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w Facebook.com/ Twitter.com Volume 59, No. 109 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2013 BrooklynEagle.com BrooklynEagle @BklynEagle 50¢ BROOKLYN TODAY Brooklyn Judge Nullifies LICH Closure Plan SEPT. 16 Could Have Ramifications Good morning. Today For Interfaith, Other Hospitals is the 259th day of the By Mary Frost year. The Brooklyn Daily Brooklyn Daily Eagle Eagle of Sept. 16, 1902 re- Supporters of Long Island ported that Borough Pres- College Hospital (LICH) cele- ident Edward Swanstrom brated in Cobble Hill on Thurs- day night after learning that had proposed a new sub- state Supreme Court Justice way line down Fourth Av- Johnny Lee Baynes had issued enue to Bay Ridge and a ruling that throws a wrench then across the Narrows into the state Department of into Staten Island. The Health’s approval of SUNY Fourth Avenue subway Downstate’s closing plan for line, now used by the R, N LICH. and D trains, was eventu- Justice Baynes wrote in his ally built and opened in 20-page decision that the state’s 1915. As for the tunnel regulations for closing hospitals under the Narrows, work were “unconstitutionally vague,” started in the early 1920s and that DOH did not take the but was then stopped. The needs of the community into mayor at the time, Michael consideration when it approved Hylan, was a former SUNY Downstate’s plan to Brooklyn-Manhattan close LICH. Transit (BMT) motorman His ruling not only affects who had been fired, and he LICH’s closure plan, but has COUNCILMAN BRAD LANDER (D-CARROLL GARDENS-PARK SLOPE) SPEAKS TO A CROWD OF SUPPORTERS OF LONG ISLAND implications for future closures Please turn to page 3 College Hospital on Friday afternoon. Next to him are Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, likely the Democratic candidate of hospitals including Interfaith for mayor, and, left, Estella Vasquez of Local 1199. Eagle photo by Mary Frost Please turn to page 3 Bay Ridge Leader Eaton Hosts Fundraiser for Rare Bone Disease By Paula Katinas ations throughout his young life Ridge, will once again host a Brooklyn Daily Eagle to correct abnormalities, accord- fundraiser, called the “Funtasia If Craig Eaton’s name is in ing to his mother, Susan Eaton. Research Banquet,” on Sunday, the news, it’s usually because of In one procedure, Vincent had to Sept. 22, at the El Caribe Coun- his role as Brooklyn’s Republi- have a device known as an ex- try Club in Mill Basin from can Party chairman. But Eaton ternal fixator surgically placed noon to 4:30 p.m. The event will is also a husband and a father on his left arm to help lengthen feature music, dancing, food, whose family has endured a the arm. and prizes. All of the proceeds great deal of pain and has tri- To raise awareness of MHE, from the banquet will be donat- umphed over adversity for near- which Eaton has called “an or- ed to the MHE Research Foun- ly two decades. phan disease” due to the lack of dation, a non-profit organization Eaton’s son Vincent, 18, a knowledge of it among the gen- that advocates for treatment op- freshman at Villanova Universi- eral public, Craig and Susan tions for those with the disease. ty, suffers from multiple heredi- Eaton have sponsored fundrais- “Over the past two years, tary exostoses (MHE), a rare ers on a biannual basis to gener- the MHE Research Foundation bone disease in which multiple ate money for research into a has been working with many re- lumps develop on a child’s cure or at least less invasive searchers and doctors to further VINCENT EATON (LEFT), A VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN, HAS BEEN FIGHT- bones, stunting growth. Vincent, treatments of the illness. The our research and awareness of ING a rare bone disease his entire life. He is pictured with his brother Chris, his mother who was diagnosed with MHE most recent fundraiser took MHE, a rare bone disease that Susan, his father Craig (head of the Brooklyn Republican Party) and his sister Danielle at the tender age of seven place in 2011. our son Vincent was born with,” (left to right) at a 2011 event. Photo courtesy of Susan Eaton months, has undergone 29 oper- The Eatons, who live in Bay Please turn to page 3 Times Columnist Will Speak at St. Joseph's DNA Pioneer Watson To Speak at LIU Gala New York Times op-ed Nobel Prize winner James be honored with the LIU Phar- USA, has made a gift of columnist Ross Douthat will Watson, co-discoverer of the macy Lifetime Achievement $500,000 to the institute, present the annual Founders structure of DNA, will be the Award at the event. The Col- which will feature analytical Day lecture on the Brooklyn keynote speaker at the LIU lege of Pharmacy and Health expertise capable of providing campus of St. Joseph’s Col- Pharmacy (Arnold & Marie Sciences is located on LIU’s contract services and support- lege. This lecture, entitled, Schwartz College of Pharma- Downtown Brooklyn campus. ing the development of new “The God Within: Self-Wor- cy and Health Sciences) Gala The funds from the dinner academic offerings in quality ship and the Fragmentation of on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at the will augment Dr. Lachman’s control and assurance. Conrad America” will take place on Waldorf Astoria hotel. personal philanthropy of $1 is a member of the LIU Phar- Monday, Sept. 30 at 12:40 Dr. Leon Lachman, chair- million to establish the Lach- macy Board of Overseers. p.m. in the Tuohy Hall Audi- man of the board of Lachman man Institute for Pharmaceuti- The institute has attracted torium, 245 Clinton Ave. Consultants, chancellor of cal Analysis at LIU, which the support of pharmacy and During his talk, Douthat LIU Pharmacy and a Long Is- will support faculty research, allied health companies will discuss theological and land University trustee, will foster graduate-level training worldwide, notably Ferring social themes, connecting pop and provide a venue for indus- Pharmaceuticals, Cipla Limit- spirituality in the style of “Eat LEFT: JAMES WATSON, THE try-supported research. ed and Sun Pharmaceutical In- Pray Love” to various trends co-discoverer of DNA and Herbert J. Conrad ’54, ’60, dustries. Other sponsors in- in contemporary life. Nobel Prize winner Wikipedia photo former president of Roche Please turn to page 3 Monday, September 16, 2013 • Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 1 OOK BEAT OOK BEAT BBrooklyn Book Festival B Kicks off With Week of Danticat’s Latest Reads Like Fable Bookend Events Author to Speak at Brooklyn Book Festival By Yvonne Zipp that lanme pa kenbe kras, Monday’s Program Includes Christian Science Monitor the sea does not hide dirt. It Claire Faustin has never had a does not keep secrets,” Dan- Opening Party, Sketchbook Project happy birthday. ticat writes. Her mother died the day she was As the book unfolds, born. Her father, Nozias, is an illiter- some heartbreaking se- ate fisherman who lives in a shack crets come to light. Max on the beach in a seaside village in Jr.’s mother, with whom he Haiti. Every year on her birthday, he goes to live in Miami af- tries to give the little girl to the fab- ter perpetrating a crime, ric vendor, a wealthier woman who told him, “You are who you lost her own daughter, in hopes that love... You try to mend what Claire will have a better life. you’ve torn. But remember “The good news, Claire thought, that love is like kerosene. was that her father did not try to give The more you have, the her away every day. Most days he acted more you burn.” as though he would always keep her.” While in some of the vil- On the day Claire turns seven, lagers’ lives, that fire proves the fabric vendor says yes, and Claire consuming, the book as a disappears. “Claire of the Sea Light,” whole is lit by it. by renowned Brooklyn-based writ- er Edwidge Danticat, traces Claire’s Danticat*** will discuss birthdays back in time in a series of her work in Brooklyn on interlocking stories about the resi- Sept. 21-22 as part of the dents of Ville Rose, a fictional town Edwidge Danticat. Brooklyn Book Festival. that Danticat first wrote about in Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Book Festival On Saturday, Sept. 21, at a “Book- 1995’s “Krik? Krak!” end Event” leading up to the Festi- “Ville Rose was home to about cles the ways in which the villagers val, Danticat will appear with Haiti Author, agent and editor John M. Cusick of Armchair/Shotgun will appear eleven thousand people, five percent look out for one another – and the Cultural Exchange and author Elsie at a Bookend event at BookCourt on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. of them wealthy or comfortable. The ways in which they fail. Augustave (FiveMyles Gallery, 558 Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Book Festival rest were poor, some dirt-poor.” While Claire’s birthdays aren’t cel- St. Johns Place btw. Franklin Ave. & When one of the characters’ ebratory affairs – a visit to her moth- Classon Ave.) The event is free and The Brooklyn Book Festival – the largest free literary event in New mothers is asked what she is do- er’s grave, a trip to the fabric vendor will begin at 3 p.m. York City – presents a diverse group of hundreds of national and inter- ing, she tells them, “I am churning to see if she’s being handed over – On Sunday, Sept. 22 at 2 p.m, national bestselling and emerging authors.