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Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages •Vol. 29, No. 17 BWN • Saturday, April 29, 2006 • FREE PARK SLOPE CANAL Sale of 3rd Av building could bring Slope to the Gowanus
THIS WEEK By Ariella Cohen along Fourth Avenue one block The Brooklyn Papers east, accelerates the perception that Park Slope is expanding through A powerful real-estate devel- the old Gowanus neighborhood all oper has bought the Jewish Press the way to the canal (“Park Slope building near the Gowanus Ca- River,” anyone?). nal — the latest in a series of Boymelgreen has coveted the moves that could transform the massive, windowless building — industrial area into a village of which until 1965 was a Transit Au-
/ Tom Callan / Tom housing, stores, art galleries and thority facility — since he began waterfront esplanades. snapping up canal-area land two “We are very excited about the years ago, according to property acquisition of the JP site,” said Sara owners nearby. Mirski, spokeswoman for develop- With the Jewish Press building in his portfolio, Boymelgreen now
The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn er Shaya Boymelgreen. “The site provides improved access opportu- / Dana Rubinstein controls more than two acres sur- nities to [a] proposed waterfront es- rounding the canal — land he planade and park” along the canal. wants to turn into “Gowanus Vil- The heat is on The sale of the building, on lage,” a mixed-use neighborhood Third Avenue between First and designed by a glamorous interna-
Tanning enthusiast Samantha Ranieri christens a new salon in Bay Ridge, just in time for GO Brooklyn’s Third streets, coupled with con- Papers The Brooklyn tional architect, Enrique Norten. Fashion Issue. See page 7 to find out what you’ll be dying to wear this summer. And if your 9-year- struction of a Whole Foods market Park Slope on the Gowanus? The Jewish Press building on Third Boymelgreen would transform old is anything like the Oh So Feisty One, follow Smartmom’s shopping experience on page 6. one block south and development Avenue was just bought by developer Shaya Boymelgreen. See CANAL on page 5 Chief Coney Island freak NEW ODD COUPLE weds Nigerian princess Spitzer & Carey do Slope By Dana Rubinstein The Brooklyn Papers By Gersh Kuntzman trials just to get to this day that The lanky attorney general The Brooklyn Papers you can’t help but see how badly and portly former governor made Here it is, freak show fans, he wanted this. It’s a great thing.” an odd couple as they toured The Ghana wedding did have the first photo of Mr. and Mrs. Park Slope on Wednesday. its share of hitches. For one Would-be governor Eliot Spitzer Richard Zigun — aka the thing, Mukoro wasn’t at the air- King of the Coney Island was in town to receive an endorse- port in Accra to meet Zigun two ment from Hugh Carey, who held Sideshow — and his Nigerian weeks ago because she not only princess bride. the office himself from 1975 to didn’t have the right immuniza- 1983 — but it turned into a two- Dick Zigun tion card, but she also “mouthed and Pat Mukoro EXCLUSIVE hour episode of “Hugh Carey Re- off” to security guards, Zigun members.” finally made it said. official in Ghana last week — “I always thought this was the Next, Mukoro — who is not most intelligent district,” said the culmination of a trip to the al- only a princess in the Urhobo tar that began in the late 1990s, Carey, 87, who was a seven-term tribe, but also a Nigerian pop star congressman from the neighbor- was interrupted by a post-9-11 — finally signed the pre-nup deportation, was hindered by at hood before moving to the big (yes, Dick Zigun, whose worldly house in Albany. “It elected the least four governments, and re- possessions include vintage sulted in the loss of thousands of same man seven times.” Coney Island postcards, a Fiji Carey — who was elected as a / Dana Rubinstein dollars for the groom. mermaid skeleton and a closet The couple had been set to Democrat but severed his party full of zoot suits, has a pre-nup!). wed in Cyprus in February, but registration several years after leav- Then, the bride’s niece couldn’t ing office — endorsed Spitzer in
immigration officials blocked Collection of Dick Zigun be found, even though she had just the 2006 election, but the press Mukoro’s passage from Nigeria. Coney Island’s head freak Dick Zigun smootches his Nigerian called from the lobby. Turns out, conference rambled over four Papers The Brooklyn The French government bride, Princess Pat Mukoro, after last week’s wedding in Ghana. blocked a subsequent effort to she was at La Palm Royal Beach decades of history. In Park Slope on Wednesday, former governor Hugh Carey (left) get married in the supposedly ro- hotel — but the one in Togo, not Spitzer and Carey chatted in endorsed Eliot Spitzer for his old job in Albany. mantic city of Paris. And even have been far worse. Zigun’s carny pals — the Great Ghana. (A simple 16-hour round- front of the same stoop on St. the Brits weren’t helpful with Zi- “By African tradition, I should Fredini, Insectavora, Helen Mel- trip drive by the bride’s brother John’s Place where Carey and gun’s plans to marry in Black- have purchased a present for on, the Kerosene Queen, and the solved that problem.) then-Sen. Robert Kennedy fought added, triggering another history handful of reporters squeezed into pool (their Coney Island). Pat’s relatives and paid for three other “wonders of human curiosi- But at last, the couple was in 1966 for the restoration of neigh- lesson, this one about Fort Greene an elevator for an awkward ride to Fortunately, Ghana provided a cows to be slaughtered,” he ty” — said Zigun’s relentless pur- wed. Now all that remains is a borhood brownstones. Park and the Revolutionary War. the third floor. safe haven. wrote from Ghana. “Cows are suit of Mukoro was inspirational. few months of immigration red “It’s about time we had a man of Then both men hopped into Carey shuffled comfortably and Despite the circuitous route to not cheap! So even with paying “I tend to have a cynical heart tape and Mukoro will take her vision and leadership,” said Carey, Spitzer’s waiting limo for the two- proudly down the hallway of the nuptial bliss — and thousands of for two weddings (one unused in about marriage,” said Fred Kahl, rightful place at Zigun’s side dapper in a gray suit and blue block journey to Helen Owen Ca- center — named for his late wife — dollars in lost deposits and airline Cyprus and this one in Ghana), I a.k.a. “The Great Fredini. “But (and, he said, in the Madame handkerchief. rey Day Care Center. and both men peeked in on some tickets — Zigun said it could suppose I am getting off easy!” Dick has been through so many Twisto case in the Sideshow). “We’re in a battleground,” he Once there, Carey, Spitzer, and a napping children. Some were star- tled from their sleep by the intru- sion. Spitzer and Carey tried to charm the sleepy children anyway, includ- ing one tyke with corn-rows. “I wish I could wear my hair like that, but I don’t have enough FREEDOM ROAD Jail hair,” said the follicly challenged Spitzer. “And I love finger-paint- ing,” added Carey. Fresh support for RR protest At another classroom, Carey re- galed the kids, all born in 1998, with By Ariella Cohen noring the real history of the site. war stories about himself and RFK. The Brooklyn Papers After that, the dynamic duo The Brooklyn Papers Moore says the city is better at preserving history in white neighbor- Boerum Hill residents packed a jumped into Carey’s car for the The destruction of a row of hous- hoods than in black neighborhoods. City Council hearing Tuesday to two-block (uphill!) ride to the Park es near Fulton Mall would “contin- “My analysis of 34 Underground beg the city to sell the Brooklyn Café on Seventh Avenue, where ue a legacy” of losing valuable bits Railroad-related sites [shows] that al- House of Detention and build a they met with district leader Alan of black history, a member of the most all still survive in Brooklyn new pen elsewhere in the borough. Fleishman. city’s Landmarks Preservation Heights,” he wrote. But Corrections officials reasserted Spitzer ordered coffee, and Commission charged last week. Underground tunnels connect the their plan to reopen the House of D Carey had iced tea. Both were ex- As reported recently in The wood-frame houses on Duffield after a $240-million renovation that ceedingly polite to the waitstaff. Brooklyn Papers, preservationists Street. Historic records of the Under- will double the jail’s capacity, while Carey sweetened his tea with have stepped up a two-year-old fight ground Railroad in Brooklyn show also adding retail to the ground floor. Splenda, but was quickly reminded to save two Downtown Brooklyn routes that may have included the Relocating the jail is not an option that the politically correct choice homes where the city wants to build houses as way station between aboli- being considered, they said. would have been Sweet’N Low, a parking lot, but they claim is a his- tionist churches and nearby Fulton Homeowners in the shadow of the which is made just a few miles toric site where well-known 19th- Street, which served as a conduit for 11-story holding pen don’t know away. century abolitionists lived and har- slaves traveling to the Fulton Ferry who to blame for their property-val- Carey and Spitzer discussed the bored slaves on their way to freedom. docks and then to Canada. ue-draining neighbor — city offi- 11th congressional district race (off In a letter to the consulting team As a centerpiece of the Downtown cials, or the real-estate brokers who hired by the city to evaluate the site’s the record, of course). Occasionally, Brooklyn redevelopment plan ap- sold them their million-dollar digs a Brooklynite stopped by the table history, Christopher Moore urged the proved two years ago, the city would without mentioning the city's plan.
/ Julie Rosenberg to wish Spitzer luck or give regards city to keep the houses intact. seize the property using the power of “No one really told me it would “Nearly all [Underground Rail- eminent domain and redevelop it into reopen,” said Brad Andrews, who to Carey. road sites] … where most of the a parkland-topped underground ga- bought a condo last spring in the lux- One constituent wanted to feel African-Americans resided have rage for a Willoughby Square hotel. ury building at 53 Boerum Pl. — and Spitzer out on area real-estate de- been destroyed,” Moore, research co- “All we're saying is, 'What's the can see straight into the jail’s cells velopment, including the contro- ordinator at the Schomburg Center from his bedroom window. versial Atlantic Yards mega-proj- rush?'” said Bill Batson, a Democratic Papers The Brooklyn for Black Culture, wrote in an April candidate for state Assembly. “Why is He doesn’t fault the broker who ect. Spitzer responded judiciously, 15 letter to the consultant, AKRF. there such a rush to judgment on sold him the condo — but he's not saying only one thing of substance “Destroying the houses on things that affect Brooklynites?” pleased, either. within earshot: “People are desper- Duffield Street would certainly con- But the city said no decisions have ‘Earth’ angels “She never said that it would re- ate to live here, but can’t afford it.” tinue that legacy,” said Moore, who been made yet, despite Moore and Environmentally sensitive tykes help out at the Park Slope Civic Council Earth Day event at Old open, but she never said it wouldn’t,” Carey munched on his tuna sal- claimed in 2004 that the city was ig- Batson's suggestions to the contrary. Stone House, Fifth Avenue at Third Street, also sponsored by the Friends of J.J. Byrne Park. he said. — Ariella Cohen ad platter. 2 BWN April 29, 2006 SYNAGOGUE THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 SERVICES Union THE BROOKLYN Temple Great bridge, great race By Gersh Park Slope’s Friendliest Reform Congregation ANGLE Kuntzman SHABBAT SERVICES: Time was, the Brooklyn nod to the great tabloid tradi- The Participants The Route dressed in their summer cloth- First Friday monthly es. Mick Jagger lives. followed by Potluck Dinner 6:30 p.m. Bridge was so powerful a tion of having a reporter on Hypercaffeinated editor (and Participants started at the All other Friday evenings 8:15 p.m. symbol that protesters would foot “race” a traffic-clogged tabloid veteran) Gersh Kuntz- DUMBO offices of The Brook- 6:19: Kuntzman sees two is forced to stand between a his watch and gloats. Saturday mornings 10:30 a.m. only march across it to com- crosstown bus — we conduct- man vs. young (and, frankly, lyn Papers. Kuntzman took the friends coming towards him guy who could be the “before” But he also tells his young 17 Eastern Parkway plain about Really Big ed the first-ever competition somewhat dubious) reporter footpath to the City Hall police on bicycles. He waves hi, ap- photo in a Dr. Zizmor ad and a charge that their mission has at Grand Army Plaza Things: police brutality, civil pitting the Brooklyn Bridge Dana Rubinstein, tired from a booth on Park Row while Ru- preciates how nice it is to run woman doing Su Doku. taught a valuable lesson: Just rights, abortion rights, war. footpath against the subway. day at the office. binstein took the A/C train into people you know in such 6:22: Kuntzman arrives at because people are marching 638-7600 an often-impersonal city, and City Hall. over the Brooklyn Bridge Rabbi Dr. Linda Henry Goodman from High Street to Chambers A43 But in the past two weeks, keeps on walking. 6:25: Rubinstein’s A/C train doesn’t mean there’s any im- the bridge’s pedestrian walkway and walked the rest of the way. The Race 6:20: Rubinstein’s A/C train arrives at Chambers Street. portant symbolism involved. Congregation has been commandeered so 6:10 pm 6:22 pm arrives (yes, she waited eight 6:30: Rubinstein arrives at It may mean they simply Kol Israel many times — by a candidate 6:10 pm: Both participants minutes during rush hour). She City Hall. Kuntzman checks chose the fastest route. Located in Prospect Heights for an assembly seat; by partici- arrive at the footpath, where since 1924 pants in an Easter Passion play; Kuntzman climbed the stairs 603 St. Johns Place bet. Classon & Franklin by homeowners on Duffield and Rubinstein headed for the 638-6583 Street who are upset that their subway one block away. Rabbi Elkanah Schwartz homes may get torn down; and, Kuntzman walked at a leisure- Fri. at Sunset • Sat. 10:30am W34/37/52 most recently, by supporters of ly stroll, observing the traffic transit union boss Roger Tous- backed up on both sides of the PARK SLOPE saint, who walked him to the bridge (thanks to the om- JEWISH CENTER Tombs to surrender for his 10- nipresent — but unmanned — 8th Avenue at 14th St. day jail sentence — that some / Dana Rubinstein / Allen Salkin police cars parked in the fast Fri. nights 6:30 pm of us at The Brooklyn Papers lane that drive everyone crazy). CHRONIC PAIN FROM Sat. mornings 10 am Adult Ed e Hebrew School wondered if there was a reason The view of the harbor and up Rabbi Carie Carter beyond mere symbolism. the East River was fantastic. POST HERPETIC NEURALGIA (PHN). Park Slope’s Egalitarian, Conservative Synagogue Perhaps, we surmised, walk- 6:12 pm: Rubinstein ar- ing across the bridge is actual- rives at to the A/C station. If you are suffering from persistent pain in the same area as the shingles rash and it The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn 768-1453 W29-31 Papers The Brooklyn ly faster than taking the train 6:16 pm: Kuntzman reached has lasted 3 or more months after the disappearance of the rash you may qualify for (an irony, considering Tous- Peripatetic editor Gersh Kuntzman begins the great race the midway point of the bridge participation in a clinical research study to evaluate the effectiveness of a new investi- Congregation at the base of the Brooklyn Bridge footpath. A mere 12 saint’s job). So in the spirit of and took a moment to appreci- gational medication. Mount Sinai investigation — and with a minutes later, he’s waiting for his challenger at City Hall. ate the tourists walking by 250 Cadman Plaza W. Conservative/Egalitarian The study may last up to 9 weeks and includes 7 outpatient clinic visits. A House for Prayer / A Home for People 718-875-9124 ding,” he said. Friday Eve Services 6:30pm To qualify for this study, you must: Saturday Morning 10:00am Others say they started noticing increas- ◆ Rabbi Joseph Potasnik ing air traffic after 9-11. Be between 18 - 80 years of age A29-41 FAA gives plane truth But the FAA says the Berman and other ◆ Have had pain associated with shingles for 3 months By Ariella Cohen are back up, and people are noticing,” residents are simply listening harder now. Shabbat Shalom! The Brooklyn Papers The number of planes landing at La- “Planes have always flown this route,” Qualified participants will receive at no cost: said Woodruff, who added that today’s Presented by Guardia increased just one percent last year ◆ It’s a bird, it’s a plane — nope, it’s compared to pre-9-11 numbers, according to planes are actually quieter. Study related physical exams and blood tests B’nai Avraham just paranoia. ◆ of Brooklyn Heights the Port Authority. Yet many residents say Federal Aviation Administration officials Study related medication The number of people hearing low-fly- they are often troubled by flight noise. came to the neighborhood Tuesday night to 117 Remsen St. • 596-4840 ing aircraft over Windsor Terrace and Park Rabbi Aaron Raskin “I’ve been calling our representatives unveil a new plan for area airspace — but Compensation provided for time and travel Slope is growing faster than the actual constantly, trying to get someone to do the redesign mostly affects other parts of the Candle number of planes flying over the neigh- something about the incredibly low-flying metropolitan area and won’t reduce the both- For more information contact Marina Godina, RN at 212-844-1491 or borhoods at 2,000 to 4,000 feet. planes,” said John Berman, a resident of ersome buzz or the anxiety it produces in Lighting f “The only thing that explains [resi- Prospect Park West in Windsor Terrace. Park Slope and Windsor Terrace. 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The robbers rushed in, closet broken open. * House Calls *Allergy Disorders #750B and the one who grabbed for Midday raid Deli finger A neighbor told police he the phone ended up breaking A pair of brazen thieves wan- Athief who pretended to be saw someone emerge from the his victim’s wrist — and the dered into a Fulton Street shop holding a gun held up a popular site around noon on April 23 phone, which smashed to the on March 17 and — armed Fort Greene grocery store — with a rolling suitcase in tow 239 Dekalb Ave. pavement. with nothing but cohones — just blocks from the 88th and a toolbox loaded on top. (Vanderbilt Ave. & Clermont St.) The muggers bolted down walked back out moments later Precinct stationhouse — in full No description of the visitor (718) 623-3999 the block, leaving the victim in with 35 cellphones worth nearly daylight on April 19, according was available. pain and with no way to dial $5,400, according to police. to police. www.sixthaveanimalclinic.com The stunned 28-year-old The robber burst into the Vandal art Model 911. The victim could provide counter clerk saw the men haul Greene Street bodega, at the A Jackson Pollack it was not. #550B $ 99 few details about her attackers. 49 away five boxes of phones and corner of Cambridge Place, at Someone snuck into an emp- Young victim load them into a waiting car. noon with what appeared to be ty building on Van Brunt Street, Two teenage thieves targeted The stolen goods included 15 a gun under his shirt. He or- near Commerce Street, between a 12-year-old boy walking Nokia models, five Samsung dered the 30-year-old deli 6 pm on April 15 and 11 pm on through Fort Greene Park just af- phones, five Motorola models worker to empty the register, April 17 and decorated the walls ter dark on April 19, police said. and a box of 10 activation kits, which contained $2,000. The and floors with paint. The van- The thugs jumped the boy valued at $500. “gunman” took the money and dal did no damage to the doors from behind near the edge of the Police are searching for two ran toward Grand Avenue. or windows and didn’t seem to park, on DeKalb Avenue and black men, both 5-foot-1 tall. The victim contacted police, steal anything, police said. We AppreciateYour Business! Fort Greene Place, around 8:15 The first one, roughly 180- who drive by the deli regularly on The building is for sale. Po- pm. They threw the youngster to pounds and near 28 years old, the way to the precincthouse, less lice declined to speculate how the ground, insisted, “Give me dressed in all black. The sec- 85 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn than six blocks away. 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FOURTH: The Members and Liability Company served upon him is c/o The SILVER JEWELRY www.floralheights.com premises described in the complaint herein, and Manages shall not be liable to the Limited Liability Limited Liability Company: 1184-60th Street, the respective husbands, wives, widow or widow- Company or any Member or Manager for any lia- 60% Brooklyn, New York 11219. IN WITNESS WHERE- (718) 625-2066 ers of them, if any, all of whose names are bility, loss, damage, cost or expense which may OF I hereunto sign my name and affirm that the AND WATCHES unknown to plaintiffs; ANTHONY VERRA;NEW arise out of or in connection with any act or con- statements perjury this 5th day of September, OFF YORK CITY TRANSIT ADJUDICATION BUREAU; duct on the part of the Members or Managers 2003. S/BENNY C. FONG, Benny C. 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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT A good development or the past few years, it has become all ing it and adjacent properties he already owns This is not to say that the developer, Shaya too easy for Brooklynites to reject out into a village of mid-sized buildings and an es- Boymelgreen, should be given a free pass. The Fof hand new real-estate development. planade along the still-filthy Gowanus Canal. Brooklyn Papers has certainly quibbled with There’s a good reason: some projects in This is actually an area where residential Boymelgreen before, and he will need to answer Brooklyn are so massive, ugly and mis- development should be encouraged. One plenty of hard questions before being awarded a placed that they have made many residents block to the east is Fourth Avenue — the cel- zoning variance to build housing on his newly cynical about the entire notion of building ebrated gateway to Park Slope — which is acquired properties. But with proper public re- in the borough. being transformed from a row of ugly car-re- view, his vision of a canal zone that bridges Park Yet build we must, because Brooklyn is pair shops and taxi parking lots into a real Slope and Carroll Gardens could be a good one. where people want to live and work. After all, neighborhood. The downside of the kind of frenetic real es- the alternative, experienced during a period of “Gowanus Village” development should be tate activity we’ve been witnessing is that peo- urban decline in the 1960s and ’70s, is far applauded if only because it will jumpstart ple who have formed the texture of our commu- worse for everyone. long-failed city efforts to clean up the putrid nities are sometimes priced out. Creative efforts, The good news is that not all development is corpse of water. Community activists and en- including subsidies for affordable housing, must improperly located or otherwise misguided. As vironmentalists will, in the future, fight City be made so that Park Slope’s prized diversity, our Ariella Cohen reports in this issue, a devel- Hall with a powerful ally alongside them: the even quirkiness, is maintained. If Boymelgreen oper has bought the Jewish Press building, an developer and the people who have invested participates in this effort, his Gowanus Village eyesore along Third Avenue, with hopes of turn- in his apartments. will be a project Brooklyn can cheer.
LETTERS Papers Cristian Fleming © The Brooklyn DA Hynes tried to aid B’klyn judge To the editor: Justice Phillips through some initial never an official candidate for District While my viewpoint is biased, I re- I write to clarify several points raised processes — such as getting medical Attorney, as your article suggested. gard these actions as much more egre- by Dana Rubenstein in her article, exams at Cornell University Hospi- Amy P. Feinstein gious than the recent maneuverings of Same old pols “Judge Not Crazy after All” (April 15). tal’s Alzheimer’s Center and Kings Chief Assistant District Attorney the Independent Neighborhood De- To the editor: In the spring of 2000, Assistant District County Hospital. mocrats that you reported on in your Your story, “Fossella: Ridge’s mil- Attorney Steven Kramer was required to The District Attorney has neither paper. Public cynicism towards poli- lion-dollar candidate” (April 22), check the ownership of a building that a the power to appoint a guardian, nor Pol blues tics is fueled by such hypocritical ac- should have pointed out that Rep. Vito defendant had claimed as his own and of- have anyone committed to a hospi- To the editor: tions from those who call themselves Fossella (R-Bay Ridge) is really small fered as collateral for bail when arrested tal. Only a judge has the power to is- Your interesting story concerning the political leaders and regularly preach potatoes in the larger scheme of things. Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc. for real estate-related crimes. ADA sue those orders. ongoing shenanigans in the Democratic the virtue of democracy, but are loathe Consider Democratic Party Senatorial at 55 Washington St, Ste 624, Brooklyn, NY 11201 Kramer learned that retired Brooklyn In December 2000, now-retired primary contest to succeed Rep. Major to practice it in their own little fief- Campaign Committee fundraisers host- Phone (718) 834-9350 ed by Sen. Charles Schumer. At one Established 1978. Copyright 2006. • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) Supreme Court Judge John Phillips was Justice Leonard Scholnick appointed Owens (“New Dems locked out,” April doms. Stephen Maresca, Bay Ridge the actual owner of the property, and he a temporary guardian for Justice 15) is ample evidence that some old- event, participants played the Schumer PUBLISHER Celia Weintrob (ext 104) visited Justice Phillips at his home to dis- Phillips. Several months later Justice style, autocratic political clubhouse tac- big bucks political trifecta, netting the EDITOR Gersh Kuntzman cuss the matter. Phillips himself signed the necessary tics are alive and well in Brooklyn. Racial plague Democrats a cool million dollars. (ext 119) consent forms and a more “perma- But I can assure you from personal At the prices of these fundraisers, SENIOR EDITOR /PRODUCTION MANAGER While Judge Phillips said he never To the editor: Vince DiMiceli (ext 125) transferred ownership of the property nent” guardian was assigned to him. experience that these practices are not I think you left off some major working or middle-class people were District Attorney Hynes, ADA Kra- hard to come by, except in the kitchen GO BROOKLYN/BROOKLYN BRIDE EDITOR and was clearly the victim of a crime, confined to the Democratic Party. plagues in Gersh Kuntzman and Rox- Lisa J. Curtis (ext 131) mer, nor anyone else on the staff of the In 2003, when I and first-time can- or serving. something caused ADA Kramer even anna Velandria’s front-page piece “10 ART DIRECTOR Leah Mitch (ext 127) greater alarm. Justice Philips’s home District Attorney’s office ever sought to didate Pat Russo were vying for the What was that tired old refrain about Plagues of Brooklyn” (April 15). What OFFICE MANAGER Charna Brown (ext 101) was in disarray, with unpaid bills and pa- have Justice Phillips placed into a re- Republican nomination for the City about the plague of white people taking the Democratic Party being the friend tirement home and Justice Phillips was of the little people and those nasty pers strewn about, and the retired judge Council in the 43rd district, the leader- over the borough, driving up prices, and COMPOSITION OWNERSHIP: Copyright 2006 Brooklyn Paper Publications appeared disoriented and uncared for. ship of all three Republican clubs, two forcing out long-time residents who greedy old Republicans being a party of Inc. 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Articles, story ideas, letters, photography, and all many people in the District Attorney’s Papers, 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, tion or even to appear before their ing Brooklyn’s character and charm and Assemblyman from way back — has other materials delivered to The Brooklyn Papers, whether or not solicited NY 11201 members to make a presentation, ei- morphed into Washington’s most by Publisher or Publisher’s agent and whether or not they contain or are office, ADA Kramer became con- turning it into just another site on the otherwise accompanied by restrictions on publication or use, will be treat- cerned and sought to help. By fax: (718) 834-9278. ther alone or with my opponents. double-decker tour bus map? powerful inside-the-beltway career ed as unconditionally assigned to The Brooklyn Papers for publication and Over the course of that summer, By email: Yet less than two years later, when Oh, sorry, I guess these are the peo- politician. 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The neighbor- shovel in the ground,” said this week, with back-to- hood is home to 120,000 resi- Brockway. “And I’ll be even back announcements that Mon-Th: 10am-8pm 225 5th Ave. (at President St.) dents, one-third of whom are more thrilled to see the doors Fri-Sun: 10am-5pm the neighborhood will get under age 18. High-school- open on a quality high school (718) 398-1187 its long-awaited high school aged kids journey to Fort that the community has long and see its decrepit water- Hamilton, Coney Island and deserved.” front transformed into a beyond to get an education. new park. “They end up in over- “It’s been a great week,” crowded schools,” said Julie said Jeremy Laufer, district Stein Brockway, chair of the manager of Community John Quaglione Sunset Park High School Task Board 7, referring to Thurs- Applauding Gov. Pataki in Sunset Park (left to right): UFT Chairwoman Randy Weingarten, Assem- Force. “I have families with SUMMERSUMMER day’s park announcement (see blyman Felix Ortiz, Mayor Bloomberg, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, state Sen. Marty Connor, three or four high-school kids story below) and Monday’s Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. and they’re all at different school funding fanfare. schools. It’s impossible for the Gov. Pataki journeyed to the 21 long-stalled projects. up by Pataki since February, “Parents across the city parents to be a part of their ed- IN THE CITY site of the $93-million, 1,700- Mayor Bloomberg, also on despite a court order requiring want new schools in their ucation.” IN THE CITY student future school, on 35th hand, said the money would him to increase funding for neighborhoods, but the plain Groundbreaking on the Street between Third and create 15,000 new classroom city school construction. facts were that there just was- new school is scheduled for Fourth avenues, to sign legisla- seats citywide. But for Bloomberg, at least, n’t enough money for them — July, with a projected comple- tion that released $11 billion for The money had been held bygones were bygones. until this morning,” he said. tion date of the first day of Bronx Piers to be new Sunset ‘park’? The Brooklyn Papers “For too long, the residents of Sunset understated, especially for our young peo- Decrepit piers along the Sunset Park Park have been without access to their wa- ple,” added Jeremy Laufer, district manag- • June 5-June 29 here waterfront may be transformed into a terfront,” Hizzoner said. er of Community Board 7, celebrating the recreational Xanadu of athletic fields, an The piers, between 43rd and 51st harbor views from the off-limits piers. SUMMER • July 5-August 8 The Brooklyn Papers education center, and a fishing pier under streets, are like that old joke about the This once-active Bush Terminal be- SESSIONS The Bronx is in da a city plan unveiled this week. restaurant where the food is not only lousy came contaminated from illegal dumping • July 10-August 10 house. Our house. Elected officials were on hand for May- but the portions are too small: they are a the 1970s. As a result, the site has been in- 3 Bronx Borough President or Bloomberg’s announcement that $36- hazardous brownfield — but worse, they're accessible and abandoned for 30 years. Adolfo Carrion will leave million had been greenlighted for prepara- been inaccessible to public for years. Gov. Pataki, also on hand, called the the mainland and hold his tory work that could lead to the trans- The toxic cleanup will begin in Septem- project, “the largest brownfield grant second annual “Caribbean formation of the crumbling, 14-acre Bush ber, according to the mayor's office. awarded by the state.” The city and the Classes in: NYC: The Future is Today” Terminal piers. “The benefits of a new park cannot be federal government are also chipping in. conference in the promised land of Brooklyn. • ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY Hundreds of Caribbean- American community lead- ers and elected officials are • AUTOCAD • BIOLOGY • CHEMISTRY expected at the Monday, May 1, conference in the CANAL… • SOCIAL SCIENCES • MATHEMATICS Brooklyn Museum. Admis- Continued from page 1 DUMBO are the high-end ar- sion is free, weighty topics the industrial area bounded by chitects designing the next will be discussed, and wave of residential skyscrap- there’ll also be a free lunch the canal, Third Avenue, and NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY Carroll and Third streets into a ers for rich people drawn to and live music. the neighborhood that artists “Anyone is welcome in neighborhood of four- to six- 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11021 made hip in the first place. Brooklyn,” said Borough story townhouses and 10-story President Markowitz. “And loft buildings. The same fate appears in- 718.260.5500 • 877.NYC.TECH that includes residents of Mango / Greg But he is certainly not the evitable in Gowanus. Brooklyn Upstate — aka da only developer with a vision “I am not against residential www.citytech.cun.citytech.cuny.edu.edu Bronx.” of reclaiming the canal. 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Look out, Bronxites, Marty Papers The Brooklyn and on once-forsaken Fourth Keegan, a researcher with is going to want equal time. Artist Mike Cockrill on the roof of his Third Street studio with Avenue, hoping to capitalize Center for an Urban Future. — Gersh Kuntzman one of his paintings. Whole Foods is moving in across the street. on the real estate boom up the Slope and across the canal, in Carroll Gardens to the west. Toll Brothers, a national cor- poration best known for John- ny-Appleseeding the ’burbs with McMansions, already bought two blocks of Bond Street be- We are pleased to announce tween Carroll and Second streets, in Carroll Gardens. And last year, the owners of the opening of our new the Bayside Fuel terminal shuttered their Sackett Street facility. Their plan is to clean the petroleum-bathed lot and build nine- to 13-story condos Patient Service Center and a gated esplanade. 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Summer Program Available Needless to say, being 9- OSFO her fashion sense and she said waving dismissively at And so it went, dress after dress. going-on-20, the Oh So Feisty the fun she has dressing. Since one display area after another. “Nope,” she said pulling off One loves a party dress. Last she was a toddler, OSFO has a pink dress that looked utterly Call: 230-5255 • 763 President Street (bet. 6th & 7th Aves.) week, she, Smartmom and Di- always been opinionated about ND SHE WAS RIGHT. stunning. Finally, a white chif- aper Diva subwayed to clothing. And Smartmom al- Too frilly, too frothy, fon dress with faded flowers too frou-frou, most of met her approval. “I’ll need the Macy’s to find the perfect ways let her decide what she A Hugh Crawford dress for the occasion. wants to wear (no “Mommy the dresses were more suited right shoes,” she said. for an Easter service than a so- The dress. OSFO was too The Child Study Center of New York, Est. 1981 That subway ride to Mid- Dearest”-syndrome, here). Con- shy to pose for The Papers. But still she persevered. A town might as well have been sequently, the OSFO is much phisticated Baltimore wed- half-hour later, the room was is proud to present a train trip back in time for more comfortable with her ding. As far as OSFO was awash in inside-out dresses as Smartmom, who dreaded own sense of style and the way concerned, they were way, fruity,” she said. And this one? a half-naked girl surveyed the sharing this particular rite of that she looks. way off base. “Not right for a wedding.” mess. passage with her daughter. 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STYLE Red tide rising The Russians gave us a taste for the finer things in life — vodka, caviar, jewel-covered eggs — but when choosing a new motif for a line of summer T shirts, Brooklyn Industries went Soviet. The Williamsburg- based clothing company recently rolled out a line of 12 graphic Ts with designs of famed Coney Island icons — the Cyclone, the Wonder Wheel, hot dogs and the Parachute Jump — inspired by the Russ- ian Constructivist move- ment of the 1920s and ’30s, according to Cre- ative Director Vahap Funk. These shirts aren’t just cool enough for sum- (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings April 29, 2006 mer, they remind you to stop and smell the ocean, and while you’re at it, get some cotton candy on your nose. Brooklyn Industries Coney Island T-shirts are $28 and are available at their retail locations [206 Fifth Ave. at Union Street in Park Slope, (718) 789-2764 and 162 Bedford Ave. at North Eighth Street in Williamsburg, (718) 486-6464] and Web site www.brooklynindustries.com. — Lisa J. Curtis
Fashion town STYLE Brooklyn stakes its claim on NY design with DUMBO show By Karen Butler Hi-tech tan for The Brooklyn Papers Bright lights, European styling and surround sound stereos are not only found at the New York Internation- aris. Milan. Brooklyn? BROOKLYN al Auto Show, but at the new Hollywood Tan in Bay Plans are underway to make the bor- Ridge. In addition to the usual beds, this salon features Pough the next stop on the world fashion five state-of-the-art devices that represent the pinnacle tour. As a start, 19 Brooklyn designers will of tanning technology Europe has to offer. unveil their creations at the first BK Fashion style The Ergoline XTT, Week(end), May 5-7, in the Tobacco Ware- SPECIAL short for X-treme Tan house at Empire Fulton Ferry Park, between Tec, is “the spaceship,” the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges in Brooklyn events won’t be any easier to in- according to owners DUMBO. filtrate than the ones that take place in those Mark Binder, Stan Organized by Rick Davy, a stylist for big, white tents in Bryant Park. Only the Makarov and Mike Ver- Black Entertainment Television, and his fashion press, buyers, celebrities and other bitskiy. It resembles a Callan / Tom partner, publicist Cybelle Sandy, the invita- industry people will be invited to watch de- futuristic burgundy Bar- tion-only events are inspired by Manhattan’s signers like Roger Gary, Clark Sabbat, Si- calounger in feet-up posi- twice-yearly Seventh on Sixth fashion mon Duncan, Nana Boateng and “Project tion. The Sportarredo weeks, but promise a flavor that is distinctly Runway” finalist Zulema present their col- HPO is a stand-up tan- Brooklyn. lections next weekend. ning booth that looks like Papers The Brooklyn “We love Brooklyn so much,” Davy told “It works best that way,” Davy said. “It is it could beam up Captain Kirk as well as tan your hide, Go Brooklyn in a recent interview. “We about the designer — helping the Brooklyn while the company’s “Extasy” model is large enough have so many great designers here that I designers get a foothold in the industry like to accommodate three people (the implications of style celebrities with. Everybody who works everybody else. Having public come in, which we will leave to the imagination). in the fashion business and does Seventh on doesn’t maximize that. We would make All devices are equipped with powerful fans, CD Sixth actually lives in Brooklyn.” money from it, but it doesn’t make anything players and satellite radios. Davy says one of the goals of his BK Style happen for the designers and the whole pur- Perpetually bronzed Nina Rafaniello, who has Foundation, the non-profit parent company for pose of this foundation and BK Fashion worked at several tanning salons before being hired by the event, is to create a venue where gifted Week(end) is designer-driven and making this one, is excited about the new machines. Brooklyn cloth- Brooklyn recognized as a fashion destina- “If I was to ever fade, I think I would freak,” she ing artisans can tion.” said. show their work Following an opening-night gala atop Hollywood Tans [9024 Fourth Ave. at 91st and get the at- posh 70 Washington St. on May 4, the BK Street, (718) 492-TANS]. Hours: 9 am – midnight, tention they de- Fashion Week(end) will officially begin Fri- seven days a week. — Ben DiMatteo serve from the day with the presentation of Zulema’s global fashion frocks. In between offerings from H.O.R.R. industry. by Habana Outpost, the Fort Greene Café’s “There are so house line, Charm Mills, and Brooklyn In- STYLE many young, dustries, celebrities will be able to enjoy the
talented kids Mango / Greg location’s spectacular views, listen to music in Brooklyn, performed by local talent or relax in a luxu- and they al- ry lounge, which, of course, features a spa ways seem to and will have a chef on-hand. Tip-top shape have to go to In the meantime, journalists will be able
Manhattan — to Papers The Brooklyn to dash off to a multimedia center to fire off Summer clothing and accessories reveal all. It the Fashion In- their stories about the day’s hottest trends. doesn’t matter how expensive those gilded gladiator stitute of Tech- Fashion’s new view: (Above) Rick Davy Borough President Markowitz says he is sandals are, or how chic the label is on the perfectly nology or Par- and Cybele Sandy, co-organizers of the looking forward to seeing Brooklyn get the faded tank top, if your toenails are battered and your sons School of BK Fashion Weekend, photographed in recognition its most-fashionable citizens de- fingernails are gruesomely bitten to the quick. Design — be- Empire Fulton Ferry State Park. Designers serve. Boerum Hill’s fuschia-colored Dashing Diva, which fore they can be on display include (clockwise from left) “Our designers’ styles are as diverse as is rapidly approaching its solidified in the Nature vs Future by Nina Valenti, Cotrice Brooklynites themselves,” Markowitz said first birthday, offers a business,” he Couture and Doroseau by Gerard Brazile. in a statement. “And their commitment to comparatively quick so- explained. “We our borough adds so much color, flair and lution for nails in need of
wanted to open character to our unique fabric of life.” Mango / Greg an extreme makeover. up some kind of “We asked the designers to wow every- So, how are Davy’s plans being received While their Tailor Fit foundation to one and show couture,” he said. “We tried by fashion folks beyond Brooklyn? Nails and Tip Toe Nails support youths to get as much couture as we could. If a de- “A lot of people are not sure, because ($10-$15) already come who are really so fashion-driven, but have no a reality show). signer wanted to show his or her fall line, Brooklyn never had anything like this be- in a variety of sizes and
direction.” Davy noted that was fine, but we asked them to show fore,” Davy said. “I think it will be a huge, Papers The Brooklyn designs — ranging from A limited number of established designers that the foun- more couture because it’s fun and more ex- huge, huge change in its image. We’re go- French to disco ball and edgy newcomers were selected to partic- dation plans to citing for a premiere. Then, when we go in ing to pull some designers out of the wood- sparkle — their Virtual Nails ($25) are completely ipate in the Brooklyn shows after a team of host longer, seasonal fashion events, starting September, we will show the Spring 2007 work and we’re hoping, eventually, that we transparent and are available in even more sizes. Com- stylists and other industry professionals re- this fall, in the hopes of giving even more (collections).” get the new Anna Sui or the new Ralph bine the Virtuals with the Basic Diva Manicure ($12) viewed portfolios of their work (sounds like designers exposure. Unfortunately, for most style lovers, the Lauren. That would be so exciting for us.” for nail shaping, massage and “Flash Dry” finish. Like those retro hits, Lee Press On Nails, the Virtual Nails are full coverage — glued right on top of your existing nail. But Virtuals are practically a custom fit. tie were summer’s essentials, then you’re (The staff sizes you up and records your stats on your not cool enough to be shopping here any- first visit, so future applications are even faster.) way. During my service, Maria, who’s worked at Jisoo The way the “exchange” part works is and Gina Sun’s Dashing Diva since it opened, shaped simple: Customers who turn in their own my existing nails, sized me up, easily applied the nails, ‘Exchange’rates discards get either 30 percent of the resale wrapped my hands in moist, hot towels and loosened value in cash, or 50 percent to be used as my computer-stiffened hands with a massage. When I store credit. hesitated over selecting a polish color, Gina combined Hipsters flock to Williamsburg’s But beware: the buyers have an extensive two to get the matches-everything-ballerina-pink I was knowledge of fabrics, current retail trends, looking for — at no extra charge. and eras, and their polite-but-firm rejection After two weeks, the staff can remove the Virtual fashionable second-hand emporium of your cast-offs can make you feel like Nails for you with a soak ($10) that dissolves the your throwaways are suitable only for a adhesive — leaving your own nails unharmed and By Erin Marie Daly Exchange is built on the philosophy that re- stoop sale. ready for another round. Need a break between for The Brooklyn Papers cycling is always in style. Hip offerings of the season include clas- sets? The soak is available for purchase at the shop
That attitude is clearly shared by the / Rachel B. Schwartz sic plaid 1970s-style pants for him, and and you can remove at home. But why do that when or fashion-minded Brooklynites who swarms of forward-thinking clotheshorses flowered hip-length tanks edged in lace for free Cosmopolitans are to be had with any service also keep an eye on their pocketbooks, a who crowd the Williamsburg location — her. on Thursdays and Fridays, from 5 to 9 pm? Not sur- Fsummer wardrobe just wouldn’t be com- which opened last December — to pick And don’t forget the vintage T, the quin- prisingly, reservations are recommended. plete without a trip to Buffalo Exchange, through trucker hats and taffeta skirts for tessential item in any well-heeled hipster’s For more information about Dashing Diva where one hipster’s trash is another hipster’s that oh-so-hip flair. Papers The Brooklyn closet. Buffalo Exchange has tons of them (129 Smith St. at Dean Street in Boerum Hill), treasure. And if you didn’t know that lime-and- Click your heels three times: At Buffalo Exchange in in all sizes. Pickings range from “I Married call (718) 875-1210 or visit the Web site With 25 stores across the nation, Buffalo turquoise Vans or a yellow mallard duck Williamsburg, these red Marc Jacobs shoes are $85. See BUFFALO on page 9 www.dashingdiva.com. — Lisa J. Curtis
AUTHENTIC DOMINICAN CUISINE Celebrate Reserve now RISTORANTE for “Coma Como en su Casa” CINCO Mother’s Day (eat like at home) DE MAYO The 5 seatings VACCARO Pepper Steak – $9.20 • Paella – $14.70 SUNSET Cucina Italiana Lobstertail stuffed with crabmeat – $29.90 Tex Mexican Cuisine SPECIAL Pearl Room Mon-Thur: 4pm-closing Pearl Room choose from 10 appetizers $ 06 Private dining room for parties Restaurant 8 pastas 20 11 entrées Happy Hour – All Day Long! Most awarded Restaurant in Brooklyn Friday, May 5th GARDEN DINING • PRIVATE PARTY ROOM Serving the community for 20 years 141 Court Street Now Accepting Mother’s Day Reservations 4408 5th Ave. (bet. 44th & 45th Sts.) (718) 438-2009 (between Atlantic & Pacific aves) 8201 Third Avenue • Tel: 718.833.6666 6716 Fort Hamilton Pkwy • near 67th St. in Dyker Heights Open 7 days, 6am-midnight • (718) 625-7370 • www.ThePearlRoom.com • • (718) 238-9447 8 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPERS WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM April 29, 2006
BROOKLYN Neighborhood Bites Dining Guide also available. Main courses include teriyaki, tempu-
ra, sushi and sashimi. Or try “chirashi”, a bowl brim- Mango / Greg This week: ming with sashimi over rice, or a box meal. For eel lovers, there’s “ungai don,” a hearty portion of eel DOWNTOWN over rice. Hibashi Boy makes up party sushi platters, and delivers orders of $7 or more for free. Open BROOKLYN Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner; closed Sundays. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Amette Jamaican Luciano’s 15 Metrotech Center, (718) 855-6668 (DC, Disc, Cafe MC, Visa) Entrees: $5.95–$19.95 192 Duffield St. near Willoughby Street (718) Luciano’s is a cavernous modern restaurant with a 222-8310 (Cash only) Entrees: $4-$13 slate tiled floor on the northeast side of Metrotech This tiny cafe on a quaint block near the Metrotech Center. Near the door is a designer bar built of warm Center is sparkling clean, with tiled walls and floors wood and steel surrounded by high tables with and breezy prints of Caribbean scenery on the walls. stools. The seating area beyond is set up like a food Serving mainly West Indian fare, Amette offers court for the suit set; at breakfast time, there’s a cre- Jamaican breakfasts until 11 am and include callaloo ate-you-own-omelet counter and a gourmet coffee (taro root greens) and codfish; kidneys; and ackee (a bar. At lunch, out come the custom-crafted Panini, Think pink red fruit) and codfish; all served with boiled green the salads, and a pizza counter and a create-you-own- banana, yam and boiled dumpling. Lunch specials pasta bar. But wait — there’s also a dining area include several brown stews: chicken, turkey wings, around the other side of the bar, where servers will Park Slope’s Beet has fab or whiting and okra. Or choose curry chicken, curry hand you a dinner menu featuring antipasto, veal pic- goat, or jerk chicken. Amette also dishes up patties cata, shrimp scampi and New York strip steak. and roti with a variety of fillings, from potato to jerk Luciano’s opened about two years ago, and serves
chicken or shrimp. The dinner menu features classics breakfast, lunch and dinner five days a week until 8 or decor, serves decent Thai Mango / Greg like oxtail, as well as jerk pork and traditional 8:30, while the bar stays open until 10 or 11 pm — seafood dishes. For dessert, try one of their authen- owner’s prerogative. Closed Saturday and Sunday. tic pastries like the tamarind ball or black fruit cake. food and intense cocktails Open Monday through Saturday for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Closed Sundays. Paradisus 121 121 Livingston St. at Adams Street, (718) 624- By Tina Barry by Pat Rodsomarng. The first, Mango 9565 (AmEx, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $5.95-$23.95. Papers The Brooklyn Coal Pot Cuisine The Brooklyn Papers Thai, opened in November, 2003 on ‘Beet’ happening: The coconut shrimp (above) is a highlight of the menu at Formerly Las Tres Palmas, Paradisus is serving its Seventh Avenue. Beet’s cuisine is more 381 Bridge St. bet. Willoughby and Fulton hearty, simple and satisfying food in newly renovat- Park Slope’s Beet. The food often takes a back seat the exuberant decor and streets (718) 522-3600 (AmEx, DC, Disc, MC, hen Beet opened in October, I experimental than Mango, with French ed surroundings. Slake your after-work thirst with a creative cocktails (carried by waitress Pachom Suesuwan, top left). Visa) Entrees: $3–$10 drink in the full bar, under a ceiling painted like a thought, “Oh, great. Just what touches and some unusual pairings. If you can’t visit Jamaica this year, here’s a quick fix. sunny sky. Happy hour is 4 to 7 pm daily. Stay for Park Slope needs, another Thai My dinner there had its highs — Half a block away from busy Fulton Mall and a few dinner to taste the drunk chicken, shrimp with garlic W steps up, Coal Pot Cuisine is a small oasis where the sauce or fried pork chops. For a fuller appetite, try restaurant.” The neighborhood’s two with some dishes carefully cooked and ly sour in the “tom yum” soup, al- seasoned, eggplant, zucchini, peppers savory fragrance of the jerk chicken and escovitch the paella, a rich mix of clams, lobster, octopus and main dining boulevards, Fifth and Sev- complexly flavored — but there were a though the shrimp, mushrooms and and onions that stand up to the meat. fish tells its own story. You can choose your meal shrimp in rice ($16.95 for one, $32 for two). And enth avenues, are already quite well couple of downers, too. A few plates slices of green and red peppers were Dabs of pungent pesto intensified the from a cafeteria-style counter where whole snap- don’t forget a side order of fried plantains. Starting pers swim in a brown sauce thick with vegetables, in May, Wednesdays is Karaoke night at Paradisus, served by Thai eateries. held either over- or under-salted cre- cooked to just the right degree. musky lamb and lent a welcome tart then sit in the sun-drenched dining area overlooking with free appetizers such as their famous “palitos de But Beet’s ations, and in The kitchen team turns out two fish note to the stew. Deep green spoonfuls the street, decorated with murals that summon up a pollo,” deep fried chunks of chicken served with a uber-hip decor set some cases the dishes that could be improved by more of mint jelly make a natural partner serene blue Caribbean horizon. GO Brooklyn’s spicy cauliflower pickle dipping sauce. Thursdays it apart from the spicing was tame. assertive seasoning. The huge prawns with the lamb, but struck an off chord Rebecca Migdal says Coal Pot’s oxtails with black and Fridays feature live music and guest DJ’s; DINING beans and rice “melt in your mouth.” Other special- Thursday is ladies night, with Latin vibes jazz and rest. Touches like The “coconut in the “jumbo shrimp and scallops with with the vegetables. ties of the house include tripe and beans; and cow salsa, and drink specials for ladies all night. On the deep red walls Beet (344 Seventh Ave. bet. Ninth shrimp” is an ex- brown butter sauce” were tender and As an American diner, I bring certain and 10th streets in Park Slope) accepts foot soup: a spicy, thyme-scented broth loaded with Fridays, enjoy jazz and world music beats, and a that curve over ample of the sweet, and the scallops as large as a expectations to the dessert course. One potatoes, dumplings and yams. Coal Pot caters, and happy hour buffet. Open daily for lunch and dinner. American Express, Discover, Master- Card and Visa. Entrees: $8-$17. The also delivers their moderately priced meals for free. the top of the ceil- kitchen at its peak. baby’s fist. Although both were nicely is that whatever concludes the meal ing, the curved restaurant serves lunch and dinner sev- A generous por- caramelized, the rich sauce that accom- possesses a bit of sweetness. After tast- Open Monday through Saturday for breakfast, lunch Queen en days a week. Delivery available to and dinner; closed Sundays. modern lamps, surrounding neighborhoods. For infor- tion of cleanly panied them could have used a pinch ing the dense coconut rice pudding, my 84 Court St. at Livingston Street, (718) 596-5955, mation, call (718) 832-2338. www.queenrestaurant.com (AmEx, Disc, MC, and a border of fried, crisply bat- more salt and something tart to bright- diner companion said, “Think of it as a Guyanese and Visa) Entrees: $14.50-$31. mosaics behind tered crustaceans en its flavor. cheese course.” I tried, but salty pud- Trinidad Roti Shop/ Now in its 49th year, Queen was recently rated the the tables create a were light and Under the “wow” section of the ding just doesn’t do it for me. Neither Justin’s Island city’s best Italian restaurant by voters in the AOL modern backdrop for dining. crunchy and brightened by a red curry menu, is a large filet of steamed red did one-dimensional fried spring rolls CityGuide, beating out famed eateries like Babbo It’s a setting one is more accustomed and plum dipping sauce. It’s disap- snapper served in a banana leaf and filled with bananas and drizzled with Cuisine Restaurant and Bamonte’s. Just a hop from Borough Hall, Queen has a three-course, $23.99 prix-fixe lunch to finding in less family oriented neigh- pointing when something with such fi- splashed with Panang curry sauce. The honey. A squiggle of chocolate — not 144 Lawrence St. bet. Fulton and Willoughby menu for the business crowd, offered until 6 pm streets (718) 625-9190 (Cash only) Entrees: borhoods like Williamsburg — but it nesse is followed by “grilled flank fish is moist and meaty and the deep traditionally Thai, but little about Beet everyday. Brothers Pasquino and Vincent Vitiello, provides a good excuse for ordering one steak salad,” a dish with too many off green leaf it sits on makes an attractive is — would go a long way towards im- $6.50–$10 who took over operations from their father, At first glance, this unassuming-looking food shop Anthony, make mozzarella two or three times a day, of the many specialty cocktails. I’d start notes. The first flaw is slightly over- presentation. If only the coconut curry proving this dessert. near the Fulton Mall appears to be just-opened, says Vincent, and serve a special appetizer combin- with the crisp, fresh “Bolini,” sparkling cooked meat marinated in overpower- sauce had more oomph. From the outside, the eatery resem- with a banner slung over the original marquis and a ing the cheese with grilled asparagus, eggplant frit- wine served in champagne glass made ingly salty chili-lime juice. Beneath the There is one signature dish that bles any other, self-consciously stylish barker in front keeping up a steady harangue while ters or another specialty. Dinner features sumptuous handing out menus: “plantain, escovitch fish, jerk fare, like homemade specialty ravioli that change delicately fruity thanks to a touch of pear beef was a mix of lettuce and under- shows up often as a special: “French outpost. The waitstaff is warm and ad- chicken!” Don’t be fooled, because it’s one of the weekly and seasonal dishes like pork scaloppini with liqueur. Slivers of ginger lend the drink ripened tomato wedges. I tried wrap- rack of lamb with ratatouille and mint mirably graceful even as they dart to foremost eateries in the area, according to owner fresh fava beans and prosciutto. For a unique a jolt of heat. The “Arigato Martini” had ping the meat in the greens and topping leaf jelly.” It features six grilled, the tables with their arms stacked with Sandy Boodram, who took over the restaurant three dessert, Vincent suggests the house-made choco- an intense litchi nut flavor that I also it with a sprig or two of basil and mint, smoky lamb chops, each with a thin, plates. Yes, there were a few flaws in years ago. Justin’s may not have an upscale atmos- late raviolini, tiny ravioli made of cocoa-infused phere, but it has been around for 15 years and was pasta filled with sweetened ricotta, and served with loved (only professionalism prevented but the herbs did little to tame the sea- impossible not to chew, band of the meal, but I believe this place can “originally the only place in downtown Brooklyn” to a creamy vanilla custard sauce. Delivery available. me from having a third). soning. charred fat. They’re accompanied by a evolve into more than just another Thai get authentic Caribbean cooking, says Boodram. Open for lunch and dinner on weekdays and dinner- Beet is the second restaurant opened Lemongrass and lime were assertive- stew of just-crisp-enough, forcefully place. She recommends the “bake and saltfish” breakfast. only on weekends. “It’s fried dough with codfish inside — delicious,” Boodram boasts. She also has “bake and shark” on the menu. Entree choices include unusual dishes Samurai Sam’s such as curry duck and pumpkin roti. For dessert, try 115 Court St. at State Street, (718) 643-9582 one of the authentic Guyanese and Trinidadian pas- www.samuraisams.net (Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: tries; and wash it all down with cane juice or peanut $3.99-$6.99. punch. Open Monday through Saturday for break- Wolf it down At Charles Randazzo’s teriyaki grill, humorous Yoda- fast, lunch and dinner. Closed Sundays. style sayings such as “chopsticks cannot pick up a If you want to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in Hill and one in Park Slope — and Partida rep- hamburger for a reason,” pepper the menu, offer- style, head to Lobo restaurant. To commemo- resentatives will give away Cinco de Mayo Hibashi Boy ing the suggestion that eating at Samurai Sam’s makes a healthy diet more fun. This is one of two rate Mexican independence day (and introduce goodies at both. 94 Willoughby St. bet. Bridge Street and Oratory Brooklyn outposts of a nationwide franchise, and their new Tex-Mex menu), owners Sean Pat- The Court St. location will be opening its Place (718) 488-9888 (MC, Visa) Entrees: $4.95- their specialties are designed to appeal to the aver- terson and David Schneider are offering a garden on May 1. Patterson believes his restau- $15.95 age American’s tastes. You won’t find octopus or Hibashi Boy is a pleasantly decorated Japanese raw fish on the menu here, but there’s teriyaki chick- $19.95 prix-fixe dinner. The three-course spe- rants are popular among both celebrities eatery: the dining area with its polished wood tables en, shrimp, salmon or steak; “yaki soba” (wok- cial includes an appetizer, such as grilled jum- (Boerum Hillers Heath and Michelle, and has exposed brick walls half-paneled with raised stirred noodles and fresh grilled veggies with choice bo shrimp with tequila sauce or chicken que- Slopers Jennifer and Paul have been in) and wooden slats; and in back there’s a swanky, curved of meat;) sweet and sour chicken; and spicy beef black counter for ordering takeout. Appetizers with broccoli served over rice. There’s also the sadillas with mole poblano; a main course, non-celebrities because “It’s not a ‘scene’… include “edamame” (steamed green soybeans), teriyaki wrap, which comes with choice of meat, such as chicken-fried steak or BBQ ribs and just a comfortable place.” No matter who salmon skin salad, miso soup and “gyoza” (fried rice, green pepper, onion, cabbage and zucchini, chicken; and one of their homemade desserts, shows up, his focus is on the food. pork dumplings.) Udon and soba noodle soups are folded in a fresh flour tortilla, and served with such as vanilla flan, churros or Mexican Lobo/Park Slope (188 Fifth Ave. at Sackett Samurai Sam’s “famous” teriyaki sauce. Oriental sal- ads are also available, and there are vegetarian ver- brownies. They’re all tweaked with bold fla- Street, [718] 636-8886) accepts American Ex- Read our restaurant reviews at sions of all the dishes and a choice of white or vors and a Texas twist. Wash it all down with press, Mastercard and Visa. Hours are 5-11 brown rice. Delivery and party trays are also avail- $3 Coronas. pm, Sunday through Wednesday; 5-midnight able. Open daily for lunch and dinner. But before ordering, though, definitely im- on Thursday; 5 pm-1 am Friday and Saturday. bibe one of Lobo’s celebrated infused tequila Brunch on weekends. Editor’s note: These are a sampling of restaurants
in the neighborhood. The list rotates, and it is not Mango / Greg drinks (pictured). Made from Partida-estate Lobo/Cobble Hill (218 Court St. at Warren comprehensive. For more restaurants, go to tequila, Patterson offers tequilas with ginger, Street, [718] 858-7739) accepts cash only. Abbreviation Key: AmEx= American www.brooklynpapers.com on the Web. If your strawberry, jalapeno, cinnamon, and ancho Hours are 10 am-11 pm Sunday through Express, DC= Diner’s Club, Disc= Discover restaurant is not listed and you would like it to be, Card, MC= MasterCard, Visa= Visa Card please contact GO Brooklyn Editor Lisa Curtis via chile infusions. The most-popular drink is the Wednesday; 10 am-midnight on Thursday; e-mail at [email protected]. blood orange Margarita. 10-1 am Friday and Saturday.
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With a few years of aging, these wines will rant business, this is the last weekend before our busy take on many of the aromas and flavor characteristics Season at Brooklyn Botanic Garden season begins. We have a great time, eating this hardy of Burgundy... and yes, they can be aged successfully. Through Sunday, May 28 dish called the “soul of French Gastronomy” and I enjoyed a 1991 des Jacques at the Chateau last year, Hanami is the Japanese cultural tradition of viewing and cherishing each moment drinking bottles of chilled Beaujolais Nouveau! None and at home I’m currently drinking the 2000 Quatres of my friends are wine snobs, so quaffing the of the cherry blossom season, from the first buds to the brilliant blossoms to the Vents that I bought on release in 2002. I find it amaz- Nouveau a few days after it has reached our shores is petals falling like pink snow. 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(Frontroom) Soundpainting, 8 pm, FREE; May 3: (Front- FREE; May 5: Dot Dash presents Imaginary Icons, 8:30 with DJs Busquelo and Captain Planet with live rumba Tuesdays: Open mic, 7:30 pm, 1-drink minimum, Dan room) Natural Selections presents Rachel Sussman, 6 pm, The Confusers, 9:15 pm, Turpentine Brothers, 10 pm, Q: Why am I tired even after a full night’s sleep? by Romain Diaz and Pupi and the Oriki omi Oddra Pratt Quartet, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Delta pm, FREE, Watch out Wednesdays with DJs Complex, $6, Futurefunk Sessions with DJ Sport Casual, 11 pm, Rumba Ensemble, 10 pm, FREE; Fridays: World Beat Dreambox, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Stephane Wrem- Lion Dub, Code-D, and Envee, 10 pm, FREE; May 4: FREE; May 6: love.LIFE.lyrics with The Dugout, 10 pm, Flavors, 9 pm, FREE. bel’s Hot Club of New York, 9 pm, FREE; Fridays: Beavin (Frontroom) Cheryl B. presents PVC, The Poetry vs. Swayve Sevah, 10:30 pm, Soul Rebel, 11 pm, $TBD. Q: Why do I wake up feeling that I can’t catch my breath? 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PLATFORM SERIES: “Aging in the Gay Compiled Community in Brooklyn” a talk by TUES, MAY 2 Edoardo Sanchez. 11 am to 12:30 pm. by Susan Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, 53 LINE DANCING: Jubilee Senior Center Prospect Park West. (718) 768-2972. invites dancers of all levels for fun. 1 pm. Rosenthal Jay Free. 55 Pierrepont St. (718) 680-2142. Free. BUSINESS WORKSHOP: Church Avenue ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION: Bethlehem Where to Merchants Block Association offers a Lutheran Church celebrates its 101st workshop on how to by a home. 6 pm MUSIC: Concert of works by David Ke- Corner, inside Prospect Park’s Willink anniversary. All invited. 11:45 am. AT PRIL to 8:30 pm. 884 Flatbush Ave. S , A 29 berle, Andrian Pertout, Jim Lahti, and entrance, at the intersection of Flat- Fourth and Ovington avenues. (718) Registration required. (718) 282-2500, Jeff Adler. $15, $12 students and sen- bush Avenue and Empire Boulevard. 748-9502. ext. 242. Free. OUTDOORS AND TOURS iors. 8 pm. Brooklyn Conservatory of (718) 287-3400. Free. LIVEWIRE FEST: presented by Mislead LIU FILM FEST: Selected shorts created Music, 58 Seventh Ave., corner of WEEKSVILLE HANDS-ON: Teens, ages 16 Youth Network, features skaters, graffiti by students presented as part of the CHERRY BLOSSOM FEST: 25th anni- Lincoln Place. (718) 859-8649. and older, are invited to learn about cul- writers, squatters and poets. $12, $10 versary of “Sakura Matsuri,” the Cherry 40th International Film and Video Festi- THEATER: Long Island University presents tural traditions in beading. Three weekly in advance. Noon to 8 pm. 313 val. 6 pm to 9 pm. Long Island Univer- Blossom Festival, at Brooklyn Botanical “Antigone,” by Sophocles. Ariel Naz- sessions through May 13. Participants Meserole Avenue. (718) 418-2509. Garden. Activities include events, per- sity, Spike Lee Screening Room, 1 Uni- ryan directs. $13, $10 students. 8 pm. must attend all sessions. $4 per child. 3 OPEN STUDIO: Annabelle Jasmin versity Place. (718) 625-0080. Free. formances, music and dance, flower Kumble Theater, Flatbush Ave Exten- pm to 5 pm. 1698 Bergen St. Call for Verhoye opens her studio to feature BAMCINEMATEK: presents series “The arranging, cooking demos, tea cere- sion and DeKalb Ave. (718)488-1624. reservations. (718) 756-5250. monies, craft demos and more. Noon her newest works: “Red Orchids”. 2 Films of Mikio Naruse.” Today: “An- to 5 pm. 1000 Washington Ave. (718) THEATER: Paper Moon Players presents CIRCUS: Black circus performers with the pm to 6 pm. 1013 Grand St., Studio zukko” (1958). $10. 7 pm. 30 Lafayette Neil Simon’s “Jake’s Women.” $10, $8 623-7200. Visit: www.bbg.org for Universoul Circus perform in “Hip Hop 27. (646) 486-0827. Free. Ave. (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. seniors. 8 pm. Emmanuel Episcopal Under the Big Top.” $20.50 to $35. 4:30 BAMCINEMATEK: presents series “The schedule of events. Free. Church, 2635 E. 23rd St. (718) 645-2276. READING: PS 107 and Community pm and 8 pm. Wollman Rink Lot, Prospect Films of Mikio Naruse.” Today: Bookstore presents Wesley Stace, URBAN RANGER WALK: Learn about the MUSICAL COMEDY: The Strivelli Players Park. Check for info at www.universoul- history of Fort Greene Park. Ranger-led “Mother” (1952). $10. 2 pm, 4:30 pm, author of “Misfortune.” $10. 7:30 pm. present “Pippin,” music and lyrics by circus.com. (800) 316-7439. 6:50 pm and 9:15 pm. 30 Lafayette 143 Seventh Ave. (718) 783-3075. walk discusses 148-foot fort’s role in Stephen Schwartz. $15. 8 pm. St. Ber- the Revolutionary War and the prison- OTHER Ave. (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. MUSICAL DRAMA: American Females for nadette’s School, 1313 82nd St. (718) POETRY AND PROSE: Clinton Hill Art ers of war who are entombed in a 907-3422. BAY RIDGE FESTIVAL OF ARTS: Annual Righteousness, Abasement, Ignorance vault. 1 pm. Meet at Visitor’s Center, art and performance event. Craft fair Gallery hosts The Walt Whitman and Docility (A.F.R.A.I.D.) presents a Myrtle Avenue at Washington Park. CABARET: “Clowns, Politics and Theater.” Project. One-hour event features poet- musical drama in two acts. $20. 7:30 $10, $5 students and seniors. 8 pm. from 11 am to 5 pm. Lutheran Church Call 311. Free. of the Good Shepherd, 7420 Fourth ry, prose, talk and music examining pm. Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Ave. Lafayette Avenue Church, 85 S. Oxford Whitman’s life in Clinton Hill and Fort (718) 857-4816. GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Brooklyn Cen- St. (718) 488-9233. www.irondale.org. Ave. (917) 803-5662 or (718) 748-7249. ter for the Urban Environment offers a For info, visit www.brfa.org. Free. Greene. 3 pm. 154a Vanderbilt Ave. DANCE: Brooklyn Academy of Music DANCE: Learn the Salsa at Cabaret (718) 391-8824. Free. Civil War walk through this landmarked, PLANT SALE: Annual event hosted by presents “Kammer/ Kammer,” by Victorian cemetery. Walk is dedicated to Ovation. Also, evening features a sec- William Forsythe. $20 to $70. 7:30 pm. ond anniversary celebration, with com- Hoyt Street Association. 10 am to 6 READING: by Ann Jones and Sigrid finding as many of the cemetery’s veter- pm. 110 Hoyt St. at Pacific Street. (718) Nunez. $7 drink and food minimum. 6 Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 ans as possible. $11, $9 members, $8 plimentary buffet. 9 pm. 860 Atlantic Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. Avenue. (718) 636-1400. Free. 643-0857. pm. Also, “Antidote for Blue Monday,” seniors and students. 1 pm to 3:30 pm. reading by John McNeil and Bill (718) 788-8500, ext. 208. JAZZ: The Pete Zimmer Quintet performs. STOOP SALE: Portion of proceeds go to the fight against breast cancer. 10 am McHenry. 8 pm. Night and Day Res- $10 cover, plus $7 food/drink mini- taurant, 230 Fifth Ave. (718) 399-2161. EDS AY BROOKLYN 101: New York Like a Native mum. 9 pm. Night and Day Restaurant, to 5 pm. 12 Lincoln Place. (718) 748- W , M 3 offers an eclectic intro to Brooklyn’s 230 Fifth Ave., at President Street. 5155. SOUL FOOD SUNDAY: The Boogallo history, architecture, lore, and land- PLANT SALE: Brooklyn Botanic Garden (718) 399-2161. FILM AND VIDEO: Brooklyn Museum Communicators, headed by b-3 player scape. $15. 1:30 pm to 4 pm. Call for Jarad “Daddy Snuggs” Astin, per- hosts its annual event. Over 20,000 hosts the 40th International Film and plants available. Horticulture experts on meeting location. (718) 393-7537. CHILDREN Video Festival. Included in museum forms. $3 cover. 7 pm to 10 pm. Five WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence hosts Spot Supper Club, 459 Myrtle Ave. hand to answer questions. $5, $3 seniors NY AQUARIUM: Children are invited to admission of $8, $4 students and sen- and students, free for members. 9 am to the Metro Tour Service, taking a walk take a look behind the scenes and find iors, free for members. Noon to 6 pm. (718) 852-0202. through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill and 7 pm. 1000 Washington Ave. (718) 623- out what it’s like to be an animal train- 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 625-0080. SHORT FILM: Brooklyn Lyceum presents 7220. Brooklyn Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. er. $25, $18 members. 9:30 am to 11 “An Evening of the World’s Best Short PIER ART SHOW: Brooklyn Waterfront EXHIBIT: Brooklyn College Art Gallery Meet at Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, 333 am. West Eighth Street and Surf Artists Coalition previews its upcoming Films.” $10. 7 pm. 227 Fourth Ave. Adams St. (718) 789-0430. Avenue. (718) 265-FISH. www.brooklynlyceum.com. (718) 857- hosts a cocktail reception for “Plan B show “Transformation,” to be held in Exhibit,” featuring works from the DINNER CRUISE: Event to raise funds for RUN AROUND: Brooklyn Lyceum opens Red Hook from May 13 to June 18. 1 4816. AnySoldier.com, a non-profit organiza- Steven Schreiber Brooklyn College’s Master of Fine Arts its theater stage for a Kid Runaround. pm to 5 pm. The Land Gallery, 67 Front BAY RIDGE FESTIVAL OF ARTS: Last day program. 6 pm to 9 pm. The Brooklyn tion. $125 includes dinner. 7 pm to 11 Bring your kid in to burn off some ener- St. (718) 596-2506. Free. Brooklyn Arts Exchange’s “First Weekends: New Performance and Discussion of annual art and performance event. pm. Departs from Pier 9, Sheepshead War Memorial Building, 195 Cadman gy. 10 am to 2 pm. Food available. 227 SILENT AUCTION: A selected group of Series” on May 5 and 6, includes new choreography by Andrea Shasgus. 11 am to 4 pm. See Sat., April 29. Plaza West. (718) 951-5181. Free. Bay. For info: www.anysoldier.com. Fourth Ave. (718) 857-4816. artists and designers offer contents of PLANT SALE: 11 am to 4 pm. See Sat., MEDITATION CLASS: Increase compas- PERFORMANCE SHADOW BOX THEATER: presents “The storage boxes to be auctioned off. 2 April 29. sion and wisdom through meditation. Earth and Me,” and asks the question: pm to 5 pm. Spring Gallery, 126A Front played a role in the largest riot in Am- show. Starring role will be selected at FILM AND VIDEO: Brooklyn Museum’s Class led by Buddhist nun. Call for THEATER: Brooklyn Academy of Music can a child save the earth? $5.50. 10:30 St. (718) 222-1054. presents “The Importance of Being erican history. $10, $5 members. 1 pm. random from audience. $12. 8 pm. 70 40th International Film and Video Festi- price info. 7 pm to 8:30 pm. First am. YWCA of Brooklyn, 30 Third Ave. ARTIST TALK: Tabla Rasa Gallery presents Call for location. (718) 768-7300. N. Sixth St. (718) 782-5188. val. Noon to 6 pm. See Sat., April 29. Unitarian Church, 48 Monroe Place. Earnest” by Oscar Wilde with the (212) 724-0677. artists Ginger Andro and Chuck VISIT GREENPOINT: New York Like a THEATER: “Antigone.” 2 pm. See Sat., (718) 496-5514. Theater Royal Bath/Peter Hall TRANSIT PUPPETS: NY Transit Museum Glicksman in a talk “Collaborative Art, Company. $30 to $85. 2 pm and 7:30 Native hosts a walk through Green- April 29. LECTURE: The Rabbinical Committee of celebrates National Puppetry Day with How it Happens.” 2 pm. 224 48th St. point’s history and landscape, including MON, MAY 1 Brownstone Brooklyn presents “From pm. Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. a shadow puppet performance. $5, $3 (718) 833-9100. Free. THEATER: “The Importance of Being Ear- (718) 636-4100. its maritime and industrial past, its his- nest.” 3 pm. See Sat., April 29. Sinai to Cyberspace,” a series of eight children ages 17 and younger. 11 am to PARTY: Micro Museum hosts an opening JAZZ CLINIC: Long Island University pres- DANCE: Brooklyn Center for the Per- toric district, and its Polish presence. THEATER: “Jake’s Women.” 3:30 pm. See weekly lectures. $70, $145 couples. 2:30 pm. Boerum Place and Schermer- party for the exhibit “Circus Surreal.” ents its chorus in a jazz ensemble con- 7:45 pm to 9:15 pm. Congregation forming Arts presents the National $15. 2:30 pm to 5 pm. Call for meeting Sat., April 29. horn Street. (718) 694-1600. Works by 43 artists from 20 US states location. (718) 393-7537. cert. 7 pm. DeKalb Avenue and B’nai Jacob, 401 Ninth Street. (718) Dance Theater Company of Jamaica. THEATER: “One Big Happy Family.” 5 STORE OPENING: Orange Blossom, a on view. $5 includes drinks, perform- CHERRY BLOSSOM FEST: 25th anniver- Flatbush Avenue Extension. (718) 488- 207-1701. $20 to $40. 2 pm. Walt Whitman Hall at clothing store for kids, offers special ances and music. 6 pm to 10 pm. 123 pm. See Sat., April 29. Brooklyn College, one block from the sary of “Sakura Matsuri.” Noon to 5 1668. Free. DANCE: “Kammer/ Kammer.” 7:30 pm. discounts, door crasher prizes, freebies, Smith St. (718) 797-3116. MUSICAL COMEDY: “Pippin.” 5 pm. See BOAT SMART: Brooklyn Power Squadron See Sat., May 6. Also, BAM Dialogue intersection of Flatbush and Nostrand special activities and a guest perform- pm. See Sat., April 29. Free. avenues. (718) 951-4500. DANCE: St. Finbar’s Italian Societies hosts Sat., April 29. offers a safe boating class. 7 pm to 9 with William Forsythe. $8, $4 Friends of ance by Music for Aardvarks. 11 am to its annual dinner dance. $45 per person MUSIC AND WORSHIP: The Vespers PERFORMANCE pm; four weeks of instruction. Final test BAM. 6 pm. Rose Cinemas, 30 7 pm. 180 Lincoln Place. (877) GO- includes full meal, live music and more. CHLDREN Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. Consortium presents “Evening Prayer OBKIDS. CONCERT: Old Stone House continues its with presentation of certificates of 7:30 pm. Bath Avenue and Bath 20th series called “Zeemeeuw”(“seagull” in STORE OPENING: Orange Blossom. completion. Ryan Center, Floyd Bennet RECEPTION: Solo photography exhibit in a New Key.” 5 pm. St. Luke’s Evan- FAMILY PROGRAM: In conjunction with the Street. (718) 236-3312. gelical Church, 259 Washington Ave. Dutch). Today, Dick Staber and Judith Noon to 6 pm. See Sat., April 29. Field, Flatbush Avenue, north of the features work by Rachel Sussman. 6 Eat, Drink and Be Literary series, PUPPET SHOW: “The Wizard of Oz.” 12:30 Marine Park Bridge. Call. (718) 837- pm to 9 pm. Galapagos Art Space, 70 (718) 624-6524. Free (offering accepted). Brooklyn Academy of Music presents Chasnoff play bluegrass. $10. 2 pm. JJ JAZZ: Vocalist Cynthia Holiday performs. Byrne Park, Fifth Avenue between Third pm and 2:30 pm. See Sat., April 29. 8343. Free. N. Sixth St. (718) 384-4586. www.gala- children’s author Jacqueline Woodson SUN, APRIL 30 pagosartspace.com. Free. 7 pm to 9 pm. Call for cover info. and illustrator Hudson Talbott. $20, $15 and Fourth streets. (718) 768-3195. CIRCUS: “Hip Hop Under the Big Top.” 4 GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: presents Sugarhill Restaurant, 609 DeKalb Ave. for ages 16 and younger. Includes brunch. GOSPEL MUSIC: Lafayette Inspiration En- pm and 7 pm. See Sat., April 29. selected short films. 8 pm to 10 pm. 60 JEWISH COOKING: Park Slope Jewish at Nostrand Avenue. (718) 797-1727. Noon to 2 pm. Peter Jay Sharp Building, OUTDOORS AND TOURS semble hosts its 15th annual concert. OTHER N. Seventh St. Call. (718) 625-0080. Center offers a Spring cooking course BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert of 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. DARFUR RALLY: Buses leave Brooklyn before $15, $10 seniors and children. 4 pm. BERG LECTURE SERIES: Rabbi Aaron featuring Tunisian fish and vegetables. 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm. Call for cost and works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and CAROUSEL: Ride the Prospect Park 7 am for rally in Washington protesting Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, FLEA MARKET: Old and new stuff for Raskin leads a series on The Zohar. Shostakovich. $35, $30 seniors, $25 genocide in Darfur region of Sudan. To 85 S. Oxford St. (718) 625-7515. sale. 9 am to 4 pm. Bay Ridge Jewish Today: “Connecting to the Tree of reservations. Eighth Avenue and 14th Carousel. $1.50 per ride. Noon to 5 Street. (718) 951-7104. students. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry pm. Children’s Corner, intersection of reserve a seat, visit jccmanhattan.org/ BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert of Center, Fourth Avenue at 81st Street. Life.” Call for ticket info. 8 pm to 9 pm. Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East Flatbush Avenue and Empire category.aspx?catid=2042. $30. works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and (718) 836-3101. Congregation B’nai Avraham, 117 LYCEUM LOUNGE: Greenwood plays River. (718) 624-2083. Boulevard. (718) 965-8960. DUMBO WALK: Brooklyn Center for the Shostakovich. $35, $30 seniors, $25 SCREENING: New York Methodist Remsen St. (718) 596-4840, ext. 18. Continued on page 13... THEATER: The Sackett Group performs as PUPPETWORKS: presents a marionette Urban Environment takes a walk Down students. 4 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Hospital offers a prostate cancer the resident company at the Brooklyn performance of “The Wizard of Oz.” Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. Old Fulton Street at the East River. screening. 9:30 am to 12:30 pm. 263 Music School Playhouse. Production is $8, $7 children. Recommended for Tour takes you through cluttered hall- (718) 624-2083. Seventh Ave., between Fifth and Sixth “One Big Happy Family,” by Joe ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 ways and artist ateliers to discover cre- MUSIC AND FILM: The Brooklyn Lyceum streets. (718) 780-3593. Free. Costanza. $19. 8 pm. 126 St. Felix St. pm. 338 Sixth Ave. at Fourth Street. ations of tomorrow. $11, $9 members, and Asbury Shorts NY present “An LUNCHEON: Women of Distinction (718) 638-5660. www.smarttix.com. (718) 965-3391. $8 seniors and students. Noon to 2 pm. Evening of the World’s Best Short brunch, hosted by Hadassah Brooklyn. LIST YOUR EVENT… DRAMA: The Paul Robeson Theater hosts FLAX AND FLEECE FEST: Lefferts Historic Meet on street level of the A train, High Films.” $10. 7 pm. 227 Fourth Ave., $80, includes brunch and donation. To list your event in Where to GO, please give us two weeks notice or more. Send premiere of its production “Cabrini- House hosts its annual event. Kids help Street on Cadman Plaza West near Mid- between Union and President streets. Speaker is Dr. Osnat Levtzion-Korach. your listing by mail: GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Papers, 55 Washington St., Suite 624, dagh Street. (718) 788-8500, ext. 208. (718) 857-4816. 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THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM • (718) 834-9350 a story about an interracial cou- 11:30 am to 4 pm. 7420 Fourth ple. $20. 8 pm. 40 Greene Ave., Ave. (718) 745-8520. Where to ... between Carlton Avenue and ARTIST TALK: Tabla Rasa Gallery Adelphi Street. (718) 783-9794. hosts a talk: “Collaborative Art: GO BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: How It Happens.” 2 pm. 224 Continued from page 11... LUNCHTIME CONCERT: In honor presents “First Weekends: New 48th St. (718) 833-9100. Free. BROOKLYN indie music. $8. 8 pm. Brooklyn of Cinco de Mayo, Metro Tech Performance and Discussion BAMCINEMATEK: presents series Lyceum, 227 Fourth Avenue. Business Improvement District Series” featuring performance by “The Films of Mikio Naruse.” (718) 857-4916. begins its annual Spring Arts on David Appel, Melinda Ring and Today: “Floating Clouds” (1955). the Commons series with Maria- Andrea Shasgus. $15, $10 mem- $10. 2 pm, 4:30 pm, 6:50 pm Yanking us chi Real de Mexico. Noon. Metro bers, $8 low-income. 8 pm. 421 and 9:30 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. Tech Commons, Jay and Duffield Fifth Ave. (718) 832-0018. (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. HURS AY The Brooklyn Papers T , M 4 streets. (718) 488-8200. Free. NARROWS COMMUNITY THE- KNIT ONE, PERL TWO: Creative CASH CONCERT: Grammy-winning LIBRARY EVENT: Brooklyn Public ATER: presents the musical Arts Studio hosts a “Pic-knit.” The season hasn’t even Rosanne Cash showcases her new Library’s Sunset Park branch pres- “Mame.” $20, $15 children 12 Knit and nosh while working on BRIEFS started, but the Brooklyn album, Black Cadillac, and more. ents Mariachi music with Mexico and younger. 8 pm. St. Patrick’s your own creation. $20. 2 pm to Cyclones are beating their 8 pm. St. Ann’s Warehouse, 38 Lindo. 4 pm. 5109 Fourth Avenue. Auditorium, Fourth Avenue and 5 pm. 310 Atlantic Ave. (718) Water St. in DUMBO. Call for tick- (718) 567-2806. Free. 97th Street. (718) 482-3173. 797-5600. cross-harbor rivals, the Stat- et availability. (718) 254-8779. BAMCINEMATEK: series “The Films THEATER: The Sackett Group per- HOGAR COLLECTION: “Absolute en Island Yankees, in at least BIG SALE: Brooklyn Museum Com- of Mikio Naruse.” Today: forms as resident company at the Threshold,” an exhibit by Cecilia one key statistic: paying the munity Committee one-day sale “Summer Clouds” (1958). $10. 6 Brooklyn Music School Play- Biagini. 6 pm to 9 pm. 111 of collectibles, antiques, costume pm and 9 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. house. Production is “One Big Grand St. (718) 288-5022. Free. city for their stadiums. and fine jewelry, works of art, (718) 777-FILM. www.bam.org. Happy Family,” by Joe Costanza. The Staten Island Yan- china, silver and more. 11 am to CARD PARTY: American Cancer $19. 8 pm. 126 St. Felix St. (718) / Kevin Jimenez 4 pm. 200 Eastern Parkway. Call. Society hosts its second annual 638-5660. www.smarttix.com. 11th fight kees owe $570,202 in late SUN, MAY 7 (718) 789-2493 or (718) 501-6286. fundraising event. $10. 7 pm. St. BRIC STUDIO: presents “Everyday payments and other charg- MUSIC: Long Island University pres- Philip’s Episcopal Church, 1072 Above Ground,” an adaptation The Brooklyn Papers es, according to an audit ents a solo vocal jazz workshop. 80th St. (718) 908-9482. of Michael Ondaatje’s “Collected OUTDOORS AND TOURS 1 pm. DeKalb Avenue and Flat- BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- Works of Billy the Kid.” $12, $10 FIVE-BORO BIKE TOUR: 42-mile Members of a Brooklyn Democratic club targeted City released last week by city students. 8:30 pm. 647 Fulton St. route begins in Battery Park, bush Avenue Extension. (718) cert of All Villa-Lobos. $35, $30 comptroller Bill Thomp- Cyclones Brooklyn (718) 855-7882, ext. 53. lower Manhattan and passes Councilman David Yassky’s skin color, hit state Sen. Carl An- 488-1668. Free. seniors, $25 students. 7:30 pm. son. By contrast, the Brook- Borough President Markowitz TOPICAL DISCUSSION: Dr. Charles Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624- IMPROV: at Brooklyn Lyceum. $10. through all boroughs. Sign up drews hard on his friendship with indicted former Democratic La Cerra discusses communism, 2083. 9:30 pm. 227 Fourth Ave. (718) online at www.bikenewyork.org. boss Clarence Norman, and ripped Chris Owens for words lyn Cyclones owe the city and Sandy the Seagull (center) (212) 932-BIKE, ext. 133. Darwinism, Fascism, Pragmatism GALAPAGOS ART SPACE: presents 857-4816. voiced by his father, at a candi- only $16,602. congratulate first-in-line Cyclones and other “ism’s.” 2 pm to 3 pm. Mike Daisey in “Great Men of GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: ticket buyer Wayne Armstrong on Genius, A Four Evening CHILDREN Brooklyn Center for the Urban dates’ forum last week. Thompson calculated Brooklyn College, Boynton Hall, Sunday. room 3119, one block from the Meditation on Men and Their KID DRUMMING CIRCLE: Dan Environment presents a walking Yassky (D-Brooklyn Heights), the Yankees’ debt based on intersection of Flatbush and No- Gifts.” $12. 8 pm. 70 N. Sixth St. Slovin entertains. $10 per family tour of Green-Wood Cemetery. the team’s attendance of strand avenues. (718) 951-5647. (212) 868-4444. or $5 per child. 10 am to 2 pm. Green-Wood offers flora displays Andrews (D-Crown Heights) and
/ Greg Mango / Greg more than 100,000 for 2003 This is the second time the Free. BAM CAFE: Live soul music with Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth and spectacular views to comple- Owens are among five candidates CAREERS IN FILM: Brooklyn Young Sista Factory. $10 drink/food Avenue. (718) 857-4816. ment the final resting places of seeking to succeed Rep. Major and 2004. But the comptroller Staten Island Yankees have Filmmakers Center offers a talk minimum. 9:30 pm. 30 Lafayette SPRING CARNIVAL: Families First the men and women who shaped the life and culture of Owens (D-Crown Heights), who is doubted their accuracy of those been chastised by the comp- “Getting Started As An Editing Avenue. (718) 636-4100. hosts its annual entertainment turnstile counts, saying they troller. A 2003 audit showed Assistant.” 6:30 pm to 9 pm. DANCE: “Kammer/ Kammer.” 7:30 event. $7 per person. Live music New York. $11, $9 members, $8 retiring after 24 years in office. seniors and students. 1 pm to Long Island University, corner of pm. See Sat., May 6. with children’s performer Ann conflict with other records and the team owed the city 3:30 pm. Meet inside main en- The seat was carved out under BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE: McCormack at 11 am. Music for Flatbush and DeKalb avenues. trance at 25th Street and Fifth with a manual count by $373,517. The team still owes (718) 935-0490. Free. presents First Weekends. 8 pm. Aardvarks at 12:30 pm. Eliot the Civil Rights-era legislation aiming
Avenue. (718) 788-8500, ext. 208. Papers file The Brooklyn DINNER DANCE: United Progres- See Sat., May 6. Super Magic Man at 2 pm. Also, to increase the power of black vot- Thompson’s staff. $33,075 of that balance. DRAMA: “Cabrini-Greene.” 8 pm. pony rides, moonwalks, refresh- FORT GREENE HOUSE TOUR: The Rep. Major Owens “The Staten Island Yankees The Staten Island Yankees sive Democratic Club and last public opportunity to experi- ers, who are 60 percent of the dis- Assemblyman William Colton’s See Sat., May 6. ments and more. 10 am to 4 pm. 250 Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. ence views from top of land- have blatantly ignored my of- did not return repeated calls office honors community THEATER: “One Big Happy Family.” trict. As a result, the race has been SHADOW BOX THEATER: “The marked Williamsburg Bank fice’s recommendations to from The Brooklyn Papers, but activists. Call for ticket info. 6:30 8 pm. See Sat., May 6. Tower. Also, visit several Victorian dominated by talk of whether Yassky, who is white, should be pm. Rex Manor, 1100 60th BRIC STUDIO: “Everyday Above Earth and Me,” and asks: can a thoroughly report attendance the team’s chief operating offi- child save the earth? $5.50. era buildings. $25, $20 in ad- running in a so-called “black seat.” Street. (718) 449-7042. Ground.” 8:30 pm. See Sat., May 6. vance. For ticket purchase loca- at games and have prevented cer, Josh Getzler, promised the LECTURE: Speaker Rick Cech dis- 10:30 am. YWCA of Brooklyn, 30 But at the forum sponsored by Central Brooklyn Indepen- BK FASHION WEEKEND: Fashion Third Ave. (212) 724-0677. tions and time, visit www.historic- us from determining whether comptroller that the team would cusses the relationships between show, featuring Zulema, from fortgreene.org. (718) 596-0899. dent Neighborhood Democrats, another issue emerged: An- butterflies and plants. Refresh- Bravo TV’s “Project Runway”. ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum they should have paid rent to pay the city back and “hone invites kids, four and older, to look GOWANUS CANAL: Proteus drews’s ties to the disgraced former party leader. ments served. 6:30 pm to 9:00 Call for weekend program and Gowanus hosts a tour to look at the city,” said Thompson. turnstile records … to ensure the pm. Audubon Center, Prospect price. 70 Washington Street. at art and have an arts and crafts “You’re identified the most with the Brooklyn machine — session. $8 adults, $4 seniors and the area along the canal through According to the 20-year records’ comprehensiveness.” Park. Enter park at Ocean Aven- (646) 792-2901, ext 703. a cultural lens: historic preserva- one of the most corrupt machines in the country,” asked one ue and Lincoln Road. (718) 287- seniors, free for children 12 and younger. 11 am and 2 pm. 200 tionist, biologist, author, poet, club member. “How do you avoid the stigma?” lease, the Yankees must pay The Baby Bombers better 3400. Free. low-income housing expert and BAMCINEMATEK: presents series Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. “I am upset that Clarence Norman … did those impropri- rent for exclusive use of Rich- get to it: Opening day is SAT, MAY 6 ART: Opening Party for an Art settlement house fundraiser. Also, “The Films of Mikio Naruse.” film “The Gowanus Canal Song.” eties,” he said. “You have to judge me for who I am, not be- mond County Bank Ballpark Wednesday, June 21, when the Today: “Late Chrysanthemums” Gallery for children; an eclectic assortment of imagined crea- $10. 3:30 pm. 543 Union St., at cause I’m friends with someone else.” if more than 125,000 fans visit Cyclones take on the Yankees (1954). $10. 6:50 pm and 9:15 OUTDOORS AND TOURS Nevins Street. (718) 243-1572. pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 777- URBAN RANGER WALK: Learn tures and characters, illustrated Later, Andrews told The Brooklyn Papers, “If your brother annually. The maximim rent in Staten Island. FILM. www.bam.org. about the history of Fort Greene etiquette books, alphabet PERFORMANCE or sister commits a crime, do you not go to court to support per season is $510,000. — Dana Rubinstein JEWISH HERITAGE MONTH: Brook- Park. Ranger-led walk discusses designs, rhymes and more. Noon to 6 pm. Art in Chaos Gallery, 45 CONCERT: Old Stone House con- him, no matter how heinous the crime? I’m not a fair-weather lyn Public Library’s Central branch 148-foot fort’s role in the Revo- tinues its series called “Zee- presents a discussion on how Jews lutionary War and the prisoners Main Street, Suite 501. (718) Democrat, and I’m not a fair-weather friend.” 222-4860. Free. meeuw”(“seagull” in Dutch). benefitted from being able to read, of war who are entombed in a Today, Lisa Garrison sings. $10. 2 Chris Owens, the congressman’s son, did not get off easy. PUPPETWORKS: marionette per- discuss books and share stories vault. 1 pm. Meet at Visitor’s pm. JJ Byrne Park, Fifth Avenue “Can you explain the racist statements made in the New York while imprisoned in the Resienstadt Center, Myrtle Avenue at Wash- formance of “The Wizard of Oz.” between Third and Fourth concentration camp during the ington Park. Call 311. Free. $8, $7 children. Recommended streets. (718) 768-3195. Times?” a self-described “left of Lenin” former union official for ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm Holocaust. 7 pm. Grand Army WALKING TOUR: Mauricio Lorence MUSIC: Brooklyn Museum presents asked, referring to a story in which the congressman said that a Getting your Gersh on Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. hosts the Metro Tour Service, and 2:30 pm. 338 Sixth Ave., at Fourth Street.(718) 965-3391. the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensem- win by Yassky would “wipe out” the gains made by blacks READING: Maddy Rosenberg reads taking a walk through Fort ble in an all-brass concert featur- from her poetry and prose. 7 Greene, Clinton Hill and Brooklyn TRANSIT MUSEUM: Kids ages 5 ing works from the Renaissance “African-Americans make up 9.6 percent of Congress, but The Brooklyn Papers’ own inimitable editor Gersh Kuntzman pm. Safe-T-Gallery, 111 Front St., Heights. $25. 2 pm to 5 pm. Meet and older are invited to look at a and Baroque periods. 2 pm. 200 vintage subway map and silk- 12.1 percent of the nation,” said Owens. “If we lose a seat, once again assumes the moderator chair at BCAT’s “Reporter suite 214. (718) 782-5920. Free. at Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, 333 Eastern Parkway. For details, visit Roundtable” this week. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- Adams St. (718) 789-0430. screen a transit tote for Mother’s www.oslmusic.org. we’re even less represented.” Day. $5, $3 children ages 3 to 17. cert “Cello Tango,” with selec- OPERA: Regina Opera Company The two other candidates — Assemblyman Nick Perry Check out the program — which centers on the hot (and not- tions by Piazzolla, Villoldo, Gar- PERFORMANCE 1 pm. Boerum Place and Scher- merhorn Street. (718) 694-1867. presents “Swing Along Broad- (D-Flatbush) and City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke (D- so-hot) congressional races in town — on Saturday, April 29, at del and others. $35, $30 seniors, DANCE: Site-specific dance theater way.” $10, $5 teens, free for kids. $25 students. 7:30 pm. Fulton work for 12 dancers choreo- NY AQUARIUM: Children are invit- 4 pm. Regina Hall, corner of 65th Crown Heights) — were also at the forum at Park Slope 9 pm; Monday, May 1, at 10:30 am; Wednesday, May 3, at 10:30 Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. graphed by Abigail Levine. 5 pm ed to “Shark-a-Rama!” a behind- Street and 12th Avenue. (718) United Methodist Church on Sixth Avenue at Eighth Street, am and 6:30 pm; and Thursday, May 4, at noon and 8 pm. It’s a WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY: and 6 pm. Brooklyn Museum, the-scenes look at sharks. $30, 232-3555. main entrance, 200 Eastern $23 members. 2 pm to 4 pm. but club members did not actively engage them. show so exciting, you’ll want to watch it six times. BCAT is on Alagi Jallow talks on press free- CLASSICAL MUSIC: Cerddorion doms. 7 pm to 8:30 pm. Brook- Parkway. (646) 265-6775. Free. West Eighth Street and Surf — Rubinstein channel 56 for Time Warner customers and 69 for Cablevision. Avenue. (718) 265-FISH. Vocal Ensemble presents lyn Public Library, Business OPENING RECEPTION: Hogar “L’Invitation au Voyage.” $25, branch, 280 Cadman Plaza West. Collection presents “Absolute OTHER $20 students and seniors. 4 pm. (212) 988-2179. Free. Threshold,” by Cecilia Biagini. 6 Oratory Church of St. Boniface, pm to 9 pm. 111 Grand Street. PILATES DAY: In honor of the third at Willoughby and Duffield BRIC STUDIO: Preview benefit of annual International Pilates Day, “Everyday Above Ground,” an (718) 288-5022. Free. streets. (212) 260-1498. BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- Half Moon Pilates offers classes. adaptation of Michael Ondaatje’s 9 am to 6 pm. Eastern Athletic ORGAN CONCERT: St. Ann and “Collected Works of Billy the cert “Gallant Troubadour” featur- the Holy Trinity Church presents ing selections by Beethoven, Club, 43 Clark St. Reservations Kid.” $50 to $150. 8:30 pm. 647 necessary. (917) 363-3394. Free. Gregory Eaton, organist. Pro- Fulton St. (718) 855-7882, ext. 53. Weber, Godard, Molique and ceeds help complete new roof others. $35, $30 seniors, $25 stu- SIDEWALK SALE: Plants, books, for landmarked church. $25, $20 DANCE: “Kammer/ Kammer.” 7:30 appliances, food, vintage and pm. See Sat., May 6. dents. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry seniors and students. 7:30 pm. Robot parade wash out Landing, Old Fulton Street at the new clothing, toys, and more. PLANT SALE: Brooklyn Botanic Gar- Montague and Clinton streets. East River. (718) 624-2083. Clinton Avenue, between (718) 875-6960. den hosts its annual event. 9 am DANCE: Brooklyn Academy of Greene and DeKalb avenues. 10 to noon. See Weds, May 3. am to 6 pm. (718) 636-9263. NARROWS COMMUNITY THEATER: The Brooklyn Papers Music presents “Kammer/ “Mame.” 3 pm. See Sat., May 6. THEATER: “One Big Happy Family.” Kammer,” by William Forsythe. VOICE AND PILATES SEMINAR: 8 pm. See Sat., May 6. $20 to $70. 7:30 pm. Howard Access your inner voice. $25. 10 THEATER: “Cabrini-Greene.” 3 pm. As any fan of the “Wizard Gilman Opera House, 30 am to noon. Pilates Garage, 291 See Sat., May 6. of Oz” knows, there’s one Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. 8th Street. (718) 765-1235. THEATER: “Once on This Island.” 3 thing tin men fear most: a FRI, MAY 5 THEATER: Gallery Players presents ANIMAL ADOPTION: Dogs, cats, pm. See Sat., May 6. “Once on This Island.” $15, $12 and bunnies for adoption. 11 am THEATER: “Jake’s Women.” 3:30 rainstorm. Cinco de Mayo children and seniors. 8 pm. 199 to 4 pm. The Christ Church of pm. See Sat., May 6. So perhaps it’s no surprise MEDICARE HELP: National Council 14th St. (212) 352-3101. Bay Ridge, 73rd Street and BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- that the “Robot Parade” slated on the Aging offers in-person www.galleryplayers.com. Ridge Boulevard. (718) 836-2600. cert “Gallant Troubadour.” 4 pm. help with explaining the new drug THEATER: Paper Moon Players FILM FEST: Fifth annual Woman of See Sat., May 6. to take place in a rain-soaked coverage program for seniors. presents Neil Simon’s “Jake’s African Descent Film Festival. 11 THEATER: “One Big Happy Family.” DUMBO last Saturday con- 9:30 am to 1 pm. Brooklyn Women.” $10, $8 seniors. 8 pm. am to 6 pm. Kumble Theater, 5 pm. See Sat., May 6. tained so few automata. Borough Hall, 209 Joralemon St. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Long Island University, 1 Univer- BRIC STUDIO: “Everyday Above www.mymedicarematters.org. 2635 E. 23rd St. (718) 645-2276. sity Place at Flatbush and DeKalb Ground.” 8:30 pm. See Sat., Or perhaps it is: The only Free. THEATER: The Paul Robeson avenues. (718) 625-0080. Free. May 6. two “machines” on hand were the “parade” organizers Corey Einbinder (decked out like the
Sundays, Thursdays: Live Jazz, 8:30 pm, $5 suggested guitar of Noboru, 8 pm), FREE; Wednesdays: JAMstain, an Iron Giant) and Kalle Mac- / Julie Rosenberg donation; April 30: Michael Petrosino Trio, 8:30 pm, $5 sug- informal open mic hosted by singers/songwriters, 9 pm, Nightlife... gested donation, May 4: Melissa Stylianou Trio, 8:30 pm, $5 FREE; April 29: Aaron Irwin Group, 8 pm, Nate Smith rides (the Jetsons’ maid Rosie) suggested donation. Quartet, 10 pm, FREE; April 30: Gypsy Schaeffer, 8 pm, FREE. — and both were promoting a new theater project. Continued from page 10... Pete’s Candy Store Trash Bar 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in Williamsburg, 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) Einbinder said that many (718) 302-3770, www.petescandystore.com. 599-1000, www.thetrashbar.com. Magnolia more metalheads were expect- Papers The Brooklyn 486 Sixth Ave. at 12th Street in Park Slope, (718) 369-4814. Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, FREE; April 29: Luthea April 29: Kitty Hudson, 9 pm, Department of Buildings, 10 ed, but chickened out at the Fridays: Live jazz, 9:30 pm, FREE; May 5: T.R.I.O., 9:30 pm, Salom, 9 pm, Chris Bowers (from Kings County Queens), 10 pm, The Frantic, 11 pm, Bang! Bang!, midnight, Too Many I’s, At the Gulf station on old Fulton Street near FREE. pm, Amy Miles, 11 pm, FREE; April 30: Vic Varney, 8:30 pm, 1 am, $7; April 30: Forline Orphans, 8 pm, A Time’s Tide, 9 first sign of precipitation. And Laura Freeman, 9:30 pm, Jan Bell & the Cheap Dates, 10:30 pm, Livid, 10 pm, The Voodoo Organist, 11 pm, American to be fair, there were actually the River Cafe, the cheapest gas this week was pm, FREE; May 1: Spelling Bee Finals, 7:30 pm, Endless Business Machines, midnight, One Eyed Stanley, 1 am, $6; Gas pains $3.50 a gallon (cash) and $3.63 a gallon (credit). National Restaurant Mike & the Beagle Club, 10:30 pm, FREE; May 2: Bingo, 7 May 1: IFWHEN, 9 pm, The Dreadful Yawns, 10 pm, $6; May four “participants,” if you in- 273 Brighton Beach Ave. at Brighton Second Street in pm, Rachael Sage, 9 pm, Yasmine Illiya, 10 pm, FREE; May 2: Wolfe & The Wayside, 10 pm, The Mad Owls, 11 pm, $6; clude the Pomeranian in the Brighton Beach, (718) 646-1225, 3: Quizz-Off, 7:30 pm, Andrew Vladeck, 10 pm, Todd Bogin, May 3: The Evicted, 9 pm, Saint Bastard, 10 pm, The Coffin doggie robot sweater, and www.come2national.com. 11 pm, FREE; May 4: Benjamin Cartel, 9 pm, 10 pm, Todd Lids, 11 pm, $6; May 4: Strikes Again!, 8 pm, FF, 9 pm, Saturdays: Live Russian music and dance show, 9 pm, FREE Deathrage, 11 pm, FREE; May 5: Pete’s Big Poetry Series, Kapow!, 10 pm, Los Musaranas, 11 pm, Negative Reaction, some lady who showed up chines’ real agenda became enough, they were promoting The production will run (with $65 prix fixe dinner); Fridays: Live Russian music and 7:30 pm, T. Griffin Coraline, 9 pm, Isaac Wardell, 10 pm, midnight, $6; May 5: Dirty Lenin, 8 pm, Pistola, 9 pm, Running dressed like Michael Jackson. clear. The metal-clad exhibi- ATP’s new play “Rossum’s April 25-May 7 at Spring dance show, 9 pm, FREE (with $50 prix fixe dinner); Devon Sproule, 11 pm, FREE. with Scissors, 10 pm, Devola, 11 pm, Human Vice Patrol, mid- Sundays: Live Russian music and dance show, 7 pm, FREE night, Near Forever, 1 am, $5. After Einbinder and Mac- tionists belonged to the Car- Universal Robots,” a “futurist Theatreworks (25 Jay St. at (with $50 prix fixe dinner). Rbar rides spray painted, “Robots roll Gardens-based Adhesive folk opera” by Czech play- Plymouth Street, [718] 596- 451 Meeker Ave. at Graham Avenue in Greenpoint, Two Boots Brooklyn Unite!” on a hubcap, the ma- Theater Project — and sure wright Karel Capek. 2565). — Trav S.D. Night and Day (718) 486-6116. 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, (718) Restaurant Mondays: Guest bartender nights, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: 499-3253, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, (718) “Mikey’s Big Gay Pajama Party,” 11 pm, FREE; Wednes- May 4: Heather & the Barbarians, 10 pm, FREE; May 5: 399-2161, www.nightanddayrestaurant.com. days: Karaoke, 9 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Comedy Night, 8 Michael Louis, 10 pm, FREE; May 6: Billy Stephens & Sundays: John McNeil and Bill McHenry, 8 pm, $6 and 1- pm, FREE. Friends, 10 pm, FREE. drink minimum; Mondays: Artist’s Salon, 7 pm, FREE, Debra and Mary’s Night on the Town, 9 pm, $10 and 1-drink mini- Reign Union Pool mum ($5 for students); Tuesdays: Songwriters Showcase 46 Washington Ave. at Flushing Avenue in Clinton Hill, 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) with Kevin Ray, 7 pm, FREE with 1-drink minimum, Live jazz (718) 643-7344. 609-0484. jam hosted by the Dan McCarthy Trio, 9 pm, FREE with 1- Saturdays: Sweet Saturdays with Da Union’s DJ Snatch 1 May 3: Little Red Hen Music presents Jolie Holland, Sam drink minimum; April 29: Pete Zimmer Quartet, 9 pm, $10 “The Fireman” and GMC’s own Country, 11 pm, $TBD. Parton, Jan Bell, Laura Freeman, 8 pm, $12. Fighter planes for sale with $7 food/drink minimum; May 3: The St. Ann’s Review hosted by Beth Bosworth, 7 pm, $7 food/drink minimum; May 4: Tuey Connell, 9 pm, $5 and $7 food/drink minimum; Sista’s Place Vox Po p The Brooklyn Papers stance. “Actually, there were just piles of May 5: Solar, 9 pm, $10 and $7 food/drink minimum; May 456 Nostrand Ave. at Jefferson Avenue in Bedford- 1022 Cortelyou Road at Stratford Road in Flatbush, 6: The J.D. Allen Trio, 9 pm, $5 and $7 food/drink minimum. Stuyvesant, (718) 398-1766, www.sistasplace.org. (718) 940-2084, www.voxpopnet.net. AJapanese legend says if you fold 1,000 them in my apartment, so I knew I’d April 29: Vanessa Rubin with Trio, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $20; May Sundays: Open mic, 7:30 pm, FREE with 2-drink/snack min- have enough paper,” she said. “But when 6: Eric Frazier, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $20. imum; April 29: Pascale Jean-Louis, Miles to Dayton, 8 pm, origami cranes, your wish will come true. Night of the Cookers $5 suggested donation. Inspired by the legend, Brooklyn artist you use pages from the Times, the planes 767 Fulton St. at South Portland Avenue in Fort Greene, (718) 797-1197. Southpaw Sachar Mathias folded 1,000 paper Am- take on a dual meaning.” Saturdays: Live jazz, 10 pm, FREE; Sundays: Live music, 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope, (718) Waterfront Ale House erican warplanes and hung them in the She pointed to one plane that had a noon, FREE; Thursdays: Live jazz, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Live 230-0236, www.spsounds.com. 155 Atlantic Ave. at Clinton Street in Brooklyn Heights, jazz, 10 pm, FREE. April 29: JellyNYC presents Jelly, The Willowz, The Exit, White (718) 522-3794, www.waterfrontalehouse.com. window of a Williamsburg gallery. But headline about Ken Lay on it. Another Rabbits, 8 pm, $8; May 3: Tigers and Monkeys, Discovery, The April 29: Bob Hoffnar Group, 11 pm, FREE. her wish — peace in Iraq — hasn’t yet had a picture of JFK. 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April 29: (Downstairs) Burial Year, In First Person, Towers, 9 0601, www.wickedmonk.com. years of Bush administration lemons, / Julie Rosenberg Don Knotts, who was best known for his pm, $7, (Upstairs) World/Inferno Friendship Society, April 29: Stoned Asylum, 8 pm, Holla Back, 11 pm, $5; April Mathias started selling off the planes — large eyes, but also remembered as a Amateur Party, The Ratchets, 9 pm, $12; April 30: Hula, The St. Ann’s Warehouse 30: Jerry Farley’s Showcase with live bands, Time TBD, $5. Hong Kong, Kapow!, The Shapes, 9 pm, $10; May 2: The 38 Water St. at Main Street in DUMBO, (718) 254-8779, mini F-102s, F-117s and F-16 fashioned great American pacifist. Books on Tape, OMAC, Captain Ahab, Handshake, Hearts www.artsatstanns.org. from pages of the New York Times — As of presstime, 40 planes have al- of Darknesses, 9 pm, $8; May 5: The Books, Todd Reynolds, May 4: Roseanne Cash’s Black Cadillac, 8 pm, $40. 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At Maimonides, we’ve learned to say “goo-goo” in 68 different languages.
Brooklyn is home to many cultures and loving, comforting words for children of every National Association of Children’s Hospitals. traditions. It’s also home to one of only four background. Not only that, in a recent survey* conducted children’s hospitals in all of New York City: Of course, at Maimonides when it comes among households in Brooklyn, Maimonides was Maimonides Infants and Children’s Hospital. to children we do more than just speak their ranked fi rst as the parents’ choice for their chil- As a result, we speak perfect “goo-goo” in language. We also offer them the very best in dren’s care. everything from Arabic medical care. Maimonides Infants and Children’s Hospital. to Cantonese to Russian Maimonides is a complete children’s hos- We are simply the best. And we can make that to Spanish to Zapotec. pital within a hospital. In fact, we are the only statement in 68 languages. Which translates into Brooklyn hospital to be accredited by the *2005/06 NRC Healthcare Market Guide Survey.
Brooklyn’s first and only accredited children’s hospital.
www.maimonidesmed.org (718)(718) 28283-75003-6000