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Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2005 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages •Vol.28, No. 22 BRZ •Saturday, May 28, 2005 • FREE Kleinfeld quits Bay Ridge

The Brooklyn Papers Say it ain’t so — first the Dodgers and now Kleinfeld. The giant bridal emporium, a Brooklyn mainstay since 1941, announced Wednesday it would move to State probing Manhattan this summer. Kleinfeld, the country’s largest outlet for designer wed- ding dresses, has outfitted generations of brides who have perused selections — by appointment only, of course — at its Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street flagship in Bay Ridge. Its new location will be at West 20th Street and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan’s fashionable Chelsea neighbor- sale of Towers hood, co-owner Ronald Rothstein announced. Kleinfeld’s 185 employees will move with the store. The decision to move was based partly on the fact that about 80 percent of the store’s customers work in Manhattan, Rothstein EXCLUSIVE said. The new location would also allow a “grander, more theatri- cal environment” and 35,000 square feet of floor space — about By Jotham Sederstrom twice as much as the Bay Ridge store, he said. The Brooklyn Papers Built from an initial $600 investment in 1941, the business State officials are investi- grew to encompass three storefronts and become a mecca for gating charges that manage- brides-to-be and their entourages. After the store was sold to a ment of the Towers of Bay French investor, in December 1990, it suffered a decline, but its resurgence came in 1997, when Gordon Brothers Capitol, a Man- Ridge co-operative apart- hattan investment firm that buys failing businesses, rights them ment complex allowed un- and then sells them saved the shop from bankruptcy. qualified applicants to breeze The firm sold Kleinfeld in 1999 to a partnership that included through an extensive waiting Rothstein, Mara Urshel and savvy investor Wayne Rogers, the list of potential shareholders actor who played Trapper John on the 1970s television series

in exchange for paying well Mango / Greg “M.A.S.H.” above the state pricing “I was not familiar with the wedding dress business when I schedules for the Mitchell- first entered into this partnership, but over the last six years I Lama apartments. have learned that absolutely everyone comes to Kleinfeld,” The probe, by the Division Rogers said this week. of Housing and Community In a 1999 interview with The Brooklyn Papers, Hedda Klein- Renewal, which regulates af- Papers The Brooklyn feld Schacter, who founded the store with her father and her hus- fordable-, low- and middle-in- Callan / Tom band, Jack Schacter, credited the artisans she employed with the come housing in the state, cen- store’s success. ters on the sale of more than a Help is on the way “People would say, ‘Why did you stay in Bay Ridge?’” she re- dozen apartments at the twin From left, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, Rep. Vito Fossella and CB10 called. “It is because we had the best working staff. It was a co-op high-rises, on 65th Street Chairman Craig Eaton view one of of several sinkholes along the Shore Parkway classy labor market. The seamstresses and the sales people had between Fourth Avenue and bike path between 92nd Street and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Approxi- very high standards but didn’t like the idea of traveling to the city

Ridge Boulevard in Bay Ridge, Papers File The Brooklyn mately $7 million has been set aside to rebuild the pathway with work sched- everyday, so they came here and they had an outlet for their tal- See TOWERS on page 12 The Towers of Bay Ridge cooperative on 65th Street. uled to begin next month. ents, and it was very good for the reputation of the store.” That staff will now be bused into Manhattan, Rothstein said in a state- ment Wednesday. The Kleinfield store opened at 8206 Fifth Ave. in 1941, a year after Hedda emigrated from Vienna with her family. MTA opens bidding on rail yards site “It was a labor of love,” said Hed- da. “I used to love fashion. Since I By Jess Wisloski And you’d better work quickly — the more of three parcels of the rail yards, could bid on the MTA property, the RFP great public pressure to seek top-dollar for was a little girl in Vienna I would get The Brooklyn Papers proposals are due July 6. properly called the Vanderbilt Yards, was the first public attempt the agency has the Vanderbilt Yards. the American fashion magazines and The Metropolitan Transportation Au- which sit between Atlantic Avenue and made to solicit bids there. Since Ratner’s Forest City Ratner Com- just eat them up. It was a love. It was If you want to build something thority quietly issued a Request for Pro- Pacific Street, from Fifth Avenue to Van- “An RFP makes sure that everybody and panies announced plans to build a profes- an art and it was a craft.” other than a basketball arena and sky- posals (RFP) this week seeking bids for derbilt Avenue in Prospect Heights. his mother knows about it, and they can bid sional basketball arena and 17 residential Her father, an engineer in Vienna, scrapers over the Atlantic Avenue rail development rights over its Long Island The three parcels are 100,000 square if they want,” Kelly explained this week. and commercial high-rises emanating went back to his father’s business yards, this is your chance. Rail Road storage yards near Atlantic and feet, 119,000 square feet, and 148,000 “It opens up the entire process to anyone from Atlantic and Flatbush avenues out to when he arrived in America and be- But judging from the bidding over the Flatbush avenues, where developer Bruce square feet, and the complete guidelines who would be interested in bidding. Vanderbilt Avenue in December 2003, no came a furrier. Hudson Yards in Manhattan earlier this Ratner wants to build a 19,000-seat bas- are available on the MTA’s Web site, “The purpose is to see who else is inter- official bids have come forward, accord- Hedda’s family worked in the store year, you’d better have several-hundred ketball arena and four skyscrapers. www.mta.info. ested in the property,” he said. ing to the MTA. Neither has Forest City but Hedda’s father, who wanted her to million dollars. The RFP invites proposals for “the sale Although MTA spokesman Tom Kelly The cash-strapped MTA, which faces a Ratner offered a public bid on the devel- spend some time out of the city, al- The ear of the mayor and governor or lease of all or some of the air space and had told The Brooklyn Papers in previous massive budget deficit and has threatened opment rights over the rail yards. lowed her to take a job watching dogs wouldn’t hurt. related real property interests” in one or interviews that anybody who wanted to service cutbacks and fare hikes is under See MTA BIDDERS on page 5 See KLEINFELD on page 4 Four die as plane crashes in Coney

By Michael Weissenstein The pilot tried desperately to right he said. “It didn’t look like anyone Associated Press the 4-year-old plane after it went into could survive that.” a tailspin, said Herbert Lecler, 51, Zigun said it was the first plane Four people were killed Sat- who was fishing on the beach. crash on the beach that he could re- urday afternoon when a single- “He couldn’t, and he bounced on call. Several sunbathers were on the engine plane crashed on the that beach,” said Lecler. beach when the plane came down, beach in Coney Island, hitting Joshua McCabe, a registered although the Coney Island crowd the sand as stunned sunbathers nurse visiting from San Diego, was was generally sparse, he said. looked on, officials said. eating inside Nathan’s Famous hot Police and fire officials moved The victims, all on board the dog restaurant when he heard the quickly to close off the beach after Cessna 172S, were dead at the crash. McCabe and another witness the crash. Dozens of people were scene following the 1:30 p.m. rushed to the scene, where they gathered along the boardwalk staring crash, said Federal Aviation Admin- found the pilot already dead and a out at the wreckage, which was in istration spokeswoman Holly Bak- female passenger barely alive. sight of the Wonder Wheel attraction. er. Police and fire officials were at Within seconds, he said, “she There were no injuries on the the scene, where the shattered white wasn’t breathing and then she lost ground. Callan / Tom aircraft remained on the beach her pulse.” The crash occurred on a sunny about halfway between the Atlantic Dick Zigun, a longtime Coney spring day at the world-renowned Ocean and the boardwalk. Island resident who was at the crash beach, home to the Cyclone roller- Eyewitnesses said the plane was site, said it looked like the plane coaster and the Astroland amuse- circling above Coney Island when its had come down nose-first. ment park. The plane hit the beach Papers The Brooklyn engine suddenly stalled, and the air- “The wings are broken off, and near West 19th Street, close to Key- Officials look over wreckage of the single-engine Cessna 172S, which crashed on Coney Island beach Sunday, killing the pilot and three pas- craft quickly plunged into the beach. the cockpit glass was smashed up,” span Park. sengers on the sightseeing flight. No one on the ground was injured. “Every secondcounts.”

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Get Slimmer narrowly defeated plans to by the MTA, ridership would have been higher. ends is faster than local sub- Assembly members, whoever “Basically, the councilman’s terminate long-endangered The buses are also champi- way service.” it is, to get this done.” role is advocating for his dis- For Summer weekend express bus serv- oned by senior citizens and “I’m preparing a resolution Toby Russo, a Bay Ridge trict, and he does advocate. ice from Bay Ridge to the physically handicapped as calling on the MTA to contin- resident who occasionally uses But the MTA board is appoint- Bring a Friend The power to amaze yourself. Manhattan, transit officials being far more accessible that ue the bus service,” said Bay the buses, said that because the ed by the mayor and the gov- TWO say the routes will end late the subway. 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By Jotham Sederstrom brought me to a place where I could finally de- The Brooklyn Papers cide.” Hyer-Spencer took pains, however, to highlight The chief of staff to Bay Ridge Coun- Gentile’s accomplishments, including an initiative cilman Vincent Gentile quit this week citing he spearheaded to create a task force in response to epresent actual cruise itinerary epresent conflicts arising from the lawmaker’s policy the immigrant day laborers who flood Bay Ridge decisions and her own political aspirations. and elsewhere in Brooklyn looking for work. Janele Hyer-Spencer, of Staten Island, who She acknowledged that her resignation, and a ran against Assemblyman Matthew Mirones last subsequent article in the Staten Island Advance year, resigned May 19, making her the third that she believes unfairly positioned her as a Gentile chief of staff to quit in the past year. Gentile opponent, may work against her in fu- Scott Gastel quit that post in June 2004 and ture campaigns. later took a job with Public Advocate Betsy “Right now, I’m afraid of what people think,” Gotbaum. Gastel was replaced by John Martin, said Hyer-Spencer. “I need to find a way to be who quit last September after filing sexual ha- helpful to the community.” rassment charges against Gentile that are still The resignation, combined with those of her pending. Another staffer, Sam Cooper, is now predecessors, may provide steam for Pat Russo,

Noreweigan Cruise / Illustrative photo does not r Noreweigan chief of staff to Assemblywoman Joan Millman. a Republican who is challenging Gentile in the “I have a great deal of respect for him,” general election this November. Hyer-Spencer said of her former boss on Mon- Russo, a former deputy inspector general of day, during a break from surfing in Florida, the Welfare Inspector General’s office, this Enter The Brooklyn Papers contest to win a 7-night cruise for two where she is vacationing. “He’s a tenacious week used Hyer-Spencer’s resignation as an op- politician. But I didn’t always see eye-to-eye portunity to outline what he sees as an ongoing to the Caribbean or Mexican Riviera, sponsored by with his political direction.” problem within Gentile’s administration. The In particular, Hyer-Spencer cited legislation constant turnover, he charged, affects productiv- Gentile introduced that was derided both by fel- ity at the expense of taxpayers. low Democrats in the council and Republican “She is saying publicly what a lot of people Mayor Michael Bloomberg — a bill seeking to have already told me, which is that there’s a Contest open to couples married since Jan. 1 allow motorists to double park for five minutes. problem with the delivery of constituent servic- It was criticized as a pandering piece of legisla- es. That’s problematic because we’re paying for Mail this coupon by July 6 — or enter online! tion that would both encourage more double those services,” said Russo, who lost to Gentile parking and be unenforceable. in 2003 but garnered 45 percent of the vote. Mail to: June Contest, The Brooklyn Bride, c/o The Brooklyn Papers, The attempt to protect drivers from some- Gentile was tight-lipped this week on the 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201. times overzealous or insensitive traffic agents, reshuffling and declined to comment on who Hyer-Spencer said, could have been more easily might next be hired to run his office. Nonethe- Or enter online at www.TheBrooklynBride.com. addressed with the help of local police less, he indicated that, contrary to Russo’s precincts. claims, his staff has had longevity. BRIDE’S NAME: More threatening, however, was Gentile’s en- “I’ll only say that there was a difference in dorsement of Gotbaum, who Hyer-Spencer was approach, and that’s really all I’m going to say GROOM’S NAME: obliged to support in her role as chief of staff, other than the fact that I have three members of despite a personal inclination to stand by civil my staff that are hired for the second time liberties lawyer Norman Siegel, who is chal- WEDDING DATE (between January 1, 2005 and December 2007): around from when they worked for me in the lenging the incumbent public advocate in a De- [state] Senate and they’re working for me now,” mocratic primary this year. said Gentile. “We still have a good, talented and STREET ADDRESS: The clash, while likely a common problem working team, so I’m pretty pleased about that.” among employees of elected officials, was par- Aformer legal director for My Sister’s Place, CITY, STATE & ZIP: ticularly troublesome for Hyer-Spencer because an organization that advocates against domestic of her intention to run again for Assembly in violence, Hyer-Spencer holds a law degree from DAYTIME PHONE: EVENING PHONE: 2006. The worry, she said, was that hollow sup- the City University of New York, where she port for Gotbaum or other elected officials she graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1998. E-MAIL ADDRESS: didn’t personally believe in would come back to Last June, she was hand-picked by Staten Is- haunt her during future political endeavors. land Democrats to run against the Republican NAME AND RELATION OF PERSON SUBMITTING ENTRY: “It created a firestorm, whereby I felt like I Mirones. Although ultimately defeated, Hyer- BRIDE GROOM OTHER (SPECIFY) had to make a decision,” said Hyer-Spencer of Spencer earned an endorsement from the Staten her and Gentile’s differing endorsements. “I Island Advance before drawing 40 percent of Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines / Illustrative photo does not represent actual cruise itinerary Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines / Illustrative photo does not represent struggled internally with it and that really the vote.

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Entries submitted by mail must be in be required to provide proof of marriage (copy the activation date and all travel must be com- nees act independently of the cruise lines and not “A cousin of mine recom- the offices of The Brooklyn Papers, and entries of wedding certificate) or an affidavit affirming pleted by that date. as agents or employees thereof, and will not as- mended Jack as a very hard- “[Jack] came home on St. Kleinfeld.” submitted online must be retrieved from the an engagement to be married. 16) All reservation requirements in the cruise sume responsibility for any loss, delay, accident, working and ambitious young Patrick’s, 1946, and by then the “We’re delighted to be designated e-mail box, not later Wednesday, July 10) All entries become the sole property of certificate must be met. A minimum of 90 days injury or damage to persons, property or any lia- business had progressed quite building a one-of-a-kind retail 6, 2005. The mailing address is: June Contest, The Brooklyn Papers, which may publish the advance notice is required to process a reser- bility whatsoever arising from or in conjunction man to work in the store,” said The Brooklyn Bride, c/o The Brooklyn Papers, entries at any time in print, online or in any vation request. Port charges, government with the services provided by the cruise lines. Hedda. “He started on Memorial well,” said Hedda. “We moved destination in Manhattan, and 55 Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY other media without additional permission and taxes and applicable processing fees must be 23) The Brooklyn Papers, Michael C. Fina and Day and I was already gone but into also carrying cloth coats we are extremely proud of the 11201. Entries may not be personally deliv- without compensation. Entries may be edited received immediately once a request has been Mini Vacations Inc. assumes no responsibility and suits — eventually dresses fact that it has been designed ered to the offices of The Brooklyn Papers. and used in any manner deemed appropriate made for a sailing date. for any verbal or written representations made he saw a picture of me and said 4) The Brooklyn Papers is not responsible for by The Brooklyn Papers. 17) Cruise ships depart from either Miami, in conjunction with this offer by any distributor he liked what he saw. He said he — but it was all very high- from the ground up with the late, lost, damaged or misdirected mail or 11) Employees, vendors and family members Florida; Tampa, Florida; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and/or their agents other than those included didn’t even really like the job but priced clothing, which was un- needs of our brides and our courier deliveries or e-mails. of The Brooklyn Papers, Michael C. Fina and or Los Angeles, California. Airline tickets, air- in this offer. stuck around so he could meet usual for the area but we felt staff in mind, in true Kleinfeld 5) The winner will be notified by phone, e-mail Mini Vacations Inc. are ineligible to win. port transfers and miscellaneous expenses are 24) An alternate winner may be selected in the that it was needed so we con- style,” commented Urshel. or mail on or before Monday, July 11, 2005. 12) The Brooklyn Papers and Michael C. Fina not included. This offer is for the cruise only. event of noncompliance with any of the con- the girl in the picture.” 6) The winner will have three (3) days after noti- are not responsible or liable in any way for any 18) Selected sailings are available on a year- test rules. “I came home at Labor Day tinued giving the service.” In making the move, Klein- fication is sent by The Brooklyn Papers to claim failure on the part of Mini Vacations Inc. cruis- round basis, with a surcharge per person for 25) All federal, state and local laws apply and and we were engaged by “Then so many people came feld is also building upon re- the prize by completing, signing and returning es. Cruise certificate may not be exchanged peak season or holiday sailings. the payment of all taxes is the sole responsi- in for white dresses and we re- cent business success in Man- an Affidavit of Eligibility and a Publicity Release; for cash value. 19) Only one travel offer per household may bility of the winner. This contest is void where Thanksgiving and we got our otherwise, an alternate winner will be selected. 13) The winner will receive a certificate valid be used in an 18-month period. This offer can- prohibited by law. marriage license on Dec. 6, alized that we could go more hattan. In February, the 7) At a time scheduled by The Brooklyn for a 7-night cruise for two adults (double not be used in conjunction with any other pro- 26) The Brooklyn Papers reserves the right, at its the day before Pearl Harbor,” bridal,” said Jack. company established an initial Papers, the winner must pick up the cruise cer- occupancy required). Accommodations are an motional travel package. sole discretion, to extend or cancel the contest. The couple lived above presence there with the opening tificate at offices of The Brooklyn Papers and entry-level cabin. Upgrades to outstanding 20) The winner should not leave for the cruise 27) In the event of any dispute pertaining to she recalled. pose for a photograph that may be published ocean views or balconies are available for a until receiving written confirmation. All cruises this contest, the decision of The Brooklyn The business began as a their store, raising two chil- of Kleinfeld Bridesmaids’ Loft, by The Brooklyn Papers in any media. The surcharge. are booked according to the availability of Papers management is final. partnership between the newly- dren there. Both kids attended a 4,000-square-foot loft space weds and Hedda’s parents. It Poly Prep and worked in the in the garment center, at 270 W. store after school. 38th St., which has already sur- After selling the business, passed expectations for cus- Hedda and Jack moved from tomer appointments and sales. POLSTEINS CELEBRATES SUMMER their apartment above the The news of the move store to a Fifth Avenue apart- came just a day after a freak ment on Manhattan’s Upper accident sent a man hurtling East Side. through the Bay Ridge shop’s Rothstein said this week that display window. the company had been looking The Connecticut man, 57, Weber Days for larger quarters in order to was struck at 7:38 pm on accommodate its expanding Tuesday by a 2006 Infiniti that business, and to continue its flew onto the sidewalk after Bars and tradition of individualized at- colliding with a 1991 Ford Restaurants tention that is Kleinfeld’s sig- Thunderbird. at Polsteins nature. “After an exhaustive The man was thrust feet- Welcome! search throughout Brooklyn first into the window with and the greater New York area, glass shards hanging precari- we at last found the perfect ously above him, according to space in Manhattan,” said witnesses, but suffered only Rothstein. minor injuries. “The new Kleinfeld loca- — with Associated Press

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If you want to reach the people who live or work in Brownstone Brooklyn, Atlantic Yards arena and hous- Papers The Brooklyn because of their minor party “I think he’s reduced the of- look forward to continuing to Downtown Brooklyn or Western Brooklyn, we have a vehicle for you. You ing project is central to his Gary Popkin, chairman of the Kings County Libertarian status and because of Marko- fice of borough president to serve as borough president of can target 1, 2 or 3 zones — or add our affiliated newspaper, Brooklyn Skyline, to reach Southern Brooklyn as well. GO BROOKLYN, inserted into campaign. Party, in front of Borough Hall this week. witz’s widespread support. being court jester of Brook- the greatest place on Earth.” all 3 zones, is Brooklyn’s ONLY arts and entertainment weekly. •DOWNTOWN ZONE Activist eyes Red Hook-Sun Park seat •PARK SLOPE ZONE By Jotham Sederstrom Democrats, which endorsed zalez, Galarza claims, who had Since being appointed to with overcrowded schools. sion, we included the DEP The Brooklyn Papers his candidacy. qualms with the burden it the community board in 2000 She acknowledged that her and the Department of Health David Galarza, a former “Right now, unfortunately, would put on police, who were by then-Councilman Angel support of an Ikea furniture [in discussions]. I didn’t just there’s nothing being done at to provide security that day. Rodriguez — whose subse- store in Red Hook has been wake up and decide that Ikea member of Community City Council or in our com- Galarza said his decision to quent conviction for extortion controversial, in part because was a great thing — I waited •BAY RIDGE ZONE Board 7 and outspoken Sun- munity,” said Galarza. “Every- support George Martinez — a landed him in jail and created some residents believe the almost two years to make that set Park activist, this week one is wondering where our former district leader from the vacancy that Gonzalez neighborhood’s streets cannot decision. And I believe that announced he will challenge City Councilwoman has been Red Hook and Sunset Park — was elected to fill in 2002 — support the traffic anticipated Ikea has credibility.” ______incumbent Democratic Coun- for the last years.” in a special election against the two-term board member if the plan is completed. Galarza said that he is con- WHAT DOES IT COST? cilwoman Sara Gonzalez in He added later of Gonzalez: Gonzalez in 2002 may have had publicly criticized both Many in Red Hook had cerned about Ikea’s treatment It doesn’t COST to advertise, it PAYS! September’s primary. “In the immortal words of added to the bad blood. Rodriguez and Gonzalez. also criticized her failure to of workers and he says he Our Business Builders can match your promotional needs with an affordable The district also includes Donald Trump, ‘You’re fired.’ Either way, last April, Gon- “We’ve gone from a coun- take a timely stance on the wants to know if the furniture package. Substantial discounts are available for multiple insertions and for Red Hook and parts of Wind- “I don’t think that any em- zalez chose not to reinstate cilman who was convicted to proposal. Gonzalez said, how- store will be union friendly. prepayment and automatic payment by credit card (which may allow you to ployer in their right mind — Galarza to a third term on the ever, that she made a decision “Our waterfront space is earn miles or merchandise points while you build your business. sor Terrace. a councilwoman with no con- Galarza, 35, who has re- and that’s what the voters are community board. Galarza, victions,” said Galarza. to support Ikea only after dis- limited and it’s precious,” said peatedly butted heads with — would want to have an em- who has spearheaded rallies “It’s always a shame when cussing the issue with con- Galarza. “And so before per- ______Gonzalez over a variety of is- ployee who doesn’t work.” against X-rated video shops and an elected official takes puni- stituents, engineers and the manent structures are built sues, made the announcement Galarza said he first crossed a power plant in Sunset Park, tive action against a member of city Department of Environ- anywhere along the water- HOW DO I GET STARTED? at the monthly CB7 meeting paths with Gonzalez, then chair- believes that the snub was the the community simply for hav- mental Protection. front, the community’s ideas We have a professional Business Builder in your neighborhood who will on May 18 and followed it woman of CB7, after he organ- result of controversial issues he “I believe with any project and desires should be exhaust- take the time to work with you to develop an effective marketing cam- ing a difference of opinion,” paign. The sooner you start, the sooner you’ll see results. Call today! with an appearance at a meet- ized a vigil following the terror- repeatedly brought to the fore said Galarza in a prepared there is always going to be ed without the pressure of ing the next night of the Cen- ist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. while sitting on the board’s statement following his dis- problems,” said Gonzalez. consultants and their petty tral Brooklyn Independent That demonstration upset Gon- housing committee. missal from the board last year. “When I first put out my deci- parties and promotions.” “It’s politics a la Bloom- berg. If you can’t be a rubber ◆ stamp, you can’t be on the ◆ DOWTOWN PARK SLOPE BAY RIDGE FOR ALL OTHER board.” ZONE ZONE ZONE AREAS On Wednesday, however, ◆ Eric Ross Michael O’Connor Allen Nilsen Celia Weintrob Galarza said: “She’s not a bad ext 113 ext 128 ext 118 ext 104 ______MTA BIDDERS… person, she’s just not a good politician.” DEADLINES Continued from page 1 trumped by a bidder willing to oppose the arena, say the RFP Gonzalez said that it was Our Papers are published every Saturday morning. Space reservation and Forest City Ratner has pay more — as Cablevision should be withheld until an in- Galarza’s choice to run, but copy deadline is the preceding Monday at 4 pm. PDFs are accepted until since discussed plans with did in its losing bid for the Tuesday at 4 pm. All advertising is subject to Publisher’s approval. All pro- dependent appraisal of the site that it would not come with- visions of our current Rate Card apply. MTA officials to move the rail Hudson Yards site in Manhat- is undertaken, which the MTA out a fight. ◆ yards and upgrade them. The tan — the sale must be ap- promised would be done. “We live in a country where ◆ yards now actively store MTA proved by the 17 members of “I just think it’s the cart be- there is a democracy,” said ◆ buses and LIRR trains, which the MTA board, all of whom fore the horse,” said Patti Ha- Gonzalez, 56, who said she come in at night. are nominated by Pataki, and gan, a staunch opponent of the has raised $27,000 thus far for ◆ Custom Framing The announcement of the four of who are recommended plan who co-founded the her campaign. ◆ RFP this week raised ques- Ready-Made Frames by the mayor. Prospect Heights Action Coa- “He’s allowed to run, but tions as to just where Forest 374 7th Avenue ◆ BROOKLYN Both the mayor and gover- lition, an anti-arena group. I’m the best person for the Posters & Prints City Ratner stands in terms of (bet. 11th & 12th Sts) nor have expressed their sup- “It’s backwards, the inde- job. I’ve been working very ◆ Friendly Service negotiations with the MTA port for Ratner’s plan. hard in this community.” and the significance of a letter pendent appraisal would set a 718-832-0655 Asked if the bidding pro- bottom price from where the In particular, Gonzalez cit- CLASSIFIEDS signed by MTA and Forest cess would help determine the ed her fight to rid Sunset Park bidding would start,” she said. City Ratner officials that stip- value of the rail yards devel- “If the value were estab- of the more than 20 porno- ulates an “if ... when” agree- opment rights, Kelly said, “It Often called “reader ads,” Classified ads are the ideal marketplace for lished it would be easier for graphic video shops and book- Employment opportunities, Real Estate offerings, and a wide range of serv- ment for the property. would depend on the number stores on Third Avenue and In response to the call for bidders to figure out where ices and______merchandise. of bids and how many people elsewhere. More recently, she proposals last week, which ap- are interested in the property.” they had to go in order to get a said she led an effort to signif- WHERE WILL MY AD APPEAR? peared as a public announce- Forest City Ratner officials piece of the property.” She icantly downzone Sunset Park, ment in the New York Times noted that on the West Side of Our Classified ads automatically run in all of our zones that are published have said the company will which is being increasingly on May 18, Forest City Ratner Manhattan, an appraisal deter- during ______the week in which the ads run and will also appear on our website. pay whatever the land is deter- eyed by developers now that said the request indicated pos- mined to be worth. mined the rail yards’ value to restrictions have been tighten- WHAT DOES IT COST? itive movement. “We have said repeatedly be $923 million. ed to the north in Park Slope “We welcome the RFP and that we would pay fair market Kelly said off-handedly that and to the south in Bay Ridge. Classifieds are an economical medium. Rates vary by category and fre- look forward to a successful quency. (You can pay by check or credit card — which may allow you to value for this land,” said Ben- he wasn’t sure of the status of Additionally, she said, she earn miles or merchandise points.) completion of this stage of the der. “The RFP process is one the appraisal, and did not re- has been fighting to ease the project,” said Bruce Bender, way to determine that value.” turn several inquiries on the burden of students in south- Forest City Ratner’s executive Frustrated residents who matter by press time. west Brooklyn who are faced ______vice president for government and community affairs. DOES IT WORK? “We always expected that People read the Classifieds when they are looking for a specific service or product. Many of our service advertisers have been in the Paper for over the MTA would issue an RFP, 10 years, which is proof of their satisfaction! since they stated as much in ______the letter of agreement they signed with Forest City Rat- PICK THE SECTION ner,” Bender added. THAT IS RIGHT FOR YOU Neysa Pranger, an organiz- • Accountants and Tax Services er for the Straphanger’s Cam- paign, said in an April inter- • Attorneys view with The Brooklyn • Computers and Web Services Papers that an open RFP bid- • Employment ding process is the only way • Family Classifieds the MTA could “realize the • Home Improvement full value of the rail yards.” • Real Estate But, she cautioned, the com- petition can be iced out when • Services & Merchandise “power brokers are running • Travel and Vacations the processes.” Win a ______Pranger’s Straphanger’s HOW DO I GET STARTED? Campaign was one of four You can email your ad to [email protected] or fax it to (718) 834- public interest groups that in 1713. Include your name and daytime phone, and one of our Classified April filed a lawsuit against 7-night Advertising representatives will contact you with more information. Or call the MTA, charging the agency a rep directly. The sooner you start, the sooner you’ll see results. Call today violated its statutory duty by (718) 834-9350 ext 111 not getting as much money as ______possible for the Hudson Yards Cruise in Manhattan and did not con- DEADLINES duct a fair and open bidding The deadline for EMPLOYMENT and REAL ESTATE is 10 am Wednesday. process. The MTA board vot- The deadline for all other classifications is noon Tuesday. ed 14-0 to accept the New from Ads ordered and paid for by deadline are generally included in the next edi- tion, but sometimes ads may be held for an additional week. Once ordered, York Jets’ $250 million bid for a Classified Ad may NOT be cancelled before its first insertion. Ads ordered the rights to build a football to run more than one week may be cancelled after the first week. stadium that is also the center- However, while the ad may be cancelled, NO REFUND OR CREDIT will piece of Mayor Michael be issued. Special “package price” and other discounted multiple inser- tion rates require prepayment for the total number of weeks ordered, Bloomberg’s 2012 Olympic may not be cancelled and may not be short rated to achieve a lower rate bid, over the rail yards. The on renewal. In the event of an error in a published ad, please contact The agency rejected a $760 mil- Brooklyn Papers by the first deadline following publication. lion-plus bid from Cablevi- Sponsored by sion, which owns Madison Square Garden. Lawyers for MSG said in enter our online contest their own lawsuit that the LEGAL NOTICES MTA, with its politically ap- at The Brooklyn Papers are an ideal place to run your public notice and other pointed board, approved the legal ads, including Name Changes, LLC Notices and Liquor Licenses. Our Jets’ bid because the stadium rates are extremely competitive. For information, call Celia Weintrob at is a project that the mayor and TheBrooklynBride.com (718) 834-9350 ext. 104. Gov. George Pataki wanted. Even if Ratner’s plans are 6 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM May 28, 2005 Lack of dough downs 117 Remsen Street Booklyn NY 11201 Tips for traveling

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This year’s edition of the Brooklyn International Film Festival, “Opinion 8,” which kicks off at the Brooklyn Museum on June 3, has a lineup featuring (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings May 28, 2005 150 films in five categories (feature, documentary, animation, experimental and short films) that re- spond to a range of current events and topics. “Steal Me,” the opening night film, directed by American filmmaker Melissa Painter, tells the story of 15-year-old Jake (Danny Alexander), who comes looking for his mother in a small Montana town. He befriends Tucker (Hunter Parrish), whose family takes him in, but starts taking the family’s posses- ‘Christ’ sions before starting an affair with neighbor Grace (Toby Poser), a newly single mom who’s twice his age. The 7 pm screening of “Steal Me” will be fol- lowed by an opening night party with DJ Jolene and a performance by flamenco guitarist Romero. BIFF continues through June 12 with even more in DUMBO provocative fare, along with BIFF’s first-ever “kids- filmfest” on June 5, from 1 pm to 5 pm. The BIFF screenings will take place at the Brooklyn Museum’s Cantor Auditorium, 200 East- ern Parkway at Washington Avenue in Prospect • D’Ambrosi on location Heights. Tickets to the opening night film and party are $25. For a complete list of films, screen- ing dates and times, go to www.brooklynfilmfes- • Macy’s after hours tival.org. —Lisa J. Curtis • Brooklyn Hospital turns 160 THEATER

By Lisa J. Curtis out in Italy. People yell at me on the street. It GO Brooklyn Editor was incredibly strange.” But the actor chan- neled that bewilderment into a creative out- Left laughing f you’ve been in DUMBO and Coney Is- let, writing the play “The Pathological Pas- land lately, you may have seen writer-di- sion of the Christ,” which was staged in Presented by the folks who brought last year’s Irector Dario D’Ambrosi December at La MaMa in “Hell” theater festival to Williamsburg, “The Moral and his Italian film crew Manhattan, and then Values Festival” kicks shooting his movie adapted for this film. (His off at The Brick Theater “Pathological Passion of TER movie features most of on June 3. the Christ.” CHIT the actors from the The festival will D’Ambrosi says he is play’s cast.) stage 28 plays through widely recognized since he D’Ambrosi, who’s July 3 with themes that played the role of the sadistic CHATTER performed at La Mama touch on the hot-button Roman soldier who beats the for the past 25 years, topics of sexuality, poli- stuffing out of Jesus in Mel said that last Friday he shot one Inspired by Mel: Italian actor Dario D’Ambrosi (left) who played the role of the frightening Ro- tics and religion. Am- Gibson’s controversial “The Pas- “very important scene when Jesus man soldier who mercilessly beats Jesus in Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ,” filmed ong the works to be sion of the Christ.” meets Peter and Judah” for “Pathologi- scenes for his own film “The Pathological Passion of the Christ” in DUMBO and Coney Island. staged are (pictured) “Everybody hates me now, around the cal Passion” on the beach in Coney Island — “Freak Out under the world,” Dario told GO Brooklyn via tele- the next day, at nearly the exact same spot, a Apple Tree: (Some of) phone through his thick Italian accent. “I had small site-seeing plane crashed on the beach. supporters, such as our honorees Paul Gang- The Best of Tom X. a really big problem when the movie came “It’s amazing that we shoot the scene sei and Keyspan, play a pivotal role in ensur- Chao” (June 3-5), a se- there, and the day after, the plane came ing that the museum continues to thrive, es- lection of the comedi- down,” said D’Ambrosi. “It was really pecially now, with construction of our an’s short comedies.

scary.” The director does not appear to be a expanded facility underway.” Beowulf Sheehan Brick Theater co- superstitious man, however, and hopes to get In addition to the exhibits, workshops, cul- founder Michael Gard- his film in the Venice Film Festival. tural and natural history collections and af- ner dryly explained the inspiration for this massive And he’s a good sport. Despite the nega- ter-school programs already taking place at exploration of morality. “We were inspired by the fo- tive response to his role in “Passion,” it has- the museum, located at 145 Brooklyn Ave. at cus of the 2004 elections on morality,” said Gardner. n’t diminished D’Ambrosi’s affection for St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, look “If moral values can elect the leadership of the coun- Gibson, he said. forward to the return of their free concert se- try, then maybe they’re equal to the task of program- “I’m excited to call Mel and show him ries held on their rooftop each summer. ming our summer festival. Of course, we can’t speak my movie,” said D’Ambrosi. “Now we are For more information on supporting the to the effect this will have on our theater’s foreign very good friends.” On Tuesday, D’Ambrosi 3 museum, call (718) 735-4400. policy initiatives.” returned to Rome to begin post-production. The Brick Theater is located at 575 Metropoli- Rx for fun tan Ave. between Union Avenue and Lorimer Shopper’s club to Christoph Kimmich, president of Brook- Celebrate 160 years of Brooklyn Hospital Street. For a complete schedule of shows, log On Monday, May 23, Brooklyn Center for lyn College, which is also celebrating a spe- Center healing at the Brooklyn Hospital Foun- onto www.bricktheater.com. Tickets are $10 for the Performing Arts’ Ovation Awards ticket cial anniversary — its 75th. dation’s 2005 Founders Ball at the Brooklyn each show. Log onto www.smarttix.com or call holders were invited to shop at Macy’s in Walsh said the fete met Brooklyn Center’s Marriott in Downtown Brooklyn on June 3. (212) 868-4444. — Lisa J. Curtis Downtown Brooklyn at 6 pm, while the store goal of raising $90,000, which will support the The festivities will kick off with cocktails at was closed to the public. As if shopping Center’s education programs as well as its 6:30 pm, followed by dinner and dancing. The without lines wasn’t pleasure enough, each 2005-2006 season, presented at Brooklyn Col- proceeds from the black-tie shindig, co- / Greg Mango / Greg guest was presented with a Macy’s gift card lege’s Whitman Theater at the corner of Cam- chaired by Lizanne Fontaine, Dino Veron- as they entered the soiree. pus Road and Hillel Place in Flatbush. The ese and Buddhadev Manvar, will benefit DANCE The unique party took place throughout the upcoming season promises performances by the hospital’s geriatric unit. Individual tickets department store, with performances on several Savion Glover, DanceBrazil, Bob are $500. To purchase them, or for more infor- 1 floors and catering provided by Naturally Deli- Newhart, the Atlanta Ballet and much more. mation, visit the Web site at ww.tbh.org/ The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn cious. The 50th anniversary benefit paid tribute For more information, call (718) 951-4500. foundersball or call (718) 250-8888. Dance Africa to Macy’s Chairman and CEO Ron Klein, whose Def-initely missing Now through May 31, the Brooklyn Academy of company has supported Mos Def was nowhere to be found at the Music is staging a multimedia presentation of Brooklyn Center for several Brooklyn Children’s Museum Gala 2005, of African art and culture. years, said Cheri Walsh, which he was honorary chair. Unable to attend At the BAMcinematek, “The Best of the African Brooklyn Center’s manag- due to a scheduling conflict, the star of “The Film Festival” includes ing director. The event also Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” was screenings of Moussa honored Peggy Alston, missed, but Monday’s party at the Brooklyn Sene Absane’s film “Ma- director of Restoration Marriott, which honored Paul Gangsei, part- dame Brouette” (pic- Youth Arts Academy at the ner at Manatt, Phelps & Philips, LLP, and tured) on May 28 at 6:50 Center for Arts & Culture Wally Parker, president of Keyspan Energy pm and 9:15 pm. Set in a in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Delivery, went on without him and raised over Senegalese shantytown, Borough President Ma- $300,000, according to Brooklyn Children’s this 2002 film is about a ty Markowitz stopped Museum spokeswoman Samantha Terry. spunky divorcee who by to distribute his procla- “This year’s gala was a tremendous suc- sells produce on the mations and sing (a la cess with over 400 guests in attendance,” street. (“Brouette” is Marilyn Monroe) “Happy said Brooklyn Children’s Museum President 4 French for wheelbarrow.) Birthday dear president” Carol Enseki. “Our leadership and generous At the BAM How- ard Gilman Opera House,

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BROOKLYN Neighborhood Dining Guide Rouille redux Bites Chef Neil Ganic’s second incarnation of popular This week: MYRTLE AVENUE Bouillabaisse offers more choices, more seats By Tina Barry for The Brooklyn Papers abistro 154 Carlton Ave. at Myrtle Avenue, (718) 855- he problem with sequels is that 9455 (MC, V) Entrees: $9-$24. they follow a successful first act. Chef Abdoul Gueye, who co-owns this restaurant TPeople arrive at the new venture with his wife Cassandra, serves up African fusion hoping that whatever they loved about specialties in an intimate, modern setting as five- the original will be cloned and whatev- year-old daughter Sonia chats with the regulars. Appetizers at abistro, which opened on April 8, er they didn’t will be miraculously im- proved upon. Inevitably, some expecta-

include curry zucchini soup and the crispy Leo- Mango / Greg pold crab cake, served on a bed of fennel, tions are met along with a few pineapple and arugula salad with sundried toma- disappointments. toes and goat cheese mousse. For an entree, try the “moules frites” (herbed fries and mussels Fans of Neil Ganic’s now-defunct La served with plum tomatoes, mushrooms and scal- Bouillabaisse who follow him to his lions in a ginger lemongrass broth), or go for the new Bouillabaisse 126 may need a few chef’s favorite dish: fried chicken served with minutes and a glass of wine to adjust to pineapple-scented jasmine rice cake and wilted Papers File The Brooklyn his latest cafe’s streamlined digs. baby greens with Senegalese salsa in a Dijonnaise sauce. (Vegetarians take note: Gueye will substi- Lemon tart with Raspberries and a cup The original cafe was an anomaly tute tofu for most meat entrees and salads for an of coffee at Maggie Brown. when it opened on Atlantic Avenue in additional $2.) 1993. At that time, the street was Desserts range from spicy bread pudding with known for its antique shops, not dining. caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream to sorrel and Maggie Brown Patrons who entered Ganic’s French ginger creme brulee. Abistro’s liquor license is still 455 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, (718) bistro, with its one dark, narrow dining pending, but there’s no corkage fee. Open for 643-7001 (Cash only) Entrees: $9-$16. lunch and dinner, Tuesday through Sunday, and room decorated with French flea mar- Named after the 99-year-old grandmother of one weekend brunch, from 11 am to 4 pm. Closed ket clutter, felt like they had discovered of the restaurant’s owners, Chelsea Altman, Mondays. Maggie Brown brings international cuisine to the a secret bistro-salon where conversa- table — grandma style. With a bit of Mexican tion was lively and the food, well, that Five Spot here, and a bit of Italian there, and a whole lot of was an experience. 459-461 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue, French, Asian and Southern in between, Maggie Bouillabaisse 126, which opened in (718) 852-0202, www.fivespotsoulfood.com Brown’s menu has something for everyone. December in the Columbia Street Wa- Callan / Tom (Disc, MC, V) Entrees: $7.95-$13.95. Chef Josie Smith Malave’s specialties include pan- terfront District, has two largish rooms. A 60-foot bar, hardwood floors and an intricately roasted red snapper with savory vegetable cro- patterned tin ceiling decorate Five Spot’s dining quette and grilled asparagus, and grilled garlic The front dining area (with one brick room, while exposed brick, crushed red velvet chicken with homemade biscuits and gravy. For wall and another painted in golden and a wood-burning fireplace adorn the walls an appetizer, try the warm spinach salad with can- swirls) has brightly striped banquettes died walnuts and sliced pears. Grandma’s hearty where co-owners Malik and Kim Armstead have and a noisy open kitchen. On a lower Papers The Brooklyn been serving down-home cooking since 1996. cookin’ is a tough act to follow, but a hefty slice of Southern fried chicken and hickory-smoked spare the rich peanut butter pie stands its ground — level is an airier room with the bar and Owner Neil Ganic with his children, Nick, 10 and Leila, 7, at the new, bigger Bouillabaisse 126 restaurant. ribs are just two of their popular dishes, and and then some. Or try the fresh berry shortcake or tables covered in blue-and-white they’re now serving 100 percent pure beef and the flourless chocolate cake. No room for checked tablecloths. Beyond that is a super-sized, crusty crab cake among the sprinkled with chunks of Roquefort and why order meat? Because at Bouill- turkey burgers, as well as veggie burgers. Five dessert? Roll over to the bar for a glass of budg- lovely garden that makes an ideal set- original appetizers, and of course, his served with a ring of basil-laced dress- abaisse 126, it’s just as good. The filet Spot offers a takeout-only daily lunch special for et-friendly wine or an after-dinner cocktail. ting for Ganic’s dishes which his loyal signature saffron-tinged bouillabaisse is ing. This salad was salty, sweet and mignon, usually a bland piece of beef, $5.95 that includes meat (or fish for $6.95) and Outdoor garden seating available on the upper two side orders; in-house diners get half-off their deck; in mid-June, a BBQ station and mojito bar followers will find basically un- on the menu, still as lusty as I remem- nutty. What could be more appropriate was rich in flavor, crusty on the outside lunch platters. Side dishes range from black-eyed will open on the lower deck. Weekend brunch is changed. bered. What will please carnivores is on a spring evening? and really rare (as ordered). It arrived peas and collard greens to macaroni and cheese served from 10 am to 4:30 pm. Open Sunday Also unchanged, to some diners’ de- the addition of more meat entrees that His crab cake is thick and dense with with simple mashed potatoes and leeks and candied yams. Homemade cornbread is through Thursday, from 8 am to 11 pm; Fridays light and others’ frustration, is the su- are just as homey and expertly prepared sweet crabmeat, and I enjoyed the three julienned and sauteed in butter. Lovely. served with all dinner entrees. and Saturdays, from 10 am to midnight. per-sized blackboard carried from table as his seafood. petite dots of creamy aioli (mayonnaise Desserts are standard bistro fare: For dessert, try Five Spot’s individual pecan pie or to table, on which each day’s menu is Ganic has always had a way with flavored with garlic and red pepper), creme brulee, fruit tarts, a chocolate peach cobbler, or opt for the three-layer coconut Pillow Cafe & Lounge cake. In the evenings, live music or DJs perform written. light, beautifully balanced salads. On a hot mustard and ripe tomato salsa that souffle and bread pudding. The bread on stage. Check the “Brooklyn Nightlife” listings 372 Myrtle Ave. at Adelphi Street, (718) 246- On that blackboard, you’ll find the recent warm evening he served lightly partner the cake. pudding is studded with moist yellow for upcoming performers. Limited outdoor seat- 2711, www.pillowcafenyc.com (Cash only) Entrees: $3.95-$7.95. sweet, wine-poached pear with its steamed asparagus, grilled red peppers And that bouillabaisse. Whether it’s raisins and the texture is light, but it’s ing available. Open daily for lunch and dinner. wedge of Gorgonzola cheese and his and slices of slightly bitter endive the real McCoy is open to debate, as too dull to eat more than a few bites — Open for takeout from noon to midnight. If you can’t seem to locate Pillow Cafe and Lounge — it does not have a sign above its bouillabaisse is one of those dishes that even with the stingy spoonful of blue- entrance — just look for an inviting cluster of pil- varies from region to region. Here, berry sauce and the big puff of Jive Turkey lows in the window seat. The beige, brown and great bowls of the fish stew are placed unsweetened whipped cream. 441 Myrtle Ave. at Waverly Avenue, (718) 797- red interior of the cafe also offers a bar with four 1688 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Whole turkeys: $44.95- barstools and four tables with comfortable chairs. on the kitchen’s The counter every few cafe’s thin $74.95. The food here is all made from familiar but mostly Not surprisingly, the signature dish at Jive Turkey organic ingredients. “We make things that we all minutes, waiting to DINING sliver of is the whole fried turkey. ate when we were little,” co-owner Biola Odunewu be whisked to a lemon tart, “We deep-fry the turkeys in very hot oil for 18 to said. The menu ranges from peanut butter and jelly nearby table where Bouillabaisse 126 (126 Union St. at Colum- served with- sandwiches to smoked salmon salad. The most bia Street in the Columbia Street Water- 24 minutes. The result is much juicier on the inside diners say, “Wow.” front District) accepts Visa and MasterCard. out adorn- with a light crisp on the outside,” says owner popular items are the goat cheese and sundried tomato sandwich served with homemade pesto on In a deep bowl is Entrees: $10-$19. The restaurant is open ment, is as Aricka Westbrooks. The turkeys come in 15 fla- half of an entire lob- daily for dinner and serves brunch on Satur- rich as a vors ranging from honey pecan and lemon pep- sourdough bread, rivaled by their avocado salad days and Sundays from 11 am to 3 pm. For per to peach bourbon and Mexican mole. with fresh spinach leaves and goat cheese. If you’re ster, big sea scal- reservations, call (718) 855-4405. bake sale Westbrooks also serves a menu of homemade in the mood for some sweets, Pillow Cafe and lops, plump shell-on lemon desserts including extra large Rice Krispy treats, Lounge has black-and-white brownie cheesecake shrimp, plenty of square. It’s cookies, cupcakes and tarts. and a selection of brownies and cookies that varies from day to day. Open daily. mussels and a chunk of cod fish in a very good, but its solo presentation At Jive Turkey, the wooden countertop and cabi- delectable saffron-scented broth. Each looked forlorn. A couple of ripe berries nets hold recipe books and turkey figurines, while the curtained window just above the “kitchen Sapolo morsel of seafood is cooked perfectly or a dollop of fresh whipped cream sink” displays a flower box waiting for warm 501 Myrtle Ave. at Ryerson Street, (718) 789- Callan / Tom and that lobster meat is as sweet as any would enhance its taste and give its ap- weather. While the restaurant offers limited seat- 7788 (AmEx, Disc, MC, V) Entrees: $5.50- you’d find in a lobster shack in Maine. pearance some needed oomph. ing, there is a “grab, gobble and go” menu of sal- $19.95. But what makes the stew really sing Ganic and his cafe are truly New ads, sandwiches, meats and sides. Jive Turkey At William San’s Sapolo restaurant, sample serves five flavors of homemade lemonade, par- are the slices of crisp country bread York stories. Where else would you Chinese and Spanish food ranging from lobster smeared with rouille. A bite of that gar- find a Yugoslavian-born chef cooking ticularly popular on summer days: regular, mango, chow mein to “carne de res con pimiento” (green strawberry, pink lemonade and ginger mint. licky toast, soaked with the briny broth, French food in what was once a mostly pepper steak). Here you’ll find the traditional fare Papers The Brooklyn Whole turkeys can be shipped nationwide. Open of both cultures. Chinese classics include General Along with a bigger location on Union Street, Ganic has expanded his is sigh inducing. Italian enclave? What else can you say daily for lunch and dinner. Tso’s chicken, spicy scallops in garlic sauce, and In a cafe known for great seafood, but “merci” ham egg foo young. Or go for Spanish dishes classic French bistro menu to include more meat entrees. Karrot such as the “chicharrones de pollo sin hueso” 431 Myrtle Ave. at Clinton Avenue, (718) 522- (fried chicken cracklings), “chuelita frita” (fried 9753 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Smoothies: $3.75- pork chops) or paella. The daily lunch special (for $4.75. $4.95-$6.15 depending on choice of meat) is served with your choice of egg drop, wonton or The best smoothie in Brooklyn can be found at sweet-and-sour soup, as well as white or chicken- Now that’s a sausage for ya’ Karrot, owner Carlos Aguila says of his hip health fried rice. Open daily for lunch and dinner. food store. He offers two types of organic Delivery is cash only. smoothies: the Jubilee with blackberries, straw- Do you pride yourself on loving that déclassé New York snack berries, blueberries, bananas, soy milk and mango juice ($3.75) and the Omega with Sushi Okdol — the hot dog? On Memorial Day, this Monday, May 30, you almonds, bananas, soy protein and almond milk 497 Myrtle Ave. at Hall Street, (718) 789-1373, can watch gluttons fire them down — and consume a few dogs ($4.75) — “and lots of love,” adds Aguila. (Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $10-$15.95. yourself — at the “First Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest,” at On Karrot’s shelves are international teas, fresh It’s always sushi time at this Japanese and Korean Schnack (122 Union St. at Columbia Street). organic dairy products and eggs, wheat-free and restaurant. Just look at the clock in the dining “Contestants competed in the restaurant’s pre-event hot dog dairy-free products, and natural beauty supplies. room — it tells time in sushi! And although the eating heats,” said Harry Hawk, the event’s referee — along with The store, which opened in November 2002, even small restaurant, decorated in various shades of stocks natural pet foods. blue, is located on the second floor of a two-story his Schnack partners Jim Mamary and Alan Harding (host of Dis- covery Home & Leisure Channel’s “Cookin’ in Brooklyn” show). “We’ve got lots of quick cuisine stuff, lots of low- building, outside, the enormous sign bearing its carb breads and boxed goods for the low-carb name is hard to miss. Owner Eumnu Kang cus- On the day of the event, the six to eight contestants, who crowd, cereals, you name it,” Aguila said. The nat- tomized the menu so it appeals to both native proved they can down the dogs in record time in qualifying heats, ural food mini chain — three additional locations Korean and Japanese as well as American cus- tomers. The most popular dish among Pratt stu- will do their best to speed-eat a 30-inch, that’s right, 30-inch, are at 283 Grand Ave., 854 W. 181st St. in the Stahl-Meyer frank in a 28-inch long Caputo’s Bakery bun. (The Bronx, and 304 W. 117th St. in Harlem — stocks dents of Korean descent, according to Kang, is products from small producers, some of which are the “BiBimBop,” a mildly spiced combination of franks and buns were custom-made for this contest.) exclusive to the store. Aguila says his inventory is rice, vegetables, eggs and your choice of meat or The winner will take home more than $400 in prizes and cash priced 10 to 15 percent lower than most bean curd. Here’s the fun part: the sides are served in separate compartments and you get to from Schnack and the event’s other sponsors — New York Water Manhattan and Brooklyn health food stores. Taxi, Stahl-Meyer Company, Caputo’s Bakery, Jever Pilsner Beer Open daily. mix them yourself. On the Japanese side of the menu, the dragon and American Stevedoring Inc. roll, made with eel and crab and adorned with art- The contestants must adhere to strict rules of conduct during fully sliced pieces of avocado, wins in popularity. the competition: No deconstructing of the frank and/or bun will = Full review available at Lunch specials are served Monday through Friday, be tolerated, although breaking off portions of the dog with its from 11:30 am to 3 pm. Open daily. bun is allowed. Swallowing without sufficient chewing is grounds for disqualification. Get there between 11 am and 1 pm, and you’ll get a free Stahl- Editor’s note: These are a sampling of restaurants in the neighborhood. The list rotates, and it is not Meyer, all-beef hot dog. The contest begins at 1 pm. At 2 pm, the comprehensive. For more restaurants, go to dogs will be sold for 50 cents. You’ll even get a free 8-ounce Jever Abbreviation Key: AmEx= American www.brooklynpapers.com on the Web. If your Pilsner beer (1 per order) to wash it down. Express, DC= Diner’s Club, Disc= Discover restaurant is not listed and you would like it to be, Card, MC= MasterCard, Visa= Visa Card please contact GO Brooklyn Editor Lisa Curtis via For more information, call Schnack at (718) 855-2879. e-mail at [email protected]. — Tina Barry

IN BURrITO CIRcLES, IT’S KNOWN AS “FANCY PAnTS.”

SOPHIsTiCAtED TASte. MONTAGUE B/W COURT &CLINT0N (BR0OKLYN HEIGhTS) April 16, 2005 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM AWP 9 June Is Rose Month at Brooklyn Botanic Garden Family ties Comic mother-daughter tale is universal

By Lisa J. Curtis (with subtitles) and English and has many scenes filmed GO Brooklyn Editor in the Chinese community in Flushing, Queens, it feels like an authentic, insider’s glimpse of this seemingly rooklynite Alice Wu is optimistic about box office cloistered enclave. sales for her first feature film, “Saving Face,” “In Flushing you have more recent waves of immigra- Bwhich is being released this weekend by Sony Pic- tion so you can actually have enclaves of people who tures Classics. choose to not speak English or don’t know how,” said Wu. re spring whe comes t “There’s something for everyone,” the Park Slope She shot “Saving Face” over 27 days in and around o lif resident told GO Brooklyn. “Asian lesbians! For gay New York City. Her rooftop scenes (“I live in Brooklyn, e men, Joan Chen. And I do feel that almost everyone res- so I know there are beautiful rooftop views that have onates with this [story]. No matter who you are, usually nothing to do with the Manhattan skyline!”), and even you have some sort of secret wish or something that the exterior of Wil’s Park Slope-style brownstone, were Sunday, June 5 • noon - 5 pm you held back on because you worry about what your shot in Greenpoint, she said. family or your community will think. There’s some- “For this particular story, I actually felt like New York Jazz & Roses thing exhilarating about seeing people reach for that.” is the only place in the United States to tell it, because the Featuring outdoor concerts with Matt Munisteri In addition to Chen, the Elizabeth Taylor of China, film is so much about a woman who has compartmental- and Rachelle Garnier and their bands another boldface name attached to Wu’s film is Will ized her world,” explained the San Jose, Calif., native. Special tours of the legendary Cranford Smith, in the role of producer. “The thing about New York is that in a very small ge- Rose Garden Wu’s film is a comic story about Wil (Michelle ographical location it has thousands of worlds, all right Book signing with celebrated rosarian, Krusiec), an independent Chinese-American woman, next to each other. Stephen Scanniello who comes home to find her pregnant, 48-year-old “And it’s a walking city, so you have to walk through mother (Chen) sitting on her Park Slope stoop one other people’s worlds to get to your own. Meet the photographers showcased in evening. She’s decided to move in with Wil, because “It was very important to me that there be a sense of “The Secret Garden: A Woman's View” her strict father threw her out of his house when she re- universality to this experience. It seems like Wil is going Kids Discovery Workshops fused to name the baby’s father. through this specific thing in this specific community of Now that Ma is in such close prox- Flushing, but it should feel, All month long imity, Wil’s secret life as a lesbian when she’s walking down the Self-guided tours of the Cranford Rose Garden threatens to be revealed to her tradi- CINEMA street, that the Hasidic Jewish Free guided tours on weekends tional Chinese family, employer and man that passes her or someone friends. (Not that much can be hidden “Saving Face” opens at AMC Empire 25 on the subway next to her is go- www.bbg.org “Everything Roses” in the Garden Gift Shop [42nd Street and Eighth Avenue (212) for long from the gossipy, close-knit 398-3939] and Angelika Film Center [18 ing through the exact same 900 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn Rose-themed adult classes in gardening, community of women portrayed in West Houston St. at Broadway (212) 995- thing in their community.” 718-623-7200 painting, and health 2000] in Manhattan on May 27. the film.) “Saving Face” opens in Man- 2/3 But the close quarters also offer hattan this weekend, and the to Eastern Parkway; Q to Prospect Park For complete details visit www.bbg.org the mother and daughter an opportu- filmmaker hopes the film will nity to grow closer. open in Brooklyn, too. Whether the film gets a wider re- “I wrote ‘Saving Face’ as a love-letter to my mother,” lease, and whether Wu gets another crack at writing and said Wu, 35. But it doesn’t mean she didn’t put her directing, depends on the first weekend’s receipts. mother to work translating the Chinese dialogue for the “I’m kind of amazed this film got made at all,” Wu film (as Wu can only speak the language, not write it). said of her five-year endeavor. “I just hope people can Hugo Perez Apparently, the love letter was well received. enjoy the film a tenth as much as I loved making it with Park Slope writer-director Alice Wu shot her “She is incredibly supportive now and proud of the incredible people. Then I’d be happy. And I hope I get new film, “Saving Face,” on location in New film,” said Wu. to do this again because those 27 days were probably York City. Because the film alternates between Mandarin dialect the best days of my life.”

FRI ✦ 6/17 ✦ 7:30 Triple bill of jazz innovators New play gets spotlight Presented in association with Park Slope’s Gallery Players premieres 14 plays in June’s ‘Black Box New Play Fest’

By Paulanne Simmons to acceptance.” for The Brooklyn Papers Jennifer Palumbo, who also lives in WED ✦ 6/15 ✦ 8:00 BAD PLUS Park Slope, was commissioned to write American Music Series CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO he Gallery Players’ eighth annual “The Runaway Birthday and Melvin JAMES CARTER ORGAN TRIO “Black Box New Play Festival” the Meek” for “The Sandbox” week- RICKIE Tpromises to offer something differ- end. Palumbo, who is also on the board ent this season: a unique theme for each of the Brooklyn Family Theatre (BFT), LEE JONES PHILADANCO of the four weekends, allowing for a first came to Curran’s attention through Iconic singer-songwriter more cohesive theater experience while a play she’d written for that group, 5:30 ✦ ✦ remaining true to the festival’s eclectic “How Peanut Butter Met Jelly.” BFT OPENING NIGHT GALA SAT 6/18 8:00 spirit. The Festival, produced by Gal- co-founder Lorraine Stobbe showed the Reserved concert seats Philadelphia’s trailblazing lery Players President Heather Siobhan play to Curran, and Curran liked it so plus cocktails, dinner & dancing modern dance company Curran runs for four weekends in June. much she asked Palumbo to write a Call (718) 855-7882 x26 The first weekend (June 2-5) is titled play for the Black Box Festival. “Brooklyn Plays-Brooklyn Playwrights,” “[‘The Runaway Birthday and The Village Voice Dance Party FRI ✦ 6/24 ✦ 7:30 and focuses on people who are resi- Melvin the Meek’] is about a princess dents of Brooklyn or writing about who is not going to be queen because Brooklyn, Curran told GO Brooklyn. her brother, Melvin, gets to be king,” The second weekend (June 9-12) is Palumbo explains. called “The Sex Box” and, says Curran, “She’s a little bitter about that. In or- “all of the plays explore themes of sex- der to get more attention, she makes a uality.” The third weekend (June 16- wish that her birthday is every single HUGH SOULIVE 19), “Heaven and Earth,” is a “catch- day. Everyone in town ages a year AFROBEAT all,” which Curran says includes plays every time they celebrate her birthday. MASEKELA ANTIBALAS ORCHESTRA about space-travel (Heaven) and rela- Within a year, the king and queen re- High-energy party band double bill tionships (Earth). tire and Melvin takes over. Because WILLIAM KENTRIDGE: In an effort to reach out to the entire he’s not prepared, he makes terrible de- 99DRAWINGSDRAWINGS FORFOR PROJECTION PROJECTION

family, the Gallery Players have decid- Matt Schicker cisions.” THUR ✦ 6/23 ✦ 7:30 ed to dedicate the fourth weekend (June (Left to right) Chris Speziale (kneeling), Marshall York, Laura Piquado and Gin- Aside from Palumbo’s play, which Celebrate South Africa! 23-26), “The Sandbox,” to plays for was subsidized by the Park Slope Civic ger Kroll rehearse “The Runaway Birthday and Melvin the Meek” which will play Once in a lifetime music/film event with children. Council, the shows in the Black Box two of South Africa’s greatest artists. NEW PORNOGRAPHERS/ “It feels good to get children into during the final weekend of the Gallery Players’ Black Box New Play Festival. Festival are no-frills productions. One set Presented in collaboration STARS / THESADIES the theater,” says Curran. “They’re the suffices for the entire weekend, with with the PublicArt Fund future generation of theater-goers.” some unexpected twists, he takes the Sloper Charlotte Winters. She collabo- “furniture and set dressing brought in to with major support ✦ ✦ provided by SAT 6/25 7:30 Michael Bettencourt’s one-act, position that “none of us can know rated with her half-brother, George, to change locales,” says Curran. Canada in New York! “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” everything completely, but as humans write this “tongue- But the Gallery Great White North indie rock based on Thomas Wolfe’s short story of we have to try to know something.” in-cheek, coming- Players spare no explosion the same title, will be presented the first The second weekend’s program also of-age story” time and effort THEATER Presented with major weekend. Bettencourt says that he was includes one of Bettencourt’s plays: about a boy named when it comes to support from “inspired” by Wolfe’s story but “Sporting Goods.” This one-act takes Johnny who learns The Gallery Players’ “Black Box New working with play- Play Festival” runs June 2-26 at 199 changed the direction by making his the form of a monologue delivered by a that he is gay 14th St., between Fourth and Fifth av- wrights to develop play “a quest to know something.” young wrestler during a match. when a fairy visits enues, in Park Slope. Thursdays, Fridays their ideas. SHADOW In the original story, a young man “The young man is comfortable with him one night and and Saturdays at 8 pm and Sundays at 3 “Each year I re- pm. “The Sandbox” weekend will have wants to go to different areas of Brook- his homosexuality because he can get the brings him the two shows, at 3 pm and 8 pm, on Satur- ceive better and TRINIDAD SLAM lyn because he likes their names. He kind of touch he wants while wrestling, news. day, June 25. Tickets are $15 for adults better plays,” says has just visited Red Hook and wants to but the man he is wrestling with doesn’t “Johnny goes and $12 for children under 12 and sen- Curran. SAT ✦ 7/2 ✦ 7:30 iors. A festival pass, which admits a pa- Calypso giant with local go to Bensonhurst. In this story, Betten- know he has those same desires,” says through a gamut tron to one performance on each of the “And each year court believes Wolfe is asking “how a Bettencourt. “In the end, the wrestling of emotions,” says four weekends, can be purchased for we give our audi- Trinidadian poets writer can know anything completely. becomes an emotional wrestling.” Winters. “The sto- $20. For a full schedule of plays and to ences better and make reservations, call (718) 595-0547 The Del And his answer is, ‘he can’t.’” Also on the bill that weekend is ry is about how he or visit www.galleryplayers.com. better quality pro- In Bettencourt’s play, which makes “Bibbity Bobbity Boo,” written by Park goes from denial ductions.” McCoury Band Bilal Chip Taylor & MARTHA Carrie Rodrigeuz REDBONE TAQUERIA D.F.I. 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Cal FREE; Tuesdays: Singles party, 5 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Live $6-$18 sliding scale; June 1: Brooklyn Sunset Music Festival May 28: Mike Brick & the Music Grinders, 10 pm, FREE. a showcase with Boo Boo Cousins, 7 pm, FREE; Thursdays: a m featuring The Bennies, Strikes Again!, Thrillpillow, John Crave, s a “Misbehaving Thursdays” hosted by Sandy and Nicole, 6 pm, 6:30 pm, $7; June 2: Contemporary Press presents the 2005 National Restaurant a Karaoke hosted by Lisa Smiles and Monique, 10 pm, FREE; 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Second Street in 200 Fifth r Raw Words Festival for Book Expo America featuring Bishop i Fridays: “Reggae After Work” with live DJ, 5 pm, FREE, Live Brighton Beach, (718) 646-1225, 200 Fifth Ave. at Sackett Street in Park Slope, (718) 638- C of Bath Avenue Allen, We Are Scientists, Tomorrow’s Friend, 8 pm, $5 with Family owned and operated music and DJ, 9 pm, $5. BEA pass, $10 public; June 3: Television Without Pity, 7 pm, www.come2national.com. 2925. FREE, Ruckus Dance Party with Artanker Convoy, Flaming Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance show, 9 pm, FREE Saturdays: DJ Blazer spinning reggae and hip-hop, 10 pm, Brooklyn’s Finest Brick Oven Pizza Club Exit Fire, Dewanatron with Zach Layton, Rude Mechanical (with $65 prix fixe dinner); Fridays: Live Russian music and ladies $5, men $10; Fridays: Friday Night Salsa with a live salsa Orchestra, Male Room, 9 pm, $7. dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $50 prix fixe dinner); Sundays: band and DJs Blazer One and Big Will spinning salsa, reggae, 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in hip-hop, 10 pm, ladies $5, men $10. Greenpoint, (718) 349-6969, www.club-exit.com. Live Russian music and dance show, 7 pm, FREE (with $50 prix fixe dinner). LUNCH Saturdays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, $15 (ladies FREE until mid- Good Coffeehouse night); Fridays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, FREE. 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Waterfront.” $20, $18 members, $12 Tree: (Some of) The Best of Tom X. FASHION MARKET: Brooklyn Designers 111 Livingston Street, Suite 1110 children of members ages 12 and Chao. ” At 11 pm, “It Came from Showcase features emerging design- younger. 11:05 am at Fulton Ferry New York,” curated and hosted by ers of handcrafted merchandise. Brooklyn, New York 11201 Landing. (718) 222-4111. Michele Carlo. 575 Metropolitan Ave. 10:30 am to 3 pm. 157 Montague St. (718) 763-7654. GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Historic Smarttix, (212) 868-4444. Also Queens, Nassau & Suffolk Offices Fund Tour explores “Venture to Valley BLACK BOX: “Black Box New Play POETS UNDER GLASS: Open reading Water.” Visits to the restored historic Festival.” 8 pm. See Sat., June 4. features Ken Siegelman, Poet * from, plus filing fee chapel, the Receiving Tomb and gar- GREENEST BLOCK CONTEST: Today is Laureate of Brooklyn. 1 pm to 3 pm. X34 dens as well as monuments. $10, $5 deadline to enter Brooklyn Botanic Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn for Historic Fund members. 1 pm. Call Garden’s 11th annual Greenest Block Heights branch, 280 Cadman Plaza for meeting location. (631) 549-4891. in Brooklyn contest. Call. (718) 623- West. (718) 972-9848. Free. DOWNTOWN TOUR: Mauricio Lorence 7250. GARDEN WALK: Floyd Bennett Gardens W29-5 leads a tour of historic sites of Fort Association hosts “A Walk on the Wild Are you Greene and Clinton Hill. $25. 2 pm to Side.” Learn about the wild greens and 5 pm. Brooklyn Marriott hotel, 333 SAT, JUNE 4 flowers in the park. 2 pm. Community Adams St. (718) 789-0430. Garden, Ryan Visitor Center. OVERWHELMED TWILIGHT WALK: Big Onion Tours takes OUTDOORS AND TOURS By your debt? Have you considered a walk across Brooklyn Bridge and MARINE PARK ADVENTURE: Explore SUN, JUNE 5 through Brooklyn Heights. $15, $12 and help maintain Marine Park. seniors, $10 students. 5 pm. 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BLACK BOX: “Black Box New Play [email protected] performances and vendors. 11 am to Fitness Center invites moms to ten, directed and performed by Trav X29-02 visits available 5 pm. Hall Street, between DeKalb CONCERT: Seventh annual Memorial strengthen and stretch muscles. Festival.” 3 pm. See Sat., June 4. R24 Day concert hosted by The Green- SD. $10. 575 Metropolitan Ave. Avenue and Willoughby Street. (718) 11:15 am. 348 Court St. (718) 935- Smarttix, (212) 868-4444. CHILDREN 622-5612. Free. Wood Historic Fund. 54-piece 0088. Free. Goldman Memorial Band performs. 2 CONCERT: New Utrecht Liberty Pole JULIE STOIL FERNANDEZ DANCE: Dances for Subway Stations CIRCUS SUNDAY: Professional perform- PET ADOPTION: Cats, dogs, kittens pm. Green-Wood Cemetery, 25th Association and the New Utrecht ers from around the globe perform. Accidents Attorney at Law and puppies available at Commerce presents seven dancers with live Street at Fifth Avenue. (631) 549- Reformed Church host a concert with $15, $8 kids under age 12. Noon, FREE CONSULTATION ✔ ✔ Bank. $30. Noon to 5 pm. 1630 Shore music. Noon. Atlantic Avenue station, –––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Living Wills Guardianship 4891. Free. ISO Band. 7:15 pm. 84th Street and 2:30 pm and 5 pm. Lehigh Valley Parkway. (212) 593-0078. on 4/5 train platforms. (646) 265- 18th Avenue. (718) 256-7173. Free. Personal Attention to ✔ Durable Powers of Attorney BAMCINEMATEK: “Moolaade” (2004). 6775. Free. Railroad Barge, at the foot of BAMCINEMATEK: presents “The Best $10, $7 students, $6 members. 2 pm, BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert Conover Street in Red Hook. (718) your Personal Injury ✔ Wills and Trusts of The African Film Festival.” Today: 4:30 pm, 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. 30 RECEPTION: Students at Lillian Rashkis features an all-Beethoven program. 624-4719. “Cosmic Africa” (2002). $10, $7 stu- High School host an exhibit featuring • Auto/Bus/Train ✔ Healthcare Proxies Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. ICE CREAM SOCIAL: Lefferts Historic dents, $6 members. 2 pm and 4:30 art and live music. 3 pm to 8 pm. • Trips & Falls ✔ BARBES FILM: presents “The (718) 624-2083. House invites kids to mix up a batch Estate Planning and Asset Protection pm. Also, “Madame Brouette” 1110 Fulton St. (718) 625-0080. Free. • Construction Accidents Exterminating Angel” (1962). 7 pm. BLACK BOX: Gallery Players presents ✔ (2002). 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. 30 of ice cream. 1 pm to 4 pm. Enter Hospital and Nursing Home 376 Ninth St. (718) 965-9177. Free. COMMUNITY FORUM: Brooklyn Young the eighth annual “Black Box New park through Willink entrance, at • Wrongful Death Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. Filmmakers present a dialogue about Admission and Discharge Advocacy JEWISH SINGLES: Munch and mingle Play Festival.” Today “Brooklyn Plays, intersection of Flatbush Avenue and • Building / Stairs FILM SERIES: Coney Island Saturday working in NYC’s film industry. Topics ✔ prior to Rabbi Raskin’s weekly class. Brooklyn Playwrights,” features a Empire Boulevard. Visit • Sidewalk/Road Defects Geriatric Care Management Services night film series. $5 includes popcorn. 7:30 pm. Congregation B’nai Avrah- include film industry terminology, series of five short plays. $15, $12 www.prospectpark.org. Free. and Home Care Planning 8:30 pm. Coney Island Museum, 1208 what the “Below-the-Line” jobs are in children under 12 and seniors. 8 pm. • Truck Accidents am of Brooklyn Heights, 117 Remsen INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST: First Home Visits/Consultations provided for Surf Ave. (718) 372-5159. St. (718) 596-4840 ext 18. Free. film production, presentation of the 199 14th St. (718) 595-0547. Brooklyn Young Filmmakers Cohort annual kids film fest features over 25 senior or disabled clients and their families. SINGLES DINNER: Bay Ridge Singles HOLOCAUST STUDIES: The David Berg JAZZ: Brooklyn Conservatory of Music short films. $11.50. 2 pm to 5 pm. Club hosts a dinner for ages 35 to 60. Training Program model, more. 6:30 presents its jazz series and features Lecture Series, featuring Rabbi Aaron pm to 8:30 pm. Long Island Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern (718) 965-4025 Call for restaurant information. (718) Raskin, presents a four-week discus- vocalists Mark Murphy and Sheila Parkway. (718) 388-4306. 745-8659. University, Spike Lee Screening 21 Webster Place PARK SLOPE sion of “diplomats of uncommon Jordan. $25, $15 students and sen- DAIRY WEEKEND: at the Prospect Park Arthur Unterman Room, LLC 122, Flatbush and DeKalb iors. 8 pm. 58 Seventh Ave. (718) R24 courage” who performed remarkably avenues. (718) 852-9342. Free. Zoo. 10:30 am to 4 pm. See Sat., (718) 643-4000 during the holocaust. 8 pm. Congre- 622-3300. June 4. SUN, MAY 29 gation B’nai Avraham of Brooklyn BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert 26 Court St., #1806 features a program of Mozart, Boulez CHILDREN PUPPETWORKS: “Around the World in Heights, 117 Remsen St. (718) 596- 80 Days.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. Brooklyn, NY 4840 ext 18. Free. and Messiaen. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton DAIRY WEEKEND: Prospect Park Zoo OUTDOORS AND TOURS Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. hosts a day of fun which includes See Sat., June 4. Se habla espanol / Consulta Gratis CANOEING: Urban Park Rangers BLACK BOX: Gallery Players presents milking races, games, performances COMEDY SHOW: “Climb the Vine.” 1 718-858-2525 explores the lake in Prospect Park. the eighth annual “Black Box New by the Wildlife Theater Players, keep- pm and 3 pm. St. See Sat., June 4. TUES, MAY 31 E44 Reservations necessary. 11 am. Call Play Festival.” Today “Brooklyn Plays, er chats and more. $5, $1.25 seniors, 311 and ask for the Urban Park Brooklyn Playwrights,” features a $1 kids ages 3 to 12, free for children OTHER Rangers. Free. JEWISH CULTURE SERIES: Brooklyn PIER SHOW: hosted by Brooklyn Public Library, Central branch, pres- series of five short plays. $15, $12 under age 3. 10:30 am to 4 pm. 450 GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Tour this children under 12 and seniors. 8 pm. Flatbush Ave. (718) 399-7339. Waterfront Artists Coalition. Noon to ents “The Voices of Genesis: Family 6 pm. See Sat., May 28. Victorian city of the dead. $10, $5 Feuds and Tortured Love.” Several 199 14th St. (718) 595-0547. NY AQUARIUM: Babies 6 to 21 months Trusts, Estates, Wills, Proxies members. 1 pm. Meet at Fourth poets present persona poems from RAW WORDS: Contemporary Press, a are invited to a morning of marine- PENNY SOCIAL: Ice cream and straw- Avenue Gate and 35th Street. (718) their book “To Genesis: Poems.” 7 Brooklyn-based indie pulp publishing themed puzzles, books and live inver- berries at Flatbush Dutch Reformed 768-7300. pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230- house, hosts a party to celebrate gut- tebrates. $22. 11 am to noon. West Church. $5, $2 kids. 12:30 pm to 4 Free Consultation Available at 2100. Free. ter writing. $10. 8 pm to 2 am. Eighth Street and Surf Avenue. (718) pm. Church and Flatbush avenues. PERFORMANCE (718) 284-5140. TOWN HALL: Borough President Marty Galapagos, 70 North Sixth St. (718) 265-FISH. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert 384-4586. BROOKLYN MUSEUM: Arty Facts pres- SONGWRITING SERIES: African- features an all-Mendelssohn program. Markowitz hosts meeting on over- LAW OFFICES OF Peter G. Gray, P.C. development. Marine Park Intermed- ents “Cloros.” $6, $3 seniors and stu- American Public Relations Collective $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. dents, free for members and children present Grammy-winner Gordon (718) 624-2083. iate School, 1925 Stuart St. at Fillmore Avenue. 6-10 pm. Open to the pub- FRI, JUNE 3 younger than age 12. 11 am and 2 Chambers and songwriter Eric BRICK THEATER: presents a comedy lic. (718) 802-3830. pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) 638- Robertson. Songwriters are invited to (718) 237-2023 about clowns “Absence of Magic.” LUNCHTIME CONCERT: Metrotech 5000. learn about artistic development, men- $10. 7 pm. 575 Metropolitan Ave. Center hosts a concert on The AUDITION: Dancewave auditions for its torship and business skills. $50. 1:30 Elderlaw • Probate • Estate Litigation • Deed Transfers (718) 907-3457. WEDS, JUNE 1 Commons. Today: jazz music with summer dance intensive program. pm to 9 pm. South Oxford Space, 138 DANCE AFRICA: at Brooklyn Academy Arturo O’Farrill and Riza Negras. 12:30 pm. Old First Reformed Church, South Oxford St. (212) 765-7874. Medicaid Planning • Home and Hospital Visits Available of Music. 3 pm. See Sat., May 28. NETWORKING MIXER: Elliot Tomlin Noon to 2 pm. (718) 467-1527. Free. 729 Carroll St. (718) 522-4696. BAMCINEMATEK: presents “Le Pont ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: “Purity Tank.” Foundation hosts an Economic FOUNDERS BALL: Brooklyn Hospital PUPPETWORKS: presents the adven- des Arts” (2004). $10, $7 students, $6 189 Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 3 pm. See Sat., May 28. Empowerment Month. Event kicks off Foundation hosts its annual black-tie ture story “Around the World in 80 members. 3 pm, 6 pm and 9:15 pm. R24/29-20 with an after-work networking social event. $500 per ticket. Cocktails at Days.” $8, $7 children. 12:30 pm and Q & A with director Eugene Green OTHER mixer. 6 pm to 10 pm. Trey Whitfield 6:30 pm. Dinner and dancing at 8 2:30 pm. 338 Sixth Ave. Reservations follows 6 pm screening. 30 Lafayette PIER SHOW: hosted by Brooklyn School, 48-60 Williams Ave. Call for pm. Brooklyn Marriott hotel, 333 suggested. (718) 965-3391. Ave. (718) 636-4100. Waterfront Artists Coalition. Noon to ticket info. (718) 277-5588. Adams St. (718) 250-8888. COMEDY SHOW: The Neighborhood SUNDAYS AT SUNNY’S: Alicia Erian 6 pm. See Sat., May 28. MEDIA THAT MATTERS: Film festival BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert Theater for Kids presents “Climb the reads from her work. $3. 3 pm. 253 features a program of Mozart, Boulez Vine,” a musical comedy for kids of Conover St. (718) 625-8211. and Messiaen. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton all ages. $7. 1 pm and 3 pm. St. Mary RECEPTION: Williamsburg Arts and Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. Star of the Sea Parish Hall, 467 Court Historical Center hosts a reception MOVIE: Outdoor screening of “O St. (917) 494-7540. for the seventh annual Mermaid Brother, Where Art Thou?” (2000). Show, celebrating the Coney Island LIST YOUR EVENT… 8:30 pm. Plymouth Church of the OTHER Mermaid Parade. 4 pm to 7 pm. 135 Pilgrims, Orange Street between Broadway. (718) 486-7372. Free. To list your event in Where to GO, please give us two weeks notice or more. Send FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museum Henry and Hicks streets. (718) 624- hosts its monthly event featuring art PIZZA EATING CONTEST: Rocco’s your listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 Washington St., Suite 4743. Free. and entertainment. Films from the Pizzeria hosts a contest to benefit 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed MORAL VALUES FEST: The Brick eighth-annual Brooklyn International Mercy First/ Angel Guardian Founda- on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. Theater hosts a performance festival Film Festival. Dance party with tion. Live DJ and more. 7818 Fifth for the morally questionable, morally Brooklyn-based band Willie Villegas y Ave. Call for details. (718) 238-7658. Richard A. Klass, Esq. Your Court Street Lawyer SM UFN 12 BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM May 28, 2005 Burglar stops to smoke some butts

By Jotham Sederstrom Instead of hightailing it out mered completely away. at 1:30 pm. After leaving the tion “sucker punched” him thing in sight, however, the bur- The Brooklyn Papers of there, the man relieved Police say the thieves de- car, they returned, only to find while he stood in his doorway. glar pocketed only a metal himself and then enjoyed a 62/68 BLOTTER stroyed the deadbolt on the that the passenger-side win- The crew then began kicking watch, valued at about $100. After burglarizing a few partially smoked ciga- front door of the apartment on dow had been smashed and a and punching him while he lay The tenant of the apartment, home in Bensonhurst on rettes. 87th Street at Ridge Boulevard wish-list of electronics stolen. on the ground. 48, did not know who was re- May 23, a crook took the Only after having a smoke cause he slipped in and out of The man forced open a and headed inside on May 16, The thieves took an iPod, a While two of the goons sponsible for the burglary. time to hit the bathroom did he decide it was finally the office on Fourth Avenue at window leading to the apart- just before 7 am. With no one GameBoy and video-game held his arms, a third pulled No means no and then smoke a few cig- time to leave. 95th Street without leaving any ment on Bay 34th Street at there to say otherwise, the cartridges and a cell phone. out the box-cutters and began signs of forced entry. Bath Avenue on May 23 at Aman turned from Don arette butts from his vic- Real crime thieves scooped up nearly They also snatched an assort- slicing and dicing his fore- Juan to King Kong after his tim’s ashtray before finally Police say the crook pock- around 4:30 am. Although he $2,500 in jewelry, not to men- ment of bankcards, a Metro- head, causing multiple slash The offices of a real estate eted $4,700 from a desk draw- didn’t steal anything, when wife’s decision to put the ki- leaving the apartment. company were burglarized last tion a hard-to-find 8-mm video Card and $125 in cash, the marks across his face. bosh on his sexual advances er in the 73-year-old presi- police arrived he admitted that camera, before fleeing. Police said that the crook week when a thief swiped victim told police. Police officers tracked sent him screaming obscenities dent’s office. he had been looking for food. Among the goodies, thieves hardly seemed to mind that nearly $5,000 from the presi- Slash face down the group shortly after and violently tossing things at breaking and entering — and dent’s desk drawer. Feed me! Deadbolt busted stole three bracelets, valued at they fled from their friend’s $800, and 10 pairs of earrings, Atrio of so-called friends the 48-year-old woman. pocketing $1,400 in stolen Police said that the thief Police say an apparently ABay Ridge woman re- held down their 23-year-old apartment. Police say the man came goods along the way — was slipped inside the building on starving 22-year-old man turned home to find that not valued at $1,500, from the 44- Watch out year-old woman. acquaintance after knocking home sometime around 4 am on punishable with jail time Saturday, May 14, at around 5 broke into a basement apart- only had her apartment been him to the ground and then A burglar walked away with May 20, and demanded sex from when he hung around the pm, while the office was closed. ment in Gravesend in search invaded by criminals but the Bro goes batty began slashing his forehead nothing more than a watch af- his wife. When she said “no,” he apartment on 68th Street at The thief apparently knew ex- of food, but was arrested be- sturdy deadbolt lock on her Police said, “Yer outta here,” with box-cutters. ter breaking into a Bay Ridge began throwing perfume bottles 21st Avenue just before 8 am. actly where to find the loot be- fore he had a chance to eat. front door had been ham- to a baseball bat-wielding Police say that the terrible apartment last week. at her and, after that, started stooge who they arrested after trio came to the man’s apart- Police say the thief broke into throwing punches. he swatted his older brother ment, on 73rd Street at 18th the apartment, on Sixth Avenue By the end of the attack, said with a Louisville Slugger. Avenue, on May 22, at 11:45 at 65th Street, on May 16, at 5 police, the woman’s head was Police said that the man, am, and after a brief conversa- pm. Instead of stealing every- cut open. 30, began feuding with his 43- year-old brother inside a home Cops: Drunk driver killed on West Fifth Street between avenues T and U, on May 20, around 10 pm. When the argu- ment became more heated, the bully reached for a baseball bat and started swinging wild- girlfriend & her roomate ly, eventually connecting with Rats rampant his sibling’s hands and arms. the car flipped several times and slid sev- Chepel, 38; and their son, Yan Chepel, 14; Police arrested the man af- By Jotham Sederstrom ter relatives called 911. The Brooklyn Papers eral yards before breaking to a halt on its were visiting Bolotova and Harutyan from roof. Canada, according to reports. Durango rustled Adrunken driver lost control of his The accident, on May 23 just before Kaisar, who lives on Brigham Street at A 37-year-old Bedford- Mercedes-Benz in Gravesend early 1:30 am, killed Kaisar’s girlfriend, Anjeli- Avenue W in Sheepshead Bay, was treat- Stuyvesant man parked his in Bay Ridge Monday morning, killing the 38- ca Bolotova, and her 55-year-old room- ed at Coney Island Hospital for minor in- gadget-filled Dodge Durango year-old girlfriend he was arguing mate, Allah Harutyan, both of whom were juries and charged with driving while in- in Bay Ridge on May 15, but By Jotham Sederstrom tween Ridge Boulevard and Fort Hamilton with and her roommate, say police. thrown from the vehicle. The women toxicated and two counts of vehicular when he returned, he found The Brooklyn Papers Parkway; Bay Ridge Avenue between First and Driver Mohammed Kaisar, 43, reached lived nearby, on Ocean Parkway at Av- manslaughter. that more than $1,200 worth Third avenues; Bath Avenue between 14th and speeds of more than 100 miles an hour be- enue F in Kensington. Sources said Kaisar had been drunk and of electronics had been stolen. Jostled by extensive roadwork along Stillwell avenues; Shore Road between 68th and fore flipping his green 1992 Mercedes Three other passengers, including a 14- enraged that Bolotova had been flirting Police say the man and a Fort Hamilton Parkway and elsewhere, 99th streets; and Cropsey Avenue between 14th when he lost control at a slight curve on year-old boy, were left in serious condi- with another man earlier in the night. The friend parked the tan 2000 armies of rats are invading Bay Ridge and Avenue and Bay 50th Street. northbound Ocean Parkway. After hitting tion, according to published reports. two were fighting as he was driving just truck on the northeast corner Bensonhurst, city health officials say. “Due to various construction projects, residents a guardrail near Gravesend Neck Road, Demetre Drgazgin, 35; his wife, Marina before the accident, according to reports. of Shore Road and 79th Street Since April, dozens of residents and mer- of parts of Bay Ridge may notice increased num- chants have reported sightings of New York’s bers of rats in their neighborhood,” said Hershal rodent of record, causing the Department of Shevadem, a spokesman for the Health Depart- Health to bait more than 100 locations in Bay ment. “The Health Department is taking steps to Ridge, Dyker Heights and Bensonhurst with monitor and control them through various means, poison. And with sewer construction expected including setting out bait traps.” to continue along eight blocks of Fort Hamilton More than six blocks east of construction on Parkway until November, many are predicting Fort Hamilton Parkway, residents and mer- Roper drops bid to unseat DA this will be the summer of the rat. chants say the long-tailed vermin have infested “Aye-yay-yay,” sighed Josephine Beckmann, portions of 13th Avenue, Dyker Heights’ most By Jotham Sederstrom cited dwindling funds as her Church, on Atlantic Avenue at jury in November 2004. Then January, Roper injected race district manager of Community Board 10, who traveled commercial corridor. In Bay Ridge, said that residents have flooded her phone lines passersby have reported seeing the critters run- The Brooklyn Papers reason for bowing out less Nevins Street in Boerum Hill. in March, as she was about to as a central issue Tuesday than four months before a Until March, Roper had be re-tried, Roper agreed to night, which the mostly black with rodent sightings. ning amok in McKinley Park, on Fort Hamilton Attorney Sandra Roper crowded Democratic primary. faced charges that she had de- pay back the former client, audience members responded “They’ve dug up the foundation, so the earth Parkway and Bay Ridge Parkway. announced Tuesday that “With my exit, I am confi- frauded an elderly client of Mary Lee Ward, in exchange to with shouts of “That’s has been moving a bit,” she said of all the con- “A lot of people are really worried,” said she is dropping out of the dent that this cause that I be- nearly $9,000 after agreeing to for the criminal charges right,” and “Mmm hmm.” struction. Beckmann. “They have children who play in Skittering as far west as Shore Road and as race for Brooklyn district gan at grave personal peril in represent her free of charge in against her being dropped. “Hynes had me arrested as their backyards, so it’s a little frightening.” far east as Bay 50th Street, the rats, say Beck- Referred to as “suburban” by Borough Presi- attorney and will instead 2001, will be accomplished by a dispute with a lending firm. Roper still faces the possi- I sat with a handcuffed young one of my fellow candidates While the charges emanat- mann and health officials, are surfacing, in part, dent Marty Markowitz in a press release earlier vie for one of two county- bility of being disbarred if black man — that same de- because of a $6.9 million sewer project enacted — to bring fundamental jus- ed from a complaint brought found by an Appellate Divi- mographic that I had tried to this month, much of southwest Brooklyn has, wide civil court judge- to reverse basement flooding along Fort Hamil- indeed, avoided many of the irritations experi- tice to the Brooklyn DA’s of- to Hynes’ office, a special sion disciplinary committee to help keep out of jail over my ships. fice, free from the taint of self- prosecutor was assigned the ton Parkway. Since last July, workers have enced on a daily basis by those in Downtown have lied on three separate oc- many years as an NAACP bored 70-foot-deep tunnels to install new sewer Brooklyn and most of Manhattan. Roper, who reaped 37 per- serving politics,” Roper said case in December 2001 due to casions while representing civil rights attorney,” Roper cent of the vote during a run at a well-attended May 24 the adversarial political rela- lines at 92nd, 95th and 99th streets. And while free, by comparison, of wall-to- Ward. said twice during her an- As a reaction, the Health Department has since against incumbent District At- candidates forum at the tionship between the DA and wall traffic and ear-ringing noise pollution, resi- In announcing she would no nouncement. May 5 sprayed 106 catch basins with rat poison, torney Charles Hynes in 2001, Brooklyn House of the Lord Roper. A trial ended in a hung dents in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights say the longer seek to challenge “Hynes did all this through an attack that, combined with a routine spraying scurrying of rodents is a new development. Hynes, Roper blamed lawyers the weight of his office that every three weeks, hopes to abate the problem Normally, said Beckmann, residents report fees and lengthy court appear- the Brooklyn electorate had until construction is completed in late October or rat sightings no more than three times a month, ances that she said made it dif- bestowed upon him. This is early November. a far cry from the more than two dozen calls she Y ficult to wage a competitive constitutionally and morally Among the sites targeted: 90th Street be- received in May. ER IV campaign against Hynes, let offensive.” EL D alone the other five candidates. Matz denied Roper’s claim L A Aspokesman for Hynes’ that Hynes “had me arrested.” C campaign this week issued a “At no time did this office LO EE statement affirming that the ever arrest Ms. Roper, or ever FR DA had nothing to do with prosecute Ms. Roper,” he said. Roper’s prosecution, despite Roper said that she would TOWERS PROBE… her allegations that the case not endorse any of the five re- TWO was politically motivated. maining challengers. Continued from page 1 it, but it has nothing to do with stealing, to my “Ms. Roper was not prose- Hynes still faces challenges between January 2001 and May 2004, say sev- knowledge anyway,” said LiPuma, whose man- re Small Pies cuted by this office, but by an from Arnold Kris, a former le- eral Towers shareholders. agement company oversees 21 other properties in o Bay Ridge. “It’s a matter of us plowing through M $13.99 independent special prosecu- gal counsel for the police de- Under the Mitchell-Lama law — which derived & Mon - Wed tor appointed by the court sys- partment; Braxton Fenner, a its name from its sponsors, former Manhattan state paperwork to find out why the state doesn’t have rs tem,” said Hynes campaign trial attorney; state Sen. John Sen. MacNeil Mitchell and former Brooklyn As- the records it needs. te “If someone was stealing on my staff, I’d not at spokesman Mortimer Matz. Sampson; Mark Peters, a for- semblyman Alfred Lama — developers are of- l “The special prosecutor pre- mer prosecutor under Attor- fered tax incentives and low-interest loans in ex- only fire them, but notify the district attorney’s of- P fice.” s, sented the case to the grand ney General Eliot Spitzer; and change for keeping their developments as ro 6718 Ft. Ham. Pkwy affordable housing for at least 20 years. Several shareholders who have filed complaints e jury, which indicted and then Paul Wooten, a former assis- with DHCR officials attempted to cast doubt upon H Right next to Fortway Movie Theater handled the trial.” tant district attorney and coun- Peter Moses, a spokesman for the Division of , Housing and Community Renewal, confirmed the suggestions that the problem is simply a clerical za Unlike other press confer- sel to the New York State iz investigation, but declined to elaborate on error. One shareholder, who spoke to The Bay Pizza Royale ences she has held since first Black and Puerto Rican legis- specifics of the case. Ridge Paper on condition of anonymity, said that P 718-238-5396 announcing her candidacy in lation caucus. “We do not comment on ongoing cases that we after his own look into the matter last year, he sent are investigating,” said Moses. letters to DHCR alleging the illegal sale of apart- The charges, if proven, could hasten a Towers ments. While those charges were initially ignored, of Bay Ridge co-op board vote to remove its long- officials eventually agreed to look into the allega- time management company, JAL Diversified tions last March. Management Corporation, when the company’s Following that inquiry, said the shareholder, an contract with the Towers is up in June. antiquated system by Towers management of “Right now, we don’t have all the evidence and recording applicants on paper was computerized, the investigation is ongoing,” said Maureen O’- making it more difficult for errors or potential cor- Donnell, president of the Towers’ co-op board. “I ruption to go unnoticed. Announce think there’s at least evidence that [management] Afinal report by DHCR, the shareholder said, didn’t do its job, but right now that’s all. We’re is expected next month. Win a still waiting for the smoking gun.” “They [Towers management] keep on saying your According to internal memos and co-op board it’s clerical, but there’s no way its clerical,” he minutes obtained by The Bay Ridge Paper, audits said. “If they find anything wrong, we’ll take it to conducted in March by the Department of Hous- the district attorney’s office.” ing and Community Renewal revealed at least 16 Enacted in 1955, the Mitchell-Lama law pro- 7-night apartments sold without the issuance of HM-14 vides low-interest mortgage loans to developers WEDDING forms, a document granted upon the approval of willing to build moderately priced apartments for new applications for apartments. Filed with tenants whose incomes fall somewhere between (or engagement) DHCR, the form typically indicates that a share- public and traditional housing. The 30-story Tow- holder has been approved and has been assigned a ers of Bay Ridge co-op buildings are among Cruise place on the waiting list. roughly 50 remaining Mitchell-Lama buildings in Minutes of an April 27 board meeting state that the state. in the June 11 John LiPuma, president of JAL, acknowledged The alleged apartments-for-bribes inquiry sur- the allegations. faced just as the Towers’ board experienced a ma- “[LiPuma] explained that when he first took jor reshuffling following its annual elections last from issue of over managing the buildings, he tried to get in- month. Six months ago the board voted by a slim volved with the management of the property,” the margin to approve a new $18 million, 30-year meeting minutes state. “He began with the ac- mortgage, the priciest since the Bay Ridge Towers counting department and was told by the board at opened in 1972. the time to stay away from the accounting depart- The combination, said Barbara Grebin, a long- ment and leave it alone. He then stated that he re- time shareholder, has led to heated debate and ceived a phone call with claims that people were even anger from the estimated 4,000 shareholders. jumping the waiting list and getting money under Leading up to the decision to refinance the build- the table.” ing, which was passed by the board 5-4, an exple- Reached by telephone last week, LiPuma de- tive-laced anonymous letter was slipped under nied that the investigation involved corruption, but tenants’ doorways. The diatribe derided board Sponsored by Sponsored by confirmed what he called an inquiry into possible members, two by name, for their votes against re- clerical errors that allowed the approval of new financing the mortgage. shareholders without the filing of HM-14 forms. “You want to live like Trump, but pay homeless Thus far, no wrongdoing has been officially al- rates,” read the letter, which went on to say, “If leged by DHCR, said LiPuma. you can’t afford to pay the rent GET The [exple- enter our online contest fill out our online form As for charges that deep-pocketed potential ten- tive] OUT!!!” ants were being allowed to breeze through the Such divisiveness, contends LiPluma, is exact- at at waiting list, which shareholders claim can take up ly what has fueled what he described as rumors of to five years to ascend, LiPuma laid blame on vit- wrongdoing. riolic tenants and a divisive co-op board. 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By Jess Wisloski ciates, to move forward with its cluding a hotel for the twin The Brooklyn Papers plan to convert the massive for- building next door, 62 Imlay mer warehouse, which they St., for which Industry City has The conversion of a for- have already gutted, into con- not yet applied for a zoning mer warehouse on the Red dominium apartments featuring variance. SERVICES & Hook waterfront into a $70 some of the most majestic har- “We’ve been approached by million luxury condomini- bor views in the city. a number of hotel operators at um has been given the go- Of the finding on his behalf, 62 Imlay St., so between the Industry City principal owner residential, the retail, the hospi- MERCHANDISE ahead by an appellate panel. Bruce Batkin said this week tality component and the aes- To advertise call (718) 834-9350 And now, the developer says that the court merely affirmed thetic improvement, we think he may build a hotel in a twin the original — and, he noted, it’s going to be a win-win-win warehouse building next door. correct — decision by the city situation for the community, for The Appellate Division of Board of Standards and Ap- the city and for us,” Batkin told Bed & Breakfast Computers the state Supreme Court on peals, rendered on Dec. 23, The Brooklyn Papers. 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Lawn Sale: Bloomberg administration’s vi- dards and Appeals, said a vari- Hiller explained that the Russo said Brightbill was sion of having luxury liners Sunday, June 5th, 11am-4pm. ance granted to one building chamber had no recourse recommended by a chamber Coney Island Ave. to Help Wanted Help Wanted dock at the Red Hook piers. would not affect an application against the dismissal of their member. Est. 1980 Marlborough Rd. Newkirk to “Not only are we going to be for another building. original suit, which argued the “I’m sure, supposedly, he “Old Fashioned Irish Cleaning” Cortelyou Rd. Rain date: June Specializing in: Medical Technician enhancing the waterfront but “It’s gone, it is over with,” merits of the BSA’s approval of had the right qualifications,” 12th. R22 Route Sales/Driver we’ll be complementing what • All Phases of Domestic Service F/T days for cardiology office. said Pacifico about 160 Imlay the zoning variance. Russo said of the attorney, who • Residential and Commercial the city’s vision for the new Antique Furniture, English blue Immediate full time entry-level Requires certification in Phle- St. “Every other case is an indi- The chamber’s former law- works for the law firm of Stuart Gift Certificates Available and white china, oriental rugs, botomy & EKG. Fax resumes to: waterfront is,” Batkin said. 718-279-3334 sales position selling safety vidual site. The BSA is han- yer, Peter Brightbill, whom the Klein, in Manhattan, which R31 huge collection of leather deco- Kathleen Game Leff, RN. “It will create a great syner- shoes to established accounts, dling individual sites, even if chamber retained in 2003, did specializes in zoning issues. rative. Old and new books. Fax: (718) 857-8498 gy with what’s there. We’ll pro- the building is right next door. not file the suit until one day “But I don’t think he was as Need office cleaning Classical, opera and other in an established territory in Phone: (718) 789-4332 vide basically a wall on the Even if it is the exact same in before the 30-day deadline — qualified as he thought he was. records. Many treasures. (718) Long Island City and surround- R23 at the best price? 624-3193. eastern side of the cruise ship every way, it is considered as a Jan. 23, 2004 — despite having “Now we’ve got somebody R21 ing areas. Previous customer terminal that will be, personal- separate building. been retained before the vari- now who knows what he’s do- Call Paradise Cleaners service experience a plus. Collators ly, more aesthetically pleasing.” “Even the building at 160 ance application even made it ing,” Russo said of Hiller. and ask for Steve. Merchandise Wanted Qualified candidate must pos- Needed for Circular Company For the ground floor of 160 Imlay St. is not 100-percent,” to the BSA, said Tom Russo, Reached this week, Bright- 718-209-6456/718-431-3665 sess CDL Class B License, be Park Slope Area Imlay St., he said, the company Pacifico added, saying Industry president of the chamber. bill declined to comment on the plans to develop retail and res- Don’t just clean it, let us keep keep it clean! able to drive a commercial 24-ft (718) 499-3916 City only got four of the nine And when he did, the mo- apparent error. R26 taurant space that could service stories it had applied for to be tion was missing one crucial The chamber has not said L(.)(.)K! straight truck with standard Ask for Mary W21 tourists coming in from the made residential. “Everybody’s item — the name of the condo what action it might take next. OLD CLOCKS & transmission and pass a DOT Computers WATCHES WANTED cruises, as well as possibly worried about the other build- developer, 160 Imlay Street “There is a 30-day statute of by collector. physical. This is an excellent gallery space for local artists. ing,” he said. “But who knew Real Estate LLC, among the limitations to challenge a BSA Regardless of condition entry-level position with a career Herbalife Dattaway Computers Highest prices paid This week, the lawyer for what an uphill battle [this one] list of respondents. decision,” said Hiller. “Given Sales • Repairs • Upgrades 212-517-8725 minded company. Great salary, Distributors Wanted the petitioners, the Red Hook/ would have.” Hiller said the chamber was that Mr. Brightbill filed deficient $35.00 Field Service benefits, commission and incen- Gowanus Chamber of Com- Pacifico also noted that the unaware of the mistake until it papers on the final day of the Microsoft Certified Professionals R29 Call Lillian for information. Free Phone Consultation tives. Come Join Our Team And merce, said the suit was tossed BSA would have a new chair- was too late. deadline, the owners of 160 Im- Bob & Judi’s Coolectibles (718) 621-6818 on a technicality — the failure All work guaranteed Grow with Us! Apply at: person, and at least one, if not “The first we knew of the is- lay St. have so far been handed 646-326-2676 C34 of what he called the chamber’s two new board members before sue was when the City of New a free ticket. 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This isn’t over.” CALL NOW 718-638-5770 718-752-1661 for more details radio, print or internet adv. sales exp. merits, as the petition was dis- the precedent set by 160 Imlay professional would make such Batkin said the continued le- DOCTOR prefered but will train the right candi- R25 EOE dates. Full time, in our Brooklyn office. missed on a technicality,” the St. was already challenging an obvious omission.” gal argument was a fool’s er- DATA Please send resume to: chamber’s lawyer, Michael Red Hook businesses. “Mr. Brightbill was retained rand, adding that his plans for We make house and office calls to Propane Tanks W21 [email protected] Hiller, told The Papers. “The displacement of manu- by the chamber, as he held development would benefit the repair, upgrade or install any brand or fax to: (718) 369-2365. W23 computer. Also installs network. Our 15 Asource at the chamber said facturing companies from Red himself out as an expert in this surrounding community as well. yrs of exp. will solve your computer Secretary/Office Asst “further new legal action will Hook to places outside the city field,” said Hiller. Russo said “We’re focused on the wa- problems. Our prices are reasonable BBQ TANKS Help Wanted PT DELIVERED FOR Needed Full Time be pursued.” will lead to both increased long- the attorney was fired in Au- terfront at this point, so we con- and we guarantee our work. Call for a The variance, which allowed distance diesel truck trips and gust 2004 once they realized sider this project to be part of free phone consultation. 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