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E • Jacques Torres’ Almondine SID IN PLUSbakery opens in DUMBO Brooklyn Bites • Brooklyn Nightlife listings Your essential guide to BROOKLYN EATS • Review of Richard Maxwell’s latest SATURDAY • OCTOBER 16, 2004 Including The Brooklyn Heights Paper, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, DUMBO Paper, Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper and Downtown News Brooklyn’s REAL newspapers Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 20 pages • Vol. 27, No. 40 BWN • Saturday, October 16, 2004 • FREE VINCE DIMICELI Walentas Bring Mets and Nets to caves, kills Brooklyn his tower HE ANSWERS to the city’s stadium problems lie at the corner By Jess Wisloski of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues. The Brooklyn Papers TWhile real estate mogul Bruce Ratner continues to push ahead Facing certain rejection from a key City Council committee this with his Atlantic Yards project — featuring a basketball arena for his week, DUMBO developers David and Jed Walentas abruptly with- Nets, 60-story office towers and a high-rise housing campus — argu- drew their plans to build a 16-story apartment building on Water ments for less obtrusive, Street near the Brooklyn Bridge overpass. more neighborhood-friend- The news came as a relief to neighborhood organizations that had opposed ly developments above the the father-and-son team’s application to rezone 38 Water St. at Dock Street to Long Island Rail Road allow for the construction, which would have included 327 underground storage yard continue to parking spaces, 200 apartments and 8,000 square feet of retail space. pop up. / Jim Cole The plan drew the condemnation of the DUMBO Neighborhood Associa- I’ve heard them all, from tion, the Brooklyn Heights Association, Community Board 2, Borough Presi- a big park to low-rise, af- dent Marty Markowitz and Councilman David Yassky because it would have fordable housing to cheap impacted views of and from the Brooklyn Bridge. space for arts groups. “We just wanted to thank everyone for their help,” said Nancy Bowe, pres- And while any of those Associated Press ident of the Brooklyn Heights Association, who came to the City Council would be better than Rat- chambers Wednesday — the morning after word had been passed on through ner’s suburban campus su- council members that the Walentases had withdrawn their proposal. perblock — which would / Kathy Willens Pick your pumpkin The City Council rarely votes down an application recommended for ap- complete the separation of Pumpkins depicting President George Bush, left, and his Democratic challenger, Massachusetts proval by the City Planning Commission, but in this case the commission Fort Greene and Clinton was the only authority in the city’s land use review process to give the plan a Hill from Prospect Heights Sen. John Kerry, are seen below another pumpkin depicting the White House, at a Halloween that he started with the pumpkin show in Salem, N.H. Kerry and Bush held their final scheduled debate Wednesday. See WALENTAS on page 5 failed Atlantic Center mall Associated Press — none of them are going to happen. So the answer, of course, is to move the New York Mets to Brooklyn. But before I get bom- Hook Ikea set, unless mayor barded with hate e-mail, letters and phone calls, hear me out. Now, I’m no fan of the use of the state’s power of eminent domain to take moves in land away from people for the sake of one man mak- ing a buck. But if Gov. / Bill Kostroun Bloomie: I wouldn’t George Pataki (through his Metropolitan Transporta- tion Authority appointees’ want to live near it sale of air rights over the Associated Press rail yard and the state’s With its easy access and large near- By Jess Wisloski power to invoke eminent by population, the crossroads of At- The Brooklyn Papers domain) is determined to lantic and Flatbush avenues is the hand the site over to his The City Council voted 50-1 Wednesday in favor of perfect spot for Jason Kidd’s (above) zoning changes that would allow Swedish home fur- buddy Ratner, let’s get a Nets and Mike Piazza’s (top) Mets. better outcome for the bor- nishings giant Ikea to build a megastore on the Red ough as a whole — expand Hook waterfront. Only East New York Councilman on the genesis of Ratner’s project and build not just one, but two sports Charles Barron voted against the contentious plan. facilities. The measure is expected to be signed into law this week — Just as it was in the late-1920s when the Williamsburgh Savings Bank unless, that is, Mayor Michael Bloomberg decides to trade his tower was built, the crossroads of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues is as See FOR IKEA on page 2 Rendering of the proposed Red Hook Ikea on the site of the former New York Shipyard. prime a piece of real estate as any in Brooklyn. Granted, it’s not as close to Manhattan as Brooklyn Heights nor does it have the housing stock of Park Slope, but it’s a hell of a lot more accessible than, say, DUMBO. The fact that the intersection sits atop one of the largest train termi- nals in the city — it could be considered Penn Station East — makes it the perfect spot for development centered around the mass gathering of CB2 clarifies role in Ratner arena fight people. So while a mall like the new Target-anchored Atlantic Terminal isn’t By Jess Wisloski publicly announced their involvement housing complex. bor the area that will be directly affected by a bad use for the crossroads, lugging all that stuff you buy home by The Brooklyn Papers in negotiations for a community bene- Those negotiations, held privately and with- Ratner’s proposal, which in addition to creating train isn’t all that much fun. In response to pressure from com- fits agreement with developer Bruce out notification of the full community boards, a home for his recently purchased New Jersey But what if the only thing you needed to bring home from your trip munity members, politicians and the Ratner over his planned Atlantic Yards have carried on for the past 10 weeks. to the area was that foul ball you caught? On second thought, make Nets basketball team includes 17 high- rise press, community boards 2, 6 and 8 basketball arena, office tower and All three of the boards fall within or neigh- See CB2 ROLE on page 18 that a home run. See MOVE METS TO BROOKLYN on page 6 Taking eBay to the streets By Jotham Sederstrom book, except for maybe under auctioneers,” lasts seven days and attracts buyers from as pected,” said Leah Iberal, 34. “Ebay is sort The Brooklyn Papers Leah Iberal said of the business she found- far away as Australia, the husband-and- of like a little gambling game.” ed with her husband, Barry. “We’re pio- wife team and their staff of seven ship the The upstart, just one in an endless num- Flip through the five boroughs’ yel- neers, like the Pilgrims, in a whole new goods to the winning bidder and keep a ber of disparate businesses to sprout from low pages and the closest thing to world.” percentage of the profits. the advent of the Internet, has put up more eBay you’re likely to find, alphabeti- Since May, the service at 1865 Bath On an item like, say, an early 1900s than a thousand auctions, many for items cally speaking, is “eating disorders.” Ave. near 18th Avenue has allowed people camel saddle, which sold recently through that have sold in the quadruple and even / Jori Klein Why would eBay, the Internet-based who would normally dump their no-longer the service for $143, the seller would leave quintuple digits. public auction site, have a permanent ad- needed knick-knacks at a thrift store to, in- with around $100 after deducting auction A silver 1963 Corvette, said Leah Iberal, dress, you ask? Because the city’s first stead, expertly project those same goods to fees and a profit percentage. sold recently for $36,000 after an initial bid brick-and-mortar eBay brokerage, “It’s Out a worldwide market. Not bad for a used camel saddle. of $28,000. A second automobile to find its of Here!” opened a few months ago on the Once received, the goods are priced “We get a lot of unusual items that you way to “It’s Out of Here,” this one a more Papers The Brooklyn border of Bath Beach and Bensonhurst. modestly to attract interest on the eBay don’t think are going to bring in any bids modest late-model Lexus, found new own- Leah and Barry Iberal pose in front of their eBay store, It’s Out of Here! at “There’s no place to list us in the phone- Web site. After an auction, which usually but then they go for way more than you ex- See EBAY STORE on page 16 1865 Bath Ave. in Bensonhurst. 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