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E S I D U • Desserts inspired by Autumn S L I N P • Brooklyn Nightlife listings Brooklyn Bites • Performances, tours and more in Your essential guide to BROOKLYN EATS Where to GO BROOKLYN’S REAL NEWSPAPERS Including The Brooklyn Heights Paper, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, DUMBO Paper, Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper and the Downtown News Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2005 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages BWN •Vol. 28, No. 40 •Saturday, October 15, 2005 • FREE Planners blow off council ‘park’ meet By Jess Wisloski as to say the Brooklyn Bridge Park would border the development, and He- Street in DUMBO to Atlantic Avenue The Brooklyn Papers Development Corporation (BBPDC), len Foster, of the Bronx. Ten other on the Brooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill State officials appointed to plan a subsidiary of the Empire State De- council members attended the five-hour border. The bulk of the development velopment Corporation, had “hi- hearing, which overlapped six other rests on the Brooklyn Heights piers. and build the proposed Brooklyn jacked” planning of the 1.3-mile wa- committee hearings throughout the day. Issues arose regarding financing, Bridge Park blew off an Oct. 6 terfront development from the public. The development plan proposes a recreation, design and social implica- City Council joint committee Last Thursday’s joint Waterfront and mix of open green space and river trails tions, and the officials from the city’s meeting on the contentious proj- Parks committees hearing was hosted at with a hotel, five luxury condominium Economic Development Corporation, ect, leaving community activists City Hall by the committee chairs — high-rises, a soccer field, restaurants Department of Parks and Recreation, and officials hopping mad. David Yassky, whose district encom- and other commercial establishments Deputy Mayor for Economic Develop- One community leader went so far passes most of the neighborhoods that along the waterfront from roughly Jay ment Dan Doctoroff’s office and one of the commissioned landscape archi- tects talked for two hours. “It all amounts to a hill of beans, since the development corporation didn’t show up,” said Judi Francis, a resident of Willowtown, a section of Brooklyn Heights that borders the site of a planned 30-story luxury con- dominium proposed to help finance PAPER PRIZE the housing, open space and commer- cial development. “It’s indicative of how they’ve al- ways treated us. It was just shown Accolades for Ratner coverage against a brighter light in front of our local elected officials,” Francis said, The Brooklyn Papers INSIDE: PAGES 12-18 adding, “It was shocking, actually.” Praising The Brooklyn Papers “on a coura- City officials in attendance to field Brooklyn at geous piece of work” in its “Not Just Nets” cov- Sundance Published every Saturday by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages including GO BROOKLYN •Vol.27, No. 4 AWP • January 31, 2004 • FREE questions on the plan tried their best erage of developer Bruce Ratner’s “Atlantic to defend the process of community Yards” plan, the National Newspaper Association involvement. NOT JUST NETS Foster, chairwoman of the Parks this week awarded the newspaper its top prize for committee, asked Joe Chan, senior Best Investigative or In-depth Story or Series. MAPPING THE NEW BROOKLYN advisor to the deputy mayor, “How / Chris Pizzello The 120-year-old NNA, with 3,200 daily and weekly IVE DUMBO much involvement did the communi- S T N U E L K M Brooklyn community newspaper members, is the nation’s largest P C R EMPIRE STORES Navy Yard O WATCHTOWER ty have in saying ‘This is what we X A L SHOPPING P E HIGH-RISES E V E E D G newspaper association. D L I A N would like to see’?” R O I B T MAYOR’S EMERGENCY BUNKER A N E Y R Brooklyn Associated Press Throughout 2004, The Brooklyn Papers coverage of L C E K R Heights “I know there were over 40 meet- - FEDERAL COURT O L A O I C R R Ratner’s proposal set the newspapers apart from the B E M GENERAL POST OFFICE BQE BANKRUPTCY COURT ings with community groups as the F Australian actor Heath Ledger and his girlfriend, actress Michelle Williams, have moved to M O L Fort C A T Greene B city’s other media, which ignored or downplayed the U S master plan was being developed,” Boerum Hill, a few blocks from the Gowanus Canal. The couple is expecting a baby this month. Downtown H Clinton CRUISE SHIP PIER A Hill V E project’s impact. COURT STREET AREA HOUSING . said Chan. “Obviously the BBPDC AT LAN TIC AV E. DOWNTOWN Brooklyn Papers readers were repeatedly reminded BROOKLYN has met with Community Board 2, PLAN Cobble Hill that the project was a multi-billion-dollar super-block BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL DORM SCHERMERHORN Community Board 6 — I know that PACIFIC BAM CULTURAL mega-development involving more than a dozen apart- URBAN RENEWAL DISTRICT E ATLANTIC there were at least 40 meetings being PIERS 8-12: UNDER REVIEW Boerum TERMINAL Q ATLANTIC CENTER ment high-rises and several office skyscrapers. The Pa- B Hill MALL (EXISTING) NETS ARENA held around the community.” SITE pers pointed out that the story was not, as generally por- Carroll Later panelists, like CB6 District Gardens trayed in other media, primarily about construction of an ATLANTIC YARDS Manager Craig Hammerman, coun- From ‘Creek’ Prospect Heights arena for the New Jersey Nets basketball team; the arena Red G N FAIRWAY I tered Chan’s statement, saying the Hook N O -Z would fill only a small portion of the site. P U BBPDC had “hijacked” the process WHOLE FOODS E U IKEA N “Your commitment to the truth shines through,” wrote E V Park from the community. A Slope H T the judges. “This is what it’s all about.” R U “Some of the statements that were LOWE’S O In a related citation, the NNA awarded The Papers an F made by the panelists earlier were per- Honorable Mention for Community Service. Satellite image by Space Imaging haps a bit misleading, so I just want to It’s the most exciting Brooklyn news in ers that would substantially obscure the where the Nets arena would be located. Lines to Pier 7, and a city-Port Authority skirt scrutiny and debate. five decades. arena from the view of motorists on Meanwhile, just south of the arena site, review of the best uses for Piers 8 through • • • “In many ways, you were just doing your job,” wrote the But Bruce Ratner’s plan to bring the busy Flatbush Avenue. Park Slope’s Fourth Avenue has been up- 12 in Carroll Gardens and Red Hook. Advocates of the overlapping Down- New Jersey Nets to an arena he would The massive Downtown Brooklyn Plan — zoned to allow taller buildings and encour- If anything, this photo, taken by Space town Brooklyn Plan and Atlantic Yards clarify that there was an exact total, an to the Canal build near the intersection of Atlantic which would turn the area into a sister to age commercial and residential develop- Imaging in December 2002 and anno- (which form one entity, only a tiny por- and Flatbush avenues is miniscule in Midtown Manhattan with skyscrapers ment. To the west, Lowe’s home improve- tated by The Brooklyn Papers this week, tion of which would house the Nets) comparison to all the development meant to attract corporate back-office leas- ment and Fairway supermarket will soon omits some projects. want the projects discussed separately. judges. “However, staying the course when all around you planned for the greater Downtown and es and government tenants — is, right open traffic-generating big box stores, and If implemented, these projects would, But only by considering jointly the im- extensive and exhaustive series of one Brownstone Brooklyn areas. The arena now, coursing through the city public an Ikea is planned in Red Hook. collectively, forever change Brooklyn as act of all the projects shown above can is even dwarfed by the massive office review process. The Downtown Plan over- On the waterfront, there’s Brooklyn we’ve known her. Some will, by law, any of them be properly evaluated. and residential towers that Ratner plans laps both the Brooklyn Academy of Music Bridge Park commercial-recreational devel- require public review; for others, devel- In the center spread: an enlarged view have a different agenda was worthy of recognition.” to build immediately adjacent to it, tow- Cultural District and Ratner’s Atlantic Yards, opment, negotiations to bring Carnival Cruise opers and elected officials will seek to of the Downtown Plan and Atlantic Yards. meeting with the development corpo- ‘Dawson’s Michelle Williams and her hunk Papers Editor Neil Sloane attended the Oct. 1 award SEE CENTER SPREAD FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE ration and the community board,” ceremony at the NNA’s annual convention in Milwaukee, ©The Brooklyn Papers. Established 1978. Phone 718-834-9350.Celia Weintrob, Publisher (ext 104) • Neil Sloane, Editor (ext 119) • Lisa J. Curtis, GO Brooklyn Editor (ext 131) • Vince DiMiceli, Senior Editor (ext 125) • Ed Weintrob, President (ext 105) Hammerman sarcastically noted, “de- Wisc., and accepted the prizes on behalf of The Papers. spite repeated requests subsequent to Heath Ledger are settling in Boerum Hill Additional awards were presented to The Papers for: ample of a lost facet of journalism — alive and well in that [February] meeting to turn out and • Best Breaking News Story (second place) for Brooklyn! Timely, courageous and informative in both address the public, including to brief By Ariella Cohen style house in the Los Feliz suburb of Los Ange- “Death on the job,” about a balcony collapse at a condo- meeting coverage and the background you bring in — us on the general project plan.