyn Paper permission for an event that drew thou- fans of competitive eating, who had with Major League Eating, a story first toric performance under stifling weather See FREAK on page 13 The Heatwave is back — not the sands of partiers who learned about it weather, but the notorious illegal party via Twitter and Facebook. that left Prospect Park looking like a This year, MIH has filed the proper garbage dump last summer. paperwork, and a spokesman for Pros- The yearly bash or- pect Park said the group chestrated by the Bergen will be expected to leave Street–based event pro- Meadows of the meadow in good con- moters, MIH Ventures, is dition. Crime wave at McCarren back for another round of “MIH applied for a revelry on July 18, though permit … and has agreed By Aaron Short Last Saturday night, at approxi- Neither the rapist nor the shooter crime trend in the 94th Precinct, which this time Prospect Park to all the instructions and The Brooklyn Paper mately 8:30 pm, a woman was raped has been caught. covers Greenpoint and the Northside. officials expect it to be requirements — none the The mercury is rising in McCarren in the McCarren Park bathrooms af- Other crimes near the park in- There has been a 10.34-percent in- fully permitted. least of which is mak- ter she met a man on the corner of clude four robberies, four assaults, crease in criminal complaints com- When the unauthor- ing provisions for keep- Park — and so is the crime. Bedford Avenue and N. 12th Street three burglaries, and two grand lar- pated to this time last year, as auto ized barbecue ended SHAME ing the area clean,” said There have been 15 incidents thefts are up 17 percent, robberies last year, thousands of EDITORIAL: PAGE 13 Eugene Patron, a Prospect within a two-block radius of the earlier that night . cenies, as perps have snatched vic- partiers left the Long Park spokesman, adding, Greenpoint park over the past three And on June 18, just after 1 am, a tims’ phones away, broken into their have increased by 8.2 percent, and Meadow near Grand Army Plaza cov- “This isn’t unusual — it’s the same re- months, including a rape and a shoot- gunman fired at random inside the cars, or straight-up robbed them point grand larcenies are up 5.1 percent, ered in garbage . Parkgoers were dis- quirements for everyone.” ing that occurred within the past two park and two bullets pierced a man blank on the street. NYPD statistics show. gusted, and park administrators were But given last year’s debacle, many weeks. in his legs. The violence is part of a larger See CRIME on page 13 caught by surprise because MIH Ven- See PARK on page 5 Herculean task of transcribing more than 2,500 newspaper articles, war reports and dis- patches — many of which he GERONIMO! found in archives of defunct newspapers like the New York Man publishes a 15-volume Herald, the New York Tri- bune, and the Brooklyn Ea- history of the Indian Wars gle. Many New York papers printed wire reports from the By Stephen Brown the story of America’s thirst West and wealthier papers also The Brooklyn Paper for land and slaughter is at any sent correspondents to file dis- historian’s fingertips — foot- patches from the front lines of Sometimes, it takes one ob- America’s Manifest Destiny sessed man to seize the reins noted and fact-checked. It’s all here, as it happened: Wounded madness. of history. Abrams examined online A Marine Park resident is Knee, Custer’s Last Stand, the Sioux Wars, Sitting Bull and, archives from all over the only weeks away from com- country, as well. During one pleting his epic quest to accu- of course, Geronimo. The historian’s fascination of his searches, he came across rately transcribe, cross-refer- with Indians began when he a lengthy war diary nestled in ence, and footnote 4,000 pages was 4-years-old and saw his an obscure archive of a small of newspaper articles and other first “cowboys and Indians” Colorado town from 1876 by a coverage of the Indian Wars of flick on television. St. George Stanley. The journal the 19th century. “I was watching some In- turned out to be a remarkable Marc Abrams, a synagogue dians chasing a stagecoach,” and understudied piece of his- employee by day, has spent at tory, which Abrams made into Abrams recalled. “From then Photo by Stefano Giovannini least 10 hours a day for the on, it was an obsession, I started a separate volume, called “Cry- last 10 years researching his Marc Abrams spent 10 years to produce a 15-volume ing for Scalps” — a reference reading everything I could.” history of America’s wars with Indians. self-published 15-volume se- That obsession came to a to a chilling episode described ries — a comprehensive his- head when he moved to Bill- by Stanley days before march- tory of the bloody conquest of ings, Montana, where the Crow “The history was always in and realized that if I typed ing off to fight the Sioux. the West (did we mention that Indians once roamed the plains, my mind, and I had a little col- them, other people could use Abrams said his research it’s 15 volumes?). hunting buffalo and clashing lection of [19th-century] arti- them,” Abrams said. also gave him new perspective As a result, for the first time, with rival tribes. cles. I started to collect more, And so Abrams took on the See WARS on page 13 Community Newspaper Group / Stephen Brown THREESOME: Brooklyn College professor Martin Schreibman is the Want the ‘works’ foremost authority on horseshoe crabs and their randy mating rituals. Pols hot about Macy’s show snub By Aaron Short Heard about The Brooklyn Paper Boo-m! The fireworks that lit up the sky in cele- bration of America’s 234th birthday on July 4 were a slap in the face to that borough with the crab orgy? the strongest link to our nation’s revolution- ary past — and it’s time to bring the color- ful pageantry back to the East River, a co- This Bklyn College doc knows sex alition of local pols is saying. By Stephen Brown left to enjoy one of nature’s greatest For the second year in a row, the Macy’s The Brooklyn Paper treats: a horseshoe crab gang bang. fireworks display was launched from the Photo by Stefano Giovanni There’s a horseshoe crab orgy go- On a lucky day when the tide is Hudson River, the first deviation in the in- ing on right now, and everyone’s in- high, Martin Schreibman, a marine cendiary honors since 1976.
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