DEM JUDGE-MAKERS UNDER FIRE By Patrick Gallahue and Neil Sloane The Brooklyn Papers EDITORIAL The walls began closing in on the executive committee leaders of the Brooklyn Democratic Party this week with the revelation that another Another judge is party-connected judge had been arrested for Hynes wrong for this job courthouse bribery and may have provided evi- dence of corruption by party leaders. As Brooklyn’s latest court- friends with all the wrong people. To make matters worse for Assemblyman Clarence house corruption scandal explod- Norman, chairman of the Kings County Democratic Whatever his public pronounce- busted for graft Committee, and Jeffrey Feldman, the county party’s ex- ed this week, District Attorney ments now, Hynes’ decades-old Charles Hynes appeared shocked allegiance to the sources of our ecutive director, they may have lost their staunchest By Patrick Gallahue The county’s chief administrative judge, ally. Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, a de- — shocked! — that bribery was judiciary’s dark days will taint allegedly committed on his watch, The Brooklyn Papers Ann Pfau, this week implemented a variety fender of both the party executive committee and the his actions. Every prosecution he of operational reforms, and Brooklyn District Brooklyn court system through many scandals, was ap- and he suggested there is some- brings can appear to be both a A Brooklyn Supreme Court judge with Attorney Charles Hynes, who spent much of parently jolted by the evidence obtained through the thing inherently wrong with the cover for the prosecutions he long-standing ties to the county Dem- the last year defending the borough’s judges, Garson investigation. buying and selling of judge- will not bring and a reminder of ocratic Party was arrested this week on has convened a grand jury to investigate the Hynes announced this week that he would convene ships as well as judgements. those he did not bring before. charges that he took gifts from lawyers in process by which they are selected. a grand jury to hear evidence relating to the judicial se- Justice should be blind; a dis- In the interest of blind justice, exchange for fixing divorce cases. Garson, a former treasurer for the Kings lection process in Brooklyn, which he called a “sham” trict attorney, however, may not and “palpably wrong.” Hynes should recuse himself The arrest of Judge Gerald Garson County Democratic Committee, whose And a law enforcement source told the New York be blind to injustice and judicial as prosecutor of Brooklyn’s judi- Wednesday night — the second Brooklyn wife, Robin Garson, and cousin, Michael Times that Garson, confronted with the evidence corruption. Hynes, nursed at the cial mess. Aspecial federal prose- Democratic Party-connected judge arrested Garson, are also state Supreme Court jus- against him, agreed to wear a recording device to se- bosom of the Brooklyn Demo- cutor should take his place. in the past 16 months — has sparked an in- tices in Brooklyn, turned himself in to au- cretly tape conversations with party leaders about how cratic machine, is, in this case, Charles Hynes More Editorial on page 6 vestigation into possible systemic corruption thorities Wednesday night on charges that judges are selected. in the scandal-plagued Brooklyn judiciary. See ANOTHER JUDGE on page 6 The official said those tapes would be played for the grand jury. “Any suggestion that this is a process giving voting rights to the public is nothing less than a BROOKLYN’S WEEKLY NEWSPAPER sham,” Hynes said at a press con- ference announcing the investiga- tion. Asked why he chose now to convene such a grand jury when it has been long known that the par- Including The Downtown News, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper ty had over-arching control over the process, Hynes said, “I have much more specific information Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2003 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 14 pages including GO BROOKLYN • Vol.26, No. 18 BWN • May 5, 2003 • FREE today.” Indeed, efforts to open up the process have consistently exposed the control over Brooklyn’s judicial nomination procedures by a select few party leaders through a cir- cuitous screening process. Asked about the Hynes probe this week, Feldman said only, “We Monty Bomber would welcome any review.” On Tuesday, Democratic state committee members, also know as district leaders, who comprise the Kings County Democratic Com- mittee’s executive committee drafted a five-point plan to reform caught on tape the way judges are chosen to run for election. They were also planning to protest outside their own county Cops: He made plans from prison phone party’s annual dinner at the New York Marriott Brooklyn on Thurs- By Patrick Gallahue ing explosive devices in her car in outside the 68 Montague St. home day, May 1. The Brooklyn Papers an effort to make it seem Alster was she shares with her husband, Steven wrongly convicted. Thomas and their two children. Letter to Norman It just keeps getting weirder. Andrasan Scott, 29, who served Scott, of Queens, has been in jail The letter to party boss Norman, A prison pal of Stephen Alster, time on Rikers Island with Alster, five times since 1990 for a litany of requests that an independent the man convicted of attempting to 66, was arrested on April 24 for crimes including weapons posses- screening panel, appointed by state blow up the Brooklyn Heights planting the devices, allegedly at sion and robbery, and has served committee members, rather than home of a female police officer Alster’s request, in a sport utility several prison stints under a number the chairman of the party, have over whom he had a crush, was ar- vehicle belonging to Officer Yensy of different names. rested this week for allegedly plant- greater authority over the endorse- Thomas. The vehicle was parked See BOMBER on page 8 ment process. It was signed by Rep. Nydia Ve- lazquez, Park Slope Assemblyman James Brennan, Brooklyn Heights Assemblywoman Joan Millman, Fort Greene Councilman James Slope zoning to include Davis, Park Slope Councilman Bill DeBlasio, Brooklyn Heights Coun- cilman David Yassky and eight dis- trict leaders. Alan Fleishman and Liz Daly, both state committee low-cost housing perks members for the 52nd Assembly District of Park Slope and Brook- By Patrick Gallahue posal passed, Council Speaker Gif- City Planning, which is the spon- lyn Heights, wrote the letter. The Brooklyn Papers ford Miller applauded the agreement soring agency for the application, “I think the current process has In what could be seen as a win- in a press conference with council appeared before the Zoning and had some unfortunate results,” said members Bill DeBlasio, David Franchises Land Use subcommittee Yassky. “Frankly, the ongoing win situation for Park Slopers the Yassky and Sara Gonzalez, whose with Joseph Rosenberg, deputy problems in the courts speak for City Council on Wednesday districts are directly affected by the commissioner of the city Depart- themselves.” unanimously approved a package rezoning. Miller said the agreement ment of Housing Preservation and Since January of last year, two that included both a neighbor- “represented the best of what the Development, to announce that judges have been charged with cor- hood-wide rezoning proposal and council and the Bloomberg adminis- HPD would utilize a combination ruption, one judge asked to step affordable housing incentives. tration can do together to try to ad- of subsidies, tax credits and low-in- down from the bench and several As the proposal, which seeks to dress the needs of all New Yorkers.” terest loans over the next five years others censured or reassigned, lead- limit building heights nearly every- Since the rezoning was first pre- to encourage development of af- ing some to ask if the current sys- where in Park Slope except Fourth sented to Community Board 6, last fordable housing in Park Slope. tem was selecting sub-par judges Avenue, came before the council’s year, the initiative has been stuck at an The funds will come from May- and whether it was also a system Land Use committee this week the impasse between advocates for af- or Michael Bloomberg’s $3 billion Museum of Art Brooklyn plagued by cronyism and patron- Bloomberg administration pledged fordable housing who argued the proj- New Housing Marketplace Plan, in- age. up to $6 million for affordable ect did not provide enough room for tended to finance the creation of Under the current judicial selec- housing in the neighborhood. low- and middle-income people, and 27,000 new units and preserve 38,000 Brooklyn’s treasures tion system applications for state That was enough to sail the pro- local activists who expressed concern existing ones citywide, which he Supreme Court are obtained through posal right through both the com- that to amend the plan would send it announced late last year. This First-Century gilded mummy mask from the Brooklyn Museum of Art’s collection is on view as the Kings County Democratic mittee and the full council. tumbling back to the beginning. “We’re ready to go. We have part of a massive new installation, “Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity.” Many of the works have not See DEM JUDGES on page 6 Shortly before the rezoning pro- On April 28, the Department of See ZONE on page 3 been seen by the public in decades. See story inside, on the cover of GO Brooklyn.
Council adds bunker restrictions Questions over By Patrick Gallahue Planning, to decide whether they Al Vann voted against the applica- staunch opponent of building the Spokesman Frank McCarton said, The Brooklyn Papers are within the scope of the applica- tion. emergency command bunker on the “We look forward to working with tion. The changes must be reviewed Red Cross site in Walt Whitman the community, City Planning and bunker funding The Office of Emergency The subcommittee recommended by City Planing before the full Park, said, “It shows all the more the City Council to assure that the Management’s plan for a bunker that the command center — which council can vote on the modified why it’s a mistake for OEM to put building of the emergency opera- The Brooklyn Papers in Brooklyn Heights met with a is proposed to contain independent proposal. If City Planning deter- their headquarters in this location. If tions center moves ahead quickly.” Financing of the Office of Emergency Management’s modified approval in the City generators — not contain fuel stor- mines the changes are not within we want an emergency command Residents have opposed the plan bunker in Brooklyn Heights was called into question by a Council on Wednesday — but age tanks, allow only on-site park- scope, the original application will center that can be a solid, secure claiming that the bunker would be City Council subcommittee on Monday. the battle’s not over yet. ing and that security measures, such come before the City Council for a building that the city needs to use too close to other sensitive locations Members of the Landmarks, Public Siting and Maritime Uses The changes recommended by as fencing or bollards, not encroach vote on May 14, and the council any way it wants to, it shouldn’t be such as the Brooklyn Bridge, the fed- subcommittee asked that Office of Emergency Management (OEM) the Landmarks, Public Siting and onto the surrounding parkland. will have to either accept or reject in the middle of a park and next to eral courthouse and the High Street A officials show proof that they have a federal commitment for the es- Maritime Uses subcommittee, and The modified application was the proposal altogether, a City Plan- a big housing complex.” train subway station and its tunnel timated $110 million needed to build the emergency command cen- approved by the Land Use commit- approved by the Land Use commit- ning spokeswoman said. Although still unofficial, OEM under the East River, thereby creat- ter, better known as the mayor’s command bunker, especially since tee April 30 will have to be re- tee by a vote of 13-3. Councilmen Downtown-Brooklyn Heights officials took the committee’s ap- ing a “terrorist cluster” in the com- See FUNDING on page 8 viewed by the Department of City Charles Barron, Oliver Koppell and Councilman David Yassky, a proval as a heartening sign. See COUNCIL on page 8 Ed Weintrob / And now, when The Brooklyn Paper is 25 ast year, as we approached few, and I hope they can make our gle never came • • • (it later became JB Callahan’s, for per in 1960, and then as a daily in there was no shortage of possible our 25th anniversary, the party. The Brooklyn Paper didn’t just that day — it had If you want to know about our years a favorite haunt) talking 1962-63. After he got my letter, we titles (come on, Brooklyn Sun — Lfirst question was, when do happen after all — well, maybe it did folded yet again, early business model, I’ll tell you newspaper philosophy. And names. met for coffee at Zum Zums in 44 BS — what’s wrong with that?). we celebrate? — but lots of people had a hand in it. just nine months this: we didn’t use any focus groups. We determined not to call our baby Court St., Downtown; within days, When someone said, The Brook- While it seemed prudent to wait • • • after its final in- I had a pretty clear idea what I want- an Eagle, even assuming that name he had printed a “dummy” of a new lyn Paper, the discussion ended. for the date to arrive, we opted in- When I was 13 years old, I spent carnation. And I ed to do, the energy of a 27-year- was free and clear, which it might Eagle and rented a second-floor of- We were in business. stead for a 25th anniversary year — a couple of months selling Brook- had to live with old, and an insane confidence that it not have been at the time. fice just up the street from Minsky’s, The Paper had to be staffed, a we’d mark the entire year leading up lyn Eagle subscriptions door to the reason for would work. Others shared my (A couple of years earlier, I had where he hung an impressive Brook- format designed, a distribution sys- to our big day, then continue cele- door, telling people that Brooklyn its demise — the dream, and many more seemed to written to Robert W. Farrell, telling lyn Eagle sign. It didn’t work out for tem invented and, somewhere, brating during the year that followed just had to have its own voice, that Eagle’s mailers, appreciate what we were trying to him that, while other 13 year olds a number of reasons, including the there’d come the money. Certainly, — call it a two-year year. (Besides, we were stepchildren in Manhat- effectively supplanted by us carri- do; some were less pleased, but had comic book heroes, movie stars claim of a Court Street lawyer that advertisers would love us and sup- if making it through 25 years is such tan’s media. I was an early recruit ers, had gone on strike. that’s a story for another day. or world leaders to look up to, he he owned the Eagle name.) port us real quick, wouldn’t they? a big deal, wouldn’t celebrating a for a would-be army of Eagle carri- Did I help kill the Eagle? If so, Before the beginning, there was was my childhood hero. Farrell was But as I said, we were not inter- It was not going to be easy, we all 26th year be even better?) er boys; we built our own routes please tell me that after 25 years of our paper’s name, or lack of one. the man whose stubborn determina- ested in the Eagle name, which rep- knew that for a fact. But it would There aren’t many players around and were set to roll at sunrise on publishing The Brooklyn Paper, I We’d sit in the back of Minsky’s on tion had already revived the Eagle resented Brooklyn’s mythic past; work. Wouldn’t it? from 25 years ago, but there are a Monday, June 24, 1963. But the Ea- am finally redeemed. Remsen Street in Brooklyn Heights twice — as a short-lived Sunday pa- our paper would be the future. And To be continued 2 DTZ THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM May 5, 2003 Public set to weigh in on Slashed his face in Fulton-Tubman dispute Grace Court building By Patrick Gallahue al to rename Fulton Street. In the past, CB2 has been reluctant to The Brooklyn Papers Among those to attend were former completely rename Fulton Street, break- By Patrick Gallahue and Bond streets and then Assemblyman and Bedford-Stuyvesant ing from Community Boards 3, 16 and The Brooklyn Papers tried to beat up and rob the The community will soon get a Councilman Al Vann, who is leading 5, which have already approved the ini- chance to express their feelings on A 30-year-old man was 76/84 Pct. Blotter driver. the resubmission of the application, Fort tiative. Instead, CB2 offered co-naming, The victim, 50, pulled over the proposed renaming of Fulton Greene Councilman James Davis and which sparked outrage and the threat of viciously attacked in a Street to Harriet Tubman Avenue. to pick up the nasty fare at 1 Davis’ predecessor, former Council- a boycott of Fulton Mall businesses by building on Grace Court at Court and Clinton streets, Nevins Street and Third Av- am on April 23, but when the The proposal began its second round woman Mary Pinkett. Also in atten- Carson. Hicks Street in Brooklyn were apparently so desperate enue, at 7:20 pm on April 27. passenger got in he began to through the public review process on dance were Fred Laverpool, founder of Ideas have diverged on the issue with Heights on April 26. The for some loot that they stole a When the security guard, 46, strangle the driver and said, “I April 22, before Community Board 2’s Braggin’ About Brooklyn, a company preservationists holding onto the nam- victim told police that he door. tried to stop her from leaving want to rob you.” Traffic and Transportation committee. that leads tours of black historical sites ing of Fulton Street for Robert Fulton, was with his uncle, the According to police, at the store she hit and scratched The board agreed to put the matter be- in New York City, and about a half- an inventor and artist who successfully The cabby fought back and building’s superintendent, midnight on April 20, video him. She was caught by police their scuffle spilled out onto fore the community itself for a public dozen members of the Committee to applied the steam engine to nautical when the incident occurred. surveillance tapes caught the on the way out and charged meeting, possibly before the middle of Honor Black Heroes, founded by the transportation, opening up ferry service the street. The robber, howev- At around 9:15 am, the vic- men getting past the outer en- with robbery. er, managed to grab $150 and June, when CB2 takes its summer break late Sonny Carson, who died in Decem- between Brooklyn and Manhattan be- trance. But they found some tim discovered a door had Bergen cab rob a cell phone from the driver until September. ber but first presented the idea. fore there was a bridge, and Laverpool, been pried open and found a difficulty in getting past the before making good his get- “I’m going to push for it before the “In recent years, since the ‘60s, there who argues that Fulton Street runs man inside the building. inner door. Stymied, the men A man hailed a cab on close of the season,” said CB2 Chair- has been a reawakening of the black through the second largest black com- When they asked the man stole the outer glass door, val- Bergen Street between Hoyt away. woman Shirley McRae. She added that community,” said Vann, who supports munity in America and should, there- what he was doing there, the ued at $150 and left. the board would seek a venue central to renaming. fore, be named for the leader of the Un- suspect allegedly claimed he Loitering bust the district. “There has been a renaming of schools derground Railroad. was an electrician. The super- in Reliability CB2 is an economically and racially … It’s healthy,” he added. “I would be Council members Vann, Charles Bar- A man was busted for un- intendent, however, said there # in Quality diverse district with the predominantly curious of people who did not want to be ron (Brownsville-East New York), Erik was no work authorized for lawfully hanging out in a white neighborhoods of Brooklyn reflected in their environment.” Martin Dilan (Cypress Hills-Bushwick) the building and they attempt- restaurant on Hicks Street, be- Jewels by in Service tween State Street and Atlantic 1 Heights and DUMBO to the west, and Vann, however, said that while the and Tracy Boyland (Bedford- ed to escort the man out, when the largely black Fort Greene and Clin- board was within its right to reject the Stuyvesant-Crown Heights), favor re- he slashed the victim on the Avenue, police said. Officers ton Hill communities to the east. renaming, he wanted to be more active naming while James Davis said, cheek, the shoulder and the on patrol spotted the suspect, Influential partisans on the issue of in the process the second time around. “Though I have a decision in my heart, hand, police said. 32, inside the restaurant on April 23, at 3:30 am, and SATNICK street renaming sat down April 22 at He added that even if all of Fulton I have not made [that] decision public When the suspect took off found two razor blades in his New York City College of Technology Street was not renamed he hoped the … To make a decision without input the men gave chase and noti- e service all mechanical in what may have been the most com- board would act so that it could go to from the community would be, in my fied the police. A 47-year-old possession. He was then taken W posed discussion thus far on the propos- the council. humble opinion, wrong.” suspect was arrested nearby. to lawfully lounge in jail. & quartz watches & repair Pastrami haul Socks it to ‘im all jewelry on premises Perhaps upset because it A woman was charged with was closed for Passover, a car- robbery after she allegedly HARTLEY F. SATNICK A Gallery of Hand-Crafted nivorous criminal looted a socked a security guard who Certified Master Watchmaker tried to stop her from stealing, Downtown kosher deli of SERVING BROOKLYN FOR OVER 4 YEARS henna k Artisanal Jewelry well, socks. HANDCRAFTED JEWELRY $400 in meat. The deli, on Livingston Street, between According to police, the 196 Joralemon St. (off Court St)
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Atlantic Avenue, between When an employee arrived to reopen the business at 9:30 am on April 25, however, a window was discovered bro- LEGAL AND PUBLIC NOTICES ken and the meat missing Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by from a refrigerated locker. the Civil Court, Kings County on the 23rd day of the Civil Court, Kings County on the 25th day of the Civil Court, Kings County on the 25th day of April, 2003, bearing the Index Number April, 2003, bearing the Index Number April, 2003, bearing the Index Number Donut hole N00204/2003, a copy of which may be exam- N00213/2003, a copy of which may be exam- N00211/2003, a copy of which may be exam- ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL A burglar raided a donut COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, shop on Court Street, between Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me rights to: Assume the name of: Sam Pilku. me rights to: Assume the name of: Milfort me rights to: Assume the name of: Michael Olin Joralemon and Livingston My present name is: Samir Pilku. My present Richard Horton. My present name is: Richard Thomas. My present name is: Michael O. Jones Jewelry as streets, making off with $615 address is 2370 Ocean Ave., #6H, Brooklyn, NY Horton a/k/a Milfort R. Horton. My present a/k/a Michael Olin Thomas. My present address 11229. My place of birth is: Brooklyn, NY. My address is: 322 Bainbridge St., #3D, Brooklyn, is: 2070 Strauss St., Brooklyn, NY 11212. My and an AM/FM radio-cassette date of birth is: 07/13/89. NY 11233. My place of birth is: Brooklyn, NY. My place of birth is: Brooklyn, NY. My date of birth Unique as You! BP18 player. According to an em- date of birth is: 05/23/46. BP18 is: 01/20/84. BP18 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by ployee, 27, the shop was shut the Civil Court, Kings County on the 24th day of Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by 165 COURT STREET down at 8 pm on April 25, but April, 2003, bearing the Index Number the Civil Court, Kings County on the 28th day of the Civil Court, Kings County on the 29th day of (BET. PACIFIC & DEAN) N00207/2003, a copy of which may be exam- April, 2003, bearing the Index Number April, 2003, bearing the Index Number when it was reopened at 7 am ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL N00214/2003, a copy of which may be exam- N00219/2003, a copy of which may be exam- COBBLE HILL, BROOKLYN the next day, the items were COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, 718•852•5777 gone. me rights to: Assume the name of: Derrick Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants Ralphel Scott Sr. My present name is: Male Scott me rights to: Assume the name of: Kevin me rights to: Assume the name of: Joanne STORE HOURS: Steal door aka Derrick Ralphel Scott aka Derrick Ralphel Anthony Headley. My present name is: Kevin Camacho. My present name is: Female Anthony Pascall. My present address is: 39 Camacho a/k/a Joanne Camacho. My present SUN: 12-5PM Scott Sr. My present address is: 620 East 108th 139 Montague Street • 718.858.5592 A group of burglars unable Rockaway Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11212. My address is: 390 Crescent St., #2C, Brooklyn, NY MON-THURS: 12-7PM St., #6A, Brooklyn, NY 11243. My place of birth to get into an office building, is: Brooklyn, NY. My date of birth is: 06/11/66. place of birth is: Brooklyn, NY. My date of birth 11208. My place of birth is: Brooklyn, NY. My CLOSED: FRI & SAT www.latraviatatogo.com on Remsen Street, between BP18 is: 07/03/90. BP18 date of birth is: 07/22/57. BP18 Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by NOTICE OF SALE. SUPREME COURT - COUNTY the Civil Court, Kings County on the 24th day of the Civil Court, Kings County on the 28th day of OF KINGS. Mortgage Electronic Registration April, 2003, bearing the Index Number April, 2003, bearing the Index Number Systems, Inc. as nominee for Greenpoint N00206/2003, a copy of which may be exam- N00215/2003, a copy of which may be exam- Mortgage Funding, Inc., Plaintiff against Clement ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL O’Donoghue, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, judgment of foreclosure and sale entered herein Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants and dated March 3, 2003, I, the undersigned me rights to: Assume the name of: Ariel David me rights to: Assume the name of: Marco Referee will sell at public auction at the Kings Chesler. My present name is: Ariel David Giovanni Nocella. My present name is: Marc County Courthouse, Room 261, 360 Adams Chesler-Bronstien a/k/a Ariel D. Chesler. My John Nochella. My present address is: 137 Street, Brooklyn, County of KINGS, State of New present address is: 235 Adams St., #9A, Joralemon St., #4, Brooklyn, NY 11201. My York, on June 5, 2003 at 3:00 PM, premises on Brooklyn, NY 11201. My place of birth is: New place of birth is: Pasadena, CA. My date of birth the northwesterly side of 6th Avenue, 50 feet southwest of 22nd Street, being a plot 25 feet by York, NY. My date of birth is: 01/06/78. BP18 is: 10/04/60. BP18 100 feet and known as 710 6th Avenue, Brooklyn, Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by New York. Approximate amount of lien the Civil Court, Kings County on the 25th day of the Civil Court, Kings County on the 25th day of $284,168.08 plus interest and costs. Premises will April, 2003, bearing the Index Number April, 2003, bearing the Index Number be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment, N00106/2003, a copy of which may be exam- N00103/2003, a copy of which may be exam- Index Number 30545/02. Dated: April 21, 2003. ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL Anthony G. Gross, Esq., Referee. Zavatsky, COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Mendelsohn, Gross, Savino & Levy, LLP, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants Attorneys for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 510, 33 Queens me rights to: Assume the name of: Cristina me rights to: Assume the name of: André Street, Syosset, New York 11791-0510. BP18-21 Fitzgerald Groby. My present name is: Maria Esteban Millán. My present name is: Carlos Cristina Groby Groby. My present address is: Enriquez Millan. My present address is: 7101 NOTICE OF SALE. SUPREME COURT: KINGS 167 Midwood Street, Brooklyn, NY 11225. My Colonial Road, #L5A, Brooklyn, NY 11209. My COUNTY. WELLS FARGO HOME MORTGAGE, place of birth is: San Antonio, Suchitepequez, place of birth is: Mixco, Guatemala. My date of INC. F/K/A NORWEST MORTGAGE, INC., Pltf. vs. HIDDEKEL CHURCH OF GOD, INC., et al, Guatemala. My date of birth is: 03/10/96. birth is: 01/16/02. BP18 BP18 Defts. Index #02-11911. Pursuant to judgment Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by of foreclosure and sale dated Oct. 8, 2002, I will Notice is hereby given that an Order entered by the Civil Court, Kings County on the 29th day of sell at public auction at the “foot” of the the Civil Court, Kings County on the 25th day of April, 2003, bearing the Index Number Courthouse steps, facing Adams St., 360 Adams April, 2003, bearing the Index Number N00218/2003, a copy of which may be exam- St., Brooklyn, NY on May 29, 2003 at 10:15 a.m. N00209/2003, a copy of which may be exam- ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL prem. k/a 263 Sterling St., Brooklyn, NY a/k/a ined at the Office of the Clerk, located at CIVIL COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Section 5, Block 1315, Lot 61. Approx. amt. of COURT, KINGS COUNTY, 141 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants judgment is $265,732.52 plus costs and interest. Brooklyn, New York 11201, in room 007, grants me rights to: Assume the name of: Amanda Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed me rights to: Assume the name of: Inna Lamm. Harriott. My present name is: Amanda Dewan judgment and terms of sale and the right of the My present name is: Inna Shushurin a/k/a Inna Cespedes a/k/a Amanda Harriot a/k/a Amanda United States of America to redeem within 120 Lamm. My present address is: 3015 Brighton Harriott. My present address is: 1020 President days from the date of sale as provided by law. 13th St., #3J, Brooklyn, NY 11235. My place of St., #2A, Brooklyn, NY 11225. My place of birth MARTIN EVENS, Referee. ESCHEN & FRENKEL, birth is: City of Lviv, Ukraine. My date of birth is: is: Brooklyn, NY. My date of birth is: 08/06/83. LLP, Attys. for Pltf., 93 East Main St., Bay Shore, 04/23/80. BP18 BP18 NY. #53743. BP17-20
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tivists from across the city. / Tom Callan For more information call 718-875-1190 swift and vocal protests in the Physical exams, medical tests, and educational “Governor Pataki was at programs are provided at no cost to volunteers Ground Zero saying the war days after Sept. 11, 2001, the started here,” Buscemi, a for- Fire Department denied that it who qualify. mer firefighter who lives in intended to close the firehouse “For Women and Park Slope, told the crowd. “If — even though firefighters For more information, call the People They Love” so, then why are we thinking Papers The Brooklyn claimed they had received a vis- about weakening our defenses.” Protestors rally against planned firehouse closures on the it from a battalion chief who no- St. Luke’s-Roosevelt “We will not take it on the steps of Borough Hall Sunday. tified them the firehouse would (212) 523-8037 chin,” Markowitz said. “We be closed — and Fontana said HEALTH AND WELLNESS SERVICES never have, and we never will.” Brooklyn Heights Council- protesters, elected officials of- that it was a victorious prece- The community has less dent that should inspire the Overweight? N N man David Yassky said Sun- fered speeches that ranged from Health Consultations Alternatives to HRT than three weeks left to fight day, “A minute of the differ- the indignant to the radical. demonstrators of today. the closures, which could hap- ence between a one-house fire N Acupuncture N Herbal Massage N Reiki “We will march, we will pen as early as May 23. and a one-block fire.” protest, we will shut this city N Herbal Tonics, Medicinal Teas, Supplements, “Twenty-five days,” said In addition to closing these down, but we will not allow Park Slope-Cobble Hill Coun- firehouses, Bloomberg has Aromatherapy and Skin Care products our firehouses to be closed,” cilman Bill DeBlasio on Sun- threatened to shutter 40 more Davis threatened. day. “We have to make this around the city in future fiscal In closing, he chanted, STACEY BROSNAN, C.N.M., N.P., M.S. the 25 days when Mayor years. “Fight the power!” which got 79 Atlantic Avenue • Bklyn Hts (bet. Henry & Hicks Sts.) Bloomberg says, ‘I can’t take In addition to DeBlasio and Barron, a former Black Pan- e-mail: [email protected] • (718) 797-8797 it anymore.’” Yassky, council members at the ther, to raise his fist in the air, Among those on the chop- rally included Sara Gonzalez a smile on his face. ping block are Engine Com- (Sunset Park), James Davis “There are two houses they pany 204 in Cobble Hill, on (Fort Greene), Charles Barron should shut down immediate- Degraw Street between Court (East New York), Yvette Clarke ly,” Barron said, before some of and Smith streets, and Engine (Flatbush), Eric Gioia (Western the crowd took the march over 278, in Sunset Park, on Sev- Queens), John Liu (Flushing) the Brooklyn Bridge to City arking TED ROTHSTEIN, DDS PhD enth Avenue at 50th Street. and David Weprin (Queens Vil- The closing of those, and six lage). Members from the state Hall, “the Governor’s Mansion Adults and Children and Gracie Mansion.” P other firehouses in Brooklyn, legislature included Sunset Queens and Manhattan, would Park state Sen. Seymour Lach- The rally was organized by Named Invisalign “Top 500 Docs” save the city $10.8 million to man, Assemblywoman Joan several civilian organizations, help close a deficit of almost $4 Millman (Brooklyn Heights) with assistance from elected Specialist in Lingual (behind the teeth) billion in the next fiscal year and Assemblyman Jim Bren- budget, which begins July 1. nan (Park Slope). 05 Mayor Michael Bloomberg With a trademark inflatable • 852-1551 • • www.drted.com • has suggested that response rat — provided by Carroll Gar- $136 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS SINCE 1976 time will only be affected by a dens union leader Anthony minute, to which Downtown- Pugliese — hovering near the ZONE Continued from page 1 monthly rate identified a lot of opportunities,” (+ tax) REPORTED IN THE 10/21/02 EDITION OF MODERN HEALTHCARE MAGAZINE Rosenberg said of the plan. The rough boundaries of the BASED ON A STUDY BY SOLUCIENT proposed rezoning run from Prospect Park West to Fourth Av- enue and from 15th Street up to Union Street and Warren Street. • Multiple car discounts offered Most of the area would be re- zoned to a height limit of 50 feet. • Park and lock available An exception to the proposal is along Fourth Avenue, which Meet the Interventional Team that Made us boasts a much wider roadway than the other corridors in Park Pick up and delivery available “One of the Top 100 Heart Hospitals in the Nation” Slope, and which is suggested to be rezoned to R8A, to allow for buildings as high as 120 feet, or 24 hour • Indoor about 12 stories. The Fifth Avenue Committee, supported by council members DeBlasio, Yassky and Gonzalez, proposed an amendment to limit 700 Pacific St. GARAGE building heights on Fourth Av- enue to 80 feet to create room (bet. Carlton & 6th Aves.) for the future inclusion of incen- tives that would allow develop- ers to go an extra 40 feet if they included affordable housing. (212) 929-0099 ext.12 City Planning, however, op- posed the amendment and argued against mixing affordable housing programs with zoning. Amanda Burden, director of the Department of City Plan- ning, argued that the amendment was “out of scope” with her agency’s zoning application. Helping You That inclusionary zoning amendment was scrapped on Monday to make way for the compromise. Clockwise from top left: Under the plan passed by the Live a Healthier Life council, the affordable housing Joseph N. Cunningham, MD money will be available within Cardiothoracic Surgeon the entire area to be rezoned, not exclusively along Fourth Avenue, Chairman, Department of Surgery and the council estimates those B ergen incentives will leverage about Edgar Lichtstein, MD $16 million in private funds for Family Health Cardiologist housing. Miller said he expected Chairman, Department of Medicine the funding to create about 133 Center units of affordable housing, more Jacob Shani, MD than 20 percent of what is antici- pated to be developed. Interventional Cardiologist “Protecting our residential Chairman, The Cardiac Institute blocks is a very valuable step • Family Care • Support Services/ forward,” DeBlasio said at the Case Management Robert Frankel, MD committee hearing. “We’ve had, • Pediatric/Adolescent Interventional Cardiologist I think, respectful philosophical • And Many More differences on how to best use •GYN Care Sunil Abrol, MD the variety of tools available to Services to Fit Your create affordable housing and, in Cardiothoracic Surgeon • Nutrition Health Care Needs Maimonides fact, on the role of the planning process vis-a-vis other policy • Outpatient Mental Alvin Greengart, MD MEDICAL CENTER imperatives ,such as affordable Director, Non-Invasive Testing housing.” Health Screening 4802 Tenth Avenue Brad Lander, the executive Mikhail Vaynblat, MD Brooklyn, NY 11219 director of the Fifth Avenue Cardiothoracic Surgeon Committee, which spearheaded www.maimonidesmed.org the call for including affordable housing incentives, did not re- Yisachar Greenberg, MD turn calls for comment. Interventional Cardiologist To make our team part of your care, call: Rosenberg cautioned that the money would be “subject to Israel Jacobowitz, MD THE CARDIAC INSTITUTE availability,” but added that the Cardiothoracic Surgeon mayor was committed to the plan. “The proposal that the city 1-800-682-5558 has put on the table was an en- Zvi Zisbrod, MD hancement to what we wanted,” Cardiothoracic Surgeon said Jerry Armer, chairman of CB6, who fought against modi- B ergen John McMahon, MD fying the rezoning plan. “We Family Health Cardiothoracic Surgeon had asked for the city to put up Center money, we were not in favor of a specific zoning. We were very 718-622-1090 Ext. 143 satisfied with what the city has Services provided by BATF in collaboration done and with what our council www.batf.net with Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center members have done.” 4 BWN THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM May 5, 2003
To advertise in The Brooklyn Papers’ Health, Mind & Body Section, please call (718) 834-9350 New precision instrument to battle cancer New York Methodist Hospital became available in the United cancer of the breast, prostate, oncologists, radiation physi- MD, chairman of radiation on- doscopy results, surgical notes the treatment-planning com- patient,” said Pamela Ross, A new and powerful tool States, enables radiation oncolo- head and neck, upper abdominal cists and radiation therapists, cology at New York Methodist and other diagnostic modali- puter system. “This technolo- RTT, coordinator of radiation gists to target tumors with great tumors and brain tumors. IMRT to hit the tumor with a series of Hospital. Much of the program ties, is used to determine the gy allows us to measure and oncology at New York Meth- to treat, and often elimi- precision and to deliver high- is often useful in the treatment of beams from different angles, takes place during the planning best course of treatment. verify the exact amount of ra- odist Hospital. nate, cancer is now avail- dose radiation beams to the tu- patients with recurrent tumors which are carefully mapped stages. A thorough evaluation To assure that the tumor site diation administered to the “IMRT is a tool that enables able at New York Meth- mor sites without affecting sur- who have been previously treat- before treatment. of the patient, which may in- is reached with precision, a 3- site,” said Maged Ghaly, MD, the physician to hit the tumor odist Hospital. rounding healthy tissue. ed with radiation therapy. “IMRT is not just a technol- clude X-rays, magnetic reso- D image of the targeted area is radiation oncologist at New with a strong force while mini- Intensity modulated radiation A variety of cancers may be IMRT enables the treatment ogy, it encompasses a full pro- nance imaging, CAT scan, created and data about the area York Methodist Hospital. mizing the potential for compli- therapy (IMRT), which recently treated using IMRT, including team, composed of radiation gram,” said Sameer Rafla, clinical examinations, en- is delivered electronically to Before radiation is deliv- cations. This program signifi- ered to the site, treatment is cantly increases the probability simulated using a reproduction of cure and a good quality of of the body called a “phan- life,” said Dr Rafla. tom.” “It’s a little like a re- For more information, or for hearsal. We simulate the treat- a referral to a physician affiliat- ment plan and accurately ed with New York Methodist Zarou named OB/GYN head at Victory measure the doses of radiation Hospital’s Institute for Cancer that will be administered to the Care, call (866) 411-6626. Victory Memorial Hospital cy, assuming leadership roles on numer- A prolific writer of specialized med- ical Association, and at the Brooklyn Methodist and Downstate where he Dr. Donald Zarou has joined ous medical and executive committees. ical papers, he has been published many Gynecological Society, of which he is earned awards for excellence. He is the recipient of national recogni- times in such journals as the American a past president. He and his wife, the Rev. Andrea ELECTROLYSIS the Victory Memorial’s medical tion awards from the Association of Pro- Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, In earlier years, Zarou was a cap- Stutz Zarou, make their home in B ay staff and has been appointed fessors of Obstetrics and Gynecology the Journal of Reproductive Medicine, tain in the Army Medical Corps on Ridge and are the parents of four chil- director of the Obsterics and and the Council for Resident Education Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Interna- active duty and chief of OB/GYN dren. Dr.Zarou’s community involve- Permanent Hair Removal Specialist Gynecology Department. in Obstetrics and Gynecology. tional Journal of OB/GYN and the New Department at Patterson Army Hospi- ments included past service as chair- Zarou has served as chairman of Board certified in his specialty, Zarou York State Journal of Medicine. tal, Fort Monmoth, N.J. man of the board at Poly Prep, a the Department of OB/GYN at has also made signficant contributions to His research has been presented at Zarou received his education at Poly member of the board of the Bay Heights Methodist Hospital and, for 11 years, Downstate Medical Center, his alma meetings of professional groups that in- Prep, the University of Vermont and Ridge Development Corp., a trustee held the department chair at Lutheran mater, where he has earned the respect of clude the Society of Perinatal Obstetri- SUNY Downstate Medical Center, at the St. Nicholas Home for the Aged, Medical Center. his colleagues, students and many resi- cians, Amercian College of Obstetri- where he earned his degree in medi- a director of the Brooklyn Chapter of While at Lutheran, he also served as dents. Appointed to the clinical faculty in cians and Gynecologists, the American cine. His internship was completed at the American Red Cross in New York Electrolysis director of medical education and pro- OB/GYN in 1968, he also served as clin- Association of Gynecological Laporo- New York Methodist Hospital and resi- and a director of the Kings County Theresa Parolisi, C.P.E. BOARD CERTIFIED gram director of the OB/GYN Residen- cial sssociate dean for eight years. scopists, the Southern American Med- dency programs were fulfilled at both Health Care Review Organization. - Computerized ONLY Equipment PERMANENT - Disposable METHOD Health Plus’ new Asst. Marketing Director Sterile Probes For Women, Men & Teens Health Plus number of city residents. 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By Patrick Gallahue can see the difference between where and Carroll Gardens, although sites for or maintenance fees, the banks contain The Brooklyn Papers they are and what we’re offering.” those banks have not been finalized. coin-counting machines, free Com- The Brooklyn Heights branch, set to At present there are 11 Commerce merce check cards, a combination Commerce Bank is laying a open this summer, is just one of more branches in Manhattan, at 94th Street ATM/VISA debit card, and a full-serv- direct challenge to its soon-to-be than 15 Commerce branches scheduled and Broadway, 74th Street and Broad- ice 24-7 bank-by-phone system. competitors on “banker’s row” in to open in Brooklyn, with about six in way, 68th Street and Broadway, 85th “We really feel that New York, and Brooklyn Heights. 2003, including one in Windsor Ter- Street and Third Avenue, 77th Street the outer boroughs in particular, are go- With seven-day-a-week service, free race, at Park Circle and Prospect Park and Second Avenue, 64th Street and ing through a decrease in customer serv- personal checking and claims of having Southwest, and in Bensonhurst, at Bay Third Avenue, Fifth Street and Sixth ice,” Meyer said. “And we’re all about as much as twice as many employees Parkway and 86th Street. Avenue, 43rd Street and Third Avenue, customer service. We have the exact op- as some other banks, the 30-year-old The first Brooklyn location opened 32nd Street and Park Avenue, 26th posite philosophy from everybody else.
Commerce Bank is setting up a new lo- at 2700 Coney Island Ave. in Street and Seventh Avenue, and Bond We consider ourselves a retailer.” Callan / Tom cation at the corner of Montague and Sheepshead Bay, on Saturday, and the Street and Broadway. Commerce Bank boasts assets ex- Court streets, the tip of a strip of about grand opening party featured free All Commerce Banks are open sev- ceeding $17 billion and 229 branches half a dozen banks. Brooklyn Cyclones tickets to the first en days a week, Monday through Fri- in the New York, New Jersey, eastern “We wanted to be on that street,” said 50 customers. Similar grand opening day, from 7:30 am to 8 pm; Saturday, Pennsylvania and northern Delaware Peter Meyer, a Brooklyn Heights resident parties are planned for other branches. from 7:30 am to 6 pm; and Sunday, region. On average, each branch em- and Commerce Bank’s regional vice In the pipeline are Commerce branch- from 11 am to 4 pm. ploys 30 people not including opera- Papers The Brooklyn president for Brooklyn and Queens. “We es in Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Bay In addition to providing free person- tional staff such as lenders and mort- Borough President Marty Markowitz (holding scissors) was on hand Saturday at the open- want to be near our competitors so people Ridge, Dyker Heights, Borough Park al checking with no minimum balance gage personnel. ing of Brooklyn’s first Commerce Bank branch, on Coney Island Avenue. Contest to name Yassky cherishes ‘wonk’ role By Patrick Gallahue ers that do business with city agencies; won applause from the Patrolman’s The Brooklyn Papers Intro. 250, mandating taxis and livery Benevolent Association. Gowanus Canal seal cabs to carry child safety seats in their Should there be a contender on the During his campaign for City trunks; and Intro. 107, which would horizon, the most serious challenge By Patrick Gallahue Council in 2001, David Yassky cir- protect victims of domestic violence could come from his predecessor, Ken The Brooklyn Papers culated a piece of literature that read, from discrimination by landlords and Fisher, who would be able to run if the “If there’s a law you’ve heard of, employers. council-amendment to the city’s term With the coming ashore David Yassky probably wrote it.” Before he won a four-way Democra- limits law remains overturned. this month of a seal at the Though it is unlikely that the Brook- tic primary, tantamount to Election Day On March 19, state Supreme Court mouth of the Gowanus lyn Heights-Downtown Brooklyn coun- victory, Yassky was a professor of crim- Justice Gerard Rosenberg overturned Canal, making real what Callan / Tom cilman authored the laws of nature, as inal and administrative law at Brooklyn the amendment, which would have was once only thought to be some have joked, there have been a flur- Law School. Before that, he worked un- barred former council members from a myth, the Gowanus Canal ry of bills coming out of his office re- Mango / Greg der then-Rep. Charles Schumer, as chief running to reclaim their seats until 2005. Community Development cently. And Yassky estimates he will counsel to the crime subcommittee of The amendment was challenged in a Corporation is giving the keep it up, introducing a bill or resolu- the House of Representatives, and lawsuit filed by a former Bay Ridge community a chance to tion at a pace of one every two weeks or helped draft the Brady Law, the assault- councilman, state Sen. Marty Golden. so, at the next several stated council weapons ban, as well as the Violence “I have a lot of respect for what my name it. Papers File The Brooklyn meetings. Against Women Act and the clinic-ac- successor is doing,” Fisher told The “I think she will be our offi- The Gowanus Canal Community Development Corpora- One, which was introduced on cess law. Brooklyn Papers shortly after the court cial mascot,” said Jeanne Di- tion is holding a seal-naming contest. Wednesday, proposes allowing off-duty Papers File The Brooklyn “He came to the council with a lot made its ruling. “Unless there was a Lascio, the development cor- police officers to work in uniform out- David Yassky of experience in Washington with groundswell from the district, which I poration’s executive director. of the body of water, once grain elevator terminal. side clubs and bars, an idea suggested Schumer,” Liff said. “So he’s very am not anticipating, and I became “So what I think we need to do known as “Lavender Lake,” The Long Island-based by club owners on Bedford Avenue in a leader by example. much, in the good sense of the word, a convinced my tenure would have an is name the Gowanus seal.” for its polluted purplish hue. Riverhead Foundation, which Williamsburg. “He’s a workhorse, not a show policy wonk.” impact on the city, it’s not something On April 8, a 40-pound, fe- “It definitely indicates rescued the animal, said the “We have had some issues with horse,” said political consultant Bob This close to primary season, howev- I’m actively looking at.” male yearling harp seal jumped seal was suffering from dehy- neighbors complaining about people Liff. er, it’s difficult not to wonder if the ac- Brooklyn Democratic Party insider ashore in Red Hook at the prop- cleaner water, and that was the name of the game all along,” dration, parasites and malnu- being kind of rowdy and noisy,” Other pieces of legislation Yassky tivity is to ward off potential challengers Steve Cohn, who was generally con- erty abutting the Port of New has drafted in the past year are Intro. DiLascio said. trition — not any fault of the Yassky told The Brooklyn Papers. for his seat and build allies in case of sidered the frontrunner by many in York Grain Elevator Terminal, “Sometimes even relieving themselves 287, which would require all taxicabs such a challenge. After all, many of 2001 — he came in second in the pri- The seal, however, was a water but a result of its sea- where the Gowanus Canal sonal molt — which left her on the public sidewalks.” placed into operation after December Yassky’s proposals, such as the bicycle- mary to Yassky — has said he will not flows into the Gowanus Bay. little bit worse for wear. Another soon-to-be introduced bill, 2003 to use alternative fuel, which he landlord bill and the clean fuel bill, will run in 2003. Ken Diamondstone, a The sickly animal was vulnerable to the elements. For the development corpo- Kim Durham, director of possibly on May 14, would require authored with Queens Councilman meet with the approval of environmen- Community Board 2 member from ration, the presence of an found by John Quadrozzi, commercial landlords to allow em- John Liu, chairman of the council’s tal groups — a significant force in his Boerum Hill who came in third place president of the Gowanus In- the rescue program for the aquatic mammal was a huge Riverhead Foundation, said ployees who ride bicycles to work to Transportation Committee; Intro. 208, district, which stretches up to Williams- in the primary, said, “The decision dustrial Park, eating snow be- symbolic victory, after spend- the seal’s condition is stable store their cycles in their offices, rather which would establish a code of re- burg — and the bill to allow police offi- hasn’t yet been made but the probabil- ing years trying to improve fore it shimmied its way to the but they will wait a few more than having to find someplace outside sponsible conduct for gun manufactur- cers to work outside of bars already ity is that I won’t. the environmental condition base of the huge silos at the weeks, and allow her to gain a the building to chain them. few more pounds, before set- Yassky said the idea came ting her free. to him when his wife, Di- Quadrozzi, is preparing to ana Fortuna, was not al- Join our group of local business people as make a donation to the River- lowed to bring her bicycle we meet twice a month in Downtown Brooklyn for head Foundation in the seal’s into her Manhattan office building, where she runs a lively discussions about the work we do and the honor, but must wait for the seal to be placed in the foun- non-profit organization. common concerns of entrepreneurs and managers. dation’s adoption program, “Having had one bike which depends on the status stolen already she really Our goal is to trade business referrals as of the recovery and the avail- doesn’t like the idea of we become familiar with each other’s areas of ability within the program. locking her bike up on a Since March 2001, when a Manhattan street all day,” expertise. Only one member from any particular Bay Ridge High School Yassky said, adding that field may join, to avoid competition and insure teacher first reported spotting other bicyclists have simi- confidentiality. a seal in the Gowanus, DiLas- lar apprehensions. cio has offered a $100 reward Another bill on the hori- to the person who took the zon will look at storm We are seeking: first picture of a seal there. drains flowing into the city Brooklyn Papers photogra- sewer system, which caus- CONSULTANTS • SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS pher Tom Callan, whose shot es overflow. The bill CATERER • TRAVEL AGENT • COMPUTER REPAIR/IT was featured on the front page would make it easier for of the April 14 Brooklyn Pa- homeowners in less con- PERSONAL TRAINER • CAR SERVICE/LIMOUSINE OWNER pers, was given the reward. gested areas to drain rain PHOTOGRAPHER • HEALTHCARE ADMINISTRATOR Naming suggestions for the water directly into the EVENT PLANNER • CONTRACTOR • COMMERCIAL MOVER seal can be sent to the Gowanus ground. Canal Community Develop- While Yassky may be ment Corporation via e-mail at less oriented towards fiery [email protected] or regu- oration than some of his Call for more information lar mail to their office at 515 colleagues, and he is not (718) 834-9350 x104. 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The fruit of a he, along with six alleged accom- come of his divorce case; court of- Hynes was tipped off to the case plices, fixed divorce cases for a ficer Louis Salerno, who allegedly by a woman who complained that fee. steered cases to Garson; and Rabbi Garson had made up his mind Also charged in the case were: Ezra Zifrani, who with his daugh- about her custody case before it Nissim Elmann, who prosecutors ter, Esther Weitzner, allegedly had even gone to trial. When Gar- poisoned tree say peddled Garson’s verdicts in planned to bribe Garson for a fa- son ruled against her, she was left the courthouse corridors; lawyer vorable custody outcome for without alimony or custody of the In the legal trade it’s called “fruit of a poisoned tree.” Paul Siminovsky, who allegedly Weitzner. couple’s 11-year-old daughter. That’s the term lawyers use to argue that valid evidence ob- bribed the judge on behalf of Several other court officials The district attorney’s office ob- tained a warrant, approved by Pfau, tained improperly not be admitted at trial. With the arrest this clients; Avraham Levi, who al- were suspended without pay, al- week of Judge Gerald Garson, a longtime treasurer of the Kings legedly paid more than $10,000 to though no charges had been filed at to perform audio and video surveil- lance of Garson beginning in Octo- County Democratic Committee, and the declaration by District ber. Attorney Charles Hynes that the system used to select Brooklyn Among the gifts Garson report- judges is a sham, all of Brooklyn’s judges — and Hynes him- edly collected were cash payoffs of self — must be considered such fruit. $5,000 to $10,000, a trip to Bali, The poisoned tree, of course, is the county Democratic Party bottles of Scotch and fancy dinners and its judicial screening process. At the tree’s root is party DEM JUDGES… at the New York Marriott Brooklyn leader Clarence Norman and his chief executive Jeffrey Feld- and other upscale restaurants. man. The tree holds Hynes as well. Continued from page 1 the past three years in a series of He turned himself in at 9:45 pm After nearly two years of judicial corruption staring him in Committee, which are then routed scandals. on April 23. the face, Hynes, forced to confront strong evidence in the Gar- to a screening panel of 13 mem- In December 2001, the Commis- Garson was suspended with pay, son case, deflected attention from individual judges who might bers, stacked with longtime party sion on Fiduciary Appointments re- and will continue to collect his be engaged in improprieties (the tree’s fruit) and targeted the loyalists, which determines who is leased a report which asserted that $136,700 salary. He was released tree itself. “qualified” to become a judge in between 1995 and 1999, an extrav- on $15,000 bail on Thursday. The “Any suggestion this is a process giving voting rights to the agant percentage of lucrative re- Brooklyn. other suspects also posted bail. public is nothing less than a sham,” Hynes said. He empaneled Questionable panel ceiverships in Kings County were A grand jury was considering given to attorneys connected to the the indictment as this went to a grand jury to investigate how the borough’s judges are select- The screening panel members Kings County Democratic Com- press. ed. include lawyers and former judges mittee. Garson was the second Brook- DA/ Brooklyn Office Hynes may be well intentioned here. But his close ties to the who’ve been involved in some of Confidence continued to slide lyn judge to be charged with a Brooklyn Democrats, especially Norman, Feldman and former the party’s bleaker moments, such when several judges were censured felony since January 2002, when Borough President Howard Golden (a longtime party leader to as Ravi Batra, who resigned in and reassigned between 2001 and Judge Victor Barron was arrested whom Hynes provided a six-figure, do-nothing job after Gold- 2000 from managing the troubled 2002. Then in June, the state Com- for demanding a $115,000 kick- en was term-limited out of office), combined with Hynes’ fail- Associated Press Cypress Hills Cemetery after state mission on Judicial Conduct rec- back to settle a $4.9 million per- ure to address the problem sooner, make him the wrong man for Attorney General Eliot Spitzer tried ommended Supreme Court Justice sonal injury lawsuit, involving a 3- State Supreme Court Justice Gerald P. Garson, who was arraigned to have him removed because of al- this task. Reynold Mason be removed from month-old girl who was left blind on bribery charges Thursday, along with four co-defendants, was Hynes has for his entire political career had no qualms with leged corruption; Louis Rosenthal, the bench for illegally subletting and severely brain-damaged. under surveillance for several months. He is suspected of taking who reportedly came under investi- the way judges are hand-picked by the county organization. his apartment for more than 10 Barron was convicted last Au- gifts illegally in exchange for fixing divorce cases. gation for charging unusually high Now, after more than a dozen years as district attorney, we are years to his brother-in-law, deposit- gust, and copped a plea for three to legal fees without filing all the re- asked to believe that he’s found religion. ing the money paid to him into his nine years in prison. He is current- quired paperwork to justify his ex- The grand jury is expected to sit • • • escrow account and refusing to ly serving his sentence upstate. penses; and Ronald Aiello, former for six months but Hynes said he give the landlord over $15,000 in Following Barron’s arrest, the Charles Hynes, the great court reformer. Imagine! chief administrative judge of expects something to come out Consider the case of Supreme Court Justice Victor Barron, rent. Brooklyn judiciary — already “sooner rather than later.” Brooklyn who the Daily News said, bruised from a damning report by who last year was caught shaking down an attorney. The court padded “the court’s payroll with Lopez Torres Jeffrey Feldman, executive direc- scandal did not begin with Barron, and we see that it didn’t end The party’s influence over the ju- Chief Administrative Judge Judith tor of the Kings County Democratic two of his relatives.” He mysteri- Kaye that exposed a widespread with him. Yet Hynes declined at the time — in the face of a diciary came to a head last summer Committee, one of the potential tar- ously resigned his judgeship in the system of cronyism and patronage constant barrage of criticism by reformers and editorial writers when incumbent Civil Court Judge Callan / Tom gets of such a probe, said this week, mid-1990s. in the Brooklyn courts — came un- at the Daily News — to widen his probe. Margarita Lopez Torres did not re- “We would welcome any review.” Batra’s law firm employs party der fire. “It’s overstated, without a scintilla of evidence, that this is an ceive the endorsement of the so- Law enforcement and court boss Norman. Several judges were censured for Barry Kamins, a past president called “county machine,” after she sources said this week that when endemic problem,” Hynes said then. “I don’t believe it. Not improprieties and the borough’s top Garson was confronted with the evi- here in this county or any other county.” of the Brooklyn Bar Association sought to run for Supreme Court. judge, Justice Michael Pesce, was who is also a screening panel mem- The party then ran someone else dence against him, he told investiga- By all appearances, Hynes had an airtight case against Bar- reassigned in February of last year, tors that judgeships could be bought ron. Following Barron’s arraignment, the DA told reporters that ber, was a fundraiser for Hynes’ re- against Lopez Torres when she to make way for Pfau to step in and election campaign in 2001. Kamins sought re-election to the Civil Papers File The Brooklyn for upwards of $50,000 in Brook- he had marked money that was exchanged between the crooked clean up the courts in Brooklyn. lyn. He even wore a wire to a meet- judge and the attorney, who was cooperating with investigators. also defended crooked Supreme Court. On April 25, Pfau announced a Clarence Norman Court Judge Victor Barron, who Lopez Torres said she fell out of ing with a Brooklyn Democratic He also had an incriminating recording of Barron accepting the series of operational changes de- Party insider to discuss a fee for the was sentenced in October to three favor for refusing to hire a legal signed to uncover and thwart cor- cash. to nine years in prison under a plea secretary referred to her by Nor- Supreme Court they can have ab- elevation of an acquaintance to According to a Brooklyn Papers source, Barron’s best de- ruption. solute faith that they are getting the deal. man, and in another instance some- Her office will conduct a daily judge. fense would have been to put the whole system on trial. “If you want to suggest that any one referred by Bushwick Assem- best possible justice,” Pfau said. The insider reportedly did not “The only thing you could do for Barron is to show the jury review of the assignment of cases As she’s done with the guardian- one of our members of this panel blyman Vito Lopez, who is no to judges, to find out if the random object to the discussion of a fee. the corruption of the courthouse and show that Barron is a fall are at the center of controversies, it relation to the jurist. ship office, Pfau will also move the Garson’s claims could corrobo- guy,” the source said. assignment procedure was fol- matrimonial part’s administrative is not unique to members of the le- Both officials denied the allega- lowed. In addition, she said a com- rate long-standing complaints Hynes let Barron cop a plea deal, avoiding a trial that would offices from 210 Joralemon St. to gal fraternity,” Feldman said last tion, and Norman has attributed puter system is being developed to about the secrecy of judicial selec- likely have gone far to expose the system of corruption in week in response to questions their differences to an incident in alert the Inspector General’s Office 360 Adams St., where her office is tion in Brooklyn, which is handled Brooklyn’s courts. That was less than a year ago. Why should about the suspicious makeup of the 1997 when Lopez Torres allowed of any overrides of the random as- located. by the Kings County Democratic we trust Hynes not to sweep the whole mess under the rug this screening panel. “If they’re not al- her name to be placed for nomina- signment, so they can be reviewed. “Its just a much more open way Committee. ready there, they are usually tion to the Supreme Court by a rival of doing business,” she said. time? The court will also begin rotat- “The message is, if there’s a cor- It would be welcome news, but incredibly hard to believe, brought into controversies. Other- party faction led by the late Assem- Hynes defended the judiciary rupt judge in this county, I’m going ing the clerks and officers of the that Hynes is ready to burn all his political bridges. wise lawyers generally don’t blyman Anthony Genovesi. civil trial part on a regular basis during Barron’s trial, saying, “It’s to be the lead attorney,” Hynes said work.” Lopez Torres was subsequently overstated, without a scintilla of at a press conference after Garson’s • • • and perform a risk assessment, “to Hynes can contribute to the restoration of public respect for Other screening panel names in- shunned by the county executive look at how we do business,” she evidence, that this is an endemic arraignment. clude Roger Adler; Bruce Behrins; committee for re-election despite told The Brooklyn Papers. problem. I don’t believe it. Not Garson became treasurer of the the judiciary and the rule of law in Brooklyn by acknowledging Martin Edelman; George Farkas; being an incumbent. She said that “We certainly want to identify here in this county or any other Kings County Democrats when his inherent conflicts of interest in these cases and recusing him- John Gulino; Trevor Headley; San- she sent letters both to Karp and the whether or not there are any risk county.” But after Garson’s ar- former Borough President Howard self from their investigation and prosecution. If he fails to act ford Rubenstein; Luther Williams executive committee asking that areas that we haven’t identified,” raignment, the DA announced he Golden was the chairman. He with honor in this, the public will be justified in wondering, and Jerome Karp, who chairs the she be considered for Supreme she said. “As a case is processed, would convene a grand jury to in- served as treasurer from the late with each conviction Hynes extracts, how many others were panel. Court candidacy, but only Karp re- through the different stages from vestigate how judges are selected 1980s until the mid-‘90s. dealt with among friends. Adler, also a former president of sponded, sending her a letter stat- the initialization to disposition, are in Brooklyn and he had harsh He was censured by the state in A special federal prosecutor with no ties to the Kings County the Brooklyn Bar Association, said ing: “It is not necessary for you to there areas we should be looking at words for that process. 1984, when he was a lawyer, for Democratic Committee should head these investigations and this week that it may be time to be- declare your candidacy to me or my more carefully? “Any suggestion that this is a taking a civil judge and his wife on present evidence to a grand jury. Even Brooklynites have a right gin looking at other methods for se- committee. Candidates are only “The overriding issue in all of process giving voting rights to the a weekend vacation in the Catskills to justice. lecting judges, such as merit selec- considered by our committee upon this is making sure that when the public is nothing less than a sham,” and registering the judge under the tion and non-partisan elections. referral of the county leader.” public comes to the Brooklyn he said. name of one of his law partners. “Given the events of the past Asked last year whether that several days it seems to me you re- process made the county committee ally need to look to see if there is a leadership a “gatekeeper” with re- better way,” he said. spect to judicial appointments, Karp made news last year for Feldman answered, “To the extent telling a prospective candidate for that one needs to apply to the party the Supreme Court, the only sitting in order to obtain [an application] Boro man Hispanic woman judge in the Civ- Affordable rules belong in and be referred to the screening il Court who was at odds with the panel, then it’s a fair notion.” executive committee, that her can- Lopez Torres did, however, didacy would only be considered amass tremendous support from elected to by referral from county boss Nor- other Democratic elected officials, new Park Slope zone plan man. who campaigned for her and parad- Hynes right man? ed her record as a judge to chastise the county committee for failing to council — To the editor: stores, tire-repair shops, etc., Whether or not Hynes is the man to clean up the Brooklyn courts is endorse her. The Department of City which provide work for blue- another matter. A slate of insurgent candidates, Planning’s threat to kill the LETTERS collar employees and needed “I can’t imagine that Hynes has including Lopez Torres, along with Park Slope rezoning proposal services for area residents Judge Delores Thomas, topped the in Japan not known for some time at least of rather than allow room for af- seem to me to be at risk. the rumors that have been circulat- county committee’s choices for fordable housing is disingenu- funding for affordable housing and will significantly change Further, while I understand ing for years about how ridiculous Civil Court in the Democratic pri- By Deborah Kolben ous and unhelpful [“City: growing scarcer by the day, the character of the neighbor- the nature of newspaper inter- hood. the judge selection is,” Susan Loeb, mary last September. The only can- The Brooklyn Papers Low-rent housing will sink the Planning Department views, I must comment on didate that did not face a primary Slope zoning, The Brooklyn should welcome a proposal 2) Even with 10 percent of two statements ascribed to president of the reform-minded po- With a Brooklyn accent, a penchant for litical club, the Central Brooklyn challenge was Robin Garson, the Papers, March 17]. They that would create affordable apartments offered at rents for [City Planning Director Independent Democrats, said this wife of Gerald Garson, whose op- leather jackets and gold chains, and talk of should set aside such scare housing without costing the low- and middle-income citi- Amanda Burden] in press week. ponent for the vacancy, James Mc- “busting chops,” Anthony Bianchi isn’t tactics and instead work with city money. zens, 90 percent will be at an coverage of this plan. The first “Clearly he is very connected to Call, was kicked off the ballot on a exactly what you’d call a poster boy for community residents. It’s the epitome of thought- immorally high market rate, was that “Park Slope has been the Democratic machine,” Loeb petitioning technicality. international diplomacy. Council members DeBlasio ful urban planning: visionary and serve no purpose other waiting for something like this said of Hynes. Cry for reform So how exact- and Yassky and Borough Pres- yet practical, and most of all, than finding a way to cram for over a decade.” Ms. Bur- responsive to the desires of more population into the area, Hynes faced staunch criticism “To me it screams for an inde- ly did this guy ident Markowitz deserve den, I AM Park Slope, and for not relinquishing the Barron from Benson- praise for seeking both to pro- the majority of Park Slope’s and continue the uncon- I’ve NEVER wanted anything pendent screening panel,” said residents. scionably high real estate case to a special prosecutor, who Fleishman, who is a district leader hurst land a seat tect the side streets with a like this. some suggested might have been in the Inuyama height limit AND encourage — Ted Houghton, Park Slope costs we currently experience. We had affordable in the from Park Slope and Brooklyn 3) It worries me that no in- more aggressive in rooting out sys- Heights. “You can’t tell me that City Council in affordable housing on Fourth Don’t over-build very area you are talking temic corruption in Brooklyn’s Japan this week? Avenue. The change they are creased services have been an- about until realtors, specula- these people are totally independent nounced for an area which, courts. Other legal experts suggest- of the county organization.” A lot of hard proposing — to upzone Fourth Avenue tors and developers realized ed that he accepted a plea deal in work, a whole Fourth Avenue by 33 percent, until now, has been largely they had been missing out on Feldman, however, termed the To the editor: the case to avoid a jury trial during lot of charm, and instead of 100 percent — is made up of three-story homes. a gold mine. These are the work of the body “clinical,” and The pending rezoning of Where will the new residents which Barron’s only defense in the a great campaign totally “in scope” for the ap- very types who will be doing said, “the screening panel’s mission Fourth Avenue in Park Slope send their children to school? face of the mounds of evidence is not political and there’s no politi- manager, ex- plication that City Planning us the “favor” of constructing Hynes had against him, might have plained Bianchi’s causes me great concern. As a What parking will be made these inappropriate giants. cal charge to what they do” adding has put forward. It will not de- resident of Garfield Place be- been to expose a system of corrup- mother, Fran- available? For that matter, The other comment was that they only look at the qualifica- lay passage of a height limit tween Fourth and Fifth av- where will they run for a quart tion in the Brooklyn courts, of ces, who moved on Park Slope side streets. that “Fourth Avenue could be- tions of potential candidates. Japanese campaign poster enues, I believe the lives of us of milk? which Barron was only a cog. Candidates for Supreme Court to Staten Island Instead, the change will come another Park Avenue.” for Anthony Bianchi. from Brooklyn in the area will be negatively 4) The gentrification al- Hynes also showed fierce party who are allowed to apply by Nor- simply leave room on Fourth Believe it or not, many of us a decade ago. affected in the following ready changing our neighbor- loyalty in defiance of common man are interviewed by the screen- Avenue for creating an “af- chose not to live in the Bianchi’s childhood friends, and peers from ways. hood will NOT be positively sense when he hired his political ing panel and then the members fordable housing zoning canyons of Manhattan. We Xaverian High School, on Shore Road and 71st 1) Twelve-story buildings affected by these buildings. mentor, the former Democratic Par- take a tally of ‘yes’ or ‘no’ down bonus” in the near future. Un- love the natural sunlight that ty boss and Brooklyn borough pres- Street, were stunned to read that their old pal had are totally out of scale with Indeed, the light manufactur- the list. Those tallies are then re- der such a bonus, developers existing structures in the area, ing, service stations, small defines Brooklyn. ident, Howard Golden, to a six-fig- won political office in Japan. would still be able to earn We love the sense of com- ferred to Norman, who makes his But according to Bianchi, it’s been a natural ure, do-nothing position in the DA’s endorsements to fill vacancies. handsome profits. But if they munity in our neighborhoods. office upon Golden’s being term- process that started back in 1989, when he moved build to the maximum height We would love to see the city Those endorsements are sent to the to Japan for what was supposed to be a one-year limited out of office. judicial convention, which tends to and density limits, they would renovate existing and avail- Golden was already earning a stint as a teacher for JET, a program that places na- also have to include a modest able buildings and offer them rubber-stamp the county leader’s tive English speakers in Japanese public schools. SEND US A LETTER hefty city pension when he took the endorsements. number of affordable apart- Here’s how to send a letter for publication. at rentals for low- and middle- job, which he quit last September Many friends back in Brooklyn knew Bianchi ments. income residents. The judicial convention is made loved Japan, but few knew he had married a By E-Mail: amid the mayor’s calls for staff re- Like my neighbors, I love • [email protected] Our buildings are not man- up of delegates elected out of each Japanese woman, mastered the language, or that ductions and sharp criticism in the Park Slope because it’s still • By Fax: (718) 834-9278. sions, because they’ve always assembly district. he held political aspirations. media of Hynes’ hiring him. Although the position is elected economically, ethnically and • By regular mail: Letters,The Brooklyn Papers, been the homes of working The last they heard, Bianchi was living in Cali- 26 Court St., Suite 506, Brooklyn, NY 11242. Judiciary’s Dem tie it is not particularly coveted, which fornia producing television shows including “The racially diverse, something people. They are, however, as The Brooklyn judiciary’s con- means that most of the delegates Jeffersons” and “One Day at a Time.” that’s quickly disappearing in Please sign your correspondence and include your address and historic as the mansions on the nection to the county political sys- are party insiders who slide by un- the face of our neighborhood’s phone number for verification. park. — Christine Napolitan, tem has been well documented over contested. rising housing costs. With Letters may be edited for space and clarity. Park Slope
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Tree- the Office of Emergency long fought to rid themselves of poration. “An OEM bunker nents of the jail, they are not lined Street. References. $950 per mo. Management battling Down- the Brooklyn House of D, as doesn’t strike me as particu- actually losing the facility, OCEAN PARKWAY, Corner of Ave. H - A “ONE (1) BR” and a very large “TWO (2) in Brooklyn’s town residents and elected the detention center, on Atlantic larly useful use for that site.” they are only losing its resi- BR” corner Apt., 6th and 5th Floors. officials to get its new com- Avenue between Boerum Place Even neighbors in Brooklyn dents. Spacious, sunny, all new, oak floors, elevator bldg. Special bus to city. References. $950 largest-circulation mand center built on the for- and Smith Street, is commonly Heights, who are largely op- The city for now is saying known, the idea of an OEM posed to the bunker being sited that it will keep the jail as and $1375. Garage parking extra. Call mer Red Cross site at 165 Owner (516) 763-5360 or Super (718) weekly newspapers bunker there would simply be in Walt Whitman Park, would- part of its inventory on the 236-4282, for all three apts. W19 Cadman Plaza East, why not exchanging one adversary for n’t condone it going to the chance that city jail popula- convert the jail to a bunker? another. House of Detention building. tions swell. FREE Bensonhurst After all, it meets many of “Our position for new de- While Judy Stanton, execu- “I don’t believe we’re go- Bensonhurst rental - 2nd floor walk Brooklyn OEM’s needs. It is nothing if velopment is we want shops tive director of the Brooklyn ing to put the OEM staff in up. 2BR, new kitchen, freshly paint- not securable, it is standalone on the bottom and [OEM is] Heights Association, said it cells,” said Correction Depart- ed throughout. Move-in condition, and it is city owned. not going to put shops on the was something opponents ment spokesman Tom Ante- bright and airy. Close to all trains, Classifieds “Interesting,” Councilman bottom,” said Sandy Balboza, could reach for, she added, nen, when asked about the buses and shopping. $1050/mo. Gas and electric extra. (718) 266-6060. David Yassky, a staunch oppo- president of the Atlantic Av- “We are not advocating that. jail’s potential reuse as a W18 nent of putting the command enue Betterment Association. And in the best possible case bunker. “That’s how it’s set EXT bunker on the Red Cross site, “I wouldn’t think anyone that’s not what should be up. There are just a few ad- Bensonhurst Call 718-834-9350 250 said after a long pause. He would dare to put it there.” there.” ministrative offices.” Fully renovated, private 24/7 TO PLACE YOUR AD • NO COST OR OBLIGATION entrance. Near all transporta- Limited time offer. Private parties only. tion. NO PETS. Asking $1500 monthly. Call (718) 234-1577.
an $8 billion-plus pool of FEMA doesn’t have it yet.” Refs. Required. R18 FEMA money coming from FEMA declined comment FUNDING… the federal government to re- when asked by The Brooklyn Bklyn Hts/vic Boerum Hill To Share / Brooklyn imburse the city for costs asso- Papers about the project work- Pacific/Hoyt St. Tree lined block steps BROKERS Continued from page 1 have testified in the past that ciated with 9-11, said Karen sheet, but Odermatt said, “We frm subway and services. Former fac- the agency was turned down we are committed not to use Johnson, Rep. Ed Towns’ chief submitted a project worksheet tory, dramatic loft space with private Carroll Gardens of staff. But some residents for public assistance a long roof deck and small sleep loft. High Private bedroom with 2 closets available in for a grant by the Federal any city dollars.” ceilings, southern exposure, tons of two bedroom duplex apartment with back- Emergency Management “So that’s more of a wish,” and elected officials this week time ago to FEMA right after closets. Bldg has bike room and laun- yard. Basement entrance. 3.5 blocks from Agency on April 22. said committee member Leroy questioned if OEM had even [9-11].” dry. Pet friendly. June 1. $1695 by F train (Carroll St.) 10 minutes to Manhattan. Not Just Another Office of Emergency Man- Comrie, of Queens, about the applied. Odermatt added that he’s owner Bob (516) 429-1502. Great residential neighborhood. Utilities W19 shared. BBQ in backyard. No pets, smok- Pretty Face! agement officials have repeat- money. “Knowing the fact that Testifying before the coun- received verbal commitments cil subcommittee, Johnson from FEMA and that he is ers or drugs please. Must be clean and edly said that the funding for FEMA reimbursement has Bklyn Hts/Cobble Hill respectful of common area. $1200/mo. said, “If they want to use working with the city’s Office One mo. deposit necessary. (917) 312- ARLENE GREENDLINGER the new command center been woeful and almost neg- Clinton/Amity St. Limestone apt FEMA money under the con- of Management and Budget to 8193. would come from FEMA. But lectful in terms of 9-11, I think building convenient to all. 2 bdrm W19 solidated appropriations bill “decide on the federal funding Real Estate LLC on April 22, FEMA turned you’re really taking a stretch w/wbfplc, bay window, A/C. Layout passed by Congress they need source.” makes this perfect for shares. Pets Clinton Hill down OEM’s request for a there.” to submit a project worksheet FEMA directed calls to hazard mitigation grant and Council members asked to OK. July 1. $1850 by owner Bob Lg sunny room 12’ x 19’, 2nd flr of brwn- Tel (718) 857-5360 to FEMA. As of 6 o’clock on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s (516) 429-1502. W19 stn. Ceiling fan light fixture, marble the council members this week see the financial commitment Friday the regional director of office, which did not return mantle, wooden armoire. Avail May 1. Fax (718) 623-3323 wanted to be certain that the from the federal government FEMA does not have such a calls for comment. Bklyn Hts/Cobble Hill $650/mo + 1 mo sec, + split Con Ed. bunker would not be built at in writing before they made Share full kit + full bath. No smoking, no www.arlenegreendlinger.com R19 worksheet and, by the way, After the command center New construction 3 fam townhouse pets, prefer long term stay, min. 4 mos. the city’s expense. their decision on Wednesday this project is budgeted be- in 7 World Trade Center was w/ pvt entrance for each apt. Avail (718) 230-8555. W18 Testifying before the sub- to modify the proposal. tween $120 million and $130 destroyed on 9-11, OEM set unit has 3BR, hdwd flrs, ceramic tile committee, OEM Commis- The hazard mitigation million … So if they’re going up shop in the Purchase Build- in kit, and Mnhtn view. Quiet tree- COMMERCIAL sioner John Odermatt, said, grant, said Odermatt, was just to use FEMA money, commis- ing, a former city warehouse lined street, walk to rest, stores and trans. 5 min from Mnhtn. Call bet. SPACE HOUSES “[The hazard mitigation grant] one source of FEMA funding sioner, you’re going to need to under the Brooklyn Bridge 9am - 7pm to set up appt to see is just one avenue of funding. I from which to draw. There is do your paperwork, because overpass on Water Street. your apt. $2400/mo. Parking avail. Office Space Available For Sale / New Jersey Avail immed. (718) 875-8171. W18 Bklyn Hts Downtown Bklyn NO FEE. Large studio, private 16 Court St. Bright, windowed patio, beautiful floors, best block. small office in 24/7 security bldg. Charming brownstone, quiet. No $600/mo. Call (718) 852-4779. COUNCIL… W18 pets. $1400/mo. (718) 625-0258. Continued from page 1 When OEM Commissioner / Tom Callan W18 Park Slope munity. John Odermatt compared the Others also argued that the command center’s work to Cobble Hill Built-out beautiful med. space. that of the previous occupant, Sunny 2BR corner apt in a charming ADA compliant – 5000 sf over 2 security fences would encroach contemporary bldg. Parquet flrs. One onto Walt Whitman Park the American Red Cross, Bar- floors. Can be used as 2 – 2500 sf ceramic tile bath. Great neighbor- indiv. practices. Must see. Avail. enough to constitute an “alien- ron, a former Black Panther, hood, near hot Smith St. restaurants ation of parkland.” Assembly- said, “The Red Cross doesn’t and excel. shopping. Cats OK. No May 1st. Fillmore Commerical RE.
The Brooklyn Papers File The Brooklyn (718) 907-1126. woman Joan Millman and state put armed police in the sub- fee. $1900/mo. Garage on premises. W19 Sen. Martin Connor are investi- way. I think it’s disingenuous.” The Red Cross Building on Cadman Plaza East. (718) 935-0099. W19 gating the alienation of park- Land Use committee chair- Crown Heights Ft. Greene/Atlantic Ave land as the grounds for a possi- woman Melinda Katz, of ty and said, “We have to know OEM has been searching for 850+/- sf Prof. Office ble lawsuit against the city. Queens, questioned how it 3 bedrooms, on Eastern Pkwy. Near what’s going there.” a permanent facility since its transportation. Newly renovated Avail. Imm. Before a packed hearing would be possible for the fenc- In addition, Councilman headquarters at 7 World Trade kitchen & bathrooms. NO PETS. Fillmore Commerical RE room with opponents from the ing not to alienate parkland. Leroy Comrie and other com- Center were destroyed in the at- Asking $1200. Call after 3pm. (917) offices of elected officials, lo- Odermatt answered that the 520-7599. 2 months security. Good mittee members sought a guar- tack on the Twin Towers. The (718) 907-1126 W18 R22 cal community groups, tenants design elements were flexible antee that the $110 million Bloomberg administration has credit. References needed. R19 associations and businesses, and suggested bollards or “nat- construction cost would come said it needs a securable, stand- NO FEE CO-OPS on April 28, OEM officials ural barriers” that would not at no expense to the city [see alone facility outside of a flood Kensington - faced tough questions from the keep people out. Large 2BR sunny apartment with high & CONDOS “Questions over bunker fund- zone, which, they say, negates ceilings and plenty of closet space. council subcommittee. Katz sought greater specifici- ing” on page 1]. the Navy Yard. Top FL of 2 story brick. Wood floors For Sale / Brooklyn INSURANCE and freshly painted. Eat in kitchen. Close to F and W trains. Quiet pic- turesque block with easy parking. Bklyn Hts $1450, utilities included. (718) 853- Spacious & sunny 2BR, 2 bath co-op w/ ter- ster’s conviction and said this 6313. W19 race. Full service, 24 hr doorman bldg on week that the status of the mo- Henry St. across from Bklyn Hts cinema. Park Slope Plenty of closet space. View of Mnhtn, BOMBER SCHEME… tion “depends on what other bridges & Cadman Park from new win- information we have.” Park Block. No Fee. 1 BR brown- dows. Garage, laundry rm and storage in Continued from page 1 The two also engaged in his last hope. “At this point we’re no stone floor thru w/ details. 1/2 bldg. Steps from most trains, shops, prom- enade and DUMBO. Maint only $806 incl. On March 31, shortly after telephone calls, which were According to the DA’s of- closer to this than we were be- block from F train/park with deck & WD. No pets/smokers. $1650. util. 58% tax deductible. $489k. No brokers. 10 am, five PVC pipes filled taped, according to the crimi- fice, no one else has been fore this arrest,” Spector Call owner at (718) 797-2876. (718) 499-4065 W18 with gasoline and Sheetrock added. “Mr. Alster hasn’t been Owner . W19 nal complaint report. charged in regards to the case, N8-22 screws, as well as a .38-caliber The conversations led po- but the investigation is ongoing. charged in this and Mr. Scott Park Slope North revolver and a .380-caliber au- lice and prosecutors to believe When the devices were dis- is presumed innocent.” HOUSES tomatic were discovered in the that Scott was hired by Alster covered on March 31, police In one call from prison that Near 2, 3, Q trains, Prospect Pk and backseat of Thomas’ 1992 was picked up by police, Al- cultural center. Grand 2BR brwstn to plant the bombs and make it closed off Montague Street, floorthru. 3 exposures deliver abun- Isuzu SUV parked in a fire look like the real bomber was between Montague Terrace ster called a man who identi- dant daylight. Fully renovated. For Sale / Brooklyn zone in front of her home on still free. and Henry Street, as the emer- fied himself as “Bob” and Al- Details incl mantels, shutters, par- Montague Street between For a brief period that almost gency services unit scoured ster asked Bob to transfer quet, moldings, hi ceil. W/D and Bay Ridge / 80s Hicks Street and Montague worked. The Thomases’ apart- the area. The scene mirrored money from his bank account D/W. May 1 occupancy. (Sorry, no By Owner. Terrific neighborhood. Sunny Terrace. Two anonymous tips ment was searched for frag- the evening of May 29, 2001, into Bob’s escrow account. dogs.) By owner. $2950/mo. (718) brick semi-attached 2 story w/basement, 873-4716 led officers to the vehicle from ments of PVC tubing, which when a blast tore through a When Bob asked him why, . W19 shared driveway, garage on standard lot. pay phones on Court Street Alster refused to elaborate. Cir 1925. Family owned since 1931. was used to make the inopera- tool room at 68 Montague St. Sterling Pl/Prosp Hts Original builder’s home w/ 9’ ceil, parquet between Livingston and tive bombs discovered in their Alster, a long-time law en- Asked whether he had re- flrs, plaster walls, and other orig features. Schermerhorn streets between SUV. And Steven Thomas, forcement enthusiast and ceived such a request from Al- $1,500 / beautiful 1BR. Floor thru, Each unit: LR, DR, 2BRs, kit, bath, sep entr. 2nd flr, brilliant sunshine, spacious, 10:14 am and 10:28 am. who was home with their two member of the New York ster, his defense attorney in 1st flr updated ‘93. New roof ‘97. Basement new renovations, quiet, secure. w/oak flrs, plumb, and walk-down poten- The bombs were found the children when the crude pipe Guard, had befriended Steven the Thomas lawsuit, Robert Heat/hot water incl. Near 2, 3, Q, tial. Oil/steam/$200 per mo. budget plan. day before a scheduled deposi- bombs were found, and who Thomas in the mid-1990s, Soloman, said, “If I had, and Museum, Library, Botanical Garden, Taxes $3,540 (Jan. 03). Blocks from Shore tion in a $75 million lawsuit was the last person seen in the while the latter was the super- I’m not saying that I had, it Park. Tree-lined block. Owner-occu- Rd, 86th St. shops, and trans. Needs cos- brought by the Thomases vehicle, about an hour before intendent of Alster’s apart- would be an attorney-client pied brownstone. Income verifica- metic updating, not gutting or structural against Alster. In 2001, Alster the discovery, was questioned ment building at 303 Beverly privilege and I would not dis- tion/references. No smokers/pets. fixes. Asking $559,900. Considering all (347) 385-9514. offers. Call (732) 282-2701. W18 detonated a pipe bomb in the by police for nearly 10 hours. Road in Kensington. cuss it.” W18 Thomases’ apartment building But then police and Correc- When Yensy Thomas Scott has been charged with Sunset Park while attending a party to cel- tion Department officials joined the police department conspiracy, tampering with HOME 3BR, 2 full baths, duplex in limestone INSPECTORS ebrate Yensy Thomas’ gradua- caught the desperate Alster al- in 2000, Alster assumed the physical evidence, placing a & brick 2 fam bldg, oakwood details tion from the police academy. legedly plotting the bomb- role of mentor and his feelings false bomb and criminal pos- in entrance hall and in apt., 2 fire- Alster met Scott when he planting scheme in his tele- for the younger woman inten- session of a weapon. He could places, sliding doors, just redocrat- For Sale / Brooklyn was being held on $10 million phone conversations with sified. face 16 years to life in prison. ed, lots of storage space. Tree-lined bail on Rikers Island after his Scott. When she graduated the An indictment is pending. st. w/ small homes. Less than 1 blk A & M Home arrest. Scott was brought to the According to police, they police academy, Alster feared Scott has been held on Rik- from subway. 15 min to Mnhtn. Avail Inspectors, Inc. jail on weapons charges in taped Scott warning Alster not he would become an irrele- ers Island in the past for a va- now, only $1800 by owner, no fee. Call Daniel at (718) 789-0515. W18 ASHI CERTIFIED September 2001. He was to discuss specifics about their vant figure in her life, prose- riety of offenses from three transferred from the facility, arrangement because the Cor- cutors said during his trial, counts of first degree robbery Serving all 5 boroughs. Offices in Brooklyn Sunset Park & Staten Island. Licensed & Insured. in 1991 to unauthorized use of after his conviction in Decem- rection Department records all which led him to attempt “a Historic Dist. 2BR + den on 45th St. ber of that year, to Shawan- calls made by inmates. The dramatic statement.” a vehicle. (718) 259-0577 Lovely, sunny flr thru in Victorian row (718) 980-0267 gunk Correctional Facility, a two also negotiated a fee and Alster was convicted of In the robbery charge he house. Mod wind, kit w/ wd cab & W27 maximum-security prison in Scott, on one recording, said bringing the bomb with a load was sentenced, under the D/W, parquet flrs, orig details, sky- upstate Wallkill. Scott was name Michael Johnson, to lights, extra storage. 1 block to R he would “keep his word … of gifts to Yensy’s graduation train & park. $1500. No Fee. Call PROPERTY paroled in September 2002. five to 10 years in prison. He and do what has to be done.” party. The bomb’s intended des- owner (718) 436-8401. W18 SERVICES After Scott’s release, how- In several instances, when tiny was difficult to determine was paroled in 1995 from ever, he paid numerous visits Alster tried to speak, Scott in- because it went off while Alster Queensboro Correctional Fa- Sunset Park Guardian Property to Alster, who is serving a 20 terrupted him to remind him was planting it, blowing a 10- cility, a minimum-security 5 room apt in pvt house, located Services, LLC years-to-life sentence for arson that they should not discuss foot hole in the basement wall prison in Long Island City. in the high 50’s. Excl cond. Near Providing the following Professional serv- and criminal possession of a anything over the telephone. and leaving Alster badly burned In 1998, he spent about 18 all trans and shopping. $1300/mo. ices for all Owners of Residential & weapon, at the Green Haven Police say he told Alster “to about the head and torso. months on Rikers Island, un- Call owner. Commercial properties as well as Co-ops, Correctional Facility, police read between the lines.” Alster’s attorney said this der the name Scott Andrasan, (917) 573-9195 Condos and their Boards: said. Those visits came both During a conversation week that his client’s appeal for criminal possession of a W18 - Property Management Consulting before and after the pipe where Scott said he had pur- would go forward, despite the weapon, according to city De- Apartments, Sublets - Maintenance Operations & Mgmt bombs were planted in the chased the necessary ingredi- recent developments. partment of Correction & Roommates - Violation Removal & Abatment Thomases’ SUV. ents for the pipe bombs, Alster “The appeal process would- records. 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MUSIC reborn Bard music Composers inspired by Brooklyn Museum restores its Shakespeare at BAM fabled collection of Egyptian art By Kevin Filipski for The Brooklyn Papers
By Lisa J. Curtis works from Ancient xplaining how the theme for the Brooklyn Philhar- The Brooklyn Papers ART Egypt” by Romano, monic Orchestra’s soon-to-be-concluded season orig- Richard Fazzini and E inated, artistic advisor Evans Mirageas says it came or most people, mummies, hiero- “Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity” is on Madeleine Cody down to one fundamen- display now at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, glyphics, the pyramids and the glitter- 200 Eastern Parkway at Washington Avenue. (Scala Publishers, tal concept. F ing gold face of Tutankhamun form Admission is $6, $3 students with valid ID 1999) with color pho- “It was really very the sum of knowledge of ancient Egyptian and older adults, free to members and chil- tographs, a glossary and simple. We asked our- dren under 12 accompanied by an adult. art. But as the new Brooklyn Museum of On Saturday May 3 admission is free af- descriptions of 100 of selves, ‘What are the dif- Art installation, “Egypt Reborn: Art for ter 6 pm and includes a variety of events as the works on display. ferent things that gener- Eternity,” illustrates, there is so much more part of First Saturday. At 7 pm, curator James Yet all of these trim- ate great music that Romano will discuss “Egypt Reborn;” at 8 to discover. pm, free Egyptian dance lessons will be mings are to augment touches people very The Brooklyn Museum has dedicated taught by Ranya Renee; and at 9 pm, a dis- the Egyptian gifts of deeply?’” Mirageas told many galleries on its third floor to creating cussion on Egyptian couture will take place. “gracious taste, arrest- GO Brooklyn. The cur- For more information, call (718) 638-5000 or new displays out of its own collection of ar- log onto www.brooklynmuseum.org. ing design and techni- rent season’s concerts, tifacts with the hope that it will transform “Art for Eternity: Masterworks from An- cal mastery of materi- under the rubric “Trans- the way visitors think about Egyptian art. cient Egypt” by Richard Fazzini, James Ro- als” as the exhibit cards formations: The Healing mano and Madeleine Cody (Scala Publishers, Even the artwork used as a recurring icon 1999) is available at the gift shop for $16.95. proclaim. The timeless Power of Music,” ends throughout the show defies the ol’ “Walk good taste of Egyptian with a program titled Like an Egyptian” stereotype. The 5,000- design in jewelry, “The Power of Shake- year-old, pre-dynastic, terracotta figure of a Brooklyn Museum since 1976. “It’s diffi- furniture and cos- speare,” May 9 and May woman throws its arms in the air like an ex- cult to articulate precisely what it is about metics containers are 10 at the Brooklyn ultant dancer. Not carved of stone or painted her, but to me, it captures a young woman perhaps the most ob- Academy of Music. in profile but molded of earth, this is an ex- precisely at that moment when she is nei- vious examples of The season’s opening ample of the beginnings of Egyptian art. ther girl or woman, but in that very brief ideas that are still concert, Osvaldo Goli- “I wanted to force people to look at moment of evanescence. To someone else popular today. jov’s musical setting of Catherine Ashmore Egyptian art in an entirely new way,” mu- [the appeal] could be entirely different.” Even an offering “The Passion according Falstaff’s finale: Baritone Sir seum curator James Romano told GO This entrancing sculpture has been table on display to St. Mark,” displayed Thomas Allen will perform Brooklyn. The exhibition, which opened mesmerizing art lovers for centuries. Ac- — which would the power of music the final act of Giuseppe Ver- April 12, completes a 10-year project that cording to Romano, the head had been in now be called a based on scripture. di’s 1893 opera, “Falstaff,” as began in 1993, when more than 500 ob- the collection of the Roman emperor cake plate — is an “We wanted a secular part of the Brooklyn Philhar- jects from the museum’s world-renowned Hadrian. example of time- counterpart to the power monic’s programs on May 9 Egyptian holdings were put on permanent “He sent agents into Egypt to acquire less design that of scripture set to music and May 10. view as part of “Temples, Tombs and the works to put on display in his villa in perfectly melds form ... and hands down that’s Egyptian Universe.” Tivoli, near Rome,” explained Romano. and function. Shakespeare, who has With more than 1,150 Egyptian artifacts Like most of the new exhibitions in- Among the jewelry given rise to more music than any other writer. These were now in place, the completed galleries make stalled at the museum, this one deserves on display are beaded the two pendants of our season, beginning with the sacred available masterpieces from every period kudos for its impressive design. An enor- amethyst necklaces, large and ending with the secular.” in ancient Egyptian history — from pre- mous mural of the Egyptian zodiac is paint- gold hoop earrings, tur- Of course, programming an evening of music based on dynastic material (before 3100 BC) to ed on the ceiling of the central gallery. In quoise pieces and a gold Shakespeare is difficult simply because of the volume of works created during the reign of another room, a colonnade, inspired by cuff bracelet with a scarab such works. Amunhotep III, part of the 18th Dynasty. Egyptian architecture, was installed to cre- (stylized dung beetle) in its “It became a process of winnowing down from an enor- In culling these works from the 4,000 ate a miniature temple within the larger center — variations of which mous body of possibilities,” said Mirageas. “We wanted to objects in the museum’s Egyptian collec- room. The temple showcases luminous, can be seen on women walk- show how Shakespeare has been used by composers tion, Romano said he was looking for arti- peach-colored vases made of Egyptian al- ing in any fashionable through literal adaptations, or inspirations, works that don’t facts that had the “ability to contribute to abaster from King Djoser’s tomb and Brooklyn neighborhood. have a word of Shakespeare in them.” the overall narrative of the installation — amazingly well preserved, painted wood In many ways, a visit to For these concerts, both types of works were chosen: the interplay of permanence and change in statues of Metjetji. Several archival photo- see “Egypt Reborn” is as British composer George Benjamin’s “Sometime Voices,” ancient Egyptian art. graphs, also from the museum’s collec- much an exciting reve- a 1996 vocal work based on a speech by Caliban in “The “One of the great subtexts of the instal- tions, of archeological excavations and lation as it is your duty Tempest”; German Hans Werner Henze’s voiceless Eighth lation is using great works of art in teach- their environs have been blown up and as a Brooklynite. “It’s Symphony (1993), inspired by “A Midsummer Night’s ing roles to tell our story,” Romano said. used as backdrops for artifact displays. the core of the Brook- Dream”; and the final act of Giuseppe Verdi’s last (and One of those great works is the green Touch-screen interactive computer sta- lyn Museum’s collec- greatest) opera, “Falstaff” (1893). chlorite head of a woman from the Middle tions make use of some 21st century tech- tion,” said Romano. “[Brooklyn Philharmonic Music Director] Robert Kingdom (1876-1842 BC). Showcased in nology to add another dimension to the “And it’s as much a [Spano] heard ‘Sometime Voices’ at Tanglewood some its own glass case, the sculpture’s wig of enormous installation, which runs the part of Brooklyn as summers back and remembered how powerful and beauti- stylized strands of hair, smooth lips and length of two city blocks. At one kiosk, Green-Wood Ceme- ful it is,” Mirageas says. Scored for chorus, baritone hollowed eyes are a beguiling study of visitors are able to take a virtual tour of tery and the Brook- (Nmon Ford sings at these performances) and orchestra, symmetry. the tomb of Akhtyhotep and its wall deco- lyn Bridge, but for Benjamin’s 12-minute work is immediately enticing, Mi- “She stopped me in my tracks when I rations as well as learn more about nearby many years it has not Ancient family values: This limestone sculpture (2371-2298 B.C.) of rageas said. first saw her almost 30 years ago,” said works of art. The museum has also pub- been accessible to the a son (far left), father and mother, is on display as part of the “Egypt “I wish we could send a sound truck through the streets Romano, who has been working at the lished a book, “Art for Eternity: Master- public.” Reborn: Art for Eternity” installation at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. See BARD on page GO 4
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The E Mother’s Day, May 11 concert at Su- says of the musical group that the com- perfine with Gamelan Dharma Swara be- poser, saxophonist and instrument mak- gins at 4 pm and admission is $18. For Electric Junkyard Gamelan musicians, And she seems to enjoy recycling peo- er organized in 1998. more information, call (718) 384-1629. Lisa Frisari, Robin Burdulis, Julian Hintz ple as much as objects. Frisari and Feast- That state of ignorance will not endure and Mary Feaster, play instruments like er have both performed with Circus much longer. the “rubarp,” a rubber band harp; the Amok. Hintz graduated from the Califor- On May 9 and May 11, the five-piece the music of Bali. “sitello,” an electric cello-sitar combo that nia Institute for the Arts with a bachelor’s ensemble will be at DUMBO’s Superfine “Music from Bali is percussion- can be played with rubber mallets or like in music composition. And Feaster has restaurant performing the original music based with lots of gongs and other met- a sitar by pressing down on the strings to worked with Dame’s other band, the Dame has composed for instruments she al-to-metal, xylophone-type instruments “blend” the notes; the “clayrimba,” a modal jazz group Monkey on a Rail, for makes in her Williamsburg studio. that are tuned to create a ringing chorus four-octave, clay pot, marimba-type in- which Dame is the musical director, Dame makes her instruments from of overtones,” she said. strument played with yarn and plastic composer and saxophonist. found and modified objects. Many of In addition to playing sax for film, mallets; copper pipes turned into horns Dame’s Electric Junkyard Gamelan them look as unique as they sound. video and theater, as well as for Jennifer with the addition of a saxophone mouth- has played at the Knitting Factory in “I’ll build an instrument, then start ex- Miller’s New York-based Circus Amok, piece; and a “percussion arsenal” fash- Tribeca and at P.S. 122, also in Manhat- ploring the sounds it makes,” Dame told Dame is also a member of Gamelan ioned from metal basins, coffee filters, tan. Last spring, the group recorded its GO Brooklyn. “Then, based on what Dharma Swara, the traditional gamelan turntable platters, large truck springs, first, eponymous CD, available at cdba- sounds are organic to that instrument, I’ll ensemble based at the Indonesian Con- hubcaps, pots and pans. by.com ($10). The songs have names like compose music for it.” sulate in Manhattan. At the May 11 The “kacapitar” is similar to the sitel- “Domestic Music,” “Garden Music” and She describes the resultant music as Mother’s Day performance, Terry lo, only higher pitched, like a zither. “Mason Jar Jam.” But don’t be fooled “rhythmic, melodic and a bit quirky.” She Dame’s Electric Junkyard Gamelan will And mason jars with a little water in by these tame-sounding titles. Dame’s said she first became interested in build- share the bill with Gamelan Dharma them can be played like drums, chang- music is truly innovative and unique. It ing instruments when she was a graduate Swara (appearing with dancers in tradi- ing the pitch by tilting the jars. Another also has a way of getting to you. student at the California Institute of the tional costumes), and Dame will play kind of drum, the sifter drum, is made This doesn’t mean songs like “Amer- Arts. But her musical inspiration came with both. from a metal flour sifter covered with a ica the ... Everything is … Beautiful” from “traditional gamelan music, which Gamelan is a traditional Indonesian or- goatskin drumhead. will have you humming along. But after comes from all over Indonesia.” chestra consisting largely of tuned percus- “I’ve always enjoyed building things. a while you just may find yourself tap- Dame was particularly interested in sion instruments. Dame and her four I’m a bit of an inventor,” Dame explains. ping your foot.
compiled by WHERE TO Susan Rosenthal Fresh ‘Produce’ The 10th annual Spoke MEETING: of Park Slope Civic the Hub Re:Creation Cen- THURS, MAY 1 Council. 7 pm. New York Meth- FRI, MAY 2 ter’s Local Produce Festival odist Hospital, Sixth Street Show her your heart this Mother’s Day! BLOOD DRIVE: Brooklyn Heights between Seventh and Eighth OPEN CALL: Brooklyn Cyclones of the Performing Arts is Synagogue. 2:30 to 8 pm. 131 avenues. (718) 832-8227. holds auditions to sing National May 2-4. Remsen St. (718) 522-2070. Anthem for The Cyclones home GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: Erstwhile game this summer. First try-out The three-day smorgas- BUSINESS TALK: Greenpoint Records with Dieb 13, Kaffe Mat- Bank offers a talk “Projecting at 7:30 am. Key Span Park, bord of talent will include thew, Martin Siewert and Martin Coney Island. (718) 449-8497. Revenues and Controlling Brandlmayr. $10. 7 pm. 70 dance and music perform- Expenses.” Learn how to fore- North Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. BARNES AND NOBLE: presents ances, readings and work- cast how much money you BARGEMUSIC: chamber music by writer Marilyn Singer reading need to start and operate a Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, De Falla from her book “Fireflies at Mid- shops in several locations business. 5:30 to 8 pm. 356 night.” 10 to 11 am. 267 Seventh — both indoors and out- and Sarasate. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Carey Richard Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free. Fulton St. (718) 852-0539. Free. Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. doors — in Park Slope. FILM SALON: Brooklyn Young LIBRARY EVENT: Society for the GOWANUS CANAL TALK: Learn Dancer-poet Ellen Baxt (pictured) will perform on May 2 at Filmmakers presents “Animation: about ecological restoration on Preservation of Weeksville and Let’s Get Reel.” Salon features the canal during a talk by Gow- Bedford Stuyvesant History and 7:30 pm at the center (748 Union St. between Fifth and “how to” demos. $5. 6 to 8:30 anus Canal Community Develop- the Brooklyn Public Library Sixth avenues) and she’ll teach a creative writing workshop pm. Long Island University, ment Corporation and environ- bring together a panel of Flatbush Avenue Extension and mental specialists. 7:30 to 8:45 scholars, historians and authors at 6:30 pm. Events in the community gardens are free, and DeKalb Avenue. (718) 852-9342. pm. Old Stonehouse, JJ Byrne to discuss Weeksville. 2:30 to 5 indoor performances are $5-$15. For more information, call pm. Brooklyn Public Library, DISCUSSION GROUP: Brooklyn Park, off Fifth Avenue near Third (718) 857-5158 or visit their Web site at spokethehub.org. Public Library, Central branch, Street. (718) 858-0557. Free. Central branch. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. reading and discussion group BRIC STUDIO: presents “Possible examines the quest for mean- Fireworks,” a jazz series. $10, OPENING: Fish Tank Gallery pres- ingful religious practice in Amer- $8 students. 7:30 pm. 57 ents paintings and sculptures, ican society. Registration nec- “Space Invaders.” 6 to 9 pm. over. $45 per person. 7 to 9 pm. Rockwell Place. (718) 855-7882. First Unitarian Church, Pierrepont SAT, MAY 3 essary. 6 to 8 pm. Grand Army THEATER: “Blood Wedding,” by 93 North Sixth St. (718) 387- Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. 4320. Free. Street between Henry and Federico Garcia Lorca. $12, $10 Clinton streets. (718) 923-9609. OUTDOORS AND TOURS BASIC JUDAISM: Congregation seniors, $5 students. 8 pm. Gersh- ART EXHIBIT: Subway artist series: B’nai Avraham hosts a five-ses- win Theater, Brooklyn College, “We Are Not Criminals.” 6 to DANCE PARTY: Fort Greene TRIP: Brooklyn Botanic Garden sion course. Today’s talk: one block from the intersection 10 pm. The Fort Greene Center. Information Exchange event for visits Peddler’s Village, in Bucks “Shabbos: A Day of Rest?” of Flatbush and Nostrand Call for info. (917) 449-0401. Free. teens and their families. Disco, County, PA, during Strawberry 6:30 to 8 pm. 117 Remsen St. avenues. (718) 951-4500. READING SERIES: Nathaniel reggae, salsa, rap and hip-hop Festival. $43, $20 children. 7:30 (718) 596-4840. Free. PUPPET OPERA: Arts at St. Ann’s Hunter reads his poetry, “War.” music. 7:30 to 10:30 pm. am to 7 pm. Reservations nec- HIP-HOP: Fifth annual hip-hop his- presents a puppet opera, “The 7 pm. The Montauk Club, cor- Hanson Place Central United essary. (718) 623-7220. tory month. Artists include Pete Barber of Seville.” Music by ner of Lincoln Place and Eighth Methodist Church, 144 St. Felix SPRING CLEANING: New York DJ Jones, Ken Spider Webb and Kristjan Jarvi’s Absolute. $40. 8 Avenue. (718) 638-0800. Free. St. (718) 783-0908. Free. Cares needs volunteers to help D of Whodini. $10. 7 pm. 860 pm. 38 Water St. (718) 858-2424. RECEPTION: Momenta Gallery BARGEMUSIC: chamber music by revitalize parks and community Atlantic Ave. (212) 592-0974. LOW BAR: presents Playwrights presents the work of artist Carl Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, De Falla gardens. 9 am to 3 pm. Call to BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music Reading Series with Gale Gates Scholz. 7 to 9 pm. 72 Berry St. and Sarasate. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton volunteer. (212) 598-5800. Collezione My Philosophy bracelets in sterling silver or gold with diamonds. presents “Cinderella,” per- et al. 7 pm. Also, Genevieve (718) 218-8058. Free. Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. SHORE WALK: Neighborhood formed by Les Ballets de Maull at 10 pm. 81 Washington RECEPTION: Fine art exhibit “Homage BARBES BAR: Las Rubias Del Open Space Coalition and Monte-Carlo. $60, $40, $20. St. (718) 222-1LOW. Free. to the Horseshoe Crab,” by Norte and Bebe Eiffel. 8 pm. New York Department of 7:30 pm. Opera House, 30 BARBES BAR: Zagnut Circus Takeshi Yamada. 7 to 9:30 pm. Call for ticket info. 376 Ninth Health and Mental Hygiene 627 5th Ave. (at 17th St.) • Park Slope Lafayette Ave. Also, BAM- Orkestar. Call. 8 pm. 376 Ninth Salt Marsh Nature Center, 3302 St. (718) 965-9177. offer a walk through the Salt dialogue with Jean Christophe- St. (718) 965-9177. Ave. U. (718) 421-2021. Free. GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: White Marsh Center in Marine Park www.aarons.com • Free Parking • (718) 768-5400 Maillot, choreographer. $8. 6 SHAKESPEARE: “Motley, Mad and WINE TASTING: First gathering of Meat and Cornbread play elec- and then onto Gerritsen Beach. OPEN: Mon-Sat 10:00-6:00pm, Tues & Thur 10:00-8:00pm pm. Rose Cinema, 30 Lafayette Marriage-Minded.” 8 pm. See The Brooklyn Wine Tasting Group. tronic music. $6. 10 pm. 70 10:30 am. Meet at 3302 Ave. AARON’S Ave. (718) 636-4111. Sat. Taste a variety of wines from all North Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. U. (212) 352-9330. Free. BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music WALKATHON: Bay Ridge Center presents “Cinderella.” 7 pm. See for Older Adults hosts “Miles Thurs., May 1. Also, Mozart’s for Meals,” a 3.5 mile walka- “Cosi Fan Tutte,” directed by thon. Registration at 10 am. Jonathan Miller. $90, $60, $35. 411 Ovington Ave. (718) 748- 7:30 pm. Harvey Theater, 651 0873, ext. 101. Fulton St. (718) 636-4111. BIKE TRIP: Bike Jamaica Bay. 11 TWO BOOTS: Soul jazz with Mob am. Meet at Salt Marsh Nature Scene. No cover. 10 pm to midnight. Center, 3302 Ave. U. (866) 514 Second St. (718) 499-3253. NYC-HAWK. Free. SHAKESPEARE: “Motley, Mad BAY RIDGE: Brooklyn Public and Marriage-Minded.” 8 pm. 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Michael’s RESTAURANT 2929 Avenue R (at Nostrand Ave.) • (718) 998-7851 www.michaelsofbrooklyn.com • May 5, 2003 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM 3 Bring Your Family & Don’t Forget Your Mom to CELEBRATE Est. 1879 Mother’s Day Mama mia Sunday, May 11th, at Treat someone’s mother, or Gage &Tollner even your own, to brunch Brooklyn’s Most Famous Landmark Restaurant with It’s Classical Gas-Lit Chandeliers By Tina Barry for The Brooklyn Papers DINING y friend Larry’s mother is a can- Mother’s Day brunch is popular so make your reservations early. Special Three-Course tankerous, nitpicking whiner. Alicia’s Cafe and Eatery (10 Columbia Mary Catherine, fondly referred Place between Joralemon and State streets M in Brooklyn Heights) accepts Visa, Master- Dinner Menu to as Our Lady of Eternal Suffering, has Card, Diner’s Club and Discover. Prix fixe one gift: the ability to take the loveliest brunch: $9.95. Mother’s Day brunch is With Your Choice of event and turn it into hell. served from 10 am to 4:30 pm on May 11. Cross / Gregory For reservations, call (718) 532-0069. Tantalizing Appetizers, Hearty Entrées & Luscious Desserts I’ve seen her in action. Tuscany Grill (8620 Third Ave. at 86th Larry invited Mary Catherine to his Street) accepts Visa, MasterCard, Ameri- We will certainly ‘pamper’ your mom and guests with 30th birthday party. She complained that can Express and Discover. Brunch-dinner entrees: $17-$26. Mother’s Day dining is Gage & Tollner’s classical dishes as well as the hors d’ oeuvres that Larry’s catering 2-8 pm on May 11. For reservations, call friends prepared — the same appetizers (718) 921-5633. Papers The Brooklyn our Chef’s contemporary creations. they served at Ivana Trump’s party — Five Front (5 Front St. at Old Fulton Celebrating Mom: Five Front pastry chef Tamara Ehlin with daughters were “OK, if you like that hoity-toity Street in DUMBO) accepts Visa, Master- Cara Mallea, 8, and Claudia Mallea, 5. Card, American Express, Discover and Early Reservations Suggested stuff.” The roses I dipped into my sav- Diner’s Club. Prix fixe brunch: $10. Spe- ings account to buy “smelled like a cial brunch items $10 to $15. Mother’s the restaurants below: 8 pm ($17-$26). The restaurant, known Day brunch is served from 11 am to 4 pm 1:00 - 7:00pm whorehouse,” and Larry, whose face on May 11. For reservations, call (718) Toast Mother’s Day with a free glass for its comfortable antique farmhouse graced the cover of GQ Magazine, need- 625-5559. of champagne at Alicia’s Cafe and setting, is the perfect spot to sample $34.95 per Adult / $18.95 per Child (under 12) ed to “get his skinny ass moving and Superfine (126 Front St. at Pearl Eatery in Brooklyn Heights. Locals Conforti’s grilled veal chops, yellowfin Street in DUMBO) accepts Visa, Master- Complimentary Valet Parking find a real job.” Card and American Express. Brunch en- flock to this charming cafe for its laid- tuna or salmon. Specials will include After a lot of therapy, Larry decided trees: $6-$16. Mother’s Day brunch is back dining room and chef Sijbe’s (pro- spaghettini with fresh spring asparagus, to forgo Mother’s Day with Mary served from 11 am to 3 pm on May 11. nounced See-ba) “American eclectic” a generous portion of shrimp and scal- MOM Bon Appétit! For reservations, call (718) 243-9005. Catherine. Following his psychiatrist’s The Minnow (442 Ninth St. at Sixth Av- cooking. lops, lightly topped in a rich tomato ❤ suggestion, he looked for a surrogate enue in Park Slope) accepts Visa, Master- For Mother’s Day, Alicia’s owner sauce. For mothers with a Mama Mia (718) 875-5181 mother to “adopt” for the day. Card, Diners Club and Discover. Brunch en- Wayne Anderson is offering a $9.95 appetite, Conforti grills an aged New trees: $5-$17. Mother’s Day brunch is served “Is your mother available?” he asked. from 11:30 am to 5 pm on May 11. For brunch. In addition to specials like waf- York sirloin steak, baby back ribs or To call their meeting a love fest reservations, call (718) 832-5500. fles with fresh fruit, and shrimp with thickly cut pork chops. 372 Fulton Street (at Jay Street) would be an understatement. My moth- Chez Oskar (211 DeKalb Ave. at grits, Anderson will pour a la carte Do a little sightseeing in DUMBO’s Adelphi Street in Fort Greene) accepts DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN er looked at Larry and said, “You’re Visa, MasterCard, Diners Club and Ameri- strawberry or cherry mimosas. To end tres chic galleries before impressing beautiful.” He scored big points by can Express. Brunch entrees: $7-$9.50. the meal, Sijbe has concocted a multi- mom with brunch in the cozy Five telling her raunchy jokes and mimick- Mother’s Day brunch is served from 10:30 layered chocolate and pecan charlotte Front. Mom will enjoy rubbing elbows am to 4 pm on May 11. For reservations, ing her New York accent. They drank call (718) 852-6250. with whipped cream. If the weather co- with the celebrities who have discov- too much wine and sang an impromptu operates, tables will be set up outside ered the big-flavored cooking of Five duet together (loudly) in the restaurant the cafe — the ideal spot to enjoy the Front’s chef Paul Vicino. From 11 am where we had brunch. mom two surprises for Mother’s Day: flowering trees on residential Columbia to 4 pm, on Mother’s Day, Vicino is “I’m taking her,” Larry said later that brunch in a great restaurant and Larry. Place. serving his $10-$15 prix fixe brunch. day. Good food and “that gorgeous man.” Give mom a big, fat Italian Mother’s Besides light omelets and platters of S AY Larry has adopted other mothers Let the fun begin. Day at the Tuscany Grill in Bay Ridge. smoked salmon, Vicino is adding a crab ER’ D M since our last get together, but mine re- If Mary Catherine could love any- Chef Marny Conforti offers an a la cake Benedict with hollandaise sauce. TH E mains his favorite. This year, I’m giving thing, it would be the brunch served in carte brunch-into-dinner from 2 pm to N See MAMA on page GO 4 O M unday, May 11th U S APPETIZER takes a walking tour across the Island University, Flatbush Cobble Hill Starbucks, 167 Brooklyn Bridge and through Avenue Extension and DeKalb Court St. (718) 783-7738. Free. Mozzarella Fresca • Insalata Tre Colori • Insalata Di Mare (Add’l $4.95) Brooklyn Heights. Stops include Avenue. (718) 488-1089. CARD PARTY: Xaverian High Antipasto Caldo • Crema D’Asparagi Plymouth Church, the AA Low HEIGHTS PLAYERS: presents “My LIST YOUR EVENT… School hosts its annual casino Mansion and sites associated Fair Lady.” $15, $12 seniors night. $30 includes refreshments with Arthur Miller. $12, $10 stu- and children. 8 pm. 26 Willow To list your event in Where to GO, please give us as much notice as and raffle tickets. 7 pm. 7100 PASTA dents and seniors. 5 pm. Meet Place. (718) 237-2752. possible. Send your listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Shore Road. (718) 836-7100. Penne Al Filetto Di Pomodoro at southeast corner of Broad- JAZZ: Brooklyn Conservatory of Papers, 26 Court St., Ste. 506, Brooklyn, NY 11242; or by fax: (718) AUCTION: Adoptive Parents way and Chambers streets. Music presents saxophonist 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. We Committee hosts its spring (Penne with Prosciutto, Onions, Basil & Fresh Tomato Sauce) (212) 439-1090. Benny Golson. $20, $15 stu- regret we cannot take listings over the phone. social and auction featuring Ravioli Di Formaggio dents and seniors. 8 pm. 58 sports memorabilia. $35 per (Cheese Ravioli with Fresh Tomato Sauce & Basil) PERFORMANCES Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. person includes catered buffet. OPERA: Brooklyn College Opera BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: 7 pm. The Brooklyn Brewery, 79 Risotto Pescatore Theater presents Mozart’s presents a program of text and Theater Festival hosts a teen bon to commemorate installa- North 11th St. (718) 469-7127. (Variety of Seasonal Seafood & Shellfish with Fresh Tomato Sauce) “Don Giovanni.” Opera will be music with Charles Dennis and theater workshop. 3 pm. tion of new fence. Other activi- ART SHOW: Congregation Beth performed in Italian with English guest artist Jim Neu. $15, $10 Levenson Recital Hall, Brooklyn ties include a dance perform- Elohim hosts its fourth annual supertitles. $10. 2 pm. Whitman members, $8 low-income. 8 pm. College, one block from the ance, a sing-a-long, workshops members art show. Also, per- ENTRÉE intersection of Flatbush and Hall, Brooklyn College, one 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. and more. 10 am to 5 pm. formance of classical music. 7 block from the intersection of Nostrand avenues. (718) 951- Sixth Avenue and 15th Street. Salmone Tornado PUPPET OPERA: Arts at St. Ann’s 4500. Free. to 10 pm. 274 Garfield Place. Flatbush and Nostrand presents Rossini’s “The Barber (718) 707-1777. Free. (718) 768-3814. Free. (Rolled Salmon Over Spinach Topped with Lobster Sauce) BALLET AUDITION: School of avenues. Also, teen acting of Seville” with puppets. Music GAY BRUNCH: Log Cabin COMEDY: Brooklyn Brew-Ha-Ha. workshop presents Sophocles’ by Absolute. $40. 8 pm. 38 American Ballet invites boys Republicans of New York, a gay Pollo Valdostano and girls ages 8 to 10 to try $5. 9 pm. The Boudoir Bar, 273 “Antigone.” $5. 7:30 pm. Sam Water St. (718) 858-2424. and lesbian Republican organi- Smith St. (718) 624-8878. (Chicken Breast Stuffed with Prosciutto, Fontina Cheese, Levenson Recital Hall, Brooklyn out. 11:30 am to 1 pm. GALLERY PLAYERS: “Chess,” a zation, host a brunch. Noon. PHOTOGRAPHY WEEKEND: Jeff Topped with Mushrooms & Brown Sauce) College (718) 951-4500. Berkeley Carroll School, 181 Call for info. (718) 399-7228. musical. $15, $12 children 12 Lincoln Place. (212) 769-6600. Richman and Teresa Engle CHAMBER MUSIC: Brooklyn Public and under and seniors. 8 pm. FILM FEST: Brooklyn Arts Council Vitello Piccata DANCE AUDITION: Young Dancers Moreno host a weekend of Library, Brooklyn Heights 199 14th St. (718) 595-0547. presents “Films by Women of photography at historic Green- (Veal Scaloppine with Lemon, White Wine & Artichokes) branch, hosts a concert with The in Repertory holds auditions. African Descent.” 11 am to 6 PARLOR JAZZ: Vocalist Tamm E. Boys and girls ages 9 to 14 are Wood Cemetery. Weekend fea- Mignonette Di Manzo Al Barolo Brooklyn Heights Music Society. Hunt sings with the Harlem pm. Spike Lee Screening Room, tures photographing architec- 3 pm. 280 Cadman Plaza West. invited to apply. 3:30 to 5 pm. Long Island University, Flatbush (Braised Filet Mignon topped with Mushrooms & Barolo) Jazz Ensemble. $15. 9 to 11:30 231 60th St. (718) 567-9620. ture, sculpture, blooming land- (718) 230-2100. Free. pm. 119 Vanderbilt Ave. (718) Avenue Extension and DeKalb scapes and more. $215. Call Carre D’Agnello Au Jus (Add’l $5.95) GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: Hat 855-1981. OTHER Avenue. (718) 625-0080. Free. for details. (718) 788-7850. (Rack of Lamb Breaded & Seasoned with Herbs, Natural Jus) City Initiative. $7. 7 pm. 70 TWO BOOTS: The Lowdown ART EXHIBIT: Micro Museum’s North Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn plays swinging funk music. No Museum of Art hosts its month- directors celebrate the renova- (All entreés are served with vegetables & potatoes) BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music cover. 10 pm to midnight. 514 ly event. 6 to 11 pm. Today’s tion of their studio with “Spring SUN, MAY 4 presents “Cinderella,” perfor- Second St. (718) 499-3253. entertainment includes spoken- Fever.” Participants are invited Coffee & Assorted Desserts • Cappuccino (additional $3.50) med by Les Ballets de Monte- CLASSIC ROCK: Closenuf per- word artists and members of to choose one of 30 flowered OUTDOORS AND TOURS Carlo. $60, $40, $20. 7:30 pm. forms. No cover. 11 pm. Kelly’s the Brooklyn Philharmonic in a jackets to wear for a snapshot. Opera House, 30 Lafayette Ave. Tavern, 9259 Fourth Ave. (718) Noon to 6 pm. 123 Smith St. MARSH WALK: Early morning program called “Shakespeare walk at the Salt Marsh Nature (718) 636-4100. 745-9546. Live.” 6:30 to 9 pm; hands-on (718) 797-3116. Free. BARGEMUSIC: chamber music of EARTH DAY CELEBRATION: Red Center. 8 am. Meet at 3302 art project features stringing an Ave. U. (718) 421-2021. Free. $34.95/ Person Marco Polo RISTORANTE all-Beethoven. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton CHILDREN Egyptian beaded necklace at Hook Garden Project dedicates Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. SPRING CARNIVAL: Families First 6:30 pm; curator talk at 7 pm; its garden to the World Trade SUMMERFEST: Court Street in $18.95 345 Court Street (at Union Street) PAPER MOON PLAYERS: pres- carnival. 10 am to 3 pm. Call. learn Egyptian dance steps at 8 Center. Also, learn how to fer- Carroll Gardens event of crafts, ents “Love Letters,” by AR 250 Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. pm; dance party from 9 to 11 tilize naturally. Noon to 1:30 food, rides and merchandise. Children under 12 Gurney. $8. 8 pm. Emmanuel WATERLOO BRIDGE THEATER: pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. (718) pm. Located at end of Van 11 am to 6 pm. Carroll Street 718-852-5015 • Episcopal Church, 2635 E. 23rd presents improvised show “The 638-5000. Free. Brunt Street, in front of build- to Huntington Street along Court Street. (718) 858-0557. Call Early for St. (718) 848-2837. Teddybearbaiters.” $2 for kids OUTDOOR BOUTIQUE: St. ing 499. (718) 788-5737. Free. Open 7 days for lunch and dinner THEATER: “Blood Wedding.” 2 and $7 for adults. 11 am. 190 Athanasius Church hosts a sale. POETRY: Poets Under Glass, a WILLIAMSBURG WALK: Brooklyn Reservations and 8 pm. See Thurs, May 1. Underhill Ave. (212) 502-0796. 9:30 am to 4 pm. 2154 61st St. poetry writing workshop, pres- Center for the Urban Environ- Live Piano Playing PUPPETWORKS: “Cinderella.” $6, (718) 331-0450. ents “Poetry as Performance.” ment offers a tour “Williams- BARBES BAR: Johnny Staats and burg: Art and Culture Cross- Free Valet Parking Robert Shafer perform. $10. $7 adults. 12:30 and 2:30 pm. FLEA MARKET: at Redeemer St. 1 to 2:30 pm. Brooklyn Public www.marcopoloristorante.com 338 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-3391. Library, Brooklyn Heights roads.” $11, $9 members, $8 7:30 and 9:30 pm. 376 Ninth John. 10 am to 4 pm. 939 83rd seniors and students. Noon to St. (718) 965-9177. BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSE- St. (718) 833-7700. branch, 280 Cadman Plaza West. (718) 972-9848. Free. 2 pm. Meet at J/M trains Marcy SHAKESPEARE: “Motley, Mad UM: Celebrate National Dance SPRING CELEBRATION: 6/15 Avenue Station on Broadway. and Marriage-Minded.” Per- Month with a flamenco per- Green Community Gardens ONE-WOMAN SHOW: “City- (718) 788-8500, ext. 208. formance. $4. 2:30 pm. 145 celebrates its ninth year of formance features vignettes scapes with Jazz,” a water pas- HOUSE TOUR: Clinton Hill Society ethereal heavenly from Shakespeare’s comedies. Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735- 4400. public service. Borough Presi- tel painting show by Linnie dent Marty Markowitz cuts rib- annual self-guided event. $18. $10, $8 students. 8 pm. Long TEEN THEATER: Prep Center York. Live music. 6 to 9 pm. Noon to 5 pm. Tickets at 415 thai food cocktails Clinton Ave. (718) 855-7090. CONEY ISLAND: New York Like a Native takes a tour of this his- toric amusement area. $14. 12:30 to 3 pm. Call for reserva- tions and meeting location. (718) 393-7537. CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY: Brooklyn Public Library Foundation offers a talk. Learn authentic Japanese cuisine and boutique about the Center, a combined vision of five major institutions: the American Jewish Historical LONG Society, the American Sephardi The Gingko Leaf Serving fine Italian Cuisine Federation, the Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO. Private Parking is available. Dine in or take out. tour. $15, $12 members. 12:45 Mother’s Day lunch: 12pm-3pm pm. Meet at 15 W. 16th St., DON’T MISS THIS TUESDAY’S SPECIAL! Manhattan. (718) 230-2780. Special – tea time: 3pm-6pm Wine lover’s night – Any bottled wine on list 1/2 price GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Tour and talk about Green-Wood’s lunch or dinner in dinner: 6pm-11pm All specials valid 5pm to 10pm excluding holidays historical, sociological, architec- tural, artistic, horticultural and TAN our bamboo garden please call for reservations theatrical appeal. $6. 1 pm. Meet inside Ft. Hamilton Parkway Gate off McDonald closed Mondays take out available Cono’s Opescatoré Avenue. (718) 469-5277. BAR • RESTAURANT 788a union st. (betw 6th and 7th ave) TEL 718.399.9876 301 Graham Avenue (cor. Ainslie St.) (718) 388-0168 PERFORMANCES 196 FIFTH AVENUE BROOKLYN NY 11217 park slope, brooklyn FAX 718.399.9432 Williamsburg • • Open 7 days 11am-11pm POETRY: Halcyon Cafe Wordsmith series. 1 pm. 227 Smith St. (718) 260-WAXY. Free. LIBRARY EVENT: Brooklyn Public Authentic Japanese Food in Park Slope Library, Central branch, pres- Seniors: 15% Discount ents Klezmer music with Yale Strom. 1:30 pm. Also, Yiddish every Tuesday night (dine-in only) theater music. 3 pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. MUSIC: at hosts KCC Band. 2:30 Inaka pm. 2001 Oriental Blvd. (718) Inaka 368-5596. Free. CONCERT: All-woman ensemble Sushi House “Sympatica” performs “A Our experienced Sushi Chef Ladies’ Day Concert,” a pro- prepares the freshest Sushi gram of Baroque chamber music. $10. 3 pm. Christ Church, & Sashimi to order! 326 Clinton St. (718) 624-0083. D ¥ E ¥ L ¥ I ¥ C ¥ I ¥ O ¥ U ¥ S OPERA: Regina Opera Company Chinese Cuisine & Vegetarian Nutrition Sukiyaki, Yosenabe & Shabu presents “Swing Along Shabu prepared at your table Broadway.” $8, $5 teens, free 162 Montague Street for children. 4 pm. Regina Hall, • Fast Free Delivery Combination Teriyaki & Tempura Available corner of 65th Street and 12th Brooklyn Heights Avenue. (718) 232-3555. • Open 7 Days a Week (718) 522-5565/66 A light, healthy meal for the entire family. 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Mother’s Day is a big deal for Charlotta Treating mother to brunch on her special day BASIC B’H the spirit of both Shakespeare and Mendels- “Our audiences have developed a lot of Janssen, owner of Chez Oskar in Fort Greene. is the least you can do. She’s sacrificed to give sohn,” said Mirageas. trust in Robert,” he said. “They know that he Janssen transforms the French bistro into a you so many things. Even Larry would agree. The search didn’t last long for a work on believes in the music he plays, and that’s spring flower shop with feather-covered faux- Mary Catherine has given him plenty of stories JUDAISM the second half of the program that, although enough for them.” butterflies and fresh flowers dangling from the to share with his therapist. With more to come. ********** Thursday, May 1 about ecological restoration on 629-8080. Free. MEETING: Bay Ridge Council on Witches Brew Tour. 6 pm. Call the canal during a talk by Gowanus CRAFT TOUR: Brooklyn Botanic Aging meets. 9:30 am. St. for ticket info. Meet at Borough A FIVE WHERE TO GO... Canal Community Development Garden hosts a tour to 225 John’s Episcopal Nutrition Hall, Court and Joralemon Shabbos: A Day of Rest? Corporation and a panel of Fifth Ave., an upscale wholesale Program, 461 99th St. (718) streets. (212) 629-8080. environmental specialists. 6:30 market. Visit showrooms where 921-5949. Free. BASIC JUDAISM: Congregation ********** Continued from previous page... James Cathedral Basilica invites to 7:45 pm. St. Peter’s and St. vendors offer ribbons, baskets, PUPPET WORKSHOP: Elder B’nai Avraham offers a talk SESSION Thursday, May 8 nurses, family and friends. Paul’s Church, 190 Court St. silk flowers and more. $54, $49 Craftsmen hosts a theater arts “What Life Is About: Birth, Perfroming Arts Teen Acting (718) 858-0557. Free. Workship presents Sophocles’ 10:15 am. Jay Street off Tillary members. 10:30 am to 3:30 workshop. $8.50. 9:30 am to Maturity, Marriage and Death.” What Life is About: Birth, “Antigone.” $5. 3pm. Sam Street. (718) 855-6390. Free. MEETING: of Economic Water- pm. Meet in lobby of 225 Fifth noon. Castle Senior Living at 6:30 to 8 pm. 117 Remsen St. COURSE Levenson Recital Hall, Brooklyn LEGISLATIVE BREAKFAST: front Committee of Community Ave., Manhattan. Reservations Prospect Park, 1 Prospect Park (718) 596-4840. Free. Maturity, Marriage & Death College, 1900 Bedford Ave. Bensonhurst Council of Jewish Board 6. 6:30 pm. Long Island necessary. (718) 623-7220. West. (212) 319-8128. RECEPTION: United New York (718) 951-4111. Organizations hosts its annual College Hospital, 339 Hicks St. SUPPORT: New parents invited to LECTURE: Columnist and civil rights Democratic Club honors Led by ********* OPERA: The Opera Company of event. 11 am. Avenue O (718) 643-3027. a group talk. 11 am. 396 Atlantic activist Michael Meyers gives a Assemblyman Dov Hikind. $95. Thursday, May 15 Brooklyn presents Gounod’s Jewish Center, 54 Ave. O. Call BARNES AND NOBLE: presents Ave. (718) 855-6400. Free. lecture. 11:20 am to 12:20 pm. 7 pm. Schick’s Manor, 4901 Richard Golden “Romeo et Juliette.” Students for ticket info. (718) 333-1834. writer Rafe Esquith reading EXHIBIT: Thai Café presents “A Kingsborough Community 12th Ave. (718) 633-5055. The Holidays: free, Brooklyn residents get $5 TEA AND TULIPS: Annual cele- from his book “There Are No View,” works by Joan Criswell. College, 2001 Oriental Blvd. GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: Joe off each ticket, regularly $20. 7 bration of motherhood and Shortcuts: How An Inner-City 6 to 8 pm. 925 Manhattan Ave. (718) 368-5669. Free. Weissburg and others read.. $5. An Appointment Calendar pm. Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry springtime. Noon to 4 pm. Teacher Inspired His Students.” (718) 443-4358. Free. BOOK FAIR: First Unitarian 7 pm. No cover. 70 North Sixth 7:30 pm. 267 Seventh Ave. Thursday Landing. (212) 567-3283. Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, DINNER MEETING: Columbian Church hosts its annual event St. (718) 782-5188. 5816 Clarendon Road. (718) (718) 832-9066. Free. ********* THEATER: “Blood Wedding.” 2 Lawyers Association of featuring fiction, mystery, BARNES AND NOBLE: presents 629-5400. Free. Evenings Thursday, May 22 pm. See Thurs, May 1. PUBLIC ADVOCATE: American Brooklyn meets. Attorney romance, sci-fi, history and Brooklyn humorist Todd other types of books. Noon to OPERA: “Don Giovanni.” 2 pm. HALCYON CAFE: hosts a poetry Heritage Political Organization Gulotta lectures on “The Art of Rosenberg reading from his 6:30-8:00pm reading. 1 pm. 227 Smith St. presents Public Advocate Betsy Managing a Small Firm or Solo 8 pm. Corner of Pierrepont book “The Odd Todd The Jewish Home: See Sat. Street and Monroe Place. (718) (718) 260-WAXY. Free. Gotbaum. 7:30 pm. 345 78th Law Practice.” Call for ticket Handbook: Hard Times, Soft BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music OPEN HOUSE: at Urban Glass. 20 St. (718) 836-9702. Free. 624-5466. Couch.” 7 pm. 106 Court St. How is it Different? presents “Cosi Fan Tutte.” 3 info. 6 pm. Rex Manor, 1100 percent off all items in store. READING: Sotto Voce Lounge 60th St. (718) 875-0158. BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART: (718) 246-4996. Free. NO FEE pm. See Fri., May 2. Make gifts for Mother’s Day. Treasure Trove Flea Market. ********* hosts Radomir Luza Jr. He reads AGING PARENT TALK: Heights BARGEMUSIC: chamber music by No Pre-registration Thursday, May 29 HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “My Fair Reservations required for work- from his poetry and prose. $7 Noon to 4 pm. 200 Eastern Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky. Lady.” 3 pm. See Sat. shops. $10-$50. Noon to 5 pm. and Hill Community Council Parkway. (718) 789-2493. includes a drink. 7:30 pm. 453 offers a series of workshops. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry All are welcome GALLERY PLAYERS: “Chess.” 3 647 Fulton St. (718) 625-3685. Fourth St. (718) 369-9322. How the Talmud Thinks Today: “You and Your Aging MUSIC FOR STRINGS: Conservatory Landing. (718) 624-2083. pm. See Sat.. SUPPORT: Brooklyn Chapter LECTURE: Congregation B’nai of Music students present cham- BARNES AND NOBLE: presents PUPPET OPERA: “The Barber of Parent: Legal and Financial Laryngectomee Group meets. Avraham hosts a talk, Planning.” 6:30 to 8:30 pm. 160 ber works for strings. 12:15 pm. author Amy Herrick reading Seville.” 3 pm. See Sat. 2 pm. St. Athanasius Convent, “Intolerance, Blind Men and Free. Also, Conservatory Jazz from her story collection “At PAPER MOON PLAYERS: “Love Montague St. Registration Ensemble. $5. 5 pm. Levenson Bay Parkway and 60th Street. Elephants.” 8 pm. 117 Remsen required. (718) 596-8789. Free. the Sign of the Naked Waiter.” Congregation B’nai Avraham Letters.” 3:30 pm. See Sat. (718) 837-3058. St. (718) 802-1827. Free. Recital Hall, Brooklyn College, LADIES NIGHT: Recycle-a-Bicycle 7:30 pm. 267 Seventh Ave. GALLERY TALK: Brooklyn one block from the intersection (718) 832-9066. Free. CHILDREN MUSIC: Mike Younger performs. hosts an evening of fixing flats, 117 Remsen Street – Brooklyn, NY 11201 Museum of Art hosts a talk by No cover. 8:30 pm. Hank’s of Flatbush and Nostrand POETRY: Halcyon Cafe Wordsmith POT LUCK DINNER: Ametz Adoption Frederick Terna, an artist-sur- adjusting brakes and general avenues. (718) 951-4500. Saloon, 46 Third Ave. (615) bike repair for women. 7 to 9 series. 7:30 pm. 227 Smith St. (718) 596-4840 x15 Program end-of-season pot vivor, on the artists of There- 297-7090. OPERA: Regina Opera performs (718) 260-WAXY. Free. luck event. 10:30 am to noon. sienstadt. $6, free children 12 pm. 55 Washington St. (212) at Brooklyn Public Library, TRAVELING CINEMA: Barbes Bar 475-1655. Free. BRIC STUDIO: presents “Sink or Congregation Beth Elohim, 274 and under, $3 students and presents the film “L’Atalante” Dyker branch. 1:30 pm. 8202 Swim,” featuring masks by Garfield Place. (212) 558-9949. seniors. 3 pm. 200 Eastern (1934). No cover. 9 pm. 376 BARNES AND NOBLE: hosts a 13th Ave. (718) 748-6261. Free. fiction writing workshop with Norman Lowrey, playwright FAMILY CONCERT: performance Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Ninth St. (718) 965-9177. FILM: Watch Club hosts the movie Honor Mosher, aerial dance by Jonathan Bayer and Acous- READING SERIES: Lisa Shea local author Jennie Fields. 7:30 “The Shoes of the Fisherman” GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: pm. 267 Seventh Ave. (718) artist Kristin Olness, and more. tic Roosters. $10, $5 children, reads from her novel “Hula.” 6 (1968). 2 pm. 157 Montague St. $10, $8 students. 7:30 pm. 647 Evening of burlesque with the 832-9066. Free. SmallTownBrooklyn.com $20 families. 11:30 am. Brooklyn pm. Barbes Cafe, 376 Ninth St. Bombshell Girls. 9:30 pm. No (718) 875-6960. Free. Fulton St. (718) 855-7882. Heights Synagogue, 131 (718) 965-9177. Free. cover. Also, Jiggle-O, a party BARNES AND NOBLE: presents MEETING: Youth Services Committee SCRAPBOOKING: Families First Remsen St. (718) 522-2070. SUNDAYS AT SUNNY’S: Reading for queer fat folk on International author Brian Keith Jackson of Community Board 6. 6 pm. talk on how to be the photo PUPPETWORKS: “Cinderella.” series with Peter Blauner, Amy No Diet Day. $10. Performance reading from his book “Queen St. Francis Xavier, 752 President historian in the family and 12:30 and 2:30 pm. See Sat. Holman and Heidi Julavits. $3. at 8 pm; party to 1 am. 70 of Harlem.” 7 pm. 106 Court St. (718) 643-3027. organize your pictures. Bring 5 OTHER 6 pm. 253 Conover St. (718) North Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. St. (718) 246-4996. Free. AWARD DINNER: Brooklyn to 7 photos. $10 fee. 7:30 pm. 625-8211. ART SHOW: Midwood Development GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: Peace Center for the Performing Arts 250 Baltic St. Reservations nec- BREAKFAST MEETING: Temple FALL CAFE: hosts the Spiral Corporation and Midwood Williamsburg presents “Relish presents the third annual essary. (718) 237-1862. Beth Ahavath Sholom presents Thought Reading Series. 6 to 8 Board of Trade host the eighth Democracy.” $8. 7 pm to mid- Ovation Awards. Awards cele- AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS: New Congressman Anthony Weiner pm. 307 Smith St. (718) 403- annual Avenue J Students Art night. 70 North Sixth St. (718) brates individuals who have York Amateur Astronomers in a talk “Was Warning Israel 0230. Free. Show. Artwork displayed in all 782-5188. demonstrated commitment to Association search for moon, Really Such A Crime?” Talk OCULARIS FILMS: Cinema Wil- Avenue J banks during the Brooklyn and its diverse com- planets and stars through tele- focuses on Jonathan Pollard. liamsburg Style hosts the 37th week of May 5. (718) 376-0999. munities. 6 pm. Palm House, scopes. 8 pm. Meet in front of Be a good neighbor: $7 includes breakfast. 10:15 International Film and Video WEDS, MAY 7 Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, War Memorial Building, am. Richelieu Restaurant, 2035 Festival of the Brooklyn Arts 1000 Washington Ave. Call for Cadman Plaza Park, Brooklyn 86th St. (718) 259-2178. Council. $6. 7 and 9:30 pm. 70 TUES, MAY 6 YOGA: at The Great Room. $15. tickets. (718) 951-4600, ext. 21. Heights. (718) 855-7804. Free. FLEA MARKET: at St. Finbar North Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. 7:30 to 8:30 am. 138 South BAMCINEMATEK: “The New LOW BAR: music with Last Town Center. 9 am to 3 pm. Bath BIKE WEEK: In celebration of Oxford St. (917) 660-7315. Films From Slovenia” series Chorus. No cover. 10:30 pm. 81 Shop locally! Avenue and Bay 20th Street. Transportation Alternatives and NURSING DAY: Brooklyn Borough presents “Sweet Dreams” Washington St. (718) 222-1LOW. (718) 236-3312. MON, MAY 5 the NYC Department of President Marty Markowitz (2001). $10. Q & A with direc- ASTHMA SCREENING: Long COMMUNITY YARD SALE: Annual Transportation’s Bike Week, hosts a day for high school sen- tor Sasa Podgorsek follows Island College Hospital offers a event in West Midwood. 10 am COMMUTER RACE: Bike race Brooklyn Borough President iors, career changers, young 6:30 pm screening. $10. 30 screening. Call for time. 339 to 4 pm. Area is bounded by from Junior’s Restaurant to Marty Markowitz hosts a break- retirees and other potential Lafayette Ave. (718) 595-2150. Hicks St. (877) 874-2796. Free. Coney Island Avenue to the Q Columbus Circle Manhattan. fast. Brooklyn side of Brooklyn nursing professionals. Learn DANCE: Long Island University Diamond and Q Circle subway Kick off at 8 am. Start at about nursing as a career. 9 am GALLERY PLAYERS: “Chess.” 8 [email protected] Bridge. Meet at Grand Army hosts its annual high school pm. See Sat. lines, from Avenue H to Foster Flatbush and DeKalb avenues. Plaza to ride to a free breakfast. to 4 pm. Brooklyn Borough choreography conference. 9 am (718) 222-8209 Avenue. (212) 251-6711. (212) 629-8080. 7:30 am. Also, ladies only repair Hall, 209 Joralemon St. (212) to 4 pm. DeKalb Avenue and PUPPET OPERA: “The Barber of NURSES RECOGNITION DAY: St. GOWANUS CANAL TALK: Learn night. 55 Washington St. (212) 290-8267. Free. Flatbush Avenue Extension. Seville.” 8 pm. See Sat (718) 488-1051. Free. WORKSHOP: Midwood Develop- FRI, MAY 9 ment Corp. offers a talk on immigration and housing. Topic INFANT MASSAGE: Families First is “How to Find an Immigration class. $40. Noon to 1 pm. 250 Attorney.” 5 to 8 pm. 1081 Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. Coney Island Ave. (718) 376- RECEPTION: Micro Museum hosts 0999. Free. an artist reception for interdisci- BIKE MAINTENANCE: Recycle-a- plinary artwork by founding Bicycle offers tips to get your directors William and Kathleen bike in shape. 7 to 9 pm. 55 Laziza. $10. 6 pm to midnight. Washington St. (212) 475-1655. 123 Smith St. (718) 797-3116. Free. CARD PARTY: at St. Finbar. $7. 7 BARNES AND NOBLE: presents pm. Bath Avenue and Bay 20th employment specialist Allison Street. (718) 236-3312. Hemming. She shares wisdom VEGAN POTLUCK: at Park Slope from her book “Work It! How to Get Ahead, Save Your Ass, Food Co-op. 7:30 to 10 pm. and Land a Job in Any Bring a dish to share with six Economy.” 7 pm. 106 Court St. people. $2. 782 Union St. (718) (718) 246-4996. Free. 622-0560. BARNES AND NOBLE: presents FISH TALK: Brooklyn Aquarium author Mark Swartz reading Society presents author Bob from his book “Instant Karma.” Fenner in a talk. Also, marine 7:30 pm. 267 Seventh Ave. event and auction. $5, free for (718) 832-9066. Free. members. 7:30 pm. New York Aquarium, West Eighth Street MEETING: Concerned Citizens of and Surf Avenue. (718) 837-4455. Bensonhurst hosts its regular monthly meeting. 7:30 pm. St. BARGEMUSIC: chamber music Finbar Center, Bath Avenue program by Bach and Kurtag. and Bay 20th Street. (718) 256- $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry 6471. Landing. (718) 624-2083. GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: Little PERFORMANCE: Peace and Social Gray Book Lecture #19. $5. 8 Action Committee of the Brook- pm. Also, bluegrass music with lyn Friends Meeting and Brook- Citigrass. 8:30 pm. No cover. 70 lyn Parents for Peace co-sponsor North Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. a play “What Does War Cost Brooklyn?” 7:30 pm. 110 Scher- merhorn St. (718) 882-2454. Free. THURS, MAY 8 GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: presents James Reams and The Barn- BIG BAND SOUNDS: Music of stormers. $10, $6 kids. 8 pm. Basie, Nones, Mingues and 53 Prospect Park West. (718) other jazz masters. $5. 5 pm. 768-2972. Levenson Recital Hall. 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