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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2014 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn, Williamsburg & Greenpoint AWP/16 pages • Vol. 37, No. 50 • December 12–18, 2014 • FREE PROTESTERS’ ROYAL WELCOME Marchers stage ‘die-in’ outside Nets game packed with bold-faced names, storm Atlantic Terminal
By Noah Hurowitz The Brooklyn Paper They were royally pissed. Hundreds of protesters gath- ered outside Barclays Center on Monday night for a fifth straight night of protests following a grand jury’s decision not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo for killing Gow- anus native Eric Garner on Staten Island by choking him and hold- ing him facedown on the ground, — only this demonstration coin- cided with a visit by Prince Wil- liam and Kate Middleton. One protester said the marches are still going because the system has failed black people. “I’m out here to demand jus- tice,” said Derrick West, of Park Slope, as the crowd marched down Atlantic Avenue toward Smith Street. “We are tired of speak- ing and having no one listen.”
The crowd of protesters didn’t Photos by Paul Martinka dramatically disrupt the Nets game against Lebron “King” James’s Clockwise from left: Pro- Cleveland Cavaliers, but James testers block Flatbush and several Nets players, includ- and Atlantic avenues on ing Kevin Garnett and Deron Wil- Monday during a fifth liams, brought the activists’ message night of protests against to the court, warming up in black the grand jury decision to shirts that read, “I can’t breathe,” the let the officer who killed phrase Garner wheezed as Pantaleo Eric Garner go without took him down. Brooklyn royalty charges. Kate Middleton Jay-Z and Beyonce were also in at- and Prince William try to tendance, and King Hov took time the English royals’ visit. The crowd Police arrested three outside at one point the protesters paused about 100, attempted to cross the wrap their heads around out to pose with the politicized Nets staged a silent “die-in” in the in- the arena that evening, one for for a moment outside the House of Manhattan Bridge on the Brook- the rules of basketball, players ahead of the game. tersection of Flatbush and Atlan- assault, according to a police Detention to relay their solidarity lyn-bound roadway. Police barred and how Lebron James Outside, more than 500 activ- tic avenues, then moved across the spokeswoman. to the prisoners inside, chanting, the path and, after a standoff, the could be king. Brooklyn ists assembled, many galvanized street to Atlantic Terminal mall, Just before 10:30 pm, the 150 “We’re here for you!” protesters turned around and left royalty Jay Z and Beyonce by the Twitter topic “#royalshut- where protesters roved from store remaining protesters set off down The march wound its way through the borough the legal way, on the stride across the court to down” and seeking to capitalize on to store, disrupting shoppers, ac- Atlantic Avenue. Some cars stuck Downtown and Brooklyn Heights pedestrian walkway, chanting “I greet the duke and duch- the media attention being paid to cording to reports. in traffic honked in support, and — then, with its ranks numbering can’t breathe” as they went. ess of Cambridge.
tests following the Eric Garner grand REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK: jury decision , I followed one of sev- eral nebulous crowds of activists as it pin-balled around Manhattan and eventually made its way uptown to- ward Times Square. There was the My Eric Garner protest arrest occasional tense moment between protesters and police, such as when someone broke the window of a Volk- I spent a night in cuffs while covering demonstrations swagen trapped inside the march and officers rushed to make a perime- By Noah Hurowitz white police officers in the killings of bring charges against Officer Darren ter around the vehicle. In that shuf- The Brooklyn Paper Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and Wilson for shooting Brown, a cop hit fle, one cop shoved me, and when I I spent a night in jail for doing my I have spent several long nights walk- me with his baton as officers moved told him I was a reporter he retorted, job. ing for miles in demonstrations, filing to barricade the Manhattan entrance to “Congratulations.” In the past two weeks protests have live updates on Twitter, and writing re- the Williamsburg Bridge. But I didn’t But I saw no arrests for most of
Photo by Paul Martinka erupted in New York and across the ports for this paper. see anything like the chaos that would the night. An officer and protester face off after cops cleared Seventh Avenue country in response to the decisions On Nov. 25, the night after a Fergu- break out nine days later. It wasn’t until after a “die-in” in at 42nd Street in Manhattan during the protests on Dec. 4. by two grand juries to not indict two son, Missouri grand jury declined to On Dec. 4, the second night of pro- See ARREST on page 14 Up in smoked fi sh From Dumbo 80-year-old Williamsburg lox factory for sale — to Detroit? By Danielle Furfaro The Brooklyn Paper A longtime Williamsburg Galapagos heads to Midwest smoked-fish factory could be get- ting ready to change the lox. By Matthew Perlman Service Smoked Fish, which The Brooklyn Paper supplies delicacies including A Dumbo gallery and venue is smoked salmon, whitefish, and moving to the Motor City. kippered salmon to delis and res- In a stunning reversal of the taurants across the city, is up for Great Hipster Migration that has sale, along with the Throop Ave- defined the part of Brooklyn near- nue building that has housed the est to the East River for going on operation for decades. Its owner two decades, Galapagos Art Space said he set the price at $9.75 million
is packing it up and starting a new Photo by Elizabeth Graham after fielding dozens of offers for life in the Midwest. The move will Galapagos Art Space moved the factory in recent years. end a 19-year run in the borough, to Dumbo in 2008. “I got tired of answering the first in Williamsburg, then, start- door and telling everyone my life ing in 2008, in Dumbo. The head story,” Jay Wiener said. “So I de- of the operation says that it may work on our mission with those cided to list it with a number.” be setting out for more post-apoc- numbers,” he said. Wiener has not named a fig- alyptic pastures, but it will remain In discussing the impending ure for the business, but said he Wiener Jay move a third of the way across Service Smoked Fish owner Jay Wiener with a tray of his Kings County to the core. is open to selling it, too. “We were born in Brooklyn. the country, Elmes said Highland “Everything has got its price,” delectable wares. We grew up in Brooklyn,” said Park, a small city surrounded by he said. “If someone offers me Robert Elmes, executive director Detroit, reminds him of the Wil- enough money, I will take it.” to the suburbs. Subsequently, it way Triangle that the city targeted at Galapagos. “We’ll always be a liamsburg he set up shop in dur- Wiener’s father Nathan “Chick” became a high-priced delicacy, a for redevelopment as a 1,895-unit Brooklyn venue.” ing the mid-1990s. It is the land of Wiener founded Service Smoked fixture of the smoked-fish scene mixed-income housing complex Galapagos had enjoyed below- milk and affordable real estate, he Fish in 1934 in a different neigh- explained. in 2006 — only to have the proj- market rent at its space on Main explained, and it is only a matter borhood factory and moved to “It was in danger of going away ect derailed by litigation claim- Street between Water and Plym- of time before artists from else- Throop Avenue at Walton Street from the food lexicon for a while, ing the plan unfairly favored large outh streets courtesy of its land- where catch on. in 1955. and then the whole world caught Hasidic Jewish families over low- lord Two Trees, the developer that “Cultural scenes need three Smoked fish holds a special on,” said Mark Federman, a third- income black and Latino neigh- made Dumbo the real-estate pres- things: time, space, and people,” place in Brooklyn’s history. In the generation owner of the storied borhood residents. Much of the sure cooker it is today by care- he said. early 20th century, it was cheap Manhattan appetizing shop Russ property in the area is city-owned, fully cultivating an artistic com- His opinion of the cultural apti- and plentiful and often offered as a and Daughters, and a customer of vacant, and polluted. munity there. But now the lease is tude of Detroit’s 713,000 residents free side with a nickel beer. It was Service Smoked Fish. “It became If Service closes, Brooklyn will up and, though Two Trees is will- is apparently not high. a staple of the then-huge Jewish an item for first-class airlines and be left with just two smoked fish ing to keep the rent below what “In Detroit there’s time and middle class in the borough, but fancy Sunday brunches.” factories — Acme Smoked Fish File photo by Jeff Bachner it could charge, it is asking too space,” he said. “And the people went out of fashion when much Service sits within the nine in Greenpoint and Banner in Co- Scenes like this are about to be history, in Dumbo any- much, Elmes said. are coming.” of the Jewish population moved blocks of the low-slung Broad- ney Island. way, as Galapagos Art Space prepares for a big move. “We just would not be able to See GALAPAGOS on page 11 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 December 12–18, 2014
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By Noah Hurowitz The Brooklyn Paper Finally! A place to buy $3.75 doughnuts on Flat- bush Avenue! The upscale Manhattan A/D3C>B= chain Doughnut Plant opened 6=:72/G its first Brooklyn location on Dec. 3 in a triangular build- ing bounded by Bergen Street Community News Group / Noah Hurowitz and Sixth Avenue in Pros- pect Heights. The business paying for it.” is known for its big pastries There are five Dunkin’ % that come in out-there fla- Donuts locations within a vors, currently including mile of the Doughnut Plant 5@3/B574BA marzipan, carrot cake, and outpost, but the Plant’s pro- gingerbread, just in time prietor said he has never A/:3 for the holidays. The con- paid attention to the com- fections range in price from petition. /::4/;=CA23A75<3@A<=E=<A/:3 $3.25 to $3.75, a far cry from “When we started, we the buck-or-so Dunkin’ Do- were the only ones making nuts charges, but customers our doughnuts from scratch,” we quizzed say you get what said Mark Israel, who opened you pay for. his first shop in 1994. “I just “It’s worth the price,” said focus on what I’m doing, not 9LP(JL@K Preston House, who trekked on the big chains.” 8KK?<M8CL<GI@:< out from his home in Queens (Above) Doughnut Plant owner Mark Israel with a The new location was to snag a treat. “You’re not rack of marzipan doughnuts. (Right) The first Brook- packed with devotees on its going to get quality without lyn location opened on Dec. 3 at Sixth Avenue. second day. “When I lived in Maryland >
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D/:C3B=$ # SLEEP ON THE PUREST D/:C3B= D/:C3B= "# D/:C3B=!# MATERIALS ON EARTH. 12.13 K?<C8I> 0@==9:G< <3E83@A3G 0@= The angry patron showed up to the laundromat between 14th and 15th streets at 9:15 NYPD: Man cuts himself attempting to slash cabbie pm, too late to wash the load of laundry she had in tow, off, one of the teens grabbed credit, and gift cards, police they say stole a woman’s said he parked his ride be- cops said. 84TH PRECINCT the driver’s backpack, which said. debit card and used it to buy tween Gates Avenue and Ful- An argument with the Brooklyn Heights– contained $80 in cash and a Laser larceny POLICE BLOTTER clothing, then tried using it ton Street at 7 pm on Dec. 2. worker turned physical when to buy food at a Fulton Street When he returned to get the the disgruntled customer DUMBO–Boerum Hill– cellphone, and all three took Some eagle-eyed sneaks restaurant on Nov. 17. car at 10:45 the next morning punched him in the mouth, Downtown off running on Water Street to- stole a laser from an office in Find more online every Wednesday at The victim said she was it was gone, officers said. and then she fled the scene, Cops cuffed a man who wards Main Street, cops said. MetroTech Center overnight BrooklynPaper.com/blotter waiting for a new debit card • Degenerates took another a report states. they say sliced his own hand Officers arrived and arrested on Nov. 18, police said. when she noticed a charge on car from Vanderbilt Avenue with a box-cutter on Nov. the three 15-year-old suspects, A 63-year-old employee — Noah Hurowitz her bank statement for $1,650 on Dec. 5, a report shows. 24 while trying to rob a cab police said. in the office, which is on the The 56-year-old victim man said he was on his way at a clothing store at noon on The 32-year-old owner of a driver at Livingston Street and Parking fee Myrtle Promenade between said she was taking pictures to deliver some food at 8 pm 68TH PRECINCT Nov. 17. 2007 Toyota Camry said she Bond Street, the authorities Lawrence and Bridge streets, near the intersection at 7:40 when the two guys stopped A quick crook took a man’s She called the bank, which parked the ride between Van- Bay Ridge–Dyker Heights reported. reported that the equipment pm when the suspect came him. He said they tried to bag out of his car while he paid informed her that someone derbilt and Flushing avenues The 46-year-old cabbie told was secure when he left the over and extracted her wal- take his food, showed him a Robbery flop for parking at a Joralemon was trying to use the card at 7:30 pm, and when she re- police he dropped off some building at 7 pm, but when he let, which contained a debit gun, and then took off run- A spineless man tried to Street Muni-Meter on Nov. at that moment in a restau- turned the next morning at passengers at the intersection returned at 7 the next morn- and credit card. Cops arrived ning empty-handed. rob a Third Avenue bank on 21, according to police. rant on Fulton Street between 10:20 it was gone. at 5 pm, and that the suspect ing it was gone. on the scene and arrested the Police arrested the accused Dec. 2 — but fled when the entered his car and demanded The 41-year-old victim Saint James and Cambridge • Culprits commandeered a The optical laser source 52-year-old suspect minutes shortly after the incident, of- teller called the manager, ac- money. said he parked his ride be- places, according to a police car from the corner of North cost $2,500, according to a later, they said. ficers recounted. cording to police. “Give me all you got,” he tween Clinton and Court report. Elliot Place and Park Avenue streets at 6:15 pm, and left police report. Ouch-bound Officers said the bandit said, according to a police She canceled the card, and sometime on Dec. 5 or 6, ac- walked into the branch be- it unlocked while he went to ‘Bump’-ed Someone slapped a sub- 88TH PRECINCT then went to the restaurant to report. cording to a police report. tween 95th and 96th Streets pay the meter. A man was arrested for way conductor in the face as retrieve a surveillance video The 36-year-old victim The suspect then tried to Fort Greene–Clinton Hill in Bay Ridge at 1:15 pm and grab some cash from the hack’s He returned a couple of trying to break into a Bridge he was pulling a train into of the suspect trying to use it, told police she parked her passed the teller a note that hand, but the driver fought minutes later to find the Street storefront on Nov. 27, the DeKalb Avenue station Sleeper creeper the report says. As she was Ford 500 at 6 pm on Dec. 5 read, “This is a robbery. I have back, the report says. bag, which contained a lap- according to the authori- on Nov. 29, police said. A crook stole a woman’s talking to employees of the and returned at 7:30 pm the The crook took out the top and a camera lens, gone, ties. The 31-year-old conduc- bag while she slept in her restaurant at 7:35 pm, the sus- next day to find air where it a gun. Pull [sic] all money in blade and tried to slash the cops said. A 53-year-old employee tor said he was operating the Adelphi Street apartment pect came back in, NYPD of- had been. an envelope. No dye packs. No alarms.” driver’s hand, but missed and Shopping lift said the suspect tried to enter doors of a Brooklyn-bound Q on Dec. 6, police said. ficials recounted. The woman Group grab cut himself, per police. Offi- the store between Willoughby train that was pulling into the The 45-year-old woman called 911 and officers arrived The teller told a man- A thief filched a woman’s said she came home to her A crew of teens stole a ager, and the would-be rob- cers picked up the 29-year-old wallet from her purse as she and Fulton streets at 4:30 pm station at 6:25 am, when a ga- to arrest the 38-year-old sus- suspect the next day. with a so-called “bump key,” loot standing on the platform apartment between DeKalb pect, according to the author- man’s cellphone as he sat ber fled without any loot, po- entered a Fulton Street de- and Lafayette avenues at 2 on a DeKalb Avenue bench lice said. partment store on Nov. 24, a lock-picking tool. walked up to the window and ities. Hack attack pt. 2 am, and thinks the door did on Dec. 30, according to po- police said. He called police and re- let him have it. Paramedics Dangerous duo Police arrested three teens not close all the way behind Auto-motive lice. The 22-year-old victim said sponding officers arrested took the victim to Coney Is- Police caught one of two for allegedly robbing a cab her. Criminals are on the move, The 61-year-old victim she was entering the store, the 52-year-old suspect, land Hospital, cops stated. guys who they say held up driver at Water Street and She woke up at 8:30 am and swiping three cars in the pre- said he was sitting on the between Gallatin Place and cops said. That’s desperate and assaulted a man on 96th Washington Street on Nov. found her purse gone, cops cinct this week, the author- bench between Ashland Hoyt Street, at 2:50 pm, when Pickpocket pinch Street on Dec. 5. 26. Cops arrested one of two reported. The bag contained ities said. Place and Adelphi Street someone bumped into her. She Officials say the pair The 60-year-old hack told Cops cuffed a man who suspects who they say threat- cash, a laptop, a cellphone, and • A car thief stole a Toy- at 5:43 pm, checking his e- went to the bathroom to check flashed a gun at the victim cops he picked up the trio at they say stole a wallet from ened a delivery guy with a a portable music player, an of- ota Avalon from its parking mail, when a girl who was her bag and found that her between Third and Fourth av- DeKalb Avenue and Wash- a woman’s purse while she gun on Flatbush Avenue Ex- ficial account states. space on Cambridge Place with the big group came over ington Street at 4:03 pm, billfold had been pilfered, was taking pictures at the cor- tension at Myrtle Avenue on overnight on Dec. 2, accord- and snatched the phone out enues in Bay Ridge at 12:15 and drove them to Dumbo. cops said. ner of Water and Old Fulton Nov. 30, cops said. Hunger strikes ing to police. of his hand. am, and demanded his wallet. When he was dropping them The wallet contained debit, streets on Nov. 27. The 47-year-old delivery Cops cuffed a man who The 69-year-old owner It fell to the ground and The victim said no, and the another of the delinquents gun-less goon punched him grabbed it, then they all took in the face before both fled, off on DeKalb towards Fort officers said. Greene Park. Police saw the pair flee into Break-in news a building at 87th Street and Fourth Avenue and cuffed the A thief stole a bunch of guy allegedly carrying the electronics from a Grand gun, a police report states. Avenue apartment some- time between Dec. 6 and 7, 16 grand gone police said. A burglar stole an esti- A 29-year-old resident of mated $16,060 in jewelry, the building between Park and cash, and electronics from Myrtle avenues said he left a Narrows Avenue home his pad at 2:30 am on Dec. sometime between Nov. 30 6, and did not return until 1 and Dec. 1, according to an am the next morning. When official account. he came home he found his The thief sneaked into the front door slightly ajar and home between 70th Street and the bedroom window, which MacKay Place in Bay Ridge opens onto a fire escape, wide between 5 pm and 5:30 pm the open, according to a police next day, police said. report. The trespasser took A Mac- The bandit made off with a book Pro, an iPad, iPhone, laptop, two electronic tablets, two Louis Vuitton bags, three a television, and a pair of head pieces of gold jewelry, speak- phone, officers stated. ers, a diamond pendant, and Lap-take $3,200 cash, cops recounted. A sneak stole a laptop and — Max Jaeger a bowl full of change from a Saint Felix Street apartment 90TH PRECINCT on Dec. 3, according to the Southside–Bushwick authorities. The 34-year-old victim said Cheese Louise! she left the apartment between A desperado shot up a Gra- Fulton Street and DeKalb Av- ham Avenue pizza joint on ACCIDENTS enue at 9 am, leaving her door Dec. 5, injuring two men, of- unlocked because she shares ficers said. the kitchen with a neighbor. The 45-year-old victim said When she came home at 7:30 he was inside of the pizze- that night, the front door to ria between Meserole and Sc- the building was open and holes streets at 11:40 pm with the items were nowhere to be some friends when he heard found, police recounted. gunshots. Pushing it The slugs grazed him on HAPPE . his head, his right arm, and A group of punks shoved a woman down on and stole his chest, and a 54-year-old her bag on Adelphi Street on man sitting with him suf- Dec. 2, cops said. fered a graze wound to the The 25-year-old victim said left hip, cops said. Police re- she was between DeKalb and covered two bullet fragments Willoughby avenues at 8:45 from inside the shop, they re- pm when the team of toughs ported. approached her. False premise They pushed her down, Police arrested a man who grabbed the bag, and took they say helped rob a John- off running, cops said. son Avenue variety store Some of the galoots headed with three other people on up Adelphi towards Myrtle Dec. 4. Avenue, and the rest headed The owner of the store be- the other direction towards tween Varick and Porter ave- DeKalb, officers stated. The nues said that the two men and bag contained a cellphone, debit and credit cards, and two women came in at 3 pm, an electronic tablet, accord- and three of them peppered ing to a police report. her with questions while the fourth, a man, took $4,000 — Matthew Perlman in cash out of the front-desk drawer. 78TH PRECINCT The victim saw and tried Park Slope to stop him, but he pushed her No thanks to the ground and the whole group scrammed, according A Park Slope jewel thief to cops. made off with a hefty bag of The man officers busted loot from an apartment on did not have the cash, a re- Fourth Avenue in a Thanks- port says. NYU LANGONE COBBLE HILL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT IS NOW OPEN. giving burglary, cops said. The victim went away on Gear here Nov. 26, making sure to lock A burglar stole thousands Accidents and emergencies can happen at any time. 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But we really hope you Nov. 28, a thief had managed his pad between Olive Street never do. 83 Amity Street, Brooklyn, NY. 646.754.7940. to enter through the window and Morgan Avenue at 10 am, and ransack a stash of jewelry, and when he returned at 6:45 bagging rings, necklaces, and pm that evening, he noticed electronics worth $5,710 alto- that the window near the fire gether, police related. escape was open. Closing time He found a number of items A customer at a Seventh taken, including his MacBook, Avenue laundromat was un- Canon camera lenses, Canon happy with the closing time camera, Blackmagic camera, and attacked an employee GoPro camera, film, and an over her inability to wash her Olympus camera, law en- clothes on Nov. 25, accord- forcement officials said. ing to the authorities. — Danielle Furfaro December 12–18, 2014 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 5 of the plaza as an outdoor toilet.” Some community mem- IS YOUR ROOF READY FOR WINTER? bers opposed the initial plaza Hangout hangover plan, but the local commu- nity board supported the Neighbors: Urine, trash, threats stain Clinton Hill plaza idea then, and its adminis- SUPER trator thinks it will continue By Matthew Perlman to back the plaza this time around. The Brooklyn Paper “The community board ROOFER A triangular plaza in Clin- has been supportive of pla- ton Hill that includes a de- zas generally,” said Robert mapped block of road is a Perris, district manager for The Trusted Name In Roofing magnet for sinister loiterers Community Board 2. who kill business, according The push to get the mini- SINCE 1979 to some neighbors who are park came from the Fulton opposing the city’s move to Area Business Alliance, a make it permanent. local business booster, af- Licensed – Brooklyn – Insured The city first created ter it held a couple of suc- Putnam Plaza, in the wedge cessful events at the corner, formed by Grand Avenue, despite the spot’s reputation Top Quality Workmanship Putnam Avenue, and Fulton for crime. Street, in 2011 by blocking “It showed us the potential off the end of Putnam with of that location,” said Phil- References Available rocks and planters. But ad- lip Kellogg, the group’s ex- jacent businesses and com- ecutive director. munity activists say the And three years after the Affordable – Professional & Courteous $3.75-million plan to build up city implemented the plaza the park is a waste of money and street closure, Kellogg is because it is attracting the happy with what he has seen, 718-833-3508 wrong crowd. Photo by Elizabeth Graham citing concerts, film screen- “People are drinking in the Clinton Hill residents James Powell, Paulette Durham, Pierre Chan, and Schellie ings, and art events that have 513 72nd Street, Brooklyn park, and no one’s picking up Hagan are against the city’s plan to make Putnam Plaza a permanent fixture taken place there. after them,” said Pierre Chan, on Fulton Street. “New uses and activities owner of Masaki, a Japanese for a space can affect posi- GUTTER COMPLETE ANY COMPLETE restaurant that opens onto the tive change in the area,” Kel- CLEANING FLASH & PAINT ROOFING JOB plaza. “They worry my cus- Transportation head Polly and public urination. has been the result,” the pol logg said. tomers. They’re dumping gar- Trottenberg in October, “DOT initially promised wrote. “The complaints from He argues that the unsa- bage. This is ridiculous.” saying members of the lo- the Fulton Area BID the the business owners include vory characters neighbors $ $ $ State Sen. Velmanette cal business improvement plaza would create an im- greatly increased illegal ac- complain about long predate 100 750 250 Off Montgomery (D–Clinton district were sold a bill of provement in the quality of tivities, including loitering, the plaza, and that the space Hill) echoed the concerns goods, and adding to the life and business. Unfortu- menacing, various forms of has been a key component of Any Size House Max 1200 sq. ft. of 1200 sq. ft. in a letter to Department of list of gripes intimidation nately, the exact opposite violence and threats, and use the area getting fancier. or more With Coupon Only. With Coupon Only. With Coupon Only. Housing court contemplates a move Expires 2/15/15 Expires 2/15/15 Expires 2/15/15 By Matthew Perlman assistant director of Hous- on the Municipal Building af- of city leasing, to pressure Bis- fore the new courts are built, The Brooklyn Paper ing Court Answers, an orga- ter it proved difficult to find a tricer to clean up his act. and because changing the use Brooklyn’s long-troubled nization that provides people landlord willing to rent to the The tycoon has since spent of a city-owned property re- housing court is set to get a with free legal help in hous- city. Officials have a tempo- $20 million on repairs and quires a formal land-use re- new home in Downtown’s Mu- ing cases. “But all of us were rary agreement with the owner whittled the number of viola- view procedure. nicipal Building, but not be- hoping there would be a new of the Livingston Street tower, tions down to 422. The city sold off the bot- fore suffering through five building that was designed to David Bistricer, and plan to en- The city paid Bistricer’s tom two floors of the Munici- more years in its current be a court.” ter a five-year lease at a rate of company Berkshire Equities pal Building to Downtown real crowded digs. The city began leasing the $8.2 million per year. $10.5 million in rent on the estate tycoon Al Laboz in 2011 The city’s agreement to current court space in 1983, Bistricer bought the build- Livingston Street space and for half their value. Laboz ren- and it is dingy, cramped, and ing in 2002, and in 2010 found other properties last year, ac- ovated and rented out the space OUS OUS OUS relocate the courthouse from "" "! "& its cramped quarters in an not disabled-person accessi- himself in the crosshairs of cording to the comptroller’s of- to big-name retailers includ- 18-story office building on ble, advocates say. then-Public Advocate Bill fice. The courts’ lease renewal ing Sephora, a makeup store, 1]a[SbWQAS`dWQSa(0]b]f0SZ]bS`]8cdSRS`[D]Zc[O DeBlasio, who listed Bistricer requires Bistricer to add addi- and Neiman Marcus, an up- Livingston Street at Smith “It’s just so bad there now,” @ORWSaaSAQcZ^b`O:OaS`6OW`@S[]dOZ:OaS`DSW\@S[]dOZ Street a few blocks away to said Delcina Biggs, a tenant on his worst landlords list for tional courtrooms, and to repair scale clothing chain. OUS OUS OUS "" "! "& Joralemon Street drew cheers organizer with the Pratt Area the dire state of a 59-building elevators, heating, and cooling After 31 years of substan- ;SRWQOZAS`dWQSa(eSOQQS^b56767> ''/3B:/<6=@7H=<O\R[O\g]bVS`a tice aren’t getting the custom Officials started scouting 6,475 building violations. 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MKT 14.33 6 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 December 12–18, 2014 Turn and face the strange changes Williamsburg, Bushwick, Greenpoint get new crop of music venues By Danielle Furfaro The rock shops that have haunts Spike Hill and Good- that the burning out of some venues, but those new venues The Brooklyn Paper opened in just more than a bye Blue Monday were also of the scene’s star establish- will not have the memories Rumors of the Brooklyn year include Baby’s All Right on their way out. The chang- ments, and their replacement, attached to them that the old indie music scene’s demise on Broadway in Williams- ing of the guard shows that, is a natural part of the artis- ones did,” she said. have been greatly exagger- burg, Black Bear, in the for- no matter what, Brooklyn’s tic migration and real estate Baby’s All Right opened ated. mer Public Assembly space on Joe and Jill Strummers will speculation sweeping parts in late 2013. Co-owners Billy The cascade of music N. Sixth Street, Rough Trade find a way, one scene fixture of Brooklyn. Jones and Zachary Mexico venue closures in Williams- NYC on N. Ninth Street, and opined. “At the end of the day, it did a lot of homework to burg and Bushwick during re- Palisades, also on Broadway. “People are always going is a rite of passage,” Tierney make sure that it would last, cent months has led some to As those venues set up shop, to want to play out and venues Stout said. “It has happened Jones said. declare the club circuit dead do-it-yourself spaces Glass- will always find creative ways with every neighborhood and “Our approach was to make — artists went so far as hold- lands , 285 Kent , and Death by of staying open,” musician and every growing scene.” it legitimate for the long term,” ing a dance party “funeral” for Audio were getting ready to promoter Dani Mari said. “We Just last month, a new venue he said. “We were not inter- Photo by Elizabeth Graham Williamsburg last week — but shutter to make way for Vice will always have live music called Aviv opened on Morgan ested unless we could lay the Zachary Mexico, left, and Billy Jones opened Baby’s All Right in late 2013 and several new venues are giving Media’s expansion at Kent Av- here in Brooklyn.” Avenue in Greenpoint, book- groundwork to something that plan to stick around for a long while. it a fresh lease on life. enue and S. First Street, and Another promoter said ing under-the-radar shows akin would be here for a very long to those that were the bread time.” and butter of Death By Au- To that end, the pair se- dio and Glasslands. cured a long-term lease, Jones And of course, venues with said, though he wouldn’t say devoted followings continue how long. to operate, including Silent If there’s a moral to this Santa is Coming to Your Neighborhood! Barn and Secret Project Ro- story, it’s not to believe the bot in Bushwick, and Pete’s hype, according to Stout. Candy Store and Shea Sta- “It is a constant that peo- dium in Williamsburg. The ple will always say it used to Join Santa on a Vintage MTA Bus challenge for the freshman be so much cooler than it is class, according to Stout, now,” she said. “There are al- is creating the kind of epic ways going to be cool people Sunday, Dec. 14th nights that show-goers won’t doing cool stuff. You might forget. just be a little too old to un- Saturday, Dec. 20th “There will always be new derstand it.” from 12:30 to 3:30 pm Cook Street & Graham Avenue Cops seek missing Shop the 180 Stores in the Graham Ave. BID Graham Avenue from Broadway to W’burg veteran Boerum St.; Moore & Debevoise Streets, Broadway Flushing to Manhattan Ave. & Flushing Avenue-Humboldt to Broadway By Danielle Furfaro The Brooklyn Paper An Iraq War vet from Wil- Check our website for other Free Holiday Events liamsburg disappeared on Sunday in Manhattan, po- www.grahamavenuebid.net lice said. Brandyn Simmons, a resi- dent of Montrose Avenue, was Take the M/J to Flushing Ave.; B46, B43 Buses; last seen at approximately 6 Peddle or Walk! pm that night at the corner of 14th Street and Third Avenue in Manhattan, according to a DCPI report. Simmons suffers from Brandyn Simmons Welcome Bienvenido depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, and has had suicidal thoughts, a police pants, brown work boots, and flyer states. a black Kangol hat when he Williamsburg’s Largest & He stands 5-foot-6, weighs vanished, officers stated. 150 pounds, has brown eyes, NYPD officials ask people Most Affordable Place To Shop a shaved head, and a tattoo on with information about Sim- his left arm that reads “Har- mons’s whereabouts to call lem,” per the NYPD. He was Det. Ducharme at the 90th wearing a gray jacket, black Precinct at (718) 963–5368. 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A c------of dirty m----- musicians are w------furiously to get ready for the annual Filthy Song Night at the Jalopy Theatre in Red Hook on Dec. 13. The r------the songs, the better, said the show’s organizer. “This is a way to get these talented people out of their comfort zone and enjoy an evening of judg- ment-free anything-goes debauchery,” said Fort Greene musician Bluff Channahon. “People really seem to connect Photo by Cate Dingley to that.” Channahon has hosted and performed at the show for the past five years, and other Brooklyn (718) 260–2500 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings December 12–18, 2014 regulars include reggae artist Uzimon, country- blues singer Karen Duffy, and old-time outfit the Whiskey Spitters. Songs performed in previous years have in- cluded “T---- Taco” “P--- S---- Moms,” “E--- Canal,” and “M------to ‘The View.’ ” Chan- nahon said he likes to keep the filth fresh every edition. “I always write a new one every year. Last year was one about necrophilia. The year before about blood-soaked bedsheets. I have no idea what this year will be,” he said. “For as long as songs have been written there have been song- Ain’t writers who dedicate themselves to the art of fill- ing people full of uncomfortable laughter.” Channahon said the show is sure as h--- not for everyone. “Anyone who is easily offended should prob- ably skip it and go check out the tree at Rocke- feller Center or something,” he said. “This thing gets really, really disgusting.” Channahon said that although some might find the show offensive, others would be more Nick! insulted if he stopped. “If I wanted to stop I think I would have an Bar hosts ‘anti-SantaCon’ angry mob at my doorstep,” he said. Filthy Song Night at the Jalopy Theatre [315 Columbia St. between Hamilton Avenue and By Colin Mixson strictly forbidden from Kings County Sa- loon, according to Levitt. Woodhull Street in Red Hook, (718) 395–3214, for The Brooklyn Paper www.jalopy.biz]. Dec. 13 at 8 pm. $10. “This is for people in the neighborhood — Danielle Furfaro o-no-no! Merry Christmas! who want to come out, drink, and not wear Bushwick’s Kings County Saloon is a Santa costume or sexually harass any- N hosting a Christmas show from drag- one,” he said. performer and comedian Chicken B------The evening’s entertainment will be pro- PARTY on Dec. 13, but don’t expect Santa Claus vided by Chicken B------, a Williamsburg res- to make an appearance. The bar is adver- ident whose show “The Chicken Saves Christ- tising the event as an “anti-SantaCon” for mas” promises music and comedy. locals seeking refuge from the hundreds of The show is about forgetting SantaCon belligerent St. Nicks expected to roam the and embracing the fun and joy of the holi- Swingers streets, according to the bar’s owner. day spirit, she said. “I really don’t like what SantaCon has “This is a Christmas show,” said B------The jazz ’20s are out and the swinging ’30s come to represent and what it brings to the -. “It has nothing to do with SantaCon ex- are in! neighborhood,” said Jesse Levitt, co-owner cept that it’s an amazing alternative to San- The folks behind the much beloved Jazz Age of the Kings County Saloon. taCon. It’s about comedy, song, and dance, Lawn Party that takes place annually on Gover- Levitt found himself involved in an effort and it’s a reprieve from the craziness of nor’s Island are throwing another throwback party to boycott SantaCon in Bushwick, after news the holidays.” in Fort Greene on Dec. 13. But unlike the sum- broke in November that the holiday bar crawl “The Chicken Saves Christmas” at mer event, which chan- would be heading over the East River from Kings County Saloon [1 Knickerbocker nels the spirit of 1920s, Manhattan for the first time. He called the Ave. between Johnson Avenue and In- the Winter Ball is a cel- ebration of the fashion event “debauchery tourism” and “disgusting,” graham Street in Bushwick, (347) 987– Annie Spaulding Hawthorn and music of the 1930s amongst other unflattering superlatives. 3751, www.kingscountysaloon.com] Dec. Chicken run: Performer Chicken B------poses with the only Santa allowed at and 1940s, an organizer So on Dec. 13, Santa costumes will be 13 at 8:30 pm. $10. Kings County Saloon. explained. “It is a much more ele- gant affair,” said co-orga- The band has dabbled in post- nizer Gin Minsky. “There S Driely ’90s Weezer tunes, but it mainly are elaborate costumes plays the two albums roundly and set pieces. It is something you do not see known as the band’s best, said anymore in New York City.” Rodriguez. This is the sixth year the Winter Ball has Cuomo and get it! “I think we played “Hash taken place, but the first time the shindig will Pipe” [from a 2001 Weezer be in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan. This year, release] at one point,” he said. it will held at the Irondale Center, a cavernous “But for us, it’s the Blue Al- two-tiered ballroom in Fort Greene. Brooklyn Weezer tribute band bum and ‘Pinkerton’ that ev- “We have a whole crew from Barney’s who eryone holds near and dear, and will be coming in to do our displays,” said Min- we just get such a kick out of sky. “We put a lot of time and effort into totally strikes a chord with ’90s kids playing them.” transforming the space.” Bespectacled and be-cardi- The entertainment for the evening will include By Max Jaeger so huge, they have kept the as the “Blue Album.” ganed on stage, the musicians Minsky’s tap-dancing duo the Minsky Sisters, The Brooklyn Paper shtick going, explained one “If you’re talking about peo- look like they just walked out big band Michael Arenella and His Dreamland band member. ple in the age range over 25, I of central casting. Even their Orchestra and Roddy and Gretchen Caravella, oly cow — we think we’ve “We started selling out at think everyone kind of grew up audiences look just like Buddy who play holiday ballroom dance duets. got one here! our second show,” said gui- with this band, and people re- Holly — the group passes out But just as entertaining will be the array of H If you’re all undone over tarist and Greenpointer Oscar ally get amped up about these thick-rimmed plastic glasses (a costumes worn by not only the performers, but all not seeing Weezer in the band’s Rodriguez. “We were totally shows — almost to our detri- nod to Weezer frontman Riv- of the guests, many of whom aim to outdo each heyday, you’ll have another shot shocked by that.” ment,” he said. “At our first ers Cuomo’s signature specs) other with their vintage wear, Minsky said. at the good life when tributeers The act has struck a nostalgic show at Brooklyn Bowl, dur- to everyone who comes to its “We want it to have as much vintage spirit the Sweater Songs rock Brook- chord with fans in their late 20s ing ‘Only in Dreams,’ this one shows. as possible,” she said. “Consider this a black- lyn Bowl on Dec. 17. and early 30s, Rodriguez said. guy was so drunk and amped up, The Sweater Songs plays tie affair.” The band started out as a For many, it has been a year or he grabbed a fire extinguisher Brooklyn Bowl [61 Wythe Ave. The Sixth Annual Winter Ball at the Irondale one-off novelty show in 2012, two since they were out on the off the wall and he just started between N. 11th and N. 12th Center [85 S. Oxford St. between Lafayette Av- J. RyanJ. Roberts cobbled together by Brooklyn floor, shaking booty, making spraying it everywhere. It was streets in Williamsburg, (718) enue and Fulton Street in Fort Greene, www. Weez along if you know it: Weezer cover act the musicians who all play in other sweet love all the night to Wee- remarkable to me that someone 963–3369, www.brooklyn- winterball14.brownpapertickets.com] Dec. 13 Sweater Songs plays a rollicking set of classics nationally touring bands. But zer’s wildly popular breakout would get that excited seeing a bowl.com]. 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The Merry Xmas, Santa Holiday Party, authors of eight differ- where adults can ent titles will be in Argyle park themselves on attendance, and there Book revue ’Twas the night before the jolly man’s lap Get baked will be an open bar, so Humor writers Dan Christmas, and all and pose for racy it looks like everyone is Wilbur and Ross Hyzer The sweet and salty through the house, not photos, drink boozy getting a beer book combine literature and snack masters behind a creature was stirring, eggnog, and score for the holidays. laughter with their except … the four a----- Greenpoint bakery some free lube with 7:30 pm at Brooklyn “Two-Book Minimum” -- coming in the rear in Ovenly are releasing purchases over $100. Brewery [79 N. 11th Street series, in which they standard two-by-two their first cookbook Talk about a merry between Berry Street and invite writer-comedi- cover formation. Cult (creatively titled Wythe Avenue in Christmas. ans on stage to say entertainment website “Ovenly”). 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First Kitchen [100 Frost St. at Union St. between Fifth Street in Williamsburg, Meeker Avenue in and Sixth avenues in Park (718) 782–3468, www.vid- Williamsburg, (718) 389– Slope, (718) 638–4400, Stroke eology.info]. Free. 2982, www.thebrook- www.unionhalln y.com]. $7. lynkitchen.com]. Free. of Style Painting NINE DAYS IN BROOKLYN FRI, DEC. 12 ART, “GREAT GOOD PLACES”: John Tebeau’s illustrations of hangout bars in New Orleans. Free. 10 am– midnight. Fort Defi ance [365 Van Brunt St. at at Dikeman Street in Red Find lots more listings online at Hookl, (347) 453–6672], www.fort- BrooklynPaper.com/Events Serving defi ancebrooklyn.com. ART, “CHITRA GANESH: Eyes of Midwood, (718) 951–4500], www. Brooklyn & Time”: A site-specifi c installation brooklyncenteronline.org. inspired by the Hindu goddess Kali, ART, “MY MOTHER’S STORE” OPEN- Staten Island created by Brooklyn artist Chitra ING RECEPTION: Artist Jack Ceglic, Ganesh. $16 suggested. 11 am–6 who designed the Dean & DeLuca Over pm. 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TIONAL UNIVERSITY: Basketball COMEDY, THE MEHRAN SHOW: Co- $4,000. 7:30 pm. READING, BROOKLYN’S BEST BAK- tournament. $15–$25. 7 pm. medians include Janeane Garofalo, 718.473.6587 ERS AND TREAT MAKERS: Taste Eugene Mirman, Jen Kirkman, Gary treats from local bakeries including Gulman, and more. $10 ($8 ad- Ovenly, Baked, LiddaBit Sweets, SUN, DEC. 14 FRI, DEC. 19 vance). 9 pm. Union Hall [702 Union One Girl Cookies, and Four & St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, Twenty Blackbirds, and hear stories MUSIC, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: The MUSIC, CHRISTMAS IN BROOK- (718) 638–4400], www.unionhallny. by food writers. Free. 3–5 pm. Pow- 20/20 Experience World Tour. LYN: featuring Run DMC, LL Cool com. erHouse Arena [37 Main St. at Water $54.50–$200. 8 pm. J, DJ Z-Trip, and Lecrae. $19.99– Street in Dumbo, (718) 666–3049], $225. 7:30 pm. Advertise your www.powerhousearena.com. 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Past PlaceIn- And then there is the food. ise will be on the table. The uess who is coming to Adair. vaders meals have taken place Smith-Adair and Blount are dish is a rerun of a favorite dinner. A PlaceInvaders dinner in an abandoned penthouse, a not professional chefs, but from an event this summer, G A much-hyped under- works like this — prospective graffiti-covered West Village said they try their best to where the pair combined ground dining club is coming guests sign up at the website, studio, and the apartment of serve original spins on tried their own duck hash recipe to Brooklyn for the first time then receive an e-mail from celebrity gym-owner David and tested recipes. with restaurant Momofuku’s this weekend. The PlaceIn- the founders with an invite Barton, amongst others. “We can follow recipes, but bo ssam recipe — a Korean vaders — also known as Clin- to the next event. The mys- The pair never use the we usually make slight modi- dish of pork, seafood, kim- ton Hill cooking enthusiasts tery location is then only re- same location twice, and al- fications,” said Blount. chi, and rice. It was a spon- Brooklyn. Katie Smith-Adair and Hagan vealed to those who agree to ways make sure the residences The menu for each meal is taneous creation — Blount Blount — have been hosting attend. Upon arrival, guests have some unique attribute typically seasonal, but a few and Smith-Adair had made Enhance your culture. a series of secretive monthly meet their dining compan- or angle attendees wouldn’t items have resurfaced based too much bo ssam the night Improve your bottom line. meals in swanky New York ions, go exploring in the host get from a normal dining ex- on diner response, they said. before — but it proved to be City apartments since May apartment (the owners make perience, they said. 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By way of “Huckleberry Finn,” “Babbitt,” and “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” she examines our current Leo Borovsky Leo political life, what it means to be a U.S. citizen, and her hopes and fears for mod- ern-day readers. — Jenn Northington, Word [126 Franklin St. at great story about the friend- ures him out and asks for Milton Street in Greenpoint, ship between two girls and Greenlight’s pick the truth, and it all unravels. (718) 383–0096, www.word- how their lives evolve, clash, “Alphabet” by Kathy This book is about identity, Booze it or lose it brooklyn.com]. and diverge. Get a peak into Page: Kathy Page puts you the prison system, and how life in Italy in the 1950s, and inside the head of Simon. to love yourself when you’ve BookMark’s pick embrace the girls on their He’s in jail and doesn’t under- been beaten down. An all-female cocktail contest in W’burg “My Brilliant Friend” journey. stand his rage. He’s murdered — Jess Pane, Greenlight by Elena Ferrante: Fans — Christine Freglette, his girlfriend. He learns the Bookstore [686 Fulton St. By Noah Hurowitz drinks on stage, Speed of Adriana Trigiani are sure The BookMark Shoppe alphabet and begins writing between S. Elliott Place and The Brooklyn Paper Rack’s organizers promised to find Elena Ferrante’s “My [8415 Third Ave. between anonymous letters to women. S. Portland Avenue in Fort there is never a dull moment. Brilliant Friend” just as amaz- 84th and 85th streets in Bay He pretends to be someone Greene, (718) 246–0200, hey’re taking the first The women are there to win, ing as I did. It has the feel of Ridge, (718) 833–5115, www. else — someone who loves www.greenlightbookstore. four letters out of “cock- and tensions and emotions a deeply personal memoir. A bookmarkshoppe.com ]. art — until someone fig- com ]. Ttail.” run high, they said. A cocktail-making com- “When we went into petition is coming to the Mu- this we didn’t realize what FRI, DEC. 19 sic Hall of Williamsburg on a spectator sport we were Dec. 14, but don’t expect to creating,” said Marrero. “I MUSIC, HOLIDAY CONCERT: 9 DAYS... Featuring over 300 students see the contestants in waist- feel kind of bad that I cre- Continued from page 8 from Edward R. Murrow. coats and suspenders. The ated something people can $6 in advance ($8 at the CHRISTMAS SPOOK- event, dubbed “Speed get so upset about.” door) Free for Junior High TACULAR: With comedi- Rack,” is a mixology mix- But although Speed Rack ans Brooks Wheelan, Jared students with ID. 7 pm. Ed- off just for women. is a competition, its orga- Logan, Kevin Barnett, and ward R. Murrow HS [1600 One of the organizers said nizers said everyone is a more. $10. 7:30 pm. Union Ave. L and E. 17th Street in Midwood, (718) 258–9283 she first got the idea for the Borovsky Leo winner when female bar- Hall [702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) X3051], www.ermurrowhs. competition when she found In the mix: Bartenders Ivy Mix (left) and Lynnette tenders are given more rec- 638–4400], www.union- org. herself frustrated by the lack Marrero are the brains behind Speed Rack. (Pic- ognition. hallny.com. READING, ROOTS POETRY of opportunities for women tured top) Contestants in a Speed Rack event. “I’m not sure if Speed SERIES: Features poets Bi- anca Stone, Kate Pendoley, at craft cocktail bars. Rack caused this, but now WED, DEC. 17 “There was no room for a all the best bars have women Michael Carlson, and Ari ART, KNIT AND CROCHET Cameron. Free. 8 pm. Roots woman in that scene then,” up like a sports tournament, I win,” she said. “If I sac- working behind the bars,” Cafe [639A Fifth Avenue in said Ivy Mix, who started with pairs going head-to- rifice taste and quality for Mix said. “The point isn’t GROUP: Learn how to cro- Corporan Margarita chet and knit with instruc- Cracking show: Dance Theater of Westchester Park Slope, (615) 419–7877], Speed Rack with fellow head and advancing along speed, I could lose.” who wins but what we’re do- tors or simply spend time www.facebook.com/roots- bartender Lynnette Mar- a bracket from quarterfi- The winner of this local ing collectively as women. with fellow makers. Free. brings “The Colonial Nutcracker” back to Brooklyn brooklyn. rero in 2010. nals to semifinals to the contest will move on to the We’re saying, ‘We’re here, 1–3 pm. 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So we thought it would be useful to compare the once-fallow industrial waterfront-turned-arts-enclave to the largely fallow town that General Motors built, so that the good folks at Galapagos have an idea of what to expect. DETROITCATEGORYDUMBO Privatizing water Notable government initiative Creating a private waterfront park 718-230-8100 $31.26 Cost of industrial space $288 (per square foot) Airport Transportation Devil’s Night: Detroiters set out to burn their city Local holiday Tech startup move-out day: Workers stock up on Corporate Accounts Welcome down lanyards, promotional thumb drives Street lights don’t work. Light problem Festival of Light causes mass congestion. Out-of-town Coney dogs: Chili dogs with no discernible relation- Cuisine Pedro’s: Mexican food with only a vaguely discern- Competitive Rates ship to Coney Island ible relationship to Mexico Old General Motors cars Transportation The F train Gunshots Ambient noise Trains on the Manhattan Bridge Too much real estate, not enough people Real estate diagnosis Too many people, not enough real estate Homes stripped of copper pipes Signature crime Tech offices raided for electronics Open 24/7. Largest municipal default in U.S. history Financial scandal Rebar owner closes bar, allegedly pockets 150 wed- ding payments www.myrtlecarservice.com John K. King, Michigan’s largest bookstore Notable literary institution Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, New York’s sole Base License: B02701 poetry-only bookstore Clinton Hill Fort Greene Bed-Stuy Dumbo Detroit (Pronounced “day-TWAH”) Old-timers call it Fulton Ferry 718-230-3003 718-230-0999 718-623-9393 718-623-1607 Former home of Charles Lindbergh Fun fact Former home of The Brooklyn Paper GALAPAGOS... Continued from page 1 Detroit proper. Elmes plans to Williamsburg’s scene was develop a large main perfor- more established than the mance space complemented bankrupt city’s is now, Elmes by smaller stages and a gal- explained, but Galapagos can lery space. He would not dis- make it there. close the exact cost of the prop- Architectural Tech “We’re confident we can do erties, but said it was less than well in Detroit,” he said. “Even $1 million. if we’re a little earlier than we Elmes is excited to move but Engineering Technologies were in Williamsburg.” is sad to leave Kings County. Increasing costs forced Looking back, his favorite Galapagos to make a move to events include the annual IT and Computer Related Fields Dumbo in 2008. There Elm- New Years Eve Party, a Ted Science and Mathematics es’s team increased the size of Talk, and the Nerd Nite series, the space as well as the size of which featured presentations Aerialist Rose Bonjos swung into Galapagos in July. the venue’s signature center- and trivia on science topics. .CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU/DIRECTADMISSION piece, its indoor lake. The size He also has fond memories of of that lake will increase again the help he received from the important part of the commu- and he is hoping that Galapagos Design, Entertainment and Emerging Media when the group moves to the Dumbo community follow- nity here,” Elmes said. can provide relief for budding Great Lakes region, with the ing Superstorm Sandy, when A spokeswoman for Two creatives, albeit elsewhere. Business Programs water feature taking up about as the space was inundated with Trees said that the company “New York is losing its in- Healthcare Professions much space as a Major League more than five feet of water, supports local artists with re- f lux of new cultural migrants,” Baseball infield. destroying nearly all its elec- duced and sometimes free rent, he said. “They’re landing in DIRECT ADMISSIONLaw 2015& Paralegal » Studies APPLY NOW “We love lakes,” Elmes tronic gear. and that the current Galapagos other cities, and we think we Public Service Programs said. “That was too much lake,” space will continue to be used can attract some of them to Galapagos is forming a ver- he said. for a cultural purpose. Detroit.” Career and Tech TeacherLiberal Arts Education and More itable arts archipelago, having Neighbors raised $10,000 “We wish Galapagos all the “Floating Kabarette” last purchased nine buildings, in- and gathered 80 volunteers to best moving forward in De- Galapagos show [16 Main NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY www.citytech.cuny.edu/directadmission cluding five on one block in help out, which enabled Gala- troit,” she said. St. between Water and *AY 3TREET s "ROOKLYN .9 Highland Park, three else- pagos to reopen within a week Elmes said that ever-sky- Plymouth streets in Dumbo, where in the city, and one in of the storm. rocketing costs are causing a (718) 222–8500]. Dec. 20 at CITY TECH 718.260.5500 the Corktown neighborhood of “That told us we were an crisis in Brooklyn’s art world, 10:30 pm. $26–46. 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Flushing Bank is a registered trademark 12 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 December 12–18, 2014 A royal pain — in the back ll right, by a show of ess like a pack Teletovic didn’t finish Mon- wings, who had 16 of crumb-en- day’s game thanks to a hip A games for the Big Lug, crusted chil- Flagrant pointer and a smack to the Brook Lopez, before he went dren taking in mouth. down for an extended period? a performance Fowl If I hadn’t seen the game Yup, just like I figured, the of “Frozen” on with my own beady eyes, I majority. ice? We can’t with Crummy the Pigeon would’ve suspected one of Lower back, though. I just give these my loyal readers had commit- didn’t see that coming. His ted the crime after watching achy-breaky feet were the freeloaders a pass to pes- servers. Our Brooklyn boys him go 1-for-6 from three- clear favorite. That’ll show ter our greats, sweaty Leb- were holding his majesty in point range. Though he did the Vegas odds-makers. ron James, aging Dikembe check until the Brits took have that nifty up and un- Our grand prize winner, Mutombo — who looks great their seats midway through der. Let’s hope he recovers and the proud recipient of a in a suit, by the way — and the third quarter, proving in quickly, because the Nets mostly eaten plate of TGI King Hov and Queen Bey, my book that they are a bad could really use him to spread Friday’s mozzarella sticks, as if the cradle of democ- luck charm on top of every- the floor. is my buddy Joey from Bay racy was actually a feudal thing else. From that point on, That concludes this week’s Ridge. Joey correctly pre- palace. And to eat Mutom- Lebron started showing off meeting. Next week, let’s dicted the injury location and bo’s popcorn! You know how and the Cavs started pulling meet at the dumpster behind was within one game of when hard I work to score a cou- away. It was a royal flush, if Fette Sau. Tenatively on the the big man would go down. ple of kernels after a game? you will. agenda: small ball, conces- Congratulations, Joey. Enjoy They’re lining the space be- Kevin Garnett remarked sions at Barclays with the Benvenuto Georgine by Photo the appetizer. And if you see neath the seats, sure, but I to ESPN that the game “felt best garbage, Deron Wil- a mistletoe-toting helicop- have to fly all the way down like the Finals.” I wouldn’t liams’ hair-to-beard ratio, ter drone buzzing through from the rafters, and all that go that far, as the Nets would and Mason Plumlee. Now Drone strike the restaurant, duck! bending over does a number be lucky to get run out of the who’s got the first round? George and Carmen Gonzalez, who have been Next item on the agenda, on my back. gym by the Cavs in the first Oh, and on a serious note, coming to TGI Friday’s for about 16 years, kissed Bill and Kate. Didn’t we oust Anyhow, speaking of roy- round of the playoffs the way I haven’t been able to breathe underneath a drone carrying mistletoe at the Associated Press / Kathy Willens the English centuries ago? alty, King James really held things are going now. since last Wednesday. For Sheepshead Bay eatery on Dec. 4. What hap- You can almost feel Brook Lopez’s early pains in this What is the media doing court on Monday, to the con- In other injury news, our once it’s not because I’m pened next made news nationwide. Check out photo. Almost. In any case, now he’s really hurting. ogling the duke and duch- tinued chagrin of Nets ob- own foreign-born guy Mirza smoking too much. the story at BrooklynPaper.com Have you had a change of heart? Racism in diverse Brooklyn he failure of a Staten Is- tity politics come kids, benefit from the racism land grand jury to indict up at our dinner all around. They are treated T a white police officer table. I encour- The differently in stores and res- in the death of the unarmed age my daugh- taurants, they don’t fear police black man, Eric Garner, on ters to identify as or those in authority, and they top of the shootings of Mi- Jews. We talk about Dad walk into every situation ex- chael Brown in Ferguson, anti-Semitism here pecting to be treated fairly. By Scott Sager Tamir Rice in Cleveland, and and around the The signals of class and Laser Tattoo Removal/Revision Akai Gurley here in Brook- race are everywhere, from SAFELY AND PERMANENTLY world, and differ- lyn, have flooded the media ent movements in the Jewish types, glass ceilings, questions who drives the cabs, runs the your skin deserves a second chance with critical looks at the state world. 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There’s no need to sequester yourself in your room until cold and flu season passes by, or to purchase a “hazmat” suit. You can minimize the risk of contracting and spreading an infec- tious disease by continuing the good personal hygiene and smart health habits you should already be practicing. Unfortunately, too many New Yorkers are currently forgoing these basic precautions. To start, the growing number of parents who Steven Colby, M.D., chief of infectious diseases at choose to deny their children routine vaccines New York Methodist Hospital. for hepatitis B, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, and measles, mumps, Other ways to stop the spread of infection in- and rubella, based on unsubstantiated myths, clude avoiding close contact with those who conspiracy theories and debunked research, are ill; resisting any tendency to touch your pose an unnecessary (and in some cases, life- threatening) risk to their children and the chil- eyes, nose or mouth with unclean hands; clean- dren of others. Keeping current on those vac- ing surfaces that are exposed to dirt or bacteria cines is a must. regularly; and promptly visiting a physician as soon as symptoms of an illness become appar- Another crucial, day-to-day health habit that ent. shouldn’t be ignored by either children or adults is to wash hands often, and always use New York City is one of the most densely popu- soap. Eighty percent of all infectious diseases lated areas in America, so New Yorkers owe it are spread via the hands. Alcohol-based hand to each other—and to themselves—to practice sanitizers will “work” in a pinch, but are not these habits every hour of every day, no matter as effective as soap and water, and cannot kill what diseases are in the news. We live in “The germs or viruses that are in dirt, blood, or other City that Never Sleeps,” but worry about infec- visible material. tious diseases should not keep us awake. December 12–18, 2014 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 13 A throwback hack Legendary Athletics, Compelling Academics Bushwick gets bulletin board treatment at workshop By Matthew Perlman Championships Crown LIU Brooklyn’s Season The Brooklyn Paper This app will take you hack in time. Brooklyn, NY – Let’s hear it for the home team! The winning project at LIU Brooklyn’s Blackbirds have continued last weekend’s Hack Bush- to thrill their staunchest fans – thousands of wick event was an ode to the Brooklyn neighbors – by bringing exciting play internet’s yesteryear. “Bush- wick 1985” mimics bulletin and fi erce competition to the borough. board systems that were popu- lar during the early days of the Perfect Season world wide web, but it is pop- The nine-time Northeast Conference ulated with text-based render- champion LIU Brooklyn women’s volleyball ings of Instagram images — team (left) dominated this season on the court called Ascii art — posted from and about the neighborhood. and in the classroom. The Blackbirds hold the One of the project’s creators nation’s longest conference win streak with 46 calls it a piece of art, saying consecutive regular-season victories, earned three individuals were named Academic All- that it showcases the neigh- borhood’s newfound hype in their third straight NEC title in 2014 and were Americans. It truly is a great time to be a an improbable medium. awarded the 2013-14 AVCA Team Academic Blackbird” “In 1985 no one would have Photo by Elizabeth Graham Award for recording a 3.55 team GPA. cared about a Bushwick BBS,” Madelena Mak, left, and Mike Caprio created a retro message board at the The LIU Brooklyn men’s soccer team, who Blackbirds at Barclays said Madelena Mak, a soft- Hack Bushwick hack-athon on Dec. 6. The LIU Brooklyn basketball teams play a ware designer who has lived has won 15 league titles in its storied history, in Bushwick for seven years. clinched another NEC Tournament berth this portion of their home games at Barclays Center, “The whole app is a surreal the loose neighborhood theme nected Intersections , a traf- fall while also ranking among the top academic home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets. Brooklynites for the first hack fest because fic-safety development com- piece of art.” teams in the country. And the women’s golf also fi ll the stands on campus at the $45 million, Mak developed the project they wanted it to have a laid- petition, was Peter Pottier, with Mike Caprio and Simon back feel, Davis said. founder of Brooklyn Innova- team continued its recent dominance of the state-of-the-art Steinberg Wellness Center that Lawrence during the Dec. 6 “This was our first event not tions. His app, called Rider league by capturing a third consecutive NEC opened in 2006. Alert, can let automobile op- hack-athon at the Livestream focused on shooting the breeze,” title, and earning a subsequent appearance at LIU Brooklyn fans can catch Blackbirds’ Public Space on Morgan Ave- she said. “We wanted it to be erators know when a cyclist is nue, which is arguably in Wil- open for interpretation.” nearby. It works when a driver NCAA Regionals. men’s and women’s basketball over the coming liamsburg. The retro website, A few of the teams created and cyclist are both logged into weeks at Barclays Center. The men’s squad the app, identifying their posi- Legendary Athletics, Compelling Academics which the group cobbled to- projects to catalogue and map will take on Florida International University gether in about eight hours, street art in the area. Others tions through Bluetooth. LIU Brooklyn boasts 18 NCAA Division I crawls through Instagram and took different approaches to • • • teams, including the fi ve-time NEC champion on December 18, Hofstra University, December grabs photos tagged with the aggregating lists of local events Rumors are swirling about LIU Brooklyn men’s basketball team. The 28, and Mount St. Mary’s University, January neighborhood’s name. Then it or providing a place for locals Apple opening a store in Wil- Blackbirds became the fi rst men’s basketball 17. The women’s team will be the fi rst game of converts the images to a block to post them. One, called Oh liamsburg. The New York Post a doubleheader with the men on January 17 of text that resembles the origi- Eye on technology and Hey Bushwick, served as a published an anonymously program in conference history to win three sourced story on Monday say- nal image, making it look like a innovation in Brooklyn Craigslist-like board for Bush- straight conference tournaments (2010-13). The against the Mountaineers. graphic from an eight-bit video wick missed connections. ing the tech giant has leased a only university in Brooklyn offering over 200 game. The coding behind the Many of the projects could space on Bedford Avenue near LIU Brooklyn of the organizers said the group N. Third Street. This is hardly award-winning programs, such as LIU Brooklyn program is complicated, but easily be adapted for other Located in the heart of downtown Brooklyn’s the result is decidedly not. thought it was time to get down neighborhoods, which was just the first time such speculation School of Health Professions, ranked #1 in the “You could actually fax this to business. fine with the organizers. has blossomed around the loca- country as Best School for Heathcare Majors’ Tech Triangle and Cultural District, LIU to someone if you wanted to,” “There was a lot of talk- “We’re looking at the exe- tion of the first Brooklyn store, Brooklyn offers nearly 200 academic programs. ing and a lot of drinking, but maybe this time there is a Salaries by Payscale.com. LIU Brooklyn is also Caprio said. cution and the idea,” Graves The self-contained campus includes the The team was one of 17 that but not a whole lot of cod- said. seed of truth at its core. home to LIU Pharmacy, one of the oldest and participated in the hack-athon, ing,” said Nate Graves, who • • • largest pharmacy schools in the country. $45-million Steinberg Wellness Center, featuring hosted the hack-athon with fel- Techno Files where coders and designers And just in case you missed “LIU Brooklyn athletics has enjoyed a NCAA-regulation swimming pool, a 2,500- low Meetup member Daniel The extremely tall (7-foot- it, a drone hit one of our pho- scrambled to make Bushwick- seat arena, and state-of-the-art workout and related software while munch- McGrath and founder Robin 2) former basketball star tographers in the face last week unprecedented success both on the fi eld and ing pizza from Norbert’s on Camille Davis. Dikembe Mutombo stopped during a promotional event at in the classroom in recent years,” interim track facilities. LIU Brooklyn is also the home Myrtle Avenue and tossing McGrath sees the hack-athon by MS 447 in Boerum Hill on the Sheepshead Bay TGI Fri- director of athletics Brad Cohen said. “Our of LIU Pharmacy, the distinguished Arnold as a natural extension of the gab Monday to get a coding les- day’s. Hyped as “Mobile Mis- back Caleb’s Kolas. & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy and The event grew out of the sessions, and hopes they can son from some of the middle tletoe” the drone was supposed sport programs have won 12 conference Meetup group Code, Drink, host one twice a year. school’s students, though it’s to fly around with a dangling championships over the last three years, the Health Sciences, which was established in 1886, Talk: Bushwick, which has “We wanted to get some not clear from the press re- twig of holiday greenery en- most in a three-year span in school history. as well as a number of other renowned schools, been convening people in of the same people together lease we received what ex- couraging diners to smooch. Our student-athletes have accumulated a including the Harriet Rothkopf Heilbrunn School neighborhood bars to talk in a more technical setting,” actly they taught him. But the aircraft zipped out of tech over adult beverages he said. • • • control and clipped our shoot- 3.22 GPA for the 2013-14 academic year, and of Nursing. Visit liu.edu/Brooklyn. for the last 14 months. One The organizers settled on One of the winners at Con- er’s nose. LIU Brooklyn athletes dominate the competition. Blackbird Nation The Blackbirds are the first team to win three NEC championships in a row and have made three consecutive trips to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Come show your support at these upcoming Barclays Center games. DEC 18 • 7p.m. DEC 28 • 2:30p.m. JAN 17 • 1:30p.m. Florida International Hofstra Mount St. Mary’s liu.edu/brooklynli d /b kl 14 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 December 12–18, 2014 ARREST... Continued from page 1 line of blue uniforms. Herald Square — during My last tweet as a free which demonstrators laid man read “Arrests seem down for 11 minutes of si- random.” lence to mark the 11 times About that time, one offi- Eric Garner said “I can’t cer pointed at me from five breathe” as he died — that feet away and he and a part- lines of police began appear- ner grabbed me by the strap ing clad in helmets and car- of my bag, yanking me out rying batons, with bundles of the crowd. of plastic handcuffs hang- As they handcuffed me, ing from their belts. I tried to remain calm and The procession contin- identify myself as a reporter, ued on to Times Square, and as I had been doing to any of- there, tensions exploded. ficer I got close to since the As the first marchers confrontation began. arrived at 42nd Street and “Too late,” one of the of- Seventh Avenue, with about ficers said. Photo by Elizabeth Graham 600 people in tow, some- The 24 or so other arrest- thing snapped — a fellow re- ees and I waited for about Pallbearers carry Akai porter later told me someone 20 minutes before boarding Gurley’s casket out of punched a police sergeant in Department of Corrections Brown Memorial Baptist the face but I have not been buses. Then we waited some Photo by Paul Martinka Church. Burying their dead able to confirm that — and more. My hands went totally Police stand firmly in control of the intersection of the delicate dance that po- numb in the plastic zip-tie Seventh Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan after not to indict the police offi- lice and protesters had been cuffs as the bus sat and po- a clash with protesters on Dec. 4. Funeral for police-shooting victim Gurley cers who killed unarmed black performing all night broke lice loaded additional pris- men Michael Brown in Fergu- down. Officers had formed oners into nearby buses and By Noah Hurowitz were a balm after the trauma he entered one flight below, son, Missouri, and Eric Gar- a line across Seventh and, vans. All of my bus-mates other persons in a public place fear or create vandalism.” The Brooklyn Paper Gurley suffered, according to according to cops. Liang had ner in Staten Island, District as the human river of dem- and I complained that the and refusing to comply with But from the start of the The family of the Red Hook a friend of the family. his gun drawn when Gurley Attorney Ken Thompson an- onstrators began flowing cuffs were too tight, but of- a lawful order of the police Garner protests, the policing man shot dead by a police of- “We wanted to bury Akai opened the door, and Liang nounced on Dec. 5 that he is against the dam, the offi- ficers said they did not have to disperse. has been more aggressive. On ficer in November put him with grace and dignity af- fired the fatal shot without working to bring Gurley’s cers pushed back, forcibly the tool to loosen them, and I have a court hearing set the first night, Dec. 3, offi- to rest at a funeral in Clin- ter everything he experi- warning, according to re- killing before a grand jury advancing, and grabbing that they couldn’t cut them for Feb. 2. I plan to plead not cers immediately moved to ton Hill on Dec. 6. enced,” said activist Kevin ports. Police Commissioner to consider charges against people out of the crowd as off until we were booked. guilty. push the march I was follow- Akai Gurley’s younger Powell, who delivered the Bill Bratton called Gurley Liang. they went. Eventually, we made the Covering the protests, and ing out of the street, driving brother Malachi Palmer eulogy. a “total innocent” and the On Monday, state Attor- Some protesters at- trip to One Police Plaza, getting arrested, has given their motorized scooters di- choked up as he read a poem Gurley died on Nov. 20 af- shooting an “unfortunate ney General Eric Schnei- tempted to stand their where cops processed us me a ground-level perspec- rectly at demonstrators and at the services inside Brown ter Officer Peter Liang shot accident.” derman, with the backing ground and others fell back, alongside protesters picked tive on how police are han- reporters without slowing. I Memorial Baptist Church, and him once in the chest inside The city paid for the of many city and state pols, creating a churn that I did up at locations throughout dling them. don’t know if that response their mother Sylvia Palmer the Louis H. Pink Houses in funeral, according to re- including Borough President my best to avoid getting the city. The demonstrators in- is because New York cops was set to say a few words, East New York. Liang and an- ports. Adams, called on Gov. Cuomo sucked into as I shot pho- I spent the next four hours volved in the Eric Garner feel more protective of Of- but opted not to because she other cop were sweeping the Notably absent was civil- to appoint him as special pros- tos and dashed off tweets. or so in a holding pen with marches and their tactics were ficer Daniel Pantaleo, who was too overcome to speak. dark stairwell, and Liang shot rights firebrand Al Sharp- ecutor for all cases where of- Demonstrators cursed the about 60 prisoners, all ar- largely the same as the previ- killed Garner by choking The formalities of the funeral Gurley once in the chest as ton, whom Gurley’s family ficers killed unarmed civil- cops and at least one empty rested at the demonstrations. ous week’s Ferguson protests. him and holding him down, asked to steer clear after his ians, saying it would “restore Gatorade bottle flew into I was the only reporter. All the un-permitted, night- than they do Darren Wilson. National Action Network sent public trust.” the scrum of police. Spirits, for the most part, time protests involved march- It may be that Bratton’s direc- out an advisory listing the fu- In response, Thompson re- In the tumult, one offi- remained high, particularly ing against traffic, blocking tives have changed as the pro- Affordable Family Dentistry neral as the evening before, iterated his adamant opinion cer fixed his gaze on me as among an organized group highways, and taking over the tests have continued to snarl in modern pleasant surroundings and touting Sharpton as the that, in Kings County, he is I lined up a shot with my that had intentionally been roadways of major bridges. traffic and divert police re- eulogist. Gurley’s aunt lashed the guy for the job. phone, and smacked it out arrested as part of a sit-in on When the first wave of out- sources, going into a third State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave) out at Sharpton in the pages “As the duly elected dis- of my hand. I managed to the Manhattan Bridge. Ev- raged New Yorkers hit the week at press time. Emergencies treated promptly of the New York Post , tell- trict attorney of Brooklyn, I save the phone from being ery time a new arrival came street following the non-in- One rank-and-file officer Special care for children & anxious patients ing him to keep his public- am adamantly opposed to the stomped. through the door, the whole dictment in Brown’s death, I spoke to during my night at WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD ity machine away from the request by the New York state “We have enough officers cell burst into applause, and Police Commissioner Bill One Police Plaza said arrest- memorial. attorney general for author- to arrest every one of you,” the cheers were even heartier Bratton indicated that the ing protesters is a matter of • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) Sharpton has appeared at ity to investigate and poten- a voice on a bullhorn said, as people began to be freed handling of demonstrations showing who is in charge. • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, press conferences with Gur- tially prosecute alleged acts demanding that protesters one by one. But as the night would remain hands-off “as “If you let people get away Bonding Crowns & Bridges (Capping) ley’s live-in girlfriend and of police brutality,” Thomp- clear the street. wore on, the adrenaline wore long as they remain nonvio- with a little bit they’ll try to get • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment daughter, while Assembly- son said in a statement. “No With a wall of officers off, and boredom set in. lent, and as long as they don’t away with more,” he said. “We • Root Canal • Extractions • Dentures • Cleanings man Charles Barron (D–East one is more committed to en- in front of me and demon- When I got back home to engage in issues that cause need to regain control.” • Implant Dentistry • Fillings (tooth colored) New York) has spoken along- suring equal justice under the strators around me on all Greenpoint at 6 am I wanted • Stereo headphones • Analgesia (Sweet air) side Gurley’s parents and an- law than I am.” sides, there was nowhere to kiss the ground. Dr. Jeffrey M. Kramer other girlfriend, Melissa But- Gurley’s family has not ex- for me to go. Upon arriving back at ler, who was with Gurley when pressed a preference as to who A photo shot by a New the office that morning, I CALL TO ADVERTISE IN 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens he died. Barron has blasted it should be, but they think York Times photographer looked up my charges: Sec- 624-5554 s 624-7055 Sharpton for calling the shoot- a special prosecutor is defi- around that time shows me tion 240.20(5) and (6). 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