YARDS UNION HAUL Ratner’S ‘Pre-Fabs’ Would Hurt His Labor Backers

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By Daniel Bush per hour when working inside the The Brooklyn Paper Ratner kind of factory where Ratner will Union workers are coming to build the pre-fabricated units. Bruce Ratner’s rescue — again! Construction Many union leaders merely — agreeing to take massive pay shrugged when asked about the cuts to pave the way for the first Update pay cuts, suggesting that if the residential building at Atlantic workers don’t give back, the proj- Yards, a cut-rate, pre-fabricated ect might not go ahead, leaving tower to rise next to the Barclays ers and Ratner, workers would laborers with no work at all. Center. give up millions of dollars in pay “We are attempting to reach Labor unions provided crucial to allow the developer to move an agreement … that will work support for Ratner when his con- forward with the cheaper, mod- for the building trades,” said troversial, $5-billion project was ular building. Gary LaBarbera, president of moving through the approval pro- It is unclear how much money the Building and Construction

SHoP ArchitectsSHoP cess five years ago in exchange will be lost to laborers, but car- Trades Council. Bruce Ratner revealed designs for “modular” buildings at Atlantic Yards. The first (far for a promise of high-paying jobs. penters make as much as $90 an A labor union source trans- left) will rise at the corner of Dean Street and Flatbush Avenue and become the world’s But the agreement currently being hour in wages and benefits at real lated LaBarbera for those who tallest pre-fab building. Union workers would bring home far less pay under this plan. negotiated between union lead- ArchitectsSHoP construction sites, but only $30 See YARDS on page 16 Cone rangers City installs barriers to deter Park cyclists By Natalie O’Neill in recent months — to narrow The Brooklyn Paper MEAN the street in hopes of retard- The city has a message for ing cyclists and warn them to bicyclists in Prospect Park Streets brake for pedestrians. in the wake of two near-fatal The cones, which were in- The battle for Brooklyn’s byways stalled last week on West Lake Photo by Stefano Giovannini crashes: Slow down! Drive, are also a symbol of a The city installed traffic cones to slow down cyclists The Department of Trans- sized cones on the park’s pop- heated debate — over hazy on West Lake Drive in Prospect Park, but some are portation has deployed two ular roadway — where two se- right of way issues — that pits still confused about rules. dozen bright orange, barrel- rious collisions have occurred cyclists against walkers on the heavily trafficked street. The city began the “pilot pro- Photo by Elizabeth Graham gram” at the request of park of- Kasia Bednarska’s Italian greyhound Tali is recovering from surgery. ficials to enhance safety on the downhill street, where bikers She wants cash for crash pick up speed, but then can’t see beyond a curve. Pedestrian injured in collision with Park cyclist sues city “It’s a hot spot with poten- Huge hearts tial for conflict,” said Pros- By Natalie O’Neill According to Jacks’s prelim- have long complained about pect Park Alliance president for The Brooklyn Paper inary court documents, which hazy right of way rules. Emily Lloyd. “Everyone us- were first revealed by our sis- “My wife was gravely in- ing the park must be aware of A Windsor Terrace actress the safety of others.” ter paper, The New York Post, jured,” her husband Forrest who was nearly killed in a crash The road change comes two the charismatic 37-year-old suf- Cicogni told a park task force for little dog with a bicyclist in Prospect Park weeks after a 55-year-old park is preparing to sue the city for fered a fractured skull along on Wednesday. “Racing needs volunteer and frequent power $3 million, claiming speeding with face and brain trauma to be limited to very specific walker Linda Cohen was struck Paper story prompts donations two-wheelers put pedestrians that kept her in the hospital hours. You don’t allow cars to by a 61-year-old cyclist in the in danger on the park’s popu- for 25 days. race in the park; you shouldn’t area, leaving her so badly in- By Natalie O’Neill The dog-loving benefactors have lar roadway. In her notice of claim, Jacks allow bikes to race.” jured that doctors kept her in The Brooklyn Paper funded a $5,000 bone graft surgery Dana Jacks — who starred blames the Parks Department Neither he nor Jacks re- a medically induced coma to Six generous donors have covered to repair the leg that was broken by a in an off-Broadway production and the NYPD for a “careless Actress Dana Jacks is turned calls. aid recovery. the expensive veterinary bill of an Ital- pit bull-mix, who pounced on Kasia of “Our Town” and frequently and reckless” lack of traffic poised to sue the city for News of the coming law- Cohen wasn’t the first vic- ian greyhound who became front page Bednarska’s skinny little pup, Tali, last walked her dog, Scout, in the enforcement on what should $3 million after she was suit comes two weeks after be- tim: In June, 37-year-old ac- news in this paper after he was was Monday near the boathouse. park — was struck by a cyclist be a serene street, where cy- hit by a cyclist in Pros- loved park volunteer and avid tress Dana Jacks, who fre- mangled by another pooch in Pros- “It’s a happy ending,” said Bed- on West Lake Drive in June. clist, pedestrians and drivers pect Park. See SUIT on page 7 See CONES on page 7 pect Park. See DOG on page 14 City: Vito’s charity boss cooked the books OK’d the pay raises — but return stated that executive CEO gave herself, others big pay raises — then forged records the document did not have pay had been reviewed, de- any board member signa- liberated, and approved by By Aaron Short raises — and then lied about 2008, bumping her already Board documents show until nearly two years later, tures on it. its board and an independent The Brooklyn Paper it, a bombshell city investi- lavish $336,000 salary to that the sky-high salary hikes when Fisher sent them to be Three weeks later, Fisher committee — but several The top official hand- gation charges. $782,000, while Ridgewood — plus a lump-sum payment prepared with the group’s fed- faxed another copy of that board members cast some picked by Assemblyman Christiana Fisher, the Bushwick’s housing director, to Fisher of $218,659 — were eral tax returns. document, which suddenly doubt on that. Vito Lopez to run his Bush- CEO of the Lopez-founded Angela Battaglia, collected a approved on Feb. 4, 2008. In August, 2010, Fisher contained signatures of all Ridgewood Bushwick’s

Community Newspaper Group / Aaron Short wick charity forged docu- Ridgewood Bushwick Se- $145,000 raise in 2008, jump- But executives at Ridgewood faxed a copy of a key tax doc- eight board members, to then-chairwoman Lucy Cusi- Christiana Fisher gave ments to give her and Lo- nior Citizens Council, re- ing her salary from $198,000 Bushwick testified they did ument to her accountant that the city. mano told city investigators herself a raise. pez’s girlfriend massive pay ceived a $446,000 raise in to $343,000. not see the board documents showed that the board had The charity’s federal tax See LOPEZ on page 7 Coal’d comfort Ice creamed Grimaldi’s loses oven in move Dime found in the Häagen-Dazs By Kate Briquelet The Brooklyn Paper By Aaron Short Grimaldi’s, regarded by many 68p10.038 The Brooklyn Paper as the best pizzeria in the city, is This pint of ice cream came moving to a new DUMBO loca- with cash back. tion, but leaving behind the key A Hasidic woman’s Shabbat to its success: its coal oven. was spoiled after she bit into a The iconic Old Fulton Street frozen dime buried inside a con- pie shop will serve its final pie tainer of Häagen-Dazs chocolate at her Williamsburg home at its current location on Nov. 28, Photo by Stefano Giovannini then open one day later open in Co-owner Gina Ciolli shows on Nov. 11. 1 Front St., as first reported on off the goods with waiter Sara Abraham purchased BrooklynPaper.com. Roman Sidorsky at Grimal- two containers of the delecta- But its coal-fired oven — one of di’s, the legendary pizzeria ble confection from a Kent Av- only a few dozen left in a city once that will move up the block. Photo by Stefano Giovannini enue Duane Reade store on Nov. teeming with them — will remain “Occupier” Jenny Formerlyfone rallied at Borough Hall before heading underground. 11, as she has done once a week behind, a huge home field advan- since the pharmacy opened sev- tage to the space’s incoming, but last August, but a judge forced eral months ago. still unnamed, restaurant. Waxman to accept back payments, But by the fifth spoonful, she “I love competition,” Grimal- staving off the eviction . ‘Occupying’ all over tasted something “metallic” — di’s owner Frank Ciolli told the But Waxman’s son vowed to and the dime was in her mouth. New York Post, our sister pub- boot the beloved joint as soon as “I had a bad taste and I spat it lication. “Bring it on.” its lease expired on Nov. 30. Anti-Wall St. take the ﬁ ght to the subway out,” said Abraham. “I felt some- Oh, it’s on all right. Ciolli’s He may have known that he thing in my mouth and the ice By Eli Rosenberg ground at two subway stations at a once-obscure Lower Man- landlord, Dorothy Waxman, had an ace up his sleeve: the coal cream didn’t have a good taste Photo by Stefano Giovannini couldn’t wait to evict the 21-year- oven. The Brooklyn Paper in Brooklyn on Thursday as part hattan park . from the start. Two hours later, CASH BACK: Isaac Abra- old pizzeria from its current loca- Such furnaces, which can reach Who needs Zuccotti? of a huge day of protests cel- Anti-Wall Street protesters I still felt a metallic taste in my ham and his wife Sara found tion after Ciolli fell far behind on 1,000 degrees and impart an im- Occupy Wall Street took its ebrating the two-month anni- gathered at the Broadway Junc- mouth.” 10 cents in a pint of Häagen- his rent. Both sides went to court See PIZZA on page 14 incendiary movement under- versary of the first settlement See OCCUPY on page 16 See DIME on page 16 Dazs chocolate.

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Battle rages — on high For Over 99 Years SATNICK’S Fight over ‘Skyscraper’ District nears climax FINE JEWELRY By Kate Briquelet the fight. sions with Councilman Levin & WATCHES The Brooklyn Paper “We’re meeting with a and Councilman Brad Lander 187 State Street A proposal to landmark number of Brooklyn coun- (D–Cobble Hill). nearly two dozen towers in cilmembers to get our message The “Skyscraper” district (between Court & Boerum) Downtown is heading for a across,” said Arthur Goldstein, comprises 21 buildings along

File photo by Alice Proujansky 718-852-1421 attorney for Joseph P. Day Re- Court Street from Montague The School of International Studies climactic battle at the City Open: Tues-Fri 10am-6:30pm, Sat 11am-5pm Council as co-op residents alty Corp., which owns four Street to Livingston Street, and the borough’s most-pow- buildings in the district, which including the already land- Watch & Jewelry Restoration On Premises! erful landlords fight preser- is opposes. “In these economic marked Borough Hall; vationists in hopes of cutting times, the government should 13-story Temple Bar Building the landmark zone down to be treading very carefully on on Court Street; the 35-story Union ﬁ ghts where it adds additional reg- Montague-Court Building at size or killing it altogether. The Borough Hall Sky- ulations.” 16 Court St.; and the Mu- scraper Historic District Downtown is already nicipal Building, which will scrambling to find tenants, soon be transformed into a — which aims to preserve with vacancy rates hover- mini-mall . some luxurious examples of charter plan ing around 15 percent along Opponents have long tried early 20th-century architec- Court Street compared to to squash the designation, ture on and near Court Street The tower at 16 Court the Manhattan average of complaining that it will cause Millman, UFT suddenly — passed the City Planning St. would be covered 9 percent, said Chris Ha- maintenance fees to soar be- Commission last week after by the new Skyscraper vens of Creative Real Es- cause of the intricate rules of come up with a ‘plan’ approvals by the commu- Historic District. tate Group. the historic districts. nity board and the Land- By Natalie O’Neill Supporters of the dis- Murphy said that resi- Custom Framing marks Preservation Com- trict are firing back — say- dents of 75 Livingston al- The Brooklyn Paper Co-op residents, who have Ready-Made Frames mission. ing that the naysayers will ready spent $6 million in 374 7th Avenue A Cobble Hill assemblywoman is pushing a hastily The Council now has un- been the district’s most vocal Posters & Prints come around. the last 22 years to reno- (bet. 11th & 12th Sts) drafted, teachers-union–backed plan to stop a charter til early next year to reject, opponents, are lobbying lo- Friendly Service cal pols and setting up meet- “The Council should ap- vate the building’s façade, 718-832-0655 school — oddly citing the neighborhood’s school-age modify or approve the desig- prove the district — it’s their and that the landmark desig- ings with Councilman Steve population explosion as the reason to halt the non-union nation. Residents of 75 Liv- public duty,” said Judy Stan- nation would raise costs and elementary school. ingston St., the only residen- Levin (D–Brooklyn Heights), ton, executive director of the end up deterring people from Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D–Cobble Hill) and tial building in the district, who has not decided on how Brooklyn Heights Associa- being good stewards to their former Department of Education Deputy Chancellor Car- hope they can persuade law- he will vote. tion. “This will help im- buildings. men Farina say that an “early childhood center” should makers to change the bound- And a who’s-who of prove and revitalize Down- Despite such lobbying, open inside an existing high school building at Court aries to keep them out. Brooklyn business groups town. Any building that’s residents of 75 Livingston St. and Baltic streets instead of the proposed Success Char- “We’re not going to quit,” and property owners, in- included should be proud failed to persuade the Land- ter Network school. said Ellen Murphy, president cluding SL Green Realty, and I think landlords will marks Preservation Commis- CHINESE FOOD Under the plan — which supporters have not pre- of building’s co-op board. Brooklyn Law School, and come to see that.” sion to remove their 1927 neo- sented to the city — area pre-K and kindergarten stu- “The Council needs to un- the Real Estate Board of New Stanton’s powerful neigh- Romanesque building from dents would be allotted space in the building, which is derstand what landmarking York, is following suit. The borhood group has long the district when the panel DELIVERY home to the Brooklyn School for Global Studies and the really means for residential entities condemned the dis- pushed for the designation approved the zone in Sep- for South Slope & Windsor Terrace School for International Studies. buildings these days.” trict in July and has kept up and is also planning discus- tember. The stated goal: Remedy packed elementary schools in Cobble Hill by sending some of the neighborhood’s Any order $15 or over: youngest kids to the new center. FREE Eggroll or The other goal: Thwarting former City Councilwoman WILLIAMSBURG Eva Moskowitz’s hopes of opening her non-union ele- Can of Soda mentary school in the building. Enrollment details have not yet been hammered out, but Any order $25 or over: Millman noted that the center would be smaller than the FREE Pint of Pork proposed charter school, which would open next fall with Neighbors: This art stinks a kindergarten class and grow by one grade each year. Fried Rice or Two “This would relieve overcrowding,” Millman said. Cans of Soda “The charter school would begin to squeeze out the ex- Folks are fuming over studio’s exhaust and noise isting schools.”

Any order $35 or over: Not including Lunch Special The new plan comes a month after Moskowitz — who By Aaron Short commissions from differ- runs the multimillion dollar not-for-profit Success Char- The Brooklyn Paper ent artists. Who knows what FREE General Tso’s ter Network — announced she would open a K-4 school An artist suffers for his kinds of chemicals they will Chicken or Three at the site, citing a “need for more [and] better schools” creations — but now so do be using?” Cans of Soda and a school-age population boom. some of his neighbors. Residents want the art manufacturer to move out But parents and the teachers union is fighting the A Greenpoint foundry is FAST, FREE DELIVERY BY CAR plan, arguing out that teachers and students at the Global blanketing residents of Ea- of the neighborhood, but Studies school — which this year rose from an F-rating gle Street and Freeman Street KB’s building, which is al- to a B — would have to compete for classroom, cafete- with resin fumes and constant most 60-years-old, has been #1 GARDEN ria and gym space. noise as workers churn out grandfathered for storage or To stop the charter network, the Alliance for Qual- sculptures for internationally manufacturing purposes de- CHINESE RESTAURANT ity Education — an education advocacy group affili- renowned artists. spite its residential zoning. ated with the United Federation of Teachers, which has The Freeman Street Bojanov was travelling been opposed to charter schools in the past — created foundry, KB Productions , has in Europe and could not be 221 Prospect Park West the early childhood center proposal. been making flower sculp- reached for comment, but a (Between 16th & Windsor Place) The group claims that the charter school “will generate tures for art-world star Will worker at the factory said division and tension” and that the early childhood center Ryman since June, but the last week that the company 718-831-1795 will be “community-led and community-based.” work has forced neighbors is working with the city to 718-832-3068 Millman, a former teacher who has been in Albany for to flee indoors amid horrific fix its exhaust system and 14 years, admitted that she didn’t push the idea until the noise and a cloud of chemi- expects to come up with a charter school hatched its plan. She claimed that her tar- cals wafting out of the fac- solution soon. diness was simply because the Department of Education tory’s chimney. Ryman, whose resin roses Affordable Family Dentistry has in the past been unreceptive to her proposals. “It was on all day during wowed Park Avenue last win- Millman added that the charter school would “im- Labor Day weekend,” said ter , did not respond to an e- in modern pleasant surroundings pede the growth” of the Brooklyn School for Global Jeanne Korin, whose Eagle mail requesting comment. But his representative at State of the Art Sterilization (autoclave)

Studies — but the school’s principal Joseph O’Brien Street yard is directly behind Community Newspaper Group / Aaron Short Emergencies treated promptly told The Brooklyn Paper that he supports Moskowitz’s the factory. “Our neighbors Jeanne Korin and her son, Darius, want the found- Chelsea’s Paul Kasmin Gal- charter school. moved their party indoors be- lery said that KB is making Special care for children & anxious patients ry to reduce its noise and fix its exhaust system so WE NOW ACCEPT OXFORD Success Netword schools are run by an independent cause of the smell. My whole it won’t pollute their Eagle Street backyard. flower sculptures for his in- board and offer a more flexible structure and different house stank of it.” stallation opening in Florida • Tooth Bleaching (whitening) next month entitled , “Desub- • Cosmetic Dentistry, Porcelain Facings & Inlays, Bonding curriculum. Students are chosen via lottery and teach- Korin approached KB’s Crowns & Bridges (Capping) ers do not belong to the union. owner, Konstantin Bojanov, “They don’t turn it off un- warehouse on Oct. 26, but limation of the Rose.” • Painless, Non-Surgical Gum Treatment In Cobble Hill, PS 261, PS 58 and PS 146 were over- who has built sculptures for til they’re done,” said Ko- the city has not acted on that Meanwhile, Korin’s young • Root Canal • Extractions • Dentures • Cleanings artists such as Jeff Koons, Bar- rin. “They don’t listen. [The complaint. son, Adrian, just wants to • Implant Dentistry • Fillings (tooth colored) enrolled last year — most notably in lower level grades • Stereo headphones • Analgesia (Sweet air) such as kindergarten. bara Kruger, Marcel Dzama, work] is more important than A worker at the factory smell the roses in his own Education spokesman Frank Thomas said that the city Richard Prince and Christian their neighbors.” told George Korin that the yard without breathing in Dr. Jeffrey M. Kramer has not received the Millman-union proposal. Jankowski, about the fumes. Korin and her neighbors plant is using polystyrene resin chemicals. 544 Court Street, Carroll Gardens “I’m not going to comment on a plan that doesn’t re- Wearing a mask as he spoke, complained to the city about resin. “There’s a playhouse, I 624-5554 U 624-7055 ally exist,” said Thomas. Bojanov said he’d put a fan on the chemical smell on Oct. “It smells like airplane have lots of toys in my back- Convenient Office Hours & Ample Parking Farina did not respond to calls, but parents had plenty and the polystyrene chemical 7, and Department of Envi- model glue from my youth yard, and I like to play with and insurance plans accommodated to say. smell would dissipate. ronmental Protection inspec- — it’s a very volatile kind of them but now I can’t,” said “A smaller school wouldn’t interfere as much,” said But the problem has con- tors issued a $560 noise vio- smell,” said Korin. “I don’t Adrian Korin. “Their vent Pamela Bynoe, president of the Parent Teacher Associ- tinued as the factory raced lation. Neighbors called the know what they’re going to makes these noises — I can ation at the Brooklyn School for Global Studies. “This to finish Ryman’s order by city again about noise and be doing in there in the fu- even smell it from inside my is a much better idea.” the end of October. smell emanating from the ture. They have all kinds of house.” Need a new BAY RIDGE kitchen?

“If you actually operated Fran Vella-Marrone. this business like this, that’s On top of that, Neil Vi- Residents singing kara-NO-ke great,” Brian Kieran told Li. soky, the lawyer who spoke “But there’s no reason to be- for Lee claiming she didn’t lieve that it will be any dif- speak English, couldn’t an- Board slams singing bar’s request for a liquor license ferent.” swer even the most basic Reports of violence at the questions about the club, By Dan MacLeod reasons enough to pass on club stretch back to 2007, such as why his client, a reg- The Brooklyn Paper the license to serve booze, when two black men were istered nurse, would want New Era Development Group provides a No booze for you! a pre-requisite at most ka- attacked with clubs and bot- to get into the business, or vast array of services spanning all facets of raoke bars. A Community Board 10 tles by a gang of Asian men how much the renovations the construction and design areas of your The city suspended the — a crime that cops said would cost. panel unanimously declined home and/or workplace. to renew a notorious 62nd club’s license late last month may have been racially mo- He also claimed he was Street karaoke club’s liquor li- and fined owners $3,000 for tivated . not aware that the club was Brownstone renovations, additions, extensions, kitch- cense, saying that it is a den of building code violations and This year, there have been the site of violence or that ens, bathrooms, interiors and exterior ﬁnish work. underage drinking, violence, allowing smoking inside. four stabbings, with two hap- it had been slapped with a Fully licensed, bonded and insured. and drug use — even though A lawyer saying that pening between June 28 and number of violations. “The quality, workmanship, and attention to someone claiming to be the he represented new owner July 5 , in or near the club, “I had no idea,” said Vi- detail are outstanding. Best Condo Builders in new owner says she’s going Xiu Qin Li told CB10 that Li cops said. soky. Carroll Gardens” — Nelson St. Condo Assoc. to clean up the place. had purchased the business In the past year, there have Board members scoffed at V Lounge, a karaoke joint from Kevin Leung in the past been more than 50 calls from his lack of familiarity with between Eighth and Ninth month, and that she planned neighbors for “unbearable the club. avenues, has been the site to clean up the beleaguered noise,” underage kids puking “You should probably of four stabbings, one vi- nightspot by removing the and being disorderly, added Google it,” said Michael cious beating, illegal drug dance floor installing more CB10 District Manager Jo- Festo. use, illegal indoor smok- private karaoke booths. sephine Beckmann. V Lounge club is one of ing, and rampant underage But board members didn’t Some board members two karaoke joints in the area drinking since 2007, ac- buy it, saying that previous cited the club’s sordid his- with shady histories. Crown cording to cops, the State owners had sung the same tory to question the need for KTV on 64th Street also has Call for estimate: 718-237-4900 Liquor Authority and mem- Photo by Steve Solomonson old love song — but, like a a karaoke bar at all. been accused of being a den bers of Community Board Community Board 10 slammed a notorious kara- jingle that gets stuck in your “Maybe this is not the of violence, underage drink- www.NewEraDGLLC.com 10’s Police and Safety Com- oke club, saying that it has always been a thorn in head, there was never any kind of business that belongs ing, and cocaine being snort- Lic. #1375981 mittee, which found those residents’ sides. depth to the emotion. in that neighborhood,” said ing off the bar. 4 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 25–December 1, 2011

returned five days later, they The victim told cops that were gone. she left her house between Break dance 11th and 12th avenues at 7:30 am. When she returned less A burglar snatched hun- than 12 hours later, her front dreds of dollars worth of tools Another iPhone is swiped door was unlocked, and a gold from a Fulton Street dance watch and pendant were studio on Nov. 14. a man on Sterling Place on scored $200, a Palm cell- missing. 77TH PRECINCT 78TH PRECINCT An employee told po- Nov. 19. phone, and credit cards. Beatles fans Prospect Heights The 51-year-old victim Park Slope POLICE BLOTTER Wheel and steal lice that she left the parlor iPhone roam told cops that he was between Scoot and run near Hudson Avenue at 6 Thieves pinched $1,000 Vanderbilt and Flatbush av- Twin thieves on bicycles pm. When she returned the from an 85th Street apart- A gun-toting criminal A jerk beat up a woman on Find more online every Wednesday at enues at 10:05 pm and was snatched the iPhone from a next morning, a bevy of items ment on Nov. 17 after they stole a cellphone on Ster- Carroll Street on Nov. 14. BrooklynPaper.com/blotter woman on Carlton Avenue removing a bag filled with was gone — including drills, came in through the bath- ling Place on Nov. 21. The 29-year-old victim on Nov. 15. his camera, tablet and iPod saws, a two-line phone, and room window. The 29-year-old victim told cops that she was near wallet inside her stroller at The victim was near Gra- The 23-year-old victim from his car. satin nickel floor bumper. The victim told cops told cops he was between Fiske Place when a man on a Barnes and Noble near Sixth ham Avenue at 6:30 pm, told cops that she was near That’s when a geeky crim- — Kate Briquelet that he left his house be- Underhill and Vanderbilt scooter rode up and shouted, Street at 1:10 pm, then walked when the perp tapped her Flushing Avenue at 10:45 pm inal grabbed the satchel and tween Third and Fourth av- avenues just after midnight, “Give it up!” He then grabbed away for 20 minutes. That on the shoulder and grabbed when the freewheeling ban- fled. 76TH PRECINCT enues at 7:20 am. When he when the crook approached her $200 iPhone, pushed her was enough time for the jerk the Jobsian device from her dits approached from behind returned at 4:30, he found him, brandished a black hand- Fire no escape down — and rode away, leav- to snatch her pocketbook — hand. an grabbed her mobile. Carroll Gardens-Cobble his bathroom window open, gun and demanded that he A self-pleasuring creep ing the poor lady with cuts along with the $11 inside. She screamed, and the Hill–Red Hook and $1,000 missing. and scrapes. Phoned it in give up his iPhone. scared a woman on Under- Tuned out perp handed the phone back An Apple-hungry outlaw Gunpoint rob — Dan MacLeod De-phoned hill Avenue on Nov. 21. Bed burglar A crafty crook jacked a and ran away. snatched an iPhone from a Two goons pulled a gun on The 30-year-old victim A couple of crooks stole a A jerk stole thousands of fancy TV and more from an iPhone iSnatch woman on Atlantic Avenue a 39-year-old during a vio- 84TH PRECINCT told cops that she was in- lent mugging on Baltic Street woman’s cellphone on Van- dollars from an apartment of apartment on 15th Street on A thief stole an iPhone on Nov. 14. side her apartment between on Nov. 20. Brooklyn Heights– derbilt Avenue on Nov. 18. Fifth Avenue on Nov. 19. Nov. 16. from a woman on Lorimer The 24-year-old victim St. Johns and Sterling places The 54-year-old victim The victim was nearing DUMBO–Boerum Hill– The 43-year-old victim told The 41-year-old victim Street on Nov. 20. told cops that she was near at 7:55 pm when she heard a told cops that he left his Hoyt Street at 12:30 am when Downtown cops that she was at Park Place told cops that she had locked The victim was talking on Fourth Avenue at 7:15 pm noise. She looked outside to home near 14th Street at the suspects approached, de- Mirror, mirror at 6:15 pm when some thugs her home near Fourth Ave- her phone near Broadway at when a stranger ripped her find a man masturbating on 6:30 pm, then came back the nue at 9 am before leaving manded property, then pistol- A thief stole the side-view took her phone and fled. 6:55 pm when the perp ripped mobile from her hand and her fire escape. next day at 8 am. That was for the day. She came back it out of her hand and fled up fled. whipped him when he didn’t mirrors from a car on Cran- Digital dig He fled before more came enough time for the crook at 4:30 pm and discovered Lorimer Street. Alarm haul move fast enough. berry Street sometime be- A tech-loving jerk stole of the incident. to snatch $20, 000 from un- her $1,200 flat-screen TV Knifey spoony Oh, honey! tween Nov. 15 and Nov. 18. der his bed. and $4,000 worth of jew- A thief stole $1,600 and a The vehicle’s owner said a bunch of electronics from — Eli Rosenberg A burglar threatened a ten- designer bag from a car on Thieves looted the Ted No windows or doors were elry gone. and Honey Café on Clin- he parked between Willow broken. Her rear window was ant with a knife inside his S. Clermont Avenue on Nov. Street and Columbia Heights Second Street apartment on 19 as the owner attended a ton Street on Nov. 21, tak- Got school’d ajar. ing two safes that contained at 6 pm on Nov. 15. Three Nov. 19 — was arrested a few prayer meeting. days later, the mirrors were A crook snatched some Sad song more than $9,000, an iPad hours later, cops said. The 54-year-old victim missing. school supplies from a stu- A crook jacked two mu- The tenant left his apart- told cops he parked near Myr- and a laptop computer. %VLF"HFODZ dent on Fourth Avenue on sical instruments from a car ment near Marcy Avenue at tle Avenue at 8:15 pm. When Burglars entered the eat- Smoked out Nov. 19. parked on the quiet stretch 5:45 pm to walk his dog, and he returned 15 minutes later, ery at Verandah Place through A tobacco fiend stole 12 5"913&1"3"5*0/ The 26-year-old victim of Flatbush Avenue near returned to find the alleged his Kenneth Cole bag, check- an unlocked basement door cartons of cigarettes from a told cops that he was near the Prospect Park Zoo on thief, who grabbed a knife book and cash were gone. after workers closed for the Montague Street drug store 11th Street at 6:15 am when Nov. 15. and threatened him. Low gear night at 1 am. A delivery ser- on Nov. 17. a man ran up and ripped a The 52-year-old victim The perp fled the apart- vice found the side door open A witness told police that Some thief boosted a white backpack full of books off told cops that she had locked ment, but an officer stopped — and the café ransacked the thief entered the store at sedan from Park Avenue on his shoulder. two violins worth $2,200 in- and cuffed him, police — at 3 am, employees told Clinton Street at 10:30 pm Nov. 13 — also scoring box- Book him side her 2008 Range Rover said. police. and removed the cancer sticks -FPOBSE4USFFU ing equipment, prescription from a display case behind A thief stole a wallet near Empire Boulevard at Tool time Vale villain 9 am, then came back at 6 drugs and an MP3 player. the counter. 0GG(SFFOQPJOU"WFOVF from a customer at a book A thief stole a saw and two A thief in a bright red pm. That’s when she discov- The 31-year-old victim The cartons are worth shop on Seventh Avenue on drills from a Metropolitan jacket smashed his way into ered the pretty violins — told cops that he parked near $1,378, making this any- #SPPLMZO /: Nov. 18. Avenue garage on Nov. 20. N. Elliott Place at 9 pm. When a Pacific Street business on and $200 worth of clothes thing but a petty crime. The 30-year-old victim The homeowner said that he returned the next morning, Nov. 15, taking a $2,500 Ap- — gone. told cops that she had set her he locked his garage near his 2007 Acura was gone. ple MacBook. Subway bust — Natalie O’Neill Leonard Street at 3 am, but Subway bandit Witnesses told police Police arrested two men when he returned five hours that the thief used a brick for stealing an iPod at the 94TH PRECINCT later, he saw the lock was bro- A teen thief tried to steal to break the glass window Pacific Street subway sta- ken and his stuff was gone. a man’s stuff on the Classon to Natasha Vale Design be- tion on Nov. 17. Greenpoint–Northside Avenue G train platform on Nifty necklaces tween Henry and Clinton The victim said that he Lock jaw Nov. 18 — but cops caught streets at 4:30 am. was on a Brighton Beach- A thug clobbered a man in A thief stole $1,000 worth up with the alleged would-be Catfight! bound B train at 7 pm when his head with a bike lock on of necklaces, a Nintendo bandit. Police said they arrested a the men elbowed him in Nassau Avenue on Nov. 17. system and $300 from a S. The 38-year-old victim the face, grabbed his music The victim and his tor- Fourth Street apartment on told police that he emerged 37-year-old woman who attacked a 37-year-old during player and fled. mentor got into an argu- Nov. 20. from the Queens-bound sub- Cops arrested two men ment near Newel Street at 3 The tenant left her home way at 10:30 pm when the a fierce Nov. 21 catfight on Columbia Street. later — and they still had the am, but the battle turned vi- near Union Avenue at 2:30 young crook reached into stolen device, police said. olent when the perp smashed pm, but when she returned his satchel. The two women, who the man in the head with a four hours later, she saw her The victim ran after the knew each other, were ar- Copper heist bike lock. property was gone. perp, who yelled, “Stop fol- guing near Lorraine Street A thief broke into a — Aaron Short lowing me or I’ll f—k you at 9:30 am when the 37-year- Schermerhorn Street con- Lights out up!” old spit at her opponent, then struction site overnight on Two thieves stole several 88TH PRECINCT Police arrested a 17-year- grabbed her by the hair and Nov. 16 to steal the most pre- lamps from a N. Eighth Street old suspect shortly after. bit her lip — leaving her with cious of no-so-precious met- business on Nov. 9. Fort Greene–Clinton Hill Gate crasher injuries that needed medical als: copper. The perps entered the Stone cold attention. A supervisor at the build- building near Bedford Av- Some jerk stole a metal — Thomas Tracy ing, between Hoyt and Bond A brick-wielding lunatic gate from a home on Carlton enue at 11:30 pm to steal the smashed a man’s nose on Ful- streets, said that he closed the accessories. Avenue earlier this month as site at 4 pm and returned at ton Street on Nov. 15. the owner did renovations. 68TH PRECINCT .EW-ACSAREALWAYSONSALEIN"ROOKLYN The 37-year-old victim 6 am to find $400 worth of Compu-crime The 61-year-old victim Bay Ridge–Dyker told police that he was near the new gold missing. A thief stole a Macbook told cops that she left the res- Heights Putnam Avenue at 6:55 pm computer and some jewelry idence near Green Avenue at Rim jobs High schooled from a Manhattan Avenue when a stranger approached 1 pm on Nov. 10. When she A thief stole a laptop from The Mac home on Nov. 15. and said, “Do you want me to Thieves stole wheels off at returned four days later, the a high school on Flatbush Av- The tenant and her three hit you with this brick?” $1,500 gate was gone. least two cars last week: enue Extension on Nov. 15. The thug then struck him • Wheel bandits swiped a kids left the house near Du- National grift Officials at the Urban As- pont Street at 8 am, but when with the block, slashing his set of fancy rims and tires off sembly School of Music and Support Store one of her kids came home face and giving him a nose- A thief lifted a laptop from a car on 77th Street overnight Art told police that the lap- at 4:30 pm, he noticed that bleed. The perp fled south a National Grid truck on Clin- on Nov. 16. The victim told top was stolen from a locked the computer and some jew- on Grand Avenue. ton Avenue on Nov. 15. cops that she parked between classroom at the school at elry were missing. In the bag An employee told police Fort Hamilton Parkway and Bridge Street around 7:45 that he left the vehicle near 10th Avenue at around 9 pm, Cash out Some thug put a woman am. DeKalb Avenue at 4:20 pm. but all four tires were gone 49 Flatbush Avenue Ext. A thief stole some cash in a chokehold on Clinton When he returned 10 min- the next morning. NEWMACSsUSEDMACSsUPGRADESsBACKUPDRIVES from a Wythe Avenue bakery Avenue on Nov. 20 to steal utes later, the Dell device • Thieves took two wheels Cellphone robs overnight on Nov. 14. her purse, iPod and cell- was gone. from a car on Shore Road At least six cellphones I0HONECASESsLAPTOPCASESsBATTERIESsKEYBOARDS phone. The store owner locked up Credit score overnight on Nov. 14. The were stolen last week. Here MICEsPRINTERSsCABLESsSPEAKERSsHEADPHONES his building near N. Eighth The 26-year-old vic- victim said that she had are the details: A sneaky thief broke into Street at 8 pm, but when he tim told cops that she was left her Audi between 98th • Three thieves stole a CAMERASsADAPTERSsMICROPHONESsSOFTWARE a Honda on Hall Street on returned at 4:15 am, he saw near Lafayette Avenue at and 99th streets at 9 pm, but woman’s cellphone on Cad- Nov. 14 — snatching credit SECURITYLOCKSsSURGEPROTECTORSsKEYBOARDCOVERS the door was damaged and his midnight when a stranger they were gone by 7 the next man Plaza West near Mid- cards and using them to buy cash drawer was emptied. grabbed her by the neck and morning. dagh Street at 6 pm on Nov. appliances. ordered, “Give me the phone, 18. Tools timed The 49-year-old victim Sneak thief give me the phone!” • A woman’s Blackberry 718-312-8341 A thief stole a set of tools from New Jersey told po- The crook grabbed her Thieves sneaked into was swiped on Willoughby from a car on Kent Avenue lice that she parked near 168 7th St & 3rd Ave pocketbook and fled with a Fort Hamilton Parkway Street near Adams Street at on Nov. 8. Willoughby Avenue at 4 her credit cards, California apartment over the week- 1:15 pm on Nov. 19. The driver parked near N. pm and when she returned macsupportstore.com ID and Android phone. end on Nov. 11 and swiped • A man’s iPhone was Fourth Street at 10 am and 90 minutes later, her cards, Cops are seeking a nearly $4,000 in goods and picked on Joralemon Street [email protected] returned five hours later to $25 and her Green Card were cash. 35-year-old, 6-foot-2, near Clinton Street at 11 pm find his tools missing. missing. The victim told cops that 220-pound suspect. on Nov. 13 She told cops that the he left his home between Camrys copped Early attack • A woman’s cellphone thieves used one of her cards 95th and 97th streets at 2:30 At least two Toyota sedans was snatched on Fourth and A marauder stole a wom- at an appliance store. on Nov. 10 and returned on were swiped last week: Atlantic avenues at 7:15 pm an’s purse on Clinton Avenue Monday morning to find • A thief stole one from Game over on Nov. 14. Why Choose on Nov. 17 after he punched that burglars had sneaked Franklin Street near Java A heartless grifter stole a • A woman’s iPhone was her in the face. through his front door and Street between 9 pm on Nov. PlayStation 3 and Nintendo grabbed on Cranberry Street The 31-year-old victim made off with his watches, 15 and 8 am the next day. 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The Brooklyn Paper worth the stress; it’s killing Photo by Arthur De Gaeta porter for the Capital and City Hall it is more important than ever that we The owner of a cheap me. I’ve had so many sleep- Paul Haye says a rent hike is threatening his leg- News, have just been named the in- vigorously support and encourage in- neighborhood favorite will less nights.” endary Jamaican patty stand, Christie’s, on Flat- augural recipients of a statewide in- vestigative journalism,” said Stern. close his restaurant after 45 The dispute is the latest ev- bush Avenue in Prospect Heights. vestigative journalism competition “Laura Nahmias and Aaron Short up- years in Park Slope and Pros- idence that small businesses run by New York Civic, a watchdog hold the great tradition of the media pect Heights, citing a land- may have trouble staying A particularly popular ing owner then presented group founded by former Parks Com- acting as watchdogs to keep politi- open near the arena, where lord-tenant dispute fueled by item was the patty on coco him with two bills totaling missioner Henry Stern. cians honest and inform the public the Nets will play basket- a nearby sports arena. bread, though there are few $20,000 for tax and late fees Nahmias won the top prize of when they are not.” ball next season (if there is Paul Haye, who runs Chris- diets that would permit it. and then sued. $2,000 for a story that uncovered Short has been with us since No- a season). vember, 2007. He is 30 years old, but tie’s Jamaican Patties on Flat- In 2006, Haye reopened Feng — who had a high- several instances when Assembly- bush Avenue and Sterling Businesses in Fort Greene is as spry as reporters six years his at its current location, then profile battle with Royal man William Boyland Jr. sought ex- Place, says he’ll close by Jan- and north Park Slope also re- pense reimbursements for items sup- junior. scored a write-up in the New Video several years ago — uary, claiming his landlord — port that landlords have dou- posedly bought in Albany when he was Short’s boss, Editor Gersh Kuntz- who last spring welcomed em- bled rent, citing proximity to York Times, a Manhattan did not respond to calls seek- nowhere near the state capital. man, was effusive in praise of his battled sports bar Prime 6 to the arena in new real-estate newspaper, which called the ing comment. A woman who Short was hot on her heels — and protege’s accomplishment. the neighborhood — gave ads. patties “practically a meal in answered her cellphone last earned a cool grand — with his story, “We’re always asking ourselves, him the boot in order to col- Christie’s opened in 1966 itself.” Thursday would say only, “He “This is supposed to be a senior cen- ‘What’s next for Aaron?’ — and lect higher rent from a new ten- across the street from its cur- Even today, hungry neigh- owes her a lot of money” be- ter. It’s actually Vito Lopez’s club- Mirthful ace reporter Aaron now we know,” said Kuntzman. “We ant, now that Barclays Center rent location, offering the bors can still buy the flaky fore hanging up. house,” which ran on BrooklynPa- Short toasts himself this time. couldn’t be more proud of him.” is closer to completion. tasty pastries — which one meat-filled treat for just $2. Haye now says he’s consid- per.com on Oct. 13, 2010 and later Lopez did not return a call seeking Then again, he might just online reviewer called “the Recently, however, busi- ering opening elsewhere. in the New York Post, our sister pub- comment, but a Lopez opponent, Dem- be deliquent on rent, as the best damn patties on the ness has slowed and Haye ad- “I put my whole life into lication. vide services for seniors is instead ocratic District Leader Lincoln Restler landlord, Lina Feng, coun- planet” — along with its fa- mitted to being two months this place,” he said with a sigh. The lede of the story said it all: renting out its first floor to Assem- said, “Aaron Short is the rare intrepid tered in court documents. mous coco bread to neigh- late on rent. He said he tried “But I don’t know if it’s worth “A Bushwick nonprofit that gets $1 blyman Vito Lopez’s political club- journalist that keeps the Brooklyn es- “She’s trying to kick me bors on the go. to pay it — but the build- it anymore.” million in taxpayer dollars to pro- house — and giving back some of tablishment on its toes.”

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the cones and into the lane doing something is smart ers around here, too.” marked with a bike sym- — [cyclists] really go fast A Department of Trans- CONES... bol, which is actually des- in this park.” portation spokeswoman said ignated for pedestrians dur- Pedestrians also noted the that the agency “will mon- Continued from page 1 fuses right of way rules — ing the park’s non-rush-hour, change is necessary — if only itor these enhancements to quently walked her dog in although cops noted most of car-free periods. to send park-goers the mes- see if any adjustments are GENERAL& COSMETIC the park, suffered brain dam- the crashes occurred during Others admitted they had sage that something is up with needed.” SKIN CARE SPECIALISTS age after a cyclist collided car-free hours. no idea what the new cones the street. Lloyd admitted that more with her in the same loca- Nearly everyone agreed were for. “It draws attention to work needs to be done. Botox, Juvederm, Radiesse tion. Jacks has sued the city on one thing: The roadway “I think the initial reac- the roadway,” said Chris “There may not be one per- Chemical peels for a “careless and reckless” needs attention from the city tion is, ‘Oh, these must be Jules, who was walking fect solution,” she said last Spider veins lack of traffic enforcement — both from the Department for cars,’ ” said bike com- his dog nearby. “I’ve seen week. “But we want to be Laser hair removal of Transportation and the Po- on what should be a serene muter Cindy Chung. “But some crazy, careless walk- thinking about them.” Acne. Herpes roadway. lice Department. Park-goers reported other “Enforcement is para- Warts. Moles accidents — and dozens mount,” said Forrest Cicogni, Blemish removal of close calls — at a task Jacks’s husband. All your lighting Keloids force meeting attended by But racing cyclists, who 718-636-0425 more than 100 people last use the park loop as a train- needs from moderate 27 EIGHTH AVE (AT LINCOLN PL) ing area, became a frequent PARK SLOPE, BKLYN Wednesday, where neigh- to High End bors compared the street target of local ire. 212-288-1300 to “the Wild West,” then “I’m enraged at some of 1000 PARK AVE (AT 84TH ST) asked for more signs, edu- these so-called serious cy- We offer on-site MANHATTAN, NY ALAN KLING, MD cation and increased police clists,” said Henry Astor, who Lighting & Board-Certiﬁed Dermatologist enforcement. added he rides bikes him- or in-showroom DAY AND EVENING HOURS PLEASE CALL FOR AN APPOINTMENT CARLY WALLIS, PA At the Prospect Park Alli- self. “Just because you wear Furniture Showroom consultations INSURANCE ACCEPTED FOR MEDICAL SERVICES ance-led hearing, suggested Spandex and shave your legs included the basic (“There doesn’t mean you’re a good has to be more police pres- cyclist. Some of these guys ence”), creative (“Why don’t are out of control.” we have a designated time On Monday afternoon, for speed cycling?”) and far- cyclists on the street fol- fetched (“I would eliminate lowed the rules — stay- Property Life all bikes all together”). ing in between the new or- Others stressed the need ange cones — although few for a car-free park, saying slowed down. Others looked We carry: & Auto Insurance the shared roadway con- confused, weaving around s6ISUAL#OMFORT s#ASABLANCA&ANS s(UDSON6ALLEY,IGHTING s2OBERT!BBEY Jane Chrostowski SUIT... s4HE-ODERN&AN#O s4ECH,IGHTING Personal Financial Representative s&ANIMATION s7ORLDS!WAY Continued from page 1 tice of claim in Brooklyn Su- power walker Linda Cohen preme Court against the cy- 233 Nassau Avenue was struck by a 61-year-old clist with whom she collided. Conveniently located near Fairway Supermarket! Brooklyn, NY 11222 cyclist on the same street. She He then counter-sued, claim- Phone: 718-349-7200 suffered a medically induced ing it was actually her fault 179 Richards St. (718) 909-3391 coma and is now conscious for crossing the street out- Fax: 718-349-7960 but slowly recovering. side the crosswalk. www.laluzinc.com Red Hook, Brooklyn “It happened to her — At a road sharing task and she knows the park in- force meeting in the park timately,” her friend Nancy on Wednesday, more than We also carry exterior landscaping lighting [email protected] Moccaldi said between sobs. 100 park-goers demanded “Now, her skull is frac- stepped-up enforcement of tured. She is bruised and roadway speed limits, bet- battered.” ter signage and more cops It also comes after at least on the popular street. three cycling-related accidents “This is a disgrace,” said plagued the park this past sum- Geoffrey Croft of New York mer on the same loop. City Park Advocates. “Our Jacks filed a separate no- parks should be safe.” LOPEZ... Continued from page 1 to her since 1999, according last year that the signature to the city’s interviews with on the document was hers, Ridgewood Bushwick’s CFO but added that she did not and accountant. She refused remember signing it. to directly answer questions She also said she had no from city investigators and idea how much Fisher and calls made to her attorney Battaglia were be- and her Bushwick ing paid. office were not re- “Nobody ever turned. told me what But Ridge- they made,” wood Bush- said Cusimano, wick’s accoun- who is no longer tant Francis on the board. Bowen testified Another board that Fisher’s ret- member, Virginia roactive increases Torres, said that the only occurred for board discussed a a year-and-a-half salary increase for Vito Lopez period between Fisher in late 2009 February 2007 and or early 2010, not in July 2008, not the February, 2008, as stated in nine years stated in the 2008 the documents Ridgewood board resolution. Bushwick sent to the city. And Battaglia, Lopez’s The charity’s human re- girlfriend and a City Plan- sources director, Antoinette ning Commissioner, told city Kozlowski, also told city in- investigators that she did not spectors that the first time notice receiving a $145,000 she saw any board docu- raise until she saw an “un- ments concerning execu- usually high balance” in her tive compensation was when checking account in 2008 Fisher gave her three sepa- that she “had not expected rate resolutions from meet- or requested.” ings in 2008, 2009, and 2010 When Battaglia asked at the same time in the sum- Fisher why her annual sal- mer of 2010. Fisher told her ary rose from $198,000 to that the original files had $343,000, Fisher told her gone missing and these reso- she was receiving a “retro- lutions were “re-created.” active” salary increase for In addition, city inves- two years of work. tigators found that Ridge- But the city was unable wood Bushwick’s 2009 tax to verify Battaglia’s salary return was riddled with “in- and hours worked because accuracies.” Fisher never required her The return did not include to fill out timesheets. And Fisher’s full compensation Fisher was unable to pro- from a Ridgewood Bush- duce her own time sheets wick home-care subsid- for 2008 and 2009, upon the iary, about $96,000, which city’s request. she also managed. Even Lopez, who was not The tax forms did say that named in the report, dis- an independent committee tanced himself from Ridge- was monitoring Ridgewood wood Bushwick’s financial Bushwick salaries, but the mess, telling the Daily News charity’s then-Chief Finan- he does not have a role in cial Officer Wesley Hitner the daily operations of the said that he was not aware charity he founded, but de- of such a review fended its 30-year legacy of In May, Ridgewood Bush- revitalizing Bushwick. Lo- wick filed an amended tax pez’s office did not return a return with more than 20 al- call for comment. terations from its prior re- But that was enough for turn, including the startling Mayor Bloomberg to call ma- admission that Fisher’s sal- jor changes at the Bushwick ary “was not approved by the charity. entire board” and its process “Corrective action needs for determining executive to be taken to ensure that this salaries was flawed. kind of thing does not hap- Ridgewood Bushwick’s pen again,” said Bloomberg attorney told the Daily News, spokeswoman Julie Wood, which first reported the city’s adding that Fisher’s resig- findings, that the charity has nation could be one of the since replaced nearly all its actions. board members and Fish- And Democratic District er’s salary was incorrectly Leader Lincoln Restler called recorded on tax forms. on the City Council and state But Fisher’s salary grab agencies to halt funding to made other Ridgewood Ridgewood Bushwick. Bushwick executives skit- “The obscene compensa- tish. tion packages represent hun- Ridgewood Bushwick’s dreds of thousands of tax Youth, Education and Train- dollars that should have been ing Services Director, Ma- spent on meals and home ria Elana Zullo, told Fisher health care visits for Brook- on several occasions be- lyn’s seniors,” said Restler. tween 2008 and 2010 that “Public dollars intended for she was “not comfortable” Ridgewood Bushwick should receiving a 32-percent raise be reallocated to local orga- that increased her salary to nizations that serve Brook- $219,000 in July 2008, ac- lyn honestly.” cording to Zullo’s testi- The city’s latest report mony. Fisher told her she stemmed from an investiga- “felt strongly” that Zullo’s tion launched last spring that work justified her salary, but found a Ridgewood Bush- agreed to reduce to $150,000 wick employee falsified in early 2010. attendance sheets for city- Fisher defended the pay funded programs held at a increase as “retroactive com- Bushwick community cen- pensation” for salary owed ter that did not exist. 8 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 25–December 1, 2011

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SEX! Bump’n Rhyme Poetry and striptease — together at last! A quirky cast of semi-nude dancers, bards and blues musicians will converge at Sideshows by the Seashore on Dec. 3 in writer-producer Michael Schwartz’s off-beat, “A Coney Island From The Behind.” Schwartz will head- line the smorgasbord variety show, which will feature stories and comedy based on his hard-knock childhood in 1970s Coney Island — the inspira- tion for his plays “Co- Photo by Steve Solomonson ney Island Last Stop” and “In the Shadow of The Third Rail.” “It’s always been a place for wonder and magic,” said Schwartz. “This show is going to capture that spirit.” (718) 260-2500 Nov. 25–Dec. 1, 2011 Or at least provide for an unusual evening The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guideide ttoo tthehe BBoroughorough ooff KKingsings of entertainment. Additional acts include a reading of “The Coney Island Love Letters,” by Mermaid Hawley and Bill Brovold, a rag- time piano performance and a harmonica solo set by Hank Coyote Wagner. “A Coney Island Of The Behind” at Side- shows by the Seashore [1208 Surf Ave. at W. 12th Street in Coney Island, (718) 372-5159], Dec. 3, 7 pm, $10. For info, visit www.coneyis- Eat this land.com. — Daniel Bush Our food writer eats her way MORE SEX! through her 30th birthday ‘Bare’ bones By Sarah Zorn Forget about the birds and the bees: A new night for The Brooklyn Paper of storytelling probes candid, real-life sex. Head to Union Hall for “Bare!” — a per- just turned 30, so I asked my short- formance of true, funny and honest stories of armed, deep-pocketed editor to cough lust, desire and romance. I up some big bucks so I could consume “To tell a good 30 of the borough’s best dishes! But you story about sex, you won’t need a special occasion to try them need more than a few — or even a big budget! — as most of minutes,” says pseud- these treats top out at $10. The Big 3-0 onymous host Jeffer- never tasted so good! son Bites , explain- ing the subject matter Brennan and Carr isn’t always universal. The Gargiulo Burger, $6.50 “The audience has to go What’s better than the roast beef sand- from, ‘What did he just wich dipped in au jus at this 70-year-old in- say!?’ to “Ohhh. That’s

stitution? A burger topped with roast beef how he fell in love at Photo by Elizabeth Graham — plus onions and cheese — and then sub- the orgy.’ ” Photo by Stefano Giovannini merged in au jus. You heard us right. This month’s topic is simply “More” — in- 3432 Nostrand Ave. between Avenue terpret as you like — and performances are fol- V and Gravesend Neck Road in Sheep- lowed by a raffle of sex toys from Babeland. shead Bay, (718) 769-1254 “It’s important to talk openly about theses things,” said storyteller Diana Adams, whose Mill Basin Kosher Delicatessen long-term polyamorous relationship was the sub- Photo by Elizabeth Graham Latke chips, $5.25 ject of an MTV documentary. “It can be scary If pastrami and corned beef are — but if we’re not doing it, who will?” king at this 30-year-old classic ko- Bare! at Union Hall [702 Union St. between sher deli, the ingenious latke chips, Fifth and Sixth avenues in Park Slope, (718) fried crisp and dipped in apple- 638-4400], Nov, 28, 8 pm, $5. For info, visit sauce, make a truly tasty queen. www.unionhallny.com. — Natalie O’Neill 5823 Ave T between E. 58th and 59th streets in Mill Basin, (718) 241-4910

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homemade bread. Douse on the Photo by Steve Solomonson Sultry burlesque temptress Rosie 151 is tak- accompanying white garlic and Big 3-0: (Counter clockwise from top) Our food writer blew out a candle on a ing the stage at the Prospect Heights steampunk red chile sauces. “Sarah Zorn” cupcake — named after her! Then indulged in a pecan pie sundae bar Way Station on Dec. 1, part of a year-long 2202 86th St. between Bay from Buttermilk Channel, a gravy-soaked Brennan — Carr Gargiulo Burger, and a residency as frontwoman of six-piece bluegrass Parkway and Bay 31st Street in B-8 sandwich from Paneantico’s! outfit, The Red Hook Ramblers.

Bath Beach, (718) 714-4300 Photo by Alice Proujansky “The drums, horns, the tuba and trombone Grand Sichuan House and zippy pomegranate molasses. Blue Ribbon Brooklyn shouldn’t work — yet avoids cloying gim- lend itself to bump and Sauteed loofah, $8.95 7523 Third Ave. between 75th and Smoked fish, $26 mickry by striking the perfect balance of grind,” said Rosie, who You don’t scrub with this mild-tasting 76th streets in Bay Ridge, (718) 748-5600 It’s hard to get out of Blue Ribbon sweet and savory. will sing, dance and, of Chinese sponge gourd — simply sautéed, Brooklyn for less than a kings ransom, 68 Fifth Ave. between Bergen Street course, strip. it’s an addictive antidote to Grand Sich- Pio Pio Riko but the house-smoked plate of under-the- and Prospect Place in Park Slope, (718) The buxom Brook- uan’s other sinus-clearing, peppercorn- Jalea, $26 sea delicacies — salmon, trout, scallops, 857-1833 lynite has been enter- laced specialties. This Peruvian fast food chicken joint and shrimp, dotted with capers and on- taining throughout the 8701 Fifth Ave. between 87th and 88th might not be an obvious stop for a fried ions and flanked with seeded toast, on- Mitchell’s Soul Food burlesque circuit for six Streets in Bay Ridge, (718) 680-8887 seafood fix — but the mammoth mélange ion cream, and fennel slaw — feels (and Fried chicken, $7.50 dark meat ($8.50 years. But singing is a of squid, shrimp, mussels, crab legs, white tastes) like a comparable steal. white meat) Courtesy of Rosie 151 challenge she’s willing Paneantico fish and yucca — sided with green chile 280 Fifth Ave. between First Street Do you feel like chicken (or catfish, to take on full-bore — and scantily clad. B8 sandwich on brick oven bread, sauce, creamy white sauce, and tangy onion and Garfield Place in Park Slope, (718) or meatloaf, or smothered pork chops) “For some people, burlesque is over-satu- $13.50 salad — beats the pants off of a sad plate 840-0404 tonight? Get your down-home fix — rated, so our performance is an all-around good You won’t argue the price when you of tentacle-less, red-sauce calamari. sided with collards, mac and cheese time,” Rosie said. “It’s great jazz of some bygone check out the generous assemblage of good- 5911 Fourth Ave. between 59th and Purbird and cornbread — at this casual Pros- era, and it’s me singing, and, of course, a little bit ies piled on unimpeachable Royal Crown 60th streets in Sunset Park, (718) 492-4505 Flame grilled chicken, $8.95 (half), pect Heights spot. of burlesque. There’s a bit of everything.” Bakery bread — silky prosciutto, smoky $15.95 (whole) 617 Vanderbilt Ave. between Ber- Way Station proprietor Andy Heidel thinks mozzarella, fried lozenges of eggplant, and Great Taste Dumpling This new Park Slope poultry joint has gen and St. Marks streets in Prospect an eclectic musical lineup is the key to a suc- whole roasted red papers. Dose liberally Pork and chive pan-fried dumplings, found a way to make chicken exciting — by Heights, (718) 789-3212 cessful watering hole. with fruity olive oil and house-reduced $1, vegetable pancake, $1.25 preparing it simply, and well. Fork over the “I’m booking blues, jazz, soul, bluegrass, balsamic vinegar — nirvana! At five for a dollar, it’s hard to argue extra 50 cents for one of the intriguing house Brooklyn Ice House Dixieland — stuff I like to see,” Heidel said. 9124 Third Ave. between 91st and 92nd the value of these browned bottom dump- sauces, like roasted lemon and parsley, quince Pulled pork sandwiches, $3 each (2 “Having a burlesque dancer as the frontwoman, streets in Bay Ridge, (718) 680-2347 lings laked with soy and Siracha. Add chutney, or jalapeno-caper puree. for $5) backed up by a Dixieland jazz band? Yeah, in a wedge of the foccacia-esque sesame 82 Sixth Ave. at St. Marks Place in Park The barbecued piggy sandwiches are that’s a great combo.” Tanoreen bread stuffed with carrots, cilantro and Slope, (718) 857-2473 squeal of a deal at this laid-back Red Hook Red Hook Ramblers at the Way Station [683 Cauliflower Salad, $6.50 chile — like a meatless banh mi — and saloon — along with just about every- Washington Ave. between St. Marks Avenue Side dishes are where it’s at this Middle you’ve got one delicious (and highly af- Convivium Osteria thing else. 70+ beers from $3-7! Bacon and Prospect Place in Prospect Heights, (917) Eastern dining destination, especially the fordable) lunch. Green apple and cinnamon ravioli wrapped hot dogs with exemplary fries 279-5412], every first Thursday beginning Dec. unique —and impossibly tasty — combo 4317 Eighth Ave between 43rd and 44th with duck ragu, $18 for $5! 1, 9 pm. Free. For info, visit www.waystationbk. of browned cauliflower florets, nutty tahini streets in Borough Park, (718) 436-2516 Admittedly, this dish sounds like it See EAT THIS on page 12 blogspot.com. — Juliet Linderman

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In this edy, or tell a story, Instead of 24 actors, solo moniker, Owen. gain: material comfort re-imagining, the inspired by a song — animals and an orches- Kinsella’s sixth solo ,UNCH3PECIALSs#ATERING in exchange for hope. actors switch from one then actually sing one tra, the production will album is about One holdout saves the character to another of his or her choosing. be handled by just five ghosts, albeit those FREE day, of course — and LITERSODA before the audience’s Plus, there’ll be plenty mad-dashing thespi- who haunt Kinsella’s boy do those jars glow! WITHANYORDEROVER eyes. And instead of a of performances from ans. “It’s so fun musical past, pres- with this ad stage, the production professionals. because it becomes 7:30 pm. “The Lost Light” ent, and future. It’s unfolds on a carpet in less about the story, at Center for Performance 8 pm. The Jukebox at mellow and melan- front of the audience, and more about five Research [361 Manhattan Union Hall [702 Union St. Ave. between Jackson and choly, comtempla- creating an intimate desperate actors,” Antonio’s Pizza between Sixth and Withers streets in tive with layered gui- connection between Seventh avenues in Park said director Michael Williamsburg, (718) 349- tar riffs gently super- &LATBUSH!VENUE performer and Slope, (718) 638-4400]. Levinton. “It’s absurd.” 1210] through Dec. 4. Tickets, $5. For info, visit imposed ontop of (near Carlton Avenue) observer. Tickets, $12 ($8 for chil- Delivery to Park Slope & Prospect Heights www.unionhallny.com. 8 pm.“Babes in Toyland” dren). For info, visit www. each other. 7 pm. “Henry V” at at the Brick Theater [575 sharkmother.org. 8:30 pm. Owen at Irondale Ensemble Metropolitan Ave. 718-398-2300 Glasslands Gallery [289 Project [85 S. Oxford St. between Union Avenue Kent Ave. at S. 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By Juliet Linderman Edison said, of Goldstein and “America runs away from sex Dirty! Dirty!” is about. All Four The Brooklyn Paper The Gooch. “And that’s what you while simultaneously running Horsemen of the Brapocalypse get coming up in Brooklyn — towards it,” Edison said. “People triumphed over would-be cen- ounty of Kings? More like fearless, dirty Brooklyn.” are still shy on the subject, but sors, from Hefner’s victory over county of pornographers! “Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!” is part you click a mouse and see all the obscenity charges to Flynt’s de- Serving Premium Franks, C Both Screw Magazine porn history, part social com- filth you want. For free.” feat of Jerry Falwell. magnate Al Goldstein and mentary, all deliciously risque, And when Edison talks about “These four guys did more Sausages and Meats Penthouse proprietor Bob Gu- and chronicles the rise and fall filth, he knows. As former editor for free speech than anyone,” ccione are Brooklyn natives of Goldstein, Guccione, Hustler of celebrated marijuana maga- Edison said. “Every American — and they’re two of the four heir Larry Flynt and Playboy zine, High Times; past editor- owes them — it’s because of XXX kingpins at the center playboy Hugh Hefner — the four in-chief of Screw Magazine; them that we can be dirty, and of author Mike Edison’s raun- guys who took sex from the bed- and author of booze-soaked, that The Brooklyn Paper can chy (and that’s just the title!), room to the newsstand. porn-tinged memoir, “I Have do what it does.”

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chapter about 1977 — the year that “Saturday Night Fever” and Son of Sam remade the city. As Khoury writes in that chapter, the craziest place in the borough for him was Bensonhurst. “On July 4, the neighborhood Those were the days ‘boys’ didn’t feel like lighting fire- works one at a time so instead they poured some gasoline and set the Carroll Gardens native recalls old neighborhood in a book street on fire,” he writes. “There was literally a raging inferno in the By Dan MacLeod Street in the 1970s — and being conventional plot line or narrative street. ... It was an insane place to The Brooklyn Paper a classic bildungsroman, it prom- BOOKS arc; it is instead split into sections be, but it’s where I spent a lot of inently features the Triple Crown based around pivotal moments in time as a kid.” epending on whom you ask, of Brooklyn life in the “Warriors” John Khoury at Brooklyn Far- Khoury’s life. Khoury’s triumph is his ability to macy [513 Henry St. between Brooklyn in the 1980s was ei- era: Mafia goons, local punks, and, Sackett and Degraw streets in For example, there’s a chapter find humor in the face of violence D ther a violent, dirty, cesspool, of course, girls. Carroll Gardens, (718) 522-6260], about his attempts to get a girl to and decay, and to craft charming or a wonderland filled with hilarious “Out-of-towners who’ve recently Dec. 3, 11 am. For info, visit www. make out with him, a section that vignettes that make it hard to not characters. For author John Khoury, moved into Carroll Gardens, Brook- gositonyourownstoop.com. also brings up the most exciting miss the days before Smith Street it was both. lyn Heights and Park Slope really —and then most horrific — sex- — once an uncrossable line of de- The Carroll Gardens native’s new have trouble believing and com- ual experience of Khoury’s young marcation — became a go-to brunch book, “Go Sit on Your Own Stoop!” prehending how dangerous, tough since pulled up stakes for Long Is- life, when he sneaked a peak at a spot with $4 coffee and three places pays tribute to a time in Brook- and dirty these neighborhoods were land, but he was compelled to revisit topless woman only to then recoil serving croque monsieurs. lyn’s history when danger lurked up until about 10 to 15 years ago,” his old neighborhood after years of in agony as she plucked hairs from “I did not want to put something around every corner and neighbor- Khoury writes in a chapter that re- enthralling friends with stories of her nipples. out that said, ‘This is when the neigh- hood guys with names like “Jimmy calls when his uncles got stomped his exploits. There is also a chapter about stick- borhood was the best,’ ” he said. The Mute,” “Frankie Parrot” and after one of them flirted with the ex- “The stories were riveting to ball, handball and whiffle ball that “We can’t look at what Brooklyn

Photo by Stefano Giovannini “Chunky Flappers” made up a col- girlfriend of a made man. “Brooklyn them,” he said. “The feedback was features a crazy neighborhood lady is today and dismiss it. Every gen- Sitting on his own stoop: Carroll Gardens orful cast that gave the borough its in the 1970s was a lot more nasty terrific.” who tries to teach them “a lesson” eration creates their magic. Just be- resident John Khoury, author of self-pub- patented character. than romantic.” The book, whose title evokes by pouring boiling water on them cause it’s different from what you lished memoir, ”Go Sit on your Own Stoop!” “Go Sit On Your Own Stoop!” is Khoury, a broadcast operator what old ladies used to yell at him from a second-story window. And it grew up with, doesn’t mean it’s any practices what he preaches. a coming-of-age story set on Henry for American Movie Classics, has and his friends, doesn’t follow a wouldn’t be a 1970s book without a less magical.”

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By Kate Briquelet bleak,’ ” said Milton Pur- A giant meadow of native Architects Landscape Woltz Byrd Nelson in the Gowanus Canal is the pits. The Brooklyn Paper year, planning director for grasses and wildflowers will The Naval Hospital Cemetery on Williamsburg Environmental officials unveiled four An abandoned naval cem- the initiative. “Now this can lure butterflies, birds, bees Street West has been vacant and overgrown with “green” spaces on Dean Street that will etery will be transformed into be a beautiful place to get re- and bats, and steel rectangles weeds for decades, but it could become a peace- hold onto stormwater during heavy rain- a peaceful, wildlife-filled re- lief from buildings and con- holding different species of ful park under a new plan. storms so that sewer systems don’t over- spite under a proposal be- crete.” plants will light up at night flow, sending raw sewage into the already ing pushed by the Brooklyn The 1.7-acre site between to symbolize the nearly 2,000 tion that prevents soil dis- nifer Brooks. “Bird watch- polluted, foul-smelling waterway. Greenway Initiative. Kent and Flushing avenues long-forgotten graves. ruption. ers, nature lovers, students The drainage ditches near Fourth Ave- On Thursday, the group — once included a ball field In the 1820s, the Navy es- “It’s a site you can’t build and families will find respite nue in Park Slope are topped with mulch which is creating a 14-mile and, as rumor has it, a train- tablished the former farmland on, so the question is: what’s here. We’re treating it as sa- and water-thirsty shrubs to absorb up to bike path along the borough’s ing ground for police dogs. as a cemetery for sailors who the best use for it?” Puryear cred ground.” 7,200 gallons of runoff during light rain industrial waterfront — pre- But for decades, it’s been a died at the nearby Naval Hos- asked. The Greenway Initiative storms. sented plans to make the Na- fenced-off eyesore and home pital. Many of the remains A landscape architec- — which is currently plot- But at just 80 square feet, the glori- val Hospital Cemetery in the for feral cats. were moved to Cypress Hills ture firm created a design ting its bike path from Green- fied tree pits aren’t designed to handle Brooklyn Navy Yard along The plans will create an Cemetery in 1926. that memorializes the his- point to Bay Ridge — said the heavy rainfall, according to city plan- Williamsburg Street West urban oasis, with an elevated But fragments of bone and toric ground while stimu- $2-million park could be built ners, the $16,000 green pits will over- into a public sanctuary. boardwalk, greenhouse, out- coffin are still beneath the lating ecological growth. in 2013, if the Brooklyn Navy flow — rendering them ineffective when- “When you pass the area, door theater and grove of ground, making landscap- “It’s a place for reflec- Yard Development Corpora- ever it pours. you think, ‘Wow, that was black cherry trees. ers subject to a deed restric- tion,” said co-designer Jen- tion can secure funding. Still, Department of Environmental Pro- tection Commissioner Carter Strickland touted the plant-covered holes.

and have a stone base. Each “They are a perfect example of how Photo by Stefano Giovannini floor will boast large corner green infrastructure projects not only The city calls them “bioswales,” but windows for the living and din- help retain stormwater, but also beau- basically it means that planted areas ‘Eagle’ eyed tify our streets and sidewalks,” Strick- ing rooms, while the remain- like these will help collect water so ing windows will be compara- land said. that the Gowanus Canal won’t get Residents were more skeptical. Dull newspaper’s HQ to ble to the narrower residences so poopy. Here, Diane Jacobowitz of Diane Jacobowitz said the tree pits Dancewave sashays over to a tree. on Henry Street. weren’t likely to make the canal smell be boring apartments Kobre is now remaining any better — or stop her dance studio mum on the project — refusing on Fourth Avenue at Dean Street from merman, the district manager of Com- By Kate Briquelet ative,” said Stanton, executive to release renderings until the flooding during downpours. munity Board 6. The Brooklyn Paper director of the powerful neigh- design is final, despite present- “It’ll flood the next time [it rains hard],” Strickland said the city is planning to A developer wants to borhood group. “We were hop- ing them publicly to the com- said Jacobowitz, whose ground-floor busi- install green roofs, rain barrels and more raze the squat offices of the ing it would have more of a munity board last week. ness was inundated with water twice in of the landscaped pits to handle 10 percent

Brooklyn Eagle for a new ‘Wow’ factor.” Photo by Alice Proujansky “We want to consider what the past year. “There’s obviously a drain- of the stormwater runoff in the area. apartment building — but Kobre’s five-story apart- The Henry Street building currently housing the the critics are saying and sat- age problem here.” The bioswales on Dean Street aren’t the a Brooklyn Heights leader ment building would replace Brooklyn Daily Eagle may be sold to a developer. isfy their concerns,” Kobre Supporters of the project countered first of their kind in the borough. thinks his design is too boring the ragged one-story office of said. “I don’t want to show any- that it was a small step forward towards Last year, the city gave the Gowanus for the neighborhood. the struggling Eagle, which corner. It’s next to a row of critics by saying that the build- thing until we have a sense of improving the water quality in the fetid Canal Conservancy $580,000 to install says it will move to a new lo- a similar system of water-sucking plants Judy Stanton, executive di- four-story brick buildings with ing was “respectful” and that what we’re going to do.” canal. cation in January. The build- “This is a quick and easy first step along Sixth Street between Second and rector of the Brooklyn Heights storefronts including Henry’s “the owners want to be full- In the meantime, Stanton’s Association, says that Akiva ing was recently sold to Fortis in the right direction,” said Craig Ham- Fourth avenues. End restaurant and Cranber- fledged members of the neigh- group is pushing for a differ- Kobre’s L-shaped structure Group after going on the mar- ry’s cafe, and across from a borhood.” ent façade. isn’t bold enough for the ket in March for $3 million. former candy factory that’s “It’s ‘Wow’ in a more sub- busy corner of Henry and The plans call for a five- slowly turning into condos; tle way,” Byrns said. “You can The Heights association firm in DUMBO declined an Middagh streets, a gateway story structure with a pent- a two-story Cadman Plaza say we’re knitting together the certainly has had success offer from Ratner last year to to the Heights for drivers exit- house, interior courtyard, housing development; and a fabric that exists in Brooklyn in the past; in 2002, Stanton YARDS... help produce the plan. “The ing the Brooklyn Bridge. water fountain and decora- nondescript 27-story residen- Heights.” got developer Louis Greco rational thing to do is build “Given the location, this tive balconies. tial tower. The new building — which to make his six-story condo Continued from page 1 by up to 25 percent, but union a 20-story building and test was a chance to really do The site is indeed an op- Stephen Byrns, partner at has one unit on each floor — at 322 Hicks St. more fash- don’t speak the language members would face far big- these things out before build- something special and cre- portunity to bring life to the BKSK Architects, countered will be made of rich red brick ionable. of press releases. ger pay cuts. ing a 30-story tower.” “The unions are going to Unions had supported the Longtime critics of Atlantic do what it takes to preserve project from the outset be- Yards slammed the plan. of the movement tolerated got there. “I made 20 bucks radically redefine the notion jobs for their members,” said cause of its promise of thou- “It’s another despicable the interruption and the tight today.” of public space. the source. “The wage scale sands of jobs. Those same slight to the community sur- squeeze. But the occupiers insist that “The subway is usually is ultimately going to be [the union supporters are already rounding the project by elim- OCCUPY... deciding factor]. This is going angered by a shortfall of po- “I picked the right train!” discomfort is part of the plan filled with people who aren’t inating more crucial jobs for to be a long process.” sitions on the project. Continued from page 1 hardship to win over sur- said a woman who boarded for change. talking to each other,” said Fis- residents,” said Council- Ratner released render- The pre-fab design would tion and Borough Hall sub- prised straphangers who had the 4 train to find it full of “Inconvenience is a small cher. “We need to break this si- woman Letitia James (D– way stops at around 3 pm to not planned to be a part of the lence — the subway is a pub- ings last week of a 32-story also save money because it Fort Greene). protesters. “I believe in what thing compared to changing modular building rising at would take less time to build: decry economic inequality day’s protests. they’re doing.” the country,” said Noah Fis- lic forum.” James and others felt sim- the corner of Dean Street and the world’s tallest modular ilarly slighted by the notion but also to urge surprised by- “I have owned a business For some, the subway pro- cher, an activist who’s started The occupiers did not shut Flatbush Avenue, just south building, a 25-story dormi- that a project that was once standers to join them. for five years, but I am forced test was a rude intrusion into speaking out loud in subway actually down subway lines or of his under-construction tory in Wolverhampton, Eng- meant to be an architectural “We are the 99 percent,” to pay over a $1,000 a month what is one of the city’s most cars on his own about Occupy stations: actually the NYPD $1-billion basketball arena. came the closest to doing that, land, was built in less than showcase by legendary de- the hundred or so protesters to insure my family,” yelled a hallowed rituals — the daily Wall Street on his way over The building would be the one year. chanted as they marched from protester to the captive audi- barricading off a few entrances signer Frank Gehry will now subway commute. to Zuccotti Park from where tallest pre-fab structure on But the project faces sig- comprise far more mundane Cadman Plaza to the Manhat- ence somewhere between Bor- and exits near where the pro- “I’m not so happy to see he lives in Prospect Heights. the planet. nificant design challenges, pre-fab buildings. ough Hall and Bowling Green. testers exited in Manhattan. tan-bound 4/5 platform. “So these people.” said Olivia Tufo “There are some moments in Two identical-looking pre- according to architects who Gehry was fired in 2009 are you!” “And it prevents us from sav- from Williamsburg, who not this that may be uncomfort- The police made no Occupy fab building would come later Wall Street-related arrests in reviewed the renderings. in a cost-saving move. Protesters filled up three ing any money. We live pay- only had difficulty getting to able and that’s OK.” — and one of them would be “The modules would have the subway system on Thurs- Ratner’s spokesman Joe cars on the empty train, us- check to paycheck. We want her waitressing job in Lower Organizers also said that 50-plus stories, which would to be built on an assembly day, according to an NYPD DePlasco said that the devel- ing the “human mic” to share health care!” Manhattan, but then didn’t the subway protest is part of break its predecessor’s height line basis and that capac- spokesperson, but more than oper will begin to seek fi- personal stories of economic Brooklynites supportive get much business once she the movement’s attempts to record for Lego–style tow- ity doesn’t really exist [on 250 people — including Coun- nancing for the first builders. this size],” said Jim Garri- cilman Jumaane Williams (D– ing, but declined to comment Ratner says he will begin son, whose modular design further. is speaking with an attorney. a carrier belt if metal is de- Flatbush) — were arrested in construction early next year, “Luckily, she didn’t break tected,” said Häagen-Dazs other protests. with ground-breakings for DIME... a tooth. Who knows where spokeswoman Diane McIn- The subways may prove to the others following at six the dime came from or who tyre. “It detects dime, but be a viable place to congregate to nine-month intervals af- Continued from page 1 just to be safe. touched it before it went into nothing is infallible.” and protest, activists said, as ter that — the first of three Her husband, Orthodox A Häagen-Dazs em- the ice cream?” The company, which was the movement becomes more residential buildings in the activist Isaac Abraham, ployee told Isaac Abraham A Häagen-Dazs represen- founded in the Bronx and mobile after Mayor Bloomberg long stalled, 16-tower devel- called Häagen-Dazs and last week to send more in- tative said that the company opened its first retail store in and the NYPD ended the oc- opment. the Duane Reade at 4 pm, formation about the incident “apologizes for her experi- Brooklyn in 1976, has found cupation of Zuccotti Park in The first tower would be and complained about find- and ship the icy dime to its ence,” adding that finding shell casings or pebbles, but the wee hours of Tuesday constructed using 930 pre- ing the frozen coin. California-based quality con- a foreign object in choco- never coins, inside nut-fla- morning. fabricated steel boxes known A Duane Reade em- trol center. late ice cream is “highly vored ice cream. “Come December, January, as modules that would be ployee said the store pulled But for now, he is keep- unusual.” That’s cold comfort to February — it’s going to all be built in a factory and trans- its Häagen-Dazs batch from ing the change. “It is made in one loca- Sara Abraham, who said about the subway,” said Fischer. ported to Dean Street, where File photo by Aaron Greenhood its shelves in response to “I’m not an idiot — if I tion, then it is pumped and she is giving up ice cream “It’s a place for the public to they would be bolted into Union members were among the strongest sup- Abraham’s complaint and send the dime then my story filled [into cartons] before it indefinitely. gather all year round. It’s the place. porters of Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project. gave its order back to the would melt away with the ice passes through a metal de- “I don’t want to eat it any- 99 percent. And it’s warm.” Ratner hailed the method, But that was when working on the development global dessert company, cream,” said Abraham, who tector that shoots them off more,” said Abraham. — with Alfred Ng which he said would cut costs promised more jobs and better wages. November 25–December 1, 2011 The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 AWP 17 18 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 November 25–December 1, 2011 Hard-hitting columnist Denis Hamill calls it a “witch hunt.” Police expert Cynthia Brown calls it “perverse anti-union fervor.”

The practice that has lately been described as “ticket-fixing” has, in the words of Mayor Bloomberg, been going on “since the days of the Egyptians,” not only at the NYPD but also in police departments all over the nation and indeed the world. Tix Fix fuss And, it’s important to note, it has never been prosecuted before in New York City. Nobody at the PBA is saying the practice nothin’ but should continue. What we are saying, and what the accompanying articles make clear, is that it is unjust, unfair and Give the NYPD witch hunt hypocritical to criminalize the practice for Mayor, Kelly, Bx. DA abusing power just a few officers when that practice been condoned for so many years for the benefit a damn break o, Mike, Yo Ray, FIX THIS! of so many, including police brass, s someone who has spent her We have a city here with a entire career working with and BE OUR GUEST bull’s-eye on its back, guns BY DENIS HAMILL politicians and members of the press. The advocating for police officers, I BY CYNTHIA BROWN rampant on the streets again, PBA is determined to fight this witch hunt. Y shot at a 30-year mortgage. No one feel a moral obligation to speak gained personally from the practice. homicides on the rise and serial sex A out on an issue that has lately attackers stalking Brownstone became a cop to get rich. You didn’t As PBA president Pat Lynch has vowed: The hypocrisy is obvious: Police get to play center field for the dominated the headlines. officers who risk their lives on a daily Brooklyn. “We will put the full resources of the union It’s something I have seen happen And now our cops who start at 38G Yankees but you got to wear the basis may have to pay with their jobs uniform of the best police force in the to work to vindicate” those police officers time and time again — police officers and pensions for participating in a long- a year as our first line of defense being blamed for aspects of “The Job” against the really bad guys who want world. accepted practice. As Lynch said, “A Sure, a few will always rent their who have been made scapegoats. that a civilian couldn’t possibly to blow us up again are further courtesy has now turned into a crime.” badges for profit. They are called understand. I once worked in the community demoralized by making it a crime to In the Police Department’s ticket- squash a parking ticket for Aunt crooks, or “skells,” who should do relations division at a busy police station hard time. fixing scandal, rank-and-file cops are in a high-crime area in the Boston Police Mary? being blamed for the harmless practice Are Bloomberg and Kelly going But one of the benefits of The Job, Department, facilitating meetings like riding the subway free, was of letting traffic tickets slide as a favor to between residents and patrol officers. nuts? Is Bronx DA Robert Johnson Bronx DA’s office. family and friends. desperate for headlines? always the unwritten courtesy of Since the Tix Fix 16 were Over the three years I was there, I saw squashing a ticket. If there is a victimless crime, this is it. those officers’ constant interactions with C’mon, guys, FIX THIS! arraigned, cops have pulled an And yet some are treating this like the Put me at the front of the line to “If you do it for family or friends it’s understandable ticket-writing drug dealers, rapists and gangs. I was a favor,” a retired NYPD lieutenant latest symptom of a police force gone continually amazed at the restraint, cheer when we bust dirty cops who slowdown, costing our broke city wild. A New York Times editorial blasted truly abuse power in this city. I tells me. “If you make money doing it, revenue. Add in the cost of the three- humor and humanity those officers you deserve to be arrested, but it’s a ticket-fixing as “insidious” and called on showed. covered the 77th Precinct scandals, year Bronx probe, Internal Affairs Police Commissioner Ray Kelly for the Dirty 30 and the Mafia Cops trial. disgrace that they’re arresting these wiretaps, a prolonged grand jury I can guarantee you that all of the cops. It’s why so many good cops are greater enforcement. officers indicted for ticket-fixing have Those dirty cops deserved to make session and now adjudicating 16 I detect, among other forces at work, the license plates that good cops retiring as soon as they have their 20 cops in a city with a $4.6 billion deficit repeatedly rushed to the aid of people in. Morale sucks. I miss The Job; I the anti-union fervor that has perversely who needed help — with no thought of scribble on parking tickets. and you could hire, um, some more captured the imagination don’t miss the petty BS.” their own safely, going Last week in Brooklyn, Detective good cops. of some politicians and Every job has its perks. Back in the home after a day’s work Jason Arbeeny was convicted of Preposterous. Counterintuitive. pundits: the police union Ticket-fixing is day, before my time, we had a guy to weep over the human “flaking,” or planting drugs on an Morale killer. as corrupt big labor, named Vinny Lee at the Daily News misery they’d witnessed. innocent man. He should get the max FIX THIS. intent only on protecting not a crime for his crimes and then do the time who was the unofficial Assistant [email protected] And all, in one way or Editor in Charge of Tickets. If a its members at the public’s expense. “An another, have suffered physically and the poor innocent guy was gonna do attack on unionism,” Patrolmen’s so Arbeeny never forgets what it’s like reporter got a ticket, Vinny called mentally because they chose a career in Police HQ and it vanished like Jimmy Benevolent Association President law enforcement. for a human being to live in a cage. Patrick Lynch called it at a rally as the If they convict the 68th Precinct Hoffa. My close contact over many years My brother Pete tells me the same indictments against 16 “tix-fix” cops with people who have chosen to take on cops busted for smuggling guns into were unsealed on Oct. 28 in the Bronx. this city hat might’ve been used on thing was true over at the Post. So the most difficult job in our society has let’s stop with the hypocrisy in the But while defending his members, only strengthened my admiration and fellow cops, they should also max Lynch also made clear that he was not out. press. respect for the work police officers do — Same with the mayor and the there to defend dirty cops. Referring to and the extraordinary efforts these brave The Mafia Cops should never see Officer Jose Ramos, accused of drug- another sunrise. police commissioner. They can deny men and women make to protect us it till their meter expires but everyone dealing and other serious crimes, Lynch from evil and violence. And forget 10 days of lost vacation said that he would have turned his back for Deputy Inspector Anthony knows there’s a ticket quota in every So I think we all need to take a deep precinct. I knew a “summons cop” on Ramos during the proceedings — breath, step back and really think about Bologna, who pepper-sprayed those except that doig so would have been defenseless Occupy Wall Street named Keogh at the 111th Precinct in whether we want to make scapegoats of Bayside, Queens, whose disrespectful to the court. people who have spent their lives women but who probably couldn’t He also pointed out that, as a beat my daughter in a Brooklyn “fair- commanding officer let him pick his serving the residents of this city, own hours because he was a one- paramilitary organization, the NYPD especially since their only crime — one.” He should be reassigned to follows a top-down structure. If an order in clean Porta-Potties in Zuccotti Park. man ticket blitz who helped make the PATROLMEN’S the vast majority of the Bronx cases — precinct quota every month. Keogh had come down, ticket-fixing would have was partaking in a practice that Mayor But when 16 cops are arrested like ceased at once. “Just following orders,” common skells for squashing traffic told me his best stop on the job was BENEVOLENT Bloomberg himself said has existed “a Korean church van where I wrote tead a sign hoisted by mandy members “since the days of the Egyptians.” tickets, receiving more negative who came out to the rally. official comment than some of the 12 seat belt tickets.” ASSOCIATION Brown is the publisher of the monthly It’s okay for NYPD to force cops to Regardless, Bronx District Attorney national magazine American Police real aforementioned abuses, the OF THE Robert Johnson decided to make system is broken. collect this secret tax for the Sheriff of Beat and the author of “Brave Hearts: Nottingham but if a cop squashes a sacrificial lambs of a few officers — even Extraordinary Stories of Pride, Pain and FIX THIS, fellas. CITY OF NEW YORK though they had not, for the most part, When I was growing up in pre- ticket for his cousin he’s a skell? Courage. Nah. Reprinted with the permission of the Daily News yuppie Brooklyn, a neighborhood guy This case is an abuse of power 125 BROAD STREET, 11TH FLOOR became a cop to help people, for job from City Hall, 1 Police Plaza and the NEW YORK, NY 10004 security, a 20-year pension and a 212-233-5531 Reprinted with the permission of the Daily News PATRICK J. LYNCH PRESIDENT