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w Facebook.com/ Twitter.com Volume 59, No. 87 TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2013 BrooklynEagle.com BrooklynEagle @BklynEagle 50¢ BROOKLYN New Institute’s Focus: B’klyn’s Untamed Beachfront TODAY Brooklyn College AUG. 13 Will Host Research About Jamaica Bay Good morning. Today Plans for a new Science and is the 225th day of the Resilience Institute for Jamaica year. On Aug. 13, 1902, Bay were announced on Mon- the Brooklyn Daily Eagle day by Mayor Michael reported that NYPD Cap- Bloomberg and the U.S. Secre- tain Knipe (no first name tary of the Interior Sally Jewell. given) had started a drive Jamaica Bay, which con- to wipe out “bad hotels” tains numerous marshy islands, in Coney Island, probably borders on several Brooklyn meaning brothels. As an and Queens neighborhoods. In example, he mentioned a Brooklyn, it borders on Canar- place where ladies in sie, Bergen Beach, Spring “very short skirts” loi- Creek and Mill Basin; as well as tered outside, but ran in Floyd Bennett Field, which is whenever a cop ap- of Wikipedia courtesy Photo part of Gateway National proached. Knipe said Recreation Area. The institute, which will be these places shouldn’t headed by the City University even have been classified of New York, will promote un- as hotels: “They don’t derstanding of urban ecosys- have the requisite kitchen tems and their adjacent commu- or dining hall, which are nities through an intensive re- required under the law.” search program focused on the Please turn to page 3 restoration of the bay itself. THE WAVES OF JAMAICA BAY ARE SEEN AGAINST PLUMB BEACH IN BROOKLYN, WHICH IS PART OF GATEWAY NATIONAL RECREATION AREA. Please turn to page 3 Eric Adams: No Hot All-Night Vigil for Interfaith Medical Center Election Race for Him could die, or at least their condi- NY1 News’s website is Could Close by tion would worsen. carrying a profile of state “You’re dealing with life-and- Sen. Eric Adams, a former End of August death issues. What is incompre- police officer, who is run- By Mary Frost hensible is we’re closing hospi- ning unopposed in his quest Brooklyn Daily Eagle tals in communities that everyone for the Democratic nomina- Interfaith Medical Center agrees are in desperate need for tion for borough president. supporters, church members and quality medical services.” There are lively races for members of the New York State SEIU Anne Pruden, Local 1199 Photo by Closing Interfaith will have the position in other bor- Nurses Association and Local a negative economic impact on oughs, but not in Brooklyn. 1199SEIU held an all-night can- the area, he added. “There are Adams told NY1 said he dlelight vigil Sunday to bring at- 1,544 employees there; you can sees the position of borough tention to the imminent closure imagine what impact that will president as a promotion. of the only hospital serving resi- have on the community. It is a “As a state Senator, I repre- dents of Bedford-Stuyvesant disadvantaged community and sent over 300,000 people. As and Crown Heights. one in desperate need. the borough president, I’ll Rev. Herbert Daughtry of “Being an old man, I re- become the advocate for 2.5 the House of the Lord Church member when [Mayor] Ed million people,” Adams is on Atlantic Avenue in Down- SUPPORTERS OF INTERFAITH MEDICAL CENTER INCLUDING REV. HERBERT DAUGHTRY, SECOND Koch closed Sydenham Hospi- quoted as saying. town Brooklyn, age 82, chal- from right, held an all-night candlelight vigil Sunday to protest the imminent closure of the hospital. tal [in Harlem] in ’86,” he said. In case you’re wonder- lenged the younger members of “Before his passing, Ed Koch ing, he plans to continue his congregation to keep up with cial and its planned closure a Bedford-Stuyvesant, Crown Monday. “In case of an emer- indicated it was one of the major Markowitz’s two outdoor him as he sang, chanted and public health emergency. Heights and even Brownsville, gency it will take much longer – mistakes of his administration. concert series. marched for the hospital. Rev. “Interfaith is important be- since St. Mary’s closed,” he told the next hospital is two, three I’m saying to the powers that be, Daughtry called Interfaith cru- cause it provides services to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on miles away. In that time a person Please turn to page 3 Judge Rules for Thompson Unveils Plan Monitor to NYPD’S To Combat Hate Crimes “Stop-and-Frisk” By Paula Katinas a Democratic mayoral hopeful, U.S. DISTRICT COURT JUDGE Brooklyn Daily Eagle said he was shocked by the Shira Scheindlin is inter- Calling the statue of Brook- racist and anti-Semitic graffiti viewed in her federal court lyn Dodgers and Baseball Hall that a vandal left on the statue. of Famers Jackie Robinson and The graffiti, which included chambers in May. Judge Pee Wee Reese “a symbol of a swastika and racist epithets, Scheindlin has appointed a racial tolerance and healing,” was discovered on Aug. 7 and monitor to oversee the former comptroller Bill has since been removed by New York Police Depart- Thompson unveiled a three- cleaners. But the hate crime point plan to combat hate “shook our community and our ment’s controversial stop- AP Photo and-search policy. For local crimes in the wake of the recent city,” Thompson said. “This is unacceptable in the city I love,” reactions and more detail, graffiti incident involving the statue outside MCU Park in he told reporters. see story by Charisma Coney Island last week. A $50,000 reward has been BILL THOMPSON Miller, page 12. In a conference call with re- offered for information leading Former NYC Comptroller and AP Photo porters on Aug. 12, Thompson, Please turn to page 3 current mayoral candidate Tuesday, August 13, 2013 • Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 1 EVIEW AND COMMENT RMemo: A Diner Is Page 2 – review and comment Cartoons: NOT a ‘Greasy Spoon’ Hurricanes By Raanan Geberer Texting Brooklyn Daily Eagle National Security Recently, to my surprise, I have seen many online references to diners as “greasy spoons”. I have seen this misuse of the term on local blogs (one Iran called the El Greco diner in Sheepshead Bay a greasy spoon, which is akin to calling a Mercedes Benz a jalopy) and even in The New York Post. I first saw diners referred to as greasy spoons about two years ago, which leads me to believe that this use of the term is fairly recent. For the record, throughout most of my life, a “greasy spoon” referred to a small, unhygienic luncheonette that has about 10 items on the menu, has wobbly counter stools and a cracked counter, and fries everything on the same griddle throughout the day. The very name “greasy spoon” connotes unhygienic conditions – it means the spoon is still greasy when it’s given to you, meaning that the staff didn’t do such a good job of washing it. Today, because of changing populations, the rise of fast-food joints and higher commercial rents, the number of these places is declining. But in my childhood, they were plentiful, and usually had a sign saying “luncheon- ette” outside. There usually was one person behind the counter who often didn’t make much of an effort to be nice to the customers. Nobody ate in these places if they could help it. By contrast, most diners are extremely clean, occupy a large amount of space, are very well-lit and have waiters or waitresses who are very helpful. Just the large number of offerings on the typical New York City menu takes these establishments out of the realm of “greasy spoons.” Of course, diners and greasy spoons do have several things in common. Both offer basic, non-pretentious types of food, usually of American origin (those foods of European origin that they do serve, such as eggplant parme- san, became assimilated into the American diet years ago). By contrast, I’ll bet that many of the food writers who lump diners and greasy spoons to- gether grew up eating sushi, tapas and Asian fusion cuisine. Diners are not what they’re familiar with. People like myself, on the other hand, who grew up eating at diners, neighborhood Chinese restaurants, pizza places and Jewish delis, are very attuned to the differences between good and bad diners, good and bad piz- zerias and so forth. We don’t lump them all together. It may come as a surprise to some people that there is a movement to preserve classic diners. I remember when one famous Manhattan diner, the Cheyenne near Madison Square Garden, closed and preservationists started looking for places it could be moved to. There was a possibility that it could have been moved to Red Hook, but eventually the Cheyenne was separat- ed into two parts, put onto trucks and taken to Birmingham, Alabama. An- other old Manhattan diner, the Moondance, ended up in Wyoming. Diners were never a New York-only phenomenon. I don’t think diners are the beginning and the end as far as cuisine is concerned. I’d rather have eggplant parmesan at an Italian restaurant than at a diner. I’d rather have grilled or poached salmon at an Asian restaurant than at a diner. But for good basic food – especially late at night, after other restaurants have closed – you can’t beat the typical American diner. So it’s time to honor the diner for its place in society. Please don’t call it a greasy spoon.

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