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Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 22 pages •Vol. 29, No. 19 AWP • Saturday, May 13, 2006 • FREE MEET MISS B’KLYN INSIDE Gehry lightly tweaks THE BROOKLYN By Gersh Ratner’s ‘Yards’ plan, ANGLE Kuntzman says boro wedding Ratner’s inspired tallest tower By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Papers The “bride” will wear aluminum. poster Architecht Frank Gehry unveiled slightly slimmed down towers and an update on the classic Brooklyn stoop, in fresh renderings for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards mega-development revealed Thursday. He also told how he came up with the design for the project’s girl is most controversial building — the 62-story “Miss Brook- lyn Tower” — likening it to a bride. Opponents of the 22-acre, $3.5-billion project were unimpressed. unhappy “It’s a Frank Gehry sheen on repudiated, 1960s-style urban renewal,” said Daniel Goldstein of Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. AHARA MEER IS STILL ANGRY. Prospect Heights resident Patti Hagan quipped, “I Place a copy of Bruce Ratner’s recent At- guess this is the ‘Ratner/Gehry Diet,’” calling the slim- Slantic Yards mailing on the table, and down miniscule compared to the weight the project put she’ll put her handbag over it. Show her the on in since its initial unveiling in 2002.

pictures of happy Brooklynites smiling for Rat- / Julie Rosenberg Discussing “Miss Brooklyn,” which would sit at the ner’s cameras and she’ll cringe. intersection of Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, Gehry Meer, you see, is one of those smiling said, “When we were studying Brooklyn, we happened

Brooklynites — except that she doesn’t support upon a wedding, a real Brooklyn wedding. And we decid- / Jori Klein Ratner’s plans for Atlantic Yards. ed that ‘Miss Brooklyn’ was a bride.” So she’s definitely not smiling. Gehry showed off the renderings at a packed press Meer, a sometime actress with a “No emi- Papers The Brooklyn conference at Ratner’s Atlantic Center Mall, where a nent domain” sign in her Prospect Heights win- Sahara Meer doesn’t support Bruce Ratner’s large third-floor space was converted into an “Atlantic Atlantic Yards development, but was fea- dow, was between paying gigs when she be- Yards Information Center.”

tured prominently in his latest propaganda. Papers The Brooklyn came a “poster girl” in Ratner’s Atlantic Yards The renderings of Miss Brooklyn showed a shimmer- propaganda campaign. ing, wavering, aluminum-clad tower, with a 120-foot It was a day like any other day last summer, mega-development that actually made the glass-walled atrium called “the Urban Room,” a hotel in when Meer got an email from a photographer 19,000-seat basketball arena disappear into a the first few floors, dozens of stories of office space, and Designers bust out friend asking whether she’d pose for a “day in lush green meadow. residental condos up top. the park” photo spread. The photos were being “I admit I have no one to blame but myself,” “She’s a bride with flowing veils,” Gehry said. “OK, I As part of BK Fashion Week(end), May 5-7, in DUMBO’s Tobacco Warehouse, up- shot by the Getty agency and would be sold as she said. “I signed the release. I got my $100 got carried away. But if you’d seen that bride, you’d un- and-coming designers unveiled their latest collections. On Saturday, Lopeti Etu took stock photos — the kind of generic, “happy” [for the shoot]. But I’m still mad at Ratner.” derstand. I fell in love with her.” “a stab at sexism and the war” with his exaggerated, bomb-shaped top (above), cre- shots you see in dating service ads or when Meer called her experience “the seedy un- Another building, also near the corner of Flatbush and At- ated for the H.O.R.R.S. line from recycled clothing. For a glimpse inside this private newspapers need that hard-to-find image of derbelly of Ratner’s marketing campaign.” lantic, was reduced in size by 165 feet, but Gehry and his de- event, see GO Brooklyn on page 9. people without a care in the world. “What, he couldn’t find actual people to signers said that the differences between the latest designs Meer said she spent five hours being pho- smile for his cameras? He needed to buy stock and earlier renderings are not just a matter of size. tographed. “It was fun, and it was a pretty good images of people having fun?” deal because I’m an actress and they offered to The greater irony of Ratner’s flyer is that the See GEHRY on page 18 let me use the photos, too,” she said. people in the pictures, smiling and enjoying She had virtually forgotten about that day — their lives in Brooklyn, actual send a subtle until the phone rang last week. anti-Ratner message: “Don’t change a thing, “Why the hell are you doing posing for Mr. Ratner. We like things the way they are. After big fire, Bruce Ratner?!” a friend asked. That’s why we’re smiling.” Huh? Meer said she wants to channel her anger Meer later received the “Atlantic Yards: A and is now volunteering with Develop Don’t Vision for Downtown Brooklyn” pamphlet — Destroy Brooklyn. which not only featured her photo, but even “And one thing is for sure,” she added, “I’ll Chase backs out featured a deceptive rendering of the sprawling never do stock photo shoots again.” By Ariella Cohen The Brooklyn Papers EXCLUSIVE Chase bank has pulled out of deal to open a branch in a converted DUMBO nity,” said a former resident of 247 Water St., industrial building owned by the same a DUMBO loft building. “Then, he evicted developer whose Greenpoint warehouse us two days before Christmas [2004].” burnt down last week in a suspicious fire. A suspicious blaze later gutted that build- Negotiations to open a branch at 68 Jay St. ing. The fire’s cause was never officially de- ended abruptly on Friday — just hours after termined, but Guttman’s insurer, Alea North the Greenpoint blaze had been linked to four America, refused to pay for damages on the other deliberately set fires on properties grounds that Guttman’s claim was fraudulent. owned by the landlord, Joshua Guttman. The building remains vacant, its windows Chase declined to comment on how the covered with unsightly plywood. ongoing investigation of the arson-afflicted Nearby, at 50 Bridge St., tenants are suing landlord affected the bank’s decision — but Guttman for ignoring building and safety the bank’s broker admitted it was a factor. codes when he converted the 19th-century “It’s never any one thing [that ends lease factory into luxury condos. negotiations],” said broker Faith Hope Con- “We thought we were getting a good price solo. “Let’s just say [other spaces] are more on our apartment, but the problems were struc- desirable right now.” tural,” said Darren Karp, a condo owner. “To Architect Frank Gehry unveiled tweaked renderings of his designs for Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic The centerpiece of Gehry’s design is “Miss Brook- In DUMBO, Guttman owns at least a half- fix the problems, you’d have to tear down the Yards mega-development (above), which feature slightly thinned towers that still rise above the lyn,” a shimmering, 62-story skyscraper that, he dozen large warehouse properties, which he condos and reconstruct them again.” famed Williamsburgh Bank Building (far left) and neighboring Fort Greene and Prospect Heights. says, was inspired by a “real Brooklyn bride.” rented as residences in the 1980s and ’90s. Karp was not surprised to hear that Chase Though such conversions were illegal, they had pulled out of the 68 Jay St. deal days af- did play a large role in transforming the once- ter the suspicious fire in Greenpoint. gritty neighborhood into its current and future “The guy is a complete criminal. No bank identity as a post-industrial Babylon. should rent from him,” he said. “He rented us really great lofts and let us Guttman and his lawyer declined repeated Censored art students stay until we had built a really great commu- requests for comment. could find new home By Ariella Cohen closed the very next morning after Works in the exhibition included The Brooklyn Papers Brooklyn Borough Parks Commis- the usual contemporary coterie of sioner Julius Spiegel declared it video art and abstract installations They courted controversy, “inappropriate.” as well as a sculpture of a hand they got it, and now they don’t He told the artists that some of holding a penis, and a painting of a know what to do with it. the controversial works violated a man’s torso with an accompanying A group of student artists who six-year-old verbal agreement he narrative about a homosexual en- were kicked out of a city-run has with the college to use the war counter involving a man named gallery because their works were memorial for art shows. Dick Cheney. “inappropriate” haven’t decided Spiegel refused repeated re- World War II veterans hailed whether to accept a DUMBO de- quests for comment from The Spiegel’s decision to lock out the veloper’s offer to host the show in Brooklyn Papers — but his boss, student artist. one of his posh buildings. city Parks Commissioner Adrian “[Spiegel] would not want to “We are going to be careful Benepe, stood by him, saying that disgrace the memories of sailors / Gersh Kuntzman / Tom Callan / Tom about where we put our work and two “obscene” works violated the and marines killed in World War how we portray our story,” said agreement that all work shown II,” said veteran Roy Vanasco, 80. Marni Kotak, one of 18 Masters of must be “suitable for children and But the vets stood apart from Fine Arts candidates at Brooklyn families.” many of their fellow New Yorkers, College featured in “Plan B,” an “If [the works were] on a hand- who challenged the borough com- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn art show that opened last Wednes- ball court, we would’ve painted missioner’s right to single-handed- Papers The Brooklyn Parks workers remove pieces from the war day night in the World War II over [them] as a matter of prac- ly determine what is appropriate A building at 68 Jay St. where Chase bank planned to open a branch, but will now memorial art show in Cadman Plaza Park. Memorial in Cadman Plaza — and tice,” he said. See CENSOR on page 7 not because of a shady DUMBO developer linked to the recent fire in Greenpoint. 2 BWN THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 May 13, 2006 PET RELIGIOUS CARE SERVICES Clarke is woman, hear her roar First A.M.E. Zion Church 54 MacDonough St. By Dana Rubinstein Chris Owens, who is the (bet. Tompkin & Marcy Ave.) BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN The Brooklyn Papers son of the retiring congress- Sunday School 9:45 am man, has also brought up the City Councilwoman Yv- THE FIGHTIN’ Morning Worship 11:00 am Pup so-called “women’s issues” Wednesday Midweek ette Clarke is talking a lot ELEVENTH! during the campaign. As such, Service/Bible Study 6:30 pm lately about the fact that he does not agree with Clarke (718) 638-3343 Cakes she’s a woman — and she’s that male leaders are inherent- Dr. Daran H. Mitchell, Pastor and we would hear much more LM30-17 And other freshly baked hoping voters will notice. ly inferior. Clarke (D-Flatbush) is the of a debate [about Supreme He saw Clarke’s latest of- all-natural dog treats lone woman fighting four Court appointees] that could fensive as a cynical political Congregation men in the 11th Congression- endanger Roe v. Wade.” ploy. 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At a recent followed by Potluck Dinner 6:30 p.m. forum in Prospect-Lefferts All other Friday evenings 8:15 p.m. 5th Avenue Cat Clinic Gardens, Clarke reminded the Saturday mornings 10:30 a.m. audience of her gender again 17 Eastern Parkway • Laser Surgery and again: at Grand Army Plaza “I have a unique lens.” Gardens club backs Yassky 638-7600 • Boarding cater “I invented the Women’s Rabbi Dr. Linda Henry Goodman We with a View Caucus [in the City Council].” A43 By Rachel Monahan issues,” Fleishman added. dorsement” beat City Council- newcomers who had joined • No Barking “Women’s issues tend to be marginalized in a largely male for The Brooklyn Papers Former Councilman Steph- man Charles Barron (D-Canar- the club just before the dead- Congregation Cats • Stress Free en DiBrienza countered Fleish- sie). Hip-hop writer Kevin Pow- line. Under club rules, new Kol Israel to council.” City Councilman David man by urging the club to vote ell and Assemblyman Roger members must have joined at Located in Prospect Heights She certainly stands out — Yassky won the endorse- since 1924 only and not just on the issues. “on the merits, on the quality, Green (D-Fort Greene) had least a month before voting. ment of a traditionally liber- on the overall ability” of the been dropped on the first ballot. Chris Owens said the date 603 St. Johns Place Clarke favors high heels, mid- al Democratic club, despite bet. Classon & Franklin thigh skirts and floral prints, candidates. Towns was eliminated after the change might have affected 638-6583 the better to send the message a passionate plea from a Later, he told The Brooklyn second ballot. the outcome. The endorsement Rabbi Elkanah Schwartz Papers that he challenged In that race, all are black. vote “would definitely have Fri. at Sunset • Sat. 10:30am that she is not just one of the white district leader that the W34/37/52 boys. club not endorse the sole Fleishman so that the club The IND endorsement vote been closer,” had the newcom- “If Congress were 50 per- white candidate in the over- would not turn its endorse- was originally scheduled for ers voted, he said. PARK SLOPE ment process into “some vi- May 18. 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A group of 10 thugs cials in Arizona are now re- cards, a cellphone, her pay- senger to Lutheran Medical The latest incident closely surrounded the boys, and one viewing video footage from check, make-up, keys and a Center where he died. resembled a crime reported just suspect screamed, “Run your other cameras before they turn book — title unknown. Police Information on the victim a day earlier and eight blocks stuff!” it over to police. are looking for a black woman, was withheld, pending family away. Both robberies involved Before the victims could re- Sssshhhh thief 5-foot-7 tall, 180 pounds with notification. Details on the two youngsters who targeted vic- spond, the thieves reached into drivers were not also available A pickpocket snatched a straight, dark hair. Her criminal tims close to their age who the older boy’s pockets and by press time. woman’s wallet from her bag disguise included a tan straw were walking alone on Prospect plucked out his cellphone, a while she worked in the Brook- hat and gray sneakers. Candy man can Park West. student Metrocard and a wad of lyn Public Library’s Central Escape access A pair of thieves distracted Treat Mom to a massage, one of our The suspects — a boy and seven one-dollar bills. The branch at Grand Army Plaza on an elderly lady long enough to signature facials, a body treatment girl, both 12 — face robbery posse then disappeared into the A burglar climbed a ladder May 3, police said. steal more than $1,000 from her charges for their role in the park. and the fire escape to get inside or nail care this Mother’s Day! The 34-year-old victim no- bag in a Fifth Avenue pharmacy May 5 heist, police said. They The victims could only de- a Fourth Avenue apartment ticed a stranger hovering on the afternoon of May 4, po- were among a posse of seven to scribe one of their attackers in while the tenant partied hearty. FREE MANICURE around her workspace in the pe- lice said. 10 bike-riding youngsters who detail. He was a black boy, 5- When the 30-year-old victim riodicals room around 8:30 pm. The swindlers stood on ei- with every gift certificate surrounded the 15-year-old vic- foot-4 and 130 pounds. Detec- returned from a bar — with Suddenly he reached into her ther side of their 75-year-old tim near President Street at 7:15 tives at the 78th Precinct are long hours, it seems — around purchase of $100 or more purse, snatched the billfold and victim as she waited in line at pm. The girl blocked the vic- now working to connect the 5:30 am on May 4, he found ran off with her Social Security the pharmacy, which is near tim’s path and the boy instead, suspects they arrested to the the ladder propped against the Expires May 31, 2006 • Mention ad for offer card, a school ID, various credit Ninth Street. One man picked “Give me your bread.” May 4 gang. rail and the screen sliced on a cards and $45. He also scored a up a candy and asked the vic- The junior thugs stepped for- window opening onto the fire Bank burg library card, which are handed tim, “Do you know how much ward, rifled the boy’s pockets, escape, police said. The thief Thieves triggered two alarms out free. this is?” snatched his cellphone and had also damaged the lock on when they broke into a Fifth The victim reported the theft the apartment’s front door, With the senior suitably dis- backpack, and peddled off Avenue bank on May 3, but to library security and described which was secure when the ten- tracted by the confectionary ques- through the park. Witnesses managed to escape with $1,000 the robber as a black man with ant left eight hours earlier for a tion, the man’s accomplice saw the boy with the stolen in rolled coins, police said. a shaved head. night out on the town. plucked an envelope with $1,139 backpack, which helped 78th The burglars set off the secu- Missing from his home was from the victim’s purse. The pair Precinct Police Officer Maria Counter grab rity system at 4:25 am and a digital camera and $6,000 in then disappeared, without so Solano arrest him and his al- A woman posing as a cus- again at 4:27 am, and the cash that he had stashed in vari- much as buying the candy. leged accomplice. tomer in a Seventh Avenue alarms summoned police to the ous hiding spots. The candy man was described The victim wasn’t seriously bank, near Ninth Street. boutique stole an employee’s as a dark-skinned man, 5-foot-8 hurt and the crime left him with When cops arrived, they purse on May 2, police said. BQE DOA tall with dark hair and wearing a good excuse for late home- found the back door open and the The thief wandered into the Ataxi passenger was killed black dress shoes and a grey coat work — his book bag was con- cash drawers at two teller stations clothing shop, located between early on May 10 when a Ford that day. The video tape from the fiscated by cops as evidence. missing. 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But he and his posse 7103 3rd Avenue and split the multi-million- startled the neighbors and The thief escaped with a took far more. dollar prize, he claimed. probably scared away the po- driver’s license, several credit Four thugs beat and robbed tel: 718.238.1805 fax: 718.238.1807 The victim agreed and re- tential burglar. and charge cards and fairly a 61-year-old man riding the ™ The thief broke through the subway shortly before 3 am MON-FRI: 7:30am-7pm; SAT: 9:30am-5pm; SUN: 11am-3pm Independently owned and operated. turned home to collect $9,000 nice wallet — but no cash. she had stashed around the basement door of the home on May 7, police said. They house. When the male thief near 70th Street around 3 pm bolted from the train at the said they needed more, she on May 2, police said. 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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT On ‘inappropriate’ art

HO IS JULIUS SPIEGEL and why The show was certainly provocative and, in Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe about is he telling us what art we can and many cases, sophomoric. One sculpture featured Spiegel’s carte blanche, Benepe revealed how cannot see? an erect penis. Another work depicted a man iden- tricky it is when public officials get to decide W tified as “Dick Cheney” in a homosexual clinch. what is “appropriate.” Spiegel is the Brooklyn commissioner for (The works are viewable at http://depthome. “Well,” he said, “I can safely say that a piece the Parks Department; last week, he became a brooklyn.cuny.edu/art/MFA%20Thesis) of art with a swastika on it would be inappro- self-appointed public morals defender by shut- But the debate over whether Spiegel was priate in Borough Park.” ting down a student art show in the war memo- right to close the show missed the main point: No? We are neither artists nor mid-level bu- rial in Cadman Plaza Park. Who is Julius Spiegel protecting? reaucrats, but we are capable of imagining that, Brooklyn College art students have held Artists often try to have it both ways — criti- in some circumstances, artwork with swastika shows there without incident for about six years, cizing bourgeois mores as they simultaneously imagery might convey a reasonable artistic mes- under terms of a verbal agreement that apparent- latch onto the teat of public subsidy. At some sage. ly gives the Parks Department the right to close point, the public that is subsidizing art will de- Meanwhile, when controversies like the one a show if it deems the artwork “inappropriate” cide whether its investment is worthwhile. at Cadman Plaza Park occur, we’d prefer that to families or veterans, parks officials say. But in this case, it was Spiegel who created our unelected officials allow us to make up our Yet it has been more than a week since the the controversy, shutting down the show be- own minds rather than treating us like children. closing and no one — not the Parks Depart- fore “the public” even had a chance to be of- Perhaps they could hang a sign reading, ment, not the mayor and not Spiegel himself — fended — or, conceivably, enriched — by it. “Warning: Adult Content Inside.” We may not has provided a definition of “inappropriate.” When a Brooklyn Papers reporter asked understand art, but we do know how to read.

LETTERS Papers Cristian Fleming © The Brooklyn Team Ratner no pal of black people To the editor: slave, and builds hospitals and basket- Thank you for Dana Rubinstein’s ball arenas), and about Bruce Ratner Racing at Floyd Ikea threatens Opting out of story, “Blacks Blast Bruce” (May 6). (poor Bruce is taking a multi-million- To the editor: To the editor: Bruce Ratner, the man who re- dollar hit to save the black communi- Let me get this straight. Our politi- As your readers are well aware, fused to put a single entrance door or ty’s basketball arena from the nasty cal leadership (“Screech! Weiner nix- Ikea plans to turn a 22-acre site be- home delivery even window on the Fort Greene side neighborhood protesters). es grand prix,” May 6) is against rac- tween Dwight and Columbia streets Since the beginning of the year, of his Atlantic Center mall — the “Harlem Today” is denigrating ing at Floyd Bennett Field because it in Red Hook into its largest store in we’ve been home delivering Papers better to keep the black people out — propaganda at its worst. It pretends to will generate about 100,000 car and North America. The site, along the Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc. throughout Brownstone Brooklyn. is spending a fortune courting the be in the community’s interest, yet it truck trips over one three-day week- Erie Basin, is the former home of the Our unique system limits deliveries black community. end a year? This is amazingly ironic, New York Shipyard, five historic at 55 Washington St, Ste 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201 to two Papers per building (elimi- is all about turning black people, all Phone (718) 834-9350 He has retained McKissack & considering that a couple of years Civil War-era buildings, and Todd nating the kind of clutter caused by the way up in Harlem, against the Established 1978. Copyright 2006. • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) circular delivery services). McKissack Construction, a black- families Ratner wants to make home- ago, our leaders, along with the city Shipyard’s currently active graving owned holding-company (which can We hope everyone appreciates less in Brooklyn (you can check it and state, approved Gateway Estates, dock, which dates from the 1930s. PUBLISHER Celia Weintrob (ext 104) subcontract freely to a non-black adjacent the Shore Parkway near The Preservation League of New our free home delivery, but realize out at www.brooklynvsbush.com). EDITOR Gersh Kuntzman (ext 119) there are exceptions to every rule. company) as the front for the “arena” Pennsylvania Avenue, which pro- York State named the graving dock project. I put “arena” in quotes be- Steve de Seve, Brooklyn Heights SENIOR EDITOR /PRODUCTION MANAGER If you’ve received The Paper at duces nearly 100,000 car trips on a one of New York State’s most-threat- Vince DiMiceli (ext 125) home and no longer want this cause when he talks to the African- three-day weekends and more than ened historic places. Community ac- American community, Ratner doesn’t GO BROOKLYN/BROOKLYN BRIDE EDITOR service, you may “opt out” of our Fight global heat 10 million trips annually. tivists sued to try to stop the project, Lisa J. Curtis (ext 131) delivery program by clicking the mention the skyscrapers he wants to To the editor: Is that the deal? Our political lead- but in July, 2005, a Manhattan judge ART DIRECTOR Leah Mitch (ext 127) link at www.BrooklynPapers.com. put in the four-story neighborhood. ership will permit the same impacts allowed demolition to continue, find- Global warming is very much a lo- OFFICE MANAGER Charna Brown And he has spent hundreds of day after day, year after year along ing that that the site is “in large part, in (ext 101) cal phenomenon. It’s not only caus- thousands of dollars promoting his the Shore Parkway, but not a three- disrepair and abandoned.” ing ocean levels to rise because of COMPOSITION OWNERSHIP: Copyright 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications arena to the black community outside day race weekend once a year? Now, tall reeds and marshland have Inc. All content prepared by our staff, including ARTWORK, DESIGN and of Brooklyn. melting ice caps and polar bears to Plus, Floyd Bennett Field, in a asserted themselves, with stands of COPY, remain the sole property of The Brooklyn Papers and may not be re- Send a letter In the same issue, Gersh Kuntzman migrate south in search of food. state of disrepair, will get $1 million reeds sprouting between concrete and produced without the Publisher’s written permission. As New York City “develops,” our EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTIONS: The Brooklyn Papers assumes no responsibil- By mail: Letters Editor, Brooklyn did a story on Ratner’s recent mailing a year for improvements. I don’t get metal pilings. The huge concrete ity for unsolicited materials. Articles, story ideas, letters, photography, and all Papers, 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, (“Ratner’s glossy fantasyland”). Here’s neighborhoods heat up. As millions of it. Where is the downside? How of- blocks in the multi-acre site at the cor- other materials delivered to The Brooklyn Papers, whether or not solicited NY 11201 something that ties both Kuntzman’s cars and apartments use air condition- ten does a Brooklyn park get an an- ner of Columbia and Halleck streets by Publisher or Publisher’s agent and whether or not they contain or are ers to cool off, the outside air tempera- otherwise accompanied by restrictions on publication or use, will be treat- By fax: (718) 834-9278. and Rubinstein’s stories together in a nual million-dollar subsidy? trace the outlines of its former industri- ed as unconditionally assigned to The Brooklyn Papers for publication and By email: scary way: “Harlem Today,” a slick ture rises. So-called little things like the And why, if our “leadership” is so al use. Sea birds alight on the small copyright purposes, unless otherwise agreed in writing by the Publisher prior [email protected] magazine [distributed at] Harlem astro-turfing of Cadman Plaza Park concerned about the environment and marshy pond in the middle of the ship- to publication. All submitted material becomes the property of The Brooklyn (“Turf for Cadman Plaza,” April 15) Papers which may edit, publish and assign the material for use in any medi- All letters must be signed and restaurants and nightspots. There are traffic, does it permit mega-develop- yard. The concrete blocks have be- um now known or later developed. Submissions will not be returned and may include the writer’s home address no references to Ratner or to McKis- contribute to the plasticization of ments that produce far greater im- come museum walls for some of the not be acknowledged. and phone number (only the writer’s sack Construction on the cover, but Brooklyn and our world. pacts? Someone’s priorities are best graffiti artists in the city. ADVERTISING: Subject to Terms Governing Acceptance of Advertising pub- name and neighborhood are pub- lished in our latest rate card. CIRCULATION: Net, based on period norms. guess who paid for all the full-page Think about it: what would hap- screwed up. Sonja Shield, Gowanus lished with the letter). Letters may pen if we wrapped ourselves in plas- NATIONAL AFFILIATIONS: The Brooklyn Papers is a member of Indepen- be edited and will not be returned. ads? And what do the first three pages Brian Ketcham, Cobble Hill Shield’s photo essay can be viewed at dent Free Papers of America (IFPA), Suburban Newspapers of America The earlier in the week you send of the magazine focus on? It’s all about tic? We’d suffocate to death. The writer is an environmentalist and http://www.flickr.com/photos/ (SNA), National Newspaper Association (NNA). Lisited in SRDS. your letter, the better. 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Prospect Park Papers The Brooklyn worth it to deliver to me unless he charges me more,” 91.5 FM. Gulf station owner David Goldsmith in front of his famous gas pumps, which sell he said. Yes, in Brooklyn, even the gas-station owners The Brooklyn Papers the most-expensive gas in the state. “Plus, we’re full-service, so that adds about 30 have radio shows. — Gersh Kuntzman Cars will be banned from Prospect Park’s West Drive during the morning rush under a six-month pilot program unveiled this week by Mayor Bloomberg. Hizzoner journeyed — by car — to the Grand Army Plaza entrance of Prospect Park to herald the news himself. The restriction goes into effect on June 5. Manhattan- bound traffic will still be able to use the park’s East Drive, a Starchitect joins Bridge ‘park’ team concession, the mayor said, to rush-hour reality. A similar restriction was put in place in that other park in The Brooklyn Papers commercial and open space project. ings will pay for construction and up- Avenue; and at John Street. Manhattan. Architect Robert A.M. Stern will An ESDC spokeswoman declined keep of a park that all can enjoy. Stern’s urban planning has come “We believe the new restrictions will add very little traffic on Wednesday to answer questions Current plans call for 1,240 units under fire ever since he worked with work as a consultant to the Brooklyn about Stern’s role. of housing, a 225-room hotel, nearly Disney on its master-planned Florida [to side streets in Park Slope], but we will closely monitor it,” Bridge Park waterfront develop- the mayor promised. Residential construction inside the 520,000 square feet of retail, restau- town, Celebration. The Department of Transportation estimates that just 357 ment. 1.3-mile-long development is the most- rant, office and showroom space, plus On the preservation side, Stern has cars use Prospect Park’s West Drive during the morning rush. Stern will “prepare design guidelines controversial element of the plan. 1,183 parking spaces. Much of the been an outspoken supporter of Ed- “We don’t really know if that number of cars gets absorbed … for the uplands of Pier 1, Pier 6, and Supporters of a waterfront park non-green construction is slated for ward Durrell Stone’s 2 Columbus Cir- or causes major disruptions,” the mayor said. the John Street site,” according to a who oppose the planners’ current vi- the upland area at Pier 1, which sits cle, the quirky building being trans- Bloomberg’s announcement came three days after the anti- press release by the Empire State De- sion object to apartment buildings in south of the existing waterfront es- formed from a Modernist monolith car group Transportation Alternatives released a study saying velopment Corporation, the lead agency the site, while boosters say mainta- planade at the end of Old Fulton into a glass-walled home for the Muse- that four out of five park users would enjoy Olmstead and in the construction of the residential, nence fees generated by such build- Street; Pier 6 at the foot of Atlantic um of Art and Design. — Kuntzman Robert A.M. Stern Vaux’s supreme achievement more if cars were banned. As such, the mayor anticipated the group’s disappointment with his announcement. “Transportation Alternatives would like to get rid of all cars in the city,” he said. “Yes, it would be better if people didn’t have cars in the parks, but during the rush hour, it CBs to Ratner: Pets rally for would create chaos.” True to prediction, Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Paul Steely White complained that the new restric- tions still gave the green light to too many horseless carriages. Stop your fibbin’ ASPCA’s top dog “Any reduction of car hours in Central and Prospect parks ... is a step in the right direction,” he said. “But at the end of The Brooklyn Papers he said in a statement. The Brooklyn Papers the day, these are parks, not parkways. They’re for people, not Rejected! “The question here is not a cars.” They say that every dog has his day, but this pooch, a Three central Brooklyn com- newsletter that talks about an White called for car-free summers in both parks. 6-year-old pug named Patsy (left), gave up a day of chas- munity boards are demanding important program, but rather “Fully opening the parks to walkers, joggers, strollers, bik- the very real benefits, includ- ing sticks and harassing cats to march in Green-Wood that Bruce Ratner stop claiming Cemetary in honor of the 140th anniversary of the found- ers and skaters when park demand is at its highest…will set the boards participated in a ing jobs and housing, for near- Callan / Tom an example for cities around the world to provide safe, “community benefits agree- by residents.” ing of the ASPCA by Henry Bergh. healthy, relaxing and tranquil respites from the rush and ca- ment” between the developer Stuckey didn’t say whether Here, Patsy poses next to a monument to another pug, Fannie, cophony of city life.” — Kuntzman and eight local groups. future mailings will be amend- who died in 1887 and belonged to Elias Howe, inventor of the In a mass mailing to several ed to reflect the community sewing machine, who is buried nearby (that is one heck of a boards’ concern. — Kuntzman cemetery, that Green-Wood). — Kuntzman hundred thousand homes last Papers The Brooklyn weekend, Ratner claimed that Community Boards 2, 6, and 8 “served as advisors in craft- ing the CBA.” Says him. “This statement overstates our participation,” the chairs of the three boards — Shirley McRae, Jerry Armer and Robert Matthews — wrote to $ 99 Ratner last week. “We were invited to play a 99 limited role that ended months Model before … we were barred #750B from attending the working sessions [for the CBA],” the AVIS letter continued. 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borough another city / Jori Klein ner lived here, he housing, jobs, or even The ill-fated parochial that resembles Manhat- schools include Sacred Hearts- would understand what an arena; it is to fight tan.” St. Stephen in Carroll Gardens, we love about it and the particular array of which will merge with Park why we want to pre- inappropriate proposals Slope’s St. Saviour. serve our open skies.” and ask that we begin Marian Fontana, Bensonhurst’s St. Frances again with a set of goals 9-11 widow, Cabrini and St. Mary Mother of The Brooklyn Papers file The Brooklyn / Tom Callan / Tom Isaac Reese Associated Press Peter Galassi, chief identified by a coalition.” Park Slope Susette Kelo Steve Buscemi Jesus will merge and now be Heath Ledger and Mi- curator, Department “I think it will change called John Paul II Catholic chelle Williams of Photography, Susette Kelo, the character of the Academy, named after the late MOMA, Fort Greene eminent domain opponent, Connecticut neighborhood. As a firefighter’s wife, my concern is pope. The school will physically “The problem with this development is that it’s radi- “It’s disheartening that these cities and states are al- also that they recently closed a lot of firehouses in occupy the St. Mary’s site. cally out of scale. It’s like four Empire State Build- lowed to take properties from homeowners for no the area and there will not enough companies to Parents who send their chil- Papers The Brooklyn ings in the center of better reason than to give it to someone else.” cover the population dren to the soon-to-be-merged Brooklyn.” that will be there. They schools are concerned. Sacred Heart-St. Stephen’s School in Carroll Gardens. haven’t carefully con- “My daugher has been get- Frances Marrone, architecture critic, ting a great education,” one Jonathan Lethem, Brooklyn Heights sidered the safety issues “realignment” that is necessary to maintain the parent told NY1. “She’s gotten awards for viability of its remaining schools. All schools writer, “The Fortress “Brooklyn has the most spectacular intact contiguous of having a transit hub most improved in reading and I’ve been very must have at least 200 students each. of Solitude,” stretch of 19th-century architecture anywhere in the underneath those build- proud of her. But to have to take her out and “Eventually, forming one school from the Boerum Hill United States. It’s a national treasure and we should- ings. It could be a bring her to another school, I don’t know how two [will] maintain a Catholic school in the “The simplest thing got n’t play fast and loose with that. It’s like building gi- / Hugh Crawford prime terror target, and she’s going to fare.” my attention: a link to gantic towers on the edge of the Grand Canyon. they haven’t even con- Parents who are unwilling to send their community,” said the diocese in a press re- the drawings of what Frank Gehry is a California architect. His work is sidered that.” children to less-successful public schools will lease. the towers will look suited to Southern California, not Brooklyn.” now have to ship their children farther from The latest closures are on top of the 22 like. In that outlandish — Compiled by home, or reconcile themselves to more-crowd- schools in Brooklyn and Queens that the Dio-

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Cruise booster Terry Dale Marty snubs Ratner foes The Queen Mary 2 has come and gone (twice), and Brooklyn is still wondering how to turn her thousands of guests into thousands of money-spending Brook- The Brooklyn Papers “I am a proud CBID mem- lyn tourists. It’s not going to happen overnight, says A petty snub by the bor- ber ... but on rare occasions, I may not agree that one of their Terry Dale, the DUMBO resident who heads the ough president or a show honorees is worthy,” he told cruise industry’s trade group, Cruise Line Internation- of respect for his The Brooklyn Papers in a al Association, CLIA. A former top executive with mother — you decide. statement. “Besides, my moth- NYC & Co., the city’s marketing and tourism bureau, The Central Brooklyn In- er always taught me that if you Dale took over CLIA two years ago and has played a dependent Democrats hon- don’t have anything nice to role in the further expansion of cruising. More than 11 ored a handful of neighbor- say, don’t say anything at all.” million people in North America took cruises last year, hood groups and community DDDB spokesman Daniel and the numbers are only going up. Dale checked in leaders at its annual dinner Goldstein fired back: “DDDB this week with Gersh Kuntzman. this Sunday — including De- has a powerful base of support velop Don’t Destroy Brook- and has done the work of in- them all the same attention. Our job is to lyn, a group that is fighting forming the community about Q: Our headline a few weeks ago make cruisers and potential cruisers know Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards Ratner’s plan — which Bor- was “Queen Mary 2 here: What’s in it all their options. project. ough Hall has failed to do … for Brooklyn?” So what’s the answer? As is custom at such dinners, We have over 400 volunteers, A: Potentially, a lot. The QM2 provides a Q: You mean buffet or sit-down din- which double as fundraisers, well over 2,000 individual huge audience to which Brooklyn can mar- ners? Borough President Markowitz donors and a newly an- CBID ket itself. We have to get those passengers to A: Cruising is very different than it was just took out an ad in the evening’s nounced advisory board of Borough President Markowitz, District Leader Lori Knipel and Assemblyman Jim Brennan take advantage of Brooklyn’s cultural and a few years ago. The trend in “home-port program. The ad congratulated prominent, influential Brook- at the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats’ dinner last Sunday. entertainment offerings. cruising” means that 70 percent of Ameri- all the honorees by name — ex- lynites. Snubbing us snubs not Q: But how? Most cruise passengers cans are within a two-hour drive of one of cept DDDB, which has attacked only CBID, but thousands of are bussed in and out. Some don’t our ports. And the variety of destinations has Markowitz for his support for annual dinner, at Park Slope’s Fleishman, Councilwoman wood Heights, South Park Brooklynites. It is unfortunate even stay in New York City at all be- expanded. There are now cruises that can Atlantic Yards. that this is how our borough Montauk Club, were Jeremy Darlene Mealy (D-Browns- Slope Community Group, and fore flying out. suit every traveler, even one who has never Of course, it was no over- president behaves.” Creelan of the Brennan Center ville), activist Warren Miner, Park Slope Neighbors. gone on a cruise before. sight. Other honorees at the 37th for Justice, District Leader Alan Concerned Citizens of Green- — Gersh Kuntzman A: Local businesses in Brooklyn will even- tually be marketing to those customers, get- Q: Like you! When you took over ting them to stay. In the shorter term, busi- CLIA, you had never been on one, nesses will make money supplying and right? restocking those ships. But it’s not going to A: True. But that’s the challenge — getting happen overnight. The good news is that the Terry Dales of the world on a cruise. people from the borough president’s office and NYC & Co. were at CLIA’s annual Q: How does our port here in Brook- BIG RED HOOK DRUG BUST NETS 150 lyn rate? meeting in Florida, talking up Brooklyn. A: Well…(brief uncomfortable silence). Q: Hide the lampshades! The Brooklyn Papers sive, April 28 raid the culmi- To keep an uneasy peace, was slain in 1992 — many ship terminal. Nothing happens overnight. There are cities nation of an 18-month investi- drug gangs were allocated residents believe the latest ef- Other residents mentioned A: No, it was a very serious attempt to talk with very elaborate ports. In Norfolk, there’s More than 150 residents to travel agents about Brooklyn. Those a museum at the port. In other cities, there of the Red Hook Houses gation. sections of the housing com- fort is linked to the coming the new Fairway supermarket, “No one can remember an plex as turf, Kelly said. gentrification of the hard- which will open next week, agents book 90 percent of all cruises, so it’s are stores. were arrested and charged important to market to them. operation of this size,” Kelly The top cop said the deal- scrabble neighborhood. and the Ikea superstore. Q: Ours doesn’t even have refresh- with turning the notorious said. ers also had their own slogan: “You don’t think the Queen City officials hope such housing project into a drug Q: So what are you, Terry Dale, DUM- ments. Perhaps Junior’s could open Residents of Red Hook “No beef, no police.” Mary has anything to do with businesses will create an eco- BO resident, doing to help us? an outpost. bazaar, police said. have been buzzing about the Although there have been this?” asked one resident, re- nomic boom for a neighbor- NYPD Commissioner Ray sweep for weeks, but police sweeps in Red Hook before ferring to the gleaming white hood whose unemployment A: Well, I represent the entire industry and A: It’s all possible. Many cruise ship termi- Kelly announced the arrests officials would not talk about — most notably after beloved ship that will make regular rate far exceeds the citywide we have 32 ports in North America. I give nals are like airports. this week, calling the mas- it until Wednesday. school principal Patrick Daly appearances at the new cruise average. — Kuntzman CENSOR… Continued from page 1 “Frankly, I am disappointed for families in a public space. [given] the mayor’s previous “This is both bad judgment record,” said Michael Mallory, and bad law for the Parks De- chairman of the Brooklyn Col- partment,” attorney Floyd lege Art Department. Abrams told The Brooklyn The students say they will Papers. “This exhibition is not sue the school and the city on obscene, not illegal and is con- constitutional grounds — and stitutionally protected.” civil rights attorney Norman Vœ˜}À>ÌՏ>̈œ˜ÃÊ The dispute recalls the role Siegel is on the case. Abrams played in 1999, when “It’s ‘Sensation’ junior,” he he successfully defended the said. “If a government official Brooklyn Museum in its dis- doesn’t like a work, he can be pute with the city over “Sen- critical, but he can’t censor it.” ̜ʜÕÀÊ«>À̘iÀ sation” — a show that includ- Siegel compared the closure ed a depiction of a black of the art show to the mayor’s Madonna adorned with ele- refusal to let people demon- phant dung and sexually ex- strate in Central Park during plicit photos. Then-mayor the Republican National Con- Giuliani deemed the work, vention in 2004 and the which he had not seen, “anti- NYPD’s ongoing battles Catholic.” against the Critical Mass bike Mayor Bloomberg support- rides — both policy decisions ed his underling’s decision to he has fought in court. close the show — though he An overwhelming majority bristled when a reporter used of Brooklyn College faculty the c-word. members condemned the col- “I don’t know that ‘censor- lege for allowing the city to re- ing’ is the right word,” move the art. Bloomberg said at a press con- “Brooklyn College has long ference Monday in Grand supported our students’ rights Army Plaza. “This is not a to freedom of artistic expres- museum, this is a war memo- sion and we will continue to rial and different things are ap- do so,” said college spokes- ÕÃÌÊÀ>˜Ži`Ê propriate there.” woman Colleen Roche, ironi- The mayor’s decision to cally a Giuliani staffer during stand by Spiegel surprised the “Sensation” scandal. Ì iÊLiÃÌÊÀ>Ìi`Ê œÃ«ˆÌ>Êˆ˜Ê ÀœœŽÞ˜ artists, who said it was inconsis- “In this instance, we were in- tent with the support for public formed that we had to vacate the art that the Bloomberg adminis- space … and took immediate +Õii˜Ã]Ê-Ì>Ìi˜ÊÏ>˜`]Ê>˜`ÊÌ iÊ Àœ˜Ýt tration has shown in the past. steps to find an alternate space.”

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WHO SAID SUPPLEMENTAL SUMMONS. Index No.: America, (Bond #104630652), c/o Elmer S. electrical work. Labor & material to install new liabilities of the Limited Liability Company, and 33390/05. D/O/F: 4/26/06. Borough: Brooklyn, Hyde Agency, 321 Broadway, 4th fl. New York, 20 tons HVAC system in the Basic Science any pending or threatened action, suit, or pro- Block: 5583, Section: , Lot: 60. SUPREME NY 10007, surely on bond; Mental Hygiene Building, Downstate Med. Center, Brooklyn, ceeding. Such indemnification shall be made to COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, Legal Service, 80-45 Winchester Boulevard, NY 11203. The contractor must have five (5) the fullest extent permitted by the laws of the COUNTY OF KINGS. NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST Queens Village NY 11427; Peter Glase, Esq., years of recent experience of work in educa- State of New York, provided that such acts or AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS COLLAT- Human Resources Administration, Office of tional buildings. All work on this Contract is to omissions which gave rise to the cause of ERAL AGENT AND CUSTODIAN FOR THE revenue Investigation, Litigation Division, 66 be completed within 75 calendar days starting action or proceedings occurred while the NYCTL 1998-2 TRUST, Plaintiffs, -against- VIN- Leonard Street, 7th Fl. New York, NY 10013; ten (10) calendar days after the contract Member or Manger was in performance of his CENT DI GIOVANNI; if living, or if either or all David Smoren, Esq., 213-37 39th Avenue, approval date of the New York State or her duties for the Limited Liability Company WAS FOR be dead, their wives, husbands, heirs-at-law, Bayside, NY 11361, Court Examiner; show Comptroller. Bidding and Contract Documents SUMMER and was not as a result of his or her fraud, gross next of kin, distributees, executors, administra- cause at a IA Part 20 for the 11th Judicial may be examined free of charge at the campus negligence, willful misconduct or a wrongful and at: Site (SUNY Campus), Plan Rooms tors, assignees, lienors and generally all per- District of the Supreme Court of the State of taking. The indemnification provided herein (Offices that apply from Form UF-9 - i.e., sons having or claiming under, by or through New York, held in and for the County of shall inure to the benefit of successors, assigns, said Defendants by purchase, inheritance, lien Brown’s Letter, Inc., Dodge Reports). Complete Queens, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, heirs, executors, and the administrators of any or otherwise, of any right, title or interest in sets of Contract Documents for bidding may New York on the 6th day of June, 2006 at 11:00 such person. SIXTH: The Limited Liability and to the premises described in the complaint o’clock in the forenoon of that day or as soon be obtained from: Alex Goltsman, Downstate Company is to have perpetual existence from herein, and the respective husbands, wives, thereafter as counsel can be heard, why a judg- Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 13, the effective date hereof until terminated upon widow or widowers of them, if any, all of whose ment should not be rendered: 1. Granting the Brooklyn, NY 11203 or the Consultant. Section the occurrence of any one of several events as names are unknown to plaintiffs; ANTHONY relief prayed for in the petition; 2. Authorizing 143 of the State Finance Law requires payment set forth in the Limited Liability Company’s VERRA; NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDI- and directing the sale of the incapacitated per- of a deposit to receive these documents. Operating Agreement. SEVENTH: The purpose TAKING IT CATION BUREAU; THE PEOPLE OF THE son’s cooperative apartment described in the Accordingly, a deposit check of $40.00, made for which the Limited Liability Company is STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF petition in accordance with the statue and rules payable to SUNY Downstate Medical Center is AMERICA; “JOHN DOE No. 1” through of this court; 3. Granting permission to peti- required. Deposits less than $50.00 are nonre- organized is to engage in any lawful act or “JOHN DOE No. 100” inclusive, the name of tioner as guardian to make the sale and carry fundable. Bids must be submitted in duplicate activity within the purposes for which Limited the last 100 defendants being fictitious, the out these proceedings; 4. Direct that a hearing in accordance with the instructions contained Liability Companies may be organized pur- true names of said defendants being unknown be held before the court as to the merits of the in the Information for Bidders. Security will be suant to New York State Law. EIGHTH: The to plaintiffs, it being intended to designate fee application; 5. Granting such other and further required for each bid in an amount not less existence of the Limited Liability Company owners, tenants or occupants of the liened relief, both cumulative and in alternative, as to than five (5) percent of the Total Bid. It is the shall begin upon filing of the Articles of premises and/or persons or parties having or the court may seem just and proper; and it is policy of the State of New York and the State Organization with the office of the Secretary of claiming an interest in or a lien upon the liened further ORDERED that Stephen Gutlebev, (718) University of New York to encourage minority State of the State of New York. Signed on May premises, if the aforesaid individual defendants 229-8200, 24506 Thornhill Ave., Douglaston, business enterprise participation in this project 20, 2005. /s/ Wai Yam Wong. Wai Yam Wong, are living, and if any or all of said individual NY 11362, a licensed real estate broker, be and by contractors, subcontractors and suppliers, Organizer. 1184 60th Street, Brooklyn, NY EASY ? defendants be dead, their heirs at law, next of he hereby is appointed to go upon the premis- and all bidders are expected to cooperate in 11219. kin, distributees, executors, administrators, es and to make an appraisal thereof, reporting implementing this policy. The State University BP14-19 trustees, committees, devisees, legatees, and the same under oath, in writing to the court of New York reserves the right to reject any or assignees, lienors, creditors and successors in and orally by testimony before the court; and it all bids. ARTICLE OF ORGANIZATION OF 762-59th BP19-22 interest of them and generally all persons hav- is further ORDERED, that the guardian comply STREET REALTY LLC. Under and Pursuant to ing or claiming under, by, through, or against with Section 1722 subdivision 5 of the Real Notice is hereby given that an Order entered Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company the said defendants named as a class, of any Property actions and Proceedings Law; and it is by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 8th day Law of the State of New York. FIRST: The name right, title, or interest in or lien upon the prem- further ORDERED, that service of a copy of this of May, 2006, bearing the Index Number of the Limited Liability Company 762-59th ises described in the complaint herein, order and the papers on which it is based be N500349/2006, a copy of which may be exam- STREET LLC. SECOND: The County within this Defendants.TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFEN- made upon all persons named herein, either ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL state in which the office of the Limited Liability DANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to personally or by certified mail at least 13 days COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Company is to be located is: KINGS. THIRD: answer the Amended Complaint in this action, prior to the return date herein, be deemed suf- Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, The Secretary of State is designated as the and to serve a copy of your Answer, or, if the ficient service. Enter, J.S.C. grants me rights to: Assume the name of: agent of the Limited Liability Company upon Amended Complaint is not served with this BP19-22 Danielle Sears. My present name is: Dani’ell whom process against the Limited Liability Supplemental Summons, to serve a Notice of State University of New York. Notice to Stanley a/k/a Danielle Stanley a/k/a Danielle Company may be served, and the address to Appearance on the Plaintiffs’ Attorneys within Bidders. The State University of New York Sears. My present address is: 1010 Eastern which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of twenty (20) days after the service of this Downstate Medical Center will receive sealed Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11213. My place any process against the Limited Liability Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of birth is: East Meadow, New York. My date of Proposals for Project No. 98-074 Titled: Company served upon him is c/o The Limited of service, where service is made by delivery birth is: May 27, 1961. Mailroom/Print Shop Decanting and Liability Company, 1184 60th Street, IN WIT- upon you personally within the State, or within BP19 Rehabilitation of Central Receiving until 2:00 NESS WHEREOF I hereunto sign my name and thirty (30) days after completion of service p.m. Local Time on June 5, 2006 at 450 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered affirm that the statements perjury this 19th day where service is made in any other manner, and Clarkson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, Room # 3-135, by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 25th of November, 2002. S/BENNY C. FONG. in case of your failure to appear or answer, where such proposals will be publicly opened day of April, 2006, bearing the Index Number Benny C. Fong. Organizer. judgment will be taken against you by default and read aloud. Mail Room/Print Shop N500311/2006, a copy of which may be exam- BP14-19 for the relief demanded in the Amended Decanting and Rehabilitation of Central ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL Complaint. YOU ARE HEREBY PUT ON ARTICLE OF ORGANIZATION OF GREAT 8 Receiving Description: The construction and COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston NOTICE THAT WE ARE ATTEMPTING TO alteration work to the “Downstate Depot” Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, REALTY LLC. Under and Pursuant to Section COLLECT A DEBT, AND ANY INFORMATION which facilitates Central Receiving and moving grants me rights to: Assume the name of: 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law of OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THE PUR- their related departments such as Printing and Joseph Matthew Brasco. My present name is: the State of New York. FIRST: The name of the POSE. TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFEN- the Mail Room, from the BSB Basement to the Joseph Matthew King. My present address is: Limited Liability Company GREAT 8 REALTY DANTS: The foregoing summons is served Depot Area. Extensive mechanical and electri- 155 Mansion Avenue, Staten Island, New York LLC. SECOND: The County within this state in upon you by publication pursuant to an Order cal upgrades such as new mechanical units and 10308. My place of birth is: Brooklyn, New which the office of the Limited Liability of the Honorable Abraham G. Gerges of the associated trades. All work on this Contract is York. My date of birth is: July 20, 1985. Company is to be located is: KINGS. THIRD: Supreme Court of the State of New York, BP19 to be completed within 60-90 calendar days The Secretary of State is designated as the signed on March 27, 2006, and filed with sup- starting ten (10) calendar days after the con- ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF 78 BAY 22 agent of the Limited Liability Company upon porting papers in the Office of the Clerk of the tract approval date of the New York State LLC. Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability whom process against the Limited Liability County of KINGS, State of New York. The Comptroller. Bidding and Contract Documents Company Law. FIRST: The name of the Limited Company may be served, and the address to nature of this action is to foreclose a tax lien may be examined free of charge at the campus Liability Company is: 78 BAY 22 LLC. SECOND: which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of certificate recorded against said premises. Said IN OVER and at: Site (SUNY Campus) Plan Rooms The county within this state in which the office any process against the Limited Liability WORKOUT AND REFRESH premises being known as and by 962 39th (Offices that apply from Form UF-9 - i.e., of the Limited Liability Company is to be locat- Company served upon him is c/o The Limited Street, Brooklyn, New York , which is more ed is: Kings County. THIRD: The Secretary of fully described as Block: 5583; Lot: 60. Dated: Brown’s Letter, Inc., Dodge Reports). Complete Liability Company: 1184-60th Street, Brooklyn, sets of Contract Documents for bidding may State is designated as agent of the Limited New York 11219. IN WITNESS WHEREOF I April 19, 2006, Carle Place, New York. Kenneth Liability Company upon whom process against be obtained from: Filio Tsapakis, Downstate hereunto sign my name and affirm that the Sheehan, Esq. ROSICKI, ROSICKI & ASSOCI- it may be served. The address within this state Medical Center, 450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 13, statements perjury this 5th day of September, ATES, P.C. Attorneys for Plaintiffs, One Old to which the Secretary of State shall mail a Brooklyn, NY 11203 (718) 270-1213, or the 2003. S/BENNY C. FONG, Benny C. Fong, Country Road, Suite 200, Carle Place, NY copy of any process against the Limited 11514, (516) 741-2585, (516) 470-0973 Consultant. Section 143 of the State Finance Organizer. BP17-20 Law requires payment of a deposit to receive Liability Company served upon him is: The LLC, 10 0,000 SQ.FT. 1184 60th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11219. BP14-19 these documents. Accordingly, a deposit check At a I.A. Part 20 of the Supreme Court of the of $25.00, made payable to Downstate FOURTH: The Members and Manages shall not Divine Scents, LLC. Notice of formation of State of New York, held in and for the County Medical Center is required. Deposits less than be liable to the Limited Liability Company or Limited Liability Company (“LLC), Articles of OF SPORTS, FITNESS, of Queens, at 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, any Member or Manager for any liability, loss, $50.00 are nonrefundable. Bids must be sub- Organization filed with the Secretary of State Jamaica, New York, on the 25th day of April, damage, cost or expense which may arise out mitted in duplicate in accordance with the of the State of New York (“SSNY”) on 2/15/05. 2006. PRESENT: HON. CHARLES J. THOMAS, of or in connection with any act or conduct on instructions contained in the Information for Office location: Kings County. SSNY has been Justice. In the Matter of the Application of the part of the Members or Managers without Bidders. Security will be required for each bid & DAY SPA FACILITIES MARSHALL G. KAPLAN, Guardian of the per- designated as agent of LLC upon whom fraud or willful misconduct, including, but not in an amount not less than five (5) percent of process against it may be served. SSNY shall son and/or property of ROBERT SMULIN, an limited to, the failure to obtain and/or maintain the Total Bid. It is the policy of the State of mail a copy of any process to the LLC, 3000 incapacitated person, to sell a certain coopera- any insurance policy or the insufficiency of any New York and the State University of New York SUMMER MEMBERSHIP ONLY $25 PER WEEK tive apartment belonging to the said incapaci- coverage thereunder, or the failure to insure Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11235. Purpose: to encourage minority business enterprise par- tated person. File No. 10894/05. ORDER TO against any particular risk, any unforeseen loss- To engage in any lawful activity. ticipation in this project by contractors, sub- OFFER ENDS JULY 31 SHOW CAUSE. Upon the annexed petition of es caused by strikes, labor troubles, riots, fires, BP16-21 contractors and suppliers, and all bidders are MARSHALL G. KAPLAN, Guardian, duly veri- power outages, tornadoes, floods, acts of a expected to cooperate in implementing this fied the 20th day of April, 2006, and upon the public enemy, insurrections, acts of God, policy. Contracted personnel must meet annexed copy of the contract for the sale of breakdown or failure of plant or machinery, the PUBLIC NOTICE JCAHO Accreditation requirements. The State 397 shares of Waterview Towers, Inc. repre- failure to perform its obligations hereunder University of New York reserves the right to senting a cooperative apartment, 7G, located due to restrictions or prohibitions imposed by Notice is hereby given, pursuant to law, that reject any or all bids. the NYC Dept. of Consumer Affairs will hold a at 1935 Shore Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11214, BP19 law, rule, regulation or demand of any govern- and upon the affidavit of Alan Rose, sworn to mental agency, or from any other cause Public Hearing on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 2:00 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS 43 CLARK STREET 718 625-0500 April 13, 2006, and upon all the other papers State University of New York. Notice to beyond the control of the Members or p.m., at 66 John Street, 11th floor, on a petition METROTECH 333 ADAMS STREET 718 330-0007 and proceedings heretofore had herein, and Bidders. The State University of New York Managers. FIFTH: The Limited Liability from Madiba Corporation to establish to main- due deliberation having been had, it is Downstate Medical Center will receive sealed Company shall defend, indemnify and hold tain, and operate an unenclosed sidewalk café PROSPECT PARK 17 EASTERN PARKWAY 718 789-4600 ORDERED, that the following: Robert Smulin, Proposals for Project No. 04-239 Titled: HVAC harmless all Members, Managers, and former at 195 Dekalb Avenue, in the Borough of TRIBECA 80 LEONARD STREET 212 966-5432 incapacitated person, c/o Oceanview Nursing for Arthur Ashe Institute until 2:00 p.m. Local Members and Managers of the Limited Liability Brooklyn, for a term of two years. Request for Home, 315 Beach 9th Street, Far Rockaway, NY Time on June 12, 2006 at 450 Clarkson Company against expenses (including attor- a copy of the revocable consent may be BLUE POINT MELVILLE DIX HILLS 11427; Director, Oceanview Nursing Home, Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11203, Rm 1-15 BSB, ney’s fees, judgments, fines, and amounts pain addressed to Dept. of Consumer Affairs, 42 315 Beach 9th Street, Far Rockaway, NY 11427; where such proposals will be publicly opened in settlement) incurred in connection with any Broadway, New York, NY 10004. THIS SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP PAID IN ADVANCE FROM DATE OF JOINING THROUGH SEPTEMBER 1, 2006. OFFER VALID ONLY ON THE FIRST VISIT TO THE CLUB. Travelers Casualty & Surety Company of and read aloud. Work to include mechanical & claims, causes of action, demands, damages, BP19 Brooklyn’s real newspapers!

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By For exam etic. nother m Av T as acc d- p more c .” the s low o Naternalets love thex-e proj ootprin b be a ma s is ho ds up ta tner princess bride. and his N you can’t help but see how Dana ple, the developer re- vate open spaceodification on the rooftop shrunk of a pri-the enue betw ompli regna ances in Paulontr aA ho m Assmeorem tendernessn p aorg outright joysub efeintsct, th in the book.t o Shep- ends up notody really [ tter o w it i king l igerian T Rnamub een A idened Sixth shed nt pie ctions ake guest appear- bly b e 750 sidy e initi is] wa f grea s … onge Ratner called his new he Bro iedns thet flashy, glass-sided edifice Dean Street, a nod totlantic traffic A concerns, wee ce ma when betw udget of wasbeing a m al Ra pec tchin t cons Norm r Dick Zigun he w oklyn P ein arena from k. Brooklyn Follies,”kes ituster’s this onenew the ee…n aTo w , sand hply,and iw expec tner ted fro g, ask equen ally, t cession to critics” — anted this. It’s a great thing.” athatpers w venue and s debu for $1-atchmill her sit-wiched lyith. tedajor to character, p but m m my ing que ce [but] here and Pat M plan a “con- badly ill connect the arena to the A gering an arena-top two acres w to one, endan- and pushed back the com the “Beautiful P t nexbook,t “The a btinguild on theion al “E ass Ratner point of stions … here ev ukoro E critics w The G The lankylantic attorney term general Y U ing pro location nough o dow a origina view.” So it ery- finally m XCL ere not m but those veryhana w inal m ow for buildings around the arena by one assky meets u char niversts ject fa pu f a ca d errenla — lly pr ’s no US its share of hitches.edding Fordid haveone and portly form ass transit com show ildflow pletion date d f ity t C bli se a ed t u ade it IV percent cut in the bulk of the larger, n in plans presented in N m in Po larkson c mone for spe in t the in icted tha nex- official in G E ollified by a five- t- vem er m year, from illion fo tsdam said A y has b nding Downt tersecti t the Fr m thing, M an odd couple eras governor they toured m plex. ber by the project’s landscapeead- 2009 to 2010. r a proje and $5 ssemb een m 2 own Br on of Fl ank Geh the culm hana last w ost-recent version. ukoro w architect Lauri O B ct iden ton ( lyman ade,” 007 sea ooklyn atbush a ry-desi ination of a trip to eekthe al-— port in A asn’t at the air- Park Slope on W ade o- ut the 620-foot skyscraper across tified a D-Bens William son. — wou nd Atla gned tar that began in the late 1990s, “It’s a fraud,” said A ccra to m lin. the street from s onhurst) Col- Now h ld be fin ntic ave opponent Patti H weeks ago becauseeet she Zigun not only tw W ednesday. Se . N e says it ished in nues was interrupted by a post-9-11 ould-be governor Eliot Spitzer n’t change at allthe —“U blacks, branded e RAT ets are n will b time fo tlanticdidn’t Y have the right im o was in tow rban R N e f r in W agan. “It’s like ‘A ER on wh egotiatin inishe the deportation, w onderland.’ R ards n to receive an endorse- oom” did- p ic g d tion card, but she also “m rk age 6 h run with for 20 ment from i though it is no s N 09 er, but it’s actually atnerbigger.” says it’s sm K throu ew . As least four governmas hindered by at lice muniza- See n Free parking for FCR crew Ratne gh nex Jersey a resu off” to security guards, Zigun the office himHugh C RATNER r’s c t sea to ex lt, th ry arey, w on pag om son te e sulted in the loss of thousands of Som all- outhed h milli pan , at t nd th ents, and re- e saw t ho held e on ev y has he M eir le said. 1983 — a self from 18 e sa ea as n new at least a little good T ry m id do e, dollars for the groom K he i u s. “It’s a start,” said Sam — o ont n co wlan but/ it turned Broo into 1975 a tw to f h ur d l kly s ig whic his A t pap . Next, M hour episodel of “H n Pap h t tl er a spokesm a er p he N anti s th The couple had been set to Z s a carpetbagger ukoro — H o c a n e Y t i . k ents ts ar ard t lo an for A only a princess in the U mem State officials w h e s s ic ave na is meg es $4 wed in C Joan M Cooper, who is not bers.” h ugh C o- p ke a a- g la pt sm de D ssem R arey R v u ns to Ratn all pa elop yprus in February, but f illman (D blywtribe, but also aB Norough President M atner to use land illalong allow a tw be er rt — m o “I alw o e- parking” during construction of the ’ e gin d s la is nt im “But [the reduction]-B is not quite wom r Forest C l w m n rooklyn H an anti emo yer dela igration officials blocked rhobo ayso stretchthought of this A w c Y li s b y o B e — ruce Ratner in C B ar tio us d. i igerian pop star most intelligent district,” said ity A ds p n of y, fir Op- M t eights).finally signed the pre-nup arkow tlantic Y r c ronme oject sit some ol st objec ukoro’s passage from Tu itz joins sive above-groundtlanticas parking theA lot. o-block ards project, according to ntal l e as w d bu ting lle (yes, D esd oney IslandCarey, 87, w venue for a m new awyer ell a ilding to The French governm o hatick Zigun, w ay to docum Th w s t s o C prom blog broke the story. “Y e lawye ho was he state n the A Nigeria. possessions comincludeinghose volleyball vintagew tournamote Ratner’scongressm up-on hoSeveral was a seven-termof the com as- ject’s lead agency,ents released the Em by the pro- on p r, David on Ratn ’s use o t- blocked a subsequent effort to orldly anment from parcels east of the proposed N age 6 Pag er’s p f an e Coney Island postcards, a Fiji hood before m a parking lot for about a decade.” n By ), bu et, wa ayro nvi- get m ent Coney Island’s head freak D the neighbor- pany’s develop- Developm ou’ll be seeing e Ge R t th s o ll. d rsh atner e dem rdere arried in the supposedly ro- ent. arena, betw r K ’s A o d m house in A ent C pire State The agreem a The B untz tlantic lition o off the c mantic city of Paris. A bride, Princess Pat M ermaid skeleton and a closet oving to the big “O orporation. rooklyn man “It’ Yards f the b ase (s lbany.avenues, “It canelectedeen be Sixth theused and for V “interim ne little line gives Forest C ent stipulates that the G Pape s fair has uild ee st full of zoot suits, has a pre-nup!). sam ets area can be used for parking only until ic rs to s not b ings ory the B ick Zigun sm e m ability to park cars w n the ay een is p rits w an seven tim anderbilt a City mom when appr rocee nd even ukoro, after last w the arena’s 3,800-car indoor lot — t Co ent th we g oved ding gun’s planseren’t to m helpful w ootches his N Then, the bride’s niece couldn’t Carey — o un i is et by . es.” n’t construction,” said architect ityJon- the B Ya cilm t got franc to B the s have been far w herever there is- ssky f an D into N hise ha rookly tate. ith Zi- eek’s w igerian be found, even though she had just Dem who w near the corner of Sixth and A n inal avi th BA,” s be n, it’ pool (their C arry in B edding in G ocrat but severedas elected his party as a athan C ly to ly g d at w said en wa s goin “B orse. k spea ot a c orks Net iting g to b oney Island). lack- y A called from registration several years after leav- ohn, w avenues — Petal pushers o k to ha for s C for e frican tradition, I should hana. o a g nce bettin this te EO B prob Fortunately, G have purchased a present for hose B r chu rou g o am rent ably the lobby. Turns out, rooklynview is com B r p n re Y si ing office — n tlantic ch le of b it.” alize orma nce safe haven. Zigun’s carny pals — she w Forest C pletei in 2016. ad la s t ck hana provided a as at La Palm e ers ck Th hat, . “E Pat’s relatives and paid for three t From York in E e Nat we b veryo Fredini, Insectavora, H hotel — the 2006 election, endorsed but Spitzerthe press in s calls for comity R s A g l io e n atner did not return as n lie e in pril 8 to r ast t N vi al B ve D Royal B e e it espite the circuitous route to cow t b e we w w o as an he G but the one in T celebrates its belo M l ek f ke d w s to be slaughtered,” he reat m u b ater end gam tball e’r on, the K G each conference ram ent. ay 28, the B n b e nuptial bliss — hana. (A lea — ling Ass elen M R — e r a . o ne n cia wrote from erosene Q ogo, not a Ar s d d ti sim ie ro sa w on other “w el- Save n lla trees w oklyn B decades of history. o y h ple 16-hour round- C ved collection of flo ab at p takes a dollars in lost deposits and thousands and airline of G ueen, and the trip drive by the bride’s brother bled over four $ a ohen ith “H otanic G o onders of hum D R ut eople ver not cheap! S hana. “Cow anam d him y d ty” — / them arden lie rea , im tickets — PH solved that problem Spitzer and C i.” For m m O s ed events, see G u o an o even w s are said Zigun’s relentlessan curiosi- pur- f d for tw TO C –––––––––––––––––– r wering cherry J d h is Z o w suit of M RED 300 on this couche ore ab / b ef igun said it could ith paying front of the sam lac eati eddings (one unused in ITS B arey chatted in p out the Japanese- s k .) ng C ukoro w — ut at last, the couple w a O r ca yprus and this one in G A Brooklyn on pag n fo t top In Park Slop P e m dida ur “I tend to haveas a inspirational.cynical heart of pag John’s Place w w n p ost tes ed. N e stoop on St. a ly i suppose I am e, “Letter” p y b n t ow e on W l e 9. P l a endo a h about m k g ck e hana), I few ll that rem as then-Sen. R here Carey and rsed S ed r o n ess 11t getting off easy!” arriage,” said Fred K m hotos by Tom E ee nesday, form ion h onths of im liot Sp o o ly ains is a al D Co a.k.a. “The G obert K u r k le ist n- tape and M in 1966 for the restoration of neigh- itzer forr ahis old job r JER d B o ave ict, migration red C ennedy fought o er governor H s allan, Julie Rosenb e o th onc r reat Fredini. “Bahl, n p r e roo e he SE Dick has been through so m ukoro w borhood brow a h B m rightful place at Zigun’s side added, triggering another history g T ille e “ . in A 7 ug D z Y ill take her h C e av lbany. id a ut nstones.erg –––––––––––––––arey (left) h Ya r SW (and, he said, in the M “It’s about tim , C T e s lesson, this one about Fort G ve sk B allan, Liz C n b y e r sho y A any unn uldn r M vision and leadership,”e w said C oo said ing in ’t a Twisto case in the Sideshow e had a m Parkper, and Rachel the R B C Ci th h P P c FREEDOM ROAD ity C ty C is r E adam an of handful of reporters squeezed into oun B oun ace,” a O e dapper in a gray suit and blue evolutionary. 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Som t after be ddresse t’s wha aders b poke, s o was, amazi a 78- s who The destruction of a row norin ing barr d the gr t I’m ta obbed lammin w nonet ng fou 73 vict op it u Here g the re tled from e earlier ed from oup — lking ab their he g ho live heless, rth-qua ory ove p in up ’s an u es near Fulton M M al histo their sleep bye wtheere intru- star- Times . “B app Chu out! ads s in ben rte r N sta Ne nan oor ry o sion. g ygones earing rches U ” up and stra Red H ched f r erupt ew Ro te Glen ts’ plan ticipate ue a legacy” of losing valuable of hous- bits p e says t f the site roup’s in are by at the or nited f ight p ook, e or mo ion by chelle’ s Falls d to relo d dow all would “contin- reservi he city . vitation gones,” ganizati or Worl oints to ntered st of th Richar s Bless after w en State cate to nside t h ng histo is bet Spitzer and C “Any to spea Yassk on’s can dwide A give h late in is seas d DeJe ed Sac inning rs will Brookly o the N of black history, a m oods th ry in wh ter at time I k at Gra y said, didates ction — is team the gam on to m sus, th rament their Tha come, t n: Wav ew Je an in bl ite neig the sleepy childrenarey anyw tried to charm Good get a ch ce Bapti explainin forum tw the C e with ake w e team . 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I wouldn’t give them the time of day, “It’s the date when Palestinians were forced out until they stop … teaching children to blow them- • Legendary of their homes.” selves up and kill innocent bystanders.” Customer Service Bay Ridge, which has seen a rise in its Palestin- March organizers expect about 250 participants ian and Arab population over the past two decades, to step off at noon from Fifth Avenue between 67th has historically had an uneasy relationship with and 68th streets, walk up towards the 80s, and then new Muslim immigrants. But officially, the neigh- loop back to Leif Ericson Park. There’s No Place Like borhood is welcoming the rally. 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MUSIC ‘Freedom’ call For its final spring season concert, the Brooklyn Philharmonic performs a world premiere and wel- Look sharp comes back a conductor who made a splendid 2005 debut with the orchestra. Chelsea Tipton, a last-minute replacement for last season’s final concert (when former music director BK Fashion Week(end) had glitz, Robert Spano fell ill), returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s opera house podium for the May 13 event, whose works are glamour, celebs, rappers & crime linked by the program’s title, “Freedom!” By Lisa J. Curtis sculptures, of H.O.R.R.S. (Habana Outpost After Daniel Rou- GO Brooklyn Editor Recycled Reject Shop), which playfully ex- main’s curtain-raiser, aggerated the models’ bodies; to the flamboy- “Hip-Hop Essay,” comes f there was anything BK Fashion ant men’s suits of Nana Boateng; to Anita Leonard Bernstein’s first Week(end) — a marathon of live Watkins’s Sixxfoota collection of furs, suede symphony, “Jeremiah,” / Jori Klein Imusic performances and runway and luxurious leathers customized for tall which “is based on the shows featuring Brooklyn’s up-and-coming men and women. oppression of the Jews designers — taught us, it’s that the borough is The event also attracted some folks who’d and the liberation of the long on style, creativity and attitude. rather not be wearing any clothing at all, like blacks,” according to cur- The event took place under white tents nes- Kiki Rockstar, author of the collection of erotic rent music director Michael Christie. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn tled inside the brick shell of the Tobacco Ware- short stories, “Under the Covers,” and bad be- Following Bernstein is “Remembering Harriet,” the house, on the edge of the East River. The venue havior from one man, who snatched a Get latest work by British composer Thea Musgrave: a seemed more appropriate for a posh, old-mon- Money Girl gift bag from the stunned columnist suite of music from her opera, “Harriet, the Woman ey wedding until the line-up of hip-hop artists from L Magazine. (She didn’t press charges.) Called Moses,” about the abolitionist Underground Designers used various ploys to get the Railroad and former slave Harriet Tubman. crowd’s attention. While Get Money Girl’s “Thea, who’s in her 70s, is a really strong com- models threw handfuls of dollar bills from poser with a lyrical, romantic writing style,” the runway (spurring several of the industry Christie says. “She followed in [Benjamin] Britten’s insiders to cast aside their self respect and musical footsteps. It’s a very robust, emotional scramble to collect them), Tyeknow began its style, which I think audiences will enjoy.” show with a recording that blasted: “You’re The Brooklyn Philharmonic plays Roumain,

gonna die.” (But after seeing the duo’s collec- / Jori Klein Bernstein and Musgrave May 13 at 8 pm at the tion of drab men’s leisure suits, it was clear BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette

/ Jori Klein their show should have been prefaced with Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene). Tickets are “You’re gonna get sleepy.”) $20-$60, with $10 student rush tickets the day of Khalil’s line of clothing for men and women the performance. For more information, visit

featured lots of unfinished hems on animal Papers The Brooklyn www.brooklynphilharmonic.org or call (718) 488- 2 skins and lavish use of woven textiles. But just Duroseau Couture collection 5700. — Kevin Filipski

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn when the audience was ready to pigeonhole him for his use of earth tones and cowry shells, came down the aisle to rev up the crowd. he would send out a bright orange leather The private event, orchestrated by Black En- pullover or plaid, high-waist trousers. Clearly, tertainment Television stylist Rick Davy and Khalil’s still honing his collection’s identity, but ART publicist Cybelle Sandy, brought together we enjoyed all the facets of his schizophrenic celebrities — such as “Project Runway” finalist personality. Zulema, who showed her collection on Friday Although the level of experimentation and night; buyers; industry insiders; and the media, daring was inconsistent, BK Fashion Knowingly naive to help emerging artists get a stiletto in the door. Week(end) did introduce the audience to many The designers’ collections varied wildly, talented designers. We can’t wait to see what The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition 1 from the inventive, eye-popping clothing, er, they come up with in September. (BWAC) launches its 14th annual spring art show at the Red Hook pier on Saturday, offering an oppor- tunity for the public to see the work of over 300 lo- cal artists. One of these, Russell Mehlman, is among the borough’s premier primitive artists. Mehlman’s paintings document everyday life, blending the ordinary with the surreal. His stiff, clum- sy figures appear wrapped in ennui, with lifeless limbs. Yet the faces have a dreamlike emotional power. The streets, living rooms and kitchens, in which the figures

/ Jori Klein are posed like dolls, are vibrantly composed. Mehlman’s scenes are meticulously recorded, yet / Tom Callan / Tom the artist paints primarily from memory. In “Window Scene” (pictured), a gouache on paper that

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The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn will be auctioned to ben- efit the BWAC, Mehl- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Nana Boateng collection man depicts an anxious- 4 looking cat on a windowsill, and behind The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn it, a colorful street scene. Mehlman himself is the figure in the lower right hand corner, “trying to get the cars to move.” “It’s not really my window,” says Mehlman, “but it makes me think of Atlantic Avenue near the Heights.”

/ Tom Callan / Tom Callan / Tom Nor is the cat Mehlman’s. “I do a lot of scared cats. That’s how I feel,” ad- mits Mehlman. “Now I have no time for cats that look at me. Cats are very needy… [I’d be] work- 7 6 ing on something, and I’d suddenly get the feeling

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn that someone was staring at me. And there were At BK Fashion Week(end) in DUMBO May 5-7, designer Roger these two cats, just looking at me. So now, I don’t Gary’s collection, (1) and (2), took a walk down the runway. (3) have a cat.” A Mehlman painting depicting two women From left to right, Sixxfoota designer Anita Watkins with her smoking, “Cigar Bar,” will also be shown in the celebrity models: Kwame Jackson of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” BWAC exhibition. Chad Coleman of HBO’s “The Wire,” and Ovie Mughelli of the / Jori Klein “The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Pier NFL’s Baltimore Ravens. (4) Left to right, BK Fashion Week(end) co- / Jori Klein / Jori Klein Art Show 14: Transformations” will be on view founder Rick Davy, Jamie Markowitz, co-founder Cybelle Sandy Saturdays and Sundays from 1 pm to 7 pm, May and Borough President Marty Markowitz. (5) An ensemble by 13 through June 18. The show is located at 499 Sixxfoota. (6) Backstage, a model receives the finishing touches. Van Brunt St. at Reed Street in Red Hook. For di-

8 (7) Bre from season five of “America’s Top Model.” (8) A gown by 5 Papers The Brooklyn rections and information visit www.bwac.org or The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn H.O.R.R.S. (Habana Outpost Recycled Reject Shop). Cotrice Couture collection call (718) 596-2507. — Rebecca Migdal

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$FOUFS They live in Park Slope. it together. Each clue was hidden W Hamilton High School in 2000. He WEDDINGS dette Peters might be sporting the same herself with a y-silhouette necklace re- The bride-to-be is the daughter of inside a balloon and included some of Callan / Tom a Posh Salon Setting attended Hagerstown Community headgear on the morrow was business- splendent with half-inch, faceted beads In Robert and Roberta Dalpiaz of my kindergarten-level artwork. The Steinberg-Grady final clue brought her up to the roof of College, graduating in 2003, and cur- as-usual for the young Celine. Her of bright tangerine coral. Sayville, NY. She graduated from Lindsay Steinberg, 28, and Patrick our building and read: ‘You did a great rently works in customer service for a mother, Marsha Beitchman, was then a ArtWare’s jewelry is styled with an eye Sayville High School in 1999, and Grady, 35, were married on March 3 at theatrical milliner whose hats were seen to bringing out the beauty of the natural job, just one final clue; in my pocket financial company. attended Smith College, class of 2002, the Church of Assumption in Emerson, in such fashion- materials, using

I’m hiding a ring for you; I’ve got a Papers The Brooklyn earning a degree in art history. She cur- How did you meet? NJ, in the presence of 253 guests. conscious Broad- oversize pearls and rently works as a teacher for the NYC question, I hope you say yes; From (Steinberg was baptized in this church way shows as “La chunky stones, Designing women: (Above) In Clin- Dept of Education. down on one knee I will give it my The bride-to-be says: “We actually met online, through his cousin, whom and her parents were married there 31 Cage Aux Folles” along with ethnic ton Hill, Marsha Beitchman and her /6%2 315!2%&%%4
The groom-to-be is the son of Ron best.’After she said ‘yes’ we called our years ago.) The reception was held at the and “A Chorus and vintage beads. daughter, Celine, create new pieces and Sue Varrichio, also of Sayville. He parents and went back to sleep.” I knew from church. After four months Bride’s Guide of phone calls and e-mails, we met in Rockleigh Country Club in Rockleigh, Line,” and whose ArtWare is available for purchase on- The results are lus- for their BridalWare collection, such attended Sayville High School, class of NJ. The couple honeymooned in Maui, private clients in- line at www.ArtWareNY.com; Brooklyn Mu- ciously touchable, as this necklace (at right) of hand- 1997, and then attended Adelphi Concerns about the wedding person for the first time at the Gap on seum gift shop, 200 Eastern Parkway at 34th Street in Manhattan. We knew and now resides in Bay Ridge. cluded Liza Mi- Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights, wearable pieces that wired blush pink and white freshwa- University, obtaining a degree in eco- The groom-to-be says: “As the wed- that night that we were meant to be. The bride is the daughter of Jeff and nelli and Bobo (718) 638-5000; Kimera, 366 Atlantic Ave. look and feel rich ter pearls and Swarovski aurora bo- Spa Facials Massages Body Treatments • Waxing nomics in 2001. He then continued his ding planning is coming to an end, we Roberta Steinberg of Hohokus, NJ. She Rockefeller. at Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill, (718) 422- and exotic. Marsha “Ever since I was 16, I had prayed 1147; and Lingo, 247 W. 19th St. in Man- realis crystal rondelles. Pedicure • Manicure • Light Concept Nails schooling at Adelphi University, grad- hope we have not forgotten anything. attended high school at the Academy of “I had to mod- and Celine regularly uating in 2005 with a degree in physi- to God to give me a sign when I met hattan, (212) 929-4676. Color Techniques • Hair Design • Styling • Updo’s Almost all of the guests are coming my future husband. The night I met the Holy Angels in Demarest, NJ, class of el hats so often, To hold a trunk show in your own comb the globe cal education. He is employed as a from Long Island or out-of-town, so 1996, and continued her schooling at that when I grew home, or to make an appointment with searching for un- Ware can give new life to great-grand- Denny, as I was holding his hand, I the designers, call (646) 369-8609 or e-mail Anti-Aging Procedures: Physical Education teacher at a we have some concerns about how we Fairfield University in Connecticut, up I hated wear- usual stones, beads ma’s dilapidated antique baubles. Mar- Prospect Heights public school. noticed that he had a mole on his fin- [email protected]. BOTOX • INJECTABLE FILLERS • LASER HAIR REMOVAL are going to accommodate everybody.” ger that was identical to mine! Same obtaining a degree in psychology and ing them,” Celine and findings. Many sha and Celine excel at incorporating jokes. A shot in a of their creations are vintage materials into chic designs that FOTO-FACIALS • CHEMICAL PEELS • MICRODERMABRASION How did you meet? hand, same finger, same size and communications in 2000. She is currently shape. I knew it was my sign from working in advertising sales for Google. photo album shows one-of-a-kind; near- will add glamour to this special day. beads were handmade in a women’s col- The groom-to-be says: “Danielle and I her at age 13, posing fetchingly in her ly all are limited edition. In ArtWare’s pleasant studio and lective in Kenya, a country where the high God. The groom is the son of Rita and the met while running cross-country for mom’s handiwork, a simple but trendy showroom, located in Marsha’s Clinton incidence of HIV has decimated the pop- “For our first date, he took me late Donald Grady of Bay Ridge. He Sayville High School in 1996. We had black bonnet. Marsha’s creations would Wedding crystal Hill digs, she does the lion’s share of the ulation. Supporting the handiwork of bowling at Mark Lanes in Bay Ridge, attended St. Patrick’s elementary known each other as babies, because school in Bay Ridge, then Xavier High eventually headline at Barney’s, Saks ArtWare’s pristine wedding collec- designing and fabrication. Celine, who these struggling women makes wearing "UUSBDUJPOT our parents used to take us to gymnas- then out to dinner at Arirang Japanese and Bloomingdale’s. tion, BridalWare, dominated by freshwa- lives in DUMBO, handles more of the this beautiful jewelry all the more mean- PUBLISHED MONTHLY restaurant near there. We were School in Manhattan, class of 1988, ,AZER4AG tics together. (But we did not know that and earned a history degree from the Back then, Marsha would bring home ter pearls, moonstones, and precious business end, but both take a hand in ingful, and Celine says she hopes Clinton U
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BROOKLYN Neighborhood No squares here Dining Guide Brothers’ new Cube 63 brings stunning, Bites flavorful Japanese food to Court Street This week: By Tina Barry PARK SLOPE’S for The Brooklyn Papers SEVENTH AVENUE ube 63 is not your average, dimly

lit sushi bar. Instead it’s a com- Mango / Greg Beet Cfortable, family-run space, fur- nished to attract a youngish crowd who 344 Seventh Ave. between Ninth and 10th streets, (718) 832-2338, www.beetthai.com isn’t looking for attitude with their (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $7-$17. sushi.

Beet’s interior features futuristic white lamps and Open since October on Court Street, Papers The Brooklyn curvy chairs, and the color red, of course. Beet- the restaurant is a spin-off of Cube 63, Fish ’tails: (At left) At Cube 63 in lovers beware: the only beets on the menu are the an eatery that opened two years ago at beet chips, served as a pre-meal snack. But if you Mango / Greg Cobble Hill, a martini glass is used love Thai food, chef-owner Pasu Rodsomarng’s 63 Clinton St. in Manhattan. Chefs to serve up their “omakase,” or new restaurant offers a menu of curries, satays and Ken and Ben Lau — and Ken’s wife, three-course chef’s meal. (Above) noodle dishes. The hip ambiance at Beet includes a the chatty, affectionate hostess A highball glass erupts with tuna menu with headings like “nice and warm” (soups), Suzanne Lai — own both establish- “smooth and spicy” (curries and noodles) and ments. “tataki,” served with “ponzu” “yummy” (a mix-and-match a la carte menu.) Under Papers The Brooklyn sauce and scallions. “try me,” are French dishes like snapper in cham- The breaded, pan-fried lamb at Scotta- Like its predecessor, their new off- pagne vanilla sauce and grilled salmon with tropical shoot exudes an understated, hip ambi- salsa. Specialties include a French-Thai style dito Osteria Toscana. “seared, crusted jumbo shrimp and scallops in ence. The small room sports a long, hanced mayonnaise adds some heat. brown butter sauce,” lobster thermador and drinks black wood sushi bar where the chefs The roll is creamy, chewy, cool and like the “upBeet martini,” made with citron-infused mends the crispy shrimp cocktail, or the skate osso buco served with fresh pancetta and caper vinai- can be seen practicing their craft. spicy — and a bit heavy. vodka, or the “raspberry kiss,” sparkling wine with High-backed, horizontally placed ban- The seaweed wrapped “volcano” is raspberry liqueur. Thai beers are also offered. For grette over olive mashed potatoes. The desserts dessert there’s a choice of custards: pumpkin, Thai are crafted by pastry chef Vicky Bashy, who also quettes, paired with black wood tables filled with pieces of crabmeat and makes the sorbets and ice creams. Her husband, tea or green tea. Garden dining available in fine and chairs, run horizontally across the shrimp. The roll is gently warmed and Aaron, is a fan of her mocha pudding parfait. Jazz weather. Open daily for lunch and dinner, Beet and blues bands perform on Saturday nights, while room, creating an intimate dining accompanied by two sauces — a chile- offers delivery to nearby neighborhoods. Sunday brunch can be enjoyed in the outdoor gar- space. Black-clad, sneakered waitress- mayonnaise and another made with den to the sounds of live flamenco guitar. The es serve the courses in a steady but un- eel. Both overpower the delicate Blue Apron Foods Minnow also offers an all-night, $28 prix-fixe wine- tasting menu on Mondays, which includes an appe- hurried way, which is exactly how seafood center. 814 Union St. at Seventh Avenue, (718) 230- you’ll want to enjoy them. And cream cheese makes one-too- 3180, (MC, V). tizer, entree and dessert. Each course is accompa- nied by a glass of white or red wine. Open daily for Most chefs serving sushi claim to many ingredients in the “Tahiti” roll. Park Slope resident Ted Matern and former Sloper dinner and for brunch on Sundays. Al Palmer opened this scrumptious cheese and use the finest, freshest fish, but not all With shrimp in a crisp tempura batter, charcuterie shop in November 2002. With 60 years establishments live up to that boast. eel, avocado and red caviar, that single, of combined experience in the gourmet food busi- Scottadito Osteria The ingredients at Cube 63 are impec- out-of-place addition tipped something ness — including time served at Dean & Deluca cable and on this night, Ken’s plating opulent into sushi-rococo. and Bloomingdales — the owners have made Blue Toscana Apron Foods a destination for foodies who prize 788A Union St. at Seventh Avenue, (718) 636- raised the art of Japanese food styling Nothing could taste cleaner or high-quality goods, moderate prices and top-notch 4800, www.scottadito.com (Cash only) Entrees: to a new level. lighter than silky, delicate slices of ar- service. Blue Apron also sells all of those must-have $10-$22. One amusing dish is the “tuna tata- tic char, a lake trout that looks and packaged foods that make for elegant accessories This stunning Italian restaurant transforms Park to your smoked meats, fishes and cheeses: mus- Slope into Tuscany, both through its cuisine and its ki,” a sushi bar appetizer. A martini tastes like wild salmon, rolled around tards and other condiments; fruit jams; chutneys atmosphere. Owners Michele DiBari, Donald glass holds slices of seared tuna. The rice balls. It’s joined by pickled ginger and fresh-baked bread from Manhattan’s Sullivan Minerva and Chef Paolo Nozzoli offer warm service

fish appears to spill over the glass’s Mango / Greg and wasabi, for a jolt of heat. Street Bread and Amy’s Bread, and Brooklyn’s own and organic ingredients in selected authentic rim and onto the plate. It’s a playful riff Sashimi was excellent. Wild yellow- Royal Crown. Ask for Pain D’Avignon breads on the Tuscan dishes. For an appetizer, try the “burrata” weekends. “We key in on a lot of Brooklyn produc- mozzarella or thick ribbons of house-made egg on cocktails and hors d’oeuvres that tail (similar to pompano) was firm and ers, including Jacques Torres chocolate from pappardelle with wild boar ragu. Among the most are just as pleasing to eat as they are to richly flavored. Slices of “otoro” were DUMBO, fruit tarts from Margaret Palca in Red popular of their daily specials, says DiBari, is the look at. Ken sprinkles sea salt and fatty and luxurious, as were slivers tak- Hook, and Amy Berg’s cookies from Park Slope,” delectable “rosticciana,” marinated beef short ribs

black pepper on the fish, then sears it Papers The Brooklyn en from a salmon’s belly. says Palmer. Open Tuesday through Friday, from 10 slow-roasted in a 2000 Chianti Tizano. The ribs are am to 7:30 pm; Saturdays, from 9 am to 7 pm; and served over house-made “caponata” (a thick relish briefly until the edges are crunchy and After the fish, a dessert that was Sundays, from 11 am to 6 pm. Blue Apron also has of eggplant, tomatoes and onions) with mashed the flesh silky. A ramekin of “ponzu” If the “otoro” special is on the cold, but not too sweet, was in order. a location at 438 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street that potatoes. Be sure to take advantage of the exten- (soy sauce flavored with dried fish menu, order it. Cube 63’s short list offers green tea, opens at noon, Tuesday through Friday, and at 10 sive and impressive wine list. The dessert menu DINING am on Saturdays. Closed Mondays. includes a house-made pistachio biscotti, fruit tart flakes) lent the perfect saline edge. The Lau does an admirable job searing a vanilla, red bean or chocolate ice and many artisanal cheeses, in the Tuscan style. A dish pairs well with any of the sakes Cube 63 (234 Court St. between large piece of moist red snapper. He cream. There’s “mochi,” too, which is $12 brunch (which includes unlimited coffee, cham- from the small roundup. (House red or Baltic and Warren streets in Cobble Hill) coats the firm filet with sweet-and-sour green tea or mango ice cream in a pas- Lemongrass Grill pagne or mimosas and one entree) is available on accepts Discover, MasterCard and Visa. white wine and two Asian beers are Entrees: $16-$40; “omakase”: $30-$40 sauce — not to be confused with the try-like coating, made of sweet rice 61a Seventh Ave. at Berkeley Place, (718) 399- weekends from 11 am to 4 pm, followed by a $15, three-course prix fixe dinner from 4 pm to 7 pm. available, too.) per person. The restaurant serves lunch candy-like Chinese version. This flour. The tea “mochi” is barely sweet 7100, www.lemongrassgrill.com (AmEx, MC, and dinner Monday through Friday; Visa) Entrees: $8-$17. Scottadito has a glass-enclosed, temperature con- Ken kept the plating of tuna belly weekends from 2 pm to midnight. For brown sauce balances the heat of and refreshing — and fairly dull. This unassuming spot, tucked next to a private trolled garden, and their eat-in wine cellar and din- “otoro” simple, so nothing distracted reservations, call (718) 243-2208. chiles, vinegar and sugar in a way that Cobble Hill and nearby neighbor- house and just a tad off the beaten path, is a real ing atrium are available for catered events. Open from the stunning first bite. “Otoro” is is light, not cloying. hoods have plenty of places with find. Small, cozy and comfortable, the interior gives daily for lunch and dinner. way to a charming outdoor garden, where steamed the fatty flesh around the fish’s belly. I found some of the sushi rolls fussy flashier menus and glitzy dining vegetable dumplings and skewers of chicken or Two Boots Ken serves it in two large wedges that or stays cool. The tuna’s sirloin flavor yet tasty. The “spicy tuna roll” begins rooms. But Cube 63 — with its quiet, beef satay topped with spicy peanut sauce, are the 514 Second Ave. at Seventh Avenue, (718) 499- he singes with a blowtorch. The out- is given a jolt of heat with a thin slice with tender rice, sprinkled with black quirky charm and just-enough-flair in order of the day. Here’s an interesting item: spicy 3253, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com (AmEx, DC, side of the fish has a smoky, grilled of a jalapeno pepper, while a splash of sesame seeds, that forms the covering the kitchen — is destined to become a mint fried rice with chicken or beef, seasoned with Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $9-$18. chili, garlic, onion and fresh mint. Ooh … breathe taste and the soft — yet firm — interi- miso sauce cuts the richness. around the moist raw tuna. Chile-en- local favorite. in! For your main course, there’s the “Oceans Four” Famous for its thin-crust pizza, Two Boots is a fusion (shrimp, squid, scallops and mussels with coconut of Cajun and Italian with a casual and inviting milk, basil leaves and pepper in a Panang curry atmosphere. Offering a variety of southern dishes, sauce) or the crispy braised duck with garlic, onion, what manager Piper Wandzilak calls “American chili paste and fresh basil. Free delivery in the area comfort food,” patrons can get a taste of authentic after 4 pm. Open daily for lunch and dinner. jambalaya, Louisiana crawfish pie, southern fried chicken or one of their many sandwiches and fresh Not so lonely salads. Two Boots also has a full bar, with seven fla- The Minnow vors of frozen margaritas and a variety of New Lonelyville? certified baristas,” said Nahas, who developed the 442 Ninth St. at Seventh Avenue, (718) 832-5500 Orleans cocktails, including “Creole lemonade” No way that’s going to work, friends told Sara shop’s special dark roast blend. (DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $9-$25. and “super Cajun bloody Mary.” On Fridays and Saturdays, Two Boots has live music ranging from Nahas and Kallan Kagan when they mentioned the Besides a great cup of java, they offer equally The Minnow combines classic seafood dishes with blues and country to Latin and folk. At Two Boots’ name they’d chosen for their new coffee shop. good cappuccino, espresso and lattes, and a large se- zesty sauces and decor with lots of Upper East Side famous children’s parties, kids decorate their own chic — lots of warm wood and softly tinted walls. But the pair wouldn’t budge. lection of herbal teas. pizzas with a choice of ingredients; and they do “We knew as soon as people saw the place they’d Old-fashioned glass cake servers hold H & H The Minnow expanded a year ago, acquiring the parties for grownups, too. The party room accom- corner restaurant, and now has a full bar. They’ve modates up to 32; for larger groups the patio is understand the irony,” says Kagan. She was right. Bagels as well as muffins and pastries from the added burgers and pub-style selections to the available, weather permitting. Two Boots also does The convivial spaced opened on April 2 and already Greystone Bakery in Yonkers. Their salads, yogurt menu, including lobster rolls that have been voted catering. On weekends, the extensive brunch there’s a gang of regulars who stop in for coffee, parfaits and house-made soups utilize organic dairy among the best by “New York” magazine, accord- menu — including breakfast and lunch options — is ing to chef and owner Aaron Bashy. Bashy recom- served from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm. Kids’ menu avail- snacks and the inspiring view of Prospect Park. products and produce. able. Lunch is served starting at noon Tuesdays The coffee shop, named for a community on Fire By late May, their liquor license should arrive, so through Fridays, with discount prices on margari- Island, has a distinctly 1940s feeling. Nahas, whose the neighborhood’s moms, artists and writers can en- = Full review available at tas. Open daily for dinner: kitchen closes at 11 pm parents are antique dealers, designed the shelving to joy a leisurely glass of wine or beer. on “school nights” and midnight on weekends. Bar open late. display her colorful collection of vintage thermoses. Lonelyville (154 Prospect Park Southwest be- Six enameled tables and mismatched chairs, culled tween Seeley and Vanderbilt streets in Windsor from flea markets, make inviting seating in front of Terrace) accepts MasterCard and Visa. Coffee and Editor’s note: These are a sampling of restaurants

in the neighborhood. The list rotates, and it is not / Rachel B. Schwartz the fireplace. tea: $1.50-$2; baked goods: $2; soups: $3.50- comprehensive. For more restaurants, go to “It’ll be great come winter,” said Kallan. $4.50; salads and yogurt parfaits: $3.50-$4.50. Abbreviation Key: AmEx= American www.brooklynpapers.com on the Web. If your Behind the counter, the women and their six em- The shop is open from 7 am to 7 pm, Monday Express, DC= Diner’s Club, Disc= Discover restaurant is not listed and you would like it to be, Card, MC= MasterCard, Visa= Visa Card please contact GO Brooklyn Editor Lisa Curtis via ployees serve the best coffee in the neighborhood. through Saturday, and 8 am to 7 pm on Sundays. e-mail at [email protected]. “When we decided to open the shop two years For information, call (718) 854-4279.

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn ago, we went to Seattle and took a course to become — Tina Barry

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OUTDOORS AND TOURS PERFORMANCE $20. 8 pm. 40 Greene Ave., between OPEN STUDIO: hosted by Scanlan SUN, MAY 14 BIKE TOUR: Brooklyn Center for the BAM CAFE: Q&A with Sundance Insti- Carlton Avenue and Adelphi Street. Glass. Meet the artists and see Mother’s Day Urban Environment hosts its third tute staff. Refreshments available. 11 (718) 783-9794. unique glass art. 11 am to 6 pm. annual tour of sustainable buildings am to 1 pm. Brooklyn Academy of PAPER MOON PLAYERS: presents Neil Scanlan Glass, 103 14th Street. (718) OUTDOORS AND TOURS and sites. Explore eco-friendly initia- Music, 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636- Simon’s “Jake’s Women.” $10, $8 369-3645. Free. tives along the waterfronts of Brook- 4100. Free. seniors. 8 pm. Emmanuel Episcopal SUNDANCE AT BAM: Sundance WILD FOOD TOUR: 4-hour walking lyn and Queens. Trip ends at ORCHESTRA: Brooklyn Public Library’s Church, 2635 E. 23rd St. (718) 645- Institute in collaboration with tour, lead by naturalist/ author Brooklyn Brewery in Williamsburg. Brooklyn Heights branch presents the 2276. Brooklyn Academy of Music presents “Wildman” Steve Brill. Suggested $11, $9 members, $8 seniors and stu- Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. 1:30 several films. The day begins with a donation: $12, $6 children. 11:45 am. THEATER: The Sackett Group performs la carte brunch menu at BAM Cafe. Prospect Park’s Grand Army Plaza dents. Noon to 4 pm. (718) 788- pm. 280 Cadman Plaza West. (718) as the resident company at the Brook- 8500, ext. 208. 623-7100. Free. 11 am to 1 pm. Reservations recom- entrance. (914) 835-2153. lyn Music School Playhouse. Produc- mended. Screening of “The Short STONE SOUP SATURDAY: Volunteer at CONCERT: Brooklyn Public Library’s tion is “One Big Happy Family,” by CRUISE THE LULLWATER: Noon to the Gateway National Recreation Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez.” $10. 12:45 pm. See Sat., May 13. Central branch presents The Guerilla Joe Costanza. $19. 8 pm. 126 St. Felix 12:30 pm. Also, “Iraq in Fragments” Area. Noon to 3 pm. Gateway Opera Club of Brooklyn College. St. (212) 868-4444. www.smarttix.com. SPRING PIER SHOW 14: See Sat., May Greenhouse Education Center, Floyd (2005). 5:45 pm. Also, “TV Junkie.” 13. 1 pm to 7 pm. Program features opera and IMPACT THEATER: presents “Wounded 8:30 pm. Also, “Destricted” (2006). Bennett Field. www.nps.gov/gate/ Broadway favorites. 2 pm. Grand Hopes,” based on the poetry of 11:30 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) (212) 228-3126. Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. PERFORMANCE Gerald Zipper. $15, $12 students and Steve Nanz 777-FILM. www.bam.org. CONCERT: Paula Jeanine and American INTRO TO BIRD WATCHING: at BARGEMUSIC: presents an all-Hinde- seniors. 8 pm. 190 Underhill Ave. FESTIVAL: Capoeira Angola Palmares Prospect Park. Noon to 1:30 pm. mith chamber music concert. $35, (718) 390-7163 Avian a cappella: The Nocturnal Bird Migration Concert will be Ghazal perform with the Emerson New York hosts its celebration of Gill Orchestra. Call for price. 3 pm. Prospect Park Boathouse. Enter park $30 seniors, $25 students. 7:30 pm. BRIC STUDIO: presents “Elsewhere,” a held May 19 at 7 pm at Prospect Park’s Audubon Center, when Afro-Brazilian Culture. $15, $10 stu- at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, site-specific premiere of a production high-powered microphones will capture the sounds of migrating dents and seniors. Noon to 4 pm. 499 Van Brunt St. (718) 596-2507. (718) 287-3400, ext. 101. Free. Street at the East River. (718) 624- by Cora and choreographer Shannon Camp Friendship, 339 Eighth St. at CRUISE THE LULLWATER: Guided tours 2083. Hummel. $12, $10 students. 8:30 birds. Also, the center will display Steve Nanz’s nature photogra- Sixth Avenue. (917) 354-6138. CONCERT: St. Jacobi Ev. Lutheran on the electric boat Independence. GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “Once on pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 855-7882. phy, including this shot of a Yellow-rumped Warbler, through June. Church hosts Duo Marchand, a harp MEETING: AARP Ovington Chapter. 1 and lute duo. 4 pm. Reception fol- See Brooklyn’s flora and fauna by This Island.” $15, $12 children and pm. Bay Ridge Center for Older water. $10, $6 children. Noon to seniors. 8 pm. 199 14th St. (212) 352- CHILDREN lows. 5406 Fourth Ave. (718) 439- Adults, 6935 Fourth Ave. (718) 748- 8978. Free. 12:45 pm. Audubon Center, Prospect 3101. www.galleryplayers.com. PUPPET SHOW: Talking Hands Theater Baptist Church of Brooklyn, 450 York. $8, $5 students. 8 pm. Also, 0650. Free. Park. Enter at Flatbush and Ocean NARROWS COMMUNITY THEATER: at the Brooklyn Lyceum. $20 per fam- Eastern Parkway. (800) 367-0003, ext. children, ages 11 to 15, perform HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “The Music Man.” OPEN HOUSE: hosted by the Brooklyn 2 pm. See Sat., May 13. avenues. (718) 965-8943. presents the musical “Mame.” 8 pm. ily. 227 Fourth Ave. Call for time. 8890. Free. “Our Story,” highlighting strong Arts Council. 20 Brooklyn artists are HOUSE & GARDEN TOUR: Brooklyn St. Patrick’s Auditorium, Fourth (718) 857-4816. PUPPETWORKS: presents a marionette group connection. 421 Fifth Ave. at featured in the exhibit “Depicting IMPACT THEATER: “Wounded Hopes.” Heights Association sponsors its Avenue and 97th Street. Call for tick- FAMILY MOVIE: Brooklyn Public performance of “The Wizard of Oz.” Eighth Street. (718) 832-0018. Design,” showcasing Brooklyn 3 pm. See Sat., May 13. annual self-guided tour of five his- et info. (718) 482-3173. Library’s Central branch presents $8, $7 children. Recommended for designers. 1 pm to 5 pm. Brooklyn NARROWS COMMUNITY THEATER: toric homes. $30. 1 pm to 5 pm. HEIGHTS PLAYERS: presents “The “Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest.” 11 ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 OTHER Arts Council Gallery, 55 Washington “Mame.” 3 pm. See Sat., May 13. Refreshments served. Pick up tickets Music Man,” directed by Thomas N. am. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230- pm. 338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street. BKLYN DESIGNS: Annual event features St., suite 218, between Front and GALLERY PLAYERS: “Once on This at 129 Pierrepont St. (718) 858-9193. Tyler. $15, $13 children, seniors and 2100. Free. (718) 965-3391. Brooklyn-based designers and manu- Water streets. (718) 625-0080. Free. Island.” 3 pm. See Sat., May 13. students. 8 pm. 26 Willow Place. facturers of contemporary furnishings, SPRING PIER SHOW 14: Opening of ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum invites DROP-IN CRAFTS: Prospect Park PIGFEST: Sixth annual barbeque event, ROBESON THEATER: “Cabrini- (718) 237-2752. including indoor and outdoor furni- “Transformation,” presented by kids, ages 4 and older, to look at art Audubon Center hosts art activities hosted by The Brooklyn Brewery. $75 Greene.” 3 pm. See Sat., May 13. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. CONCERT: Brooklyn Philharmonic per- and have an arts and crafts session. for kids. 1 pm to 3 pm. Enter park at ture, rugs, lighting and accessories. in advance, $85 at the door. 1 pm to PAPER MOON PLAYERS: “Jake’s Wo- 1 pm to 7 pm. Live music at 3 pm. forms “Freedom!” Chelsea Tipton $8 adults, $4 seniors, free for children Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue. Keynote speakers, parties and more. 6 pm. The Tobacco Warehouse, cor- men.” 3:30 pm. See Sat., May 13. 499 Van Brunt St. (718) 596-2507. conducts. Program includes works by ages 12 and younger. 11 am and 2 pm. (718) 287-3400. Free. $12. 10 am to 7 pm. Reception at 6 ner of Water and Dock streets. (718) Free. Bernstein and Musgrave. $20 to $60. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: pres- pm. St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Water 233-6639. BARGEMUSIC: All-Hindemith classical WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence 8 pm. Brooklyn Academy of Music, REGISTRATION: The Fresh Air Fund ents performing workshop concerts. St. For info: www.brooklyndesigns.net. WINE TASTING: Wines made by wine- music concert. 4 pm. See Sat., May. 13. hosts the Metro Tour Service, taking a Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 holds a session on how to register Children, ages 9 and older, present DESIGN COLLECTIVE: Park Slope’s maker moms are tasted. 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THEATER: The Sackett Group 5950. Free. 8500, ext. 208. ly.” 5 pm. See Sat., May 20. performs as the resident com- SUNDANCE AT BAM: Sundance GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Big pany at the Brooklyn Music Institute in collaboration with Onion Walking Tour offers an CHILDREN School Playhouse. Production Brooklyn Academy of Music introduction to the history, MUSIC: Music for Aardvarks and Where to GO... is “One Big Happy Family,” by presents several films. $10 per architecture and people of this Other Mammals. Raffle, door Joe Costanza. $19. 8 pm. 126 film. “American Blackout” Brooklyn landmark. $15, $12 prizes, baked goods, T-shirts, St. Felix St. (212) 868-4444. (2006). 3:30 pm. “Forgiven” seniors, $10 students. 1 pm. and CDs. $15. 3 pm. John Jay Continued from page 14... els for fun. 1 pm. 55 Pierrepont www.smarttix.com. (2005). 6:30 pm. Also, “Steph- Call for meeting info. (718) High School Auditorium, St. (718) 680-2142. Free. BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the anie Daley” (2005). 9 pm. “The 768-7300. Seventh Avenue between CHILDREN Fourth and Fifth streets. (917) BUSINESS WORKSHOP: Church Performing Arts presents Oliver Foot Fist Way” (2005). 11:30 NORWEGIAN DAY PARADE: PUPPETWORKS: “The Wizard of 363-4393. Avenue Merchants Block Samuels in “Class of ’73.” $36 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 55th annual Norwegian Oz.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. Association offers a workshop to $45. 8 pm. Brooklyn Col- 777-FILM. www.bam.org. PUPPETWORKS: “The Wizard of See Sat., May 13. Constitution Day Parade. 1:30 on how to fix your credit. 6 pm lege, one block from the inter- BOOK SIGNING: with Victoria pm. Fifth Avenue and 88th Oz.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. OTHER to 9 pm. 884 Flatbush Ave. section of Flatbush and No- Gotti. 4 pm. The Book Mark Street. (718) 745-6653. See Sat., May 20. Registration required. (718) strand avenues. (718) 941-1879. Shoppe, 6906 11th Ave. (718) www.may17paradeny.com. SUNDANCE AT BAM: Sundance 282-2500, ext. 242. Free. BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY: of 680-3680. Free. OTHER Institute in collaboration with SPRING PIER SHOW 14: “Trans- ECONOMICS 101: Brooklyn Eco- Music presents “New Music SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER: Holy FLEA MARKET: on Poplar Street, Brooklyn Academy of Music formation,” presented by between Henry and Hicks nomic Development Corpora- Collective” series featuring Name Society of Sts. Simon Brooklyn Waterfront Artists presents several films. Screening contemporary composers. $15, streets, near the Brooklyn tion and Boricua College offers and Jude R.C. Church hosts a Coalition. 1 pm to 7 pm. Artist of “Sundance Shorts.” $10. $10 students and seniors. 8 Bridge. 9 am to 4 pm. (718) “The Business of Real Estate dinner dance. $30 per person. Speak series at 2 pm. 499 Van 12:30 pm. Also, “American Investing: What You Need to pm. 58 Seventh Ave. (718) 243-0922. Blackout” (2006). 3:30 pm. Also, 6 pm to 10 pm. 294 Ave. T. Brunt St. (718) 596-2507. Free. Know.” 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. 722-3300. Advance reservations neces- DOG TEST: AKC Canine Good “Forgiven” (2005). 9:15 pm. 30 175 Remsen St., suite 350. Citizen Test. $10. Entries from Lafayette Ave. (718) 777-FILM. NARROWS COMMUNITY THE- sary. (718) 382-4712. PERFORMANCE (718) 522-4600, ext. 24. Free. ATER: presents the musical 10 am; judging begins at noon. www.bam.org. DINNER DANCE: Lutheran Health BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the DISCUSSION: Brooklyn Public “Mame.” 8 pm. St. Patrick’s Care and Lynda Baquero of Performing Arts presents the Wollman Rink, Prospect Park PROTEUS GOWANUS: In honor entrance at Ocean Avenue and Library’s Central branch hosts a Auditorium, Fourth Avenue News Channel 4 celebrate the 25th anniversary tour of “Cats.” of its namesake, Proteus, Pro- Parkside Avenue. (718) 258- talk: “How to Solve Our Human and 97th Street. Call for ticket 123rd anniversary dinner dance $20 to $45. 4 pm. Walt Whit- teus Gowanus hosts a lesson in Problems.” 7 pm. Grand Army info. (718) 482-3173. 7229. the Greek alphabet and offers and silent auction. Call for tick- man Theater, one block from Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. IMPACT THEATER: presents BAM: presents Sundance Festival Greek-related experiences et info. 6:30 pm. Pier Sixty at the junction of Flatbush and “Wounded Hopes,” based on screenings. “Gas Food Lodging including stories and hors MUSICAL DRAMA: American Chelsea Piers, 23rd Street in Nostrand avenues. (718) 951- the poetry of Gerald Zipper. (1992),” “The Unbelievable d’oeuvres. Tour the Gowanus Females for Righteousness, Manhattan. (718) 630-6245. 4500.

Colleen Finn $15, $12 students and seniors. (1989),” “Spanking the Monkey Canal by canoe with the Abasement, Ignorance and 8 pm. 190 Underhill Ave. (718) BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY: of (1994),” Polyester (1981).” $20. Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Docility presents a musical Austin Zambito-Valente (as Winthrop) and Betsy Marra (as 390-7163. Music presents “Faculty Show- Noon. Brooklyn Academy of Club. $40, $10 children. Noon drama in two acts. $20. 7:30 SUN, MAY 21 case Series” with Beth Levin, pm. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Marion) star in the Heights Players production of “The GALLERY PLAYERS: presents Music, 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) to 2 pm. 543 Union St. at pianist. $10, $5 student and 777-FILM. www.bam.org. Nevins Street. (718) 243-1572. Fourth Ave. (718) 857-4816. Music Man,” May 13-14 and May 20-21. “Once on This Island.” $15, OUTDOORS AND TOURS seniors. 3 pm. 58 Seventh Ave. $12 children and seniors. 8 pm. MEMORIAL PARADE: 369th JEWISH HERITAGE: Brooklyn SAKE CLASS: Lesson by Chef (718) 633-3300. Sohui Kim. $50 includes five 199 14th St. (212) 352-3101. RACE: Fundraiser to help support Veterans Association presents Public Library’s Central branch www.galleryplayers.com. the Fort Hamilton High School BARGEMUSIC: Classical music its annual Dr. Martin Luther presents a screening of “A Man sakes and food. 8 pm to 10 pm. LeNell’s Ltd., 416 Van pm. Messiah Covenant Com- ly.” 8 pm. See Sat., May 20. Girl’s Track team. Four and a concert featuring a program of King, Jr. parade. 1 pm. 61st From Munkacs: Gypsy Klez- munity Church, Quentin Road BRIC STUDIO: presents “Here to half mile race. $25. 9 am. The music by Scelsi, Feldman, Brunt St. (718) 360-0838. IMPACT THEATER: “Wounded Put My Father in the Ground.” Street and Fifth Avenue. (718) mer.” Concert follows. 2 pm. and East 27th Street. (718) 627- Hopes.” 8 pm. See Sat., May 20. Bicycle Path, Fourth Avenue Welch, Xenakis and others. 716-3183. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230- 3659. Free. $12, $10 students. 8:30 pm. 57 2100. Free. GALLERY PLAYERS: “Once on Rockwell Place. (718) 855-7882. JEWISH HERITAGE: Brooklyn WEDS, MAY 17 KOSHER GOSPEL: Brooklyn This Island.” 8 pm. See Sat., Public Library’s Central branch GALLERY TALK: Brooklyn Museum Public Library’s Central branch BAM CAFE: presents several May 20. Sundance composers. $10 presents a talk by author Dara presents “Making Connections.” WOMEN’S HEALTH DAY: at New presents Joshua Nelson in a Horn. She discusses her novel Father Joel M. Warden connects BRIC STUDIO: “Here to Put My food and drink minimum. 9 York Methodist Hospital. Blood program of Hebrew and Jewish Father in the Ground.” 8:30 “The World to Come.” 2 pm. St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble music with a “soul feeling.” 7 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) pressure screenings, glucose pm. See Sat., May 20. 636-4139. Also, author Jane Isay discuss- concert to the Museum’s collec- testing, smoking cessation edu- pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) es her book “You Are My Wit- tion. $8, $4 students and sen- 230-2100. Free. HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “The Music cation and more. 11 am to 2 Man.” 8 pm. See Sat., May 20. CHILDREN ness.” 4 pm. Grand Army iors. 4 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. pm. 263 Seventh Ave. (718) MEETING: of Community Board Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. (212) 594-6100. RUN AROUND: Brooklyn Lyceum 780-3000. Free. 15. 7 pm to 9 pm. Working opens its theater stage for a BUSINESS TALK: Brooklyn Public SHORTS: Brooklyn Lyceum pres- MEETING: Monthly board meet- session at 6 pm. PS 124, 515 “Kid Runaround.” Bring your Library’s Central branch hosts: ents “An Evening of the World’s SAT, MAY 20 ing with Jeremy Laufer, District Fourth Ave. (718) 935-4267. kid in to burn off some energy. “How to Start Your Own Small Best Short Films.” $10. 7 pm. Manager, Community Board 7. WINDOW BOX DESIGN: Learn 10 am to 2 pm. Food available. Business.” 2 pm. Grand Army 227 Fourth Ave. www.brooklyn- 6:30 pm. 4201 Fourth Ave., the art of window box design OUTDOORS AND TOURS 227 Fourth Ave. (718) 857-4816. Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. lyceum.com. (718) 857-4816. entrance on 43rd Street. (718) from an expert. Free plants at STUDIO STROLL: South of the FAMILY MOVIE: Brooklyn Public CURATOR TALK: Brooklyn Museum BKLYN DESIGNS: Brooklyn-based 854-0003. Free. Window Planter Design Work- Navy Yard Artists hosts the sev- Library’s Central branch pres- presents a talk with Ed Blei- designers and manufacturers of WILLS WORKSHOPS: hosted by shop. 7 pm to 8 pm. Ft. Hamil- enth annual SONYA stroll. Self- ents “Toy Story 2.” 11 am. berg on “Tree of Paradise: contemporary furnishings, Families First. $20 per person ton Mental Health Center, 8711 guided walking tour of fine art Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230- Jewish Mosaics from the Ro- including indoor and outdoor or $25 per couple. 7 pm to 9 pm. Fifth Ave. (718) 860-0006. Free. created in the historic neighbor- 2100. Free. man Empire.” $8, $4 students furniture, and more. 11 am to 6 hoods of Fort Greene, Clinton 250 Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. BARGEMUSIC: chamber music FAMILY DAY: presented by Dillon and seniors. 2 pm. 200 Eastern pm. See Sat., May 13. Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant. MEETING: Bay Ridge Historical concert of works by Mozart, Child Study Center. Live musi- Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Noon to 6 pm. (718) 857-5696. Society meets and presents Shostakovich, Gershwin and cal entertainment, carousel, MEET THE ARTIST: Clinton Hill Diana Stuart, author and city- others. $35, $30 seniors, $25 www.sonyaonline.org. Free. Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend with The Sackett MON, MAY 15 pony rides, and raffle. 11 am to Art Gallery presents artist scape researcher. She discusses students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: hosts 4 pm. Garden Mall between Group’s “One Big Happy Family,” May 13-14. Brooks Frederick and his exhib- “Artistic Brooklyn Manhole Landing, Old Fulton Street at a tour “Battle Hill and Back.” 232 and 256 Clinton Ave. (718) it “Views Inside Out.” 2 pm to SUNDANCE AT BAM: “The Short Covers.” 7:45 pm. Shore Hill the East River. (718) 624-2083. Tour features historic sites Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez” 636-6880. Free. 4 pm. 154a Vanderbilt Ave. Towers, 9000 Shore Road. (718) RECEPTION: Park Slope and including the resting places CHAMBER MUSIC: Chocolate entrance under the Verrazano- $35, $30 seniors, $25 students. (718) 852-0227. Free. (2005). $10. 6:40 pm. Also, 745-5938. Free. Environs Open Studio Tour and monuments to Leonard “Son of Man” (2005). 9:30 pm. Chip Chamber Music performs Narrows Bridge. (718) 238- 4 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, SONG WRITING SERIES: “The LECTURE: The Rabbinical Com- hosts a reception at Madarts Bernstein, Fannie the Dog and an interactive concert for tod- 4935. Old Fulton Street at the East Gospel Experience” series con- Also, Sundance Theater Song- Studio. 8 pm. 255 18th St. mittee of Brownstone Brooklyn the goddess Minerva. $10, $5 dlers and older kids. $5. 10 am River. (718) 624-2083. tinues. $75. 3 pm to 10 pm. book at BAM Cafe. 8 pm. 30 (718) 972-6750. Free. members. 1 pm. Call for meet- BIRD WATCHING: Green-Wood Lafayette Ave. (718) 777-FILM. presents “From Sinai to Cyber- and 11:30 am. Old First Re- Cemetery hosts a tour with South Oxford Space, 138 S. space,” a series of eight weekly JUICEBOX PARTY: Fort Greene ing location. (631) 549-4891. CONCERT: “The Creation.” 3 pm. www.bam.org. formed Church, 126 Seventh Joseph Borker. 9 am. Call for See Thurs., May 17. Oxford St. (212) 765-7910. lectures. Today’s topic: “Mouth Clinton Hill Cooperative TOUR: presented by Weeksville Ave. (718) 638-8300. info. 25th Street and Fifth LECTURE: The Vanishing Jews of PARENT WORKSHOP: Families Daycare hosts a fundraiser. HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “The Music to Mouth.” Call for price info. Heritage Center. $15. 1 pm. PUPPETWORKS: presents a mari- Avenue. (718) 875-6212. Free. the Former Soviet Union, pres- First workshop for expectant Silent auction, music, snacks, Man.” 2 pm. See Sat., May 20. 7:45 pm to 9:15 pm. Congre- Boys and Girls High School, cor- onette performance of “The ents Yale Strom and Elizabeth parents. $25 per person or $40 open bar and more. $25, $20 PARK SLOPE HOUSE TOUR: gation B’nai Jacob, 401 Ninth ner of Fulton Street and Stuy- Wizard of Oz.” $8, $7 children. NARROWS COMMUNITY THE- Schwartz. They discuss the per couple. 7 pm to 9 pm. 250 St. (718) 207-1701. in advance. 8 pm. Sputnik, 262 vesant Avenue. (718) 756-5250. 47th annual self-guided tour Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. Recommended for ages 4 and features several homes from ATER: “Mame.” 3 pm. See dwindling Jewish enclaves in CONCERT: Grace Choral Society Taaffe Place. (347) 204-2670. WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Sat., May 20. TRAVELING CINEMA: Barbes older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. Seventh Street to 11th Street. the former Soviet Union. Live performs “The Creation” by READING: 808 Union Writers Lorence hosts the Metro Tour 338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street. $20. Noon to 5 pm. Tickets IMPACT THEATER: “Wounded music, film clips and food. Call Backroom presents “Daguer- Haydn. Brooklyn Symphony Group reads from their works. Service, taking a walk through reotypes” (1974). 7 pm. 376 (718) 965-3391. sold at Dizzy’s Diner, Eighth Hopes,” $10. 3 pm. See Sat., for ticket info. 4 pm. Brooklyn Orchestra accompanies chorus. 8 pm. Old Stone House, JJ Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and Avenue and Ninth Street. (718) May 20. Heights Synagogue, 131 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue. (718) $15, $10 seniors and students. Byrne Park, Fifth Avenue Brooklyn Heights. $25. 2 pm to OTHER 832-8227. www.parkslopecivic- GALLERY PLAYERS: “Once on Remsen St. (718) 522-2070. 965-9177. Free. 8 pm. St. Ann’s Church, Monta- between Third and Fourth 5 pm. Meet at Marriott Hotel RUMMAGE SALE: Raffle, face council.org. This Island.” 3 pm. See Sat., SUNDANCE AT BAM: Sundance BERG LECTURE SERIES: Rabbi gue and Clinton streets. (718) streets. (718) 768-3195. Free. Brooklyn, 333 Adams St. (718) painting, and bake sale. Noon CLINTON HILL WALK: Brooklyn May 20. Institute in collaboration with Aaron Raskin series on Zohar. 707-1411. GALLERY PLAYERS: “Once on 789-0430. Today: “Dreams.” Call for ticket to 4 pm. 186 St. John’s Place at Center for the Urban Environ- Brooklyn Academy of Music PERFORMANCE: Composer and This Island.” 8 pm. See Sat., MIDWOOD WALK: Brooklyn ROBESON THEATER: “Cabrini- info. 8 pm to 9 pm. Congrega- Seventh Avenue. (718) 399-0397. ment takes a walk to visit presents several films. Screening guitarist Daniel Raimi leads May 20. Center for the Urban Environ- Greene.” 3 pm. See Sat., May tion B’nai Avraham, 117 Rem- VIKING FEST: presented by the neighborhood artists and visit of “Wristcutters: A Love Story” New American Wing trio. Call ment takes a walk around the 20. sen St. (718) 596-4840, ext. 18. THEATER: “One Big Happy Fami- Scandinavian East Coast their studios. $11, $9 members, (2006). $10. 3:30 pm. “Beyond for ticket information. 10 pm. ly.” 8 pm. See Sat., May 20. Midwood neighborhood, one Museum. Refreshments and PAPER MOON PLAYERS: “Jake’s Beats and Rhymes” (2005). BOOK SIGNING: Meet Maud $8 seniors and students. 1 pm Pete’s Candy Store, 709 of the oldest settled parts of merchandise available. Noon to Women.” 3:30 pm. See Sat., 6:30 pm. “Sherrybaby” (2005). Casey, author of “Genealogy.” IMPACT THEATER: “Wounded to 3 pm. Meet at Fulton Street Lorimer St. (718) 302-3770. Brooklyn. $11, $9 members, $8 5 pm. Bliss Park, 68th Street and Carlton Avenue in front of May 20. 9 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 8 pm. Book Court, 163 Court Hopes,” $10. 8 pm. See Sat., May 20. seniors and students. 2 pm to 4 and Colonial Road. (718) 748- Cuyler Gore Park. (718) 788- THEATER: “One Big Happy Fami- 777-FILM. www.bam.org. St. (718) 875-3677. Free. pm. Meet at corner of Avenue GALA FETE: Brooklyn Children’s THURS, MAY 18 BRIC STUDIO: “Here to Put My Father in the Ground.” 8:30 H and East 16th Street. (718) Museum fundraiser and honors 788-8500, ext. 208. Edwin Schlossberg of ESI HEALTH FAIR: Bay Ridge Center pm. See Sat., May 20. Design and NJ Nets president invites seniors. 1 pm to 4 pm. PERFORMANCE Brett Yormark. $350 and up. Shore Hill Housing, 9000 Shore FRI, MAY 19 MUSIC OFF THE SHELVES: Brook- Call for time. NY Marriott at the Road. (718) 748-0873. Free. lyn Public Library’s Bay Ridge Brooklyn Bridge, 333 Adams St. SPEAKER SERIES: Heights and REMEMBRANCE: Annual Legis- branch presents “Americans in (718) 735-4400, ext. 326. Hill Community Council pres- lative Breakfast and Memorial Paris.” Brooklyn Philharmonic ents Lana Noone. She speaks Day Remembrance. Refresh- performs. 1:30 pm. 7223 Ridge about her adoption of Vietna- Blvd. (718) 748-5709. Additional Revealing the ments served. 8:15 am to 11 TUES, MAY 16 mese babies. 2 pm to 3:30 pm. am. New Utrecht High School, performance at Central branch, 160 Montague St. Advance re- 1601 80th St. and 16th Grand Army Plaza. 4 pm. (718) WORKSHOPS: Families First CPR gistration required. (718) 596- Avenue. (718) 232-2500, ext. 230-2100. Free. workshop. $65 per person or 8789. Free. 475. Free. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music $75 per couple. 9 am to 2 pm. RECEPTION: Kentler International concert featuring Bach’s violin 250 Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. ARTS ON THE COMMONS: Drawing Space hosts “125 Lunchtime concert hosted by and piano sonatas. $35, $30 MEETING: National Council of Works on Paper,” a benefit Life of the Artist Metrotech Business Improve- seniors, $25 students. 7:30 pm. Jewish Women presents “Spot- event. $125. 6 pm. 353 Van ment District. Today: Frank Fulton Ferry Landing, Old light on Israel,” a panel discus- Brunt St. (718) 875-2098. London’s Klezmer Brass All Fulton Street at the East River. by Joanna Bonfiglio sion. $23, $18 members EAT, DRINK & BE LITERARY: Stars band performs. Noon. (718) 624-2083. includes lunch. 10:15 am. East Brooklyn Academy of Music MetroTech Commons, Jay and CONCERT: Brooklyn Youth Chorus Midwood Jewish Center, 1625 hosts its dinner and reading Duffield streets. (718) 488- Academy presents “Sweet Songs Ocean Ave. between Avenues series. Today, author Mary 8200. Free. of Youth,” with jazz pianist and he facts of life for typical up-and-coming artists K and L. (718) 376-8164. Gaitskill reads. Jessica Hage- BARGEMUSIC: presents classical composer Fred Hersch. Music involve struggling with everything from expressing LAG B’OMER: Children’s parade dorn is moderator. $42. 6:30 music concert featuring Bach’s from the Baroque through the T with marching band celebrates pm. BAM Cafe, 30 Lafayette violin and piano sonatas. $35, 21st century. $17 to $70. 7:30 themselves freely and promoting their work to paying a joyous day on the Jewish cal- Ave. (718) 636-4100. $30 seniors, $25 students. 7:30 pm. Long Island University’s endar. Begins at 12:30 pm in ACUPUNCTURE TALK: Learn pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Kumble Theater, 1 University bills and not giving up. This often times bumpy road is front of Congregation B’nai about this non-pharmaceutical Fulton Street at the East River. Plaza. (718) 488-1624. Avraham of Brooklyn Heights, means of tapping into the (718) 624-2083. PAPER MOON PLAYERS: pres- what Karine Gilles, host of Kagie22 on Brooklyn 111 Remsen St. (718) 596-4840 body’s ability to balance and ents Neil Simon’s “Jake’s Wo- ext. 18. Free. FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIES: Brook- heal itself. $25, $20 members. 7 lyn Public Library’s Central men.” $10, $8 seniors. 8 pm. Community Access Television (BCAT), tries to ease with MEETING: General membership pm to 8:30 pm. Families First, branch presents “Rain Man.” Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Karine Gilles, host of meeting for the United War 250 Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. (Rated R) 7 pm. Grand Army 2635 E. 23rd St. (718) 645-2276. her weekly program as she brings viewers into what she Veterans of Kings County. PANEL DISCUSSION: presented Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. ROBESON THEATER: The Paul Kagie22 on BCAT. Refreshments served. 11 am. by the Madison-Marine Civic 651 ARTS: presents “Black Robeson Theater hosts the pre- calls the “life of the artist.” Fort Hamilton Post Chapel, 367 Association and New York State miere of the production “Ca- 94th St. (718) 979-2171. Free. Dance: Tradition and Trans- Sen. Martin Golden, “Aging in formation.” $20 and $25. brini-Greene,” a story about an LINE DANCING: Jubilee Senior the Community - Helping Kumble Theater at Long Island interracial couple. $20. 8 pm. Gilles runs a year-round talent move me at all because they are But right after high school Gilles Center invites dancers of all lev- Seniors to Remain at Home.” 7 University, Flatbush Avenue 40 Greene Ave., between Carl- search to find new performers for pretty much fake. You cannot say was not yet interested in broad- Extension at DeKalb Avenue. ton Avenue and Adelphi Call for time. (718) 636-4181. Street. (718) 783-9794. her show to promote musicians, certain things —you cannot be casting; she attended New York BIRD SONG: High-powered micro- BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: dancers, poets, painters, comedi- yourself. They want you to be per- Institute of Technology where she phones amplify the sounds of presents Theater Performance LIST YOUR EVENT… migrating birds during “The Workshop featuring teen per- ans, actors and models. Always on fect and there is no such thing.” earned a Bachelor of Science To list your event in Where to GO, please give us two weeks notice or Music of Migration” concert. formers. $8, $5 students. 8 pm. the lookout for new creative-types, Her dream network would be degree in interdisciplinary studies more. Send your listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 Reservations suggested. $25. 7- 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. 11 pm. Prospect Park Audubon Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834- HEIGHTS PLAYERS: presents Gilles remembers one grateful modeled after Kagie22’s policy to and planned to pursue becoming a Center. Enter at Lincoln Road “The Music Man,” directed by 9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. We regret and Ocean Avenue. (718) 287- Thomas N. Tyler. $15, $13 chil- dancer in particular gushing “you celebrate Haitian culture – but not physician’s assistant. When she was we cannot take listings over the phone. 3400 ext. 114. dren, seniors, students. 8 pm. were the only one to let me on a at the exclusion of non-Haitian waitlisted at several schools, she THEATER: “One Big Happy Fami- 26 Willow Place. (718) 237-2752. show.” artists. To appeal to as many began rethinking her plan and, Gilles, who moved from Haiti to people as possible, she airs pieces motivated by the military slogan Brooklyn in May 1987 as a young in a variety of languages by artists “be all that you can be,” joined the teenager, titled her show in part from around the world. Gilles has Navy Reserve. She serves two 9th Street Optical after a Haitian elementary school a ear for language: she speaks weeks a year and one weekend a Kevin S. Myers, M.D. Eric Colman, O.D. tradition where students were Haitian-Creole, French, and month as a hospital corpsman, Ophthalmology Optometry numbered according to their last English and understands Spanish. which is similar to being a medic. name and she was given 22, which Language was the first obstacle Gilles said the well known mili- • Comprehensive Eye Exams eventually became her nickname Gilles encountered as a Brooklyn tary slogan resonated with her • Prescriptions Filled and lucky number. 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FREE; Fridays: PF Cuttin, midnight, $5. Measure for Measure Sextet, 9 pm, sug- Park Slope, (718) 230-0236, gested donation and $7 food/drink mini- www.spsounds.com. Frank’s Lounge mum; May 17: Dreea & Chuck E. Costa, 9 May 13: Bronx River Parkway, El Michels pm, $7 food/drink minimum; May 18: BROOKLYN 660 Fulton St. at South Elliott Place in Affair with Pazant Brothers, 9 pm, $10; Brooklyn Conservatory presents Terry Fort Greene, (718) 625-9339, May 14: Another Russian Affair with Cade quartet, 9 pm, $10 and $7 food/ www.frankscocktaillounge.com. Billy’s Band from St. Petersburg, Russia, 8 drink minimum; May 19: Arturo O’Farrill pm, $25 in advance, $30 day of the show; Saturdays: Sinful Saturdays with DJs Quartet, 9 pm, $10 and $7 food/drink mini- May 17: Call the Cops, Andrew Thomp- Tyrone and Infinite, 9 pm, $5; Tuesdays: mum; May 20: Trio Limpet, 7 pm, $TBD son, The Saudi Agenda, 8 pm, $8; May Tuesday Night Live, 9 pm, 2-drink mini- and $7 food/ drink minimum, Christina 18: JellyNYC presents Sam Champion, mum; Wednesdays: Karaoke with Davey Drapkin Jazz Trio, 9 pm, $5 and $7 The Comas, The Big Sleep, The Self B, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Lonnie Young- food/drink minimum. Righteous Brothers, 8 pm, $8 in advance, blood, 9 pm, $TBD; Fridays: Ffun Dance $10 day of the show; May 19: Lyricist Party with DJs Tyrone, Julian and Infinite, Night of the Lounge/Swerve Party! With CL Smooth, Nightlife 8 pm, $5. Gloria Ryann, DJ J. Period, 11 pm (9 pm Cookers doors), $15; May 20: Dragons of Zynth, Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan Galapagos 767 Fulton St. at South Portland Tamar-Kali, Jungli, Black Gold, 8 pm, $8 Amarachi 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 797-1197. in advance, $10 day of the show. Lounge Captain Planet with live rumba by Williamsburg, (718) 782-5188, Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Sun- Cornerstone www.galapagosartspace.com. 325 Franklin Ave. at Clifton Place in Romain Diaz and Pupi and the Oriki omi days: Live music, noon, FREE; Thursdays: Stain Bedford-Stuyvesant, (646) 641-4510, Oddra Rumba Ensemble, 10 pm, FREE; Pub Sundays: Sid & Buddy Karaoke, 10 pm, Live jazz, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Live jazz, 766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street in www.amarachilounge.com. Fridays: World Beat Flavors, 9 pm, 1502 Cortelyou Rd. at Marlborough FREE; Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 10 pm, FREE. Williamsburg, (718) 387-7840, Saturdays: The Weekend Workout, 10 FREE. Road in Flatbush, (718) 940-9037, pm, FREE; May 13: (Backroom) Happy- www.stainbar.com. pm, $5; Tuesdays: Open Mic Artist Show- www.cornerstonepub.com. FunSmile and Gaijin a Go-Go, 10 pm, Northsix Sundays: Jimmy & Piruz, 9 pm, FREE; $10, (Frontroom) I EAT PANDAS “Make case, 8 pm, $5; Thursdays: Fashun- Black Betty Tuesdays: Open mic, 7:30 pm, 1-drink 66 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Mondays: “Paint Stain,” 5 pm (often minimum, Dan Pratt Quartet, 9 pm, Dreams Comes True” benefit party, 8 accompanied by the jazz guitar of No- 4ward, live fashion show featuring Brook- 366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Williamsburg, (718) 599-5103, lyn designers and models, 8 pm, $7. FREE; Wednesdays: Delta Dreambox, 9 pm, $8, Release party for Shadetek’s sin- www.northsix.com. boru, 8 pm), FREE; Wednesdays: JAM- Street in Williamsburg, (718) 599-0243, gle “Brooklyn Anthem” featuring 77 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Stephane Wrem- May 13: (Downstairs) New Lou Reeds, stain, an informal open mic hosted by www.blackbetty.net. Klash and Jahdan, 10 pm, FREE; May 14: bel’s Hot Club of New York, 9 pm, FREE; Used to be Women, 9 pm, $8, (Upstairs) singers/songwriters, 9 pm, FREE; May Anyway Cafe Saturdays: DJs Yah Supreme and Con- Eat A Brazilian Big-Beat Dance Party with Fridays: Beavin Lawrence Trio, 9 pm, Danielson, Saturday Looks Good to Me, 13: Jen Shamro, 8 pm, Bystanders, 9 pm, 1602 Gravesend Neck Road at East cerned, 11 pm, FREE; Sundays: Brazilian Scott Kettner’s Nation Beat and FREE. Jeffrey Lewis, Cheyenne, 9 pm, $8 in Pass Kontrol, 10 pm, FREE; May 16: 16th Street in Sheepshead Bay, (718) Beat with DJ Sean Marquand and DJ Maracatu NY, 8:30 pm, $8, Rock Star advance, $10 day of the show; May 14: David White Trio, 8 pm, FREE; May 18: 934-5988, www.anywaycafe.com. Greg Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Rev. Karaoke, 9 pm, $5; May 15: Monday Harry & Potters, Jason Anderson, Wailing Brigit Kearney, 8 pm, Christian Pincock Tuesdays: Jazzy funk with Karin Okada Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, Crossroads Night Burlesque presents Wasagalapa- Wall, 6 pm, $10; May 18: Heineken and Quartet, Curious Citizens, 9:30 pm, and guests, 9 pm, FREE. 10:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Hot Rocks, gosco, 10 pm, FREE; May 16: Murderfist Cafe The Onion present DKT with MC5 mem- FREE; May 19: Pete List, 9 pm, FREE; 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Yah Sketch Comedy, 8 pm, FREE; May 18: 1241A Prospect Ave. at Reeve Place in bers Wayne Kramer, Michael Davis, Dennis May 20: Andrew Rivera, 8 pm, FREE. Supreme & Brohemia with DJ Con- (Backroom) Orpheus Zine CD Release The Backroom Windsor Terrace, (718) 972-1852, Thompson with Marshall Crenshaw & cerned, 9:30 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Party, 7:30 pm, $5, (Frontroom) Motown (Inside Freddy’s Bar) 485 Dean St. at www.cafe-crossroads.com. Handsome Dick Manitoba, 9 pm, $25 in Kings County Soul Night featuring DJs in May, 7 pm, $6, Tami Stronach Dance, Tea Lounge Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) Tuesdays: Jazz series with Todd Neufeld advance, $27 day of the show; May 19: Monkone, Emskee, Finewine & Nick 10 pm, $15; May 19: (Backroom) Tami 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in 622-7035, www.freddysbackroom.com. and friends, 8 pm, $5 donation suggested. (Downstairs) Down in the Dumps, Whiskey Cope, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: The Stronach Dance, 10 pm, $15, (Front- Park Slope, (718) 789-2762, Sundays: Pub Quiz, 9 pm, FREE; May Trench, Fellow Project, 9 pm, $6, (Upstairs) Greenhouse with DJ MonkOne and DJs room) Ari Vais appearing with School for www.tealoungeny.com. 13: s.a.m., 9 pm, FREE; May 18: King’s Murphy’s Law, Tri State Conspiracy, 9 pm, Emskee and MC G-man, 11 pm, FREE. Crossroads the Dead and Figments, 10 pm, $7; May Mare Wakefield plays Pete’s Candy Store May 19. May 17: Paula Jeanine & American County Opry with Song Circle featuring $12; May 20: Acid Mothers Temple, The 20: (Backroom) Tami Stronach Dance, 10 Ghazal, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, FREE; May 18: Eli Smith, Daniel Ordelheide, Jimi West, Saloon Antarcticans, 9 pm, $15. Todd Sickafoose’s Blood Orange, 9 pm, pm, $15, (Frontroom) Jezebel Music www.theluckycat.com. Katherine Etzel and Dock Oscar, 8 pm, The Brooklyn 2079 Coney Island Ave. at Kings High- Hope and 10:30 pm, FREE; May 19: The In- Katie Dixon and the Early Birds, 9:30 way in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 339-9393. presents The Gritty Midi Gang appear- Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Piano Parlor Lyceum ing with Frank Hoier and Cholo, 7 pm, Parlor Jazz betweens, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, FREE. pm, The Graveyard Shift, 10:30 pm, Saturdays and Fridays: Karaoke, 9 pm, Anchor and keyboard karaoke, 11 pm, FREE; FREE. 119 Vanderbilt Ave. at Myrtle Avenue FREE. 227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in FREE. 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in Tuesdays: Jezebel Music Open Mic Park Slope, (718) 398-7301, Red Hook, (718) 237-0276. Night hosted by Dave Cuomo, 7 pm, in Clinton Hill, (718) 855-1981, Trash Bar www.gowanus.com. www.parlorjazz.com. BAM Cafe Good Saturdays, Thursdays and Fridays: FREE, Fear of a Whack Planet, 10 pm, 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in May 17: Lumatic, 8:30 pm, $5; May 19: Le Dakar Cafe FREE; Wednesdays: Hex! with DJ Jere- May 13: Vasandani, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $20 Williamsburg, (718) 599-1000, 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Karaoke hosted by drag queen Kay Sera, No Lindsay, The States, 7:30 pm, $10. 285 Grand Ave. at Lafayette Avenue in Coffeehouse my, 10 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Art4Your- suggested donation (includes both sets, www.thetrashbar.com. Fort Greene, (718) 636-4100, 9 pm, FREE. Clinton Hill, (718) 398-8900, open wine bar, non-alcoholic beverages, May 13: Billy Anne Crewes & The Jibbs, 8 www.bam.org. Music Parlor Ear, 11:30 pm, FREE; Fridays: Finger on the Pulse with live DJs, 11 pm, FREE; snacks and dessert). pm, Brown Bird, 9 pm, Our Lady of Bells May 13: Barbez, 10 pm, $10 food/drink Cattyshack At Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Jazz 966 May 13: Afropunk, 9 pm, $TBD; May 17: CD Release Party, 10 pm, Woodpecker, minimum; May 19: Sundance composers 249 Fourth Ave. at Carroll Street in 53 Prospect Park West at Second 966 Fulton St. at Cambridge Place in Spring Delay, 10 pm, $TBD; May 18: 11 pm, $7; May 14: Tunnel of Love, 10 Raz Mesinai and Gyan Reily, 9 pm, $10 Park Slope, (718) 230-5740, Street in Park Slope, (718) 768-2972, The Perch Cafe Clinton Hill, (718) 639-6910, Brooklyn Rocks! with My Better Half, 8:30 pm, The Mighty Go Go Players, 11 pm, food/drink minimum; May 20: Sundance www.cattyshackbklyn.com. www.bsec.org. 365 Fifth Ave. at Fifth Street in Park www.jazz966.com. pm, Fraw, 9:30 pm, Kissinger Swallows, Demon’s Claw, Midnight, $8; May 15: composers Maya Beiser & Friends, 9 pm, Saturdays: Shack 249 with DJs BK May 19: Third Friday with the Park Slope Slope, (718) 788-2830. Fridays: Live jazz, 8 pm, $5 and $15 10:30 pm, $8; May 19: Lucky Dragons, Red Right Return, 8 pm, Anthem, 9 pm, $10 food/drink minimum. Brewster, Daryl Raymond, Sench and go- Food Co-op featuring Jezra Kay and Je- Sundays and Thursdays: Live Jazz, 8:30 donation. HappinessIsHereToStay, Radioshock, 9 High Fives, Happy Endings, 10 pm, Fun go dancer Rissa, 10 pm, $7; Sundays: rome Harris, 8 pm, $10 adults, $6 children. pm, $5 suggested donation; May 14: pm, $TBD; May 20: The Saturday Night Club, 11 pm, $6; May 16: Ian McBride, 8 Michael Petrosino Trio, 8:30 pm, $5 sug- Bar 4 PJ’s Tea Party featuring rotating DJs and Stomp, 10 pm, $5. pm, Hamsicle, 9 pm, Pontiak, 10 pm, $6; The Jazz Spot gested donation; May 18: Deadra Hart 444 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street in the latest L-Word viewings, 9 pm, FREE; Hank’s Saloon May 17: Dan Maxwell, 8 pm, Blue Winter, Mondays: Catharsis, an open mic night 179 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at Kosciuszko Group, 8:30 pm, $5 suggested donation. Park Slope, (718) 832-9800. 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in 9 pm, Tandem Mouses, 10 pm, The hosted by Athena Reich, 8 pm, $3; Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) Magnetic Field May 14: Andrew Rathbun Quartet, 8 Boerum Hill, (718) 625-8003, Frosting, 11 pm, Revolutionary Army of 453-7825, www.thejazz.8m.com. 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in pm, 10 pm, $5 (includes both sets). Tuesdays: (Downstairs) Trivia Night with www.hankssaloon.com. Pete’s Candy California, midnight, Mustache Ride, 1 Sancho, 7 pm, FREE, (Upstairs) After Mondays: Jam session, 8 pm, $5; May Brooklyn Heights, (718) 834-0069, Sundays: Shotgun Shack, 6 pm, Sean am, Down in the Dumps, 2 am, $6; May work party with rotating DJs, 5 pm, $5, 20: Steve Polmare Trio featuring a come- www.magneticbrooklyn.com. Store Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers, 10 18: The Bronx is Burning, 8 pm, In Flight Barbes FREE after midnight; Wednesdays: dy and magic show between sets, 9 pm, May 13: Wide Right, The Brought Low, 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Mobscenity, 10 10:30 pm, midnight, $10. Radio, 9 pm, Kabuki Killers, 10 pm, Black- 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park (Downstairs) Karaoke hosted by Jeanie Dirty Excuse, 7:30 pm, $7, DJ Party, 11 Williamsburg, (718) 302-3770, out Holiday, 11 pm, $6; May 19: Legion- Slope, (718) 965-9177, pm, FREE; May 13: Brownbird Rudy pm, FREE; May 18: The High Violets, www.petescandystore.com. Sol, 9 pm, FREE to watch, $5 all you can Reliz, 9 pm, Blue State Band, 10 pm, Alex naire, 8 pm, Boatzz, 9 pm, Change the www.barbesbrooklyn.com. Gold Streets, 8 pm, $6; May 19: Hula, Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, FREE; sing, (Upstairs) “Oink!” with DJ Floyd for Battles Whiskey Rebellion, 11 pm, FREE; Jolie Restaurant Station, 10 pm, London Calling, 11 pm, Sundays: Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $8 Skirt, 8 pm, $6; May 20: The Woggles, May 13: Pablo, 8 pm, Kevin Divine, 9 dirty boys hosted by PJ, 9 pm, $3; Fri- May 18: Chris Moore, Peter Galub & The 320 Atlantic Ave. at Hoyt Street in The Hard Lessons, Midnight, $7; May 20: suggested donation; Tuesdays: Slavic The A-Bones, Muck and the Mires, 7:30 pm, Raven Mayhem, 10 pm, Mascott, 11 days: All-request after-work party with Annuals, Tom Gavin Trio, 10 pm, FREE; Boerum Hill, (718) 488-0777, Doublethink, 8 pm, Imposter Syndrome, 9 Soul Party, 9 pm, $8; Wednesdays: www.jolierestaurant.com. pm, $8. pm, FREE; May 14: Mason Proper, 8:30 DJ Lugnut, Cirrah with DJ Mark James, May 19: Seth Kess & his Black Market pm, Wussy, 10 pm, Cinema, Cinema, 11 “Night of the Ravished Limbs,” 9 pm, $8; pm, Kelley McRae, 9:30 pm, Andy Zipf, and rotating go-go with Maine & Sarah Band, Memphis Morticians Youth Against Tuesdays: Bonne Ambiance Mardi Night pm, Finster Baby, midnight, $7. May 13: WFMU Live Broadcast from 10:30 pm, FREE; May 15: Woody and Cinnamon & Keisha, 10 pm, $5. Nature, Speed Crazy, 10 pm, FREE; May featuring live music with Peter Daven- Magnolia Barbes with Lamazi Kolektsia, Musette Russell, 9 pm, Jeremiah Birnbaum, 10 port, 9 pm, FREE. 486 Sixth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Explosion, Luminescent Orchestri, 6 pm, 20: Poptown Records presents “A Night Two Boots Slope, (718) 369-4814, pm, Highway Bob, 11 pm, FREE; May $8 suggested donation, Musette Explo- Center for of Horrow-Rawk” featuring Electric www.magnoliabrooklyn.com. 16: Bingo, 7 pm, Mike and Tes, 9 pm, Brooklyn sion, 9 pm, $8 suggested donation; May Boogaloo Communicators Frankenstein, 9 pm, She Wolves, 10 pm, Kili Bar-Cafe Stephanie Schneiderman, 10 pm, Improvisational Fridays: Live jazz, 9:30 pm, FREE; May 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in 14: Brisa Roche, 8 pm, $8 suggested The Scared Stiffs, 11 pm, Psycho Charger, 81 Hoyt St. at State Street in Boerum Andrew Bemis, 11 pm, FREE; May 17: play Soul Food Sundays at midnight, FREE. Hill, (718) 855-5574. 19: Walter Densor, 9:30 pm, FREE. Park Slope, (718) 499-3253, donation; May 15: Skip Heller, 9:30 pm, Music Quiz-Off, 7:30 pm, New American Wing, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. Five Spot. Tuesdays: Open acoustics, 10 pm, FREE; $8 suggested donation; May 16: Jenny 295 Douglass St. at Third Avenue in 10 pm, Andrew Vladeck, 11 pm, FREE; May 13: Mike Merman & The Task- Scheinman, 7 pm, $8 suggested dona- Park Slope, (212) 631-5882, The Hook Fridays: DJ Chappy plays rock, hip-hop Melt May 18: Mia Riddle, 9 pm, Michael and funk, 10:30 pm, FREE. masters, 10 pm, FREE; May 18: Sean tion; May 17: Marty Ehrlich Trio, 8 pm, www.schoolforimprov.org. 18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street 440 Bergen St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Leviton, 10 pm, Drew Flemming, 11 pm, Kershaw & the New Jack Ramblers, 9 10 pm, $8 per set; May 18: George May 13: Jerry Granelli, David Tronzo and www.dakarcafe.net. in Red Hook, (718) 797-3007, www.the- Slope, (718) 230-5925. FREE; May 19: Pete’s Big Poetry Series, pm, FREE; May 19: Sonido Costeño, 10 Breakfast, 8 pm, $8 suggested donation, J.A. Granelli, 8 pm, $12; May 18: Open Mondays: Keswa, a “Lion King” cast hookmusic.com. Kingsland Saturdays and Fridays: Meet and 7 pm, Cavalier King, 9 pm, Matty pm, FREE; May 20: Stephanie Rooker Matt Munisteri, 10 pm, $8 suggested Session with host Ralph Alessi, 8 pm, $7; member, sings live, 8 pm, $5; Wednes- May 13: Emergenza Festival with Come Mingle, 11 pm, FREE. Charles, 10 pm, Mare Wakefield, 11 pm, Quartet, 10 pm, FREE. donation; May 19: Tony Malaby, 8 pm, May 20: Ralph Alessi Quartet, 8 pm, $12. days: Soul Session with DJ Op, 8 pm, Out Fighting, 7:30 pm, Zamora, 8:30 pm, Tavern FREE; May 20: B-I-N-G-O Benefit Party 10 pm, $10 per set; May 20: Banning FREE; Thursdays: DJ Moh, 8 pm, FREE. Rid of Me, 9:30 pm, Code 6, 10 pm, A- 244 Nassau Ave. at Kingsland Avenue National for Cecilia Fire Thunder & Pro-Choice Vox Po p Eyre, 8 pm, $8, The Wiyo’s, 10 pm, $8 Club Exit Life, 10:30 pm, Dirty Bath Water, 11 pm, in Greenpoint, (718) 383-9883. Mississippi, $7, Harper, 9 pm, The Tall suggested donation. Our Finest Hour, 11:30 pm, Ready, May 20: Green Milk from the Planet Restaurant Pines, 10 pm, FREE. 1022 Cortelyou Road at Stratford Road 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Europa Night in Flatbush, (718) 940-2084, Willing, Disabled, Midnight, $10 in Orange, Arbouretum, Racoo-oo-oon, 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 349-6969, Woods, 8 pm, $7. www.voxpopnet.net. Bembe www.club-exit.com. Club advance, $15 day of the show; May 14: Second Street in Brighton Beach, (718) Rbar Emergenza Festival with Say Hello to 646-1225, www.come2national.com. Sundays: Open mic, 7:30 pm, FREE with 81 S. Sixth St. at Berry Street in Williams- Saturdays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, $15 98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan 451 Meeker Ave. at Graham Avenue in Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 383-5723, Symphony, 6 pm, MJ and the Heretics, Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance 2-drink/snack minimum. burg, (718) 387-5389, www.bembe.us. (ladies FREE until 11 pm); Fridays: DJ Laila Lounge Greenpoint, (718) 486-6116. www.europaclub.com. 6:30 pm, Apophenia, 7 pm, Ditching show, 9 pm, FREE (with $65 prix fixe din- Saturdays: Rhum, live DJs alongside live Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE. 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue in Mondays: Guest bartender nights, 9 pm, Latin percussion flavors, 9 pm, FREE; Saturdays: VIP Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE Scott, 8 pm, Lost and No One Knows, Williamsburg, (718) 486-6791, ner); Fridays: Live Russian music and FREE; Tuesdays: “Mikey’s Big Gay Waterfront Ale Sundays: No Selectors with live DJs, 9 before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; Fri- 8:30 pm, Neutral Ground, 9 pm, Silent www.lailalounge.com. dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $50 prix Pajama Party,” 11 pm, FREE; Wednes- Club Xo fixe dinner); Sundays: Live Russian music House pm, FREE; Mondays: Unintripited, 9 pm, days: Sexy Progressive/Dance party, 10 Motion, 9:30 pm, Tenebrae, 10 pm, Until Sundays: Bloody’s, 4 pm, FREE; Mon- days: Karaoke, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: and dance show, 7 pm, FREE (with $50 155 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street in FREE; Tuesdays: Natural Selections with 1819 Utica Ave. at Avenue J in Flatlands, pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after Destiny, 10:30 pm, $10 in advance, $15 days: Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Comedy Night, 8 pm, FREE. (718) 209-0525, www.clubxonyc.com. day of the show; May 18: Emergenza prix fixe dinner). Brooklyn Heights, (718) 522-3794, DJ Jon Bless and guests, 9 pm, FREE; 10:30 pm. APA League, 7 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: www.waterfrontalehouse.com. Wednesdays: Convalescence with DJ Fridays: “The Best of the Best” featuring Festival with Chiba-Ken, 8:30 pm, Daze Jezebel Music Showcase with an open May 13: Paul Sullivan Group, 11 pm, FREE; Stefan Andemicael, 9 pm, FREE; Thurs- live DJs, 11 pm, FREE before midnight, Off, 9 pm, Republickins, 9:30 pm, Lies mic, 7:30 pm, Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE; Reign Five Spot Night and Day May 19: Big Ed Sullivan, 11 pm, FREE; days: Toque with DJs Busquelo and $10 after midnight. Beneath, 10:30 pm, The Invisible Solid, Fridays: OHM, 10 pm, FREE; May 18: 46 Washington Ave. at Flushing May 20: Gerald Brasil Trio, 11 pm, FREE. 459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue 11 pm, Shelley Nicole’s Blakbushe, 11:30 Baby in the Corner, 8 pm, $10 suggested Restaurant Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 643-7344. in Clinton Hill, (718) 852-0202, pm, 7 Kings, midnight, $10 in advance, donation (FREE BBQ included); May 19: 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Saturdays: Sweet Saturdays with Da www.fivespotsoulfood.com. $15 day of the show; May 19: Emergenza Blow Up Hollywood, 9 pm, FREE; May Park Slope, (718) 399-2161, Union’s DJ Snatch 1 “The Fireman” and Zebulon Sundays: Soul Food Sundays with The Festival with A Glass Diary, Strange 20: Kitty Cat, 10 pm, FREE. www.nightanddayrestaurant.com. GMC’s own Country, 11 pm, $TBD. 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan TALK TO US… Boogaloo Communicators, 7 pm, $3; Attractors, 9 pm, Finding Four, 9:30 pm, Sundays: John McNeil and Bill McHenry, 8 Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 218- Mondays: Open turntables hosted by DJ My Only Alibi, 10 pm, Sexy Heroes in Les Babouches pm, $6 and $7 food/drink minimum; Mon- Sista’s Place 6934, www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. Copa, 8 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: DJ Hand- Transit, 10:30 pm, My Friend Ben, 11 pm, days: Debra and Mary’s Night on the To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as pos- 7803 Third Ave. at 78th Street in Bay 456 Nostrand Ave. at Jefferson Avenue May 13: Baye Kouyate et les Tougarake, spin Dinero, 6 pm, FREE, DJ Tommy Ellen Road, 11:30 pm, $10 in advance, sible. Include name of venue, address with cross street, phone number for the pub- Ridge, (718) 833-1700. Town, 9 pm, $10 and $7 food/drink mini- in Bedford-Stuyvesant, (718) 398-1766, 10 pm, FREE; May 14: Adeline, 8 pm, lic to call, Web site address, dates, times and admission or ticket prices. Send list- Talkz, 8 pm, FREE, Hot Damn Tuesdaze $15 day of the show; May 20: Emergenza mum ($5 for students); Tuesdays: Song- Young Blood Brass Band, 10 pm, FREE; Saturdays and Fridays: Belly dancer www.sistasplace.org. ings and color photos of performers via e-mail to [email protected] or (comedy night) with Dave Lester, 10 pm, Festival with Achilles Heel, 7:30 pm, writers Showcase hosted by Staci & Justin, May 16: Tom Chess & the Lovedogs, 10 Shahrazad, 8 pm, FREE. May 13: Jimmy Owens, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, via fax at (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. FREE; Wednesdays: DJ Copa, 6 pm, Dump Body, 8:30 pm, Game Rebellion, 7 pm, FREE with $7 food/drink minimum, pm, FREE; May 17: Dan Weiss, 8 pm, $20. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. FREE, Soul F’Real, an R&B open mic for 9:30 pm, Local 5, 10 pm, Intogreen, 10:30 Live jazz jam hosted by the Dan McCarthy Squelch, 10 pm, FREE; May 18: Anistar, The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the venue before you go to Soul Singers, 9 pm, FREE, Back-up band pm, In Extremis, 11 pm, Strung on Grey, The Lucky Cat Trio, 9 pm, $5 suggested donation and $7 10 pm, FREE; May 19: Forro in the Dark, confirm event details. Da Feel, 10 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Large 11:30 pm, New Piracy, midnight, $10 in 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in food/drink minimum; May 13: Jarad Astin Southpaw 10 pm, FREE; May 20: Zemog, el Gallo Professor presents “Timbuktu,” 10 pm, advance, $15 day of the show. Williamsburg, (718) 782-0437, Trio, 7 pm, $7 food/drink minimum, 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Bueno, 10 pm, FREE.

B’H Lag B’omer Join the children of Downtown Brooklyn: PARADE Lag B’Omer March for March for Jewish Education Jewish Education Tuesday, Tuesday, May 16, 12:30 pm May 16 Lag B’Omer, the 33rd day the Omer Count, is a Parade departing at 12:30 pm festive day on the Jewish calendar, celebrated with outside Congregation B’nai outings, bonfires and other joyous events. Avraham of Brooklyn Heights 117 Remsen Street Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who was the first to bet. Clinton and Henry streets publicly teach the mystical dimension of the Torah LIVE MARCHING BAND know as the KABBALAH, is the author of the basic EVERYONE WELCOME! work of KABBALAH, the ZOHAR. On the day of his passing, Rabbi Shimon in- For more information, contact Rabbi Aaron Raskin at (718) 596-4840 ext. 18 structed his disciples to mark the date as “the day www.heightschabad.com • www.bnaiavraham.com of my joy.” 18 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM May 13, 2006 See horseshoe crabs in action By Sharon Seitz Beach, where environmental educator Regina for The Brooklyn Papers McCarthy will lead a nature walk. While little kids probably won’t understand the whole re- It’s that time of the year, when fierce- productive thing, it’s pretty amazing to see the looking, yet gentle horseshoe crabs con-

/ Tom Callan / Tom beach covered in horseshoe crabs engaging in verge on the area’s beaches looking for group sex (look, it works for them, so stop love. Egg-laden females and sperm-carry- with the judgments already!). ing males meet up along protected bays and Plum Beach is located along the eastbound coves to perpetuate another generation. The lanes of the Belt Parkway, between Exits 9 lovefests peak during the high tide, which and 11N. For information, write McCarthy at The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn [email protected]. Bartender Shirali Gavaghan serves Steve Welch and Claudia Correa at Stonehome Wine carries the females to the very top of the Bar, 87 Lafayette Ave., in Fort Greene. dune, where they deposit their eggs. Sharon Seitz is the author of “Big Apple Catch the mating rituals of these pre-historic Safari for Families, The Urban Park Rangers’ animals on Memorial Day, May 29, at Plum Guide to Nature in New York City.” Liquor spot Seitz / Sharon

Experience over 140 years of educational excellence from Papers The Brooklyn limit a part a leader in independent education and give your child the best opportunity to succeed of new bill An ode to the By Dana Rubinstein old red rug The Brooklyn Papers The state’s top Democrat wants to stifle Brooklyn’s Periodically, The Brooklyn Papers invites readers to offer burgeoning nightlife and restaurant scene by making it their vision of parenting. This week’s entry is a poem by much harder for businesses to get their liquor licenses, reader Tony Boutique of Bay Ridge, who has two young girls. opponents say. We’ve got to throw the red rug out Consumed by cleaning solutions: A bill by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) They’ve got their urine Stain Stompers, Animal Odor Eli- would prohibit more than three liquor-serving establishments And we’ve got our Shout. minator, Triple Action Resolve. within the same 500 feet. It’s a war of attrition Your eyes are watering from the The proposal would be a death knell to the most-happening PRIDE ~ TRADITION SPIRIT ~ EXCELLENCE And I am attriting. scourge parts of the so-called “city that never sleeps,” opponents said. And as for the Shout, Are you using proper dilutions? “It will be a slow death of the food service and hospitality We’ve run out. We can only save the rug by de- industry,” Robert Bookman of the New York Nightlife Asso- stroying it. ciation said after testifying at a Silver-led hearing last week. But what’s the use, you know I am become death, destroyer of Bookman was not the only one sounding panicked. what I mean? carpets. Why call it a floor covering Is this red rectangle to us like “If you thought 9-11 was going to be the end of restaurants When it’s a latrine? lumber was to Druids? in New York, this is worse,” added Sam Firer, a restaurant Give in, give in publicist. Don’t make a scene. Is it precious, this Pollock of bodi- “In Brooklyn, in areas like South Slope and Red Hook, Who remembers what it looked ly fluids? restaurants pave the way for development and jobs.” like We could just roll it up Silver’s bill would close a loophole that allows the State Whether it was tufted or it was Like a Bensonhurst whacking shag Minus the body and Liquor Authority to disregard the existing “500-foot” rule All the cutting and packing. when it is in the “public interest” to do so. We both know it smells like a colostomy bag. The average length of a block along a Brooklyn street is No one wants to visit. 260 feet. If you do the math, new liquor licensees would have I have seen the best minds of my No one wants to be us. to be about two blocks away from existing ones. generation So won’t you help me That’s just fine with the bill’s backers, who argue that ex- Load it in the Prius? emptions to the 500-foot rule have made liquor licensing a farce — the term “public interest” coming to mean anything that creates new jobs. “Over time … the SLA’s approval of exceptions to the 500-foot rule became the rule rather than the exception,” said More than a Sports Camp... Silver. And backers say that there is a direct correlation between The freely granted liquor licenses and the rowdiness and excessive L.E.S. noise that have become a fact of life in some neighborhoods. Since January, 2005, 10 restaurants in Brooklyn’s Commu- nity Board 2 — which covers Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene, Summer Camp! and Boerum Hill — got liquor licenses despite being within 500 feet of other licensed establishments. But under the Silver bill, three such licenses — Tazzini (31 e offer art, cooking, environmental science projects Henry St.), MIGITA Sushi (130 Montague St.), and Stone- Wand three trips each week in addition to a range home Wine Bar (87 Lafayette Ave.) — would have been al- of sports activities, including our newest initiatives: most impossible to get. fencing, tennis, and swimming! Beautiful playground Stonehome Wine Bar has sparse company — a couple of on the premises. blocks in one direction lies Moe’s; a couple of blocks in the other sits Frank’s. Restaurant Gia, which was across the e offer the option of two schedules: Full Day from street, recently closed. W8am to 4pm or Extended Day from 8 am to 6:30 pm. Rose Hermann, who co-owns Stonehome and sees herself as For ages 5-14. (Flexible schedules are available.) a pioneer running a lonely outpost, thinks the new bill is absurd. “Every two blocks you’re allowed to have a restaurant?” summer program tailored to pre-school children will be asked Hermann. “That’s not really workable. We’re trying to SCHOLARSHIP ENTRANCE EXAMINATION DATE: Aheld three days a week from 8am to noon. This hands-on have a cultural area around the Brooklyn Academy of Music.” learning experience is designed to enhance a child’s creativity “There are certain streets in the district, like Smith Street Saturday, June 10th, 2006 ~ 11:00am~2:00pm and explore the imagination. and DeKalb Avenue, that are turning into entertainment desti- nations,’ said Robert Perris, district manager of CB2. “We can For further information call Victoria Hofmo at reach a point where the saturation has a negative impact on quality of life.” Adelphi Academy, 8515 Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York 11209 718-748-3624 For more information please contact the Office of Academy Admissions OPEN HOUSE: Saturday, June 3, 10am-1pm 718.238.3308 ext. 310 • www.adelphiacademy.org Lutheran GEHRY… Elementary School Continued from page 1 440 Ovington Avenue, Bay Ridge Gehry said he and his design team took great pains to mesh the development — which includes a basketball arena, nearly 6,900 new units of housing, more than 600,000 square feet of office space, a 165,000-square-foot hotel and 247,000 square feet of retail stores — with the surrounding communities of Fort Greene and Prospect Heights. Z “[Original designs] got a little carried away,” he said. “We’re calming it down. You can now see different [building] materials and a connection to the texture of the existing buildings.” Holy Name School Gehry evoked late urban crusader Jane Jacobs, who railed The Kane Street Holy Name School against the kind of office development that created Manhat- Windsor Terrace tan’s monolithic Sixth Avenue. Windsor Terrace “We’re tyring to create a skyline [with] a variety of sizes, scales, materials, and trying to relate to existing fabric and ex- Providing a Christ-Centered Education to Brooklyn’s Children since 1885 isting buildings,” he said. Hebrew School “Yes, the buildings will exist, but we are going to create us- able spaces, not awful plazas, [that reflect] the body language Announces two of Brooklyn.” Come discover what makes our school • Grades Pre-K - 8 Another major change is on the Dean Street side of the project. Where once there was a wall of high-rises, now the so special: caring teachers, a diverse • Toddler program (age 3) street wall will not rise above the level of the existing SPRING OPEN HOUSES student body, a century-old Newswalk building. tradition of academic excellence, and • Spanish, art and music The centerpiece of the project remains “the Urban Room,” • Computer and science part of the Miss Brooklyn skyscraper. Gehry said that people Monday, May 22, 2006 a deep respect for Catholic values. will congregate on the “front stoop” and be able to look --Robert Hughes, Principal laboratories through the glass into the arena itself. Wednesday, May 24, 2006 Open House:: • After-school program “Kids can hang out here and watch replays on the score- OpenSun.., Jan.House:: 30 after 10:30 Mass board,” he said. • Diocesan Aquinas honors Drop by anytime between 4:30-6pm Sun..,(approx. Jan. 11:45 30 after AM 10:30- 1 PM) Mass David Sheets, whose apartment was just sold to Ratner, felt program the changes on his block were insignificant in the larger 236 Kane Street in Cobble Hill (approx.Tues., Feb. 11:45 1 (Pre-K AM - 1- 3),PM) 10-11 a.m. scheme of things. Spring Open House: • School bus service Asked earlier about opponents of the project, Gehry Between Court & Clinton Streets Tues.,Thus., Feb. Feb. 1 3 (Pre-K (Grades - 3),4-8), 10-11 10-11 a.m. a.m. Thus., Feb. 3 (Grades 4-8), 10-11 a.m. cracked, “They should have been picketing Henry Ford.” 718.875.1550 AddedTh openursday,May house for all grades!: 18 • Primary and upper-grade When pressed to explain that remark, he added, “There is Added open house for all grades!: libraries constant change. We’re not on horseback anymore. The issue March 4 and 18, 10-11 a.m. is how do you manage change in a way that represents and MarchApril 5 4 and and9-11 19, 18, 10-11 10-11 a.m. a.m. a.m. • School choir, chess club, respects the place it’s in.” — with Ariella Cohen Come see our amazing Hebrew School during school hours! April 5 and 19, 10-11 a.m. student council All teachers are professionally trained Jewish Educators. ...or call our office to arrange a school • Parish sports and Meet our parents, students, Rabbi & Education Director. tour at your convenience. scouting programs Family Friendly, No Sunday classes; Grades K-7 Also See the classes & teachers in action. Raffle Pick up 2006/2007 registration forms! 241 Prospect Park West Brooklyn, NY 11215 Face Painting (F train to Prospect Park; B69 and B75 bus) Bake Sale Kane Street Synagogue For information, call: 718-768-7629 Saturday 236 Kane Street (bet. 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Days after her while the family was vaca- now,” she said. death, Smartmom noticed a tioning in Cape Cod. Later she made a makeshift far away look in his eyes from In the back of the pet shop, memorial and placed a sprig of time to time. While he didn’t Teen Spirit became enamored lilac next to the cage. “Do you say a thing, she knew he was of a dwarf rabbit, so before think we took good enough thinking about Opal. she knew it, Smartmom was care of her?” she asked. Then she remembered what Day flipping her MasterCard and N THE MEANTIME, he said the night she died. “You purchasing a rabbit, a cage, Teen Spirit was distant and never get used to this kind of rabbit bedding, food, rabbit vi- blue. He didn’t want to talk thing.” You never really do. School, tamins… I to anyone. 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“When I had my stroke, two things saved my life. They got me to the hospital fast. And I made sure that hospital was Maimonides.”

— Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz, 45th District, Brooklyn, New York

One morning last year, Assemblyman Steven no hospital in Brooklyn is prepared to treat those Remarkably, it can be used up to 8 hours after the Cymbrowitz realized something very wrong was suffering from a stroke as immediately, or as thor- onset of a stroke. Maimonides is the only hospital happening to his body. His entire left side had gone oughly, as the Maimonides Stroke Center. in Brooklyn to offer the MERCI Retriever. numb. A friend saw he was in distress and immedi- For example, based on the patient’s needs, we It’s because of this total commitment to stroke ately called 911. offer the very latest in clot-dissolving drugs which care that HealthGrades®, the nation’s largest inde- Fortunately, despite his loss of mobility and can be administered up to three hours after the pendent rating system, ranked Maimonides in the slurred speech, Assemblyman Cymbrowitz had all onset of symptoms. top 5% in the nation and second-highest in all of his wits about him. When EMS arrived, he told them Should the patient require additional treatment, New York State. to take him to the Maimonides Stroke Center. Maimonides offers the MERCI Retriever, a revolu- No wonder that at the fi rst sign of a stroke, It proved to be a very tionary technology in stroke intervention. In the more and more people in Brooklyn, like Assembly- wise decision. hands of our specially trained doctors, this instru- man Cymbrowitz, are saying what could prove to You see, in a situation ment can physically remove the blood clot from the be the most important four words of their lives… where every second counts, brain providing critical relief to the stroke patient. “Take me to Maimonides!”

Maimonides is the only hospital in Brooklyn to offer Stroke Center the revolutionary MERCI Retriever to stroke patients.

In a stroke emergency, call 911. For more information, visit www.maimonidesmed.org.