Wal-Mart loses Caesar’s Bay bid; Kohl’s coming By Deborah Kolben Monday that Wal-Mart, the nation’s larg- and the Farley Post Office on 34th Street Kohl’s has signed a 25-year lease and ex- firm plans for a Bay Parkway store, but The Brooklyn Papers est retailer, known for its expansive “big EXCLUSIVE as potential Wal-Mart locations, in addi- pects to open by Christmas 2004, he said. Gindi said it was a done deal. The owner of the Caesar’s Bay box” stores, was seeking one or more sites tion to Caesar’s Bay. Masten declined to comment on Gin- “We’ve already worked with them. shopping center on Bay Parkway told for its first New York City outlets. New York City Wal-Mart “premature” Joseph Gindi, a partner in Saltru Associ- di’s claim. We’re finished. They’re paying rent al- “We are in an exploration phase in the ates, which owns the Bay Parkway site, told With 494 stores nationwide, including ready,” Gindi said of Kohl’s. The Brooklyn Papers this week that he and a “rumor gone bad.” Manhattan area and the boroughs,” a Wal- “I have nothing planned right now for The Papers Wal-Mart representatives had in locations in Long Island and New Jersey, He said he asked the new tenants to put turned down a bid by Wal-Mart for the Mart spokeswoman told Crain’s. Brooklyn, but we’re always looking to ex- fact expressed interest in his property. the Bay Parkway Kohl’s would mark the up a sign in the interim, but they refused. former Kmart site in favor of Kohl’s, a Contacted by The Papers on Wednes- pand,” Masten told The Papers. “Wal-Mart was looking at it, and we department store’s first foray into New “I would have preferred a Wal-Mart,” mid-priced department store. day, the spokeswoman, Mia Masten, tried Crain’s named the Sunset Park neigh- turned it down and we got a better deal with York City. said Bensonhurst civic leader Carmine Crain’s New York Business reported to downplay the news, calling talk of a borhood, as well as Manhattan’s Pier 40 Kohl’s,” said Gindi.The Wisconsin-based A Kohl’s spokeswoman would not con- See MART on page 10
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By Patrick Gallahue thing that was unusual in the ever-in- The Brooklyn Papers tensifying conflict over Brooklyn’s Cheesecake antics judicial selection process which, until The Kings County Democratic Tuesday, had been waged as a back- Committee wanted to show the room procedural battle. Fair contest picks Atlantic Ave baker over Junior’s world its often-criticized judicial Amid ongoing scandals and now selection process on Tuesday — a criminal investigation, county By Patrick Gallahue supply the competition’s more than 150 Shea, adding, “And I am a bit of a and the world got an eyeful. party leaders invited reporters to The Brooklyn Papers cheesecakes. cheesecake fan.” Among the highlights: their annual judicial convention, That honor will go to the Downtown Shea said the discussion about holding •Some judicial delegates sneak- held Sept. 17 at St. Francis College They know Junior’s in London, Atlantic Restaurant and its baker, Fran an eating contest at the Antic came up ed away without giving their names on Remsen Street between Clinton Chicago and even Sheboygan, but Sippel. And while Downtown Atlantic during a dinner at Downtown Atlantic or explaining why they chose and Courts streets. when some of the greatest competitive may seem an easy fit for an eating con- that IFOCE Commissioner Mike DeVi- judges who will likely sit on the The process is essentially a rub- eaters come to Brooklyn this week- test at a street fair dedicated to the boule- to, a three-time hot dog-eating champi- bench for the next 14 years; ber stamp, provided by an assembly end, they won’t be feasting on the bor- vard for which it is named, the reason on, invited him to. He said he was intro- •The county party boss slammed of delegates, to the county party’s / Greg Mango / Greg ough’s world-famous cheesecake. IFOCE officials claim they chose the duced to the Sippels — Fran’s husband, the district attorney for his ongoing chosen slate of judicial candidates. The first-ever International Federation venue will be nothing short of shocking Kurt, is the chef and co-owner, and his investigation of the Brooklyn De- The five candidates to receive of Competitive Eating (IFOCE) sanc- to many, perhaps even revolutionary. brother Chris is the general manager of mocrats; the county party’s endorsement for tioned cheesecake-eating championship “Junior’s obviously has a name in the restaurant — by DeVito, with Chris •Bay Ridge District Leader Brooklyn Supreme were Civil Court will take place during the Atlantic Antic cheesecake, but I submit that the cheese- Sippel joining them for dinner that night. Ralph Perfetto tried to physically judges Bruce Balter, Arthur Schack,
The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn on Sunday, but more historic than the cakes at Downtown Atlantic are the Shea said he was blown away by the attack reformer Alan Fleishman. Martin Solomon, Bernadette Bayne Fran Sippel, of the Downtown Atlantic Restau- contest itself is the choice of a relative finest not only in Brooklyn, but in the dessert — cheesecake, of course. In the context of Brooklyn politics, and Raymond Guzman. Incumbent rant, strikes a cheesecake pose this week. unknown in place of Junior’s to bake and country,” said IFOCE Chairman George See CHEESYon page 11 the near-fistfight was about the only See BRAWL on page 10 Arena foes: No to Nets Prospect By Adelia Harrison for The Brooklyn Papers Pk meet Residents of four Brooklyn neighbor- hoods held an emergency meeting Sunday to Ratner has rights By Patrick Gallahue organize opposition to a proposed sports The Brooklyn Papers Rail Road yards over which the arena and housing complex that they say By Patrick Gallahue While the numbers indicate Prospect The Brooklyn Papers sports complex would be built, a would destroy local quality of life with little Metropolitan Transportation Author- Park is one of the safest places in the 78th economic benefit for the community. Opponents mobilizing against ity spokesman told The Brooklyn Precinct — accounting for less than 3 per- About 70 people lined the pews Sept. 14 at the developer Bruce Ratner’s plan Papers. cent of the crime reported — some Hanson Place Seventh Day Adventist Church, one to lure the Nets and Devils away Spokesman Tom Kelly said he descriptions would give the impression block from the possible arena site on the Long Is- from New Jersey by building a could not discuss the terms of Rat- that it’s a den of debauchery. land Rail Road yards near the junction of Flatbush Downtown sports arena may ner’s rights to the land, but con- Callan / Tom About 60 people gathered at the tennis house and Atlantic avenues. have a steep uphill battle on firmed that the developer, best in Prospect Park Tuesday night, at a meeting or- Developer Bruce Ratner has proposed a $500 their hands. known for his Metrotech office com- ganized by Assemblyman James Brennan, to million project to build an arena on the site for the In addition to the mass of support plex, does have the right to build discuss the safety of Brooklyn’s 526-acre oasis New Jersey Nets basketball team and possibly the from powerful elected officials for there, adjacent to his under-construc- in the aftermath of a horrific Sept. 2 attack on a Devils hockey team, as well. He is in negotiations the project, Ratner holds the devel- tion Atlantic Terminal office, retail Papers The Brooklyn 33-year-old woman. to purchase one or both teams. The project would opment rights to the Long Island See RATNER’S RIGHTS on page 9 A Fort Greene resident, opposed to the arena proposed for Flatbush While elected officials and Deputy Inspector See ARENA FOES on page 9 and Atlantic avenues, has some words for the borough president. See SAFETY on page 8
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Stop by the 4th Floor Mango / Greg “We are delighted that Council, an advisory group to Fitness Center Today!! New York City, the Depart- the LDC of local residents. ment of Parks, has finished The city Department of the transformation of the Parks and Recreation, which 30 Third Ave. @ Atlantic Ave. Main Street lot from a [De- undertook the planning and of Brooklyn (718) 875-1190 ext. 225 partment of Environmental Papers The Brooklyn construction, did not return Protection] parking lot into The new sitting-steps near the Manhattan Bridge are part of the second city phase of the Brooklyn Bridge Park plan. calls by press time. PERFECT LEGS Treating varicose veins and spiders CB2 OKs Board of by treating the source (leaks) Ed. sale to Walentas By Patrick Gallahue view Procedure, which in- Protect your Building’s Historic Character While Realizing The Brooklyn Papers cludes recommendations from CB2, Borough President Mar- a Substantial Personal Income Tax Deduction Community Board 2 ty Markowitz, the City Plan- gave the city a check-plus ning Commission and the City on its plan to sell the for- Council. Available to owners of historic properties, including residential, condominium and mer Board of Education Once the disposition is ap- commercial. With your commitment to preserve the exterior architecture of your proved, the business terms of headquarters at 110 Liv- building, you may receive an income tax deduction equaling ten to fifteen percent ingston St. the sale will come before the Brooklyn Borough Board, of the fair market value of your property. The board voted on Sept. comprised of all the commu- 10 to support turning over the nity board chairs, Markowitz More than 200 New York City property owners have applied for this program property to the city Economic / Tom Callan / Tom and the Brooklyn delegation through the National Architectural Trust. Development Corporation for of the City Council. Before er a private sale to David Walen- When complete, the apart- Join them by contacting: ROBERT REGEVIK, Area Manager Aft tas’ Two Trees Management. ments are expected to sell for The vote was 35-1, with one National Architectural Trust Exclusive Patent pending procedure around $500,000 each. Two abstention. (718) 832-8400 Entirely in the office Trees will also create an un- Once the property is turned derground public parking [email protected]
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Pee Wee Programs (ages 4-6) John Jay High School Exactly how the garbage Junior Development Programs (ages 7-15) building where the De- remains on the street is a mys- partment of Sanitation tery even to the residents, who Tournament Training Program (Int. to adv.) either could not, or would say they’ve been told by Sat. Morning Adult Intermed. Programs not, remove them. school administrators that After calls from The Sanitation misses the pickups. Brooklyn Papers to the De- “It seems to me that there is 718-745-7776 partment of Education, the no coordination between Sani- trash was taken away this tation and the custodians and week, although according to no one is taking responsibility neighbors the refuse is indica- Mango / Greg for it,” Hasen said. tive of a long-running prob- Mellis said the only day lem. that could possibly be missed “After Summer” For years residents have is a holiday and that the Skin Renewal Solutions! complained that John Jay, on school custodians are familiar Seventh Avenue between Papers The Brooklyn with the pickup schedules. Fourth and Fifth streets, Refuse — pictured on Sunday — had been piled up outside George Greenfield, project Glycolic Micro- throws out its garbage in poor- John Jay High School on Seventh Avenue for almost two weeks. director of 21st Century Facial dermabrasion ly packed bags, which lan- Learning Grants, at Instruc- guish on the sidewalk for tional Division 8, which over- reg. $65 $ The trash piled in front of mains on the street. reg. $100 NOW 75 days. sees the three schools housed $ This summer, they even say the school without being “The rat problem has gotten at John Jay, said they are NOW 55 the trash begot a nuisance be- placed in a Dumpster, which better but the garbage is still aware of the problem and are yond bad smell. served as an ample feeding disgusting,” Hasen said. taking steps to rectify them. “The warm weather ground for rodents, the resi- Keith Mellis, a spokesman In addition to purchasing Marine brought the rats out,” said dents complained. for the Department of Sanita- trash containers, he added that Howard Says, a resident of Over the summer, Eric tion, said that the pile behind the school is now looking into Active C Fourth Street, between Sev- Hasen, a resident of the block, the gate may have been held alternative storage space for Anti-Aging enth and Eighth avenues. said he spoke to school admin- for recycling, which comes garbage and better coordina- System istrators; Kempner complained every other week, therefore tion with the Department of “We see dozens down reg. $85 there,” added Holly Kempner, to the city Department of could have given the appear- Sanitation. $ a resident of the same block. 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Registration begins HANDCRAFTED JEWELRY COBBLE HILL, BROOKLYN for a prelude to the Oct. 19 40,000 will die from the disease, at 9 am, followed by the walk at 718•852•5777 “Making Strides Against which is the second most com- 10 am. For more information, Breast Cancer” walk in mon cancer among women, next call (800) 227-2345. Store Hours: Sun: 12-5pm; Mon-Thurs: 12-7pm; Closed: Fri & Sat Prospect Park. Risk Factors To be sure, when asked who of the estimated 500 in atten- dance was a cancer survivor, nearly two dozen women rose from their seats to rousing ap- plause. 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Purpose: To engage in any at a point on the easterly side of Tompkins Meet at your convenience-- in your home or office Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days after the serv- Avenue, distant 40 feet southerly from the assignees and successors in interest of the lawful act or activity. BP37-42 aforesaid classes of persons, if they or any of ice of this summons, exclusive of the day of southerly corner of Monroe Street and them be dead, and their respective husbands, service (or within 30 days after the service is SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF KINGS. Tompkins Avenue; being a plot 80 feet by 20 Always receive a prompt loan decision complete if this summons is not personally feet by 80 feet by 20 feet. Said premises known wives or widows, if any, all of whom and whose ACCREDITED HOME LENDERS, INC., Plaintiff delivered to you within the State of New York); as 345 Tompkins Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11207. names and places of residence are unknown to against PERRY BUCKNER, et al Defendant(s). the plaintiff, except as herein stated, BEVERLEY and in case of your failure to appear or answer, Tax account number: SBL #: 1820-7. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and We’re right in your neighborhood, so call a Chase BRANCH a/k/a BEVERLEY BRANCHE, judgment will be taken against you by default Approximate amount of lien $273,094.29 plus Sale entered on April 14, 2003. I, the under- JACQUELINE M. PILE, BANDELE OMOKOKU, for the relief demanded in the complaint. This is interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject DAVID WISHNICK WAYNE HANTIN, an action to foreclose upon a Tax Lien recorded signed Referee will sell at public auction in to provisions of filed judgment and terms of mortgage specialist today DOMINICK AQUILINO, JOHN TURIS, ABRA- against real property located at 1731 Flatbush Room 261 of the Kings County Courthouse, sale. Index No. 15502/01. Leo J. Kimmel, Esq., HAM & STRAUS INC., THE CITY OF NEW Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (Block: 7599; Lot: 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. on the 9th Referee. Fein Such & Crane, LLP, Attorney(s) for 8). Dated: New York, New York. September 2, Plaintiff, 1800 First Federal Plaza, Rochester, YORK, THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT day of October, 2003 at 3:00 p.m. premises 57 Lafayette Avenue 2003. BUCHANAN INGERSOLL. PROFESSION- N.Y. 14614. OF FINANCE, THE NEW YORK CITY DEPART- Beginning at a point on the Northerly side of BP38-41 AL CORPORATION. By: Timothy J. Fierst, Esq. MENT OF FINANCE PARKING VIOLATIONS MacDonough Street distant 75 feet Easterly Attorneys for Plaintiff. THE BANK OF NEW Brooklyn, NY 11217 BUREAU, THE NEW YORK CITY ENVIRON- Notice is hereby given that an Order entered YORK, AS COLLATERAL AGENT AND CUSTO- from the corner formed by the intersection of MENTAL CONTROL BOARD, THE STATE OF by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 11th DIAN f/b/o NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST. 140 the Northerly side of MacDonough Street with NEW YORK, THE NEW YORK STATE DEPART- day of September, 2003, bearing Index 1-718-552-1260 Broadway, 35th Floor, New York City, NY 10005. the Easterly side of Howard Avenue; being a MENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE and Number N00485/03, a copy of which may be (212) 440-4400. To the above named defen- plot of 100 feet by 25 feet by 100 feet by 25 “JOHN DOE” and “JANE DOE”, numbers 1 examined at the Office of the Clerk, located at dants: The foregoing summons is served upon feet. Said premises known as 569 MacDonough 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York through 10, the names of the last 10 defendants you by publication pursuant to an Order of the 11201, in the record room, Room 007, grants being fictitious, the true names of said defen- St. Brooklyn, N.Y. 11233. Tax account number: Hon. Michelle Weston Patterson, a Justice of me the right effective on or after the 40th day dants being unknown to this plaintiff it being SBL# 1497-70. Approximate amount of lien the Supreme Court of the State of N.Y., dated of compliance, to assume the name of GERALD intended to designate fee owners, tenants or $386,020.17 plus interest and costs. Premises August 20, 2003 and filed along with the sup- FREDRICK VANDERPOOL; my present address occupants of the liened premises and/or per- will be sold subject to provisions of filed judg- porting papers in the Kings County Clerk’s is 95-14 Schenck Street, Brooklyn, New York sons or parties having or claiming an interest in ment and terms of sale. Index No. 28706/02. Office. This is an action to foreclose on a tax lien 11236; the date of my birth is November 30, or a lien upon the liened premises described in All loans are subject to credit and property approval. Program terms and conditions are subject to change without notice. Not all products certificate. Premises described as follows: 1731 Alan M. Rocoff, Esq., Referee. Fein Such & 1956, the place of my birth is Brooklyn, New the complaint, if the aforesaid individual defen- are available in all states or for all loan amounts. Other restrictions and limitations may apply. All loans in New York are originated under Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, New York (for infor- Crane, LLP, Attorney(s) for Plaintiff, 1800 First York; my present name is GERALD FREDRICK dants are living, and if any or all of said individ- J.P. Morgan Chase Bank. © 2003 J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. All Rights Reserved. EQUAL HOUSING mation only) (Block: 7599; Lot:8). BH37-40 Federal Plaza, Rochester, N.Y. 14614. BP36-39 CARTER. BP38 LENDER ual defendants be dead, their heirs at law, next
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Shop, a British-style fish and Papers The Brooklyn chips restaurant. *Offer based on first visit, new members only; not valid with any other promotional offers. Employees donated their the families at Ground Zero to wages and tips, totaling $669, honor Lt. Robert Wallace and to Windows of Hope, an aid Firefighter Leon Smith, whose group dedicated to helping the remains have not been identi- families of the victims of the fied. World Trade Center tragedy While most of the firehouse who worked in the food, bev- veterans were not at the fire- erage and hospitality profes- house, community residents sions. and clergy organized an inter- “I just wanted to do some faith service at 8 pm outside good out of bad,” Sell said, of Engine 205 and Ladder adding that he intends to make 118. it an annual tradition. The Rev. Michael Carrano, The Second Helpings pastor of the Church of the restaurant, at 448 Ninth St. at Assumption of the Blessed Seventh Avenue, made similar Virgin Mary, around the cor- arrangements to donate the ner on Cranberry Street, urged day’s revenues to charity. residents to “remember those There were, of course, who perished,” but added peo- those that had personal cere-
ple should also “celebrate Callan / Tom monies to tend to. their lives.” Firefighters of Engine Firefighters lined up at the Company 205 and Ladder doorway of the firehouse as 118, on Middagh Street at pastors such as Rabbi Joseph Henry Street in Brooklyn Potasnik, an FDNY chaplain Heights, paid visits to the and pastor at Congregation Papers The Brooklyn graves of the eight members Mount Sinai; Dr. Paul Smith, Clockwise from top: Rabbi Aaron Raskin of Congregation B’nai Avraham blows the “shofer,” of the firehouse lost on Sept. of First Presbyterian Church; a ram’s horn, during 9-11 ceremonies on the Brooklyn Heights promenade, overlooking the 11. and Fred Wooden, senior min- Lower Manhattan skyline; Fire Department Chaplain Rabbi Joseph Potasnik does the same Senior members were giv- ister at the First Unitarian en the day off and they char- at Engine 205 on Middagh Street in Brooklyn Heights; a Volkswagen Beetle was painted in Congregational Society in memory of those lost on 9-11; and an FDNY shirt with message hangs on the promenade. tered a bus to Queens, Staten Brooklyn, offered thoughts Island and Sunset Park’s and prayers. Green-Wood Cemetery to lay “We appreciate your sup- lyn Heights, a teacher at PS 8 her classroom window two beams of the “Tribute in wreaths at the gravesites of port,” said Lt. Nicolas Malter, on Hicks Street at Middagh years ago and calling for a mo- Light” shone over the Manhat- Firefighters Vernon Cherry, who has served at the fire- Street, said, “I came tonight ment of silence, respectfully tan skyline from Ground Zero. Joseph Agnello, Peter Vega, house for 10 months. “And because I wanted to be with observed by the students be- The Heights promenade was a Scott Davidson, Capt. Marty we’ll do what we can for you, my community.” fore they evacuated to the natural viewing area where Egan and Lt. Bobby Regan. too.” She recalled watching the basement. more people gathered with The firefighters then joined Deborah Hallen, of Brook- planes strike the towers from At sundown, the twin bluish their neighbors. BAMland site named for Davis By Patrick Gallahue er Geoffrey Davis, adding, The Brooklyn Papers “I’m smiling.” Though he often criticized The BAM Local De- the LDC if he felt the commu- –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– velopment Corporation PRODUCED BY ATLANTIC AVENUE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. FOR INFORMATION, CALL 718-875-8993 nity’s concerns about the plan OFFICE: 494 ATLANTIC AVENUE BROOKLYN, NY 11217 EMAIL: [email protected] WWW.ATLANTICAVE.ORG named its first renovation were not being heard, Davis, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– ######### project in the planned Fort who was assassinated by a po- Greene cultural district litical rival July 23 in City after the late Councilman Hall, generally remained sup- James Davis. portive of the plan. At a groundbreaking cere- A note from Davis to Licht- mony Sept. 10, the LDC an- enstein, written shortly before Gay Friendly Brooklyn Medical Practice nounced that the building his death, was read by Com- would now be known as “80 munity Board 2 Chairwoman Arts — The James E. Davis Shirley McRae. “I want you Primary Medical Care General Male Health Issues Building.” to know that I truly, truly sup- “Councilman Davis never port what the BAM LDC is Board Certified Physician Comprehensive HIV Care including; missed an opportunity to re- doing for Fort Greene and Aggressive Advocacy for over 15 years mind us just how important it Brooklyn at large,” she read Hormone Replacement is to serve smaller communi- from his letter. Lipodystrophy ty-based arts organizations The cultural district in- / Tom Callan / Tom Wasting Syndrome and that we work diligently to cludes the development of make sure everyone in the four main sites around the Salvage Therapy community has a seat at the Brooklyn Academy of Music table,” said Harvey Lichten- into a mix of office, perform- Nutritional and Psychological Support stein, chairman of the LDC. ance, studio and rehearsal
Case Management The eight-story, 30,000- Papers The Brooklyn space for arts groups. The plan 313 43rd Street, Brooklyn, New York 11232 square-foot building will con- Borough President Marty Markowitz, Harvey Lichtenstein, City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, also has a housing and retail (718) 359-1900 Legal Aide tain offices for up to 20 arts Geoffrey Davis, Felicia Bristol and Jeanne Lufty at groundbreaking ceremony last week. component. organizations in spaces rang- The renovation of 80 Han- Immediate Appointments Available ing from 400 square feet to son Place will cost $6 million. Monday to Friday 10AM to 6PM 3,000 square feet offered at in use by the tenants. Marty Markowitz, Cultural family. The state dedicated $1 million below-market rents. Shared Among the councilman’s Affairs Commissioner Kate “He loved this community,” towards the project and the Three stops from Manhattan on the amenities, such as conference former colleagues to attend Levin, Bedford-Stuyvesant said Felicia Bristol, a sister of city $5 million, almost half of W train in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, rooms, rehearsal space, a the renaming ceremony were Councilman Al Vann and the slain councilman. “And which came from the City lunchroom and a landscaped Council Speaker Gifford Flatbush Councilwoman that was straight from the Council. 3rd Avenue and 43rd Street 718-369-1900 garden will be available to Miller, Deputy Mayor Dan Yvette Clarke, who shared the heart.” Renovations are anticipated community groups when not Doctoroff, Borough President dais with members of Davis’ “He is smiling,” said broth- to be finished in early 2004. September 22, 2003 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM PSZ 5
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As a girl, she only “Getting Over Overeating” by “I’ll bet the grandparents whether she eats, says Satter, meal time since she refused to wanted to eat “white” foods, sending a long, self-addressed, UI"WFOVF $IBSMUPO4USFFU have much more to offer the author of “Child of Mine: eat whatever was fixed,” says such as mashed potatoes and stamped envelope and $2 to /FX:PSL /: the stepmother. “Then, she cereal. Newsletter, P.O. Box 167, child than dinner table battles Feeding With Love and Good over food intake,” says Jan Sense” (Bull Publishing, would not eat it, make a scene Her father would sit at the Wickliffe, OH 44092. Walker, a child and family 2000) and “Secrets of Feeding and want ice cream for table with her after everyone Can you help? therapist. “I would urge them a Healthy Family” (Kelcy dessert.” She and her husband else had finished, waiting for “My daughter, 22, who has to give this child what she Instead of making an “ene- Press, 1999). disagreed about what to do; a her to clean her plate. a 9-month-old baby girl, suf- needs most from them: love, my” of food, add fun elements Lisa D. McNary, PhD, a counselor helped them realize “We worried for all the fers from postpartum depres- storytelling, laughter, safe har- to meals such as cooking and business professor, suggests the girl used meal times to anorexia years whether this sion and is in denial that she bor.” shopping together. Why not taking a no-nonsense ap- grab attention and needed had contributed to her eating was diagnosed with bipolar Provide balanced meals for make a pizza with your grand- proach of serving a picky more respect for rules at Dad’s disorder,” the mother recalls. disorder two years ago. the family that include one of kids and serve a salad, Henley eater small portions of what’s house. Helping to fix meals “Grandpa should butt out. Her “What do parents do when the foods the child likes, suggests, or show them how on the family menu. gave her a dose of positive at- tastes will mature along with their children refuse treatment Walker suggests, but don’t to bake bread? Avoid deals, she suggests, tention. the rest of her.” for a major mental disorder? 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(718) 636-3099 Brooklyn Heights Individual therapy available (212) 613-3006 C42 R32 One Hanson Place, Suite 2204, Brooklyn, NY 11243 September 22, 2003 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM BWN 9 ARENA FOES MEET UP IN FORT GREENE… Continued from page 1 in quality of life brought about “We have not come forth Markowitz, who sent a rep- also include 5,500 housing by traffic, as well as the with any proposal we can dis- resentative to Sunday’s meet- units and possibly office and “cheap souvenir franchises cuss publicly yet,” Baum- ing, said in a written statement retail space. and fast food” that go with a garten said. “This is all very issued Monday, that first Among those present to voice professional sports complex, premature.” Brooklyn had to “net the their opposition to the arena would drive residents out, fol- The East Pacific Street Nets” and that he believes a were state Senator Velmanette lowed by the businesses who Block Association is spear- “balance can be struck.” Montgomery, 35th Councilm- depend on them. heading fundraising efforts to “Brooklyn can continue to anic candidate Letitia James “We are very vibrant,” Ha- fight the stadium. Byrd said grow,” Markowitz said, “while and Democratic District Lead- gan, nearly choked with emo- the opposition is prepared to still assuring that the quality of er Francis Byrd, who chaired tion, told the gathering to sue if necessary. life in our beautiful and charm- the meeting. cheers and applause. “Eco- Montgomery said she is not ing neighborhoods isn’t nega- “I personally would love to nomically, we are alive. Don’t against a professional sports tively impacted. Any proposed have teams in Brooklyn,” said ruin it. It’s small scale. It’s hu- arena, but thinks it should go arena needs to be located in an Byrd. “I just don’t want a sta- Callan / Tom mane. Don’t ruin it the way it somewhere else. area that has excellent access to is!” She called on Borough public transportation.” dium with luxury housing in Joyce Baumgarten, a spokes- President Marty Markowitz, Assemblyman Roger Green this location. There are other woman for Forest City Ratner, who is in favor of bringing sent a representative to the spaces in Brooklyn where it declined to comment on either the Nets to Brooklyn, to op- meeting to say that he had not would have a more positive
The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn specifics of the arena plan or the pose the Flatbush-Atlantic lo- yet taken a position on the is- impact.” opposition’s concerns. cation. sue. Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, The Long Island Rail Road yard on Atlantic Avenue, potential home of the “Brooklyn” Nets and Devils. Boerum Hill and Park Slope converge at the intersection Hagan, a longtime neighbor- complex that is nearing com- that may be the site of the new hood activist with the Prospect pletion, and the Atlantic Cen- stadium. Residents say that Heights Action Coalition, ter Mall, across the street. the area is already too crowd- found that new stadiums often Atlantic Center has seen ed and congested to support have high hidden costs, bring four stores close in the past five Celebrate the the development. little money to the local com- years — Caldor, Sports Au- 5763 He said that increased ve- munity and create only low- thority, Stern’s, and Macy’s. hicular traffic would degrade wage, service jobs. “Enough is enough! No air quality in a high-asthma “We are going to pay dear- more commercial develop- area, have a negative impact ly for this intrusion into our ment,” Delia Hunley-Adossa, New Year! 5764 on the foundations of old lives,” Hagan told those in at- president of the 88th Precinct buildings, and exacerbate al- tendance. “It’s not worth it.” Community and Youth Coun- ready existing noise issues for The proposed development cil, said after the meeting. residents along Atlantic and could damage what one resi- “Large, conglomerate com- Flatbush avenues. dent called the “village-like mercial development has not “It would pretty much de- feel” of the area. Historic been successful. But entrepre- stroy property values,” said houses on leafy residential neurial development has Open House one resident, who just closed streets, unique small business- boomed, and that’s the devel- on a condominium in the es, and cafes, bars and restau- opment welcomed with open e Join And Temple Tour Newswalk Building on Pacif- rants are characteristic of these arms by the community.” as n U ic Street, which would have neighborhoods up to the com- Hagan told The Brooklyn ea U Sunday, September 14th 10am-1pm l s Thursday, September 18th 7-9pm Union Temple the arena as a neighbor. mercial corner of Flatbush and Papers that in the past 10 P “Overall, it’s not positive for Atlantic avenues. years small businesses have Brooklyn. Studies show that At this corner are two of revitalized Fulton Street, and Register now for Religious School –– Brooklyn’s Oldest Reform Congregation –– stadiums do not recoup their Ratner’s other developments Flatbush, Vanderbilt, and investment.” — Atlantic Terminal, an MTA Sixth avenues. HIGH HOLY DAY SCHEDULE Six studies cited by Patti transit hub, office and retail She said that the decrease Selichot Saturday, September 20th 8:00pm Rosh Hashana RATNER’S RIGHTS… Friday, September 26th 8:15pm Saturday, September 27th Continued from page 1 A fully inclusive community, Family Service 9:15am and transit hub at Atlantic and welcoming all Jews, their Adult Service 10:30am Flatbush avenues. families and partners A spokeswoman for Rat- Sunday, September 28th ner’s Forest City Ratner Com- Services and study 10am - 12:45pm panies, which is angling to Tashlich in Prospect Park 3:00pm purchase the hockey and bas- 8th Avenue ketball teams and bring them Yom Kippur / Tom Callan / Tom here, declined to comment on Callan / Tom and Garfield Place the development rights issue. Sunday, October 5th Ratner has proposed a PARK SLOPE Kol Nidre 8:15pm 20,000-seat arena and 5,500 Monday, October 6th units of housing over the rail Family Service 9:15am yards, roughly the same site (718) 768-3814 Morning Services 10:30am We welcome you for The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn where Brooklyn Dodgers Papers File The Brooklyn Memorial Service 4:30pm owner Walter O’Malley had Bruce Ratner Daniel Doctoroff Concluding Service 5:30pm proposed in the early 1950s to build a domed stadium. He Many insiders believe that at to field offers for the Nets. could not work out a deal with the High Holy Days the very least a state environ- Among those interested is a the city and moved the team mental review of the potential New Jersey investment group, to Los Angeles in 1957. impacts would be needed, al- which includes developer Renowned architect Frank though that is much less strin- Charles Kushner and U.S. Sen. Gehry, most well known for gent than the city’s Uniform Jon Corzine, of New Jersey. Sept. 26 Rosh Hashanah Eve ...... 8:00 p.m. his design of the Guggenheim Come to Land Use Review Procedure, YankeeNets has received Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, which requires public hearings formal offers from Ratner Sept. 27 Rosh Hashanah...... 10:00 a.m. Spain, is consulting Ratner on and recommendations before with Nets Chairman Lewis Children’s Service (no tickets required) 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. the arena. the community board, borough Katz, and from New York Is- “As far as I know, the devel- president, City Planning Com- landers owner Charles Wang, oper is in discussions with the mission and City Council. who has intensified negotia- Our House MTA,” Deputy Mayor Daniel Since the land is solely tions with Nassau County for Oct. 5 Kol Nidre ...... 8:00 p.m. Doctoroff said when asked owned by the MTA, a state a new arena. about the development rights. authority, and they say Ratner Deputy Mayor Doctoroff Oct. 6 Yom Kippur . . . . 10:00 a.m. - sundown “I think there will be many holds the development rights, spoke to The Papers at a cere- Intermediate Prayers ...... 1:00 p.m. twists and turns in this process. an environmental review and mony renaming 80 Hanson It’s such a hard thing to predict. Place in Fort Greene after as- for the hearing might be the only Afternoon Service...... 3:00 p.m. There are many moving pieces chance for public input. sassinated City Councilman and there are a number of po- Adding a sense of urgency James Davis last Wednesday. Yizkor ...... 4:30 p.m. Standing behind him were tential competitors.” to the proceedings, Yankees- Children’s Service (no tickets required) 9:00 a.m – 10:00 a.m. But the issue of ownership Nets, the corporation that owns protestors holding signs con- and development rights could the basketball team, announc- demning the Ratner proposal. Holidays have direct bearing on how ed this week that they hired Some read: “Marty Marko- much public input and review is the investment firms Goldman witz and Dan Doctoroff Loves Childcare available required for the arena to be built. Sachs and Lehman Brothers Bruce Ratner” and “Marko- Rosh Hashanah witz to Prospect Heights: Saturday, Sunday, September 27 - 28 Drop Dead.” Please purchase tickets and prayerbooks Borough President Marko- Yom Kippur RELIGIOUS SERVICES witz is among the biggest Monday, October 6 before September 26th. boosters of the Nets-to-Brook- We are an egalitarian Conservative congregation that Congregation KINGSBORO TEMPLE of lyn plan. actively welcomes individuals of all ages, backgrounds, affiliations, Many of the arena oppo- family structures, and sexual orientations. Dr. Linda Henry Goodman, Rabbi Dr. A. Stanley Dreyfus, Rabbi Emeritus Kol Israel SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS nents argue that the stadium A Go to Heaven Fellowship Todd Kipnis, Student Cantor Pedro d’Aquina, Music Director Located in Prospect Heights and housing would be out of PARK since 1924 415 7TH ST. • BROOKLYN, NY 11215 scale with the neighborhood, 718-768-1453 SLOPE 603 St. Johns Place (718) 369-3534 • D.L. Mcphuall, PASTOR would overburden the area 8th Avenue and 14th Street JEWISH 17 Eastern Parkway at Grand Army Plaza bet. Classon & Franklin Sabbath School - Saturdays - 9:30 am with traffic and parking con- 638-6583 Divine Worship - Saturdays - 11:00 am cerns, and fear the housing www.psjc.org CENTER PARKING ON SITE (718) 638-3649 Pastor’s Hour - Saturdays - 4:30 pm Rabbi Elkanah Schwartz Youth Ministries - Saturdays - 5:30 pm will not provide the affordable Fri. at Sunset • Sat. 10:30am Prayer Meeting - Wednesdays - 7:30 pm housing units they say the area R42 Men’s Ministry - Tuesdays - 7:30 pm needs. Instead, opponents are Women’s Ministry - Bi-Tuesdays - 7:30 pm pushing for something more BH Congregation Website: kingsboroSDA.org in the character of Atlantic Our Sabbath Service is live on the internet! Commons, a low-lying hous- CELEBRATE! Mount Sinai R27-16 ing village of neo-brown- 250 Cadman Plaza W. The Jewish New Year stones off Atlantic Avenue in Conservative/Egalitarian Fort Greene. A House for Prayer / A Home for People State Sen. Velmanette Mont- The Modern Orthodox Synagogue in Brooklyn Heights 5764 718-875-9124 You are always welcome gomery has also publicly op- Friday Eve Services 6:30pm posed the plan and residents of Saturday Morning 10:00am Friday Evenings Fort Greene, Prospect Heights Rabbi Joseph Potasnik Kabbalat Shabbat 6:45 p.m. High Holy Days 5764 RESERVE YOUR SEAT NOW! R44 and Boerum Hill are gearing up First Friday service followed to fight the proposal. Call (718) 965-9836 by Pot Luck supper 6:00 p.m. vcuy vbak PARK SLOPE Markowitz originally hoped Rosh Hashana –––––––––––––––––––– Regular Service 8:15 p.m. Rosh Hashana JEWISH CENTER some kind of community Saturday Mornings sports facility, such as the Friday evening, September 26th Friday, Sept. 26th, 6:30pm 8th Avenue at 14th St. Torah study 9:00 a.m. Fri. nights 6:30 pm long-desired sportsplex, could Saturday/Sunday, Sept. 27th/28th, 9:00am Services 10:30 a.m. Candle Lighting, 6:30 pm Sat. mornings 10 am be incorporated into the plan. Sunday - Shofar - Sept. 28th, 11:30am Brooklyn’s Largest Adult Ed e Hebrew School Citing his wishes for the com- Evening Service 6:30 pm –––––––––––––––––––– Reform Congregation Rabbi Carie Carter plex, the borough president Yom Kippur Park Slope’s Egalitarian, Eighth Avenue and Garfield Place told The Papers back in July, Kol Nidre - Sun. Evening, Oct. 5th, 6:00pm Conservative Synagogue PARK SLOPE “Well, first off, it would mean Saturday, Sept. 27 Sunday, Sept. 28 to me that, number one, we’d Mon., Oct. 16th Morning Services 9:00am 768-1453 768-3814 R42 Saturday Morning ...... 9:00 am Sunday Morning ...... 9:00 am Yizkor - 12:00noon Neilah - 5:45pm R27-31 finally have a sportsplex, –––––––––––––––––––– Congregation which the borough high Beginner’s Service . . . 10:30-11:30 am Beginner’s Service . . . 10:30-11:30 am Succot school sports need desperate- Children’s Service . . . . 11:15-12:15 pm Children’s Service . . . . 11:15-12:15 pm Union B’nai Jacob ly, because it would be a mul- Friday, Oct. 10 to Friday, Oct. 17 Temple Park Slope Synagogue ti-use arena and thus a sport- Rambam Class ...... 5:45 pm Shofar Blowing ...... 12:00 noon –––––––––––––––––––– 401 9th St. bet. 6/7 Aves splex would definitely be Afternoon (Mincha) ...... 6:15 pm Rambam Class ...... 5:00 pm Simchat Torah Brooklyn’s Oldest Reform Congregation included in it.” 832-1266 Saturday, Oct. 18, 7:00pm 17 Eastern Parkway That was before plans to Recital of Tehillim (Psalms) . . . 6:45 pm Afternoon (Mincha) ...... 5:30 pm 965-9836 Sunday, Oct. 19, 11:00am at Grand Army Plaza possibly include the Devils Maariv ...... 7:15 pm Procession & Tashlich ...... 6:00 pm –––––––––––––––––––– Friday evenings 8:15 p.m. Rabbi Shimon Hecht had been confirmed. Said Services: 7:15 Morning Minyan Maariv ...... 7:26 pm Saturday mornings 10:30 a.m. Doctoroff this week, “We Congregation B’nai Jacob Shabbat Friday Evenings haven’t gotten to that point of First Friday monthly 6:30 p.m. Shabbat Sat. AM: 9:30 117 Remsen St. • Rabbi Aaron Raskin 401 9th St. (6/7 Ave), Park Slope 965-9836 followed by Pot-Luck Dinner specificity yet.” Doctoroff CLASSES/EVENTS/HOLIDAYS also noted that the proposal SABBATH & DAILY SERVICES / CLASSES / EVENTS / SOCIAL HALL / HEBREW SCHOOL / ARTS GALLERY 638-7600 www.parkslopeshul.org was not contingent on both Call Now For Tickets: 802-1827 or 596-4840 www.parkslopeshul.org R40 R35 teams being acquired. 10 BWN THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM September 22, 2003 Jonathan Lethem comes home to Dean St. Author of ‘The Fortress of Solitude’ discusses growing up in Boerum Hill in the 1970s
By Hillel Italie is the son of a former soul singer friend to a futuristic machine wuz robbed.’ Associated Press and, for Dylan, comprises “a world, named Lack. “You sense it in the City Hall an exploding bomb of possibilities.” Mainstream recognition came in and in the downtown — what was Dean Street is one of those Lethem tells a fanciful story 1999 with “Motherless Brooklyn,” taken from us. ... Brooklyn has this sweet, shaded stretches of complete with comic book heroes winner of the National Book Critics proud, sulky self-image of the place Boerum Hill that makes you nos- and liner notes for a harmony Circle prize. It was both an unclas- that was once so much greater and talgic for a childhood you didn’t group, the Distinctions, that exists sifiable book — a literary dectec- no one understands. You feel a even have. Author Jonathan only in the author’s mind. But he tive story featuring a narrator with sense of exclusion and identity.” Lethem, who really did grow up also documents very real changes Tourette’s syndrome — and a re- He enjoys a love affair with here, declares it the most beauti- in street life, from the dramas of turn to native soil. Brooklyn, and like other such af- ful street in New York City. race and class in the 1970s and “When I was starting out, I had a fairs, he also requires distance. In “First of all, it’s the homes,” he 1980s to the oncoming homoge- tremendous interest in form and in his 20s, he moved to Berkeley, says on a recent afternoon stroll, nization of the present. concept. And that overran any de- Calif., and stayed away for 10 pointing to the compact, brick row “Dean Street is now a very up- sire to do anything emotional and years, even as his old flame beck- houses that line the block. “And the scale street, a really elegant street,” personal,” he says. “Eventually, I oned. sidewalks. They’re slate sidewalks. says Lethem, who lives a few was able to use what I learned “I think I needed a whopping No one makes them like that any- blocks away in a one-bedroom about form and bring in more per- dose of exile,” he explains. “I more.” apartment. “For better of worse, it’s sonal material.” would come back and see my Lethem is not an old man cling- a triumph of gentrification. It was a On the surface, there’s little in friends and go back to the old ing to memories of egg creams and very fitful place when I was young. common between the creator of the neighborhood and I was manifestly the Brooklyn Dodgers. He is just 39, It was a meeting ground for a lot of faraway Planet of the Archbuilders restless with it. It took me some with a teenager’s narrow build and different kinds of cultures, and now in “Girl in Landscape” and the time to harvest an acceptable psy- the hipster’s dark-rimmed glasses. it’s pretty uniformly white.” / Robert Spencer memorializer of earthbound Brook- chological distance.” The Dodgers left for Los Angeles Born in Brooklyn and raised in lyn in “Fortress of Solitude.” But In researching “Fortress of Soli- several years before he was born. one those brick row houses, Lethem all of his work tracks the romantic’s tude,” Lethem would duly walk But he has been around long is the son of avant-garde artist quest for what once was: a girl, a around Dean Street and elsewhere, enough to see his old neighborhood Richard Brown Lethem, of whom Associated Press family, youth, the world itself. but he also wrote parts of the book change entirely and to miss what the author has said, “I learned to Jonathan Lethem, author of “Motherless Brooklyn” and “The Fortress of Solitude,” in Boerum Hill. Loss has been an old companion in Berlin and at the Yaddo writer’s has been lost. Powerless in real life think by watching my father paint.” of Lethem’s, as intimate as the retreat in upstate New York. He to bring back what he calls the “lost While Dylan’s father spends much death of his mother — she died of calls it a cycle of “pulling away and Eden” of childhood, he has instead of his time alone, Lethem’s father sort of boiled with human energy. omnivorous” reader as a kid, with a Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize- cancer when he was a teenager — yearning back.” resurrected it, with a few notable usually had company. “What was so striking to me was child’s passion for action heroes winning novel “The Amazing Ad- and as public as Brooklyn itself, His recent novels have marked a twists, in fiction. “It was a semi-communal house- that as the child of an idealistic and an aesthete’s fascination with ventures of Kavalier & Clay.” this former city that joined Manhat- steady path home. But for his next His books include the award-win- hold,” Lethem says. “My father’s movement in the ‘60s ... my parents literary boundaries. He wondered A graduate of the elite, Vermont- tan in 1898 but never truly became book, which he hasn’t started, the ning “Motherless Brooklyn” and a painting studio was in some ways had instilled me with the idea that why a science fiction thriller had to based Bennington College, Lethem one with its richer neighbor. author is thinking about the West highly anticipated new novel, “The the opposite of a monklike cell. He the battle had been won, absolutely be categorized apart from a literary began as an author of fantasy and “Queens,” the author says with a Coast, the Bay Area. His story will Fortress of Solitude,” the story of a painted live, nude models, so there and forever. And so it was left to novel. His own work became a science fiction. “Girl in Landscape” laugh about the neighboring bor- be less about parents and children white kid and a black kid who grow were models coming in and out. the neighborhood to educate me in kind of answer. follows a teenager’s mythic adven- ough, “was only ever a suburb of than about relationships among up together in Brooklyn. Dylan There were fellow artists in his stu- the rougher reality of disenfran- “He’s always exploding genre tures in a post-apocalyptic universe. Manhattan. With Brooklyn there’s adults. Ebdus is the son of a reclusive dio constantly and some of them chisement.” conventions, and combining differ- In “She Climbed Across the Table,” that loss, the lack, the void in the At least on paper, he’s pulling painter and filmmaker. Mingus Rude were living in the house at times. It Lethem recalls being a “really ent genres,” says his friend, Michael a professor loses his physicist girl- center of it all, the sense that ‘we away. BORO DEMS BRAWL OVER JUDGE SELECTION…
Continued from page 1 Supreme Court justices Michael Pesce, Theodore Jones and Herbert Kramer were also given the nod. After the delegates predictably marched in lockstep to support county’s five choices for Supreme Court, a furious Fleishman, the district leader from Park Slope, confronted Perfetto in the lobby about his decision to support the party’s choice, Guzman, over the reformers’ can- didate, Margarita Lopez Torres. When Fleishman accused Perfetto of making a deal with county party leaders, Perfetto went berserk. He charged to- wards Fleishman with raised fists. Judicial delegate Paul Bader and Assemblyman Clarence Norman, the county party boss, had to restrain Perfetto as others held back Fleishman. “Alan said that my vote was bought,” Perfetto fumed, adding that he had his own reasons for not supporting Lopez Torres. “A number of district leaders got to- gether and made a pact with each other to
support each other’s candidates and this is Mango / Greg the way business has been done in the Brooklyn Democratic Party Leader Clarence Norman past in the county,” Fleishman said, ex- (far left) lookes bored at Tuesday’s judicial nominating plaining to The Brooklyn Papers his convention at St. Francis College. Also on hand were claims that Perfetto’s vote was part of a Marine Park Councilman Lew Fidler (above), and Bob Muir, Jeffrey Feldman and Israel Goldberg (at right).
deal. “This is the same process that got us Papers The Brooklyn [Supreme Court judges] Gerry Garson, Reynold Mason and Victor Barron.” Garson is currently under indictment to discuss it. ers vote by secret ballot for each candi- and Lopez Torres, both Hispanic. have been decided in a particular way be- have had to fire. for bribery, Mason was forced to step One woman said, “There was a slate. I date. Pitting candidates of the same ethnicity cause of fancy dinners a judge was of- “Was she unqualified? Was she unqual- down from the bench for improprieties voted on the slate that was provided.” “The point is I was elected democrati- against one another for a particular vacan- fered, or that custody of a child may have ified?” Perfetto asked twice, as Chachere and Barron is serving a three-to-nine When asked if she knew who she was cally and I want to prove to myself and to cy is done to ensure diversity on the been granted based on how many cigars a interjected that his wife already had a law years prison sentence for bribery. voting for, she said, “How would I know the people that elected me that my vote is bench, Norman said. judge received, I am ashamed, I am out- secretary at the time. Don’t know candidates them?” before she marched off and re- not disenfranchised,” Seminara told The “It’s a part of our process to make sure raged,” Bloomberg said, making refer- “She would have had to fire her court fused to answer any more questions. Papers. “I don’t understand why we have we have diversity,” Norman said. “We’re ence to the Garson case. “And most New attorney,” Chachere said. Although angry, the reformers said The judicial delegates are, for all in- very proud of that. We have, I would say, Yorkers are similarly disgusted and an- “That’s not what I heard,” Perfetto re- they were not surprised that county’s to go through a filter.” tents and purposes, appointed by the The motion was overwhelmingly re- the most diverse bench in the country.” gered.” sponded. choices for the Supreme Court were rati- county party — although they are techni- Norman explained that the reason the The indictment against Garson charges By the end of the meeting about the fied by the judicial convention, a body of jected and the first slate was eventually cally elected positions. According to the approved. three white candidates appeared on one he accepted gifts such as cash and cigars only one who claimed to see a silver lin- people who generally have ties to the Board of Elections, most of the time they unopposed slate was because they were to advise a lawyer over how to argue cas- ing was Norman. county Democratic Party, many of whom “She requested that we use a secret bal- do not appear on primary ballots because lot and that was rejected because we want the consensus choices among delegates. es. “I don’t know what transpired,” Nor- have questionable knowledge of who the they are unopposed. The others, he said, were split, so in the man said of the scuffle. “All I know is candidates are. openness,” Norman said on Tuesday. Predictable results Racial politics The judicial candidates themselves, interest of “racial diversity” black was pit- In the auditorium at St. Francis Col- they calmed down and we leave here unit- According to Brooklyn Heights Coun- ted against black, Hispanic against His- ed as Democrats.” cilman David Yassky, a former Brooklyn On Sept. 10, the 42 state committee however, were presented to the district lege, the process ran its course as many members, also known as district leaders, leaders by Norman, who said he gauged panic, to ensure that at least one of each people expected it would. In addition to the Supreme Court selec- Law School professor, there was a “meet- of those ethnic groups would ascend to tions, the Democratic Party’s choice for a the-candidates” forum for the judicial del- met in the back dining room at the Park the district leaders’ choices through “con- After the slate was presented, an insur- Plaza Restaurant in Brooklyn Heights, as fidential” telephone calls to all of them. the bench. gent faction nominated Civil Court Judge borough-wide Civil Court seat won on egates earlier this month and only around Norman spokesman Bob Liff further Primary Day. 20 people, out of about 130 delegates, usual, where they were handed a slate put “That was a private conversation I had Margarita Lopez Torres over Guzman, a together by Norman. with them, sure, on a one-on-one basis,” he explained that the delegates who support- criminal court judge currently assigned to Shawndya Simpson defeated Dawn bothered to show up. ed Lopez Torres chose to run her against Jimenez for a countywide Civil Court seat “I think if the people are going to take The state committee members were said. “But in terms of their votes, that was Manhattan. Lopez Torres was voted down Guzman, as opposed to any of the other by a count of 30,303 to 20,500. this seriously they should show up and first asked to either vote for or against a done in the sunlight of full disclosure.” by a tally of 91-21. candidates. n district seat primaries, Desmond see the candidates in action,” Yassky said. single slate of three white candidates, Bal- For the next two vacancies, district lead- “[It was] precisely as I expected,” Green and Kathryn Smith, who narrowly When The Papers asked several people ter, Schack and Solomon. ers were given choices, albeit a limited Judging judge-pickers Lopez Torres said after the vote. “I think defeated Kathy King, were winners. coming out of the convention to explain Joanne Seminara, district leader from one. They were asked to choose between The same day as the judicial conven- that the deals were done. I don’t think the Smith, who was passed over for a their choice of candidates, some denied Bay Ridge, suggested that instead of ap- Criminal Court Judge Kathryn Smith and tion in Brooklyn Heights there was a judicial delegates are very independent, Supreme Court judgeship, faces a recount being delegates and others simply refused proving Norman’s slate, the district lead- Bayne, both black candidates, and Guzman hearing in Manhattan by the Commission unfortunately.” to Promote Public Confidence in Judicial Lopez Torres, a respected incumbent this week. Elections, a body convened by the state’s and the only Hispanic woman on the Civ- chief judge, Judith Kaye, to restore confi- il Court bench in Brooklyn, was not en- dence in the beleaguered Brooklyn judici- dorsed last year for re-election, but man- ary. aged to win a bruising primary battle District Attorney Charles Hynes, who anyway. is investigating the Kings County Democ- During last year’s judicial convention, MART… ratic Committee leaders and whether seats Lopez Torres was nominated for Supreme on the bench are for sale in Brooklyn, Court from the floor by Bader but lost by Continued from page 1 took the opportunity to slam the current a count of 66-24 with four abstentions. Santa Maria, adding that parking on 86th judicial selection process and to urge for Perfetto was among those who voted Street, the main Bensonhurst shopping publicly financed open primaries for judi- for Lopez Torres last year, but this year he strip, was driving people, like himself, cial races. sided with Guzman. away from smaller merchants to chain “Officials in the Democratic Party have The move so angered Fleishman that stores with parking lots. informed me that when the Supreme the two got into a shouting match outside “I’m very excited about it,” Howard Court Judicial District Convention is con- the auditorium after the vote, where the Feuer, district manager of Community vened, they instruct their delegates for scuffle ensued. Board 11, said of the coming of Kohl’s. whom they should vote for the office of After the fight, Perfetto said he Asked about possible traffic problems, State Supreme Court Justice,” Hynes tes- changed his mind about Lopez Torres be- Feuer said he was more worried about the tified. cause she refused to follow the rules of space being vacant. “The voters, irrespective of party affili- Brooklyn political-judicial back scratch- “I can’t always worry about traffic,” ation, simply have no say in the choice for ing by declining to hire someone referred Feuer said. those nominated for the office of justice by Assemblyman Vito Lopez (no relation “We wouldn’t have Yankee Stadium, of the state Supreme Court,” he added lat- to the jurist) — an allegation the Bush- we wouldn’t have Shea Stadium, and we er. “And since the choice is made for wick assemblyman has spent the better wouldn’t have Manhattan if we were al- them by political leaders, they are unjust- part of two years denying. ways worried about traffic.” ly disenfranchised.” “If a person goes out and knocks them- The former leaseholder, Kmart, shut its Hynes announced his investigation af- selves out for you, and helps you, and doors eight months ago after the company ter the arrest in April of Judge Gerald then you don’t respect them in return, filed for bankruptcy and scaled back. / Tom Callan / Tom Garson, who has been charged with tak- what is the process?” Perfetto said after The store has sat empty ever since. A ing bribes. the vote. wide range of prospective tenants — Mayor Michael Bloomberg also Lopez Torres’ husband, Matthew ranging from churches to national retailer pressed for reform at the hearing, al- Chachere, shot back at Perfetto that it was Target — has expressed interest, Gindi though he urged for a merit-selection Assemblyman Lopez’s daughter, fresh out said.
The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn process wherein the mayor would appoint of law school, who was recommended Before being taken over by Kmart, the Democratic Party judicial candidates (from left): Raymond Guzman, Martin Solomon, Arthur Schack, Bernadette Bayne, from a short list created by legal experts. and that the judge already had a law sec- site was occupied by Caesar’s Bay Herbert Kramer, and Theodore Jones. “When I read that divorce cases may retary for over three years who she would Bazaar, a multilevel, indoor flea market. September 22, 2003 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM BWN 11 Republicans are trying to dis Dean
To the editor: should be able to name each ment to foot the bill for more live as we speak. Those owners mayor that there would be no It goes without saying that one of them. testing and cleanups. But I have who have warehoused proper- increases of that magnitude. the leading candidate of the De- Your article headlined “Hurst a better idea. Take a look at the LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ties for 20 to 30 years, especial- When approached about mocratic Party, Dr. Howard pol: Prez hopeful dissed city” plume of smoke that washed ly, have the same option. One corporate sponsorship to keep Dean, is going to be upbraided left out Rep. Dennis Kucinich over Brooklyn in the first few can be successful without set- the firehouses open the mayor and criticized for anything and (D-OH). I wonder why. days. Its course directly charted Markowitz, our two senators, businesses that were displaced racists assumptions. I accused ting goals of extreme personal said it was not going to happen everything he does — or does Mr. Kucinich is working for the elevated Gowanus Express- the Brooklyn City Council in my neighborhood. the article of that. Specifically, wealth to the detriment of fel- because New York City was not — by local Republican Par- world leadership through peace, way in satellite photos. delegation and Mayor Mike The imaginary picture of I was reacting to the lumping low human beings. Americans “not for sale.” Why the change? ty activists [“Hurst pol: Prez national health insurance, full This means the people that Bloomberg to form a collec- endless blocks of bodegas and together of bodegas and loiter- seem to have lost sight of that. I am disheartened by the hopeful dissed city,” Sept. 8]. Social Security benefits at 65, bore the brunt of whatever tive synergy to lean on the discount stores has not existed ing drunks. I stand by my —Christine Napolitan, timing, coming on the an- Dean holds up a poster of environmental renewal/clean was in that air also live direct- federal government to fully in reality for most of my life opinion that it was a racist Park Slope niversary of 9-11. Also dis- some sort — we are not shown energy, funding education pre- ly adjacent to the Gowanus fund it. here. I DON’T yearn for the statement, however unintend- heartening is this “innovative” this display — and Republican K through college, civil rights Expressway. On a usual day, It would provide a win-win neighborhood we moved into ed it may have been. Deal reveals financing by a city which has deride him for “graffiti”! and repeal of the Patriot Act, the air around it is already scenario for all Brooklynites. 25 years ago. I DO yearn for For the record, my husband cut the legs from small restau- Dean went to medical women’s reproductive choice, choked with pollution from — Clarence Eckerson, the neighborhood we had after was born in southwestern De- 2-faced mayor rants and other business own- school in the Bronx — but re- withdrawal from NAFTA and automobiles. As a result, its Carroll Gardens about a dozen years of sweat troit, and lived there through- To the editor: ers with increased cafe license ports are printed claiming he WTO, new protections for fam- residents are doubly suffering. equity, community coopera- out college. His mother lived The day before the two- fees, alleged awning infrac- is “from Park Avenue,” derid- ily farmers, and a full employ- Much like the stipend the More on Mid- tion and civic action. That life there for many years after we year anniversary of 9-11 the tions and the smoking ban. ing him as an elitist. ment economy. federal government granted America Slope is what is ignored by every ar- were married. We visit family city announced its contract Corporations came to the Try as they may, Republi- — The Rev. Thomas Lawrence individuals — $300 to buy ticle I’ve seen written on this in that area at least annually, with Snapple, making it the mayor with a solution to keep can spokespeople cannot di- Downtown vaccum cleaners and HEPA To the editor: development plan, and by and occasionally visit the “old official drink of New York open the firehouses, our first minish our interest in this new Editor’s note: We regret the filters — in the months after In rebuttal of Chris Seg- your letter, Mr. Segedy. neighborhood.” City for the tidy sum of $166 line of defense in a city that spokesman of the Democratic error. 9-11, we need the feds to in- edy’s Sept. 1 response to my In a note mailed to me, [Mr. I grew up in a rural north- million. Mayor Bloomberg still weeps for the lost heroes Party. — Lily Samuels, vest in an improvement in our original letter concerning the Segedy] suggested I move to a western Connecticut town. said New York would benefit of 9-11. These corporations, Brooklyn Heights Fund Expwy air. The quickest and best way article “Fourth Avenue poised number of Brooklyn neigh- Neither of us is a native from corporate sponsorship. unlike Snapple, asked for noth- air study to improve the quality of air in as Slope’s next ‘boom’ strip” borhoods that are still in the Brooklynite. Our three kids However, when the mayor ing in return for forking over Don’t forget Brooklyn is to build the long- [July 28], my letter never said state ours was 25 years ago. are, though, and none of them was approached with keeping the $6 million that it would Kucinich To the editor: delayed and studied Gowanus that replacing bodegas and 99- My answer to that is: Been can afford to live in the neigh- firehouses open by allowing take to keep the firehouses There is no doubt the EPA tunnel — and to put it on the cent stores didn’t represent there, done that, your turn. borhood they call home de- corporate sponsorship, his an- open, but the mayor piously To the editor: misled millions about the air fast track. Here is one huge progress. My point was that I did NOT accuse develop- spite advanced degrees and swer was a resounding, “NO.” said, “No, the city is not for While it’s true that two- quality Brooklynites were payment the federal govern- those were NOT the kinds of ers of making classist and professional jobs. My use of Why the change? sale.” Now our mayor says yes thirds of registered Democrats breathing for weeks (“Hillary: ment could make that without the phrase “Middle America” I am being asked to pay for to Snapple, which has demand- cannot name a single candi- B’klyn air needs testing,” a doubt would greatly im- was intended to indicate a so- textbooks for my son in public ed Snapple vending machines date running for the Democra- Sept. 8). prove the breathing quality for ciological phenomenon — school and I am faced with no in city buildings, schools, etc. tic nomination for president, Among many, Sen. Clinton millions. It would also up- Send us a letter sanitized communities — not firehouse in Cobble Hill-Car- Please, Mr. Mayor, answer The Brooklyn Papers surely would like the federal govern- grade our transportation net- By mail: Letters Editor, The Brooklyn Papers, 26 Court St., a geographical location. roll Gardens, where response those of us who know the work and connect neighbor- Brooklyn, NY 11242. By fax: (718) 834-9278. By e-mail: Finally, It’s not true “prop- times from other houses to truth. Have you lost your piety hoods long disenfranchised by [email protected]. Each letter MUST be signed erty owners can only charge cover this area have increased or is the issue of the city being the work of the late, no-to-so- and include the writer’s home address and day or evening what the market dictates.” by two minutes and eight sec- “not for sale” just a question great, Robert Moses. phone number for verification. Letters meant for publication We rent our garden apart- onds. This increase is contrary of price? — Lori Burch, I would like to urge Brook- should not be sent to other publications will not be consid- ment for about 50 percent to 60 to federal guidelines and ex- Mothers Against Closing Master plan lyn Borough President Marty ered. Letters may be edited and will not be returned. percent of market rate. We try to press assurances from the Engine Company 204 at Antic By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers The Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation will release a version of its long-awaited master plan for the YOUR CHILD IS 1.5-mile stretch of the avenue spanning from the waterfront to Flatbush Avenue at the Atlantic Antic on Sunday. The plan, which is to be distributed as a full-color brochure, will discuss the broad strategy as well as implementation priorities such as intersection improvements at Boerum Place and Furman Street, streetscape enhancements and parking improvements. NO ANGEL. Many of the suggestions are unlikely to surprise those who at- tended the master planning sessions, where a large scope of ad- justments were discussed including installing benches, tree pits and Muni-Meters, which are identified as priorities in the brochure. The plan also urges for a mixed-use development at the Brooklyn House of Detention, currently unused by the city’s De- partment of Correction, and the inclusion of Pier 6 into Brooklyn Bridge Park, making Atlantic Avenue a gateway to the 1.6-mile commercial and recreational waterfront development. Others suggestions include a simplified pedestrian crossing at Flatbush and Fourth avenues and some kind of gateway to an- nounce the beginning of the strip at that end. The plan will be distributed after 12:30 pm, on Sept. 21, in front of the Brooklyn House of Detention, on Atlantic Avenue at Boerum Place. Consultants will be available for questions. CHEESY… Continued from page 1 He said Fran Sippel’s cheesecake was lighter and fluffier than the Junior’s version, although he admitted that no side-by-side taste test was performed. Word of Shea’s comments to The Brooklyn Papers this week sent ripples throughout the borough. A shocked Borough President Marty Markowitz, perhaps the most loyal booster of Junior’s cheesecake, and of Brooklyn, said, “Let me be one of the judges! Bring it on!” And Junior’s owner Alan Rosen, while not concerned that an- other business would eat his lunch — or dessert, as it were — was surprised he wasn’t invited to the dance. “That’s pretty laughable,” said Rosen. “They’re having a cheesecake-eating competition and they didn’t call Junior’s! Seems a little cocky.” The grandson of the restaurant’s founder, Harry Rosen, who with his master baker concocted the famous cheesecake recipe in 1950, asked, “What cheesecake are they eating — Sara Lee?” For decades, Junior’s Restaurant, on the corner of DeKalb Av- enue and Flatbush Avenue Extension, has claimed international supremacy by turning cream cheese, eggs, vanilla and sugar into what it claims to be the “world’s most fabulous cheesecake.” They offer everything from the traditional 10-inch cheesecake all the way up to tiered wedding cheesecakes. The cheesecakes are also sold online for delivery nationwide. But the Sippels are determined to buck Brooklyn’s cheesecake establishment. “We are certainly letting Junior’s know that we are on the block and we are not intimidated by them,” said Chris Sippel. Angels don’t need health coverage. Your child does. That’s why at And if you think the IFOCE’s decision is to be taken lightly consider this: Does the competitive-eating sanctioning body hold the Papaya King hot dog eating contest each July 4? No. For HEALTH PLUS we offer you Child Health Plus; a New York State program that decades they’ve held the event at Nathan’s Famous, in Coney Is- land, home of the most storied wiener in the world. This past Independence Day, the Coney Island Nathan’s sold provides your child or teenager with FREE or low cost health coverage more than 20,000 dogs during and after the contest. On Sept. 21, about a dozen hardened and hungry competitors, regardless of your financial situation. To find out if your child qualifies, call including former jalapeno pepper-eating champion Don “Moses” Lerman, world egg-eating champion Eric “Badlands” Booker, and sweets specialist Edward “Cookie” Jarvis, will line up for the HEALTH PLUS at 1-888-809-8009. IFOCE cheesecake-eating championship on a stage in front of the Downtown Atlantic Restaurant. Seeking to avoid the looming controversy, Candace Damon, president of the Atlantic Avenue Local Development Corporation (LDC), which organizes the Atlantic Antic, said it was the idea of the IFOCE to hold a cheesecake-eating competition and that the gorge-off itself was actually not an LDC-run event. Rather, she said, the IFOCE suggested holding the competition during the massive street festival and the LDC agreed. “I love Junior’s cheesecake. I also love Downtown Atlantic cheesecake,” Damon said, adding, “and the more the merrier.” An LDC advertisement for the Antic, which ran in this and other publications, touts the cheesecake-eating contest as one of the day’s highlights, calling it “An Antic premiere! Presented by IFOCE.” While Downtown Atlantic has only been in business since April, its bakery and cheesecake share a longer relationship with Atlantic Avenue. For about 10 years, the bakery was known as Cakes and Children are eligible for Child Health Plus offered by Health Plus if they: are under the age Cookies by Fran, and run by Fran Sippel, until it was incorporat- of 19; are not eligible for Medicaid and do not have equivalent health insurance; and live in ed into the new restaurant. A stage will be set up outside the Downtown Atlantic Restau- Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, or Staten Island. rant, on Atlantic Avenue between Bond and Hoyt streets, where the competitors will converge at 1:30 pm, for a six-minute eat-off of Fran Sippel’s 3-inch, quarter-pound mini-cheesecakes. Chris Sippel even said he would erect a “wall of fame” dis- www.healthplus-ny.org playing plaques honoring this year’s and future winners. “Junior’s probably makes the most cheesecakes, and we prob- ably make the best,” he said. 12 BWN THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM September 22, 2003 din’ For Clones, a classy exit Ri the es Team, fans endure loss but keep their pride Cyclon By Ed Shakespeare Across the room was Ian with Gersh Kuntzman for The Brooklyn Papers Bladergroen, the first baseman who set a consecutive-games- When the Brooklyn played record for the Cy- Dodgers won their only clones at 74. The irony: the World Series, in 1955, Cyclones’ iron man broke the there were celebrations all thumb on his right hand in a over the borough, with a first base collision with a run- joyous parade that still ner earlier that night. He had Your 2003 lingers in the memories of left for the hospital during the many Brooklynites today. game, but returned to root on But by 1958, the team was his teammates in the final in- gone. nings. When professional baseball “I had wanted to be out Clonie awards returned to Brooklyn in 2001, there at the end of the game,” the Cyclones won the McNa- he said as he looked at his minstrel show. Not only that, but at Keyspan broken right thumb. Because ure, the 2003 Brooklyn Cyclones did mara Division, beating the not win the New York-Penn League Park, the setting sun is never in a first base- Staten Island Yankees in the of his injury, his scheduled man’s eyes. He even wore the stuff during stint in the fall Florida Instruc- SChampionship, but the season that end- semifinals of the playoffs. rain-delayed games. tional league was up in the air. ed with last Wednesday’s 4-3, 11th-inning But because of the events The Kennisaw Mountain Landis Award But Bladergroen seemed more heartbreaking loss to the Williamsport Cross- of Sept. 11 that year, the for Most Ridiculous Front Office Rule: The disappointed about the series cutters was a constant reminder of how great championship round of the it is to have baseball back in Brooklyn and Mets organization has plenty of rules designed
/ Gary Thomas loss. playoffs was canceled, and the to ensure professionalism, such as mandating Outside of Keyspan Park, how much pleasure can be had from watching Clones were name co-champs a crisp ballgame in a great (cheap) seat in a collared shirts when players are in “street” near the players’ entrance on clothes. But manager Tim Teufel went a little with the Williamsport Cross- the first-base side, fans were gorgeous setting. cutters. In Brooklyn — and Win or lose, the Brooklyn Cyclones will al- too far by barring players from wearing their still gathered an hour after the Cyclones caps outside of Keyspan Park. everywhere else in the coun- game. As each Cyclone would ways make their fans scream, “Wait ‘til next
The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Teufel’s explanation was that the Cyclones try, for that matter — no one exit the stadium, the fans year!” — because, indeed, we can’t wait for wanted to celebrate. Cyclones pitcher Bryan King, losing pitcher in Wednesday night’s championship game at Opening Day to get here already. front office already employs plenty of public would cheer. Chuck Monsan- relations people, so there is no need for the This year, the Cyclones Keyspan Park, hangs his head. to, from Williamsburg, who That said, let’s take one last look back at the made it to the finals against 2003 season by handing out The Brooklyn Pa- players to be promoting the team, too. But rooted his heart out from sec- Teufel forgot that those caps are also a useful the same Williamsport Cross- tion 14 during the game, was pers’ illustrious Clonie Awards. The en- cutters. But they were swept stop and the Bensonhurst bel- and then through the tunnel to Over at Jon Slack’s locker, velopes, please: tool for self-promotion. No longer could Cy- ter reached first. After a strike- the clubhouse. he packed his bats in a card- one of them. clones players stride down a Brooklyn street two-games-to-none, losing His team had lost, but there The Don Rickles Award for Cruelest Put- out, a groundout moved Some Brooklynites were board shipping box, sealing and immediately be recognized — and cele- once on the road and, one he was clapping and offering down: Late in the season, Cyclones first base- Bocchino to second base. really crushed by the loss. the box with tape. His grand- brated as the stars they are. night later, in heartbreaking praise for “his guys” as they man (and 74-game-in-a-row Iron Man) Ian Then catcher Milver Reyes Most were, at the least, very parents had been staying with The Ty Cobb Award for Best Taunt: After fashion at Keyspan Park. came out to the sidewalk. Bladergroen tied the team’s single-season record With the score tied at 2 and singled to left, scoring disappointed. a friend on Long Island and for most hits. When told the news, teammate a collision at home plate ended a hard-fought Marty Bromberger was win over the hated Staten Island Yankees, some Bryan King on the mound in Bocchino with the lead run. Down in the Brooklyn club- had been following the team’s there too, but that wasn’t as Brett Harper joked, “Yeah, well I’ll bet he goes the 10th inning last Wednes- In the bottom of the 11th, house, the players were silent. fortunes for the past two 0-fer and doesn’t break it.” Well, Harper was Yankees rushed onto the field looking for a surprising because he lives fight. As coaches defused the situation, Cy- day, a neighborhood guy, An- the Clones’ Blake Whealy They sat or stood at their lock- weeks, attending most games, right there in Coney Island. right. The Blade went 0-16 down the stretch — thony Bocchino, led off for popped out. Tyler Davidson, ers, packed and changed from home and away. Now, both ending his season at a still-impressive .285 bat- clones pitcher Tanner Osberg jumped onto the He cheered as each player ex- field and held up seven fingers — the number Williamsport. The only prob- playing first because of an in- their uniforms, all without a Slack and his grandparents ited, despite the loss. ting average — and didn’t get a hit in the play- lem Brooklyn fans have with jury to Ian Bladergroen, struck word. Some players quietly would be going home to Las offs. To add injury to insult, Bladergroen frac- of consecutive games the Cyclones had won “Of course we cheer now,” over the Yankees at that point in the season. It Bocchino, who grew up in out, and then Stacy Bennett padded toward the showers. Vegas. he said. “We’re Brooklynites.” tured his thumb in the Cyclones’ last game. Bensonhurst, is that he plays popped to first. The season They weren’t surly or sulky. Earlier in the week, Slack The Black Cat Award for Biggest Jinx: wasn’t classy, but it was effective. Second baseman Blake The Muhammad Ali Award for Best for Williamsport. Oh, and he was over. But this clubhouse wasn’t a had made a Willie Mays-like, Whealy came through the Cyclones radio announcer Warner Fusselle had Fight Strategy: When a bench-clearing brawl kills Brooklyn. This year, he The Crosscutters poured happy place. Boy, did they over-the-head catch against players’ exit. The fans cheered. an uncanny knack for saying the wrong thing at erupted during a game, Osberg jumped onto hit .500 against Brooklyn dur- onto the field and celebrated, want to win. Sometimes it’s a Oneonta, saving that series and Whealy turned around and the wrong time. When Bladergroen had a 12- the field first and started pummeling people. ing the regular season, with 14 spraying Champagne all over long time between chances to allowing the Clones to play an- went back into the clubhouse. game hitting streak, Fusselle mentioned it on Yet he wasn’t suspended or fined by the hits in 28 at bats. themselves as they cheered win a professional champi- other day. Slack doesn’t take He came out with baseball the air — and Bladergroen promptly went hit- league. Why not? Because he jumped onto the Bocchino pushed a bunt wildly. Meanwhile, the Cy- onship. Sometimes it never losing easily. But he answered caps for the fans. Soon, he’d less. Fusselle did the same thing a few days lat- field wearing his warm-up jacket, thereby hid- past the pitcher toward short- clones went into their dugout happens again. reporters’ questions politely. be back home in River Forest, er to Jonathan Slack and, poof, there went Ill. Slack’s eight-game hitting streak. And as pitch- ing his uniform number from the umpire. Outside, on the sidewalk in er Vince Cordova, who had a 1.40 ERA at one “Pretty smart, huh?” Osberg said. front of Keyspan, Down- point, prepared for a start, Fusselle asked him if The Roger McDowell Award for Best town’s Patrick Witt, the fan he was going to “get it under 1 tonight.” Cordo- Guy to Have in the Dugout During a Los- who organizes bus trips for va was promptly shelled. ing Streak: Plenty of Cyclones — think the Peggy O’Neill’s Restau- The Warren Beatty Award for Male Vanity: Jonathan Slack, Ender Chavez and Tony Piaz- rant adjacent to the park on Fans may have noticed the many different za — could be nominated in this category for Surf Avenue was hanging faces of third-baseman Aaron Baldiris on the keeping their teammates loose. But no one around. Pat was feeling down scoreboard at Keyspan Park — but the con- was better than Osberg, who was always about the Cyclones loss. He stant switching was at Baldiris’ request. Ap- quick to administer a hotfoot or other team- roots to win. parently, he never liked the photo of him that bonding gags. Osberg was always doing NOW OPEN He also took a loss on the team officials were using — no matter which something weird in the dugout, like when he bus trips this year — a finan- one they used. Aaron, maybe it’s time to just rubbed the side of his head whenever an op- cial loss. He organizes the admit you’re no matinee idol. But look on the posing pitcher ran up a two-ball and two- trips for the sheer enjoyment bright side: You’re the best fielding third base- strike count with two outs. “That’s my ‘two- of doing it, but it would be man in Cyclones history. two-two’ hex,” he said. nice if he didn’t lose money The Lenny Dykstra Award for Gratu- The Most Oblivious Cyclone: During one on it. Still, even after such a itous Grime: OK, he’s a catcher, so that gives home game, pitcher Brian Bannister spent a letdown — and the money out him an unfair advantage in this category, but good two innings with a bubble-gum bubble on of his pocket — he’s going to Tony Piazza went above and beyond the call his cap, courtesy of Piazza. Bannister remained run them again next season. of filthiness during the season. After one par- oblivious, even as fans screamed, “Hey, bubble Up Surf Avenue at ticularly dirty game, Piazza didn’t even show- boy!” He eventually figured it out. Nathan’s, the Crosscutters bus er — or remove his smeared eye-black — be- The George Burns Award for Ridicu- was parked next to the curb. fore going out to dinner with his visiting lously Slow Walking: Pitching coaches learn Brooklyn Heights Inside Nathan’s, the team was girlfriend. He was later fined by the team’s early to walk very slowly from the dugout to lined up in three rows to order kangaroo court, with the $2 proceeds going to the mound, which gives relief pitchers more their bags of hot dogs, cheese- an end-of-season party. time to warm up. But no one does it better — Montague & Court Streets burgers and fries for the four- The Third-Annual Al Jolson Award For or slower — than Cyclones pitching coach and-a-half-hour ride back to Profligate Use of Eye-Black: Last year’s Hector Berrios. The lithe and physically fit Williamsport. Here were the winner, Brett Harper — a guy who would Berrios walks to the mound as if aided by an newly crowned champions of wear eye-black even if he was playing in a invisible walker. And he contorts his body in the New York-Penn League, winter league in Alaska — would have won such a way that it appears that he’s walking and they were quiet. Euphoria again this year were it not for Ian Blader- briskly, when in fact, he is not. Berrios’ slug- — like that seen drenched in groen’s even more profound addiction to the gishness could explain the bullpen’s remark- Champagne on the field a few glare-reducing, under-eye paint. Like Harper, able performance this year. hours back — lasts only so the Blade wore his eye-black day or night. But Gersh Kuntzman is also Brooklyn bureau long. Soon you’re at the back unlike Harper, he uses so much that it looks chief of the New York Post. 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CINEMA Age of ‘Reason’ Marxist, poet, novelist, actor, intellectual, homosex- ual, filmmaker — Pier Paolo Pasolini wore so many hats it was impossible to separate his art from his life. When he died in 1975 — murdered by a gay prostitute right before the release of his final, nearly unwatchably grisly film, “Salo: or the 120 Days of Sodom” — Pasolini had already achieved artistic freedom, critical ac- claim, fame and fortune … a decidedly contra- dictory existence for an avid socialist. Now Laura Betti (at left with Pasolini), who acted in several of his films and currently heads the Pasolini (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings September 22, 2003 Foundation, in Italy, has made a documentary, “Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream,” which will be shown at BAMcinematek (30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene) on Sept. 23 at 7 pm. Betti’s 90-minute look at Pasolini can’t hope to encompass the complexity of the multifaceted di- rector’s art and existence, and smartly doesn’t try. Instead, as her title suggests, Betti gives impression- istic glimpses of many different Pasolinis — even Hip-hop diplomacy showing an upbeat soccer game between his “Salo” crew and the crew of Bernardo Bertolucci’s “1900” that ends when a huge cake is brought out and de- voured by the combatants. There are talking-head discussions of his work Rennie Harris and scenes from several of his films, but Betti hu- manizes Pasolini by showing that everything in his art stemmed from his life, and vice-versa. Even spreads his those unpersuaded by Pasolini’s many artistic en- deavors will find this documentary illuminating. Also showing at BAM in this mini-Pasolini/Betti urban dance festival is one of his most bizarre creations, “Teore- ma” (1968), starring Betti and Terence Stamp (Sept. 22 at 4:30, 6:50 and 9:10 pm). Tickets are $10. For more information, log onto www.bam.org. message with — Kevin Filipski free Bklyn shows ART By Shanti Crawford for The Brooklyn Papers
hen the performers in Rennie Harris’ hip-hop company, Puremovement, Wtake the stage, it is impossible not to watch. A typical sequence involves a dancer slid- ing across the stage on his head, followed up by a headspin that cantilevers to a cross- legged freeze. What you’re seeing is not so much dance as an attack on the laws of physics. On Sept. 20 and Sept. 21, Harris will bring his company to Brooklyn for free per- Chin up formances in Red Hook’s Coffey Park. This outdoor performance launches “Dancing in If you’re walking in Fort Greene, Tuesdays the Park,” a multiyear festival sponsored by DANCE through Sundays, from 11 am to 8 pm, don’t forget the groups Dancing in the Streets and the to look up. You don’t want to miss three mecha- Dancing in the Streets presents “Stu- Friends of Coffey Park. dents of the Asphalt Jungle,” a program by nized, life-size marionettes (illustrated above) com- For Dancing in the Streets Executive Di- Rennie Harris Puremovement, on Sept. 20 ing to life every hour, on the hour at 80 Hanson and Sept. 21, 2-3 pm, at Coffey Park, Dwight rector Aviva Davidson, Harris was a fitting Street between Verona Street and Visitation Place at South Portland Avenue. choice for the festival’s opening show. Place in Red Hook. In case of rain, perform- Artist Clara Williams has fashioned an elaborate “I have wanted to present Rennie Harris ances will take place at PS 15’s auditorium, at glockenspiel-like installation which emerges from 71 Sullivan St. between Van Brunt and in Red Hook for several years,” she ex- Richards streets. the third-floor windows of the building to give an plained. “Our arts education program focus- The “History of Hip-Hop” performance eight-minute scene (sans dialogue) from Arthur es on the hip-hop vernacular, and I am eager and Q&A will be Sept. 19, 6-7 pm, at PS 27’s Miller’s 1968 play “The Price.” auditorium, 27 Huntington St. between Co- for our students and their families to see hip- lumbia and Hicks streets. The production is presented by the Public Art hop performed by masters.” This perform- The events are free of charge and open to Fund and the BAM Local Development Corpora- ance series is a part of Dancing in the Bob Emmott the public. For more information, call (212) tion, which will after renovations offer space in the Streets’ Red Hook initiative, which includes 625-3505. building, 80 Arts — christened this week as the an arts program in the public schools, com- James E. Davis Arts Building — to small arts and munity celebrations and site-specific per- art services groups at below-market rents. formance. band that included Indian tablas and move- “The Price (Giving in Gets You Nowhere)” will Brandon Albright, assistant artistic direc- ment inspired by Japanese butoh. be on display through Oct. 26. For more informa- tor and dancer in Puremovement, hopes to While the scope of his projects expands, tion about the artist, call (212) 980-4575. For more give the audience a taste of hip-hop’s roots. urban violence remains a recurring theme. information about 80 Arts, call the BAM LDC at “Mainly I want them to learn who created Playful and exuberant moments are often (718) 789-9366. — Lisa J. Curtis the movement and the history behind the contrasted with grim images of horror and movement — so that they can understand loss. An early group piece depicts a slow- what they are doing while they are moving,” motion, drive-by shooting, while the ending said Albright. of “Facing Mekka” was based on an experi- ART Harris himself noted in a recent interview ence of coming across a dead body floating with the Metro Santa Cruz newspaper, “A in the water while jogging near the lot of people don’t realize that there’s a lot Schuylkill River. of styles of dance that fall under the umbrel- This tension is perhaps best seen in Har- la of hip-hop. You know, you’re talking ris’ solos. Relying largely on the early style Open studios about robot, popping, boogaloo, strutting, of locking-and-popping, his solos are both sagging, boogie. You’re talking about flex- fluid and jarring, and at times look like On Sunday, Prospect Heights artists open their ing, house, trendy, vogue, second-line. Then something between meditation and electro- studios to the public. From noon to 8 pm on Sept. you have B-boy, then you have hip-hop cution. 21, get a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the myster- proper … and a lot of times, the public is While Harris doesn’t like to ascribe to any ies of creating art — from oil paintings to sculpture only bombarded with the acrobatics of hip- Pure virtuosity: Rennie Harris Puremovement, which performed “Rome & Jewels” analysis of his work, he does speak of hip- to video. Works by knit- hop, which is B-boying.” (above) for 651 Arts in May 2002 at the BAM Harvey Theater, returns to Brooklyn hop as both a link to the past, and as a kind wear designer Staceyjoy For the “Dancing in the Parks” show, this weekend for free performances in Coffey Park. of spirituality. Elkin (pictured) will be Puremovement will perform selections from “Before hip-hop,” Harris said in the on display at 651 the company’s repertoire including “P- Metro Santa Cruz interview, “it was rhythm Bergen St. Studio tour Funk,” “March of the Antmen,” “Continu- flees unseen assailants in a slow-motion Harris, now 39, continues to act as and blues, it was rock, it was jazz, it was maps are available at um,” and the title work, “Students of the As- popping-and-locking sequence. This piece, spokesman for hip-hop’s history and vibran- classical, it was whatever gave you that Freddy’s Bar and Back phalt Jungle.” provocative because of its critical look at ur- cy. But his role as the dance’s ambassador sense of freedom that you could just go Room (485 Dean St.), Albright describes the title work as “a vi- ban violence, represented one of the first doesn’t stop him from constantly pushing its ahead and do your thing and just be in tune Soda Bar (628 Vander- brant affirmation of Afro-American heritage times hip-hop dance was created for the the- boundaries as a theatrical art form. His 2000 with the divine order, so to speak, and un- bilt Ave.) and at Elkin’s through movement handed down through ater. “Rome and Jewels,” an adaptation of derstand the moment of now. It’s not catego- Red Lipstick boutique spirit and instinct.” He grew up on the north side of Philadel- “Romeo and Juliet,” was the first evening- rized, it’s just another means by which we (64 Sixth Ave.). The company will also present a lecture- phia in a neighborhood called “the Bad- length narrative hip-hop dance. (Last year, can get there, a vehicle to get back to loving From 8 to 11 pm, demonstration on Friday, Sept. 19 that traces lands.” He started out by copying moves 651 Arts, the leading presenter of African ourselves, and getting back to, ultimately, take a load off at the the progression of hip-hop’s forms, and its seen on “Soul Train” and went on to tour and African-American dance, music and the- loving in general.” after-studio-party fea- connections to African, Afro-Brazilian, Afro- with Run DMC, the Fat Boys, Kurtis Blow ater featured “Rome and Jewels” at the This weekend, Harris will bring his medi- turing live music by Jason Martin and the Cuban and Puerto Rican dance. and Whodini. In 1992, he formed his own BAM Harvey Theater.) tations on love and violence to Coffey Park. Kamikaze Hearts at Freddy’s Bar and Backroom. Harris first gained widespread recognition company with the goal of moving hip-hop He followed this effort with “Facing As concert dance goes, little else compares For more information and a printable map, log in the modern dance world for a 1992 solo dance out from behind rappers and onto the Mekka,” another evening-length piece that to the virtuosity and gritty immediacy of his onto www.prospectheightsartists.org. called “Endangered Species” in which he center stage. highlights hip-hop’s global reach with a work. — Lisa J. Curtis