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Only a Test Mccarren Park Growing Barclays Center Becomes a Blood-Soaked Disaster Zone Block-Long Expansion Will Eliminate Parking Spots by Natalie Musumeci the U.S INSIDE: PAGES AND PAGES OF COUPONS TO SAVE YOU CASH! Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2013 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn and Williamsburg AWP/12 pages • Vol. 36, No. 38 • September 20–26, 2013 • FREE But what is trash? If composting became manda- GONE TO ROT tory it would add separate bins and pick-up schedules for food waste, City curbside compost program debuts in Bklyn including banana peels, bread crust, eggshells, and chicken bones, to a sanitation regimen that already re- By Natalie Musumeci More than 9,000 households will par- For those who are eager to scrape quires separate recycling for milk The Brooklyn Paper ticipate in the trial run, according to their plates, the agency will provide a cartons, beer bottles, cereal boxes, A new city plan that asks residents of the agency, but residents we spoke to starter kit that includes a bucket-sized, and yes, newspapers. Which raises Greenwood Heights and Windsor Ter- are not eager to add one more color of lidded container for the kitchen, com- the question: what would be left to race to separate food scraps from their trash bags — light green — to their postable bags, and a large brown bin to go in the regular old trash? trash has many wondering just how far kitchen routine. roll out to the curb. Under the program, According to the sanitation the city will go to go green. “I’m not ready to jump into this,” which has already started in parts of department: diapers, hygienic The Department of Sanitation has said Sol Makon, one of several resi- Staten Island and the Bronx, residents items, foam containers and Sty- chosen the neighborhoods near Pros- dents we polled who had the option will collect waste such as fruit and veg- rofoam packaging, plastic bags, Photo by Elizabeth Graham pect Park as the first in the borough to to turn her food scraps into fertilizer etable peels, chicken bones, pasta, egg and plastic squeeze tubes such as Troy Herion of Prospect Heights drops off his compost at the weekly take part in the voluntary program that for gardens and parks, but decided not shells, and coffee grounds, for sanita- toothpaste tubes and baby food farmers market at Grand Army Plaza. The city will begin picking up has locals separate their food scraps to. “It takes a long enough time to re- tion workers to pick up once a week pouches. food scraps in Greenwood Heights and Windsor Terrace next month. from other garbage to make compost. cycle what you got.” See COMPOST on page 10 Judge: Hospital closures faulty Ruling against State could affect LICH, Interfaith, future hospital closings By Jaime Lutz The Brooklyn Paper Long Island College Hospi- tal must stay open and the en- DeBlasio glossed over loss tire system for closing hospitals By Jaime Lutz vocate when they argued DeBla- in the state must be changed, a The Brooklyn Paper REPORTER’S sio’s suit challenging the closure Brooklyn Supreme Court judge of the Cobble Hill hospital, but ruled last Thursday — but will Last Thursday, Public Advo- NOTEBOOK cate and Democratic mayoral DeBlasio was quiet on the sub- the state listen? nominee Bill DeBlasio cheered ject when he declared victory on The order from Judge Johnny a court ruling that blocked the state agency. Friday , despite Baynes cutting Lee Baynes is the latest of many state’s closure of Long Island Attorneys for DeBlasio trum- him out of the contest. requiring the State University of College Hospital, but the judge peted the fact that Brooklyn Su- “DeBlasio’s powers derive Photo by Paul Martinka New York, which controls the hos- also cut DeBlasio’s powers down preme Court Judge Johnny Lee from, and are circumscribed Bill DeBlasio at a press pital and has been trying to shut- to size, ruling that the Public Ad- Baynes had the opportunity to by, the city charter,” Baynes conference outside Long ter it since February, to keep it Photo by Elizabeth Graham vocate lacks standing to sue a outline the role of the public ad- See DEBLASIO on page 10 Island College Hospital. open, but it is the first to demand A woman acting as a victim, during a mock disaster drill an overhaul of the process state of- conducted by the New York fire department and the ficials use to shut hospitals down for New York health care. state’s process for approving hos- State Nurses Association. constitution by allowing the gov- U.S. Marine Corps at the Barclays Center on Sept. 13. — and advocates for the embat- “The court not only rejected pital closure plans is unconstitu- The ruling finds that a part ernor-appointed Department of tled Cobble Hill medical center the closure plan for Long Island tionally vague,” said Jill Furillo, of New York state law govern- Health to close facilities with just hailed the ruling as a saving grace College Hospital, it ruled that the executive director of the New York ing hospital closures violates the See LICH on page 10 Only a test McCarren Park growing Barclays Center becomes a blood-soaked disaster zone Block-long expansion will eliminate parking spots By Natalie Musumeci The U.S. Marine Corps By Danielle Furfaro add more than half a football field The plan would connect a small The Brooklyn Paper and the fire department con- The Brooklyn Paper of green space, leaving car com- triangular section of McCarren Park Last Friday night, the Bar- ducted the hours-long drill at McCarren Park is about to get big- muters feeling sacked while park — which currently holds dog runs clays Center turned into a di- the 18,000-seat arena at the busy ger, forcing drivers to go around so regulars say the add-on is as good and the weekend farmers market — saster area packed with dead intersection of Flatbush and At- that park lovers can go greener. as a two-point conversion. with the rest of the park’s southern and dying people and emergency lantic avenues and, as disturbing The city just gave the go-ahead “It is great news” said Joel Car- end, replacing the roadway with personnel rushing around in haz- as the scenes sound, one Pros- File photo by Stefano Giovannini to a park expansion that will have rack, who lives near the park on N. plant beds featuring lush perenni- ardous materials suits — and it pect Heights resident said Brook- The triangular portion of McCarren Park that holds the Parks Department digging up 10th Street. “It is about the time als, low-growing shrubs, loading was all part of a military drill lynites are better safe and scared dog runs and the weekend farmers market should a block of Union Avenue between we got some more park around zones for vendors, and subterra- to prep for a possible chemi- than sorry and dead. join the southern part of the park by next summer. Driggs Avenue and N. 12th Street to here.” See MCCARREN on page 10 cal attack. See DISASTER on page 9 Bridge Park ramps it up Grump But new platform on Pier 6 could fall short without $ By Jaime Lutz scape solution will be applied,” towers The Brooklyn Paper Brooklyn Bridge Park Corpo- Brooklyn Bridge Park’s ration spokeswoman Teresa Pier 6 is getting an eye-open- Gonzalez said. “This would G’point votes no ing, $29-million addition, but include another lawn with the crowning piece may fall by shade and trees.” the wayside if the park’s keep- If the massive patio is built, on new high rises ers can’t raise the funds. it will include a shaded area Plans for the pricey expan- underneath for picnics and By Danielle Furfaro sion at the northwestern tip of community events, accord- The Brooklyn Paper the pier at the end of Atlantic ing to the agency. A community board is telling the de- Avenue include a two-story, Community Board 2 and velopers of two huge Greenpoint high- triangular platform with stairs the city’s design commission rise projects to take a long walk off a rising above the harbor and gave the plan the green light short Newtown Creek pier. providing dramatic views, but last week. The add-on would Community Board 1, which serves the $8-million deck is depen- also feature a large flower Williamsburg and dent on donations and would field, a forested area, and a Photo by Elizabeth Graham Greenpoint, voted be the first thing to go in the big lawn, according to a park Salerno Service Center owner Sal Salerno has replaced cata- no on Greenpoint case of a budget shortfall, a spokeswoman, who added that lytic converters in two cars that were plundered during a recent Landing and 77 park spokeswoman said. Corporation Park Bridge Brooklyn the amenities are meant to be spate of thefts in Greenpoint. Commercial St., “If fund-raising is not suc- Renderings of the expanded Pier 6 in Brooklyn a counterpoint to the sports both skyscraping cessful, an alternative land- Bridge Park show a grand staircase over the river. facilities on Pier 5. apartment com- plexes planned for TAKING PARTS the Newtown Creek CetraRuddy end of the nabe, saying that the devel- opers responsible are shadier than a pri- Greenpoint thieves sawing out vately run park surrounded by high- Disguise guys rise luxury condos. catalytic converters by the dozen “They are not doing the right thing,” Goofy failed bank robbery community board member Rob Solano By Danielle Furfaro leaving louder-than-normal vehicles said of the developers.
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