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INSIDE: PAGES AND PAGES OF COUPONS TO SAVE YOU CASH! Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2013 Serving Brownstone Brooklyn and Williamsburg AWP/14 pages • Vol. 36, No. 41 • October 11–17, 2013 • FREE FUN-DEAD Sandy trees turned into toys By Natalie Musumeci The Brooklyn Paper Trees that came crashing down dur- ing superstorm Sandy and their undead arboreal brethren have been chopped up and their body parts have been scat- tered around a secluded area in Pros- pect Park to form a newly opened chil- dren’s play space. The brand-new jungle gym that opened on Sunday is made of trees and tree parts that parks personnel found either felled by the winds of the super- storm and other severe weather or stand- ing dead, waiting to strike innocents walking below . The war on zombtrees is ongoing and, though tree casualties so far outnumber human ones , the sanded- wood Donald and Barbara Zucker Nat- Photo by Stefano Giovannini ural Exploration Area is a victory mon- Francis Stallings and Juanita Cardenas dressed like women of the Roaring ‘20s during the “Gowanus Gatsby” ument for humanity. Park officials say extravaganza at the Gowanus Ballroom on Oct. 5. children dancing on the woody graves will help liven up the northeastern cor- ner of Brooklyn’s backyard. “We hope that the Zucker Natural Exploration Area will help generate ex- citement for this long-overlooked sec- tion of the park,” said Emily Lloyd, House of Usher the president of the Prospect Park Al- liance, which manages the massive Eight-time Grammy winner surprises at green space. The tree-cemetery-turned-play- Gatsby-themed benefi t for Gowanus park ground is located just off the East Drive in a large grassy field named Nellie’s By Natalie Musumeci taken with everybody — it was really Lawn and the organization is planning The Brooklyn Paper nice.” to further restore the area around it. Oh, oh oh-oh oh, oh oh oh-oh oh, oh The hydraulic-legged heartthrob is, ac- Designers of the new kids oasis oh oh-oh oh, oh oh — oh my gosh! cording to Wolfe, a friend of the Michelle carved the dead wood, turning one ly- Gowanus park activists threw a glitzy, Karshan, who planned the Great Gatsby– ing-down log into a seat and another 1920s-themed benefit party in the toxic inspired gala at the Gowanus Ballroom off upright trunk into a tunnel. neighborhood on Saturday, and mixing it of Ninth Street, and he was not the only The $200,000 park addition was up in the dapper crowd of 100 was R & B A-lister on hand for the occasion. Actress funded through a grant from first- icon Usher, who organizers say made them and “American Splendor” star Hope Da- time park donors Donald and Bar- wanna … thank him for coming. vis ventured out from her Boerum Hill bara Zucker, for whom the play “[Usher] was just so gracious,” said Sue home to the venue between Smith Street space is named. It also features a Wolfe, president of advocacy group Friends and Second Avenue, steps from the fetid large hand-pump that pours water Photo by Elizabeth Graham of Douglass-Greene Park, which organized Gowanus Canal, to help come up with Photo by Michelle Karshan onto a grooved log, steps made out the fund-raising extravaganza. money for activities at the neighborhood’s R&B icon Usher and actress Hope Da- of stumps, boulders, climbing areas, Three-year-old Elliot Graham of Windsor Terrace ran “He was willing to have his picture See USHER on page 4 vis showed up. and sand patches. through a doorway carved into a storm-stricken tree. New variety of Hynes has familiar fl avor Offi cially running as a Republican, DA says he’ll still tow the Democratic Party line By Will Bredderman Conservative party lines. But lines since 2005 — lost the Dem- Thompson’s campaign . “The voters are going to de- Republican Council candidates The Brooklyn Paper Charles “Joe” Hynes said that ocratic nomination to former fed- Hynes helped send Norman cide if they can trust someone like John Quaglione and David If it walks like an elephant and this doesn’t mean he’s now a eral prosecutor Ken Thompson up the river in 2005 for accept- who flat-out lied about the role Storobin , who are seeking seats in talks like an elephant … it might Republican. on Sept. 10. The six-term incum- ing illegal contributions to his Clarence Norman played in his Bay Ridge and Brighton Beach, still be a donkey! “I’m a lifelong Democrat, and I bent conceded defeat on primary Assembly campaign. Thompson campaign,” Hynes said. respectively. Brooklyn’s 23-year district at- always will be a Democrat,” said night, and promised to start work- has denied that Norman played But even if Hynes’s heart still “Those kind of points did torney announced on Oct. 8 that, the borough’s top lawman. “The ing on the transition — but later any role in his election effort, belongs to the party of President come up, sure,” said Hynes Photo by Elizabeth Graham following his stunning defeat last Republicans and the Conserva- said he changed his mind after but Hynes claimed that Thomp- Obama, his team said he has been spokesman Jerry Schmetterer, Lifelong Democrat Joe month in the Democratic primary, tives know it.” reading reports in the New York son is covering up the truth and in talks with GOP leadership who is on vacation from his reg- Hynes is running as a Re- he would continue his run for re- Hynes — who has appeared on Post that former Democratic Party called for the electorate to ren- about how continuing to cam- ular job as director of public in- publican. election on the Republican and the right-leaning parties’ ballot boss Clarence Norman helped run der a verdict on Nov. 5. paign could provide a boost to See HYNES on page 9 Googa riddance! Sugar high Grass-gouging fest banned from P’Park By Natalie Musumeci field to close for costly clean- ment assistant commissioner The Brooklyn Paper ups and raising the ire of park Betsy Smith at the hearing The controversial music- patrons who said that the big- about the private use of pub- — and dry and-food festival that wrecked ticket event had no place in lic parkland. Prospect Park for two years in Brooklyn’s backyard — and Smith said that the fest A third of below-market apartments a row will not be invited back the city finally seems to be caused “more damage than we to party, a Parks Department listening. thought” after this year’s gated at Domino won’t be close to the river official told the city council at “After two years of assess- event, which attracted tens of a hearing last Thursday. ing [GoogaMooga] in that site, thousands of attendees and left By Danielle Furfaro The weekend-long Great we pretty much feel at this time parts of the meadow fenced off The Brooklyn Paper GoogaMooga wrecked the that it’s probably not the ap- for repairs for most of the sum- Photo by Stefano Giovannini So much for waterfront liv- park’s Nethermead meadow propriate venue for something mer. The Parks Department The controversial Great GoogaMooga was cancelled for- ing. both go-rounds, forcing the like that,” said Parks Depart- See GRASS on page 2 ever by the Parks Department. The developer of the Domino Sugar Factory plans to put nearly a third of the below-market-rate housing for a massive Williams- burg luxury complex on a site across the street and uphill from Scaffolding up, but no work gets done the rest of the waterfront develop- ment, which some neighbors say would be a good thing if it means Courthouse sidewalk safety zone has become a permanent fi xture the cheaper apartments are avail- able faster. Courtesy Trees of Two Management Company By Jaime Lutz installed the overhead walkway, called The Department of Buildings says “To have both market-rent ten- You’ll find some of the The Brooklyn Paper a sidewalk shed, in January 2012, ac- that the apparatus was erected for mi- ants and low-income tenants liv- sweetest views in the Dom- cording to city records. nor repairs on the courthouse’s exte- ing together is the way all housing ino development in these Disorder outside the court! buildings. Scaffolding has shrouded the Down- A month’s rent is $6 per foot, accord- rior and that the sidewalk shed will be should be built, but more impor- tantly, to have 250 affordable hous- town sidewalk around the Brooklyn Su- ing to Mazanek, meaning that the two gone when the job is done, but depart- blocks worth of sidewalk shed around ment spokeswoman Gloria Chin would ing units available in the immediate agency to argue that all of the preme Court for nearly two years, but the building on Adams Street between not say what the repairs entail and de- future for a population so desper- parcels that are part of the devel- no work appears to have happened de- Joralemon and Johnson streets costs partment records show no applications ately in need is a must,” said Debra spite the fact that the construction-en- opment should be seen as one big the city $3,450 every month, plus the to do work on the building. Medina, a spokeswoman for the parcel in order to allow putting abling contraption costs the city thou- $86,250 it paid for the initial installa- Sidewalk sheds are installed to ei- community group Los Sures, at more than one fifth of the proj- sands of dollars each month.

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