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Successful in Court BROOKLYN Your Neighborhood – Your News Now Including Park Slope Courier, Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill Courier, Brooklyn Heights Courier & Williamsburg Courier June 8-14, 2012 SERVING GOWANUS, PARK SLOPE, PROSPECT HEIGHTS, WINDSOR TERRACE, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS, DUMBO, METROTECH, BOERUM HILL, CARROLL GARDENS, COBBLE HILL, RED HOOK, WILLIAMSBURG & GREENPOINT Roller disco SPECIAL Free The Boro’s stayin’ alive coupons ultimate at DeKalb READER to save classified See 24/Seven BONUS you$ cash section ‘Success’ successful GROPE in court BY AARON SHORT The Success Charter Network will open elementary schools in Williamsburg and Cobble Hill VICTIM this fall after a Manhattan judge dismissed a pair of lawsuits seek- ing to block the politically con- nected and high-performing char- ter chain. Scores of parents and civic leaders claimed Success Charter Network failed to gain necessary support from neighbors before SPEAKS asking the State University of New York’s Board of Trustees for A woman who says police let the man who sexually assaulted permission to open the schools, her on 16th Street walk away revealed the shocking details of according to lawsuits fi led earlier the attack and the investigation to this newspaper. The victim this year . agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity. But Judge Peter Moulton ruled Space ship ahoy! last Friday that opponents did not BY NATALIE O’NEILL from work at a Manhattan night- fi le their objections to the charters Passengers on a cruise ship get an eyeful as the Enterprise space shuttle She knew someone was follow- club. in time — and stated that the law made its way under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, via barge, on Sunday ing her. As she neared Sixteenth Street, does not require Success offi cials afternoon. The craft was visible from the shores of Southern Brooklyn as It was just before 5 am on May she sensed someone behind her — to conduct exhaustive community it journeyed from JFK airport to Elizabeth, New Jersey. 23 and the soft-spoken 22-year- then she felt a hand reach under- outreach. Photo by Steve Solomonson old had just got off the train on neath her skirt and grab her. Continued on Page 18 Fourth Avenue on her way home Continued on Page 18 A CNG Publication • Vol. 32 No. 23 Matthew Mullen (718) 389-5533 661 Manhattan Avenue Brooklyn [email protected] © 2009 Allstate Insurance Company allstate.com 2 INSIDE NNN%9IFFBCPE;8@CP%:FD WHEREGL9C@J?<;9P:E>(D<KIFK<:?:<EK<IEFIK?('K?=CFFI9IFFBCPE#EP(()'( 8-14, 2012 8-14, THE SNAPPING UP HISTORY UNE GIRLS , J ARE! Beauty Bar IFE features free L burlesque By Natalie O’Neill ark Slope’s salon-themed bar is getting even more girly. Beauty Bar in Park Slope — which features manicures while Pyou drink — is showcasing a new cabaret-style burlesque night that lets some ladies glam it up while others strip on down. The campy-cool nightlife spot is offering a new variety show-style Amateur lensman gives a 50-year retrospective on Coney Island cabaret that includes sword swallowers, stand up bassists, and sultry crooners. “I want it to feel like a throwback to an old TV special,” said co-host Dulce DeLeche. “It’s good, quality entertainment.” The new monthly show features live music from Jessy Carolina of the jazz band The Hot Mess , a dance number from voluptuous showbiz goddess Perle Noire , and a raffle with prizes. OURIER Bar-goers can also order salon-themed drinks such as the “Paul Mitchell Swizzle,” a vodka, grenadine, and mint concoction with crushed ice for $10. C Hair she is: Pandora sits in one of “It’s all about glamour, live music, and that old time vibe,” DeLeche Beauty Bar’s signature chairs, where said. “It’s gonna be fun.” patrons can get manicures while they BK Cabaret at Beauty Bar [259 Fifth Ave. at Garfield Place in Park drink. Photo by Elizabeth Graham Slope, (718) 788–8867, www.beautybar.com]. June 14, 10 pm. Free. Roller disco stayin’ alive at DeKalb Market BY DANIEL BUSH CHRONICLING CONEY: (Left) By Daniel Bush his disco at the market on Flatbush Street in Greenpoint in 2006, but stopped ho said roller disco was dead? Avenue Extension at Willoughby Street after the club shut down in 2009. He The old-school dance par- in May. “It’s still a very do-it-yourself continued the trend in Los Angeles, Wties are making a hit come- party and the DeKalb Market is a very Denver and other cities before returning back this summer at the DeKalb Market’s DIY venue.” to Brooklyn this year. Down & Derby Roller Disco, where fans Last month’s event drew hundreds of Down & Derby Roller Disco at the Amateur shutterbug in tube socks and neon tank tops are lac- people who crowded a small plywood DeKalb Market [138 Willoughby St. at Abe Feinstein, an 83-year-old ing up their four-wheelers for a roll down dance floor ringed by vendors selling Flatbush Avenue Extension in Downtown, memory lane on a makeshift outdoor food and beer. (412) 613–4707, www.downanddderby. skating rink. The company rents out 300 pairs of org] June 15, July 20, Aug. 17 and Sept. The disco’s founder Vince Masi said quad skates on a first-come-first-serve 21 at 6 pm. $10 ($5 in advance). his parties prove the 70s-era phenomenon basis, but encourages revelers to bring is stayin’ alive. their own. Skates alive: The 70s phenomenon is back at the “I wanted to bring it back,” said Masi, a Masi started throwing roller disco par- DeKalb Market’s Down & Derby Roller Disco. Abe Feinstein spent 50 former Greenpoint resident who launched ties at the former Studio B on Banker Photo by Vince Masi shutterbug, has been photo- years immortalizing the graphing the People’s Play- Your entertainment changing face of the Peo- ground since 1962. His photos, ple’s Playground — from including his shot of the Thun- guide Page 21 gritty amusement district DT derbolt (below), are on display to glitzy fun zone — and this month at the Coney Island Police Blotter ....................8 now the retired camera salesman is ready for his History Project. Letters ...............................16 own close-up: the Coney Standing O .......................17 Island History Project is “The pictures are like a Sports ................................31 showcasing the 83-year- time machine,” he said. old’s work. Feinstein said he never The exhibit, titled “Abe sought the spotlight, but he Feinstein: 50 Years of Co- isn’t complaining now that ney Island Photography,” it’s here. has opened to rave reviews “A litt le recog nition at the W. 12th Street gallery can’t hurt,” he added. “I’m as onlookers enjoy classic glad I’m being honored.” shots of the now-vanished The photog said he Cavalcade Skooter, the An- misses the long-gone at- imal Nursery, Ravenhall, tractions, such as Steeple- Faber’s Sportland, and the chase Park, but he now en- HOW TO REACH US World of Wax. There’s also joys photographing the new Mail: a cool picture of a group of Boardwalk businesses that Courier Life young boys chasing Mu- replaced old-school shops hammad Ali in his limo as part of the honky-tonk Publications, Inc., past the Thunderbolt Roller area’s transformation into 1 Metrotech Center North Coaster. Feinstein’s exhibit an upscale, year-round 10th Floor, Brooklyn, runs through July 1. Graham Elizabeth by Photo tourist destination. N.Y. 11201 Feinstein began snap- “I feel sorry for some of General Phone: ping pictures of the the people they pushed off Riegelmann Boardwalk, the Boardwalk,” he said. (718) 260-2500 plus the nearby rides and “But time marches on.” News Fax: restaurants, after moving Feinstein says he’ll con- (718) 260-2592 to the waterfront neighbor- tinue capturing Coney’s News E-Mail: hood from Bedford-Stuyve- present for future genera- [email protected] sant in 1962. He documented tions — especially now that the politics, atrophy, and he’s traded up to a digital Display Ad Phone: urban renewal that shaped camera. (718) 260-4552 Coney’s fate with the skilled “I’m never going to Display Ad E-Mail: eye of a photojournalist and stop taking pictures until [email protected] archeologist, but stored the very end, which I hope Display Ad Fax: his prized photographs in won’t be for a very long a closet of his Luna Park time,” he said. (718) 260-2577 home as his portfolio grew. “Abe Feinstein: 50 Years Classified Phone: Charles Denson, the ex- of Coney Island Photogra- (718) 260-2555 ecutive director of the his- phy,” at the Coney Island Classified Fax: tory project who convinced History Project [3059 W. 12th (718) 260-2549 Feinstein to exhibit his St. between Bowery Street work, says the lensman has and the Boardwalk in Coney Classified E-Mail: managed to capture Coney Island, (347) 702–8553, www. [email protected] at its authentic best and coneyislandhistory.org]. worst. 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