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Will It Float? INSIDE: GET THE RIGHT RESULTS WITH OUR CLASSIFIEDS SECTION Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2015 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn, Williamsburg & Greenpoint AWP/14 pages • Vol. 38, No. 44 • October 30–November 5, 2015 • FREE CYCLONES GET WORLD SERIOUS Does this championship team feel familiar? Eight Mets were forged in Coney Island By David Russell for The Brooklyn Paper Meet the Mets — because most of them were made in Brook- lyn! Eight of the World Series–bound New York Metropolitans cut their teeth playing for the Brooklyn Cy- clones in Coney Island. Taking the field at the People’s Playground may be a fond memory for some of the Cyclones Eight, but it only feels like a distant dream for one Mets rookie whose whirlwind as- cendancy took him from scoop- ing ground balls in Sodom by the Sea to playing in the World Series in one short year. “It’s been a blur,” said left fielder Michael Conforto, who hit .331 with three homers in 42 games for the Clones in 2014. “It kind of feels like it’s been more than a year. I think that it’s just from going through so many leagues, Brooklyn Cyclones Brooklyn Cyclones Brooklyn File photo by Steve Solomonson seeing so many different places. Cyclones Brooklyn Just growing up a little bit, grow- (Left to right) Shortstop Wilmer Flores got his start in 2008 when he was 17 years old. Slugger Daniel Murphy was a force at the plate with the Clones in 2006 and 2008. First baseman ing up as a baseball player. So for Lucas Duda when he was a Mini-Met in 2007. And last year, Michael Conforto was one of the bright spots of an otherwise dour Cyclones’ season. me it kind of feels it’s been more than just a year but it’s definitely think it’s definitely a testament to wore Cyclones uniforms. he went homerless in 11 games dur- his bat led to a playoff win — his ter he thought the Mets traded him to get to the big leagues. Once been a whirlwind.” our minor league system and how Murphy, who nabbed the Na- ing stints in 2006 and 2008. homer and two-run single back in on July 29, hit a storybook walk- you’re here you want to make it to Conforto closed the 2014 Cy- they sculpt players and put things tional League championship series Duda honed his bat in the mi- 2007 McNamara Division play- off home run two days later, and the World Series and it’s amazing clones season before 2015 stints into them that help them grow and Most Valuable Player award for hit- nors by hitting four homers — and offs against the hated Staten Is- then moved up to starting short- to be here. It’s a very good feeling with Florida and upstate Mets become better players.” ting a homer in each of four play- having a Cyclones-record 17-game land Yankees led to a Game One stop after a Chase Utley slide broke and we’re going to have fun.” feeder teams landed him in the Conforto is in good company off games against the Cubs — plus hitting streak — for the 2007 Mini- victory. Ruben Tejada’s leg in the National Former Clones’ contributions big leagues in July. The rise was — Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda, dingers against Clayton Kershaw Mets. And when the first baseman Fan favorite Flores hit .267 in League Division Series. The World to the Amazins’ franchise are pal- meteoric , but he never forgot who Wilmer Flores, Kevin Plawecki, and Zach Greinke during the divi- helped clinch the National League eight games with the 2008 Cy- Series bid has been a dream since pable outside the playoffs, too. In got him there, he said. Kirk Nieuwenhuis, Hansel Rob- sion series against the Dodgers — pennant with a three-run homer clones. It has been a wild year for his Cyclones days, he said. July, Kirk Nieuwenhuis became “I’ve had a lot of great coaches les, and 2014 Golden Glove–win- apparently learned what not do to in the first inning of the series’ fi- the infielder, who made national “This is what you work for,” the first Met to hit three home through the system,” he said. “I ner Juan Lagares all previously while playing for the Clones, where nal game, it wasn’t the first time headlines for crying on the field af- Flores said. “First of all, you want See METS on page 11 ing up a maintenance bill of $60,000 per month that its skippers say they can’t afford to foot for much longer. When they sent out an S.O.S. to New Yorkers Will it fl oat? interested in housing it and fixing it up, Quadrozzi answered the call. Push to bring historic ship to Hook His pitch is to gussy up the gutted vessel’s 12 decks — which span 13 foot- ball fields worth of space — and fill By Lauren Gill sited in this area of Red Hook,” said them with offices for start-ups, a gym concrete magnate John Quadrozzi Jr., for The Brooklyn Paper and swimming pool, eateries, a the- He is waiting for his ship to come in! who owns the Gowanus Bay Terminal at the end of Columbia Street. ater, a maritime-focused school, and a The owners of historic luxury passen- nautical museum. The ship would be ger liner the S.S. United States — which The 63-year-old behemoth known as “America’s Flagship” — once the self-sustaining, he claims, converting is currently wasting away in a Philadel- fastest ocean liner in the world — fer- waste to energy and harnessing solar phia berth — are trying to save the ship ried icons including John F. Kennedy, and wind power. from the scrap heap, and a Red Hook Walt Disney, John Wayne, and Mar- The plan may sound Titanic — in fact, businessman wants to dock it at his wa- ilyn Monroe across the Atlantic dur- the boat itself is larger — but Quadrozzi terfront empire and turn it into a f loating ing its heyday. says both he and the S.S. United States SSUSC / GBX office and entertainment complex. But the rise of air travel eventually Conservancy, which has owned the craft Red Hook’s John Quadrozzi Jr. wants to turn the S.S. United States into a floating office and entertainment “I can’t say enough how exciting it put it out of commission, and for the since 1999, believe it holds water. facility on the Red Hook waterfront. would be to be a part of getting this ship past 19 years it has languished, rack- See SHIP on page 4 Something in the water Bats all folks! Marine life returns to noxious Newtown Creek By Allegra Hobbs second most toxic body of water is The Brooklyn Paper slowly becoming healthier. Newtown Creek is back from “A lot of people who are familiar Cleaning our the dead! with the creek came to see it as a A group of eco-activists who dead zone where nothing is living,” Waterways built a natural aquarium on the said Willis Elkins of community fetid waterway in the spring say it group the Newtown Creek Alliance. the so-called “living dock” — a is now teeming with marine life — “That’s not really the case.” floating wooden raft with salt proof, they claim, that Brooklyn’s The neon-green-thumbs built marsh grasses growing through Photo by Louise Wateridge the center — to observe the crit- Mollusks and a host of other sea critters are repopulating ters that have been re-emerging the once-dead Newtown Creek. in the estuary since the city be- gan controlling storm-water over- G’point’s most toxic for the marine life to cling to — herons perch on top. flows and policing polluters who a project they funded, appropri- The alliance is now teaming up dirty secrets beneath their land By Allegra Hobbs have long used the water as a toxic- ately, through funds Big Oil paid with another crew attempting to The Brooklyn Paper with the click of a mouse. waste dump, said Elkins. out for hitting the creek with an bring life back to the creek — the How green was my alley? The Greenpoint-Williams- The activists say they saw fish, oil spill three times the size of the North Brooklyn Boat Club, which This map has the answers! burg ToxiCity Map charts the crabs, eels, and birds flocking back Exxon Valdez disaster . carefully paddles canoes along the An environmental activist neighborhoods’ filthiest fea- to the creek better known as a slough The dock now acts as a minia- federal Superfund site — to ferry group just launched an inter- tures in vibrant colors — a of petroleum , raw sewage , and dan- ture reef for the revived wildlife visitors to the dock to see the turn- active map of Greenpoint and cheery yellow marks contami- gerous metals . But there was still a population, Elkins said — mus- around for themselves. Benvenuto Georgine by Photo Williamsburg’s toxic hot spots nated soil, purple dots designate dearth of healthy shoreline space sels, shrimp, and other shellfish “Hopefully people can see the Batdad Vincent Dima brought his sidekick Anthony as that lets residents uncover the See TOXIC on page 4 for the critters to inhabit, and so have colonized the bottom of the creek is not the dead zone it once Robin and Janet as Batgirlfriend to the Coney Island Chil- they decided to create something structure, while wading birds like was,” said Elkins.
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