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Including The Downtown News, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper Thanksgiving special issue Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2002 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 14 pages including GO BROOKLYN •Vol.25, No.46BWN, DTG, PSG, MID • November 25, 2002 • FREE Gardens bizman wanted wife dead Postal Press owner gets Connor 3-9 in murder-for-hire plot By Patrick Gallahue pleaded guilty to conspiracy on The Brooklyn Papers Nov. 20 in exchange for a sentence of three to nine years in prison. ousted A Carroll Gardens merchant He had been caught in a murder- and activist pleaded guilty for-hire undercover sting operation. Wednesday to charges that he Harrigan, 44, declined to make a Senate Dems keep attempted to hire a teenage statement to the court before his employee to murder his sentencing in Kings County Crimi- word, dump Marty estranged wife. nal Court. He hung his head as Bernard Harrigan, owner of Judge Matthew D’Emic honored By Patrick Gallahue Postal Press, a printing and ship- the plea agreement and handed The Brooklyn Papers ping company at 335 Court St., and down the sentence. the former president of the Court According to the indictment, While the past week has featured reports Street Merchants Association, See CAUGHT on page 2 Bernard Harrigan BP / Tom Callan of wrangling between Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, of Manhattan, who support- ed Connor, and Rep. Charles Rangel, the Rev. Al Sharpton and former Mayor David Dinkins, who all backed Paterson, the week ended with Connor losing more votes. By the conclusion of Tuesday’s organiza- Firehouse closing plans tional conference, Paterson had secured enough support to force Connor’s conces- sion in a closed-door meeting between members of the Democratic caucus. “I am looking forward to the next two rock CobHill, SunPark years in the Senate,” said Connor, whose district also includes Cobble Hill, Red Hook, Gowanus, Sunset Park and part of Lower By Patrick Gallahue Manhattan, in a prepared statement after the The Brooklyn Papers vote. “My efforts will now be devoted to the Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s constituents in my district alone, to legisla- plan to close firehouses as a tion more than administration, and to far means for helping close the more time with my family.” budget gap drew heat this week Paterson tried to deflect the word coup from his wresting of the leadership position from residents in Cobble Hill from Connor, asserting, “It was an election.” and Sunset Park who will each The Associated Press reported that Con- lose an engine company to the nor gave up in the face of 21 votes lined up budget modification. against him. A spokeswoman for the de- Elected officials and around 200 posed minority leader declined to discuss the residents filed into the John Jay final vote. High School auditorium, on Sev- Last week, however, Paterson, who was the enth Avenue in Park Slope, Friday deputy minority leader and who has represented night at a hastily planned rally Harlem, the Upper West Side and Washington against the closures of Engine 278 Heights since 1985, announced that he had 14 in Sunset Park, Engine 204 in Cob- Senators backing him, more than enough votes ble Hill and other firehouse clo- to take the post. sures in Brooklyn and elsewhere in Those standing beside Paterson on Nov. the city. 13 included Brooklyn state Sens. Velmanette A similar crowd rallied at Mama Montgomery, Carl Andrews, Carl Kruger, Maria’s on Court Street near De- John Sampson and Ada Smith, as well as Dis-assembly required graw and at the Engine 204 fire- state Senators-elect Kevin Parker and Martin A section of the Parachute Jump in Coney Island is taken down Tuesday by a large house on Degraw Street on Satur- See CONNOR on page 6 crane in preparation for the ride’s restoration. The landmarked attraction, which has day, including Councilman Bill Firefighter Tom Westoff of Engine 204 in Cobble Hill addresses crowd been closed since 1968, may eventually reopen. The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango See FIREHOUSE on page 6 at rally Saturday night on Court Street. The Brooklyn Papers / Tom Callan Survivor City blitzing potholes By Deborah Kolben The Brooklyn Papers Noticed a pothole in your neighbor- no more hood? Mayor Bloomberg wants you to report it. As part of a citywide program known as the TV hunk returns to Brooklyn “Pothole Repair Blitz,” city crews are hitting By Deborah Kolben tions in hopes of capturing a the streets this month and next to fix roadway defects before the onslaught of winter. The Brooklyn Papers $1 million prize. Stafford said the skills he The Department of Transportation hopes One of Brooklyn’s finest sharpened on the streets of Bed- that the Brooklyn portion of the blitz, which may not have survived, but ford-Stuyvesant, where he’s sta- began on Nov. 7 and continues until Dec. 12, he has returned home to tioned at the 79th Precinct, will take care of all pothole complaints filed Bay Ridge nonetheless. came in handy on the tropical this year in Brooklyn. During last year’s blitz, New York City police offi- island. In addition to being city crews repaired 9,548 potholes in Brooklyn cer and “Survivor: Thailand” physically fit, Stafford was able and 28,840 citywide. castaway, Ken Stafford, was to see through deception, a trait “We are committed to making the city voted off one of America’s fa- that comes in handy during a streets smoother, safer, and accessible for vorite reality television shows game where everybody lies. pedestrians, cyclists and motorists,” said city last week. Thirteen million viewers Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall. Along with 15 other con- tuned in last Thursday night to Community Board 6, which includes Park testants, Stafford was ma- watch the Bay Ridge hunk get Slope, Gowanus, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens rooned on the remote island of the boot from Koh Tarutao. As and Cobble Hill, submitted a list of about 20 Koh Tarutao, Thailand, where two teams merged, they voted Ousted “Survivor” hunk Ken Stafford at L&B Spumoni potholes that need repair. “We encourage De- he endured grueling condi- See SURVIVOR on page 6 Gardens this week. The Brooklyn Papers / Tom Callan partment of Transportation efforts to make streets smoother and safer,” said Craig Ham- merman, the district manager of CB6, “but potholes are a perpetual problem that can only be solved by allocating funds for maintenance year round.” Steve Harrison, chairman of CB10 in Bay Pier 1 to shoulder burden Ridge and Dyker Heights, had a similar com- plaint. “They come in and do the blitz,” said Park development plan hopes to make most profits there Harrison, “and then you have to wait until the next blitz to get anything fixed.” During the By Patrick Gallahue The Illustrative Master Plan, which was opment Corporation (BBPDC) to the Citi- last fiscal year, about one third of the 26,981 The Brooklyn Papers released in September 2000, outlined that a zens Advisory Council last week, annual potholes filled in Brooklyn were filled during significant portion of the commercial opera- revenues from Pier 1 will amount to ap- the “blitz.” A recently distributed financial analy- tions are based on Pier 1, which extends proximately $4.9 million, nearly 64 percent While the city is busy filling potholes, the sis for Brooklyn Bridge Park delineates from roughly Orange Street to Old Fulton of the park’s projected revenues. The mayor is trying to pass tort reform that would clearly how heavily the commercial Street, but this is the first time that a detailed BBPDC is a subsidiary of the Empire State limit lawsuits due to injuries caused by road- weight of the project leans on Pier 1 analysis has been discussed publicly. Development Corporation that is charged way and sidewalk defects. There are approxi- with plans that include fine dining, a According to a financial analysis re- with building and maintaining the park. Eddie Gonzalez prepares to work on a pothole on 10th Street and Fifth mately 2,600 sidewalk defect claims made hotel, retail and parking developments. leased by the Brooklyn Bridge Park Devel- See PIER PLAN on page 7 Avenue in Park Slope Tuesday. The Brooklyn Papers / Tom Callan See POTHOLES on page 6
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Precinct stationhouse, at 72 “As far as I know, the Board Poplar St. in Brooklyn of Ed looked at it, rejected it Heights, is headed back on the and said it wasn’t affordable for auction block. a school,” Stanton said. “And An application for the city to developers that have looked at it sell the property has been sub- say it is suitable for housing.” mitted to the Department of City “Given the real estate prices Planning for certification, which the only thing that’s viable is would start the clock on the city fair-market housing,” said Pare. Uniform Land Use Review Pro- The application for the dis- cedure (ULURP) for the disposi- posal of 72 Poplar St. was re- INTERIOR WINDOW SYSTEMS tion of the city-owned property. ceived by the Department of The ULURP process includes City Planning on Oct. 21. The review by the community board, • Choice of Leading EXISTING • Up to 95% Noise agency has 45 days to certify Architects & Interior EXTERIOR Reduction the borough president, the City the application. The entire WINDOW Planning Commission and the Designers ULURP process takes around • 99% Elimination of City Council. seven months. AIR The application to sell the The city is once again trying to sell the former police station on Poplar Street between • We Design, SPACE Cold, Draft, & Dirt While the next DCAS auc- property at auction is not con- Henry and Hicks streets in Brooklyn Heights. The Brooklyn Papers / Tom Callan tion is scheduled for sometime Manufacture & • Maximum Thermal nected to any particular use, Install in the summer, Johnston said Control said Warner Johnston, a then the police intelligence unit, veloping residential, market-rate for comment as to whether he the agency was not planning to spokesman for the Department which moved out in 2000. housing in the large building. would bid on the property. auction the building then in or- • All Custom Design, • Installations in over of Citywide Administrative Ser- Construction, and When the city planned to dis- “I would like to see it go up The application to the De- der to give sufficient time for 3,000 Buildings vices (DCAS), the agency that pose of the property residents for residential use,” said Judy partment of City Planning did the review process. Glazing manages city-owned property. feared that the sale would be Pare, who lives next door. “I • Free Evaluation The last time 72 Poplar St. without restrictions and that the think everyone on the block • Windows, Doors, CITYPROOF was reviewed for disposal, two INTERIOR WINDOW buyer would then be able to use would like to see it go up for and A/C Enclosures years ago, DCAS withdrew its the building for a broad range residential use.” application at the request of of so-called “community uses,” Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, of HOW IT WORKS then-Councilman Ken Fisher. which could include anything Congregation Mount Sinai on The former councilman told The Cityproof Interior Window works in conjunction with the from a school annex to a reli- Cadman Plaza West, told The The Brooklyn Papers this week, MONTHLY SPECIALS gious institution. Papers last April that he was in- existing exterior window to create a “Buffer Zone” (air space) that “I was concerned it might be Any use that would increase terested in the property but seals out noise, cold, draft and dirt converted into a use that would traffic, such as a religious institu- would only specify his inten- FREE FREE not be compatible with the sur- www.cityproof.com rounding neighborhood and I tion or school, has in the past tions as a “community use” di- ROLL OF FILM ROLL OF FILM wanted the sale to be condition- been staunchly opposed by the rected towards children’s and With Processing of Any Color With Purchase of 3 Rolls. al towards a program that surrounding residents, who asked senior services. 35mm print Roll (24 exp min) (35mm color print film only) 10-11 43rd Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101 would be satisfactory to the that the buyer be restricted to de- Potasnik did not return calls with coupon with coupon (718) 786-1600 • (800) 287-6869 • [email protected] community.” Fisher said there was interest “Improving the Quality of the Living & Working Environment for over 40 Years” to convert the property, which FREE FREE faces a row of condominiums CELL PHONE ACCESSORY across the street and is flanked With One Year Activation With Any by residences and PS 8, into CAUGHT… SELECTED MODELS ONLY Yearly Activation some sort of medical office. Ad- with coupon with coupon ditional rumors circulated in the Continued from page 1 November and December of community that a charter school Harrigan offered Matthew Ka- last year, Harrigan paid an addi- would occupy the building. tional $6,000 to Kaplan to hire The latter fears are unlikely to plan, a 16-year-old friend of his son’s, $75,000 to kill his wife, someone to knock off his wife. PROSTATE PROBLEMS? manifest in the latest rounds of On Dec. 10, the indictment Carol, 46, who was in the hearings because, said Fisher, “It states, Harrigan upped the fee to was determined that it was too process of divorcing him. Have a weak urine flow? Beginning Oct. 1, 2001, Har- $75,000 if Kaplan would kill expensive to put a school there. Carol himself. 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After a locksmith managed am on Nov. 13. to successfully admit the man The disgruntled customer al- niques for treating traumatic •Foot and Ankle into his building, his day went legedly struck the victim with a from bad to worse, when he stick, injuring the man’s right injuries, degenerative condi- •Hand Surgery found his apartment ransacked. arm and shoulder. tions, congenital deformities •Shoulder Surgery A list of stolen items was not The victim was treated at included in the police report. Long Island College Hospital. and sports-related injuries. •Joint Replacement A 58-year-old neighbor in the •Musculoskeletal Oncology same building left his apartment Next stop, ER in the early afternoon on Nov. 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Fine Linens & Home Accents The globe of rock Astoria Fed Park Slope residents have a big choice crystal at the finial when it comes to getting a cup of coffee point recalls the By Patrick Gallahue and a bagel, but it’s not so easy when full moon on a The Brooklyn Papers they’re looking for home furnishings. The clear night. Blotters good news is that Su Casa Fine Linens and A man claiming to be armed Home Accents has recently opened at 219 This rare quartz and dangerous robbed the As- Fifth Ave., and owner Amanda Nelson has toria Federal Savings Bank on is unique in the purse, containing her identifica- stocked the store chock full of interesting Fifth Avenue at 10th Street. universe, fissured tion, mail and cell phone, and and useful items for the home. At about 10:45 am on Nov. then the mugger fled. and veined by 14, a man dressed in a large, Su Casa has 230- and 330-thread count black, rimmed hat and a green Bashed by Sis cotton sheet sets; duvets in chenille, silk forces of Nature military-style jacket, passed a A domestic dispute erupted and cotton; skirts and shams for the bed; taking place in note to a teller reading: “I have a into violence at a home on and “almost anything you could possibly the course of gun, don’t be stupid, let’s all go Third Avenue between Eighth want for the bath,” says Nelson. That in- home safe. Give me all the mon- and Ninth streets. cludes “very, very soft” Egyptian cotton a million years. ey, now, no cops, no dye packs, According to police, a 20- towels, fun shower curtains with butterfly year-old woman was attacked no tracers, no one gets hurt.” and ladybug designs and traditional ones, Stop by and see Despite the thief’s threaten- by her sister, who proceeded to too (all in cotton or chenille), soaps, bubble ing pleas, the teller slipped a punch her in the face and then bath, and her bestseller — all-cotton wash- our Schonbek dye pack in with the $20 bills bash her with a blender at 1 pm able bathmats. collection. on Nov. 12. While a suspect has handed over to the crook, police In fact, Nelson says, “Almost every fab- said. While the pack should been identified, it could not be determined if she was taken ric item I have in the store is machine-wash- have exploded as it passed the able.” sensors, a police spokesman into custody by the time this went to press. Nelson also carries items to enhance just was unable to say if that hap- about every area of the home — mirrors, pened. Didn’t notice wall clocks, frames, small tables, decorative The thief took off with A woman’s purse was picked bowls and chandeliers. One of her most $1,750. in a grocery store on Seventh unique items is the “pin up shade” an 84- Owner Amanda Nelson shows off the A spokeswoman for Astoria Avenue between Carroll Street wares at her shop, Su Casa, at 219 Fifth Federal Savings Bank referred inch long curtain that can be pinned up to and Garfield Place on Nov. 8 at any desired length so it looks like an uncon- Ave. in Park Slope. The Brooklyn Papers / Tom Callan questions to police. around 3:40 pm. Family Owned & Operated The Brooklyn Major Case The victim, 55, did not report structed room shade. Squad, a wing of the special in- it to the police until Nov. 14, “However it’s pinned up, it looks differ- letter openers. for over 30 years vestigations division, took over unaware, she said, that a thief ent,” she says. Now you don’t have to travel around the the case, and a detective there had raided her handbag until Nelson, who’s racked up seven years in world, or even outside Park Slope, to fill would only say that the investi- then. the home furnishing business, personally se- your home with beautiful things from all gation was ongoing. Police The victim had been shop- lects every item she carries. Many are im- over the globe. New York’s Largest Lighting Showroom were unable to provide a de- ping in the crowded grocery at ported, like the towels from Portugal and Su Casa Fine Linens & Home Accents, tailed description of the robber the time of the incident, police Scotland. “[This is] very interesting stuff between Union and President streets, ac- at press time. said, and added that the crook that’s definitely not anywhere else in Park cepts MasterCard, Visa and American Ex- Large selection of lampshades and bulbs of all kinds made off with the victim’s cred- Slope,” says Nelson. press, and is open Tuesday through Friday, Mugged in car 1073 39th Street (CORNER FT. HAMILTON PKWY) A 23-old-man was sitting in it cards, $200, identification, And with the holidays coming on, any- noon to 8 pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 10 his car, on Sixth Avenue be- health insurance, AAA, video one looking for gifts might find the perfect am to 7 pm. For more information, call (718) 436-2207 tween Berkeley Place and Lin- store and library cards. one at Su Casa — like candle snuffers and (718) 622-5001. — Paulanne Simmons coln Place, at around 3:15 am Had to go Hours: Mon. & Tues. 9-5:30; Wed. CLOSED; Thurs. 9-8; Fri. 9-5:30; Sat. & Sun. 10-5 on Nov. 11, when a gun-wield- After turning a man away ing robber brandished a silver from her lavatory, the 61-year- pistol and demanded his money, old proprietor of a real estate radio and car keys. The victim firm on Seventh Avenue be- complied, and the thief made tween 11th and 12th streets, be- off with $160, a Kenwood ra- lieves the patron returned after dio, valued at $300, and car hours to exact his revenge. keys. The mugger fled north up The victim said the man was Sixth Avenue — on foot. denied use of the bathroom ear- Jet blue lier in the day, and between the Hoodwinked, had, high and time she closed the business, at dry, a man entered the 78th 6:40 pm on Nov. 13, and 8 am Precinct around 4:15 pm on the next day, he allegedly re- Nov. 17 and told police that an lieved the firm of $20 in coins. acquaintance claiming to work In naming the suspect, the for Jet Blue Airways had cheat- victim told police that the larce- ed him out of $16,000. nist lifted a key when he was According to the victim, 65, turned away earlier in the day. the suspect claimed to work for No free parking the airline company and prom- A snitch on wheels boosted a ised to purchase discount tickets 1996 Volvo sedan of all four on his behalf several months tires and their accompanying ago. The victim then gave him hubcaps while it was parked on the cash, but received no tick- St. John’s Place between Fifth ets. Police are investigating. and Sixth avenues. Gunpoint mug The victim, 37, parked the A woman, 28, was walking vehicle near her Park Slope home from the subway, on War- home at 6:30 pm on Nov. 16. ren Street between Bond and By noon the next day, the tires, Nevins streets, around midnight valued at $400, and the rims, on Nov. 14, when she realized valued at $800, were gone. she was being followed. Laptop mystery Her assailant approached and Sometime between 10:30 am asked if he could talk to her, on Nov. 7 and 12:30 am on and the victim said, “No.” She Nov. 9, a man’s laptop vanished resumed her walk and made it from his home on Fifth Avenue as far as Nevins Street when the between First and Second thief attacked, yanking a chain streets. off her neck. The victim, 29, told police Upon facing her assailant the that despite there being no signs second time, she realized he of a break-in or forced entry, the was brandishing a semi-auto- computer disappeared. The vic- matic handgun. The mugger tim added that he had been the said, “Give me your bag or I victim of similarly mysterious will pop you in the stomach.” incidents. The victim handed over her There were no witnesses.