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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2012 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn and Williamsburg AWP/14 pages • Vol. 35, No. 43 • October 26–November 1, 2012 • FREE PUCK STOPS HERE Islanders hockey team coming to Barclays Center in 2015
By Eli Rosenberg land if he didn’t get a new arena On hand for the announce- ter home, joining the Brooklyn The Brooklyn Paper to replace the asbestos-riddled ment were Mayor Bloomberg, Nets — which moved to the arena The Islanders are moving to Nassau Veterans Memorial Col- NHL commissioner Gary Bett- from the Prudential Center in New Brooklyn. iseum by the time his lease there man, Borough President Markow- Jersey this year and will take the The Long Island–based hockey expires at the end of next year. itz, and a slew of Barclays Cen- court on Nov. 1. team announced on Wednesday Long Island voters nixed a plan ter bigwigs including Forest City And Markowitz says he can’t that it will play its home games for that new arena shortly before Ratner head Bruce Ratner, who wait until the first puck drops. at the new Barclays Center at At- the completion of the Barclays cheered the Islanders owner for “I will take the first spin on the lantic and Flatbush Avenues be- Center, giving Wang all the in- keeping his team in New York. Zamboni,” said Markowitz. ginning in 2015 — and continu- centive he needed to depart for “Charles got offers to move the The move is somewhat of a sur- ing through 2040. Brooklyn. team out of state, but he wouldn’t prise, considering the Barclays The breakaway to Brooklyn “Our goal is to have the Island- do that,” Ratner said. Center was not designed with a
comes after Islanders owner ers play in a world-class arena Photo by Stefano Giovannini The Islanders will become hockey rink in mind, and when Charles Wang claimed he would and we have achieved that goal,” Mayor Bloomberg affixes a the second professional sports games are played there many move his team out of Long Is- Wang said. New York Islanders tie. team to call the Barclays Cen- See HOCKEY on page 5 Photo by Stefano Giovannini L.V. Salazar’s book of Brooklyn-based ghost stories includes a tale about the DUMBO archway — which is supposedly haunted by a little girl. One year later After cyclist’s death, what has changed? Ghost town By Eli Rosenberg The Brooklyn Paper A BROOKLYN PAPER INVESTIGATION Local paranormal expert The conditions that led to the death of cyclist Mathieu Lefe- vre remain as dangerous now as cry from his family and cyclists from Morgan Avenue — then welcomes boro’s ghouls they were one year ago, when citywide, who claim the NYPD left the scene — only received a hit-and-run driver killed the botched the initial investigation a couple of traffic summonses Self-proclaimed ghost expert L.V. Salazar is Brook- and stonewalled them in their for the fatal collision. lyn’s most relevant author — for exactly one day each 30-year-old artist and ignited quest to find out what exactly One year later, Lefevre’s year. The Kensington resident’s spooky and fascinating a street safety movement that accounts of the borough’s “true” hauntings are the type File photo by Stefano Giovannini sought to change the city’s traf- happened and how the trucker mother is still asking the same of Halloween reading material that makes little kids cry Mathieu Lefevre’s mother Erika (with a supporter, David Dart- fic enforcement culture. who ran him over while making questions she did when she re- and grown-ups laugh. His spine-tingling tales tell of a ley) is still looking for answers one year after his death. Lefevre’s death sparked out- a right turn on Meserole Street See LEFEVRE on page 13 “house of suicides” in Brooklyn Heights, demonic wolves in Prospect Park, and a coven of sperm-stealing witches in DUMBO. Below, he briefs reporter Natalie O’Neill on ghastly subjects such as public records, the devil him- self, and why even dead people love chocolate. Bridging the gap Natalie O’Neill: Your came an expert. For exam- book, “The Ghosts of Brook- ple, most people don’t know lyn,” states you’re “one of the that one out of four angels Pol pushes for bike lane on Pulaski Bridge world’s leading authorities on is a fallen angel. It’s almost fallen angels and demons.” like someone who has read By Danielle Furfaro “I’m not advocating for the pe- How did you earn an impres- all of the Sherlock Holmes The Brooklyn Paper destrians, I’m not advocating for sive title like that? novels: I’m an expert on all Greenpoint’s Pulaski Bridge MEAN the bicyclists,” said Lentol. “I’m L.V. Salazar: I stud- the clues and details. will gain a bike lane and lose a trying to solve problems.” ied theology and was fasci- NO: How does a ghost lane of automotive traffic if a Streets Currently, bikes and pedes- sleuth like yourself tell the nated by the fact that Chris- North Brooklyn politician gets The battle for Brooklyn’s byways trians share a narrow sidewalk difference between a fallen tians, Muslims, and Jews all his way. on the Brooklyn-bound side of angel and a regular-old bor- have angels in their religion. Assemblyman Joe Lentol (D– of making the heavily com- the bridge, while motorized ve- ing angel? There’s a book called “A Dic- Greenpoint) wants the city to in- muted link between Brooklyn hicles get three lanes in each di- Photo by Stefano Giovannini tionary of Angels” and I be- See GHOSTS on page 11 stall a protected bike route along and Queens safer for bicyclists, rection. The tight space means Bicyclists, walkers, and runners have to battle for space on the Pulaski Bridge in the hopes pedestrians, and runners. See PULASKI on page 13 the crowded Pulaski Bridge. INFINITE FEST City: Snip snip Foster Wallace club a supposedly fun thing they plan to do again for Coney zipline By Natalie O’Neill ronyms — will meet for readings, By Katia Savchuk a steel cable six stories in the air, giv- The Brooklyn Paper discussions, and maybe even David for The Brooklyn Paper ing Luna Park — which rents land from Self-proclaimed book geeks are Foster Wallace–themed field trips, Derailed zipline owners accused the the city — a competition-free summer, celebrating all things David Foster organizers say. Co-founder Emily Pullen, a man- city of flexing its muscle to prevent their they charged. Wallace with a new meet-up group “I’ve been permitting in the city for the that promises to be as quirky, obses- ager at Greenpoint’s Word bookstore, thrill ride from opening in Coney Is- last 25 years, and I’ve never seen anything sive, and self-deprecating as the hip- said the idea came to her after dozens land during last summer’s big tourist ster lit icon himself. of patrons bought the bandana-sport- season, costing them hundreds of thou- like this. I’m very uncomfortable with The David Foster Wallace Appre- ing author’s books — then couldn’t sands of dollars. it,” said zipline boss Mark Zientek. Photo by Katia Savchuk Photo by Melanie Fidler ciation Society — dubbed TDFWAS wait to talk about them. Mayor Bloomberg pressured the De- BK Festival, which manages the Still- Jenn Northington helped orga- to pay homage to the insightful and “We’re creating a space where peo- BK Festival partner Tom Walk- partment of Consumer Affairs and De- well Avenue property the ride sits on, also nize The David Foster Wallace humorous writer’s occasional use of ple can geek out,” Pullen said, add- er’s zipline attraction never partment of Buildings to stall approvals accused the city of pushing owner Thor Appreciation Society. intentionally long and awkward ac- See SOCIETY on page 6 got off the ground. for the ride that zips daredevils down See ZIPLINE on page 11 Who needs Walgreens? After pharmacy replaces grocery, nabe plans a food co-op
By Eli Rosenberg The Brooklyn Paper THE GREEN TIDE: Food co-ops are spreading like wild kale as Call it co-op-eration. ordinary supermarkets fall like dominos. Here’s a rundown of the A group of Kensington and Wind- co-ops where growing numbers of card-carrying members work sor Terrace foodies are trying to open time-consuming shifts and endure long lines for discounts: a Park Slope–style food co-op in their neighborhood after the loss of a lo- Location Founded Intel Ethos cal supermarket — and they’re even getting guidance from the leaders of the legendary Park Slope Food Park Slope 1973 This communal shopping hub with more Highly central- Co-op themselves. than 16,000 members lends its expertise ized, work-ori- “They were extraordinarily help- to upstart co-ops — but it doesn’t allow ented co-opism ful in telling us what to avoid and how non-members to shop. to proceed,” said Jack O’Connell, Brooklyn Bridge Park Bridge Brooklyn who has spearheaded the effort with Flatbush 1976 Cheaper for those who pay a fee to join Free-market Planners predict a hot new restaurant atop Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park — plus a about 12 other Windsor Terriers and but open to shoppers of all stripes, this co-opism takeout window in the so-called “Smokestack Building.” Kensingtonians. “They are commit- co-op is run by a commission headed by a ted to working with us if and when board of members. we get the co-op rolling, we will rely on their much-appreciated skill and Bay Ridge Talks Emerged after the closure of a beloved Anti- It’s food with a view knowledge.” began in Key Food and news of the arrival of a exclusionary The upstart group has been meet- 2008 Walgreens convenience store in its place. co-opism ing since July, said O’Connell, and Two new eateries planned for Bridge Park the idea for a food co-op arose after Bushwick 2010 This “buying club” gets members dis- Grassroots a popular Windsor Terrace Key Food counts on grub by purchasing in bulk — co-opism By Natalie O’Neill ning rooftop restaurant and bar visitors even more food choices,” shut down and the pharmacy chain and it features a board of directors includ- The Brooklyn Paper at Pier 6 — kick-starting a long- said Regina Myer, president of Walgreens announced it would move ing many Park Slope Food Co-op insiders. Park officials are dishing out anticipated venture that could re- Brooklyn Bridge Park. into the grocery store’s Prospect Av- two food-focused plans to rake in place Central Park’s Tavern on The restaurant space includes enue space despite outcry from res- Fort 2012 The Greene Hill Food Co-op has a work- Small market, funding at Brooklyn Bridge Park: the Green as the city’s ultimate a ground-floor terrace and seat- idents who say they value fresh pro- Greene– for-discount setup with a community-cen- production- a small take-out shack and an in-park dining spot. ing for up to 64 people inside, as duce over prescriptions. Clinton Hill tric mission and strong ties to the Park oriented upscale rooftop restaurant with Planners are calling on “pre- well as 199 outside, according to Organizers hope their co-op Slope Food Co-op. co-opism Manhattan skyline views. mium-quality” restaurateurs to a Brooklyn Bridge Park Corpo- plan will appeal to residents con- The Brooklyn Bridge Park lease the Pier 6 space, which of- ration proposal soliciting com- cerned about a lack of foodstuffs Windsor Talks Emerged after the closure of a beloved Soup in every Corporation wants to open a ficials say enhances the park’s panies to bid on leases. in the neighborhood, but they ad- Terrace– began in Key Food and news of the arrival of a bowl for hungry mit the challenge will be attracting tiny brick take-out-window eat- burgeoning food scene . Under the plan, a studio-apart- Kensington 2012 Walgreens convenience store in its place. nabe ery near Water Street and a stun- “We are eager to offer park See PARK on page 6 See CO-OP on page 6 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 October 26–November 1, 2012
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he Nets are the borough’s Howard sweepstakes, will cross-town rivals the New perts of differing heights and new home team — but the Nets’s fortune be dictated York Knicks — but there will insights. T who exactly are these re- by often overlooked low-post also be an internal conflict This season, they will duke cent Brooklyn transplants? work from tabloid favorite FRONT COURT that will set the tone for the it out on our news pages and Is this a squad that lives Kris Humphries and a finally rest of the season: the struggle website, offering readers a and dies by the play of face- healthy Brook Lopez? BACK COURT between the Nets front court fresh perspective on a team of-the-franchise Deron Wil- When the Nets take the and back court. in f lux that must adjust to a new liams and his newfound side- floor for their first-ever game By Tom Lafe and To analyze this dynamic home, a much-changed roster, kick at guard Joe Johnson? at the Rust Bowl on Nov. 1, Matt Spolar conflict, The Brooklyn Pa- and all the attention of the bas- Or, after losing the Dwight they will battle the hated per brought in two hoops ex- ketball-loving world. The front court The back court Tom Lafe is a 6-foot-5 sports world insider with a middling Matt Spolar is a nearly 6-foot-1 journalist with an equally high school basketball career who believes the Nets will be middling high school basketball career who is sure the Nets driven by the success of the front court, with Humphries and will take cues from D-Will, with Johnson’s arrival only solidi- Lopez backed up by capable offseason signings. Here are fying the team’s reliance on its back court. Here are the little the big men to watch: guys he thinks will lead the way: Brook Lopez: As the re- Reggie Evans: The Deron Williams: Williams team — goodbye Jordan Far- cipient of a lucrative contract famed flopper has landed is suddenly the talk of the league mar, Johan Petro, Anthony Mor- extension, Lopez is a corner- in Brooklyn. Acquired this after years lurking in the small- row, Jordan Williams, and De- Photo by Stefano Giovannini stone in the Nets’ plan for title summer for a future second- market shadows of Salt Lake Shawn Stevenson (Brooklynites Bensonhurst native Paulie Malignaggi salutes contention. He posted strong round pick, Evans last sea- City and Newark. But can Wil- hardly knew ye) — and pushed the crowd after Saturday night’s split-decsion preseason offensive numbers son helped the Los Ange- liams — who swore off a return Brooks out of the limelight. Last victory over Pablo Cesar Cano. after missing most of last year les Clippers on the boards, to the Nets if not for the move to year, the rookie established him- with a broken right foot and an and often one-upped the act- Brooklyn — lead a team in the self as a scorer by averaging 13 ankle injury — but offense has ing chops of lightweight su- spotlight? Last season, he aver- points in 29 minutes, but with never been his problem. Since perstar Chris Paul in his at- aged 8.7 assists per game, his Johnson onboard, Brooks will joining the Nets in 2008, op- tempts to draw fouls. When lowest since his rookie year, and see less time on the f loor. To be Boxing hits posing teams have often left Lopez or Humphries need he racked up the worst shoot- a factor, he must keep his head Lopez flatfooted when attack- a rest, this rebounding spe- ing percentage and most turn- down, improve his defense, and ing the hoop off the pick-and- cialist will clean the glass — overs of his career. For the Nets limit his turnovers. roll. He must step up his de- or pretend someone chopped not to be a laughingstock, the C.J. Watson: Watson en- fense around the rim and off his arms while going for star point guard must excel in deared himself to Nets fans by Barclays! attack the glass to up his pe- a loose ball. distributing the ball and man- declaring D-Will better than D- destrian career average of 7.5 Andray Blatche: aging the game. Rose, the star guard he backed Local fi ghter wins bout in rebounds per game. Benched last season by the Joe Johnson: Johnson is up in Chicago for the past two Kris Humphries: Com- Washington Wizards due to a an immense talent — and his seasons. Whether he’ll win as ing off a year in which he re- lack of conditioning, Blatche arrival is part of the reason the many fans with his play as he night of world-title action corded career highs in min- has looked like a new man team has such high expecta- did with his words remains By Will Bredderman then waved his wand and tions. Johnson — who averaged to be seen, but with Rose in- utes, rebounds, points, and throughout the preseason. The Brooklyn Paper stuck out his tongue at the media coverage, thanks to his That’s a good thing, because better than two three-pointers jured much of last year, Watson naysayers, then claimed the per game last season on 39 per- proved himself to be remark- Bensonhurst-born welter- fast-break marriage to Kim the Nets need him to add of- response didn’t faze him. Kardashian, the Nets need fensive depth — even if he’s cent shooting — should com- ably quick and efficient with weight champ Paulie Malig- “I think I won pretty hand- Humphries’s double-double a defensive liability. bine with Williams for about the ball. When Williams takes naggi flipped off a booing production to carry over into Mirza Teletovic: The 36 points a night. That sounds a breather, Watson must hit the crowd moments after scor- ily,” said the champ— who this season — giving Brook- Bosnian rookie spent the great, but it could take a while floor with aggression. ing a controversial victory on wasn’t defending his title be- lyn two legitimate low-post last six seasons playing for for the two stars to feel each Gerald Wallace: Wallace Saturday night, when world- cause his opponent came in threats. Humphries makes up Caja Laboral in Spain, where other out and learn to cede shots is a swingman, meaning he’ll title boxing returned to the three-quarters of a pound for Lopez’s absence on the he recorded career highs in to the hot hand. Johnson has to be just as much a part of the Barclays Center. overweight. “I thought I was glass, averaging 11 boards per points, rebounds, and assists settle into a new environment front court as the back court. The 31-year-old scrap- controlling the action.” game last season, but he is last year. But like many Eu- while providing veteran lead- The 6-foot-7, 11-year vet made per earned a split decision Cano said through an in- no enforcer in the paint. Not ropean big men before him, ership and showcasing his abil- three of 10 three-pointers last against the 23-year-old Mex- terpreter he was the victor. the biggest or fastest front- Teletovic is not afraid to shoot ity to lock down some of the season —and he must concen- ican fighter Pablo Cesar “El “Thank you to the public line defender, he must rely the deep ball, which pulls him league’s best on defense. Oh, trate his talent inside the arc to Domoledor” Cano, and the for your support,” Cano said, on timing and good decision- out of the paint and limits Kathy Kmonicek / Associated Press and score points, too. help Brooklyn win. The squad crowd, which clearly thought vowing to challenge Malig- making to keep opponents his contributions as a re- Will Nets big man Kris Humphries lead the team MarShon Brooks: The will certainly rely on his defen- Cano won, reacted with a hail naggi again. “They see who out of the lane. bounder. to victory? Johnson trade reinvented the sive expertise this year. of boos. The “Magic Man” really won here tonight.”
eatery, Michael Gartenlaub, said the remodeling comes alongside several new menu items such as Marco Polo gets a facelift black seafood risotto, a lobster salad with orange, and salmon By Natalie O’Neill mous for its authentic cuisine The $500,000 renovation trades lish a “chic Mediterranean feel” tartar. The Brooklyn Paper and not-quite-up-to-date décor the eatery’s famous flashy mural complete with distressed wood Gartenlaub said the food at — just got a posh new makeover and weathered brick arches for a floors, sidewalk dining and a pri- The owners of a legendary Ital- Marco Polo will remain tradi- ian restaurant are saying “Ciao!” that drastically changes the look modern, cream-colored interior vate room for parties. and feel of the place, designers with black-and-white photos of Owner Joe Chirico, whose tional as ever — even with the to their old-school, fresco-lined heading the project say. Venice. It also features a new bar eatery has gotten in the head- restaurant’s new modern digs. dining room and reinventing the “It keeps up with the way the for “casual dining” and a wine- lines for hosting stars like Paul The goal is keep regulars happy eatery to fit into Carroll Gardens’s neighborhood is evolving — and tasting room, Santora said. Rudd and Amy Poehler and al- and cater to a new younger neigh- hip dining scene. caters to a younger clientele,” said Designers also knocked down a leged mafia ties, didn’t return borhood crowd, designers said.
Marco Polo Ristorante on Michael Santora, an architect with wall so the space feels “bigger and calls seeking comment by press Photo by Stefano Giovannini “We’re trying to grab the ca- Court and Union Streets — fa- the firm Crown Design. brighter” in an attempt to estab- time. But a spokesman for the Marco Polo has a modern new look — inside and outside. sual diner,” Santora said. K?<9IFFBCPE98:BJKFIP 9IFL>?KKFPFL9P :
By Shavana Abruzzo as stating, “Owning a house in The Brooklyn Paper Mill Basin is a mark of distinc- If Marine Park was a yacht, tion, like saying ‘I have a house Mill Basin would be its sail. in Beverly Hills.’ ” Both are leafy, residential Its less flashy cousin, Ma- neighborhoods perched side by rine Park, which boasts a pop- side on the lip of Jamaica Bay on ulation roughly matching that a remote peninsula in southeast- of Monaco, is just as secure in ern Brooklyn, cut off from the its skin. hustle and bustle of the borough “It’s one of the few neighbor- due to a lack of subway service. hoods in Brooklyn that hasn’t be- Both have a rustic, seafaring feel. come its own brand name,” says Both, too, have largely avoided Eugenia Moskowitz, who moved the limelight — until now. there from Park Slope with her Area realtors say young, up- husband Dave, a paramedic with wardly mobile families of all the Flatlands Volunteer Ambu- races are making a beeline for lance Corps. Marine Park — traditionally a Marine Park boasts its own blue-collar community of cops Little League chapter, named and firemen — because of its for former Yankees manager abundance of fine schools and Joe Torre who grew up in the its proximity to an eponymous neighborhood, plus its own as- park, which actually trumps phalt runway for fliers of radio- Prospect Park as the borough’s controlled aircraft. Many of its largest green space. residents are of Irish and Italian Rich, young professionals are descent, with pockets of Afri- apparently also snapping up prop- can Americans and Asians, and erties in affluent Mill Basin. a burgeoning community of Or- That enclave, snuggled in by thodox Jews. the Belt Parkway drawbridge, Nancy Pecoraro, vice pres- was once called Equandito or ident of Fillmore Real Estate, “broken lands” for its jumble of has witnessed the shift in both islands and wetlands, but today neighborhoods. it’s known more for its multi-mil- “Marine Park and Mill Basin lion-dollar homes, with Bentleys are desirable, very rural type of parked in driveways and plea- communities where the holidays sure boats docked in landscaped are celebrated well, and the peo- backyards that belong to one-per- ple are very patriotic,” she says. centers — including Russian bil- “You can get a lot more for your lionaire Vassily Anisimov. money here.” The metals trader report- Pecoraro might as well be talk- edly owns a $50-million home ing about the area’s early inhab- there, with enough space to hold itants, who were as smitten by $750,000 worth of automobiles, the region. according to New York Maga- Photo by Steve Solomonson Seventeenth-century Dutch zine, which quotes one insider BELTBelt loop: LOOP: A drawbridge The marina connectsin Mill Basin Mill is Basin bordered to the by Belt the Parkway. Belt Parkway’s drawbridge. explorer Adriaen Block mapped
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the neighborhood for guar- Southwest. lin said. son why principals at both VE PROSPECT P Artist’s NYPD-style fl iers anteed seats. The new zones will not af- At meeting last Tuesday, schools now support the pro- 8TH A ARK S OUTHWEST The remapping cuts yet-to- fect students who already at- more than 100 nervous moms posal, which the city will 16TH PROS ST call out the prez hopefuls be-enrolled PS 321 students tend the schools, and they will and dads — along peeved float for 43 days before a W living on: not be implemented before fall property owners who fear the final vote. If you live the area that’s orange, your child is no lon- By Danielle Furfaro doesn’t have a website, or • The blocks bounded by 2013, the Department of Ed- change will hurt property val- “It’s a very hard decision. ger guaranteed a seat at PS 321. If you live in the area The Brooklyn Paper a readily visible Twitter or Fourth and Fifth avenues ucation says. ues — said the new zones di- It’s not ideal. But it could be that’s light purple, your kid is no longer promised a Talk about negative cam- Facebook account. between First and Fifth Yet-to-be-enrolled stu- vide the neighborhood liter- a permanent solution,” Phil- seat in PS 107. Find a larger version of this map at paigning. But he did speak with streets. dents cut from the PS 321 ally and figuratively. lips said. BrooklynPaper.com. Fake NYPD wanted the arts and culture web- posters showing the faces of site Animal New York last President Obama and White month after he put up 100 House hopeful Mitt Rom- posters mocking the NYPD ney have popped up around for plans to fly military- Williamsburg in an act of style drones over the city, Survivors speak out subversive street art that’s claiming he’s just trying to anything but a presidential spark a discussion. endorsement. “If the people want Atomic bomb witnesses teach students about war In fact, the posters ac- [drones], that’s what they cuse both bitter political want,” Essam said. “But By Danielle Furfaro donated his blood through rivals of alleged crimes we’re not having that con- The Brooklyn Paper transfusions. including “murder and versation, so that’s what I’m Two survivors of the Hiro- “I realized this could hap- conspiracy to further the here to start.” shima and Nagasaki atomic pen to me,” said Yamashita, He also said that poster revocation of constitutional attacks — and the grandson who moved to Mexico shortly art is new to him. liberties.” of the man who ordered the thereafter. “I quit my job. I “I’m not a street artist by bombings — moved a class- wanted to run away and for- The police-sketch style nature,” said Essam. “It’s drawings feature the room of high school students get my suffering.” the medium I choose based Truman Daniel said he be- heights, ages, weights, on the message.” to tears with an impassioned and names of both “sus- plea to bring an end to the came an activist against nu- The wanted-style fli- clear war after his young son pects,” a lengthy descrip- ers aren’t as ambitious as nuclear age. tion of their alleged wrong- Setsuko Thurlow and brought home a book about a his colorful drone posters, girl who died of cancer fol- doing, and even the NYPD which he placed over ads Yasuaki Yamashita visited lowing the attacks, and the logo. in phone booths and sub- Downtown’s Brooklyn Friends Obama takes heat for his School along with Clifton Tru- Photo by Stefano Giovannini author and former journal- way stations. Setsuko Thurlow and Yasuaki Yamashita are anti- decision to order a Septem- The Obama and Rom- man Daniel, the grandson of ist had to tell his child it was ber 2011 drone attack that President Harry S. Truman, nuclear war activists who share their experiences his great-grandfather who ney mashup is black-and- in hopes that such weapons are never used again. killed American-born Ye- white, and more likely to on Oct. 18 to share their sto- dropped the bomb. meni cleric Anwar Al-Aul- be found taped to telephone ries of the catastrophic bomb- “I’ve taken responsibility aqi, while the poster warns polls next to other fliers. ings, which changed their lives neath. She managed to es- and ran into their house just for other parts of my grand- Brooklynites to look out for But the fake NYPD re- — and the course of human cape, but the rubble caught outside Nagasaki moments be- father’s legacy,” said Truman Romney, who was last spot- lease is certainly eyecatch- history — forever. fire before most of her school- fore the flash. The blast blew Daniel, who runs the Truman ted wearing a “charcoal suit ing — and NURTUREart In a small, tightly packed mates could get out. the windows and roof from Presidential Library in Mis- with blue tie and American gallery director Marco An- conference room, many stu- “We had no appropriate their home, leaving his sister souri. “I think it’s important flag lapel pin.” tonini believes it’s effec- dents’ eyes filled with tears emotional response to what bleeding from the head. to take responsibility for this The posters appear to be tive, even if it’s a bit of a as the now-elderly Thurlow we were experiencing,” said In the next few days, he part, too.” the latest work of the activ- cliche. and Yamashita recounted in Thurlow, who now lives in watched his friends die and After Thurlow and Ya- ist and artist working under “On a visual and con- graphic, visceral detail, what Toronto and tours as an anti- walked miles over rotting mashita finished speaking, the moniker Essam, who ceptual level, it seem fac- happened after they saw a nuclear weapons activist. “I corpses with his mother in volunteer Robert Croonquist has plastered the borough ile or even naive, but from “flash like a thousand bolts have to tell this story over search of food. — who helped organize the with street art addressing a communication stand- of lightning.” and over again so that hu- Years later, after complet- Hibakusha Stories presenta- police and military control point, it works infinitely Associated Press / U.S. Air Force Thurlow was 13 years old man beings will not repeat ing high school, Yamashita tion — asked the students if in recent months. more than gallery art,” said A giant column of dark smoke rises more than when the first atomic bomb these horrible things.” found work at the Nagasaki they had any questions, but The Brooklyn Paper Antonini. “A lot of people 20,000 feet into the air after the second atomic fell on Hiroshima, collaps- Yamashita was 6 and play- Hospital, where many people none raised their hands. In- tried to contact Essam, but will remember that. Maybe bomb ever used in warfare explodes over Naga- ing her school and leaving ing close to his mother when his age were dying of can- stead, they all just sat look- he keeps a low-profile and not for too long.” saki, Japan on Aug. 9, 1945. her trapped in the rubble be- his family saw planes overhead cer — even one to whom he ing stunned.
the islands and inlets that would become Mill Basin, Mill Island, and Old Mill Basin. The sleepy triumvirate was formerly part MARINE LIFE of Nieuw Amersfoort, one of the five original Dutch towns on Long Island, but today the Six things you need to know area is known mostly as Mill Basin, created when the city about this nabe’s history dredged sand from the bottom of Jamaica Bay. Colonists John Tilton Jr. and VOYAGER’S FIND: Samuel Spicer bought the land Seventeenth-century and waterways from the Canarsee Dutch explorer Adriaen Indians in 1664, and soon the area Block mapped the islands was awash with tidal mills, hence and inlets that would its name. Jan Schenck’s farm- become Mill Basin, Mill house also appeared at a cross- Island, and Old Mill Basin. roads that is now E. 63rd Street and Avenue V. The house was later dismantled and reassembled at the Brooklyn Museum. MARINE PARK Marine Park and Mill Basin SON: Former were popular with fisherman, New York Yankees boaters, and summer cottagers, manager Joe Torre but remained largely undevel- grew up in the oped for the next 200 years. neighborhood. One home more than others in Marine Park tells its story. The Hendrik I. Lott Dutch farmhouse was built in 1800 on LOTTS OF E. 36th Street and Fillmore Av- MEMORIES: enue. It still stands there as an The Lott House imposing reminder of a vanished is a Marine Park era, its descendants occupying landmark dating the home until 1989 when the last back to the relative died. The Lott house, ac- 1800s. cording to its preservation asso- ciation, “is the story of the evo- lution of Marine Park.” An industrial boom in the RECORD-BREAKING 1800s and early 1900s changed DWELLER’S DOMAIN: Architectural stalwarts, like this home at the corner of Avenue T and E. 36th Street, are impos- MALL: Kings Plaza both neighborhoods forever. ing reminders of the area’s Dutch heritage. opened in the Marine A lead smelting plant opened Park-Mill Basin area in Mill Basin, docks and bulk- hemoths from companies like enues. The brick bungalows built lor and Restaurant on Nostrand rave reviews at Floyd Bennett during the 1970s as heads altered its topography, and Grumman, Vought-Sikorsky, and shortly thereafter were eventu- and Avenue Z, but the opening Field — today a thriving recre- the city’s first enclosed its marshland was filled. Ma- General Motors to fight in the ally replaced by large, custom- of the city’s first enclosed shop- ational and camping area with shopping center. rine Park developed during the major battles of the Pacific. built, detached one-family homes ping mall — Kings Plaza. Brooklyn’s largest community 1930s after construction of the It was also the runway for re- on lots that today house PS 236 A new millennium brought garden of 600 plots. Belt Parkway. cord-breaking flights, includ- on E. 63rd Street and Avenue new adventure. Just a handful of years ago, Soon the region where no rail- ing Wiley Post’s pioneer jaunt U, and PS 203 on E. 52nd, off The Salt Marsh Nature Cen- many New Yorkers were only fa- ART ON RYE: Art buffs road ventured became known for around the world in 1933 — and Avenue M. ter on E. 33rd Street and Avenue miliar with Marine Park and Mill can admire original its air traffic. Floyd Bennett Field those of Amelia Earhart, How- Mill Basin’s main park hon- U opened a living classroom in Basin for being the go-to spots to Ertes — and other mas- opened just east of Marine Park in ard Hughes, and “Wrong Way” ors grassroots activist Alex Lin- 2001, turning its bucolic back- nosh on a roast beef sandwich at terpieces — along with 1931, its name a tribute to the pi- Douglas Corrigan — before be- dower, who persuaded the City yard into a laboratory for ecol- Brennan and Carr, or to admire their kosher meal at the lot who flew Rear Admiral Rich- ing decommissioned 40 years Council to install stop lights and ogists and students to study its an Erte masterpiece along with Mill Basin Deli. ard E. Byrd across the North Pole later and becoming part of the traffic signals on the commu- vast wetlands and abundance of a pastrami on rye at the Mill Ba- five years earlier. National Park Service’s Gateway nity’s circular roads. Lindower wildlife, including more than 325 sin Kosher Deli. Floyd Bennett was the busiest National Recreation Area. Park, which opened in 1965 on different species of birds. Today, however, both neigh- naval air station in the country After the war, the firm of Strickland Avenue between Mill Tragedy befell, too. borhoods are emerging from their WHARF OF DREAMS: during World War II, thanks to Flatbush Park Homes bought Avenue and E. 60th Place, im- Firefighter Daniel Suhr of En- shadows as commanding com- National Drive is a mari- the “Janes who made the planes” the land enveloped by Avenue mortalizes his hard work. gine Co. 216 became the first fire- munity forces. ner’s delight, brimming and the men who tested and de- U, E. 68th Street, Basset Ave- The 1970s saw the departure man to be killed on 9-11 when “Everybody who lives here with a boatload of charm livered some 46,000 winged be- nue, and Strickland and Mill av- of beloved Jahn’s Ice Cream Par- he was fatally struck by a body moves at a less frenetic pace than and limitless opportunity jumping from Tower Two. in other, trendier, parts of Brook- for water sports. 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up behind him and said, time overnight on Oct. 14, “Give me your phone,” be- taking the owner’s items fore snatching the iPhone left inside. Attack a nightmare on Sterling Place from his hands. The 41-year-old victim told Thank you? cops he left his car at Lafay- from a pet shop on Sixth ies from a Fourth Avenue Tiffany necklace, a diamond ette Avenue at 6 pm, return- 78TH PRECINCT Two jerks stole a teenag- ing at 9:30 am the next day to Avenue on Oct. 14. apartment on Oct. 20. bracelet, an iPad, and a Mac- er’s cellphone on DeKalb Av- The 24-year-old victim Book. find his computer, iPad, and Park Slope A worker at the store near POLICE BLOTTER enue on Oct. 17. told cops a roommate left • A perp hit another house personal checks gone. Two crooks wearing Sixth Avenue told cops he The 15-year-old victim locked up at 9 pm, came back their home near Warren Find more online every Wednesday at on Oct. 18. said he was at Fort Greene Dead wrong scary-movie masks beat up Street at 2 pm, came back The 47-year-old victim a man on Sterling Place on the next day at 9:45 am, and BrooklynPaper.com/blotter Place at 7:40 am when two A debased crook stole a discovered the cash missing. seven hours later, and dis- told cops she left her place be- perps made an odd de- purse from a dead woman Oct. 16. covered her front door locked tween Lafayette and Greene The 29-year-old victim Bike bandit mand. on Cambridge Place on by an inside bolt. Neither she a locker at the athletic fa- Street last week, according avenues at 4:15 pm, return- told cops a man sporting a “If you don’t give me your Oct. 5. A jerk stole a sweet bi- nor her roommate had a key cility near Sixth Avenue at to cops. ing at 5:30 pm to find her Freddy Krueger mask — and phone my buddy will knock The 73-year-old husband cycle left on 11th Street on to the bolt— so she climbed 10:40 am, came back 50 min- • A thief made away with kitchen window screen cut his “Scream” mask-wearing you out and thank you,” one of the victim told cops that Oct. 14. into her home using a fire utes later, and discovered the more than $11,000 of items and $4,000 worth of elec- partner — grabbed him near said, according to police. members of the police, fire The 32-year-old victim told escape — then discovered locker open and the money from a home on Oct. 16. tronics gone. Sixth Avenue at 10 am. One The kid handed over his iP- department, as well as friends cops he chained his gray Brass a Mac laptop, Nikon cam- gone. — Natalie O’Neill The 53-year-old victim of the jerks then choked the Knuckle bike near Sixth Ave- MyPhone hone and the crooks fled. and family were present in his era, and iPod gone. told cops that the he left his house between Fulton Street poor guy, while the other nue at 10 pm, then came back A crook stole a kid’s cell- Failed robbery residence between Lafay- and Gates Avenues at 2:30 grabbed $418 dollars from three hours later and discov- Gym rat 88TH PRECINCT phone on Willoughby Ave- ette and Greene avenues at Police arrested a man who am after his wife died. his pocket. Both then sped ered the $1,800 ride gone. A crook jacked some cash nue on Oct. 16. Fort Greene–Clinton Hill 8 am, returning at 3:15 pm they say tried to rob a bank on When everyone left at 4 away in a black car. from a gym-goer on Ninth The 12-year-old victim Bolter bolted Double trouble to find the crook rummag- Myrtle Avenue on Oct. 17. am, someone took off with Street on Oct. 19. told cops he was standing Bank reps told cops he Doggone it! A lock-tinkering thief Burglars ransacked two ing through his belongings. his wife’s purse, including The 57-year-old victim at Adelphi Street at 4:05 passed tellers a note demand- A thief swiped $1,500 swiped some electronic good- told cops he locked $45 in houses on Cumberland The crook made away with a pm when the crook came $500 and her identifications, ing money from the bank be- police reported. tween Vanderbilt and Clinton Avenue at 2:10 pm, but ran — Eli Rosenberg away before the teller could get him his cash. 68TH PRECINCT Unlucky 7-11 Bay Ridge–Dyker Heights Cops arrested a man for Batting clean-up allegedly trying to steal from A thug clubbed a city em- a 7-11 on Flatbush Avenue ployee with a baseball bat on Oct. 17. in Pigeon Park on Oct. 21, Representatives from the police say. store between Fulton and The victim said he was DeKalb avenues told po- sweeping up debris in the lice the suspect entered the 93rd Street and Fourth Ave- store at 11:12 pm and threw nue corner of the green space punches and pushed em- at 10:30 am when the goon ployees before officers ap- approached him with a pit- prehended him. bull on a leash and a slug- Can touch this ger in hand. Two crooks stole some When the dog started act- electronics from a kid on ing up, the victim told the Adelphi Street on Oct. 16. crook to keep the animal un- The 11-year-old victim der control — prompting the told cops that two crooks villain to hit the worker on the approached him between arm with the big stick. DeKalb and Lafayette ave- “Wait right here, I am go- nues at 3:25 pm, and one de- ing to get a gun,” the fiend manded that he, “Run your said, before stalking off. pockets.” Biker gang The victim handed over Three crooks on bicycles his iPod. attempted to mug a man in Deliverance Leif Ericson Park on Oct. 21, according to cops. A thug repeatedly ordered The victim said he was food to a house on Waverly at the corner of 67th Street Avenue — then beat up the and Fort Hamilton Parkway delivery man on Oct. 19. at 9:10 pm and heading home The 20-year-old victim when the trio of jerks on told cops a perp pummeled wheels approached him. him when he arrived be- One of the creeps pulled tween DeKalb and Lafay- out a gun and demanded the ette avenues at 10 pm and man fork over his cash. How- stole $6. ever, the victim said a car Thievery slowed up alongside them, A crook burglarized a and the robbers instantly house on Adelphi Street and scattered. made off with gadgets and Off the rim jewelry on Oct. 19. A jerk jacked the tires The 29-year-old victim and rims off of a car parked said she left her place at on 74th Street on Oct. 18, Lafayette Avenue at 9:30 am, cops say. returning at 7:30 pm to find The victim said he left his it had been ransacked. vehicle between Sixth and Car sneak Seventh avenues at 3 pm, and Someone fleeced a car came back at 8:30 the next on Adelphi Street some- See BLOTTER on page 6
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collective bargaining agree- ment with its players. HOCKEY... The team will replace the Brooklyn Aviators, a Continued from page 1 of the Jets. Most NHL hockey minor league hockey team arenas hold 15,000–20,000 seats will be left empty to that played its home games accommodate the playing fans. The biggest, in Mon- at the Aviator Sports Com- area, which is larger than a treal, Canada, holds 21,273. plex in Floyd Bennett Field basketball court. Madison Square Garden in that folded after last season But Ratner has long Manhattan, home of the Is- as Brooklyn’s lone profes- courted the Islanders. Hockey landers rival Ranger, holds sional hockey team. was originally considered for 18,200, and the Prudential Ratner said the arrival of the arena but the plans were Center in Newark, New Jer- the Islanders will not speed scuttled after Barclays Cen- sey holds 17,625. up the much-delayed plan to ter starchitect Frank Gehry But NHL officials don’t build controversial housing was fired in 2009 and his pro- think the small capacity will towers in his beleaguered At- posed design was scraped in affect the team’s success. lantic Yards mega-develop- an attempt to cut costs. “It’s not an issue,” said ment. The Barclays Center will be NHL commissioner Gary Brooklyn Islander fans the smallest arena in the NHL, Bettman. “Winnipeg is do- we spoke to were ecstatic holding about 14,500 specta- ing well.” to hear the team will move tors in a horseshoe configu- The Islanders had been to within walking distance ration. Designers hope to fig- scheduled to play a preseason of their homes. 506 Sixth Street, Brooklyn ure out a way to squeeze in at game at the arena, but it was “It’s great for Brooklyn least 500 more people, which canceled — along with the and great to keep the rivalry • 718-622-2608 • www.nym.org would get it nearly even with rest of the NHL’s preseason here for the Rangers,” said the 15,004-seat MTS Center games — due to a lockout by Park Slope resident Gregory in Winnipeg, Canada, home ownership over the league’s Wortham.
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its own co-op — the Flatbush Food Co-op — which, unlike CO-OP... the Park Slope Food Co-op, al- lows non-members to shop, but 2ACHEL´S Continued from page 1 its unofficial status as the at slightly higher prices. the broad support required to godfather of grocery col- There are even plans for a start a community-run gro- lectives — cautions that it Bay Ridge food co-op, which is an arduous journey to start BEAUTY cery store. came about after the strik- a new co-op. “We need 300–400 mem- ingly similar closure of a Key bers to commit time and re- “It’s very difficult to do,” Food and opening of a Wal- sources to get a critical mass said Ann Herpel, the general of people to do this,” said coordinator of the members- greens. TATTOO SALON O’Connell, who says he has only store, who pointed out O’Connell said they were received about 100 letters of that the Greene Hill Food in the early stage of organiz- support from community Co-op in Clinton Hill took ing support for a co-op and members so far. “You need more than two years of or- were not wedded to any spe- people who say, ‘I’m in and ganizing to come to fruition. cific model of what it would I’m working a certain amount “You have to find out if the look like. of hours each month.’ ” community even wants this “This is a big, enormous
The Park Slope Food Co- and you have to have a lot of Photo by Bess Adler task,” said O’Connell. “Co- ON ANY OF OUR SERVICES WITH FLYER op’s leadership — which ways to keep people inter- (From top left) Erika Ellis, Mark Horberg, Jack ops are highly democratic and gives advice and support ested and wanting to put en- O’Connell, Jeremy Sarantitis, and Christine Petro you can never predict what a to many fledgling co-ops ergy and time into it.” want to bring a co-operative grocery store to couple hundred people will s Keratin Treatment s Permanent Makeup around the country due to Nearby Ditmas Park has Kensington and Windsor Terrace. say months from now.” s Color s Tattoos Extensions The witness told police But after the session be- no damage to the outside. The s s Body Piercings the 19-year-old victim and tween Union Avenue and Lo- thief took the victim’s Jewish BLOTTER... his cousin were arguing rimer Street, the musicians prayer boxes and other items, s Hair Cuts with a group of toughs be- stole her hard drive, which all totaling $4,850. s & Much More Continued from page 4 The victim left his home (For Men, Women & Kids) tween Bedford and Wythe she said contained $50,000 Kid robbed morning to find the wheels between 12th and 13th ave- avenues at 2:40 am when worth of content. A jerk robbed a 12-year- stripped to the hubs. nues at 4 pm, and returned one of the brutes pulled out The musicians then e- 4( !6% s "2//+,9. .9 old girl of her phone as she Slasher home at 5 pm on Oct. 1 to find a box-cutter and swiped the mailed her to say that she could somebody had broken the lock get her hard drive back if she waited for the bus on Lorimer A villain sliced open furni- victim’s face. Street on Oct. 18. ture and found a treasure trove on his balcony door and cut up The attackers ran away, promised to give them a per- his chairs — and taken gold centage of all profits she made The girl was near Grand -/. 4(523 !- 0- s &2) 3!4 !- 0- of jewelry and electronics in- leaving the victim bleed- Street at 8:35 am when a perp side a 73rd Street apartment chains, a gold pendant, gold ing from the face. He was off the song, she claims. CLOSED SUNDAY bracelets, gold rings, two lap- approached. sometime between Aug. 18 taken to Bellvue Hospital Family feud “Give me your phone or and Oct. 1, cops report. tops, a camera, a watch, and where he refused to tell po- $1,000 in religious items. A man broke into his cous- I’m going to hurt you,” he lice anything. in’s Scholes Street apartment said, according to police. — Will Bredderman Music madness and cleaned him out on Oct. 21 She handed over her phone A pair of musicians who — all because of an on-going and the man ran off. 90TH PRECINCT helped a songwriter record her family fued, cops reported. The victim said he re- Umbrella attack The care you need Southside–Bushwick songs on Powers Street on Nov. A group of umbrella-wield- 21 have been holding her mu- turned to his abode between Slashing Union Avenue and Lorimer ing thugs assaulted a man on S. sic hostage since then in hopes Ninth Street on Oct. 19. A blade-wielding thug Street at 9 am and found sev- When you need it most. of getting a percentage of her The victim said he was be- slashed a teenager across the eral items missing, including profits, police said. tween Roebling Street and Dri- face during an argument on The 27-year-old victim a Phillips 47-inch LCD TV, as- sorted video games, an Xbox, ggs Avenue at 9:30 pm when Clymer Street on Oct. 21 — told police on Oct. 16 that one of the ruffians hit him sev- but the teen refused to give she hired the two musicians a keyboard, and an acoustic guitar — worth a total value eral times over the head with enior Helpers stands ready to cops any details, so a wit- to help her record songs she an umbrella before they all ran S ness spoke up. had written last year. of $5,418. There were no signs serve your family’s needs with of forced entry, and he claimed off. The man suffered gashes his cousin — with whom he and a bloody head but refused personalized in-home care, and had been feuding for months medical attention. expertly trained, professional — is the only one with a key Out of nowhere SOCIETY... to the padlock to his apart- A brute beat a man over caregivers. ment, police said. the head with a baseball Continued from page 1 ery Love Story is a Ghost Holy smokes bat on Bushwick Avenue ing that an “Infinite Jest”- Story,” a biography chroni- Someone absconded on Oct. 20. Let us ease your mind with a inspired tennis game might cling the Wallace’s life and with religious items worth The victim said he was near be in order. tragic suicide. complimentary in-home care $2,500, as well as an iPod Powers Street at 4:30 am when Wallace’s unique style Max and Gerry Howard, a dreadlocked stranger started a Doubleday editor-at-large, and some power tools, from initial appointment. 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BOOK A fish tale The Little Mermaid lived under the sea, but she wouldn’t dare go into the Hudson. A captain of a steam- ship traveling along the great river falls in love with the body of wa- ter’s most elusive resi- dent — a mermaid — in a new graphic novel by Mark Seigel, “Sailor Twain.” But don’t expect any show tunes — this sto- ry’s songs have un- happy consequences. “I don’t mean the nice tunes from Disney’s little Ariel, I mean the more sinister kind that lures hapless sailors to their doom,” said Siegel, who will be appearing at (718) 260-2500 Word bookstore this month for a night focused The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings Oct. 26–Nov. 1, 2012 on graphic novels. “Mermaid songs have names like ‘Obses- sion.’ Or ‘Fatal Attraction.’ Or ‘Addiction’ — something irresistible, which overwhelms your good sense and might just pull you down, down, down.” “Graphic Novel Night” at Word bookstore [126 Franklin St. at Milton Street, (718) 383– 0096, facebook.com/wordbrooklyn]. Oct. 30, Marathoning 7 pm. RSVP. — Chuck O’Donnell MUSIC
F 12 MILES Beer to the people: You’re Yiddish rock the NYC nearly done with the Brooklyn por- tion of the race and they’re nearly Mazel tov! half-way done with the marathon The Brooklyn Center for the Performing E on the whole. But most impor- Arts is turning into a Chuppah and break- tantly, you’ve made it to your ing out with the sounds of Jewish wedding finish line. Celebrate with a be- music — and you won’t even have to smash spoke cocktail or beer at the pi- your fine crystal. ano lounge Manhattan Inn right Two of the premiere performers of klezmer marathon on the course. — the folk dance music of Eastern European The Manhattan Inn [632 Man- Jewry — Metropolitan Klezmer and the Isle hattan Ave. at Bedford Avenue in of Klezbos will take the Greenpoint. (718) 383–0885]. stage and regale the au- dience with a display of Sideline survival guide both traditional aware- ness and instrumental By Eli Rosenberg into the mind — if not the shoes — skill suitable for a rock The Brooklyn Paper of a runner. venue. Here’s our guide to getting through Thanks to the diverse he only thing better than exercise this year’s marathon, making sure you 11.5 MILES talents and backgrounds is watching other people do it. drink enough coffee, get enough to Yoga time: It’s of the numerous musi- Brooklynites can take spec- eat, keep those muscles loose, and been a difficult day; cians who’ve played in T Photo by Angela Jimenez tating a sport to a whole new level at give yourself the proper celebratory standing around in a the two groups, their the this year’s ING New York City Mara- ending when you finally reach the D crowd is hard on the repertoire goes well beyond “Hava Nagila,” thon, starting right off the Verrazano- finishing line — as far Brooklyn’s C legs and feet, and can incorporating elements of jazz, funk, Arabic, Narrows Bridge, on Nov. 4, and get concerned. be unsettling to the Turkish, and Greek music. mind. Thankfully, Metropolitan Klezmer and the Isle of there’s a wealth of Klezbos at Walt Whitman Theater [2900 yoga studios around Campus Rd., between Amersfort Place mile 11 for all your and Kenilworth Place, Midwood. (718) 951– B deep breathing and 4500, purchase.tickets.com]. Nov. 4, 2 pm. 7.5 MILES stretching needs. $30. — Will Bredderman Yoga to the People’s classes are donation Carb loading: based and sure to get your legs, lungs, and By the time they brain working properly again. make it to the Park Slope portion of Yoga to the People [211 N. 11th St. be- THEATER Fourth Avenue, run- tween Driggs Avenue and Roebling Street ners have had some in Williamsburg (917) 573–9642]. PowerBar-type nutri- ents to tide them over. Deca-dance! Load up on some car- 8.5 MILES bohydrates and some Squeeze: Just over Rich folk sure know how to throw a party. fat — in short, an ev- eight and a half miles Take a dose of opulent costumes, a melange erything bagel with fresh mozzarella and in, the marathoners are of baroque-style dancing, and live music and roast beef. hitting their stride by mix it with a little scandal a la “Eyes Wide Brownstone bagels [671 Union St. at Fourth the time they make it Shut” and “Clue,” and you’ll have an idea of Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 622–6030]. to Lafayette Avenue, what the new immer- and you are too. Af- sive play “La Fete” is ter all it’s 11 am and all about. you need something to The cast play the wash down that bagel. bourgeois guests of Fresh Garden is just a dinner party who steps away from the are invited to help a course, and they can make all the beety, wheat- decadent couple cel- grassy, carrot and ginger juice combinations ebrate their anniver- you need.. sary. Over the course Fresh Garden [729 Fulton St. at S. Elliott of the night, the guests Place in Fort Greene, (718) 522–3388, fresh-
Photo by Stefano Giovannini engage in a number of gardenbk.com]. parlor games that lead to love triangles, intrigue, and murder. 8.8 MILES “It’s horror and erotic danger, biblical ideas Hunger games: You’ve been out here, of love. We draw a lot from the baroque and what, a little over two hours? Some peo- Gothic periods,” said writer Jeff Takacs. ple have already finished the marathon “It’s ultimately kind of a comedy. It’s el- A in that time; you’ve outlasted them and egantly slapstick and overwhelmingly sen- 2 MILES you deserve brunch. Olea’s the spot to eat sual.” Liquid fuel: You’ve been up the whole night brunch on the marathon’s path, a bit before Many of Company XIV’s productions are previous in nervous anticipation. Now you gotta the nine-mile mark, and close enough to adaptations of fairy tales and myths, with bur- get up early to get your place to watch the elite see the sweat on their brows. lesque operatic style, but this is one of the runners, and your loved ones as they take them on Olea [171 Lafayette Ave. at Adelphi troupe’s first based on an original story, and in vain. Those guys have been guzzling electro- Street in Fort Greene, (718) 643–7003]. it takes on subject matter not suitable for chil- lytes since dawn and coffee is your Gatorade to dren. start the race. “It’s definitely an adult storyline,” said Mc- Mocha Mocha Coffee [8602 Fourth Ave. be- Cormick. tween 86th and 87th streets in Bay Ridge, (718) La Fete at the 303 Bond Street Theatre 491–1300]. (303 Bond St. between Union and Sackett streets, companyxiv.com). Oct. 31 through Dec. 9, 8 pm. $45. — Danielle Furfaro
The Company You Can Trust • Est. 1909 Experience NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN FRI, OCT. 26 ENTERTAINMENT, GRAVESEND HAUNTED HOTEL: The Gravesend Inn, a high-tech haunted hotel, will SSTOUCHSCREEN COMPUTER be thrilling guests with its electronic pirate, bloody bathroom, grave- Find lots more listings online at yard, upside-down room, and more. BrooklynPaper.com/Events $6 general admission, $5 for stu- dents with ID and group sales. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., 6 to 9 p.m. New York Army Plaza in Park Slope, (718) City College of Technology Klitgord 230–2100], www.brooklynpubli- Center Auditorium [285 Jay St. at clibrary.org/branch_library_detail. Tillary Street in Downtown, (718) jsp?branchpageid=265. 260–5102], www.citytech.cuny.edu. WORLD CUP OF BEER: Brooklyn’s BARCLAYS CENTER, SENSATION: premier home-brewing competition Internationally acclaimed dance and brings the beer-makers and (tasters) music phenomenon Sensation will out. $35. 2 pm. Public Assembly [70 TOUCHSCREEN make its U.S. debut when it comes N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Wil- to Barclays Center. Starting at $170. liamsburg, (718) 782–5188], www. 6:30 pm. Barclays Center [620 At- publicassemblynyc.com. lantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in DITMAS OKTOBERFEST: October Downtown, (212) 359–6387], www. beers, German-style sausages and barclayscenter.com. good times outdoors. Free. 2–8 MUSIC, ALL-OPERA SEASON pm. Sycamore [1118 Cortelyou Rd. OPENER: The fi rst concert of the between Stratford and Westmin- 2012-2013 season of the Brooklyn ster roads in Ditmas Park, (347) Symphony Orchestra, featuring 240–5850], www.sycamorebrook- singers from the New York Opera Hunter Ryan Courtesy of lyn.com. Exchange, conducted by Artistic Color me hipster: (From left) Ryan Hunter and Taige Jensen are HALLOWEEN PARADE: The annual Director Nicholas Armstrong, is a event is calling for all witches, rich palette of opera selections from the authors of a new book that lets adults color inside the lines. princes, warlocks and super heroes. the Romantic era, including excerpts They’ll be presenting at powerHouse Arena on Nov. 2. Balloons, face painting and more. from the second act of Bizet’s Car- Starts at Manhattan Avenue and men, Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri and marches down to Driggs Avenue ENVY TOUCHSMART ALL-IN-ONE COMPUTER other beloved arias. $15.00 donation. SPOOKTACULAR FUN: Celebrate zoo, and a children’s-book barn. and back up to Java Street. Movie 7:30 pm. Church of St Ann & the Holy and party to follow. Free. 2–5 pm. ® the spookiest time of the year with $10. Noon. Brooklyn Botanic Gar- WITH Intel Pentium Processor G870 Trinity [147 Montague St. in Brook- three weekends of swash buckling den [1000 Washington Ave., at East- Polish and Slavic Center [176 Java lyn Heights, (718) 852–0677], www. pirate adventures, journey through ern Parkway in Crown Heights, (718) St. between Manhattan Avenue and #Q # brooklynsymphonyorchestra.org. a haunted sea-fari; sing sea shan- 623–7220], www.bbg.org. Mcguiness Boulevard in Williams- # !# " #$ %& MUSIC, HALLOWEEN FOOLERY: This ties; create arts and crafts, listen to burg, (347) 559–1410]. Halloween spectacular features a HAUNTED WALK AND CARNIVAL: spooky stories and play ghoulish Walk through Lookout Hill and !9 PVSI@X Nirvana cover band, a Cure cover games. $14.95 ($10.95 children 3-12 band and a cover band for The search for zombies, wolf men, head- GPXQSD8@ and $11.95 for senior citizens). 11 less horsemen and the good and SUN, OCT. 28 Clash. Free. 8 pm. Spike Hill Tavern am–5 pm. New York Aquarium [602 [184 Bedford Ave. at N. Seventh bad witches that lurk in the bushes MUSIC, TRUE STORIES OF SEX, Surf Ave. between W. Eighth and W. Street in Williamsburg, (718) 218– and trees. The walk is suitable for DESIRE, AND ROMANCE: Each 9737], www.spikehill.com. Fifth streets in Coney Island, (718) children accompanied by an adult. month, Bare! brings together sto- 265–3448], www.nyaquarium.com. Apps Web Cloud Social Fast Fresh THEATER, DIRTY STORYTELLING: After you hunt down the ghastly rytellers, comedians, sex educators Bawdy Storytelling, the nation’s BOO AT THE ZOO: Coem celebrate ghosties come to the carnival and and others to share true tales from original sex and storytelling series, the spookiest holiday of the year have a booterifi c good time. Free. their own experiences of sex, desire is coming to New York City for two with bat chats, pumpkins, face Noon–3 pm. Prospect Park (Nether- and romance. $10. 7:30 pm. Bell LOCATE nights of true-life, over-the-top painting, costume parade and a mead) [Prospect Pk. Southwest at House [149 Seventh St. at Third Av- 1.800.696.2000 visit through the spooky barn. Free 16th Street in Park Slope, (718) 965– OUR 66 OR VISIT tales, all shared onstage by some enue in Gowanus, (718) 643–6510], with regular admission. 11 am–4 8999], www.nycgovparks.org. www.thebellhouseny.com. SHOWROOMS SERVING NY, NJ, CT, PA SHOWROOMS PCRICHARD.COM of the most well-known names in 66 the sex-positive, kink, performance pm. Prospect Park Zoo [450 Flat- BOO FESTIVAL: Interactive show FILM, “THE KINGS SPEECH”: Movie and storytelling communities. $15. bush Ave. at Ocean Avenue in Pros- of ghoulish music performed by screening; refreshments served 8 pm. Galapagos Art Space [16 pect Park, (718) 399–7339], www. costumed characters with strange and 50/50 raffl e. Free will donation. Main St. at Water Street in DUMBO, prospectparkzoo.com. haunting instruments. Face paint- 1:15 pm. Our Lady of Angels - Me- (718) 222–8500], www.galapa- GHOULS AND GOURDS: Brooklyn’s ing and candy for those who dare. morial Courtyard [74th Street and gosartspace.com. most madcap Halloween celebra- Free. 1 pm. Brooklyn Public Li- Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, (347) tion is back this year with music, brary’s Central branch [Flatbush 662–6007]. YOUR PROMOTIONS workshops, puppets, a fake petting Ave. at Eastern Parkway in Grand SURVIVAL WORKSHOP: How tough SAT, OCT. 27 are you? Can you survive in the MUSIC, HALLOWEEN DANCE woods? Urban Park Rangers will PARTY: City Stomp Live will be lead you in this workshop on how SUPERMARKET pumping out Halloween tunes. $8. to be prepared for any situation. 2:30 pm. Littlefi eld [622 Degraw St. CIVIC CALENDAR Free. 2 pm. Fort Greene Park Visi- between Fourth and Fifth avenues MON, OCT. 29 corner of Atlantic Avenue in tor Center [Enter park at Myrtle Av- CORPORATE & TEAM in Gowanus, (718) 855–3388], www. CB14 committee meeting. CB14’s Cobble Hill). enue and Washington Park in Fort littlefi eldnyc.com. community environment commit- Greene, (718) 722–3218]. 1 COLOR WITH THE GREAT PUMPKIN PATCH: Stroll tee meets. 7 pm. Community TUES, OCT. 30 TALK, THE TRANSIT OF VENUS: In OUTFITTING YOUR LOGO through a hay maze, listen to live Board 14 Office (810 E. 16th St. in Community Board 1. Public Safety the eighteenth century the transit bands, meet animals in the petting Midwood). Committee Meeting. 6:30 p.m. held the answer for one of the most 144 min. zoo and play games - and don’t for- Community Board 1 office [435 pressing questions of the age: the Staff Shirts Giveaways get to pick your pumpkin (sold by Cobble Hill Association. Report Graham Ave. between Frost and size of the solar system. $12. 7:30 the pound). Free (pumpkins sepa- on health care in the community. Richardson streets in Williamsburg, pm. Observatory (543 Union St. at Family Reunions BRAND NAME rate). 10 am–4 pm. Brooklyn Plan- 7:30 pm. 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Pacific Standard’s “The 47 The Brooklyn Paper of them red or blue nods to The venue’s “Red El- Percent,” a vodka-soda-and- party affiliation — to cel- ephant” is the right-wing elderflower concoction that ever talk politics at a ebrate the upcoming presi- alternative to the “Blue pokes fun at Mitt Romney’s bar — just let the color dential race. Donkey” — both vodka- fund-raising dinner slip-up Nof your drink speak for At Galapagos Art Space , sprite-and-grenadine-based speech . itself. which is hosting an election- concoctions ($10) with very Co-owner Jon Stan said the Brooklyn bartenders are night bash, you can spot a different colors. drink is a tasty way to get bar- serving up a slew of election- republican by the stain on “People tend to stick to goers pumped-up for Nov. 6 — a night that’s historically packed with democrats at the low-key Park Slope bar. By Bill Roundy “We wanted to do some- BAR SCRAWL thing fun — and election night is one of the biggest Photo by Stefano Giovannini crowds we get,” Stan said. Is it 47 proof?: Bartender Glynn Sullivan serves up a presidential election-themed 47 percent cocktail at Other bars are pouring the Pacific Standard. less controversial treats in- spired by the political at- berry, guava and lime ($10) geographic- shout-out drinks which you’ll find alongside roots in Massachusetts — mosphere such as Madi- in Fort Greene. such as “The Blue Hawai- the “Cape Codder,” ($6), a where “Red Elephants” are ba’s “Obama Mama,” a And Mo’s bar in Fort ian,” a nod to Obama’s vodka-and-cranberry nod to not exactly selling like hot- tasty potion of rum, cran- Greene is celebrating with hotly contested home state, Mitt Romney’s undeniable cakes either. Bloody Monday New Fort Greene restaurant will teach you butchering skills By Danielle Furfaro life. Having a better understanding of The Brooklyn Paper where the hip bone’s connected to — is also the best way to make hip stew. orget yoga class — get a peace of “I want to show people how much of mind, literally, at butchery class. that animal you can use,” he said. “Noth- F A new series of cooking classes ing goes to waste. You can even make at a Fort Greene restaurant is offering head cheese out of the brain.” meat-loving Brooklynites a chance to Mmm — brains. learn to butcher their own animal — Like most do-it-yourself projects, from a tiny bird to a butchering saves large pig — satisfy- money. The class ing their need to get DINING is useful for people their hands dirty and who want to learn a Butchery class at Prospect [773 also slowing down Fulton St. between S. Portland useful skill as well the pace of life, with Avenue and S. Oxford Street, as keep the cost of a knife. (718) 596–6826, www.prospect- their carnivorous Especially since bk.com]. Oct. 29, 7 pm, $90. habit low, said the butchering a whole chef. pig is this chef’s “It’s a lot cheaper ideal form of meditation. to buy something that is whole than “It’s like clarity for me,” said Kyle to have your butcher do it for you,” McClelland, executive chef and co- he said. owner of the restaurant Prospect that Sadly, because of liability issues, stu- opened last month. dents will not be allowed to take apart “Some people do yoga — I cut up the bigger animals, so they’ll have to Dear Bushwick [41 Wilson Ave. between Melrose and George streets, in meat.” just watch McClelland carve the pig and Bushwick (929) 234–2344, www.dearbushwick.com]. Open Sun–Wed, 5 But butchery isn’t just a self-help, tuna, getting hands-on experience with Photo by Melanie Fidler pm–midnight; Thu–Sat, 5 pm–1 am. it’s also the most considerate way to go only smaller animals, like chickens, be- Meat-lax: Kyle McClelland, co-owner and executive chef of about eating at the expense of animal- fore graduating to the big knives. Prospect, said butchering animals is his form of meditation. You’ll run out of room before you run out of options. Andersen® windows come in styles, shapes and sizes to fi t any purpose and every personality. With natural wood interiors, low-maintenance exteriors and a host of elegant options, it’s no wonder professional builders and remodelers choose Andersen windows more often than any other brand. Visit our showroom today to see the complete line of energy-effi cient Andersen windows and doors. Store Hours: Mon, Tue, Fri, 7:30am to 5pm & Thurs, 7:30am to 7pm, Open on Saturday from 10am to 2pm 10 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 October 26–November 1, 2012 Folsom zombie blues Undead version of Johnny Cash rises to ocassion By Danielle Furfaro The Brooklyn Paper ohnny Cash famously sang he shot a man just to watch him Jdie — but did he eat the guy’s brains? More than nine years after the Man in Black died, a group of hootenan- nying cowpunks are bringing him back in perhaps his darkest role, in zombie form. Brooklyn musician Steve Sasso is heading up “Zombie Cash,” a one-off project that will perform at a Hallow- een party at the Jalopy Theater. Sasso will portray a zombified Cash, com- plete with a zombie band and a post- mortem June Carter Cash. “I get to dress like June and be weird and retro and dead for one night,” said zombie-wife Aviva Jaye, who plays with Sasso in an old-timey band called the Boo Boo Danger. “I can’t wait.” Sunday 1:00-4:00 pm s Klitgord Center The act isn’t all make-up and sass, OCTOBER 28, 2012 285 Jay Street s Downtown Brooklyn though. The undead musicians want to give the legendary Cash a proper LEARN ALL ABOUT 65 BACCALAUREATE, Halloween tribute. 65YEARSOF Sasso is aiming less for the country- ASSOCIATE AND CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS Photo by Stefano Giovannini IN 21ST CENTURY TECHNOLOGIES folk feel of Cash’s studio records and Unearthing a legend: (From left) Bandmates Walter Boppert and Jowy Romano will be joining more the punkabilly of Cash’s raucous Steve Sasso in bringing Johnny Cash back from the dead, along with his jailhouse vibe, for a night live shows, such as when he played live at the Folsom and San Quentin prisons of “Zombie Cash” at the Jalopy Theater. WHERE CAN TECHNOLOGY TAKE YOU? in California in the late 1960s. “I really hope we do it justice,” Dionne Werewolf, a moon-lit group reflect a hunger for more than just 877.NYC.TECH (877.692.8324) he said. MUSIC of singers. applause. To prepare for the gig, Jaye learned “They were pretty much what you “Some of the songs I’ll sing the www.citytech.cuny.edu/openhouse to play the autoharp in just two weeks, “Zombie Cash” at the Jalopy would expect from a band with that way they are, but others I’ve changed Theater [315 Columbia St. be- which she said wasn’t hard, since she tween Hamilton Avenue and name,” said Sasso. “We are a bite off the lyrics to be zombie themed,” said 300 Jay Street plays the guitar and the folk harp. Woodhull Street, (718) 395–3214, of that.” Sasso, who is preparing parodies such Brooklyn, NY 11201 The act itself was inspired by a www.jalopy.biz]. $10 Sat., Oct. Sasso and Jaye hope to bring the as “Die, Die, Die,” instead of “Cry! band Sasso saw play in Brooklyn 27 at 9 p.m. classic country songs back to life for Cry! Cry!” and a version of “I Walk the around Halloween of last year — one evening, even if the lyrics might Line” entitled “I’ll Eat Your Brain.” Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Down- town, (212) 359–6387], www. 9 DAYS... BarclaysCenter.com. MUSIC, TODD BARRY 25TH Continued from page 8 ANNIVERSARY IN COM- EDY: Featuring perfor- MON, OCT. 29 mances by Sarah Silverman, CLUB, CROCHET CLUB: For Janeane Garofalo, Ted Alex- all levels. Free. 11 am. Salt andro, and more. $30. 9 pm. COURT STREET Bell House [149 Seventh St. Marsh Nature Center [3302 Avenue U in Marine Park, at Third Avenue in Gowanus, (718) 421–2021]. (718) 643–6510], www.the- MUSIC, THE ULTIMATE HAL- bellhouseny.com. LOWEEN POP CULTURE TRIVIA NIGHT: With host Pat Kiernan! $26. 7:30 pm. FRI, NOV. 2 Bell House [149 Seventh St. READING: The creators of SPECTACULAR STREET FAIR at Third Avenue in Gowanus, the YouTube hit “Hipster (718) 643–6510], www.the- Olympics” launch their print bellhouseny.com. debut — a coloring book BARCLAYS CENTER, JOHN that explores the pleasures LEGEND: John Legend, the and woes of adulthood. nine-time Grammy Award- Please RSVP. Free. 6 pm. winning R&B superstar, will PowerHouse Arena [37 be the fi rst artist to perform Main St. at Water Street in in concert at Cushman & DUMBO, (718) 666–3049], Wakefi eld Theater at Bar- www.powerhousearena. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 28TH clays Center, an intimate set- com. ting within the new sports THEATRE, “GOD OF CAR- and entertainment venue in NAGE”: Presented by the Brooklyn. Starting at $70.85. Troupers of St. Francis Col- 8:30 pm. Barclays Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Flatbush lege. $5. 8 pm. St. Francis Avenue in Downtown, (212) College [180 Remsen St., %0/5 359–6387], www.barclay- between Court and Clinton scenter.com. streets in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 489–5200], https:// From 12 pm - 6 pm .*44*5 www.sfc.edu. TUES, OCT. 30 BARCLAYS CENTER, JOUR- SAT, NOV. 3 NEY: Since its formation in 1973 in San Francisco, DIA DE LOS MUERTOS: The Journey has earned 19 Top holiday is celebrated in COURT STREET 40 singles and 25 gold and Mexico and commemorates platinum albums. The band’s family and friends who have Greatest Hits album is cer- passed away. For children tifi ed 15 times platinum, 4 years old and up. Free bringing Journey into the with museum admission. Between elite club of Diamond-certi- 2:30–3:30 pm. Brooklyn fi ed album holders. Starting Children’s Museum [145 at $36.70. 6:30 pm. Barclays Brooklyn Ave. at St. Marks Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at Avenue in Crown Heights, Flatbush Avenue in Down- (718) 735–4400], www. ATLANTIC AVENUE town, (212) 359–6387], www. brooklynkids.org. barclayscenter.com. NIGHT OF STARS: Come to MUSIC, HALLOWEEN COM- the boardwalk and view the EDY SPOOKTACULAR night sky in this astronomy And WITH HOST GILBERT program. Equipment pro- GOTTRIED: Featuring per- vided. Free. 6 pm. Steeple- formances by Myq Kaplan, chase Pier [West. 19th St Liam McEneaney, Rena and the Reigleman Board- Zager, and more! $15. 7:30 walk in Coney Island, (718) JORALEMON STREET pm. Bell House [149 Seventh 421–2021], www.nycgov- St. at Third Avenue in Gow- parks.org. anus, (718) 643–6510], www. BARCLAYS, NBA BASKET- thebellhouseny.com. BALL: Brooklyn Nets take on the Toronto Raptors. Start- ing at $15. 7:30 pm. Barclays WED, OCT. 31 Center [620 Atlantic Ave. at DANCE CLASS: The Fed- Flatbush Avenue in Down- eration of Italian American town, (212) 359–6387], www. Organizations of Brooklyn BarclaysCenter.com. (FIAO) is again sponsoring AMAZING GAMES its popular free ballroom dance instruction for teens SUN, NOV. 4 and seniors alike in its MUSIC, KLEZMER CONCERT: ballroom dance classes on Wednesday nights. Special Metropolitan Klezmer and RAIN 4)011*/(t3*%&4 bonus: the instructor will be Isle of Klezbos transform Carmine “Big Screecher” the theater into a Simcah Santa Maria. Free. 6 pm. Palace with traditional East- I.S. 96 [99 Avenue P, be- ern European, Yiddish folk OR SHINE (3&"5'00% tween W. 11th and W. 12th and original songs. $30. 2 streets in Gravesend, (718) pm. Brooklyn Center for the 232—2266]. Performing Arts at Brooklyn PARADE: The Park Slope Civic College [2900 Campus Rd., Special Appearances By Council’s annual event starts between Amersfort Place on 14th Street and Seventh and Kenilworth Place in Avenue and wends its way Midwood, (718) 951–4500], The FDNY Fire Safety Experience, through the heart of the www.brooklyncenteron- slope with two driven am- line.org. bulances leading the way for BARCLAYS CENTER, HOW costumers and puppeteers. SWEET THE SOUND: North Shore Animal League Mobile 6:30 pm. Kick off (14th Street Grammy award-winning and Seventh Avenue in Park gospel great and Brook- Slope). lynite Hezekiah Walker and Pet Adoption RV BARCLAYS CENTER, SMASH- his Love Fellowship Choir ING PUMPKINS: THE will be performing in his SMASHING PUMPKINS, “A Night of Hope” concert The Brooklyn Nets Experience Trailer the multi-Grammy Award- at Barclays Center. To be winning rock band led by announced. 6:30 pm. Bar- singer/guitarist Billy Corgan, clays Center [620 Atlantic will perform in concert at Ave. at Flatbush Avenue Barclays Center in Brooklyn. in Downtown, (212) 359– Starting at $59.55. 8 pm. 6387], www.barclayscen- Barclays Center [620 Atlantic ter.com. Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in ING NYC MARATHON: Downtown, (212) 359–6387], Come and watch the 43rd www.barclayscenter.com. running of the world wide MUSIC, HALLOWEEN ROCK event through the fi ve SHOW: Featuring perfor- boroughs of New York City mances by Raccoon Fighter, where over 47,000 runners Lily and the Parlour Tricks, will compete. The course Daikaiju, and Little Radar. $8. begins in Staten Island, 8 pm. Bell House [149 Sev- through Brooklyn, Queens, enth St. at Third Avenue in the Bronx and ending at Gowanus, (718) 643–6510], Central Park. Free. 9 am–5 www.thebellhouseny.com. pm. Verrazano Bridge MUSIC, HALLOW’S EVE: Big (Staten Island Side in Fort Freedia is the Queen Diva Wadsworth), www.nyrr. of Bounce music from New org. Orleans, and beckons the CONCERT, MUSICAL HIS- freaks to come out to this TORIES IN BROOKLYN: party. $15. 9 pm. Brooklyn The Brooklyn Philharmonic Bowl [61 Wythe Ave. be- traces borough history in a tween N. 11th and N. 12th violin recital by concert- Produced by Meteor Festivals streets in Williamsburg, (718) master Deborah Buck. 963–3369], www.brooklyn- Free. 4 pm. Brooklyn bowl.com. Public Library’s Central For information Call 718-444-6028 branch [Flatbush Ave. at THURS, NOV. 1 Eastern Parkway in Grand - VENDOR SPACE STILL AVAILABLE - Army Plaza in Park Slope, BARCLAYS, NBA BASKET- (718) 230-2100], www. BALL: Brooklyn Nets take on brooklynpubliclibrary.org/ the New York Knicks. Start- branch_library_detail. ing at $15. 7 pm. Barclays jsp?branchpageid=265. October 26–November 1, 2012 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 11 NO: So you’re saying Jacques Torres is involved! GHOSTS... Just to play devil’s advo- cate — no pun intended — Continued from page 1 Columbia Waterfront Dis- doesn’t every kid love choco- trict, which is both scary LVS: That’s easy. A fallen late? And hasn’t a child died, and hilarious. Of all of the angel at some point has an- at some point, in basically stories, which one gives you gered God — so God ban- every neighborhood? ished him. The most famous nightmares? LVS: There’s one about LVS: Sure, but not every fallen angel is Lucifer and place becomes the world’s Thinking about a boy in Vinegar Hill who that’s why we have evil in leading supplier of cocoa! the world. was captured and enslaved by Is it a coincidence? Or is it NO: Oh, I see. How do you witches who want his sperm. define the word ghost? They need his sperm so they more? how to save LVS: Imagine two rooms can impregnate themselves NO: It’s fun to think it’s The distinguished archi- more. I like the story about connected by a revolving then have a son because they tect Alfred T. White door. One room is life and need to raise a strong man Alfred T. White, the famed on heating oil costs? the other is afterlife. A ghost who will protect them from builder of the Cobble Hill is a person who gets stuck the world. — a little girl who loved Towers who you claim is in the revolving doors. They NO: That’s disturbing on chocolate. She disappeared now a ghost with a foot fetish. didn’t fulfill their purpose in several levels. What do you when she was 11 years old Where did you get that? this world — or maybe some- tell naysayers who claim, and psychics say she’s been LVS: I was with a clair- thing terrible and tragic hap- “There’s no such thing as trying to make her way home voyant, who said she could Think Petro! pened — so they go around ghosts.” since. Now you look at the tell that women really enjoy in circles for eternity. LVS: Maybe there’s not port and it has become one being in that place. Then she NO: There are lots of — but then there’s a whole of the world’s leading sup- said, ‘You know why, right? spooky ghost stories in the bunch of coincidences. plier of cocoa and Jacques There was a lot of great sex book — a cannibal haunts NO: Such as? Torres Chocolates is nearby. in that house.’ People have Park Slope, a man bursts into LVS: History tells of a A lot of this can be backed been doing kinky things for- f lames in Brooklyn Heights, lost girl, Patricia, who died up with newspapers and pub- ever. Even Victorians wanted and a “killer cat” stalks the near the DUMBO archway lic records. their toes sucked. Consumer Affairs, which him the Mayor’s Office was licenses amusement rides, pressuring the agencies to ZIPLINE... said any blame falls squarely keep the ride closed. on BK Festival because it “Why in the world would Continued from page 1 vate their properties and filed bogus insurance pa- we put people’s lives in Equities to sell the lot as part bring new amenities to Co- perwork. jeopardy with bogus insur- of its redevelopment plan for ney Island to make it an even “BK Festival’s disingen- ance?” he said. “That’s the the People’s Playground. greater attraction, the better,” uous claim mirrors both the most insane thing I’ve ever “The city wants to take said Kyle Sklerov, a spokes- fraudulent insurance docu- heard.” over from here to Surf Ave- man for the city’s Economic ments we caught [it] submit- Zipline management said nue,” said BK Festival part- Development Corporation, ting, and the inconsistent the city’s actions were polit- Find out why more of your neighbors choose Petro ner Tom Walker, who claimed the quasi-government agency and questionable informa- ical sabotage that resulted in that several inspectors told that heads the redevelopment tion [it] provided regarding costly permitting hurdles. for their home heating oil and comfort services making us the him the mayor’s office was project. “We want Coney Is- who actually owns and takes “They’re bleeding us fi- #1 home heating oil company in the country! behind the stalled permits. land to succeed.” responsibility for this ride,” nancially,” said Tom Brady, “And they have the power The Department of Build- said spokeswoman Abigail another BK Festival partner. to do it.” ings said it was just an inno- Lootens. “We’re not rich guys.” • Flexible price protection & SmartPay monthly payment plans City officials blew off cent bystander. But BK Festival director Operators expected to the claims, saying the may- “The application was de- Will McCarthy, who has been have the ride zipping by • Multiple service plan options or’s office is simply a Co- nied by the Department of acquiring festival permits for June, but claim the De- ney booster, and that it has no Consumer Affairs, we’re not 16 years, says employees in partment of Buildings lost • 24/7 local customer service & support plans to acquire the lot. involved,” said spokesperson the Consumer Affairs and their application, and sent “The more people acti- Ryan Fitzgibbon. Buildings departments told their work permit into re- view the day after award- ing it, while imposing ex- cessive standards. Seventeen Clear Healthy Skin inspectors visited the site in less than a month, sometimes isn’t it time you call? for the same unfounded com- plaints, according to Cate- gory 5 Ziplines owner Pat- Medical Services we accept: rick Ingram. 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(D–Park Slope). and its owner, and they remain compete with an influx of pe- know what actually did happen The 19-detective unit took heat vision in Montreal — and through The NYPD did not return re- hopeful that an investigation by destrians and cyclists. the street safety activism his death that night on that street,” said Er- from media ranging from transit quests for comment on this ar- the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Earlier this month, rock band ika Lefevre. “We have the right blogs to the New York Times for sparked. ticle. office will shed more light on their drummer Terrence Connor was “Mathieu’s tragic death helped to have that information.” being understaffed and appearing The documents son’s death. struck and killed by a hit-and- to galvanize a movement for these unable or unwilling to investigate Levin’s Lefevre-inspired legis- The investigation The Lefevre family fought run motorist while biking on a changes,” said Lander. “I do hope collisions between motorists, cy- lation would, among other things, The crash cast a spotlight on hard for access to case records similarly industrial stretch of that a year from now we’ll be able call on the NYPD to file more the NYPD’s accident investigation clists, and pedestrians “if there is Mathieu Lefevre — but their battle has done little Metropolitan Avenue about 10 to point to not just a movement, but thorough reports for all accidents squad — but despite widespread not ‘a likely to die,’ or a death.” to change the NYPD’s approach blocks away. concrete systemic changes.” involving motor vehicles and cy- criticism, police continue to pursue Councilman Steve Levin (D– “We are working on this dili- to records disclosure. “In that neck of the woods, But for now, the only tangible clists. But that legislation remains traffic cases much the same as they Williamsburg) introduced two gently and daily,” said Levin. “It Police initially refused to pro- trucks are driving as if the road change brought on by the hor- in the works. did before, according to Lefevre traffic-taming bills and three is a lengthy process.” vide detailed information about belonged to them — because it rific accident is that cyclists are family lawyer Steve Vaccaro. resolutions in the aftermath of Activists say the NYPD has not the case to Lefevre’s family and The streets used to,” said Juan Martinez, the well aware the cards are stacked The family and their attorney Lefevre’s death — one of which altered its approach to traffic inves- denied a Freedom of Information The roadway where Lefevre general counsel for Transporta- against them, said Vaccaro, the have blasted cops for incorrectly would dramatically increase the tigations, its allocation of resources, Law request filed by them, until lost his life looks much as it did tion Alternatives. “What are we Lefevre family’s lawyer. telling the press that Lefevre ran number of trained accident in- or its commitment to addressing the victim’s relatives sued the de- just after midnight on Oct. 19, going to do about these types of “What’s occurred is that fami- a red light, wrongly reporting the vestigators by putting five such such serious accidents. partment in December. 2011, when a trucker failed to sig- neighborhoods?” lies of crash victims have learned trucker’s direction, and failing to cops in every precinct. And in a city where traffic colli- The NYPD eventually released nal before turning into the pass- There are no plans to put a bike that you can’t just sit back and as- collect crucial evidence, including But none of that legislation has sions cause more deaths than guns , the information, quashing their ing cyclist. And bike boosters say lane on Morgan Avenue or Me- sume that the police are going to photos of the cyclist’s blood and become the law yet. records indicate that some precincts suit, though a judge recently said it’s just as dangerous. serole Street. investigate crashes,” he said. PULASKI... Continued from page 1 catch speeders . Varicose Veins? that those on two-wheels of- The bike boosters at ten wend in and out to get Transportation Alternatives around slower-moving walk- agree that a cycling lane is ers and runners. sorely needed on the Pulaski Effective Non-Surgical Alternative It’s a recipe for disaster, Bridge. bridge users say. “There’s a growing num- for the Treatment of Varicose Veins is Available! “The walkway is narrow ber of bike riders over the and gets crowded at rush bridge and more people walk- hour,” said Kristin Carney, ing,” said Caroline Sam- who lives in Prospect Heights ponero, the group’s direc- NO HOSPITAL STAY - OFFICE-BASED PROCEDURE and rides across the bridge tor of bike advocacy. “There nearly every day to get to needs to be more space. The her job in Long Island City. space that’s there now is too Dr. Philip J. 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The Park “All the trucks do for us is “This neighbor Council and theSlope Fifth CAv-ivic leave a mess for the Sanitation exploit ed by a fad,”h fumedood is beingJan- enue Busines Department Paper every Friday across ice Pullicio, owner of Naidre’s s Improve taxpayer dollato clean up with café on Seventh Avenue near Do trucks like these hurt local bus ment District have also - to rs. So for them 12th Street. “We pay rent and c lodged complaints swoop in out of no hants in Park Slope think so, and are objecting to a steal away our business in taxes in the Park Slope com- new Faithful, bishop, at oddsthe Alliance. overwith same-sexwhere andmarriage monthly “Food Truck Rally” in Prospectinesses? SomePark. mer- height of munity. Consi But Alliance spok ou Eugene Patron sai infuria r season is be the Nicholas nomic hardshipdering of the past the feweco- supporti esman ting.” yond ng, not food truck confab willd that ben- the Susan Povich, who plans to years, Prospect Park sho cal bus hindering, lo- c oss Brooklyn had to say about Bishop inesses.” The majority of Catholi efit thearishioners community. from acrofficialsmake who her popularvoted for same-sex marriage from uld be Melis nSeventh Brook lyAvenuen we nearHere’s First what p Lobster Pound truc sa Murphy,chur ownerchgoers i “There are concerns every s: Red Hook Sweet Melissa Patisserie Street, agreed.h Bishop DiMarzio’stime decision there is a bigto change,”ban state said at poke to of disagree wit the rallies, br k a regular s “I a participatingPatron. in “Bu church and school functionaccusat on m paying so much money ions. istles at these Nicholas DiMarzio’son rent, edictand samethere to ban- is a truck lieve that havingt we somethingstrongly be- ns who voted for “We are all responsible busi- politicia 97<5=447 exciting ha ness owners. We cle A3F;/@@7/534@=;;/ ppe so nces at church events only increa ning at the par ourselves an up after cial appeara om any ses interest in k , accrue our fair s — and of expenses an and to decline donations fr d between hareus, politician who approves of gay See FOOD The ‘digital divide’on page 11 Greenpoint, Williamsburg, marriage. top Catho- The borough’s lic grabbed headlines last week the he made the proclamation n’t “I’m proud of Mayor’swhen park-Wi-Fi plan cuts off most of “Churchesboro do - following the state legislature’s bishop. [His posi “Everybody have to be in- perfect.” By Aaro 67AB=@71D=B3B=/::=EA/;3 A3F ly be able to tion] is n Short “I complete should volved in politics. couples to marry. disagree [with the get married, no k that But not all members of his flock p]. Relation- I don’t thin South bisho matter who it is.” the church should David Palmer and Susannah Bortner just wan ern Brooklynagree is on thewith wr the bishop stance that side of the digital divide. l in the coffin” of ships should be beloved teddy bear back unh Bradley’s mugger-beating skills! the law is a “nai be saying these Mayor Bloomberg announced thatong that would based on love — their “Lost” poster by traditional marriage things.” te Briquelet (right) can match Beverly the city and AT&T would provide f le most important don’t mix religion said Bloomber armed t son Do Not even reporter Ka wireless services i destroy “the sing and politics.” bu g posting . Someone r novan’s ilding t , who made his fortune a ransom note belowes it. ing Prospect Park, McCn 20 parks,institution inree human history.” cial industry.echnology to help the finan- ponded to Brooklyn Bridge Park. “I take incl what I need from my il- arren Park, ud- “We’re digit l’s parish school in W religion and ignore what I don’t Carme hol- But none of those locations are southand already little bandwidthally behind here — an there’s of 15th Street — le agree with,” said Carroll Gardens 5/:7H7<5A/;3 A3F;/@@7/53 Bto liamsburg returned a $50 sc Downtown, Brownstone phone service is terrible,” said Renee arship check from Assemblyman Windsor Terrace toaving Sh residentsresident f Amy Cacciola, whorts at- & “I don’t think that theGiordano, [bishop]hings,” executive advised director parishes of the and Sun- schools s at Sacred Hea ord honorsthe from Joe Lentol (D–Williamsburg), a s mas refuse any awards " KARATE CHOPfeeling digitally d tend rom should be saying theseset Park t B ‘Kidnappers’ want $10,000 in eepshe. adStephen Church on Summit said Humberto Chavez, a mem-ID. “Westate need officials to bring who supportedfree the gay nups supporter. A city program to br Bloomberg defendeduped. the programSt Bay Wi-Fi to the commercial strip and Sun- in a weekly radio address, sayin ber of Our Lady of Perpetual Help measure, and barred them sfrom such The controversialrom position marria alsoge Internet i Street at Carroll Street. “He’s a set Park, and bring the community at special up event cupcakes an outcry f for toddler’s darling Sensei teaches self-defensento the parksing will wireless only would classes give New Yorkers a reabit out of touch.” in Sunset Park. “I don’t think the appearing sparked of whom benefit the u to par with other neighborhoods.” equality advocates, many par “get outside and enjoy our Otherg it critics said DiMarzio church should be involved in pol- as graduations, though not fromBy Daniel Ng t of the bor ltra-hip northern A Parks Department spokesman said are planning a celebration at Bor- 11 is practically everywhereough, where Wi-FiBedford-Stuyvesant parks,” while alsoblack d belt shouldson to not have thrust the church itics.” that AT&T’s wirelessattending contr religious services. on page in crime-plagued Fort Greenein Park beautiful DiMarzio announced his Shortly after his proclamation See CATHOLICS women to strike and snap-kick who startedthem. to include self-de-oing the into the center of a debate that en- preclude the city fr A beloved stuffed animal lost by already. ir work edict two days after Gov. An- was released,act does Our not Lady of Mt. Susannah Bortner isn’t w Kate Briquelet any attacker who comes their way fense moves“And on in a allnice of summer her body- day, there’ gulfed lawmakersJennifer —Aguirrie and capti- can enjoy Wi-Fi Fi to other parks throughom expandingother arra Wi- a traumatized 2-year-old in a take that chance. toningsim classesply no inbetter March. place “These in the worldvated the public — for much of drew Cuomo signedments, thebut billthere le- are no plans to do so —with martial arts classes held in Brooklyn Bridge Park, thanks ble Hill playground last mon “I would g illing to things make me crazy. You have last month. at this time. Cob- Sayonara, thieves! in the greenspace itself. s to an initiative to get 20 city nge- facing torture and a painful death cakes,” Bortnerladly said, bake thinkin 10,000 cup- KARATE on page 11 th is A local karate master is so “Enough is enough!”ear-old said See ,” parks outfitted this summer. As a result, the digital chasm bet — unless the tot’s horri her toddler, Donovan, and hi North and Southern Br mee fed up with muggings in Fort % Beverly Bradley, a 42-y ts the “kidnapper fied mother bear, Mr. Bear. “There is a part gof of Greene Park that she’s teaching widen. Studies have sh ween $10,000 worth of cupcakes.’s” de me wis s lost ooklyn could mand for hing this By J.J. Despain own that individ- Gluten- and peanut-free, no Alas, it likely isis not. real.” Brooklyn and Bay Ridge. Each !" See less. Aaron Short and WI-FI But there are a million stories in on page 11 It might just be a joke — but $ the na lic officials, including ked city — few more ping, heart-rendin New York Waterway launched Bloomberg, cut a " Mayor ' grip- ribbon and boarded a 76-foot tic Avenue at the BQE on-ramp. g and less-plau- its much-anticipated ferry fle ceremon “The ne /B32 See catamaran in Williamsbur ial w ferry serv K<3E1@=AAE/:9E7::031@3 The B63 bus will also no longer make BEAR on Monday, augment growth of Brooklyn ! $ trance on page 11 tan-bound commute shuttli et celebrate the sh Panelneighborhoods approves and make iceit will more pedestrian-friendlyat Atlantic Ave and the park en entrancea U-turn at the tobase ofpark Atlantic Ave- ng Manhat- age to Midtown ip’s— the maiden resul voy-g to bound traffic on Columbia Street. nue and instead be rerouted onto park the East River for the f ier for K#<3:/<3=4B@/4471=<B63A=CB6A723 and a pedestrian island will be built in rs across a three-year, $ By Kate BriqueletNew Yorke eas- roadways, city officials said. since 2009 . from and get to thesers to commuteof Atlantic Avenue across from Fur- the middle of Atlantic # ! Avenue, between amid co irst sidy by the city 9.3-million. sub-t of placed with a pe- Since the southern leg of Brooklyn11 time tial neighborhoods and wa Columbia and Furman streets. onfailed page to mplaintssubsidize that th th A boatload of giddy The city is planning a major over- residen-man Street will be re See ATLANTIC Bloomberg called the mo front parks,” he K0=:23@I<=@756BBC@<=<@32LA75< to allow the company to me city an investment in the cit destrian plaza giving parkgoers stuck e service pub- haul of theThe base new of Atlanticservicesaid. willAvenue make ter- will be built on the north side of Atlan-burg, and India Street in Gre any money. terfront development. —ney where stops pedestrians at Fulton have been play- walking along the Pier 7 fence more point every 20 to 30 mi y’s wa- room to navigate. This time aroun ake ing a gamein DUMBO, of “Frogger” SchaeferFerry since opened Landing Brook- last 14 hours a day. en- Waterway CEO Paul Goodman lyn Bridgeand Northside Park’s Pier Pier 6 in Williams nutes for d, New York Landing The ferry is free until June said the city’s support, two new year — and it looks like the pedestri- when water co The “Yogi Berra,” part of the ne pie$'rs, and the frequenc print edition delivers news, arts, ans have won. - docks at Brooklyn Bridge Park in DU $4 for a single ridemmute 24, service would keep th rs will pay The Department of Transportation’s monthly pass. There’s or $140a for a pany afloat. y of ferry plan — to be built out later this sum- w East River ferry fleet, eir com- charge for bikes. “The city’s su mer — will dedicate much less road- # $1 sur-&( MBO. The last company to ferry pas- service allows us tobsidizing offer rush our way to cars and much more space to sengers across the East River hour frequency which is d pedestrians and bicyclists. pulled up anchor ent than any previous At Atlantic Avenue and Furman two years ago provide commuter ser iffer- Street, the eastbound and westbound be able to get directly to Flatbush Ave- attempt to n nue. Instead, cars headedSee toward cen-vice,” said lanes will be reduced from 40 feet wide Fourth and Atlantic avenues meet acrossner’s FERRY to 20 feet. Two northbound lanes o loper Forest City Rat tral Brooklyn can turn right onto Pacificon page 11 By Daniel Bush from deve will change from a one-way Columbia Street, about 15 feet each,ke $1-billion Barclays Center, has some Street, which tween Fourth never-ending traf- westbound to eastbound be n Pacific, will be shaved downaffic .to 12 feet to ma residents fearing a . Get ready for a tidal wave of traffic room for foot tr reet. Sevenfic jamdays on small blockshe’d nearby like andto Flatbush forget avenues. Once dow kdown: ic St change , which a on Pacif venue - Here’s a bre 2 route Fourth A Under the permanent cars can continue onto Flatbush.d the Manhat /B3/<3F>/<23 city plan to re to on A By Thomas K(6317BGE7::1@3 ke path at Co- een pushed back from July 15own- For cars headed towar on page 11 down Pacific between Fourth and has b d D PACIFIC nd two-way bi traffic intando effect Haru later Cory Tracy See sidewalk a or around July 29, cars headell no longer and entertainment, plus our lumbia Street, between Atlantic Ave- Flatbush avenues goes ge, intended ne e wi this month and the chan town on Fourth Avenu nue and the BQE entrance. Barriers og the triangle whereThe Flatbush, walls are clos will separate car lanes and the bikeway,Samantha to Bard, uncl owne Rep. Anthony Weiner. WHO LOVES THE SUN? prevent ace one lane of south- ing in on which will repl of Shag, does it. The Democrat energize iPods and phones (among o Avenue will helpPier 6. r for the base of Atlantic whose cyber rompsic with firebrand A planned revamp A Brooklynple face desiwhen they leave ” style escape peo six women has left his personal the “Frogger gner is selli life a at least ther things). nd political career in sham- ng solar-powered bikinis that bles — and has made him a raun- Ready for a charge? ' # chy gift that keeps on givin local tabloids mand battled late-night their !&" butjokesters most of— the i ledg to Designer’s solar bikini can power your iPod (Spanish for “world”). breadthevictions of in resigning, courts within and po asett ha ByThe Natalie Boardwalk O’Neil makeover was insidwith Central Amusement ir’sto By EspressoAlex Rush with your hotby NY1. dog?ers said on Tuesday litical stay on for a final summer . f irst reported l Weiner’s impending decisio The transformation sets in mo- comesThe asagre fellowement Demo stipulates. that iPods. The whole country may Most bikinis only charge havetion thea b vision of Central Amuse-includingthey ca nnotPres protest when theirn the libido,Italian but a shops to reshape crats — original columnists, cartoonists The Solar Bikini, made by An- Tweetingments CEO eefRep. Valeriowith Anthony Ferrari whoen couragedleases end the on Sheepshident Oct. Obama 31. — groin- signe Downtown de- drew Sc Fulto DemocratBu tto m stepost stilldo insist that they r has invented a sun hneide n and Living Weiner, t old usbut lastB year that he would ead ered bikini th ets sewn into ther, has fabric USB of sock- the lin say his “scandarooklynites ergate” enters Bay Coneyat can also charge-pow- Island Boardwalkspaceed the suit with 40st onpaper-thi streets, like the Boardwalk to become wn as “Wein- bottom piece.summer. Schneide He is leasing thepanels called phot um, no bi l” is really, “If it was me,it Is would third week.re Joshua lives on Red Ho The panel n g thing. Obama told NBC’s “Toda Gabriel shows By Alex Rush from Boardwalkr, wholandlord tiona Cen-l, the ovoltaic cells. There’s been ple sign,” Austrian-styled ba ok Lane bent Interna s convert the sun’s moralizing over Weinergat on June 14. “Obviously, off the Antho tral Amusem etweenthat runsdiation Luna into electric nty of y Show” r Der Kommissar in Park Slope. Italian com pany ra- but sending sexy photos — did was highly inap ny Weiner at the A new ice cream parlor that just See ity that what he Park and took control of the strip BIKINI can via phone or Internet — hase, embarrassed himselfprop — h opened on the Coney Island Board- on page 11 knowledged that — and he’sriate . He’s last year. become pretty “normal,” say e’s ac- walk could be the first phaseould trans-of an “The Boardwalk should be a borough singles, barrassed his wi an invasion that w ide, re- em- Itali d’s place where you can sit outs pists and shop owners.sex thera- Weiner fe and family.” Slope bar offers two fo eople’s Playgroun ’s lurid online rom " eon in form the P a ha- :/F/<23<8=G/1/>>C117<=LA/72 “I’ve d first came In the doghouse $laces pooch Napol ky-tonk waterfront into one it,” s when he tried to slight on Mayances 27, e Gentry Lane p ebration on hon By Meredit co-owner Michele Merlo, who mantha Bard, owaid Sa- Visiting Parisienn lle Day cel ven for espresso-lovingTurns brunchers out new posts are illegal tweet end a soft core h Deliso ne in the annual Basti opened the shop with business S-ownerhag, a sex toy shop inner Wil of of his groin to a 21- a mock guilloti ner Julio Gonzalez. 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