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INSIDE: 16 PAGES OF COUPONS TO SAVE YOU CASH Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260–2500 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2010 DOWNTOWN, PARK SLOPE & BAY RIDGE EDITIONS AWP/16 pages • Vol. 33, No. 25 • June 18–24, 2010 • FREE HIGHWAY ROBBERY? State is considering condemning part of Heights for BQE repair By Gary Buiso and Atlantic Avenue — but one this is the last thing I thought BROOKLYN BRIDGE The Brooklyn Paper scenario calls for homes to be I’d be thinking about,” she said. Classic brownstones and taken near Willow and Mid- “This upsets me!” other homes in historic Brook- dagh streets to accommodate Transportation officials said lyn Heights may be demol- the wider highway. that they are preparing an en- ished by the state as part of Peter King, project manager vironmental impact statement the long-overdue with the Depart- for the mega-project, and are ment of Transpor- effort to shore up merely mandated to look at BQE and modernize the tation, called the many possible scenarios — aging Brooklyn– possibility of an from doing nothing to bor- Queens Express- eminent domain ing a tunnel under Brooklyn taking unlikely, way, state offi- Heights. FURMAN ST but confirmed that COLUMBIA HEIGHTS MIDDAGH ST cials revealed this The project is the first ma- it is being consid- week. ered. jor rehabilitation of the road- State transpor- “It is well-es- way since its opening in 1954, tation planners are FIXING tablished that the and will seek to modernize the CRANBERRY ST Photo Callan by Tom currently consid- structure to meet the roadway WILLOW ST public sector has Rex Roberts’s home on Columbia Heights would be ering several ways the BQE the authority to realities it now faces — more demolished to make room for a modernized Brooklyn- HICKS ST to implement a MORE ON PAGE 2 acquire proper- than 145,000 cars and trucks ORANGE ST $300-million re- ties for public pur- Queens Expressway under one of several plans. rumbling along its surface construction project of the poses,” he said. “It would be each day. triple-cantilever portion of premature to rule out anything, That’s a problem for area home would be one of those The highway was designed ROAD TO RUIN? One of the plans being considered for the recon- the BQE under the Brooklyn and a violation of process to residents like Beth Taubner, demolished. to last 50 years — in an age struction of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway calls for the roadway Heights Promenade, plus other start discounting things,” he who lives in the shadow of “You feel like you’re going when it handled far fewer ve- to be reconfigured (thick red line), causing the demolition of several portions between Sands Street said. the highway — and whose to feel safe in your home, and See BQE on page 2 houses in historic Brooklyn Heights. Market crash A HOME FIT City scrutiny scuttles nice Greenpoint food gathering By Aaron Short FOR A KING The Brooklyn Paper The organizer of the Greenpoint Food Market has decided to fold her Rumor: LeBron looked for Bklyn crib, 10-month-old indie-eats bazaar in the face of a threat from city health officials to slap summonses on her but he shouldn’t miss these palaces vendors because they lack commer- By Stephen Brown other day, an executive at the new premature — James isn’t even cial food handling permits. Food market organizer Joann AP / Charles Krupa The Brooklyn Paper Toren tower in Downtown hinted a free agent until next month Kim announced last night that she Rumors were flying this week that LeBron How about this for a story: Le- that King James had scoped out — but we also know how much had canceled the next event sched- James had looked at pricey real estate in Bron James is looking to move the penthouse of the Flatbush Av- fans of the beleaguered, Brook- uled for June 26 rather than risk a Brooklyn, which would be a precursor to sign- to Brooklyn! enue skyscraper. lyn-bound Nets want to see the city crackdown. ing with the Nets, no? OK, it’s not definite, but the Now, we all realize it’s a bit See JAMES on page 5 If there are to be future markets, Kim said, all vendors will need to obtain food-handling cer- tificates and temporary food es- tablishment permits — and, most Prime Magic High onerously, produce their vittles in Canary Yellow Kitchen bread views! touch! roller! a commercial kitchen, an apparent — just a sweet memory. requirement under city Health De- partment codes. Department officials advised Kim The message comes less than a week after Kim contacted health of- to apply for permits for her market ficials and Councilman Steve Levin and force her vendors to take food- (D–Williamsburg) to determine the handling courses and use commer- best course of action to take with cial kitchens in order to participate her fledgling indoor market to avoid in future markets without incurring fines and bring the market up to citations or fines. “Food vendors need to be prop- code as quickly as possible. Photo by Michael Weinstein As we reported last week , Health See FOOD on page 6 ONE BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK: The view ONE HANSON PLACE: Tower was converted TOREN: If James picks this penthouse, he’ll from is like nothing else (in Cleveland). to residential by Magic Johnson’s company. have plenty of headroom. This man loves poetry Bill Murray joins verse-ﬁ lled march across Bridge By Alex Rush Murray was nothing like the odd-ball for The Brooklyn Paper characters he in portrayed in movies Poems about Brooklyn obviously such as “Caddyshack” (but then, that’s aren’t lost in translation for comic ac- probably a good thing). In anticipation of the walk across the fabled span, Mur- tor Bill Murray. Martin O’Connell owns Cafe The legendary star of stage, screen ray stretched his 59-year-old legs, then chatted with fellow attendees and even Martin on Fifth Avenue. He used and “Saturday Night Live” walked signed a woman’s cast. to own Cafe Regular, which is across the Brooklyn Bridge on Mon- Other noteworthy participants in- Community Newspaper Group / Ben Kochman now owned by his sister. day night, reciting works that pay hom- cluded the borough’s poet laureate age to our borough as part of the 15th Lawrence Schwartzwald by Photo Tina Chang and poet Galway Kinnell, annual “Poetry Walk.” Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang also participated. who read Walt Whitman’s “Crossing With the bridge and East River as his Brooklyn Ferry” at the Fulton Ferry Bitter grounds backdrop, Murray entertained a crowd Landing. Photo by Lawrence Schwartzwald by Photo of about 300 people with Lawrence Fer- Murray has done this before. And Vladimir Mayakovsky’s poem, Poetry lover and comic Bill Murray linghetti’s classic “A Coney Island From “He’s a big fan of poems and liter- “Brooklyn Bridge,” a tribute and an at- Cafe Martin owner now says he participated in the 15th annual the Mind,” Allen Ginsberg’s “Super- ature,” said Suzanne Weise, a spokes- tack on capitalism, was also read (even poetry walk across the Brooklyn market in California” and Denise Le- woman for Poets House, which orga- the part where Mayakovsky mixed up Bridge on Monday night. vertov’s “The Rights.” nized the walk and readings. the Hudson and the East rivers). doesn’t even know his own sister By Ben Kochman asked about his sister’s cafe. “I wouldn’t for The Brooklyn Paper want to cause consternation for some- Another woman, who refused It’s a feud so overcaffeinated that one I don’t know.” Someone he doesn’t know? to give her name, yelled, “[Mus- a brother now claims that he’s never For years, Martin O’Connell was lims] don’t love America. They even met his sister! PEACE MARCH TURNS UGLY The sour sibling spat that split the the popular public face of Café Reg- hate America.” ownership team of Cafe Regular in ular, which is located on 11st Street There were no arrests, but ten- Opponents of Sheepshead Bay mosque vent anger Park Slope has boiled over once again, near Fifth Avenue, known mostly for sion — which has been high ever now that Martin O’Connell has opened his wry humor and “life-changing” By Stephen Witt after residents jeered marchers, most of who lives across the street from the since the Muslim American Soci- Cafe Martin — a new joint on Fifth cappuccino. The Brooklyn Paper whom were from outside the area. proposed house of worship and cul- ety purchased the property earlier Avenue that’s only six blocks away But last fall , he and his sister feuded A peace march in support of a con- “This is a Jewish neighborhood — tural center planned for Voorhies this year — was definitely of Bib- from the original coffee bar that his over whether modernizing with wire- troversial proposed mosque in Sheep- build a mosque in your own neigh- Avenue between East 28th and East lical proportions during the “Chil- sister, Anne, still runs. less Internet and an electric cash reg- shead Bay turned ugly last Thursday borhood,” yelled Stan Yunatanov, 29th streets. See PEACE on page 6 “I don’t want to comment about ister would sacrifice the old-school that,” said Martin O’Connell, when See CAFE on page 2 HAPPY FATHER’S DAY! — From Our Family to Yours — OPEN FATHER’S DAY FROM 7 AM-10PM 3EVENTH!VENUE"ROOKLYN .9s sWWWCOUSINJOHNSBAKERYCOM /PEN$AYSFROMAM PM"REAKFAST ,UNCH3UNDAY"RUNCH 2 AWP The Brooklyn Paper • www.BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 260-2500 June 18–24, 2010 Qvu!Zpvs!Cftu! Three ways to ﬁ x the BQE The Brooklyn Paper A plan to make long-overdue repairs to the Brooklyn– THE ROAD AHEAD Queens Expressway by tear- It’s going to take more than a decade to fix the stretch Gbdf!Gpsxbse ing down historic homes in of the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway between Atlantic Brooklyn Heights is just Avenue and Sands Street, a substandard roadway that is one of several options that well past the end of its lifespan.

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