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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 834–9350 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2007 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN EDITION AWP/16, 18 pages • Vol. 30, No. 33 • Saturday, Aug. 25, 2007 • FREE INCLUDING DUMBO OBAMATHON Barack raises bucks on Hill’s ‘turf’ By Dana Rubinstein about Kennedy,” said Alexander. “I The Brooklyn Paper DECISION ’08 think he will bring change to the world.” Barack Obama was John F. Gillian Charles, a Prospect Heights Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin crowd in a call-and-response chant, resident, chose different historical Luther King Jr. all rolled into one for “Are you fired up?” he yelled. predecessors: Martin Luther King Jr. an overflow crowd of supporters at “Fired up!” yelled back the support- and Malcolm X. the junior senator from Illinois’ first ers, each of whom paid $25 to get in. “He has charisma, he’s engaging,” official campaign stop in Brooklyn “Are you ready to go?” he yelled. said Charles. “He has a voice, it’s on Wednesday night. “Ready to go!” screamed the compelling, and people listen.” Standing before the emotional and crowd. Other supporters pointed to Oba- heterogeneous crowd at the Brooklyn Many in the audience were down- ma’s background as one of the primary Marriott in Downtown, Obama gave a right starry-eyed, fanning themselves reasons for their support of him over charismatic stump speech, pacing the with folded paper and rushing the other Democratic contenders. Callan / Tom stage and throwing red meat lines to a stage to get his autograph. Frank Alert, a black resident of hungry audience while touching on Elvia Alexander, of East Flatbush, Bedford-Stuyvesant, said, “Obama is the issues of the day: education (he compared Obama’s charisma to that of someone who looks like me, who is supports it), health care (he wants to John F. Kennedy, who was 43 when he articulate, who has hope.” expand it), and the war in Iraq (he was elected to the presidency, five Even so, Alert was skeptical that Paper The Brooklyn wants American out of it). years younger than Obama would be someone who looks like him could get Illinois Sen. Barack Obama at the Brooklyn Mar- By the end of his 40-minute rally- in 2008. elected. riott on Wednesday night — his second ing-cry, Obama was engaging the “When I think about him, I think See OBAMAMANIA on page 14 fundraiser in the borough in a month.

Gov. Spitzer makes house FEMA to ads illegal By Dana Rubinstein B’Ridge: The Brooklyn Paper Gov. Spitzer has signed a bill that would make it illegal to leave menus and circulars Matthew Weinstein A police officer stands at the Department of Education’s Manhattan headquarters, on people’s stoops — but the new law has where protesters rallied on Monday to demand the reinstatement of Khalil Gibran Acad- set off a messy situation of its own for emy principal Debbie Almontaser, who resigned under fire earlier this month. small business owners who depend on Ask Bush such strategies to draw in customers. The so-called Lawn Litter Bill will fine By Matthew Lysiak business owners be- The Brooklyn Paper tween $250 and $1,000 for dropping Federal disaster aid for residents of Bay Ridge who were delivery menus and pummeled by the Aug. 8 tornado is being held up until Presi- STANDING FIRM dent Bush, who is on vacation in Texas for the rest of the circulars on private month, decides whether he wants to release the funds. property if the owner Gov. Spitzer formally requested disaster relief from the Fed- has posted a sign ex- Amid protest, city backs Jewish plicitly stating that no eral Emergency Management Agency on Monday — and such ads are allowed. called for swift action by the principal at new Arabic school It passed both houses federal bureaucracy. of the legislature in FEMA inspectors did make June and Spitzer signed Gibran International Academy, had been quot- Gov. Spitzer their own damage assessments By Dana Rubinstein it into law on Monday. ed in the New York Post earlier this month de- on Aug. 13 and sent a recom- The Brooklyn Paper “For me, it’s litter on my steps,” said Judy fending the T-shirt on the grounds that the word mendation to the president. But A diverse group that included Arab- Stanton, the executive director of the Brook- “intifada” literally translates as “shaking off.” the buck has stopped — and American activists and Jewish educators lyn Heights Association, which already dis- apparently stalled — there, ac-

“Debbie should lead this school because / Gary Thomas rallied on the steps of the Department of Ed- tributes its own placards asking merchants to cording to FEMA spokes- ucation on Monday to demand the reinstate- she founded it, and it’s her vision,” said Mona refrain from leaving ads on the stoop. Eldahry, founding director of Arab Women woman Barbara Lynch, who ment of Debbie Almontaser to the helm of “It goes straight from my front door to my said the rare tornado may not the city’s first Arabic language and culture Active in the Arts and Media (AWAAM), the recycling can,” continued Stanton. “And organization that sells the “Intifada NYC” T- have generated enough media academy. sometimes I have to wash my hands because coverage to get the president’s

shirts and shares an office with another organ- Paper The Brooklyn The rally came less than two weeks after there’s dirt on there.” limited attention. ization associated with Almontaser. Eldahry Almontaser resigned amid an uproar over her The litany of complaints about circulars “Higher-profile cases seem defense of a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Intifa- was one of the organizers of the rally, which extends far beyond dirty hands. Residents Here’s the pitch to move a lot faster,” said da NYC,” and a Jewish, non-Arabic-speaking drew close to 200 people. from Brooklyn Heights to Bensonhurst com- Lynch. “This situation didn’t educator was appointed in her place to run the “Debbie attempted to educate the public plain of getting tickets for fliers that blow Brooklyn Paper ad sales rep Eric Ross shows off the get the media attention it war- Associated Press school, which is slated to begin its first school about the word ‘intifada’ [by using] a defini- onto their sidewalk, and many fear that while form that makes him a great ad rep during Brook- ranted.” year next month in a Dean Street middle- and tion you’ll find in any dictionary.” they’re on vacation, piles of circulars make lyn Paper Night at Keyspan Park on Aug. 16. The Lynch said agency inspectors were “just flabbergasted” by high-school building. Almontaser later condemned the use of “in- their homes targets for burglars. first-place Cyclones won 7–1. For complete, Triple- the millions of dollars of damage caused by the tornado — Almontaser, the founder of the Khalil See GIBRAN on page 12 See SPITZER on page 14 Threat Cyclones coverage, See Page 6. See BUSH on page 14 What the ’Nell is going on? Citing high rents here, Hook merchant eyes Manhattan

By Juliana Bunim wants to open a bar in addition to the geous rent that’s not realistic for Red for The Brooklyn Paper liquor store, and is concerned that Hook, or [are] on a side street with no Red Hook might not generate enough foot traffic.” Could legendary Red Hook heat. It’s not “Red Hot Red Hook” Manhattan might provide more foot booze baroness LeNell Smothers’s like so many bulls—t articles would traffic, but it comes at a premium. new signature drink be a — gasp! have folks believe,” said Smothers. “Retail rent in lower Manhattan is — Manhattan? “There’s just not that many services easily double that of Red Hook, espe- “Yes, I’m looking outside of Red around like banks and restaurants.” cially for a liquor store,” said Soli- Hook — mostly in Lower Manhat- And that could prose a problem for taire Macfoy of Fillmore Real Estate tan,” said the owner of LeNell’s, Van a fledgling bar. in Brooklyn Heights. Brunt Street’s renowned bourbon and But local residents are not ready And finding retail space that will wine shop. for LeNell to pack up her specialty welcome a liquor store — even an up- Ever since Smothers told The bourbons and bitters. In only four scale one — can be tricky. “It can be a Brooklyn Paper last month that her years, her store has become a com- long process to find a space that is not landlord is reclaiming the space, the LeNell Smothers munity favorite for its kitschy atmos- near schools, places of worship and rumor mill has been churning over phere, quality stock and service. other liquor stores,” said Smothers. where her esteemed LeNell’s Wine “LeNell’s is a neighborhood jewel,” For now, Smothers has a full and Spirit Boutique would end up. to print that we are closing. We are said Georgia Kral, a neighbor. “LeNell schedule of events planned for the But Smothers has had with all the not closing down.” really makes you feel at home. It is lit- fall, including an Old Portrero rye Callan / Tom gossip, so she again turned to The Next summer, when her current erally like no other liquor store.” tasting, a fourth anniversary party and Brooklyn Paper to explain what is re- five-year lease expires, Smothers But finding space is difficult in the Brooklyn Bourbon festival. ally happening with her store. As al- must open a new store within 1,000 Red Hook. Most available property LeNell’s Wine and Spirit Boutique ways, she served it straight up. feet of her current store or she’ll lose consists of “empty lots that owners (416 Van Brunt St. between Coffey “I’m sick and tired of the media the chance to easily transfer her are sitting on, storefronts that have and Van Dyke streets in Red Hook) is misstating what’s going on,” said liquor license to the future location. people living in them or short-term open Monday–Saturday, noon–mid- Paper The Brooklyn Smothers. “I’ve been bombarded by “I live in Red Hook and want to leases,” Smothers said. Other spots night, and Sunday from noon–9 pm. The owner of LeNell’s, a Van Brunt Street wine and spirits shop know for its selection of bourbons and press. One [outlet] even had the nerve stay,” she said. But Smothers also are available, but either have “outra- For information, call (718) 360-0838. its fountain, is considering a move to Manhattan when her lease is up.

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GREENWOOD CEMETERY: The Irish American SAT, AUG 25 Parade Committee hosts a ceremony and march led by a bagpiper to gravesites of OUTDOORS AND TOURS Matilda Tone, wife of Irish patriot Theobald EARLY MORNING BIRDING: Discovery walk Wolfe Tone, historian and author John Gal- through the Salt Marsh of Gerritsen Creek. lagher and others. 9:30 am. Meet at flag- 8 am. Salt Marsh Center, 3302 Ave. U. Call pole inside the cemetery’s main gates. Fifth 311 and ask for the Urban Park Rangers. Avenue and 25th Street. (718) 768-7300. Free. Free. WILD FOODS TOURS: Naturalist and author LULLWATER EXPLORATION: Enjoy a boat tour “Wildman” Steve Brill leads a Wild Food detailing Prospect Park’s aquatic habitat. and Ecology Tour of Prospect Park. $12, $6 Binoculars provided. $10, $6 kids. Noon to for children under 12. 11:45 am. Meet at 12:45 pm. Enter park at Lincoln Road and Prospect Park’s Grand Army Plaza. (914) Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. 853-2153. PEDAL BOATING: Cruise Brooklyn’s freshwater PERFORMANCE lake in a pedal boat. $15 for one hour, plus BARGEMUSIC: Russian classical music concert $10 refundable deposit. Noon to 6 pm. Enter featuring works by Stravinsky, Myaskovsky Prospect Park near the Parkside and Ocean and Tchaikovsky. $35, $30 seniors $20 stu- avenues entrance. www.prospectpark.org. dents. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Ful- INTRODUCTION TO BIRDWATCHING: Dis- ton Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083. cover more about the natural wonders and Everything else takes some planning fascinating feathered inhabitants of Brook- OTHER lyn’s flagship Park. Noon to 1:30 pm. For COMMEMORATION CEREMONIES: of the GUARANTEED 10 YEAR TERM LIFE INSURANCE more information go to prospectpark.org. Battle of Brooklyn. At 9:30 am, Brooklyn Free. Irish American Parade Committee March, at COVERAGE AMOUNT RAVINE HIKE: Urban Park Rangers take partici- 10 am, walking tour with historians Jeff pants through the ravine. 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MEDITATION CLASS: Meditations to heal the TALES FROM THE CRYPT: Historic walking heart: The practice of taking and giving. $10. Male-Non Tobacco $250,000.00 $500,000.00 $1,000,000.00 tour explains sacrifices of the Prison ship 10 am to 11:15 am. Vajradhara Meditation martyrs. 1 pm. Fort Greene Visitor Center, Washington and DeKalb avenues. (718) CELEBRITY SOFTBALL: Second annual Center, 380 Adelphi St. (718) 496-5514. 35/Preferred Plus/Monthly $15.35 $23.14 $34.27 near the Myrtle Avenue and Washington 499-7600. Free. “Autism Speaks” softball game includes Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, Jack MEDITATION CLASS: Transform Adverse 45/Preferred Plus/Monthly $27.15 $39.16 $67.20 Park entrances. Call 311 and ask for the INDIE MARKET: Collective of Brooklyn- Conditions into Spiritual Strengths. $10. 3 Urban Park Rangers. Free. based emerging designers show their McBrayer and Lonny Ross from “30 55/Preferred Plus/Monthly $61.19 $100.57 $186.46 Rock” and “Saturday Night Live” cast pm to 4 pm. 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RUGBY MEETING: Brooklyn Rugby Club Call Sammy or Michelle for Information hosts its first meeting. Discuss the game, CAFE STEINHOF: Today, “Butch Cassidy and DISCOVER TOURS: Explore the secrets of na- ART SHOW: hosted by the Salt Marsh the Sundance Kid” (1969). 10:30 pm. 422 ture with teachers and naturalists from the Alliance. Nature paintings and photo- watch a profession match and relax at an Aussie bar. 2 pm. Sheep Station Bar, 149 Seventh Avenue at 14th Street. (718) 369- (718) 451-5700 Prospect Park Audubon Center. 3 pm to 4 graphs from local artists. 11 am to 4:30 7776. Free. pm. Call for information. (718) 287-3400. Free. Fourth Ave., Call for more information. pm. Salt Marsh Nature Center, 3302 (917) 340-9700. ART SHOW: 11 am to 4:30 pm. See Sat., Aug 25. Life insurance is underwritten by Nationwide Life Insurance Company, Columbus, Ohio, a member of Avenue U. (718) 338-7281. Free. Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. 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Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Ful- (718) 630-4349. Free. ton Street at the East River. (718) 624-2083. Service organizations, free healthcare of Sheepshead Bay. Francis Morrone services and free clothing to those in leads tour. $50, $40 members. 9:30 am MEDITATION CLASS: with Western Buddhist SUMMER CONCERT: Fort Greenmarket sum- need. Noon to 6 pm. Washington to noon. Tour meets at Sheepshead Bay nun Kelsang Demo. $10. 7:30 pm to 9 pm. mer concert series presents: “Steven Kroon Avenue between Fulton Street and Gates Road and East 16th Street. For more First Unitarian Congregational Society, 48 Latin Jazz Sextet.” 1 pm. Fort Greene Park, Avenue. (917) 825-5201. information call (718) 788-8500 ext., 208. Monroe Pl. (718) 496-5514. Washington and DeKalb avenues. Sorry, no contact telephone number. Free CAFE STEINHOF: presents River Alexander and His Mad Jazz Hatters. No cover. 10:30 OTHER pm. 422 Seventh Ave., at 14th Street. (718) ARTISANS MARKET: Featuring functional and 369-7776. collectible art. 9 am to 6 pm. DeKalb CIVIC CALENDAR Avenue sidewalk along Fort Green Park, TUES, AUG 28 Washington and DeKalb avenues. (718) 855- MONDAY, AUGUST 27 TUESDAY, AUG 28 8175. Free. Community Board 1, land-use meeting FLOATING POOL: at the foot of Joralemon Community Board 7 Public Safety FITNESS CLASS: Total Mind and Body class for Committee. Board offices (4201 Fourth (435 Graham Ave., at Frost Street in Adults 55 and older. Included tai chi, slimas- Street. 9 am to 7 pm. www.brooklyn- Williamsburg), 6:30 pm. Call (718) 389- bridgepark.org/pool. Ave., at 43rd Street, in Sunset Park), 6:30 tics, self-discovery, reiki, dance and more. pm. Call (718) 854-0003. 0009 for information. 4:45 pm TO 8:45 pm. Aviator Sports. WEEKSVILLE FARMERS MARKET: Farm-fresh Hanger 5, Floyd Bennett Field. (718) 758- produce. 9 am to 1 pm. 1698 Bergen St., Immigration help desk, office of THURSDAY, AUG. 30 9800. Free. between Rochester and Buffalo avenues. Councilman Bill DeBlasio (2907 Ft. Metrocard bus, Red Hook Senior Citizen (718) 788-8500. BALL GAME: Brooklyn Cyclones play the Hamilton Pkwy., at East Fourth Street, in Center (6 Walcott St., at Dwight Street in Hudson Valley Renegades. $6 to $13. 7 pm. MEMORIAL CEREMONY: Society of Old Kensington), 10 am–1 pm. Call (718) Red Hook), 9–11 am. Call (718) 643-6140 Key Span Park, 1904 Surf Ave., Coney Brooklynites, American Merchant Marine 854-9791, if you have any questions. for information. Island. (718) 507-TIXX. Association and the Navy Armed Guard MEDITATION CLASS: The Art of Loving host a ceremony at the Prison Ships Martyrs To list an event in the Civic Calendar, e-mail [email protected] or fax (718) 834-9278. Memorial. 10 am sharp. Fort Greene Park, See 9 DAYS on page 9

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Isn’t that up again to attack his new pro- an oxymoron, like “jumbo shrimp,” posal for the Dock Street site. The DUMBO Neighbor- A real street address, not a P.O. Box “military intelligence” or “Marty Package notification Markowitz weight loss”? Indeed, Juliana Bunim hood, Fulton Ferry Landing and most of us have no idea what “nat- Brooklyn Heights associations Full-service mail & package receiving ural” and “organic” cleaning even means. And besides, there is put out a joint statement on Mail holding & forwarding no standard definition of “green” dry cleaning. As a result, dry Wednesday that called Walen- cleaners loosely use these earth-friendly terms to capitalize on tas’s latest design just as flawed Call-in Mailcheck the neighborhood’s affinity for green-based consumerism. as the proposal that the groups E-mail notification Best Cleaners on Henry Street between Pierrepont and Mon- helped shoot down three years tague streets declares itself “organic” and perc-free because it uses ago. Only $25/Month hydrocarbon solvent for cleaning. Not to paraphrase Sam Cooke, “The defects of this project but even though I don’t know much about history, I do know that are essentially the same as those the cleaners are technically correct that their solvent is organic — that resulted in the failure of the because everything on the planet with carbon in it (including pro- previous project,” the groups Management Trees Two duce grown under a blanket of pesticides) is “organic.” said in the statement. A coalition of local groups wants to stop David Walentas’s proposed DUMBO building, de- But the hydrocarbon solvent used by Best Cleaners is DF-2000, The $200-million, 400-unit spite its long-sought middle school, because it could block views of the Brooklyn Bridge. produced by ExxonMobil, which calls DF-2000 “the most cost-ef- development would rise 18 sto- ® fective alternative solvent.” Of course, ExxonMobil’s green creden- ries on Dock Street between The UPS Store tials aren’t exactly impressive. This is the same mega-company that Front and Water streets. Walen- Management plan still doesn’t would have an 18-story segment must be protected.” reportedly funded corrupt leaders in Angola, illegally traded with tas — who told The Brooklyn cut it: “We do need a middle that could block views of the The statement comes a few The UPS Store of Brooklyn Heights Sudan, and has lobbied to debunk global warming. Paper in June that he knew “not school, but this need … should iconic Brooklyn Bridge. days after Councilman David 93 Montague Street (at Hicks St) Oh, and one more thing: The Valdez? That was theirs. everyone” would like the plan not be used to leverage an out- “The site is positioned at a Yassky (D–Brooklyn Heights) 718-802-0900 But you don’t have to believe me: The Environmental Protec- — sweetened the deal with 80 of-scale development,” Karen key transition zone between the came against the scale of the tion Agency lists DF-2000 below-market-rate units, retail Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 7pm | Saturday: 10am to 5pm | Sunday: 10am to 3pm as a neurotoxin — meaning space, and a 300-student middle Johnson, president of the DUM- five-story rowhouse scale of the project, calling it “gigantic.” ON OUR OTHER it destroys nerve cells — school, an amenity that the BO group told The Brooklyn Fulton Ferry Landing Historic Walentas told reporters this that contributes to smog DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights Paper. District to the west … and the week that the reappearance of COFFEES, GIFT BASKETS, & GOURMET FOODS stoop and global warming. associations have called for in Johnson and the other civic Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage to his old foes wouldn’t stop him PAGES Sue Pak of Best Cleaners the past. leaders take special issue with the south,” the statement said. from continuing to seek support “D’Amico: PARK SLOPE described the store’s method But Walentas’s Two Trees the impact the building, which “The view of this entire span from the city on his plan. The Best Car-free park as organic “because we don’t use perc. We use a hy- CLINTON HILL Cup of Coffee Fulton St. repairs drocarbon machine [that’s] better for the environment in the City” W’MSBURG and better for the customer.” –– Fox 5 Good Day New York Guttman under fire Somehow that didn’t make BAY RIDGE me feel better. Fat man walking City blocks Clinton Street tower Some store owners find online at BrooklynPaper.com it a challenge to both clean clothes properly and quell customers environmental concerns. “People care the most that Developer may re-apply 309 Court Street • damicofoods.com • (718) 875-5403 clothes don’t smell like chemicals,” said Jay Lung, owner of Lung’s Dry Cleaners on Henry Street, between Orange and By Ariella Cohen ings, returned calls from The Pineapple streets. The Brooklyn Paper Brooklyn Paper. Brooklyn Heights, though Lung said he uses “natural methods,” but occasionally he has to Brooklyn Heights preserva- pull out the big guns — strong chemicals — to get out tough stains. home to many real-estate devel- tionists hailed a decision by opers, is notoriously sensitive to, “If it’s dirty, how are you going to take it out? If no one used the Department of Buildings them, [dry cleaners] would be out of business.” preservation issues. In 1965, a to block a developer from coalition of residents led by Golden Hangers on Clark Street between Henry and Willow adding six stories onto an al- streets also offers “organic cleaning,” but its version is hydrocar- lawyer Otis Pearsall forever al- bon-free. “It’s very natural, just like soap,” said owner Sonya, ready nine-story building at tered the business of building in who refused to give her last name. Golden Hangers also still the corner of Clinton and the city when it lobbied to create uses “perc” in its regular cleaning, which according to Sonya is Montague street. New York’s first historic district the most effective for removing grease and oil. Buildings officials would not in the section of the Heights It seems almost impossible to figure out how to go green with comment on why they rejected bounded by Atlantic Avenue and your dry cleaning. The first step is making sure your cleaning is the proposed addition, which Court Street and Cadman Plaza at the very least done perc-free. But at this point, the only way to would create a 185-foot tower West and the Promenade. be truly “natural” may be to soap up your own duds. Dry cleaning within the footprint of the city’s Within the district, new is a dirty business, and it’s difficult to separate the green cleaning first historic district. buildings are limited to five sto- from the green pockets. The district’s zoning restric- ries, and their facades must Juliana Bunim is a writer who lives in Brooklyn Heights tions don’t apply to the commer- blend in with those neighboring cial block of Clinton Street, but buildings. Pearsall, a member of THE KITCHEN SINK preservationists objected because the city’s Art Commission, op- the resulting building would poses the 75 Clinton St. tower The Office of Emergency Management’s new headquarters dwarf nearby historic structures because of the shadows it would / Julie Rosenberg on a cordoned-off-to-traffic section of Cadman Plaza East not only such as the old Spencer Church cast in the low-rise historic dis- has nice clean lines, but it’s also clean on the environment. The building and the landmark head- trict that he created. building just earned the highest mark for energy efficiency and en- quarters of Brooklyn Historical Other critics said that the tower vironmentally friendly design. Next, The Stoop would like to see Association on the corner of Clin- could set an inappropriate prece- them insist on employees using the subway so they can give back ton and Pierrepont streets. dent for high-rise development in- Paper The Brooklyn the street that they and the federal courthouse stole and share as a “It would be much too tall side the protected district itself. The city has blocked a six-story addition atop this Clinton private parking lot. … Uncommon Grounds on Henry Street at for that corner and would cast “As the development gets Street building — for now. Cranberry Street may have just opened last spring, but it is already dark shadows into the historic higher and higher outside the 139 Montague Street • 718.858.5592 district and onto very important closed for renovations. But good things are on the horizon. It’s ex- district, you run into the danger dential tower at 180 Montague St. Ian Bruce Eichner to scale it www.latraviatatogo.com • Delivery in Brooklyn Heights only structures” said Judy Stanton, of it creeping into the district it- panding to include a full kitchen and full bar. No word on how long When construction began on that down. A Brooklyn Heights resi- we’ll have to wait though. … Congratulations to the Coffee Flats president of the Brooklyn self,” said Simeon Bankoff, ex- site, neighbors asked developer dent himself, he declined. Terrors, who just won the bocce tournament at Floyd’s on Atlantic Heights Association. ecutive director of the non-prof- Avenue between Henry and Clinton streets. … The blue pig in front A spokesperson for the De- it Historic District Council. i>ÌÕÀ}\Ê of the Blue Pig ice cream parlor on Henry Street between Cranber- partment of Buildings said the While larger than most ry and Orange streets has mysteriously turned pink. Employees developer, Clinton Realty Hold- Heights structures, the proposed >«>iÃi] aren’t talking. … DUMBO’s legendary bakery, Almondine, is ings LLC, was free to resubmit tower would be half the size of iÃi] now offering crepes after on Friday nights and Sunday afternoons. new plans. Neither the New Jer- the one residential project that You gotta hand it to Herve. That crazy Frenchman is always sey-based corporation, nor the was built above objections in >`Ê/ > pulling out something new. E-mail: [email protected] project architect Edgar Rawl- 1997, a 33-story, 331-foot resi-

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Street between Hoyt and Bond streets, where they will pray over Paper file The Brooklyn the oil-slicked water of the Gowanus Canal — until, of course, Parks advocates want to transform the run-down Thomas Greene playground on Douglass Street between Nevins Street and they have to move their nomadic Iyyun Jewish center again. Third Avenue into a skateboard park — after Keyspan cleans it, that is. It’s an odd arrangement, even for a place that is known as the Institute for the Exploration of the Deeper Dimension of Torah.

The post-industrial transience, reminiscent of a mid-1990s rave, ® however, can be described in simple capitalist terms. The UPS Store Instead of buying a temple in this time of ungodly prices-per- square-foot, the Pinsons have turned Torah study into what is Cleaning the Gowanus area The UPS Store of Brooklyn Heights known in the real-estate industry as a property tax-abating inter- 93 Montague Street (at Hicks St) im use. State, Keyspan present an immediate danger to Gardens if an expected city up- that must be done before the 718-802-0900 The owner of Iyyun’s new home at 450 Union St. tried sever- people who use these sites, ac- zoning goes ahead. area is safe for developers who al years ago to gain the necessary city approvals to demolish the cording to state records. Typi- “This cleanup is good and have bought land in the area. Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 7pm | Saturday: 10am to 5pm | Sunday: 10am to 3pm former foundry and replace ink toxic pact cally, the chemicals left by gas critically important, and we In a statement last week, state it with a seven-story condo By Ariella Cohen manufacturing are only danger- have been asking for it for Department of Environmental ON OUR OTHER building. Opponents to the The Brooklyn Paper ous when inhaled or eaten — years,” said Jo Anne Simon, a Conservation Commissioner COFFEES, GIFT BASKETS, & GOURMET FOODS residential redevelopment and at Thomas Greene Park, founder of Friends of Douglass- Pete Grannis hinted at the big stoop of the area successfully de- Keyspan has agreed to clean they are buried too far under- Greene Park. job still ahead “D’Amico: PAGES feated the proposal, and the the contaminated muck below ground for that, experts said. But while the remediation “[The state] will continue to PARK SLOPE building has sat dormant Thomas Greene Park, thanks Nonetheless, the detox is ea- agreement is a sign of better hold Keyspan and other utilities The Best Car-free park since. Now, plans are on to a new agreement between gerly awaited in Gowanus, days to come on both sides of that have left behind this history Cup of Coffee CLINTON HILL hold until the city com- state environmental conserva- which could blossom into a res- the so-called Lavender Lake, it of contamination accountable Fulton St. repairs pletes a rezoning of the tion officials and the Brooklyn- idential neighborhood bridging represents only two of a half- for the environmental impacts,” in the City” Gowanus Canal area, and –– Fox 5 Good Day New York W’MSBURG born energy company. posh Park Slope and Carroll dozen cleanups along that canal said Grannis. Guttman under fire Iyyun can be the owner’s The Aug. 10 deal ends years spiritual sublet. of legal wrangling over the ex- BAY RIDGE The center’s last two Fat man walking tent of the environmental dam- homes, 155 Washington St. ages done by fuel refineries that online at BrooklynPaper.com in DUMBO and 316 operated on the banks of the Bergen St. in Boerum Hill, Gowanus Canal during the 19th 309 Court Street • damicofoods.com • (718) 875-5403 began their conversion (to condos) shortly after the Pinsons and early 20th century, handing Rodeo gal: Fill park with bull were given wandering orders. If all goes well for the Pinson’s the 112-year-old company re- landlord, it is likely that his Union Street plant will eventually sponsibility for several tracts of By Ariella Cohen childhood in become part of the Gowanus Village development that builder contaminated land that had long The Brooklyn Paper Crown Heights Shaya Boymelgreen has proposed for the area. been in dispute. and later moved The Rebbetzin thinks that this time they should have enough Boerum Hill’s own little In addition to removing can- rodeo sweetheart wants to to an apartment time to settle in and unroll their Torahs before moving again cer-causing chemicals from the near the Navy “They can’t tear down the building until zoning laws are soil beneath the city-owned park bring her bulls to Prospect Park. Yards in Fort changed so we are safe for the next few years,” said Pinson. between Douglass and Degraw Greene. Through- She describes the group’s benefactors as “people who have streets, the Downtown-based Debbie Singleton — propri- out all those space and want to have a Jewish presence there.” The rest of us company will also be required to etor of Debbie’s Reins and years, she rode know this group as the people who own buildings and hold onto remediate a former fuel-refining Things, an outpost for saddles, horses in Prospect them for years until local zoning laws, or the market changes. site on Second Avenue now oc- Stetsons and steel-toed boots — Park. She says Then they build condos that most of us can’t afford. cupied by Pathmark and a has asked the Parks Department she knows plenty If you ask me, the whole thing would be far more kosher if, Lowe’s hardware store. to consider letting her hold a

/ Sarah Kramer of other Kings say, the Pinsons (and the rest of us) could afford a temple of our The cleanup is expected to real live rodeo in the Olmsted County cow- and Vaux landmark. own, one that would be invulnerable to the whims of the mar- take several years and will be pokes. “You’d be surprised at the ket. Wouldn’t that be mystical? followed by extensive study of A Parks Depart- crowd it would get,” she said. Ariella Cohen, a staff writer at The Brooklyn Paper, soil conditions in the blocks of ment spokesman lives in Red Hook. “A lot of ladies like it, scholars, warehouses, homes and con- conﬁrmed that the young people. Rodeos are per- Paper The Brooklyn verted lofts that surround for- agency has been fect for Brooklyn.” THE KITCHEN SINK mer manufacturing sites. Karen Debbie Singleton in front of Debbie's talking to Single- And she ain’t kidding, pard- Young, a spokeswoman for Reins, her Douglass Street store. ton about her pro- Fame: Rapper Talib Kweli has moved to Carroll Gardens. ner. Keyspan, said the company posal, though no- Listen for the CG shoutout this Sunday at the 10th Annual Black Singleton led a three-day would “work closely with the thing formal has been presented. August Concert, in Times Square. … The Department of owners, local officials and the bronco-busting and barrel rac- into urban cowboys. Housing Preservation and Development was expected to community” as it moves for- ing event last weekend at Cedar “There is an audience for Singleton said she felt the de- bring a plan for three new residential buildings in the Colum- ward with the state-supervised Lane Stable in Howard Beach this,” she said. “A lot of people partment was taking her seri- bia Street Waterfront District to Community Board 6 on cleanup. — home of the Federation of around here have homes upstate ously. Thursday, after The Stoop went to press. Residents of the low- “Keyspan is one of the most Black Cowboys. and are training their children to Debbie’s Reins and Things rise nabe were preparing to give city officials an earful on a102- experienced utilities in conduct- Singleton is a member of the ride.” (332 Douglass St., between 139 Montague Street • 718.858.5592 unit development proposed for 101 Baltic St., near Congress ing investigations and remedia- federation, and an emissary to She should know. Singleton Third Avenue and Nevins Street. “Most of the buildings here are two, three, or four stories tion of former manufactured those city-slickers who don’t was born in South Carolina, Street). For information, visit www.latraviatatogo.com • Delivery in Brooklyn Heights only high. This sounds like it will be too tall and dense for the neigh- gas plants sites and will bring know their side-saddle from but raised in Brooklyn. She www.debbiesreinsandthings.com borhood,” warned Mike Webster, a member of the Columbia this expertise to these sites,” their front pocket. She believes spent the early years of her or call (718) 797-5288. Waterfront Neighborhood Association. said Young. a Prospect Park rodeo could E-mail us at [email protected]. The buried toxins do not help turn soft-handed spectators i>ÌÕÀ}\Ê >«>iÃi] iÃi] >`Ê/ >

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Call-in Mailcheck As of Thursday, Brown, a developer who has lived in Fort Callan / Tom Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant for a quarter-century, was elim- E-mail notification inated from the short-list. The city had whittled down the competitors to just three: Only $25/Month David Walentas, the real-estate mogul who built and branded DUMBO; the Dermott Group, which is converting the Williamsburgh Savings Bank building into luxury condos; and a Paper The Brooklyn mysterious European company called SEG. The slow-moving reconstruction of Fulton Street, seen near Clinton Avenue (above and below), has caused lots of headaches But, possibly prompted by a local outcry, Brown got back in for residents and businesses in Clinton Hill. the mix, and is now tentatively partnering with the development firm from across the pond. And that’s good. Not only has Brown ® lived in the neighborhood longer than many of its residents have The UPS Store been alive, he has kept close tabs on the needs of local stakeholders. Repair work killing biz on street Brown has incorporated into his proposal the desires of a The UPS Store of Brooklyn Heights group called the Concerned Citizens Coalition, which has fre- By Dana Rubinstein ness,” added Don. “If you’re going toward Bed- 93 Montague Street (at Hicks St) quently sparred with the city over a perceived lack of inclusion “The street goes one- Stuy, you’re not passing by my in the plans for the Cultural District, and has been partnering The Brooklyn Paper 718-802-0900 way now, so you only store any more,” said Widdi. with the reputable Pratt A city project that has Mon-Fri: 8:30am to 7pm | Saturday: 10am to 5pm | Sunday: 10am to 3pm get that one eye of “It’s affected my business by at Area Community Council, turned 10 blocks of the once- least 15 or 20 percent. Every- ON OUR OTHER which advocates for afford- bustling two-way Fulton trafﬁc, and … there’s one’s feeling it.” nowhere to park.” able housing. Street into a one-way obstacle But Dale Charles, a spokes- COFFEES, GIFT BASKETS, & GOURMET FOODS stoop Brown’s firm, Full Spec- course and a pox on local The project, which woman for Pratt Area Commu- PAGES trum, is developing the business will last months stretches between nity Council, said it could have “D’Amico: PARK SLOPE green Trenton Town Center longer than expected. ing them,” said Monaghan, del- Clinton and Bedford avenues, is been much worse. intended to repair water mains, The Best Car-free park in New Jersey, 1400 on The $8.5-million reconstruc- icately. The result, he said, is “I had the city come out to Fifth in Harlem (which the upgrade the sewer system, and BOERUM HILL tion of the street, which the city that the project is two months give the merchants a heads-up Cup of Coffee firm claims is the largest af- install new street lighting and Keyspan’s cleanup began in July, 2006, and ex- behind schedule. about what they need to do on fordable green condomini- traffic signals. The short-term the marketing end, and it seems W’MSBURG pected to complete by next The news has Fulton Street in the City” Guttman under fire um building in the coun- merchants grumbling. repercussions, however, have to have worked,” said Charles. –– Fox 5 Good Day New York spring, will now stretch into been severe. For the duration of try), and it co-developed “Well, of course I’m disap- “I haven’t had too many com- BAY RIDGE the Solaire in Tribeca. next summer, said Matthew the project, the city has closed plaints. Usually, I get bogged Fat man walking pointed,” said a stylist named Mr. “Carlton Brown is still Monaghan, a spokesman for the off half of the street, and rerout- down with complaints.” Don, who works at Hair Players online at BrooklynPaper.com in play,” confirmed Coun- Department of Design and ed buses off Fulton Street. The local anger is reminis- cilwoman Letitia James Construction, which is oversee- 2000, between Waverly and Rocky Widdi, the manager cent of what happened during a Washington avenues. “They said (D–Fort Greene). “They are making some adjustments to his ing the project. of Met Food supermarket, be- similar reconstruction project 309 Court Street • damicofoods.com • (718) 875-5403 proposal, and I anticipate a favorable outcome,” “We had some issues with it would be done by next winter. tween St. James and Cambridge on Fort Hamilton Parkway in James supports Brown’s community-oriented ideas for the Con Ed — some utilities were “This project has taken away places, said the construction has Bay Ridge. That “one-year” site. And, frankly, who wouldn’t? In a neighborhood whose sky- not where we anticipated find- at least 30 percent of our busi- definitely taken its toll. project took 18 months. rocketing real-estate prices have pushed out long-time residents and altered the area’s very nature (and sapped much of what has historically made the neighborhood special), the community’s involvement in this crucial stage of development is essential. “We proposed taking the retail space and selling that to the Pratt Area Community Council at cost, so it could be used for a limited equity retail co-op,” said Brown. “We wanted businesses Liquors bistro is going tapas that are being squeezed out of the neighborhood by higher rents to have a place to stay. We wanted to make sure that stakeholders in the community maintained their status as stakeholders. Owner of area cafe to run “But I am hopeful that whomever the city selects recognizes the community interests,” added Brown, graciously. Moroccan lounge at old site Neither Two Trees nor Dermott would comment. The city was similarly tight-lipped. But Seth Donlin, a spokesman for the By Dana Rubinstein under very mysterious circum- Department of Housing Preservation and Development, did say The Brooklyn Paper stances — in 2006 after a six-year the final decision would be announced in mid-September. run. Its owner Christian Dennery Dana Rubinstein, a staff reporter for The Brooklyn Paper, lives in If, as they say, hunger told The Stoop about “a sordid Crown Heights. makes the best sauce, then the tale that speaks to the darkest food at the new Moroccan shadows of entrepreneurship, civ- THE KITCHEN SINK tapas joint that will fill the old il court litigation, breach of trust,

Liquors space should taste and the sociopath ‘nouveau riche’ / Robin Lester Ever wonder what it was like to live here during the Great damn good. elements.” Depression and World War II? Just ask the Vincent Sisters Nadir Khelifi, who owns The reputed skullduggery in- (aka Margaret and Joan Vincent), who’ve lived in the ’hood Cafe Lafayette on S. Portland volved a feud with his landlord, since time immemorial and are opening themselves up to ques- Street, is putting finishing touch- lawsuits from both sides, and per- tions on Saturday at 2 pm at the Clinton Hill Art Gallery. Call es on his new lounge and small- haps most importantly, an empty (718) 852-0227 or (718) 857-0074. … Lay off the doughnuts: plate boite in the DeKalb Avenue

storefront in prime Fort Greene. Paper file The Brooklyn Kids from the Ingersoll Houses trounced local police officers spot that once housed Liquors, Meanwhile, residents have had to during a basketball game last Saturday at the Fleet Street bas- the bistro that sated Fort Greene make do with Lou-Lou for their BREAKING CHEWS: The old Liquors restaurant on DeKalb 139 Montague Street • 718.858.5592 ketball courts, beating the men and women in blue, 92–68. stomachs with brunch burritos, French-inspired brunch needs. Avenue will soon reopen as a Moroccan-themed tapas www.latraviatatogo.com • Delivery in Brooklyn Heights only Congrats! … Pratt Area Community Council has a new bellinis, and the fluffiest omelets One such local is somewhat lounge, its owner confirmed to The Stoop. Web site — woo hoo! Now, finding that upcoming homebuyer this side of Lafayette Avenue. relieved to hear that some- workshop will be both a breeze and aesthetically pleasing. “Our neighborhood news thing’s filling the void. Check it out at www.prattarea.org. … Who said politics isn’t something like this,” said Khelifi, “New restaurants are always i>ÌÕÀ}\Ê fashionable? The impresarios at Fulton Street’s Courtney who said he will open the restau- exciting,” said Andrew Simon, Washington Studios are holding a fundraiser on Sept. 16 for rant, between Adelphi Street and a one-time Liquors regular. >«>iÃi] Rep. Yvette Clarke (D–Flatbush), who is raising money for Clermont Street, in two months, “Though with Black Iris, Zay- iÃi] re-election. Beware — tickets will cost at least $100. Check out when his full liquor license toon’s, and Olea already in the www.clarkeforcongress2008.com. comes through. neighborhood, a little more va- >`Ê/ > E-mail: [email protected]. Liquors closed abruptly — and riety might be nice.”

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Give Your Kids the Edge! A new resident gets rude welcome to neighborhood By Ariella Cohen his mother to surgery at around legedly stabbed another woman and Dana Rubinstein 7:45 pm. in the face and arm inside the POLICE BLOTTER An officer warned hospital victim’s Adelphi Street apart- The Brooklyn Paper visitors to not let their belong- ment on Aug. 14. ing out of view because “this Police say the assailant 84th Precinct “quickly.” With that instruction, Caught stuff happens.” stabbed the 44-year-old victim during an argument inside the the victim gave up his empty Police caught a man trying to Pool heist A woman was robbed of a apartment at Myrtle Avenue at wallet, and his tormentors fled. escape Red Hook after burglar- A woman lost $1,400 worth $15,000 diamond necklace around 9:30 am. Neither his wallet, nor the men izing a mini-market on Lorraine of designer goods to a locker- ® while moving into her new Cops arrested the woman at Brother Plain-Paper who stole it have been found. Street between Columbia and room heist at the Red Hook Pop Up Note condo in a posh DUMBO the scene and charged her with Running down Hicks streets on Aug. 18. Pool on Aug. 15, cops said. Dispenser Fax/Phone/Copier tower on the corner of Jay and felony assault. Dispenser A man was accosted by a Officer Alfredo Brewster The posh pool-goer locked Front streets. iPod recovered $13.99 $49.95 The jewel heist occurred on robber on the corner of Atlantic caught the man at 3:45 am, just up a $500 Prada backpack con- July 28, when the new resident and Fourth avenues on Aug. 16, minutes after he left the market taining a pair of $500 sunglass- A 28-year-old man was ar- of the J Condo called in a but ended up not losing any with hundreds of dollars in ran- es, a $100 wallet containing rested for stealing an iPod from handyman to repair a clogged cash, police said. dom stolen goods, police said. $200 in cash and a $100 cell- a 19-year-old woman on Aug. bathroom sink, police said. The The man was exiting the At- The hood had taken several phone before taking a dip at 14, cops said. Single Subject woman told cops that she had lantic Avenue subway station bottles of Zima, a six-pack of around 3:30 pm, police said. The Ozone Park-based rob- Single Subject left a two-carat gold-and-dia- when his attacker approached Bitburger beer, three pairs of When she returned to her lock- ber surprised the victim, also Notebooks mond chain next to the broken from behind and told him, “Run size-9 boots, two drills, a few er, the lock was busted and her from Ozone Park, as she was sink and left the room while the your pockets.” power adaptors, and a stereo belongings were gone. exiting the Lafayette Avenue building’s handyman fixed the While he stood there trying amplifier. Signs all over the public pool A–train station at 5:40 pm. $1.99-$2.85 problem. to make sense of what was be- Rip-off artist warn guests against stowing The police found the suspect valuables in the dinky, metal in the vicinity of the crime and She returned to find water ing asked of him, another man A pair of hoods pretending to lockers. still in possession of the $300 flowing fine, and her chain pushed him against a wall. To be art enthusiasts nabbed a digital music player. gone. make the situation more con- purse from a design and cloth- Park play fusing, the first man told his ac- ing gallery on Columbia Street 88th Precinct Bad egg Court Street Ofﬁce Supplies complice not to punch their vic- on Aug. 12, police said. Cops nabbed a graffiti artist A 15-year-old boy was tim just before the partner robbed of his cellphone in a The hucksters came in the IRS attack after a neighbor spotted him 44 Court Street · Downtown Brooklyn delivered a knuckle sandwich gallery, which is near Degraw A woman with an infant and spray-painting the letters “YOL” park at the corner of Jay and to the bewildered prey. 718-625-5771 Tillary streets on Aug. 14, po- Street, at around 3:30 pm and an apparent grudge against the on the side of a building on The wannabe muggers ran asked the clerk about the art on Internal Revenue Service tried Aug. 15. Mon - Thurs 8:30 am-6:30 pm / Fri 8:30 am-2:00 pm / Sun 11:00 am-4:30 pm lice said. off without scoring a penny The boy was hanging out in display. to sneak a 25-caliber automatic The 35-year-old woman who Over 30 years in the business from the man, who was left One member of the team — weapon into the Fulton-Street called the cops said she spotted the park at 3 pm when two 18- with a swollen face. year-old approached. One yanked a woman — continued to IRS building by wrapping it in the 24-year-old suspect on the the younger kid’s phone from Jewel thief query the clerk while her part- a diaper and then sending it roof of a Myrtle Avenue build- his hand while the other A burglar stole thousands of ner strolled around the shop. through the X-ray machine in a ing at 2:25 am as he was defac- punched him in the face. dollars in jewelry and cash after The clerk said she suspected diaper bag on Aug. 14, said ing the wall, which is between The pair took off running be- breaking into a Dean Street something was up when the cops. Park and Flushing avenues. fore their victim could get out a apartment on Aug. 18. two abruptly left without buy- At 9:45 am, an eagle-eyed When the cops arrived to arrest ring of protest. He told cops The thief broke into the ing any of the art they had been security guard at the building, him, he tried to escape, but was that he last saw them running apartment, which is near Third interested in. between Rockwell Place and tackled to the ground. into the Jay Street subway sta- Avenue, by prying open a win- The pair was long gone by Hudson Avenue, spotted the He was charged with crimi- tion. dow. He got away with a gold the time she noticed her wallet outline of the gun within the di- nal mischief. Moneyless train ring, two necklaces, and $700 was missing. They got away aper as it passed through the He later told cops he’d been with $45, a credit card and a sil- machine and called the cops, trying to paint the word A middle-aged man was in cash, police said. ver and ruby ring. who arrested the gun-toting 31- “YOLK.” robbed of his empty wallet out- Nuts year-old woman. They charged side the entrance to subway at The good son Stolen Apple A clerk at a Fourth Avenue her with criminal possession of the corner of Schermerhorn and A man lost his backpack in A fancy laptop was stolen donut shop was held up on a weapon. Hoyt streets on Aug. 16. Aug. 15 for a sum of money Long Island College Hospital from a Washington Avenue The 43-year-old was enter- equal to the cost of eight glazed on Aug. 17, police said Crazy violence apartment on Wednesday, even ing the train station at around cruellers. The man had left the bag in a A 30-year-old woman with a though the 33-year-old tenant 8:45 pm when two guys he had The robber marched into the hospital room while he walked history of mental illness al- See COPS on page 4B never seen before approached donut shop, which is near At- him. lantic Avenue, at around 5 pm. “Give us all the money,” one Brandishing a knife, he de- of the strangers said. manded money, but got only $4 IF SID'S DOESN'T HAVE IT, When the man hesitated, the in the cake-brained heist. 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The ‘sub moron’ to have day in court Callan / Tom

By Ariella Cohen As of press time, Riley (left) the Queen Mary 2, declined to say lot of thought went into this.” The Brooklyn Paper wasn’t sure how he would plead to much about his defense as he and Hours after the stunt set off a NYPD charges of reckless opera- his lawyer haven’t gotten around to red alert that brought a flotilla of The dean of marine mischief tion and towing of his egg-shaped, hashing that out yet. federal and local security agents, Paper The Brooklyn is going to court. It may look normal, but this toilet at Habana Outpost in Fort propeller-less, plywood replica of Upon pressing, Riley admitted news reporters and art dealers to Greene runs on rainwater. Carroll Gardens artist Duke the Revolutionary War-era subma- that he had kept flares, emer- the Red Hook pier, it was de- Riley — who set off city terror rine, the “Turtle” gency horns and life jackets with scribed by Police Commissioner alerts earlier this month when he “I don’t know anyone who has him on in the homemade sub, Ray Kelly as “marine mischief.” By Dana Rubinstein floated a homemade submarine been in this situation before, not which was equipped with pumps Even after it was clear that no The Brooklyn Paper

/ Tom Callan / Tom too close to a luxury cruise lin- even my lawyer,” the history buff and ballasted with chunks of harm was done by Riley — who Margarita drinkers with small bladders needn’t fret about wast- er— will appear before a New and former tattoo artist told The lead. was ridiculed by TV newscasters ing water at Habana Outpost any longer. As of this Saturday, the York State Supreme Court judge Brooklyn Paper. Riley, who was He said that his preparation for and the daily tabloids as a “sub eco-eatery’s two porcelain gods will run on recycled rainwater. Tuesday in what is likely to be a also slapped with Coast Guard cita- the worst should help in court. moron,” and a “stooge,” — the The new system collects rain on the restaurant’s roof and then short and somewhat absurd hear- tions for having an unsafe vessel “I’ve been doing projects on commissioner declined to ask the stores it in cisterns until it is eventually flushed, said Lori Gibbs, the

The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn ing. and violating the security zone of the river a long time,” he said. “A DA to drop the charges. director of Urban Studio Brooklyn, which collaborated with the Outpost on the project. “We’re also going to have a sink in one of the bathroom stalls, so when you wash your hands, the dirty water will go into a planter, the plants will break down the dirty water, and then it will feed directly into the toilet,” added Gibbs. Eight students in graduate and under-graduate architecture programs throughout the city joined the Studio to design the environmentally friendly water closets. Gibbs claims the eco-toilets will save an estimated 15,000 gallons of water a week. “There’s such a limited amount of water and it gets wasted,” said Sean Meenan, owner of the Outpost, a Latin-inspired eatery-cum- bazaar on Fulton Street that also boasts a solar-powered chandelier, recycled plastic tables and a blender that’s hooked up to an exercise bike. “We were trying to figure out a way to save water and be softly didactic about it,” Meenan said. The unveiling of the eco-friendly toilets will take place at the Out- post (757 Fulton St., at S. Portland Avenue, in Fort Greene) on Satur- day, Aug. 25, at 5 pm. For information, e-mail [email protected].

COPS... RELIGIOUS Continued from page 4 SERVICES said she was only gone for 30 Brown Memorial minutes on Aug. 15. Baptist Church The thief had broken into the 484 Washington Ave., Ft. Greene apartment, which is at Gates Av- Sunday School 9:15am enue, at around 7:30 am, netting Morning Worship 8:00am & 11:00am a Mac titanium laptop. Cops can- Wed. Bible Study 1:00pm & 7:15pm vassed neighboring apartments, 718-638-6121 but made no arrests. Rev. Clinton M. Miller - Pastor Target employee LM31-12 Police charged an employee Cong. B’nai Jacob of the Atlantic Terminal Target Park Slope Synagogue store with stealing $1,200 401 9th Str. btw 6th & 7th Ave. worth of gift cards on Aug. 14. 718-832-1266 Witnesses say they observed Services: 7:15 Morning Minyan the 18-year-old woman pocket- Shabbat: Fri Sundown Sat 9:30am ing the cards, and police CLASSES/EVENTS/HOLIDAYS charged her with grand larceny. www.parkslopeshul.org Putnam putz LM30-34 A hapless, but violent, thief Congregation pistol-whipped a middle-aged man over the head and stole Mount Sinai $165 from him in a horrifying 250 Cadman Plaza W. beating on Aug. 17 — but the Conservative/Egalitarian perp was later arrested, cops A House for Prayer / A Home for People 718-875-9124 said. Friday Eve Services 6:30pm The 52-year-old victim was Saturday Morning 10:00am at the corner of Fulton Street Rabbi Joseph Potasnik A42 and St. James Place at around Brooklyn 3:40 am when the 19-year-old Heights suspect allegedly approached, Synagogue pulled out the gun and 131 Remsen St. · 718-522-2070 screamed, “Give me your [ex- [email protected] pletive] money!” before taking Affiliated with the Union of Reform Judaism it for himself. He then fled to the roof of a A warm, welcoming, and Jewishly Putnam Avenue building, be- diverse community, dedicated to tween Downing Street and life-long learning and to caring for Grand Avenue, where cops the world and each other. were able to collar him with the Please join us! money still on him. Shabbat evening service The gun was not found, so every Friday at 6:30 pm the teen was charged only with Torah study robbery, cops said. every Saturday at 9:30 am Fashion victim A51 Clipping a cellphone onto your belt isn’t just a fashion Shabbat Shalom! faux-pas — it’s also dangerous. Presented by That’s what a 17-year-old B’nai Avraham Bronx resident discovered on of Brooklyn Heights Aug. 17 when he fell asleep on ££ÇÊ,iÃiÊ-Ì°ÊUÊxÈ{n{ä a Brooklyn-bound 4–train. Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin The teen awoke at 7 am at www.bnaiavraham.com the Atlantic Avenue station to find someone has snagged the Candle clip-on phone. Lighting Road rage A man followed another man to his Quincy Street workplace Shabbat Kiteitzei after an Aug. 16 traffic altercation Fri., Aug. 24, before 7:24 pm and stabbed him in his right thigh Shabbat Ki Tavo all the way to his bone, piercing Fri., Aug. 31, before 7:13 pm his femur, said cops. The 43-year-old victim was PARK SLOPE JEWISH CENTER on his way to work, between 8th Avenue at 14th St. Classon Avenue and Downing Fri. nights at 7:30 pm Street, at around 4 pm when the Sat. mornings at 10:00 am assailant, who looked to be Adult Ed Hebrew School about 30 years old and 5-foot- Rabbi Carie Carter Park Slope's Egalitarian, 10, stabbed him. Conservation Synagogue Hot wheels An early morning thief 768-1453 A31-26 showed a Queens man some Brooklyn hospitality on Aug. 12, nabbing his yellow motorcycle St. John–St. Matthew–Emanuel from a parking spot at Waverly Lutheran Church Park Slope and Lafayette avenues. 283 Prospect Ave (5th and 6th Aves.) The 40-year-old bike-owner (718) 768–0528 www.stjme.org ELCA — Reconciling in Christ returned to the spot at 8:50 am Summer Sunday Worship 11:00 and discovered that his 2002 Rev. David C. Parsons Honda CBR was gone. A31- 20 Read your local stoop here. Read them all at BrooklynPaper.com VEGAS OPEN August 25, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 PSZ 3 7 DAYS AUTO SPA 7AM-10PM

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I LOVE YOU The Bloomberg Administration Faithful readers of The Brooklyn tor of Transportation Alternatives. has shifted gears, and decided to But Steely White was quick to Paper will recall my earlier — and expand car-free hours in Prospect apparently futile — crusade to get demand more, pointing out that his our local mail carriers to stop drop- Park. group is still calling for the entire ping their brownish-gray rubber One week after anti-car activists loop in Prospect Park to be ren- venue bands all over the neighborhood as blasted the mayor for increasing dered car-free. A 2006 study by the they make their appointed rounds. car-free hours in Central Park, yet group found that four out of five maintaining the existing biker- park users would use the park more th You don’t have to be Al Gore — or even weigh as much as Al friendly hours in Prospect Park, the often if they did not have to com- rt Gore — to think there’s a better use city announced that the East Drive pete with autos. (The fifth person for perfectly good rubber bands would now be entirely closed to may be a dentist.) Supplies than to discard them on the ground Gersh Kuntzman traffic on weekdays from 5–7 pm. The mayoral U-turn took Bor- 7A in front of mine and my neighbors’ The change will “create new op- ough President Markowitz by sur- houses. portunities for children and families prise. Last week, he told the New There is: mail carriers are supposed to bring them back to to enjoy the Prospect Park drive on York Daily News that expanding 376 their local station and reuse them, a Postal Service spokes- weekday afternoons,” said Depart- car-free hours in Prospect Park woman told me. ment of Transportation Commis- would push more traffic onto sur- Supplies for 7th Ave. She also told me that the manager of the post office on Ninth sioner Janette Sadik-Khan. “Our rounding roads. (bet. 11th & 12th Sts) goal is to let the park be a park as “Further limiting hours [to cars] the Fine Artist, Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues had told all her carriers Graphic Artist, to stop dropping the bands all over the place. much of the time as possible.” would result in unacceptable traffic Still, the bands keep showing up. Naturally, bicycling advocates backup,” he said then. Student 369-4969 So my daughter and I gathered up a few dozen rubber bands hailed the move — but just as pre- Markowitz did not return an e- and Children — two day’s droppings, by the way — and took them to the dictably said it did not go far mail seeking comment for this sto- post office last week. My goal was to show the manager the Drivers can expect to see more signs like this now that enough. ry. clear evidence that the letter carriers were still litter couriers. Mayor Bloomberg has expanded car-free hours in “For an extra two hours each The new car-free hours will kick She could not have cared less. Prospect Park. weekday, Brooklynites will breathe in on Aug. 27. Now, here’s the part of the column where the writer typically 100% Recycled launches into a bitter tirade against postal workers and the poor & FSC Papers service they provide. This is where the writer might also remind Vegetable Inks his readers about that guy who went ballistic in the Kensington with Low VOCs post office earlier this year after being treated rudely by the staff (if you aren’t one of the 57,000 people who’ve watched his out- We Print Stuff Chemical-Free burst on YouTube, check it Rodeo gal: Fill the park with bull CTP Production out at http://www.youtube Printed with ON OUR OTHER .com/watch?v=CdrqLrd- this,” she said. “A lot of people Wind Power YAr0). By Ariella Cohen I know how that guy felt The Brooklyn Paper around here have homes upstate stoop and are training their children to PAGES — and if my daughter had- Gowanus’s own little rodeo ride.” BOERUM HILL n’t been there, I might be sweetheart wants to bring her Brochures Keyspan’s cleanup starring in a YouTube video bulls to Prospect Park. She should know. Singleton SPMMJOH!QSFTT was born in South Carolina, an environmentally-friendly Postcards CLINTON HILL of my own. Debbie Singleton — propri- boutique print house Fulton St. repairs The insensitivity started etor of Debbie’s Reins and but raised in Brooklyn. She Catalogs spent the early years of her W’MSBURG with the first clerk. Things, an outpost for saddles, Magazines Guttman under fire “Can I speak to the man- Stetsons and steel-toed boots — childhood in Crown Heights ager?” I asked politely. and later moved to an apart- BAY RIDGE has asked the Parks Department Marketing “What’s this about?” the ment near the Navy Yards in 718 625 6800 T Fat man walking to consider letting her hold a Collateral clerk said, a little too harsh- real live rodeo in the Olmsted Fort Greene. Throughout all 718 625 0669 F online at BrooklynPaper.com ly for my taste. and Vaux landmark. those years, she rode horses in www.rollingpress.com Etc. I explained that it was “You’d be surprised at the Prospect Park. She says she about “the rubber bands.” Eventually, the manager showed up. I crowd it would get,” she said. knows plenty of other Kings slipped my card under the bullet-proof glass, but she refused to “A lot of ladies like it, scholars, County cowpokes. take it. I asked her to take it, but she refused again. I explained young people. Rodeos are per- A Parks Department spokes- that I was the guy who wrote the column in The Brooklyn Paper / Sarah Kramer fect for Brooklyn.” man confirmed that the agency and that the problem was continuing. Baseball Cards has been talking to Singleton “What do you want me to do about it?” she asked in a tone And she ain’t kidding, pard- that suggested that she intended to do exactly nothing. ner. about her proposal, though Comics · Toys For starters, I told her I expected her to take the few dozen Singleton led a three-day nothing formal has been pre- bronco-busting and barrel rac- sented. Singleton said she felt Sports Cards bands that I had on me. 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The good news is that the Y compensated The Brooklyn Paper and early 20th century, handing present an immediate danger to which could blossom into a res- Cup of Coffee Lewine with a few free months added to his membership. … Of the 112-year-old company re- people who use these sites, ac- idential neighborhood bridging Keyspan has agreed to clean sponsibility for several tracts of cording to state records. Typi- posh Park Slope and Carroll in the City” the 17 people picked by the mayor, the governor, and the leaders the contaminated muck below contaminated land that had long cally, the chemicals left by gas Gardens if an expected city up- –– Fox 5 Good Day New York of the state Senate, Assembly and City Council, two are friends Thomas Greene Park, thanks to of The Brooklyn Paper. Congrats to our subway-scrutinizing pal been in dispute. manufacturing are only danger- zoning goes ahead. 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YMCA, which is between Fifth Housing Authority exterminator Cops are looking for a 6- told cops that she put the bag down at around 1 pm and lost a • On the same block, a and Sixth avenues, at just be- tricked a resident of the Wyck- foot, 200-pound black man woman parked her 1997 Dodge fore midnight when she was set off Houses into letting him into with brown eyes, black hair, cellphone, her wallet, various Convenient Location ID cards and the handbag itself. Caravan on Aug. 12 at around upon by two men, whom she her apartment on Aug. 17. close cut hair and “blotchy” 11:30 pm. When she returned to described as 18-year-olds. The thug didn’t steal any- skin. Gave it up it just six hours later, it was One of the men grabbed her A trio of hoods mugged a gone. from behind while the other man on 13th Street after sur- • A Long Island woman showed off a blunt instrument rounding him and demanding parked her 1997 Infinity on and then grabbed her legs. After cash on Aug. 16. Eighth Avenue on Aug. 13 at carrying her into the alleyway, The 22-year-old victim told around 1 am. But when she re- both men beat her about the cops that he was approaching turned to the spot, which was head, causing “redness and the corner of Fifth Avenue at near the corner of Fourth Street, swelling.” around 2:30 am when the three- two days later, the car (and the She broke away from her as- some surrounded him and one two child seats in the back) was sailants and ran home, but the man asked, “Where’s the mon- gone. perps got away with her cell- ey?” phone. The victim answered suc- Burgs in burg cinctly: “The wallet is in my back right pocket,” he said. There were at least three bur- RELIGIOUS One of the thugs took the glaries in the area last week. wallet — which contained $40 SERVICES Here’s how they went down: Callan / Tom — and all three fled up 13th • A Fourth Street house was Street towards Prospect Park, Brown Memorial broken into on Aug. 17 while cops said. Baptist Church its owners were on vacation, The man could only describe 484 Washington Ave., Ft. Greene cops said. Thieves had entered Sunday School 9:15am two of his assailants: a 5-foot- Morning Worship 8:00am & 11:00am the house by forcing open the Wed. Bible Study 1:00pm & 7:15pm The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn 10, 250-pound black man, age iron bars on a security gate and 19, with short brown hair; and a then breaking through a glass 718-638-6121 5-foot-6, 150-pound Asian man Rev. Clinton M. Miller - Pastor 8 mi. to JFK • 20 mi. to LaGuardia door. They got away with a lap- Smashup with short brown hair. He had LM31-12 top computer and a mountain no description on the third man, BY CHOICE HOTELS bike. Cong. 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Thieves got to make Seventh Avenue a one-way street in an effort to at the armory complex on www.parkslopeshul.org away with a trove of electron- make it as “safe” as one-way Court Street. Eighth Avenue and 14th Street LM30-34 — this time, the theft of hundreds of dollars worth of copper Congregation wiring. Mount Sinai Sometime between Aug. 8 250 Cadman Plaza W. and Aug. 15, a thief broke into Conservative/Egalitarian a locked storage room at the ar- A House for Prayer / A Home for People mory, which houses a woman’s 718-875-9124 Friday Eve Services 6:30pm shelter and is being converted Saturday Morning 10:00am into a sports complex. Rabbi Joseph Potasnik A42 The manager of the compa- Brooklyn ny installing electrical equip- Heights ment in the building told cops Synagogue that many people had access to 131 Remsen St. · 718-522-2070 the area around the storage [email protected] room during the period that the Affiliated with the Union of Reform Judaism crime went down — but only he has the key to the room it- A warm, welcoming, and Jewishly diverse community, dedicated to self. He told police that the door life-long learning and to caring for was indeed secure during the the world and each other. entire weeklong period. Please join us! That explains why cops later Shabbat evening service found that a portion of wall had every Friday at 6:30 pm been removed, giving the thief access to the room — and the Torah study 37 spools of copper wiring that every Saturday at 9:30 am he stole. A51 Cops say that a price hike in copper has led to a rash of such Shabbat Shalom! thefts at construction sites. Presented by “It’s more valuable than B’nai Avraham gold,” said one officer in a of Brooklyn Heights neighboring precinct. “And the ££ÇÊ,iÃiÊ-Ì°ÊUÊxÈ{n{ä thieves know it.” Rabbi Aaron L. Raskin www.bnaiavraham.com YM ouch A A thief was obviously work- Candle ing the locker room at a popular Lighting YMCA on Ninth Street because several men reported that their stuff had been stolen while they Shabbat Kiteitzei worked out on Aug. 18. Fri., Aug. 24, before 7:24 pm The victims told cops that Shabbat Ki Tavo they re-entered the locker room Fri., Aug. 31, before 7:13 pm at around 4:30 pm after their workouts and discovered the PARK SLOPE JEWISH CENTER thefts. 8th Avenue at 14th St. Fri. nights at 7:30 pm In one case, three people had Sat. mornings at 10:00 am stashed their stuff in one locker. Adult Ed Hebrew School That trio lost cash, credit cards, Rabbi Carie Carter Park Slope's Egalitarian, a library card, a cellphone and a Conservation Synagogue pair of designer shorts. 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be those three-wheeled scooters. / Matthew Ianniello They don’t go fast, they clog up roads, and there are about a gazillion little scooters already employed by Traffic Enforce- ment officers wreaking havoc on residents. In fact, the idea of more scooters continuously racing around the streets of Bay Ridge sounds more like an Orwellian night- The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn mare than a kind-hearted blessing from the mayor. Construction work on the Verrazano Bridge is on track to finish up six months ahead of schedule. Known as Street Conditions Observation Unit Teams (or SCOUT), the inspectors are already patrolling our community with handheld satellite-aided devices to transmit reports on litter, OPEN potholes, graffiti, and other quality-of-life problems directly into VEGAS the 311 system. 7 DAYS You know, just in case the local cops, the fleet of traffic en- Verrazano fix-up zooms along 7AM-10PM forcement agents, the next-door neighbor who has 311 on her AUTO SPA speed dial, and the seven cameras per city block miss some- By Matthew Lysiak am delighted the MTA followed up on my to allow for a rehab of the lower level exit thing. The Brooklyn Paper suggestion.” ramp, the complete removal and reconstruc- “Platinum” Express Car Wash Simply put: residents have enough units observing us and Includes: UÊ i>Ê7 iiÃ Money talks. The incentives prove the widely held tion of the roadway, parapet wall and utilities, THE don’t need more scooters. UÊ ÕLiL`ÞÊ >Ì UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ $ 77 adage that money matters. According to the and rehabilitation of the steel beneath. Already, 7/ That is the message of one local pol after UÊFREEÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ "1*" But pols seem to believe there can never be enough sets of MTA, the revised plan will add $6.2 million *1-Ê/8 the work has led to congestion on the bridge Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires2 8/31/2007 eyes, and wheels, even if residents already feel overexposed. the recent announcement that a local con- to the $58.8-million project, but the money that has spilled onto the streets of Bay Ridge. CHEAPEST “SCOUT [will] improve struction project might actually be completed ahead of schedule. will only be spent if the job really does get The good news also comes as an unex- the quality of life through- shortened from 21 to 15 months (barring ex- “Deluxe” Express Car Wash ON OUR OTHER Construction work on the Verrazano-Nar- pected relief for residents who have grown out this community,” said treme weather conditions). Includes: UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ Councilman Vince Gentile rows Bridge, originally scheduled to be accustomed to expecting the worse from lo- UÊ ÕLi `ÞÊ >Ì (Ê7iÌÊ7>Ý $ 54 The contractor will use this incentive to UÊ7 iiÊ À} Ì (Ê/À«iÊ*Ã 7/ completed in March, 2009, will now be UÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ (ÊÀÀÊÊ/ÀiÃ "1*" (D–Bay Ridge). The May- add additional workers for extra shifts, cal construction projects, such as a water 5 *1-Ê/8 stoop Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires 8/31/2007 PAGES or, who dreamed up this completed by next September, six months and sewer line project at 92nd Street and CAR which is welcome to news to the already scheme, agreed: “This new ahead of time — and it’s all because Rep. PARK SLOPE congested nearby communities. Fort Hamilton Parkway that was supposed team will bring an extra set Vito Fossella (R-Bay Ridge) urged the Met- Car-free park “That is great,” said bridge commuter to be completed in one year, but took 18 “The Best” Express Car Wash of eyes to our city streets. ropolitan Transportation Authority to add Includes: CLINTON HILL months, said Josephine Beckmann, district (Ê7iÌÊ7>Ý Whenever I’m driving cash incentives into the rehab contract. Mark Lillmars. “Now only if they lowered UÊ ÕLi `ÞÊ >Ì (Ê/À«iÊ*Ã Fulton St. repairs UÊ7 iiÊ À} Ì (ÊÀÀÊÊ/ÀiÃ $ 08 “I asked the MTA to add incentives be- the toll, too, then I’d do a little dance.” manager of Community Board 10. UÊ1ìÀÊ >ÀÀ>}iÊ >ÃÌ (Ê «iÌi 7/ through the city and I see a "1*" W’MSBURG cause I was confident it could speed up the Construction began last June, when one “And minor work continues [on that UÊ>`Ê/ÜiÊ ÀÞ ÊÊÊÊ,>8Ê-iÀÛVi 8 *1-Ê/8 pothole or garbage on the Not to be combined with any other offers. Expires 8/31/2007 WASH Guttman under fire completion of this project,” said Fossella. “I lane in each direction on the Bridge was closed project] to this day,” she added. BOERUM HILL street, I’ll pick up the phone Keyspan’s cleanup and report the problem to IN 311, now we’ll deploy a

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But Millender was still on 718-768-WASH (9274) halfway towards winning a ants on “Fat March” aren’t bat- the march. “Not one person I know wants more of these government huge cash jackpot. tling each other but trying to Millender told The Brooklyn scooters on the road,” said scooter-weary resident Phil Millard. Bay Ridge resident Will Mil- become one big band of broth- “Only the politicians love these kinds of programs, but maybe at lender, 26, recently embarked ers. Paper that ABC does not allow least at the end of the day, there really will be less trash and on a 10-week, 550-mile walk If they stay together by the him to give interviews while cleaner roads.” end of the walk, they share a the show is still airing, but 100% Recycled from Boston to Washington as & FSC Papers Yellow Hooker isn’t holding his breath, but he does have part of the new reality show $1.2-million pot — but every those who saw Bay Ridge’s newest reality star say his some ideas of his own. “Fat March,” in which 12 su- time someone drops out, or is Vegetable Inks weight loss looked dramatic. If there are any politicians sincerely interested in improving per-sized contestants lose voted out for slowing the others with Low VOCs Will Millender down, the pot is reduced by “He actually looks like a dif- the quality of this columnist’s life, then the goal shouldn’t be weight to win cash. We Print Stuff Chemical-Free The show’s filming wrapped $100,000. ferent person,” said Bridget more government scooters, but less. Lysiak (yes relation), who saw CTP Production Not to mention the fact that I could fill this entire paper with up in July and Millender is the Wicked Monk on Fifth Av- Predictably, the tall task had back in Bay Ridge — but he’s enue near 84th Street, kicking taken its toll on the oversized Millender strolling on 86th Printed with some real quality-of-life suggestions. Here’s one: how about Street near Fourth Avenue. Wind Power buying flags to stick on the top of fire hydrants so that car own- sworn to confidentiality. back some drinks while watch- contestants. On Aug. 6, he was spotted at ing his reality television debut. By this week’s episode, the “The man could have easily lost ers won’t have to leave so much space on either side of the 100 pounds.” pump? 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FDNY Park, yet maintaining the existing biker-friendly horrified an entire city, and Joseph Graffagnino hours in Prospect Park, the city announced that the also turned a typically rau- East Drive would now be entirely closed to traffic cous Third Avenue bar into on weekdays from 5–7 pm. an impromptu memorial this of “Joey Bots,” were scattered The change “create new opportunities for chil- week. over the bar. The replica fire dren and families to enjoy the Prospect Park drive Graffagnino, 33, died along- truck, usually filled with chil- on weekday afternoons,” said Department of side Robert Beddia, 53, in the dren at play, now served as a Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. fire at the crippled financial haunting reminder to the perils “Our goal is to let the park be a park as much of building near Ground of the job. the time as possible.” Zero,which has been empty “Joe was seriously the Naturally, bicycling advocates hailed the move since the 9-11 attacks and was nicest guy you could meet,” — but just as predictably said it did not go far being taken down piece by said a friend, John Malloy. “I enough. piece to minimize the spread / Matthew Lysiak know it sounds cliché, but it’s “For an extra two hours each weekday, Brook- of toxins. true, I honestly don’t think I lynites will breathe easier as they walk, job, bicy- Graffagnino, who lived in ever knew a nicer guy.” cle and recreate in Prospect Park,” said Paul Steely Dyker Heights, had been tend- Graffagnino was an eight- White, executive director of Transportation Alter- Drivers can expect to see more signs like ing bar at the Salty Dog just year veteran who leaves be- natives. this now that Mayor Bloomberg has ex- hours earlier. Paper The Brooklyn But Steely White was quick to demand more, hind his wife, Linda, a nurse panded car-free hours in Prospect Park. This week, the memories pointing out that his group is still calling for the en- flowed. Special memorial bunting was hung over the entrance of the Salty Dog in Bay Ridge to honor he married in 2002. He worked tire loop in Prospect Park to be rendered car-free. “Joe spread so much joy to dead firefighter Joseph Graffagnino, a neighborhood resident, who was killed in the out of Ladder Company 5 in A 2006 study by the group found that four out of hours in Prospect Park would push more traffic everyone he met,” said friend Deutsche Bank fire last week. Greenwich Village. five park users would use the park more often if onto surrounding roads. and co-worker Bekim Leka. Monday would have been they did not have to compete with autos. (The fifth “Further limiting hours [to cars] would result in “The guy always had this firefighters, hung black-and- ad-hoc memorial. fighters and friends coming in his 34th birthday. Instead, his person may be a dentist.) unacceptable traffic backup,” he said then. smile on his face and it became purple memorial bunting in “Everyone just seemed to and out.” funeral was Thursday at St. The mayoral U-turn took Borough President Markowitz did not return an e-mail seeking contagious.” honor of Graffagnino, and start gravitating here,” said Copies of the daily papers, Ephrem’s Church on Bay Markowitz by surprise. Last week, he told the comment for this story. The bar, which caters to flowers started gathering at the Leka. “We have had other fire- with covers featuring pictures Ridge Parkway. New York Daily News that expanding car-free The new car-free hours will kick in on Aug. 27. Beep approves Century 21 lot and Home Depot

needed. Garage to replace Superstore and housing for “Unless people stop having babies and looking for jobs, bowling alley then we need development,” railroad site on Eighth Ave said Kohen. The Brooklyn Paper The developer still faces a Borough President Markowitz By Matthew Lysiak Home Depot. few more hurdles. The City signed off on Century 21’s plan to The Brooklyn Paper Markowit’z approval did come Planning Commission has 60 turn an old bowling alley into a with strings, however thin. He re- A plan to build a new Home days to vote on the rezoning six-story parking garage for 279 quired that Kohen set aside 20 per- Depot and 214 units of housing application before it advances cars on 87th Street. cent of the units as “affordable,” in- to the City Council, where it is

David Nicholson atop a vacant Bay Ridge railyard The lot could help ease parking stall a traffic light and crosswalk at backed by Councilman Vince congestion during daytime shopping Century 21’s proposed garage on 87th Street is rolling ahead, moved a step closer to reality after 62nd Street and Eighth Avenue, and Gentile (D–Bay Ridge). hours and also at night, as Century thanks to Borough President Markowitz’s approval last week. gaining the approval of Borough participate in a traffic study after the “It will bolster the area, spruce 21 has promised to allow local President Markowitz last week. center opens. Kohen has already up the surroundings and provide restaurants to use the lot for valet chitect David Nicholson. to the Mark Lanes, a popular bowl- Markowitz gave his support to promised to do all of those things. significant employment and parking, freeing up space on the The proposal needs a zoning ing alley. developer Andrew Kohen, who The borough president’s approval MSK Properties housing,” Gentile said. street. change before it can procede, hence The City Planning Commission needs a rezoning so he can build the follows a recommendation by Com- Andrew Kohen’s plan for a Home Even if City Planning rejects In addition to the parking garage, the Borough President’s approval will vote on the application within 60 profitable residential units in the munity Board 10. Depot and an 11-story apartment the proposal, the project would Century 21 hopes to add a level of last week. days before it advances to an expected complex, which would consist of an Opponents say Kohen is trying to building on Eighth Avenue moved still go ahead if the Council retail space on 87th Street and plant The site, which is between Fourth approval by the City Council. 11-story residential and office build- build too much housing on the site, ahead last week with a nod from and Mayor Bloomberg approve six trees on the roof, according to ar- and Fifth avenues, was once home — Matthew Lysiak ing plus the 100,000-square-foot but the developer said housing is Borough President Markowitz. it as expected. Candy store heist goes sour Rodeo gal wants to By Matthew Lysiak and Michael Giardina POLICE BLOTTER fill park with bull The Brooklyn Paper Ridge gang attack 68th Precinct By Ariella Cohen “You’d be surprised at the crowd it would Aug. 19. into the home, which is near The Brooklyn Paper get,” she said. “A lot of ladies like it, scholars, These guys must have The victim left her Fourth West Eighth Street, at around young people. Rodeos are perfect for Brooklyn.” may be racial Brooklyn’s own little rodeo sweetheart And she ain’t kidding, pardner. missed that episode of “Law Avenue unit, which is near 88th 6:30 pm, she left the engine wants to bring her bulls to Prospect Park. Street, to go to work only to re- Singleton led a three-day bronco-busting and and Order.” running on the 2000 tan By Matthew Lysiak Debbie Singleton — proprietor of Debbie’s turn at 6 pm to discover her lap- Hyundai. Moments later, she barrel racing event last weekend at Cedar Lane That is one reasonable con- The Brooklyn Paper Reins and Things, an outpost for saddles, Stet- top computer and two bracelets Stable in Howard Beach — home of the Federa- clusion after three local men returned to find the car driving sons and steel-toed boots — has asked the Parks missing, according to police. Two men were attacked outside the V-Lounge, a popu- tion of Black Cowboys. robbed a popular Third Avenue off, police said. Department to consider letting her hold a real There was no value listed for The four-door sedan has lar Eighth Avenue nightclub, on Aug. 17 in a case that Singleton is a member of the federation, and candy store on Aug. 19, but may have been racially motivated, police said. live rodeo in the Olmsted and Vaux landmark. an emissary to those city-slickers who don’t then did nothing to conceal the stolen items. New Jersey plate number The two victims, who are both black, told cops that they know their side-saddle from their front pocket. their identities as they fled. LYB16V. Anyone who spots the vehicle is asked to call the were standing alone when a large group of Asian men ap- She believes a Prospect Park rodeo could help The heist went down at 6:40 62nd Precinct proached them outside the club at 1 am. turn soft-handed spectators into urban cowboys. am, when two gunmen came 62nd Precinct at (718) 236- 2611. At some point, one of the men pulled a club and knocked “There is an audience for this,” she said. “A into the store, which is near Teen trouble the 26-year-old victim in the head while his pal, also 26, lot of people around here have homes upstate 93rd Street, and demanded A teenager had his bike, cell- Two for one was attacked by glass bottles, according to police. and are training their children to ride.” money. phone and cash swiped by two Two residents of a Stillwell The thugs fled into a silver Mercury, and the wounded She should know. Singleton was born in The men then grabbed the thugs who attacked him on Avenue apartment building re- club-hoppers were treated at the scene for minor injuries. South Carolina, but raised in Brooklyn. She register and ran outside and into Aug. 18. turned home on Aug. 15 to find Only later were questions raised about the gang’s violent spent the early years of her childhood in Crown a waiting Chevy Tahoe that was The 15-year-old was biking their front doors busted open motivations. Heights and later moved to an apartment near driven by a third man, accord- on Bath Avenue, near Bay 25th and their property missing. A witness told police that the apparent ringleader of the the Navy Yards in Fort Greene. Throughout all ing to police. Street, at around 3 pm when the The first victim came home gang, who was described as a 5-foot-11 Asian man with a those years, she rode horses in Prospect Park. The register had about $500, two thieves approached. at around 8 am and discovered heavy build, dark black sunglasses and slicked-back black She says she knows plenty of other Kings Coun- but cops shouldn’t have too many “Give me your money, or I’ll that thugs had broken in and hair, ordered the others to inflict pain. ty cowpokes. problems nabbing these guys, es- stick you,” said one of the as- robbed more than $1,200 that “If you are my brothers, you will get them,” a witness re- / Sarah Kramer A Parks Department spokesman confirmed pecially since the storeowner rec- sailants before he punched the the 36-year-old had stashed in- ported hearing. that the agency has been talking to Singleton ognized both of the perps and victim and rummaged through side his apartment, which is The victims were not robbed, and the senseless violence about her proposal, though nothing formal has also managed to get the license his pockets. near 85th Street, police said. was the first of its kind at the club, which is between 62nd been presented. Singleton said she felt the de- plate of the getaway car. The thieves took $20, along Two hours later, the second and 63rd streets. partment was taking her seriously. resident came home to find a Debbie’s Reins and Thing (332 Douglass St., Ex drama with the phone and the moun- Paper The Brooklyn similar scene. between Third Avenue and Nevins Street). For in- Hell hath no fury like a man tain bike, police said. Debbie Singleton in front of Debbie’s The perps fled down Bath Thugs managed to break formation, call (718) 797-5288 or visit www.deb- scorned. Reins, her Douglass Street store. A 26-year-woman’s jealous Avenue, one holding the cash through the front door, and Aug. 15. ment. biesreinsandthings.com. ex-boyfriend is having a hard and the other riding the hot swiped $650, along with elec- The dispute began at around The 67-year-old returned to time dealing with the fact that wheels, police added. tronics, police said. 3 pm on Kings Highway, near his home, which is near 20th she has moved on to another Auto lapse Both break-ins went off West Sixth Street, when the Avenue, at around 2 pm and man, but swiped her wallet and without a hitch, giving the bur- dastardly duo approached the found that thieves had busted A woman had her car stolen glars a clean get away. victim and started arguing with open his front door and swiped cellphone as a rude consolation right in front of her eyes after prize on Aug. 18. AM argument him. $1,600, including electronics Gentile trashes Sanitation leaving the keys in the ignition At some point, one of the and jewelry, police said. The trouble began at around as she went into her friends An early morning argument 11:30 pm, when the victim left villains attacked the 27-year-old By Matthew Lysiak to discover litter summonses. One woman Highlawn Avenue home on turned violent and resulted in Water worked even got a ticket for a dirty driveway — even her Fourth Avenue house, victim, punching and kicking At least two women were The Brooklyn Paper Aug. 17. the beating and robbing of man him, and swiping $150 and his though she didn’t have a driveway! which is near 86th Street, and When the 46-year-old went by two complete strangers on victims of meter reader im- Councilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay was immediately confronted by cellphone from his pants pock- The Department of Sanitation declined to posters last week. Ridge) scored a huge victory in his war comment on the new rules. her ex-boyfriend. et, police said. The first incident was on against the Department of Sanitation last The scorned lover began Bay Street stalk Aug. 9, when the scam artists week when the city tightened the rules re- screaming and shouting and de- Assaults up A woman was followed, at- approached a Bay 31st Street garding how recycling violation summonses manded to know the phone tacked and robbed by two thugs home at around 11:40 am. They can be written. number of the new boyfriend, in the early morning hours on told the resident, a 72-year-old, according to police. Last week, we reported on large drops in crime in Bay The move comes after months of back and Aug. 14. that they needed to get in to forth between the city and Gentile, who has MARCH… The victim tried to walk Ridge’s 68th Precinct. This week, Bensonhurst’s 62nd check the water meter. The 18-year-old first saw the complained that enforcement agents were giv- away from the heated argu- Precinct reported its own decrease in crime so far this stalkers on 86th Street, which is Once inside, they split up Continued from page 3 ment, but before she could and rummaged through the ing tickets for minor violations, like putting a year, but with an alarming increase in assaults. All statis- just up the block from her single soda can in the trash rather than in the which cause me an extreme discomfort,” lament- leave, the thug grabbed her tics are from Jan. 1 through Aug. 19. Source: NYPD home. Frightened, she began to house, which is near 86th ed Millender on his blog at realitywanted.net. phone and her purse, which Street. recycling bin. run home, but the two punks As a result, Gentile introduced legislation “After a visit to the bathroom, the pain of contained $80, and ran off. They left with jewelry and that, combined with how I had been feeling for CATEGORY 2007 2006 % chg caught up to her and pushed her barring inspectors from handing out recycling Gold bug to the ground in front of her fled without even checking one the day, caused an unexpected emotional out- meter gauge, police said. summonses unless the alleged litterbug had at burst and subsequent blackout.” Burglars robbed a Fourth Av- MURDER 2 3 -33.3 house. least five recyclable items in the regular trash. enue home of $21,500 worth of “Hand your stuff over,” one The second incident was on Trial, tribulations, and even a slice of celebri- Aug. 15, within a West 11th Each item also must be listed on the actual ty are nothing new for Millender, who has bat- gold jewelry — including an RAPE 8 5 60 perp told her. The other punk ticket. expensive gold bracelet, valued didn’t wait for a response and Street home. In this case, the tled his weight for several years, and whose im- imposter approached the home, “Now if that requirement isn’t followed, we age can still be found on storefront posters at $7,000 — on Aug. 19. ROBBERY 116 153 -24.1 stole her cash, passport and will use their own protocol to [get these tick- The 52-year-old victim told drivers license, police said. which is near Avenue S, at across Ridge for his first place showing at the around 10 am. ets] dismissed,” said Gentile. “We don’t think Fifth Avenue pizza-eating contest last June at cops that he had left his home, ASSAULT 115 91 26.3 The muggers left her on the someone who accidentally puts a newspaper or which is near 97th Street, at 10 pavement and fled on foot. The criminal asked to read Rocco’s Pizzeria (Millender was cheered to vic- the meter, and instead went into a can in their regular trash, should be pun- tory by a huge crowd that included a once-leg- am and was only gone for an BURGLARY 239 266 -10.1 Shopping spree ished. It’s excessive.” hour. the 49-year-old’s bedroom, endary eater, the now-slimmed down Borough A man returned after a long stealing $1,000 in cash and jew- But the good news came a few months too GRAND LARCENY 335 380 -11.8 President Markowitz). Laptop swiped day of running errands on Aug. elry. late for some residents. He ate 10 slices in the regulation 12 minutes. A 30-year-old woman says 14 to find that thieves had bro- Cops are investigating In March, residents of 73rd Street between CAR THEFT 124 143 -13.2 The performance made him a legend. her apartment was robbed on ken into his 20th Lane apart- whether the crimes are related. Fourth and Fifth avenues returned from work “Fat March” airs Monday nights at 9 pm on ABC. 100% Recycled Read your local stoop here. Read them all at BrooklynPaper.com & FSC Papers Vegetable Inks August 25, 2007 NBZ 3 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 with Low VOCs We Print Stuff Chemical-Free CTP Production Printed with THE Wind Power SPMMJOH!QSFTT Brochures an environmentally-friendly Postcards boutique print house Catalogs Magazines Marketing 718 625 6800 T Collateral stoop 718 625 0669 F WILLIAMSBURG – GREENPOINT– BUSHWICK www.rollingpress.com Etc. Let’s drink to This time, it’s Guttman under fire this new beer Controversial developer moves ahead, despite big fines By Rachel Corbett point fire, five other Guttman- merica and Germany — the odd cou- for The Brooklyn Paper controlled structures in the bor- ple of international beer — are having ough succumbed to suspicious BESIDE Williamsburg and Green- blazes in the last two decades — a baby. A point residents were shocked to but the developer was never im- Twins, actually. THE POINT learn that Joshua Guttman, the plicated in court. In Williamsburg. notorious developer whose Some critics say the Depart- The German beer industry is one of the Greenpoint Terminal Market ment of Buildings should be held world’s most conservative. The American mysteriously burned down last responsible for keeping up with beer industry is one of the most dynamic May, has been pursuing new the number of fines developers and changeable, which only adds spice to projects without being held ac- have, but Phyllis Arnold, the this summer’s collaboration between countable for a host of building agency’s deputy commissioner Bavaria’s G. Schneider and Sohn and violations. for legal affairs, said the city was Williamsburg’s Brooklyn Brewery on a Guttman (right) has yet to re- on top of the situation — as new beer called Schneider-Brooklyner pair the market building, and he much as it could be, at least. Hopfen-Weisse. faces $4.7 million in fines for “Mr. Guttman received per- We American beer drinkers — if that is failing to maintain the piers and mits to the extent his applications not a redundancy — run the gamut from bulkheads of his Greenpoint wa- were compliant,” she said, those who wash down our nachos with terfront property, city records adding that the department was practically tasteless “industrial” brands like Tom Gilbert show. “looking into other options that Coors and Budweiser, to those who enjoy “People are outraged that the may give us the authority to re- exploring the broad range of the world’s beer styles, from deep dark stouts to Greenpoint Terminal Market — fuse permits in the future.” crisp India pale ales to champagne-like Pilsners. which many people thought land- Thies said that the city should “German beer drinkers don’t like change,” explained Brooklyn Brewery’s mark-worthy — has been left in track ownership and prevent de- brewmaster Garrett Oliver during a recent visit. “No German brewery has in- ruins,” said Evan Thies, chairman velopers from building if they troduced a new beer style in the past 30 years.” This is not surprising, perhaps, of Community Board 1’s Envi- have excessive fines. ronment Committee. “Guttman “Guttman is unfortunately not in a country where all beer must confirm to the Reinheitgebot, the more than should not be allowed to be alone in his delinquency,” said 400-year-old “beer purity” law. building in Greenpoint, Williams- Thies. “There are many develop- One thing German consumers don’t like is a British technique called “dry- burg, or anywhere else.” ers that get away with this sort of hopping,” in which hops, a standard ingredient in most beers, are added very Guttman and his family also bad behavior.” late in the brewing process. This gives the beer a distinctively bitter flavor and owe the city $59,000 in fines, The developer is still moving complex aroma. and he has some $52,000 in un- ahead with projects at 189 Ply- German brewers, on the other hand, may be harboring a repressed urge to paid property taxes, the New mouth St., 53 Bridge St., and 58 break free. Not long ago, Oliver hosted a number of his German colleagues at York Post reported on Monday. Jay St. in DUMBO, plus his a Brooklyn Brewery beer dinner. One of the beers on the menu was Brooklyn Despite all this, he is continuing grander plan for a 35-story con- Brewery’s own eccentric concoction, Blast!, which Oliver calls “a riotous cele- to work on new developments. do at the ruined Greenpoint Ter- bration of hops.” To Oliver’s surprise, his German guests had a blast(!) drink- Brooklyn residents are espe- minal Market site. ing Blast! cially fixated on Guttman. In- Guttman’s lawyer did not re- Hence this summer’s collaboration between Oliver and his G. Schneider and cluding the still unsolved Green- turn calls. Sohn counterpart, Hans-Peter Drexler. First, Oliver traveled to Germany to di- Post / Spencer A. Burnett New York rect the brewing of the Ger- man version of Schneider- Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse, ON OUR OTHER using his favorite European hops. This beer went on sale in July. State, Keyspan ink toxic cleanup pact stoop This was followed by PAGES Drexler’s visit to Brooklyn, where he oversaw the brew- PARK SLOPE ing of the American version, Three local sites, along with dozens others, to be remediated Car-free park using his favorite American hops. By Rachel Corbett • Wythe Avenue Holding Station on 12th ny would “work closely with the owners, local paying attention to such a huge environmental CLINTON HILL While a project like this for The Brooklyn Paper Street and Wythe Avenue. From roughly officials and the community” as it moves for- project, but it’s bad because there appears to be Fulton St. repairs may be something new — it 1900–1950, the station stored — and leaked ward with the state-supervised cleanup. no timetable for these cleanups. is the first collaboration in G. Three toxic brownfields in Williamsburg BOERUM HILL will be cleaned up by Keyspan thanks to a — gas. It sat dormant for a decade until com- “Keyspan is one of the most experienced “It’s the same problem we have with the Schneider and Sohn’s 150 mercial developers began building on the site. utilities in conducting investigations and reme- agreement ExxonMobil made to clean up the Keyspan’s cleanup years — it also represents a deal between the energy giant and the state Department of Environmental Conservation. Now the station, which is just a block from diation of former manufactured gas plants sites Greenpoint oil spill,” Thies added. “There are BAY RIDGE fitting homage to Brooklyn McCarren Park, is nearly entirely covered with and will bring this expertise to these sites,” no benchmarks so that they can be held ac- beer tradition. All three sites are highly sought after by de- Fat man walking velopers, despite once housing fuel refineries businesses and industrial buildings. said Young. countable.” North Brooklyn was • Scholes Street Holding Station on Scholes The buried toxins do not present an imme- State Environmental Conservation Com- known in the 19th century as that leaked toxic coal tar into the soil. The last site closed down in New York in 1972. Street near Morgan Avenue. Built to store gas diate danger to people who use these sites, ac- missioner Pete Grannis vowed to hold online at BrooklynPaper.com “Brewery Row” for its more than 100 years ago, the site was used cording to state records. Typically, the chemi- Keyspan’s feet to the fire. dozens of breweries, all pro- The sites are: only until the middle of the 1900s. A chemical cals are only dangerous when inhaled or eaten, “[The state] will continue to hold Keyspan ducing German-style beers, • Williamsburg Works on North 12th Street including the Weisse, or wheat beer that G. Schneider and Sohn have made between Kent Avenue and the East River. This storage company now occupies the site. but they are often buried too far underground and other utilities that have left behind this his- world-famous. At one point, 10 percent of the nation’s beer was made here. brownfield, which will one day be the home of The cleanup is expected to take several years for that, experts said. tory of contamination accountable for the en- The 20th century decline of the area’s German neighborhoods — plus Pro- Bushwick Inlet Park, was once surrounded by and will be followed by extensive study of soil “The agreement is good and bad,” said Evan vironmental impacts,” he said. hibition and the rise of mass-produced, mostly Midwestern-made industrial oil refineries on three sides. It manufactured conditions. Karen Young, a spokeswoman for Thies, who is chair of Community Board 1’s Keyspan will bear the cost, though an beers — hit Brooklyn brewing hard. When F. and M. Schaefer, Williamsburg’s gas until the mid-1900s. the Downtown-based Keyspan, said the compa- Environment Committee. “It’s good they’re amount is not yet known, Young said. oldest brewery, shut down in 1976, not a single bottle of beer was brewed in Brooklyn or anywhere in New York City. That is, until 1996, when the Brooklyn Brewery opened on North 11th Street and began turning out Brooklyn East India Pale Ale, Black Chocolate Stout, Pennant Ale and the rest of its popular line. In 1984, Brooklyn had hired a fourth-generation German-American brewmaster from Brooklyn, William M. Moeller, to create a recipe for Brooklyn Lager, which was originally made upstate in Utica, based on brewing records and formulas left by Moeller’s grand- father to his sons. Give Your Kids the Edge! There is more, however, to the connection between Brooklyn’s brewing present See BEER on p 4

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Convenient Location The spike comes one week ground, near the corner of Keap inside his building before rob- what the thief took from the after The Brooklyn Paper high- Street. The thugs got cash, and bing him on Aug. 16. Hero officer unit, which is near Meserole lighted the precinct’s large drop the 31-year-old man managed The man entered the Powers An officer collared three Street. in burglaries so far this year. to get to his home. Street home at 11:40 pm and an men — one of whom was hold- • A man’s Hewes Street apart- Here’s a roundup: • An employee of a Varet assailant put him in a choke- ing a silver handgun — who ment was broken into on Aug. 19 • On Aug. 12, two perps ap- Street store was punched in the hold while another man stole were trying to rob a woman on at 1:30 am and the thief got away proached a 19-year-old man as he face by one member of a vil- his cellphone and cash. McKibbin Street on Aug. 14. with jewelry. He said he had an walked on McKibbin Street near lainous quartet on Aug. 14. Bicycle thief The trio had surrounded the alarm but forgot to set it. White Street at around 10:30 pm. The fearsome foursome en- One of the men rifled his pockets, tered the store, which is be- Is there no decency among removing a cellphone, debit card tween Manhattan and Graham thieves, at long last? and an unspecified amount of avenues, and the ringleader A 10-year-old girl had her bi- Steal this nabe cash, cops said. went behind the counter to cycle stolen from her as she • About a half-hour later, punch the shopkeeper. Mean- rode near the corner of Division Last week, we reported on large drops in crime in seven men surrounded a 31- while, his three co-conspirators Avenue and Roebling Street on Williamsburg’s 90th Precinct. This week, Greenpoint’s year-old woman near the corner stole T-shirts from the racks. All Aug. 18. Cops are hunting for a 94th Precinct reported its own decrease in crime so of Cook Street and Manhattan four men then fled. 13-year-old boy on a girls’ bike. far this year, though the numbers show lingering Avenue. One of the men hit the But three days later, when an- Cars gone problems with burglary. All statistics are from Jan. 1 woman in the face, but was un- other group tried to do the same At least five cars were stolen through Aug. 19. Source: NYPD able to get what he really want- thing — including punching the last week, including: ed: her cellphone. The woman shopkeeper — one of them, a 35- • A man who loaned his car fled without further injury. year-old, was arrested. to a friend returned from vaca- CATEGORY 2007 2006 % chg • On Aug. 13, three men sur- • A woman was robbed of her tion on Aug. 14 to find that the rounded a 56-year-old man as cellphone by a man who pretend- car had been stolen. He told MURDER 0 1 -100 he was walking home from the ed to need a favor on Aug. 15. cops that the friend had parked Broadway station of the G train The woman had been walk- the car on Hewes Street be- RAPE 4 1 300 at around 1:50 am. The man ing with her boyfriend near the tween Bedford Avenue and the 8 mi. to JFK • 20 mi. to LaGuardia ROBBERY 89 91 -2.2 BY CHOICE HOTELS had gotten to the corner of corner of Broadway and Thorn- Brooklyn–Queens Expressway. Boerum and Leonard streets, ton Street at around 10 pm • A Dodge Caravan was stolen when one of the men flashed a when a man yelled, “Come from a spot on South Ninth Street ASSAULT 48 56 -14.2 3218 Emmons Ave. Bklyn, NY SHEEPSHEAD BAY handgun and the others took the over. I need your help.” When on Aug. 17. The 35-year-old vic- man’s cash. the pair refused, the demand be- tim told cops that he’d parked the BURGLARY 152 135 12.5 (betw. Coyle & Bragg) E-mail: [email protected] The victim spoke only Chi- came more belligerent: “Give car between Berry Street and nese and did not give the police me the phone. I don’t want to Bedford Avenue just after mid- GRAND LARCENY 155 164 -5.4 Fax (718) 368-3963 Tel: (718) 368-3334 a good description of the thugs. shoot you over a phone.” night and it was gone when he • A man was battered by She turned it over, and the went back later that day. CAR THEFT 90 125 -28 BEER… Continued from page 3 and its past. According to Oliver, shortly before the idle Schaefer brewery on Kent Avenue was to be gutted, he and a few accomplices sneaked in and liberated some of the brewing equipment. “We took everything we could carry that we thought we could use at our place,” Oliver said. The bottled, German version of the Schneider-Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse (right) is available at many area beer stores. Its American cousin will be released this month, in draft form only. 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/ Gary Thomas Minor miracle “When he works slow, he has too much time to think about what Then & Now Islanders buck old trend, play for he wants to do on the mound,” said skipper Edgar Alfonzo. “When he’s working fast, he keeps his stuff down and he’s much more ef- big club, while Brooklynites don’t fective.” The 2001 Cyclones won the New York–Penn League Since mid-July, when his delivery was sped up, the lanky hurler Championship under the leadership of manager Edgar Al- The Brooklyn Paper has a noticeable fire in his eyes and is blazing through the competi- fonzo. Now that Fonzie is back, many fans are assuming that The Brooklyn Paper file The Brooklyn Let’s check the rosters of the parent clubs of the Staten Island tion. NEFARIOUS WAYS: Even though last year’s Staten Is- the 2007 Cyclones will repeat the franchise’s former glory. Yankees and the Cyclones. He’s 3-0 with a 1.43 ERA in his five starts — good enough for Here’s how this year’s team compares to that fabled squad: land Yankees won it all, our columnist would like to see For the New York Yankees, six alumni of its Staten Island affili- Player of the Week honors a few weeks back. On the season, them make the playoffs. ate, pitchers Chien-Ming Wang and Sean Henn; infielders Andy Waechter is 4–2 with a 3.54 ERA. 2001 2007 Phillips and Robinson Cano; and outfielders Melky Cabrera and “When I wasn’t pitching as well as I would have liked to, my (Through 56 games) (Through 56 games) Shelley Duncan, are all on the big club pace on the mound was a lot slower,” said Waechter, who admitted clones’ fans? Not too many Brooklyn fans would drive to a to upping his intake of Red Bull before games to keep him moving playoff game in Vermont or Mahoning Valley, Ohio, but Record: 41-15 (.732) Record: 38-18 (.678) Meanwhile, the Mets had only one Brooklyn alumnus on the roster this season: Joe Smith, who, rather amazingly, pitched for the Cyclones on the mound. there would be up to 2,000 Brooklyn fans at a playoff game Highlight of the week: Highlight of the week: last year. But Smith was sent back down last month. “The coaching staff noticed it and has made sure I’m more delib- in Staten Island, if the past is any indication. The Cyclones beat Vermont The Clones beat their ne- erate and quick and the mound. My tempo is much better now and What would inspire these young Cyclone players more — For years, the Yankees were notorious for trading away their 6–1 on Aug. 10 thanks to farious rivals, the Staten Is- young talent for the likes of Ken Phelps, but it seems as if that trend I’ve turned my season around.” half a dozen fans in Lowell, Massachusetts, or 2,000 fanatics John TOner’s two-run single land Yankees, 1–0 on Aug. behind first base in Staten Island? is now a thing of the past. and Forrest Lawson’s RBI. 20, thanks to a J.R. Voyles This year, when the Yanks had an opportunity to acquire high- Yes, there would also be Staten Island fans at Keyspan Starter Lenny DiNardo an RBI single in the first, and Park for any game against Brooklyn, but more Brooklyn fans priced set-up man Eric Gagne for former Baby Bomber Cabrera, unearned run and struck six innings of three-hit, have typically travelled to Staten Island than visa-versa, Any- they passed. way, isn’t it fun to have opposition fans at the same game, out six over seven innings shutout pitching from Instead, they brought up rookie sensation Joba Chamberlain. And Dem Bums’ last season since opposing fans at Cyclones-Yankees games have been — retiring 13 in a row. starter Dylan Owen (7–1). while he didn’t play on Staten Island, he has been, well, sensational. Maybe the Mets can learn something from their cross-town ri- generally good-natured, yet intense, about the rivalry. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Brook- vals. — Ed Shakespeare and Vince DiMiceli I still vividly recall these rivals in the three-game semi-fi- lyn Dodgers’ final, dismal campaign, The Brooklyn nal playoff series in the Cyclones’ inaugural season in 2001. Paper will provide a weekly reminder of the fabled I’ve been to World Series games, but I have never felt the electricity in the stands as I did for those two playoff games Boys of Summer. Here’s this week’s highlight: in Brooklyn. Aug. 30, 1957 Dodgers 10 – Giants 0 Cyclone catcher Brett Kay three times made Brooklyn The Brooks remained in second place thanks to Don Drys- fans delirious in the series finale. He caught a bouncing sac- 1st-place Clones drop two to 2nd place SI dale’s three-hitter. Gil Hodges and Carl Furillo had homers. rifice bunt attempt one-handed and threw out the Staten Is- land base-runner who was trying to advance to third; Kay The Brooklyn Paper three innings, but the wheels really came off Cyclones 1 also played “dead” on a tag play at home when, until the Sure, the Cyclones dropped two of three when the Yankees scored seven in the Yankees 0 very last split-second, he looked away from the ball, stand- to their hated rivals, the second-place Staten eighth. The Cyclones got nine hits, but ing relaxed and fooling the Yankee base-runner into slowing Island Yankees, but Brooklyn (38–18) is still in couldn’t capitalize. Aug. 20, at Keyspan Park up just enough to be tagged out when Kay turned and caught the driver’s seat in the McNamara Division of Yankees 4 The Cyclones got all they needed in the John Toner’s throw; and then Kay added the game’s coup de the New York–Penn League. first, thanks to J.R. Voyles’s RBI single. Start- Cyclones 1 gras with a decisive homer. Yankees 12 ing pitcher Dylan Owen was superb, giving Would that Cyclones’ series victory have been as exciting Aug. 19 at Staten Island up three hits, and striking out five in six in- against another rival? Would the Red Sox playoff comeback Cyclones 3 A lone run in the ninth — on a J.R. Voyles nings of work. Owen got his seventh win in 2004 have been as exciting against a team other than the Aug. 18 at Keyspan Park double — prevented a complete debacle. Lu- against one loss and lowered his ERA to 1.82. rival Yankees? Starter Nick Carrgave up five runs in cas Duda had two hits in a forgettable game. Visit www.BrooklynPaper.com for all the scores. Now let’s look at a few of the rivals’ numbers. ith five games remaining between them, Brooklyn leads Staten Island 5-4 in the battle for the Bor- W ough Presidents’ Trophy. Brooklyn is leading the league in pitching with an ERA of 2.77. Starter Dylan Owen is 7-1 with a 1.82 ERA, third in the league, and the team has a solid rotation with a lights-out bullpen. But the Staten Island hitters aren’t chopped liver, particularly the top and middle of the order. Little lead off man Justin Snyder is a royal pain — in the best sense of the word. He just keeps getting on (his on-base percentage is a league-leading .488) and leads the league in hitting at .375. Clean-up hitter and third baseman Brady Pruitt is hitting .372, with an on-base percentage of .486. If Brooklyn and Staten Island maintain their current positions, Sept. 1-4 could be crucial for both teams. That’s when the two clubs play each other five times in four days. Staten Island has won the last two league championships, so never count them out — and the parent Yankees, like the parent Mets, like their local farms clubs to do well, so a little subtle player maneuvering among each farm system’s teams has left both the Cyclones and Yankees with strong rosters. So, let’s go Staten Island! Make the wild-card, so you can lose to Brooklyn in a tense, exciting playoff series.

CHANNELING THE BARD Each week, Ed Shakespeare, the bard of Brooklyn baseball, will take a page from his ancient ancestor and add a bit of iambic pentameter to all our lives. This week’s contribution, “Homestretch,” is a poetic tribute to the rush to the playoffs.

From June, September hurtles into view, The term “Short Season League” is on the mark. A moment ago, the season started — much ado, And now, more of the game is played in dark.

September–June, a long wait, all-in-all. October baseball in New York could be, But not in Brooklyn — ballpark’s closed in fall. It’s desolate — Coney Island, empty.

Two weeks remain to cheer the team from Kings A fortnight left to see the boys out there. They chase the title, out to get their rings. Fourteen days before the winter of despair.

Take note, and gather rosebuds whilst ye may, And see the players right now — seize the day. INSIDE DINING | PERFORMING ARTS | NIGHTLIFE | BOOKS | CINEMA

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Nebbishy Brooklyn Heights actor Paul Giamatti apparently doesn’t have much faith in his taste in film. But the Brooklyn Academy of Music certainly does, hosting a series of films called “Paul Giamatti Selects” at the BAMCinematek through Sept. 11. “It was hilarious,” Giamatti (pictured) told GO Brooklyn. “They said to me, ‘Do you want to do a series?’ And I thought they were kidding.” With no particular theme in mind, Giamatti picked eight flicks — including “Dr. Strange- love” and “Dawn of the Dead” — but never thought his list would make it onto the silver screen. “I picked all of (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings August 25, 2007 these obscure movies that I like,” he said, “but Merie W. Wallace Merie W. I thought, ‘They’re never going to show this kind of s—t.’ ” Was he wrong — both about BAM’s intentions and about the quality of the films he picked. ‘Mo’ to read “Not many people have even heard of ‘The Sev- enth Victim’ or ‘Brewster McCloud,’ although While Knuffle Bunny is the Mo Willems char- they’re both fabulous movies,” said BAMCine- acter currently hogging the spotlights, it isn’t the matek manager Matthew Buzhholz. “It was a great only loveable creature that Willems has invented. opportunity for us to show some interesting films Willems has written more than a dozen books, but and work with one of our favorite actors.” these (truly) animated characters are our favorites. And though he hasn’t made it to see any of the films, BAM shouldn’t turn the projectors off just yet. The Pigeon “I want to go see some! I’ve never seen ‘The Sev- In 2003, Willems re- enth Victim’ on a big screen,” said Giamatti, who can leased his first picture be caught later this month in “Shoot ’Em Up” and book, “Don’t Let the Pi- “The Nanny Diaries.” geon Drive the Bus!” “I don’t know why they chose me — I honestly and introduced his read- thought they were kidding around.” ers to the wild, ram- “Paul Giamatti Selects” is running at the BAM bunctious bird who Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Ave., at Ashland would go on to star in Place in Fort Greene) through Sept. 11. For infor- “Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!” mation, call (718) 636-4100 or visit www.bam.org. and “The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog” (co-starring — Karen Butler a cute little duckling). Gerald and Piggie Not since Kermit the Frog ART and Miss Piggie has there been such a good porcine partner- ship. Gerald, a pessimistic ele- phant — and, really, do you Shoot out know any other kind? — and his bubbly pal Piggie, have Copyright 2007 by Mo Willems from “Knuffle Bunny Too.” Bunny Too.” “Knuffle Copyright 2007 by Mo Willems from teamed up for four “Early GO Brooklyn’s legendary shutterbug, Daniel Reader” books to date. Young kids can follow Krieger, usually finds himself behind the camera. But the duo on educational adventures like “There is last week, when he was assigned to take a portrait of a Bird on Your Head,” and learn that sometimes Park Slope photographer it’s OK to act like an animal. Bill Wadman (pictured), Krieger was on the other Edwina side of the lens. Most kids know Wadman has made it y that dinosaurs are his mission to take 365 Sweet ‘Bunn ’ extinct, but that fact photos — one a day — in 2007. And on Aug. 16,

eludes Edwina, the / Daniel Krieger main character in Krieger’s became his Mo Willems is the borough’s Auster for youngsters Willems’s 2006 228th subject. [See his book, “Edwina: portrait online at www. By Daniel Goldberg The Dinosaur Who BrooklynPaper.com.] for The Brooklyn Paper Wadman began the BOOKS Didn’t Know She Was Extinct.” When a snotty Paper The Brooklyn schoolkid tries to prove that she doesn’t exist, the project on Jan. 1 with a hildren’s book author Mo Willems “Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken photo of his sister and worked his way through friends Identity” (Hyperion) will be published in Septem- straw-hat-wearing Edwina fights back the only C knows his audience. “My basic philos- ber. For information, visit www.mowillems.com. way she knows how: with chocolate chip cookies. and family — he made sure to snap his mom on ophy,” the Park Sloper told GO Brook- Mother’s Day — though now so many people want to lyn, “is that the difference between children Leonardo participate that he’s taking reservations. and adults is that children are shorter.” ed to do was just draw. In this instant classic, “Most of the subjects come to me,” Wadman It’s this humor — and spot-on observation Since the 2003 publication of “Don’t Let Willems gives us “Leonar- said, explaining his first-come, first-served policy. — that has made Willems a two-time winner the Pigeon Drive the Bus,” Willems has do, the Terrible Monster.” “I have a ‘participate’ link on the Web site, and of the Caldecott Honor, the prestigious award turned his attention to children’s books, But Leonardo isn’t a brute about two to three people contact me a day wanting for children’s books, and a hit with local which he writes and illustrates in his Park — it’s just that he’s terrible to sign up. I can’t take all of them.” kids, a group that is surprisingly picky about Slope studio. He says feels most comfortable at being a monster. He Wadman has taken his slick-looking portraits its books. with his latest incarnation. “I always wanted can’t even scare the tuna everywhere from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to Despite having been in the trade for five to draw and be funny, and I was never sure salad out of the most Stonehenge to a Home Depot in Connecticut, and years, Willems didn’t start out with being an how that would play itself out. I’ve had a scaredy cat kid in town! with over 200 portraits under his belt, he already author in mind. “My first job,” he recalled, myriad of careers on the way, but I think that sees a change in his work. — Katie Newingham “was staying out of trouble.” this is the one I’m “Sometimes, I try to get a nice picture of the per- After working as a stand-up comedian in having the most son,” he said. “Other times, I’m trying to get some- London, Willems landed his first job as an fun with.” illustrate his books, which is unusual in the thing really true without a lot of extra stuff. I’m slowly animator on the film version of the children’s And other children’s book industry, enhances his ability creating a new look for my work.” story “Ira Sleeps Over,” and later wrote people have taken to tell a story with little or no words. “There’s And how did Krieger like playing model for the scripts for “Sesame Street” — a job that notice as well. “His no real difference between myself as an au- day? “He’s good at giving direction and making you Courtesy Mo Willems earned him six Emmy awards. Drawn in: Park Slope author Mo humor is in the il- thor and myself as an illustrator,” he said. feel comfortable,” he said. “He has a good eye for But no matter how great the recognition, lustrations, and kids “Drawing is a form of writing.” His back- making people look cool as well as drawing out Willems, above, fuses sepia-tone Willems claimed he was just the man behind are very visually ground in animation also gives his books a emotion.” the bird. “You have the advantage that no photographs of his neighborhood oriented now,” said special appeal because kids love that his And even though it’s still summer, Wadman is al- matter what lines you write, the Muppets will with original illustrations to create Judy Zuckerman, as- characters look like cartoons. ready weighing his options for the end of the project. make them funny. I don’t think my scripts books like “Knuffle Bunny Too,” seen at top. sistant director of children’s services at the The style of the “Knuffle Bunny” books, “I want to keep the portraits quiet until I’m done and were particularly strong, but nobody noticed Brooklyn Public Library. “[Kids] like that including the soon-to-be released “Knuffle them show them all at once,” he said. “I think it would because the acting was so good.” show, giving him control over plot, character kind of visual humor, especially with Bunny Too,” is visually arresting and sur- be really fun to have a party with everyone.” His next project, a Cartoon Network show and format, but he also animated each videogames, movies, TV and the internet so prisingly artsy. It’s easy to see why critics Now wouldn’t that make a nice group photo? called “Sheep in the Big City,” allowed him episode himself. Still, he found himself doing much in the culture today.” were so impressed by the black-and-white “365 Portraits” can be viewed at www.365 more freedom. Not only did he create the a lot of managing when what he really want- In fact, Willems’s ability to both write and See WILLEMS on page 8 portraits.com. — Katie Newingham -?L?RMPG IN CASE OF EMERGENCY GQ@?AI

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Italian Restaurant & Brick Oven Pizza HIGH ‘FIVE’ • Lunch & Nightly Specials Following in the footsteps of chain restau- And the Five Guys can’t get enough of • Wood Burning Pizza rants like Chipotle, Five Guys Famous Burgers themselves — the walls are covered in maga- and Fries, a Virginia-based patty shack, has zine articles proclaiming their burgers the best • Desserts & Coffee • Beer & Wine opened on Montague Street. Staying true to its in the land. • Private Parties Available 10-100 Persons name, the shop has a limited menu — besides We weren’t quite so sure. After all, just across hot dogs, adding bacon or cheese to a burger the street is the famed seven-ounce burger at just about rounds out your options — but has Grand Canyon. And next door is a perfectly 232 Vanderbilt Ave. found favor with the Heights lunch crowd, good burger at Happy Days diner. So, in the (bet. Dekalb & Willoughby) which, on our last visit, formed a line snaking spirit of fairness, we sent five of our own guys out the door. to see just what the fuss was all about. (718) 789-5663 Perhaps it’s the complimentary peanuts (in Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries (138 / Julie Rosenberg shells that you can toss on the floor!), or the free Montague St., between Clinton and Henry toppings (the “fried onions” were disappointing- streets in Brooklyn Heights) is open daily from ly bland, however), but people can’t get enough 11 am–10 pm. For information, call (718) 797- of this place. 9380 or visit www.fiveguys.com. PARTY UNDER THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE Paper The Brooklyn AT WATER STREET RESTAURANT

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bacon-wrapped shrimp that represented the perfect mar- WILLEMS... riage of pig and crustacean (damn those GOP senators Continued from page 7 for continually blocking such East of the border civil unions!). A mound of photographs that Willems rich, creamy guacamole colors over with his cartoon rounded out the plate. characters. `iÀÊUÊ>ÌiÊL>ÀÊUÊLÀÕV Serious pork lovers will As with everything, the LiÊLiivÊLÕÀ}iÀÊUÊÃÌi> ÕÃiÊÃ«iV>ÃÊUÊvÀiÃ ÊÃi>v` Chef’s Mexican cafe is worth a trip to Williamsburg flip for Elliot’s braised pork idea came from experimenta- i>Ì ÞÊÛi}iÌ>À>ÊUÊL>ÀÊiÕÊUÊÃ}>ÌÕÀiÊVVÌ>ÃÊUÊviÊÜi mole. Not only is the shoul- tion: “That was sort of a Ã«iÊÞiÌÊÃ« ÃÌV>Ìi`Êv`Ê>ÌÊÌÃÊLiÃÌ By Moses Jefferson der meat achingly tender, but process of trial and error. I iÜÊiÀV>Ê Ài>ÌÛiÊ >ÌÃ for The Brooklyn Paper Elliot’s mole — a mix of 11 wanted to make the stories `iÀÊx££«]ÊL>ÀÊvÀÉÃ>ÌÊ££Ó>]ÊLÀÕV ÊÃ>ÌÉÃÕÊ££>{« peppers, chocolate, nuts and, feel as real as possible.” {{äÊLiÀ}iÊÃÌÀiiÌÊxÌ Ê>ÛiÉv>ÌLÕÃ ® “ and-muddled margari- believe it or not, a dash of Deciding which objects to Ç£n°ÓÎä°xÓx H tas.” Are any other Coca-Cola — is complex, draw and which to photograph words in the English but never overpowering. A was also done by trial and er- thin tortilla layer adds crunch ror, but Willems ultimately and cuts some of the mouth- chose to photograph all the ful of flavor. It’s a bargain at backgrounds as well as some $13. of the objects the characters 100 Wine Tips We were also pleasantly interacted with. A grand artis- surprised by the taco salad tic statement? Nope — “I hate ($10), which we ordered to drawing backgrounds,” the see how Elliot would handle author laughed. Chardonnay, California Style, Part 2 something so mundane. He So, while the backgrounds did it brilliantly, thanks to an aren’t drawn, they aren’t ex-

By Darrin Siegfried / John Barclay abundant portion of tender actly regular photographs ei- grilled steak and prominent ther. “Images based on pho- wonder how many of you were shocked last made through Chaptalization: adding sugar to chorizo. tos,” is what Willems refers to week to read that many of those oaky tasting the unfermented grape juice in order to make As in Mexico itself, them as, explaining how he Chardonnays from California never see the more alcohol! desserts are not the reason to digitally alters the images, tak-

I Paper The Brooklyn inside of a barrel but get their flavor from oak The process of adding sugar to unfer- go to Santa Fe. Where El- ing out air conditioners and chips, tossed into the wine like a teabag into hot mented “must” is forbidden by law in California Santa, baby: Diners at Williamsburg’s Santa Fe enjoy chef Marc Elliot’s take on tradi- liot’s whimsy is welcome in other items that ruin the shot. water. We’ll talk more about California and, in truth, it really isn’t needed. Rumors still tional Mexican dishes, especially at the packed weekend brunch. other parts of the menu, “In a picture book, you would Chardonnay today, and maybe we’ll uncover a spread about some wineries adding sugar, but desserts like chocolate na- notice graffiti in a way that few more little secrets and clarify a few more the explanation for the sweet tasting language that suggest the where Elliot mixes Mexican ened white peaches, giant chos miss the mark. The cin- you wouldn’t if you just misconceptions. Chardonnays that make up much of the mass perfect antidote to a busy, comfort foods (tacos, que- baby tomatoes and jumbo namon-dusted strips of deep- walked down the street,” he Since alcohol is produced through fer- market for this varietal can be attributed to hot workday and the sweet- sadillas and burritos), Oaxa- shrimp — but we opted for fried nachos were too greasy explained. mentation, when yeast converts sugars into specific strains of yeast used in wine making. and-sour hint of a great meal can haute cuisine (mole any- the main menu. and the melted chocolate, However tailored they may alcohol, grapes with a high level of sugar can, Different yeasts react differently during at a hole-in-the-wall Mexi- one?) and some downright Starters, which range in caramel, sour cream and be, the photos taken near his potentially, make wine with a high amount of fermentation. Some will die off once the alco- can joint? weird — but surprisingly sat- price from $7–9, run the marshmallows all seemed to home in Park Slope have ex- alcohol. Most of the Chardonnay vineyards in hol level reaches a low level, leaving behind At Santa Fe, chef Marc El- isfying — stuff like a beet gamut from the sublime be fighting for my attention posed images of Brooklyn to a California are considerably hotter than more residual sugar than others. Some yeasts liot’s one-year-old south-of- and gorgonzola salad called (there’s that Beet Down like 3-year-old twins. large national and global audi- Chardonnay’s European home turf of add more flavors than others, and wine makers the-border out- again!) to the ridiculous Much better was the up- ence, a phenomenon that Champagne and Burgundy. If you look at a can take advantage of this by aging the wine for post that’s a few (queso frito — literally “fried side-down Boston Cream Pie Zuckerman, the librarian, said map of the world, you’ll see that the vineyards a time on these dead yeast “lees”, resulting in blocks east of the DINING cheese” — was surprisingly ($8), a rich, pudding-like will benefit the community. of Monterey lie on almost the same latitude as toasty aromas, separate from the toasted vanilla well-worn Wil- uninspired). A chilled cream concoction that’s stuffed into And while kids in other parts Casablanca, Morocco, much closer to the Santa Fe (366 Union Ave., between notes that come from charred oak. Most of the liamsburg trail, Powers and Grand streets, in Williamsburg) of chile soup was delightful a large coffee mug. The Oreo of the country reportedly did- Equator than either Beaune or Rheims. The wine makers in California buy their yeasts, and the words “hand- accepts MasterCard and Visa. Appetizers: — a rich blend of hot and crust on top gives way to n’t know what a Laundromat grapes grown here will be higher in sugar and, many of the openly brag about where they muddled margar- $7-$9; entrees: $9-$18. Hours: Lunch, Tues- cold that never got too spicy creamy delights below — — a featured locale from the when fermented “dry”, can often have alcohol day–Friday, noon–4 pm; dinner, every night originate from, while many of the finest wines itas” do much from 5 pm; weekend brunch 11am–4 pm. or too wan. and the pudding is so rich first “Knuffle Bunny” book levels of 14.5 to 15.5 percent. Many people made throughout the world use only wild yeasts more than that. Subway: G, L to Metropolitan Avenue- On the “entrada” side that this mug is perfect for — was, local kids were get- will argue that Chardonnay, originally a cool native to the vineyard where the grapes are From the first Lorimer Street. For information, call (718) ($9–18), you can order a sharing. ting to read about a life they 599-2655 or visit www.santafewb.com. climate grape, simply does not have the struc- grown. This is one of the cornerstone practices sip of bartender hamburger (albeit Mexican- As lovely as a warm night recognized as close to their ture to carry all of that alcohol. It’s like trying of Biodynamics, and wine makers who insist on John Watterberg’s ized by Elliot), a burrito, a in the garden is, insiders are own. Willems said that his to haul furniture with a sports car. Randall native yeasts will tell you that it is crucial if you concoctions (yes, taco salad or more ambitious starting to flock to his week- themes are universal, but Graham of Bonny Doon Winery looked at the want to make a wine that expresses the terroir plural — who stops at one?), “the Beet Down” that just projects like Killer Ca- end afternoon barbecues, added, “I’m sure that kids overall conditions of Monterey, Sonoma and of the vineyard. When I began to learn to taste you know you are in good might become my desert-is- marones (tequila-drenched where Elliot, whose prior who live in Brooklyn might Napa and came to the conclusion that wine critically, we often tasted wines “blind”, hands. land appetizer. shrimp “looking for a fight”) credits include Whim and feel a special connection with Chardonnay just shouldn’t taste the way it does without knowing anything about them, having That feeling continues as A wide variety of daily and a red snapper with ca- Blue Star in Carroll Gardens, it because they feel a special when it’s grown there, and he uprooted every only the wine to speak for itself. We would first you make your way to the specials were available — in- pers, olives, tomato and gar- rolls his grill onto the patio connection with certain land- one of his Chardonnay vines years ago, replac- try to determine if the wine was from the old spacious outdoor garden (and cluding a blue corn “lasagna” lic. and cooks up burgers and marks.” ing them with Rhône varietals such as Marsanne, world or the new. Old world (Eurpoean) wines away from the overly loud and a whimsical dish that El- In addition to that seminal other savories while he also And the “Knuffle Bunny” Rousanne and Viognier. Championing these almost always had the emphasis on terroir, music in the front room) and liot called “Contradiction of beet salad and the insipid roasts his poblanos and books are quickly becoming grapes has earned him the nickname “the Rhône while new world wines (North & South start perusing the menu, Farms,” and featured black- queso frito, we had a plate of chilies for the week ahead. just that. Ranger”. America, Australia and New Zealand) normally Some wine makers try to compensate for were fruit-forward, exhibiting little, if any, the high amount of sugar present at harvest by BH having their grapes picked before they fully sense of terroir. ripen, when the sugar levels are lower. This is This lack of terroir has long been one of foolish. Does any fruit taste good before it is the flaws that critics of California Chardonnay ripe? Peaches, strawberries, bananas... and have long pointed an accusing finger at. “Fruit Bombs” is the usual derisive name for these HIGH HOLIDAY grapes... don’t taste nearly as good before they ripen. These winemakers are often among wines, and many of them do go way over the those who mask the taste of their wines by put- top, smelling more like a fruit salad than a glass ting the wine through Malolactic fermentation of wine. Over the past twenty years, I have YIDDISH CONCERT and then adding oak chips. Does good wine witnessed the good news that more and more need this? California wines are being driven by terroir and With world renowned cantor My good friend Clark Smith has created a are getting their fruit into balance. Schneur Zalman Baumgarten-Tenor Napa Chardonnay called “Faux Chablis” that Thirty years ago this past May, in 1976, commentary and explanation handles the high alcohol problem and results in the wine merchant Steven Spurrier held a by Rabbi Aaron L. 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That night’s attendence 7,000 15,000 15,000 5,000

Cost of water $2 None sold inside! It was $2 on the Nothing here either. Local vendors $2 Boardwalk were selling it for $1

Most memorable event Who didn’t love riding on the slip- It’s been almost 40 years since Wood- If Lauryn Hill was truly miseducated, it While sometimes Park Slope feels and-slide? Rainy days made it even stock, but vintage hippie Melanie did- might have been at charm school. The more like Mayberry than New York, We’ve Moved! better — but nobody was complain- n’t care. The former flower child had former Fugee kept fans waiting almost when KRS-ONE took the stage on ing when the sky cleared up for TV on the crowd of boomers swaying with two hours, and when she did arrive on Aug. 3, the rapper reminded every- the Radio’s show. Especially not the candles during her set — but were stage — in a leather coat and with a one that Prospect Park wasn’t always PARK SLOPE FAMILY diehard fans who had been standing they remembering the good old days heavily painted face — she made excus- such a friendly place. KRS told the au- in the downpour anyway. or just trying to light things up for es for her tired voice and played almost dience how as a homeless teen he their now-geriatric eyes? unrecognizable versions of her songs. had slept in the very bandshell he was Not surprisingly, the clearest voices on performing in, and dreamed of one DENTISTRY that evening belonged to the hecklers. day rapping there. –– 245 Fifth Avenue –– Final comment Without proper seating, a day at the Big acts like the B-52s are definitely Sporadic programming and produc- Despite being the granddaddy of the between Carroll & Garfield pool can be painful, and between the exciting, but hauling out to Coney Is- tion troubles, not to mention the summer concert series, Celebrate beer and the sun, we’re often wiped land on a Thursday night isn’t always scary security guards, knocked the Brooklyn had way more steam than out for a few days afterward. The pro- easy. Move the concerts to Saturday wind out of the series’ sails. Turn this any of the others. With more than 20 • Emergency Service Dr. Andrew Warshaw gramming is great, though, so if they nights so blissed-out beachgoers can into a weekend festival and we bet shows over the summer, it seemed • Pediatric Dentistry Dr. Sari Rosenwein build benches and shaded spots, we stay stick around for nighttime enter- most of those issues will work them- like every time we turned around • Root Canal Therapy Dr. Doug Pollack will come. tainment. selves out. there was another concert (or klezmer • Implant Restorations jam session) that sucked us in. • Laminates • Bleaching Hours by Appointment • White Fillings • Bonding Sat. & Eve. Available GRADE B B- C A • Fluoride • Sealants Free Consultation • Cleanings • Crowns 24 Hr Phone Service • Bridges • Dentures FREE: Tuesdays: Jezebel Music Open Mic Night • Non/Surgical Gum Care hosted by Ed Gorch, 7 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Loungey Thursdays, 10 pm, $TBD; Aug. 25: Ed Gorch and Financing Available BROOKLYN Company, 9 pm, Free Radicalz Music presents Vanguard with Chaos Frame, Campbell Kennedy aka Insurance Plans Welcomed 789-5700 Afrik Prophet, Will Martina, Pete List, Jesse Mann, Jon S., 10 pm, $TBD; Aug. 26: Shule of Rock, 11 pm, FREE; Aug. 31: The Budos Band, 10:30 pm, $TBD. Luna Lounge Affordable Family Dentistry 361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, (212) 260-2323, Nightlife www.lunalounge.com. in Modern Pleasant Surroundings Aug. 25: The Sugar Report, 8:30 pm, Autodrone, State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave) Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan 9:30 pm, Bell Hollow, 10:30 pm, Smite, 11:30 pm, Telseki, 12:30 am, $8; Aug. 26: SmilePrettyMisery, Emergencies treated promptly BAY RIDGE Fridays (in August): Dramatic Drawing of the Male & 7:30 pm, Von Robinson and His Own Universe, 8:30 Female Form featuring live music, food and drinks, 8 pm, Shepherdess, 9:30 pm, The White Papers, 10:30 Special care for children & anxious patients pm, $13 per session. The Salty Dog pm, $8; Aug. 27: Robbers, 7:30 pm, Team Genius, WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD 7509 Third Ave. at 75th Street in Bay Ridge, 8:30 pm, Duelists, 9:30 pm, Sex With an Appeal, (718) 238-9260, www.saltydogbar.com. FLATBUSH 10:30 pm, $8; Aug. 28: Hightower Smith, 7:30 pm, • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) Toys in Trouble, 8:30 pm, High Numbers, 9:30 pm, Wednesdays: Karaoke Night, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 30: • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, Twelve 10, 9:30 pm, FREE. 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Vince Anderson Emergency • Periondontics • Oral Surgery FREE (with $65 prix-fixe dinner); Fridays: Live Russian (718) 789-2762, www.tealoungeny.com. and his Love Choir, 10:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Stain • Prosthodontics • Implants music and dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $50 prix-fixe Living Room Lounge Mondays: The Frank LoCrasto Group, 8 pm, $5 sug- Psychotic Reaction, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: The 766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street in Williamsburg, www.strachandds.com • Treatment of Gum Disease dinner); Sundays: Live Russian music and dance show, 245 23rd St. at Fifth Avenue in Greenwood gested donation; Aug. 29: The Movers and The Greenhouse with DJ MonkOne and DJs Emskee and (718) 387-7840, www.stainbar.com. 7 pm, FREE (with $50 prix-fixe dinner). Hours: Mon, Tues, Wed and Fri: 8am to 6pm • Fixed & Removable Bridges Heights, (718) 499-1505. Shakers, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $5 suggested donation; MC G-man, 11 pm, FREE. 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Magnetic Field Music, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE. burg, (718) 599-4044, www.caponesbar.com. 25: JP, Real West, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 31: Mipo’s 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Brooklyn Two Boots Brooklyn Fridays, Saturdays: The Beat Club/All Disco, 9 pm, monthly reading series hosted by Amy King, 7 pm, Heights, (718) 834-0069, PARK SLOPE 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in Park FREE; Mondays: Karaoke with Colin and DJ Flim Camp Stain (theme party), 9 pm, FREE. ROOT CANAL GENERAL & COSMETIC www.magneticbrooklyn.com. Slope, (718) 499-3253, Flam, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Speakeasy, an open Aug. 25: The Teenage Prayers, Hazel Motes, and DJ Bar4 www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. mic night, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: The Stroke Trash Bar EXTRACTIONS Aug. 31: Sonido Costeno, 10 pm, FREE; Sept. 1: with DJs Brian Tweedy and Dave Ready, 9 pm, FREE; DENTISTRY Whiskey Priest, 8 pm, $8; Aug. 28: Pant-Hoot, a 444 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street in Park Slope, 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williams- Advanced sterilization and infection control night of stand-up comedy hosted by Charles Star, 8 (718) 832-9800, www.jamescarney.net/koncfs.htm. The Barbarians, 10 pm, FREE. Thursdays: Rehab, 9 pm, FREE. burg, (718) 599-1000, www.thetrashbar.com. PERIODONTAL WORK pm, FREE; Aug. 29: Fun Dip Variety Hour, 8 pm, Aug. 26: Andre Canniere, 7 pm, Clay Jenkins, 8:30 Aug. 25: Red Wire Black Wire, 8 pm, Steph & The D.D.S. FREE; Aug. 30: Explanets and more, 8 pm, $6; Aug. pm, $5. Union Hall Death by Audio Good Problems, 9 pm, Chris Cubeta & The Liars Jack Irwin, 31: The return of live band karaoke, 8 pm, FREE. (Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in 49 S. Second St. at Wythe Avenue in Club, 10 pm, Career Club, 11 pm, The Lights, CROWNS 414 Seventh Avenue Williamsburg, No phone. Midnight, $7; Aug. 26: Blood City Shack Up, 9 pm, Barbes Park Slope, (718) 638-4400, www.unionhallny.com. bet. 13th & 14th Sts. BUSHWICK Aug. 25: The Mugs (record release party!), Condo, Aug. 25: Bardo Pond, Nadja, Hell’s Hills, 8 pm, $8; One Last Shot, 10 pm, Lousy Break, 11 pm, Bull 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, Dozer, Midnight, $6; Aug. 27: Mia Sable, 8 pm, BRIDGES www.jackirwindds.com (718) 965-9177, www.barbesbrooklyn.com. The Diggs, 7:30 pm, $8, Karaoke Club hosted by Aug. 31: High Places, Mika Miko, Numbers, Rah Dunes, 8 pm, $TBD. Leron Thomas, 9 pm, Tim Garrigan, 10 pm, Charles, Silent Barn Sundays: Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $10 suggested Dick Swizzle, 11 pm, FREE; Aug. 26: Name That PORCELAIN VENEERS (718) 768-8372 Tune with Sara Schaefer, 7:30 pm, FREE; Aug. 27: 11 pm, Harley Poe, Midnight, $6; Aug. 28: The 915 Wyckoff Ave. at Hancock Street in donation; Tuesdays: Jenny Scheinman, 7 pm, $10 The Marvin Barnes Time Machine, Kevin Omen, 7:30 Galapagos Misery Loves, 8 pm, Kilifax, 9 pm, Shiloh, 10 pm, Evening Hours Mon-Fri Bushwick, No phone. suggested donation, Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10; Sousalves, 11 pm, Live Girls, Midnight, $5; Aug. 29: Most Insurance & Union Plans pm, $5; Aug. 28: Union Hall Spelling & Grammar 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, BLEACHING Aug. 25: Ex Models, The Death Set, 8 pm, $8. Aug. 25: Opera on Tap, 7 pm, $10 suggested dona- Jesse Kilguss, 8 pm, The Stoics, 9 pm, Teleski, 10 accepted as full or partial payment. tion, One Ring Zero, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation; Bee hosted by David Witt, 7:30 pm, FREE; Aug. 29: (718) 782-5188, www.galapagosartspace.com. Nerdcore Rising, a mediocre hip-hop party featuring pm, Electrajet, 11 pm, The One and Only Typicals, Aug. 26: Olivier Manchon’s Orchestre de Chambre Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; Aug. MetLife, UFT, DC37, PBA, Delta, Blue Cross, Mc Frontalot, Jesse Dangerously, Schaffer The Midnight, Strangewells, 1 am, $6; Aug. 30: The King DENTURES CLINTON HILL Miniature, 7 pm, $10 suggested donation; Aug. 27: 25: (Backroom) Ringers, Quiet Life, Bottle Up&Go, Hen, 8 pm, The Nick Vivid Effect, 9 pm, Tigershark!, Aetna, CIGNA, Unicare, Guardian, Healthplex, Darklord, 7:30 pm, $8; Aug. 30: Mia Riddle & her Mgmt. Bfts. Fund, United Concordia, Ameritas. The Ben Holmes Quintet, 8 pm, $10 suggested dona- Calvin & The Dogmatics, 10 pm, $8, (Front room) 10 pm, Another Saturday Night, 11 pm, The Live Five Spot Restaurant tion; Aug. 28: Split the Lark, 7 pm, $10 suggested Band, Luke Winslow King, The Binary Marketing The Looseness with DJ Sergio Vega and a special LAMINATES Ones, Midnight, $6; Aug. 31: Jehenna, 8 pm, Show, 7:30 pm, $8; Aug. 31: The Subjects, Ghosts 459 Myrtle Ave. at Washington Avenue in Clinton donation; Aug. 29: Sean Conly’s Reaction, 8 pm, $10, live performance by The Audfit, 10 pm, FREE; Aug. Whiskey Life, 9 pm, Hung, 10 pm, Devil to Pay, 11 of Pasha, Jollyship The Whiz-Bang, 7:30 pm, $8; Hill, (718) 852-0202, www.fivespotsoulfood.com. Jen Shyu’s Jade Tongue, 10 pm, $10; Aug. 30: 26: (Backroom) Extraordinaires Theater presents pm, Ikillya, Midnight, $7. Saturdays: DJ Aki, 6 pm, FREE; Mondays: RPM- Charlie Burnham Trio, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation, Sept. 1: The Secret Life of Sofia, Melty Melty, Bad Ribbons of War, the musical “An Operatic Tale of Open Turntables hosted by DJ Copa (bring your The Brazilian Acoustic Ensemble, 10 pm, $10 sug- Veins, 7:30 pm, $8. Tragic Romance,” 10 pm, $5, (Front room) Anima- Union Pool own needles and vinyl), 8 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: 5 for gested donation; Aug. 31: Dayna Kurtz, 8 pm, $10 tion Block Party Mix, 7:30 pm, FREE; Aug. 27: (Front Funny Tuesdays hosted by Dave Lester, 10 pm, $5; suggested donation, The Woes, 10 pm, $10 suggest- room) The World Famous Bob Presents, 9:30 pm, 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Avenue in Williamsburg, COURTEOUS AND PROSPECT HEIGHTS (718) 609-0484, www.myspace.com/unionpool. Wednesdays: Open mic with Nate Jones and Da ed donation; Sept. 1: Gabriel Kahane, 8 pm, $10 sug- $5; Aug. 29: (Both rooms) Supernova featuring 12 Feel, 9 pm, $5 ($10 after 10 pm); Aug. 25: DJ Kenny gested donation, Lucia Pulido, 10 pm, $10. The Backroom Hour Shift, A.P.P.L.E., Anomie, Ashes Within, Burning Aug. 26: Right Rides Daytime BBQ Benefit with COMPREHENSIVE Parker, 10 pm, $5. the Memory, Geminyne, Boykillshollywood, Bullet Boyskout, The Picture, Other’s mothers, Orange Bogota Latin Bistro (At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue in Society, The Step Right Ups, Caught in a Trap, All Park, 2 pm, $10 (BBQ included); Aug. 28: Holy DENTAL CARE Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035, Cities, Dark Eden, Horror Flix, and more, 5 pm, $12 Roller NYC presents Year Long Disaster, Generals & Grand Dakar Cafe 141 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope, www.freddysbackroom.com. in advance; Aug. 30: (Backroom) Bezoar with The Majors, Burbis, 8 pm, $8; Aug. 29: Nat Baldwin, Provided at our spacious, 285 Grand Ave. at Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Hill, (718) 230-3805, www.bogotabistro.com. Aug. 25: Baby Pool & Friends, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 26: Skeletons and The Kings of All Cities, Extra Life, 8 (718) 398-8900, www.granddakar.com. Wednesdays, Thursdays: Live Latin music, 7 pm, Buddy Hollycost, From Cocaine to Rogaine, and DJs Andrew Sullivan, 9 pm, Mob Scene, a jazz jam, 10:30 Vashiti & Dan Shea, 10 pm, $5, (Front room) AVZ, pm, $TBD; Aug. 30: Lights, Reflections, My Other modern and friendly office Saturdays: Rhonda Benet (funk, jazz, soul, 80s, old FREE. pm, FREE; Aug. 27: O.P.P. (Other People’s Poetry), 8 Friend, Vague Angels, 8 pm, $TBD; Aug. 31: school), 8 pm, FREE; Sundays: Live reggae music, 7 electro global discotek, 10 pm, FREE; Aug. 31: pm, FREE; Aug. 28: “On the way Out,” music from (Backroom) The Bunker with Jonas Kopp, 11 pm, Milksop Adventures presents “Beauty and Body pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Don Juarez (Brazilian music), 8:30 Biscuit BBQ the New York Underground, featuring Where From Modification Party, 10 pm, FREE. pm, FREE; Thursdays: DJ Afro-Freaky, 8 pm, FREE; $10, (Front room) Crashin In presents Champollion, Providing Excellence in All Phases of Dentistry 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, Here, 8 pm, Matt Welch’s Blarvuster, 10 pm, FREE; Boy Crisis, Ana Managuchi, 10 pm, $8. Fridays: Live music, 10 pm, FREE. (718) 399-2161, www.biscuitbbq.com. Aug. 30: Vince Allen, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 31: Don Zebulon Cafe Sundays: A Sunday Kind of Jazz with John McNeil Turner, 10 pm, Habit Trail, 11 pm, FREE. Hope Lounge 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Avenue in COSMETIC DENTISTRY: Porcelain Laminates, Tooth Color Fillings, CONEY ISLAND and Bill McHenry, 8:30 pm, $10; Mondays: Live jazz Williamsburg, (718) 218-6934, Metal Free Crowns. Porcelain Inlays, Onlays, Tooth Whitening jam, 8:30 pm, $TBD; Tuesdays: Songwriters’ Show- 10 Hope St. at Roebling Street in Williamsburg, www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. (718) 218-7191, www.hopelounge.com. case hosted by Staci Rochwerg, 8:30 pm, $5 sug- RED HOOK Aug. 25: Sublimator, 9 pm, Asiko, 10 pm, FREE; Aug. IMPLANT DENTISTRY: Surgical Placement and Restoration Cha Cha’s Aug. 29: Owen Roberts and Jason Misrahi, 9 pm, gested donation. 26: Cooper Moore, 7 pm, La Strada, 10 pm, FREE; 1227 Riegelmann Boardwalk at West 15th FREE; Aug. 30: Jaime Garamella, Melissa Cupernall, The Hook Aug. 27: Geremy Shullick, 9 pm, Magnets for Theet PERIODONTICS: Non-Surgical and Surgical Treatment of Gum Disease Street in Coney Island, (718) 946-1305, Jeannine Hebb, and Yujin Amano, 9 pm, FREE. www.chachasofconeyisland.com. Brooklyn Burger Bar 18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street in Red (Tom Vanderwall and friends), 10 pm, FREE; Aug. 28: Hook, (718) 797-3007, www.thehookmusic.com. ROOT CANAL THERAPY: Using State of the Art Rotary Instrumentation Aug. 25: Sound of Urchin and Girls, Girls, Girls, 9 499 Ninth St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, Sharon Van Etten, Scary Mansion, Forest Fire, 9 pm, Aug. 25: Cleveland Fest featuring Duvalby Brothers, The Lucky Cat pm, $15; Aug. 26: Grace Garland and the G-Spot (718) 832-5500. FREE; Aug. 29: Beyondo, 9 pm, Gato Loco, 10 pm, CROWNS, BRIDGES, PARTIAL & FULL DENTURES Band, 4 pm, $TBD; Aug. 31: Girls on Top, 10 pm, Aug. 25: Bob Arthurs, Charles Sibirsky, Dan Shuman, This Moment in Black History, Ian Screams, Coffin- 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williamsburg, FREE; Aug. 30: Raqui and The Cavemen (benefit con- $TBD; Sept. 1: Irony & Chaos, Salsa Music Festival, 9 pm, FREE; Aug. 30: Charles Sibirsky, Robert Weiss, berry, Hightower Smith, Biblical Proof of UFO’s, (718) 782-0437, www.theluckycat.com. cert to help the fight against AIDS in Ghana), 10 pm, INVISALIGN PROVIDER Time TBD, $TBD. Ray Parker, 9 pm, FREE; Sept. 1: Charles Sibirsky, American Werewolves, Roue’, Fall Back, Mussels, Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Keyboard Karaoke, 10 pm, $TBD; Aug. 31: Amayo’s Fu-Arkist-Ra, 10 pm, FREE. John DeCesare, Robert Weiss, 9 pm, FREE. Rahu-Ketu, The Heathers, Roger Hoover and the Peggy O’Neills Whiskeyhounds, 3 pm, $10; Aug. 26: Gorilla Pro- Emergency Patients are seen on the same day! Cafe Steinhof ductions Battle of the Bands with the Fallen, Drew 1904 Surf Ave. at West 19th Street in Coney Torres, The Genuine Imitations, The Reve, Hollywood Island, (718) 449-3200, www.peggyoneillsci.com. 427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park Slope, Hangover, Orsus, Test Specimen, Angel Vivaldi, That TALK TO US… EUGENE D. STANISLAUS, D.D.S. Saturdays: Afternoon Beach Party with DJ Pernel, 5 (718) 369-7776, www.cafesteinhof.com. Hideous Strength, Affliction, 4 pm, $TBD. pm, FREE. Aug. 29: River Alexander and his Mad Jazz Hatters, LEE R. GAUSE, D.D.S. 10:30 pm, FREE. To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possible. Include name Hope and Anchor of venue, address with cross street, phone number for the public to call, Web site address, dates, times 189 Montague Street, Suite 800B - 8th Floor DUMBO 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in Red and admission or ticket prices. Send listings and color photos of performers via e-mail to "ROOKLYN(EIGHTSs4ELEPHONE The Center for Hook, (718) 237-0276. [email protected] or via fax at (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space OFFICE HOURS BY APPOINTMENT Rebar Improvisational Music Thursdays: Karaoke hosted by Dropsy Dozzman, 9 available basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. 147 Front St. at Jay Street in DUMBO, (718) 295 Douglass St. at Third Avenue in Park Slope, pm, FREE; Fridays and Saturdays: Karaoke hosted by The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the venue before you go to confirm event details. 797-2322. (212) 631-5882, www.schoolforimprov.org. drag queen Kay Sera, 9 pm, FREE. 12 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 August 25, 2007

KIDS • SCHOOL • STYLE • TEENS • CAMPS • MUSIC PARENT Smartmom floats a lead balloon T FIRST, DIAPER DIVA the garbage chute in insistently now. “The people all that fun, cheap clothes she chandise that just end in a big didn’t know what to say. the hallway. Gone. who made them used a very gets at Target for OSFO. box at a stoop sale with a sign A What do you tell Birthday parties SMART dangerous material called lead. This is a wake-up call. It’s that says, “Free stuff”? your 3-year-old when you have have gotten very com- It can make you sick.” time to spend a little more mon- The truth is, parents buy too to put her favorite birthday plicated since Aug. 2, “But I want my toy,” Ducky ey and buy locally made toys much for their children anyway. present in the garbage? when Mattel recalled mom screamed. and clothing from well-paid, Less is more. Buy quality, not Diaper Diva tried to explain quantity. The kids will be better That’s right. Ducky received 967,00 toys, due to By Louise Crawford trained people who use safe a Dora the Explorer Bath Set use of lead paint. Sad- about tainted toys, world trade, materials. served, anyway. Smartmom will shop for from a guest at her Dora the ly, 300,000 of them corporate greed, and even Arthur Miller’s play, “All My Sons.” Ducky’s next gift at the Brook- Explorer birthday party. had already been purchased for The day after her party, But that was no help to lyn Indie Market, Lolli’s, Orange Cooties. That toy had cooties, — and quite possibly licked by Ducky looked around the apart- Ducky, who is completely enam- Blossom or online at onegood- and Diaper Diva didn’t want it — young children. ment for her missing gift. On Aug. 14, just two days “Where are my bath toys?” ored of all things Dora. But even bumblebee, which sells these in the house. adorable gnome cuddle babies. after Ducky’s third birthday Ducky whined as she searched as Ducky wept, Diaper Diva She wasn’t even sure if that Even Little Things has party, Mattel recalled 19 million high and low. knew she was doing the right particular toy has been recalled. thing, the only thing any self-re- plenty of terrific non- more toys sent from China, in- At first, Diaper Diva re- But she felt compelled to throw specting smart mom could do. mass-market toys. it out just the same. cluding toy cars based on the hearsed some possible answers At the same time, she won- Sure, it’s more ex- Out, out, out you disgusting movie “Cars” that had have in her head — “I lost them on dered what other products in pensive than the stuff toy! “impermissible levels” of lead. the way to the bathroom”; her apartment were tainted with made in China. But at Even the Oh So Feisty One Everyone knows that you’re “Dora the Explorer came by in toxic materials and would her least they’re not made was afraid to go near the possi- not supposed to use lead paint in the middle of the night and child be harmed by any of her with lead. Park Archives Prospect bly tainted toy. She told Diaper the manufacture of children’s needed them back”; “What bath other playthings. Her dishes. Ducky still asks Diaper Diva A child has fun at Prospect Park's Audubon Center. Diva to take it back to the store toys — so how did this happen? toys?” — but Diaper Diva Her clothing. The upside is that this crisis about her Dora bath set from as soon as the party was over. Who can we trust nowa- knows that honesty is always It’s a terrible feeling to think could be a real boon for local time to time. But a few years of But Bro in Law had already days? the best policy. that you’ve brought things into toymakers and craftspeople therapy and she’ll get it out of removed the packaging from Certainly not greedy corpo- So as Ducky got increasingly your home that can harm your who make imaginative toys like her system entirely. FAMILY CALENDAR the gift and it was too late to rations that manufacture goods apoplectic, Diva got up her children. Smartmom won’t be sock monkeys, stuffed animals, Louise Crawford also writes take it back to Little Things. in countries where there are nerve. buying her children or her niece and wooden games and cars. “Only the blog knows Brook- Compiled by TUESDAY, AUG. 28 So Diaper Diva put it in a zero labor, heath and environ- “I had to throw them away,” any more Chinese-made toys or Who needs all those action lyn,” a Web site that is not affili- Susan Rosenthal Jay 2–4 pm: “Discovery Tuesday!” Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1000 shopping bag and brought it to mental regulations. she told Ducky, who was crying merchandise. And so much for figures and plastic movie mer- ated with The Brooklyn Paper. SATURDAY, AUG. 25 Washington Ave., between 11 am: Summer story time. Montgomery and Crown streets Barnes and Noble (106 Court in Crown Heights), free with St., between State and Scher- Garden admission. $8 adults merhorn streets in Brooklyn (kids 12 and younger are free). Heights), free. Call (718) 246- Call (718) 623-7200 for info. Day 4996 for info. Noon–5 pm: Prospect Park THURSDAY, AUG. 30 Carousel (enter park just north Noon–5 pm: Prospect Park of the intersection of Flatbush Carousel (enter park just north School, Avenue and Empire Boulevard). of the intersection of Flatbush Six tickets for $8. For info, visit Avenue and Empire Boulevard). www.prospectpark.org. Free on Thursdays in August. Inc. 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Little For info, visit www.prospect- Red Riding Hood” at Puppet- park.org. works (338 Sixth Ave., at Fourth 2–4 pm: “Thirsty Garden A fully licensed and certified preschool Street, in Park Slope). Tickets: Thursdays!” Brooklyn Botanic $8 ($7 for kids). Call (718) 965- Garden (1000 Washington Ave., 3391 for reservations. between Montgomery and N 2-4 year old programs N 2, 3, 4 or 5 mornings, Crown streets in Crown SUNDAY, AUG. 26 Heights), free with Garden N Licensed teachers afternoons or full days Noon–5 pm: Carousel. See admission. $8 adults (kids 12 Saturday, Aug. 25. and younger are free). Call N Optimal educational equipment N Spacious Classrooms 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm: “Little (718) 623-7200 for info. Red Riding Hood.” See FRIDAY, AUG. 31 Saturday, Aug. 25. N Exclusive outdoor facilities N Enriched Curriculum 10–noon: Caribbean dance MONDAY, AUG. 27 party at Soda (Soda, 629 Vanderbilt Ave., at St. Marks N Indoor Gym facilities N Caring, loving environment 9:30–11 am: Music, storytelling Avenue in Prospect Heights), and crafts at Prospect Park. $20 per child, $30 for two. Call $20. For registration informa- (347) 581-5740 for info. tion, call (718) 287-3400 or visit Some spaces available for Sept. www.prospectpark.org. 9 pm: Kidflix Film Fest. Fulton Park (corner of Utica Avenue

Matthew Weinstein 2:30–4:30 pm: Science and and Fulton Street), free. Call Movement at Pierrepont (718) 230-0492 for info. >\ÊÓÎäxÓxxÊUÊÇÈÎÊ*ÀiÃ`iÌÊ-ÌÀiiÌÊÊLiÌ°ÊÈÌ ÊEÊÇÌ ÊÛiÃ°® Dozens of people rallied this week in front of the Department of Education's Manhattan head- Playground (Pierrepont Street quarters to demand the reinstatement of Khalil Gibran Academy principal Debbie Almontaser. at the Promenade), free. For SATURDAY, SEPT. 1 info, visit www.bhplaygrounds.org. 2–3 pm: Story Hour at Imagination Playground (Ocean 6–8 pm: Arts and crafts at Avenue between Parkside Pierrepont Playground Avenue and Lincoln Road), free. (Pierrepont Street at the Promenade), free. For info, visit To list your event, e-mail GIBRAN… [email protected]. www.bhplaygrounds.org. Continued from page 1 tifada” on the T-shirts, but the damage was done. Her initial com- ments sparked a furor that culminated in a public scolding from teacher’s union head Randi Weingarten and Almontaser’s resigna- NEW TO NYC? tion on Aug. 10. The Department of Education then filled Almontaser’s post with Brooklyn Danielle Salzberg, a Jewish educator who speaks no Arabic and has no apparent knowledge of Arab culture. Former mayor Ed Koch called the move “spitting in their eye.” Fencing Aliya Latif, a spokeswoman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations-NY, which sponsored Monday’s rally, agreed with Koch’s pithy assessment. “A dual-language program requires a principal Center who is well versed in the Arabic language and culture,” Latif told • Group Classes The Brooklyn Paper. beginner to advanced At Monday’s rally, dozens of organizations supported Al- 5 years to adults montaser, including the Brooklyn-based Make the Road by Walk- ing. • Open Fencing “There was a lot of hysteria going around,” said Irene Tung, a Monday - Saturday spokeswoman for the organization. “No one was willing to stand up • Private Lessons and support the school. No one was courageous enough.” • Summer Camps While Almontaser’s supporters rallied, one of her most-prominent tormentors continued to call for the dissolution of the Gibran Parties up to 20 kids Academy. FENCING BIRTHDAY PACKAGES! Ages 6 & up In a letter to the Department of Education, Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D–Borough Park) objected to the notion of a school set up 62 Fourth St. (corner of Hoyt) • (718) 522-5822 to teach one language and culture. www.BrooklynFencing.com “How about a school dedicated to Hebrew language, Hebrew culture, and the history of anti-Semitism throughout the ages?” Hikind asked. “After that, we can go on to a school to explore the rich Irish Entertainment heritage, and their history of potato famines and the troubles with the British.” Hikind said he also objected to an apparent call from “sponsors and organizational endorsers of the school [to] boycott of Israel and FAMILY [demand] divestment.” “Is this what we want taught in our public schools?” he asked. “Instead of enriching our students’ grasp of diverse cultures, will this Where Magical Parties Happen! CLASSIFIED school become a morass of polarization and justification of terror · Puppet Shows · Singalongs tactics?” To advertise, · Caricatures · Face Painting A Department of Education spokeswoman refused to comment call NEW TO on the rally or on Hikind’s letter, saying only that the city is busy · Puppet Making · Balloon Fun “preparing Khalil Gibran International Academy for the first day of Doll making · Tarot Readings (718) 834-9350 school” in September. & Crafts · Treasure Hunts Call Rebecca (347) 385-6705 www.ﬂowerfairy.net Photography PUBLIC SCHOOL? W51 • For new public school students, registration begins on August 27th at Student Registration Centers located throughout the five boroughs. Please “Quality Magic At Affordable Prices” Magicians • Clowns • Jugglers Facepaint • Cotton Candy • Bounce Tents Shows Starting @ $99 visit a Registration Center with your child in your borough of residence. www.MagicalEntertainmentPlus.com • If you need to register an elementary or middle school child and you know 718.308.6060 A39 your zoned school, you can register at your zoned school beginning Rico the Clown Magician & Comical Nerd September 4th. Birthday parties and special Call for Holiday Packages occasions — Adults & Kids. Comedy, 718.369.0244 nikibistudio.com • If there is no zoned school for your address, or if you do not know your zoned Magic, Balloon Sculpting, Puppets, Games, M.C., Comic Roastings. A43 school, please visit a Student Registration Center for assistance. “University Professor of Speech & Communications” KAREN LANDMANN 718-434-9697 CHILDREN’S MOBILE 917-318-9092 PHOTOGRAPHER A45 Translated materials and interpretation School starts on September 4th. services will be available at all Student Registration Centers. Call 311 or visit Pre-natal Care http://schools.nyc.gov/enrollment *PRE-NATAL YOGA* Movement For All for more information about registration. “...a restorative, fun experience to share with family & friends” Capture Your MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG, MAYOR JOEL I. KLEIN, CHANCELLOR Matthew Weinstein Prvt & Grp Sessions - 9 Yrs & up Child’s True Smile A protester questions the Mayor’s reasoning for giving in to Contact Gloria 917-488-8383 those who called for controversial principal Debbie Al- 718-788-6130 [email protected] montaser to be canned. K30 A25 August 25, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 AWP 13

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Cristian Fleming conditions that impact every every city street to log quality-of-life complaints and send them directly to 311. The in- neighborhood in the city,” said spectors will fan out in Cushman scooters like this. Jeff Kay, director of the May- or’s Office of Operations. “With good because they are an extra miles and make up to 200 re- tioned the logic of having more OUR OPINION inspectors in the field, we can provide city agencies with a set of eyes and ears. Before, ports per day, according to the eyes on the street, not to mention real-time snapshot of those con- the city would rely on citizens mayor’s office. the increased congestion that ditions, and ensure they take ap- to report potholes, dangling The busy teams don’t have would be caused by the scooters. propriate action.” street signs, graffiti, overflow- the pleasure of handing out fines; “This is an awful idea,” said Local pols lauded the idea of ing street garbage, etc. Now City Hall says the goal is simply resident Phil Millard. “First, more eyes on city streets. the city taking a proactive role to hold agencies accountable to the mayor pushes a commuter “I look forward to working in keeping the streets clean.” their customers, the public. toll to decrease congestion, and Marty’s varying views with the teams,” said Council- The 15 inspectors, on loan Local politicians praised the now he is sending scooters out man Vince Gentile (D–Bay from other city agencies, are initiative, but a handful of civil- on the streets to drive around Ridge). “Street inspectors are expected to each cover 20 liberties-mind residents ques- all day looking at things.” HE DEVELOPER WHO IS tower, highly subsidized mega-devel- But where was his concern about bringing Trader Joe’s to Court opment that would overshadow thriv- the far more dangerous precedent of TStreet wants to build a six-story ing neighborhoods all around it, create selling state-owned land to Ratner at a annex to that store on a parking life-draining “superblocks,” bargain-basement price, doling out lot on Atlantic Avenue that is suck up taxpaper resources, billions in subsidies and doing it all only zoned for a five-story congest local streets and with very little public scrutiny — DeBlasio: Ban the foam! BUSH building. use the state’s power of oversight that Markowitz himself later eminent domain to evict By Dana Rubinstein Styrofoam, also known as polystyrene, is be- Continued from page 1 That single extra story undermined by purging local commu- lieved to take centuries to decompose. The Brooklyn Paper whose 136 mile-per-hour — 10 feet! — drew the residents so their land nity boards of some anti-Yards mem- DeBlasio first took on the issue of Styrofoam winds destroyed or dam- ire of Borough President can be turned over to a bers. Styrofoam trays are one step closer to join- in June, joining forces with the Windsor Ter- ing indoor smoking and trans fats in the trash aged hundreds of cars and Markowitz last week private developer — in It is no secret that this page has fre- race-based Parents Against Styrofoam in this case, his friend, bins of city history. Schools to recommend that the city ban dozens of homes in the area when the Beep recom- quently clashed with Markowitz over around 67th Street between Bruce Ratner. Councilman Bill DeBlasio (D–Park Styrofoam trays from school cafeterias. mended that the city deny his support for the project, which re- Slope) on Wednesday introduced a bill His recommendation prompted a Fourth and Seventh av- the developer, Two Trees Markowitz said the mains his greatest error in judgment that would ban all food establishments highly equivocal response from the enues. Management, a variance to Court Street variance since he took office. from using Styrofoam cups and take-out city. But if the president build a little higher. would set a “dangerous But his attempt to now present him- containers, and all city agencies from us- “We are looking at alternatives,” said shares that flabbergasted ing the versatile synthetic material. mayoral spokeswoman Dawn Walker feeling, he hasn’t expressed Yes, this is the same Marty precedent” because the self as a foe of overdevelopment be- it yet. A call to the White Markowitz who continues to cheer the proposed building is in the The ban would apply to the Depart- at the time. cause he opposes a 60-foot building in ment of Education, which churns through The legislation would push the may- House was not returned by Atlantic Yards project, a massive, 16- Cobble Hill Historic District. a 50-foot zone is laughable. 153 million Styrofoam trays per year. or’s hand on the issue, and expand the deadline — and Spitzer’s “It is mind-boggling that our city, which proposed ban from cafeterias to eateries office hasn’t heard a thing is becoming a leader on environmental issues, citywide. yet, either. is still using Styrofoam when we know it is ex- Berkeley, California and Portland, Oregon — “All we can do is urge LETTERS tremely harmful to our environment,” said De- both liberal enclaves like DeBlasio’s home dis- the president to act,” said Blasio. “[Once] it hits our landfills [it] stays trict — have already passed similar measures. Paul Larrabee, a Spitzer there forever.” Perhaps a pilot program in Park Slope is next? spokesperson. “We are working to expedite this process and to bring the ur- Readers respond to The Paper’s gency of this situation to the attention of the White House.” Beep blocks a part of Joe’s Residents waiting for aid Arabic school coverage, editorial better not hold their breath. By Ariella Cohen the entire district to seek such Roy Sloane. “We are extreme- Minnesota Gov. Tim Paw- To the editor, To the editor, a city that could take such an important step The Brooklyn Paper an exception,” Markowitz’s ly pleased and gratified to see lenty applied for federal recommendation to the city him respecting the values of help after the very-high-pro- I’m writing in response to The Brooklyn Jews have taught in the public school sys- forward. And I could not imagine a better The developer bringing Paper’s anti-Semitic reporting of the most- person to lead it than Debbie Almontaser, no Planning Commission said. our community.” file bridge collapse on Aug. tem forever. To imply that Danielle Salz- Trader Joe’s to the corner of recent episode in the Khalil Gibran Interna- berg, simply because she is Jewish, would one I could trust more, as an educator, a Jew, “Abiding by the [50-foot The site’s developer, David 1 — but the White House tional Academy farce (“Jew to lead Arabic not be effective as principal in this school is or as an American, to make it what our city Atlantic Avenue and Court height limit] is the ultimate Walentas’s Two Trees Manage- only released the funds on school,” Aug. 18): the hiring of a non-Ara- ridiculous. and our country so sorely needs. Street faced an unlikely op- form of respect to homeown- ment, has requested multiple ex- Aug. 21. bic speaking principal with no expertise in Would you rather have someone who Barry Joseph, Brooklyn Heights ponent this week — the su- ers in the neighborhood.” emptions from the historic dis- For Brooklyn residents Arabic culture, Danielle Salzberg, to re- thinks “Intifada NYC” is a proper thought to permarket’s biggest fan, Bor- Like Markowitz, Communi- trict’s zoning, including a break rendered roofless by the place the clumsy and politically “chal- wear on someone’s chest? Simcha speaks ough President Markowitz. ty Board 6 voted against the from a requirement to provide a storm, a three-week delay lenged” school founder Debbie Almontaser. No matter what Almontaser says, her in- On Tuesday, Markowitz tower in June. These critics parking facility. The exemption would be too long. It’s outrageous that The Paper has chosen to tent is undeniable. This is Brooklyn, New To the editor, came out against the contro- were thrilled — and a little to the height limit is the only “This is ridiculous that focus on Salzberg’s religion as the key to the York, not an extension of an Arab country. In response to your article on the Bor- versial 60-foot residential tow- shocked — this week to hear one that earned an objection help is so slow to come,” story. Particularly offensive was the description Diane Hunt, Bay Ridge ough President’s race (“Plenty of traffic in er slated to rise on what is cur- that they had an ally at Borough from Markowitz. said Hassan Hakmoun, who of Salzberg as “a practicing Jew who belongs Editor’s note: For the record, The Paper did not say that race for Boro Prez,” July 28), the reason that rently a parking lot next to the Hall, given Markowitz’s support Two Trees has said that the last week was busy moving to an Upper West Wide synagogue.” Salzberg was unqualified because she is Jewish. The Pa- I have opted out of that race in favor of a store at 130 Court St. for large-scale residential devel- scale of the building is neces- his relatives out of their If an African-American or Italian-Ameri- per’s editorial said she is unqualified to lead an Arabic- citywide race has little to do with “power,” The 60-foot building would opment at Atlantic Yards, and sary to cover the cost of restor- damaged house at 339 Bay can educator had been appointed to this language school because she does not speak Arabic. as you suggest, but rather very much to do be 10 feet taller than allowed his widely publicized affections ing the 83-year-old future Ridge Ave. “We all pay our post, I doubt that the paper would have with substance. under existing zoning within the for Trader Joe’s. home of Trader Joe’s. taxes, but the government headlined “Black To Lead Arab School,” or To the editor, That said, as always, I appreciate your Cobble Hill Historic District. “We viewed Marty has be- “Making it any smaller… doesn’t like giving it up.” detailed “practicing Christian who worships Debbie Almontaser has always been one unending wit and sense of humor, but don’t “Should this intrusion be ing very solidly pro-develop- wouldn’t be financially vi- The president will re- at a Bay Ridge Catholic church.” of the most inspiring people I have known. expect my mother to forgive you any time granted, it would set a prece- ment everywhere,” said Cob- able,” project manager Sam main on his Crawford ranch It’s ironic that the paper can editorialize We have crossed paths numerous times, and soon for making fun of my unsolicited ma- dent for other sites throughout ble Hill Association member Charney said. through August. about the “inept” and “ham-handed manner she was always honest and always taking terials legislation. in which the Department of Education bu- brave stands. Simcha Felder, Borough Park reaucrats, tone-deaf to local concerns han- She has spoken at my synagogue about The writer is a member of the City Council dled” the opening of the school, while its re- Jewish-Arab relations, attended meetings to porting is equally tone-deaf. inspire collaborations between local Jews and Karen Duchan, Park Slope Arabs, and has been an indomitable force Coney blues Editor’s note: Just so there’s no misunderstanding, OBAMAMANIA… seeking bridges between our communities. To the editor, Duchan mixes quotes from both our objective news As a fellow New York City educator, I rec- I spent my whole childhood at Coney Is- Continued from page 1 know this, but I used to live in help Obama even the score story and our strongly worded editorial. The editorial ognize that our public schools serve a signifi- Brooklyn,” said Obama, the with front-runner Sen. Hillary made it clear that The Paper did not take a position land, the only place my parents ever took us “I don’t think he’s going to on the creation of an Arabic language and culture cant Arab youth population. As an American during the summer (“Why not Thor?” Aug. win, because he’s black. ” said junior senator from Illinois. “I Clinton, who, as of July, had school, but simply that the city erred when it installed living through our post-9-11 era, it has be- 11). It was a delight, an education, and a Alert. “I’m not cynical. I’m used to live in Brooklyn,” he raised more than $424,000 in as principal of an Arabic language and culture school come clear that it is in the interests of our na- constant revelation. realistic.” repeated, to good effect. Brooklyn to Obama’s a woman with no background in Arabic culture and tional security to support Arab-Americans to I urge New York City to hold fast against The fundraiser and rally “You know, when I was go- $231,000. no knowledge of the Arabic language. be knowledgeable and proud of both their the obvious gentrification of Coney Island, came only a month after Oba- ing to Columbia University and Although Clinton is techni- Arabic and their American roots. morphing it into a soul-deadening enclave ma’s under-the-radar (and ap- afterwards, I had an apartment cally New York’s “favorite To the editor, When I learned of the creation of the of the rich. Coney Island must remain the parently “unofficial”) $1,000-a- in Park Slope for a while. I daughter,” Obama is certainly It is truly deplorable that the Department Khalil Academy, I was proud to be a part of People’s Playground! ticket fundraiser in a Brooklyn couldn’t even afford it back a prince of Kings, if the fren- of Education has forced out Debbie Al- Michael Disend, San Francisco then. I definitely couldn’t af- zy of Wednesday evening’s montaser from the Gibran Academy, a proj- Heights mansion, where big- time donors got a chance to en- ford it now.” (The crowd crowd was any measure. ect she helped to initiate. Sadly, Debbie was laughed approvingly.) “I’m a very big Barack smeared in the media and hounded from her Delivery Opt out Where’s Marty? gage the possible future presi-

/ Tom Callan / Tom “But I always loved Brook- supporter,” said Jumaane job because she defined the meaning of “in- dent of the United States. To the editor, lyn,” he continued. “I loved Williams, vice president of tifada” accurately as “throwing off oppres- Every week, we deliver copies of The But on Wednesday, Obama I checked the Borough President Marko- the Promenade. I used to run the Brooklyn chapter of the sion,” while also clearly indicating that she Brooklyn Paper to homes in designated worked a mass audience, in- Brooklyn neighborhoods. Our unique witz’s official Web site (www.brooklyn- up and down there. I used to Southern Christian Leadership opposes violence. Apparently that is not voking his Brooklyn roots, re- system limits deliveries to just a few pa- usa.org) to find out information on how I grab a bagel over at the red Conference. good enough for the powers that be here in peating nearly verbatim the pers per building (eliminating the kind could make a donation to a local organiza- recollections he shared with line stop.” (Red line? Oops.) “Of all the people running,

New York City. Paper The Brooklyn of clutter caused by circular and menu tion in response to last week’s tornado, but Almontaser’s statement was hardly incor- The Brooklyn Paper in July. This rally and his recent he has the freshest ideas. He’s delivery services). there was no mention of the storm at all. Barack Obama rect — defining the Arabic meaning of “in- “I don’t how many of you high-end fundraiser could not an insider.” We hope everyone appreciates our I find it ironic that Markowitz is available tifada” is what educators do. Moreover, free home delivery, but realize there are for every photo op and publicity stunt in the Debbie was clear in her condemnation of vi- exceptions to every rule. borough but doesn’t think that a catastrophic olence. The city has completely failed in ob- So, if you’ve received The Paper at “act of God” that affected hundreds of his panded to include just about cers to issue tickets rather than jectivity in this matter. Instead, schools home and no longer want this free constituents is important enough to replace everyone who doesn’t want the police officers. That won’t hap- Chancellor Joel Klein blamed the victim, service, you may “opt out” of our deliv- information on tourism and his weight loss circulars. We don’t expect it to pen until sometime next who is clearly Almontaser. ery program by filling out the online campaign. SPITZER… expand much.” month. The extreme right has consistently at- Vanessa Poggioli, Bay Ridge form at BrooklynPaper.com/html/about/ fringes on the right of tenants Local restaurants managers But happen it will, if Coun- tacked the Gibran Academy. By giving in to optout.html Editor’s note: For the record, there is a button on Continued from page 1 such negative forces, the city has taught a Markowitz’s Web site that directs victims to a now- The bill would allow home- to receive important informa- are far less blase. cilman Simcha Felder (D–Bor- closed “disaster recovery center.” There is no way to owners to erect signs indicat- tion while also unfairly hitting Kabir Ahammed, the man- ough Park) has anything to do terrible lesson to the students and families. donate to victims through Markowitz’s site. As a colleague active with Debbie in in- ing they will not accept any lit- less-wealthy Brooklynites in ager of Joy Indian Restaurant, with it. Felder has been the terfaith dialogue, I know I am not alone in Send a letter erature advertising restaurants the wallet. on Flatbush Avenue, wondered biggest local cheerleader for how he would get the word out the legislation, and he told The currently reassessing the merits of dialogue By e-mail: [email protected] Chirp chirp or sales. The law would not ap- Meanwhile, big-time circular and civic engagement. Debbie is very well ply to newspapers, or any liter- distributors aren’t exactly quak- if he couldn’t drop off menus. Brooklyn Paper that he is eager By mail: Letters Editor, The Brooklyn To the editor, ature that has a nominal ing in their delivery trucks. “You have to tell people,” to see the law enacted as soon known for her interfaith work on the grass- Paper, 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY Nice story about the parrots in Park Slope roots level in Brooklyn. amount of news — though it is “We don’t think it will hurt said Ahammed. “Some people as humanly possible. 11201. (“Squawk!” Aug. 18). It is great to see these unclear how that would be en- business because we can handle don’t like menus. Others do. “After they fix it, we will If New York is remain an open, tolerant wonderful birds expanding. and vital city, we cannot allow leaders to be By fax: (718) 834-9278. forced. the statues of the law very well,” But it’s not a big thing to throw have a bill that’s perfect,” said Hopefully they will survive and replace Political advertising is also said Kenny Herman, whose menus in the garbage. This law Felder. “Somebody once called harassed and hounded. You will find your- All letters must be signed and include the Carolina Parakeet that went extinct in the writer’s home address and phone exempt. company distributes 95 percent doesn’t make sense to me.” me ‘the menu killer.’ I am self with a deeply alienated generation of North America in the early 1900s. Arabs and Muslims, a dangerous situation number (only the writer’s name and In rental buildings, the land- of the circulars in Brooklyn Ahammed needn’t worry proud of that and hope I re- Jon-Mark Davey, Florida not easily remedied. neighborhood are published with the let- lord would have the final say (including the Kohl’s bundles). just yet. The law will not be main with that title forever.” Adem Carroll, The Bronx ter). Letters may be edited and will not The writer is co-author of the book“Parrots over whether or not the resi- “We have a do-not-deliver list of enforced in the city until it is Felder is also seeking a dif- The writer is head of the Muslim Consultative be returned. 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