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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2013 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn and Williamsburg AWP/14 pages • Vol. 36, No. 33 • August 16–22, 2013 • FREE FACE THE MUSIC As MTV show approaches, nabe worries about impact
By Natalie Musumeci Block Association. The Brooklyn Paper MTV and the Barclays Center held an in- The Video Music Awards are landing in vite-only meeting for residents in June, but Brooklyn in less than two weeks and secrecy company officials were unprepared to field around the event has Barclays Center neigh- simple queries like how many cars to expect, bors scared MTV’s moon man plan has all who will move along idling limos, or how the makings of an Apollo 13. the loud crowds will be contained, meet- Prospect Heights residents say they have no ing attendees say. The award show was on idea what to expect when the award show the agenda of another meeting in July or- touches down at the arena and, having ganized by Empire State Development, the heard next to nothing from the music state agency overseeing the arena, but offi- network, some fear the worst. The in- cials from MTV and Mayor Bloomberg’s of- ternationally televised event is likely to fice did not even bother to show up, accord- fill the 18,000-seat arena at Flatbush and ing to locals, leaving them feeling caught in Photo by Stefano Giovannini Atlantic avenues on Aug. 25 and locals say a bad romance. Sterling Street residents Alicia Boyd and Claudia Loftis helped their block win the title “Every question one could ask, it was like, of “greenest” in the borough. that network officials have not answered even the most basic questions about street ‘Well, the relevant people aren’t here,’ ” said traffic, noise pollution, construction, and Tom Boast of the Carlton Avenue Block As- other possible disruptions before, during, sociation.
and after the massive bash. AP Photo / Peter Kramer Residents said that the only concrete de- “We don’t know what our nights will be Lady Gaga is scheduled to perform tails they have about the celebrity blow- The green giants like and what our days will be like,” said at MTV’s Video Music Awards at the out arrived in the form of a two-page letter Peter Krashes, president of the Dean Street Barclays Center on Aug. 25. See MTV on page 5 Sterling Street takes Greenest Block prize
By Natalie Musumeci honor, judging on the basis of stones and brick row houses and The Brooklyn Paper garden lushness, floral home its shrubbery and window plant- Sterling Street is finally the adornment, and community ers beat out 200 other stretches ICE TO SEE YOU greenest in Brooklyn. elbow grease. of road in neighborhoods from The foliage-filled block be- “It won because it was ab- Greenpoint to Coney Island. tween Washington and Bed- solutely the most impressive,” Sterling Street’s yeoman yard Two long-delayed rinks to open this winter ford avenues in Prospect Lef- said Robin Simmen, director workers have entered the contest ferts-Gardens was named the of GreenBridge, the arm of the eight times before, but this year By Danielle Furfaro frustrated by delays that melted say. Both projects failed to open “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” garden that runs the verdant they wooed a panel of judges, The Brooklyn Paper their prospects last year. last year due to money troubles, last Wednesday — after nearly a tournament, which is now in who visited not once, but three Photo by Stefano Giovannini Sharpen your skates. The McCarren Park pool and forcing the skaters of Williams- decade of vying for the title. its 19th year. times, by lining the curb with The ice rink at McCarren Ice-skating rinks are coming to the replacement for Prospect burg, Greenpoint, and brownstone The Brooklyn Botanic Gar- The block is lined with well- whiskey barrel planters and deco- Park Pool is finally set to two Brooklyn parks this winter, Park’s Wollman rink will both Brooklyn to trek long distances den awarded the horticultural preserved, two-story brown- See GREEN on page 12 open this December. to the relief of borough skaters open in mid-December, officials See ICE on page 12 Fight-stone group Activists: New development will be disaster
By Natalie Musumeci development, which is slated to site early next year and finish The Brooklyn Paper rise on a canal-front property work by 2015. The massive luxury housing bounded by Bond, Carroll, and “The project’s design is ill- complex headed for the banks of Second streets. Neighbors gath- suited for the community,” said the Gowanus Canal breaks laws ered on the Carroll Street Bridge, First Street resident Warren Co- and will flood neighborhood which spans the fetid waterway, hen of Save Gowanus, the group streets with putrid canal water, just steps from where the real es- behind the rally. opponents of the project said at tate firm is preparing to build the Lightstone opponents have
Photo by Elizabeth Graham a protest last Thursday. 700-unit rental project. blasted the development since the Gowanus activist Warren Cohen and mayoral hopeful Bill Dozens rallied that night to The Lightstone Group ex- beginning , complaining that new Thompson rallied against the Lightstone high-rise last week. protest the Lightstone Group pects to break ground on the See GOWANUS on page 11
PLUS: WHAT’S WITH Keeping the Inter-faith ALL THE SECURITY GUARDS AT LICH? Court shuffl e gives hope to would-be hospital saviors SEE PAGE 5 By Danielle Furfaro The Brooklyn Paper giving hospital advocates extra time to The court tasked with overseeing the fi- file for an injunction to halt the sudden nancial execution of a Bedford-Stuyvesant shuttering. hospital is keeping the Inter-faith alive, if “Our lawyers are working on every only for an extra week and a half. possible angle to make sure the commu- Activists bent on keeping the Inter- nity’s needs are met here,” said Dan Lutz. faith Medical Center open have a little Photo by Steve Solomonson legal breathing room thanks to a court spokesman for the New York State Nurses reprieve that will push the closure pro- Association, a union. cess back 11 days. Hospital staffers and politicians, includ- Evil umpire The Eastern District bankcruptcy ing public advocate and mayoral hope- court was scheduled to approve the In- ful Bill DeBlasio, are also planning to Darth Vader throws out the first pitch during Friday’s terfaith closure plan Aug. 15, but a judge Photo by Hannah Palmer Egan fight the hospital shutdown through street Star Wars Night celebration at MCU Park. Don’t miss has postponed the hearing until Aug. 26, Protesters rally to save Interfaith Medical Center. See INTERFAITH on page 12 our Cyclones coverage on page 2. Ire over giant Bklyn invades ... Sweden? Brewery will host a four-day festival in Stockholm By Danielle Furfaro ough’s food, art, and music scenes to is known for: a simplicity and forag- G’point project The Brooklyn Paper the strange soil of Stockholm, start- ing in cooking, and there is an explo- They gave us delicious meatballs and ing on Aug. 22. The party is in its sec- sion of indie rock from both places,” By Danielle Furfaro Ikea. Now, Brooklyn is giving Swe- ond year and organizers say Brooklyn said Ben Hedson, marketing director The Brooklyn Paper den an injection of indie rock and ar- residents have more in common with at the Brooklyn Brewery, which put the A humongous housing devel- tisanal eats. their city-dwelling Swedish counter- fest together in partnership with Swed-
opment planned to rise in Green- Photo by Elizabeth Graham A four-day, Brooklyn-themed fes- parts than they might think. ish music promoters Debaser (yes, like point at the confluence of New- Therese Flemstrom of Karlskoga, tival, called Brooklyn, Sweden, will “Scandinavia has become known for the Pixies song ). town Creek and the East River is Sweden at the Brooklyn Brewery. bring a quirky cross-section of the bor- many of the same things that Brooklyn See SWEDEN on page 11 going to force up rents, endanger new residents, and strain neigh- borhood resources to the break- Photo by Stefano Giovannini ing point, neighbors said at a rau- Helen Kersten voices her cous meeting on Tuesday. disapproval of the plans for the Greenpoint Landing at a Robinson statue defaced The community board meeting meeting on Tuesday night. was the first public hearing on the By Scott Hansen is investigating the vandalism of the The grotesque graffiti marring the Greenpoint Landing project, which for The Brooklyn Paper iconic statue of Robinson and his team- base of the statue included “F--- Jackie high-rise village in their backyard. will include 10 towers and as many A vandal scrawled neo-Nazi slo- mate Pee Wee Reese that stands outside Robinson,” “Die n------,” “Heil Hit- One of the most vocal opponents as 5,500 apartments on 22 acres. gans and racist slurs on the statue of the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, ler,” and a swastika scribbled with a was Helen Kersten, who said the Many of the 250 who attended the Dodger great Jackie Robinson outside but has yet to collar the scoundrel re- black marker. development’s pricey rents would packed meeting came to let devel- MCU Park in Coney Island last Tues- sponsible. Cops from the 60th Precinct found push her out of the neighborhood opers and local pols know that they day night, and cops are scouring the “[The vandalism] was a biased act the vandalism at 8:30 am on Wednes- Photo by Elizabeth Graham are not happy about the idea of a See BIG on page 6 borough for the culprit. and consisted of anti-Semitic remarks,” day and a cleanup crew quickly arrived The statue of Jackie Robinson and The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force said Detective Kelly Ort. See HATE on page 12 Pee Wee Reese at MCU Park.
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much you can do besides keep your teammates up, but everything hap- Hits just keep pens for a reason.” How injuries can Jared King was also hurt on Aug. 6 and has not seen time on the field for the last week. He has an oblique on coming injury, which is a strain to the mus- cles in the side. He is currently listed make you focus as day-to-day. Cecchini said hav- By Scott Hansen ing an injury makes you aware of The Brooklyn Paper ast Friday, I was leaving the sub- other people’s ailments. UPS & way station to return home for Bats on fire Fast “(Jared) and I talked today, and he Eight different Cyclones L the evening when the turnstile said ‘Man it sucks being hurt,’ and I players hit at least .300 last DOWNS hit me on the back of the knee. I did said ‘Yeah, you’re not lying. Hang in week, getting on base to set not expect it to hurt as much as it did, Furious there.’ He’s going to be fine.” but the pain quickly subsided. up runs for the team. The outs and just the two hits in By Scott Hansen Since Cecchini has returned to solid hitters this week are: six innings of work. I sat for some time in my apart- the field, he has been one of the ment, then I attempted to get up and most consistent hitters on the team. Jonathan Clark (.300), Matt Papa’s falling average something I felt was important. “Bright Eyes” Oberste (.316), felt the pain all over again. My knee He has recorded at least one hit in James “Papa” Roche had swollen and I limped noticeably Injuries are an ailment the Cy- 11 straight games, including four L.J. “Mini-Maz” Mazzilli struggled from the plate clones players share and the timing (.316), Colton Plaia (.333), everywhere I walked. Turning over multi-hit games, six RBIs, and four last week, getting just two Photo by Steve Solomonson in bed that night became extremely of their injuries, while related to the runs. He said the consistency has Patrick “To Infinity and” hits in 18 at-bats. However, Cyclones starting pitcher Miller Diaz fires a pitch painful, so I didn’t sleep well. rigors of their profession, still ham- come from rehabbing mentally as Biondi (.333), Eddie Rohan he did manage to score a run during Friday’s home game against State College. The pain hasn’t completely left my pers their progression during their well as physically. (.375), Gavin Cecchini (.429), and drive one in during his knee since that night, but it is sig- first professional seasons when they “I have all the confidence in the and Ismael Tijerina (.500). cold streak. are supposed to be showing higher Greenwich, Conn. Clones (55); Rob “Not-so-silent G” nificantly less intense. There’s still world with myself,” he said. “When- That’s a dinger classes their potential. Getting the Knapp of it who don’t get a mid-season a bruise that is tender to the touch ever I was hurt, I got my mind to- The Clones hit only one Gsellman, who manager Rich Gavin Cecchini sprained his ankle Ricky Knapp made his first vacation include L.J. “Mini- Donnelly calls the most con- and walking up or down stairs causes gether and my head into the right home run last week, but it appearance in the starting ro- in late June on a slide to third base Maz” Mazzilli, who leads the sistent pitcher on the team; discomfort. This, hopefully, minor direction and just paying attention probably went further than tation last Thursday, filling in league in hits (61) and at-bats injury brought back memories of a and subsequently missed much of to the game.” any other hit this year. Alex for Seth Lugo, who has been and John Mincone, who leads the next month, finally rejoining the (201). Mazzilli also leads the the league with six saves. much more serious one. I rehabbed my injury for about a Sanchez killed one over the optioned to Savannah. Knapp team in RBIs (23) and bat- Near the end of my volunteer mission team in mid-to-late July. His drive month, then returned to missionary left field wall and well over had a nightmare debut, allow- ting average (.303). He was Closing the gap in July 2009, I suffered a serious head to help the team succeed and fur- service and, to use a baseball term, the scoreboard. ing seven hits and five runs the only hitter chosen from The Clones made the trek injury which included, among other ther his own professional goals re- went on a tear. The last six months John and the Cat to Connecticut in less than the Cyclones. from the bottom of the divi- things, a few small skull fractures and mained stagnant because of an out- of the mission were the most suc- John Gant had MCU Park two innings of work. How- The other four players sion to just one game outside a major concussion. After returning side influence. Cecchini was upset cessful. A lot of it had to do with buzzing with talks of a no-hit- ever, he didn’t walk a batter chosen were John Gant, who of the division lead. The hated from the hospital, I couldn’t do much by the injury, but saw light at the making up for lost time. ter last Sunday, going through and struck out two. leads the league in strikeouts Staten Island Yankees have work and was forced to rest for much end of the tunnel. Scott Hansen, an intern from five innings without allowing Mid-season classic (61); Miller Diaz, who was the long since faded, while the of the next month. I often asked my- “It is frustrating whenever you’re Brigham Young University, will be a hit. Gant eventually did al- The All-Star break ar- starting pitcher in Tuesday’s Hudson Valley Renegades self why, of all times, did this injury hurt and you’re not getting to play,” comparing his life to those of the low two hits in the sixth, but rived, and five Cyclones All-Star Game and is third lost seven of eight, deposit- have to happen while I was engaged in Cecchini said. “There’s not really Cyclones all season long. finished with seven strike- were invited to play in in the league in strikeouts ing them in third place.
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Clear Healthy Skin Aquarium bridge scrapped isn’t it time you call? By Will Bredderman The Brooklyn Paper Medical Services we accept: The long-neglected pedes- BEFORE AFTER GHI, HIP, 1199, AETNA, CIGNA, UNITED, OXFORD, trian bridge over Surf Ave- nue finally got some atten- HORIZON, HEALTHNET, MEDICARE, BLUE CROSS, tion from city workers last MAGNACARE, AMERICHOICE, ELDERPLAN Wednesday — who took it down overnight. Cosmetic Services Botox, Restylane, The shark-painted span Juvederm, Radiesse, Sculptra, Laser Hair Removal, linking the W. Eighth Street- Laser Tattoo Removal, Laser Vein Removal, Torn New York Aquarium train Earlobe Repair, Keloid Surgery… station to the Boardwalk fi- nally sank, as a demolition Coolsculpting Trim Fat, No Needles, No Downtime crew ripped it down in the dark of night on Aug. 7. Photos by Steve Solomonson 254 Prospect Park West, Park Slope The fishy bridge netted both The New York City Economic Development Corporation tore down the bridge connecting the W. Eighth fans and detractors in the 50 Street-New York Aquarium stop to the Boardwalk late at night on Aug. 7. 136 West 17th Street, NYC years that it took visitors over Surf Avenue to the Boardwalk The paint job chipped and Others lamented the loss of ber Pat Singer. “We’ve been ness, and which paid to de- Javier Zelaya, MD — and its demise went over rusted, the pathway became an iconic part of the People’s hung out to dry.” molish the structure — said Verna Broughton, PA 718.832.3313 swimmingly with some, but pitted, and an analysis last year Playground — and of an easy Singer, who had fought to no such plans are in the works. left others high and dry. concluded it was in danger of and safe route from the train get the city to fix up the span Instead, the Corporation said The elevated pathway was falling down eventually. onto the Boardwalk. over the years, argued that it the city intends to widen the long an orphan, with neither “I’ve been working on it “If you went to Coney should build a new one. But the sidewalks, install a traffic light the Metropolitan Transit Au- for 17 years, and it’s finally Island as a kid, you got off New York City Economic De- at W. Eighth Street and Surf Introducing the Bruno s2 sleeper thority, nor the Parks Depart- gone,” rejoiced Community that subway, you crossed that velopment Corporation — the Avenue, and create a new en- sofa designed in Brooklyn by Rico ment willing to take respon- Board 13 district manager bridge, and you were in Co- semi-public agency that acts trance to the seaside prome- sibility for maintaining it. Chuck Reichenthal. ney Island,” said CB13 mem- as the city’s liaison to busi- nade at W. 10th Street. Espinet for DellaRobbia USA. Made in California. Affordable inal charges are not going to bench-made quality and easy one stop him from pumping up the hand functionality. jams at future parties. Can’t stop, won’t stop “When you are doing some- 546 third ave bklyn 11215 718.797.2077 thing you love and spreading shoprico.com happiness, something like get- Teen who threw bash on Manhattan Bridge still defi ant ting arrested does not mat- By Danielle Furfaro ter,” said Robert Melendez, one half of Bear Sauce. The Brooklyn Paper Shlaferman says that it is The party promoter who the sixth event he has thrown got himself and two disc since last summer and that jockey pals arrested for each party has been free and throwing a giant shindig on un-permitted, including one the Manhattan Bridge this in a hangar at Floyd Bennett weekend said he will continue Field and one in a big, open to organize illicit bashes be- lot in Bensonhurst. cause young Brooklynites are For some of the parties, strapped for nightlife. “We saw a bunch of young Shlaferman says he hauled in toys like bouncy castles, people with nothing to do and Alex Shlaferman (above) we gave them something to mechanical bulls, and slides. threw a party on the pe- The bridge bonanza was Sh- do,” said Alex Shlaferman, a destrian walkway of the 19-year-old Bensonhurst na- laferman’s last for the sum- Manhattan Bridge. mer, but he will be back at it tive who goes by Alex Xander Shlaferman Alex courtesy Photos and hosts un-sanctioned par- next year, he said. The just- ties around the borough. “Will I get arrested?” asks Cops from Downtown Sauce, charging all three with busted teen guru said his fun- The Manhattan Bridge a hypothetical attendee in the Brooklyn’s 84th Precinct disorderly conduct, trespass- hungry peers are counting event started at about 10 party invite. raided the party at about 12:40 ing, and reckless endanger- on him. pm on Friday night. A Fa- The organizers’ answer: am, arresting Shlaferman and ment. One of the arrested “It’s a movement more cebook invitation instructed “No, but we might.” a disc jockey duo called Bear mix masters said the crim- than a party,” he said. revelers to walk up the pedes- trian path from the Brook- lyn side and gather near the middle, where the walkway is wider. What they found L train shuts out night owls was a booming, generator- powered sound system and a By Danielle Furfaro September and, so far, the ser- Bushwick and works near the down a line for a large chunk Italian sleeper mechanism opens to a European platform bed. It can young crowd waving bottles The Brooklyn Paper vice change is emptying out Bedford Avenue L stop in Wil- of time to perform mainte- in the air. Close to 400 peo- It has only been one week bars and leaving late-night L liamsburg. Ryman says she has nance work. Free nighttime be fully disassembled for easy transport. As you open it, it retains the ple were there by the time the and night owls in Williams- riders with big headahces and been taking the M train and the shuttle buses trace the route cushioning under the sofa for self storage. Easily opens with one hand last disc jockey got rolling at burg and Bushwick are al- little patience for the Metro- walk adds an extra half an hour of the L, but they tend to be and, once lifted, it self retracts closed. midnight, according to one ready grumpy. politan Transit Authority. to her usually short trip. slow, overcrowded, and spo- report, many of them teen- The L train is shutting “Leave it to the MTA to The closure is part of the radic, eliciting groans from agers, according to another , down from Lorimer to Myr- screw us over again,” said Metropolitan Transportation store owners who say no train though Shlaferman puts the tle-Wyckoff every week night Sarah Ryman, who lives near Authority’s Fast Track pro- means trouble for their bot- art lighting furniture decor number at 1,000. from 11:45 pm to 5 am until the Jefferson Avenue L stop in gram, where the agency shuts tom line. 4 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 August 16–22, 2013
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The kid was rid- • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment BrooklynPaper.com/blotter at noon when she got a call • Root Canal • Extractions • Dentures • Cleanings tempted to snatch a phone ton Street at 11:30 pm when ing with two others. • Implant Dentistry • Fillings (tooth colored) from a straphanger in the the bandit snatched the laptop from a man with an accent. • Stereo headphones • Analgesia (Sweet air) Jay Street-Metrotech sub- bag, containing a Mac lap- The 36-year-old victim told 86th Street store and ran up The man said he was hold- 90TH PRECINCT way station on Aug. 5, po- cops that she got out of the her credit card bill on Aug. ing the victim’s mother hos- Dr. Jeffrey M. Kramer top, from the victim’s shoul- Southside–Bushwick 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens lice report. der. The perp ran down Duf- yellow cab in front of the eat- 3, police report tage and that if she did not do what he said, he would 624-5554 U 624-7055 The victim was riding the field and disappeared. ery between Third and Fourth The victim told cops she Guns for justice A train at 2 pm when the per- avenues at 9:30 pm and went was shopping at the store kill her mother. The man An opportunistic thief Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking Phoning it in demanded that she buy him and insurance plans accommodated son next to her asked for the to grab her luggage out of the between Fourth and Fifth stole a retired cop’s gun when time. When she said she didn’t A thief snagged a phone trunk, which was locked. avenues at 5:30 pm, when prepaid phone cards and tell he set it down on a table at a have it, the thief put on gloves from the hands of a pedes- When she asked the driver to the shady ladies suddenly him the pin numbers of the Graham Avenue phone store and tried to take the phone trian walking on Fulton Street unlock the trunk, he said okay, brushed up against her — cards. on Aug. 7. on Aug. 5, police said. While he was still on the Follow our daily updates on Twitter from her purse pocket. but continued to drive away one from the front, the other The 61-year-old victim The victim fled through The victim was near Bond with her suitcase holding her from the back. She felt one phone, the victim went to a told police that he put his twitter.com/Brooklyn_Paper the open doors at the Jay Street at 11 pm when the thief MacBook Pro, clothes, shoes, of them touch her purse, but Duane Reade and purchased property on a table as he Street station, thankfully plucked the phone right out perfume, and toiletries. thought nothing of it until she the cards and told him the was making a phone call with her phone still on her. of the victim’s hands and fled The victim later contacted received a call from her bank numbers. He then told her to inside the business between down Bond Street. the driver and he said that he the next day, asking about re- go home, take naked pictures Moore and Varet streets at did not have her luggage in cent charges on her plastic. of herself, and send them to 4:30 pm. When he turned Smoke screen him via text message. At that Police arrested a man his trunk, cops said. She realized then the two had around a moment later, his pocketed her wallet. point, the woman hung up Smith and Wesson gun, his who they say assaulted and Wedding crasher the phone and called her .POUIMZ)FBMUI5JQT robbed a person on Fulton A sly bandit made off with X-treme crime Department of Corrections mother, who said she had ID card, two credit cards, a GSPN/FX:PSL.FUIPEJTU)PTQJUBM Street Mall on Aug. 8, po- a woman’s purse while she A lowlife rode off with not been kidnapped. In all, lice said. was at a wedding at a Third two pricey Motocross bicy- pistol permit, and $900 in the woman was on the phone cash were all missing. The victim was near Hoyt Street venue on Aug. 10. cles from a Ridge Boulevard call for 37 minutes. Police Street at 11:54 pm when the The 47-year-old victim garage on Aug. 6, accord- have the phone number of Hit and run 5P#SFBTUGFFEPS perp asked the victim for a told cops that she left her ing to cops. the caller but have not yet A pair of thugs bashed cigarette and then a light. brown leather pocketbook The victim reported that arrested him. a guy in the face as he was “I don’t smoke,” the vic- in the office of the wed- her ex-husband was work- Wallet swipe walking down McKibbin tim said. The perp then al- ding venue between Fourth ing in the carport for much street on Aug. 5 — and /PUUP#SFBTUGFFE legedly punched the victim and Fifth avenues at 6:30 A creepy thief in black By Sanford Lederman, M.D. of the morning, but left — then stole his iPhone and in the head, took a cellphone pm for safekeeping. When and locked up — at 12:30 sunglasses, who was carry- wallet. Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and ran away. Police say they she returned about an hour pm. When the victim came ing a newspaper and had a The victim told police that New York Methodist Hospital arrested the suspect and re- and a half later her bag — back to her home between white towel around his neck, he was at the southwest cor- turned the phone to the vic- containing her credit cards, 90th and 91st streets, she stole a woman’s property on ner of Bogart Street at 1:40 y due date is only proteins, sugar and water to tim. — Jaime Lutz $130, cellphone, and Metro- discovered the two-wheel- the L train on Aug. 8. am when a guy suddenly hit The victim told police that weeks away, but sustain a healthy baby. Formula North train tickets — was ers missing. him in the face. The victim missing. she got onto a crowded L train could not remember if he lost I’m still on the fence is harder for babies to digest, 78TH PRECINCT Toolbag at First Avenue at 7:30 pm and consciousness. Park Slope Party foul A crook cleaned out a Nar- that the strange-looking man about whether or which decreases the number of The robber grabbed the “M A brazen crook stole a rows Avenue garage of the got on the same stop. As the not to breastfeed my baby—can times babies need to be fed, but Waist-bandits phone and wallet out of his woman’s car keys while owner’s tools on Aug. 6, au- train raced through the tun- can also lead to more instances Police arrested two men pockets. The 20-year-old vic- you give me some pros and cons she was at a private party thorities allege. nel, she felt the man’s news- of breast milk versus formula?” of diarrhea or constipation. who allegedly attacked a man at a Flatbush Avenue bar, The victim said he was tim said he saw the guys run- and stole his iPod while he paper touching her left arm, Some women have difficulty then jacked her vehicle that working on the side of his but didn’t think anything of ning down the street before Weighing the benefits and was on Third Avenue on he was taken to Woodhull with breastfeeding at first, from its Saint Marks Place house between 77th and 78th it. The victim got off the train drawbacks of breastfeeding and Aug. 7. parking spot overnight on streets from 1 pm until 7:30 hospital for treatment. but many hospitals, including at Lorimer Street and a wit- formula-feeding, just as you’re The 20-year-old victim Aug. 8. pm. After wrapping up, he Work theft told cops that he was near ness stopped her. doing now, is a great way to de- NYM, have lactation consultants The 44-year-old victim told found his carport door pried “That man took your wal- Carroll Street at 9:20 pm Someone stole the con- who can teach new mothers police that her friend parked open and his hammer drill, let,” he said. velop a feeding plan that suits when the 25-year-old sus- tents of a woman’s back- techniques that will help them the red Nissan on the street screwgun, skill saw, chop The woman searched your family’s unique needs. pect grabbed his electronic pack when she left it in the between Fourth and Fifth av- saw, compressor, framing her pocketbook, and sure breastfeed. music device from him back area of her workplace Breast milk’s combination of enues at 11:20 pm and they gun, corded drill, and a case enough, her wallet, driver’s Ultimately, the choice be- while a 27-year-old accom- on Metropolitan Avenue on fat, sugar, water and protein is both went to the bash near of finish nails all missing. license, credit card, Metro- Aug. 3. tween breastfeeding and for- plice punched and kicked the designed to support newborn Saint Marks Avenue. While at Dance of death Card, and cash were all miss- The woman, who works mula-feeding is an individual victim, causing bruising and the party, the victim’s friend ing. Police canvassed numer- development, and the compo- swelling to his face, police A punk ripped off a Sev- at a restaurant between decision that each woman has a left the car keys on the table ous stops along the line but Marcy Avenue and Have- sition of a particular mother’s said. and the victim discovered enth Avenue dance studio right to make for herself and her found nothing. meyer Street, told police that breast milk will change naturally The younger perp — who them missing at 2:15 am. while the owner was away baby. There is no set formula to cops said had a warrant out between Aug. 1 and Aug. 5, Fast-track she left her bag in an open in response to her baby’s feeding Shortly thereafter, her ride area while she worked. Af- habits and age. Through breast follow. for his arrest — then threw — which contained her Gu- cops state. A robber snatched a neck- the iPod at the victim and The victim told police she lace off of a woman’s neck ter her shift ended at 6 pm, milk, mothers pass on antibodies NYM has a breastfeeding cci sunglasses, Tom Ford sun- she came back to find her ID grabbed his own waistband glasses, a dress, jeans, and a closed down the performance on the L train at the Lormier and proteins that protect babies support group available to all card, credit card, onyx ring, as if he was armed, accord- suit — was also gone. space near the corner of 79th Street stop on July 28. against infection and inhibit the new mothers, whether or not ing to a police report. Street at 8 pm, and returned The victim told police that and backpack with animal growth of harmful bacteria in they have given birth at NYM. Yard fail four days later at 4 pm to find she was on the last train of a print pocket all missing. To-go bag A man’s angry brother babies’ intestines. The group meets every Tuesday the front door lock busted. Canarsie-bound train at 4:30 Walk and rob A lead-footed taxi driver punched him and bashed Inside, a tin box with $20 in am. When the train stopped While commercial formulas at 2:30 p.m. on the third floor, drove away with a woman’s Two robbers stalked a guy him in the face with coffee cash, $1,000 in checks, and a at Lorimer, the crook stepped down Varet Street on Aug. lack the complexity and anti- room 3K-C, at 506 Sixth Street in suitcase holding more than mugs from the man’s yard set of keys was gone. into the car, reached through $1,000 worth of goods after 7, and then threatened him bodies of breast milk, they do Brooklyn. You can call 718-780- sale in front of his 11th Street Frame-up the bars on the side of the with a gun. contain the right amount of fat, 5081 for more information. he dropped her off at a Union house on Aug. 11, according seat and snatched the yel- Street barbecue restaurant on A burglar broke into a The victim told police he to police. low necklace from around was at the southeast corner Aug. 6. The 56-year-old victim 72nd Street house by remov- her neck. ing part of the door frame, of Graham Avenue at 2:30 told cops he was in front pm when he realized that he of his abode between Sixth and made off with a cache of Sleep no more was being followed. A min- and Seventh avenues at 4 pm jewelry from inside on Aug. Someone stole a guy’s ute later, the men cut in front when his brother showed up 9, police say. bag from under his feet as of him. and bought coffee cups. Then The homeowner reported he slept on a Brooklyn-bound “Empty your stuff,” one the two began to argue. that he left his residence be- L train in the early morning of them said. “I have a gun “I’m going to take your tween 10th and 11th avenues of Aug. 5. and I will shoot you.” house,” said the violent at 11 am and returned at 6:15 The victim told police that The tough guys then took brother, who punched the vic- pm. Upon getting home, he he got on the train at Man- the 19-year-old’s property, in- tim in the face and struck him found the moulding broken hattan’s Union Square station Dr. Neal Mittman with the coffee cups, caus- off the rear entrance, the and fell asleep at the First Av- cluding his iPhone, $25 in ing cuts and bruising to the door open, and the house enue station. When he woke cash, driver’s license, ID victim’s face, according to ransacked. up at Bedford Avenue at 2:30 card, credit card, and wal- a police report. The thief made off with a am, he looked down and saw let. Specialist in Kidney Diseases, pair of gold earrings, a pair that his bag — which con- Bike robbers Bathroom break of pearl earrings, a watch, tained cash, his cellphone, A crook snatched a wom- Two speedy robbers on and $500 in cash. wallet, MetroCard, and debit bicycles grabbed a wom- Hypertension and Dialysis an’s cash and bank cards that — Will Bredderman card — was missing. she left unattended inside a an’s phone on Penn Street He did not see who took on Aug. 6. Seventh Avenue coffee fran- the bag. He told the cops that chise on Aug. 10. 94TH PRECINCT The victim told police she he was drunk and wanted to was walking at the northeast The 33-year-old victim Greenpoint–Northside go home. told police that she was in corner Broadway at 10 pm the chain cafe between First False pretenses Bike-by when the teenagers rode Street and Garfield Place A clever thief called a A kid on a bicycle on up alongside him and one when she went to use the woman while she was walk- Engert Avenue stole an iP- of them grabbed the phone bathroom at 1:15 pm, leav- ing her dog through McCa- hone out of a guy’s hand on out of her hand. They rode ing $60 and her debit and rren Park on Aug. 4, got her July 23. off and were not seen again. credit cards on the counter. to buy him phone cards, and The victim told police — Danielle Furfaro When she came out about 10 minutes later her belongings were gone. The perp made purchases with her credit card, accord- ing to a police report. 0@=
for nurses unions blasted Baynes said he could decide the guards and the diver- whether the state broke the sion of ambulances from law by this Friday, but that Fort LICH the hospital’s emergency he would prefer it if the two Two killed in park room in a series of hear- sides reached a peace deal ings last week, saying that instead. By Jaime Lutz out nearby, were a grisly re- Sean and Colleen Greene Boosters: State has turned the measures put the state Also last week, a court The Brooklyn Paper minder of a time when Fort of Kensington were dog-sit- in contempt of court, a vi- struck down the state’s ap- Two men were shot and Greene was synonymous in ting in the neighborhood but, olation that is punished by peal of a temporary restrain- killed in Fort Greene Park some people’s minds with after being informed of the hospital into armed camp crime . One park-goer said fines or jail. ing order reached by the last Friday, but by Monday killings, said that they would that the past violence was A lawyer for the State nurses unions — meaning afternoon the bloody crime not return to the park. De- By Jaime Lutz men with guns, according to not confined to the neigh- The Brooklyn Paper the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. University of New York, that the outcome of that case scene was far from the minds spite the vow to keep away, of most park-goers. borhood, which has been a the pair said the shooting did Long Island College Hos- Garner testified that only which is trying to close the rests in Baynes’s hands. bohemian hot spot since the pital has more security guards one doctor remains on duty hospital, said on Thursday The state has been trying Children played in foun- not come as a shock. 1980s, but was a fact of life “I’m not surprised, person- than doctors these days and in the emergency room and that the guards are neces- to close the hospital since tains, joggers pounded up the in the whole borough. ally,” Sean Greene said. the omnipresent sentries are that guards search her purse sary because of anti-closure February over fierce oppo- park’s challenging stairs, and “It’s Brooklyn,” said Do- making the place feel more whenever she enters, accord- protests outside the hospital , sition. In court last Thurs- workers shot some hoops on menick Propati, sitting on Longtime neighborhood like a jail than a medical cen- ing to the Eagle. which he described as “an- day, Baynes bristled at a their lunch break, just feet the sidelines of a basketball residents said they would ter, hospital advocates say. This paper’s reporter vis- gry mobs in front of LICH.” state health department away from where a gunner let game. “Depending on how stay put because they do The guards are harass- iting the hospital last Friday Photo by Stefano Giovannini The state is trying to have claim that the closing pro- off nine rounds, killing Jah- long you’ve lived in Brooklyn, not want to cede ground to ing staffers and would-be saw no guns but did encoun- Security guards crowd- both lawsuits thrown out on cess has been orderly. mal Issac Page, 21, and An- that’s what you expect.” criminals. patients in and around the ter more than a dozen guards ed around the mostly technical grounds, claim- “To call it even a tran- thony Earl-Govon, 22, and in- Police have no suspect so “I can’t let them bully me embattled Cobble Hill insti- patrolling outside and inter- closed Long Island Col- ing that the plaintiffs lack sition, let alone an orderly juring a third man at 11:30 pm far in the killings, which oc- out,” said Mayra Gonzalez, tution, according to a doc- rogating anyone who tried to lege Hospital, ques- legal standing. transition, strains the mean- three days earlier. The kill- curred on the Myrtle Avenue a Fort Greene resident who tor who testified in court last enter through the sole un- tioning everyone who Brooklyn Supreme ing of the words,” Baynes ings, which reportedly took side of the park near Saint Ed- walks through the park ev- week as part of the last-ditch locked door. The gauntlet of entered. Court Justice Johnny Lee said. place as some 50 kids hung wards Street, police said. ery day. legal fight to save the hospi- security guards is just one of tal. Hospital advocates say the ways the state is defy- the intense security presence ing court orders that bar it is an illegal ploy by the state from taking any more steps to close the health care facil- to close the hospital, advo- ity once and for all. cates say. Trusted & Caring Dental Care “I feel intimidated,” Dr. “[The state] has been in- Alice Garner testified last tentionally and willfully vi- Friday. olating court orders,” said MOST MAJOR INSURANCES ACCEPTED Garner, who is head of neo- Jim Walden, a lawyer for natal care at the 155-year-old the public advocate’s of- Medicaid Not Accepted institution, said that a room fice arguing at a Thursday full of babies is no place for hearing. Walden and lawyers MTV... Continued from page 1 Nor would the network from the network, spelling spokesman reveal the loca- out road closures and park- tion of the red carpet, but in ing restrictions for the days the letter the network wrote surrounding the gargantuan that there will be “ample ac- gala. Sixth Avenue will shut tivity mostly along Sixth Av- down between Atlantic Ave- enue and Dean Street.” nue and Dean Street, begin- MTV officials declined to ning on Aug. 23, according say how much the network to the letter. The street clo- expects to make from this sures will balloon to encom- years’s awards show, which pass eight Prospect Heights will include performances blocks between Flatbush Av- from Miley Cyrus, Robin enue, Atlantic Avenue, Ber- Thicke, Katy Perry, Kanye gen Street, and Vanderbilt West, and, yes, Lady Gaga . Other Specialties Include: Sedation Dentistry, Avenue on the day of the Last year, 6.13 million peo- awards show and “crowd ple tuned in to see who would Eat, Chew Laughing Gas, Holistic Dentistry, Smile Makeovers control” will be in effect, get a moon man, making the the letter said. awards show edge out the Just what will happen on & Smile Call TODAY to Make those blocks remains a mys- Democratic National Con- tery and neighbors say the vention for most-watched Naturally Again! Your Appointment! note did little to allay their television program. concerns. Anxious neighborhood Specializing in Cosmetic We Offer Convenient Appointments Before & After Work or School “How much noise are the car owners will get a break fans going to make? What from the parking crunch, at Dentistry, Dental Implants & is going to happen to our least. MTV says it will re- Placement, & Restoration Dr. Rabiel Robert $ tree beds?” asked Krashes. serve a Barclays Center park- Amirian DDS, FICOI NEW PATIENT 89 Cleaning and “Where is the rerouted traf- ing lot on Pacific Street for $ fic going to go?” residents only. WE OFFER PAYMENT PLANS & 0% FINANCING SPECIALS 89 Exam & Xrays Sources familiar with the A spokeswoman for the plans said that the music net- Mayor’s Office of Media and work will line Dean Street Entertainment, which gave s */2!,%-/. 34 35)4% % s "2//+,9. .9 with grandstands, but MTV MTV permits for the event, spokesman Jake Urbanski said that despite residents’ 2 3 4 5 A F R would not confirm that. claims of radio silence, the 777"2//+,9.$%.4!,#/- “That is still to be deter- office is in close communica- Convenient Brooklyn Heights Location mined,” Urbanski said. tion with the community.
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cates say that Greenpoint- ArchitectsHandel ers have nothing to worry The Greenpoint Landing’s 10 towers and 5,500 apartments will look like this about and that they will get if developers get their way, but neighbors are fighting the plan they say will plenty out of the deal. drive up rents, strain infrastructure, and expose luxury apartment dwellers to A spokeswoman for Park the Newtown Creek’s toxic waters. Tower Group, the company hoping to build the complex, told the rowdy crowd that helped developers build the city has final say. In the rently being used to store 1,382 units will be set aside mega-projects that are too past, controversial projects Metropolitan Transit Author- for affordable housing and big for their neighborhoods that the board has shot down, ity vehicles, and it is count- emphasized that the towers and have driven up housing such as the rezoning and the ing on a zoning variance to will come with a terraced prices. original Domino Sugar Fac- let the towers rise. park, which she said will re- The community board tory project, all gained city The development compa- pel toxic creek water in the will announce its vote on approval. ny’s spokeswoman said con- event of a flood; a kayak the project sometime in the The Park Tower Group struction should begin in the launch for calmer times; a next month, but the board’s still needs the city to sell first quarter of 2014 if all the dog park; and walkways al- vote is strictly advisory and a waterfront lot that is cur- approvals go through. lowing non-residents to reach the noxious waterfront. Jack Hammer, director of the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, acquiesced to 5 Reasons to Choose hecklers’ demands that he re- veal rents for the affordable Union Temple units, saying that rents would run from $560 to $1,290 for a studio apartment, $600 to Religious School $1,610 for a one-bedroom, and $1,100 to $1,925 for a two-bedroom. Discover an exciting choice in Reform Jewish education! Our newly The promises did little enhanced program features: to placate the angry Green- pointers who interrupted tower boosters throughout the night. “This is going to take more cops, firemen, trans- portation, sewers and power,” Erica Matechak said. “How and drama will this be supported?” The Greenpoint Landing project was made possible by Register now! For details: the 2005 rezoning of miles of waterfront land that had pre- Call: 718-638-7600 Ext. 5 viously been zoned for indus- trial uses. Other projects pig- Email: [email protected] gybacking on the new rules include the Domino Sugar Factory in Williamsburg, the UNION TEMPLE 77 Commercial St. tower in A Reform Jewish Congregation Greenpoint, as well as proj- ects already built including 17 Eastern Parkway Northside and the Edge, the glass condo compounds on Brooklyn, NY 11238 the Williamsburg water- www.uniontemple.org front. Neighborhood activ- ists have condemned the re- zoning, saying it has only
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The film series is an expansive, multi-genre affair — playing better known films such as the 1961 Daniel Petrie adaptation of Lorraine Han- sberry’s classic, “A Raisin In the Sun,” along- side the priceless cul- tural criticism of James Baldwin, as captured in a trio of documentary films chronicling the musings and travels of the iconic novelist and essayist. “So much footage from the late ’60s has Photo by AP / Dave Pickoff totally dominated our imagination of the civil rights movement,” said director Nellie Killian, who curated the provoc- (718) 260–2500 August 16–22, 2013 atively titled series “A Time for Burning: Cin- The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings ema of the Civil Rights Movement.” “Those images are so indelible, and so im- portant, but there was a history of activism be- fore the March that we wanted to show.” “A Time for Burning: Cinema of the Civil Rights Movement,” at BAM Cinematek at BAM Rose Cinemas [30 Lafayette Ave., be- tween St. Felix Street and Ashland Place in Fort Greene, (718) 636–4100, bam.org]. Aug. Jiminy 13–28. — Vinson Cunningham ART Drawing in You know a place is special when archi- tects keep sketching it well-after the blueprints have been drawn. cricket A contest asking for artistic renditions of the famous Grand Central Terminal has brought out the poetic side of architects and designers — no- Bring your own creations tably Zach Downey. His pen and ink drawing titled “Eddies of Pause” is noticeably to life in Fort Greene shop the most eloquent piece in the Grand Central By Will Bredderman Sketchbook exhibition The Brooklyn Paper WORKSHOP at the New York Transit Museum. Icons associ- spiring puppeteers now have the Puppet-Sculpting Workshop at the ated with New York’s Lone Wolf Tribe, inside the Alliance Photo by Stefano Giovannini chance to step into a Fort Greene of Resident Theatres Studio [138 beloved landmark — A workshop to carve a character of South Oxford St., between Atlantic Grand Central Oyster Bar, the four-faced clock their choice out of foam-rubber — the Avenue and Hanson Place, in Fort crowning the information booth, concrete cher- same squishy substance that fills couches Greene, (718) 398–3701, www.lone- ubim, and the starry ceiling — are harmoni- and mattresses. wolftribe.com]. Aug. 25, 2 pm. $65. ously entwined like lines in a haiku. Puppet maker Kevin Augustine, founder “I think spaces sometimes evoke words, but of the Lone Wolf Tribe puppet theater “She made this toy for me, a toy that no other more often I think words evoke spaces,” said company, said those who enter his lab- kid could go and buy,” said Augustine. Downey. “Maybe this is the architect in me.” oratory come in with a simple front and “That’s what made it so special for me.” “Grand Central Sketchbook: Designers side sketch of a face, and leave with some- Years later, when Augustine was a Dream” at the New York City Transit Museum thing astonishing and strange. budding playwright struggling to find Photo by Rachel Eisley Dog days: Kevin Augustine will show you how to make your own foam puppet- [130 Livingston St., entrance at Schermerhorn “People are really surprised,” he said. the perfect performers to bring his sto- Street and Boerum Place in Downtown, (718) “They come in with no idea with how ries to life, he turned to puppets again — head on Aug. 25. 694–1600. Through Dec. 1, $7, $5 children they’re going to do this, and they leave and discovered that they unlocked great and seniors. — Samantha Lim with this puppet head.” creative doors for him. rubber, rather than from socks or felt or pol- the foam, something that people say re- Over the course of three-and-a-half “I tried to form a company, but I could ished wood. The puppeteer said he picked ally gives the puppet a soul.” hours, the participants learn to shape the never get enough actors to share a vision the material for its spongy, almost flesh- The customers range from curious am- block with knife and scissors — a tech- and stick together. So I went back to my like quality, which he argued gives his ateurs to school teachers to professional MUSIC nique Augustine has perfected during the past, and I thought, ‘Oh, wow, I can make characters a distinctive personality. puppeteers, each of whom give life to their 16 years the Lone Wolf Tribe has been in my own actors,’ ” Augustine said. “For me, there’s a real emotional texture individual vision. Augustine compared the operation. The puppet master said his fas- “Once you create the puppet, you can to the foam. Something about how the light craft to Renaissance sculpture. cination with the art form began in child- create the world it lives in, and then you falls on it, it really comes alive in a way that “Michelangelo believed the figure is hood, with a plaything his grandmother can write the play.” is not as precious as some really smooth, already in the block of stone, or the chunk Rocking out made for him from a sock, a buck-toothed Ultimately, Augustine decided to mold porcelain doll face,” Augustine said. of foam… and you release it,” said Au- dragon Augustine named Fang. the Lone Wolf Tribe’s troupe from foam- “There’s something more organic to gustine. The band members might all be in their teens, but between them, they have several decades of musical knowledge. “Who’s a good, good doggy?” The Skins members ages range from 14 to And “No! That is not how we 19, and with two years greet people here! ” So instead of touring and record- dogs have taken to forming ing under their belts al- their own community action ready, the Brooklyn tal- Poetic pooches! groups to make certain there ents are a well-worn, is always something muddy solid machine of soul- and rancid to roll in. ful, frenetic rock. Also, their political cam- “Even our ballads A dog chats it up with The Paper paigns have posters featuring are heavy,” said mu- a photo of a dog and the slogan sician Bayli McKei- By Sol Park relation to their apartment. Af- “Won’t walk off in mid-press than.
The Brooklyn Paper ter all, no giant Mastiff wants conference like a cat.” Photo by Reckless Productions Bayli was 14, and his to enter his new forever home SP: Do you know any dog siblings Kaya and Reef Author Francesco Mar- and find only so much space writers who are planning to were 13 and nine when they started going to ciuliano has helped cats for him to walk in a tight cir- publish the great American Paul Green’s School of Rock in Manhattan. speak their poetic minds cle and sleep. novel? Since then, they have lived and breathed music. in “I Could Pee On This A city dog’s greatest joy is AD: Despite their usual There, they met classmates and dueling gui- and Other Poems By Cats,” that first day with their new open nature, dogs can be very tarists Daisy Spencer and Russell Chell. and with his latest “I Could Chew On This,” the author is family — and every day af- secretive when it comes to their They have already played a bunch of Brook- publishing some of the best ter that. Oh, and when some- book pitches. You can be run- lyn and Manhattan venues, including Spike works canine lyricists from one rings the doorbell, because ning around in the park with Hill, the House of Yes, the Brooklyn Museum, an “unprecedented — and there is always the chance that them, wrestling with them, and the Brooklyn Bowl. unaccredited — writing pro- the person at the door may have getting licked by them. But The band members never dreamed that gram” have produced, such not sufficiently cleaned his or the moment you ask, “So, they would become full-time musicians. They as “I Lose My Mind When her face after eating. how’s that historical fiction planned to go to and finish college and get a You Leave the House,” and withih a real lB Brooklyn kl dog: d SP: What kind of improve- novel you’re working on about regular job. But now, that seems to be chang- “I Dropped A Ball.” ments might a dog suggest to the two incompatible samu- ing. All of the members in college plan to take On Aug. 28, the author Sol Park: What do you the next mayor? rais who run a B&B going?” a year off and 14-year-old Reef will be home will invite humans and dogs think is a city dog’s greatest AD: For years, dogs have and suddenly the dog will get schooled. Photo by Stefano Giovannini to a reading at the power- fear is? Greatest joy? been trying to make mayors very quiet. He will avoid your The Skins at the AfroPunk Festival at Com- Composed canine: What is Penelope the Toy Shep- House Arena in Dumbo. A dog: A city dog’s greatest aware of their needs only to gaze. He will drop the ten- modore Barry Park (Nassau Street at Navy herd thinking? A book of poetry called “I Could Chew Now, with Marciuliano’s fear is that their person com- be met with such responses nis ball from his mouth. He Street in Fort Greene, afropunkfest.com). On This” provides a glimpse into the canine mind. help, The Paper checked in pletely misjudged their size in as “Who’s a good doggy?” See DOG on page 10 Aug. 24–25, free. — Danielle Furfaro
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St. Francis College [180 TERFRONT: Word Bookstore NERD NITE FESTIVAL: Featuring 25 of Remsen St. between Court and reading series featuring Atlas Re- Nerd Nite’s greatest hits presenta- Clinton streets in Brooklyn Heights, view, Electric Literature, and Emily FRI, AUG. 23 tions from across the globe, as well (718) 489–5200], www.aobff.org. Books. Free. 7 pm. Transmitter as games, trivia, mingling with fel- FILM, ROOFTOP FILMS CLOSING Park [Greenpoint Avenue and West MUSIC, BAROQUE MUSIC: Perfor- low nerds, and lots of free beer and NIGHT: Featuring live music and Street in Greenpoint, (718) 383– mance by the Macao Youth Sym- cheap wine. $100 (weekend); $30 short fi lms. $13. 8 pm. The Old 0096], www.wordbrooklyn.com. phony Orchestra. Free. 10:30 am. (Friday); $65 (Saturday); $50 (Sun- American Can Factory [232 Third St. READING, BOOK GROUP: Discussion Shore Hill Neighborhood Center day). 8–10 pm. Brooklyn Lyceum at Third Avenue in Gowanus, (718) of Jane Gardam’s “Old Filth.” Free. 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In Brooklyn, the popular- ity of adult kickball, scav- enger hunts, and Popsicles COMEDY indicate there isn’t a short- age of nostalgia in the bor- Showcasey Jones at Over the Eight [594 Union Ave. ough. Kaiser hopes to bring between Richardson and the childlike compulsion to Frost streets in Williams- Class pranks burg, www.overtheeight. show off weird stuff to com- edy. com] Aug. 17, 8 pm. Free. “I’ve been doing stand up A Williamsburg comedy event comedy for about five years and it’s fantastic, perform- ing in front of audiences all is a part show, part tell affair over New York, but I missed the participation element of By Jaime Lutz show and tell when I was a show asks audience mem- those days when I was a kid,” The Brooklyn Paper kid because I would bring bers to come on stage and said Kaiser. in weird stuff,” said Lukas show off something weird So far, Brooklynites have f they’re letting you on Kaiser, the host and orga- or cool. The two parts of the brought in some impressively stage, you better have nizer of the monthly Show- night go hand-in-hand, as bizarre objects to show off I something to show for it. casey Jones. Kaiser says the kid activ- — last month, that included A comedy show in Wil- “[My mom] was an anat- ity is not unlike standing on inappropriate tattoos, photo- liamsburg is recreating the omy instructor and would stage and telling jokes. graphs of a dead goat, a home- classroom atmosphere of have model hearts, anat- “I would bring in some- made tube amplifier, a Sha- show-and-tell — and just omy books — one time she thing weird and riff on it and quille O’Neal comic book, like when you were a kid, brought in a brain in a jar get laughs,” he said. “It was oddly enough, a bag of donuts it takes more than words to for me.” probably the first comedy gig with a remote control. impress your classmates. Before presenting a night I’ve ever been booked on, sec- In every show the audi- “I was always the king of of stand-up comedy, the ond grade show-and-tell.” ence votes on a winner to take home a grand prize — this time $100 in cash “to be
placed inside an odd, yet to Photo by Stefano Giovannini By Bill Roundy be determined item,” Kai- Look what I got: Lukas Kaiser is holding an old-fashioned night of show-and-tell — for adults — at Over BAR SCRAWL ser said. the Eight bar in Williamsburg.
rest of the world, ‘This is what this game is,’ ” said Ewalt. “There are a lot of weird precon- ceptions about the Dungeons and The dice kept rolling Dragons, but it’s really an awesome past time.” Ewalt traces Dungeons and Drag- on’s origins to chess, the original ta- How a kids’ game changed the world bletop war game, where players as- semble armies of miniature soldiers By Colin Mixson and battle. The Brooklyn Paper Tabletop war games added dice to calculate one warrior’s chance to hit journalist’s new book tells the another, but what Dungeons and Drag- story of how a set of 20-sided ons creators Gary Gygax and Dave A dice, a character sheet, and a Arneson did differently, Ewalt argues, monster manual known as Dungeons is they shifted the player’s focus from and Dragons changed the world. the commander of an army, to the per- Like modern day video games, spective of one hero — the result was there was no shortage of fear and nothing short of magic. loathing directed at the seemingly “Dungeons and Dragons came out innocuous hobby, and while the au- of nowhere,” the author said. thor explains how the game grew out “In the space of a few years it of chess, opponents had a different was one of the biggest games in the argument — it came from Hell! world, especially in the U.S.” “In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Since then, the pen and paper game there was some hysteria about Dun- has gone on to inspire a generation geons and Dragons being Satanic, cor- of creative minds, video game de- rupting children, and causing them to velopers, and filmmakers, includ- commit crimes and suicide,” said Forbes ing, Ewalt says, Iron Man direc- Magazine’s resident video-game hon- tor Jon Favreau, who learned how cho David Ewalt. “There were a series to craft riveting narratives by bat- of coincidences where a distraught kid tling orks and beholders with the committed suicide or a robbery, and in- roll of a d20. vestigators found Dungeons and Drag- “Of Dice and Men: The Story of ons in his basement.” Dungeons & Dragons and the Peo- Ewalt is celebrating the unveiling ple Who Play It,” at the Greenlight of his new project, “Of Dice and Men: Bookstore [686 Fulton St. between The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and S. Elliot Place and S. Portland Ave- the People Who Play It,” at the Green- nue in Fort Greene, (718) 246–0200, light bookstore on Aug. 23, which de- www.greenlightbookstore.com]. tails the millenium-old influences that Aug. 23, 7:30 pm. Free. spawned the pen and paper behemoth A limited number of people who and how a $70 billion nerd industry pre-order Ewalt’s book, or purchase Superfine [126 Front St., between Jay and Pearl streets in Dumbo, (718) might not have existed without the Community Newspaper Group / Colin Mixson it at the launch event will receive an 243–9005]. Open Tue–Thu, 11:30 am–2 am; Fri , Sat, 11:30 am–4 am; Sun, world’s geekiest past time. Critical hit: David Ewalt is celebrating the launch of his book, “Of invitation to a secret game of Dun- 11:30 am–2 am; Mon, closed. “I really wanted to tell the his- Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons “ Dragons and the People geons and Dragons somewhere in tory of the game and explain to the Who Play It, at the Greenlight Bookstore on Aug. 23. Brooklyn.
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March 2014. “If you take care of other have the whole thing done Some 20 blocks away on people it seems like the com- by April 2015, in time for Carroll Street at Seventh Av- munity will help take care of Easter. enue, Park Slope’s Old First you,” Pastor Daniel Meeter “It’s a unique ceiling,” said A tale of two churches Reformed Church has been said. Meeter. “It’s very difficult to struggling to keep its roof The church’s six-story know exactly how to fix it.” from falling on praying heads ceiling is made up of plaster An exodus of the faith- Boro’s historic citadels struggle to keep out the elements for nearly two years. The ribs stretching the length of ful is a big factor in the two 120-year-old church closed 10 football fields, making the churches’ woes. Half of Brown By Melissa Goldin rents, they are turning to their windows, called “The Pil- its 1,100-seat sanctuary for room look taller than it is and Baptist’s members have left, for The Brooklyn Paper fellow man to make sure re- grims,” is buckling because Christmas in 2011 when the throwing the choir’s voices. leaving 750 churchgoers, while Sometimes praying just pairs get made. of water damage and pull- ceiling showed signs of dis- Church leaders have tapped the flock at Old First Reformed doesn’t cut it. Brown Memorial Baptist ing away from the window repair, leading to fear that several architects for a pre- is down to 160 from a peak of Two of the Christian Church on Gates Avenue at frame. The church could not congregants might get pelted scription on how to repair the 400. A slew of other Brook- houses of worship that help Washington Avenue in Clin- come up with the funds to with plummeting plaster. The huge roof, but each is recom- lyn churches faced with simi- make Brooklyn the Borough ton Hill is the latest in a long fix it, so enterprising con- closure prompted an outpour- mending a different fix. Once lar circumstances have called of Churches are struggling line of churches to look for gregants applied for and won ing of support, netting the they finalize a plan of attack it quits and cashed in, selling to keep their buildings from new ways to keep god’s house a $200,000 grant from Part- church $200,000 in dona- they will still have to choose their buildings to developers falling apart and, faced with from crumbling. One of the ners in Preservation. Still, tions from approximately a construction agency to com- eager to turn them into lux- dwindling flocks and rising church’s 12 stained-glass they say they need to raise 200 people. plete the job. They hope to ury apartments. another $150,000, and for that they are returning to the old standby: passing the hat. “We’re asking the commu- SWEDEN... nity to help restore a living, KANE STREET SYNAGOGUE Continued from page 1 Gerson to serve up local breathing part of history,” said In characteristic Swed- meats to the hungry Nor- Beverly Jacobs, the chair of Rabbi Samuel H. Weintraub ish fashion, the folks at De- dic hordes. the church’s window restora- baser are more blunt about Sweden is the brewery’s tion committee. the similarities. second-largest market after So far, church boosters Photo by Elizabeth Graham A vibrant “Brooklyn and Sweden Brooklyn. The Williamsburg have raised about $15,000, Jose Orengo, a member of Brown Memorial Bap- both have loads of hipsters,” brew pub itself gets some of mostly from churchgoers and tist Church in Clinton Hill, is helping raise money Conservative said promoter Annelie Tel- the action: about 20 percent neighbors. The church hopes to restore The Pilgrims, one of the church’s 19th- congregation in ford. of the visitors who take tours to come up with the rest by century Tiffany stained-glass windows. Performers will include of the beer works are from Cobble Hill rapper El-P, punk goddess Sweden. Lydia Lunch, and electronic The borough suds purvey- W dance composers Designer ors are hosting the festival to Will your family be at elcome Drugs. The cineastes from promote their second brew- the Found Footage Festival ery, which it is currently be- and the Bicycle Film Festi- ing built in Stockholm. The Union Temple the val will screen their mov- company expects to open the ies and organizers of the an- ale factory in January and nual Brooklyn Blowout BBQ begin manufacturing a new will team up with Brooklyn line of beer called New Car- for the High Holy Days? New Year Brewery head chef Andrew negie. with KANE STREET SYNAGOGUE Reserve your FREE tickets! Selichot Saturday evening, August 31 GOWANUS... Tots’ Services Rosh Hashana, Sept. 4th - 6th Continued from page 1 “The community planning Children’s Services Yom Kippur Saturday, Sept. 13th - 14th residents will crowd neigh- process comes as New York borhood schools and subways, City is preparing for a transi- Adult Services Come to the Kane Street Service for a cause traffic jams, and stress tion at City Hall,” Lander said warm and traditional service in our beautiful already over-taxed sewers. in a statement. “It will build For details and schedule: The complex will be upon the work of the [Environ- sanctuary or join us at the more intimate and raised by two feet to com- mental Protection Agency] as www.uniontemple-hhd.org ply with post-Sandy flood well as past planning efforts, informal Bergen Street Service. regulations, a fact protest- to bring people together to out- ers railed against, saying that line a comprehensive strat- Visit Our Open House the high ground will channel egy for Gowanus, preserve th Tour our Pre-School | Join our Hebrew School rainwater into the canal and and strengthen the mixed- Sunday, September 8 ÊUÊ>ÊÊ£« make flooding worse if an- use character of the neigh- Study in our Beit Midrash other major storm hits. borhood, invest in essential “It’s going to aggravate infrastructure, and create an the flooding region-wide,” example for sustainable neigh- Union Temple said Gowanus activist Mar- borhood development.” lene Donnelly. Lander’s office refused to A Reform Jewish Congregation The Lightstone Group comment on why the meeting 17 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238 shows no signs of slowing to ring in a community plan- down and says that it is the ning process was held in se- 718-638-7600 236 Kane Street in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn activists who are aggravat- cret, but said that a series of ing. The rally organizers are public planning meetings will www.uniontemple.org between Court and Clinton Streets spreading “not just misinfor- take place in the fall. mation, but disinformation” about the residential com- plex, company spokesman Ethan Geto said. The com- pany claims it has received every government go-ahead it needs and that it has filed a complete environmental re- view, which shows that any increase in flooding would be dispersed throughout the canal and the New York Har- bor, and into the ocean. The company points to the sup- port of Gowanus’s Commu- nity Board 6 as evidence of how aboveboard the process has been. “The rally organizers sim- ply do not have the facts on their side,” Geto said. But members of Save Gowanus claim that the de- velopment firm is illegally moving forward without state and federal reviews and that the City Planning Commis- sion broke the law when it rubber-stamped the develop- ment in March. The activists say they plan to sue Light- stone Group and probably the planning commission. The canal-side apartments have drawn ire from the start, when the luxury builders Toll Brothers won a hard-fought rezoning to allow housing on the Gowanus. Toll Brothers bailed after the Environmen- tal Protection Agency named the fetid channel a Super- fund site, setting in motion a costly federal cleanup that is scheduled to take until the year 2020 . Former city comptroller and mayoral hopeful Bill Thompson showed up at the rally to throw his hat in with Lightstone opponents, backing their claim that it is foolhardy to erect deluxe apartments alongside a toxic waterway. “This isn’t the type of development we need,” said Thompson. “To rush this [proj- ect] sitting, not near, on top of a Superfund site, doesn’t make that much sense.” Thursday’s rally followed a secret meeting on Monday in Gowanus, held by local officials to discuss a “com- prehensive plan” for the area, according to an invi- tation to the event obtained by The Brooklyn Paper. The meeting, which was closed to the public and to mem- bers of the press, was orga- nized by Councilman Brad Lander (D–Park Slope) along with Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez (D–New York), Assemblywoman Joan Mill- man (D–Carroll Gardens), State Sen. Velmanette Mont- gomery (D–Fort Greene), and Councilman Stephen Levin (D–Greenpoint), according to the invitation. Only a se- lect group of neighborhood activists were invited to the meeting, which the invitation touts as the beginning of an “inclusive planning process.” Pols at the meeting floated the idea of rezoning the man- ufacturing areas along the canal, attendees said. 12 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 August 16–22, 2013
an abandoned home. Other winners of this year’s “If everybody’s doesn’t competition include: Atlan- GREEN... look good, no one’s looks tic Avenue between Bond and ICE... Continued from page 1 den committee. Loftis cited good,” she said. Nevins streets in Boerum Hill, Continued from page 1 rating house fronts with win- the green-thumbed residents’ The block, which came which won greenest commer- to practice their triple salchows. dow boxes and stoop pots. commitment as the key to their in fourth place last year, was cial block; Macon Street be- “Everything is moving forward,” said Parks Depart- decked out this time with vi- tween Ralph Avenue and The Sterling team was ex- victory. She added that the ment spokesman Philip Abramson about the McCa- brant black-eyed Susans, be- Howard Street in Bedford- hilarated by the win. neighborly gardeners often rren pool rink. gonias, petunias, geraniums, Stuyvesant, which won best The Parks Department picked a vendor to set up the “We’re very thrilled. We water the flowers of elderly coral-bells, and vinca flowers. tree beds: and Fulton Street’s rink in hopes of avoiding a repeat of last winter, when worked hard,” said Claudia block residents who are unable The prize comes with $300 My Brooklyn Baby, which the McCarren plan cratered after the Open Space Al- Photo by Stefano Giovannini Loftis, a 20-year resident and to do it themselves, and even and, of course, borough-wide took home the title of green- Sterling Street residents celebrate their win. the chair of the block’s gar- care for the plants in front of bragging rights. est storefront. liance of North Brooklyn, which had fought for the rink, let a crucial deadline pass, then decided that it would be too expensive. The McCarren rink and Prospect Park’s skating fa- cility at the long-delayed Lakeside Center will end a three-year ice drought that has been H-E-double-hock- eysticks for borough skate enthusiasts, who have had to go as far as Aviator Field in Mill Basin, Abe Stark Arena in Coney Island, and even Manhattan to get their KIDS • SCHOOL • STYLE • TEENS • CAMPS • MUSIC glide on. The $74-million replacement for the Woll- PARENT man rink had been scheduled to partially open in late 2012 but plans for a temporary stand-in rink veered off-track, leaving the skating complex on ice. Rink construction is not finished and the Prospect Park Al- liance is still negotiating with a vendor, but the com- Stephanie chimes in on opting out plex, which will have an indoor and an outdoor rink, is really opening this time, according to alliance spokes- could be the poster night pre-kids. But then, the time spent parallel park. man Paul Nelson. child for the confusion Ha. The loss of sched- making close friends out of If I sound blasé about this News of the openings was music to the ears of bor- I currently reigning over uled productivity and self- other struggling-to-figure- subject, believe me, I’m not. ough residents itching to strap on some skates. whether or not it is a good sustaining income was a one- Fearless it-out strangers in cafes, tak- It is an issue that, sadly, has “It’s something that the community has wanted to see or bad idea for women to two punch that has taken its ing long walks in the park no right or wrong answer. happen for a while,” Greenpointer Ryan Watson said. “opt out” of the workforce toll on my self-esteem. And Parenting to figure out myself and the It is a muddy path. The in order to stay home and my marriage. And my par- dreams I’d barely been able to choices that were so hard raise children. The problem enting. By Stephanie Thompson dream, the extended showers won are not nearly as glori- is, I’m not sure whether I’d I have been fairly shocked where I’d stay in long after ous as Gloria Steinem might be pictured wearing a smile at how hard it is to stay mo- turning off the water to write have predicted. But they have INTERFAITH... or a scowl. tivated and focused outside first year or two, co-chair- a call from the teacher about my thoughts in my robe, that ing the library committee my son standing on a chair? to be made, and we have to Continued from page 1 The roughly six years the framework of a specific time has been priceless to me. look forward and say, “What since I left the workforce structure, without the rig- and spending hours and If I couldn’t even get my son I have written drafts of nov- protests. now?” without a plan other than orous demands of a weekly hours scheduling classes to behave if I wasn’t work- els and started playing piano “The legal angle is just one angle,” Lutz said. to drop off and pick up my magazine, without the threat for the mobile library when ing, what right did I have by ear, things I wouldn’t have I’ll ask the lawyer I’m The nurses association and 1199 Service Employ- kids from school have been of a boss’s ire. I always the school’s own was being to advise other parents on had time for or made time for talking to in a few min- ees International Union together represent most of the rough ones. And I say this thought I was self-motivated, renovated, and then helping parenting? Turns out the while working full time. utes on my latest mom- 1,544 Interfaith employees.More than 150 hospital ad- sheepishly since I am one of since I was able to work well the school librarian put the Container Store gives me My kids look at me preneur business idea what vocates showed up to a first protest rally last Thursday the lucky ones whose family on the two days I worked at library back together and get hives so I never did get to strangely if I threaten to go he thinks I should do. Af- night despite driving rain. income allowed for me not to home for the first six years it up and running. I helped those closets. We eat out a back to work. ter all, it was our accoun- “This is about care for all of Brooklyn,” said regis- have to bring in too much. I of motherhood. But that was plan some great events. lot, and homework has gone “No,” they’ll say defin- tant who suggested I quit tered nurse Charmayne Saddler-Walker. “Not one hos- was free to bake those cook- with deadlines looming and I sat in cafes and drummed undone unless the kids took itively, a sign they do like way back when. I think his pital should close in our borough.” ies, organize those closets, be someone expecting some- up ideas for freelance stories it on themselves. I guess I’m having me around if only for words were, “Why work if The hospital on Atlantic Avenue between Albany a patient homework-helper, thing, and something good, of the kind I’d always wanted not at all smarter than a fifth fresh popcorn after school, you don’t have to?” and Troy avenues is set to close in mid-November if serve up those gourmet din- by a specific time. to write. But getting up the grader, or even a fourth or and the only ego boost I’ll I couldn’t answer him the state gets its way, forcing the 300,000 mostly poor ners I made almost every I volunteered a lot that gumption to pitch them after third grader. get all day besides a good then, but I can now. and uninsured people who use its services annually to look elsewhere for health care. Managers had planned to stop accepting ambulances and admitting new pa- Thursdays are FUN! tients on Aug. 15. Concert & Balloon Twisting 4-6p, $15/family suggstd Interfaith is the second borough hospital to start shut- ting down this year. Long Island College Hospital an- THE Come Together nounced its shuttering in February. Workers and pols with Family & Friends are pushing back against that closure in court and in street protests, but only a few patients remain in the Cobble Hill facility. SPOT
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The Community Safety Act is nuts and should be called the Community UNSAFETY Act. If somebody robs a bank in your neighborhood, You can’t say if the suspect is ASIAN, BLACK, WHITE, or HISPANIC You can’t say if the person is MALE or FEMALE. You can’t say if the person is 20 or 60 YEARS OLD. THIS MAKES NO COMMON SENSE. Leave Law Enforcement up to COMMISSIONER RAY KELLY and the professionals of the NYPD.” - John Catsimatidis This Makes No Sense! IMATIDIS FOR MAYOR These Council Members Voted To Make Your Streets Unsafe! Call Speaker Quinn & These Members And Tell Them To Uphold Mayor Bloomberg’s Veto Of The Community Safety Act!
Maria Del Carmen Arroyo 718-402-6130 Daniel R. Garodnick 212-818-0580 Annabel Palma 718-792-1140 Charles Barron 718-649-9495 Sara M. Gonzalez 718-439-9012 Christine C. Quinn 212-788-7210 Gale A. Brewer 212-873-0282 Robert Jackson 212-928-1322 Diana Reyna 718-963-3141 Fernando Cabrera 212-788-7074 Letitia James 718-260-9191 Ydanis Rodriguez 917-521-2616 Margaret Chin 212-587-3159 G. Oliver Koppell 718-549-7300 Deborah Rose 718-556-7370 Leroy G. Comrie, Jr. 718-776-3700 Brad Lander 718-499-1090 Donovan Richard 718-527-4356 Inez Dickens 212-678-4505 Jessica S. Lappin 212-980-1808 Jimmy Van Bramer 718-383-9566 Daniel Dromm 718-803-6373 Stephen Levin 212-788-7348 Albert Vann 718-919-0740 Mathieu Eugene 718-287-8762 Melissa Mark-Viverito 212-788-6960 Mark Weprin 718-468-0137 Julissa Ferreras 212-788-6862 Darlene Mealy 718-953-3097 Jumaane Williams 718-629-2900 Helen D. Foster 718-588-7500 Rosie Mendez 212-677-1077 Ruben Wills 718-206-2068
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