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By Jotham Sederstrom A laughing Golden, who hosted the lunch- ton High School. Along the way, the coun- The Brooklyn Papers eon at his 76th Street catering hall, came up to cil has organized political, public and Gentile after and shook his hand. school board forums. Touting Brooklyn as a 2012 Olym- As always, the luncheon attracted Bay “Many organizations together can roar,” pic destination and home to future Ridge’s most active community board mem- said Sacco. national conventions, both Democratic bers, religious leaders, business owners, and Praising the council for “making Brook- and Republican, Borough President elected and appointed officials. Between bites lyn, Brooklyn,” Markowitz named Jan. 31 Marty Markowitz roundly praised of chicken or salmon, the audience applauded “Annual Luncheon Day in Bay Ridge,” a plans to build a professional basketball Ilene Sacco, chairwoman of the Bay Ridge similar honor to the one he bestowed last arena in the Downtown area for the Community Council (BRCC), who spoke of year, when he declared Feb. 1 as Bay Ridge National Basketball Association Nets, the past year’s successes and failures. Community Council Day. during his address at the Bay Ridge “We’ve won some and we’ve lost some,” Markowitz, whose idea it was to lure a Community Council’s annual Pres- said Sacco. “Some of the issues have stayed professional basketball team to Brooklyn, ident’s Luncheon at the Bay Ridge the same — we want good schools and safe spoke with pride of the pending move of Manor Saturday. streets. But other things have changed,” she the New Jersey Nets to Downtown Brook- But it was a pregnant pause by Council- said, referring to the ever present threat of lyn by developer Bruce Ratner. Although man Vincent Gentile, a Democrat, that held terrorism. the proposed Frank Gehry-designed arena, the rapt attention of more than 150 digni- The BRCC, which was formed in 1951 office tower and housing complex to be taries and community leaders attending the to promote issues of importance throughout built at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues has 53rd annual luncheon. Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, is an um- been a bone of contention for residents in brella organization consisting of more than that area, it was hard to gauge whether the

/ Greg Mango / Greg Playing on his rocky relationship with Marty Golden, the former Republican coun- 100 area organizations. arena was on the hearts and minds of many cilman who in 2002 unseated him as state Among its accomplishments, the BRCC living in Bay Ridge. Mango / Greg senator, Gentile briefly silenced the room helped lead a campaign to save the Fort “I predict that it will be the center of city with a quip that eventually had those in atten- Hamilton Army Base from being closed life,” said Markowitz, noting that the arena dance laughing, or at least sighing in relief. and put the kibosh on plans for a jail to be could one day be included among venues The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn “Ever since he stole my job, Marty’s built in Bay Ridge. As early as 1969, it for the 2012 Olympics if New York is cho-

Councilman Vincent Gentile, at the BRCC been a real S-O-B,” Gentile said, pausing fought on behalf of students living east of sen to host the summer games. Papers The Brooklyn luncheon, called state Sen. Marty Gol- before further explaining, “A ‘Senator Of Third Avenue who, because of district zon- “Brooklyn,” he added, “is on the threshold State Sen. Marty Golden is all smiles at Saturday’s Bay Ridge Community den an SOB — “Senator Of Brooklyn.” Brooklyn,’ that is.” ing, were kept from attending Fort Hamil- of getting back the respect it deserves.” Council luncheon in his Bay Ridge Manor on 76th Street at Fifth Avenue.

VINCE DIMICELI Ratner’s ‘LOOK BOTH WAYS’ DOT: Illegal trucks hard to prevent

suburban By Jotham Sederstrom hicles. And while the Bay Ridge, Dyker management study. could face 15 days in jail. A second of- The Brooklyn Papers Heights and Bensonhurst communities “It’s a matter of enforcement,” said fense, if committed within 18 months of have been pushing for tougher enforce- DOT spokesman Keith Kalb. “I will have the first, will carry fines of between $500 Police issued 11 summonses after ment against truck drivers who veer from the borough commissioner contact the lo- and $1,000 and could include 45 days im- the driver of a private garbage truck the designated routes, there seems to be lit- cal precinct. But our agency doesn’t have prisonment. Repeat offenders with three or struck and killed a 70-year-old Bay tle additional penalty when their actions any way of enforcing that.” more violations within 18 months face nightmare Ridge woman last month, including lead to a fatality. In August, Gov. George Pataki came to fines of up to $2,000 and 90 days in jail. one for straying from designated A city Department of Transportation Bay Ridge to sign the “No Through Truck But the law carries no provision for a fa- HEN it comes to truck routes. spokesman said this week that while the Traffic Bill,” which went into effect on tal accident as a result of a truck driver construction, Brook- NOT JUST NETS The accident marked the second time in agency was taking the issue very seriously, Nov. 1, providing stiffer penalties to truck- straying from his designated route. W lyn needs Bob Vila, just over a month that a Bay Ridge woman short of fines, little could be done to pre- ers who veer off the city’s truck routes. The city currently employs more than not Bruce Ratner. was fatally struck by a truck driving on a vent such an accident from happening Under the new law, truckers will be 1,800 Traffic Enforcement Agents, with 84 For years now, Ratner has street that prohibits large, commercial ve- again until the city completes its own truck fined up to $500 for the first offense and See TRUCKERS on page 14 forced his suburban blight on the Borough of Kings, using Brooklyn as his personal strip mine, ripping out its streets and small buildings to make way for his behemoths that turn their backs on what’s left of the S’Park neighborhoods they invade. It’s been said that Ratner’s plan for Downtown Brooklyn is to Manhattan-ize it — as if the THE NEW BROOKLYN may get skyscrapers he foresees are the only things that define a city. But the fact is Ratner is try- In the meantime, a neighborhood ing to create a new suburbia, smack that was developing just fine on its dab in the middle of the city, by us- new HS own gets condemned. ing suburban ideals to create the I was inside 24 Sixth Ave. on “New Brooklyn.” Saturday. It’s the former Spalding By Jotham Sederstrom Don’t believe me? Take a look at factory, recently turned into condos. The Brooklyn Papers some of his other projects. Close to 100 people live there in ¥Atlantic Center Mall: The School over-crowding in Bay large studio apartments. One of epitome of the suburban mega-mall Ridge and Dyker Heights will get those residents, Stuart Plesser, gone bad in the middle of the city, some serious attention in the next showed me his plans to add walls complete with parking (for a fee). five to six years, according to a pre- in his 1,500-square-foot, exposed- It’s back is literally turned on Fort liminary expenditure plan released brick and wood-columned apart- Greene, where there are no en- by the Department of Education ment. Those plans are now on hold, trances for local residents, who as he waits to see if his new home Tuesday. have to walk around the complex / Greg Mango will be torn down. Included in the Education Depart- and onto Atlantic Avenue. All this Last year, for his television show ment’s preliminary budget is a new high for the pleasure of shopping at the “Home Again,” Bob Vila showed school for Sunset Park, which would al- Department of Motor Vehicles and how he restored and then converted leviate some of the over-crowding at Bay the Empire State Development The Brooklyn Papers to residential use a former spice fac- Ridge’s Fort Hamilton High and Benson- Corporation, in office space created tory on Water Street in DUMBO, hurst’s New Utrecht High. and paid for with our tax money af- another hot neighborhood which, The plan also calls for eight new ele- ter several mall merchants failed, Bishop DiMarzio honored over the past 10 years, has been re- mentary schools in Bay Ridge and Dyker ostensibly because of Ratner’s poor constructed from the inside out. Borough President Marty Markowitz holds up proclamation in honor of Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio (far left) as (from his Heights — four in brand new buildings design and promotion. left) Community Board 10 Chairman Craig Eaton, New York State Conservative Party leader Mike Long and 49th Dis- and four in existing buildings — account- UMBO’s conversion from ¥Metrotech: A suburban business ing for 5,118 additional seats. manufacturing to both trict Democratic Leader Joseph Bova (at right) give him a hand. campus, self-sufficient right down to The still-tentative plans were revealed housing and office space, the nearby hotel and airline ticket of- D Feb. 3 with the release of a second draft fice. Employees who work there eat has taken place without the clearing of blocks, removal of streets or in- of the Education Department’s Five-Year in tasty, inexpensive corporate cafe- Capital Plan. For now, the proposal terias because the campus’ design sertion of suburban-style complex- es. Instead, the neighborhood has shows plans for 66,000 new classroom makes it impractical to walk over to seats citywide. Montague Street or Fulton Mall or been re-born rather than rebuilt. In time, the same thing would CB10 to spin Web site The two-year, $64.4 million construc- even Willoughby Street. Stores locat- tion project in Sunset Park could begin in ed on its center “park” don’t survive happen around the Atlantic Avenue rail yards, with or without Ratner. By Jotham Sederstrom ager Josephine Beckmann quietly an- the end of February. First, however, the September 2005, according to the budget because the campus’ fortress-like proposal. A spokesman for Bay Ridge- perimeter discourages foot traffic on In fact, the rebuilding of the area — The Brooklyn Papers nounced at a Jan. 26 board meeting at St. board’s Communications and Public Re- from within — had already begun. Anselm’s Meletia Hall on Fourth Avenue lations committee will mull over the idea, Dyker Heights Councilman Vincent Gen- the streets that used to be there. And Even now, Carolyn DeLuca choos- tile said that the school could be built on nightlife is nonexistent. Remember Just ask Stuart Plesser. es as her weapon of choice an old at 83rd Street that the board’s day-to-day and the costs involved, before the issue is Ratner’s vision, as designed by business could be making its way online brought up at a full board meeting. The the site of a warehouse on Fourth Avenue Casey’s Cafe? Neither do I. Panasonic word processor, the type at 38th Street, but added that the Depart- Now, Ratner wants to do the same Gehry, just isn’t Brooklyn. It has no favored by journalists and secre- within months. next general meeting is set for Feb. 23. place in our low-rise urban landscape. “We want something that’s good, but The slow, dial-up-like transition, said ment of Education hadn’t revealed de- thing with his proposed Atlantic tails. Maybe Ratner needs a new ar- taries a couple of decades ago. also affordable,” Beckmann said of her Beckmann, is the result of the board’s Yards compound (and presumably in “They aren’t telling us anything,” said chitect, someone who would appre- The assistant district manager of Com- plans to create a Web site for the commu- small annual budget — $175,000, accord- the overlapping Downtown Plan dis- munity Board 10 confides that since being Gentile spokesman Scott Gastel, adding trict) where he’d again close streets ciate the things Brooklyn already nity board. ing to a mayoral spokesman. Whether the has to offer and those that deserve hired to the district office in 1979, she has that he thought the high school would be and construct skyscrapers up to 600 favored the typewriter-like word processor, The upload would make CB10, which allotment is spent on postage or upkeep of built from the ground up. feet tall that would by design separate to be preserved. Maybe he should primarily serves the neighborhoods of Bay the office’s copy machine, the money goes put in a call to Bob Vila. even though an IBM computer given to Sunset Park and Bay Ridge officials the complex from the neighborhoods the board by then-Mayor Rudolph Giuliani Ridge and Dyker Heights, one of just seven fast, said Beckmann. Add to that, salaries are also reserving their joy because the of Fort Greene and Prospect Heights. Or, he could just take off and boards in Brooklyn — the borough has 18 for herself, DeLuca and assistant Jacque- find another city to strip mine. six years ago sits beside her at the office on high school plan was also included in the Ratner’s plan, designed by Frank 86th Street at Gatling Place. community boards — to have their own line Gallo, and the decision to go online last five-year plan, only to be axed at the Vince DiMiceli is senior editor Gehry, would again have a “park” in “We have some antiquated equip- Web site. In contrast, all 12 Bronx boards doesn’t seem so obvious. Beckmann said last minute to close the city’s budget gap. and production manager of The its middle, and it will probably get as ment,” she said. are on the Web. that employing a staff of three isn’t typical If built, the 1,106-seat high school Brooklyn Papers. E-mail: Produc- much use as the one at Metrotech — But the community board’s struggle to Beckmann said that barring unfore- of most community boards. would free up space at vastly overcrowd- [email protected] which means very little. adapt to the 20th, if not the 21st century, seen community developments the board “We’re staff-heavy,” she said, adding, ed New Utrecht and Fort Hamilton, may be coming to an end. District Man- will likely discuss details of the project by See CB10 on page 14 See SCHOOL on page 14

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BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM February 7, 2004 g 2 repose yoga Driver clubs man who took spot By Jotham Sederstrom crawled in through a window while another pulled her hair. Cops say that one of the Offering The Brooklyn Papers that faces a large courtyard Police arrested a suspect, a men grabbed the victim and 16-year-old girl, at 76th Street A short-fused golfer add- and proceeded to loot both the 62/68 BLOTTER covered her mouth with his multi-level yoga living room and bedroom, and 19th Avenue. hand, demanding, “Give me ed several strokes to his They are still searching for your money.” handicap after a dispute pocketing $5,600 worth of in hatha and metal bracelets, rings, ear- Street and 23rd Avenue. Before Teen thugs a 17-year-old boy and another While the crook held her, over a parking spot left him rings, chains and watches. He getting out of the limo, one of A gang of teenagerss rushed girl, for whom there was no his accomplice snatched the vinyasa styles enraged and swinging his also found $2,500 in cash, ac- the men, described by police as a 32-year-old Bensonhurst description available. handbag from her left arm. clubs. cording to the police report. a white male in his 40s, about woman on Jan. 30 knocking Station robbers The muggers jumped on a 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds, The Jan. 26 incident started Stickup limo her to the ground and nearly Two crooks got a special train and made good their es- around 5 pm when the driver pulled a gun on the driver. making off with her purse. surprise when they demanded cape before she could notify Mommy & baby began arguing with another A limousine driver was “Give me all your money,” The ruffians were diverted, money from a woman waiting police. motorist who snagged a park- robbed at gunpoint while driv- he said. however, when a bystander for a southbound N train — a They got away with two and beginner classes ing spot that he had wanted on ing two men to a destination The driver gave the man came to the woman’s aid. The $2 bill. credit cards, a college ID and 23rd Avenue at 86th Street. In in Bensonhurst, police say. $200 before the two ran into a two girls and one boy ran off The Jan. 27 incident hap- the somewhat rare $2 bill, one now available response, the 25-year-old dart- The Feb. 1 incident hap- building on 82nd Street at without any of the woman’s pened around 7:30 pm, while of only about 9.5 million still ed from his black Hyundai and pened around 9:30 pm, when 23rd Avenue. belongings. the 35-year-old woman was in circulation, according to the hit the parked driver over the the 26-year-old driver dropped Police described the other Before the witness came, waiting on the train platform Treasury Department, which head with a golf club, causing the men off at their requested man as 33, white, about 5- two of the thugs were punch- at West Seventh Street and last printed the denomination Call for schedule bleeding and swelling. destination, the corner of 82nd foot-6 and 140 pounds. ing the woman in the face Bay Parkway. in 1996. When he was finished, the 718 238 0174 irate, golf club-swinging man fled south in his car on 23rd Avenue. Police described the attacker as white, 5-foot-9 and 8325 5th Ave, 2nd Floor weighing 180 pounds. They did not, however, describe his Bay Ridge form. Golden’s Caddy broken into 9-to-5er He came in through the By Jotham Sederstrom According to police crime statistics, reported inci- and the dashboard ripped to shreds. bedroom window. The Brooklyn Papers dents of grand larceny auto are up 64 percent over this The alarm system was circumvented, and police But a burglar who broke time last year within the 68th Precinct, which encom- didn’t find evidence that the door locks or windows State Sen. Marty Golden stepped out of his passes Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights. But a vast ma- had been tampered with. The outside of the car, in- into a home on 77th Street at Bay Ridge home last week expecting to drive his Fifth Avenue Jan. 26 left jority of auto-related crimes involve the theft of head- cluding its wheels, rims and headlights, were un- 2002 Cadillac Escalade to his office on Fifth lights, airbags and other items from vehicles, which touched. Dr. Peter Marascia through the front door, carry- Avenue, as he does most days that he’s not in Chiropractor ing with him more than generally fall under the broader category of grand lar- “We’re working on the problem,” said Capt. $8,000 in cash and jewelry. Albany. ceny. William Aubry, commanding officer of the 68th Serving the Community for 20 Years Personalized Same Day The burglar broke in some- But Golden soon discovered that, while crime is Because Golden’s car wasn’t stolen, and the crime Precinct. “This is a high-end crime ring and the peo- Treatment Acute & Chronic Problems Service time after the 64-year-old down in most categories in Bay Ridge and Dyker involved the theft of more than $1,000 worth of prop- ple doing this are very sophisticated.” We Accept All Cases woman who lives there left Heights, auto-related theft is alive and well. erty, that is how the incident was filed with police. Golden declined to comment on the burglary. for work, just before 9 am. 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R04 R03 February 7, 2004 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM BRZ 3 Victory Memorial to get super-sized E-R By Jotham Sederstrom ical director, said that the self- to the community.” press conference during which and Second avenues, under- The Brooklyn Papers contained room isn’t com- Rep. Vito Fossella, who rep- Fossella announced plans for took construction in April that monplace in most hospitals. resents Bay Ridge and Staten the expansion. included renovations to its Officials from Victory “Given what happened Island, secured $100,000 for the Memorial Hospital on When the first phase of the 11,500-square-foot emergency post-9-11, with threats of an- upgrade and the Department of project begins about 12 seats department, which when fin- Monday announced a $3 thrax, or Sarin nerve gas in Housing and Urban Develop- million renovation project will be added, part of a plan to ished in September will occu- Japan, it’s something we think ment granted a $2 million loan. reduce the amount of time pa- py 16,000 square feet. that will nearly double the is necessary,” said Kindschuh, Kindschuh said that a number tients spend waiting for treat- The project, which is due Callan / Tom size of its emergency facil- who said that in place of the of the hospital’s largely senior ment, which varies too widely for completion in September, ities. decontamination room, most clientele come from Staten Is- to be averaged, said the doc- was funded almost entirely by hospitals have less-effective land. When it is completed next tor. $3.4 million in HUD loans. “tub rooms.” “Very often, the first line of spring, Victory Memorial’s “Clearly what we have now Unlike Victory, Lutheran is a emergency room will have Nearly $1 million for the defense is this emergency Papers The Brooklyn is insufficient,” said Kindschuh. level-one trauma center that grown from just over 5,000 project was funded privately room,” Fossella said at a press Rep. Vito Fossella presents check for $100,000 to Victory Memorial Hospital President and in some instances by indi- conference at the hospital Lutheran Medical Center, treats life- and limb-threaten- square feet to 9,720 square Donald DiCunto (center) and Emergency Department Director Dr. Mark Kindschuh. feet, much of it occupied by a vidual donors, including many Monday. “I want to under- on 55th Street between First ing accidents. renovated triage unit, nurse from the emergency depart- score how important it is to stations and a bereavement ment’s staff of 10 physicians. have a successful Victory room. In all, the department employs Memorial.” The expansion of the de- those physicians, six staff The first of four phases of partment, the first in more nurses and two board-certified the project will begin in than 25 years, will put the physicians. March, said Kindschuh, who Cops: Teen hurt in drunk-drive crash hospital on Seventh Avenue at “We’re always at risk of noted that the emergency de- 92nd Street in line with losing our financial footing, partment would remain func- By Jotham Sederstrom The 20-year-old was charges including two counts Cops say the infant, a 1- blood-alcohol level of .04 per- Lutheran Medical Center, but it’s partly because of the tional throughout construc- drunk, police say, when at of operating a motor vehicle year-old, was wearing a seat- cent. among others in Brooklyn drive and determination of the tion. The Brooklyn Papers 3:20 pm his 1999 Nissan under the influence, endan- belt but was not strapped into Police found an opened currently undergoing emer- attendants here that we were At the top of the list, he said, Police say an unlicensed, swerved out of control and gering the welfare of a child, a child safety seat. He and a bottle of Corona beer inside gency room upgrades. able to finally raise this mon- is an expanded waiting room, underage and drunk Bay the vehicle. A sign of the post-Sept. 11 ey,” said Kindschuh, who as a which currently seats 18. Ironi- smashed into the post, on Bay reckless driving, unlicensed 17-year-old male, Tony Ridge man was arrested Ridge Avenue at Narrows Av- operating of a vehicle and Cava, who suffered a bro- times, the department will also young doctor in Texas cally, on Monday, many of the Wednesday afternoon after install a decontamination watched as community hospi- people waiting in those seats enue. consumption or possession ken leg, were treated at Legal Notice room for treating victims ex- tals like Victory Memorial — either for a patient, or to be he crashed into a lamppost A Brooklyn District Attor- of alcoholic beverages. Lutheran Medical Center af- Notice: Break Ball Billiards Corp 530 86th Street, 2nd floor, Bklyn, NY applied for posed to hazardous chemicals. slowly disappeared from the treated themselves — were and injured two of his pas- ney’s office spokesman said He was also issued a cita- ter the accident. Restaurant Wine license number 1148094 Dr. Mark Kindschuh, the small towns. “This speaks vol- whisked away to a hallway in sengers, including a baby the Bay Ridge man was ex- tion for not wearing a seat- According to the criminal under Alcoholic Beverage Control Law to sell wine & beer at retail in a billiards parlor/restau- emergency department’s med- umes about their commitment order to make room for the boy. pected to be arraigned on belt. complaint, Belem had a rant for on premises consumption. BR04-05

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I’ve chosen one Parent-to-Parent that my friends recommend- ed, but I’m not sure whether it will be a good fit for my 3- year-old son. —a mother A: If your son is assigned nurturing teachers and the school’s philosophy is “chil- dren learn through play,” you’re off to a good start. “Preschoolers are wigglers and doers,” says Alan Simp- son, communications director of the National Association for the Education of Young Chil- dren. “They need activities that engage them.” T Research shows that young children learn best through manipulation of materials and By Betsy Flagler age-appropriate hands-on ex- REN periences, Simpson says. “What kids learn through “In a high-quality preschool, play is phenomenal.” PA learning is embedded in activi- For example, children learn sounds. Alphabet puzzle year-old out of his preschool Other concerns are more ties that engage the senses,” he problem-solving, how to enter pieces let a child feel the and put him on the waiting list difficult to measure: Does the says. “It’s crucial for programs a group and work on their lan- shapes of the letters. Finger at another one, partly because class feel warm and inviting? to recognize that preschoolers guage skills as they pretend, paints provide a calm way for he could not adjust to the rigid How do the teachers strength- are not high school students.” says Heidemann, co-author of a child to form letters, smear way that transitions were han- en social and emotional skills Sandra Heidemann, an early “Pathways to Play: Develop- the work and start over. Kids dled, and he was upset that he within the class? / Tom Callan / Tom childhood specialist, agrees the ing Play Skills in Young Chil- build math skills with blocks. rarely got to finish what he Can you help? best early childhood programs dren” (Redleaf Press, 1992), a If your child’s teachers of- was doing in a center before it “My husband and I recently use play to get at academics. book geared toward teachers. fer fun activities that engage was time to move. moved next door to a family One doesn’t rule out the other. A lion puppet used during him and work with you as a “The more we learn, the with two children, a boy, 3, “I worry people are cutting reading time motivates kids to team, you’ve probably found more we realize children can and a girl, 8. They all play, un- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn back on playtime,” she says. learn as they act out animal a good match. When learning accomplish in the early supervised, in their driveway is through play, there is no years,” Simpson says. “Then and in a common yard area right or wrong answer. we create settings that defeat between our houses. The girl’s “Age 3 or 4 is far too curiosity for learning just as it friend often bullies the boy of- Jump for joy young to be told you’re failing is beginning to develop.” ten and his sister goes along at something,” Simpson says. If a program is rigid and a with it. A figure skater gets some air — very cold air — while practicing at the Wollman Rink in When you observe a class- child is acting out, it may not be My home-office window Prospect Park recently. Share and room, you should see several the best place for him, Simpson overlooks their play area, and clearly divided learning cen- and Heidemann agree. For ex- I’ve seen the girls push the ters: a special table full of wa- ample, one Parent to Parent boy down, smack him on the ter, rice or grits where kids can reader says that her 4-year-old face, pull his pants down and share alike measure, sift and pour; an art son gets frustrated and lashes spank him, and drag him station; an area for play-dough; out at his teachers during daily around. The mother doesn’t Kids are pros at playing a table for matching games, workbook and journal times, respond to the boy’s screams. puzzles and stringing beads; a and has outbursts when it’s time New Downtown one parent off the other. My husband says they’re just woodworking table; a block to move to a different task. ‘kids being kids,’ but my heart However, many couples area; a housekeeping center; In an evaluation of a pre- breaks for the boy. with kids are getting wise and a quiet reading corner. school, Simpson says, teacher Should I talk to my neigh- to this ploy and are stand- Ask about the class sched- training, the ratio of teachers bor, confront the children my- will be filled by ing firm, at least according ule. How much time do the to students, the turnover rate self or do nothing?” —reader to a recent Mars Venus- kids get to “work” at all the of teachers, the size of the If you have tips or a ques- Redbook poll. stations? What about play- groups, and the health and tion, call our toll-free hotline Of the 883 female poll par- ground time? safety of the program, are all any time at (800) 827-1092 or ticipants, 42.3 claim to be in One mother moved her 4- important to look at. e-mail us at [email protected]. corporate welfare sync with their spouses when it comes to disciplining their children. Another 33.1 per- To the editor: Kudo’s for your balance coverage. I submit cent, however, claim that they the following for your consideration: LETTERS take the lead in controlling the MEN ARE FROM MARS Day Since Mr. Ratner plans to add 2.4 million kids, while 11.6 percent let WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS their husband be the tough square feet of office and retail space to the new, By John Gray improved, expanded and geographically puz- To the editor: guy. School, zling Downtown Brooklyn (when did that hap- I write regarding the letter by Borough Presi- For 13 percent of lucky pen? Why did I never notice how long the walk dent Marty Markowitz in last week’s edition, kids, both parents are softies. Inc. was from Dean Street down to Fulton Street?) it “Markowitz: Hagan’s got some chutzpah.” Full poll results are shown below. To take part in this week’s is instructive to see to what ends he and the city I am disgusted by the manner in which Mr. Mars Venus Redbook Poll, log on to www.marsvenusadvice.com A fully licensed and certified preschool had to go to keep Bear Sterns at Metrotech last Markowitz wrote about Patti and Schellie Hagan. Who do your kids listen to? year, when they made the 20-year deal that will Just because he made a campaign pledge to bring Me, I’m the disciplinarian. — 33.1 percent keep 1,500 of its employees based there. a major sports team and arena to Brooklyn doesn’t My husband, because I’m a softy. — 11.6 percent I 2-4 year old programs I 2, 3, 4 or 5 mornings, After demanding city incentives enabling mean that they don’t have the right to oppose it. Both of us. — 42.3 percent Bear Sterns to relocate to Lower Manhattan, These women, who are my neighbors in Prospect Neither of us! — 13.0 percent I Licensed teachers afternoons or full days they had already received as much as $111 mil- Heights, are fighting for all of us who will be dis- Total votes: 884 lion in public largesse in two separate packages placed should the stadium project go forward. NOTE: Because poll percentages are rounded, total values may I Optimal educational equipment I Spacious Classrooms — $36 million in 1991 and $75 million in 1997. My husband and I own one of the businesses not work out to 100 percent. Poll results are not scientific and reflect This latest giveaway involved $4.8 million from on Dean Street that Bruce Ratner is trying to only the opinions of those users who choose to partake. I Exclusive outdoor facilities I Enriched Curriculum unused sales tax breaks that Bear Stearns got as snatch using eminent domain. We manufacture ¥¥¥ part of its incentives for first moving the operation fine painting supports for artists, conservators Dear John: I Indoor Gym facilities I Caring, loving environment and museums worldwide, and hardly consider to Brooklyn in 1991, and was shifted into property Why do some in-laws meddle in their children’s relation- tax exemptions, which were another component in our commercial space “blighted.”. ships? — Privacy Deprived Bear Stearns’ 1997 subsidy package. I would say that Mr. Ratner and the rest of his 763 President Street (bet. 6th & 7th Aves.) • (718) 230-5255 In this case, the Bloomberg administration governmental supporters, Governor Pataki, Mayor Dear Privacy Deprived: stood firm in limiting the level of corporate ex- Bloomberg, Mr. Markowitz and Senator Schumer Moms and dads get involved because of the love they have for tortion, and Mr. Ratner publicly acknowledged are the ones with “chutzpah” for ignoring some of their children. When their child comes to them with a relationship the mayor’s role in keeping those 1,500 jobs in the very constituents who voted for them. problem, sometimes parents forget that they are only hearing one New York. [Deputy Mayor Dan] Doctoroff Those of us in jeopardy will not give up our side of the story and respond accordingly. Even when the adult said, “The era of handouts to get companies to homes or our businesses so that one greedy de- child has resolved the issue, the parents may not be aware of this, stay in the city is nearing an end.” veloper can snatch private land and use it for his and so they may still resent the spouse’s actions. Nature Oriented, Physically Active Develop, don’t destroy. own benefit. For this reason, I implore couples to work out their issues with —Lee Rubenstein, Prospect Heights — Susan Goldberg, Prospect Heights each other first or with an unbiased mediator. If the issues are big enough, preferably that person would be a professional counselor. 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You may have heard of new Keyspan Park. them. It was a dream that O’Malley the city review process — without input In 1955, Walter O’Malley, presi- could only wish for. Not only did from Community Board 2. dent and owner of the Dodgers, the city pick up all expenses, it built Following years of planning, months of complained that the team had out- on city park property taken over discussion and a four-hour public hearing, grown Ebbets Field, so he sold the when developer Fred Trump de- stadium to Marvin Kratter — later faulted on old Steeplechase Park the Downtown Brooklyn board effectively the creator of the Ebbets Field land. The only condemnation was removed itself — and the communities it Houses on the site — intending to of the Thunderbolt, a privately represents — from the process when it gath- lease it back for the next three owned roller coaster relic of the old ered Tuesday night at Brooklyn Technical years. He wanted a new, larger, Coney Island. The winners were round, domed ballpark which he High School in Fort Greene to vote on the thought would be fine at Atlantic multi-layered application. and Flatbush avenues. Then the That’s because most board members were team left for Japan to play exhibi- baffled as to what exactly they were voting tion games. Then-Brooklyn Borough Presi- on. dent John Cashmore approved of “The proposal was too big —why didn’t they the planned new ballpark but Parks break it down?” asked board member Irene Van Commissioner Robert Moses did Slyke, who voted to adopt the recommendations not. Moses said he did not want of CB2’s Land Use committee. public money involved in the con- That panel effectively culled down a more than struction of a new stadium. Then he Above is a rendering of open space encased within a complex of skyscrapers that the Downtown Plan envisions along chastised O’Malley for even think- 210-page ULURP application and its companion ing of using public money and the 3-inch-thick Draft Environmental Impact State- Willoughby Street between Duffield and Gold streets. The open space would be created by the seizure of private prop- erty through the state’s power of eminent domain and street demapings. The tree-lined triangle at the top would cover city’s powers of eminent domain to ment into a two-page report recommending that the site now occupied by the 57-year-old Institute of Design and Construction. Below is a Frank Gehry-envisioned mega build a sports stadium. Jerry Abramowitz the board approve the upzoning of the block in developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards site — surrounded by Dean Street and Carlton, Atlantic and Vanderbilt “Walter honestly believes that Downtown area to allow for sweeping towers but avenues, east of Ratner’s proposed Nets arena — that would likewise be built on condemned property and demapped he, in himself, constitutes a public Fred Wilpon, who owns the Mets disapprove of eminent domain takings of private streets. As in the Downtown Plan, which is its neighbor, green space would be surrounded by skyscrapers, creating a purpose,” said Moses. and Cyclones, baseball fans in property that would allow the city to seize 100 fortress-like environment. Downtown Plan renderings, like the one above, portray proposed structures as only a dozen The Board of Estimate, the city’s Brooklyn, and the Coney Island apartments, 130 commercial units and a college, or so stories tall, cutting off their tops to avoid picturing their intended heights — possibly exceeding 60 stories — that funding agency at that time, agreed neighborhood. all of which city planners say is needed to would dwarf Brooklyn’s existing skyline. with Moses. Then O’Malley called So Brooklyn is having a renais- achieve much of the specific development out- Los Angeles. sance, a rebirth of its better days. lined in the application. But L.A. had no more of a stadi- Risky neighborhoods are being um to offer than did Brooklyn. Rather than— gentrified, gourmet chefs have New York Mayor Robert Wagner, ¥vote to recommend approval or rejection of the en- commandeered key neighborhood concerned that he was losing two tire massive city application, or strips, condos are replacing parking baseball teams, the New York Gi- lots, and even our prison has closed •vote individually on each of the application’s 22 in- ants as well as the Brooklyn dependent actions, or for lack of business. Dodgers, tried to mend fences. Now we have new developers ¥vote to recommend disapproval unless certain as- Then Moses offered to build a sta- pects of the plan, like the eminent domain property tak- dium for the Dodgers in Flushing and politicians to fill in for the ings, were removed, Meadows, Queens, at Parks De- Moses’ and O’Malleys of yester- —the board decided to cast just one vote on the partment expense. If O’Malley did- year. Their names are Ratner and Land Use committee’s report. n’t accept, he concluded, “It won’t Bloomberg, Pataki and Markowitz, ECAUSE THEY HAD to vote yes or no to a re- happen.” Kalikow and Gargano. And the sce- port that contained both approvals and disap- Moses was right. The estimate nario hasn’t changed much. They Bprovals, board members were confused as to on the proposed stadium and land all want the same results: big prof- precisely what their vote would mean. was revealed to be $20.7 million. its at the expense of taxpayers. Following a brief discussion by board members about But L.A. was more accommodat- In the 19th century, owners of rail- the plan, including traffic concerns and the need to fully ing. They were willing to dedicate roads had their own bag of tricks to study the implications of such a big build-out in conjunc- land in Chavez Ravine — land that “condemn” land. Courts were closed tion with other developments around the area (many of had been designated for public on the weekends so railroad condem- them enumerated on a satellite photo of greater Down- housing for poor Mexican immi- nations started late on Friday. Once town Brooklyn on the front page of last week’s Brooklyn grants — as a stadium site for the rails ran over private land, the rail- Papers), the board voted 19-17, with three abstentions, in Dodgers. roads had the right of way, which the favor of adopting the committee’s report. O’Malley counter-offered Moses But according to board rules, a majority of the board courts — when they opened on Mon- by saying he would buy the At- day — recognized. After all, railroads members in attendance is required to pass a resolution. lantic Avenue site — if the city were a public convenience. With 36 board members voting, three (Gloria An- only would condemn the land, drews, Edward Carter and Hemalee Patel) abstaining filled with “slums,” according to Rudy Giuliani understood this and one board member (Rachel Foster) actually duck- mendation,” is all Hardy Adasko, senior vice president of Just last week, as CB2 was gearing up to vote on the journalist Doris Kearns Goodwin in when he ordered the Thunderbolt ing the vote — she hid in the hallway saying she felt the city Economic Development Corporation, would say plan, Deputy Mayor Dan Doctoroff sent a multi-page letter her book “Wait Till Next Year.” demolished on a Friday night. pressured by the hundreds of vocal protesters, accord- when asked to interpret the vote. to the board outlining a number of traffic mitigations the Meanwhile, on the West Coast, the Robert Moses understood it when ing to a source — there were 40 board members in at- Some feared that a vote against the committee recom- city would consider studying. ante was 300 acres of the ravine he confiscated Long Island farms tendance. Therefore, 21 votes were needed to adopt the mendation could be viewed as a vote in favor of eminent But many members said it was too little, too late and plus $4 million for preparation. and Brooklyn neighborhoods for committee report. domain, since the committee had voted down those por- urged the city to do the traffic studies before pushing ahead O’Malley would pay for the $10 his beloved highways. Now we Thus, the committee’s report was rejected. tions of the plan. with the plan. million stadium, writes Michael have the Nets coming to the same Adding to the strange happenings, before the final “The community board has essentially taken no vote on “Let’s do the birth control planning now, not after the Shapiro in his “The Last Good Sea- neighborhood O’Malley desired, anything,” said CB2 member Ken Diamondstone, who baby is born,” CB2 member Bill Harris wrote in a Jan. 28 tally was counted, Patel asked to change her vote from son: Brooklyn, The Dodgers, and which happens to involve a rail- an abstention to an actual vote. Her request was shot made a motion before the vote to consider each of the 22 letter to fellow board members. Their Final Pennant Race Togeth- actions and vote on them individually. So what happens now? road: the LIRR. The winner gets down by CB2 Chairwoman Shirley McRae. er.” not only a stadium but the extra- Foster did not return telephone messages left on her That motion was voted down by the board. The massive application goes to Borough President Mar- The Board of Estimate never “It was strange that the meeting didn’t continue with ty Markowitz, who was hosting a reception in honor of confiscated land that goes with it cell phone. acted. They refused to condemn the — at taxpayer expense. Irene Van Slyke, a longtime community board mem- some request for another resolution,” said Diamondstone. Bishop Nicolas DiMarzio, spiritual leader of the Roman Atlantic Avenue land; they hesitat- Asked afterwards why she did not take action to ensure Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn Tuesday night and did not at- The prize that Bruce Ratner ber, jumped up and took the microphone after the votes ed to build a $30 million stadium. wants is land that Moses refused to had been cast and McRae was still speaking. the board adopted some resolution or recommendation on tend the vote. In October 1957, O’Malley flew give to O’Malley. Now Ratner has “Now the borough president won’t understand what the application or took another vote, McRae said it was not “Although the community board took no clear position to L.A. with a contract for his this vote means,” she said. her role to tell board members to make a motion. on the Downtown Plan many important issues were raised Dodgers. After several ugly scenes the governor willing to confiscate “We just weren’t finished,” said Van Slyke, who is Responding to the loss of 21,000 city jobs to New Jersey during the several committee and general board meetings,” in which people were evicted, land, the MTA willing to offer air opposed to most parts of the Downtown Plan. in the 1990s, the Bloomberg administration announced the said Markowitz, adding, “I look forward to hearing more Dodgers Stadium opened in 1962. rights and the borough president She explained that a “yes” vote actually meant vot- Downtown Brooklyn Plan last April. about these issues.” Two years later, Shea Stadium willing to be a cheerleader. ing down eminent domain portions of the plan and sev- The mayor pledged to fund $100 million in infrastructure The next public hearing on the Downtown Plan will be opened in Flushing Meadows. My, how times have changed! eral street demappings that would make way for larger improvements and construction over the next 10 years, but hosted by Markowitz on Feb. 18, at 6 pm, at Borough Hall. Professional baseball, of course, John Manbeck, the former development sites. the project would still be largely dependent on market con- “We have to have the borough president do the right returned to Brooklyn in 2001. Fos- Brooklyn Borough Historian, is a ditions and the ability to lure business and developers. thing,” said Nancy Wolf, chairwoman of the CB2 Traffic tered by a mayor who drove to columnist for The Brooklyn Papers. OCATED JUST BLOCKS from the proposed Critics have called the $100 million “chicken feed” and and Transportation committee, who is asking Markowitz Atlantic Yards site where developer Bruce Rat- said much more would be needed for traffic mitigation and to advocate for the committee’s extensive list of recom- L ner is looking to construct a $2.5 billion residen- subway construction alone. mendations with regard to the Downtown Plan. tial and commercial village centered around a profes- sional basketball arena to house his recently purchased New Jersey Nets, some of the approximately 400 pro- testers who packed the high school auditorium thought CB2 was actually voting on the arena plan. Draped in American flags and armed with placards and balloons they cheered after it was announced that Neil Sloane / CB2 blows it bigtime the board had failed to make a recommendation, think- should get the boot first. Her name is recommendation goes to the borough to minimize land use or environmental ing that meant they decided to not approve the arena MAGINE it’s the Super Bowl. NOT JUST NETS plan. Others in attendance wanted the Downtown and Your team is down by three points Rachel Foster, and she is an appointee president and to the City Planning Com- impacts are not adopted by the [City mission and is generally taken into con- Planning] Commission.” arena plans considered together and still others were Ibut has the ball on the 1 yard line. of Councilman David Yassky. Then the coach sends the quarterback McRae was appointed originally by sideration (although with a majority of With such an involved plan before protesting the eminent domain portions of the Down- the planning commissioners serving at them — in which the city has unfairly town Plan. in … to take a knee. the late Councilwoman Mary Pinkett. She now serves at the pleasure of the pleasure of the mayor, the fix may combined a massive rezoning with a “There was a lot of misinformation,” said McRae, Game over. What happens next? The coach gets Councilwoman Letitia James. well be in at that level of review). massive urban renewal expansion to al- explaining before the board adjourned that contrary to All board members ultimately serve Still, especially since the city rushed low for a massive build-up — it was es- the belief of many, the board’s vote had no bearing on canned. For Community Board 2, Tuesday’s under the appointing authority of the such a voluminous and complicated pro- sential that the board be instructed to the arena plan. posal before them — dumping the 210- vote separately on the rezoning propos- vote on the Downtown Brooklyn Plan borough president. The two plans which cover adjacent areas and whose page ULURP application on the board als and the urban renewal-eminent do- was the big game, and they had it in After her ill-prepared board failed to impact on each other cannot be separated, are in fact reach a consensus on the one vote they right before the December holidays, main proposals within the plan, or at linked physically, overlapping on the site at Atlantic their hands … and they blew it. leaving less than the required 60 days took, McRae had the gall to say it was least separately vote on each of the land and Flatbush avenues where Ratner wants to build a The coach, in this case the board’s for actual consideration — the chair- use committee’s five recommendations. chairwoman, Shirley McRae, didn’t make not her role to tell board members to 620-foot office tower adjacent to a Nets arena. THE NEW BROOKLYN woman should have scheduled a special Those votes would have formed the For the most part, Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project a bad call — she made no call at all. In make a motion. meeting for her members to discuss and basis for an overall recommendation, fact, she literally came into the most im- Foster, the one who hid, claimed she will likely skirt community board and city review by clarify each action within the plan before which could have been made conditional. portant vote the board will likely ever be was too intimidated by the 400 or so going through the much less rigorous state review ing redevelopment proposal this bor- the meeting at which they were to vote. Board member Ken Diamondstone asked to make with no game plan. anti-Nets arena and anti-eminent do- ough has ever seen, McRae allowed The board’s job was not to decided got it. He stood up and called for an item process. What should happen next? McRae main protesters in the audience, ac- The community board is the first stop along the ap- her board, through either gross incom- whether or not to make a recommen- by item vote. His fellow board members, should resign her executive position, if cording to a source. Given the circum- petence or a willful desire not to get in dation — it’s job was to decide what to including the chairwoman, overwhelm- proximately seven-month city Uniform Land Use Re- not remove herself from the board all stances of the confusing vote, and the view Procedure (ULURP) and is followed by public the way of the dream of developers recommend. ingly shot that proposal down. together. confusion of many of the protesters as To quote from ULURP rules in the hearings before and votes by the borough president, that would turn Brooklyn into Manhat- McRae just stood by and watched as And she’s not the only one. to what was being voted on, she had tan, to take itself out of the process. City Charter: “The community board her board relinquished the communi- City Planning Commission and City Council. Ten board members could not be nothing to worry about. The board is chosen to represent the may include in its submission the reasons ty’s right to weigh in. She rendered her- While the role of the board is purely advisory, its bothered to attend the momentous vote, I think we can do better on the community. In the Uniform Land Use for the vote and any conditions attached self and her board irrelevant. Someone ULURP vote and recommendations send a clear mes- or send their proxy; three board mem- board without her cowering and Review Procedure (ULURP) the board to its vote. The community board may in authority should make it official. sage to elected officials about the concerns and wishes bers abstained from voting and one, in- McRae’s hands-off leadership style. is the first to review an application, the state that its conditional approval shall be Neil Sloane is the editor of The of the communities it serves. credibly, came to the meeting and then With the responsibility of rendering first to hold a public hearing, and the considered a negative recommendation Brooklyn Papers. E-mail: Newsroom@ Except in this case where it sends no message at all. hid in the hallway to avoid voting. She a recommendation on the most sweep- first to render a recommendation. That … if conditions that it considers essential BrooklynPapers.com “I know they voted against the committee recom- 6 BRZ THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM February 7, 2004 The Top Ten List: Why The Brooklyn Papers are Brooklyn’s REAL Newspapers!

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S r d Press ” Marko alavat v today ore B i witz said Thurs is ilan B v S re-crea cione y Pa o ee PA day, te a sce plays D trick r RACHU ne fr anny The Br Galla ’ TE o om to ook hu n p th sis lyn e h ag e t By movi er Gab Papers u e 7 Heat e “Grea riella’s n h s S Th er J e” on andy Each Thursday night, St. Francis from k e . T a St. Brookl Wils hird A s they Franci yn P o ve College students a apers n nue Sa and a degree ins PoliCollege, earned cording to tu c Dogs, dads and most of all, rday. watch o one “ and s New York ce S last May, p kids paraded down Third Avenue Stewart would be prouparent, Survivor taff gather to City cience Gahn tive office at the school on Rem holds a cert P from the f “Mar ” in olice ” and r That mother dr tha an administra- i Academy. He also “Sook Jai, o in Bay Ridge on Saturday in the d of.” Street between Court and Clinton tificate f fied fitness prof eldest male and female castaways. m ” select month-old daughter,e sJennased L rom the essional cer- ed by the 36th Annual Ragamuffin Parade, Spo Stafford was a third-r R Imm her 6- streets in Brooklyn Heights. sen rts Medicine. National i Academy of d wearing handmade costumes itt, in a fea “ younger, sexier Sook Jai tribe, along with g tume there ynn But thes The wh ound pick of the e d chic ole St. the ton that put manufactured ones to — complete withken white cos- soro e are not thr pulling for Franci gue-pierc feather rity-like assemblies fowbacks to the him, s communit tate agent from Aed Erin C shame. s attached to a ba “Melr Frank Macchiarola.” said college Presi y is and rubber glove shoes repr ose Place rom th nik, us ollins, a real From 1 to 3 pm, by onesy 90210. ” or e days of to taming the concrete“ Ijungle know inKen Brooklyn is dent a laid-back 23-year-oldtin, Texas; Robbbartender Zbac-es- tive of a chicken ” No, thi “Beverly Hills — from 67th Street to running from ’s webbed esenta- one of its own. s is Brookl I hope he used Scottsdale, 92nd St “I found the yn rooting for jungle in Thailand.’ll be as successful taming the 29-year-old Ariz.; Stephanie Dill, a ers and knights, cartoonreet, characters Stewart catalog, idea in a Marthafeet. Ken Stafford, a Bay Ridge resident, St. firefighter cheerlead- Due to contractual” agreements, Staff Ariz.; and t and farm animals, s Carolyn Immitt. ” said Bay Ridgite Francis alumnus and police officer with hree other tonedfrom Fayetteville,and tanned craftsmanship of their mothers and the 79th Precinct in Bedf is not allo 20-somethings, along howed off the that difficult to make.“It really was not wed to speak with re ley, a 61- fathers w has til the show ord year- with Jake hose sewing skills, al Immit joined ord- ’s completion. old land br Billings- with the creativi t pointed out” that aways to scheme,the latest connive andStuyvesant, soci A resident of porters un “I based oker fro parade attendee lineup of island cast- - cism picking m combined ty of their chil ong like al their way to a $1 unmarr Bay Ridge, and just the teams Texas. to make costumes that, ac- free gift s, Jenna r l ied with two American Stafford, bull is lo that gleam in the on dren, — a stuffed red, whiteeceived and a This million prize. Bubba and Thu ok like they athleti- blue teddy season, St alize Billingsley said’ll after be here pi ir eyes that bear. And, because she other competitors, afforhave been marooned item,” one mper. Stafford dogs, for d, along with 15 item per person that’ t the durat See M on the remote region of Koh Tarutao, bring with them t s “luxury Over the course of 42cking days, histhe team survivorion,” UFFIN contestants hold periodic S on p Thailan NYPD shield, ando histhe statusisland, of was hey canhis . age 10 d. secretly vote off one person from the island. Stafford, 30, holds a bachelor York City Police Officer “tribal councils applause from the other competitors. The person with the most votes is immedi- ” has earned“ Newhim ” to ’s degree The beached contestants were divided ately sent packing, back to civiliza into two teams, or One by one, survivors are voted off un- tribes, named til only two people remain, at whichtion. point “Chuay the seven most recently banished survivors See SURVIV OR on “Surv page 2 ivor” c offic astawa er Ken y and Stafford New Yo in Tha rk City iland. police CBS / Monty Weiner Brinton By P c atrick al Th G l e B a s rook llah lyn u f Pap e o ers r Sally Regenhard, the mother 9-1 of Red Hook Firefighter 1 f Christian Regenhard, who per- iles ished in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, has experi- enced many bittersweet victo- ries over the past 13 months. She founded the Skyscraper Safety Campaign to advocate for Winners safer highrise buildings. She successfully lobbied for the National Construction Safety Team Membe EVERY rs of N Act, which would r ew Utre cht Hig tional Institute of Standardsequire the andNa- h Schoo l’s foot Technology (NIST) to dispatch ball team prac construction safety experts to build- tice on their ne ing disaster sites for a thorough in- N w field vestigation. th e is week w . Regenhard also developed two By f He i Th powerful political allies in Sen. a e e Br t o T her l oklyn P he J. d ape Hillar Bro W rs oklyn ilson / Greg y Clinton and Rep. Anthony Pap f Man ers o go For the New Utrecht High plete with an opening ceremonyr N Weiner, who co-sponsored the bill School Utes, it that included a chorus and band ew in the Senate and House, respec- tively. President George Bush road home. ’s been a long performing the crowds the team draws to their realU Banner “Star Spangled t signed the disaster investigation bill ” and home field. r The Bensonhurst school has for e ca.” Sports Illustrated“God Bless even Amer docu- c into law on Tuesday. more than 80 years done without h mented the event, said the school If New Utrecht administrators, summer when he surveyed the tsite an athletic field, forcing their Divi- i- students and jocks are walking This week, Regenhard also principal, Dr. Howard Lucks. for himself. HE morning after brings with it the staggering realization sion I with a bit more spring in their steps S football team to play their ee 9-11 home games at “This has brought the communi-’s these days they can thank one of Catell got in touch with FILES R that the events of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 were not just a hor- ty together, on pag ep. An High School fieldthe at ErasmusFlatbush Halland their the Field, e 7 thony W T rible nightmare. That what could never have been imagined New Utr ” said Sara Steinweiss, own f ” a public-private partner-“Take Christia einer, — except by twisted minds bent on the destruction of the American Church avenues. fantasy a reality.or making the pigskin ship started in 2000 that works to n Rege left, wit dent activities.echt’s coordinator of stu- nhard o h Sally psyche reinvigorate the physical education n the st Regen — But three weeks ago, New it because when“ they come out of The Public School Athletic eps of C hard, m and with it hadwrought manifested the deaths itself of in thousands the toppling of ourof acity national icon, The students love League (PSAL), which doles out curricula, intramural programming ity Hal other o Utrecht hosted its first true home l Monda f Firef and brave in the most horrific ways. the train station it is the first thing the funding f and sports participation for city y. ighter game on a brand new field. G BP / they see. It h Tom sports equ or things such as public school student an Callan Returning to the Brooklyn Heights promenade the morning after, The Sept. 14 game against [goal] posts as a scoreboard and g # South Shore High School was re- fields, had determinedipment and that athletic New rebuilding of crumbling high e WEEK! the new Manhattan skyline conjures no notions of possibility, no m have pride in.… it is something they s through the By H i Utrecht did not have enough room ea # ’s innocent school sports facilities. th m I can make it there, I ” e Steinweiss said the next step is The r J. a to build a r Brook Wils y incomprehensible view of something great torn asunder, a plume of Robert Tisch, co-chairman of lyn Pap on to find a way to seat the lar ers g ’ll make it anywhere egulation-size field, grayish smoke left in its wake. Steinweiss Loews Corporation and co-owner Facing 15 years in prison if charges that he swindled clientset alumnus Robertsaid. Catell, But New the CEOUtrecht of out of $6 million. a ” spirit. There is only the To this week of the New York Giants football convicted, the son of one of d The reality this morning is that our great city “If ger Keyspan, thought otherwise last ea war ’team,s attack along T Gangemi lo, said his client l ripped out — we must respond decisively and fully, punishinghe Bro Bay not onlyRidge the — recognized by our presidentoklyn Pas an act of ’s father is former Bay immediate perpetratorschairman (whether of thewith Urban foreignRichard Assembly, orKahan, domestic), but atheper snations ’s most prominent Ridge Councilman John Gangemi certainties of— death, by images of United of office States workers airliners choosing slamming between purposely two political/ T ofamilies,m C former attor- pearance before Judge’s Oct. Neil 1 court Firetog ap- that perpetuate terrorism, hide terrorists in their midst, or facilitate ter-allan into the World Trade Center and of those Twin Towers, incon- ney Frank Gangemi, may work Sr. He is the brother of past candi- in Brooklyn Supreme Court Down- ’s heart has been ror by their appeasement orS eequivocation.e FI dates f ceivably, crashing to the ground before our eyes in avalanches of ELD on out a plea deal with prosecutors or state and city elected of- town ended with an understanding page fice John Gangemi Jr. T glass, steel and human remains. This is our Pearl Harbor. 2 between assistant district attorney Brooklyn’s only weekly rather than stand trial on Gangemi. and Ursula Patricia McNeill and himself This awful morning also brings the reality of hundreds of our fire- On May 13 Gangemi “discussions would continue in an fighters, police officers and emergency workers rushing into harm min , 1940 ’s attorney, former ister o , in hi Supreme Court Justice Ronald Aiel- that way, only to be crushed under the weight of organized, state-sanction- offe f Grea s first s attempt to resolve the issue N red “ t Brita peec blood, in in t h befo the next court date, on Nov. 6. ed international terrorism. And the knowledge that in coming days, as toil, te he ear re Parl ars an ly days iament ” until E have before us dan s wordealea of the of mostWo grievous after kind.b We have we become familiar with the faces of the thousands of our relatives, t”: rld Wa ecomi r II, W ng prim See E friends and neighbors who perished at the hands of unmitigated evil, before us many, many months of struggl inston e DEA ’ Churc L on p we will want to crush the enemy that caused so much pain. s W hill age 2 land, sea and air.“You War ask, with all our might and with all the strength God has ‘What Dec. 7, 1941, given is our policy? e and suffering. R us. And to wage war against a monstrous tyranny never surpassed our nation “a date which will live in infamy, in the dark and lamentable catalog of human crime.’ I say That it is isto our wage policy. war by ’s dominance on the world scene. 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Pape is a nickname for our second daughter Juliette. oklyn d — ’s menu promises poulet a la Thanksgiving ro he B Cocotte chicken with garlic mashed potatoes and fresh Brooklyn’s arts and T o ” o (“home style g vegetables), seared filet of brook trout (served over orange- scented wild rice and grilled asparagus)’oeuvres: and escargot, of course, frog steak legs ’s frites. The Snells are also offering a daily vegetarian special TRUSTED! it and the beloved French hors d and foie gras. t Christine says they were lucky to have found such a great tis a J. Cur 7 e Park Slope location to open Cocotte. Rather,— L iParks Slope B should feel lucky to have the Snells. - For more information, call (718) 832-6848 U owitz entertainment weekly, ty Mark Mar op I C The Brooklyn Papers’ full-time professional oro’s t M U S toast b y to maker irthda g cream nt b eg all Gia nts ugh H Be Gia editorial staff covers the news of our neighbor- Boro Might reer at ons hey r ca e Simm T yea featuring Brooklyn’s ulann 20- By Pa . Curtis ates n Lisa J lebr okly and ce n Bro for The Brooklyn Papers an i hat beg he egg cream. Beyond a doubt, this t nican y Brez concoction of milk, chocolate syrup Wed- nthon hoods like no one else. Well-read and trusted nue y A Tand seltzer is as Brooklyn as stoop- ush Ave o- B latb ark nt on F Marty M Associated Press estaura sident ert- ball. And this summer, in recognition of nior’s r ugh Pre king exp At Ju lyn Boro am-ma am the unique place egg creams hold in the , Brook egg cre gg Cre ake two restless buddies from Brooklyn, a telephone tape nesday ted his t his E te hearts of Brooklynites, Borough President monstra stants a heonet machine and a rally for a leftist Latin American regime itz de onte lunc go ’ve got the start of They Might Be Giants. Marty Markowitz is hosting an Egg w the c sch’s eg Man T and you g in Gr mon be H apers / Cream Extravaganza at noon on Aug. 26 ise. A will oklyn P nza The Bro Twenty years later, the musical duo that plays with listen- only complete aga at Borough Hall Plaza. Extrav Ridge. heads as deftly as they play their instruments is celebrat- of Bay ers’ The celebration will feature an egg (above) ’s U-Bet articles lend credibility to our advertisers. ing a career of relentlessly cheerful melodies, desperately sad cream-making contest open to restaurants, lyrics and upside-down logic. ice cream parlors, delis and luncheonettes, another borough favorite: Fox Keyboardist and accordion player John Linnell’t realize and wasgui- a plus plenty of the unofficial drink of Chocolate Flavor Syrup. tarist John Flansburgh had been which tinkering they didn with a few songs Brooklyn and borough trivia contest H. Fox and Company was founded in a — in 1982 when’s Central a friend Park asked them to play at a concert in prizes for the audience. Brownsville basement during the early ’s Sandin- Everybody knows that the best place “The Brooklyn New York “ “But it is time 1900s, and according to Lyn Stallworth rally for Nicaragua ght in the world to get a great egg cream is in ” ey Mi ” said Markowitz. and Rod Kennedy” “You absolutelyJr. in ’s U-Bet. cannot make ista government. “[Th Brooklyn, ’t wait to taste Cookbook, ’s grandson, “It turned out we were the l to settle, once and for all, who makes the ” recalled s] fee ” an egg cream without Fox ’s name: only English-speaking band Be Giant best egg cream. And I can ” The cookbook refers to Fox on the entire bill, Nightlife Guide dates from the late- every single one of them. 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Schmelvis lives The Jewish Executive Learning Annex will kick off its Brooklyn Heights Jewish International Film Festival on Feb. 7 with the 2001 Canadian film, “Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley’s Jewish Roots.” This utterly unpredictable documentary by writer-di- rector-producer Max Wallace claims to be a journalistic (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Papers’ essential guide to the Borough of Kings February 7, 2004 endeavor to make the case for Elvis’ ties to Judaism. In- stead, it becomes clear that this behind-the-scenes film is helmed by a band of directionless filmmakers intent on a road trip to Graceland with an Orthodox Jewish Elvis impersonator, Schmelvis, in tow. While they make half-hearted attempts at their re- search (they wander around a cemetery, looking for the grave of Elvis’ Jewish great-great-grandmother but don’t seem to know for sure if she’s even buried there), and when the infighting overcomes them, they run off to the unlikely destination, Israel, for clues. “Schmelvis” is at times Woody Allen-esque (the film- makers practically taunt the southerners and then deject- edly admit, to humorous effect, that they can’t elicit any anti-Semitic responses) but more so like “Project Green- light,” HBO’s reality series filming the unpleasant quar- reling of self-righteous novices attempting to make a

/ Greg Mango / Greg Mango / Greg movie. On camera, a filmmaker actually hits up his Aunt Pearlie for money to make the movie by bribing her with a paper bag full of chocolate bars. But the film is worth it for those few and far between comic moments, like the visit to the unsuspecting Aun-

The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn tie. And when the anti-Semitism does rear its ugly head, it’s an unwarranted, deeply affecting surprise not pro- voked by either Schmelvis or his cohorts. Although Schmelvis often ran from opportunities to perform in the documentary, there will be a post-film concert and dialogue with the yarmulke-wearing crooner. The screening is free and begins at 8 pm at the Jewish Executive Learning Annex in B’nai Avraham, 117 Remsen St. in Brooklyn Heights. Reservations are necessary. Call (718) 596-4840 Seasons ext. 15. — Lisa J. Curtis

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greetings Mango / Greg Hot stuff Flamenco Vivo/Carlota Santana will perform their potent concoction of flamenco music and dance at Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn Rediscover the four seasons thru College on Feb. 7, at 8 pm. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Singers Aurora Reyes and Jose Salinas will join gui- Culture clubhouse: (From far left) At the “Japan and Nature” exhibit at the tarists Calvin Hazen and Basilio Georges to form a gal- Japanese kids’ ideas and artifacts Brooklyn Botanic Garden, children share a Japanese meal with life-like foods; vanizing, rhythmic backdrop for the six dancers per- a kid tries on a fox mask; and Olivia Guerrieri, 8, models a cotton yukata. forming this special, 20th anniversary program. Artistic Director Carlota Santana told GO Brooklyn By Lisa J. Curtis tree and having a picnic with a cooler-full of said Rawson. “This is what’s important for this week that her company distinguishes itself from oth- GO Brooklyn Editor EXHIBIT supplies. kids here to know about them. That’s what er flamenco companies, in part, because while traditional The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is famed makes this exhibit so special.” flamenco dances are about certain feelings or moods, f you’ve lost that naive rapture at the sight “Japan and Nature: Spirits of the Seasons” for its annual cherry blossom festival, which It wouldn’t be a vacation without a snap- “We do a lot of theme-based works, will be on display at the Brooklyn Botanic Gar- of snow and ice, it’s time to take your den’s Steinhardt Conservatory, 1000 Washington culminates with a weekend straining at the shot, so children can pose in front of several works with a story line. The one piece Ichild — or borrow a niece or nephew — Ave. at Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights, seams with activities ranging from flower ar- different backdrops featuring views around we’re bringing to Brooklyn Center that is to visit an exhibition that celebrates the best through June 6. Pick up timed exhibit tickets, ranging to concerts. (This year the festival Lake Biwa. theme-based was choreographed in free with garden admission, at the Visitor’s Cen- aspects of winter, spring, summer and fall: ter. Admission is $5 for adults 16 and older; $3 will be held May 1-2.) In the fall area, visitors will recognize the 1986 by my partner and co-founder of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum’s “Japan for adults 65 and older and students with valid Children can don cotton yukatas, accord- torii, the large vermilion structure that is also the company, Roberto Lorca. and Nature: Spirits of the Seasons” exhibit. IDs; and free for children under 16. ing to the exhibit instructions, which are dec- in the Botanic Garden’s 90-year-old, outdoor “[‘Luz y Sombra’] is a piece about The Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s hours, Octo- On display in the lower level of the ber through March, are Tuesday through Friday, orated with flowers, and marvel at the doll Japanese Hill and Pond Garden. The torii the light side of life and the dark Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Steinhardt Con- 8 am to 4:30 pm, and Saturday, Sunday and holi- display featuring elaborate hina dolls that are signifies that a shrine is near. In the exhibit side of life, which he cho- servatory, the installation of objects, activi- days, 10 am to 4:30 pm. Closed Mondays, ex- passed down from mother to daughter, or the the shrine, Kyoto’s Fushimi Inari, is evoked reographed when he was cept on public holidays. ties, videos, games and more will make both Events related to the exhibit will take place warrior dolls in the Children’s Day display. by a mural and steps. Nearby, children can diagnosed with AIDS,” children and adults appreciate nature’s at the Botanic Garden and at the Brooklyn Chil- In the summer area, a tent is set up near write their prayers and wishes on paper and said Santana. “Initially charms in a whole new way. dren’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Ave. at St. Mark’s backdrops of Lake Biwa, Japan’s largest and hang them on a wall, just as is done at the it is bright and fun, a Avenue in Crown Heights, through the run of the By interviewing Japanese children about exhibition. For more information visit their Web deepest lake, which is a popular recreation shrine. Kids can also play with fox puppets couple in love, and then their favorite aspects of the four seasons, and sites at www.bbg.org and www.brooklyn- area. Children can try their hand at catch- or wear fox masks whose mythical signifi- enters a figure in fla- their holidays and traditions, and incorporat- kids.org, or call the hotline at (718) 623-7380. and-release fishing with soft, sculptured fish cance is explained in books in the exhibit. menco folklore, a very ing artifacts provided by the children as well and enjoy the ancient Japanese hobby of bug Children can also wear the jackets and sexy woman who breaks as the Newark Museum and the Brooklyn collecting by going on an insect scavenger headbands worn in the harvest festival — men’s hearts. In this piece, Children’s Museum, exhibition developers sock in honor of Children’s Day, “which rep- hunt and making rubbings of their findings. which can be watched on a monitor — and it’s the angel of death and Elizabeth Rawson and Emily Timmel have resents strength and courage because the fish (One of the curators pointed out a box of bang on the festival drums. there is a fight between the created much more than an exhibit. “Japan swim against the current,” explained Timmel. beetle food sent to the museum by a Japanese The exhibit is decorated with haikus and has male dancer and the angel of and Nature” is an environment where Ameri- Kids can also enjoy spring in Fukuoka, the child.) a globe and an interactive station where the death. He set this when he was diagnosed can children and adults can re-discover the largest city on the island of Kyushu, by “The activities and things emphasized here viewer can see Japan from above and zoom in with AIDS and was working through his own death.” seasons through the unique perspective of the spreading a blanket beneath a stylized cherry are based on research with kids in Japan,” on the regions explored in the exhibit. Lorca died in 1987, but his legacy is evident in the Japanese — although Rawson said the exhib- “Japan and Nature,” produced by the first half of the Flamenco Vivo program, which features it’s target audience is ages 4 through 11. Brooklyn Children’s Museum with a dances from the early ’80s, when the company started. The winter section has a heated table typi- $750,000 grant from the Freeman Founda- The program’s second half is much more modern cal of homes in the city of Sapporo, on the tion Asian Exhibit Initiative, closes June 6 choreography, said Santana. It will include excerpts from northernmost island of Japan, where children and will travel from Maine to Hawaii on its “Bailes de Ida y Vuelta,” a new work choreographed last can kneel and share a meal of tea and faux tour of the 10 member institutions of the As- year by Flamenco Vivo member Antonio Hidalgo, with sushi; learn how to hold chopsticks; watch a sociation of Children’s Museums. music by Calvin Hazen and Fernando de la Rua. The ti- video of an elaborate ice festival in Japan; Throughout the Brooklyn run of the exhib- tle means “Comings and Goings,” she explained. make New Year’s cards; and create a display it, both the Children’s Museum and Botanic “These dances are influenced from the migrations in an alcove, a tokonoma, with scrolls and a Garden will have activities related to the ex- from Spain to Latin America and back to Spain, that plum blossom, a flower that signifies that hibit at their institutions. Among the comple- have been happening since the time of Columbus,” said spring is not far behind. mentary activities planned for the exhibit will Santana. This work has lighter music and will include Japanese children start school in the spring, be a shodo, or calligraphy, workshop at the “Columbianas,” the Argentinean-influenced “Milonga” so that area of the exhibit is where you’ll find Children’s Museum on Feb. 14, from 3 pm to (featuring Santana) and the Cuban “Guajiras.” a classroom where children can practice brush 5 pm, and at the Botanic Garden on Feb. 15, Because flamenco is a particularly emotive art form, painting Japanese words and watch a short from 1 pm to 3 pm. Santana said the audience is encouraged to applaud video of an elementary class learning how to By organizing the exhibit around universal when they feel moved to — they don’t have to wait until tend to animals and plant rice, an integral part aspects of childhood — family, school, play the end of a piece, and the occasional shout of “Ole!” is of the Japanese curriculum. and holiday celebrations — “Japan and Na- appreciated, too. While American kids might sing, “Rain, ture” makes it possible to appreciate the The performance will take place at Brooklyn rain, go away, come again some other day,” common ground between American and College’s Walt Whitman Theater, one block from Japanese kids have their own version of the Ben Russell Japanese youth — even encouraging the the junction of Flatbush and Nostrand avenues, song, which can be heard in the exhibit, and The Rev. Mitsutaka Inui, chief officer of the International Shinto Foundation, blessed study of natural science — and it’s also a in Midwood. Tickets are $30. For more informa- teru teru bozu dolls, made to wish rain away, the exhibit with folded paper and rope on Jan. 22 to bring it and all involved good gentle reminder to enjoy the beauty each sea- tion, call (718) 951-4500 or visit www.brooklyn- are on display. They can raise a carp wind- fortune during its travel. son brings. center.com. — Lisa J. Curtis

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This nautical-themed pub, which opened on Io Restaurant and Sept. 1 in Park Slope, offers dining at the bar, 755 Dean St. at Underhill Street, (718) 638- 187 Columbia St. at Degraw Street, (718) Cucina in cozy banquettes or on the charming rear 3326 (MC, Visa) Entrees: $12.95-$18.95. « 643-5400, www.almarestaurant.com Lounge patio (weather permitting). In addition to Chef 256 Fifth Ave. at Carroll Street, (718) 230- Tavern on Dean is a cozy American tavern. Chef (AmEx, MC, Visa) Entrees: $11-$18. 119 Kent Ave. at North Seventh Street, David Quiros’ variety of burgers, he offers sta- Hugo Amador’s menu offers bar food — ham- While the authentic, “non-Americanized” Mexi- 0711, www.cucinarestaurant.com (AmEx, ples such as mozzarella sticks and chicken fin- « (718) 388-3320, www.iorestaurantand- burgers and club sandwiches — as well as more can food by Alma Chef Gary Jacobson — in the DC, Disc, MC, Visa) Entrees: $14-$27. lounge.com (MC, Visa) Entrees: $6-$21. « gers and distinguishes himself by offering sev- substantial fare. Sample the roast half-chicken, Columbia Street Waterfront District — is amaz- Park Slope’s Cucina has been named one of New A century has brought this Williamsburg landmark, eral Costa Rican bocas, or bite-size appetizers: sauteed catfish, roast herbed salmon as well as ing, it is the setting that will take your breath York’s top 50 restaurants in Zagat’s, and named homemade enyucados (fried balls of yucca steamed mussels in white wine and grilled mar- away. Dine in the rooftop garden, which seats whose name means “I” or “me” in Italian, a long “one of the finest Italian restaurants in the city” way from the sailors’ tavern it once was. Furnished dough filled with ground beef and cheese), inated hanger steak with a Merlot and shallot 40, and you’ll have Manhattan’s skyline at your by Time Out New York. But anyone who lives in ceviche, tortillas and more. Call for delivery. reduction. The kitchen is open until 3 am, tabletop. Indoor seating is also available, and with its original oak bar, the restaurant opens up Brooklyn knows that. What is news is that Cucina to a formal dining room with a breathtaking view Thursday through Saturday, and until 1 am the the comfortable, rustic dining room with its chef Michael Fiore has taken control of this con- rest of the week. The enclosed garden is heat- wood interior, handmade chairs and hand- of the Manhattan skyline and a lounge with a live Marco Polo temporary Italian kitchen, offering delicious pas- salsa band on Fridays and Saturdays. ed during the winter. Dinner only. blown glass lamps also help make Alma a pop- tas, grilled pizzas and variety of antipasti. Cucina Ristorante ular destination. The tamales have been called Chef and co-owner John Mancuso’s primarily also offers valet parking on Fridays, Saturdays 345 Court St. at Union Street, (718) 852-5015, the finest in the city, handmade daily in a daz- and Sundays and a takeout annex. 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MC, Visa) Entrees: $14.95-$29.95. waitstaff and a sophisticated menu that reflects Open since 1986, 200 Fifth Restaurant/Bar 814 Union St. at Seventh Avenue, (718) La Traviata the taste of its owner, Joe Chirico, a veteran offers a 42–foot bar, more than 25 TVs, two 230-3180, (MC, V) restaurateur. Marco Polo has an Italian menu pool tables and an internet jukebox. Park Slope resident Ted Matern and former 139 Montague St. at Clinton Street; 161 that includes an array of hot and cold appetiz- –––––––––––––– = Full review available at Joralemon St. at Clinton Street, (718) 858- Their state-of-the-art sound system gets put to Park Slope resident Alan Palmer opened this « ers, soups, salads, pasta, fish, chicken, veal, the test on Thursdays when they offer live R&B 814 Union St. scrumptious cheese and charcuterie shop in 4100, www.latraviatatogo.com (AmEx, MON: closed steaks and chops prepared by Chef Francesco and funk and on Fridays and Saturdays when November 2002. 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$14 SValentine’s Day program — aptly in Mahler’s era, he wanted the violins titled “Love Letters” — on Feb. 13 at across from each other because of the for just $6.50 the Church of St. Ann and the Holy way that he wrote — he composed Trinity, in Brooklyn Heights. lots of counterpoint between the first (good for any show, anytime) “All of the and second vio- works were cho- lins, and this is a sen for their MUSIC very effective way sheer feeling of for audiences to Free Roses to each table romantic love,” One World Symphony’s perform- hear it. ance of works by Gustav Mahler, Lud- (while suppies last) Hong told GO wig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, “The major ad- Brooklyn in an Leos Janacek and Gary Sunden takes vantage is that the exclusive inter- place Feb. 13 at 8 pm at the Church of audience will be St. Ann and the Holy Trinity, on the cor- Please, Mr. Postman: Conductor Sung Jin Hong’s Feb. 13 program will in- view. ner of Montague and Clinton streets in able to experience “Love Letters” Brooklyn Heights. Tickets are $20 at two ways of hear- clude readings by actors of love letters written by the featured composers. juxtaposes five the door, $15 in advance and $12 at ing Mahler’s the door, $10 in advance for seniors (65 works with ex- and older) and students (with ID). For work,” he said. “I there’s a difference to our ears.” for itself.” cerpts of letters tickets, call (718) 788-7138 or visit will ask the audi- While at the podium, Hong, who just Following the Mahler work, a move- from composers www.oneworldsymphony.org. ence during the won a spot as an active conductor in ment of Beethoven’s final string quar- on the program concert if they Kurt Masur’s Conducting Seminar at tet, “Cantate,” will be played in an and their loved hear a difference the Manhattan School of Music Sym- arrangement for string orchestra. That ones, read by two actors. between both ways of performing it.” phony, is in position to manipulate the final quartet was dedicated to “The crux of the program is Mah- For Hong, this encore makes the audience’s experience. Beethoven’s nephew, with whom he 395 Flatbush Ave. Ext. (at DeKalb Ave.) • 834-0800 ler’s ‘Adagietto,’ a short movement concert a new experience for audi- “I’m tempted to perform it two shared a close relationship throughout • Open: Mon-Thurs 11am-mid; Fri & Sat 11am-1:30am; Sun 11am-11pm from his Fifth Symphony,” said Hong, ences. ways,” he said. “There’s the original, his life, which is how it fits into this “which has become very well-known “Orchestras are struggling and are slow, weighty, tragic way, which was program. Hong also sees a link be- through the [1971] movie [by Luchino looking for ways to survive and gain made famous by conductors like tween “Cantate” and Mahler’s “Adagi- Visconti] ‘Death in Venice,’ where it audience support,” said Hong. “We’re Leonard Bernstein, and then there’s the etto.” was featured very prominently.” trying to find our own creative ways ‘love letter to Alma’ [Mahler’s wife] “Mahler was directly influenced by In a move away from conventional of doing that without being too lectur- way, which is less ponderous but still Beethoven’s last string quartet,” Hong BROOKLYN HEIGHTS concert practice, the orchestra will ing or intellectual — this is the way dramatic. When I conduct, I like to explained. “Both Beethoven and Mah- play Mahler’s “Adagietto” twice. Mahler wanted it heard, so let’s see if move it along and let the music speak See ONE WORLD on page 13 Jewish International Film Festival Brooklyn Heights Jewish International Film Festival explores Jewish issues through fine films of artistic excellence. We seek to examine universal Jewish themes through post-film dialogue with directors, actors, filmmakers, critics and scholars.

Saturday, February 7, 2004 • 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Schmelvis: In search of Elvis Presley’s Jewish Roots (2001) Celebrate Director: Max Wallace; Canada • Runtime: 76 minutes; MPAA Rating: Not Rated Was “The King” kosher? Investigating the claim that his great-great grandmother was Come & Celebrate Jewish leads a diverse group of Montrealers, including an ultra Orthodox and Jewish Elvis impersonator, a Rabbi and the filmmakers, on a quest to Memphis to find out what Elvis fans think of this revelation. (He did wear a Chai around his neck.) By the Valentine’s Day time the group heads off to Israel to plant a tree for Elvis, it all comes to a head. Funny, suspenseful and wickedly witty, Schmelvis wrings a unique spin on celebrity, Judaism Valentine’s Day and religious perceptions. It’s a hoot. Saturday, February 14th Post-film concert and dialogue with Schmelvis, Saturday, February 14th, 2004 the world famous Orthodox Jewish Elvis impersonator. in an Elegant and Romantic setting At Gage & Tollner Saturday, February 14, 2004 • 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm with a fireplace, live piano music Brookyn’s Famous Landmark Restaurant (est. 1879) Welcome to the Waks Family (2002) Director: Barbara Chobodsky; Australia • Runtime: 52 minutes; MPAA Rating: Not Rated and a special à la carte Valentine With 17 children from the same two parents, the Orthodox Waks family is one of Australia’s largest. Everyday life in the Waks household is a logistical challenge of monumental proportions. Having two mini buses for transportation and five ovens for menu featuring a unique Special Valentine’s Day kosher cooking helps. The director followed the warm and lively Waks family over years and was privy to the wedding of the eldest daughter and the struggle of one son to break away from the religious life of his parents. Dinner Menu Post-film dialogue with Waks family member, Yossi Waks. Valentine dessert. From Tantalizing Appetizers & Fresh Salads To Hearty Entrées & Luscious Desserts! Saturday, February 21, 2004 • 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Marco Polo Ristorante One Day in September (1999) 345 Court St. (corner of Union) A Special Menu to Make This Director: Kevin Macdonald; USA • Runtime: 92 minutes; MPAA Rating: Not Rated Munich, August 1972, The Olympics of peace and joy commence, symbolizing Germany’s post war rehabilitation in the eyes Holiday A Truly Memorable One! of the international community. But ten days into the games, eight Palestinian terrorist break in and take eleven Israeli athletes Make Reservations Early hostage, demanding the release of hundreds of political prisoners. As the world watches, the West German Police plan to over- power the raiders. This Academy Award-winning documentary includes archive footage, eyewitness testimony, and the only Call (718) 852-5015 Make Your Reservations Early! interview ever recorded with the sole surviving member of the terrorist group. (718) 875-5181 Post-film dialogue with Simcha Weinstein, Visit our website: former associate of the British Film Commission. 372 Fulton Street (at Jay Street) • Downtown Brooklyn www.MarcoPoloRistorante.com • Free Valet Parking for Dinner Guests Free Admission • Reservations Requested www.gageandtollner.com • Free Valet Parking Contact Simcha: (718) 596-4840 x15 • e-mail: [email protected] Congr. B’nai Avraham • 117 Remsen Street (bet. Clinton & Henry Sts. in Brooklyn Heights)

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ANN’S WAREHOUSE: presents trom- Call 888-SueContractor Central branch, presents Pulitzer Prize- bonist Roswell Rudd’s “Mali Cool.” $25. OUTDOORS AND TOURS winning journalist David Moats, author 8 pm. 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. or 212-766-6300 of “Civil Wars: Gay Marriage in MUSIC: One World Symphony presents ICE SKATING: at Prospect Park Wollman America.” 7 pm. Grand Army Plaza. Rink. Sessions from 10 am to 1 pm, 2 an all-strings program “Love Letters.” EIGES, GOLDBLUM & FEDER, LLP (718) 230-2100. Free. $20, $15 advanced purchase. 8 pm. pm to 6 pm and 7 pm to 10 pm. $5 Attorneys at Law St. Ann and the Holy Trinity, 157 admission, $3 seniors and students. $5 Montague St. (718) 788-7138. 225 Broadway Suite 1607 skate rental fee. Enter park at Parkside WEDS, FEB 11 New York, NY 10007 and Ocean avenues. (718) 287-6431. PLAY: Long Island University presents “WE FIX CONTRACTORS” “Wit.” 7 pm. See Sat., Feb 7. FILM: The Watch Club hosts “The PERFORMANCE Scorpion King” (2002). 12:30 pm. St. BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- JAZZ: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, 157 ents Shakespeare’s “Pericles.” 7:30 branch, presents a concert by the Montague St. (718) 875-6960. Free. pm. See Sat., Feb 14. Sonny Fortune Quartet. 2 pm. Grand AFRICAN DIASPORA: Long Island Uni- HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “The Sisters Rosen- Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. versity hosts a full day conference sweig.” 7:30 pm. See Sat., Feb 14. PLAY: Long Island University presents featuring dance, films, panel presen- WINE TALK: Spirit Tasting Series hosted “Wit,” a drama about an English pro- tations, art and reception. 9 am to 7 by Michael-Towne Wines and Spirits. fessor who has been diagnosed with pm. Call for info. Flatbush Avenue Today’s tasting features bourbons. terminal ovarian cancer. $12. 2 pm. Extension and DeKalb Avenue. (718) Palmiris, 41 Clark St. Call for reserva- Humanities Building, Flatbush Avenue 488-1051. tions and fee. (718) 875-3667. Extension and DeKalb Avenue. (718) MEETING: Bay Ridge AARP meets. 2 KIDS THERAPY: Neighborhood Counseling 488-1089. pm. Our Lady of Angels, 337 74th St. Center hosts Communikids program, a RECEPTION: Williamsburg Art and (718) 788-7372. combination of a play and art therapy group for kids ages 3 to 4.5 years, and Historical Center hosts a reception for On Feb. 11, Long Island University’s Salena Gallery hosts an artists CAREGIVERS TALK: Park Slope Geriatric its exhibit “Winners,” with music by Day Center hosts a talk “Keeping the a parenting group for their parents. White Suit. 4 pm to 7 pm. 135 reception for “Kenya Art,” an exhibition that includes paintings by Relationship Fresh: Tips for Long-Term Group is forming now. Call. 7701 13th Broadway. (718) 486-7372. Free. Elijah Ooko, whose “A Group of Zebras” is pictured. Caregiving.” Open to all people taking Ave. (718) 331-8857. BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber music care of an older person whether that concert of all Bach. $35. 7:30 pm. person is a spouse, relative or friend. 6 SAT, FEB 14 Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. OTHER Technology, Voorhees Theater, 186 pm to 7 pm. 1 Prospect Park West. BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- Jay St. (212) 567-3283. (718) 499-7701. Free. Valentine’s Day ents Bill T. Jones and The Arnie Zane FIRST SATURDAY: Brooklyn Museum of BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber RECEPTION: Salena Gallery at Long Dance Company in “Continuous Art celebrates Black History Month with music concert of all Bach. $35. 4 pm. Island University College hosts an OUTDOORS AND TOURS Replay” and “There Were...” and movies, music and dance. Highlights Fulton Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. opening for “Kenya Art.” 6 pm to 8 “The Phantom Project: Still/Here include film “Happenstance” (2001) at pm. Flatbush Avenue Extension and ICE SKATING: at the Prospect Park Woll- 9 pm; world music performed by musi- PLAY: Long Island University presents man Rink. Sessions from 10 am to 1 pm, Looking On.” $50, $25. 7:30 pm. “Wit.” 2 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. DeKalb Avenue. (718) 488-1198. Free. Howard Gilman Opera House, 30 cians from the Brooklyn Philharmonic at MUSIC: One World Symphony hosts an 2 pm to 6 pm and 7 pm to 10 pm. $5 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm; hands-on art from SHAKESPEARE: Waterloo Bridge admission, $3 seniors and students. $5 Theater Company presents “Twelfth open rehearsal. 7 pm. St. Ann and THEATER: The National Theater of the 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm; curator talk at 7 the Holy Trinity, 157 Montague St. skate rental fee. Enter park at Parkside pm; gallery performance of romantic Night or What You Will.” 3 pm. See and Ocean avenues. (718) 287-6431. United States of America presents Sat., Feb. 7. (718) 788-7138. Free. “What’s That on My Head?” Play readings in honor of Valentine’s Day at MEETING: of Community Board 7. 6:30 PERFORMANCE presents the history of America 7 pm. Dance party from 9 pm to 11 CHILDREN pm. 4201 Fourth Ave. (718) 854- through the lens of a trans-temporal pm. More. 5 pm to 11 pm. 200 Eastern 0003. PLAY: Long Island University presents Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Free. GROUNDHOG SERIES: Brooklyn Arts “Wit,” a drama about an English pro- game show. $15. 8 pm. Nest Arts Exchange presents The Treehouse MEDITATION WORKSHOP: Brooklyn Complex, 70 Washington St. (212) FLEA MARKET: at St. Thomas Aquinas. fessor who has been diagnosed with Shakers in “Desert Travels: Tales from Public Library, Carroll Gardens terminal ovarian cancer. $12. 2 pm. 615-6607. 9 am to 5 pm. 1550 Hendrickson St. branch. 6:30 pm to 7:45 pm. 396 (718) 253-4404. the Middle East.” $8, $5 members/ Humanities Building, Flatbush Avenue BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the Per- low-income. 2 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. Clinton St. (718) 833-5751. Free. ARTIST RECEPTION: The Xpo features Extension and DeKalb Avenue. (718) forming Arts presents Flamenco Vivo (718) 832-0018. CHINESE NEW YEAR: Brooklyn 488-1089. Carlota Santana. $30. 8 pm. Walt Queen Of Hearts Showcase sculpture, BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Borough President Marty Markowitz Whitman Theater, Brooklyn College, painting, photography, fashion, jewelry SWORD DANCE FEST: 19th annual presents songs and stories of wonder hosts a Year of the Monkey celebra- event sponsored by Half Moon one block from the intersection of and other luxury items. Also, live per- and enchantment. Nigerian per- tion. $25 per person for authentic Flatbush and Nostrand avenues. (718) formances by select artists. 10 am to Sword. 3 pm. Brooklyn Public Library, former Nori NkeAka uses music, Chinese dinner. Proceeds benefit Brooklyn Heights branch, 280 951-4500. 10 pm. Live show featuring John Dyer, movement and illustrations to tell Camp Brooklyn. 7 pm. Two locations: Frank and Nervous Cabaret. $10. 9 Cadman Plaza West. (800) 431-2133, TRI-CARNIVAL CONCERT: Brooklyn stories from around the world. $4, Ming Gee Restaurant, 618 62nd St. ext. 231. Free. Conservatory of Music presents pm. 25 Jay St. (718) 797-2557. free for members. 2:30 pm. 145 Second location at Jade Plaza Carnival music from Brazil, New ADULT LITERACY: Free English classes Restaurant, 6022 Eighth Ave. Reser- BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. music concert of Mendelssohn and Orleans and the Caribbean. $20, $15 offered at the Brooklyn Public Library, PUPPETWORKS: “Rumpelstiltskin.” 12:30 vations necessary. (718) 803-3531. students and seniors. 8 pm. 58 Park Slope branch. 10 am to 4:30 Mozart. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton Ferry pm and 2:30 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. MEDITATION: Congregation B’nai Landing. (718) 624-2083. The Meridian Collection Seventh Ave. (718) 622-3300. pm. Sixth Avenue and Ninth Street. Avraham hosts a program: (718) 832-3560, ext. 6. MUSICAL: “You’re a Good Man, Charlie BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- OFFICE OPS: Office Ops presents “Muf- Brown.” 5 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. “Meditation: 10 Masters, 10 introducing 18 karat gold fin Is Evil,” a play about love. $10. 8 WINTER FAIR: Old First Reformed Methods” with Rabbi Dovber Pinson. ents Shakespeare’s “Pericles,” direct- pm. 57 Thames St. (718) 418-2509. Church offers lots of different items. Today: “The Synthesizer: R. Moshe ed by Bartlett Sher. $60, $40, $25. 7:30 paired with exquisite gemstones OTHER pm. Harvey Theater, 30 Lafayette Ave. BRIC STUDIO: presents “10 Brecht 11 am to 5 pm. Seventh Avenue and HISTORY SERMON: Brooklyn Ethical Corodovero.” 7 pm. 117 Remsen St. Carroll Street. (718) 638-8300. Call for fee info. (718) 596-4840. Also, Brooklyn Philharmonic presents Poems.” $10, $8 students. 8 pm. 57 Culture Society hosts a talk “Facing Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Art • Objects • Furniture • Jewelry Rockwell Place. (718) 855-7882. WORDSMITH SERIES: Eileen Tabios, History and Ourselves: An BARNES AND NOBLE: presents author Cunningham in “Words and Music.” SHAKESPEARE: Waterloo Bridge Patrick Rosal and Barry Schwabsky Overview.” Platform at 11 am. 53 Arlyn Imberman reading from her designed in studio by Kate Rogovin He reads from his novels accompa- Theater Company presents “Twelfth read from their works. 12:30 pm. 227 Prospect Park West. (718) 768-2972. book “Signature for Success.” 7:30 nied by music which inspired his writ- Night or What You Will.” $15, $10 Smith St. (718) 643-2031. Free. TALK AND VIDEO: Larry Gibson tells pm. 267 Seventh Ave. (718) 832- ings. Program includes works by students. 8 pm. 475 Third Ave. (212) BOOK SERIES: Kane Street Synagogue his story of fighting mountaintop 9066. Free. Verdi, Schubert, Reich and Glass. $55, CONCENTRIC 502-0796. book group. Book for discussion is removal in Appalachia in “Music, $40, $20. 8 pm. Opera House, 30 FIRST WEEKEND: Brooklyn Arts Ex- “LovingKindness” by Anne Roiphe. Mountains and Coal.” Old-time Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– THURS, FEB 12 174 Main Street Beacon NY 12508 845 838 9460 change presents new performances Discussion led by Kate Roiphe. 1 pm. music by “The Slippery Slope.” 3 BOURBON STREET MUSIC: Brooklyn 236 Kane St. (718) 248-7411. Free. pm. Park Slope United Methodist and discussions. $15, $10 members, FILM: St. Francis College presents “Love Music School presents an evening of near dia:Beacon $8 low-income. 8 pm. 421 Fifth Ave. RECEPTION: Williamsburg Art and Church, Sixth Avenue and Eighth jazz and tap with Mardi Gras style fes- Historical Center hosts a reception for Street. (718) 768-0524. Free. Actually.” Noon and 6 pm. 180 (718) 832-9189. Remsen St. (718) 489-5272. Free. tivities. $15. 8 pm. 126 St. Felix St. “Exploration,” an exhibit showing cul- MEET THE AUTHOR: Brooklyn Historical 651 ARTS: presents “Black Dance: READING: Author Danzy Senna reads (718) 638-5660. Tradition and Transformation.” $40, tural diversity through art. Music with Society presents author Charles HEIGHTS PLAYERS: presents Wendy “White Suit.” 4 pm to 7 pm. 135 Lockwood. Learn about local archi- from her works. Noon. Long Island $30, $20. 8 pm. Harvey Theater, 651 University, Flatbush Avenue Extension Wasserstein’s comedy “The Sisters Fulton St. (718) 636-4181. Broadway. (718) 486-7372. Free. tecture. $10, $5 members. Reception Rosensweig.” $12, $10 seniors and FILM FEST: Brooklyn Heights Jewish and book-signing follows talk. 3 pm. and DeKalb Avenue. (718) 488-1109. COMEDY: Brooklyn Brew-Ha-Ha at The Free. children. 7:30 pm. 26 Willow Place. Boudoir Bar. $5 admission and two- International Film Festival presents 128 Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111. (718) 237-2752. “Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis WOMEN WRITERS: Brooklyn Conser- BARGEMUSIC: presents a chamber drink minimum. 9:30 pm. 273 Smith music concert of Dohnanyi and ST. ANN’S WAREHOUSE: presents “Syd St. (718) 624-8878. Presley’s Jewish Roots” (2001). 8 pm vatory of Music hosts female writers Straw’s Heartwreck Show” featuring to 10 pm. Congregation B’nai from the Harlem Renaissance, includ- Shostakovich. $35. 7:30 pm. Fulton PARLOR JAZZ: The Charles Carrington Ferry Landing. (718) 624-2083. songs about love and the lack of it. FREE Quartet performs. $15 donation. Sets Avraham, 117 Remsen St. (718) 596- ing Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen $25. 8 pm. 38 Water St. (718) 254-8779. 4840, ext. 15. Free. and others. 3 pm. 58 Seventh Ave. MEETING: of Bay Ridge Mental Health at 9:30 pm and 10:45 pm. 119 Council. 7:30 pm. Fort Hamilton PLAY: Office Ops presents “Muffin Is Vanderbilt Ave. (718) 855-1981. VISUAL OBSESSION: M3 Projects pres- (718) 622-3300. Free. Evil,” a play about love. $10. 8 pm. TICKETS ents “What’s Your Passion?” featuring ADOPTION SUPPORT: Brooklyn Jewish Clinic, 8710 Fifth Ave. (718) 680- DE FACTO DANCE: performs “Cinder- 0006. 57 Thames St. (718) 418-2509. zilla.” $15. 8 pm. Williamsburg Arts works by emerging photographers. 7 Single Women’s Adoption Center BRIC STUDIO: presents Urban Bush Call 212-989-8101 pm to 10 pm. M3 Projects (formerly offers a talk “Building Parent/ Child BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music pres- Nexus, 205 N. 7th St. (718) 599-7997. ents Shakespeare’s “Pericles,” directed Women, performers who dance, sing Mastel and Mastel Gallery), 70 Bonds: Promoting Development.” and act. $10, $8 students. 8 pm. 57 or e-mail us: CHILDREN Washington St. (718) 986-4783. Call for time, tickets and place. (212) by Bartlett Sher. $60, $40, $25. 7:30 pm. Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. Rockwell Place. (718) 855-7882. [email protected] SHOW: Families First presents interac- READING: Spiral Thought Magazine 558-9949. PARLOR JAZZ: Valentine’s Day event. $20 hosts a spoken word performance, (718) 636-4100. tive comedy “The Singing Tiger” by ANTI-VALENTINE EVENT: “Cliterature” donation includes beverages, food and Neighborhood Theater. Story is presenting original poetry and prose. W10 erotica reading at Halcyon Cafe. 7:30 a copy of Onaje Allan Gumbs’ new CD. based on a Korean folktale about the 7 pm to 9 pm. Shakespeare’s Sister, MON, FEB 9 Sets at 9:30 pm and 10:45 pm. 119 270 Court St. (718) 832-2310. Free. pm. Call for ticket info. 227 Smith St. power of words. 10:30 am. 250 Baltic (718) 260-WAXY. Vanderbilt Ave. (718) 855-1981. St. Call for ticket info. (718) 237-1862. FAMILIES FIRST: Workshop on sibling rivalry. Discuss the realities and possi- VALENTINE’S EVENT: Ladyfest East, a WILLIAMSBURG ART NEXUS: Pi Dance ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum of Art nonprofit organization which supports Theater. Call for time and ticket info. invites kids to “Patterns Are Every- SUN, FEB. 8 ble remedies. $15, $10 members. 7 pm to 8:30 pm. 250 Baltic St. Reser- women in the arts, hosts a Valentine’s 205 North 7th St. (718) 599-7997. where.” $6 adults, free for members Day Hair Ball. $20 for a haircut by styl- and children 12 and under. 11 am and vations necessary. (718) 237-1862. CHILDREN PERFORMANCE JEWISH LEARNING: The David Berg ists from Beehive Salon. Entrance fee is January - March 2 pm. Also, stories and art present DANCE CONCERT: Brooklyn Arts $3 donation. Includes one raffle ticket. PUPPETWORKS: “Rumpelstiltskin” by illustrator Eric Velasquez. 4 pm. 200 Lecture Series hosts “Jews for The Brothers Grimm. $6, $7 adults. Council presents “Folk Feet: Judaism.” Learn about the theologi- 8 pm to 11 pm. Also, silent auction of 2004 Catering Eastern Parkway. (718) 638-5000. Celebrating Traditional Dance in underwear with original artwork. Union Ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 cal flaws in the “Hebrew Christian” pm. 338 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-3391. PUPPETWORKS: “Rumpelstiltskin” by Brooklyn.” Program explores the argument that accepting Jesus is a Pool, 484 Union. (917) 885-3670. Special The Brothers Grimm. $6, $7 adults. range of community dance traditions fulfillment of Judaism. Rabbi Aaron MUSIC: Benefit for victims at risk from LIBRARY EVENT: Brooklyn Public Ages 4 and older. 12:30 pm and 2:30 in Brooklyn. 2:30 pm to 9 pm. Walt Raskin leads talk. 8 pm to 9 pm. hunger in Africa. Harris Radio Compi- Library, Central branch, hosts “Steal Prices starting at pm. 338 Sixth Ave. (718) 965-3391. Whitman Theater at Brooklyn Congregation B’nai Avraham, 117 lation CD artists perform. No cover. Away: The Living History of Harriet $35 per person LIBRARY EVENT: Brooklyn Public Library, College, one block from the intersec- Remsen St. (718) 596-4840. Free. Cafe 111, 111 Court St. (718) 858-2806. Tubman,” an event to commemorate Central branch, hosts “Phi Beta Sigma tion of Flatbush and Nostrand PLAY: Long Island University presents Black History Month. 1 pm. Grand Storytelling,” an event to kick off Black avenues. (718) 625-0080. Free. “Wit.” 7 pm. See Sat., Feb. 7. Army Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. ––––––– History Month. 1 pm. Grand Army CHAMBER MUSIC: Brooklyn Friends of TUES, FEB 10 BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: OOK NOW Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. Chamber Music presents Chiara String presents Con Edison Energy B BROOKLYN CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Quartet, in the program “Love CPR COURSE: hosted by Families First. FRI, FEB 13 Education Series on “Loving Nature.” FOR presents “The Amazing Castle: Letters.” $15, $12 seniors. 3 pm. $75, $55 members. 9 am to 2 pm. $4, free for members. 2 pm to 5 pm. Dragon Tales.” Learn about symbolic 250 Baltic St. Call for reservations. SHABBAT SERIES: The Jewish Learning 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. BLACK HISTORY Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, significance of dragons in Chinese 85 South Oxford St. (718) 625-7515. (718) 237-1862. Annex presents Rabbi Simon MUSICAL: Brooklyn Family Theater pres- MONTH EVENTS culture. Appropriate for ages 7 and OPERA: The Opera Company of MEETING: AARP Bay Ridge Chapter Jacobson, author of “Towards a More ents “You’re A Good Man, Charlie up. $4, free for members. 2 pm to 4 Brooklyn presents Mozart’s “The meets. Membership available to those Meaningful Life.” Shabbat dinner and Brown.” $12. 4 pm and 8 pm. 1012 ––––––– pm. Also, in commemoration of Black Marriage of Figaro.” Tickets are $25, 50 plus. 2:30 pm. Shore Hill Housing, lecture 6 pm. Series continues on Eighth Ave. (718) 670-7205. History Month, “Untold Stories: Unfold $20 Brooklyn residents, $10 students 9000 Shore Road. (718) 748-9114. Sat., Feb 14 with a sermon at 11 am. OTHER the Story of Haiti.” 1:30 pm and 3 pm. with ID and $5 Brooklyn students OPEN HOUSE: Teens are invited to $30, $25 members, $15 seniors and 145 Brooklyn Ave. (718) 735-4400. with ID. 3 pm. NYC College of Brooklyn Arts Exchange information- students. Congregation B’nai Avra- MEETING: of Korean War Veterans. 10 READING PROGRAM: Making Books ham, 117 Remsen St. Reservations am. VA Hospital, 800 Poly Place. (718) Sing presents the musical “The necessary for dinner. (718) 596- 4840. 942-4175. Upside Down Boy,” a story about 10- FISH TALK: Brooklyn Aquarium Society MEETING: Older Women’s League pres- Crystal Manor year-old boy Juanito and his migrant ents Charisee Lawrence, of the NYC presents Joe Graffagnino in a talk family. $16. 2 pm. Kingsborough “Secrets of a Grand Master Breeder.” Department for the Aging. Learn about Community College, end of Oriental LIST YOUR EVENT… Learn tips and tricks on breeding fish services agency provides. 10:30 am. 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Through Wrong” (1933), is the subject of LindaAnn Loschiavo’s composer. some similarities MUSIC known Brooklyn Philhar- Bensonhurst. But she never Mae West, I can tell other sto- The Brooklyn premiere of between the Shos- monic, Armstrong said, “We new play. had much interest in fellow- ries, too — like the story of the Concerto for Trumpet and takovich sympho- The Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra appeal to a different audience performs works by Johann Strauss, Dmitri Brooklynite Mae West until [New York call girl] Starr Orchestra by Evan Hause, a ny and the Hause Shostakovich and Evan Hause on Feb. 11, in that it’s very much a local she moved to Manhattan. Faithful, who died at the age West was often referred to as alternative to Manhattan’s North Carolina native who trumpet concerto, at 8 pm, at Walt Whitman Hall, on the audience, and we aim at local There Loschiavo’s curiosi- of 25 while at a boat party “the German girl,” by neigh- theater district. now lives in Greenpoint, will even though they Brooklyn College campus, one block from neighborhoods in our audi- the junction of Nostrand and Flatbush av- ty about the history of the and inspired John O’Hara’s bors. “Sex” was West’s first ven- be part of the orchestra’s Feb. were written near- enues, in Midwood. Admission is free but ence-building. These neigh- block where she lived, West [novel later turned into a film West’s mother, Matilda ture on Broadway. It was fol- 11 program in Walt Whitman ly a hundred years a $10 donation is suggested. For more in- borhoods are not really Ninth Street near (Tillie) married the Anglo- lowed by “Drag,” a play Hall on the Brooklyn College apart,” he noted. formation, visit www.brooklynsymphony- served by the Brooklyn Phil- Sixth Avenue, led Irish John West. West was a about transvestites. Although campus. “Some of the or- orchestra.org. harmonic.” to some surprising former featherweight prize- “Drag” did moderately well “Evan’s a Brooklyn com- chestral textures The orchestra’s mission is discoveries. THEATER fighter nicknamed “Battling in New Jersey, West chose poser, and we have a commit- and rhythms are to serve the local community, “As I started do- A staged reading of LindaAnn Loschi- Jack.” Tillie was a corset not to take it to Broadway. Fi- ment to doing at least one very similar. That being said, guest conductor Arkady Ley- and the concerts are free, with ing the research, I avo’s “Courting Mae West” will be pre- model. nally, in 1928, West had her composition by a Brooklyn the Hause concerto is clearly a tush. The program consists of a suggested donation of $10. realized that many sented at the Jefferson Market Library, on “We can assume that Mae, first Broadway smash hit with composer every year,” said more contemporary work, and two audience favorites: Ed- That effort, Armstrong noted, Feb. 7, at 2 pm. The library is located at judges had lived on 425 Sixth Ave. at West 10th Street in Man- who was barely 5 feet tall and “Diamond Lil” — the play Nick Armstrong, the orches- it’s not Russian in its sound at vard Grieg’s Concerto for Pi- seems to be working. “At the the street, because hattan. Dress in Roaring Twenties garb to always wore platform shoes, that created the wisecracking, tra’s artistic director. “Evan’s all — on the contrary, it’s very ano in A Minor (with young last concert, it was probably the Jefferson Mar- get a free gift. Attend a Mae West look- had pretty much her mother’s warm-hearted persona we all name was known to me American.” pianist Fan Yang as soloist) the best attendance we had in alike contest at a private after-party at 3:30 ket Courthouse was pm at a nearby location. The event is free figure,” says Loschiavo. As came to know. through conversations I was The final piece in the pro- and Brahms’ Symphony No. a long time,” he said, “and it there,” Loschiavo and open to the public. RSVP to nonstop- for her father’s influence, it But above all, West was hearing from different musi- gram is the overture from the 4 in E Minor. was very gratifying that we told GO Brooklyn. [email protected] or (212) 243-4334. was while visiting the gym known for her enthusiastical- cians. But I never knew his operetta “The Gypsy Baron” Noting the differences be- did so well.” It was at the that young Mae developed a ly salacious one-liners. Her music, so it was a most fortu- courthouse that, in taste for those “beautiful words of precious wisdom in- itous meeting when he the spring of 1927, a 35-year- starring Elizabeth Taylor] men” with “magnificent mus- clude: “It’s better to be looked showed me his work. old rising star named Mae ‘BUtterfield 8’; the trial of cles.” over than overlooked”; “He actually met me one West was sentenced to 10 Sacco and Vanzetti; and the Backed by a pushy stage “When women go wrong, day with the concerto’s score days at the Women’s Work- [exploits] of Amelia Earhart, mother, West started in men go right after them”; under his arm, and I discov- house on Welfare Island (now who was created by the press vaudeville, appearing along- “When choosing between two ered it was a great showcase Roosevelt Island) for obsceni- even before her first solo side Harry Houdini and Dan evils, I always like to try the for the soloist and the orches- ty in her Broadway play titled flight.” the Drinking Dog. By the one I’ve never tried before”; tra.” “Sex.” And it is in that same West was born Mary Jane time she was 8 years old, “I generally avoid temptation The soloist is Eric Berlin, building — now the Jefferson West, in 1893, on Herbert West was appearing regularly unless I can’t resist it”; and who also performed the work REAL ESTATE Market Courthouse Library Street, in what is now Green- at the Gotham Theatre in “It’s not the men in my life in its 2001 premiere, with the — that Loschiavo’s play, point. Later, her family lived Brooklyn. that counts — it’s the life in Albany Symphony Orchestra. “Courting Mae West,” will on Bushwick Avenue and Bushwick, which original- my men.” “Eric is a superb musician, have its first staged reading Euclid Avenue. At that time, ly included what is now Looking back on Mae and our audience is in for a on Feb. 7. Bushwick was the capital of Greenpoint, Williamsburg West’s long and lusty career, real treat,” said Armstrong. APARTMENTS INSURANCE Loschiavo says her play is beer making. West’s mater- and Ridgewood, was once it’s easy to see that she was Hause’s 18-minute long about a journalist who wants nal grandfather, Jakob Delk- home, in its eastern edge, to everything Madonna could concerto is in three move- to become romantically in- er Doelger, was a Jewish- many of the city’s best the- have been — if she’d only ments, with enough technical Bay Ridge volved with West. Bavarian brewmaster, and aters and was considered an been born in Brooklyn. challenges to tempt even an Luxury 3 BR apt , top floor, 2 family accomplished musician like house. All newly renovated. New Berlin, who plays a “flumpet” (a cross between a flugelhorn central air, new bath, floors, win- and a trumpet) in the middle dows. Must see. Call owner. World of dance movement. (646) 208-4835 “Evan has written the or- W04 The Brooklyn Arts Council presents chestral parts in such a way so “Folk Feet: Celebrating Traditional that every so often there’s a Dyker Park/Bay Ridge Dance in Brooklyn” at Brooklyn Col- big lush string sound, giving Modern 3 room apt. N38-27.1 lege’s Walt Whitman Theater on Feb. 8. the piece a real element of The day-long event features dancers that 1940s Hollywood film writ- (718) 449-0459 are participating in a year-long docu- ing,” Armstrong explained. (718) 996-5118 mentation project, helmed by BAC’s “He’ll hate me for saying (917) 754-5630 Kay Turner, exploring the diversity of this, I know,” he said, laugh- R06 community-based dance traditions in ing, “but there are many mo- Brooklyn. ments of romanticism in the The day of dance begins with an after- piece.” COMMERCIAL noon program, from 2 pm to 4:30 pm, As for Shostakovich’s First SPACE dance workshops from 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Symphony, Armstrong re- and an evening program, from 7 pm to 9 mained awed by its confi- pm, featuring many dance troupes in- dence, vitality and witty use cluding the Polish American Folk Dance of the orchestra. Company, whose “Kashubian Medley” “[The symphony] was com- (pictured) is influenced by the Baltic sea- posed as a graduation piece!” port of Gdansk. he exclaimed. “Shostakovich Among the cultures that will be fea- wrote it when he was just 19, tured are those of Norway, Georgia, the but it has an incredibly ma- Ukraine, Bangladesh and Trinidad. Not ture sound to it.” to mention performances of Irish step Feet” project will produce an archive of Admission to all of the Feb. 8 events is Of the upcoming program, dancing, Yemenite traditions, the Puerto video and audio interviews, photos and free. The theater is located on the Brook- Armstrong said it would be W27-04 Rican bomba and much more. transcripts. lyn College campus, one block from the less structured than is his In addition to surveying, documenting The project is sponsored by Danskin junction of Flatbush and Nostrand av- norm. Office Space / Bklyn and presenting the range of community and the National Endowment for the enues in Midwood. For more informa- “I usually plan my pro- dance traditions in Brooklyn, the “Folk Arts’ Preservation and Heritage Program. tion, call (718) 625-0080. — Lisa J. Curtis grams with some sort of dis- PSYCHOTHERAPY OFFICES Prime Brooklyn Heights loca- tion. Excellent views. Newly renovated. Furnished or Ten Masters, Ten Methods. 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Available/Brooklyn the most complex music ever His seven-minute “Vivace for written, with the partial excep- Strings,” composed in 1995 as Boerum Hill MEDITATION tion of the relatively straight- the prelude to an opera Sun- MEDITATION forward last quartet. den adapted from Moliere’s Several parking spaces available Also on the program is “Sganarelle, ou le Cocu Imag- in Boerum Hilll near Bergen St. MEDITATIONWITH ABBI OV ER INSON Brahms’ “Ophelia Lieder,” inaire,” came to Hong’s atten- R D B P originally scored for voice and tion in quite a strange way. $225/mo. 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William Aubry, commanding officer of the 68th By Deborah Kolben tourage, the pair made their about 25-cent matinees at the 35 years ago when she married Precinct, said the driver in the Jan. 19 accident was traveling The Brooklyn Papers way through the neighbor- old Sanders Theater and cherry Wesley Clark following a two- from New Jersey via Staten Island and was heading to a waste hood, stopping in at Smiling Cokes at Lewnies. As Gertrude Clark made year courtship. transfer station in Mill Basin. Pizza on Seventh Avenue and Of course, a lot has changed The two had met a dance in An investigation by the police department’s Highway Unit 2 her way through icy Park Ninth Street and making a pit since then. Manhattan while Gertrude revealed that because of the size of the vehicle involved in the Slope streets on Jan. 23, she stop at Sport Prospect where The Sanders Theater is now Clark was working as a secre- horrific accident, the driver would have had to have been 33 feet wished she had brought along Clark picked up a pint-sized the Pavilion eight-plex and tary at the L.F. Rothschild Bro- from the traffic light on 67th Street to have seen the woman enter her “New Hampshire boots.” “Brooklyn” T-shirt for her Lewnies has long since closed kerage House. the intersection at 67th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway. A po- That’s because as the tempera- month-old grandson. its doors. Back then the option for lice spokesman said investigators at the scene measure from the tures dipped below freezing, the “That’s where nana lived,” The once working-class Irish women was to become a secre- center of the windshield to where the victim’s knees would have wife of presidential hopeful Gen. exclaimed Clark as she neared Catholic community now boasts tary, nurse or teacher, said been to make such a determination. Wesley Clark took a break from the the building on 12th Street that multimillion-dollar brown- Clark, noting the vastly different “Obviously, that wasn’t the case, she was right up against the busy campaign trail to return to her was her grandmother’s home. stones, a host of yoga studios socioeconomic landscape for truck,” said Gentile, who added, “There are no criminal charges native neighborhood for the first Moments later, Clark paused and enough Maclaren strollers women today. as far as I know.” when she reached her own to equip a small army. time in 30 years. How does she perceive the Aside from the summons to the driver for straying from his childhood building, where she Before boarding a plane Accompanied by Rep. Anthony role of the first lady? designated truck route, the other 10 summonses, police said, said she smoked her first and back to New Hampshire to “A husband and wife need to Weiner, who was also raised in were issued to the Brooklyn-based EG Trucking Corp. for tech- last cigarette, and where she campaign alongside her hus- be a team,” said Clark, adding, Park Slope, and a small press en- nical violations ranging from a frozen air horn to the lack of a tax lived when she was later court- band, Clark stopped at the “But I wouldn’t be involved in stamp on the vehicle. ed by the young West Point Eighth Street home of Michael policy or anything like that.” Representatives of EG Trucking could not be reached for com- cadet from Little Rock, Ark. Waldman, a former speech- Over the past 34 years, Clark ment. Stepping inside, Clark noted writer for President Bill Clin- has moved 31 times with her According to a spokesman with the city’s Business Integrity how the mailboxes had moved ton, and his wife, Liz Fine, an military husband. A move to the Commission (formerly the Trade Waste Commission), the 18- Where and the radiator where she and attorney, for a reception in her White House could be among wheel vehicle is called a back-hauler, which regularly drops off her five siblings would dry their honor. the couple’s longest posts. garbage at transfer stations located throughout much of the city. mittens in the lobby was now Keeping in the spirit of Such a move would also The driver of the truck was heading east on 67th Street at 1:48 to GO... gone. The super of the building Brooklyn’s diversity, guests make Clark the only presiden- pm when he plowed into the woman at the intersection of Fort and his wife, both from Koso- noshed on humus from Saha- tial first lady to hail from the Hamilton Parkway, which eventually intersects Seventh Avenue, Continued from page 12... vo, thanked Clark for the work di’s on Atlantic Avenue, as Borough of Kings. sing-along. $8. Call for time. 7301 a truck route. Because of the mammoth size of the vehicle, how- Ridge Blvd. (718) 745-3698. her husband did as supreme well as Jamaican beef patties, The closest Brooklyn has ever, he kept driving, unaware he had crushed and decapitated ADOPTION FEST: NYC Animal commander of NATO. and plates of rugelah. come to having a native first the woman. Care and Control offer cats and “Do you want to meet the After warming up from the lady was British Prime Minister Police stopped him more than a mile away, on West Ninth dogs for adoption. Noon to 4 pm. Prospect Park Picnic House, next first lady of the United brisk walk, Clark stepped Winston Churchill’s mother, Street and Avenue S in Gravesend, within blocks of designated enter Prospect Park West at States?” Weiner, a fellow De- away from the festivities to Jennie Jerome, who grew up on truck routes on Kings Highway and Bay Parkway. Fifth Street. (718) 272-7200. mocrat, asked young passersby talk about the Brooklyn of her Callan / Tom Henry Street in Cobble Hill, ac- “Look at what happened to this poor woman, just because [the MEETING: AARP Ovington Chap- who stared blankly at mention youth, life as a military wife, cording to Brooklyn historian ter meets. 1 pm. New mem- driver] wanted to take a shortcut,” exclaimed Robert Cassara, bers age 50 and older wel- of the four-star general and his and what the future may hold. John Manbeck. In 1884, he not- transportation chairman for the Bay Ridge Community Council. come. Bay Ridge Center for wife. A graduate of St. Michael’s ed, a pre-presidency Theodore “It was too inconvenient for him.” Older Adults, 6935 Fourth Ave. But that did little to faze Academy, a Manhattan high Roosevelt, then an assembly- The deadly accident marked the second time in a month that a (718) 748-0650. AUTHOR TALK: Brooklyn Public Clark who was busy greeting school for girls, and the Drake Papers The Brooklyn man, buried both his wife, Al- Bay Ridge woman was fatally struck by a truck on a street that Library, Central branch, hosts Park Slopers and taking a trip Secretarial and Business School, Gertrude Clark, with Rep. Anthony Weiner, picks out a ice, and mother, Martha, in prohibits large commercial vehicles. “Brooklyn Writers for Brooklyn down memory lane, reminiscing Clark left Brooklyn more than gift for her grandson at Sport Prospect in Park Slope. Green-Wood Cemetery. On the eve of a Truck Route Management Study presentation Readers” series. Today, author Victor LaValle reads from his by the DOT on Dec. 18, Janny Mak, 69, a mother of four, was hit debut novel “The Ecstatic.” 2 while crossing Fourth Avenue at 79th Street. pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) The driver of the Staten Island-based S&F Towing Services 230-2100. Free. SINGLES EVENT: Music, food and truck received summonses for failing to yield to a pedestrian, social reception hosted by First failing to perform a pre-trip inspection and operating off a truck Evangelical Free Church. Joel route. The wife of the company’s owner told The Bay Ridge Pa- and Carol Silberman of Tender- per in December that their driver didn’t see signs indicating that hearted Ministries are guest 3 seek to challenge Fossella speakers. 7 pm. 6501 Sixth Ave. Fourth Avenue was not a truck route. (718) 836-0029. Free. “We’re very sorry that it happened,” said Sherry Ucelli. “It SUPERFINE SUPPER CLUB: By Jotham Sederstrom tive candidates until later in the year, but interest, he judge endorsed Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, the was a pure accident, but there were no signs.” Annual Valentine’s Day event. The Brooklyn Papers said, has been growing. long-shot presidential candidate who has called for The death changed the tone of the meeting, in which residents Everyone is invited to wear red. “Seldom do I have people coming up to me so in- an end to the World Trade Organization and North $10 cover. 7:30 pm. 63 York St. A trio of unlikely Democratic challengers to already infuriated over the prospect of added truck routes, waved (718) 243-9005. terested this soon,” said Lavelle, who confirmed that American Free Trade Agreement. Bay Ridge-Staten Island Rep. Vito Fossella placards at Transportation officials and demanded something be FILM FEST: Brooklyn Heights all three men have approached the party. “If you’re “I’m just looking into it,” said Barbaro, on his done to keep trucks off residential side-streets and non-truck av- Jewish International Film emerged this week, including two from Festival presents “Welcome to going to run against an incumbent congressman, the way to pick up his daughter from school. enues. the Waks Family” (2002). 8 pm Brooklyn with few ties to the 13th Con- sooner you do, the better.” O’Brien said that both Harrison and Barbaro could It was the second of four such meetings in Brooklyn since to 10 pm. Congregation B’nai gressional District’s largest segment of voters. If the Brooklynites choose to run for the 13th con- prove to be formidable opponents to Fossella, who June, and officials hope that findings from the meetings will help Avraham, 117 Remsen St. (718) 596-4840, ext. 15. Free. Former Community Board 10 chairman Stephen gressional seat, they would be the first to do so since has received questionable publicity for his refusal to solve New York’s truck traffic problems, which have affected all VALENTINE PARTY: Creative Arts Harrison and former assemblyman and state former councilman Sal Albanese in 1992. rule out a challenge to fellow Republican Mayor five boroughs. Studio offers an evening of Supreme Court Judge Frank Barbaro are expected to Harrison, 53, who has been a proponent of preser- Michael Bloomberg next year, a Miami Beach Edwards and Kelcey, the consulting firm hired by DOT to per- dancing. $20. 8:30 pm. 310 meet with the Richmond County Democratic Party vation zoning in Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, ran fundraiser for which his campaign spent more than Atlantic Ave. (718) 797-5600. form the city’s Truck Route Management & Community Impact on Feb. 12. for City Council in a special election last February. In $8,000 but received few donations and his lobby for Reduction Study, presented some preliminary findings, namely The party’s executive board will choose to back that five-way race, he finished fourth, behind Vincent a cruise ship to dock on Manhattan’s west side to that a vast majority of drivers surveyed did not know where the SUN, FEB 15 either one of the Brooklynites, or John Pillarella, a Gentile, Rosemarie O’Keefe, a republican who Fos- house delegates at this year’s Republican National city’s truck routes were located. teacher from Staten Island, in a race that will depend sella actively supported, and Joanne Seminara. Since Convention. PERFORMANCE In Bay Ridge, Seventh Avenue and 86th, 92nd and 65th streets on the candidates’ visibility on Staten Island. finishing his bylaws-limited third and final year as “Frank is the interesting story,” said O’Brien, who serve as truck routes. SWORD DANCE FEST: 19th annual event sponsored by Half The possibility for a Brooklyn-heavy race in the chairman of Community Board 10 in December, Har- described Barbaro as a passionate and articulate lib- Moon Sword. Locations: First 13th Congressional District is something of an rison, a conservative Democrat and trial lawyer, has eral. Unitarian Church, Pierrepont anomaly since most of the Republican Fossella’s been chairing the board’s zoning committee. He said He said, however, that both Brooklynites could and Monroe Place at 12:30 pm, 580,000 constituents reside in Staten Island. The dis- Park Slope Methodist, Sixth he was up to the challenge of reaching the 443,728 struggle to win over the heavily Republican voting Avenue and Eighth Street at 1 trict also includes parts of Bay Ridge and Benson- residents of Richmond. bloc in the district, especially without Fossella’s pm; Old First Reformed hurst where, respectively, Harrison and Barbaro live. “I don’t consider Staten Island to be an obstacle, I knack for netting campaign donations. Church, Seventh Avenue and Fossella spokesman Craig Donner said that the con- consider it part of the district,” said Harrison, whose Fossella, 38, already has $250,000 on hand for an SCHOOL… Carroll Street at 12:30 pm; Picnic House, Prospect Park, gressman’s opponents over three terms have primari- sister lives on the island. upcoming campaign, said Donner, who noted “an Continued from page 1 enter at Prospect Park West at ly resided on Staten Island. Barbaro, 76, who served 23 years as an assembly- aggressive fundraising schedule over the next sever- Third Street at 2:30 pm.(800) “The congressman takes every potential chal- man in Brooklyn, may be the most liberal of the al months” for the three-term congressman. which, combined, house 7,500 students. 431-2133, ext. 231. Free. lenger seriously,” said Donner. “He’s looking for- three candidates, and labor leaders could throw some “The saying goes that a campaign travels on its wal- But some say that while the Sunset Park high school would be CONCERT: Sympatica presents appreciated, even more space is needed for the 131,000 high music celebrating Valentine’s ward to the campaign.” support his way, said Gerry O’Brien, a political con- let,” said O’Brien. “These days a competitive congres- Day. $15. 4 pm. Christ Church, Assemblyman John Lavelle, the Richmond Coun- sultant. As chairman of the Assembly’s labor com- sional race can run $750,000 to $2 million. The fact school and elementary students in Region 7, which also includes 326 Clinton St. (718) 624-0083. ty Democratic Party chairman, said that the organi- mittee he helped promote worker compensation re- that neither of these guys have a quarter-million dollars Staten Island. In a previous draft of the proposal, released in No- BARGEMUSIC: presents a cham- zation usually doesn’t begin interviewing prospec- forms. More recently, the two-term Supreme Court to run with could mean an uphill battle.” vember, plans were penciled in for a high school with 1,600 seats ber music concert of at a cost of $106 million. Mendelssohn and Mozart. $35. 4 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing. “That’s good news that they finally responded after years of (718) 624-2083. pleading by Community Board 7, [Sunset Park Councilwoman] PLAY: Long Island University pres- Sara Gonzalez, myself and Community Board 10 — all of us ents “Wit.” 2 pm. See Sat., Feb 14. have been pleading,” said Gentile. “That’s the good news. The HEIGHTS PLAYERS: “The Sisters bad news is that 1,100 seats for a new school is not going to have Rosensweig.” 2 pm. See Sat., a tremendous impact on the overcrowding problem.” Feb 14. HIP building sold for $5.25mil Legislators and Education officials warn that the draft still has BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music presents Shakespeare’s “Peri- to be revised by the department’s Panel for Education Policy, cles.” 3 pm. See Sat., Feb 14. By Jotham Sederstrom New York building, for city Department of Finance ties and doctor’s offices. The cember calls for additional which will meet on Monday. A final version would then be voted CHILDREN The Brooklyn Papers more than $5 million last records, Stath Realty Corp three-story house adjacent to MRI facilities, such as the on by the City Council. But much of the $13.1 billion that Mayor holds the deed to the buildings. the building was also included one at 6740 Third Ave., to be Michael Bloomberg says would be earmarked for school con- WYCKOFF FARMHOUSE: Kids In what a real estate week. King said that the two-sto- with the complex, which King forbidden on any lot adjoin- struction has to come from Albany. and their families are invited to The building at 6740 Third visit New York’s oldest house. executive called one of the ry, 15,350-square-foot build- said is triple-net-leased ing a residential lot. Those Wedged between plans for the new schools are smaller proj- $2 adults, $1 seniors and chil- single largest property Ave., and an adjacent brick ing, which had served as an through 2007, which leaves recommendations must still ects, most of which are likely to remain in future drafts. dren. 10 am to 4 pm. 5816 Clar- house at 270 Senator St., were endon Road. (718) 629-5400. transactions in Bay Ridge extension clinic for New York the tennant responsible for be studied by the Department Among those, the High School of Telecommunication Arts GROUNDHOG SERIES: Brooklyn in the past year, a local sold for $5.25 million, said Methodist Hospital since much of the building’s up- of City Planning before a and Technology is expected to receive as much as $23.3 million Arts Exchange presents Dixie businessman scooped up Timothy King, executive man- 1993, would remain a medical keep. The entire plot is 20,000 zoning change can be pro- in funding to build additional classrooms for 500 students. In Fun Dance Theater in “Web,” an interactive dance show. $8, two buildings, including aging director of Massey facility. Currently, it houses square feet. posed. 1991, the school, on 67th Street at Fourth Avenue, had to divide $5 members/ low-income. 2 the former Health In- Knakal Realty Services, which MRI and OB-GYN clinics, A zoning study released by Before the property was its auditorium into 10 makeshift classrooms to accommodate pm. 421 Fifth Ave. (718) 832- surance Plan of Greater brokered the deal. According to among other outpatient facili- Community Board 10 in De- built, a lumberyard sat on the about 400 more students than the school was designed to handle. 0018. site, according to Eric Rouda, AFRICAN MUSIC: Brooklyn At the same time, as many as 750 students passed through a set Conservatory of Music invites president of the Senator of trailers stationed across the street. kids to a workshop for young Street 300 Block Association. Principal Philip Weinberg, whose school received $400,000 audiences. Learn about African But that, he said, went up in music through songs and secured by Gonzalez and Gentile last year for the initial design games. $5. 3 pm. 58 Seventh flames in the 1960s. of new classrooms, hopes that the request doesn’t go by the way- Ave. (718) 622-3300. Ron Gross, another mem- side. PUPPETWORKS: “Rumpelstilt- Domino shuts its Brooklyn ber of the block association, “Obviously, we’re happy,” said Weinberg, who said that the skin.” 12:30 pm and 2:30 pm. See Sat., Feb 14. said that as early as 1904, a funding would likely add 16 new classrooms. “This is exactly the MUSICAL: Brooklyn Family church sat on the plot of land type of project that will help us sustain the type of quality educa- Theater presents “You’re A that is now the building’s 15- tion we’ve been able to offer the students of Brooklyn for the Good Man, Charlie Brown.” 5 car parking lot. The church, past 19 years.” pm. See Sat., Feb 14. sugar plant after 148 years Good Shepherd Lutheran, Because Telecommunication HS receives applications from OTHER eventually moved to Fourth students borough-wide, however, the additional seats won’t nec- SINGLES BRUNCH: hosted by By Larry McShane 2001; a despondent 22-year times in the last quarter-cen- plant still had the capacity to Avenue at 74th Street. essarily help ease overcrowding in District 20. Bay Ridge Singles Club. Call for details. (718) 745-8659. Associated Press factory worker committed tury, with 15 refineries clos- produce 950 million tons of Last February, a building Another setback revealed in the draft, said Gentile, are the suicide during the walkout. DISCUSSION: Brooklyn Society It predated the Brooklyn ing nationwide since 1980. sugar annually — but it gen- at 439 86th St., between dates set for construction, which for many of the projects have for Ethical Culture presents a First word of the factory Sugar companies were los- erated only 400 million tons. Fourth and Fifth avenues, been pushed back a year since the last draft was published in No- member’s report from a recent Bridge and outlasted the shutdown came in August. ing market share to high-fruc- But Alladeen suggested the which had housed a Wiz elec- vember. Construction on one of the proposed elementary schools, visit to Israel and Palestine. Brooklyn Dodgers. The 1:30 pm. 53 Prospect Park But the imminent arrival of tose corn syrup and beet sugar. closing was more about real tronics store, was sold for $8 for example, was set to begin next year, but now isn’t scheduled West. (718) 768-2972. Free. borough’s Domino Sugar the closing day for the 19th- By 2002, the Brooklyn estate than sugar. million, said King. until October 2006. GALLERY TALK: Brooklyn plant, an East River fixture century brick building in Historical Society presents “African Americans at Work.” for 148 years, closed its Williamsburg still delivered a Learn about the work experi- refinery operation after punch in the gut for workers. ences and contributions of Friday’s shifts. “It’s depressing,” said Al- African-Americans and Carib- bean-Americans in Brooklyn About 200 bitter employees ladeen. “To watch 200 people over the centuries. Included in at the sugar plant are now out lose their jobs.” museum admission of $6, $4 of work, many of them people The plant was bought in CB10 TO SPIN NEW WEB SITE… children and seniors. 2 pm. 128 Pierrepont St. (718) 222-4111 who had spent their entire adult 2001 by the American Sugar Continued from page 1 fees, he said. tion fee. The price jumps depending on Beckmann said she hopes to catalogue POET READING: The Phoenix Refining Co., which decided lives working inside the 11-sto- “You have different priorities in your “We wanted the public to know ex- how many pages are created. descriptions of the more than 30 neigh- House Poetry Workshop invites ry building with its familiar red to close it. poets to read from their works. budget,” said Beckmann. “If my copy actly what was happening at the com- “Successful sites cost money,” said borhood complaints she receives each neon sign. Company officials said the Open only to poets. 2 pm to 4 machine goes, that’s a lot of money.” munity board as if they were attending Pennacchio, who estimated that he day on issues ranging from parking to pm. 50 Jay St. Call to arrange “This is how we treat the plant was not equipped to time for reading. (917) 559- compete with its plants in If the Web site pans out it would be every single meeting,” said Abi-Habib, could create a site for the community property owners not shoveling snow. 1576. American worker,” said Sal Alladeen, president of the Baltimore, Yonkers and out- the community board’s second venture whose information technology compa- board for under $100. “I have 5,000 Howard Feuer, district manager of AUTHOR TALK: Brooklyn Public ny on 86th Street between Fourth and Web pages on my servers and I know neighboring Community Board 11, said Library, Central branch, pres- union representing the work- side New Orleans. online. Before Councilman Vincent ents author Eva Hoffman, read- ers. “They’re laying off folks American Sugar CEO and Gentile chose not to re-appoint him to Fifth avenues also designed Web sites immediately the ones that will be suc- that the money he saves on paper makes ing from her book “After Such the board, last May, John Abi-Habib, for community boards 2, 7 and 11. cessful.” his online endeavor well worth the $100 Knowledge: Memory, History who worked in this neighbor- president Jack Lay did not re- and the Aftermath of the hood for 30, 40 years.” turn a call for comment Thurs- the Communications and Public Rela- Anthony Pennacchio, owner of Van- About 32 of the city’s 59 community monthly fee it costs to keep the site up to Holocaust.” 4 pm. Grand Army The factory workers forged day on the closing. tions committee chairman, designed a guard Computers, on Third Avenue at boards are on the Web, each of which date. Plaza. (718) 230-2100. Free. site, free of charge, that let browsers 75th Street, said that starting a new can be accessed at www.nyc.gov, under “My community board is interested READING: Spiral Thought an unusually strong bond over When Domino began oper- Magazine hosts a spoken word the years, becoming almost ating in Brooklyn in 1856, keep up to date on committee meet- Web site can cost anywhere from $5 the “Community Board List” link. With in doing away with the old ways of performance, presenting origi- like family. They endured an New York was the nation’s ings. The site, which Abi-Habib creat- (what he calls a ‘mom-and-pop site’) to sites ranging from the outdated to the doing business,” said Feuer. “If the nal poetry and prose. 6 pm to 8 pm. The Fall Cafe, 307 Smith ugly strike that lasted from No. 1 sugar producer. But the ed four years ago, would normally several thousand dollars. Startup costs, inspired, most all include a calendar of question is whether or not the site’s St. (718) 832-2310. Free. June 1999 through February sugar industry fell on hard have cost more than $1,000 in start-up he said, include a $35 domain registra- events and neighborhood descriptions. important, well, I think it is.” February 7, 2004 THE BROOKLYN PAPERS • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM AWP 15 BROOKLYN CLASSIFIEDS The Deadline for Saturday’s Paper is Wednesday, 5pm

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