MAKING HEADLINES Abandoning Bay Ridge After 64 Years, Legends’ Feld Provides a Steady Cash Flow, He Said
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Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2005 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 14 pages •Vol. 28, No. 51 BRZ • Saturday, December 31, 2005 • FREE WIN A MAGNIFICENT HONEYMOON CRUISE — EASY ENTRY ON PAGE 2 P7 P14 BROOKLYN’S REAL NEWSPAPERS Gere stars in local’s ‘Bee Season’ Game roundup HOME DEPOT PLOTS RIDGE MEGASTORE By Ariella Cohen preliminary plans to the Department of smack in central Bay Ridge traffic.” square-foot store would attract 700 cars tioned putting a car-dependent develop- Kohen wants] seems the height of lunacy.” BROOKLYN’S REAL NEWSPAPERS The Brooklyn Papers City Planning, which would have to re- Kohen envisions the Home Depot as the during its peak hours. ment in an area that could support pedes- Councilman Vincent Gentile (D-Bay zone the lot before the superstore could be ground-floor anchor of a glassy tower that “You’re not going to get a lot of transit trian-friendly businesses. Ridge) said a traffic study would be need- Adeveloper wants to build a Home built. would include three stories of parking, two trips for shoppers,” consultant James CB10 members told Kohen that his ed before any plan for development could Depot — topped by 11 stories of At the Dec. 19 board meeting, many and a half floors of office space, 241 units of Heineman admitted last week in his pres- project would be better placed along the be approved. housing — next to the Long Island residents said the project would over- housing and a landscaped roof area. entation. Sunset Park waterfront. “With a big store like that there would Rail Road tracks at 64th Street and whelm an already-crowded junction. The mixed-use layer-cake would abut the Heineman said traffic is the greatest “If you want a big box that’s easy for be a radius of congestion that could really Eighth Avenue in Bay Ridge. “It’s just too huge for that spot,” said dormant LIRR tracks and replace a parking concern: “We have to make sure we are drivers to get to, there is a lot of aban- affect traffic patterns,” Gentile told The Including The Bensonhurst Paper The developer, Andrew Kohen, told CB10 preservation committee chair Victo- lot now along the N-train station on Eighth not going to make things significantly doned property near Costco on 39th Brooklyn Papers via cell phone — stuck Community Board 10 this week that ria Hofmo. “Go two blocks to the north Avenue at 61st Street. worse then they are.” Street,” said CB 10 member Wade Goria. in transit strike gridlock as he made his Home Depot has signed a letter of intent and you hit the congestion on Eighth Av- An environmental consultant hired by Many senior citizens live in the area “I am not sure why they don’t think about way to the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel and Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. 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Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2005 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages BRZ •Vol.28, No. 50 • Saturday, December 24, 2005 • FREE Neighbors mourn senior Kleinfeld’s flight Carolers By Jotham Sederstrom To Lanza, the departure threatens to stifle a on 86th The Brooklyn Papers small but faithful segment of customers he de- scribed simply as wandering bridegrooms. BIG WIN By Lilo H. Stainton Among the gift registries, wedding gown Soon-to-be husbands, he said, routinely find The Brooklyn Papers merchants and tuxedo outlets along Fifth themselves scouring racks of baseball jerseys OVER THE RIVER to Bruce: Gentile defeats Russo handily Crossing Fourth Avenue proved deadly for a 90-year-old Avenue’s Bridal Row, Legends Sporting while their fiancees consider gowns costing / Tom Callan / Tom Brooklyn woman this week. Goods — with its caps, bats and jockstraps many thousands of dollars down the street. — is an anomaly. By Ariella Cohan Ray Allan died at Lutheran Medical Center after she was Brooklyn left walkin’ as transit union strikes In addition to the business he generates by struck by an SUV while traversing the busy avenue near 86th But after Kleinfeld Bridal said last week outfitting many of the neighborhood’s schools The Brooklyn Papers Street at 10:55 am Nov. 7, according to police. that it would move to Manhattan this summer, and athletic leagues, the spillover from Klein- By Gersh Kuntzman Welcome to Brooklyn You’re a Aclose and somewhat bitter match Allan was transported to Lutheran Medical Center in serious MAKING HEADLINES abandoning Bay Ridge after 64 years, Legends’ feld provides a steady cash flow, he said. The Brooklyn Papers for the 43 District City Council seat condition after the accident. She died there a short time later, ac- One Upper East Sider who decided he’d walk to owner said he shares the fears of his nuptial- And while merchants along Fifth Avenue came to a fast if not predictable end at cording to published reports. He was there when they went to work in the work in DUMBO got hopelessly lost — while he was The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn minded neighbors. uniformly trumpet Kleinfeld’s legendary draw 9:53 pm on Tuesday night when a The driver of the car, who remained at the scene until police morning, trudging over the Brooklyn Bridge in their still in Manhattan! “They draw a huge crowd, they always of customers from all corners of the country, arrived, was not charged with any violations. have,” said Andy Lanza, who opened his sport- Lanza has proof of its geographic reach — Democratic district leader passed his sneakers or walking their bikes, and he was there The confused pedestrian started down Second Scrooge! Blackberry cell phone over to the While the intersection of 86th Street and Fourth Avenue has ing goods store at 8224 Fifth Ave., a few build- Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox base- been among the most dangerous pedestrian crossings in the when they came back, a little worse for wear, but Avenue, which would have led him to the Manhattan Old glory in the Ridge ings south of Kleinfeld, 20 years ago. “And a ball jerseys sell nearly as well each year as incumbent, Vincent Gentile. Bridge — but when foot traffic was too heavy, he neighborhood, the accident rate has declined there, according to still in good spirits. By Emily Keller Flags and politicians were both very much in evidence as the annual Bay Ridge Memorial Day parade made its way down Third Avenue Monday. lot of stores here are going to get hurt — big, those of the hometown Mets and Yankees. “He called me and said ‘this is Pat Russo. Transportation Alternatives. The activist organization used city shifted to First Avenue. big time.” “We’re gonna be selling a lot less of the out- I want to tell Vinny he gave a good fight’,” Many bi-ped commuters just assumed Borough Pres- for The Brooklyn Papers (Above) Kristen Kupper, 2, leaves no doubt of her patriotic allegiance. (Below) Ironworkers from Local 361 carry a giant flag down the avenue. (At crash data from 1995 through 2001 — the most recent informa- ident Markowitz spent the entire first day of the strike on When he got to the eastern spur of Canal Street, he bottom) Rep. Vito Fossella, Brooklyn North commander Joseph F.X. Cunneen (the event’s Grand Marshall), Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Miss U.S.O. Merchants of all trades have been lamenting of-town teams, that’s for sure,” said Lanza. Joe Bova recounted to the Brooklyn Papers, tion available — to develop maps detailing all vehicle collisions At first glance, the carolers — with their red- “I passed over the phone.” the bridge’s fabled footpath. turned left instead of right, and “ended up getting lost in 2005 Lynelle Johnson, and Justice Jerome D. Cohen of Jewish War Veterans parade in the sunshine. the emporium’s impending move to Manhattan “We’ll miss ’em. It’s gonna hurt.” with pedestrians and bicycles citywide. that crazy off-the-grid tangle down there,” his boss, who and-green felt hats, their sheet music and their while speculating on their own futures. The na- Next door, Helen Mavronas, the owner of It was that simple. “Welcome back to the big time, Brooklyn, USA!” the accordion accompaniment — appeared to be tionally renowned business, they say, stood at the 30-year-old Gifts on Fifth, a provider of Gentile won a third term in the City Coun- irrepressible Beep told his constituents as they returned requested anonymity for everyone involved, told The Brooklyn Papers. just another group of holiday mirth-makers on the crest of a trickle-down economy that wedding invitations and other nuptial knick- cil Tuesday, besting Republican challenger home during the evening rush hour on Tuesday.