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CF:8C :C8JJ@=@<;J @EJ@;< Dec. 1, 2013 Your Neighborhood — Your News® Dec. 1, 2013 He’s Best at Sorting BLAST Actor BY COLIN MIXSON A man has stepped forward claiming to be the previous owner — but not the original owner — of the Emmy that a Bensonhurst singer and construction worker OFF! found in the trash near his 28th Av- enue home two months ago. Now that the search for the Coney rocket to headed home statue’s source has sparked a me- dia storm, the supposed former BY WILL BREDDERMAN now-shuttered fun zone. Seventy- award-holder has a case of tosser’s The Coney Island History Proj- one feet long and made of air- remorse. ect has answered the city’s call for plane-grade aluminium, the ship “I’ve defi nitely been thinking a project proposal for the iconic contains 26 seats and a screen that maybe I shouldn’t have thrown it Astroland Rocket, and it plans to originally simulated a spacecraft out,” said Thomas Fyfe, who claims bring the derelict ride to a location launch . In later years, the defunct to have bought the statuette at a inside Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park ride sat atop the roof of Boardwalk yard sale 20 years ago. for restoration. raw bar Gregory and Paul’s — now Fyfe lived just down the street The historical preservation called Paul’s Daughter — between from Ishmael Cekic for three de- organization said that Wonder W. 10th and W. 12th streets, as an cades, until September, when he Wheel Park’s owners, the Vour- advertisement beckoning Coney- was forced to move after his build- derises, will fully restore the one- goers toward Astroland. ing was sold, he said. The move of-a-kind attraction — and keep That play plex closed in 2008 forced him to cull the junk he had the Astroland Park lettering on and the next year park owners accumulated over the years, in- its side as a memorial to the by- Carol and Jerry Albert donated cluding the Emmy that he bought gone space-themed park. Wonder the rocket to the city on behalf as a boy, he said. Wheel Park hopes the rehabbed of the Coney Island History Proj- The story of his fi nding the Festival of Lights rocket will be the centerpiece of ect. The city has vowed numerous gold trophy may not be quite the its annual History Day next sum- times over the years to restore the Ken Soloway was one of few men at the Kings Bay Y tall enough to light glitzy epic Cekic was counting mer. iconic piece of the People’s Play- on when he set out on a quest to the giant Menorah during the Hanukkah Extravaganza on Nov. 24. The last The rocket ride — originally ground’s past to the amusement return the prize to its original night of Hanukkah is Dec. 5. Photo by Steve Solomonson called the Star Flyer — made its district. Continued on page 14 debut at the 1962 opening of the Continued on page 9 Locals want dunes Slow day on P’Park West BY WILL BREDDERMAN recipe for disaster. BY NATHAN TEMPEY that lost a lane of car traf- a Gowanus activist whose Experts be damned! Residents of Sandy- They’re ped up. fic to a controversial bike kids attend school near The city needs to build slammed Coney Island and A crew of road safety lane in 2010 and where a Prospect Park West. sand dunes off Brooklyn’s Brighton Beach say they activists sick of waiting 12-year-old boy was killed Shepard and eight beach-lined shorefront to need a fast, effi cient bar- for the city to lower speed by a van in early October . others with the revived shield residents from the rier to block rising ocean limits took matters into “The idea that my kids 1990s-era group Right of next Hurricane Sandy-like waters in the event of an- their own hands on Sat- would be taking their life Way strung 10 of the simu- storm — just like it is do- other storm, and argue that urday night, posting faux into their hands when lation signs on lampposts ing for the Rockaways in dunes are the perfect fi x. SLOW RIDE: This sign was 20-mile-per-hour speed they get on a bike or cross running the length of the Queens — claim residents “Dunes have been put up as a plea for slower limit signs along Pros- the street here is ridicu- thoroughfare despite icy who fear the city’s fi x is a Continued on page 13 cars. pect Park West, the road lous,” said Ben Shepard, Continued on page 3 A CNG Publication Vol. 2 No. 48 UPDATED EVERY DAY AT BROOKLYNDAILY.COM 2 . 1, 2013 NEED Brand-new bocce EC , D EEKLY Marine Park ball courts to get makeover W HOLIDAY BY COLIN MIXSON ROOKLYN The bocce boys of Ma- B rine Park have scored a hard-won victory! After years of waiting CASH? for long-promised roofs for two the park’s three courts, the Marine Park Bocce Club can expect to see all of the courts renovated and cov- ered early next year, plus other improvements around the park — or so says the outgoing councilman who has been fi ghting to get the PERSONAL LOANS AVAILABLE! project underway. “The bocce courts will Borrow $10,000 for as little as $300 per month be completely refurbished APPLY ONLINE, BY PHONE, OR STOP IN and they will have roofs,” Councilman Lew Fidler (D– Canarsie) told Community MAIN OFFICE: 718.680.2121 Board 18 on Nov. 20, claiming victory in his years-long TH3TREETs"ROOKLYN .9 battle with the city’s Public BRANCH: 718.934.6809 Design Commission, whose !VENUE:s"ROOKLYN .9 rigid policies were making the project impossibly ex- *Payments based on 8.95% annual percentage rate with automatic loan payments. Rates are based on credit worthiness. Other rates and terms available. Higher pensive. loan amounts available. Credit Union membership eligibility is required. The price tag for the bocce court covers had in- fl ated to as much as $750,000 because the commission, the aesthetic gatekeeper for city parks projects, PROVIDING QUALITY, AFFORDABLE CARE wouldn’t allow prefabri- cated structures, but Fidler BOCCE BOYS: The long-suffer- said the project will soon ing members of the Marine Park move forward at a reason- Bocce Club (above) have played able cost. for years on scruffy courts We call our office State- The Design Commission of-the-Art Dentistry only has a say over the de- completely exposed to the ele- because we keep sign phase of a project, and ments. But they will soon enjoy our technology and Fidler says that is nearly covers like the one on the right at the ends of newly renovated techniques up-to-date fi nished, and once the city signs off on the project in courts. to provide you the best early January, the renova- Photos by Steve Solomonson experience possible. We tions will fi nally get under- accommodate families way. contend for their spot in an ture back around the turn of all ages with strict The bocce players at Ma- eight-player game, which of the century, only to see sterilization techniques. rine Park have been wait- can last up to an hour. the project scuttled by the ing quite a while for the “During the afternoons Public Design Commission, promised upgrades to the especially, you can be stuck which demanded a budget Your smile is our priority. courts — one of which is so waiting a long time,” he fi ve times that amount. run down it’s not even used said. “They wanted some ri- for bocce anymore, accord- Now that Fidler has said diculous number,” said Sed- tCosmetic dentistry / extreme tDigital, low-radiation x-rays ing to long-time bocce-club the wait is nearly over, how- dio. “There are two types of makeovers tSoft tissue laser for Call Today to Schedule a member Mike Camporeale. ever, Camporeale and his structures they considered tPain-free treatment recontouring gum tissue Convenient Appointment tImplants tZoom! in-offi ce whitening “I would say we’ve been bocce buddies are starting — a permanent one they tNeedle-free drilling for safe, immediate results waiting for 10 years for the to feel a little hope. said would cost $250,000 tLaser diagnosis tDiagnodent, a noninvasive 718.339.7878 Parks Department to fi x “I’m cautiously optimis- that could have withstood tVelscope, for early detection diode laser that can detect those courts,” said Campo- tic,” he said. an atomic bomb, and a pre- decay while it’s still small of oral cancer reale. “The second one is The fi ght to makeover fabricated structure that tDigital intraoral photography tTMJ & endodontic therapy overrun by grass, and you the Marine Park bocce would have cost around can only use it for horse courts has raged for more $70,000 and could have JOSEPH LICHTER, D.D.S. shoes.” than a decade. lasted 30 years.” The players have often County Democratic Once Fidler leaves offi ce, "WF1t4FDPOE'MPPSt#SPPLMZO /: complained about the ago- leader Frank Seddio ear- it will be up to Councilman- #FUXFFO&BTUUIBOEUI nizing wait between games, marked $50,000 for a bocce elect Alan Maisel to see that .PO8FEBNoQNt5VFTBNoQNt5IVSTBNoQNt'SJBNoQNt"MUFSOBUJOH4VOBNoQN especially in the afternoons, court canopy during his the project makes it from when 30 players have to time in the state legisla- blueprint to reality. 3 D EC Slopers: Dump humps . 1, 2013, B BY MEGAN RIESZ there in the fi rst place.

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