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LOOK FOR BREAKING NEWS EVERY WEEKDAY AT BROOKLYNPAPER.COM Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2011 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN EDITION AWP/14 pages • Vol. 34, No. 17 • April 29–May 5, 2011 • FREE INCLUDING DUMBO DEATH IN LIBYA The new evidence of the horrify- Two Brooklyn war photographers killed ing cost of war stunned many in the borough that the two world travelers By Alex Rush tary “Restrepo” was nominated for an His colleague Chris Hondros, who called home. The Brooklyn Paper Oscar this year, was on assignment in worked out of a studio on Varick Street “We worked with him for a long time, Two acclaimed Brooklyn-based pho- rebel-held Misruta when he was caught near Nassau Avenue in Greenpoint, so this is such a big loss for us,” said tojournalists were killed on Wednesday in a hail of shells launched by forces lapsed into a coma after being hit by Nan Richardson, publisher of Umbrage AP Photo/Getty Images AP / Tim Hetherington doing their jobs in war-torn Libya. loyal to Libyan strongman Muammar the shells and was pronounced dead Editions, the DUMBO company that put Tim Hetherington, shown here in Williamsburg-resident Tim Hether- Qaddafi. several hours later, according to the out Hetherington’s photography book, Greenpoint-based Chris Hondros, a self-portrait from Afghanistan. ington, whose Afghanistan documen- He died within a few hours. New York Times . See WAR on page 6 shown here in Afghanistan. AUTHOR, All bark, no bite Fundraiser seeks money for new teeth By Gary Buiso AUTHOR! The Brooklyn Paper Jamie Mandel is one Brook- lyn barkeep whose bark is worse Own a bit of Norman Mailer than his bite. But he’s hoping to change from his old Heights home all that during a 15-hour ping pong tournament this weekend, By Gary Buiso worth of objects that when he’ll be raising money to The Brooklyn Paper fill the walk-up, where pay for the teeth he lost in car Fans of Norman Mailer completed his accident. Mailer will soon Pulitzer Prize–win- At the “Pong for Teeth” event have a chance to own ning “Executioner’s at B61 on Columbia Street, op- a piece of the scrappy Song” in 1979. ponents will pay at least $20 for Photo by Chris Stocksmith scribe — or at least Mailer’s offspring the privilege of playing the man — nine surviving chil- Ping pong legend Jamie “Gums” Mandel earned his nick- the jukebox, books they call “Gums” — and support- name because of a lack of teeth. Now, he’s holding a fund- dren from his six wives — ers can also sponsor him by the and other possessions raiser to get some. that crowd his Brooklyn will soon decide what they hour in hopes of landing Mandel Heights home. want to keep, according to a new set of choppers. The literary lion’s nautical- his son Matthew Mailer, 39, a “This is so I don’t have to be That condition dates back to 1995, barreled into his car, knocking themed crib on Columbia Heights Fort Greene screenwriter. Photo by Stefano Giovannini in debt,” he said. when the Virginia native was driv- nine teeth out his mouth. near Pineapple Street is on sale The rest of the booty will be of- BROOKLYN CRIBS: Norman Mailer’s son, Matthew, in At 34-years-old, Mandel is ing home from a Doobie Broth- It took Mandel three years be- for a cool $2.5 million — but fered to the home buyer — for an the family’s Columbia Heights home. The house, and its certainly not long in the tooth ers/Steve Miller concert in his fore he was finally able to replace also on the market are decade’s See MAILER on page 6 contents, are for sale. — indeed, he doesn’t have many. home state and a drunk driver See TEETH on page 5 Choppers banned from Hook skies By Gary Buiso Choppers will now be allowed for the Economic Development allowing the skies over Red Hook Heights with choppers. Residents sult? Choppers were f lying closer The Brooklyn Paper to fly only over the Buttermilk Corporation, which oversees he- to become a whirlybird Wild in those neighborhoods urged an to mainland Red Hook. The city has banned tour- Channel — the body of water licopter traffic. West, collateral damage from amended flight plan — and got And then the Department of ist helicopters over Red Hook, between Red Hook and Gover- The agency promised not the 2009 closure of a heliport one last April . Homeland Security mistakenly amending a controversial flight nors Island — and not over the only the new route, but a “strict on Manhattan’s West Side. But then complaints started to told the city that there was a se- plan that diverted choppers to long-put-upon peninsula. enforcement system,” Wood The shuttering shunted more fly in from officials at Governors curity issue with the choppers the forsaken neighborhood to “The city takes the complaints added. air traffic to a location near the Island — which is devoid of res- flying over the cruise terminal appease residents in tonier Brook- of Red Hook residents seriously,” The move comes three months South Street Seaport, filling the idents, but home to a school and at Pier 12 along the waterfront, lyn Heights and DUMBO. said Julie Wood, a spokeswoman after residents blasted the city for skies over DUMBO and Brooklyn other cultural attractions. The re- See CHOPPERS on page 5 Greenest Block? Oh, it’s on By Natalie O’Neill The green-thumbed residents of the The Brooklyn Paper block between Seventh and Flatbush av- Look out, Vanderveer Place, Ster- enues have already earned an “honor- ling Place has already started sprucing able mention” award for the “greenest” up for the Greenest Block in Brook- residential block — but are now gearing lyn contest. up to outdo last year’s champ, Vander- Yes, applications aren’t even due veer Place between Flatbush Avenue until June 1, but the borough’s annual and East 23rd Street in Flatbush. gardening competition — and blood “We have big aspirations,” said Ste- sport — is on. phen Gilroy, the block association pres- In the latest example of how the an- ident. “It’s a growing movement, like nual Botanic Garden competition is get- a rolling snowball, it’s getting bigger ting as serious as the NBA playoffs, a and bigger.” Photo Callan by Tom throng of devoted neighbors braved the To enter the contest, visit www.bbg. Craig Hammerman is a bureaucrat by day and a card shark by night. pouring rain on Saturday to install a org/greenbridge/greenestblock and fill six-foot planter made of scrap metal — out the application by June 1. Winners and fill it with pansies, kana flowers Photo by Stefano Giovannini will be announced in August and first and a sign that reads, “Keep it clean; Valerie Goffin carries out the raw material for “Greenest Block” place receives $300 — and the admi- don’t be mean.” greatness during a rainy kickoff on Sterling Place. ration of an entire borough. His poker face Slope community board district manager doubles as a casino king Kobayashi now By Gary Buiso The Brooklyn Paper Call him Cool Hand Craig. Tips from Craig By day, Craig Hammerman is dis- Poker stud Craig Hammerman trict manager at Community Board offered us these tips: off the ‘Wall’ 6 — a desk jockey who acts as an Don’t use props: “What if intermediary between city govern- your sunglasses break? Then you ment and residents of Brownstone haven’t trained yourself not to be New sign erases Nathan’s champ Brooklyn. dependent on them.” But when night falls (on nights Never bet what you can’t By Gary Buiso of Major League Eating, without board meetings, of course), lose: “You can’t play if you’re The Brooklyn Paper the governing body of all Hammerman sheds his civic cloak afraid to lose money.” A landmark for hot dog duodenum-defying sports, to become a five-card stud known in Hold the alcohol: “Don’t lovers is now the site of re- disagreed. some circles as “Morpheus Waits” — drink until after you’ve won. Al- visionist history. “This is not Mt. Rush- a cold-blooded poker assassin. cohol tends to make people make Organizers of the Na- more,” he said. “This is not “I am not a high roller under any bad decisions.” than’s hot dog eating con- a museum. This is not a circumstance, and as a public ser- Pay attention: “Watch a play- test in Coney Island have Hall of Fame.” vant I don’t expect to become er’s blink rate, how he places The action, while stun- one,” he said. his bets — whether they erased international legend Photo by Bess Adler Takeru Kobayashi — the ning from a historical per- Still, he doesn’t just par- throw chips or slide Takeru Kobayashi (inset) used to have a place of pride on the Wall of ticipate in the tourna- them. This can re- six-time world champion — from the spective, was expected after the Jap- Fame. The new version, hung last week, erases him entirely. arena’s “Wall of Fame,” a stunning push anese jawbreaker’s refusal to sign a ments — he wins. veal a lot.” from grace for the man who once had contract with the league last year, say- He recently placed Stay in shape: the world on a sausage-string. ing he wanted to be free to compete in plete when he was arrested after he occupied by Sonya “The Black Widow” 12th out of 120 chal- “You can’t sit at a After all, Kobayashi’s the Abe Lin- non-league events.

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