COLLECTORS EDITION Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman is used to covering Brook- lyn, but this week was different. He headed 1,000 miles west to re- port on the presidential caucuses in Brooklyn, Iowa, population 1,300. “As I’ve always said, ‘Nobody covers Brooklyn like The Brooklyn Paper.’ Fortunately, I’ve never specified the state,” said Kuntzman, who scored his first inter-Brooklyn exclusive when May- or Loren Rickard, a Republican, confessed that he would break with his party to support Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. See Gersh’s video reports from Brooklyn, Iowa, at BrooklynPaper.com.

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By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Paper BROOKLYN, IOWA — Former Sen. John Edwards Inside the Brooklyn caucus emerged a narrow winner in this rural town of 1,300, fight- ing off a last-minute visit by BROOKLYN, IOWA — nothings in his ear — Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, and with Dodd-backer Keefe. Lin- former President Bill Clinton Philip Ryan honestly didn’t THE BROOKLYN and pages from the candidate’s 60-page den ended up with Obama, cit- and a strong surge by younger know what to do. By Gersh ANGLE Kuntzman policy book. Mary Jo ing his fresh approach. He also voters for Barack Obama in a A strong supporter of Con- and Dave Collum cited a need for a strong whis- raucous, only-in-Iowa caucus. necticut Sen. Christopher Dodd, Ryan suddenly found himself at RAUCOUS CAUCUS were especially persua- key. Keefe ended up with Clin- But the great town of Brook- a table with another Dodd man, sive, practically mas- ton — citing her experience, lyn’s voice was hushed by the Dennis Keefe — leaving the that only the Clinton team had saging Ryan’s heavy-load- even though he said he was greater Iowa, as Barack Obama candidate with too few support- brought snacks. She also made bearing shoulders. “annoyed by her personality.” ers to go forward and leaving the case that Clinton’s experi- And that’s how John Ed- The Iowa caucuses are a ONLINE VIDEO the two men deciding with ence made her the best choice. wards got Philip Ryan’s vote. source of great fascination, sus- at BrooklynPaper.com whom they should cast their lot. At which point John Edwards “I think he’s an honest man,” picion and downright ridicule And then, the deluge. supporters started singing. Ryan said. for much of the nation — yet Many media outlets de- Yes, Edwards’s table started Edwards was less lucky with having been in the caucus room — still the choice of many here, / Sky Eilers scribe what happens at the cajoling Ryan with song, sweet Todd Linden, a supporter of See INSIDE on page 5 including Mayor Loren Rickard Iowa caucuses as “horsetrad- — came out on top across the ing,” as if supporters of non-vi- state. able candidates like Ryan are In a much-more subdued offered up favors or jobs in the

process, Brooklyn Republicans Chronicle Brooklyn cabinet if they come over to made Baptist preacher, weight- Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for his wife in Brooklyn, Iowa, on Tuesday. the or John Ed- loss guru and former Arkansas wards table. Gov. Mike Huckabee the win- But there’s no horsetrading, ner of their vote. just the quiet (and not so quiet) “I’m very pleased with the Pres. Clinton visits Brooklyn art of persuasion. result,” said the GOP’s caucus With Ryan on the fence, leader, Amanda Robinson, who Bev Rens, a strong supporter supported Huckabee. “Despite of Barack Obama rushed to the all the money that Mitt Romney after mayor backs Obama Dodd table and laid out the spent in Iowa, we showed him case for the Illinois senator, de- that Brooklyn votes are not for By Gersh Kuntzman Brooklyn Paper reported that Brooklyn Mayor scribing him as the only candi- sale.” The Brooklyn Paper Loren Rickard, a lifelong Republican, would date who can clean up Wash- They weren’t for sale, exact- abandon his party to caucus for Democratic Sen. ington and bring real change. BROOKLYN, IOWA — Hillary Clinton’s / Gersh Kuntzman ly, on the Democratic side — — and Clinton rival — Barack Obama. Ryan nodded supportively. but they certainly were up for campaign sent its biggest gun to one of the Just a coincidence? Probably. Earlier in the Then Maggie Adams, who grabs. Unlike the Republicans, state’s smallest towns Tuesday night in a day, the 42nd president was in Amana, about was so festooned with Hillary who gather, hear a quick speech last-minute bid to stave off defeat at Thurs- 50 miles east of here, and Brooklyn is one of Clinton stickers, buttons and ap- from one supporter of each can- day’s caucus here in Brooklyn, Iowa. many rural towns between there and Clinton’s parel that she looked like an in- didate, and then vote, the Demo- Former President Bill Clinton made a surprise final destination of the day, Des Moines. side-the-Beltway Christmas tree, Paper The Brooklyn See BROOKLYN page 5 stop in this town of 1,300 one day after The See BILL VISITS page 5 came over and reminded Ryan Dodd supporter Philip Ryan is wooed to Edwards’ caucus by Dave and Mary Jo Collum. Paper predicts year’s movers, shakers IN 80 ’08 We’ve looked (not so) fondly back on to the people, places and things that our report, ranked, David Letterman 2007, so now it’s time to look ahead will be making news in 2008. Here’s Top Ten style, in order of excitement:

The Armory, Park Jon Scieszka: This kid’s book au- trying fill the big shoes of predecessor Ken lives have been affected by cancer is gaining ble Hill and Park Slope seat thanks to term tenants moving into luxury apartment build- 80 Slope: Work to turn this sprawling 78 thor (you remember him best from Adams, but 2008 is going to be his year. momentum and members and lots of media limits. ings. attention. complex into a recreation center is almost “The Stinky Cheese Man”) is going big- Myrtle Avenue, Fort Greene: Carlo Scissura, Bensonhurst: completed — but the city still hasn’t found time with a new book series and TV show BCAT, Fort Greene: This is no longer your father’s public access Brad Lander, Park Slope: He’s 73 The resurrection of Myrtle Avenue 72 Maybe this education policy expert anyone to run the place. called “Trucktown” — and they’re based on 76 from “Murder Avenue” into a thriving (and wants to keep moving north — first from his station. Watch for big changes at the sta- known from his work on the Pratt people Scieszka met at Park Slope’s PS 321. 74 increasingly pricey) commercial hot spot law office in Kyker Heights to Borough Hall The 69th Street ferry, Bay Area Community Council, but now he’s The kickoff event is on Jan. 10 at the school. tion’s Rockwell Place facility. will continue, with more boutique shopping, as Borough President Markowitz’s counsel, Ridge: It will only take 22 minutes spreading his wings and running for City 79 more fancy restaurants, and throngs of new and then, should Marty become Mayor… to get to if this grassroots project Carl Hum: The head of the Brook- ’C’ is for Cupid, Park Slope: Council. Lander is one of at least three peo- started by Heather McGowan ever sets sail. 77 lyn Chamber of Commerce is still 75 This dating service for people whose ple (so far!) vying for Bill DeBlasio’s Cob- THE BROOKLYN PAPER 2008 COUNTDOWN CONTINUES ON PAGE 14 A cause for celebration! / Jeff Bachner / Jeff / Jeff Bachner / Jeff Bachner / Jeff / Adrian Kinloch The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Fireworks light the sky at Grand Army Plaza as Brooklyn celebrates the new year in style. Lutheran Medical Center delivered the borough’s first baby of 2008 — Lily Chen (top photo) born to Mei Xia Dong , at 1:06 am on Jan. 1. The first delivery at Methodist was 7 lbs 13 oz Chelsey Hyde-Pelletier (bottom right) at 3:59 am; Long Island College Hospital’s first baby — 6 lbs 9 oz Antonio Efferson (bottom left) was delivered at 2 pm. Meanwhile, the Polar Bears greeted the year at . 2 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 January 5, 2008 shoprico.com WHERE TO EDITORS’ PICKS SATURDAY SUNDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY January 5 January 6 January 8 January 9 January 11 Cult classics It’s ‘Mine’! Moviehouse takes over Twenty notable authors, Galapagos Art Space including Emily Barton tonight, showing “Fear & and Jonathan Lethem, Loathing in Las Vegas” on contributed to “Brooklyn one screen and “A Clock- Was Mine,” a new book

work Orange” on anoth- Hugo Glendinning of essays about the bor- er. Stop by to see ani- ough, and tonight, three ‘Heaven’ mated shorts including Not the Fonz of them — Jennifer Egan, ‘Wild’ night on earth “Drink” by Pat Smith, pic- Tonight, the Brooklyn Susan Choi and Darin Grammy nominee Me- tured, and to catch atten- Academy of Music kicks Strauss — will be read- shell Ndegeocello — On the “First Saturday” dees dressed as their off its Spring 2008 sea- ing from their passages remember her 1993 of 2008, the Brooklyn favorite characters from son with the first of two in Park Slope. See story debut “Plantation Lulla- Museum is going all out the feature films. Samuel Beckett produc- on page 12. bies” and her 1994 duet with a Middle Eastern cul- 8 pm at Galapagos Art Space tions: “Happy Days,” 7:30 pm at Barnes and Noble with John Mellencamp ture celebration including (70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe starring famed Irish (257 Seventh Ave. at Sixth on a cover of Van Mor- the Iranian film “Children Avenue in Williamsburg). $5. actress Fiona Shaw. The Street in Park Slope). Free. For rison’s “Wild Night”? — For information, call (718) information, call (718) 832-9066. of Heaven” (pictured); a said-to-be-hilarious pro- comes to the Music Hall 782-5188 or visit www. of Williamsburg tonight reading by Suheir Ham- galapagosartspace.com. duction is produced by in support of her latest mad from Def Poetry the National Theatre of Best Of record. Jam; and more. Great Britain. 8 pm at the Music Hall of 5 pm at the Brooklyn Museum 7:30 pm at the BAM Harvey Sofas 372 & 384 atlantic bklyn 718 797 2077 (200 Eastern Pkwy. at Wash- Williamsburg (66 N. Sixth St. Theater (651 Fulton St. at at Wythe Avenue in Williams- ington Avenue in Prospect Rockwell Place in Fort Heights). Free. For informa- burg). $25 in advance, $27 day Greene). $25-$75. For infor- of show. For information, call tion, call (718) 638-5000 or visit mation, call (718) 636-4100 or (212) 260-4700 or visit www. www.brooklynmuseum.org. visit www.bam.org. musichallofwilliamsburg.com. NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN Compiled by Susan Rosenthal Jay

SAT, JAN 5 SUN, JAN 6 OUTDOORS AND TOURS OUTDOORS AND TOURS ICE SKATING: at the Wollman Rink. $5, $3 BIRDING WALK: Prospect Park Audubon Cen- kids and seniors. $6 skate rental. Sessions at ter hosts a walk to explore the Lullwater and 10 am to 1 pm; 2 pm to 6 pm; 7 pm to 10 Peninsula Nature Trails. See the park’s win- pm. Enter Prospect Park at Lincoln Road tering ducks as they ring in the New Year. and Ocean Avenue. (718) 965-8999. Rain or shine. Led by Brooklyn Bird Club. 10 am to noon. Enter park at Lincoln Road and PERFORMANCE Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. MUSIC: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn CHIPMUNK HUNT: Join the Urban Park Heights branch presents “Philomel’s Song,” Rangers as they search for these park art songs for flute and voice. Works by dwellers and learn how they survive the win- Corigliano, Rodrigo, Ibert and others. 2:30 ter. Meet outside the Picnic House, Prospect pm to 3:30 pm. 280 Cadman Plaza West. Park. For more information, call 311. Free. (718) 623-7000. Free. HAITIAN MUSIC: Carnival Dawn performs PERFORMANCE Haiti’s rites of January. Also, party for The EL PUENTE: 21st annual Three Kings celebra- Three Kings and cutting of Cake of Seven tion. Doors open at 12:30 pm; show begins Colors. $15, $10 students and seniors, $5 at 2 pm. Second show: doors open at 4:30 kids ages 12 and under. 8 pm. South Oxford pm; show begins at 6 pm. Grand Street Space, 138 S. Oxford St. (718) 953-6638. Campus, 850 Grand St., at Bushwick BARGEMUSIC: Classical music program fea- Avenue. www.elpuente.us. Free. tures works by Haydn, Mozart and THREE KINGS: Kingsborough Community Col- Beethoven. $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. lege hosts a celebration of the 12th day of 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Christmas: “El Dia de los Reyes.” Music and Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083. dance from the Dominican Republic. 3 pm. 2001 Oriental Blvd. (718) COLLEGE. Free. OTHER BARGEMUSIC: Classical music program fea- FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museum hosts its tures works by Haydn, Mozart and Beet- monthly event featuring a program of live hoven. $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. 4 music, dance, spoken word and a dance pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street party. Highlights include Ayyoub playing at the East River. (718) 624-2083. Arabic music fused with jazz and Latin sounds, poetry and theater of Suheir OTHER Hammad and Leila Buck, an art class for YOUNG SCHOLARS SERIES: Monthly Sunday kids, a waltz party with a Middle Eastern brunch, curated by Congregation Beth Elohim twist. 5 pm to 11 pm. 200 Eastern Pkwy. Scholar-in-Residence Rabbi Daniel Bronstein. (718) 636-5000. Free. Opera / Metropolitan Ken Howard Up-and-coming contemporary Jewish thinkers WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?: FIDO (Fellow- Box office belting: Why trek to Lincoln Center? On Saturday, Jan. 12, share their work in an informal format. Today: ship in the Interest of Dogs and Their the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Macbeth” will be projected “Jewish Blackface, From Eddie Cantor to Owners) hosts a gathering. Fellowship, cof- Chess Records.” Dr. Ari Kelman is guest fee, cake and chew bones. 8 am to 10 am. live and in high definition at the BAM Rose Cinemas. speaker. $5. 11 am to 12:30 pm. Eighth Long Meadow, Prospect Park. Enter park at Avenue and Garfield Place. (718) 768- 3814. Ninth Street off Prospect Park West. TREE RECYCLING: in Prospect Park. 10 am to www.fidobrooklyn.org. Free. OPEN HOUSE: The Institute of Design and Institute of Design and Construction, 2 pm. See Sat., Jan. 5. TREE RECYCLING: Bring your Christmas tree Construction holds an Open House for 141 Willoughby St. 10 am. Call to regis- to Prospect Park and have it turned into Architect Registration Examination ter. (718) 855-3661. Free. mulch. Remove all decorations prior to review classes and seminars. Get the ARTIST TALK: Skylight Gallery presents a MON, JAN 7 drop off. Enter the park at any entrance; most up-to-date information on the talk by artists on “African Complexions.” free mulch at Wollman Rink. 10 am to 2 pm. NCARB exam regulations and proce- 2 pm to 5 pm. 1368 Fulton St. Call for FLOWER ARRANGING: Learn the basics. (718) 965-8960. Free. dures and how to prepare for the test. info. (718) 636-6949. Class covers elements of floral design and the tools of the craft. Introduction includes basic techniques, such as flower and foliage conditioning, greening an arrangement and 90th Precinct Community Council. Monthly bow making. 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. meeting. 30 Montrose Ave (between Union Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington CIVIC CALENDAR Avenue and Lorimer Street), 7:30 pm. Call Ave. For fee information and pre-registra- (718) 963-5309 for information tion, call (718) 623-7220. SATURDAY, JAN. 5 (2601 Ocean Pkwy, at Avenue Z), 3 pm. MEETING: AARP Chapter 5055 meets. THURSDAY, JAN. 10 Mulchfest! Bring your Christmas tree for Coney Island Development Corporation Refreshments, guest speakers, 50/50 raffle free mulching in Prospect Park (Prospect community information session. See Wed- Department of Transportation: On the and more. 2 pm. Bay Ridge Community agenda: Workshop on the city’s Downtown Park West at Third Street). 10 am–2 pm. nesday, Jan. 7. Lincoln High School Auditor- Center, 6935 Fourth Ave. For information Brooklyn transportation blueprint study. call (718) 833-0220. 2007-2008 SEASON Call 311 for info. ium (2800 Ocean Pkwy, at West Avenue), 7- Brooklyn Borough Hall (209 Joralemon St., 9 pm. Call (212) 312-4233 for info. OPEN HOUSE: Taking Care of Business SUNDAY, JAN. 6 between Court and Adams streets), 4 pm. Entrepreneurial Series teaches how to start, 72nd Precinct Community Council. Call (718) 222-7259 for info. Mulchfest. See Saturday, Jan. 5. operate and grow a business the right way. Monthly meeting. Mariem Heim Center Community Board 7 and Windsor Terrace 6 pm to 8 pm. 884 Flatbush Ave., second MONDAY, JAN. 7 (4520 Fourth Ave., at 45th Street), 7:30 Alliance. “Public Speak Out.” On the floor. (718) 282-2500. Free. pm. Call (718) 965-6311. Coney Island Development Corporation agenda: transportation and traffic issues. MEDITATION CLASS: “Embracing and Trans- community information session. On the 76th Precinct Community Council. Monthly Grand Prospect Hall (263 Prospect Ave., forming Life’s Difficulties,” with Buddhist agenda: presentation of the city’s develop- meeting. 76th Precinct stationhouse (191 bet. Fifth and Sixth avenues), 6:30 pm. Call nun Kelsang Demo. 7:30 pm. First Unitarian ment plan. Lincoln HS (2800 Ocean Pkwy, Union St., between Henry and Hicks (718) 854-0003 for info. Congregational Society, 49 Monroe Pl. at West Avenue), 6:30 pm. Call (212) 312- streets), 7:30 pm. Call (718) 834-3211. SATURDAY, JAN. 12 (718) 624-5466. 4233 for info. WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9 Christmas tree mulching. Green-Wood Cemetery (Fifth Avenue at 25th Street), 10 TUESDAY, JAN. 8 Community Board 6. Full board meeting. am–2 pm. Call (718) 768-7300 for info. TUES, JAN 8 Russia’s beloved dance ensemble Coney Island Development Corporation 78th Police Precinct (65 Sixth Ave., community information session. See between Dean and Bergen streets), 6:30 To list an event in the Civic Calendar, e-mail MEETING: AARP Chapter 3630 of Bay Ridge Wednesday, Jan. 7. pm. Call (718) 643-3027 for info. [email protected] or fax (718) 834-9278. holds a general membership meeting. 2:30 Saturday, January 12, 2008 See 9 DAYS on page 8 at 8:00 PM

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85 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn stoop Ê"«i˜ÊÇÊ >ÞÃÊÊ7iiŽÊUÊ ÊUÊ­Ç£n®ÊÓ{·än{{ NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT Now Open in Brooklyn Absinthe, the RESOLUTIONS FOR 2008 Resolutions: We all make ’em, we all break ’em. But for those who have their resolutions printed in the newspaper, there’s no way out. experience Here are some of the best we heard around the neighborhood: The Mac Support Store — Interviews by Mike McLaughlin rtists, writers and intellectuals in the 19th century glorified 168 7th Street and 3rd Avenue absinthe as a substance that stoked their creative fires with A its hallucinogenic properties. Teetotalers, governments and Brooklyn, NY 11215 other hysterical types simultaneously demonized it as a drink so seductive that it laid waste to all who consumed it. 9–6 Weekdays I’m a skeptical guy, so until I tried La Fée Verte (The Green 718-312-8341 10–4 Saturday Fairy, as they say in French), I didn’t believe any of those allega- tions. But I’m also a reporter, and it’s my responsibility to find the www.macsupportstore.com truth and tell it, even if that means getting drunk on the job. Jo Anne Simon Marty Markowitz As I was planning this column I reflected on absinthe’s sordid Democratic district leader Borough President history and all the great minds that loved the drink so well. Ernest “New Year’s or otherwise … I “In 2008, I resolve to eat right Hemmingway swilled it in Spain. Edgar Allen Poe drank it with want to see Brooklyn getting and stay healthy so I can live to his publisher in . Oscar Wilde developed a taste for ab- on a healthy diet of teamwork be as old as the Brooklyn in Reliability sinthe during his most productive period. Van Gogh, Picasso and a and collaboration.” Bridge, whose 125th birthday Tucker Reed Joan Millman # in Quality Executive director of the Jewels by whole slew of European artists known by their last names were so we Brooklynites will celebrate Assemblywoman in Service inspired by it that they made absinthe and its drinkers the subjects with great fanfare in May!” DUMBO Improvement District (D-Cobble Hill) 1 of their paintings. The mythical ambrosia captured the imagina- “My resolution is to have the “I need to find more ways in tions of many men who made their mark on history — they be- Manhattan Bridge Archway re- my everyday life to better pro- came immortal. opened to pedestrians.” tect the environment. Fewer After the United States plastic bags, more energy-effi- lifted its century-old ban cient light bulbs. Everyone in SATNICK BROOKLYN on absinthe last month, I my office has his or her own We service all mechanical & quartz watches swaggered over to Su- mug — no more paper cups & repair all jewelry on premises SOUTH perfine in DUMBO to try — and we bring all our old sta- it out. I didn’t see any tionary up to Albany to reuse.” green fairies or pink ele- HARTLEY F. SATNICK phants, and I certainly The Only Certified wasn’t laid to waste. But I did get wasted — so Buddy Scotto Master Watchmaker Member of the Gowanus how can I call the exper- Greg O’Connell in all 5 boroughs of Canal Community Develop- iment anything but a Red Hook developer serving the community for over 44 years complete success? ment Corporation “You know what’s nice to see When absinthe was “Since we started in 1967, it’s about time that we finally get are the young families with Letitia James Visit us at our new location banned in the United their children using the water- States, a bureaucrat with the Gowanus Canal cleaned Councilwoman up and developed in a manner front and the park [in Red (D–Downtown) the U.S. Pure Food Board Hook]. When I look back 25 or that relates to this community. “To exercise more, and I’m com- described it as “one of the 30 years and think what it used 187 State Street The only way we can maintain mitted to getting the armory in worst enemies of man, to be like, it’s a good sign to a reasonably clean area around Bedford-Stuyvesant converted and if we can keep the see young families moving into Carol Maa (off Court St) the canal is if we make deals to an athletic center and to im- Adam Hutton people of the United the neighborhood. This year, I Carroll Gardens resident with developers.” proving schools in my district.” States from becoming want to help make Red Hook “It’s so not sexy, but I resolve (718) 852-1421 • Fax (718) 852-9697 • slaves to this demon, we will do it.” Knowing what I know now, even better for them.” to get health insurance.” HOURS: Mon - Fri: 9:30am - 6:30pm; Sat: 11:00am - 5:00pm that assertion seems comically hyperbolic and patently false. I arrived at Superfine at about 8 pm and explained to the bar- tender that I was a professional on a mission, not an amateur in search of cheap (though, in the case of absinthe, $13-per-shot) thrills. The gentleman to my left, a liquor distributor who sells the particular brand of absinthe served at Superfine, overheard my explanation and put my first drink on his tab. I asked my City doesn’t pay the ferryman benefactor how the newly legalized absinthe was selling in Brooklyn. It’s a mixed bag, he said; some places can’t keep it in stock, others can’t give it away. By Adam F. Hutton ridership during cold weather. The bartender poured about an ounce and a half of the The Brooklyn Paper The company also had to shut translucent green liquid into a short glass, added a dash of sim- The abrupt shutdown of down the route in 2005 under ple syrup and a spurt of cold water. When the water hit the ab- winter ferry travel between similar circumstances, Fox said, sinthe, it turned cloudy and opaque. I picked up the glass, gave but operated through the winter it a sniff and poured about half of it down the hatch without Manhattan and Williamsburg and DUMBO is a result of the last year. bothering to taste it. The Schafer Landing condo- Yikes! That was too bold — the stuff is 62 percent alcohol, city’s failure to properly subsi- dize the service, the president miniums — which opened last compared to 40 percent in most booze. Mathematically, I under- year — highlighted the ferry as a stood the difference, but realistically I had no idea how a mouth- of New York Water Taxi told The Brooklyn Paper this week. selling point for the Manhattan- ful of absinthe differed from a mouthful of bourbon until I swal- bound commuters who can af- lowed. It was potent, stung my palate and its anise flavor was “We’ve been led to believe ford its luxury residences. more intense than its aroma indicated it would be. that the city is ready, willing and I proceeded to sip, just sip, the remaining absinthe. able to assist us, but we’re still The loss of ferry service For my second round, I ordered up an absinthe martini. The waiting for them to decide what could have a major impact on bartender gave me a funny look, then poured the $15 drink. The role they want to play in sup- the value of those apartments. martini was much better than the warm absinthe mixed with porting waterborne transporta- “Many of our tenants were sugar water. It was cold and went down easy, but even though tion,” said Tom Fox, operator of expecting a reliable water taxi the vodka outnumbered the absinthe three to one, licorice was the Red Hook-based ferry serv- service year-round,” said Don still the dominant odor and flavor. ice. Capoccia of BFC Partners, the I ordered another absinthe, this one the same as the first, and a “We can’t go it alone any- developer. “It’s a great service, beer to wash it down with. By then, I was no longer in a sipping more. We’ve been shouldering it but no transit service is truly vi- mood. I sat down again and had a gulp of absinthe followed by a ourselves for a long time and the able unless it is totally reliable GET A MAILBOX WITH BENEFITS gulp of beer. I started confessing secrets to a colleague whom I weight has become more than and that is obviously not the had brought along. we can bear.” case here.” in Brooklyn Heights I know I took the subway home, but I don’t remember the The Bloomberg administra- Money isn’t the only loss ride. What I do know is that I slept like a baby and dreamt of tion’s PlaNYC proposal calls for here; commuters who use the green fairies. Maybe there is something to those rumors about expanded ferry service across ferry every day from Schaefer A real street address, not a P.O. Box hallucinogenic effects after all. the East River. Indeed, the city’s Bachner / Jeff Landing loved the service. Package notification Adam F. Hutton is a staff reporter at The Brooklyn Paper. Economic Development Corpo- “Taking the ferry to work is Full-service mail & package receiving THE KITCHEN SINK ration solicited proposals from so convenient for me,” said An- ferry companies in March to drew Canning, an insurance bro- Mail holding & forwarding Our recent story about a “No Parking” space on Montague provide year-round service to ker in Downtown Manhattan as Call-in Mailcheck Street that is almost always filled with a car with a city permit is three new ferry landings in The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn he rushed to the 8:30 am water Greenpoint and Williamsburg E-mail notification nothing compared to the permit abuse going on along Jay Street taxi the other day. between Willoughby and Tillary streets. There are so many ille- — but to date the city has not A locked gate greets commuters at New York Water Taxi’s “I’m very disappointed. I un- Only $25/Month gally parked city cars there that the bus has to stop in the middle provided direct subsidies to un- Schaefer Landing in Williamsburg. of the street. We’d say, “Call a cop!” but the problem is that derwrite the service. derstand that they say they’re most of the cars belonged to cops the last time we were there. … Now, the cancellation of win- losing money, but these condos Don’t bid bon voyage to the Waterfront Museum and Show- ter ferry service from existing Bloomberg to provide subsidies which is exactly right.” haven’t even been open for a boat Barge. Museum Director David Sharps says he wants to ports of call at Schaefer Landing to companies who taxi com- Fox said New York Water year, so I don’t see how they call on other ports as proper docks become available around the in Williamsburg and the Fulton muters into Manhattan via the Taxi was forced to shut down its know they won’t have riders this metro area, but Red Hook’s Pier 44 will remain the home base. Ferry dock in DUMBO has cast river. East River route from Jan. 1 to winter.” … Boerum Hill Association members Sue Wolfe and James doubt on whether ferry service is “Mass transit just doesn’t May 1 because the company Until ferry service resumes, The UPS Store® Crow, also two big game animals of the real-estate jungle, have viable at all. work on its own,” Yassky said. would lose $2,000 a day if it riders like Dan Pipitone, a Wall become vice presidents at the Corcoran Group in Brooklyn. Our Last week, Councilman Da- “It requires government subsi- continued to shuttle commuters Street stockbroker and Schaefer congratulations are sincere; really, we’re not just trying to score an vid Yassky (D–Brooklyn dies. The mayor has called for a during the winter months. He cit- Landing resident, will face The UPS Store of Brooklyn Heights apartment. E-mail us at [email protected]. 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That somebody is the Fort Greene Asso- ciation’s retail committee. Its six members have put out a sur- www.macsupportstore.com vey, dubbed “the Fort Greene Shopping Survey,” to measure the Evan Thies Marty Markowitz wants and needs of the Fort Greene and Clinton Hill consumer. Community Board 1 member Borough President “We’re trying to reach out to every sub-sector of the neigh- and City Council Candidate “In 2008, I resolve to eat right and stay healthy so I can live to borhood, not just the yuppified Farmers Market crowd, but also “I resolve to marry Beth Elena in Reliability people at Ingersoll, Whitman, the senior centers, students at St. Lilstrom Irvin — my smart, be as old as the Brooklyn Joe’s and Pratt,” said Myka Carroll del Barrio, one of the organ- beautiful partner for the last Bridge, whose 125th birthday # in Quality three years who makes every we Brooklynites will celebrate Daniel Goldstein Jewels by izers and a Clinton Hill resident. DK Holland Develop Don’t Destroy in Service And this is no one-off, B.S. questionnaire destined for an unla- day of my life better. Let’s with great fanfare in May!” 1 Fort Greene activist Brooklyn beled box in someone’s dank basement. No, this is legit (all right, hope she says ‘yes’ by the time it seems legit). Once the surveying period ends on Jan. 15, the re- this runs in the paper!” “To be in more meaningful con- “To get going on all of the tact with the people I care home improvement projects sults will be tallied, and the Association will use those results to about. I’m not good on the I’ve been planning, [like] some woo local business owners, would-be entrepreneurs, and even phone and great in writing, and work in the bathroom, some SATNICK Manhattan business owners to our corner of the Borough of Kings. I need to get better at that.” shelving, that sort of thing.” We service all mechanical & quartz watches Seminars will be planned. Marketing materials will be sent. “We’ll analyze the results and put out marketing materials to & repair all jewelry on premises those who already own businesses, and we’re thinking about sponsoring a set of seminars for people who want to open a business,” said Steve Sachs, who is not only del Barrio’s com- HARTLEY F. SATNICK rade in surveying, but also the business-savvy publisher of Real The Only Certified Simple magazine, and a Fort Greene resident. Thus far, several hun- Master Watchmaker dreds of people have David Yassky in all 5 boroughs of New York City GREENE taken the survey, accord- Councilman (D–Clinton Hill) serving the community for over 44 years ing to Sachs … includ- Letitia James “To pass my ‘smart develop- ACRES ing me. Councilwoman (D–Fort ment’ bill to make sure that It was so easy, even a Greene) new development comes with Visit us at our new location Luddite could do it. First “To exercise more, to get the transportation planning and in- Rev. Daniel Meeter step: click on http://fort armory in Bedford-Stuyvesant frastructure to support it. And I Mandy Kalajian greeneshopping.googlep converted to an athletic cen- also want to pass my bio-fuel Executive director of the Wil- Old First Reformed Church 187 State Street ages.com. Second step, ter, and to improve the bill that will reduce pollution liamsburg Gallery Association “First, to stop being late at my click on “Take the Fort schools in Fort Greene, Clin- from heating oil.” “My new year’s resolution: To therapist’s. Second, to be nicer (off Court St) Greene Shopping Sur- ton Hill, Prospect Heights and direct Brooklyn’s first art fair in about . Third, to stop vey.” Third step, answer Crown Heights.” ’08.” gossiping.” (718) 852-1421 • Fax (718) 852-9697 • 10 easy questions, each HOURS: Mon - Fri: 9:30am - 6:30pm; Sat: 11:00am - 5:00pm of which asks, in one form or another, what sort of shop would you “Fort Greene is pretty similar to the South like to see in the neigh- Slope, another underserved neighborhood,” borhood. said Lalic. “We feel the store would be a Personally, I’d love to Expanding ‘Union’ good fit.” see a bookstore. But per- Councilwoman Letitia James (D–Fort haps my favorite idea Greene), agreed. mentioned in the survey Market now coming to Fort Greene “Obviously, we need some alternatives is a bowling alley, like some of the existing markets in the district,” the hipster joint that just Times, and neighborhoods, change. said James. “A number of constituents were By Dana Rubinstein going to Park Slope. So I’m glad that Union opened in Williamsburg, Where once residents shopped for 99- Dana Rubinstein The Brooklyn Paper Market is coming to the corner of Fort or even like that old- cent bargains, now they’ll shop for Gruyere school relic in Sunset It’s official. Union Market will open a Greene. And the owners have indicated to and prosciutto di Parma. There will also be me they be hiring some local residents.” Park. Just picture it: a Stella at Frank’s, arepas at Luz, bowling third outlet — in Fort Greene — by sum- a good produce section, a much-desired in Clinton Hill. mer. James’s excitement was echoed by Fort commodity in the neighborhood. Greene resident Phillip Kellogg. I’m not the only one charmed by the idea. Marko Lalic, co-owner of the high-end “When I heard of the bowling alley, I thought that was a great This will be the second expansion in one “There’s definitely a need for terrific Park Slope grocery, confirmed the long circu- idea,” said del Barrio. “What else is there that would bring the year for the Park Slope market, on Union meat and fish and produce and bread and community together? That was the kind of out-of-the-box think- lating rumor that he and his two partners are Street and Sixth Avenue. This summer, the cheese and all that,” he said. ing we were hoping this would prompt.” bringing their beloved gourmet supermarket proprietors revealed they were opening a “People have been screaming about it for For her part, del Barrio would also like to see a general inter- to the corner of Fulton Street and Rockwell shop in the South Slope, on Seventh Av- as long as I’ve been here, so I think it’s ter- est bookstore and a kid-friendly cafe (you know, an alternative Place, in the old digs of a dollar store. enue, between 12th and 13th streets. rific,” he added. to the cooler-than-thou attitude at Smooch or the quiet chic at Bittersweet). Or, as del Barrio put it, one where “you feel like you can take your kids and be noisy without someone on a laptop looking like The increased service would she’s going to shoot you.” slash the amount of time be- For his part Sachs would like a good bakery and a hardware tween trains by four to seven store. The G train earns a D+ minutes on weekday evenings, “[But] It’s not so much about what I’m looking for personal- and cut two to four minutes ly, our focus is on what the community is interested in,” clari- By Mike McLaughlin from the weekend waits. GET A MAILBOX WITH BENEFITS fied Sachs. The Brooklyn Paper Transit advocates think So get to it, community! there’s no reason why the tran- in Brooklyn Heights For once, someone’s asking, what do you want your neigh- The G-train is pint-size, in- sit agency — which said budg- borhood to be? frequent and doesn’t go to et shortfalls required a fare hike Dana Rubinstein is a staff writer for The Brooklyn Paper Manhattan — no wonder rid- — can’t come up with the $46 A real street address, not a P.O. Box ers gave it the one of the worst million a year it would take to Package notification THE KITCHEN SINK report card grades in the city. improve G-train service. Our recent story about a local effort to create a Park Slope Thousands of straphangers “I spoke with the MTA [on Full-service mail & package receiving Food Co-op in Fort Greene has sparked some chatter. The Bri- filled out surveys for the belea- Wednesday] and they sounded Mail holding & forwarding an Lehrer Show on WNYC discussed it on Thursday, and DK guered, outer-borough line and / Mike McLaughlin optimistic,” said Paul Nelson, Call-in Mailcheck Holland, the progenitor of the idea, said she’s been approached handed the G train an ugly D+, chief of staff for Assembly- by several interested parties. To chart the Co-op’s course, check tying it for worst with four oth- woman Joan Millman (D-Cob- E-mail notification out its new blog, at fortgreenecoop.wordpress.com. … We hear er lines, including Brooklyn’s ble Hill). Only $25/Month the Parks Department is considering adding to the new wealth own C train and the Franklin If the transit authority is of bike racks in the nabe by installing a couple of its own at Fort Avenue shuttle. Paper The Brooklyn strapped for cash, Nelson Greene Park. This is, apparently, the time to be a bike rider in The worst offense, according The hapless G: the worst subway line in the city? added, “We’ll work with them Fort Greene and Clinton Hill. … Dermot Co., the big-time to respondents, was the lengthy to find the money [in Albany].” firm that helped transform the Williamsburgh Savings wait times, which earned the G schedule is infrequent.” rather than transfer at Hoyt- Councilman Bill DeBlasio Bank building into fancy condos (and a firm that has sparked a nearly failing D-minus. As the clock approaches the Schermerhorn to the G, which is (D–Park Slope) said a promise complaints from rent-stabilized tenants of other local buildings) “In general, they’re on sche- wee hours of the night that actually closer to her home. isn’t good enough this time. has snapped up two more rent stabilized buildings in Fort dule,” said rider Caroline Papoc- schedule gets even worse. The Metropolitan Transporta- “As Brooklyn becomes in- The UPS Store® Greene, at 260 and 262 St. James Pl., between Fulton Street and chia, who lives in Clinton Hill, “If it’s after 11 pm, I don’t tion Authority says it will increase creasingly popular, the MTA Atlantic Avenue. Dermot paid $4.1 million for the two five-sto- where the G train is a lifeline even ride it,” said Caitlin Duffy, the number of G trains running if must be proactive about adding ry, 20-unit buildings. Do we hear more complaints coming (though one that doesn’t go to who prefers a longer walk home — and this is a big IF — new service to accommodate growth,” The UPS Store of Brooklyn Heights down the pipeline? E-mail us at [email protected]. the city). “But, the thing is, the from the C train into Fort Greene fares generate enough money. DeBlasio said. 93 Montague Street (at Hicks St) 718-802-0900 Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 7pm | Saturday: 10am to 5pm | Sunday: 10am to 3pm IF SID'S DOESN'T HAVE IT, FREE PICK-UP & PRESCRIPTION DELIVERY to Dumbo / Brooklyn Heights / Cobble Hill / Carroll Gardens YOU DON'T NEED IT!

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JAY STREET · DUMBO · BROOKLYN · 718-246-4100 · OPEN 7 DAYS WWW.SIDSHARDWARE.COM 4 DTZ, NBZ THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 January 5, 2008 Cops nab serial bodega bandit By Adam F. Hutton, Mike McLaughlin and Dana Rubinstein POLICE BLOTTER The Brooklyn Paper of Visine from the store, which is at the 76th Precinct76th Precinct corner of Court and Joralemon streets. 88th Precinct If caught, the well-moisturized men A repeat-robber of 24-hour delis on will face felony charges because the Kicked while down theft was more than $1,000. Court Street got caught because he Three thugs punched and knocked struck too frequently. Brutal beating down a 28-year-old Grand Street resident,

Police arrested a 30-year-old suspect / Robert Weinstein A woman barely escaped with her life and then, as the coup de grace, kicked on Dec. 19 and charged him with stick- when several thugs threw her head first him again while he was down on Dec. ing up several businesses in the last into a mailbox, beat and kicked her and 30. month. The suspect was actually then put a knife to her throat to steal her The attack happened at the corner of nabbed moments after he robbed a deli wallet and earrings on Dec. 23. Lafayette and Clermont avenues at 10:20 at 3:40 am between Amity and Con- The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn The victim escaped the 4 am attack pm, and as far as bounty is concerned, the gress streets, cops said. when the hooligans ran off after spotting three hoodlums had good aim. Inside the Police caught their man because the a police car speeding to the corner of Jay man’s backpack, itself worth about $50, perp allegedly had just attempted to rob and Chapel streets, where the 20-year-old the victim had been carrying a $400 de- another late-night grocery between De- Cadman car crash woman was bleeding on the sidewalk. vice called a Korg KAOSS Pad III, a graw and Sackett streets. The attackers escaped, but the woman Samsung MP3 player, $50 worth of A quick-thinking clerk thwarted the was treated. clothes, and a Blackberry cellphone. suspect because he recognized him By Adam F. Hutton ing into the 46-year-old woman from a previous robbery in November. The Brooklyn Paper and coming to rest under a scaffolding Purse punch Identify theft at the apartment tower being repaired at A 36-year-old woman told police that What a way to end the year. On New Rather than hand over the cash, he shut A woman who was mowed down the cash register and dialed 911. the corner of Middagh Street. a man punched her in the face and stole Year’s Eve, a 47-year-old Greene Avenue by a livery cab as she headed to Raghunanan was taken to Bellevue her purse as she was walking down the resident discovered that someone had Tongue tied Brooklyn Federal Court to become an Hospital where she remained in a coma sidewalk near Metrotech Center on Dec. been trying to open accounts in her name. A man tried to avoid getting robbed American citizen on Dec. 27 came and in critical condition until this week. 28. The woman was tipped off to the on Smith Street on Dec. 22 by telling the out of a coma this week and is ex- She has now regained consciousness The robber, who attacked the woman crime when she received bizarre state- three men who demanded his money pected to make a full recovery. and was upgraded to fair condition. A at the corner of Adams and Willoughby ments from TransUnion and Experian, that he didn’t speak English, but they The black Lincoln Town Car hit hospital spokesman said she was expect- streets, got away with $829 and her which provide consumer credit reports, showed no mercy. Shanttarag Raghunanan on Cadman ed to recover from her injuries. school safety ID badge. indicating strange activity during the The 34-year-old victim, who actually Plaza West at about 7:30 am after the The cab driver, Robert Khananyev, Watch your bag month of December. does speak English, was knocked to the driver lost control. 52, of Brooklyn, passed a Breathalyzer Cops are investigating. ground, punched and kicked at the cor- A quick-moving thief stole a woman’s The car struck a tree in the traffic me- test at the scene and was not issued any handbag as she was trying on shoes on Booted ner of Baltic Streets at 3:30 am, before dian and hopped the curb before smash- violation, police said. the robbers made off with the $20 in his the Fulton Mall on New Year’s Eve. Cops started the New Year by collar- wallet. The 23-year-old victim told police she ing a 31-year-old woman for unlawful Tired of the usual Police say the victim went to Long Is- was admiring a pair of shoes that she had use of a boot on Jan. 1. President Street on Dec. 21. Columbia streets. Once subdued, the just picked out when she noticed that her A crazed assailant slammed her 34- land College Hospital, under his own The victim told cops that he had power, for treatment. victim handed over her Sidekick cell- purse was missing. year-old female victim over the forehead lunchtime fare? parked the fancy wheels between Smith phone, cops said. The thief got $60 cash, a $150 Sprint with a boot at 9:20 pm. The attack took Teen on teen and Court streets at 5 pm. When he re- cellphone, a $20 wallet and an $80 purse. place at the victim’s home, on Tillary Fine Japanese cuisine, A 17-year-old robbed a 14-year-old turned to the car at 10 pm, he noticed that Jewel heist Street near Prince Street. boy on Dec. 18 at the corner of Henry a thief had taken a wallet, which con- 84th Precinct An employee at a Fulton Mall jewelry and Sackett streets. tained credit cards and his driver’s li- Bum rap plus full sushi bar, store was arrested on New Year’s Eve for The older teen followed the younger cense, but no cash. Smooth thieves A young man coming out of the Wash- stealing almost $10,000 from the nightly one down the street at 5:40 pm and ington Avenue club Reign early on Dec. Headlocked Police are looking for three men who deposit bags. for lunch or dinner. yelled: “Gimme your money! Gimme 9 was struck in the posterior by a bullet A housing police officer arrested a stole more than $1,600 worth of lotion, The 26-year-old suspect had $4,480 your money!” The victim satisfied the from an unknown gun. 16-year-old girl who had stolen a cell- cough medicine and eye drops from a in stolen cash on her when the cops robber by forking over $10. The 22-year-old had finished a night phone on Bush Street on Dec. 12. drug store on Court Street on Dec. 29. picked her up in the store’s office. She of partying at the club, near Flushing Av- Benz burgled The trouble began at around 9:50 The bandits were caught on video allegedly stole $9,800 from the deposit enue, and was walking to his car around A thief stole several items from a pm, when the suspect headlocked a 19- stealing 88 bottles of lotion, 28 boxes of bags on at least two occasions beginning 4 am. man’s unlocked Mercedes Benz on year-old woman between Dwight and cold and cough medicine and 24 bottles on Dec. 21. He had walked less than a block when he heard a gunshot and froze, not sure where the shot had come from. He dis- covered a few seconds later that regard- less of where the shot had come from, it had ended up lodged in his left buttock. DUMBO Xmas Tree solar power pack stolen He called friends, who drove him to Interfaith Hospital. There is no word on By Adam F. Hutton But the Grinch quickly learned that and runs those to something else, it trict’s executive director, says the theft who fired the shot, or even if the shot was The Brooklyn Paper this crime doesn’t pay: the sun-pow- won’t be able to power much, and it hasn’t given him the holiday blues. aimed at him. ered battery pack can’t really be used will have been a huge pain. “That’s the risk you take when you This was the latest in a series of prob- To the Grinch who stole Christ- for anything else, said Bill Vitiello, di- “Hopefully word will get out to the leave things out in a public space,” lems at the club, which the State Liquor 162 Montague Street (at Clinton Street) mas: The joke is on you. rector of operations for the DUMBO criminally minded that it’s not worth Reed said. Authority has cited an unusual number of A thief stole one of the dozen or so Brooklyn Heights · 718-522-5555 Improvement District. the effort.” “If we make it through the holiday times for infractions like allowing fights solar panels that was powering the “The battery inside there only has as The Improvement District invested season and only lose one, that’s pretty to break out, serving alcohol to a visibly Open 7 Days a Week Christmas lights in DUMBO’s Pearl much juice as a regular D-cell,” Vitiel- more than $1,000 in 15 environmental- good.” intoxicated man and excessive noise. Street triangle a few days after they lo said. “And he had to rip half a dozen ly friendly power generators to light its Vitiello was more graphic: “I hope A call to the nightclub, which has been Fast, Free Delivery · were installed in early December (see wires out of the box to get it loose. So holiday decorations this year. the guy sticks that solar panel where the source of some frustration for neigh- story, 13). by the time he solders in new wires Tucker Reed, the Improvement Dis- the sun don’t shine.” bors, was not returned. RELIGIOUS NEWLY CONSTRUCTED SERVICES To advertise in this weekly APARTMENTS directory call Laura at (718) 834-9350 ext 109 FOR RENT Congregation MODERN MOVE-IN CONDITION, PRE-WIRED OFFICE SPACE IN DUMBO Mount Sinai 250 Cadman Plaza W. Pratt Area Community Council is pleased to announce that applications are now $28 rsf rents Conservative/Egalitarian being accepted for 38 affordable housing rental apartments now under construction Effective rents in the teens A House for Prayer / A Home for People 718-875-9124 Friday Eve Services 6:30pm at 15 Quincy Street in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. 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Old First Reformed Church Borough President For my daughter, an intense memory-provoking spot is the “First, to stop being late at my “In 2008, I resolve to eat right corner of Garfield Place and Seventh Avenue. This is where her therapist’s. Second, to be nicer and stay healthy so I can live to stepmother got a bloody nose so intense that she needed to be about the Bronx. Third, to stop be as old as the Brooklyn rushed via ambulance to Methodist Hospital. Fortunately, it gossiping.” Bridge, whose 125th birthday Letitia James Ken Freeman turned out to be nothing, but for my daughter it isn’t possible to we Brooklynites will celebrate Councilwoman President, walk past the spot without visions of the blood-stained sidewalk with great fanfare in May!” (D–Downtown) Park Slope Civic Council flaring up. This incident was her very own “Nightmare on “To exercise more, and I’m com- “To get in shape. Though, I Garfield Place,” and it plays in her brain with cinematic color. mitted to getting the armory in don’t really think I’ll succeed I just wish the incident had happened on a spot we don’t go Bedford-Stuyvesant converted until my kids are bigger.” past several times a day. to an athletic center and to im- Smartmom columnist, proving schools in my district.” PS ... Louise Crawford, can’t walk anywhere in the Slope I LOVE YOU without remembering something — her own memories and everyone else’s! But one particular section of Eighth Avenue Joan Millman near Ninth Street always Assemblywoman evokes traumatic memories Daniel Goldstein of her daughter getting “I need to find more ways in my everyday life to better pro- Develop Don’t Destroy sewn up for one injury or Brooklyn another. tect the environment. Fewer plastic bags, more energy-effi- “To get going on all of the First there was the vi- home improvement projects cious gate at the Ninth cient light bulbs. Everyone in Jo Anne Simon my office has his or her own I’ve been planning, [like] some Rabbi Andy Bachman Street playground that at- Democratic district leader mug — no more paper cups work in the bathroom, some Congregation Beth Elohim tacked her child unpro- shelving, that sort of thing.” “To bring more Beth Elohim “New Year’s or otherwise … I voked early one evening. — and we bring all our old sta- tionary up to Albany to reuse.” members to Israel.” want to see Brooklyn getting That event, which put a nice on a healthy diet of teamwork rip in her forehead, also in- and collaboration.” volved scads of blood and a trip to Methodist. A bit further up Eighth Wendy Ponte Avenue is the plastic surgeon they visited to repair another nasty facial gash in hopes that his expert stitchery could prevent a permanent scar on her face. All faiths day in Park Slope Another friend thinks about his wedding every time he rides his bike past the Montauk Club, where it took place. For him, By Dana Rubinstein cluding Christianity, Judaism, Is- At least one religious leader communal, historical, and spiritu- the building is bittersweet — he cherishes the memories of his The Brooklyn Paper lam, Hinduism, Sikhism and has confirmed his attendance — al dimensions of Dr. King’s lega- Buddhism. Rabbi Andy Bachman, who nuptials, but can’t help feeling that the palazzo-style building is Park Slope will again live up cy and memory,” typed Bach- a shadow of its Gilded Age self. The idea is for Brooklynites to serves as the Jewish yin to man. to its reputation for unabashed honor King by enabling them to Meeter’s Christian yang. The two Bachman will have religious A member of my writing group, playwright Rosemary Moore, political correctness and cultur- can’t pass the Ninth Street library without remembering her then “pray silently for peace in their men of the cloth frequently link texts on hand that he believes re- 3-year-old twin daughters’ response to a firefighter’s earnest safe- al sensitivity, celebrating Mar- own religion side by side,” said to each other’s blogs (yes, they late to King’s legacy, from the ty talk. tin Luther King Jr. Day with a Meeter. have blogs), and work with each Talmud and Exodus story to the “What is the first thing you do before getting into a hot bath- six-denomination prayer day. “We’re just trying to find other on community initiatives, tale of Michael Schwerner, James tub?” he asked. On Jan. 21, the Rev. Daniel ways that religious people can do like the recently founded Park Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, “Get naked!” they both shouted at the same time. Meeter, of Old First Reformed something together as American Slope Coalition for the Home- two Jews and an African-Ameri- That story reminds me of the time friends of mine who live Church at Seventh Avenue and citizens, so that religion doesn’t less. can who were killed together in on Park Place had a big christening party for their daughter in Carroll Street, will host an “all separate us, but somehow unites Right now, Bachman is lead- Mississippi in 1964 while fight- their apartment. religion” day in honor of the us,” said Meeter. “And, we’re ing a synagogue trip to Kfar ing for civil rights. “Everyone gather together for the blessing,” said Alyssa. slain civil rights leader. To honor trying to model peace.” Blum in northern Israel, but he To find out who will be praying The priest opened his mouth and began to intone, “We are the Rev. King’s blend of faith, Volunteers from each religion recently chatted online with a re- on behalf of Islam, Buddhism, here today to celebrate the birth of Maggie Rose…” when my progressiveness and leadership, will staff their respective chapels. porter about his congregation’s Sikhism and Hinduism at the event, then- 2-year-old daughter announced loudly to the room, “I have Meeter will divide his congrega- Meeter is working with the Inter- plans for King Day. Creating and Sustaining Peace In- to go poopy right now.” tion’s sanctuary into six separate faith Community, an organiza- “We’ll be hosting a section of side and Out, call Old First Re- Seeing their building on the corner of Vanderbilt always yet neighboring “chapels,” each tion devoted to creating such the sanctuary and allowing peo- formed at (718) 638-8300 or visit makes me chuckle. devoted to a different faith, in- events, to sort out the details. ple to engage there in the Jewish www.oldfirstbrooklyn.org. There are place memories that all of us who live in Park Slope share. Many of us walk past the corner of Sterling and Seventh Avenue and think about the United Airlines jet that crashed there back in the 1960s. Most of us can’t walk past TRY IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT Squad One or Ladder 122 without thinking about 9-11. A lot of us walk past the Park Slope Food Co-op and automatically think Lose Weight for FREE of a dozen or so insane or annoying moments that took place No room at this inn there (even the non-members think that!). Call Now For Your This year, I know I will be creating new place memories here By Loren Bonner “We are like a family in the maternity Quit Putting Off Getting Into in the Slope. None of them will involve the Co-op — since I no for The Brooklyn Paper ward,” said Sakibeh Mustafa, an outreach co- FREE SUPPLY ordinator. If there is one thing Victory Memo- 1-800-431-4381 Your Old Pants! longer belong to it. I’m going to try to stay out of Barnes & No- Dozens of women scheduled to give ble, since I no longer need the singles scene (not that this is why rial will be remembered for, it will be its (Limited Time) Why waste time! You can start to lose that extra I went in there in the first place — I swear I was just looking for birth at Victory Memorial Hospital this hol- birthing center. a book on how to have a better organized office). iday season had to find alternate sources of “Almost everyone in the neighborhood weight NOW. Get a free bottle of VF Weight Loss I’m looking for place memories that involve good meals in care weeks, even days, before giving birth. can trace himself back to that hospital,” said during our “try it before you buy it” promotion. new Slope restaurants, romps in the park with my family and, Without a staff, the Bay Ridge hospital Councilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge), who knows, maybe my very own, well-organized, office? prematurely shut down its labor and delivery who was born at the hospital, as was his col- (Plus Shipping & Handling. Limit 1 per household.) Wendy Ponte is a writer and parenting expert who lives in Park unit last Friday — 10 days earlier than the league in the state Senate, Marty Golden. Slope. original Dec. 31 date that was listed on em- “In many ways, Victory was seen as ‘the ployees’ termination letters. Baby Hospital.’” One Night Only - Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 8 pm THE KITCHEN SINK About 40 women who expected to deliver Gentile said the closing of the maternity / Jeff Bachner / Jeff as seen on the recent PBS Special The southern outpost of the Union Market — on Seventh at Victory were notified in writing that they ward would make it tougher for hospital sup- Avenue between 12th and 13th streets — didn’t manage to get should deliver at in porters to keep the ER open beyond June, open by New Year’s Day. “They really screwed the pooch on that Fort Greene, at least an hour away by car. when the hospital loses its license. DOO WOP & ROCK ‘N ROLL REUNION one,” said our Community Board 6 pal. “I’m sure they wanted to Lillie Mae Mieles is one of these women, “If the perception is that everything is get it open before the holidays.” … Our pal Dawn Torres at the whose delivery due date is in April, who said shutting down over there, it’ll be hard to hold the North Flatbush Avenue Business Improvement Dis- The Brooklyn Paper she was impressed with Victory’s nursery and onto the emergency room,” he said. trict said the group’s silent auction raised $1,700 for children’s Xia Chen will have to travel about an staff. The saga of Victory’s closure began in programming at the Bear’s Garden on Pacific Street. BID Pres- hour from Victory Memorial Hospital in “They recognized me instantly when I 2006, when the hospital filed for bankruptcy ident Regina Cahill and her Veep Alison Houte spearheaded Dyker Heights to Brooklyn Hospital in came back with my second pregnancy,” said protection. Shortly thereafter, a state commis- the event. Also at the affair was new board member Sharon Fort Greene to give birth to her baby Mieles. sion recommended that Victory Memorial — Davidson, who works for Houte at her boutique, Hooti Couture. after Victory closed its maternity ward Many labor and delivery staffers have and eight others in the state — be shut down. E-mail us at [email protected]. on Dec. 26. been there 30 years or more. That official closing is on Feb. 1. THE DRIFTERS FRANKIE LYMON’S featuring CHARLIE LEGENDARY 100% Recycled Now Open in Brooklyn THOMAS TEENAGERS & FSC Papers Vegetable Inks with Low VOCs We Print Stuff Chemical-Free CTP Production

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enue. The Brooklyn Paper place had roots. It dug Donut wasn’t merely a cheap “Most of the places that Donut Coffee Shop is closing to al- in.” diner, but a place that “con-

made the neighborhood dis- low neighbor Associated to expand. Another customer nected him to the neighbor- The Brooklyn Paper tinctive to longtime residents who had been coming hood” — at least the one in Effie Pahos pours a final cup of Joe. are disappearing,” one cus- to the shop even be- his memories. / Jeff Bachner / Jeff tomer who didn’t want his long on Friday, regulars fore the Foopses bought it Another customer, a Brook- for communities to have bor, the pan-Latino restaurant name used told owner Chris stopped by to sit at the count- stuck his head in the door and lyn psychologist who had growth and keep the business- Beso — is not closing be- Foops, who has been running er for one last cup of joe and screamed in, “You’re the best. been a regular for seven years, es that make them unique. cause of a rent hike or a loss the store for 10 years, suc- plenty of memories. The best!” empathized with LoPolito, but “It’s what makes ‘gentrifi- of clientele, but because it be- ceeding his father, Nick. “Chris gave me my first Meanwhile, others took to noted the number of new cation’ a bad word,” she said. ing absorbed into the Associat- The Brooklyn Paper That nameless customer cup of coffee,” said Steven the Internet to lament the loss shops that have been able to Perhaps, but gentrification ed grocery store as part of an Loyal customers line the counter for one final meal on the clos- wasn’t the only one sad to see LoPolito, who has lived to the neighborhood. root out their own niches. She is not the villain here. The expansion of that hardly up- ing day of Donut Coffee Shop. the donut diner go. All day around the corner from the “I am sad, sad, sad that an- discussed how difficult it is Donut Shop — and its neigh- scale food market. Unwelcome guest visits Monte’s hosts a family By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper As we reported last week, RELIGIOUS hotel near the Gowanus Monte’s Venetian Room isn’t SERVICES the oldest Italian restaurant in To advertise in this weekly By Mike McLaughlin Street between Third Avenue Brooklyn — but it was cer- tainly old enough for a venera- directory call Laura at The Brooklyn Paper and Nevins Street, noticed that (718) 834-9350 ext 109 two cases of bottled water, POLICE BLOTTER ble Italian-American family linens and a hand truck, worth that wanted to commemorate 76th Precinct the centennial of its patriarch’s Congregation $650 total, had been stolen from Mount Sinai The Comfort Inn near the one of the hotel’s upper floors. Left panting not close his front door, allowing arrival in America. The perpetrator had appar- About 56 members of the 250 Cadman Plaza W. Gowanus Canal was broken Ten pairs of pants walked out the thief easy access to $400, a Conservative/Egalitarian into on Dec. 26 — and the thief ently forced his way into the necklace and a fancy laptop. DeRupo clan ate, drank and of a clothing store on President made merry at the 101-year-old Callan / Tom A House for Prayer / A Home for People stole some atypical goods. building through a side en- Street on two legs on Dec. 24. Back door man 718-875-9124 At around 5 pm, an employee trance, which had been dam- restaurant last Sunday to cele- Friday Eve Services 6:30pm A group of five men in their A First Street house was bur- Saturday Morning 10:00am of the hotel, which is on Butler aged. brate the late Franco DeRupo’s Rabbi Joseph Potasnik A42 teens or early 20s entered the glarized through an unlocked migration to the United States boutique, which is between Fifth back door between Dec. 26 and one hundred years ago last Brooklyn and Sixth avenues, around 12:45 Dec. 27. month. The Brooklyn Paper Heights pm on Christmas Eve. While Synagogue A 34-year-old woman left her “We picked Monte’s because Monte's Venetian Room on Carroll Street claims to be the one of the young men distracted home with everything in place it was one block from where he 131 Remsen St. · 718-522-2070 Loose the clerk, another shoveled 10 oldest Italian restaurant in Brooklyn. [email protected] around 8 pm. When she returned was,” said RoseAnn DeRupo, Affiliated with the Union of Reform Judaism pairs of pants, each worth $200, the next day at 3 pm, she discov- Franco’s granddaughter. Franco into a plastic bag. The worker ered that someone had stolen her first resided on President Street Like many of his generation, he arrived in New York know- A warm, welcoming, and Jewishly Dentures? caught a glimpse of this, but the digital camera and cellphone and Third Avenue in 1907, near diverse community, dedicated to shoplifter fled the store before Franco was a longshoreman at ing no one and with only $12 to life-long learning and to caring for through the unlocked rear en- the Italian restaurant on Carroll Bush Terminal. He died prema- his name (which was spelled the world and each other. the grand larceny could be Street, which opened the year GO AHEAD.... stopped. trance, which is between Fourth turely at age 50 in 1940, and DeRufo on the manifest, by the Please join us! and Fifth avenues. before. many of the details of his life way). Eat what you want! Auto holdup Monte’s was all too happy to Shabbat evening service Stripped down are not known, especially be- “Each little piece of informa- every Friday at 6:30 pm Three employees of a Fourth oblige — and not only to bur- Visit Dr. Tony Farha in the morning, Major pieces of the interior fore he landed at Ellis Island tion has led to another piece of Torah study Avenue auto shop were robbed at nish its reputation as the bor- and moved to Brooklyn. information.” have the “Mini-Implant System” gunpoint on Dec. 27. and exterior of a car parked on ough’s most-ancient eatery. every Saturday at 9:30 am “The story is this: My grand- Her next hope is to hear from A51 placed in less than two hours, 13th Street were stolen between “We welcome all the old- A man entered the store, near father was an orphan and the the orphanage near Naples that then go out and enjoy your Ninth Street, at 8:30 am, bran- Dec. 24 and Dec. 26. timers from Brooklyn. We wish family never knew much about raised Franco. PARK SLOPE JEWISH CENTER dishing a firearm and demanding Sometime between 8:30 pm we had more of them left,” said favorite lunch. No more messy adhesive or pastes. him,” said RoseAnn, who was In spite of the holes in his 8th Avenue at 14th St. to know “Where is the money?” on Christmas Eve and 1:45 pm Frank Ferri, a longtime waiter at Fri. nights at 6:30 pm As recently demonstrated by Dr. Tony He stole the personal valu- on Boxing Day, thieves walked Monte’s. born after his death. record, one of Franco’s tradi- Sat. mornings at 10:00 am on ABC & Fox News away with the rear lights, rims, RoseAnn, who was raised in tions that had passed down Adult Ed Hebrew School ables of the two employees and “It’s quite a coincidence that Rabbi Carie Carter one manager, and took the cash radio, speakers, amp, intake, car he lived right around the block Carroll Gardens, but now lives through the generations was re- Park Slope's Egalitarian, from the store’s safe, pilfering battery and even the front hood and arrived one year after we in Riverdale, has been piecing vived on Sunday. 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Fri., Jan. 18, before 4:38 pm After being knocked down, The abrupt shutdown of win- Councilman David Yassky the victim yelled for help. Near- Supplies (D–Brooklyn Heights) called on St. John–St. Matthew–Emanuel by people sprang into action and A ter ferry travel between Manhat- 7 Mayor Bloomberg to provide Lutheran Church Park Slope tan and Williamsburg and DUM- LOOK GREAT, SEE GREAT! surrounded the culprit until po- subsidies to companies who taxi th th lice made the arrest. BO is a result of the city’s failure 283 Prospect Ave (5 and 6 Aves.) Specialists on Staff: to properly subsidize the service, commuters into Manhattan via (718) 768–0528 www.stjme.org 376 the river. Kevin S. Meyers, M.D., Ophthalmology Come right in the president of New York Water ELCA — Reconciling in Christ An open door made it easy “Mass transit just doesn’t Eric Colman, O.D., Optometry Supplies for Taxi told The Brooklyn Paper Sunday Worship 11:00 for someone to burglarize a Lin- 7th Ave. this week. work on its own,” Yassky said. Rev. David C. Parsons (bet. 11th & 12th Sts) A31- 28 Tatyana Galinsky, O.D. coln Place apartment on Dec. the Fine Artist, “We’ve been led to believe “It requires government subsi- dies. The mayor has called for a • Comprehensive Eye Exams 28. Graphic Artist, that the city is ready, willing and Brown Memorial A man left his apartment, be- big expansion in ferry service, • Prescription Filled Student able to assist us, but we’re still Baptist Church tween Seventh and Eighth av- 369-4969 which is exactly right.” • Contact Lenses and Children waiting for them to decide what 484 Washington Ave., Ft. 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DYKER HEIGHTS Harbor Motor Inn stoopBATH BEACH BAY RIDGE– BENSONHURST 3HORE0ARKWAY BETWEEN"AY0ARKWAYTH!VENUE 0HONE   Is Ridge out RESOLUTIONS FOR 2008 &AX   We asked a handful of community leaders to share their New Year’s resolutions with The Brooklyn Paper — and they did. Now of business? we’ll have to make sure they follow through (how’s that for ac- STAIR LIFTS countability?). — Interviews by Joe Jordan ow that the people of Bay Ridge are done opening their presents, maybe they can open some new stores. A casu- FREE Estimate Nal walk along Third and Fifth avenues reveals that more and in-home than 30 storefronts are closed and empty. consultation And some of them have been like this for well over a year! In a neighborhood with three business improvement districts, FREE Installation 30-plus closed stores is not acceptable. What can you do, said Basil Capetanakis, local real estate FREE Delivery broker and vice president of the Fifth Avenue BID: “Busi- Mark Brown Vito Fossella ness, no matter where you go, has slowed down.” Actor, Bay Ridge Congressman (R–Bay Ridge) Of course, there are still plenty of quality establishments in “Marry marathoner Melisa “Patience and persistence in Bay Ridge that are vibrant with customers and sales. Christian, keep my marriage to the War on Terrorism and Some businesses have been around for generations — at Melisa secret from my wife, use bringing our troops home from DERMER least one, Kruchkow’s Shoes on Fifth Avenue between 78th ‘kajagoogoo’ as an adjective, Afghanistan and Iraq as quickly Vincent Gentile Marty Markowitz PHARMACY & SURGICAL and 79th streets, has just celebrated its 100th anniversary! stop referring to my mother-in- and safely as possible. Locally, Councilman (D–Bay Ridge) Borough President And some newer businesses — like Third Avenue’s Little law as ‘that old battle-ax from I would like to see continued “To have 365 exhilarating ex- “In 2008, I resolve to eat right • 2064 Flatbush Ave. • (718) 377-4900 Cupcake Bakeshop and the Spa & Wellness Center — have Hackensack,’ correctly use ‘lay’ success in our efforts to im- periences every 24 hours dur- and stay healthy so I can live to even taken creative environmentally friendly initiatives to “go and ‘lie,’ have another mid-life prove the Verrazano Bridge ing 2008.” be as old as the Brooklyn crisis, vote several times in the construction project and also Bridge, whose 125th birthday green” with their products and source of electricity. presidential election, start One Night Only - Fri, Feb 1, 2008 at 8 pm According to Capetanakis, right now Bay Ridge is ahead preserving the emergency we Brooklynites will celebrate drinking before noon, and lose room and acute care services with great fanfare in May!” as seen on the recent PBS Special of the game compared to years ago — when there were 30 20 pounds.” at Victory Hospital.” empty storefronts on Fifth Avenue alone! “It was scary!” says Capetanakis. DOO WOP & ROCK ‘N ROLL REUNION But a time when the national economy is showing signs of strain and Brooklyn’s centers of entertainment and shopping are re-defining themselves, one wonders if a new bogeyman is around the corner. “Now you’ve got Smith Street and Park Slope to compete with,” says long-time Bay Ridge business owner Barry O’- Donovan, who recently sold Henry Grattan’s on Third Av- enue between 88th and 89th streets to start a business venture Marty Golden in New Jersey. “Bay State Sen. (R–Bay Ridge) Ridge doesn’t have the “I look forward to seeing THE DRIFTERS FRANKIE LYMON’S foot traffic it used to.” ground broken on a variety of featuring CHARLIE LEGENDARY YELLOW Joan Millman school expansion, transporta- Capetanakis says that Howard Feuer Assemblywoman THOMAS TEENAGERS the amount of business District manager tion and parks projects. I look Steve Harrison HOOKER (D-BayRidge) forward to a successful legisla- turnover has been rela- of Community Board 11 Bay Ridge lawyer “I need to find more ways in tive session in Albany that will tively steady in the past “To work more closely with my everyday life to better pro- reduce taxes, protect our citi- “I resolve to continue my few years, while admit- elected officials to make our tect the environment. Fewer zens, and that continues to lead strong support of the Ameri- ting that in some cases community even better next plastic bags, more energy-effi- New York State in the right di- can troops and, on a personal rents might be too high year.” cient light bulbs.” rection for the future.” level, run another marathon.” to encourage new busi- nesses from starting up. Still, he is confident that the BIDs can improve began in 2006, when the hospi- KENNY VANCE BARBARA LARRY CHANCE the situation by advertis- tal filed for bankruptcy protec- & THE HARRIS of ing more and cleaning tion. Shortly thereafter, a state up the streets. commission recommended that PLANOTONES of THE TOYS THE EARLS Closed-down and No room at this inn Victory Memorial — and eight long-empty stores hurt others in the state — be shut Shake, rattle and roll when The Town Hall presents everyone. It means re- Victory Memorial closes maternity unit down. Richard Nader's Doo Wop & Rock ‘N Roll Reunion. duced tax revenue for That official closing is on Feb. 1. Meanwhile, New York The Town Hall the government, less Lawyers for the Public Interest rent for building own- By Loren Bonner 123 West 43rd Street, NYC for The Brooklyn Paper and Concerned Citizens of ers, fewer jobs for Southwest Brooklyn have been Box Office: 212-840-2824 Ticketmaster: 212-307-4100 workers, and fewer Dozens of women sched- trying to work with the Depart- Joe Jordan choices for consumers. uled to give birth at Victory ment of Health to find a viable And they’re ugly, too. Memorial Hospital this holi- solution for the community’s Hopefully, 2008 will see more of Bay Ridge open for busi- day season had to find alter- health care needs. ness. We can’t afford the alternative. nate sources of care weeks, Hospital advocates did pro- Joe Jordan is a freelancer writer and third-generation Bay even days, before giving birth. pose a plan that worked for the Ridgite. Without a staff, the Bay community — a takeover by Ridge hospital prematurely shut SUNY Downstate Medical THE KITCHEN SINK down its labor and delivery unit Center — but it was rejected by last Friday — 10 days earlier the state in November as doing Wow, our item a few weeks ago about state Sen. Marty than the original Dec. 31 date little to shore up Victory’s Golden aide John Quaglione possibly throwing his hat in that was listed on employees’ shaky finances. the next city council race as a Republican contender really termination letters. Brooklyn Hospital Center has got tongues wagging in Bay Ridge. One reader claimed that Residents of Bay Ridge, been doing its best to accommo- Quaglione “will not get Republican support” since he is reg- Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst date these new arrivals — giving istered with the Conservatives, not the GOP. When asked for are already worried about Vic- the women and their families comment, the famed John Q said, “Many successful Republi- tory’s projected Feb. 1 closing tours of the maternity ward and can candidates have received the support of the Conservative date. promising vouchers for taxis if Party, so why can’t a Conservative receive the support of the But the closing of the labor they can’t make it by car. Republican Party? If I decide to run for any elective office, it and delivery unit brings that But these soon-to-be mothers is about service to our neighborhood and not to a party.” Spo- harsh reality into sharper focus. have depended on Victory ken like a true candidate! … Congrats to our pals at The Department of Health has Memorial for much more than Tanoreen and La Maison du Couscous, who just ended yet to present a contingency adequate care for their newborn up on Time Out NY’s “100 best things we ate in 2007.” Of plan to replace the century-old babies. Mustafa said many of course, we’ve been singing their praises for years! … What institution, though the emer- the women who don’t know the El? Local historian Larry Stelter just published an ex- gency room will remain open a Bachner / Jeff English have relied on the panded second edition of his “By the El — Third Avenue and while longer, state officials translation services Victory Its El at Mid-Century,” which is full of great stories and pho- have said. Memorial has provided. tos of New York City’s bygone subways of the sky. … It’s “It’s outrageous to put the For others, it’s better care. been decades since the last one, but Bay Ridge just had one burden on the community and Mieles, who lives in Coney of its own ordained as a Roman Catholic priest last weekend. hospital to find alternatives,” Paper The Brooklyn Island, happily drives a longer said Nisha Agarwal, staff attor- distance to Victory Memorial Our pal Dermot Roache, 36, a parishioner at St. Anselm and Xia Chen will have to travel about an hour from Victory ney for New York Lawyers for Memorial Hospital in Dyker Heights to Brooklyn Hospital in because she prefers it over former teacher at IS 278, will be a missionary in Kenya. … the Public Interest. Coney Island Hospital. Fort Greene to give birth to her baby after Victory closed its Mulchfest ’08 — Better than ever! The Parks and Sanitation About 40 women expected Since malpractice lawsuits departments invite you to drop off the ol’ tannenbaum at ei- to deliver at Victory were noti- maternity ward on Dec. 26 are so high in this field of med- ther Owls Head Park on 68th Street or Shore Road Park on fied in writing that they should icine, it’s difficult to find a hos- 79th Street on Jan. 5 and 6 between 10 am and noon. Other- deliver at Brooklyn Hospital pital with a women’s health de- wise, leave the tree on your curb between Jan 3 and 16. Just Center in Fort Greene, at least or more. state Senate, Marty Golden. partment, said Dr. Leonard don’t forget to take off the decorations. an hour away by car. “We are like a family in the “In many ways, Victory was Emma, a gynecologist at Victo- E-mail us at [email protected]. Lillie Mae Mieles is one of maternity ward,” said Sakibeh seen as ‘the Baby Hospital.’” ry. these women. Although her de- Mustafa, an outreach coordi- Gentile said the closing of the In the meantime, New York livery due date isn’t until April, nator. If there is one thing Vic- maternity ward would make it Lawyers for the Public Interest she said she would do anything tory Memorial will be remem- tougher for hospital supporters to will be putting even more pres- to keep the hospital open be- bered for, it will be its birthing keep the ER open beyond June, sure on state officials to cause she was so impressed center. when the hospital loses its li- straighten out Victory Memori- with the nursery and staff. “Almost everyone in the cense. al’s future, and prevent any “They recognized me instant- neighborhood can trace himself “If the perception is that more stressful situations for its ly when I came back with my back to that hospital,” said Coun- everything is shutting down over patients. second pregnancy,” said Mieles. cilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay there, it’ll be hard to hold onto “This has certainly taking the Many labor and delivery Ridge), who was born at the hos- the emergency room,” he said. joy of having a baby away,” staffers have been there 30 years pital, as was his colleague in the The saga of Victory’s closure said Mustafa. Why isn’t Congress moving to make English the official language of City doesn’t pay the ferryman the United States? By Adam F. Hutton ready, willing and able to assist us, but we’re forced to shut down its East River route The Brooklyn Paper still waiting for them to decide what role from Jan. 1 to May 1 because the company they want to play in supporting waterborne would lose $2,000 a day if it continued to The abrupt shutdown of winter ferry transportation,” said Tom Fox, operator of shuttle commuters during the winter travel between Manhattan and Williams- the Red Hook-based ferry service. months. He cited rising fuel costs and de- Mike Ricatto President burg and DUMBO is a result of the city’s “We can’t go it alone anymore. We’ve clining ridership during cold weather. failure to properly subsidize the service, been shouldering it ourselves for a long time The company also had to shut down the the president of New York Water Taxi told and the weight has become more than we route in 2005 under similar circumstances, The Brooklyn Paper this week. can bear.” Fox said, but operated through the winter “We’ve been led to believe that the city is Fox said New York Water Taxi was last year. 4 BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 January 5, 2008 Family history lives at Monte’s

By Robert Weinstein has lived around the corner from LoPolito, Donut wasn’t merely a for The Brooklyn Paper the shop since 1977. cheap diner, but a place that “con- His defining moment in the shop After 32 years of slinging nected him to the neighborhood” — came not long afterwards when at least the one in his memories. omelets, pancakes, home-fries, Nick recognized him right away. donuts and pouring mug upon Another customer, a Brooklyn “‘Three eggs over, whole wheat, psychologist who had been a regu- mug of affordable coffee, the home fries!’ he said to me,” LaPoli- lar for seven years, empathized Foops family has finally shut to said. “This place had roots. It down its beloved old-school din- dug in.” with LoPolito, but noted the num- er, the Donut Coffee Shop on Another customer who had been ber of new shops that have been Fifth Avenue. coming to the shop even before the able to root out their own niches. “Most of the places that made Foopses bought it stuck his head in She discussed how difficult it is for the neighborhood distinctive to the door and screamed in, “You’re communities to have growth and longtime residents are disappear- the best. The best!” keep the businesses that make them ing,” one customer who didn’t want Meanwhile, others took to the In- unique. his name used told owner Chris ternet to lament the loss to the “It’s what makes ‘gentrification’ Foops, who has been running the neighborhood. a bad word,” she said. store for 10 years, succeeding his “I am sad, sad, sad that another Perhaps, but gentrification is not father, Nick. nice old place with simple foods / Tom Callan / Tom the villain here. The Donut Shop — Bachner / Jeff That nameless customer wasn’t and no $4 lattes, is closing,” one and its neighbor, the pan-Latino the only one sad to see the donut anonymous blogger wrote on diner go. All day long on Friday, Brooklynometry. “All I can say is restaurant Beso — is not closing regulars stopped by to sit at the there goes the neighborhood.” because of a rent hike or a loss of counter for one last cup of joe and But Donut Coffee Shop was clientele, but because it being ab- The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn plenty of memories. more than just a respite from the sorbed into the Associated grocery Paper The Brooklyn “Chris gave me my first cup of Monte's Venetian Room on Carroll Street claims to be the oldest Ital- Tea Lounges, the Cocoa Bars, the store as part of an expansion of that RoseAnne DeRupo holds photos of her grandfather Frank DeRupo coffee,” said Steven LoPolito, who ian restaurant in Brooklyn. Al Di Las of Park Slope. For hardly upscale food market. who arrived at Ellis Island 100 years ago. The demise of Park Slope’s Donut

By Mike McLaughlin ble Italian-American family restaurant last Sunday to cele- was,” said RoseAnn DeRupo, the fragments together. The Brooklyn Paper that wanted to commemorate brate the late Franco DeRupo’s Franco’s granddaughter. Franco She found a copy of As we reported last week, the centennial of its patriarch’s migration to the United States first resided on President Street his Italian passport as Monte’s Venetian Room isn’t arrival in America. one hundred years ago last and Third Avenue in 1907, near well as the manifest the oldest Italian restaurant in About 56 members of the month. the Italian restaurant on Carroll from the ship that transported him to Brooklyn — but it was cer- DeRupo clan ate, drank and “We picked Monte’s because Street, which opened the year before. America — the Lusita- tainly old enough for a venera- made merry at the 101-year-old it was one block from where he Monte’s was all too happy to nia! — and learned oblige — and not only to bur- that he arrived in New Bachner / Jeff nish its reputation as the bor- York knowing no one ough’s most-ancient eatery. and with only $12 to “We welcome all the old- his name (which was timers from Brooklyn. We wish spelled DeRufo on the

we had more of them left,” said manifest, by the way). The Brooklyn Paper Frank Ferri, a longtime waiter “Each little piece of Effie Pahos pours a final cup of Joe. at Monte’s. information has led to

“It’s quite a coincidence that Bachner / Jeff another piece of infor- he lived right around the block mation.” and arrived one year after we Her next hope is to opened.” hear from the orphan- We've Moved! Although Franco was poor in age near Naples that raised Franco. those early years, RoseAnn The Brooklyn Paper  imagines that he might have In spite of the holes The tiny Donut Coffee Shop is clos- in his record, one of had at least one Neapolitan ing so a supermarket can expand. meal at Monte’s. Franco’s traditions that Like many of his generation, had passed down Dr. Eric Pearlstein & Dr. Caryn Pearlstein Franco was a longshoreman at “The story is this: My grand- through the generations was re- Bachner / Jeff Bush Terminal. father was an orphan and the vived on Sunday. Announce their office relocation to He died prematurely at age family never knew much about Whenever the family had 50 in 1940, and many of the de- him,” said RoseAnn, who was guests, “He always put a couple 430 Bay Ridge Parkway, Brooklyn tails of his life are not known, born after his death. of drops of red wine on the

718-680-0600 The Brooklyn Paper especially before he landed at RoseAnn, who was raised in white tablecloth to make sure Ellis Island and moved to Carroll Gardens, but now lives nobody worried about spilling Loyal customers line the counter for one final meal on the clos- Brooklyn. in Riverdale, has been piecing anything,” said RoseAnn. ing day of Donut Coffee Shop. BOARD CERTIFIED | FELLOWSHIP TRAINED Fatal stabbing in Bay Ridge

By Joe Jordan and had been thrown out of the es- ran off with his leather wallet, LSTEIN Michael Giardina tablishment for being too rowdy which contained $100, and his EAR 68/62 BLOTTER ID, police said. DR. C. P for The Brooklyn Paper — returned for vengeance. The thugs smashed beer bot- Parking melee LSTEIN Pediatric Ophthalmology,uscle disorders, tles over the 22-year-old vic- A woman had her purse EAR a 68th Precinct tim’s head and repeatedly they were away on Dec. 28. DR. E. P including eye m s, lazy eye and Smoked out snatched and was pushed to the ology, glaucom A 39-year-old man was fa- stabbed the barkeep, whose gin The 70-year-old husband left A Bath Avenue bodega had ground as she was walking on phthalm tearing problem joint is near 94th Street. with his wife at around 3:30 pm General O tally stabbed by his 29-year- its cash register stolen by thug, West Sixth Street on Dec. 20. pediatric eye surgery Beaten not shot and returned to their apartment, who was later caught by police, The 25-year-old was near Av- old roommate on Dec. 26 in which is near Bay 38th Street, corneal disease and corneal surgery. Two thugs brutally beat a thanks to the description given enue O at around 3:10 am when their Fifth Avenue apartment at around 9:50 pm, to find a ran- No stitch cataract surgery under building, cops said. man after he had parked his car by store owner. the perp approached. As soon as topical anesthesia on Dec. 21. sacked apartment. The thief entered the grocery he grabbed the purse, which con- Neighbors said they watched During the six-hour span, the Most major insurances accepted in horror as the victim was re- Cops said the 59-year-old store, which is near Bay 29th tained $150, credit and debit victim had left his car on Ridge thieves broke in, thrashed their Street, at around 2 am on Dec. cards, the victim ran off in hot Credit Cards Accepted peatedly stabbed at 11:10 pm in bedroom, and robbed $5,000, the lobby of the building, which Boulevard near 75th Street at 21 and asked for cigarettes. pursuit of her thief, police said. 10:30 pm when his attackers along with their jewelry, police When the owner turned But her efforts fell short. The is between 87th and 88th said. streets. menaced him with a gun, beat around to find the smokes, the perp pushed his victim to the The suspect, whose sister had him and fled. Video rob thug snatched the register, ground, then fled in the get- away car. been dating the victim, was It is unclear if they got any A video store on 20th Avenue which contained $900, and fled caught in bed by police shortly money. was robbed by thugs who the store, police said. Toys ‘R’ robbery The perp and his getaway after the attack, cops said. smashed open the front glass A woman had her purse Jewel heist driver were later caught by po- door on Dec. 24. snatched as she was doing some 2 banks robbed Thieves got away with more lice with the cash register still The store, which is near 84th Christmas shopping in a Bay Two Fifth Avenue banks than $20,000 in jewels from a on them, cops said. Street, was broken into at Parkway toy store on Dec. 20. were robbed last month — and Fifth Avenue apartment on Dec. around 10:15 pm, moments af- Mini-mart rob The 33-year-old was in the in the most-recent case, the ban- 21. 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Brooklyn vs. Brooklyn Brooklyn, IOWA! They share a name, but Brooklyn, Iowa and Brooklyn, New York share little else, as our handy comparison chart below shows: Brief history of our sister city

By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Paper

BROOKLYN, IOWA — Mango / Greg We share a name — but actu- / Gersh Kuntzman ally, we really don’t. The Dutch origins of the name of New York’s “Brook- lyn,” or “broken land,” date The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn back to the 1600s when it was Paper The Brooklyn first settled. But here in Brooklyn, Iowa, BROOKLYN, IOWA NAME BROOKLYN, NEW YORK the founders weren’t going Dutch, or even thinking of the The Community of Flags Known as The County of Kings independent city back east, when they changed the name of 1869 Incorporated 1646 their town from Greenfield to Brooklyn in 1859. 1,300 Population 2.5 million As current residents tell it, the town renamed itself when 0.7 : 1 Ratio of Democrats to 7.2 : 1 the downtown was shifted a / Gersh Kuntzman (215 to 300) Republicans (815,551 to 113,071) half-mile south to be better situ- ated next to the newfangled Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Principal attractions Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Historical So- railroad line. To come up with a Historical Society, Brooklyn Bridge, ciety, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Academy name, the mayor went to the Brooklyn Opera House, two bars of Music, hundreds of restaurants highest point to peer out over Paper The Brooklyn the landscape. After observing The old Manatt house (above) was saved when residents raised $52,000 in one month. A new dairy farm is opening Recent big news Possibility of a 100-story condo tower be- that the town sat between two ing built on Tillary Street Downtown small rivers, he reportedly said, Next, the railroad line was there are no local police, and biggest employer, and even to- “There’s a brook over there and built, ushering in a long era of there’s not even a restaurant day, virtually everyone you meet Big Bear Creek, Little Bear Creek Principal creeks Newtown Creek, Gowanus Canal a brook over there, and all this prosperity that resulted in a gor- (Rednex, the constantly-being- is either a Manatt or a Kriegel — land in the middle. We should geous (now vacant) Victorian renovated bar on Front Street, and many are both because of all Water Principal substances in creeks Oil, sewage, gonorrhea be called ‘Brookland.’” hotel and a large (now vacant) has started to serve meals around the marriages between the clans. The name was shortened to opera house downtown. the middle of the day — but lo- A Kriegel tale describes how One branch, 7,500-item collection Brooklyn Public Library 60 branches, 5,045,500-item collection the better-sounding “Brooklyn,” Eventually, Interstate 80 (“Am- cals are so convinced it won’t an ancestor punched out (or and the rest is, well, not history erica’s Main Street”) was cut last that they haven’t started call- was punched out by) John Manatts, a concrete manufacturer, Biggest employer New York Transit Authority, so much as time passing. through the heartland two miles ing the place a “restaurant” yet). Wayne (see story on page 6). 200 workers 47,000 workers Brooklyn prospered for the south, bringing with it a fair Times have been tough. In Today the town’s greatest at- usual reason that a Midwestern number of curiosity-seekers who the mid-1990s, the fanciest traction is its display of all 50 town prospers: luck. The first pull off the road to see whether house in town — the old Manatt state flags and quite a few for- lucky break came when the this Brooklyn bears any resem- house on Jackson Street — was eign flags, resulting in its desig- the inevitable Republican smear dren’s health insurance program town found itself on the main blance to the version back east. about to be sold by the City nation as “The Community of campaign. (Truth be told, Clin- that insured six million kids, the stagecoach route between It does not. The tallest build- Council for $1 because the buy- Flags” (though locals were BILL VISITS… ton also spent ample time high- biggest expansion in healthcare Dubuque and Des Moines. ing in town is the grain elevator, er promised to pick it up and quick to point out that the high- lighting the successes of his ad- since Medicare.” drop it a few towns over, mak- way roadside is often defaced Continued from page 1 speech. “I liked him as a presi- ministration, such as job He suggested that only the ing room for a new town library. to suggest Brooklyn is a differ- “Most likely, [Brooklyn] was dent, but he’s not running this creation and budget balancing.) former first lady has “the best Residents got wind of the ent kind of community.) just a good place to stop in be- time. She is.” “She has been an agent of combination of mind and heart arrangement and demanded that The display was the brain- tween,” said the local Democra- In his subdued hour-long change all her life,” he said, cit- and strength and compassion” the sales contract be voided. child of Alex Werhle, a German tic precinct captain Bev Rens, speech, Clinton showed little of ing work to improve education to lead the nation. The City Council said the sale immigrant in his late 70s. who claims she helped make the rock star quality he has in Arkansas (which he said was “Based on what I know could only be stopped if the res- “There were a lot of flags Brooklyn’s Republican mayor brought to other events, though a success) and on the Clinton about being president, I believe idents raised $50,000 (a size- under Hitler, but after Hitler, no an Obama man. he did get a laugh when he said health care plan (which he ad- Hillary is the best candidate I’ve able chunk of change in a farm- one wanted to see a flag,” he Rens is so loyal to the Illi- he had proven his love for his mitted was a failure). had the chance to support in my ing town) — in a month! said. “But here, the flags are a nois senator that she announced wife by making speeches all day “A lot of people say that’s a 40 years as a voter,” he said. The townspeople did it — source of pride.” from the outset that the former on New Year’s Day and missing reason to vote against her, but I Few seemed to agree with / Gersh Kuntzman raising $52,000 in contributions He added, though, that “ever president would be unable to six televised bowl games. disagree 100 percent,” he said. him. In fact, one of the people ranging from $1 to $5,000 — since they started building casi- convince her to switch loyalties. But after that laugh line, “You need to know how your sitting on the stage to provide a and the Victorian home is now nos in Iowa,” the tour busses “There’s nothing he could Clinton was interrupted only a president is going to handle supportive backdrop for Clinton the Brooklyn Museum. The never seem to stop and look at say,” Rens said, as 200 of her few times by mild applause as failure. … Your president will was none other than Joel new library was built next door. the flags anymore. fellow townspeople filed into he suggested that his wife is the not win every day. Just like you Rickard, the mayor’s son and The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn The Manatt family made its “They rush right past us on the Brooklyn-Guernsey-Mal- most experienced, most talent- don’t. … She got up and dusted another Obama supporter. Brooklyn’s flag display was the idea of Alex Werhle. fortune in cement, is the area’s the Interstate now,” he said. colm school for the Clinton ed, and most likely to survive herself off and we got the chil- See BUBBA on page 6 Here’s what Brooklyn Iowans think of us The Brooklyn Paper asked residents of Brooklyn, Iowa a simple question: What is your reaction when you hear the words, “Brooklyn, New York”? Here are their answers:

“I think Central Park. “Lots of people, busy. “My first impression is “It’s big, right? I have “The town that the “I think of confined “I’ve always heard that “I call your Brooklyn “I had some Army “When I was in the “New York is about [That’s not in Brook- I think my impression that it’s large and some relatives back Dodgers deserted! spaces. I’m an Iowan, it’s the largest Brook- ‘the other Brooklyn.’ buddies from Brook- Navy, I went to New culture and people of lyn.] Oh, then I think is negative. I just pic- overpopulated. Too there, but I couldn’t That’s all I know.” so I would have a hard lyn. I think of a big city New York City is a lyn, so I think of the York for the World’s Fair all different ethnic John Gotti. [He’s more ture all of you people fast, too busy. But tell you where. I’ve Ron Wood time living all penned with lots of people.” great city but Brook- Army when I think of [in 1964]. I saw the Mets groups. It’s not a neg- associated with Queens living in small quar- you’re also known for never been to Brook- up in a heavily popu- Doris Manatt lyn, Iowa is a great Brooklyn. I’ve never play because Casey ative thing, but I re- than Brooklyn.] Oh, ters.” your sports teams — lyn, but I imagine lated area like you town. I do think the been back East.” Stengel said, ‘Come out member the culture then I guess I think of Tammy Kriegel like the Jets. [The there are mountains of people do.” people of Brooklyn, Duane Popenhagen for the game and if you shock of going to the Statue of Liberty. Jets?]. Yes. See? I fol- people and everyone Rick McLain Iowa are friendlier — don’t like it, you can New York from Iowa. But I do have a posi- low things.” is busy and running with one exception, of leave in the fifth inning You can learn a lot from tive impression of Brook- Louise Van Ersvelde around.” Craig Hall course.” and go to the World’s all those cultures.” lyn.” Lorraine Willett Philip Ryan Fair.” Jerry Dodd Patricia Heintz

found herself being inundated by Republican Rickard had switch- supporters of all three dominant ed parties. Rickard’s switch INSIDE A CAUCUS… candidates, she looked over Ed- BROOKLYN PICKS… seemed to validate Manatt’s own wards’ briefing book. Then she feelings of betrayal by her party. Continued from page 1 calls, propaganda, door knocks gazed over at her friends at the Continued from page 1 Reynolds, to come to their camp. “I don’t feel we have a can- and witnessed all the action first and speeches. Obama table. Then she glanced cratic caucus process is a free- “I asked questions about ed- didate I can trust,” she said. hand, I came away a changed They’re doing it for us, you at Clinton’s cookie tray. wheeling, song- and snack-filled ucation and they had answers,” “We’re seeing a lot of Re- Democrat and democrat. know. Then she started crying. exercise in adrenaline politics. Reynolds said. “That was im- publicans re-registering as De- mocrats tonight,” said Jan Heet- I had to come all the way Rather than tune out, Iowans An Edwards supporter put his At the start of the evening, all portant to me.” land, who was manning the from Brooklyn, New York to actually listen to this stuff. They 174 Democrats filed into the el- The Clinton table set out arm around her, but it seemed sign-in table. Brooklyn, Iowa to be proud to actually think about the issues. ementary side of the Brooklyn- snacks and extra chairs, a cursory. Then Maggie Adams — “They’re saying they’re just be an American. When Bill Clinton came to Guernsey-Malcolm school com- neighborly demonstration that the Hillary Christmas tree — plex (Republicans were on the so frustrated with what has hap- What I saw on Thursday Brooklyn the other night, no ended up convincing young came over and gave her a bigger high school end). pened over the last eight years.”

/ Gersh Kuntzman voter Vanessa Roudavush. night was the most basic form of one was impressed by his for- hug. And suddenly, Roudavush Next, supporters of each can- The Obama team didn’t put By contrast to the free-for-all American democracy in action. mer status as the President of was in the Clinton camp. didate strolled to one of seven / Gersh Kuntzman the squeeze on anyone, but De- on the Democratic side, the Re- the United States. Few applaud- In small towns all across Iowa, “I don’t know why I’m tables — the tables marked mocratic precinct captain Bev publican caucus was more like ed or laughed at his jokes. people in numbers fewer than a here,” she said. “Hillary’s a “Gravel” and “Kucinich” were Rens stuck to quiet conversa- a shareholder’s meeting of a But everyone actually lis- brownstone block back in New woman, I guess. I don’t know. completely empty, while Sen. tions in the corner. successful company. York gathered in school gymna- Paper The Brooklyn tened. The experience.” Joe Biden had three people, That approach worked with A single supporter for each siums and community centers to Matt Cleinman persuaded That said, you can’t help but New Mexico Gov. Bill Rich- Todd Linden, who initially sup- candidate was allowed to rise and

I asked her if she at least Paper The Brooklyn do something that all of us Richardson supporter Cynthia leave a caucus — especially a ardson had about a dozen and ported the unviable Biden. give a short speech. Then the bal- should probably do a bit more tiny one like the 174-person De- liked the feeling of being so Republican Mayor Loren Rick- Reynolds to back Edwards. wanted, if only for two minutes. Sen. Chris Dodd had a handful. The presence of Republican lots were cast and counted, and often: look their neighbors in the mocratic caucus here in Brook- ard becomes a Democrat. everyone was able to go home. “No, it made me very nerv- A candidate needed 26 sup- Mayor Loren Rickard — who eye and talk to them about the walk into a private booth and lyn, where everyone really did porters to be considered “viable,” minutes earlier had changed his The final vote tally on the issues that matter to them and pull whatever lever we want, know everyone else’s name — ous,” she said. meaning that the candidate can Obama, who all practiced the party registration to Democrat so GOP side was Huckabee, 72; the men or women they think whether we’re educated on the without feeling that this is no Finally, with no one else up win delegates to send to the state timeless art of persuasion. he could caucus for Obama — Romney 43; Fred Thompson, will actually make a difference. candidates’ positions or not. way to pick a president. for grabs, the tables were count- nominating convention. Edwards table manager Matt swayed one voter, Doris Manatt, 20; John McCain, 14; Ron All too often, voting is not just But Iowans are the crash test After all, Vanessa Rou- ed, the cookies eaten, the tears The less-populated tables Cleinman rifled through copies of herself a Republican who is now Paul, 10; and Rudy Giuliani, 1. a chore, but a bloodless one, al- dummies of American politics. davush ended up in tears! dried, and everyone went home. were quickly swarmed by sup- the candidate’s 60-page position, a Democrat. The final Democratic vote lowing us the ability to not care For almost a year, they’re inun- A younger voter who initially An exciting day for a re- porters of the so-called Big persuading many, including “Loren’s doing that?” Manatt total was Edwards, 62; Clinton, for an entire four years, then dated with information, phone backed Richardson but then porter. A great day for America. Three: Edwards, Clinton and Richardson supporter Cynthia said, when told that the lifelong 60; Obama, 51. 6 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 January 5, 2008 Brooklynite basks in the warmth of a small town The day the John Wayne got By Gersh Kuntzman The Brooklyn Paper BROOKLYN, IOWA — Brooklynites have opened their hearts, loosened their punched in Brooklyn, Iowa tongues and served up plenty of ham to their beloved broth- er from the East Coast. This reporter arrived on Tuesday after a harrowing drive Back then, the Duke went by a girl’s name through snowbound Illinois and eastern Iowa and immediately By Gersh Kuntzman and while the elder Kriegel Kriegel’s niece, Doris Manatt, basked in the warmth of small- The Brooklyn Paper went inside, Balzer stayed out- say the future “True Grit” star town Iowans. side and struck up a conversa- answered Kriegel’s insult with a Then again, I came bearing BROOKLYN, IOWA — So tion with the young Marion fist to the face. gifts. who beat up whom — Holly- Morrison. Either way, fisticuffs ensued, Hearing that I would be cov- wood legend John Wayne or “What’s your name?” but no one knows for sure who ering the first in the nation cau- 8-year-old bully Balzer Krie- Kriegel asked. came away victorius. cuses in the small town of gel? “Marion,” the kid replied. One fact is certain: It was Brooklyn (population 1,300), Some of the details of the “Marion? That’s my sister’s Marion who later changed his Borough President Markowitz famed 1916 battle between name!” said Kriegel, who really name to the tougher-sounding wrote a proclamation declaring Brooklyn, Iowa native John did have a sister named Marion “John Wayne.” Brooklyn, Iowa “the official Wayne (born, Marion Morri- (and, it should be noted, didn’t “I never heard who won the Brooklyn of the Midwest” and son) and tough local farmboy have the most masculine of fight, so I’ve always assumed asked me to present it to Mayor Balzer Kriegel are not in dis- names himself). “You’ve got a that John Wayne won,” Manatt Loren Rickard. pute. girl’s name.” told The Brooklyn Paper. “My Hizzoner was touched. Back then, Wayne’s father What happened next is sub- uncle never claimed to have won.

“That is very thoughtful and / Gersh Kuntzman owned the town’s pharmacy. ject of substantial dispute. “But it is the great story of I promise to put it in a promi- One day, Kriegel and his father In 1916, Balzer Kriegel, at right with his sister, Marion, got Some say Kriegel threw the our family, nonetheless,” Man- nent place,” he said. Markowitz also tossed in a rode into town in a horse cart, into a fight with one Marion Morrison — aka John Wayne. first punch, others, like att said. dozen “Brooklyn” pins and a wool ski cap with the name of his beloved borough written out Paper The Brooklyn in a graffiti style. Our intrepid editor, Gersh Kuntzman, near the grain eleva- Mayor Rickard wore it tors in Brooklyn Iowa’s downtown district. proudly to former President Clinton’s speech Wednesday BUBBA… doled out along with gossip. night in Brooklyn’s public most-prominent doctor in the Continued from page 5 school. In short order, I was filled in 1970s (the gun-toting perp was on Brooklyn Iowa’s big stories, his wife!); a fight between “I do think Hillary would be a good After the speech, I was the president,” the younger Rickard said after- guest of honor at a dinner at including the details of a gun- Brooklyn native John Wayne wards, though he complimented the former Rickard’s home where ham was point kidnapping of the town’s (yes, that John Wayne) and lo- cal bully Balzer Kriegel over president for “looking sharp” in a flattering Wayne’s given name, Marion; burnt-orange shirt. “But I’m still supporting how the man behind the town’s Obama.” famed display of all 50 state That sentiment whipped through the flags was actually conceived by school gym like a 20-mile-per-hour wind a guy who had the monopoly through the Great Plains. on local flagpoles; and a 1979 “I still think Joe Biden is the strongest love triangle bank robbery mur- candidate,” said Brian Burmeister, who said der (alas, that crime was in a his main issue is the crisis in Darfur. “But neighboring town; there hasn’t Biden can’t win, so I’m going to caucus for

been a murder in Brooklyn, / Gersh Kuntzman Obama. I like Bill, but I like Obama more.” Iowa, since the stagecoach The lack of clapping even after some of days). the former president’s sure-fire applause

/ Gersh Kuntzman And then there was the time lines surprised a reporter from the East two youngsters built a copulat- Coast Brooklyn, but longtime Brooklyn, ing snowman and snow- Iowa, resident Diane Davidson explained The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn woman. Rickard said he was re- that the caucuses are so important that luctant to use the powers of his Iowans don’t want to waste valuable time office to remove the display. Is this heaven? with ovations. The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn “Actually, we marveled at “We were really listening hard to what Brooklyn, Iowa Mayor Loren Rickard views a proclamation the workmanship,” he said. No, it’s Iowa! Grain silos make up the skyline of Brooklyn, Iowa, where open space, farmland and grazing live- he was saying and trying to take it really se- sent by Borough President Markowitz in his town’s honor. “Besides, it melted.” stock dot the landscape. riously,” she said.

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For Anna Godbersen, author of Street in Williamsburg). Tickets are $8. For informa- young adult sensation “The Luxe,” which tion, visit www.lunalounge.com. — Adam Rathe debuted at number six on the New York Times Children’s Books Best Seller list, though, a stop by her local java joint is any- thing but inspirational. “I really like working at home,” she told TV GO Brooklyn last week. “I have tried going to the Greenpoint Coffee House to write, but I’m not very good at being around other people. I get uncomfortable and competitive. Everybody ‘Wake’ up has a better laptop than I do, and they all seem to be typing a lot more than I am. It’s a sensi- With movie tickets costing more than ever — $11 tive thing being a writer in this world.” at the BAM Rose Cinemas and $9.50 at the Cobble And while the borough’s coffee shops are Hill Cinema just to name a few — it’s no surprise that often filled with obnoxiously prodigious Brooklynites are staying home for more of their post- scribes, it’s hard to imagine any who might holiday, budget-conscious entertainment needs. actually be able to compete with God- Beginning Saturday, Jan. 5, WNET/Channel 13, the bersen’s instant success. local PBS affiliate, will be making it that much easier Not so long ago she was an editorial as- with “Reel 13,” a series featuring a short film, a classic sistant at Esquire magazine, ghost-writing and an independent feature every Saturday night. young adult (YA) books in her free time. Mourning “What we really wanted to do was highlight dif- But with the release of “The Luxe,” which ferent independent films and create a place for them puts “Gossip Girl”-type teenage antics on the dial,” said Executive Producer — and Park against a Gilded Age backdrop, the Califor- Sloper — John DeNatale. “By showing independ- nia native is headed into the hallowed halls like its 1899 ents that have never been broadcast, we are giving occupied by giants like Judy Blume, “They stood still with downcast our viewers a chance to see cutting edge film that Christopher Pike and J.K. Rowling. eyes, waiting for Henry Schoonmaker, they wouldn’t otherwise get to see.” “I ghost wrote a few YAnovels and was try- who emerged last. The refined mourn- And if you’re watching from the borough, you ing to come up with an idea for my own series ers could not help a little gasp at the might also get to see that I thought would be exciting — with an el- sight of him, and not only because he some of your neighbors. ement of glamour,” Godbersen, 27, said. was usually so wickedly bright-eyed Kicking off the series “There are all sorts of series that center around and so regularly with a drink in hand. will be “American very rich young people, and that didn’t interest The tragic irony of Henry appearing as Wake,” an independent me. I thought if I had a historical setting, a pallbearer on the very day when he film about two men though, it would be more interesting and was to have wed Elizabeth [Holland] whose family obligations would add a new element. And since I know Chris Mottalini seemed deeply unfair. are at odds with their New York, I thought the Gilded Age would be Welcome to the club: Anne Godbersen’s hit Young Adult novel, “The Luxe,” is the first “The horses drawing the hearse own plans in life that a natural fit. I did research, reading histories of of four in a series about young socialites in the Gilded Age. Her best-selling historical were shiny black, but the coffin was stars DUMBO resident the times, and got really excited.” fiction could launch her into the orbit of YA superstars Judy Blume and J.K. Rowling. decorated with an enormous white Sam Amidon (pictured) Burying herself in the archives at the New satin bow, for Elizabeth had died a vir- as Niall, a fiddler whose York Historical Society, where newspapers, bersen has taken to YA writing with seem- ty and catty and all of the delicious things gin. What a shame, they all whispered, father wants him to fashion magazines, etiquette books and ingly little trouble, perhaps thanks to not that a YA book read by adults should be, is blowing ghostly gusts of air into one move to Ireland and memoirs from the time are all available, reading much of the stuff herself. above all smart and interesting. Upon meet- another’s ears, that an early death was leave behind his musical Godbersen began working in 2006, develop- “I didn’t read a ton of YA books, and go- ing the Hollands, readers learn that their visited on such a very good girl.” career, girlfriend and life. ing a story around an old-money family, the ing into this, I never imagined myself writ- grand digs on Gramercy Park, however nice — Excerpt from “The Luxe” On Feb. 2, the indie feature will be “Manito,” a Hollands, and the ing historical fic- they are, don’t measure up to the mansions (Harper Teen) by Anna Godbersen film shot entirely on a hand-held camera that stars trials they face at the tion,” she said. “I that the nouveau riche are building in the up-and-coming Williamsburg native Franky G. that turn of the 20th cen- BOOKS think often when farmland along Fifth Avenue in the 50s. Ana Ramos, the series’ curator, called “electrifying.” tury. Like any good historical fiction fails Along the way to each plot turn, a fun fact Each week’s programs will also have the bene- story — teen or oth- “The Luxe” (Harper Teen, $14.95) is avail- is when it gets really or two is dispensed, which gives the book really cool to do something like that.” fit of viewer input. According to DeNatale, fans able at Barnes and Noble (267 Seventh Ave. erwise — there are a at Sixth Street in Park Slope). For information, tied up in lecturing an air of authenticity and maturity that sets In the meantime, if she isn’t writing about who visit the station’s Web site each week will se- slew of villains, visit www.harperteen-theluxe.com. on facts that the au- it apart from others in its genre. the borough she lives in, Godbersen is at lect the short films. And with no end date in sight rogues, backstabbers thor has gotten excit- And taking place in 1900 as it does, the au- least trying to make her mark on it. — “ ‘Reel 13’ will be every Saturday night from and young lovers ed about. Doing my thor can’t help but mention the most important “It feels like nobody’s really holding it here until the end of time” DeNatale said — that that, mixed with a breathless pace and a spot own research, I understand why that hap- thing to ever happen to Manhattan — becom- down in Greenpoint except Kate Christensen means plenty of chances to see exactly what you of mystery, make for a wicked page-turner. pens, but it doesn’t always fit in the book ing part of the same city as Brooklyn. [‘The Great Man,’ Doubleday Publishing]. want, and to save that $11 for Jujyfruits, popcorn For a high-minded reader — she men- you’re writing. Historical novels also floun- “I don’t have a Brooklyn plotline in the The army of Great Brooklyn Writers is very and SnoCaps. tioned E.L. Doctorow’s “Ragtime” and der in the dialogue, and I’m not sure I total- works,” admitted Godbersen, “but I should. Park Slope. Maybe I should lead the Green- The new season of “Reel 13” debuts on Chan- “Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American ly succeeded, but I was very worried about That time period is so interesting because point movement.” nel 13 on Saturday, Jan. 5 with “The Paper Chase” Dreamer,” the Nobel Prize-winning novel by not sounding like ‘Masterpiece Theater.’ ” New York is coming into focus in so many Which just might be the most historic act at 9 pm and “American Wake” at 11 pm. For infor- Steven Millhauser during our chat — God- It surely doesn’t. “The Luxe,” while wit- ways … it’s becoming one city. 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et it be known that 2007 was the year of the cocktail in Brooklyn. LLists of “elixirs” concocted by Paper file The Brooklyn “mixologists” were as important in Delicious memories: At Park some restaurants — more important Slope’s Moim restaurant, the DINING sometimes — than the entrees. (The steak tartar was served up with entrees, by the way, are yielding to Asian pears and pinenuts. Brooklyn Label (180 Franklin St. at small plate dining that evolved from Java Street in Greenpoint) accepts the once trendy — and still popular American Express, MasterCard and — tapas.) I gave a few new Korean places a Visa. Dinner entrees: $7-$16. The 58 B 7278?B eatery is open Monday through Satur- C7414BC During my travels throughout the try. Moim in Park Slope was the best day for breakfast, lunch and dinner, 1A>>:;H= borough this year, I consumed “goji” in all regards. Chef-owner Saeri Uyoo and Sundays, from 9 am to 4 pm. berries, tea-infused desserts, pork bel- Park’s refined menu puts a light, Brunch is available on weekends, from 8==H288==H28 B 8= 9 am to 4 pm. Subway: G to Green- ly (yes, still) and more bacon than I modern touch on classic fare. Her point Avenue. For more information, PARK SLOPE ATLANTIC AVE. care to admit. “pajun,” a lace-like pancake, was airy call (718) 389-2806 or visit the Web 383 5th Ave @ 6th St. 129 Atlantic Ave. @ Henry The quest for the perfect burger and chewy and studded with briny site, www.brooklynlabel.com. Always 12 British Draft Beers Brooklyn Food Group (www. 718-CHIPSHOP continues, and, while Brooklyn didn’t shrimp and scallops. The “dub bu kim brooklynfoodgroup.blogspot.com) 888-FRYCHIP see the spate of chef-driven steak- chi” layered tender pork slices in a vi- Cafe on Clinton (268 Clinton St. BAY RIDGE houses the way Manhattan did, steaks brant spicy sauce over silky tofu and between Warren and Congress 7215 3rd Ave @ 72nd St. appeared on nearly every menu I pungent stir-fried cabbage, and streets in Cobble Hill) accepts Ameri- can Express, Discover, MasterCard COMING IN FEBRUARY opened. crunchy black sesame seeds glittered and Visa. Entrees: $16-$19. Dinner is I now know the names of the like tiny jet beads over the dish. served daily. Brunch is available on www.chipshopnyc.com farms — and sometimes the farmers Bahija Elmourabit’s Fez Cafe in weekends, from 11 am to 3:30 pm. Subway: F, G to Carroll Street. For — which raised the animals I de- Windsor Terrace is the quintessential reservations, call (718) 625-5908 and voured, too. It looks like the desire ethnic neighborhood place: cozy and visit www.cafeonclinton.com for more for meat isn’t abating, so diners were welcoming with a terrific chef in the information. soothed with the knowledge that their kitchen. Elmourabit’s slow-cooked Cheryl’s Global Soul (236 Under- We Bring Italy hill Ave. between Eastern Parkway and sirloin once survived on a small local lamb tajine defines this dish, too: the Lincoln Place in Prospect Heights) ac- farm and was treated ethically. meat is tender and deeply flavored, cepts cash only. Entrees: $13-$22. To You! Below are highlights from my while the eggplant and tomatoes are Breakfast items, lunch and dinner are available from Tuesday through Sun- 2007 dinners. You’ll find honorable perfumed with garlic, fresh bay day. Brunch is served on weekends, mentions and goodbyes to several leaves and Moroccan saffron. With a from 11 am to 4 pm. Closed Mondays. HOME OF THE ORIGINAL places I’ll miss. steaming cup of mint tea, an evening Subway: 2,3,4, and 5 to Eastern Park- NEAPOLITAN PIZZA / Daniel Krieger way/Brooklyn Museum. For more infor- It’s not like Brooklyn Heights is there left a memory to savor. mation, call (347) 529-2855 or visit teaming with great restaurants, so www.cherylsglobalsoul.com. when one comes along that has Honorable mentions Fez Restaurant (240 Prospect Park West between Windsor Place and everything working for it, people no- The “toasted almond” at Cobble Prospect Avenue in Windsor Terrace) tice. Le Petit Marche is the whole Hill’s Bocca Lupo starts with a fluff accepts American Express, Discover, MasterCard and Visa. Lunch specials:

package: A great location, a room that Paper file The Brooklyn of innocent whipped cream, then $8 for three courses; dinner entrees: channels a French bistro — yet isn’t takes a detour right into hangover hell $7-$16. The restaurant serves lunch kitschy, and owners who are friendly with a concoction of Kahlua and vod- and dinner daily. Brunch is available on BRICK OVEN PIZZA without being overbearing and know ka; the saltiest, crispiest fries and weekends, from 10 am to 3 pm. For Carroll Gardens · 552 Court St. (at West 9th St) how to train wait staff. freshest oysters are available at Side- more information, call (718) 369-0716. Flatbush Farm (76-78 St. Marks 1 block from Smith/9th Subway Stop And there was that chef. car in Park Slope; intense “chocolate Ave. at Flatbush Avenue in Park 718-875-1384 · Open Tues. - Sun. One cold night last winter, Robert espresso bread pudding” can be found Slope) accepts MasterCard and Visa. Weiner fed me onion soup — with a at Park Slope’s Apropos Cafe; the Entrees: $14-$20. The restaurant serves dinner daily. Brunch is available broth so intense and onions so Greenhood / Aaron lobster rolls served at Fish Tales in on weekends, from 10:30 am to 3 caramelized — it brought tears to my Carroll Gardens and Brooklyn Fish pm. Subway: 2 to Bergen Street. For eyes. Then there was a lamb shank Camp in Park Slope lived up to their more information, call (718) 622-3276 with rosemary-scented white beans lofty reputations; the delicate, silky or visit www.flatbushfarm.com. Hecho En Dumbo at the Dumbo and a bouillabaisse that put other house-made tofu is a must at Hibino General Store (111 Front St. between 2007 renditions of this dish to shame. in Cobble Hill; and I’m happy to re- Washington and Adams streets in Oven: the right idea Let’s hope that the new chef, Do- Paper file The Brooklyn port that the hot dogs at Nathan’s in DUMBO) accepts cash only. Dishes: We are the chomp-ians: (Clock- $8-$17. Dinner is served Monday minick Rappa, is equally talented. Coney Island are still delicious, salty through Saturday. Subway: F to York of combining a wine bar I don’t live in Greenpoint, so I wise from top) A few of the restau- and spicy. Street, A, C to High Street. For more haven’t tried the breakfast fare at / Robin Lester rants that made our competitive information, call (718) 855-5288 or visit “best of ’07” round-up are Green- The most fun www.hechoendumbo.com. & designer pizza place; Brooklyn Label that the locals rave Le Petit Marche (46 Henry St. be- about. However, I can tell you that if point’s Brooklyn Label, Prospect In early June, I joined 21 adventur- tween Cranberry and Middagh streets I were to die tomorrow, I’d want Height’s Cheryl’s Global Soul and ous eaters at a dinner sponsored by in Brooklyn Heights) accepts American a good move in Express, MasterCard and Visa. Entrees: owner and chef Cody Utzman’s “Old DUMBO’s Hecho En Dumbo. the Brooklyn Food Group. It was $16-$26. The restaurant serves dinner

Brooklyn Heights Mac” tonight. This version with Paper file The Brooklyn all very secret, with the names of the Tuesday through Sunday. Closed Mon- large, al dente pasta shells, cheddar, hosts reduced to “Ben” and “Molly,” days. Subway: A, C to High Street, Brooklyn Bridge; 2, 3 to Clark Street. — Tina Barry, The Brooklyn Paper Gruyere and Parmesan is pungent and oozed. The chef cut the richness of she bounces around the planet with a and the address of the gathering For reservations, call (718) 858-9605. salty, mellow and sharp, everything the fowl with a barely sweet, palate- Thai dish here and French dish there. undisclosed until a “member” logs on Melt (440 Bergen St. between this dish should be. His pineapple-up- tickling pomegranate sauce. When I All the plates were assured, yet she to register. There were plenty of good Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope) 60 Henry Street side-down cake made me happy, too. have a yen for duck, I’m going back. hit the mark when she landed in eats among the five-courses, but the accepts MasterCard and Visa. Entrees: (at Cranberry Street) $16-$23. The restaurant serves dinner Add that to your list of “last night on I returned to the Dumbo General Japan with “sake-glazed salmon.” room full of strangers, joined together daily and brunch on weekends, from 718.237.8720 earth desserts.” Store — an unassuming coffee, muf- The alcohol crisped the skin and for the love of food, trumped any- 11 am to 4 pm. Subway: 2, 3 to www.ovenny.com Melt in Park Slope has had blips fin and lunch place by day that trans- added a welcome bitter note to the thing on the plate. Bergen Street. For reservations, call on its radar with chefs coming and forms into Hecho En Dumbo, a so- deeply flavored fish. (718) 230-5925. Lunch & dinner Tuesday through Saturday; dinner on Sunday Moim (206 Garfield Pl. at Sev- going. The latest to make his mark is phisticated Mexican restaurant and On the edge of Prospect Heights Farwell Friends enth Avenue in Park Slope) accepts Patrik Landberg, who blends Swedish performance space by night — as and Park Slope is Flatbush Farm, To the now defunct Red Cafe in American Express, Discover, Master- restraint with a flair for flavor combi- much for barman Ethan Smith’s cock- where chef Eric Lind served an ap- Park Slope: Mark, you should have Card and Visa. Entrees: $16-$20. The restaurant serves dinner Tuesday nations. tails as chef Daniel Mena’s small bites pealing mix of country fare, like said “goodbye.” through Sunday. Closed Mondays. The evidence: truffle-dusted gnoc- or “antojitos.” The “tequila con sangri- lamb stew and stuffed cabbage, in Amelia’s Ristorante in Bay Ridge: Subway: F to Seventh Avenue. For chi scattered with tiny cubes of ta” was like a deconstructed Bloody this quirky urban setting. His crisp Ken, let me know where you’re cook- more information, call (718) 499-8092 or visit www.moimrestaurant.com. pancetta; tuna tartare in lemon vinai- Mary but better: One shot glass held chicken livers over roasted onions ing. And if you’re cooking “vitello e grette paired with a smear of hot mus- smooth tequila, the other a tomato juice weren’t delicate, but the livers’ crusty granchino alla Madeira” (veal medal- tard; and the heat and tingle of star chaser given fire by “Valentina,” a tra- exterior and creamy centers and lions with crabmeat, asparagus and light anise turned vanilla panna cotta into ditional Mexican hot sauce. A must- those sweet onion slices made a dev- Medeira sauce), let me know tonight. owners and rooftop dining, where a something special. have — if your palate isn’t scorched by asting pair. It hardly mattered what I Snooky’s in Park Slope: When all I waiter sang an aria to me, would Charlie Statelman shook up the the booze — is a serving or two of ate though; after gulping down the wanted was a good stiff drink and food close. well liked, but staid, Cafe on Clin- “burritas de res,” a small, crisp burrito “mixologist’s” “Mo’ Stomy” — a that didn’t distract from conversation Royal’s Downtown in Carroll ton in Cobble Hill when he bought filled with rare, wine-braised steak and lethal mix of ginger juice and ginger with a friend, Snooky’s hit the spot. Gardens: Location foiled this ambi- the place and revamped the menu. caramelized onions. ale, dark rum, mint and lime — the Spirito in Park Slope: The space tious place. It wasn’t the food. Last spring, Statelman served me sev- I liked the “cozy cafe around the room spun for a minute. (We’ll see if on Ninth Street between Fourth and The Plant in Dumbo: It was the en courses of little pleasures, the way” in Prospect Heights where his successor, chef Stephen Brown- Fifth avenues must be jinxed. That’s food. greatest being confit of duck leg with Cheryl Smith plies “global fusion” ing, is having an equally intoxicating the only reason why a place with For 2008: Forks at the ready. Now mahogany skin and meat so juicy it cuisine. At Cheryl’s Global Soul, effect on diners.) good, rustic Italian fare, charming eat!

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Free. discuss the mobility of microbes. 4 pm. Garden offers an intro class to garden OPENING RECEPTION: The Brooklyn PERFORMANCE Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch, An Exceptional meal. design. Learn how to use a small space Historical Society presents “Lost in BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. to its best advantage. Class includes Translation: South Brooklyn, Williams- ents Samuel Beckett’s two-person com- ARTIST RECEPTION: Smack Mellon pres- site analysis, material and technique burg and Coney Island.” Photographs edy “Happy Days.” $25 to $75. 2 pm ents “It’s 92: Phase II,” an exhibition info and selection of appropriate plants. taken by Brooklyn high school students and 7:30 pm. BAM Harvey Theater, 651 series that focuses on installation art. 5 6 pm to 9 pm. 1000 Washington Ave. are on view. $6, $4 seniors and students, Fulton St. (718) 636-4100. pm to 8 pm. 92 Plymouth St. (718) 834- Call for fee info and pre-registration. free for members and children under 12. 8761. Free. (718) 623-7220. METROPOLITAN OPERA: Live transmission 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. 128 Pierrepont of the Met’s “Macbeth.” In conjunction CONCERT: The Chamber Music Society of Street. Free. with the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Lincoln Center presents an hour-long LECTURE SERIES: Urban Legends Series in $42, $40. 1:30 pm. BAM, Rose Cinemas, SUN, JAN 13 program featuring Johannes Brahms’ Fort Greene Park. Today: “Are There 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4129. 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(718) offers a talk on how to grow and care from the intersection of Flatbush and edy “Happy Days.” $25 to $75. 7:30 A string thing: On Tuesday, Jan. 8, 624-2083. pm. BAM Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton for landscape plants. 6 pm to 9 pm. Nostrand avenues. (718) 951-4500. BAM: “Happy Days. 3 pm. See Sat., Jan. 12. St. (718) 636-4100. 1000 Washington Ave. Call for fee info the Chamber Music Society of Lin- BARGEMUSIC: Classical music program and pre-registration. (718) 623-7220. MEDITATION CLASS: “A Daily Practice – coln Center, featuring cellist David features works by Hindemith, Shosta- OTHER How to Bring Meditation into Our Daily JAZZ NIGHT: with the Cynthia Sayer Trio. kovich and Tchaikovsky. $35, $30 sen- COOKING CLASS: The Center for Kosher Life.” $10. 7:30 pm to 8:45 pm. Unity $35, $20 students. Bargemusic, Fulton Finckel (pictured), will perform iors, $20 students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Culinary Arts presents a class in the cre- Church, 1901 Beverly Rd. (718) 496- Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at the works by Brahms and Schoenberg Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East ation of Edible Flower Bouquets. 5514. East River. (718) 624-2083. River. (718) 624-2083. Master Chef James Parker hosts. Learn BAM: “Happy Days.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., at the Mark Morris Dance Center. PERFORMANCE AND DISCUSSION how to make floral bouquets out of Jan. 12. Also, BAM Dialogue post-show SERIES: Brooklyn Arts Exchange hosts. everyday fruits and vegetables. $175 WED, JAN 9 talk with Fiona Shaw. Free for same-day Performances by Ryan Migge, Kriota (includes a 10 piece garnishing tool set). ticket holders. PERFORMANCE AND DISCUSSION Willberg, Dura Mater, Shannon Hummel 9 am to 2 pm. 1407 Coney Island Ave. BOTANY FOR HORTICULTURISTS: Brook- SERIES: at the Brooklyn Arts Exchange. and Cora Dance. $15, $8 low-income. 8 (718) 692-2442. lyn Botanic Garden offers a talk in how 8 pm. 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Open 7 days for lunch and dinner • Free Valet Parking • of folk, old-time and blues music. 9:30 624-2083. tree to Green-Wood Cemetery and have Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings Visit our website www.MarcoPoloRistorante.com pm. Jalopy Theater, 315 Columbia St. BAM: “Happy Days.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., it turned into mulch. Remove all decora- over the phone. (718) 395-3214. Free. Jan. 12. tions prior to drop off. 10 am to 2 pm. January 5, 2008 THE BROOKLYN PAPER WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM AWP 9 High ‘Wire’ act TV rogue Jamie Hector is a real-life good guy By Nicole Brydson for The Brooklyn Paper

ou know, people step to me and “ they basically say, ‘you’re play- Ying my life,’” actor Jamie Hec- tor told GO Brooklyn about his role as Marlo Stanfield in HBO’s hit series “.” “ ‘But thanks for putting a little bit of an intelligent perspective on it, because so many people look at it like a guy from the streets is just not intelligent.’ ” The fifth and final season of “The Wire” premieres on Jan. 6. The show takes place in East Baltimore where drugs and crime rule the streets while police and educators struggle to keep some semblance of order in the chaotic lives of area residents. Hector’s character, the circumspect Marlo Stanfield, a quiet but command- ing leader, is an up-and-comer in the opaedic Group city’s drug infested corners, a villain to ly Academic Orth the core but also a prince among those Brooklyn’s On Park Slope... e In the Heart of he considers his allies. The Baltimore Now Has An Offic of “The Wire” could be any post-in- dustrial American city struggling to / John N. Barclay keep its tax base and repair its crum- bling infrastructure. “The similarities that I see [between Brooklyn and Baltimore] are the love Rowena Husbands / Blink of an Eye Photography and the struggle,” said Hector, who Paper The Brooklyn grew up on the streets of Crown Down to the ‘Wire’: When Brooklyn native Jamie Hector, left, isn’t starring on episodes of “The Wire” and “He- Heights and East Flatbush. “[In] the roes,” he’s designing clothes for his Bed-Stuy boutique, Royal Addiction. This ensemble, at right, is part of his culture that you have within East Flat- spring collection which was featured in October’s “Brooklyn Fashion Week(end).” bush and Baltimore, you cover each other, you support each other.” there to give [to] you, or just do with- the media, and how they have to do food on the table, they don’t have time In real life, Hector, now in his 20s, is out and have fun doing without.” more with less, yet accomplish what it to nurture that,” said Hector. “So I’m the youngest of seven children. He de- Although Hector plays a villainous is that they have to accomplish,” said trying to set up an environment for scribed his experience growing up in role, the depth of Stanfield’s character Hector. “Also, the fact that you can get them where that can be nurtured, and central Brooklyn as “supportive, and development is a credit to the show’s media online now — so the writers go they can know they have this skill and ’hood,” saying that he was lucky to writers, who allow viewers and Hector and they write these great articles, and improve on it, instead of going though have “a lot of himself to sympathize with a murder- they do everything they can do, and life trying to figure out what they’re people around me ous drug kingpin. you can just get it all online [and] you good at.” University Orthopaedic Associates that supported TV “His want to don’t even have to pay for it no more A self-described “Brooklyn cat,” An Affiliate of SUNY Downstate Medical Center and pushed me, take care of his — is taking people out of positions, Hector loves an evening at Night of the which is what got The final season of “The Wire” will people, those that out of jobs.” Cookers in Fort Greene. “Wire” watch- FF cÜÉáÑxvà ctÜ~ j xáà premiere at 9 pm on Sunday, Jan. 6 on me to where I’m HBO. For information, visit www..com. are around him, I When he’s not overwhelmed with ers might also catch Hector moonlight- at today.” Episodes of NBC’s “Heroes,” featuring think I can identi- work — he’s just taken on the role of ing at Royal Addiction, a clothing store Some of those Jamie Hector, will air in the spring. fy with that. Also, Benjamin Knox Washington on NBC’s featuring his fashions, which he • Sports Medicine 718-270-2045 people include his discipline,” hit “Heroes” — Hector spends his time opened last year on Tompkins and De- • Hand Surgery his six older sib- said Hector. working with children and is currently catur streets in Bedford-Stuyvesant. lings, with whom he attended school in “What don’t I identify with? Every- seeking a home for his non-profit, It is clear from his personal and eco- • Neck and Back Pain his formative years. Later, Hector at- thing that took him down the path that “Moving Mountains,” which will be an nomic investments in Brooklyn that • Podiatry tended separate schools, which he said he’s on: the row houses full of bodies. after-school program dedicated to nur- Hector’s “Wire” character is the an- • Pediatric Orthopaedics gave him the independence to find out I don’t identify with that.” turing the talents of Brooklyn’s youth. tithesis of his real life, community- • who he was. Having so many older The new season of “The Wire” will “That’s one thing I do notice about minded self. Yet, the show’s growing Physiatry siblings “was drama, arguments, but center on the Baltimore media and the kids: the beauty and truth they come audience just can’t wait until Sunday • Occupational Medicine you’d never know if you didn’t have problems it faces in our internet age. with, what they can deliver. Sometimes to find out what lies ahead for his Mar- • Acupuncture [enough], because they were always “It’s going to show the struggles of the parents are working so hard to put lo Stanfield.

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Croton-on-Hudson for the show, elaborate tattoo design by hand appreciated the limbs’ price tags. with enamel marker. “I like the tattooed woman, but I Her inspiration comes mostly can’t afford it, so I might get a hand from her interest in tattoo design. or a foot,” he said. “I’d rather go to Russo drew up some of her own a show where I can actually pur- tat’s — she said she has “eight or y chase something. In New York, nine” — and although she’s dabbled Tattoo ou where nobody has any space, it’s in actual tattooing, she said, “It was- compelling to buy smaller works of n’t for me. I’m not so much a part of art. It’s still a precious object.” the culture but my artwork is.” Bay Ridge painter shows off And the staff at Tattoo Culture And the artwork seems to draw in agrees. outsiders as well. At her show’s Dec. “You see a 8 opening, people her ink in Williamsburg show lot of fine art in ART who weren’t

/ John N. Barclay tattooing nowa- looking to pur- “Tattooed Limbs And Other By Jessanne Collins dismembered limbs that the artist days, and as in Oddities” will be on display chase art still for The Brooklyn Paper made with plywood and immacu- Martina’s work, through Jan. 11 at Tattoo Culture streamed in, lately “tattooed” with classic im- you see more Gallery (29 Roebling St. at North and seemed to Fifth Street in Williamsburg). For in- he opening party for Martina ages like skulls, pinup girls, blue- tattooing in fine formation, call (718) 218-6532 or appreciate Rus-

Secondo Russo’s debut solo ex- birds, roses and mermaids. Paper The Brooklyn art,” said Gene visit www.tattooculture.net. so’s down-to- Thibition, “Tattooed Limbs and “They’re a mishmash of all sorts Painted ladies: Painter Martina Coffey, a resi- earth perspective. Other Oddities,” had all the typical of different images,” said Russo, Secondo Russo, at left, creates dent artist at “It’s more en- trappings of a gallery show — chat- 27, who was born in Genoa, Italy, “limbs” out of wood and paints Tattoo Culture, who also curates gaging than a regular gallery. It’s ter, cheer and free wine — but a sec- and now lives in Bay Ridge. “Old the shop’s art shows. “I don’t think not typical, not something you’d them in tattoos (above). Ap- ond glance at the artwork and the school tattoo designs are my fa- tattoos are accepted as art in the art see in a magazine,” said Kristina gallery space showed more than a vorite, but I also just use other in- propriately, her work is current- world; they’re too taboo. Our goal Musial, 24, of Harlem. / John N. Barclay few quirks. teresting images: Halloween deco- ly showing in a tattoo shop in is to show that there is a correla- Jennifer Sellers, 26, of Wee- At Tattoo Culture, the Williams- rations, my own drawings, Williamsburg. tion between tattooing and fine hawken, N.J., wandered in off the burg tattoo parlor where Russo’s drawings from other artists I like, art.” street and liked what she saw. Sell- show is on display through Jan. 11, found images.” walk in and buy a $400 painting.” Russo’s work clearly demon- ers, who has plenty of her own ink,

the ink and needles were stashed Shows such as “Tattooed Limbs Paper The Brooklyn Similarly, the offbeat appeal, and strates that relationship. In creating identified with the idea that whether away for the evening, but party-go- and Other Oddities” are a staple at lower price, of Russo’s “severed her “limbs,” she applies training painted on plywood or permanently ers, many colorfully tattooed them- MF Gallery, the Lower East Side ror movies, the couple curates shows printed T-shirts and other small, af- limbs” draws young collectors she received at CalArts in Valencia, etched onto a person’s skin, tattoos selves, milled about and took in space Russo and her husband Frank, with titles like “Zombie Attack,” fordable handmade pieces; items that looking for a new type of art to col- CA, cutting each form out of ply- are more than just a design. Russo’s unconventional offerings: a Red Hook native, co-own. Inspired “Freak Show” and “See You in Russo said, “might be more accessi- lect. Tim Kaminski, an art director wood with a jigsaw, paints the skin Said Sellers, “They mean some- full mannequins and two-dozen by their love of heavy metal and hor- Hell.” The gallery also carries hand- ble to somebody who’s not going to who ventured to Williamsburg from tone in acrylic and draws each thing.”

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Jan. 11: Meshell Ndegeocello, 9 pm, $25 7717 Third Ave. at 77th Street in Bay Live band kuntry karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; in advance, $27 day of the show, Ridge, (718) 833-8200. Saturdays: DJ Aki, 6 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Live band “Rockstar Mondays: RPM-Open Turntables hosted Excepter, Ecstatic Sunshine, Religious Jan. 5: Prodigal Child featuring Mike Karaoke,” 9:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: June by DJ Copa (bring your own needles and Knives, 12:30 am, $8 in advance, $10 day Riddle, D2, Jane T., Tony Monier and Nat Moris, 9 pm, Werewolves, 10 pm, 28 vinyl), 8 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Five for of the show. Seeley, 10 pm, $TBD. Degrees Taurus, 11 pm, Gunfight, Mid- Funny Tuesdays hosted by Dave Lester, Pete’s Candy The Salty Dog night, FREE; Jan. 11: The Bones Royal, 10 pm, $5; Wednesdays: Open mic with 10 pm, Radio Roots, 11 pm, Sai U Drom, Nate Jones and Da Feel, 9 pm, $5 ($10 Store 7509 Third Ave. at 75th Street in Bay Midnight, FREE; Jan. 12: Judge Roy after 10 pm); Jan. 5: Reggae Retro, 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street Ridge, (718) 238-9260, Beans, Golden Rocket Car, Beasts of Midnight, $10. www.saltydogbar.com. in Williamsburg, (718) 302-3770, Eden, 10 pm, FREE. www.petescandystore.com. Fridays, Saturdays: Live DJs, 9 pm, FREE; Grand Dakar Cafe Wednesdays: Karaoke night, 9 pm, FREE. Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, Matty BRIGHTON BEACH 285 Grand Ave. at Lafayette Avenue in Charles, 8:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Bingo, The Wicked Monk Clinton Hill, (718) 398-8900, 7 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Quizz-Off, National www.granddakar.com. 7:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: Clare Burson, 10 8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay Saturdays: Rhonda Benet (funk, jazz, pm, Benyaro, 11 pm, FREE; Jan. 6: Alec Ridge, (718) 921-0601, Restaurant soul, ’80s, old school), 8 pm, FREE; Stephen, 9:30 pm, Owen Roberts, 10:30 www.wickedmonk.com. 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Sundays: Live reggae music, 7 pm, FREE; pm, FREE; Jan. 7: Teletextile, 9:30 pm, Jan. 5: Holla Back, Bo-Bo’s birthday, 9 pm, Second Street in Brighton Beach, (718) Tuesdays: Don Juarez (Brazilian music), Affected Affections, 10:30 pm, FREE; $5; Jan. 6: Open mic with Joey D, 9 pm, $5; 646-1225, www.come2national.com. 8:30 pm, FREE; Thursdays: DJ Afro- Jan. 8: Eric Brendo, 9 pm, Jason Jan. 10: Joey D, 9 pm, $5; Jan. 11: Lucky 13, Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance Freaky, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Live music, Shervin Lainez Loughlin, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 9: Sydney 9 pm, $5; Jan. 12: High Def, 9 pm, $5. show, 9 pm, FREE (with $65 prix-fixe din- 10 pm, FREE. Visit the ‘States’: These United States, a rock band from Washington, DC, will play on Saturday, Jan. 5 at Park Slope’s Wayser, 10 pm, Adron, 11 pm, FREE; Jan. ner); Fridays: Live Russian music and Union Hall with Pepi Ginsberg and Wye Oak. 10: Hospitality, 9 pm, Steve Shiffman & BEDFORD-STUYVESANT dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $50 prix- DUMBO The Land of No, 10 pm, The Rotary Club, fixe dinner); Sundays: Live Russian music 11 pm, FREE; Jan. 11: Ulrich Zeigler Duo, Food 4 Thought and dance show, 7 pm, FREE (with $50 Five Front 8 pm, Kill Henry Sugar, 9 pm, Royal Pine, 11: The Shot Heard Round the World, suggested donation. days: Live jazz, 7 pm, FREE; Wednes- 10 pm, Ian Thomas, 11 pm, FREE; Jan. 445 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at prix-fixe dinner). 5 Front St. at Old Fulton Street in Shout to Talk, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 12: David Night of the days: Soul Night with Sugartime, 9 pm, 12: Dave Deporis, 9 pm, Wynn Walent, MacDonough Street in Bedford- DUMBO, (718) 625-5559, 10 pm, Wynn Walent, 11 pm, FREE. 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Jan. 5: Anna Fiszman & Marc Landesberg 8:30 pm, $5 and one-drink minimum, Music trivia, 8 pm, FREE; Jan. 9: DJ Saturdays: Grace Garland, 8 pm, FREE; pm, FREE; Jan. 11: Tighten Up Brooklyn!, with Felili, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 11: Dirk Issue Project Micahel Cain, 9:45 pm, $5 and one-drink Johnny, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 10: DJ D Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with Mondays: Open mic, 9 pm, FREE; Tues- Hank’s Saloon 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 12: Chris Mills, The two-drink/snack minimum; Jan. 9: Bill Quinn Band, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 12: Chris Room minimum. Redgrave, Heartbreaker DJ, Miss Jurgen, days: Andrey Ryabov, 9 pm, FREE; Wed- 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 12: Jones Street Boys, 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Rivals, 8 pm, $TBD. Bernthal & The Arrivals, 8 pm, $TBD; Jan. Bergson Band, 9 pm, FREE. 232 Third St. at Third Avenue in nesdays: Grace Garland, 9 pm, FREE; Gowanus, (718) 330-0313, Bogota Latin Woodpecker, Kelly Buchanan, 8 pm, DJ Thursdays: Susan Tobocman, 9 pm, FREE; Mark Ryan, 11 pm, FREE. www.issueprojectroom.org. Bistro Fridays: Eric Nicholas, 9 pm, FREE. Jan. 5: MV, EE, 8 pm, $10; Jan. 10: 141 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Stain Shawn Onsgard, Maguire x Clearvor x Park Slope, (718) 230-3805, Crossroads 766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street in Halvorson, 8 pm, $10; Jan. 11: The Holy www.bogotabistro.com. Saloon Williamsburg, (718) 387-7840, Experiment, Corridors, Ateleia, 8 pm, Wednesdays, Thursdays: Live music, 7 pm, 2079 Coney Island Ave. at Kings High- www.stainbar.com. $10; Jan. 12: Jim Pugliese’s Phase III CD FREE. Release Party, 8 pm, $10. way in Sheepshead Bay, (718) 339-9393. Mondays: “PAINTstain,” 6:30 pm, FREE; Fridays: Karaoke, 10:30 pm, FREE. Wednesdays: “JAMstain,” an informal Cafe Steinhof open mic hosted by singers/songwriters, GREENPOINT 427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: Dawoud on sitar, 8 Park Slope, (718) 369-7776, WILLIAMSBURG pm, Dave Miller Trio, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 8: Club Europa www.cafesteinhof.com. The Bad Egg Collective, 7 pm, FREE; Jan. 98 Meserole Ave. at Manhattan Jan. 9: The Jack Grace Band, 10:30 pm, Black Betty 10: The P.E.E.L. Series, poetry, essays and Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 383- FREE. 366 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer letter readings, 7:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 11: 5723, www.europaclub.com. Street in Williamsburg, (718) 599- Klas Toresson, Jeremy Udden, 8 pm, Saturdays: VIP dance party, 10 pm, FREE Melt 0243, www.blackbetty.net. FREE, Dave Miller Trio, 9 pm, FREE. WHY ADVERTISE Saturdays: DJ Emskee and G Man the before 10:30 pm, $15 after 10:30 pm; 440 Bergen St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Tuesdays: Karaoke night, 8 pm, FREE; Slope, (718) 230-5925. MC present the “Make Love, Not War” Trash Bar Fridays: Sexy Progressive dance party, 10 Fridays: “Stuck in the ’80s” party featur- party, 11 pm, FREE; Sundays: Brazilian 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in pm, FREE before 10:30 pm, $15 after ing DJs Paul EZ and Jan Cooley, 11 pm, Beat with DJ Sean Marquand and DJ Williamsburg, (718) 599-1000, 10:30 pm; Jan. 5: The Brother Kite fea- FREE. Greg Caz, 10 pm, FREE; Mondays: Rev. www.thetrashbar.com. Vince Anderson and his Love Choir, 10:30 turing Holler Wild Rose, 8 pm, $8; Jan. 6: Jan. 5: The Erase-hers, 8 pm, The IN THE BROOKLYN PAPER? 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Scammers, Midnight, $7; Jan. 6: Dirty featuring Signal the Escape, When Girls Mondays: Laugh Out Loud Mondays, 8 Work, 9 pm, Memphis Morticians, 10 pm, Kiss Girls, Against the Wall, Incuria, 7 pm, The Callbox pm, FREE; Thursdays, Fridays, Satur- Al & The Black Cats, 11 pm, The $8 in advance, $10 day of the show. days: Dance party, 9 pm, FREE. 148 Kingsland Ave. at Lombardy Arkhams, Midnight, $6; Jan. 7: Yourself Street in Williamsburg, (718) 384- and the Air, 8 pm, Proud Simon, 9 pm, Club Exit Southpaw 0179, www.thecallboxlounge.com. The Baby Train, 10 pm, $6; Jan. 8: Kittens 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Saturdays: Seductive Saturdays with DJ Ablaze, 8 pm, The Victor Williams Band, 9 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Avenue in Greenpoint, (718) 349- Jose, 11 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: ’80s Park Slope, (718) 230-0236, pm, A Million Years, 10 pm, Chewing Pics, 6969, www.club-exit.com. party with The Airwaves, 9 pm, FREE; Fri- www.spsounds.com. 11 pm, $6; Jan. 9: Some Candy, 8 pm, Saturdays, Fridays: DJ dance party, 10 days: Dance music all night, 9 pm, FREE. Glass Doll, 9 pm, The Current, 10 pm, Jan. 9: Bloodshot Revival, The Tele- We got back over pm, $15 (ladies FREE until 11 pm). Strange Things Done in the Midnight phones, The Walk Ons, 8 pm, $8; Jan. 10: Galapagos Sun, 11 pm, Public Offenders, Midnight, John Oliver, Rob Riggle, Franklin Bruno, 8 $6; Jan. 10: Martin Luque, 8 pm, Studio B pm, $20; Jan. 11: Chin Chin, Chico Mann, 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in A.K.A.C.O.D., 9 pm, The Campbell 100 coupons for 259 Banker St. at Calyer Street in Rich Medina, 8 pm, $TBD; Jan. 12: Hot Williamsburg, (718) 782-5188, www.galapagosartspace.com. Apartment, 10 pm, Murder Mystery, 11 Greenpoint, (718) 389-1880, Jamz, DJ Kool Kear, 10 pm, $5. www.clubstudiob.com. Saturdays: (Backroom) Larry Tee presents pm, $6; Jan. 11: Casual Acquaintance, 9 Jan. 5: FUN & Turntable Lab present “Dizzy” with Earl Dax and Kevin Graves, pm, Kill the Camera, 10 pm, Swinger our black & white Tea Lounge 11 pm, $5; Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, Eight, 11 pm, King Hamelin, Midnight, Grandmaster Flash, Debbie Deb and DJs 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Egg Foo Young, Eamon Harkin and Rok 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 5: (Backroom) Larry $7; Jan. 12: Roadside Graves, 8 pm, Park Slope, (718) 789-2762, Tee presents “Dizzy,” 11 pm, $5, (Front Can’t Hang, 9 pm, Chris Cubetta & The One, 10 pm, $10 in advance, $13 day of www.tealoungeny.com. the show; Jan. 11: FUN & Good Peoples room) Vicious Vaudeville, an evil bur- Liars Club, 10 pm, Stanton, 11 pm, I’m cookies in only fi ve Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays: Live lesque show, 9 pm, $8; Jan. 7: (Front Turning Into, Midnight, $7. present “The Kleavage Tour” featuring music, 9 pm, $5 suggested donation. Klever and Tittsworth with DJs Ayres, Roxy room) Monday Night Burlesque presents Cottontail, Rok One and Eamon Harkin, 10 Miss Galapagozonga Contest, 9:30 pm, Union Pool days! Thanks pm, $10 before midnight, $15 after mid- Two Boots $5; Jan. 10: Rock ‘n’ Roll Soul Roots night 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Avenue in night; Jan. 12: Flawless Media presents Brooklyn featuring Broken Carousel, Alphabet City Williamsburg, (718) 609-0484, Street Stars and more, 9 pm, $TBD. “Verboten” featuring Radeoclit, VNDLSM, 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in www.myspace.com/unionpool. Eric Ross & Alexander Technique, I Love You Airlines Park Slope, (718) 499-3253, Jan. 5: The Measure, Risk Relay, Jawfaker, and DJ Van Scott, 10 pm, $TBD. www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. The Lucky Cat 8 pm, $6; Jan. 9: U.P. Jamboree with The Jan. 5: Heather & The Barbarians, 10 pm, 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Dixons, The Defibulators, Born at Sea, 8 FREE. Williamsburg, (718) 782-0437, pm, $TBD; Jan. 10: Reid Paley Trio, Peg Brooklyn Paper. GREENWOOD HEIGHTS www.theluckycat.com. Simone, Honne Wells, 8 pm, $8; Jan. 11: Union Hall Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Keyboard Ka- Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, Kitchen Bar raoke, 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Jezebel Violens, Sebastian Blanck, 8 pm, $7. (Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Fifth 687 Sixth Ave. at 20th Street in Music Open Mic Night hosted by Ed Gorch, Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 638-4400, Greenwood Heights, (718) 499-5623, 7 pm, FREE, You Need a Band, 10 pm, www.unionhallny.com. Williamsburg www.kitchenbarny.com. FREE; Jan. 5: Afrokinetic, 10 pm, $TBD; Thursdays: Live music, 8:30 pm, FREE. Jan. 5: Pepi Ginsberg, These United Jan. 11: Philadelphyinz featuring DJs Skinny Music Center States, Wye Oak, 8 pm, $8; Jan. 8: Union Friedman, Nick Hook and Egg Foo Young, 367 Bedford Ave. at South Fifth Street Living Room Hall Spelling & Grammar Bee hosted by and drum machines, rapping, disco ball, in Williamsburg, (718) 384-1654. -Busy Chef, David Witt, 8 pm, FREE; Jan. 9: Union etc., 10 pm, $TBD; Jan. 12: Sharegroove Sundays: Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Lounge Hall Secret Science Club presents “Space with special guests, 10 pm, $TBD. Chamber with Greg Tate, 8 pm, 11 pm, 245 23rd St. at Fifth Avenue in Green- is the Place,” 7:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 10: The $7; Jan. 11: Judith Insell, Joe Fonda, 10 Brooklyn Heights wood Heights, (718) 499-1505, 1900s, Stevie Jackson, Laura Gibson, 8 pm, $10. www.myspace.com/livingroombrooklyn. pm, $12; Jan. 11: Tift Merritt, Hotel Luna Lounge Saturdays: DJ Kurt, 8 pm, FREE; Sundays: Lights, 7:30 pm, $13 in advance, $15 day 361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, (212) 260- Zebulon Guitar Hero, 8 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: of the show; Jan. 12: Royal American, 2323, www.lunalounge.com. 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Open mic night, 8 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Clair, The Rowboats, 8 pm, $8. Jan. 5: The Flying Eyes, 7:30 pm, Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 218- ’80s Music, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Wasa- 6934, www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. bassco Burlesque Show, 9 pm, $10. Duelists, 8:30 pm, Bob Muir & The Enemy PROSPECT HEIGHTS Below, 9:30 pm, The Dance Party, 10:30 Jan. 5: Mammi-Ama Ofori, 9 pm, Meta pm, Ra Ra Rasputin, 11:30 pm, $8; Jan. 6: and the Cornerstone, 11 pm, FREE; Jan. PARK SLOPE The Backroom Virgo Loves Cancer, 7:30 pm, Dead Leaf 6: Pure Horsehair and friends, 9 pm, (718) 834-9350 (At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Echo, 8:30 pm, Lucid Spruce, 9:30 pm, FREE; Jan. 7: T-Bird and Evan plus guest, Barbes Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 622- Airthieves, 10:30 pm, $8; Jan. 8: Twice as 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 8: Talibam, 10 pm, www.brooklynpaper.com 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park 7035, www.freddysbackroom.com. Bright, 7:30 pm, The City and Horses, FREE; Jan. 9: Brian Osborne, 8 pm, Slope, (718) 965-9177, Jan. 8: Night with Cecil, 9 pm, FREE; Jan. 8:30 pm, The All-Things, 9:30 pm, Baby Ezekiel Healy, Shani Samlal, 9 pm, Lati- www.barbesbrooklyn.com. 9: Opera on Tap, 9 pm, FREE. Teardrops, 10:30 pm, $5; Jan. 9: Dana tude/Longitude 7” Release Party, 10 pm, 55 Washington Street Tuesdays: Slavic Soul party, 9 pm, $10; Alexandra, 7 pm, Moosh, Nightbirds, 9 FREE; Jan. 10: Callers, 9 pm, Anistar, 10 pm, Schocholautte, 10 pm, $8; Jan. 10: pm, FREE; Jan. 11: The Palenimbus Rock Jan. 5: Jim Campilongo Electric Trio, 8 RED HOOK pm, $10 suggested donation, Howard Sunny Winter, 8:30 pm, Perfect Shapes, Band, 10 pm, FREE; Jan. 12: Zozo Afro- Brooklyn, NY 11201 9:30 pm, DeLeon, 10:30 pm, $8; Jan. 11: beat, 10 pm, FREE. Fishman, 10 pm, $10 suggested dona- Hope and Anchor tion; Jan. 6: Barbes Classical featuring [email protected] Jennifer Stumm, 7 pm, $10 suggested 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in donation, Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $10 Red Hook, (718) 237-0276. suggested donation; Jan. 7: Chicha Libre, Thursdays: Karaoke hosted by Dropsy 9:30 pm, $10 suggested donation; Jan. 8: Dozzman, 9 pm, FREE; Fridays, Satur- TALK TO US… Jenny Scheinman, 7 pm, $10 suggested days: Karaoke hosted by drag queen Kay donation; Jan. 9: Sean Conly’s Re:Action, Sera, 9 pm, FREE. To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possi- 8 pm, $10, Frank LoCastro Group, 10 pm, ble. Include name of venue, address with cross street, phone number for the pub- $10; Jan. 11: APAP Showcase with Rocky Sullivan’s lic to call, Web site address, dates, times and admission or ticket prices. 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B’klyn scribes KIDS • SCHOOL • STYLE • TEENS • CAMPS • MUSIC PARENT attempting to Smartmom a sucker for a smile n Christmas Eve, Smart- But every day without fail, If Officer Cooper sons for living the life he leads. mom had a nice conver- Jake is back on Seventh Av- is right, Smartmom is He doesn’t seem to have a sub- Osation with Jake, the enue, where he’s as much a part part of the problem. stance abuse problem. But then panhandler who usually stands in of the scenery as the stroller SMART Yet, she knows she again, maybe he does. write a wrong front of Ace Supermarket on moms, the woman who sells doesn’t have the Still, he seems very reliable Seventh Avenue and Berkeley bags made out of kimonos, and mom heart to stop giving as he shows up every day and Place. the Chinese musician who By Louise Crawford Jake or any of these stands in front of Ace or at the By Dana Rubinstein their meager contributions will off- Jake has a lovely smile and a plays the Erhu in front of other familiar faces Citibank. The Brooklyn Paper set the more than more than $2 very pleasant personality. Over Citibank. money. In a sense, panhandling is his million that Forest City Ratner Twenty Brooklyn scribblers the years, he and Smartmom ot all panhandlers are as But are the homeless really Even Meeter, who had his job. And he does it very well. spent in 2006 to lobby state and lo- have had many short conversa- pleasant as Jake. The that big a problem in Park own homeless problem, admits An unpaid doorman, he’s a and opponents of the Atlantic cal lawmakers. Yards 16-skyscraper-and-arena tions and she has probably giv- Nhomeless men who Slope? For Buddha’s sake, it’s that giving alms is important — good conversationalist, who’s “[The] authors’ generous dona- development are putting their en him hundreds of dollars. used to sleep on the steps of not like the East Village, the though not necessarily for the friendly, clean, courteous, and tion of their work to this anthology A dollar here, a dollar there, Old First Reformed Church got money where their pens are, not Lower East Side, or San Fran- reason you’d suspect. helpful. will go a long way in helping us Smartmom gives him money on a lot of people’s nerves and “Giving alms doesn’t solve a only contributing to a collection cisco. Indeed, Park Slope has a he other night, Jake told achieve our goals,” said Daniel just about every time she sees caused Old First’s Pastor Daniel problem, especially considering Smartmom that it would of essays and short stories about small group of homeless people Goldstein, a spokesman for DDDB, him. Meeter a great deal of tsuris. who’ve been around for years. where many panhandlers spend be a tough Christmas be- life in Brooklyn — but allowing T referring to the groups two ongoing On the days when she’s low “People keep asking why They belong here as much as what they get,” he told Smart- cause his 95-year-old mother the proceeds to benefit the mega- lawsuits. on cash, she crosses the street don’t we get rid of them. We anyone else and have endeared mom. died last month. She lived in development’s biggest opponent. Writer Phillip Lopate sums up or makes excuses. “I’ll get you can’t. We’ve tried. Believe me, themselves to many in the com- “But one gives alms symbol- South Carolina, where Jake “Brooklyn was Mine,” the $15 the point of the book in his intro- on my way back,” she says ful- we have tried. They have munity. ically. When I give alms, I am grew up on a farm. paperback book that was released duction: “Who is to say what will ly intending to do so. Usually abused our hospitality, they piss or some of the same rea- telling the person I trust him or He seemed proud of his rural become of the place, or whether on Wednesday by Riverhead she doesn’t come back. But on our building, they leave food sons that Park Slope is a her, and I don’t care whether he background and talked a bit Brooklyn will retain its soul? Books, features stories by Brook- Jake doesn’t seem to hold it around, they leave garbage all red-hot real estate market, or she deserves it. Giving alms about his mom, whom he hasn’t “Whatever happens to Brook- F lyn literary lions Jonathan Lethem, against her. over, they play their radio at it’s a great neighborhood to be is an act of humility, of honor- lyn, its literary soul is sound and seen in a long time. Smartmom whose story depicts Brooklyn in a In fact, Jake always looks great volumes,” Meeter wrote on homeless in. And like most ing the person’s right to de- robust, and its writers fiercely loy- asked if he ever thinks about dystopian future; and Jennifer happy to see Smartmom. That his blog, oldfirst.blogsspot.com. Park Slopers, the local home- mand something of me. Giving al,” he added. moving back to South Carolina. Egan, whose story evokes Brook- may be because she once gave Meeter tried to help these less love to have intense street- alms is a way of saying, We’re “The farm is long gone,” he “Brooklyn Was Mine” Book lyn’s ship-building past. The col- him a $10 bill. men, who all allegedly have side conversations. in this together.” said. But he’s really hooked on lection also features Colin Harri- Readings: Jennifer Egan, Susan About an hour later he hit substance abuse problems, but martmom doesn’t have a Choi and Darin Strauss at the Park There’s the William Bur- New York City. “It’s too slow son, who wrote about his obsession her up for more money. “I just nothing worked. According to roughs’s look-a-like, who sits in problem with these Park down there,” he told her with a with baseball. Slope Barnes and Noble, (267 Sev- enth Ave. at Sixth Street), Wednes- gave you $10,” she told Jake Meeter, they’re still living on front of Starbucks. Apparently he S Slope regulars, who have smile. “Too slow.” The proceeds will go to Develop day, Jan. 9, 7:30 pm. Emily Barton, somewhat miffed. What an un- the street somewhere. has an apartment nearby. But he been on Seventh Avenue for as Hearing about the death of Don’t Destroy Brooklyn, the or- Darcey Steinke and Alexandra Sty- grateful so and so, she thought. But at least the steps of his comes out once a month around long as she has. She does, how- Jake’s mother made Smartmom Jennifer Egan reads at the ganization spearheading the fight ron at BookCourt (163 Court St. “That’s right. Excuse me. church are free of them. rent time and asks in a polite ever, wish that they could get sad. But that wasn’t why she Park Slope Barnes and against the project by Forest City near Pacific Street), Tuesday Jan. Sorry, miss.” The police and many in the whisper if you can spare some the help they need and improve gave Jake a $10 bill. She gave it Noble on Jan. 9 Ratner. The writers are hoping that 15, 7 pm. Call (718) 362-4784. Everyone makes mistakes. community believe that gener- change. their lives. to him because it was Christ- Years ago, Smartmom read ous Park Slopers are the cause There’s the ravaged-looking And that’s really the issue. mas Eve and she wanted to do an interview with Jake in Stay of the homeless problem. woman who stands in front of Smartmom wonders if giving something special for this man, Free Magazine. In it, he said “One of the reasons we’re Citibank and the guy who sits Jake money is part of his prob- who always makes her smile. ALL DRAWN OUT that he needs $20 a day for food not getting rid of them is be- on a fruit crate in front of the lem. If she and others like her Louise Crawford also writes and his room in a flophouse cause everyone is giving them Apple Tree and always says to stopped, would he get a job? “Only the blog knows Brooklyn somewhere in Brooklyn. That’s money.” Officer Nybia Cooper the kids, “Don’t forget to read a Smartmom knows that Jake and is the keeper of the Park where he sleeps and showers. told The Brooklyn Paper. book.” probably has complicated rea- Slope 100. FAMILY Happy New Year,babies CLASSIFIED To advertise, call (718) 834-9350

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As such, it’s Jazz & Classical Lessons for Adults & time for The Brooklyn Paper’s an- The year in Yards! nual New Year’s Baby smackdown, Children also available. comparing this year’s crop of tots The tortuously drawn out development of the Atlantic Yards project never fails to offend, Call Michael 718-965-3296 (order of appearance is based on amuse and plain old befuddle onlookers. This year was no exception for the 16-skyscraper-and- [email protected] their order of appearance)! arena mini-city slated for Prospect Heights. Without further ado, here is our Atlantic Yards Year in L51 Review as compiled by Dana Rubinstein: Lily Chen Hannah Beth-Marie Pelletier Antonio Efferson JANUARY Entertainment Baby’s name Slap in the face: Bruce Ratner THE YEAR IN REVIEW pulled a fast one on the very 2007 Rico the Clown African-American constituents Magician & Comical Nerd Lutheran New York Long Island he had courted with his “Jobs, Hospital Atlantic Yards wouldn’t be done up, we should put some of the Birthday parties and special Medical Center Methodist Hospital College Hospital Hoops and Housing” plan, by occasions — Adults & Kids. Comedy, until 2022 — six years behind blame on Atlantic Yards, ac- signing a $400-million naming Magic, Balloon Sculpting, Puppets, schedule, contradicting an earli- cording to Con Edison officials rights deal for the Nets arena with Games, M.C., Comic Roastings. er promise that the Nets would who testified at an Assembly Barclays, a financial giant that “University Professor of Speech & Communications” Mother’s name Mei Xia Dong Chelsey Hyde-Pelletier Leslie Carasquillo be playing in the arena by 2006 hearing in Albany. Officials said has been linked to South Africa’s 718-434-9697 and the entire project would be Con Ed needed a 17-percent 917-318-9092 apartheid government, the Third A45 done by 2016. rate hike to boost an energy in- Reich, and the slave trade. Misinformation: State officials frastructure that will be strained Sex Female Female Male Community, shammunity: admitted that when they approved by developments like those The story breaks that communi- Atlantic Yards last year they were planned at Atlantic Yards and ty groups and schools will have relying on documents that were the West Side railyards. to pay as much as $100,000 to incomplete — and may have Bruce Rat- 7-pounds-9 7-pounds-13 6-pounds-9 rent Bruce Ratner’s Nets arena Cherry on top: Organic, Fair Trade Children's Parties even been in violation of Ratner’s ner’s sweetheart deal got a cher- Weight — an apparent pullback from original pact with the state and ry on top after a state lawmaker · Puppet Shows · Face Painting · Costume Parties: the developer’s promise to make city. Rubber stamp, anyone? slipped in a last-minute amend- Fairy, Princess, Wizard, Dancer · Organic Catering the arena available to local non- ment to a housing reform bill profit groups “at a reasonable Divine intervention: Park and Treats · Crafts · Balloon Fun · Decorations 20 inches 22 inches 19 inches that would shave $175 million Length rate.” Clearly, the meaning of Slope Rev. Daniel Meeter of · Favors · Caricatures · Tarot Readings off the developer’s costs. the word “reasonable” depends Old First Reformed Church · Treasure Hunts and More! on one’s tax bracket. wrote on his blog that “the scale of [Atlantic Yards] is mon- OCTOBER Call Rebecca FEBRUARY strous. It’s a moral issue,” offer- Security concerns: Days after (347) 385-6705 Time born 1:06 am 3:59 am 2 pm Newark residents learned that www.flowerfairy.net The ing a theological take on what W51 Opening the coffers: two streets around that city’s new city doubled its direct contribu- had theretofore been a very glass-walled sports arena would tion to Atlantic Yards to a stag- worldly pursuit: making money. be sealed off on game nights, res- gering $205 million — and APRIL idents near the Atlantic Yards Mayor Bloomberg admitted HOME CARE SERVICES BY SENIORS FOR SENIORS footprint called on state officials that there was no limit to how Take three: A coalition of 26 Seniors Helping Seniors is an exceptional program of caring and care. It is a very Kids can ‘recycle-a-bicycle’ Brooklyn civic groups that op- to admit that the same frustrating unique program in the country which matched seniors who want to help with much the city could spend on scenario will likely happen in the “infrastructure improvements” pose Atlantic Yards filed a law- seniors who are looking for help. We offer unlimited services including: By Adam F. Hutton Now, it has a dedicated class- lyn to work as interns in the shop suit to annul the state’s environ- heart of Brooklyn. That admis- · Companion care · Housekeeping · Overnight & 24 hr Care The Brooklyn Paper room space. every semester. Those interns in and around the developer’s sion was, surprise, surprise, not 16-tower mini-city. mental review of the Prospect · Meal Preparation · Cooking/Vegetarian · Doctors Appointments “We’re really glad,” said Ex- learn not only how to repair bicy- Heights Xanadu, charging that forthcoming. Recycle-a-bicycle — a ecutive Director Lisa Stein. cles, but also how to run a shop. Baby steps: Demolition be- · Transportation · Grocery/Shopping · Maintenance Services officials broke review laws in · Yard Work · Small Repair · Mobility Assistance DUMBO bike shop that not “Having a space in the shop will In its first 10 years, between gins! It’s the first step in what their rush to approve the project NOVEMBER only repairs bikes, but also was expected to be a 10-year · Person Grooming · Pet Care · And More allow us to expand our program- 1994 and 2004, Recycle-a-bicy- before Gov. Pataki left office. Cracking up: Massachusetts teaches Brooklyn teens to sal- ming for students and volunteers cle trained more than 5,000 stu- construction project. “It brings Institute of Technology sued At- Seniors Helping Seniors in-house care services is the place to call for the help you The lawsuit became the Ratner want at a price you can afford. Call us today; it's just like getting vage and maintain their wheels who want to learn bike salvage dents at their schools and us a step closer to making At- foes’ third highly complex (and lantic Yards architects Frank — has recycled itself, moving lantic Yards a reality for all of a little help from your friends . and repair.” processed more than 8,000 used probably futile) attempt to stop Gehry, claiming that his three- from its cramped shop on The bike shop recruits 15 stu- bicycles for resale. Brooklyn,” Ratner said. year-old building on the Cam- SENIORS HELPING SENIORS · (347) 689-8589 the residential, retail, office and Washington Street to a new lo- dents between the ages of 14 and For information about Recy- Kvetch away: The developer, bridge campus is cracking apart. arena mega-development. WWW.SENIORSHELPINGSENIORS.COM cation at 35 Jay St. 18 from public schools in Brook- cle-a-bicycle, call (718) 858-2972. who famously skirted the city’s The MIT building’s ziggurat de- rigorous public-review process MAY sign is similar to Gehry’s plans in favor of expedited state over- Three-faced: The Empire for the “Miss Brooklyn” tower. sight, opened a “community li- State Development Corporation DECEMBER aison office” within the 22-acre said it would create two new Marriage Need a Tune-Up? Day Atlantic Yards footprint so that positions to oversee the project, One promise fulfilled: Two area residents could express their in addition to an already created hundred and three days after I can show you how to: promising to appoint someone School, “questions or concerns” during job of “environmental monitor.” use the techniques that (research the construction. The announcement came two to oversee demolition and con- · weeks after a partial collapse of struction work at the Atlantic shows) help relationships last. Inc. MARCH the Ratner-owned Ward Bakery Yards project — and after three · make sure that your partner Averting cat-astrophe: Cat on Pacific Street during prelimi- other people reportedly turned understands what's on your mind. A fully licensed and certified preschool lovers worked around the clock nary demolition. down the job — state officials · separate the past from the N 2-4 year old programs N 2, 3, 4 or 5 mornings, to rescue a colony of feral fe- Innocent bagel man: The frus- have hired their long-awaited present in the relationship. lines who were about to lose trated opponents of Atlantic Yards watchdog. · create realistic expectations for N Licensed teachers afternoons or full days their Vanderbilt Avenue aban- took out their aggression on a Too little, too late: Departing resolving those ongoing, touchy issues. doned-lot-cum-home to make N Optimal educational equipment N Spacious Classrooms bagel store owner, who made the Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff evaluate what the commitment to room for the 16-tower mega- took a parting shot at the At- · error of naming his new Fifth-Av- new, promising behaviors would require. N Exclusive outdoor facilities N Enriched Curriculum project. The cat ladies succeed- enue shop, “Arena Bagels and lantic Yards mega-development, ed, relocating all 11 tabbies be- Bialys.” Two months later, offering the stunning admission N Indoor Gym facilities N Caring, loving environment fore the wrecking ball relocated shopowner Ravi Aggarwal re- that if the city had to do it all Mastering These Basics Is the Key To A Successful Marriage them to kitty heaven. named it “A.R.E.A Bagels.” over again, it would have de- Part-time spot available for 3 or 4 year old girl Misinformation: Ratner now manded a proper public review Joan Emerson, PhD · (718) 499-0373 says that the Nets arena would JUNE of the project. Now, if he would Licensed Psychologist & Couples Specialist open in 2010, a year later than Power hungry: We learned just do something about the $4- www.joanemerson.com >\ÊÓÎä‡xÓxxÊUÊÇÈÎÊ*ÀiÈ`i˜ÌÊ-ÌÀiiÌÊÊ­LiÌ°ÊÈÌ ÊEÊÇÌ ÊÛið® promised — and that the rest of that when our electric bill goes billion boondoggle… January 5, 2008 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 AWP 13 Solar panel keeps Xmas tree well lit 3,;;D 90B D0,= / Julie Rosenberg FROM YOUR NEWSPAPER OF THE YEAR The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn This solar-power collection units fueled the holiday lights on the DUMBO Christmas Tree. By Adam F. Hutton The Brooklyn Paper How green is DUMBO? Even the Christmas lights were solar powered this holiday season. More than a dozen trees in the Pearl Street Triangle were equipped this year with sun-grabbing battery packs — an initiative that earned DUMBO Improvement District Executive Director Tucker Reed our coveted “Green Hero of the Week” award. Reed said his organization is “deeply committed” to environmental issues, even if the cost of “going green” is a lot higher than the old- fashioned way of purchasing electricity. The improvement district shelled out more than $1,000 for the solar-powered lights, far more than what it would cost to plug the lights into a socket. Then again, Reed said the lights were durable enough to leave up year-round, meaning that their cost-effectiveness and environmental- friendliness will only increase over time. Reed’s green credentials are already well documented (on recycled pa- per, of course). One of his first acts as head of the DUMBO Improvement District was to turn a grimy parking lot under the Manhattan Bridge into the Pearl Street Triangle this summer. It is now a splendid public space complete with more than a dozen trees, seating and public art. Like most heroes, Reed downplayed his “green” good works by noting that using solar panels for the Christmas lights was really a lo- gistical issue more than an environmental one. “It was either that, or run 14 extension cords out there,” Reed said.

‘Construction’ of ‘park’ ‘begins’ with demolition By Adam F. Hutton The Brooklyn Paper The first construction phase of Brooklyn Bridge Park will be some demolition. Late last month, the Empire State Development Corporation gave the green light to the demolition of five of the six piers within the waterfront development site, which stretches 1.3 miles from the Manhattan Bridge to Atlantic Avenue. The $18-million, nine-month plan also calls for the Purchase Building, an Art Deco structure built under the Brooklyn Bridge during the Great Depression, to meet the wrecking ball. Although the 70-year-old building is within the Fulton Ferry Landing Historic District, it is not landmarked. Preservationists fought to save the building, citing its roots as a project of the Works Progress Administration, but the Landmarks Preservation Commis- sion voted in 2006 to allow its demolition. Some hoped that the building would be used as a visitor’s center, but planners said it would obstruct waterfront views from the other end of the sprawling development. Current plans call for the build- ing’s footprint to be used as an ice-skating rink in the winter. A number of supporters of the project — where new housing and retail establishments are expected to be joined by open space and recreational venues — are relieved to see action. The site has hosted a number of cultural events — including a floating pool — even as construction has stalled. Now, though, the ESDC said a ceremonial groundbreaking will be held early this year. If that sounds eerily familiar, it’s because Mayor Giuliani presided over just such a groundbreaking in 2001 — and a press release from that event said the development would be finished in two years. Six years later, in April, 2007, another groundbreaking was scheduled — but it never happened. DENTISTS

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