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BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM January 31, 2004 g 2 repose yoga Con-women target elderly Offering By Jotham Sederstrom and throwing him to the woman continued walking to- her from behind and then disap- The Brooklyn Papers ground, but an alert cop caught ward her home five blocks peared into a crowd. multi-level yoga 62/68 BLOTTER up with them. away. But without warning the The officer sustained injuries Police warn that a pair of The Jan. 26 incident happened man grabbed her purse and ran to her neck and back. in hatha and Italian-speaking con-women just after school let out at 3:15 north on Fourth Avenue, fleeing Bye, bye love are preying on elderly women snagged $1,000 worth of jewel- Police are looking for a 30- pm, while the boy waited on the with her Social Security card, in Bay Ridge. ry before bidding her unsus- year-old white woman weigh- 20th Avenue subway platform for other forms of identification A live-in boyfriend admitted vinyasa styles Since Jan. 14, the women, pecting host farewell. ing about 170 pounds and a northbound N train. and credit cards as well as the to stealing $50,000 worth of his both believed to be in their early On Jan. 20, the pair struck measuring 5-foot-5. Police de- Police say that while wait- Louis Vuitton wallet that con- girlfriend’s jewelry, police say. 30s, have struck at three homes, twice. scribed the other con-woman as ing, the boys demanded he re- tained them, which was valued The incident happened be- Mommy & baby each inhabited by women 70 Police believe they first rang “blotchy,” about 125 pounds move his coat. When he tried to at several hundred dollars. tween 9 pm and 10 pm on Jan. years of age or older. Each time, the doorbell of a home on Ov- and 5-foot-3. run up the stairs to the train, Police are searching for a 5- 23, say cops. they’ve used deception to their ington Avenue between 10th She robs banks they pummeled him, but not be- foot-8 Hispanic man with long, The lovebirds, both of whom and 11th avenues, which was are in their 40s, lived together on and beginner classes advantage in order to snatch Police were searching for a fore snatching several dollars curly, black hair, who was wear- answered by a 90-year-old 79th Street at 15th Avenue before thousands in jewelry. woman who made off with and the calculator the boy was ing a waist-length black jacket. woman. This time, however, the Jan. 23 incident, which police now available “We have a few leads, but $2,200 after passing a note to holding in his pockets. one of the women introduced Name droppers are calling a burglary. we’re still working on this one,” the teller at a Bensonhurst bank Two suspects were arrested herself in Italian, saying she Police say three men, all in said Capt. William Aubry, com- last Thursday. after a transit cop who had been Shirt off back was a friend of the woman’s their mid-20s, drove up to a manding officer of the 68th The woman brazenly walked alerted to the crime saw them Call for schedule niece. Once inside, one of the man while he was walking on A 15-year-old New Utrecht Precinct, who said detectives ini- into the North Fork bank leaving the train with the stolen con-women lied that they lived 64th Street at 18th Avenue High School student was arrest- tially believed the jobs were con- branch on New Utrecht Avenue coat, police said. They were across the street while the other sometime around midnight on ed after he and another bully al- 718 238 0174 nected to another trio of stickups at 71st Street and passed a note charged with two counts of rob- quietly climbed the stairs that Jan. 22. One of the men asked legedly tried to snatch a stu- in Bay Ridge over the past week. demanding the teller give her bery, attempted assault, menac- Police say that on Jan. 14, lead to the bedroom. Jewelry if the 27-year-old man’s name dent’s basketball jersey. cash “so she wouldn’t have to ing, grand larceny and harass- around 1:30 pm, the twosome valued at $900 was stolen. was John. When he told them it Cops say the Jan. 20 incident hurt anyone,” according to a ment, according to the criminal 8325 5th Ave, 2nd Floor rang the doorbell of an 87-year- At 4:45 pm, only hours after was not, the men attacked him happened between 10 am and police complaint report. complaint. old woman living on 72nd the first job, the women stopped with baseball bats and beat him. noon in one of the bathrooms at The 20-year-old teller did as Street at Bennett Court. When at a building on Sixth Avenue at Garage bandit Cops believe the men all the school, on 80th Street at Bay Ridge she was told, say police, who she answered, they asked for a 76th Street, where they told a A woman was robbed of her weigh between 150 and 200 16th Avenue. said the bank robber fled in an “Mrs. Nelson,” who they said 70-year-old woman that they purse Jan. 20 by a man who po- pounds and range from 5-foot-2 Apparently, the jersey-less unknown direction at around lived on the second floor. were delivering candy to a lice say was loitering in a half- to 6 feet tall. boys threatened to hit the 15- 2:30 pm on Jan. 22. “Don’t you know me?” one neighbor, whom the victim be- empty parking garage. year-old if they didn’t get what The woman was described Landlord & tenant of the women asked. “How’s lieved they called “Tessoraro.” Police say that the 29-year- they wanted. Luckily, however, as in her 30s and in her 50s in Both tenant and landlord were your husband doing?” Again, one of the crooks old Bay Ridge woman had just the boy escaped with his shirt conflicting police reports. treated as equals, say police, who While engaging the senior flip-flopped between English parked her car at the garage, on are looking for a crook who did- still on his back. Dr. Peter Marascia citizen in conversation, one of and Italian while engaging the Minus coat Fourth Avenue at 92nd Street, n’t hesitate to burglarize their Police arrested one of the the women asked to use the woman in conversation. The Two 16-year-old thugs inter- at 3 am, and was on her way apartments Tuesday. suspects later in the day using Chiropractor bathroom. The victim complied other, meanwhile, snatched a ested in flexing both their home when the man ap- The thief struck the building the victim’s description. As of Same Day Serving the Community for 20 Years Personalized and the scammer made a bee- $200 watch from the bedroom minds and their muscles stole a proached her and tried to strike on 86th Street between 11th press time, the other one was Treatment Acute & Chronic Problems Service line for the bedroom, say po- before a man in the house asked boy’s calculator and coat after up a conversation. and 12th avenues sometime be- still on the lam. We Accept All Cases lice. There, she reportedly the women to leave. punching him about the head Politely ignoring him, the tween 4:30 am and 1 pm on Jan. 22, say police. 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They’re supposed of stolen property, criminal pos- to be former dope addicts, but I session of a controlled sub- don’t believe it.” stance, criminal possession of a The crime spree began on Jan. weapon and resisting arrest, ac- 19, at about 8 am, police said, Acne and Acne Scars? cording to a criminal complaint. when Lucenti, working alone, al- at Lucy’s Car Wash Anthony Pezzo, of Lucy’s Car New FDA approved Wash, Seventh Avenue and 19th laser treatment – Street, is not your typical car effective & safe Cops prevent rape wash owner. But then, Lucy’s is not typical, either. Have you ever heard of a car Laser for at 78th and 5th wash that sets up charity programs to help schools, religious organiza- • hair removal By Jotham Sederstrom walking alone late at night com- tions and non-profits raise money? The Brooklyn Papers pelled them to circle around the • psoriasis block and back to the subway Or getting involved with a mentor- A hunch led two undercover station. ing program? Lucy’s does both, giv- • spider veins cops of the 68th Precinct’s auto They returned just in time to ing much back to the neighborhoods • tattoo removal crimes division to prevent a stop a man from raping her. it serves. Ask about how they can rape on 78th Street near Fifth The assailant had trapped the assist your church or school. Avenue last Saturday night. 27-year-old woman in a dark- How about a 48-hour, clean-car Of late, the area has been the M. Westfried, MD (718) 837-9004 ened corner on 78th Street be- guarantee? Pezzo says customers backdrop for several assaults tween Fifth and Sixth avenues. Mango / Greg 7508 15th Ave. www.tattoos-removed.com and muggings. Capt. 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ALL DAY LONG 2 Papers The Brooklyn R04 R03 January 31, 2004 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM BRZ 3 Fossella forms task force Vito’s fundraiser to eye Fort Ham closing in Miami Beach By Jotham Sederstrom The Brooklyn Papers Gearing up against the raises eyebrows threat of more military base closings, Rep. Vito Fossella announced this week the ap- By Devlin Barrett and $23.09 at Les Deux Fontaines. pointment of eight new mem- Associated Press There is also a $402.79 charge from a Mar- bers to his Fort Hamilton Task riott Hotel in Miami, and $6 at the Crandon Force, a body formed to pro- Rep. Vito Fossella’s re-election com- Park Golf Course. Those expenditures add up tect the city’s only active base mittee spent more than $8,500 for a to $8,512.16, and do not include airfare to Mi- from the chopping block. fundraiser in Miami Beach last year, even ami. There are two separate payments to air- The new appointments, though he received no donations on the lines on the same day, but it was not clear if which bring the total to 26 day in question. either of those were for travel to Miami. members, are in response to A spokesman for the Bay Ridge-Staten Is- Donner said none of the donors for the Flori- the Pentagon’s plan to form a land Republican viewed as a possible primary da event were from the Sunshine state, adding Base Closure Commission challenger to Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the only Florida donation from the two- next year. According to the De- the Florida fundraiser was with telecommuni- month reporting period around the event, for partment of Defense, which cations and energy industries executives visit- $1,000, was unrelated. will make recommendations ing from out of state. The filings for the two-month period do for base closings by May 2005, The spokesman, Craig Donner, who initial- show a number of donations from energy or military bases nationwide are ly declined to say how much money the event telecommunications companies. underutilized. Personnel left earned, said later Tuesday it brought in “sev- Larry Noble, executive director of the Cen- stranded by future closings Mango / Greg eral thousand dollars.” ter for Responsive Politics, called it “odd” that could easily fill those spots. Fossella traveled to Miami Beach in May the congressman’s office would not divulge Fossella said that bases could of last year, and the expenses there are all dat- how much was raised, or that records do not be shut down within a year. ed the 21st of that month in filings made to the show donations tied to that date. “The task force has already Federal Election Commission. FEC records “All these things taken together, it raises a compiled a good deal of infor- Papers The Brooklyn indicate no donations were made to the cam- bit of a flag given that they don’t want to ac- mation and prepared us to Rep. Vito Fossella (center) met with the Fort Hamilton Task Force on Jan. 26 at the Fort Hamilton Army base in Bay paign that day. knowledge that or say even a rough figure of make a strong argument to Ridge. The group’s goal is to keep the city’s only active military base off congressional closure lists. The Committee to Re-Elect Vito Fossella how much he raised,” said Noble. protect Fort Hamilton,” Fos- paid $6,300.65 to the Ritz Carlton in Bis- Donner said fundraisers routinely take in sella said of the Army base cayne, Fla. money weeks before and after the specific along Shore Parkway, roughly Golden and Kings County vision of the U.S. Army Corps minded of the role Fort Hamil- bers were ushered into a The campaign also paid $1,244.21 to the event. between Fort Hamilton Park- Conservative Party Chairman of Engineers. It also provides ton played in defending the closed-door meeting. “But we Grove Isle Resort. “We don’t release dollar figures in corre- way and Seventh Avenue in Jerry Kasser. support for port security in port of New York after 9-11,” only have a little more than a The filings include a number of expenditures spondence to particular events, and I think Bay Ridge. “However, with a A law passed last year re- New York Harbor. Fossella said to members of year to make the best argu- for local restaurants: $472.18 to the Astor Place- that’s standard practice in the business,” said Base Closure Commission set quires that the Pentagon submit “Nobody needs to be re- the press before the new mem- ment we can.” Metro Kitchen, $63.24 at the Waldorf Restaurant Donner. to convene next year, it is crit- a list of bases it believes should ical that we finalize our report be closed to the Base Closure and make the strongest case Commission periodically. The for Fort Hamilton.” commission chooses from The new appointments in- among those on the list and clude Community Board 10 passes its list on to Congress, Chairman Craig Eaton and which must approve or reject Assemblyman Matthew Mir- the commission’s entire list. ones, who represents Bay The largely Republican Ridge and Staten Island. group of new appointees were Fossella, a Republican, se- briefed by Fossella on Monday lected David Martin, a 16-year at the base’s command confer- veteran of the Coast Guard and ence room. Sitting at the head a new member of his congres- of the table, he told the new ap- sional staff, to serve as execu- pointees that since Sept. 11, tive director of the task force. 2001, the base has become im- Prior to his retirement from ac- portant both as New York’s hub tive duty last year, Martin was for national security and as a re- the administration officer at cruitment induction center. Fort Wadsworth, where he was Additionally, said Fossella, responsible for all Coast Guard the task force would argue support following the World that the base provides security Trade Center attacks. for military movements within Others already on the task the city while providing sup- force include state Sen. Marty port for the North Atlantic Di-

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How can I stop what I’m view, you won’t conclude that the Child” (Perigee, 1998). “The right person actually gets it, doing before I ruin things be- each day. just getting dressed, but eating, — Worried press your appreciation, but un- child is deliberately misbehaving Sensory integration dysfunc- and has an eye for solutions.” Dear Worried: derstand that he wants to show tween us? — Torn About Trust The effort made life bearable. bathing, and brushing teeth and to get your goat,” says Costello, a tion is the brain’s inability to cor- Relationships, like society as you that he can provide for you Dear Torn: But even so, the girl grew up hair turn into daily battles until pediatrician and mother of three. rectly process information Can you help? a whole, are able to function by doing all these things. You You have a wonderful, wise with the labels “hyperactive” and coping strategies are discovered. “The children are wired this way brought in by all the senses. “My son and his wife recently because we hold to certain stan- might say it’s a man’s way of man at your side. I’m glad you “The Princess and the Pea,” as If you have a finicky child, are in their brains.” The nervous system can over- separated. I have been with their dards of acceptable behavior. nurturing. Rather than offering to realize that your irrational fears sensitive as the princess kept you understanding and helpful or Puzzled but compassionate react or under-react, for example, kids, ages 8 and 5, nearly every Abusive conduct is outside the pay for the meal or the movie will eventually chase him away. awake by a pea under a stack of overwhelmed and irritated? How parents act as sleuths and piece to hot and cold and repetitive day since they were born. Now bounds of acceptable behavior. tickets, offer to make him a din- It’s sounds as if you’ve dis- mattresses. you react makes a huge differ- together combinations of quirks. noises, and bring out behavior the mother has decided that she Put your wedding plans on hold ner at home, or surprise him with cussed your fears with him and Another mother recalls one of ence in whether your child For example, a child who wants such as hostility, withdrawal and hates me and is afraid of me. She until your fiance agrees to take a little gift. Thanking him in this that he has helped you under- her daughters was like a “giant thrives, says Eileen Costello, to wear the same thing each day, clumsiness. is exercising her right to keep me at least two steps: attend rela- way lets him know that he’s do- stand the difference between touch receptor.” Even as a baby, MD, co-author with Perri Klaus, won’t go to movie theaters and At times, helping your child away from the children since tionship counseling with you, ing all the right things in order to him and the other men in your touch was not soothing. MD, of “Quirky Kids: Under- eats only soft, white food — grow up will involve coping with South Carolina has no grandpar- and participate in an anger win your heart. life. Another very important For a highly sensitive child, not standing and Helping Your Child what’s going on? a formal diagnosis such as senso- ent rights. 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Of Gift the by saved were lives whose the children latest two celebrating week, last Gardens Carroll in Ristorante Polo Marco the Fifth structed Ridge. AvenueBay in recon- the to returned be would boxes mail- fewer two that Monday on said Service Postal supervisor States United the service with customer a cate, communi- way Americans the on ence h uin ersnig h workers. the representing union the of president Alladeen, Sal said worker,” sign. neon red familiar its with 11-story the inside building working lives adult entire their spent had who people plant arenowoutofwork,many them by led anniversary, is 100th its celebrate to about and States United the in oldest ered. recov- have they once homes their to back extremely high,andthechildrenaresent heart. the of chambers the between hole a septum, ed deviat- a repairs procedure the often Most Children’sSchneider and Hospital. Center Medical NYU including area, tri-state the in hospitals several and doctors chargeby surgery.heart open for facilities quate United inade- with countries the in live who States to children brings It fects. de- heart with born globe the around dren chil- helps ago, years 30 almost Rotarians Verrazanothe of Club. Rotary cording toDr. JosephCaruana,president ac- years, 25 past the over clubs the by clubs. Rotary Verrazano and Brooklyn the by hosted were who old, years 2 both China, Danish of Wang, Le Le and Muhammad Pakistan, of Khan, cheering and ey sary. the about neces- are all that contends boxes, missing inquiring service postal the to letter a wrote month last who Gentile, project comeback. reconstruction a make not likely would billion $17 the of phase second the for January last rooted up- were that boxes seven the of two least Fifth along Avenueat that discovered and boxes inspected has service postal the ber world.” the over taken has “E-mail supervisor,the Bellantoni. said Pat wide,” The Brooklyn Papers By JothamSederstrom mailboxes backon5th After construction,fewer Associated Press Domino shuts sugar plant help save2more children Ridge andHurstRotarians Eighth Avenue and65thStreet inSunsetParkduringChineseNewYear celebrationonJan.25. Her hatmighthavefeatured anotheranimal,but5-year-old JessieChenwasouttocelebratetheYear oftheMonkeyon Kitty? Year… the of Ti i hw e ra te American the treat we how is “This sugar the at employees bitter 200 About and Bridge Brooklyn the predated It the of one Club, Rotary Brooklyn The is operation this for rate success The of free performed is care medical The by started charity a Life, of Gift The helped been have children of Hundreds mon- raising while feasted Participants at dined people One-hundred-fifty Vincent Councilman to aide an But Decem- late since that said Bellantoni Brooklyn- declined has volume “Mail Citing theInternet’s escalatinginflu- tion’sproducer.sugar 1 sugar No. the But Brooklyn in1856,New York wasthena- Co. Refining Sugar American jobs.” their lose people 200 watch to pressing walkout. the during suicide committed 2001; adespondent22-yearfactoryworker February through 1999 June from lasted that family.strike like ugly an endured They almost becoming years, the over bond strong years.” 40 30, for neighborhood this in worked who offfolks laying “They’re box- between void six-block a create will — Street 83rd on other the and Street 78th replaced. were streets ington 88th Avenueand 86th 75th, on and replaced. finally was Street, 81st on one, before month a took it vember, Al- though theprojectwascompletedinNo- mix. the in forgotten be to seemed mailboxes antique-style the installed, were and lampposts project. benches new two-year While the oversaw which Construction, and Design of Department the to according Street, 88th and Parkway Ridge Bay between up scooped was signs street to benches from everything walks, computers. over service postal the largelyon population, rely Ridge Bay the of portion significant a citizens, ior they haveaccesstoe-mail.”Hesaidsen- if know don’teven I complaining? people “The Gentile. for spokesman a Gastel, evenings at 7:30. at evenings Wednesday Island Coney in Restaurant Gargiulo’sat meets Caruana, Dr.Joseph Laura’sis president whose club, husband, Verrazano The Parkway. 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Club andDr. JosephCaruanaoftheVerrazano RotaryClub—flankGiftofLife Husband andwifeRotaryClubpresidents —LauraCaruanaoftheBrooklyn Rotary hn oio ea oeaig in operating began Domino When the by 2001 in bought was plant The “It’sde- said Alladeen. “It’sdepressing,” forgedworkers unusually factory an The The absence of the other two — one on Ov- on mailboxes month, this Earlier side- new of paving the of Because “The use was substantial,” said Scott Rotary clubs are made up of local busi- local of up made are clubs Rotary hood where lofts can sell for $1 million. $1 for sell can lofts where hood neighbor- gentrified a in housing luxury as reincarnated if valuable more far be sugar.than estate real about more tons. million 400 only generated it but — annually sugar of tons million 950 produce to capacity the had still plant Brooklyn the 2002, By sugar. beet and syrup corn high-fructose to share 1980. since tionwide ter-century, with15refineriesclosingna- quar- last the in times hard on fell industry efficient. cost not just it’s away, blocks two box mail another have you when “Especially es. mailbox- into deposited mail first-class in decrease the of said Bellantoni years,” al January.last ground the from ripped were that boxes of because way Park- Ridge Bay and Street 86th between protesting the11-block voidthatwasleft letters and calls phone with Golden Marty Sen. state and Gentile both deluged area said days,” Gastel. within ringing phones our see I’d sure away,I’m en were, any if and tak- them of any see wouldn’t to we want information. census 2000 to according Heights, Dyker and Ridge Bay in living people 122,542 officials. elected and Service Postal U.S. the to disapproval of letters ing writ- seniors have may that prospect a es, ie o t mk a oain cl (516) 504-0830. call donation, a make to or Life, of Gift the about more To1404. out find Dr.call Brooklyn, 630- (718) at Caruana customs. interesting feature ings tions whiledoingcharitablework.Meet- connec- business make who people ness The waterfront property,waterfront would The said, he was closing But the suggested Alladeen market losing were companies Sugar sever- past the “It’sover on going been the in seniors frustrated December, In and used are district the in ones the “All the of percent 16.2 up make Seniors o ted Rtr Cu meig in meeting Club Rotary a attend To the floorboards, plain and simple. and plain floorboards, the she man through came marry day one would the with encounter first else can you have more fun than this?’” than fun more have you can else ‘Where say: always would he joking, and laughing general, in Just this? than Danzieri. said time,” good a like produce. the sold still but market the renamed had the buy to property backfromanotherowner, who decided he that ago years five only was it But store. the in work sister,and would Scott Gerri, brother his ley,uncles. two and Zimmerman’sby ago years father, Stan- 30 some opened was people, 50 about friend. longtime a Penta, Phil and Scott brother his with owned Zimmerman which Brooklyn, from Guys 3 market produce the sits where is Parkway Hamilton Fort was.” dream his where corner the on right Especially thing. great great, a really just was it and it approved board the “We’rethat co-owned. happy really ager oftheproducemarketZimmerman man- a 37, Danzieri, Joe said place,” the Council. City the by rubber-stamped be likely will April Howie ZimmermanCorner—whichin — naming street the approve to Monday worked. and lived he which in hoods Dyker neighbor- Park, both Borough and Heights straddles that Hamilton Parkway Fort of corner a of naming 44th birthdaytorallysupportforthere- Zimmerman’s been have would what of eve the on meeting 10 Board munity Cent.” 50 even — tra Sina- Frank Joel, Billy everything: loved He music. by surrounded always was “He accident. motorcycle a in tember her husband of20years,whodiedlastSep- Zimmerman, Howard of said she the Way“Just You1977. in hit Joel’sa Are,” Billy of version screechy shaky, a bellowing was who downstairs, boy the hear to floor the to crouched 13, then tive, na- Brooklyn the that apartment, the in ing Kensington. in room living her into breeze a like wafted afternoons some on which music, in let to enough sturdy,was home thin childhood still but The Brooklyn Papers By JothamSederstrom Zimmerman Howard for corner CB10OKs January 31,2004 “Where else can you have more fun more have you can else “Where more was it work, like wasn’teven “It and Zimmerman young children, As employs which market, 24-hour The and Street 65th of corner southwest That in eye dry a was there think don’t “I on unanimously voted board The Com- a at gathered friends of Dozens ‘Who’ssinging?’” thought, guy “I this play- while days, those of one on was It her of woodwork the recalls, she As her that said Zimmerman Rocca 81F.Hmlo ky,Bklyn. Pkwy., Hamilton Ft. 4821 P Exercise & Rehab. Cardiac PT Senior Santecco, Alona Speaker: & Your“Exercise Heart” Lecture – (10:30am) 11th Bklyn. Pkwy., Hamilton Ft. 4821 P Exercise & Rehab. Cardiac MD Meditz, Robert Speaker: Disease” Heart for Factors Risk ”Secondary Lecture – (10am) 11th Bklyn. 14th Ave., 4912 Park “Y” Boro CCRN RN,MS, Maida, Roberta Speaker: “Brain Attack” Lecture – (1–2pm) 4th WEDNESDAYS Bklyn. 13th Ave., 5901 Center Senior AMICO NP Goodan, Sondra Speaker: Diet” & Medication – “Heart Wisdom Lecture – (11am) 10th lobby Gellman Pressure/Glucose Blood Screening – (10am–Noon) 10th TUESDAY Bklyn. 4th Ave., & St. 97th Patrick’sSchool Auditorium St. MD Genovese, Mark Speaker: & Treatment”Disease “Heart Lecture – (12:30pm) 23rd Bklyn. 14th Ave., 4912 Park “Y” Boro Information Directives Advance Fat Analysis Body Screening – (11am–1pm) 9th lobby Gellman Information Directives Advance Pressure Blood Screening – (10am–Noon) 2nd Rm. 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RN Budzilowicz, Linda Speaker: Relaxation Techniques” & Meditation Reduction: “Stress Lecture – (2pm) 18th Flatbush Aves.)& Atlantic (btw. Bklyn. 625 Atlantic Ave., Mall Shopping Atlantic Pressure/Glucose Blood Screening – (10am–2pm) 18th Bklyn. 14th Ave., 4912 Park “Y” Boro RD Raizy Weinreb, Speaker: Choices” Heart-Healthy Low-Fat, – Labels “Food Lecture – (1pm) 11th Bklyn. St., 41st 1053 Catherine’sBasement Church St. MD Jacobowitz, Israel Speaker: Surgery” Invasive Minimally & Fibrillation “Atrial Lecture – (Noon) 11th Bklyn. Pkwy., Hamilton Ft. 4821 Exercise & Rehab. Cardiac Dahan Nina Speaker: Medications” with Interaction “Food Lecture – (11am) 11th T HE B - Modern Healthcare Modern - ROOKLYN Howie that I do,” Salant said. Salant do,” I that Howie about way same the feels else everyone was alittlesurprisedatfirst,butIguess “I level. personal a on Zimmerman know not did who of most members, board nity commu- by support of outpouring the at the room, up.” way laughter-ratewent the into walked Salant. he said “When Howie,” with were they Manhattan. in ends to week- and Ridge Bay in 2001 jaunts Odyssey Disco-era to Pennsylvania, wound fromsummerBoyScouttripsto that thread a was said, he adulthood, to childhood from growth old.” Their years 2 were we time the by friends “best were they said N.J., Brunswick, East in lives now and Zimmerman from corner the groups. biker with socially rode had Zimmerman ago, years 10 than less riding began he Since years. two for lived tice inNewJersey, wherethefamilyhas prac- hockey to Michael, 15-year-old son, his driving while killed was Zimmerman loved. he music the as much as Harley his prized who native, Kensington the about February 2004 February codn t gieie li ot by out laid guidelines to According surprised was he first, at that, said He when time better a had “Everybody around up grew who Salant, Michael tell to tales had others Danzieri, Like I other sensitive locations, police said. police locations, sensitive other material related to the World with Trade Center and and weapons along of ammunition cache a covered dis- Saturday explosion backyard a in injured artist Brooklyn Downtown Associated Press By DonnaDeLaCruz in anexplosion D injuries in an explosion as he worked he as explosion an in injuries head and burns sufferingserious after report. to immediately nothing at investigating had but St., Butler Hackett’s217 at loft was force task the said. authorities Hackett, pher Christo- of home ism Task the to Force Reservoir, Croton Terror- Joint the of members brought the and Bridge Brooklyn the about information with folders including materials, other the Authorities called to the home of a of home the to called Authorities Hackett, 31,dialed911 at11:18 am Valiquette Joe spokesman FBI said and weapons the of recovery The TREATMENT P Program, APERS ’ magazine town artisthurt • (btw. 12th & 13th Aves.)& 12th (btw. Bklyn. St., 43rd 1265 Library Park Boro MS,CCRN RN, Maida, Roberta Speaker: Stroke” & Disease “Heart Lecture – (2pm) 26th McDonald Ave.) & St. 2nd E. (btw. Bklyn. Highway, Kings 485 Center Senior Sephardic MD Berlinerblau, Rubin Speaker: Disease” Heart Coronary & “Arteriosclerosis Lecture – (1:15pm) 26th Lounge Patient - 2 Gellman Levine Lori Speaker: “Nutrition” S Info. – (11:30am) 19th Lounge Patient - 2 Gellman PharmD Goldman, Bill Speaker: “Medication” 19th & V) U Aves. (btw. Bklyn. Ocean Ave., 2600 Center Senior Jay NP CNS, Fola Akande, Speaker: “Hypertension” Topic: Lecture – (11am) 19th X) & W Aves. (btw. Bklyn. Nostrand Ave., 3650 Library Bay Kings RN Budzilowicz, Linda Speaker: Relaxation Techniques” & Meditation Reduction: “Stress Lecture – (2pm) 12th lobby Gellman Information Directives Advance Pressure/Glucose Blood Screening – (3–5pm) 5th THURSDAYS WWW ( 1m no S Info. – 11am) .B I ROOKLYN REHABILITATION THE CARDIAC INSTITUTE CARDIAC THE www.maimonidesmed.org ession P ession APERS Or call: Or The Cardiac Institute, go to: go Institute, Cardiac The You Are.” said. she championship, cruise the win to others 10 out-singing up ended he that fact, in well, so sang He life. his in time first the for karaoke sang Zimmerman noted), Danzieri diet, low-carbohydrate the into Atkins months eight been had (he eating and relaxing spent days besides that said Rocca lands. in Jamaica,MexicoandtheCaymanIs- destinations to Florida from Brooklynites the ferried that cruise Caribbean Royal man and25ofhisclosestfriendstooka area. the in events civic sponsor to ued moved to New Jersey, the family contin- couple the after Even synagogues. and churches area to turkeys sending Thanksgiving and charities local to etables veg- and fruits of baskets donating tinely rou- philanthropist, a as known was band World attacks. TradeCenter death wasn’t somehowconnectedtothe whose months, few past the in board, the by acknowledged be to few select a of one honor. is the Zimmerman for eligible are leadership civic exemplify who als year, last board individu- community the . munition, Johnson said. Johnson munition, am- of rounds 400 and shells shotgun of case a gun, machine a shotgun, a handgun, 9-mm a rifles, high-powered two found marshals fire floor, third the On said. Johnson powder, black of cans one-pound seven second held floor the recovered; was powder ammunition. of types various up turning home, Hackett’s searching began scene the to called marshals Fire said. Johnson eye, and facial mouth with head, his to injuries and burns home his of floor third said. Johnson Sean spokesman partment De- Fire occurred, explosion the when pipe a of out confetti shoot to designed device homemade a and tank propane Hospital. Lutheran at tion condi- stable in was He said. thorities on anartprojectbehindhishome,au- COM What song did he sing? “Just the the Way“Just sing? he did song What Zimmer- death, his before month One hus- late her said Zimmerman Rocca On the first floor, a pound of black of pound floor,a first the On the on Hackett found Firefighters a with working was he said Hackett unless otherwise indicated. otherwise unless Brooklyn, 4802 Tenth Avenue, Center,Medical Maimonides at are activities All Benson Aves.)& Bath (btw. Bklyn. 25th Ave., 8746 Golfo Del Castellammare MD DeStefano, Paolo Speaker: Disease” Heart in Concepts “Modern Lecture – (11:30am) 22nd SUNDAY lobby Gellman Exercise” & “CPR Session Info. – (10am–Noon) 27th lobby Gellman Pressure/Glucose Blood Screening – (Noon–2pm) 20th Bklyn. Pkwy., Hamilton Ft. 4821 P Exercise & Rehab. Cardiac RD Raizy Weinreb, Speaker: Risk” Disease Heart New The X: “Syndrome Lecture – (11am) 13th Bklyn. Pkwy., Hamilton Ft. 4821 P Exercise & Rehab. 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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN PLAN

Nets arena at the Atlantic Yards could end Coney’s Sportsplex dream

By Jotham Sederstrom But plans for the arena collapsed The Brooklyn Papers under the weight of former Mayor mem- Developer Bruce Ratner’s plan Rudolph Giuliani’s interest in ber board bringing professional baseball to was Jon to bring the New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn and Staten Island. He Brooklyn could jeopardize plans Benguiat, his pushed forward the plan to build a director of plan- to build a Coney Island amateur baseball stadium in Coney Island athletics arena, known as ning and develop- instead. Both the city and state had ment. “The plan- Sportsplex, which had recently secured $30 million for Sportsplex ning process gained new life as a possible and Golden added $7 million from undertaken by the cor- venue for volleyball in the city’s his budget, but when the single-A poration will include this bid to host the 2012 summer baseball stadium was erected next subject and help to guide Olympics. to where the storied Thunderbolt our efforts.” A top official with NYC2012, the roller coaster once stood, all bets It’s anybody’s guess group organizing the city’s Olympic were off. whether significant interest bid, indicated Thursday that while the “The people who were behind would still exist for a Sportsplex in Coney Island site has not been ruled the Sportsplex were evil,”Council- Coney Island if it was no longer in- out, Ratner’s Downtown Brooklyn man Domenic Recchia said of the cluded in the 2012 Olympic plans. basketball arena has added a new failed push to build the facility. Besides a proposed amateur athlet- wrinkle to the Olympics plan. “When you say Sportsplex a chill ics facility in the Park Slope ar- “It’s premature to comment on any- goes through me.” He said the con- mory, on Eighth Avenue between pick thing,” said Jay Kriegel, executive di- sortium of planners behind the proj- 14th and 15th streets, the construc- the rector of NYC2012, “but a world-class ect neglected to talk to the commu- tion of a similar sports facility in host arena certainly opens up the possibility nity. the Bronx was announced earlier city next [of hosting volleyball]. We’re very ex- Along with other elected offi- this week. year cited about it.” cials, Recchia formed the Coney Is- “Would there still be a ration- among final- If National Basketball Association land Development Corporation last ale?” asked Adams, who has been ists that in- team owners vote to approve the Nets’ year to rehabilitate the deteriorating behind the Sportsplex since its con- clude Moscow exodus from New Jersey to Down- neighborhood, in part by creating ception. “We’d have to sit down and Paris. more jobs and converting the sum- town Brooklyn, the $2.5 billion, Frank with city officials and consider the The Brooklyn mer hotspot into a year-round desti- Gehry-designed Atlantic Terminal Sportsplex in the context of the new Nets arena would nation. project, that would include a Nets are- planning efforts by the Coney Is- force the group to re-evalu- On Thursday, proposals for a ana and office and residential towers land Development Corporation. ate some of the city’s 20-od Coney Island development plan We’d have to ask those questions posals for athletic venues — could serve both as a site for were due to the city’s Economic Olympic basketball and indoor volley- all over again.” New York be chosen to h Development Corporation. Where, summer games. Kriegel ball. The proposed Coney Island Sportsplex on Surf Avenue next to Keyspan Park. In a 29-page questionnaire re- if at all, a Sportsplex arena fits in leased earlier this month, NYC2012 spokesman for NYC2012 c The current Olympic bid details the will become clear after an urban de- Nets’ present home in New Jersey, the failed to include Coney Island by however, that plans for a Co sign firm is chosen by the CIDC in name in plans for an indoor volley- land Sportsplex have not cha Continental Airlines arena, as a site for somewhat redundant. change, we’ll have to re-evaluate.” ty had originated with hopes that it the coming months. basketball. “For the last couple years, being in- Without inclusion in the plans for the would serve high school and college ath- ball arena. A rendering of such a fa- “There are a number of “Part of its mandate is to consid- cility identified it only as being in where circumstances m And Ratner has stated that local cluded in the Olympic bid dramatically 2012 summer games, the Sportsplex letes. Set to be built on city-owned land er year-round recreational, cultural youth athletic groups and schools, as strengthened the prospects for the wouldbe on shaky ground for the second on Surf Avenue between West 19th and Brooklyn, although most of the oth- changing, but at the momen and entertainment uses including a er venues were specifically identi- ing indoor volleyball at the well as colleges and universities, [Sportsplex] project,” said Kenneth time since the idea was floated by then- West 20th streets, the $70 million project recreational complex,” said Bor- would use the Downtown arena when Adams, president of the Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden in was slated to include an NCAA-regula- fied. The questionnaire was the fi- splex is] the plan. But any ough President Marty Markowitz, nal submission to the International we make will have a rippl the Nets were not playing at home, Chamber of Commerce and the Brook- 1987. tion basketball court surrounded by a whose sole appointment to the 13- making a Coney island Sportsplex lyn Sports Foundation. “If the plans The 12,000-seat amateur sports facili- 200-meter, eight-lane track. Olympics Committee, which will that changes everything.” THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM AWP 9 ED AT THE HIP officials want arena, ntown redevelopment linked

Together the two plans could add an additional 14 million for 1,000 units of housing. square feet of development in the greater Downtown Brooklyn At the same time, both plans require taking private land for appoint- area and would require the taking of approximately 15 acres of private development. private land by eminent domain, a power of the state to claim The Downtown Plan would seize seven acres of privately per Bruce property that is either deemed blighted or is slated for projects llion res- owned land and would displace 100 units of housing and 130 deemed to be for the public good. CB2 vote on D’town commercial units, according to City Planning. Atlantic For months, the city has refused to field questions about Rat- acquired For the past month and a half, Community Board 2 — which ner’s Atlantic Yards at public meetings relating to the Downtown received the 700-plus page application just before the December ed major Plan, a move that has outraged a number of residents and com- holiday season — had to hold committee hearings, host a public owntown munity board members. hearing and vote. Board members have been asking the city to is rolling “It’s the big elephant that nobody will talk about,” said Patti Plan rescheduled slow down the review process so they can adequately consider Hagan, a member of the Prospect Heights Action Coalition, an the more than 20 independent actions included in the plan. anti-arena neighborhood group that planned to pack a scheduled projects in hurdle in the city’s rigorous land use review process. But under the City Charter, the board has just 60 days to vote meeting of Community Board 2 last Wednesday at which the By Deborah Kolben are fuming The CB2 Traffic and Transportation committee voted on the plan before it goes on to the borough president, City Plan- board was set to vote on the Downtown Plan with hundreds of The Brooklyn Papers ed jointly. against the plan last week, calling the city’s application — ning Commission, City Council and then on to the mayor. detractors. y the city Community Board 2 will vote on the Downtown which involves 22 individual actions from rezoning to selling While the supplemental Atlantic Yards information will be Those protests were aborted when the meeting, scheduled on New York Brooklyn Plan at a rescheduled meeting on Feb. 3 in city property to expanding urban renewal areas — woefully made available in several months, both the community board and ng to New Wednesday, were postponed due to the snowstorm. the auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School, on inadequate. The vote has been rescheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 3, at 6 pm, in borough president will have to vote on the Downtown Plan with- or at least DeKalb Avenue at Fort Greene Place, at 6 pm. The Parks and Land Use committees voted down changes out it. and almost the auditorium of Brooklyn Technical High School, at DeKalb The original meeting, scheduled for Jan. 28, was cancelled to the urban renewal areas that would allow the city to con- “The board has to vote on the Downtown Brooklyn Plan hand- as well as Avenue and Fort Greene Place. Hagan said her group would be because of the snowstorm. demn and seize property. there in force. icapped or not,” said CB2 District Manager Robert Perris. The rezoning plan — among the most complex in city his- As part of the city’ ULURP process, the application will “The [ULURP ] clock is the same for one relatively simple ap- the rigor- Just days after Ratner announced his $300 million purchase of tory — would make way for 6.7 million square feet of office also go to the borough president, City Planning Commission neighbor- the Nets, on Friday, Jan. 23, the Department of City Planning re- plication or a series of 22 interwoven applications. We have the development, 1,000 units of housing and almost 1 million and City Council. same 60 days no mater what, maybe the ULURP clock needs to rds project versed itself and agreed to a supplemental scoping session for the square feet of retail space. The plan also includes one block of the proposed Nets are- dential and arena plan’s environmental impact study, taking into considera- be revised,” said Perris The community board, which includes Downtown Brook- na site where developer Bruce Ratner intends to construct a The Downtown Plan’s 22 actions include rezoning, and exten- a 19,000- tion the nearly 8 million-square-foot build-out of the Atlantic lyn, Brooklyn Heights, Fort Greene and DUMBO, is the first 620-foot office tower. ikely skirt Yards with regards to the Downtown Plan. sions of urban renewal areas that will allow the state to condemn That session will be held on Monday, Feb. 23, at Brooklyn property. projects in Borough Hall, at 6 pm. The meeting will come after the commu- Responding to the loss of 21,000 city jobs to New Jersey in k at all of nity board has released its decision on the Downtown Plan as re- “It’s a huge disappointment,” said Ketcham. “We think they na will become the center of family life in Brooklyn. At the same the 1990s, the Bloomberg administration along with the Down- ntrinsically quired by the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure should stop the [ULURP] process and go back to the drawing time, it will preserve the quality of life of the neighborhoods that town Brooklyn Council spent more than a year and a half creat- n Letitia (ULURP) timeframe. board and do a full-scale traffic analysis.” abut it.” ing the comprehensive plan, the details of which were announced the arena Brian Ketcham, an engineer with Community Consulting Ser- Ketcham, who has gone head to head with the city over traffic Markowitz has for three years been pushing to get Brooklyn last April. portions of vices, a non-profit organization that studies traffic and transportation concerns related to the Downtown Plan for months, wants city a professional sports team. The mayor has pledged to fund the $100 million in infrastruc- impacts, called City Planning’s public meeting too little, too late. planners to look at all of the development planned for Down- But Tom Angotti, of Windsor Terrace, a professor of Urban ture improvements and construction over the next 10 years, with town Brooklyn and the surrounding neighborhoods. Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, has his doubts. much of it coming in the first few years, but the project would According to Ketcham, the Downtown rezoning alone will “The Atlantic Yards plan by itself is a major undertaking. If still be largely dependent on market conditions and the ability to bring an additional 17,000 cars and 95,000 subway riders each you add to that the BAM expansion, the downtown expansion, lure businesses and developers. day. the development around Fulton Mall, you’re talking about some “People are afraid of change,” said Michael Burke, executive CULTURAL DISTRICT The Downtown Plan and Atlantic Yards are just one part of substantial change,” said Angotti, who worked in the Brooklyn director of the Downtown Brooklyn Council, who says the plan the massive developments that will form “the new Brooklyn,” a office of City Planning in the early ’90s. will secure downtown’s place as the third largest commercial dis- phrase Ratner has used to describe the mega-construction going “They haven’t addressed the question of what the impact will trict in New York City after Midtown Manhattan and Wall Street. on in his adopted borough. be on existing housing surrounding neighborhoods,” said Agnot- “To protect residents and businesses we have to evaluate this Factor in all of the development planned to rise in the sur- ti. “It undoubtedly will jack up rents and could very well force new construction collectively, not individually,” said Evan Thies, rounding neighborhoods and you are looking at 115,000 cars and out more people than the new housing accommodates.” a spokesman for Downtown Councilman David Yassky. 430,000 subway riders each day, Ketcham said. ••• But the key question on the minds of most residents is traffic. • • • As part of the arena plan, Ratner plans to construct 4,500 units Said Judy Stanton, executive director of the Brooklyn Heights The “new Brooklyn” would include: of housing, although he has not delineated how much of that Association and a CB2 Land Use committee member, “We’ll •Atlantic Terminal — Ratner’s 770,000-square-foot office would be affordable housing. The downtown plan makes way drown in cars.” tower and mall atop the Atlantic Avenue subway station. Target, Outback Steak House and Chuck E. Cheese are scheduled to open in the mall, which is tentatively scheduled for completion in May. Office space would be anchored by the Bank of New York. •Brooklyn Bridge Park — a 1.5-mile commercial and recre- F ational development along the waterfront from Pier 6 at Atlantic UL Avenue to just past the Manhattan Bridge that would include a TO hotel. N •BAM Cultural District – a 14-block mixed-use cultural dis- CB6 feeling shut S trict in Fort Greene, including housing, retail and artist space. TR •Fairway — a massive supermarket being built in a 19th-cen- EE tury warehouse at the end of Van Brunt Street in Red Hook. T •Empire Stores Shopping Mall —modeled on Chelsea Mar- ket, a 400,000-square-foot shopping complex abutting Em- pire-Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO, to open in 2007. •Park Slope Rezoning — the up-zoning of Fourth Avenue to allow for 12-story buildings between Warren out by Ratner and 15th streets. •Lowe’s — a big-box home improvement center be- out to him and he received an invite to ing built by Ratner on the former U.S. Postal Service site By Deborah Kolben The Brooklyn Papers the December press conference. in Gowanus at 12th Street and Second Avenue. That information left Hammerman •Whole Foods — a 42,000-square-foot organic foods When real estate developer Bruce scratching his head, wondering why his supermarket to be built on Third Avenue at Third Street Ratner pulled back the curtain on board was left out in the cold. with up to 220 parking spaces. It would open in 2005. his colossal $2.5 billion plan to con- Ratner spokesman Barry Baum said •85 Jay St.— four-tower Watchtower Society residen- Atlantic Center Mall vert a swath of Prospect Heights CB6 was not intetionally left behind. tial complex in DUMBO on one of the largest undevel- into a Frank Gehry-designed neigh- They were invited, he said, to last week’s existing development) oped plots of land in the city. borhood of apartments and offices •Ikea — proposed Swedish furnishings giant store announcement at BAM of Ratner’s pur- planned for the end of Columbia Street at the old New York centered around a professional bas- chase of the Nets. “We invited them to Shipyards site in Red Hook. ketball arena, there wasn’t an empty this press conference, and we look for- •Pier 7 — just south of Atlantic Avenue, the city is negotiat- seat in the house. ward to working with Community Board

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WE SERVE WITH CARE AND COMPASSION We Accept All Insurance & Medicaid • NYS Licensed • Immediate Appointment DERMATOLOGY Papers’ column on target • Joint Commission (including Saturdays) Accreditation • Parental Consent To the editor: Anything for us? • Confidential Abortion Not Required COSMETIC SKIN PROBLEMS Talk about hitting the nail on the head! - Surgical - Medical (RU486) • Emergency Contraception In a few short paragraphs that’s exactly To the editor: Laser Hair Removal Acne • Herpes LETTERS • Safe Low Cost • Free Pregnancy Testing what you did [Ed Weintrob’s Jan. 24 col- Enthusiasm abounds for the Nets stadium Chemical Peels Warts • Genital Warts umn, “The real story is the land grab, not in Brooklyn — amongst aging male politi- Conveniently Located at Botox • Collagen Moles • STD’s/VD the Nets”]. It’s about land and making lots laxed alternative to the frantic quality of cians, still whining about the Dodgers, and 313 - 43rd Street and 3rd Avenue of money mostly at the taxpayers’ expense. life in Manhattan. Manhattanites who’ll probably never attend Spider Veins Skin Cancer The issue of the development plan which a game. In Brooklyn, the feeling is doom. Call for an immediate appointment 718-369-1900 The Nets are just a bit of misdirection. Liposuction Blemishes And you’re absolutely right about the Community Board 2 is struggling with Developer Bruce Ratner’s gargantuan WE’RE IN THE VERIZON YELLOW PAGES New York Times. They wanted leben- [“CB2 panels: Slow down D’town plan”] design, as misplaced here as it would be in SKIN • HAIR • NAILS sraum in Manhattan and the powers that should be the concern of all Brooklyn and Greenwich Village, strangles the revenue- be accommodated them. not just that community. generating Brooklyn renaissance. CAREERDENTISTS COACHING With all the activity in South Brooklyn Furthermore, Ratner demands the city use Day & Evening Hours It’s been suggested that Ratner pony up some of the Atlantic Center land that he why is there no master plan for the bor- “eminent domain” to evict 10 residential Most Insurances and Credit Cards Accepted owns instead of taking someone else’s. ough? Such a plan would allow the entire blocks for his private, for-profit enterprise. Is What a novel idea. borough to react to proposed growth. In- this America? JOB SEARCHING? ALAN R. KLING, M.D. I hope you continue on with this story. stead, in order to push through develop- Ratner insists two-thirds of his develop- Professional Coaching for Successful Career Transitions —Barbara J Levine, Brooklyn Heights ment, our city fathers force communities ment be 17 luxury condo-office towers. The BOARD CERTIFIED DERMATOLOGIST • • • with limited resources to grapple with sig- MTA’s gift of the development rights above • Job Search Strategies nificant issues based on the theory of “di- their rail yards is otherwise worth $1 billion. Debra Laks 27 8th Avenue 1000 Park Avenue To the editor: • Resumes & Cover Letters I wish to thank Ed Weintrob for his col- vide and conquer.” The city pays for endless infrastructure im- M.S.S.A.. • Interview Preparation (corner Lincoln Place) (at 84th Street) They play on the legitimate concerns of a provements. Doesn’t NYC need this money? Director umn in the Jan. 24 edition. Give us more. • Career Planning Park Slope, Brooklyn New York City, NY — Ursula Hahn, Downtown small neighborhood. The most recent exam- Besides enormous construction subsi- Founded 1986 (718) 636-0425 (212) 288-1300 ple of this is the rezoning of Park Sloper, in dies, it’ll receive tax-free status. Career Transition Resources (CTR) Kudos for Paper which the community’s legitimate fear of People have limited cash to spend on losing its low-scale contextual fabric was entertainment. If not at the stadium, they’ll 26 Court Street - Brooklyn Heights To the editor: acknowledged and countered with an in- spend it at other, smaller venues. One’s (718) 624-3192 - Hours by appointment only EYE CARE Your Jan. 24 issue should be placed at crease in the zoning along the east side of that pay tax. the doorstep of every resident. It is an Fourth Avenue to allow the construction of It’s redistribution of wealth — from res- even-handed forum for what is happening 12-story buildings. idents, small business and taxpayers to an in the area — one of the few that have Shouldn’t the person who represents this individual billionaire. DENTISTS been published. borough on the City Planning Commission —Jonathan Stern, Fort Greene N C Ed Weintrob’s piece on the front page and is appointed by the borough president • • • IO AR hit the nail on the head. be looking out for our interests and demand- To the editor: IS E Frank Gehry’s picture in front of the ing a coherent, fully reviewed plan rather I am outraged by the purchase of the Now in Park Slope! V model of the proposed site where the are- than letting development occur in such a Nets and how this outcome will affect the na is encircled by residential towers makes haphazard way? At least such a plan would residents and small businesses who have one wonder what the hell is going on here. incorporate recommendations for changes been in the community for years. They are How many other cities that have built sta- to the infrastructure necessitated by all the basically being thrown out. Is there noth- Dr. Desmond Parkin, OD. diums and arenas have given developers Serving the Park Slope & PPH area since 1998 large-scale development that is about to take ing that can be done to protect them, not to such carte blanche. I don’t recall seeing place. Surely the few projects completed in mention the actual buildings being torn • Comprehensive Eye Exams 60-story towers surrounding the Camden South Brooklyn in the past 20 years show a down that are of historical significance? It MOST • Professional Service Yards in Baltimore or in photographs of lack of coherent planning and implementa- would seem that the priorities of the city INSURANCES • Treatment of Ocular Diseases any other facilities around the country. tion. are completely backwards when a sport ACCEPTED • Difficult/Hard to Fit Contact Lenses The developer is merely playing on the By the way, the developer of those proj- becomes more important than the lives of nostalgic insecurities of the borough. The • Quality Selection of Eyeglasses ects was, and is, Bruce Ratner. the people. —Wendy Stefanelli, Gowanus notion that Brooklyn needs a professional Out city fathers are concerned about the 178 Park Place (718) 623-9122 basketball team to achieve legitimacy is big corporations moving their back-office FINEST DENTAL CARE Sharper (bet. Flatbush and Vanderbilt Aves.) ludicrous. It would be nice but it is not go- space to New Jersey and the loss of rev- Superior Services for Adults & Children ing to turn the pages back 50 years. enue. So to solve the problem, they have Send us a letter 856 Utica Avenue (718) 282-8363 By mail: Letters Editor, Brooklyn Papers, Vision (bet. Church and Linden Blvd.) Brooklyn has survived the loss of its decided to look to the Borough of Brook- 10 Plaza St. East, Suite 1F beloved Dodgers and has even thrived. lyn, which they have neglected for over 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY 11201 Most Evening (bet. 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By Deborah Kolben what most people would call The Brooklyn Papers urban blight. Less than a year ago, Mike Leonardos has Daniel Goldstein and his fi- been serving hot coffee ance, Echo Eggebrecht, pur- and two-egg specials at the chased a 1,300-square-foot, Silver Spoon diner on three-bedroom apartment on Flatbush Avenue for more the seventh floor. than 20 years. Looking out at the sweep- The eatery sits just across ing views of Brooklyn, with the avenue from where real the Verrazano Narrows Bridge estate mogul Bruce Ratner in the distance, Goldstein, plans to build a 19,000-seat who spent five years looking basketball arena for his recent- for a place to buy, says he ly purchased Nets, an arena can’t believe he may have to he’d surround with office tow- leave the apartment. ers and, down the line, resi- “It’s the first home we’re making together and we in- dential ones. Gov. George / Jori Klein Pataki, Mayor Michael Bloom- tended to keep it for a long, berg and Borough President long time,” said Goldstein, a Marty Markowitz have all 34-year-old graphic artist who / Jori Klein championed Ratner’s plan. works out of his apartment. So while pictures of Marko- Eggebrecht has an art studio witz and former Mayor Papers The Brooklyn in the apartment. Rudolph Giuliani grace the Mike Leonardos, owner of the Silver Spoon diner, at 216 Flatbush Ave., has owned the Both Eggebrecht and Gold- walls of his restaurant, Mike restaurant since 1980. Although the arena developement will not displace him, he be- stein, who says he is optimistic Papers The Brooklyn says these days he’s had it up lieves it will be bad for business and the neighborhood. about their chances of fighting John Tsao stands in front of the Mobile Gas Station at 195 Flatbush Ave., which he has to here with politicians. the plan, have joined with De- owned for 25 years. Under the current Nets arena plan, Tsao's station would be demol- “This is a tricky deal,” velop Don’t Destroy, a group ished, leaving him and his eight employees out of work. Leonardos said, looking up at of tenants and owners in the a photograph of Markowitz, area who are fighting the Rat- green light, the Mobil station whose idea it was to bring ner plan. They have retained an will be razed. According to professional basketball to attorney, Jack Lester, who has site plans, it stands approxi- Brooklyn. represented several groups of mately where arena bath- Leonardos owns the diner Manhattan residents fighting rooms would go. along with his brother Paul, quality-of-life problems. As Tsao takes a break from and doesn’t think an arena While planning a wedding is working in the auto shop, he would do anything for his normally stressful, Goldstein chats about the demerits of business. says it is infinitely compounded microwaves with a customer “They’re going to have a by the threat of losing your buying a cup of tea in the gas train station right beneath it, home. He said the ordeal had stations mini-mart. nobody’s gong to come here,” / Jori Klein even put a stress on the couple’s He greets neighbors by first he said of the Atlantic Termi- relationship as they plan their name. nal transit hub that would like- May wedding, set for the If he is forced to close his ly be connected to the arena Brooklyn Botanic Garden. business, Tsao, a Brooklyn na- underground. “I may be the minority on While the Silver Spoon this, but I like the tracks, I like tive who lives in Park Slope would not be torn down to build Papers The Brooklyn the rugged urban feel of the and attended Brooklyn Tech- the arena, just across the street, Daniel Goldstein, a graphic designer, sits in his condominium apartment at 636 Pacific neighborhood,” said Gold- nical High School, just a few and for about three blocks into St., which would be demolished under the arena plan. He moved to the building with his stein, looking out his window blocks away, said he did not Prospect Heights, approximate- fiancee in June 2003 in hopes of settling there. at the railroad tracks and the know what he would do. ly 500 residents and businesses traffic making its way, slowly, “I’ll be lost,” he said, ex- would not be so lucky. value, which would be lower Joseph Pastore, who several ment building stands the At- down Flatbush Avenue. plaining that he has a home In order to construct the than market value. But renters neighbors described as “a real lantic Art building, a 31-unit, Just to the south of the mortgage to pay and two kids sweeping Atlantic Yards proj- face much more uncertainty Brooklyn character.” Each luxury condominium at 636 tracks is a Mobil gas station, in college. Not to mention ect, named for the Long Island since the state does not guaran- day, Pastore puts on his black Pacific St. with apartments one of the first in the city to / Jori Klein eight employees who will be Rail Road yards upon which tee any relocation assistance, cap and walks the blocks of selling for between $400,000 offer a compressed natural gas out of jobs. about half of the 21-acre proj- according to Michael Rikon, an Prospect Heights, chatting and $1.4 million. filling station. Watching taxi cabs fuel up ect would be built, Ratner eminent domain attorney. with neighbors and picking up With favorable reviews, “This is a neighborhood on their way back to Manhat- plans to ask the state to use its Among the ranks of the dis- old cameras, records and like one in a British design business,” said John Tsao, tan, Tsao sighed and said, “It’s a powers of eminent domain to placed would be famed sculp- household items that others magazine that lauded its urban who has owned the gas station Papers The Brooklyn shame that after spending a life- raze nearly three square tor Louise Bourgeois, noted have cast away. design and art deco touches, for 25 years. Joseph Pastore stands in front of 473 Dean St., his home time in Brooklyn they can come blocks of private land. violin maker Sam Zygmun- Since 1967, Pastore has the converted warehouse isn’t If Atlantic Yards gets the since 1967, which would be torn down under the arena plan. in and tell you to take a hike.” “I’ve been here since ’80 towicz, two luxury condomini- lived in a small, rent-stabilized — it’s like my hometown,” um buildings, two homeless studio apartment along Dean Leonardos said of the neigh- shelters that neighborhood ac- Street between Flatbush and borhood, adding that he did tivists and elected officials Sixth avenues. not want to see his friends lose fought to keep out of the area, Raised in a number of or- their homes and businesses. a beloved Prohibition-era bar, phanages, including the St. WHEN YOU’RE OFFERED Ratner has vowed to fairly and a Holocaust survivor who Vincent’s Home nearby, Pas- compensate property owners recently lost her husband and tore, 59, considers Dean Street and relocate displaced renters, doesn’t know if she can endure his true home. Talking to a re- VISION, HEARING AND although under eminent domain another move alone. porter outside, he can’t go he only has to pay appraised Included among them is more than a few minutes with- UNLIMITED GENERIC out greeting a neighbor. “This is my neighborhood, DRUG COVERAGE AT NO and it’s a beautiful neighbor- hood,” said Pastore, standing COST, IT’S ONLY NATURAL outside the four-story, painted- yellow brick building. TO LOOK FOR A CATCH. “I was raised as an orphan all my life, so whatever I did it was Professional all on my own,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong, I had friends. I was raised with 270 kids. Space for Rent “I have close friends like IT’S NOT EVEN IN THAT brothers, just like Ratner and ( ) Pataki,” Pastore said, noting FREE CUP OF COFFEE. with a hint of sarcasm the Prime location on Atlantic Avenue friendship between the devel- near 3rd Avenue, minutes from all oper and governor, who at- The catch is, there is no catch. 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(718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings January 31, 2004 Dance party Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company cele- brates its 20th anniversary beginning Feb. 3 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a rare look back consisting of four repertory works and three New York premieres, including a new solo performed by Jones, “Chaconne.” This dance company is making its seventh ap- pearance at BAM, where it all began in 1982 with the world premiere of “Intuitive Momentum,” a col- laboration with jazz drummer Max Roach at the BAM Next Wave: New Masters Series. Among the premieres in program A, on Feb. 3 at 7:30 pm, is “Reading, Mercy and The Artificial Nigger,” (based on Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 short story “The Artificial Nigger”) which includes O’- Connor’s text read aloud by Susan Sarandon as well as piano, strings and electronic score by Daniel Bernard Roumain. Program B’s repertory lineup will include “The Gift/No God Logic,” on Feb. 5 at 7:30 pm, with the company joined by former members Arthur Aviles, Jo Whiland / HBO Christobel Corral Vega / HBO Christobel Corral Vega Sean Curran and Heidi Latsky — the work’s origi- nal performers. The Feb. 5 performance will also feature special musical guests Cassandra Wilson, Vernon Reid and DJ Spooky. There will be an additional performance of pre- mieres on Feb. 6 at 7:30 pm and more repertory works will be performed Feb. 7 at 7:30 pm. A BAMdialogue with Bill T. Jones, his collabo- rators and company members — free with that The Sundance kids evening’s performance ticket — follows the Feb. 5 and Feb. 6 shows. The Brooklyn Academy of Music is located at Indie filmmakers did us proud at 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene. Tickets are $25 and $50. For tickets, call (718) 636-4100 or visit www.bam.org. annual Park City, Utah festival — Lisa J. Curtis

By Marian Masone tion to exploring racism in the U.S. and anti- for The Brooklyn Papers Semitism in Hitler’s pre-WWII Germany. Louis and Schmeling fought only two OPERA he gift shop in the Salt Lake City airport matches against one another, but they had is called West of Brooklyn. Did the powerful implications, for the men person- Towner know that there would be so ally, and the world at large. many Brooklyn-based filmmakers attending Goodman has also made films for Public Youth culture this year’s Sundance Film Festival, down the Broadcasting’s “Frontline.” “The Fight” is Brooklyn in Utah: Brooklyn filmmakers and road in Park City? his second film to show You don’t have to convince Jay D. Meetze (pic- During the festival, at Sundance. films set in Brooklyn flooded this year’s Sun- tured) of the worthiness of Mozart’s “The Marriage which ran Jan. 16–25, you “I’m a big sports fan, dance Film Festival including: (top left to of Figaro.” couldn’t swing the press “This…is all that any and I love boxing, so this right) “Everyday People” featuring Bridget “There are many reasons it’s considered one of credentials hanging around subject was particularly Barkan; “Maria Full of Grace” featuring the greatest operas ever written,” the artistic director your neck without hitting a appealing to me,” he Catalina Sandino Moreno with director of the Opera Company of Brooklyn says. “The mu- director from Brooklyn. filmmaker can hope said. Joshua Marston; and “Gowanus Brooklyn” sic is spectacular, it’s appropriate for younger voic- From first timers to veter- Powerful interviews are starring Shareeka Epps and Karen Chilton. es, it’s full of timeless comedy and the purity of the ans of the film festival for — to touch part of what made this (At left) “Lbs.” writer-star Carmine Famigli- characters is remarkable … then there’s the second wars, the borough was well film such a strong con- etti and (above) director Matthew Bonifacio. act finale.” represented once again. the viewers sitting tender. Goodman found As if to prove his point, Meetze and his company Films at Sundance are friends of Louis and oth- will present a fully staged, traditional production of organized into sections, ers who witnessed the January 2003, was made by co-directors innocent and stopping their executions, but Mozart’s immortal comic opera Feb. 6 and Feb. 8 at and the largest representa- in the audience.” fights. Kirsten Johnson of Williamsburg and Katy then realized that there was a problem with NYC College of Technology’s Voorhees Theatre. tion of Brooklyn filmmak- “They were easy to get Chevigny (of Cobble Hill, till marriage took the entire justice system.” Meetze, who is also conducting, explains his ers was in the documen- — Williamsburg’s Joshua to talk, but much harder her away). In fact, more than commuting the As for Sundance, Johnson felt that there plans for performing tary competition, where Marston on winning the to find,” Goodman said, sentences, Ryan gave a blanket clemency to was strong support for the film. such an immortal work five of them had films vy- Sundance audience award but in Germany “people the more than 150 prisoners on that state’s “We were delighted by how many people of art. ing for the best documen- for best dramatic feature were more cautious talk- death row. stayed after the screening for questions. They “We cut a little bit tary prize. All are political ing about Schmeling. Both filmmakers have backgrounds in po- had some surprising responses,” she said. An of the recitative parts in tone. Louis, though, is such a litical and human rights-oriented work, and NBC executive who attended one of the and we cut a couple of Park Slope resident Barak Goodman’s hero, especially to African-Americans, that they happened upon these events while they screenings told her it was the fairest and most arias,” Meetze says. “I “The Fight” seems at first glance to be a folks here loved to talk.” were researching the Furman vs. Georgia balanced view of the death penalty that he do believe opera should sports film about the famous rivalry between Although Schmeling is still living in Ger- 1972 decision that had abolished the death had seen. be done in the original

Joe Louis, a black American, and German many, he declined to be interviewed. penalty in the United States until it was rein- Director Shola Lynch doesn’t live in Mango / Greg form, but younger lis- Max Schmeling. But he highlights the politi- “Deadline,” a film documenting the stated in 1976. Brooklyn (although as a teenage track star teners have shorter at- cal and nationalistic pressures put on the process that led to Illinois Gov. George Ryan “One of our advisors told us of the she ran many races at Pratt Institute), but the tention spans, so I take men by their respective countries, in addi- commuting all the state’s death sentences in clemency hearings that were going on in subject of her documentary, “Chisholm ’72: quicker tempi, but nev- Chicago,” Johnson told GO Brooklyn. “He Unbought and Unbossed” is about a er so fast that it makes basically said, ‘Get on a plane and get over Brooklyn original — Shirley Chisholm who, singers speed up too

there.’” They filmed about 18 clemency in 1968, became the first black woman elect- Papers File The Brooklyn much. And with hearings — Ryan had ordered one-hour ed to Congress. Mozart, it’s not such a clemency hearings for all death row inmates Lynch’s film follows Chisholm’s run for big deal, because he was a young composer.” — which presented “a remarkable opportuni- the presidency in 1972, which inspired (Mozart was 30 when “Figaro” premiered, five ty,” Johnson said. hordes of people to get involved in politics years before his death.) “The first couple of days it was standard when they discovered, through her cam- Alluding to disagreements with the musicians’ coverage. All the media was there. But after- paign, that they could make a difference. One union over using a “virtual orchestra” for previous wards, the mainstream media left, and it was recalls how inspiring Chisholm was — this performances, Meetze describes his “Figaro” or- just us. It was amazing — we were allowed petite woman, looking less like a radical than chestra: “We have a wonderful, 10-piece orchestra, to treat it as a narrative film and move anyone you can imagine, trying to wrest pol- a wind quartet and a complement of strings.” But he around the room with our camera, and things itics from the power brokers, and put it in the makes no apologies for using enhancements — Sin- would just happen as we were filming [such hands of the people. fonia virtual orchestra technology — to help play as ardent pleas to spare the lives of loved Lynch was moved to make the film when Mozart’s sublime score. ones],” she said. she heard of Chisholm’s birthday on the ra- “Technology allows a small company like us to When the governor decided to hold these dio. And how she located her subject could present these great operas,” he insists. hearings (having the notion that there were be a film in itself. The Opera Company of Brooklyn presents big problems with the capital punishment “I was at a bar with some girlfriends, and Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” on Feb. 6 at 8 system in the state), he had a true deadline — we started chatting up this cute guy,” said pm, and Feb. 8 at 3 pm, at the Voorhees The- his last day in office — and he had to make a Lynch. “Turns out his mother had just hosted atre, 186 Jay St. at Tillary Street in Downtown decision by then. a barbecue for Chisholm in Florida, where Brooklyn]. Tickets are $25, $20 Brooklyn resi- Johnson spoke of the defining experience the former congresswoman now lives!” dents, $10 students with ID and $5 Brooklyn stu- of the clemency hearings, “The governor “Persons of Interest,” from Tobias dents with ID. For more information, visit Caught in the middle: Shokriea Yaghi and her sons in “Persons of Interest,” a docu- didn’t do it lightly — you knew that. They Perse, of Fort Greene (and Alison Maclean of www.operabrooklyn.com or call (212) 567-3283. mentary co-directed by Tobias Perse of Fort Greene. started by finding those who were actually See SUNDANCE on page 18 — Kevin Filipski

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Alicia’s Cafe & Eatery 10 Columbia Pl. at Joralemon Street, (718) 532- 0069 (DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $13-$17.

/ Greg Mango / Greg Owner Wayne Anderson opened Alicia’s, on charm- ing, residential Columbia Place, in October 2001. It’s worth the trip off the beaten track — down at Mango / Greg What’s inside the end of Joralemon Street — to get to Chef Sebastian Chaoui’s French-Thai-American menu. “It’s an eclectic menu, but we’re French in terms of The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn our sauces and presentation,” explained Anderson. Among the temptations on Chaoui’s menu are Take a dip: (Top left) Grand Central roasted lamb loin with thyme flowers, sugar snaps owner Jesse Alverio near the bowling and gratin dauphinois (roasted potatoes with sour Papers File The Brooklyn cream and garlic); and grilled salmon and jumbo Burgers and 18 beers on tap at the that counts game in his Williamsburg restaurant- shrimp with steamed vegetables in a saffron broth. lounge. (Top right) Chef Justin Avery’s The cannelloni stuffed with asparagus and crab- Waterfront Ale House. shrimp dip, made with shrimp, cocktail meat in a shrimp sauce is a memorable starter. Grand Central is good but sauce, horseradish, cream cheese, Come back for brunch to try the pancake Napo- wild mushrooms. Warm up with the New Orleans leon: pancakes layered with warm fruit, whipped turtle soup with sherry. Make sure to visit Henry’s Monterey cheese, cheddar cheese cream and served with a rum-butter sauce. End in the fall and winter (October-March) for the and scallions, is paired with a Louis Wild Game Festival, where exotic cuisine like the Desserts include chocolate fondant cake with cof- still working out the kinks Jadot Macon Chardonay. (At left) The herb-crusted elk and pepper-crusted venison are fee-flavored custard and apples and pears coated legendary. Open daily for dinner. Nena Cubana panino is enjoyed with with caramel in a reversed pie. By Tina Barry “tournament.” Arbita Turbodog dark brown ale. for The Brooklyn Papers Open for lunch Monday through Friday, dinner The Alverios’ first venture, The Pour- Tuesday through Sunday and weekend brunch Kapadokya House, a bar in Williamsburg that from 10 am to 4 pm. 142 Montague St. at Henry Street, (718) 875-2211 ome restaurants open like Athena opened in 1999, does not have a kitchen. lamb is braised in port wine and topped (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $11.50-$19.95. popping forth from Zeus’ head — When PourHouse patrons get hungry, with browned sage butter and Swiss Archives The Turkish restaurant Kapadokya is a thrilling fully formed and ready for battle. they’re offered takeout menus so they cheese. The wine tempers the taste of change of pace for lunch or dinner on Montague S 333 Adams St. at Tillary Street, (718) 222-6543, Street. Take in the antique, imported decor and Others, like Grand Central, a restaurant can drink beer and have pizza, too — de- the meat and the butter and cheese add www.marriott.com/nycbk (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, furnishings, some as old as 150 years. The staff and bar in Williamsburg, take longer to livered right to their barstools. Mango / Greg a bit of luxury. Visa) Entrees: $17-$32. dress in elaborate costumes, enhancing the feel- evolve. “[With Grand Central] the goal was to With a glass of cold beer, the Nena The spacious restaurant in the New York Marriott ing that you’re no longer in Brooklyn. And have Opened just three months ago, Grand offer the neighborhood another bar Cubana, or Cuban sandwich, of tender, Brooklyn hotel is elegant, with comfortable seating. you ever smoked a hookah, a la the caterpillar in Archives offers a wide variety of seafood, pasta, Alice in Wonderland? Here’s your chance — the Central hasn’t reached the heights its where pool players and poets would feel sweet pork shoulder, slices of ham, poultry, beef and vegetarian dishes for every taste. bar offers dinner patrons a hookah-full of flavored owners, Jesse and Marea Alverio, hoped right at home, but with much more,” Swiss cheese and pickle topped with A typically hearty entree by executive chef Walter tobacco for $13.95, to be smoked al fresco when for. Their first chef, Brian Perry, formerly says Jesse. Papers The Brooklyn spicy, cumin-flavored mojo dressing, Plender is the barbecued Australian rack of lamb the patio is open. of Al Di La in Park Slope, stuck around Once the stick-wielders and word- makes a fine light dinner. with grilled polenta and mixed vegetables. Other indulgences include the Sunday Champagne The food is Middle Eastern in style, with smoked just long enough to put a few panini on smiths realize Grand Central is both a large platter ringed with the toast. The The portobello sandwich of brunch. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. and sweet flavors that make the chicken, beef, the menu before restaurant and a dip is pretty in pink, creamy with an af- caramelized onions, roasted peppers, lamb and vegetable dishes distinctly Turkish. Top off your meal with a famous Turkish coffee, a tiny leaving with his bar — there was ter-bite of horseradish and Worcester- slices of mozzarella and thick pieces of Balzar cup of thick, rich bitter java. butterscotch cara- DINING some confusion at shire sauce. The only thing missing is a mushroom, would be better with a 60 Henry St. at Cranberry Street, (718) 243- Enjoy the belly dancing on Friday and Saturday mel cheesecake. first, as up until sprinkling of paprika; no ‘60s hostess smear of pesto or something garlicky to 2010 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $8.95-$18. nights. Grand Central (659 Grand St. at Justin Avery, Manhattan Avenue in Williamsburg) ac- Dec. 21, when the would omit that touch. elevate it from the doldrums. Chef Miguel Leon describes the cuisine of Balzar, the new man in cepts Visa, MasterCard and American dining room tables A few garnishes on the main course For total carbohydrate meltdown, which opened in the summer of 2003, as “a little La Traviata the kitchen, a for- Express. Entrees: $7-$8.50. Grand Cen- were traded for so- plating would go a long way. Williams- there’s the s’more dessert. (S’more, as Mediterranean, a little Italian, a little French.” Enjoy tral serves dinner from Tuesday through tapas in the bar and lounge area. A standout appe- 139 Montague St. at Clinton Street; 161 mer military ser- Sunday; Saturday and Sunday brunch is fas, a passerby burg is (or was) an artists’ community, in, “I want some more.”) If you joined tizer is the eggplant rollatini filled with fresh ricotta Joralemon St. at Clinton Street, (718) 858-4100, geant from Louis- served 10 am-4 pm. Bar service only on peering into the so visuals are important. the scouts, this particular sweet — and mushrooms, and the elaborate bouillabaisse www.latraviatatogo.com (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, iana with the buzz Mondays. For information, call (718) window would see On its own, the panino, a pressed chocolate and marshmallows sand- entrée is chockfull of seafood. End your meal with Visa) Entrees: $9.50-$14.50. cut, “Yes ma’ms” 387-5515. a long room with sandwich and Grand Central’s one en- wiched between graham crackers — a pear and chocolate tart or zabaglione gelato This is a great father-and-son act. Ralph Tommaso served in a martini glass. The décor features wood Jr. and his dad take a personal interest in their and “No ma’ms” only tables — tree offering, isn’t much to look at. Un- will be nostalgia-tinged. If you were tables, pewter chandeliers and a rustic, tiled floor, popular Brooklyn Heights eateries, and this inter- to prove it — isn’t they’ll amble over like other sandwiches where the layers too cool for any of that, you may want as well as leopard print settees. est can be seen in every detail — from the marble quite a chef yet. Working behind the for the 12 draught beers and 19 bottled of filling are visible, a panino’s sealed to skip this gooey dessert. It’s a s’more Balzar offers a weekend brunch menu, available from fountain in the rear patio to the friendly staff and stove is new to him, and while he’s ones, and a small but well-chosen wine edges cover most of its ingredients — all right — a grilled milk chocolate 11 am to 3 pm. Open daily for lunch and dinner. ample menu. La Traviata offers all those dishes that have made Italy a gourmand’s delight — earnest, his output needs fine-tuning. list. In the spring, when the garden is essentially, it’s a beige square cut into sandwich spread with marshmallow chicken alla Marsala, veal scaloppini, shrimp The waitress, charming but a little complete, patrons can sit outdoors with a two triangles. To make it appealing, the fluff — that doesn’t cut it as an adult Gage & Tollner scampi. Lighter fare includes thin-crust pizza with green, handed us menus as we entered glass of pinot grigio and panino. sandwich needs a little garnish, either a dessert. 372 Fulton St. at Jay Street, (718) 875-5181, an extensive selection of toppings. Delivery serv- with an “Um, here.” While indoors, I’d pass on the winter small mound of greens drizzled with Right now, Grand Central feels like www.GageandTollner.com (AmEx, MC, Visa) ice via phone or the Web site. Sidewalk cafe seats And Grand Central isn’t a neighbor- menu’s green salad of fresh mixed let- tart vinaigrette, a few slices of ripe anything but, which isn’t a bad thing. In Entrees: $14.95-$26.95 available in season. hood hangout yet either, although the tuce in an under-salted dressing that fruit, maybe a ramekin of coleslaw, a neighborhood where restaurants have Gage & Tollner, an atmospheric Brooklyn land- mark that dates back to 1879, features arched Lichee Nut Alverios designate a different activity needed vinegar. Instead, go for the even a pickle, to enhance its looks. indoor pools and every bartender mirrors, red velvet wallpaper and brass, gas-lit 162 Montague St. at Clinton Street, downstairs, each evening hoping to draw the locals shrimp dip with crisp slices of Italian Still, it’s what is inside that really shakes a flavor-of-the-week martini, it’s chandeliers. Restaurateur Joseph Chirico took (718) 522-5565 (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $6-$12. inside — witness the two guys shoot- bread. It’s cocktail party fare circa 1965 counts. And what’s inside Grand Cen- still refreshing to find a quiet place for over in 1995 and completely restored the interior ing pool during a Thursday evening — served in a small white bowl atop a tral’s panino is pretty good. Leg of a beer and a decent sandwich. to its original splendor. Whether you love a great This Brooklyn Heights Chinese restaurant has had steak or you’re a seafood fan, Gage & Tollner has several locations, owners and chefs, but through- what you’re craving with old-fashioned, top-notch out has maintained the high quality that keeps service. By the time the dessert cart is rolled to customers coming back for over 20 years. Owner your table, you’ll be making plans for your next Jerry Shen has dedicated himself to keeping the visit. Free valet parking. restaurant’s fare authentic. Chef Eric Wu cooks in both Szechuan and Cantonese styles and pre- Game plan pares a broad spectrum of dishes that include Henry’s End Cantonese-style beef short ribs and the house Instead of parking yourself in front football-watching food like Buffalo 44 Henry St. at Cranberry Street, (718) 834-1776 special — a generous plate of jumbo shrimp of your TV on Superbowl Sunday with wings, meatball hoagies and beef (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $15.95-$22.95. sauteed with Chinese vegetables and lichee nuts Located just a couple of blocks from the Brooklyn — which, by the way, are not nuts at all, but sweet a slice of mediocre pizza and a beer, kabobs — and you’re set for Super Heights promenade, Henry’s End, a casual neigh- and succulent fruit. why not go to 200 Fifth in Park Slope Sunday. borhood restaurant, promises a wonderful meal where you can park yourself in front of The debauchery begins at 6:30 pm, and a cozy, romantic atmosphere. Chef-owner Waterfront Ale House 10 TVs and enjoy an all-night open on Feb. 1, and ends “whenever,” says Mark Lahm creates entrees like chicken with pears, walnuts, and blue cheese, and duck with 155 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street, (718) 522- bar, the camaraderie of your fellow owner Mark Gerbush. 3794,www.waterfrontalehouse.com, (AmEx, Brooklynites and an all-you-can-eat It’s a bargain, sport. MC, DC, Visa) Entrees: $10.95-$20.95. buffet for $40? 200 Fifth (200 Fifth Ave. between Since 1989, the Waterfront Ale House has While you’re cheering for either the Union and Berkley streets in Park = Full review available at embraced its pub status, offering 18 beers on tap and 50 to 60 different bottles. But with the help New England Patriots, the Carolina Slope) accepts Visa, MasterCard, of local chef Jim Takacs, they are able to go well Panthers or the megabucks commer- American Express and Discover. En- beyond the usual bar fare. There are the obliga- cials, you can sample one — or all — of trees: $6.50-$17.95. The restaurant tory chicken wings and fried calamari, but also try more sophisticated choices like venison and black

/ Greg Mango / Greg the restaurant’s 40 beers in bottles and serves dinner seven nights a week and bean chili with tequila-cilantro sour cream or a on tap including Magic Hat No. 9 (a de- lunch on Fridays, from 11:30 am to Abbreviation Key: AmEx= American burger made from Kobe beef. Owner Sam licious brew that tastes faintly of apri- 3:30 pm. Brunch is served Saturdays Express, DC= Diner’s Club, Disc= Discover Barbieri is a barbecue maven (all meats are cots), Double Diamond and Bluepoint. and Sundays, from 11 am to 4 pm. For Card, MC= MasterCard, Visa= Visa Card smoked in-house), so don’t miss the fabulous bar- Pair the booze with eight different information, call (718) 638-0023 and becue chicken served with sweet potato fries.

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VALET PARKING AVAILABLE music concert of all Bach, Suites No. The Brothers Grimm. $6, $7 adults. 1, 3 and 5. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton GOOD COFFEEHOUSE: John Ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. Hasbrouck plays acoustic guitar. $10, pm. 338 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-3391. ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: presents $6 kids. 8 pm. Brooklyn Society for LIBRARY EVENT: Brooklyn Public “Hiroshima Maiden.” Puppet theater Ethical Culture, 53 Prospect Park Library, Central branch, hosts “Phi dramatizes the true story of the West. (718) 768-2972. Beta Sigma Storytelling,” an event to Hiroshima Maidens, a group of OPERA: The Opera Company of kick off Black History Month. 1 pm. Japanese women disfigured by the Brooklyn presents Mozart’s “The Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. nuclear blast. $25. 8 pm. 38 Water Marriage of Figaro.” 8 pm. Call for Free. St. (718) 254-8779. ticket info. NYC College of BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY: The On Feb. 6, Diane Boisvert Gallery presents an artist’s reception for Technology, Voorhees Theater, 186 presents “The Amazing Castle: Four Bags perform music for accor- Jay St. (212) 567-3283. Dragon Tales.” Learn about symbolic dion, guitar, woodwinds and trom- Alessandra Nichols, whose work is featured in the solo show BRIC STUDIO: Alternative-music cellist significance of dragons in Chinese bone. $10, $5 seniors and students. “Gravido di Conseguenze.” Jane Scarpantoni performs. $10, $8 culture. Appropriate for ages 7 and 8 pm. 58 Seventh Ave. (718) 622- students. 8 pm. 57 Rockwell Place. up. $4, free for members. 2 pm to 4 3300. (718) 855-7882. pm. Also, in commemoration of Black THEATER: The National Theater of the SHAKESPEARE: Waterloo Bridge History Month, “Untold Stories: Serving fine Italian Cuisine United States of America presents Nostrand avenues. (718) 951-4500. (1922). 8 pm. Ninth Street and Sixth Theater Company presents “Twelfth Unfold the Story of Haiti.” 1:30 pm “What’s That on My Head?” Piece MUSIC OFF THE WALLS: Brooklyn Avenue. (718) 965-9177. Free. Night or What You Will.” 8 pm. See and 3 pm. 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) Parking is available. Dine in or take out. presents the history of America Philharmonic presents a community BASEBALL REGISTRATION: Walk-in Sat., Feb. 7. 735-4400. through the lens of a trans-temporal concert, “African Roots,” musical tra- registration for the spring season. FIRST WEEKEND: Brooklyn Arts Exchange READING PROGRAM: Making Books DON’T MISS THIS TUESDAY’S SPECIAL! games show. $15. 8 pm. Nest Arts ditions of Africa. Performance pre- Fees start at $100. 6:30 pm to 8:30 presents new performances and dis- Sing presents the musical “The Complex, 70 Washington St. (212) sented in conjunction with the pm. PS 282, Sixth Avenue at Lincoln cussions. 8 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. Upside Down Boy,” a story about a Wine lover’s night – Any bottled wine on list 1/2 price 10-year-old boy, Juanito, and his 615-6607. Brooklyn Museum of Art’s perma- Place. Visit Web site for details. REUNION: Brooklyn College’s class of nent collection “Arts of Africa.” $15, migrant family. $16. 2 pm. Kings- All specials valid 5pm to 10pm excluding holidays DANCE: Williamsburg Art Nexus pres- www.78youthsports.org 1954 will hold its 50th reunion ents “Kakakaroke” and DeFacto $10 students and seniors. 3 pm. 200 borough Community College, end of Eastern Parkway. (718) 622-5839. anniversary on June 3. Call. (718) 951- Oriental Boulevard. (718) 793-8080. Dance performs “Cinderzilla.” $12. 8 5065. READER’S THEATER: Bring your valen- TUES, FEB. 3 MUSICAL: Brooklyn Family Theater pre- pm. 205 N. Seventh St. (718) 599- TAX HELP: The Community Service 7997. tines to “Women and Fiction.” Enjoy sents “You’re a Good Man, Charlie an exploration of the ways in which REUNION: Brooklyn Elder Hostel hosts a Society’s Retired and Senior Volunteer Brown.” Appropriate for ages 4 and Opescatoré SHAKESPEARE: Waterloo Bridge Program Tax Counseling for the women have been described in get together. 1:30 pm. Brooklyn up. $12. 4 pm and 8 pm. 1012 Eighth Cono’s Theater Company presents “Twelfth Elderly Program offers help. Call for 301 Graham Avenue (cor. Ainslie St.) (718) 388-0168 Night or What You Will.” $15, $10 western literature by historians, Public Library, Midwood branch, East Ave. (718) 670-7205. poets and lovers. 3 pm. Old First 16th Street off Avenue J. (718) 238- site nearest you. (212) 614-5553. BOOK SIGNING: Illustrator Eric Velas- students. 8 pm. 475 Third Ave. (212) REGISTRATION: Brooklyn Museum of Williamsburg • • Open 7 days 11am-11pm 502-0796. Reformed Church, 136 Seventh Ave. 0065. quez reads from and signs his new [email protected]. Free. BLOOD DRIVE: at YWCA. 3:30 pm to 8 Art is accepting registration for its 10- book “Liberty Street.” $6, free chil- FLAMENCO MUSIC: Meson Flamenco week art classes beginning Feb. 28 presents dance and music featuring FACULTY CONCERT: Brooklyn Music pm. 30 Third Ave. (800) 933-BLOOD. dren under 12. 4 pm. Brooklyn School presents “Duo Pianists” with and Feb. 29. $175. Call for informa- Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Parkway. Authentic Japanese Food in Park Slope La Conja and Pedro Cortes. 8:30 pm RECEPTION: Pratt Institute hosts tion. (718) 501-6230. Claudette Munne and Massimiliano “Divided We Speak,” an installation (718) 501-6230. and 11 pm. Call for reservations and DANCE CLASSES: Spoke the Hub cover charge. 135 Atlantic Ave. (718) Facchini. Program includes works by and performance by Miroslaw Rogala. OTHER Albeniz, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel and 6 pm. Memorial Hall, 200 Willoughby Dance holds registration for spring 625-7177. classes for kids aged 2 through 18 FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museum of JAZZ: Magnolia Restaurant presents Gershwin. $10, $5 students. 3:30 Ave. (718) 636-3517. Free. pm. 126 St. Felix St. (718) 638-5660. years. Classes begin the second and Art celebrates Black History Month jazz with Jessica Mark. No cover. 10 LECTURE: In honor of Black History third week of February. 295 Douglass with movies, music and dance. High- pm to 1 am. 486 Sixth Ave. (718) OPERA: Regina Opera Company hosts Month, Brooklyn Public Library, Inaka its annual Salute to Broadway. $8, lights include film “Happen- 369-4814. Central branch, hosts a lecture on stance” (2001) at 9 pm; world Inaka children free. 4 pm. Regina Hall, cor- contemporary African-American SOUL MUSIC: Clockwise Entertainment ner of 65th Street and 12th Avenue. music performed by musicians Sushi House presents soulful songstresses Erykah craftsmen and designers. Learn about from the Brooklyn Philhar- (718) 232-3555. Our experienced Sushi Chef Badu and Jill Scott. Free before 10 mixed media, textiles, beads and jew- monic at 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm; BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber elry. 7 pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) prepares the freshest Sushi pm, $5 before midnight, $7 after hands-on art from 6:30 pm to midnight. Scopello Ristorante, 63 music concert of all Bach. $35. 4 pm. 230-2100. Free. & Sashimi to order! Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624- 8:30 pm; curator talk at 7 pm; Lafayette Ave. (212) 501-3717. POETRY: Park Slope Poetry Project pres- gallery performance of roman- GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “You’re a 2083. ents Ned Vizzini and open mic. $5 Sukiyaki, Yosenabe & Shabu tic readings in honor of Valen- Good Man Charlie Brown.” $15, $12 MOONSHINE THEATER: presents doc- donation. 7:30 pm to 10 pm. St. John tine’s Day at 7 pm. Dance party Shabu prepared at your table seniors and children. 8 pm. 199 14th umentary “Breath Control.” Film fol- Lutheran Church, 283 Prospect Ave. from 9 pm to 11 pm. More. 5 St. (718) 595-0547. lows history of Beat Box and its rela- (718) 788-2587. pm to 11 pm. 200 Eastern Combination Teriyaki & Tempura Available tion to hip-hop culture. $7. 6 pm to BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Free. CHILDREN 8 pm. The Nest, 88 Front St. A light, healthy meal for the entire family. ents Bill T. Jones and The Arnie Zane FLEA MARKET: at St. Thomas CAMP FAIR: Parents and children with SHAKESPEARE: Waterloo Bridge Dance Company in “Chaconne,” Aquinas. 9 am to 5 pm. 1550 disabilities are invited to learn about Theater Company presents “Twelfth “Mercy 10 x 8 on a Circle,” “Reading, Hendrickson St. (718) 253-4404. 236 7th Ave.(bet 4th & 5th Sts.) camp programs for summer 2004. 10 Night or What You Will.” 3 pm. See Mercy” and “The Artificial Nigger.” am to 3 pm. Church of St. Paul the Sat., Jan. 31. QUEEN OF HEARTS SHOW- Works includes a reading by actress CASE: The Xpo features sculp- (718) 499-7856 Apostle, 405 W. 59th St. (212) 677- GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “You’re A Susan Sarandon. $50, $25. 7:30 pm. 4650. Free. Good Man, Charlie Brown.” 3 pm. ture, painting, photography, Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 fashion, jewelry and other luxu- Continuously serving lunch and dinner BARNES AND NOBLE: Author and illus- See Sat., Jan. 31. Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. ry items. Also, live performanc- Mon. - Sat. Noon - 10:30pm, Sun. 5pm - 10:30pm trator Tod Parr reads from his cheerful ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: presents SHADOW BOX THEATER: presents books including “The Feel Good es from select artists. 10 am to FREE DELIVERY • Catering Available • Major Credit Cards “Hiroshima Maiden.” 4 pm. See Sat., “Puppets and People.” 10:30 am. 10 pm. Live show featuring Book.” 11 am. 106 Court St. (718) Jan. 31. See Mon, Feb. 2. 246-4158. Free. John Dyer, Frank and Nervous THEATER: The National Theater of the Cabaret. $10. 9 pm. 25 Jay St. ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum of Art United States of America presents (718) 797- 2557. invites kids to “Animals All Around.” “What’s That on My Head?” 8 pm. WEDS, FEB. 4 ADULT LITERACY: Free English $6 adults, free for members and chil- See Sat., Jan. 31. B”H dren 12 and under. 11 am and 2 pm. MEETING: Bay Ridge Council on Aging classes offered at the Brooklyn Also, stories and art features CHILDREN meets. 9:30 am. Good Shepherd Public Library, Park Slope On Feb. 7, at 4 pm, illustrator Eric Ve- branch. 10 am to 4:30 pm. “Monkey Tales” with storyteller Ron GROUND HOG SERIES: Brooklyn Arts Lutheran Church, 7420 Fourth Ave. Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street. Soypyla. 4 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. Exchange presents the program, (718) 921-5949. lasquez will sign copies of his new (718) 832-3560, ext. 6. (718) 638-5000. BAX-amania, featuring dance and SUPPORT: Victory Memorial Hospital book, “Liberty Street” at the Brook- PUPPETWORKS: “Rumpelstiltskin” by theater. Audience participation. $10, hosts a breast cancer support group. WORDSMITH SERIES: Eileen Spiritual lyn Museum of Art. Tabios, Patrick Rosal and Barry The Brothers Grimm. $6, $7 adults. $8 kids under 12. 2 pm. 421 Fifth 1 pm to 2 pm. Refreshments served. Ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 Ave. (718) 832-0018. 699 92nd St., room 303. (718) 567- Schwabsky read from their pm. 338 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-3391. BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: 1265. Free. works. 12:30 pm. 227 Smith St. SHABBATON (718) 643-2031. Free. BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Fifth annual block party fundraiser. FILM: The Watch Club hosts St. Call. (718) 408-3234. Celebrate Chinese New Year and the Museum is transformed into a “Groundhog Day” (1993). 12:30 pm. REUNION: St. Bernadette holds a RECEPTION: Williamsburg Art and Year of the Monkey with a dragon medieval village for this night of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, reunion on May 23rd. Open to all Historical Center hosts a reception for “Towards A More parade and Chinese tea party. $4, feasting and festivities. Dance and 157 Montague St. (718) 875-6960. graduates. Call. 1313 83rd St. (718) “Exploration,” an exhibit showing cul- free for members. 1 pm to 5 pm. 145 have fun. $100 per family of four. 5 Free. 236-1560. tural diversity through art. Music with Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. pm to 8 pm. 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) DIANE BOISVERT GALLERY: presents “White Suit.” 4 pm to 7 pm. 135 MEDITATION: Congregation B’nai Broadway. (718) 486-7372. Free. SCAVENGER HUNT: Watson 735-4400, ext. 126. Avraham hosts a program: artist reception for “Gravido di Meaningful Life” Adventures hosts a hunt. Bring a STORYTELLING: Brooklyn Public Library, “Meditation: 10 Masters, 10 Conseguenze,” a solo show by READING: Spiral Thought Magazine good pair of walking shoes. $25 Central branch, hosts a Kenyan story- Alessandra Nichols. 6-9 pm. 619 hosts a spoken word performance, Methods” with Rabbi Dovber Pinson. presenting original poetry and prose. includes museum admission. 3 pm to telling for families. 2 pm. Grand Army Today: “The Prophet - R. Avraham Vanderbilt Ave. www.dianeboisvert- with Rabbi Simon Jacobson 5:30 pm. Brooklyn Museum of Art, Plaza. (718) 230-2458. Free. gallery.com. (718) 783-7156. Free. 7 pm to 9 pm. Shakespeare’s Sister, Abulafia.” 7 pm. 117 Remsen St. Call 270 Court St. (718) 832-2310. Free. 200 Eastern Parkway. (212) 726-1529. PUPPETWORKS: “Rumpelstiltskin.” for fee info. (718) 596-4840. SHADOW BOX THEATER: presents KIDS OUTBACK: Brooklyn Arts 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. See Sat., Jan. “Puppets and People.” 10:30 am. FILM FEST: Brooklyn Heights Jewish inter- CHORAL GROUP: Grace Choral Society national Film Festival presents “Schmel- Exchange hosts annual event featur- 31. invites singers to be part of its group. See Mon, Feb. 2. The best-selling author of Toward a ing work by young creators, ages 7 to PLAY: Long Island University presents vis: In Search of Elvis Presley’s Jewish Wednesday rehearsals. Call for audi- Roots” (2001). 8 pm to 10 pm. Congre- Meaningful Life, a William Morrow publica- 17. $8, $5 members. 7:30 pm. 421 OTHER tion. (718) 707-1411. “Wit.” 7 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. FLEA MARKET: at St. Finbar Center. 9 THEATER: The National Theater of the gation B’nai Avraham, 117 Remsen St. tion that has sold over 300,000 copies, SHADOW BOX THEATER: presents (718) 596-4840, ext. 15. Free. Rabbi Jacobson ha been featured on CNN am to 3 pm. Bath Avenue and Bay “Puppets and People.” 10:30 am. United States of America presents OTHER 20th Street. (718) 236-3312. with Larry King and the Charlie Rose Show. See Mon, Feb. 2. “What’s That on My Head?” 8 pm. WRITE A PLAY: Young Playwrights Inc. HEBREW IN A DAY: Park Slope Jewish See Sat. Jan. 31. He has traveled and lectured in 200 cities and the National Playwriting Center and Kolot Chayeinu host an SUN, FEB. 8 in the United States and across the world. Competition host a teacher training intensive class. $50. 9:30 am. Call to THURS, FEB. 5 institute. Learn how to use play writ- register. 14th Street and Sixth SAT, FEB. 7 PERFORMANCE ing as a tool to promote literacy and Avenue. (718) 431-2467. TRAINING SERIES: Resources for DANCE CONCERT: Brooklyn Arts Coun- encourage expression. NYC educa- BLOOD DRIVE: at United Sephardic February 13th, 6pm tors, grades 3 to 12, can receive pro- Children with Special Needs hosts a OUTDOORS AND TOURS cil presents “Folk Feet: Celebrating Blood Bank. 10 am to 3:30 pm. 1901 talk “Advocacy Skills for Parents.” 10 Traditional Dance in Brooklyn.” Pro- fessional staff development credit for Ocean Parkway. (800) 933-BLOOD. ICE SKATING: at the Prospect Park Shabbat Meal & Lecture participation. $225. 12-hours (pro- am to 1 pm. Brooklyn Public Library, gram explores the range of communi- SUNDAY PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society Brooklyn Heights branch, 280 Wollman Rink. Sessions from 10 am ty dance traditions in Brooklyn. 2:30 gram continues on Feb. 1). Call. (212) to 1 pm, 2 pm to 6 pm and 7 pm to CONG. B’NAI AVRAHAM 594-5440. for Ethical Culture hosts a platform Cadman Plaza West. (212) 677-4650. pm to 9 pm. Walt Whitman Theater at “Intentional Community.” 11 am. 10 pm. $5 admission, $3 seniors and Brooklyn College, one block from the ACCESS FOR WOMEN: Women are Free. students. $5 skate rental fee. Enter 117 Remsen St., Brooklyn Heights Potluck lunch follows. 53 Prospect PEACE VIGIL: The Brooklyn Peace Vigil intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand invited to get information about free Park West. (718) 768-2972. park at Parkside and Ocean avenues. avenues. (718) 625-0080. Free. technical training for jobs in technolo- hosts an informational leafletting ses- (718) 287-6431. $25 members, $30 Non-members gy. 9 am to 1 pm. Voorhees Hall SUNDAY AT SUNNY’S: Novelist Colin sion. Bring your own posters. 5:30 pm CHAMBER MUSIC: Brooklyn Friends of $15 Senior Citizens/Students Cafeteria, 186 Jay St. (718) 552-1134. Harrison, poet Steve Healey and to 7 pm. Meet at Flatbush and PERFORMANCE Chamber Music presents Chiara memoir writer Helene Stapinski read Seventh avenues. (718) 768-3202. String Quartet, in a program of love For further information or to Free. JAZZ: Brooklyn Public Library, Central from their works. 3 pm. 253 Conover SALON SERIES: Brooklyn Young branch, presents a concert by the letters. $15, $12 seniors. 3 pm. Lafa- make a reservation please contact: READING: Brooklyn Public Library, St. (718) 625-8211. Free. yette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 Central branch, presents “Words and Filmmakers Intergenerational Film Sonny Fortune Quartet. 2 pm. Grand

Meaningful Life Center South Oxford St. (718) 625-7515. Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin (718) 596-4840 Ext. 18 Music of Love and Lunacy.” Enjoy Salon Series presents “Cultural Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. readings from the works of Brooklyn Ignorance, Not Just Black and OPERA: The Opera Company of Brook- ON EB PLAY: Long Island University presents authors when put to the music of M , F . 2 White.” $3 donation. Teens and sen- “Wit,” a drama about an English lyn presents Mozart’s “The Marriage iors free. 6 pm to 8:30 pm. Long of Figaro.” 3 pm. NYC College of Mozart, Schubert and Glass. SHADOW BOX THEATER: presents professor who has been diagnosed Performed by members of the Island University, Spike Lee Screening with terminal ovarian cancer. $12. 2 Technology, Voorhees Theater, 186 “Puppets and People,” a musical Jay St. (212) 567-3283. Brooklyn Philharmonic. 4 pm. Grand Room, corner of Flatbush and DeKalb pm. Humanities Building, Flatbush adventure. $5 school groups, $8 indi- avenues. (718) 852-9342. BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. viduals. YWCA of Brooklyn, 30 Third Avenue Extension and DeKalb TUPPERWARE PARTY: Bensonhurst DANCE: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Avenue. (718) 488-1089. music concert of all Bach. $35. 4 pm. Ave. (212) 724-0677. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. Volunteer Ambulance Service hosts a branch, hosts a series of film screen- BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber music SCREENWRITERS CLASS: Brooklyn ings and dance workshops. Today: PLAY: Long Island University presents fundraiser. 7 pm. St. Mary Mother of Young Filmmakers hosts a 4-session concert of all Bach. $35. 7:30 pm. Ful- $ Jesus RC Church, 85th Street “African Dance: Sand, Drum and ton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. “Wit.” 2 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. class for adults and youths 15 years between 23rd and 24th avenues. Call. Shostakovich” (2002). Workshop on SHAKESPEARE: Waterloo Bridge and older. Learn proper screenplay BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- (718) 837-5032. traditional West African dance follows ents Bill T. Jones and The Arnie Zane Theater Company presents “Twelfth format, understand how a screenplay film. 7 pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) Night or What You Will.” 3 pm. See SPEED DATING: Acquire up to 20 dates is a blueprint for a film, story board Dance Company in “Continuous 5 for 5 in one night for men ages 35 to 46 230-2100. Free. Replay” and “There Were...” and Sat., Feb. 7. scenes. More. $100 adults, $80 stu- and women ages 30 to 45. $35. dents. 6:30 pm to 9 pm. BRIC PLAY: Long Island University presents “The Phantom Project: Still/Here CHILDREN Reservations required. 7:30 pm. “Wit,” a drama about an English pro- Looking On.” $50, $25. 7:30 pm. Studios, 57 Rockwell Place. (718) 852- GROUNDHOG SERIES: Brooklyn Arts Captain Walter, Sheepshead Bay. 9342. fessor who has been diagnosed with Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 Workouts (718) 757-6933. terminal ovarian cancer. $12, $10 stu- Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. Exchange presents The Treehouse BROOKLYN LYCEUM: Try-outs for a MUSIC EXTRAVAGANZA: Office Ops dents. 7 pm. Humanities Building, Shakers in “Desert Travels: Tales from vaudeville show. Singers, dancers, THEATER: The National Theater of the the Middle East.” $8, $5 members/ For just $5, try 5 days presents art, music and video per- comedians, actors, jugglers, etc. are Flatbush Avenue Extension and United States of America presents formance by Moonraker, Mark DeKalb Avenue. (718) 488-1089. low-income. 2 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. invited to audition. 6:30 pm signups. “What’s That on My Head?” Piece (718) 832-0018. of non-stop fitness. Nicosia, Kotchy, Adam T. Rush, and Also, Don Slovin’s Jam Prov work- BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- presents the history of America many others. $15. 8 pm. Evening ents Bill T. Jones and The Arnie Zane through the lens of a trans-temporal PUPPETWORKS: “Rumpelstiltskin.” 12:30 shop. $5. 8:30 pm. 227 Fourth Ave. pm and 2:30 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. event begins with an hour of yoga. 57 (718) 857-4816. Free. Dance Company in “The Gift/ No game show. $15. 8 pm. Nest Arts Thames St. (718) 418-2509. God Logic” and “There Were...” $50, Complex, 70 Washington St. (212) MUSICAL: “You’re a Good Man, Charlie POLITICAL TALK: American Heritage Brown.” 5 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. Take any aerobic, yoga or pilates class, COUNTRY WESTERN DANCE: at Political Organization presents District $25. 7:30 pm. Howard Gilman Opera 615-6607. Madison Jewish Center. $22.50 per Attorney Charles Hynes. 7:30 pm. Bay House, 30 Lafayette Ave. Also, BAM BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Per- OTHER work out in our coed fitness center person. 8 pm. 2989 Nostrand Ave. Dialogue with Bill T. Jones after per- Ridge Post 157, 345 78th St. (718) forming Arts presents Flamenco Vivo TALK AND VIDEO: Larry Gibson tells his Reservations necessary. (718) 336- 836-9702. Free. formance. (718) 636-4100. Carlota Santana. $30. 8 pm. Walt or swim in our 60’indoor pool. 5944. story of fighting mountaintop removal JEWISH LEARNING: The David Berg JUSTICE CLASS: Park Slope Jewish Whitman Theater, Brooklyn College, in Appalachia in “Music, Mountains Lecture Series hosts “Jews for Center offers an 8-session class one block from the intersection of and Coal.” Old time music by “The “Justice Shall You Pursue.” Learn the Flatbush and Nostrand avenues. SUN, FEB 1 Judaism.” Learn about theological Slippery Slope.” 3 pm. Park Slope flaws in the “Hebrew Christian” argu- meaning of social justice as it is (718) 951-4500. United Methodist Church, Sixth Hurry, Offer Ends ment which states accepting Jesus is a reflected in traditional as well as con- TRI-CARNIVAL CONCERT: Brooklyn Avenue and Eighth Street. (718) 768- PERFORMANCE fulfillment of Judaism. Rabbi Aaron temporary sources. $120, $80 mem- Conservatory of Music presents 0524. Free. Raskin leads talk. 8 pm to 9 pm. bers. Eighth Avenue and 14th Street. Carnival music from Brazil, New Thursday, Feb. 26, 2004 BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Call to register. (718) 768-1453. MEET THE AUTHOR: Brooklyn Historical Performing Arts presents pianist Max Congregation B’nai Avraham, 117 Orleans and the Caribbean. $20, $15 Society presents author Charles Levinson. $30. 2 pm. Walt Whitman Remsen St. (718) 596-4840. Free. BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber students and seniors. 8 pm. 58 Lockwood. Learn about local architec- music concert of all Bach. $35. 7:30 Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. Limit one per person. 5 days must be consecutive, get the weekends free. Theater, Brooklyn College, one block FILM SERIES: Barbes Traveling Cinema ture. $10, $5 members. Reception from the intersection of Flatbush and series presents “Foolish Wives” pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624- OFFICE OPS: presents “Muffin Is Evil,” and book-signing follow talk. 3 pm. Open to men and women, 18 and over. 2083. a play about love. $10. 8 pm. 57 128 Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111. SHAKESPEARE: Waterloo Bridge Thames St. (718) 418-2509. WOMEN WRITERS: Brooklyn Theater Company presents “Twelfth BRIC STUDIO: presents “10 Brecht Conservatory of Music hosts female Stop by the 4th Floor Night or What You Will.” 8 pm. See Poems.” $10, $8 students. 8 pm. 57 writers from the Harlem Renaissance, Sat., Feb. 7. Rockwell Place. (718) 855-7882. including Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Fitness Center Today!! LIST YOUR EVENT… SHADOW BOX THEATER: presents SHAKESPEARE: Waterloo Bridge Larsen and others. 3 pm. 58 Seventh “Puppets and People.” 10:30 am. Theater Company presents “Twelfth To list your event in Where to GO, please give us as much notice as possible. Send Ave. (718) 622-3300. Free. See Mon, Feb. 2. Night or What You Will.” $15, $10 your listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 Washington St., Suite ADOPTION SUPPORT: Brooklyn Jewish THEATER: The National Theater of the students. 8 pm. 475 Third Ave. (212) Single Women’s Adoption Center offers 30 Third Ave. @ Atlantic Ave. 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed United States of America presents 502-0796. a talk “Building Parent/ Child Bonds: on a space available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. “What’s That on My Head?” 8 pm. FIRST WEEKEND: Brooklyn Arts Promoting Development.” Call for time, of Brooklyn (718) 875-1190 ext. 225 See Sat., Jan. 31. Exchange presents new performanc- tickets and place. (212) 558-9949. 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Celebrate Written in 1600, when 200 Shakespeare was 36 and leav- The play also has one of who rescues Sebastian, has be- out all the humor inherent in Valentine’s Day ing his youth behind, “Twelfth Shakespeare’s most amusing come Antonia, whom Elizabeth those roles. Sir Toby Belch FIFTH Night” stands on the optimistic subplots: the clever scheming of Vocam creates as a feisty, irre- stands next to Falstaff as one of belief that love conquers and Olivia’s drunken uncle Sir Toby pressible young lady madly in Shakespeare’s bawdiest, and at Saturday, February 14th BIGGER & BETTER THAN EVER! cures all, and is tempered by the Belch; Sir Andrew Aguecheek, love with the man she saves the same time wisest, clowns. sure knowledge that lovers are a knight he has introduced into from the sea. 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(Right) “Brother to Brother,” featuring Anthony Mackie as Perry, by Boerum Hill Meeropol, granddaughter of and I make films about people Ethel and Julius Rosenberg who try to change the world. writer-director Rodney Evans, won two Special Jury prizes. (who were executed as spies in Together, we told the story of 1953) creates a personal film this poor church in the shadow Brooklyn restaurant that caters and “the saving grace is there pectation at all that that award from a highly charged political of the White House where to a black clientele feels so are a lot of great films to see,” would be coming our way. It period in U.S. history. people are trying to take con- true that one would think he he said. is particularly meaningful as Another documentary, “Let trol of their lives.” was born and raised here. The Bonifacio’s “Lbs.,” is an in- an indication that audiences the Church Say Amen,” ap- Also in American Spectrum owner’s decision to sell to a triguing hybrid. 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