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BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 834–9350 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2007 WEB EDITION AWP/18 pages • Vol. 30, No. 20 • Saturday, May 19, 2007 • FREE INCLUDING ALL EDITIONS BATTLE OVER ARENA … BAGELS Business changes name HE OPPONENTS OF ATLANTIC YARDS down in the war over Atlantic Yards. are so frustrated by Bruce Ratner and his high- It started innocently enough: Aggarwal told The Tpriced pals that they’re taking out their aggres- Brooklyn Paper that he wanted to link his new shop sion on a lowly bagel store owner. to the basketball arena that is slated to rise just a Just a few hours after bagel block and a half up Fifth Av- man Ravi Aggarwal hanged an enue. “Arena Bagels and Bialys” sign THE BROOKLYN “For me, naming it ‘Arena’ on his soon-to-open Fifth Av- By Gersh was all about location,” he said. enue shop, opponents of the bas- ANGLE Kuntzman “I just knew I wanted to come to ketball stadium that inspired the Brooklyn with my bagels, which name made their feelings clear: EXCLUSIVE are the best, by the way. I don’t they planned to protest outside know anything about the At- Aggarwal’s store if it remained “Arena Bagels.” lantic Yards project.” Aggarwal initially told this bagel-loving scribe that He quickly got an education about the mega-proj- he would never relent to such bullying — but as more ect — and the negative passions it provokes in some. and more potential customers dropped by to express From the moment the sign went up this week, peo- their concerns about buying their morning coffee and ple started complaining — and some were openly bialy at a place named “Arena,” he ultimately caved. hostile, he said. “In the end, I had to change my mind,” said Aggar- “At first, I said, ‘No way. I’m not going to be / Julie Rosenberg wal. “I can’t do anything that goes against the neigh- pushed around,” Aggarwal said. borhood because I’m a neighborhood guy. These are But that steadfast conviction didn’t last long. Ag- my customers and I can’t go against them.” garwal said the sign would come down on Thursday So there it is, folks: An immigrant from Punjab — — after this issue went to press. His other stores are

a guy who worked himself up from a dishwasher to a named “Slim’s Bagels,” so he said it’s likely that he’ll Paper The Brooklyn manager to, finally, the owner of bagel stores in name the Fifth Avenue store “Brooklyn Slim’s.” HOLY BAGEL!: Arena Bagels at 55 Fifth Ave. was the first business near Atlantic Yards to take its name from Bruce Ratner's mega-development, but Queens, Long Island and Brooklyn — is gunned See ARENA BAGELS on page 16 owner Ravi Aggarwal has decided to change the name due to threats of a boycott of the yet-to-be-opened store. Tat too youse HARD Brooklyn icons getting some ink By Ariella Cohen thor of “New York City Tattoo: The Oral His- CELLS The Brooklyn Paper tory of an Urban Art.” People love Brooklyn’s brownstones, but “New York City tattoos [are] a total grab bag one woman is now wearing her love on her of cross-cultural and pan-national references,” Plan could put sleeve — or, more accurately, under it, in the he said. “After 9-11, the World Trade Center was very popular. The Katz’s deli sign is popu- form of a brownstone tattoo. lar, the Empire State building, the Staten Island condos at jail Last week, Manushka Montemuino became Ferry. The brownstone is a new one.” the proud owner of what could be the first-ever Montemuino said that her architechturally in- By Ariella Cohen brownstone tat, a six-inch black-ink rendering spired tattoo was a reminder of her father, a The Brooklyn Paper of the century-old Henry Street building she building restorer who bought 273 Henry St., the calls home. A luxury condo developer says he The brownstone image — pedestals, cornices, year she was born, as well as the “old soul” of wants to build residential towers on each wrought-iron-fence and all — nestles on her right the fast-changing borough she grew up in. side of the Brooklyn House of Detention scapula, between a larger tattoo of a red rose and “I love the way that brownstones are beauti- — a bold salvo in his bid to win redevel- one of a ghostly angel (pictured on page 16). ful, but also really comfortable … like Brook- opment rights at the soon-to-reopen jail. “I got the rose for my mom, an angel for my lyn has been throughout my life,” she said. Last week, the Bloomberg administration Montemuino’s rite of urban passage took

grandmother. I needed something else,” said Callan / Tom solicited bids to transform the House of D Montemuino, a Brooklyn Heights resident. place on a recent Friday at Brooklyn Tattoo, a into a mixed-use penal facility. People have been inking their flesh with the popular ink shop on Atlantic Avenue near Two towers — consisting of condos, of- symbols of their culture since the days when Hicks Street. fice space, a hotel, or any combination — needles were made of fish bones. The technol- The shop’s owner, Adam Gould, said Mon- could be built alongside the Atlantic Avenue ogy has (thankfully) advanced, but the basic temuino was the first customer who asked for a jail under the city plan. And the proximity of idea has remained the same: people want to put tattoo of a brownstone — but the homegrown Paper The Brooklyn the inmates to the tenants isn’t deterring de- their passions on display. tattoo artist believes that she won’t be the last. veloper Jed Walentas. And now, like a skull and crossbones, the Indeed, he has already reserved a piece of “It’s a valuable piece of real estate and I red, white and blue face of Old Glory or the sil- his forearm for a rendering of the Carroll Gar- Say Fey! don’t think the jail is a huge issue,” Walen- houette of the Empire State Building, the dens brownstone where he grew up. Park Slope welcomed “30 Rock” creator and star tas, son of DUMBO developer David Wa- ON THE ARM: This design of the Williamsburgh Savings brownstone has become an object of “totemic The Tompkins Place house will nestle be- Tina Fey to Seventh Avenue to film scenes for her lentas, told The Brooklyn Paper this week. Bank building is a popular Brooklyn tattoo. significance,” according to Mike McCabe, au- See BROOKLYN TATTOOS on page 16 forthcoming movie, “Baby Mama.” He said his company would propose “a resi- dential building next to” the jail. Walentas added that “if the project is done right,” apartments in the resulting “House of D” condos could attract the same wealthy tenants as the Court House, a posh 320-unit building that Walentas’s Two Trees Manage- Ridge heavyweight wants to be big loser ment built one block from the jail. Walentas made his bold pronouncement By Matthew Lysiak Biggest Loser” and “Celebrity Fit Club” fainted and was sent to the hospital. Af- several years, and whose image can last Friday, one day after the city’s Econom- The Brooklyn Paper — where contestants battle each other ter seriously considering dropping out, still be found on storefront posters ic Development Corporation officially asked — the goal of the “Fat March” is to be- Millender, a Kingsborough Community across Ridge for his first place show- developers to submit plans for two 10- to A larger-than-life local figure is come one big band of brothers. College student, was convinced to keep ing at the Fifth Avenue pizza-eating 15-story commercial and/or residential tow- about to lower his profile — by a If they stay together by the end of the going by the show’s physical trainers, contest last June at Rocco’s Pizzeria ers that would sandwich the existing 11-sto- few hundred pounds, hopefully. walk, they share the $1.2-million pot — who are also the hosts. (Turns out, it (Millender was cheered to victory by ry jail at the rapidly gentrifying corner of At- Bay Ridge resident Will Millender, but every time someone drops out, or is was just a low-blood-sugar thing. After a huge crowd that included a once- lantic Avenue and Smith Street. 26, is embarking on a 10-week, 550- voted out for slowing the others down, Millender was checked out, he was legendary, now slimmed-down, eater, The towers could be filled with offices, mile walk from Boston to Washington the pot is reduced by $100,000. cleared to continue.) Borough President Markowitz). hotel rooms or apartments, according to the as part of a new reality show in which But the rippling Ridge resident is Surviving “Fat March” isn’t the He ate 10 slices in the regulation city’s pitch. Walentas said that he would 12 super-sized contestants lose weight looking for more than big money and first step to changing his life, only the 12 minutes. The performance made consider building there only if it was guaran- to win cash. his 15-minutes of fame; Millender latest, according to Millender’s girl- him a legend. teed that he could do a residential develop- “I can’t tell you much about it now, (right) is looking to change his life. friend of two years Erin O’Keefe. “We had about 2,000 people cheering ment, which would likely be more profitable but I am hoping the next time you see “I know I need to do something “Over the past two years he’s gone him on,” said contest host Joseph Loc- than the alternatives. me, that you will be seeing a lot less,” about my weight,” said Millender, who from working retail with no ambition cisano. “If he can walk as well as he eats Along with new towers, the House of De- Millender said last Thursday, the day tips the scales at, well, he wouldn’t say. to going to college, making the pizza, he should win that contest, too.” tention complex would include a 22,000- before he left to begin filming of “You just don’t see a lot of older people Dean’s List,” said O’Keefe. “It has O’Keefe says that Millender’s march square-foot underground parking garage for ABC’s six-episode series, “Fat my size walking around, and it doesn’t been a tremendous life-changing few is bigger than any one man, and could city workers and hundreds of new cells for March,” which is based on the British take a genius to figure out why.” years for him.” set a healthy example for millions. the jail, which has been closed since 2003. reality show, “Too Fat to Walk.” The show, which will be broadcast in Trial, tribulations, and even a slice “This is a once in a lifetime experi- Diagrams distributed to interested devel- It is the latest variation among TV August, has already taken a toll on Mil- of celebrity are nothing new for Mil- ence — he is going to get healthy and opers suggest that the new cells would rise weight-loss shows, but unlike “The lender. During a pre-show taping, he lender, who has battled his weight for win cash,” said O’Keefe. See JAILHOUSES on page 5

Filthy puppets on stage at St. Ann’s JUDGE PHILLIPS FREED! By Chris Varmus Schlesinger’s lively imagination and unique for The Brooklyn Paper background — she’s written and performed in a The Brooklyn Paper nursing home, former Civil Court Judge John number of shows, some with live humans — gives Phillips was finally freed to move into a Park Slope They drink, smoke, they curse. One, a Puerto Ri- her a unique approach to the puppet interview. With Six years after he was declared mentally in- can grandmother, defiantly shuns underwear. Anoth- Pitter Pat, who’s written a tell-all memoir entitled competent under murky circumstances, and two assisted living facility on Wednesday. er, a sphere-headed butler named Pitter Pat, admits “Out of the Sock,” she engages in literary conversa- years after he had been locked down in a Bronx At about 4:30 pm, a burgundy sedan pulled up in to frequenting prostitutes. tion. With others, she gets into more front of Castle Senior Living at 1 Prospect Park West, Now here are some sock puppets who provocative subjects — puppet discrimi- and Phillips, a former borough resident, got out and are ready for prime time! nation, a debate on Spanish Harlem’s surveyed his new digs (see photo at left). Beginning May 30 at St. Ann’s Ware- gentrification with the commando abuela “It feels good. It feels like home,” he said. house in DUMBO, these puppets and a and a discussion of the Iraq war with an It’s not quite Phillip’s native Bedford-Stuyvesant, but slew of their ilk will take the stage for the ancient Greek warrior. it’s a far cry from his residence of the last two years: a 10th anniversary of Puppet Lab. Starts on page 9 “There really is a human behind every dingy Bronx nursing home that his lawyer Ezra Glaser The show’s star, New York Observer puppet, whether it’s the person who made it described as a place “where people go to die.” columnist Toni Schlesinger, will channel Charlie or the person controlling it,” said Schlesinger. “It’s not Phillips’s has been meandering through a labyrinth Rose and do sit-down interviews with a memorable like I walk around talking to statues and vases.” — both physical and legal — since 2001, when the puppet from the series’ past. She plans to be tough Other works in the series include “Dear Mme.,” Brooklyn District Attorney’s office declared him in- on her subjects, she told GO Brooklyn, and won’t a marionette play set to music performed by the competent, expressing concern that his then-consider- shrink from blindsiding interviewees with projected Kronos Quartet; “Billy-Club Man,” an exploration able assets would fall prey to unscrupulous hangers-on. of the life of the Spanish Punch as he appears in the / Aaron Greenhood / Aaron video clips from past performances. Since then, Phillips, now 84, has actually been at the So what is it about puppets? “You sort of forget puppet plays of Federico Garcia Lorca and as he is mercy of court-appointed guardians, including a they’re objects,” Schlesinger said. “It really is al- imagined offstage; and “The Jester of Tonga,” an es- lawyer who admitted to taking at least $187,000 from most like they’re real people.” oteric travelogue about the last true monarchy in the Callan / Tom Phillips’s estate. Under the direction of Puppet Lab co-director Dan world, the Kingdom of Tonga. Phillips’s move to Brooklyn may be a “milestone,” Hurlin and David Neumann, Lab artists and their col- “Labapalooza!” will run from May 30 through June but Glaser said more work remains to be done, in- The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn laborators meet weekly over nine months to develop 3 at St. Ann’s Warehouse (38 Water St., at Dock Street Pitter Pat is one of seven puppets interviewed by cluding “wrangling over” the missing money so that projects. Each spring, St. Ann’s Warehouse presents a in DUMBO.) Tickets are $20. For information, call the former millionaire can make ends meet. Toni Schlessinger (left) at St. Ann’s Warehouse. mini-festival of New Puppet Theater from the Lab. (718) 254-8779 or visit www.stannswarehouse.org. Paper The Brooklyn — Dana Rubinstein 2 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 May 19, 2007 elebrate C ummer SAIR CONDITIONERS WHERE TO FOR ANY SIZE ROOM EDITORS’ PICKS SATURDAY SUNDAY MONDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY May 19 May 20 May 21 May 23 May 24 Cheap chow Slam funk Though the traditional See and Be Scene kicks gift for a 20th anniver- off Memorial Day week- 5,000 BTU 8,000 BTU 12,000 BTU sary is china, San Loco, end early with their an-

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SAT, MAY 19 Find Parent and Child events in OUTDOORS AND TOURS FAMILY CALENDAR IT’S MY PARK DAY: Volunteers are needed to clean up Prospect Park. All participants re- in Brooklyn Paper Parent, p.14 ceive a free t-shirt and other goodies. All ages welcome. 10 am to 1 pm. Meet at Ocean and Parkside avenues. (718) 965-8960. Free. Herat, Afghanistan. Akash Mehta, age 9, SONYA STUDIO STROLL: South of the Navy student at Sanit Ann’s School, is organizing Yard Artists hosts its eighth annual studio stroll, walk. Walk around Park Drive Loop in featuring studio tours and works of nearly 100 Prospect Park, 3.3 miles. Meet at 10:30 am artists at over 40 venues. Noon to 6 pm. For at Park Drive Loop at Ninth Street. Call for info, visit www.sonyaonline.org. Free. info. (917) 518-2441. STUDIO TOUR: 15th annual Park Slope tour. INDIE MARKET: Collective of Brooklyn-based Over 65 artists open their doors and invite emerging designers show their wares of the public to see works in progress from fashion, accessories, bath and beauty, pet established and emerging artists. Self-guid- gear, home-goods and more. 11 am to 7 ed tour. Noon to 6 pm. Downloadable map pm. Smith and Union Street. www.brook- at www.bwac.org. Free. lynindiemarket.com. PEDAL BOATING: Cruise Brooklyn’s freshwater BLOOD DRIVE: at Old First Reformed Church. lake in a pedal boat. $15 for one hour, plus 11:30 am to 5 pm. 126 Seventh Ave. (800) $10 refundable deposit. Noon to 5 pm. Enter 933-BLOOD. Prospect Park a the Parkside and Ocean WORLD COCKTAIL DAY: Tastings of Plymouth avenue entrance. www.prospectpark.org. Gin. Noon to midnight. Also, learn the histo- NEIGHBORHOOD SERIES: Visit Fort Greene. ry of the Ramos Gin Fizz. 5 pm. LeNell’s, 416 Join the Urban Park Rangers, and discover Van Brunt St. (718) 360-0838. Free. the unique characteristics and essence of SNEAK PREVIEW: Circulus Initium presents a Fort Greene’s neighborhood. Wear comfort- screening series event that screens inde- able walking shoes, bring water and dress pendent features, shorts, animation and for the weather. 1 pm to 3 pm. Visitor’s documentaries. After party follows. 1 pm to Center, near the Myrtle Avenue and Park Prospect midnight. Spike Hill Bar and Grill, 184 Washington Park Entrance. Call 311 and ask Pony up: Prospect Park’s carousel, which dates back to 1912, is now open Bedford Ave. (718) 218-9737. For schedule, for the Urban Park Rangers. Free. visit http://festival.circulusinitium.com. GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY: Jeff Richman for the season. It’s our favorite way to go horseback riding in the park. PIER SHOW: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists leads the tour “Battle Hill and Back.” Tour Coalition hosts its 15th annual show featur- features resting place of Leonard Bernstein, ing work by more than 325 artists. 1 pm to 6 Augustine’s Church, 116 Sixth Ave. (718) Pierrepont and Clinton streets. (718) 222- pm. Also, meet-the-artists reception at 3 Fannie the Dog, Minerva, the highest point 907-0963. 4111, ext. 226. in Brooklyn and more. $10, $5 for Historic pm. Musical entertainment. Outdoor crafts Fund members. 1 pm. Meet at 25th Street GALLERY PLAYERS: presents “Victor/ OTHER festival along the waterfront esplanade fea- and Fifth Avenue. (631) 549-4891. Victoria.” $18, $14 seniors and kids. 8 tures works by 25 Brooklyn artisans. 499 Van OPEN HOUSE: Sebago Canoe Club hosts a FORT GREENE TOUR: NY Like a Native tours pm. 199 14th St. (212) 352-3101. Brunt St. (718) 596-2506. Free. two key neighborhoods of row houses and PAPER MOON PLAYERS: presents “Bravo day of kayaking, sailing, rowing and PROTEUS GOWANUS: writer Shelley Jackson mansions. $15. 1:30 pm to 4 pm. Call for Broadway!” a musical celebration of clas- canoeing on Jamaica Bay. 10 am to 5 in a presentation on her project: “Interstitial meeting location. (718) 393-7537. sic songs from hit Broadway shows. $10, pm. www.sebagocanoeclub.org. Call for Library’s Circulating Collection.” Learn about info. (718) 241-3683. RED HOOK TOUR: Brooklyn Center for the $8 seniors. 8 pm. Emmanuel Episcopal the project’s history and circulatory system. Urban Environment takes a tour of this Church, 2635 E. 23rd St. (718) 641-5341. STOOP SALE: Sackett Street, between $5. 7:30 pm. 543 Union St. (718) 243-1572. neighborhood. Francis Morrone leads. $13, BOOK READING AND CONCERT: Smith and Hoyt streets. 10 am to 4 pm. $10 members, $8 seniors and students. 2 Brooklyn Historical Society presents an (718) 596-5543. pm to 4 pm. Meet at corner of Columbia evening of John Adams in word and song. CHARITY WALK: Walkathon to raise money SUN, MAY 20 and Carroll streets. (718) 788-8500. $45, $30 members. 8 pm. Corner of for a library in a girls’ middle school in HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BROOKLYN BRIDGE: Ad- venture on a Shoestring celebrates Brooklyn OUTDOORS AND TOURS Bridge’s 124th birthday. Learn about the his- FABULOUS FIFTH AVENUE: The Fabulous torical facts and legends about the bridge. $5. Fifth Avenue Fair brings arts and crafts, din- 3 pm. Meet in front of the Municipal Building ing, live music and more to locals from 11 at the corner of Chambers and Centre streets, CIVIC CALENDAR am to 6 pm, rain or shine. The fair runs from lower Manhattan. (212) 265-2663. Sterling Place to 12th Street on Fifth SATURDAY, MAY 19 TUESDAY, MAY 22 Avenue. (646) 230-0719. PERFORMANCE Committee to Save the Bay Ridge Fifth Avenue BID Steering Committee BROOKLYN ROAD RUNNERS: 3.1 mile run for BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert features United Methodist Church. Information and Park Slope Fifth Avenue Merchants fun to benefit FDNY. 10:30 am. Harbor Fit- For All You Indoor & Outdoor Gardening Needs a matinee concert of works by Schubert. table at the Viking Fest 2007. Owls Head Association. Weekly meeting. Call (718) ness, Center, 9215 Fourth Ave. Call for info. $30, $15 students. Noon. Also, evening pro- Park (68th Street and Colonial Road), 871-8340 for meeting time and location. (646) 261-4401. gram features works by Vivaldi, Haydn and noon. Call (917) 971-8387 for information. PARK SLOPE TOUR: Big Onion Tours explores others. Knights Chamber Orchestra per- WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Brooklyn’s “Gold Coast.” Learn about this forms. $50, $25 students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry MONDAY, MAY 21 Community Board 6 forum. On the landmark district’s architecture and history. Landing, Old Fulton Street at the East River. Community Board 10. Monthly board agenda: rules that govern bars and $15, $12 seniors, $10 students. 11 am. Meet Mill Lane Nursery (718) 624-2083. restaurants. Church of St. Peter and St. Mill Lane Nursery meeting. Norwegian Christian Home at southeast corner of Plaza Street West and RECITAL: Opera Project presents tenor Josh (1250 67th St., between 12th and 13th Paul (109 Court St., between State and Flatbush Avenue. (212) 439-1090. Carr. Recital features music of Respighi, Lotti, avenues), 7:15 pm. Call (718) 745-6827 Schermerhorn streets), 6:30 pm. Call PARK SLOPE HOUSE TOUR: Civic Council’s Tosti, Schubert, Satie, and Leonard Bernstein. for information. (718) 643-3027 for information. 48th annual event. $25. Noon to 5 pm. Pick Brooklyn’s Largest 2 pm. Gershwin Theater, Brooklyn College, Community Board 2. Parks and recre- Community Board 2. Youth, education up tickets at Congregation Beth Elohim, 2900 Bedford Ave. (718) 436-5951. Free. and cultural affairs committee. Long Eighth Avenue and Garfield Place. (718) 832- BAM: Brooklyn Academy of Music presents ation committee. Brooklyn Hospital (121 Garden Center & Greenhouse DeKalb Ave., at St. Felix Street), 6 pm. Island University (1 University Plaza, cor- 8227 or www.parkslopeciviccouncil.org. “Doug Varone and Dancers,” a dance work ner of Flatbush and DeKalb avenues), 6 Call (718) 596-5410 for information. BACKYARD BIRDING: Learn tips and tricks for by choreographer Doug Varone. $20 to $45. pm. Call (718) 596-5410 for information. attracting birds to your yard or window. Then 7:30 pm. Harvey Theater, 651 Fulton St. Community Board 6. Housing, human join the Urban Park Rangers for a free bird (718) 636-4100. services, public safety and environmental THURSDAY, MAY 24 walk through historic Fort Greene Park. 1 pm. OPERA: Opera Company of Brooklyn performs protection committees. 78th Precinct sta- Community Board 6. Landmarks and Meet at the Visitor’s Center, near the Myrtle Gounod’s “Romeo et Juliette.” Private brown- tionhouse (65 Sixth Ave., between Dean land use committees. P.S. 32 (317 Hoyt St. Avenue and Washington Park entrance. Call 10% OFF stone home in Harlem. $25. 7:30 pm. Call and Bergen streets), 6:30 pm. Call (718) between Union and President streets), 6 311 and ask for the Urban Park Rangers. Free. for location and reservations. (212) 567-3283. 643-3027 for information. pm. Call (718) 643-3027 for information. CSI ANIMAL TRACKS: Be a nature detective SPRING CONCERT: Brooklyn Philharmonia with the Urban Park Rangers along the Salt Chorus presents “Love and Poetry,” featur- To list an event in the Civic Calendar, e-mail [email protected] or fax (718) 834-9278. All Trees & Shrubs See 9 DAYS on page 12 with Coupon. ing works by Brahms. $20. 7:30 pm. 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stoopDUMBO BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – DOWNTOWN Cobble Hill Variety & Mailing Center 495 Henry Street • (718) 852-8844 Wal-Mart is This old house: Restored! Open 7 Days ‘til 9pm By Christie Rizk The Brooklyn Paper not dead yet From the Addams Family to Don’t leave your a real family. s Wal-Mart phoning it in on the This Brooklyn Heights house Fulton Mall? Some area resi- HEIGHTS — long abandoned and then hor- Idents felt that way this week af- LOWDOWN ribly damaged in a 2004 fire — ter being asked to participate in a is ready to make its return to civ- On the way survey about how to improve the ilization, thanks to a local de- to the busy, yet underdeveloped, shopping veloper and restorer who refused strip. to see the grand dame rot away. But this was no objective study. The house at 135 Joralemon St. In fact, such calls are typically had spent the last decade in a state made in an effort to convince the of genteel dilapidation, its owners Without calling recipient one way or another, rather unable to maintain it well, and de- than to simply request an opinion. rided by residents as “the haunted Court Express for a That’s how Brooklyn Heights house of Brooklyn Heights,” said resident Michael Bast felt after re- Brooklyn Heights Association Ex- ceiving the call last week. Christie Rizk ecutive Director Judy Stanton. “They asked me how I felt The house, a protected his- toric landmark since 1966, had about having a big-box store on the mall or in Downtown fallen into disrepair, despite a Brooklyn,” Bast said, adding that the survey-taker was steering city rule that requires all land- him towards the notion that big-box stores would “improve” marked houses to be kept in “a / Julie Rosenberg the mall. state of good repair.” Some people thought the calls might have come from Wal- By 2003, Time Out New York Mart, which is known to be scouting a spot on or near the Ful- even called it one of the 13 creepi- ton Mall. est places in the city. “It’s easy to Didn’t Wal-Mart get the message when union leaders, pro- Court Express

picture Uncle Fester roaming the NYC Commission Landmarks Preservation Paper The Brooklyn testers, community groups and residents converged on Albee 718-237-8888 attic, testing light bulbs in his The once-decrepit house at 135 Joralemon St., a neighborhood eyesore even before a 2004 Car Service Square in the freezing February cold to scream “No Wal-Mart!” mouth — or Jeffrey Dahmer in the 24 Hour • 7 Day Dispatch over and over into a megaphone? basement, dismembering corp- fire (photo left), has been lovingly restored and is on the market (right). Well, Wal-Mart’s playing it cagey. ses,” the magazine said. “We can’t comment on possible projects,” a Wal-Mart spokes- The Dec. 31, 2004 fire com- Instead, Palmer sold the three- very fulfilling project.” placed the plumbing, electrical man told me, “but I can say that we are still interested in putting a pleted the house’s decay (see story house for $2.4 million in The 174-year-old house is and heating systems, and reno- I’ll be your bridge store in Brooklyn.” photo left), but then the city October to Howard Haimes, a unique to Brooklyn Heights, said vated the kitchen and bathrooms. from where you are to He did say that although stepped in. local developer with a back- Haimes, who thinks the house Palmer, who lives on Hicks ON OUR OTHER Wal-Mart has conducted “We spent a year trying to get ground in high-end restorations. was actually built in 1828. Street, didn’t want to comment where you want to be these kinds of surveys be- the owner to fix up the house,” Haimes spent seven months “That’s significantly old, es- on the new renovations. stoop fore, they haven’t done one said John Weiss, deputy counsel restoring the circa-1833 building pecially for Brooklyn,” he said. But the neighbors approve. PAGES in a couple of years, and for the Landmarks Preservation to its former glory. Haimes spent what he calls a “I think everyone in the Commission. The Commission PARK SLOPE they aren’t doing one now. “I’ve been wanting to do the “significant amount of money” neighborhood was looking for- Pizzeria gutted But with all the develop- even tried suing to get the owner, restoration ever since I saw the fixing the house from top to bot- ward to it being restored,” said ment and change happen- Alfred Palmer, to comply with place,” said Haimes, who lives tom — he replaced the roof, re- Heights resident John Loscalzo. BOERUM HILL the demands to fix the house. on Garden Place. “It’s been a built the sagging back porch, re- Now it’s on the market. New skate park ing in Downtown Brook- lyn, it’s not a stretch to BAY RIDGE The dead speak think that other big-box stores mentioned in the sur- FT.GREENE vey — Bast recalled Target Bike lane news and Costco in particular — online at BrooklynPaper.com are keeping their eye on a future mall spot. (Calls to Saving DUMBO while they can ELLEN GOTTLIEB Target and Costco weren’t returned). The survey could be a way of drumming up enthusiasm for old-manufacturing incarnation, where real- revoked the demolition permit when resi- such a store on the mall before doing anything official, like go- By Christie Rizk The Brooklyn Paper estate costs are rising faster than almost any dents called city officials to protest. ing to the Fulton Mall Improvement Association or Brooklyn other neighborhood in Brooklyn. Councilman David Yassky, one of the lo- Chamber of Commerce (of which Wal-Mart is a dues-paying The beau monde of DUMBO gathered The film put into pictures what the cal pols to make an appearance at the meet- member, just so you know). this week to schmooze, eat, drink … and preservation of “DUMBO’s character” real- ing and a staunch supporter of landmarking 211 Court Street Calling it “progress” and “a new plan” is a great way to make save the neighborhood from over- ly means — restoring the Belgian-block for DUMBO, promised to try to speed the Brooklyn residents a little more receptive to the idea. development. streets, preventing developers from tearing process. Not that it worked on Bast. “I told them I didn’t care either The DUMBO Neighborhood Associa- down unique, old factory buildings, and “I look forward to having a landmark dis- 917.797.1351 way,” he said. tion’s “Town Hall” meeting on Monday making sure that new buildings don’t rise so trict [in DUMBO] in a year and a half,” said 718.625.3700 x 112 THE KITCHEN SINK centered on geting the area designated as a high that they block the views of the Yassky (D–Brooklyn Heights). historic district. bridges. Some small commercial property owners brooklynbridgerealty.com Hallelujah! After 12 years of ongoing renovations, the scaf- “We need to do whatever we can to pre- The Neighborhood Association has been might try to throw a wrench into the land- folding at Saint Ann’s School on Pierrepont Street has finally serve DUMBO’s unique character,” said as- lobbying to get DUMBO landmarked for marking plan. The Neighborhood Associa- come down. It’s been up so long that residents are going to have sociation President Karen Johnson. several years, and the residents’ efforts paid tion has heard complaints. to look twice to make sure they’re in the right neighborhood The highlight of the gathering at the Pow- off last month when the Landmarks Preser- “There are always some landowners who in Reliability when they walk past the school now. … You can thank erhouse Arena on Main Street — besides the vation Commission started the process. oppose landmarking so they won’t have to # in Quality Keyspan for all the torn up streets in DUMBO lately. The gas food provided by Foragers, Retreat and Fer- But the wait for protection could take up ask for permission to change their buildings, Jewels by company is installing new high-pressure lines and upgrading its rigno’s, and the wine served up by 68 Jay to two years, and residents are worried that or they resent being limited by the city,” said 1in Service services for all the new residents moving into the neighborhood. Street bar — was filmmaker Julia Ryan’s developers could take advantage of the de- Milton Herder, a resident in favor of the … Assemblywoman Joan Millman (D–Brooklyn Heights) documentary “DUMBO: Then and Now,” lay to tear down old buildings. In January, landmarking. wants to come to the rescue of DUMBO artists who can barely which chronicled the area’s evolution from the Neighborhood Association sounded the Under city rules, anyone who owns a afford their rent. 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he candle-lit, carved wood bar on the corner of Hoyt and Ber- BROOKLYN Tgen streets has been the unoffi- SOUTH On the way cial living room of Boerum Hill since before the neighborhood had a name. to the So last month, when an anony- mous tipster posted a warning about the bar’s impending closure on the foodie blog, Eater.com, peo- ple flipped out. Mango P. / Gregory Without calling The online set held rambling vir- Court Express for a tual conversations about the eco- nomics of running the $6-a-beer tavern. They mused about the pos- sibility of a Starbucks taking over Ariella Cohen Paper The Brooklyn the building, a recognized historic Parks advocates want to transform the run-down Thomas Greene playground on Douglass Street into a skateboard park. landmark, and theorized on which beloved neighborhood insti- tution “gentrification” would take down next. Anxiety about the rumored change bubbled up from the blo- gosphere until finally, the manager, Jason Furlani, decided to stop the gossip mill at its source. They’regleaming theGowanus “[F]or almost 13 years I’ve worked for the individuals who NOW own/operate the Brooklyn Inn … and … they have NO Court Express PLANS to turn it into anything other than what it is... the By Ariella Cohen vided to the group by the Parks Department. “If a new park is designed right it can [make 718-237-8888 The Brooklyn Paper “Our goal is to bring people into the park skating] safer for the kids and for everyone else Broooklyn Inn,” said Furlani, a longtime resident of Carroll Gar- and give them choices of [activities],” said Si- who shares the public space,” he said. Car Service 24 Hour • 7 Day Dispatch dens, in a May 4 e-missive to Eater.com. Brooklyn skateboard punks may get a mon, who plans to line up funding from local Phil Abramson, a spokesman for the city’s The post was Furlani’s first foray into the blogosphere, he place of their own under a new proposal to officials before bringing the plan to Commu- Parks Department, said officials would be told me over a Yuengling at the Inn this week. turn a long-neglected Boerum Hill park into nity Board 6 and the Parks Department. “open to reviewing any proposals.” “Apparently, people read that s—,” he said of the online forums. a haven for ’boarders. One local concrete surfer, Jose Portes, said that So far, the prospects look good. Like most rumors, there The plan would transform the lightly used all he needs are a few flower planters to double as Once a street sport with a punky image that I’ll be your bridge was a grain of truth to the Thomas Greene Playground, which is on Dou- ON OUR OTHER ledges for his airborne tricks. relegated it to deserted parking lots and home- gossip: the guy who ran the glass Street between Third Avenue and Nevins “There are a lot of skaters here, but no- made half-pipes, city officials now see ’board- from where you are to bar for the last decade had Street, into a destination for kids who currently where to skate without worrying that your ing as the new roller-skating. In 2001, Parks where you want to be stoop retired and new manage- practice their airborne tricks on benches, board is going to shoot out into traffic,” said built Brooklyn’s first skate park within Owls PAGES ment took over. handrails, wide steps and even flower planters. Portes, who freely admits that he has more Head Park in Bay Ridge. The14,000-square- B’HEIGHTS Furlani maintains that the “Kids love to skate and there could be a place than a little skateboard wheel wax in the game. foot outdoor complex of wooden ramps, con- That old house only changes planned are that is better for them than the streets,” said Jo Portes and a partner, Michelle Sauer, are crete bowls and metal handrails cost $650,000. Anne Simon, a member of Friends of Dou- PARKSLOPE maintenance improvements opening Smith Street’s first skate shop and This year, Parks approved a plan to build Pizzeria gutted — a paint job, new bathroom glass/Greene Park, which wants the park — an cafe next week, replacing an organic-food another few skate ramps at J.J. Byrne Park on tiles, flushed beer taps. overgrown and underused play place on the mart near Bergen Street. Fifth Avenue and Third Street in Park Slope BAY RIDGE fringes of an industrial area — to have a new The dead speak The only change in so- The veteran ’boarder said that the hottest as part of a rehab funded by developer Shaya called character could hap- bathroom, more playground equipment and a neighborhood skate place now is a decrepit Boymelgreen, whose Novo condo tower now FT.GREENE small skate ramp or two. flowerpot on the corner of Union and Bond looms over the park. Abramson said the city Bike lane news pen in the bar’s red-walled backroom, a formal dining The park prettification would cost approxi- streets, barely an ollie — a “jump,” in skate was also building another concrete play- mately $4 million, according to estimates pro- online at BrooklynPaper.com room that is now occupied lingo — from the rush of traffic. ground at McCarren Park in Williamsburg. by a pool table that could in the future be booted to make way for tables, a nod to the bar’s speakeasy past, Furlani said. ELLEN GOTTLIEB If you ask me, the real news is how deeply the blogs have af- fected how we learn about our neighborhood. Food blogs have broken many a tale, most recently the tabloid-friendly story of Lighten up, Columbia Porchetta chef Jason Neroni. They have become 24-7 talkboxes — and word-of-mouth just doesn’t work the way it used to. The The Brooklyn Paper “This is a small, but symbolic way of retaining chattering classes aren’t at the bar anymore; they’re behind a 211 Court Street Old-fashioned street lamps could soon that.” And an increasingly popular one, too. computer talking about the bar. light the future of Columbia Street. The fancy lamps were installed on Clinton Brooklyn Although in reality, the Inn was not in danger, the rumor Street between Atlantic and Hamilton avenues in spread as fast as word of a keg party in a high school because, Agroup of businesses and residents on the 917.797.1351 burgeoning waterfront strip have launched a Cobble Hill last year. A few years earlier, the well, everyone was at his computer instead of at the bar, knock- campaign to replace the oh-so-2007 street lamps appeared on Smith Street and on Atlantic 718.625.3700 x 112 ing back a beer — and a shot of the truth. Avenue. In all cases, the lamps were funded with lamps with the ornate vintage lanterns that brooklynbridgerealty.com blaze in historic districts around the city. contributions from local officials and private or THE KITCHEN SINK “This is one of the oldest parts of the city and business donors. it would be a real shame not to have the old- Sam Cooper, spokesman for Assemblywom- / Julie Rosenberg B WACK: Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Coalition style lamps,” said Frank Manzione, a real-estate an Joan Millman (D–Cobble Hill) told The opened its annual show on the Red Hook waterfront last week broker in the area who recently sent petitions to Stoop that his boss likes the idea. 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I’ll be your bridge is it anyway? from where you are to where you want to be hat could possibly be the downside of a day-long fes- GREENE Wtival celebrating Brooklyn ACRES culture, food and music in Fort Greene Park? Just ask the community board. On Saturday, July 14, three event organizers will hold “Fort Greene Fest,” which they have dubbed a “celebration of the cul- tures, cuisine, and artistic diversity of Brooklyn.” The organizers expect anywhere from 3,000 to 8,000 attendees to flood the park and visit the Fest’s Dana Rubinstein ELLEN GOTTLIEB 100 tents between noon and 10 pm. Patrons will be able to indulge in food from 69 restaurants, / Dana Rubinstein watch locally made short films, and listen to the likes of Afro- Cuban percussionist Tracey Johnson, Fort Greene native and songstress Barbara Tucker, and soul singer Selan. It sounds fun, right? Not to everyone. 211 Court Street “We have serious concerns about any event with amplified Paper The Brooklyn Brooklyn sound,” said Community Board 2 District Manager Rob Perris. The city has gone ahead with painting in a bike lane on Willoughby Avenue from Washington Park in Fort Greene until it ends “Although Fort Greene Park, at 30 acres, is the largest in the dis- at Broadway in Bushwick. This is the same bike lane that was rejected by Community Board 2. 917.797.1351 trict, it’s not so large that you can find a quiet place in the park if 718.625.3700 x 112 there’s an event going on with amplified sound. And, there’s hous- ing very close on three sides, and [on the other side is] a hospital.” brooklynbridgerealty.com But the community board’s problem with the festival isn’t limit- ed to mere noise. It also feels that propriety has been breached — Lane hugging on Willoughby after all, members of the community board didn’t find out about the festival until after it had been approved by the Parks Department # in Reliability (you know, the city agency that actually operates, maintains and By Dana Rubinstein ment of Transportation spokesman. dam?” quipped Andrew Simon. “If so, I’m Jewels by in Quality manages the park). The Brooklyn Paper Back in July, the board rejected the new not mad.” in Service The due-process complaint lane by just one vote, with the majority Caroline Samponaro, the bike campaign 1 ON OUR OTHER wasn’t only the board’s com- Ten months after the community board claiming that the lanes would make it more coordinator for Transportation Alternatives, plaint. voted “no” on a city plan to build five new difficult for motorists. a cycling advocacy group not known for its stoop “We heard about it like miles of bike lanes through Fort Greene, “[Bike lanes] create bottlenecks,” board enthusiastic endorsements of the DOT, PAGES everybody heard about it the city has gone ahead and started paint- member Cheryl Goodman said at the time. praised the development as “some really — after it had been permit- ing in the cyclist-friendly paths anyway. SATNICK B’HEIGHTS “New lanes … will make the street more smart planning by the city.” We service all mechanical & quartz watches That old house ted,” said Charles Jarden, The Willoughby Avenue bike lane, which congested.” “It’s an example of a neighborhood bike & repair all jewelry on premises BOERUM HILL chair of the Fort Greene will stretch from Washington Park to Broad- Despite the vote, the DOT rolled ahead lane that has the effect of extending the New skate park Park Conservancy. way in Bushwick, should be completed by — and cyclists are doing wheelies. [bike-lane] network and also creating a safe Indeed, there’s no good BAY RIDGE May 26, according to Craig Chin, a Depart- “Is Fort Greene trying to be like Amster- space for cycling within the neighborhood.” HARTLEY F. SATNICK The dead speak reason why community boards can’t be told about The Only Certified PARK SLOPE such things before Parks Pizzeria gutted has issued a permit. 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If you’re The Brooklyn Paper plant more trees as part of a class project; replace going to hold a mini-Woodstock — or, as the Department of Ed- incandescent light bulbs with fluorescent bulbs; ucation found with its Khalil Gibran Academy plans, open a Fort Greene activists are hatching a plan to and promote recycling by placing bins in public 187 State Street new school — it would be nice to give the locals a heads-up. transform their stately brownstone neighborhood places, encouraging composting and developing That said, Jarden, a seasoned planner of Fort Greene Park into something that would make Al Gore proud. “architectural best practices.” (off Court St) events, is skeptical this event will attract anything like the num- Still in its incubation, the idea is to harness the It’s the brainchild of Fort Greene Association bers being thrown around by its organizers. do-gooding power of the Fort Greene Association board member Jed Marcus, and DK Holland, one (718) 852-1421 • Fax (718) 852-9697 •

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Nica Lalli They leave the picnic table covered 239 Dekalb Ave. with used paper plates, the ground covered with leftover food Paper The Brooklyn (Vanderbilt Ave. & Clermont Ave.) and the whole area looking like a dump. Tina Fey of “Saturday Night Live” and “30 Rock” was on Seventh Avenue (718) 789-7170 This is not a once-in-a-while occurrence, it happens every on Wednesday to film “Baby Mama,” her movie about a single Yuppie weekend (Memorial Day is the worst, so get ready!). But there (Fey), who hires a surrogate mother (“SNL” sidekick Amy Poehler) so she www.sixthaveanimalclinic.com is no reason why we should ever have a day when our park Fey on 7th can stay on the career track. looks like a trash heap. It is simply unacceptable. There are two problems with the trash situation, said Eugene Patron, a spokesman for the Prospect Park Alliance. The first is that the Parks Department doesn’t put enough money aside for trash collection (Sanitation’s jurisdiction ends at the entrance to the park). The second is that it is difficult enforce the clean-up rules. Dough! Fire guts a pizzeria Whatever the solution to the trash collection problem, it’s go- ing to take money. More trash bins would help, but then we would need more trucks By Nica Lalli people gathered, first to watch the fire, but and more manpower to The Brooklyn Paper then to console Bayne and her employees ON OUR OTHER empty them. Last year, (whose ranks include Bayne’s son). File this in the “no good deed goes un- Well-wishers brought coffee, doughnuts and Councilman David Yassky punished” category: the fire that gutted Piz- stoop (D–Brooklyn Heights) se- even flowers as Bayne and her crew realized za Plus on Seventh Avenue last Thursday PAGES cured funding for a new how much damage there was to the restaurant, B’HEIGHTS started after a welder accidentally ignited a which is between 10th and 11th Streets. mini-packer, which is a Lil- fire-control system that was being upgraded. That old house liputian garbage truck that Residents of the apartments upstairs were / Gregory P. Mango P. / Gregory “The worst thing about this is that I was trying BOERUM HILL fits on park paths. But even forced to relocate. to do the right thing,” said pizzeria owner Roz Bayne, who lives in nearby Ditmas Park, New skate park with a new piece of equip- Bayne as she watched firefighters battle the two- vowed to rebuild. 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Any gathering of more than 20 people in Prospect Park requires a permit — and the permit stipulates that the holder is responsible for cleaning up the prem- ises. Most people don’t get the permits (after all, they’re having a picnic, not a political rally!), but that doesn’t mean they’re not required to clean up. So what do they do? Many leave the area a Hospital fixes noise woe stinkin’ mess. The Park Police has to step up its patrol of the most-popular By Beethoven Bong said Valerie Zilbersher, who lives on Sixth Street picnicking spots. That means the area around Ninth Street, for for The Brooklyn Paper near the hospital. “I’m really glad that it’s over, it instance, and the wooded part behind the Picnic House. Any- was freaking me out.” where there are tables or where grilling is allowed will need to The mystery of the high-pitched squeal on A neighbor, Chris Deoudes, added, “Oh yeah, be watched. Citations must be handed out to folks who do not Fifth Street has been solved! It turns out, the I’m relieved it’s gone.” clean up after themselves. If the 78th Precinct can give a hand tea-kettle-like wail was being caused by some Hospital spokeswoman Lyn Hill said Methodist (as it does with enforcing dog-leash rules), that would be even faulty equipment at New York Methodist Hos- responded almost immediately after being told of / Julie Rosenberg more eyes on the dirty people, and more tickets. pital. the problem. Short of civilian patrols, armed with plastic garbage bags to hand This week, the hospital promptly replaced the Hill said they had the same problem eight years out to the weekenders, we have to rely on the Parks Department to broken equipment — six dried-out fan belts inside ago with a similar set of fan belts. clean our park and enforce its rules. So next time you see someone one of the cooling towers on its Seventh Avenue Alouder sound caused by a busted gearbox in-

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PHARMACY & SURGICAL That old house the word out early that she bate over the so-called “Green Church” — and her comrades are going “It is none of your business, or anyone BOERUM HILL this one from the grave. • 2064 Flatbush Ave. • (718) 377-4900 New skate park to war against fireworks — else’s” said Pastor Robert Emerick. “We are and that means “zero toler- When the Bay Ridge United Methodist a competent religious organization and we PARK SLOPE Church building was built almost 100 years Pizzeria gutted ance” (even for sparklers). know how to handle human remains.” ago, it was consecrated with a ceremony for Community members looking for infor- This means heavy fines, This box of bones holds the remains of FT.GREENE the dead who were reinterred from the origi- mation on the current fate of the remains Bike lane news or even possibly jail time, Methodist church congregants who for possession of any fire- nal church — the very same dead who will have run into a stone wall sturdier than the were re-interred when the last church online at BrooklynPaper.com works. now be dug up when the Green Church is Pennsylvania limestone that gives Bay At a recent 62nd Precinct torn down for condos. was torn down. Ridge United Methodist its green hue. But Community Council meeting, a couple of officers said that if the It’s almost certainly not how those former this contentious relationship wasn’t created public doesn’t get its appetite for destruction under control, the congregants would have wanted to be treat- The bones were dug up and moved to in six nights and seven days. cops plan on inviting themselves to our barbeques and cuffing ed, says local historian David Elligers. their current resting place in front of the The trouble began shortly after reports of people who violate the prohibition. He recently unearthed a news article from Green Church at the corner of Fourth and the sale of the Methodist cathedral, when “If you store fireworks in a private house, a small spark could 1901 that made it clear that those early Ovington avenues in 1901 (see photo). Councilman Vince Gentile (D–Bay Ridge) Methodist congregants felt that the church “It is clear that this was very important to ignite the flames and the whole house could go up,” said Agosta. hosted a community meeting in hopes of ground was sacred. the community of that day,” said Elligers. “It opening up a dialogue with the sale-minded Exploding houses in Brooklyn? Am I being put on here? “The present generation did not desire the looks like they really wanted to ensure a Yes, says Bill Weimer, vice president of Phantom Fireworks, congregants. But the congregants fought back, bones of their ancestors scattered to the four proper resting place for these people.” claiming that the councilman was trying to in- one of the largest retail sellers of incendiary devices in America. winds of heaven,” the article reported. The engraving says that “211 bodies were fringe on the separation of church and state. He believes the city’s laws are outdated. The relocation of the congregants’ re- transferred July, 1901 from the old cemetery Emerick was later quoted as referring to “Truth is, these aren’t your father’s fireworks,” said Weimer. mains became necessary in 1900, when the of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of the remains as “only dust,” much to the “Today’s fireworks are tested in 20 different ways and are safer city purchased the site of Grace’s Methodist the town of New Utrecht at Cowenhoven chagrin of community activists hoping to than they ever were.” Church — including its cemetery — in or- Lane and Sixth Avenue. Ninety of the per- preserve a piece of Bay Ridge past. After- Weimer says the vast majority of injuries come from “drunk- der to expand roads around what is now sons were unidentified. 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By Mat Probasco around from the 1970s to the ’90s. back of the community against the park for fear that muggers would Revival Committee, and others peti- Of course, the end result of all this Yards and all the new residential for The Brooklyn Paper And most speakers — at least the crime,” said Brennan, who also prais- leap from its hedges, which the city tioned the Brooklyn Union Gas Com- hard work was the renaissance of a towers in Downtown Brooklyn are ones who have to get re-elected — ed former Mayor David Dinkins and removed later removed. pany to buy old homes and restore borough, a Phoenix-like rise that is happening because developers think Afew decades ago, Brooklyn’s credited We, the People. former Governor Mario Cuomo, both As New York’s economy changed them as showrooms. The company known around the world. there is a market for the thousands of multi-million dollar brownstones “We owe the citizenry a great deal of Democrats like Brennan, for adding from manufacturing to service- and offered tours of homes renovated Now, perhaps, the only worry is units of housing and tens of millions were going for $30,000. Prospect gratitude for what they did in the 1980s police. (He knocked former Mayor technology-based, much of Brooklyn with new appliances, heating and that the newfound safe, clean bor- of square feet of office and retail Park was a dumpy bum camp and to make that happen,” said Assembly- Rudy Giuliani for taking the credit was abandoned as a post-industrial cooling systems. ough will become a victim of its own space. Park Slope had more late night gun man James Brennan (D–Park Slope). for safer streets.) wasteland, panelists at the sympo- The plan removed eyesores from residents’ success. Many of the people who “saved” battles than hip restaurants. Street by street, residents banded Even when crime was at its worst, sium said. otherwise well-kept blocks. Brooklyn’s desirability is encour- Brooklyn can’t afford to live there So who gets credit for turning Brook- together to force banks to issue loans John Muir was organizing the “About a third of the shops on In the meantime, Philip and Mary aging intense growth that brings anymore. lyn from a dirty word to a hot spot — within Brooklyn, despite its some- Prospect Park Environmental Center, Seventh Avenue were boarded up,” Gallagher picketed banks that were un- more people, more cars and some of But Muir said there is a solution: politicos, developers, grass-roots organ- time resemblance to a slum. They a group that believed that saving the said Everett Ortner, who bought a willing to invest in much of Brooklyn. the very urban ills that borough resi- responsible development that puts izers or some other interest group? hoped to save the borough’s land- crime-ridden park would be the key brownstone in Park Slope in 1963 — “The strategy was to fix two or dents hoped were in the past. high-rises along wide avenues while On Saturday, community activists marks from the wrecking ball, and di- to revitalizing Brooklyn. and then spent the next decade cajol- three of the worst houses on about a The drastic population influx protecting the smaller homes on the from yesteryear met at Borough Hall rect cops to brazen criminals. “The whole park seemed to be dy- ing his friends to do the same rather dozen blocks [to] encourage other could give way to Manhattan-style side streets. to tally up the heroes and goats from “You can’t really talk about the ing,” Muir said. then flee to the suburbs. homeowners to fix up their own residential density. Love them or “The trick is to save one while Brooklyn’s slow-but-steady turn- rise in Brooklyn without the push- People were afraid to walk near Ortner, founder of the Brownstone buildings,” Philip Gallagher said. hate them, projects like Atlantic making room for the other,” Muir said.

Seniors: 15% Discount every Tuesday night (dine-in only) Teen surrenders cell in Heights By Lilo H. Stainton One thug pulled out a knife, cut The Brooklyn Paper him on the arm, and insisted, POLICE BLOTTER “Give me your money.” They want your blood 84th Precinct The pair plucked two $20 D • E • L • I • C • I • O • U • S bills from the victim’s right front The 76th Precinct is conducting a blood drive on May 31, Chinese Cuisine & Vegetarian Nutrition A teenager lost his cellphone ner Jay and Livingston streets power tools and electronics, includ- shirt pocket and ran off along from 2–7pm. Healthy people are invited to stop by the precinct to a trio of robbers that attacked and the rider quickly got into a ing a $1,000 GPS, stolen. Hoyt Street. Police are looking stationhouse at 191 Union Street, near Henry Street, and partici- 162 Montague Street debate with another passenger. • Fast Free Delivery him on May 4 on Henry Street, • And airbags were stolen for a 5-foot-9, 180-pound black pate in the life-saving mission. Brooklyn Heights When the driver reached Atlantic from a 2006 Honda CRV parked police said. man, dressed in a t-shirt, and a 6- For more information, call Community Affairs officers at the • Open 7 Days a Week (718) 522-5565/66 Avenue, he stopped the bus and on Willow Street, near Clark foot-3, 195-pound Hispanic man. The 15-year-old victim was at 76th Precinct at (718) 834-3211 during the day. — Stainton fax (718) 522-1205 (24hr) tried to intercede. Instead, the an- Street. The 38-year-old owner, Smiling thug • Party Orders Welcome Mon - Thurs 11:30am - 10:00pm the corner of Joralemon Street, gry senior turned his aggressions who lives up the block, left the Fri - Sat 11:30 am - 11:00pm around 7:15 pm, when the three on the driver. car around 7 pm on May 11 and It wasn’t the robbery attempt Sunday 2:00pm - 10:00pm We Only Use Vegetable Oil strangers stopped him and asked When police arrived, they returned at 10 am the next day to that worried the victim most. It Hospital heist so violently that they knocked the Natural Cooking FREE $7.00 to use his phone. The teen de- searched the area and could not find the safety devices, valued at was the look on his attackers’ face A 39-year-old patient who victim’s eyeglasses from his face. and Fresh Vegetables DELIVERY min. clined, but one of the men insist- find the suspect — at first. But up to $4,000 together, missing. when the would-be thief showed Police Officer Rafael Santana ed he turn over the device. when they checked the emer- up two days later and gave him was discharged from Long Is- Transit heist land College Hospital on Hicks of the 88th Precinct tracked the Before the stunned boy could gency room at Long Island Col- nerve-wracking grimace. two suspects and arrested the respond, the thugs grabbed his lege Hospital down the street, Police nabbed a man who The 26-year-old man first met Street on May 3 left with a treat- robbed a Queens resident at ment machine that he insisted two 15-year-olds the same day. cell and his high-end calculator. they found their man. There was his attacker on May 5 at 7:20 am, He did not find the stolen cell- knifepoint inside the Borough on the corner of Henry and Con- was his own. But then they wanted more. no mention of any injuries to the phone on the teens. “Give me your money or I’ll senior in the police report. Hall subway station on May 12. gress streets, police said. The The suspect had been using punch you,” one of the thieves The 22-year-old suspect al- stranger came up to him and sud- the machine, a continuous-mo- Gunshots insisted. Wheely gone legedly grabbed a younger man denly asked if he could borrow tion device designed to help or- Pre-dawn gunfire rang out in The boy was cash-less, Cars seemed to suffer more around the neck with his weapon the victim’s cellphone. When the thopedic patients, in the hospital Fort Greene on at least two occa- though, and the thugs fled on Jo- than people last week when it drawn as the victim waited for a man said “no,” the thug pushed and saw no reason not to take it sions recently, including one ralemon Street with the two elec- came to crime in Brooklyn Brooklyn-bound train shortly after him up against a parked car and with him when he left at around shooting that police sources said tronics, valued at $500. Heights and DUMBO — espe- 7 am. The thief snatched $100 tried to grab the mobile. He 2 pm, staff said. was sparked by a dispute over a Moms go wild cially if they were parked on Wil- from the 20-year-old’s back pock- failed and ran off empty-handed. But the man’s doctor contact- food order at a Fulton Street diner. low Street, police reports showed. et and bolted, but he didn’t get far. But two days later, the thug ap- ed police to say he had stolen the The first incident, on May 12, Two women — one of them At least three cars were bur- Instead, he ran into Transit peared again, across the street $5,000 machine. happened just two blocks from with her children in tow — got glarized on Willow Street in Police Officer Roxana Carranza from the man’s Carroll Garden’s Laptop lost Fort Greene Park. The 36-year- into a brawl on Montague Street Brooklyn Heights, and at least inside the station, which is be- home, around 6:10 pm. He smiled Banks are where you are sup- old victim was struck by two bul- that ended with one of the women three more were stolen between neath at Court and Joralemon at the victim, without approaching posed to go and get money, not lets as he walked into a Myrtle under arrest and facing grand lar- May 3 and May 12, police said. streets. After a struggle, she the man, touching him or stealing lose it. But a 27-year-old neigh- Avenue store, near Carlton Av- ceny charges, police said. Police would not say if they handcuffed the alleged thief. The anything. But the look alone was borhood man lost his laptop enue, just before 3 am. One shot The 43-year-old victim stopped view the crimes as a trend. The officer found a boxcutter in his enough to convince the victim to lodged in his right arm and the by a bank branch, near Henry when he visited a branch on attacks included: pocket, but no cash, she said. contact police. other grazed his back. Street, around 12:45 pm on May • A 2004 Vespa motorbike Smith Street on May 3, police The victim said the shots 12. She was using the ATM when stolen from Clinton Street, near Mac, the knife said. 76th Precinct seemed to come from across the an argument broke out between State Street. The 31-year-old A pair of thugs armed with a The victim stopped by the street. her and another woman. Eventual- owner parked the $3,500 scooter kitchen knife sent a third man to ATM, near the corner of Warren Two days later, police were ly, the dispute got physical, and around 7 pm on May 3 and Cut for $40 the hospital after a May 11 attack Street, around 7:30 am. He placed called to a gunfight outside a din- the suspect began kicking and when he returned at 11 pm on Talk about overkill. on Columbia Street. his computer on the ground as he er on Fulton Street, near Clinton punching the victim. May 6, it was gone. Aman was slashed by a The two brutes surrounded withdrew cash from the machine Avenue, around 4:30 am. A 42- The woman said she fought • A 2004 Toyota RAV4 knife-wielding thug on Hoyt the 38-year-old victim around and then left — without retrieving year-old cook at the restaurant back to save herself and her chil- parked on Willow Street, near Street on May 4 for just $40, po- 1:30 am, near the corner of Nel- the laptop. said an argument over a food or- dren, but the attacker was still Pineapple Street, that lost its lice said. son Street. The pair was suppos- The man descended into the der started inside and then spilled able to steal her wallet. But as airbags. The 73-year-old owner The 27-year-old victim was edly angry about an argument subway system and climbed onto the sidewalk, where some- the thief started to run, the wallet parked the small SUV just after walking home from work around the victim had started with a aboard a Manhattan-bound train. one pulled a gun and fired. fell open and most of the con- midnight on May 5 and returned 6 am when the two strangers ap- friend of one of the suspects, and Only when the train pulled away Although police couldn’t find tents spilled to the pavement. at 8 am on May 8 to find a rear proached him from behind, near they slashed him in the hand dur- did the victim realize his comput- anyone hurt at the scene, a 29- Luckily, Police Officer Tamar window broken, the interior the corner of Atlantic Avenue. ing the dispute. er was missing. He got off the year-old man was located later Keaton of the 84th Precinct hap- trashed and the safety devices train and ran back to the bank, but that morning at the emergency pened upon the scene. She ar- missing. his laptop had disappeared with- room of Interfaith Hospital, on rested the 48-year-old attacker • A 1996 Toyota Camry was out a trace. The Dell Latitude was Atlantic Avenue near Nostrand and recovered the wallet, which stolen from Flatbush Avenue, valued at $500, he told police. Avenue. The man, who was shot OPENS JUNE 14TH still held several credit cards and near Myrtle Avenue, on May 8. once in the stomach and once in the victim’s drivers license. The owner, a 51-year-old 88th Precinct Queens man, left the car at 10 na Oce the right shoulder, later admitted Bus bust a he was part of the diner squabble. am and returned an hour and a hi n Teens busted May 10 was no ordinary day half later to find it gone. 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Greene tried to break up a fight the senior light, a shovel and a case of between Greene and Gates av- Sunday School 9:15am had started with another passen- spring water. Morning Worship 8:00am & 11:00am enues, at around 7 pm. That’s Wed. Bible Study 1:00pm & 7:15pm ger, police said. The 47-year-old • A 2005 Chevrolet van was when the teens rushed the man driver, a New Jersey resident, suf- d Gr 718-638-6121 burglarized on May 9, while ran an and insisted he turn over his Rev. Clinton M. Miller - Pastor G g Op d fered bruises and swelling on his parked on Willow Street, near Or- nin enin earnings and the means to his www. brownmemorialbaptist.org New Orleans First Family of Funk Ope g LM31-12 chest after he was lashed by the ange Street. The 17-year-old owner 82 Livingston Street livelihood. senior around 2:30 am. left the car at 3:30 pm and returned (between Court St. & Boerum Pl.) Instead, the deliveryman ran First A.M.E. Zion Church www.celebratebrooklyn.org Problems began after the bus an hour later to find the driver’s- inside the home and dialed 911. 54 MacDonough St. picked up the suspect at the cor- side window broken and $2,700 in (bet. Tompkin & Marcy Ave.) FREE Delivery • (718) 260-8870 Police Officer Edgar Gonzalez BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN Sunday School 9:45 am arrived with a crew that rounded Morning Worship 11:00 am up the teenagers. The five boys Wednesday Midweek — two age 14, two 15-year-olds Service/Bible Study 6:30 pm (718) 638-3343 and one who is 16 — now face Dr. Daran H. Mitchell, Pastor robbery charges. LM30-18 Gun heist Cong. B’nai Jacob Just the sight of the thief’s Park Slope Synagogue 401 9th Str. btw 6th & 7th Ave. pistol made his point clear. 718-832-1266 The robber never had to draw Services: 7:15 Morning Minyan his gun when he attacked a man Shabbat: Fri Sundown Sat 9:30am CLASSES/EVENTS/HOLIDAYS

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A woman had her cellphone Seventh Avenue lost thousands 78TH PRECINCT The 23-year-old victim told towards Third Avenue. of dollars in perfume when a Bicycle thief The man told cops that he stolen right out of her hand af- cops that she was near the cor- The woman did not get a brazen thief, or a team of dropped by the building, which came in and broke into the The 74-year-old woman had An exercise-minded thief stole ter a perp tried to grab her ner when a thief ran up and tried good look at the man. hoods, ran into the store, broke is on the quiet block of Butler case,” said Prem Persaud, a parked her car near the corner a woman’s hybrid road bicycle into a locked display case, and between Fourth Avenue and manager at the store, which is of Sixth Avenue and Carroll from her apartment at around 10 stole the contents on May 12. Quisenbury Place, and forgot at Fifth Street. “They got away am on May 7, cops said. The theft took place at Street on April 25 at around the backpack, which contained with more than 150 bottles. I’d The 32-year-old woman told around 8:30 pm, even though a 4:30 pm. When she returned to $70 and various credit cards. say the whole thing is much police that she believed the security camera is trained on it two days later, it was gone, so The bag was stolen long be- more than $5,000.” she reported the apparent theft thief had a key to her apart- the display case, cops said. ment, which is on Fifth Avenue fore the man went back outside Police put the total value of Joy ride to cops. to head home, at around 6:25 A thief had taken the car and between Park and Sterling the stolen scents at $1,472, but A thief’s joyride through places, because there were no pm. When the 26-year-old driven it around for a few hours a manager told The Brooklyn central Brooklyn ended up with signs of forced entry. called his credit card compa- before abandoning it on a Paper that the loss was “more a President Street woman’s car The bike is worth $400, she nies, at least one told him the pedestrian walkway at Eastern than $5,000.” in the tow pound — and her said. card had already been used. “There were three guys who paying to bail out her wheels! Parkway and Albany Avenue. By the time the owner noticed iGone the theft, the car was already at ASixth Avenue woman lost the tow pound at the Brooklyn her iPod and a digital camera to Navy Yard. a thief who broke into her RELIGIOUS She had to go there and pay apartment on May 10. the ticket before the 1999 Hon- The 46-year-old victim told SERVICES KITCHEN SINK da Civic was returned to her cops that the theft must have Brown Memorial Continued from page 3 possession. occurred between 12:30 and Baptist Church 1:15 pm, when she was not in 484 Washington Ave., Ft. Greene Caddy cad Sunday School 9:15am The Brooklyn Paper’s very own Nica Lalli will be reading from the apartment, which is be- Morning Worship 8:00am & 11:00am her memoir, Nothing: Something to Believe In at the Barnes & Third-row seating is one of tween Sixth and Seventh Wed. Bible Study 1:00pm & 7:15pm Noble right here in her “hometown.” Come hear all her family se- the popular options on the streets. 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Sunday School 9:45 am the honor for the work it is doing in Red Hook. … Not all develop- he’d parked his gas-guzzler on Morning Worship 11:00 am Stealthy thief Wednesday Midweek ers are as unpopular as Bruce Ratner. Some, like the Slope’s own Carroll Street between Eighth Service/Bible Study 6:30 pm Andrew Kimball, president and chief executive officer of the Avenue and Prospect Park West A woman who works in a (718) 638-3343 Dr. Daran H. Mitchell, Pastor Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation, get awards. at 9:30 pm on May 10. But Fifth Avenue gift shop lost the LM30-18 Kimball will be honored with the Brooklyn Chamber of Com- when he returned to the mega- wallet out of her pocketbook on May 10, although the bag was Cong. B’nai Jacob merce’s Building Brooklyn Award on July 18 at the Steiner Stu- car the next morning, he no- Park Slope Synagogue dios. This year’s private sector winner is Joshua Muss, president ticed a small drill hole in the never out of her sight, she said. 401 9th Str. btw 6th & 7th Ave. of Muss Development. … Maggie Moo’s was closed for a week, driver’s-side door frame. The Houdini-like crime oc- 718-832-1266 Services: 7:15 Morning Minyan but it is open for business again. The reason for the mysterious clo- Closer inspection revealed curred sometime between 10 Shabbat: Fri Sundown Sat 9:30am sure? Renovating the courtyard for outdoor eating. Now you can en- that the back seats, valued at am and 7 pm, cops said. The CLASSES/EVENTS/HOLIDAYS www.parkslopeshul.org joy that $15 cone in the fresh Brooklyn air! $700, had been removed, along woman had reported to work at L30-34 E-mail The Stoop at [email protected] with a navigation system, a ra- the store, which is at Baltic Street, and placed her handbag behind the counter. 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But when he woke up at pharmacy at the corner of Third Avenue and 69th Street, new details emerged about the stroll with his parents was al- the 95th Street station, he no- store’s alleged steroid sales. The Daily News reported this week that the drugstore was most hit by a car and then was ticed his pocket was slit and using its pharmacy to mix stanozolol, a powerful anabolic steroid — and that the store re- smacked in the face several wallet removed. ceived 100 requests for steroids and human growth hormone from all over the country times by a foul-mouthed driver The man lost some pictures while the agents were conducting their May 9 raid. More than $100,000 in steroids and on May 13, police said. and credit cards, but luckily he growth hormones were seized in the raid. This week, it was business as usual at Lowen’s. The trouble started just be- was carrying no money. A manager refused to comment. — Matthew Lysiak fore 11 am, when a 39-year-old cop was walking with his par- Old lady robbed ents on Fifth Avenue near 81st A pickpocket working a bus Street. on May 8 nabbed an 85-year- A man trying to park his car old lady’s purse near Fort only family and friends knew drove onto the sidewalk and al- Hamilton Parkway. about the safe, so he suspects most ran into them. The thief made his move by someone close to him was in- bumping his victim as she was YELLOW… The mad driver than pushed volved. open his door, hitting the cop, getting off the bus at her stop Bus swipe Continued from page 3 who quickly identified himself near 79th Street just after 10 am. A woman’s wallet was stolen even have an Uncle Charlie! to the maniac as a police offi- Only after the bus drove while she was packed onto a A source pointed me in the direction of at least one guy in cer. away did she realize that her Bay Ridge who still sells the fiery freedom sticks, and sure “I don’t give a [expletive] wallet was missing from her crowded B8 bus on May 13. purse. The 21-year-old got off the enough, I found him. No, there was no shiny display case, but who you are,” the driver re- the goods were stashed in the back. sponded, before punching the The perp made off with sev- bus at 18th Avenue and 86th en credit cards, pictures, a $100 Street at around 3 pm, when Of course, I protect my sources — of information and of fire- cop in the face several times. works — so I’m not going to reveal the location. The victim’s fellow men in blue gift card, and $30. she realized the wallet was And don’t try to stop me. The risk of jail is well worth taking quickly responded and arrested gone. Boarding school for a few pleasurable hours making sparkler circles in the back the 63-year-old perp. Three teens were arrested af- The perps had unzipped her The cop had some bruising backpack, police said. yard as it get dark. But for those less-adventurous souls out there ter a botched attempt to wrestle still looking to celebrate Independence Day with a little boom, above his right eye, but wasn’t a skateboard away from a 15- They only gained $14 in hospitalized. cash, but took her checkbook, there remains one government-sanctioned firework alternative year-old boy led to violence on left in Brooklyn, according to Agosta. May 7. including her credit and debit Bully busted You know those little white snappers that you throw at the Cops say the trouble began cards. A schoolyard bully was ar- ground and they make that pop? rested after shaking down an as the victim was skateboard- Purse snatch ing near Wakeman Place and “All fireworks are illegal,” Agosta repeated. “But if you are 11-year-old boy for his lunch A woman shopping in an only using little snappers, that might be all right.” money at 2:15 pm inside a 73rd Ridge Avenue, when threw 18th Avenue department store Snappers “might” be all right? Have you heard of the kid who Street playground on May 8. teens gave chase before catch- on May 12 left her pocketbook lost a toe when he stepped on two snappers at the same time? It’s The trouble began when the ing up with him and wrestling on a rack while she tried on a him to the ground, where they true. I heard it from a guy who knew a guy … shirt, and it was gone when she kicked him several times in the left arm. came back. THE KITCHEN SINK The boy managed to hold on The victim was in the store, Leif Ericson Day School at 1037 72nd St., where Juan to his skateboard, and then led which is near 66th Street, at Amendano died last Friday, is raising funds to aid Amendano’s Leading by example, following our hearts, cops to find the mischievous around 2 pm. While she was family. Just stop by the school or call (718) 748-9023 for more teens, who were promptly ar- trying on the new blouse, information. … The much ballyhooed Viking ship that was and making a real difference for kids. rested. perps snatched the purse from scheduled to land at Owls Head Park for this year’s Viking the rack and fled the store. Festival on May 19 has, unfortunately, been lost at sea. Sources 62nd Precinct The handbag had more than tell The Stoop that the mighty vessel’s captain was in a car acci- That is what Caring for Kids is all about. $350, including her cellphone, dent and won’t be able to make the trip to Bay Ridge. … Bay and her credit cards, police No tip Ridge Cheesesteak Factory at 8407 Third Ave. is offering a said. A food deliveryman lost 20-percent discount to union employees. … Stop the Asian more than just his tip when he Rim job Longhorned Beetle! The scourge of the northern parts of was held at knifepoint in front Aman returned his Nissan Brooklyn may be spreading to our area. All residents are now re- of a Shore Parkway building on Maxima on May 10 to find cin- quired to call 311 to arrange a pick up time when discarding any May 11. der blocks where his fancy tires woody debris. In this great effort to save the trees, the Parks De- The victim went into the and rims used to be. partment has mailed out thick paper instructions. … Spring may building, which is near Bay 14 He discovered the theft at have just sprung, but the crowded basketball courts in Shore Street, on a routine delivery. At around 10 pm when he returned Road Park at 79th Street and Shore Road have been heated for around 1 pm, the thug ap- to the car, which was parked on some time — too bad the same can’t be said for Alex’s jump proached the deliveryman as he 18th Avenue, near Cropsey Av- shot. Yeah, you know who I’m talkin’ about! … Overheard last was leaving and demanded enue. week while in line in Bagel Boy at 8002 Third Ave.: “Park change for a 100-dollar bill. Thugs had jacked up the car, Slope is full of hypocrites,” a woman said. “They pretend like When the victim refused, the stealing four 18-inch spoke they are so tolerant and evolved, but the minute some Muslims perp pulled out the shiney wanted to build a school there, they act like their hair is on fire.” blade and said, “Give me the rims and four Goodyear tires money.” worth $3,000, police said. E-mail us at [email protected] The deliveryman coughed up the dough. Car raid A Crospsey Avenue used car dealer had the surprise of a life- Brooklyn’s Best time when thugs not only took a silver luxury car, but also swiped his dealer plates on May 11. The victim’s dealership, near 18th Avenue, opened at around noon that day. That’s when the dealer discovered that thieves HOTEL had taken a 1999 Mercedes Free Continental Breakfast • 60 Rooms With All Amenities Benz 320, police said. The owner thinks it was an Meeting Hall • Fitness Room • 4 Jacuzzi Rooms • Free Wireless Internet inside job because the thieves also took the plates that were in Secure Limited Parking • View On The Bay • Close To Restaurants a locked safe. PM burg An elderly man went out on Convenient Location May 3 to run some errands, but when he returned to his 64th Street home, he discovered the Schneider Children’s Hospital partners with Kohl’s Cares for Kids front door was open and his property was missing. The 92-year-old man came back to his house, which is near Schneider Children’s Hospital is proud to work together with Kohl’s Bay Parkway, at around 2 pm. furthering the health, safety and well-being of children in our Thugs had taken $600, includ- ing jewelry while he was out, community. We thank Kohl’s for their generosity in funding our police said. healthy and safe kids program. Tutors looted A Quentin Road language- learning center learned the in- We are committed to kids in the communities we serve. Visit our ternational language of crime Healthy and Safe Kids on May 10. website for our tips and calendar of The learning center, which is events at: near West Sixth Street, was bro- ken into at around 12:15 pm. www.schneiderchildrenshospital.org The perps entered by breaking the front door and left with more than $4,000 worth of Schneider Children’s Hospital & Kohl’s Cares for KKids electronics, police said. Family safe For more information call, Thugs took more than $15,000 from a safe inside a 8 mi. to JFK • 20 mi. to LaGuardia 68th Street apartment on May BY CHOICE HOTELS 718 . 470. 3352 9, police said. The victim came back to his home, which is near 17th Av- 3218 Emmons Ave. Bklyn, NY SHEEPSHEAD BAY enue, at around 7 am. He dis- (betw. Coyle & Bragg) E-mail: [email protected] covered his front window was open and a safe that held his sav- ings was cracked. Fax (718) 368-3963 Tel: (718) 368-3334 The victim told police that May 19, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 AWP 5 PTAs to back Arabic school in Boerum Hill school to focus on Arabic, accord- ing to the Department of Educa- tion, which said that the city al- But parents say they feel dumped on ready has 60 similar programs for languages ranging from Hait- By Dana Rubinstein [they] can be convinced, the com- came about. cials vowed to put in writing that tried to come to his assistance, ian Creole to Mandarin. The Brooklyn Paper munity could help make the pro- The city’s decision came just the Academy would stay no telling the irate crowd that, “Our The city has said that Brooklyn gram a success,” said Thomas days after the department shelved longer than two years and that goal is to minimize any type of The two Parent-Teacher As- is desirable venue for the shcool McMahon, the vice president of its initial PS 282 plan. long-promised renovations to the disruption. Garth will have clear- because it is home to a sizeable sociations at a Boerum Hill the middle school PTA, after the That school’s PTA insisted that school would be made. er, more concise answers after we Arab community. school will back a city plan to unprecedented Monday night it should have been consulted, Despite school leaders’ concil- do the [May 16] walk-through.” At Monday night’s meeting, no house an Arabic language and meeting. that there was no room for an ad- iatory words — and the presence Parents were skeptical. school parents expressed objec- culture academy in its building, McMahon emphasized that the ditional school, and that it was of a damage control team in the “Part of the issue is the lack of tions to the theme of the Gibran despite complaining that they “skepticism” was not connected unwise to mix young children guise of a deputy mayor, a high- trust between parents and the Academy, although two outsiders had no say in the decision and to the school’s Arabic language or with teenagers. Some critics also ranking Education official, and [Department of Education],” said did complain noisily. facing a mini-revolt from many culture curriculum — which was objected to the establishment of a the principal of the Arabic acade- Marcia Van Wagner, whose child Sunset Park resident Desiree parents when the plan was pre- partly involved in the dispute that public school devoted to Arabic my — parents greeted city offi- is in the sixth grade. Bernstein railed about Islamic re- sented after the fact at an killed the city’s initial plan to culture. cials on Monday with barely con- “There’s a ‘Shoot first and ask ligious law and managed to raise “emergency meeting” on Mon- house the school in the PS 282 el- The Boerum Hill decision cealed rage. questions later’ strategy. What are Walcott’s hackles. day. ementary school building in Park sparked a similar sense of outrage Sonjay Murray, whose son is a the consequences if the things “I find it unfortunate that this The meeting came six days af- Slope. for nearly identical reasons. student at the middle school, told you put in writing don’t happen?” school is being singled out,” said ter a May 8 conference at which “The debate is not about the Lisa Gioe-Cordi, the middle Garth Harries, the head of the De- Gibran Academy founder and Walcott. the Department of Education in- creation of an Arabic studies school principal, wrote to Schools partment of Education’s Office of principal Debbie Almontase attend- “It is like dual-language formed principals and the PTAs school,” McMahon said. “The is- Chancellor Joel Klein that “the New Schools, that the Boerum ed the meeting and said she was not schools that teach Korean. This of the two schools housed in the sue is whether the school building school administration was not Hill building had “no room.” to blame for the controversy. school will be like any other New / Dana Rubinstein Dean Street building — the can support an additional school, given a say in the [department’s] “You’re interrupting the chil- “I had no say [over location],” York City public high school, jun- Brooklyn High School for the even for the two years it has been decision to place a third school in dren who are already here and she said. ior high school, or elementary Arts and the Math and Science proposed.” the building.” their education,” said Murray. “The only thing I had a say in school. The issue is about space.” Exploratory middle school — Despite the uneasy detente be- Sandra Toppin, the president of Harries insisted that the building was that I’d like to be in Brook- Parents were equally quick to that the Khalil Gibran Interna- tween Department of Education the high school PTA, remarked at had room for 600 more students lyn. PS 282’s reaction was valid. dismiss the anti-Arabic rhetoric. The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn tional Academy would be moving officials and the PTAs, tensions the Monday meeting that “it was and that the new Academy would In that situation, I probably would “She doesn’t represent us,” The city will house its new Arabic language and cul- into this fall. still run high about how the obvious … that the decision was only occupy four classrooms and have felt the same way.” said Kristen Harvey, whose child ture school in this Dean Street high- and middle “There’s some real skepticism transfer of the Gibran Academy already made,” though she prom- one administrative space. The Gibran Academy would is in sixth grade. school building — despite anger from parents. on the part of parents, but if from Park Slope to Boerum Hill ised not to fight it after city offi- Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott be the city’s first dual-language “The only issue is space.” Exclusive: Almontaser speaks! JAILHOUSES By Dana Rubinstein A: I did. This is just the ground of algebra, at the historic background of the The Brooklyn Paper nature of New York Arabic numbers. The numbers we use today are Continued from page 1 City and the lack of Arabic numerals. First Park Slope parents, and then their to the rear of the existing Atlantic Avenue structure, with space for many things. Q: How much of the instruction will be in Arabic? the mixed-use towers occupying city-owned land east and Boerum Hill counterparts, have been engaging in … The Academy is A: The language aspect of it will take place during a seemingly epic — and nasty — scuffle about west of the jail that is now used for parking. quite an intriguing our extended day, from 3 to 5 pm … Students are The request for proposals said the redesign must “en- the placement of an Arabic language and culture school for many people, expected to pass the Arabic Regents in order to sure that inmates and city personnel should not be able to academy into an existing school building. and I’m not surprised graduate, so we’re very serious about them devel- But amid all this shouting, one voice was largely by some of the ques- oping this language. view into the new residential and/or commercial develop- absent: that of Khalil Gibran International Academy tions that were raised … Q: Why is it important for public-school stu- ments” — and vice-versa. Principal Debbie Almontaser (photo right). because … you have dents to have the option of learning Arabic? Shops would fill the ground floors of all three build- Almontaser is a native of Yemen and a longtime people who are not very A: At this time and age, it’s so important for stu- ings, a nod to pressure from Borough President

veteran of the Brooklyn public school system, hav- / Dana Rubinstein well informed about the dents in the United States to have one or two lan- Markowitz, who has long pushed the city to “knit” the ing worked for years as an elementary school public school system, guages under their belt. Right now, Arabic is one of Boerum Hill part of Atlantic Avenue back to the Brook- teacher and diversity consultant. [who don’t] understand the most sought-after languages in the entire world. lyn Heights and Cobble Hill side by adding in the pedes- This week, Almontaser spoke with The Brooklyn [that the schools] are There are millions of dollars in federal funding that trian-friendly retail at the jail. The Beep cheered the city’s Paper about her school, her vision, and the ensuing not religion-based. I’m are available to education systems to teach Arabic. I brouhaha. call for residential development at the jail. glad [questions were] saw this as a very important opportunity … to pro- “I’ve always felt that with creative planning, this site Q: This week, you attended a Boerum Hill PTA’s Paper The Brooklyn vide [students] a competitive edge for the 21st cen- “emergency” meeting about the city’s latest raised. I’ve answered can serve the needs of the city’s Department of Correc- plan to house your school within the existing them. Deputy Mayor [Dennis] Walcott answered tury, [so] they can develop into globally oriented tion while also meshing with the character of this thriving High School for the Arts on Dean Street. How them. This is a public school providing a non-reli- citizens, [so they can] learn about the world from area,” he said. many different lenses. did you feel about the parents’ concerns? gious education for students who are interested in Markowitz said the jail-side apartments would do just Q: What do you say to conservative critics like A: These are issues and concerns that parents have a learning Arabic as a second language. fine on the open market. And real-estate experts agree. right to raise. I feel for them. I know how they feel Daniel Pipes, who called Arabic language instruc- Q: What will the school’s curriculum be like? tion “inevitably laden with pan-Arabist and Is- “People certainly have been open to looking at apart- in terms of being in this situation. I’m also in this lamist baggage?” predicament, in that my school is going to be placed A: All of the [city’s] core curriculum expectations ments [nearby]. They are buying even knowing that the in a building that already has two other schools, and [will be met]. Sixth graders will learn about the an- A: He studied the Arabic language as a Middle jail could reopen,” said Sue Wolfe, an Atlantic Avenue I won’t have the luxury of space that ideally I would cient world … We will have reading and writing, Eastern historian and he seems to have done really broker and the president of the Boerum Hill Association, like to have or had envisioned when proposing this math, science. What will be different [is that] we will well at still maintaining his roots and his identity. Callan / Tom which opposes the jail’s reopening. school to [the city]. But the school is approved, and be able to infuse historical information into math and And I’m confident that we will be able to teach stu- Janel Patterson, a spokeswoman for the EDC, said city we’re determined to open it, and we’re determined science and literature. … With any foreign language dents Arabic as a second language and make sure officials would decide whether to put hotel rooms, apart- you engage in, you need to learn the history, culture to work collaboratively with the other principals to they maintain their identity as he has. ments or offices in the towers based on the strength of the make it work. and customs of the people in order to navigate the lan- Q: Do you expect to fill all 60 seats in your first guage effectively and not offend anyone. class of sixth graders at Khalil Gibran, giving how developers’ proposals. She added that the city has not def-

Q: At the meeting, you said that you had no role Paper The Brooklyn late in the year it is? initely decided that residential development must be part in deciding the school’s location, except for your Q: Could you give us an example of how Arabic preference for Brooklyn. That said, did you ex- history and culture will infuse the core curriculum? A: Absolutely, without a doubt. We had a Brooklyn The Brooklyn House of Detention, which is expected of the site, but said that whatever is built “must be com- pect the process of placing the school to be so A: In math, as you know, algebra originated from middle school fair, and we had over 60 families [ex- to reopen, could be flanked by residential towers patible with the Department of Correction’s plans” to re- difficult? the Arab world. So, we’ll look at the historic back- pressing interest]. (area inside dotted lines, above). open the jail. CHOOSE GREEN POWER. FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL THANK YOU.

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DENTISTS It’s stroke awareness month Quality Dentistry Maimonides Medical Center adopt this telemedicine technol- Gentle care in our ultra-modern office May is National Stroke MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER ogy for the treatment of stroke Awareness Month, and the patients. • Cosmetic Dentistry • Cosmetic Laminates renowned group of stroke ex- The Maimonides Stroke Cen- • Reconstructive & Bonding perts at Maimonides Medical numbers that every person • Sudden confusion ter utilizes the most advanced Dentistry • Advanced Sterilization Center is encouraging Brook- should know,” said Rudolph. • Trouble speaking or under- medications and technologies, “These three measurements can standing • Gums & Implants • Behavior Modification lynites to learn more about administered by physicians and provide a picture of your cur- • Sudden trouble walking; nurses who are specially trained • Bleaching • Sealants this leading cause of adult dis- rent health, and possibly allow dizziness, loss of balance or co- • Nitrous Oxide • Fluoride ability and death. in stroke care. Treatments in- you to prevent conditions such ordination. clude medical therapies, ad- Maimonides will provide If any of these symptoms oc- (Sweet Air) •Preventative Dentistry as heart attack and stroke.” vanced surgical techniques and free stroke risk screenings on cur for even a brief period, it’s There are many possible innovative interventional neuro- Wednesday, May 30 from 11 am warning signs and symptoms of vital to seek immediate medical radiology procedures, as well as RONALD I. TEICHMAN, DDS to 2 pm at 950 49th St. in Bor- stroke. The experts at Mai- attention. ough Park. Cholesterol, glucose monides strongly urge Brook- Stroke is a “brain attack” and a full range of rehabilitation Saturday & Evening Hours and blood pressure screenings lyn residents to immediately rapid response greatly improves services for recovering stroke will be offered that day, as well call 911 and go to the nearest the chances for survival and a patients. as educational information. successful recovery. National Stroke Awareness 357 Seventh Avenue at 10th Street stroke center if they experience Dr. Steven Rudolph reviews digital brain scans in between Dr. Steven Rudolph, Director Stroke damage can be mini- Month is not just for the gener- any of the following symptoms: seeing patients at the Maimonides Stroke Center. 768-1111 of Stroke Medicine at Mai- • Sudden numbness of face, mized and even reversed — it al public. Stroke professionals monides, explained that these arm or leg especially on one all depends on the speed with across the country update their screenings are vital for knowing side of the body which the stroke sufferer can tently exceed expectations. Maimonides, in addition to a knowledge and expertise during your suseptability to stroke. • Sudden trouble seeing in receive proper medical atten- When a stroke patient arrives team of trained experts on-site May. “There are three important one or both eyes tion. at the Maimonides Emergency 24/7, telemedicine technology Maimonides stroke profes- It is critically important Room, an evaluation is done allows a stroke neurologist to sionals will participate in an im- where a patient receives care. rapidly to ensure that the safest interact with patients from a re- ROOT CANAL GENERAL & COSMETIC portant academic event, Brook- Hospitals with a stroke center and most appropriate treatment mote location. lyn Stroke Symposium 2007. EXTRACTIONS are best equipped to provide the is provided. This facilitates the all-impor- DENTISTRY DENTISTS This annual meeting allows cli- PERIODONTAL WORK Advanced sterilization and infection control most comprehensive care. The clot-busting drug, t-PA, tant initial evaluation of patients The Maimonides Stroke is extremely beneficial for some with stroke symptoms. The nicians to share their experi- Jack Irwin, D.D.S. Center is ranked among the top patients, but dangerous for oth- two-way communications de- ences and update each other on CROWNS 414 Seventh Avenue We’ve Moved! five percent in the nation by ers. It must be administered vice utilizes advanced audio- the latest guidelines for preven- bet. 13th & 14th Sts. HealthGrades, the leading within three hours of the onset video technology. It is mounted tion, and advances in treatment. BRIDGES www.jackirwindds.com source of independent health of stroke symptoms. 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Fund, United Concordia, Ameritas. –– 245 Fifth Avenue –– between Carroll & Garfield Methodist honors volunteers • Emergency Service Dr. Andrew Warshaw Now in Park Slope! • Pediatric Dentistry Dr. Sari Rosenwein • Root Canal Therapy Dr. Doug Pollack • Implant Restorations • Laminates • Bleaching Hours by Appointment • White Fillings • Bonding Sat. & Eve. Available • Fluoride • Sealants Free Consultation • Cleanings • Crowns 24 Hr Phone Service • Bridges • Dentures • Non/Surgical Gum Care Financing Available Insurance Plans Welcomed 789-5700 FINEST DENTAL CARE Superior Services for Adults & Children FAMILY MEDICINE New! Periodontist (gum specialist) on premises. 10 Plaza St. East, Suite 1F TRAVEL IMMUNIZATIONS From left, Jessica Huang, Nancy Richardson, Teresa Kelly, More than 1,200 volunteers donated their time last year to Most Mandy Harris and Ann Chisena were recently honored for support patients and employees at New York Methodist Evening (bet. Flatbush & Vanderbilt Aves) Insurance appointments accepted their volunteer service to New York Methodist Hospital. Hospital. available. (718) 622-8020 Start the New York Methodist Hospital of Kensington. As a patient library cart vol- patients for over 30 years. “In today’s fast Last year, more than 1,200 volunteers unteer, Ms. Kelly, spends her time respond- paced world, very few people are willing to process months before gave over 65,000 hours of their time to aid ing to patient’s requests for books. She be- make the kind of commitment over such a and support patients and employees at gan volunteering at the hospital 14 years ago span of time that Ms. Chisena has made to leaving to get your shots while a student at John Jay High School; to our hospital,” said Rebecca Flood, R.N., COURTEOUS AND New York Methodist Hospital. date, she has given 2,370 hours of her time. senior vice president for nursing, who pre- COMPREHENSIVE To honor the volunteers, NYM held an Mandy Harris, of Windsor Terrace, was sented the award. • Yellow fever Plus award ceremony and elegant dinner. DENTAL CARE the recipient of the Mary Velez Emergency The Award for Community Involvement • Typhoid MEDICAL ADVICE “The hospital is able to meet all of its Room Award for Excellence. was presented to Nancy Richardson, of Park Provided at our spacious, FOR TRAVELLERS challenges because our volunteers truly do The Award for Outstanding Service by a Slope, for her work as a Family Caregiver modern and friendly office • Hepatitis help put the pieces together,” she Mimi Ma- High School Student was presented to Jessi- volunteer, addressing the ongoing needs of kovitzky, director of education and volun- ca Huang, a senior at Leon M. Goldstein family members when their loved ones are • Malaria prevention teer resources at NYM. High School for the Sciences. Ms. Huang, a hospitalized or become ill. 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Its full name is tissue plasminogen activator, or people in the New York area than Dr. Steven Rudolph stroke care, HealthGrades®, the nation’s largest inde- tPA for short. It is very effective in treating ischemic and his staff. Dr. Rudolph is a nationally acclaimed pendent rating system, ranked Maimonides in the strokes. Those strokes caused by clots that block specialist with an outstanding track record in pio- top 5% in the nation and second-highest in all of New blood fl ow to the brain. neering new advances in stroke therapy. York State. Obviously, in a situation where every second Should the patient require additional treatment, Wonder drugs and doctors like Steven Rudolph counts, it is critical that highly knowledgeable phy- it is important to know that Maimonides also offers who work wonders. sicians and experienced the MERCI Retriever, a revolutionary tool in stroke Is it any wonder at the fi rst sign of a stroke more nurses be involved in every intervention that can actually remove the blood clot and more people from Brooklyn are uttering what step along the way. And up to eight hours from the onset of a stroke. could be the four most important words of their there are no more qualifi ed Because of Maimonides’ total commitment to lives: “Take me to Maimonides.”

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By Harry Cheadle for The Brooklyn Paper Park Slope has more bike commuters than any other neighbor- hood in New York City — and more may be hitting the road soon thanks to new bike lanes, a new study revealed this week. Virtually everyone who responded to the Department of City Planning survey — a whopping 95 percent — asked the city to build more bike lanes to improve safety for both riders and drivers. “Cars refuse to share the road with bikers,” one survey-taker wrote. “They tail us, beep at us, speed by at very close distances, and often cut me off.” Another respondent was more blunt: “I feel like I’m risking my life by riding my bike in NYC.” Help could be on the way. The borough is experiencing a mini- boom in bike lane construction. The Department of Transportation just laid down a new lane along Willoughby Avenue in Fort Greene and Clinton Hill, and is planning to go ahead with a much-debated bike lane along Ninth Street in Park Slope. The Ninth Street bike lane makes sense given the study’s central finding: more people commute by bike from Park Slope than from any other area of the city (see map). A part of the Upper West Side was second on the list. More Brooklynites might commute by bike if there were more such lanes. According to the survey, the top reason non-commuting cyclists gave for not biking was not, as one might expect, the Commuter distance to work, but the cyclists behavior of drivers, the traf- fic and the danger of biking Least on narrow, bike-lane-free streets. Statistics show that 225 New York City bikers died Most in crashes from 1996–2005 — but only one was in a marked bike lane. “I won’t ride home on Seventh Avenue,” said Sheila, who works at On the Move, a Park Slope bike shop (she did not want to give her last name). “It’s the drivers. They don’t want bikes on the road.” Sheila said many cy- clists tell her about being hit by motorists who drive off without checking to see if the bike rider was okay. A sizable majority of cyclists said they take longer routes to avoid streets without bike lanes. But non-cyclists often resist the city’s bike-lane enthusiasm. Some Park Slope residents are protesting the Ninth Street plan, and last year, Community Board 2 voted down the Willoughby Avenue lane that is currently being installed. One thing is clear from the survey: bikers believe that safety condi- tions need to improve. “It’s everybody’s problem,” said Sheila. “The cy- clist isn’t going to kill a car. A car could potentially kill a cyclist.” ADOT spokesman said the agency was still reviewing the study, which was released as part of the Bloomberg Administration’s pro- motion of Bike Month 2007 in May.

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By Mat Probasco tivists from yesteryear met at to issue loans within Brooklyn, the credit for safer streets.) much of Brooklyn was aban- pany offered tours of homes Phoenix-like rise that is known the new residential towers in for The Brooklyn Paper Borough Hall to tally up the he- despite its sometime resem- Even when crime was at its doned as a post-industrial renovated with new appliances, around the world. Downtown Brooklyn are hap- roes and goats from Brooklyn’s blance to a slum. They hoped to worst, John Muir was organiz- wasteland, panelists at the sym- heating and cooling systems. Now, perhaps, the only wor- pening because developers A few decades ago, Brook- slow-but-steady turnaround save the borough’s landmarks ing the Prospect Park Environ- posium said. The plan removed eyesores ry is that the newfound safe, think there is a market for the lyn’s multi-million dollar from the 1970s to the ’90s. from the wrecking ball, and di- mental Center, a group that be- “About a third of the shops from otherwise well-kept blocks. clean borough will become a thousands of units of housing brownstones were going for And most speakers — at rect cops to brazen criminals. lieved that saving the on Seventh Avenue were board- In the meantime, Philip and victim of its own residents’ suc- and tens of millions of square $30,000. Prospect Park was a least the ones who have to get “You can’t really talk about crime-ridden park would be the ed up,” said Everett Ortner, who Mary Gallagher picketed banks cess. feet of office and retail space. dumpy bum camp and Park re-elected — credited We, the the rise in Brooklyn without the key to revitalizing Brooklyn. bought a brownstone in Park that were unwilling to invest in Brooklyn’s desirability is en- Many of the people who Slope had more late night gun People. pushback of the community “The whole park seemed to Slope in 1963 — and then spent much of Brooklyn. couraging intense growth that “saved” Brooklyn can’t afford battles than hip restaurants. “We owe the citizenry a great against crime,” said Brennan, be dying,” Muir said. the next decade cajoling his “The strategy was to fix two brings more people, more cars to live there anymore. So who gets credit for turning deal of gratitude for what they did who also praised former Mayor People were afraid to walk friends to do the same rather or three of the worst houses on and some of the very urban ills But Muir said there is a solu- Brooklyn from a dirty word to a in the 1980s to make that hap- David Dinkins and former Gov- near the park for fear that mug- then flee to the suburbs. about a dozen blocks [to] en- that borough residents hoped tion: responsible development hot spot — politicos, developers, pen,” said Assemblyman James ernor Mario Cuomo, both De- gers would leap from its Ortner, founder of the courage other homeowners to were in the past. that puts high-rises along wide grass-roots organizers or some Brennan (D–Park Slope). mocrats like Brennan, for adding hedges, which the city removed Brownstone Revival Commit- fix up their own buildings,” The drastic population in- avenues while protecting the other interest group? Street by street, residents police. (He knocked former later removed. tee, and others petitioned the Philip Gallagher said. flux could give way to Man- smaller homes on the side streets. On Saturday, community ac- banded together to force banks Mayor Rudy Giuliani for taking As New York’s economy Brooklyn Union Gas Company Of course, the end result of hattan-style residential density. “The trick is to save one changed from manufacturing to to buy old homes and restore all this hard work was the ren- Love them or hate them, proj- while making room for the oth- service- and technology-based, them as showrooms. The com- aissance of a borough, a ects like Atlantic Yards and all er,” Muir said.

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DANCE Let’s dance What’s a birthday — especially a 30th — with- out a party? DanceAfrica doesn’t want to know. Beginning May 25, the troupe will celebrate with “DanceAfrica: Remember! Honor! Respect! An African Dance Odyssey” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. There’s a whole lot more than just dance going on that weekend, though: the celebration will in- clude film, sculpture, crafts, poetry readings, storytelling and more. “It’s more than just sitting in your seat,” DanceAfrica Artistic Di- rector Chuck Davis told GO Brooklyn. “It’s a celebration. That’s what I love about DanceAfrica. It’s a community event that al- lows people from all over the world to come togeth- (718) 834-9350 The Brooklyn Paper’s essential guide to the Borough of Kings May 19, 2007 er to share in this hands-on performance.” “DanceAfrica: Remember! Honor! Respect! An African Dance Odyssey” will be performed on May 25 at 7:30 pm May 26 and 27 at 2 pm at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave., at Ashland Place in Fort Greene). Tickets are $20- $45. For information, call (718) 636-4100 or visit Breaking the ‘Rules’ www.bam.org. — Sarah McCormick ART New boro-based movie isn’t even playing here! Who are these guys? By Karen Butler Get ‘Lucky’ for The Brooklyn Paper For a city full of artists whose bedrooms double ule number one: When a movie is as studios, the 250-square-foot Lucky Gallery in called “Brooklyn Rules,” it should be Red Hook is a kindred spirit. Rplaying at movie theaters in Brooklyn. “I think it’s really a great size,” said Ed Rosko, the Director Michael Corrente’s new movie local artist who recently opened the gallery. ”I person- violates that one (it’s currently only playing ally like smaller works, which is what the gallery is at just two theaters in Manhattan). best suited for. ” Rule number two: When making a movie The current exhibit, with Brooklyn in the title, don’t shoot it in “A Lucky Find,” features Canada or some other unlikely locale. the works of Justin At least Corrente got that one right. Waldstein (pictured) and “I can’t imagine filming this in Toronto,” David Wallace. Both Corrente told GO Brooklyn. “Talk about not artists have a back- having credibility. They would crucify us!” ground in graphic de- Shot in King’s County and based on a sign, which is especially evident in Wallace’s psy- script by Brooklyn-born, Emmy Award- chedelic, ’50s pop-culture-influenced works. winning “Sopranos” scribe Terence Winter, The works start at $500, but Rosko said he’s in it the movie is about three buddies who, don’t for the love of the game. you know it, get caught up with the Mafia. “At this point I’m not as concerned with making While ambitious Michael (Freddie Prinze money as I am with displaying art.” Sounds like Jr.) hits the books and charms pretty co-ed you can make a purchase and still afford your own Ellen (Mena Suvari) at Columbia University, small spaces. skirt-chaser Carmine (Scott Caan) stays in the “A Lucky Find” is currently hanging at Lucky neighborhood and works for hot-headed mob- Gallery (176 Richard St. at Wolcott Street in Red ster Caesar (Alec Hook). An opening party will be held on May 25. For Baldwin). Sweetheart No-so-good fellas: Freddie Prinze Jr., Jerry Fer- information, call (718) 852-9232. — John N. Barclay Bobby (Benson- CINEMA rara and Scott Caan, at left, get local with direc- hurst’s Jerry Fer- tor Michael Corrente, above, in the new film rara) plans a simple, “Brooklyn Rules” is showing at AMC Empire 25 (234 W. 42nd St. at Eighth Av- “Brooklyn Rules” which finds them playing stable life that in- enue in Manhattan). For information, call Brooklyn boys who get caught up in the mob. cludes his girlfriend (212) 389-3939. EVENT and a job at the post office, but when “A Bronx Tale” and “Good Fellas.” one of the guys is unexpectedly killed, the Well, maybe not — the film almost never other two begin questioning their choices. saw the light of day. “Frankly, nobody Torah-thon Rehashing tired plotlines, no matter wanted the movie,” Corrente recalled, ex- who’s doing it, is definitely against the plaining how he fought for years to get the Most students are familiar with pulling all-nighters rules. The film covers friendship, loyalty, film a theatrical release. “Everybody want- during finals week — and students of the Torah are no the desire for a better life beyond the neigh- ed the DVD rights because there is no risk. different during Shavuot. A Jewish holiday celebrating borhood and the temptation of a career in very little new ground, and, even though isn’t a more original story to structure the That’s the state of affairs with where we are the day observant Jews believe the Law was passed crime — all themes exhausted by other Corrente and his cast are game, it will prob- film around. in independent filmmaking.” down from Mt. Sinai, Shavuot is traditionally marked mob-oriented entertainment like the short- ably have a better life on video than in the- Corrente remained convinced, however, The cast, which did a fine job, is also by staying up through the night to read the holy books. lived TV series “The Black Donnellys,” and aters. Despite believable performances from the movie will have a similar effect on proud of the film, which suffered a number This year’s “Torah-thon” falls on the films “The Departed” and “Alpha Dog.” the cast — some dialogue between the moviegoers as the atmospheric Big Apple of delays including the loss of original di- Tuesday, May 22. Unfortunately, “Brooklyn Rules” covers friends even rang true — it’s a shame there classics: “The Pope of Greenwich Village,” rector Griffin Dunne. The explanation for the all- “[When I finally saw the film] at the nighter sounds like a joke: “The Tribeca Film Festival, I realized I had never morning that the Torah was given, Prinze. “I would work with that guy any day of the been proud of a movie before,” said Prinze, a they slept in,” according to Rabbi week and I would do anything he asked me to do.” former teen heartthrob, best known for his Simcha Weinstein (pictured) of Angry, absent Alec Prinze co-star Scott Caan — son of actor work in “Scooby Doo” and “She’s All That.” the Pratt Institute. James Caan and Sheila Ryan, the second of his “I finally got the kind of part I’ve wanted Not to say that Shavuot is as It was the voicemail heard ’round the world: actor Alec four ex-wives — also shrugged off Baldwin’s my whole life,” he said. “I like [characters] boring as poring over a textbook. “We make it fun,” Baldwin — who didn’t show up to his “Brooklyn Rules” press temper tantrum: “People make mistakes,” Caan with more edge, but I’m realistic in the fact said Weinstein, who will be a guest speaker at Con- junket — calling his 11-year-old daughter Ireland a “rude, told GO Brooklyn. “My father told me if I put that I’m not going to get many opportunities gregation B’nai Avraham’s all-nighter. thoughtless pig” when she missed a scheduled phone call. my elbows on the table, he would stick a fork in to do that.” Shavuot service begins at 7:45 pm; dairy dinner But even though Baldwin was widely vilified, his “Brook- my leg. You know what I mean? He never put Scott Cann, who played Baldwin’s lack- ($30, $10 children) at 9 pm; Tora-thon (free) at 11:30 lyn Rules” director and co-stars — all of whom have plenty of the fork in my leg. It’s not easy being a parent.” ey, doesn’t have Prinze’s image problem — pm, at Congregation B’nai Avraham (117 Remsen St., experience with bad parents — were eager to talk and lend sup- he has a recurring role in the “Ocean’s 11” between Henry and Clinton streets, Brooklyn Heights). Director Michael Corrente chimed in with his port to their colleague. franchise. For dinner reservation, call (718) 596-4840 ext 18, or own loving memory: “My father? Oh, my God! Are “I think it’s hard enough to be a parent, and to have it be that public “Filming in Brooklyn was great,” he said. visit www.bnaiavrahambrooklynheights.com. is just disgusting to me,” said co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr., the son of ac- you kidding me? My father once said, ‘Michael, go ahead, “Michael knows the value of making a Service begins at 7:45 pm; dairy dinner ($25, $12 tor Freddie Prinze, who committed suicide in 1977, one year after “Ju- hit your sister one more time and I will rip your arm off and beat you movie about somewhere and having it be in children) at 9 pm, followed by Tora-thon (free), at nior” was born. with the wet end. Now pass the salt.’” that town. … They were talking about Park Slope’s Congregation B’nai Jacob (401 Ninth St. On the set, “[Baldwin] was nothing but a professional,” cooed We’d take Alec over that any day! — Karen Butler shooting it in Canada and that was a huge between Sixth and Seventh avenues). For dinner turn-off.” reservation, call (718) 832-1266. — Harry Cheadle

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perfumed olive oil. So simple — just The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn the two ingredients playing off one an- other — and so enjoyable. We cordially invite you to Everyone at my table was pleased with his entree, but my “Alexandria sample our two premium blends: style” grilled sea bass elicited glares of envy. It was a beauty: an entire fish is Feliz Red and Feliz White soaked in a garlicky marinade then lightly enrobed with whole wheat bread crumbs. It arrived crusty, nearly black Turkish delights and practically smoking. Beside the When SUNDAY, MAY 20 ebony knockout was a pile of “Egypt- ian rice,” a long-grained rice mixed 1-6 PM Head to the waterfront for great meals at Mazzat with thin whole wheat noodles that could be bland, but was just right here. By Tina Barry Mazzat, which means “many appe- A chicken shish kebab was tender for The Brooklyn Paper DINING tizers” in Arabic, is the ideal place to and smoky, though not as impressive as Where RED WHITE AND BUBBLY make a meal of several small plates. the lamb version. The grill charred the e may be at war in the Middle Mazzat (208 Columbia St., between There are traditional Middle Eastern edges of the musky meat and amplified Sackett and Union streets in the Colum- 211 FIFTH AVENUE East, but Brooklyn diners have bia Street Waterfront District) accepts hors d’oeuvres such as stuffed grape the flavors of allspice, black pepper and Wno issues with its cuisine. American Express, MasterCard and Visa. leaves and tabouli (a parsley salad mustard seeds that seasoned it. On Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, two Entrees: $l2-$17. The restaurant serves made with cracked wheat). Hummus Unlike the finales in some Middle PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN lunch and dinner daily. Brunch is avail- Turkish eateries opened within weeks able on weekends from noon to five and baba ghanouj can be ordered in Eastern cafes, where overly sweet, of one another, and Miriam, the Fifth pm. Subway: F, G to Carroll Street. For “classic,” “cumin” or “hot pepper” va- store-bought pastry is the rule, Avenue eatery where chef Rafael Hasid information, call (718) 852-1652. rieties. We tried both spreads in their Bakhoum bakes the baklava here him- plies his creative Israeli fare, has “classic” mode and they were well sea- self. The phyllo is crisp and redolent of spawned a second outpost in Cobble soned, the hummus smooth with a fresh butter, the pistachio nuts retain Hill. The excellent Fez Restaurant, chen.” Among the long list of “tapas” small puddle of good olive oil in its their crunch and the sugar syrup he em- opened a year ago in Windsor Terrace, are a few dishes to support that descrip- center; the baba ghanouj rich with the ploys makes the little diamonds less and in November, Gamal Bakhoum tion: chorizo and andouille sausages smoke of the grilled vegetable. cloying than those baked with honey. brought Mazzat to the Columbia Street and foie gras with fig compote to name I’ve endured some dismal falafel re- With the pastry I downed a cup of Waterfront District. two. “Sauce verte” (a cold, green may- cently, so Mazzat’s moist, crunchy and Turkish coffee so thick it poured like Not far from mega-market Fairway, onnaise-based sauce flavored with highly spiced version was appreciated. mud from the little copper pot. The Bakhoum (who also owns two branch- herbs) appears in one of the “specialties So were two dishes of Mediterranean drink is bitter in the pleasant way VISIT OUR BOOTH es of Cafe Rakka in the East Village) of the house.” The rest of the plates origin: dates wrapped in bacon, and espresso can be, with a touch of car- gutted an old warehouse and trans- don’t stray far from the Middle East. scallops prepared the same way. I loved damom softening any rough edges. UNDAY AY formed it into an attractive, informal After settling in the front room, we the contrast of the salty, crisp pork and On a recent Saturday night, a few lo- S , M 20 space. The only accouterments that sig- ordered wine from the affordable wine the sweet, chewy fruit. The scallops’ cals sat at the bar chatting with the wel- nal a Middle Eastern eatery are the list — there’s a satisfying Pinot Grigio partner though, overwhelmed the coming Bakhoum. A couple of large ta- AT THE FIFTH AVENUE FAIR black-and-white photos of his home- for $7 a glass, $26 for the bottle — seafood’s delicate nature. bles were filled with families eating land on the brick walls. avoiding the over-wrought cocktails. “Sauteed garlic shrimp” was present- and chatting, reluctant to leave. I As a way of differentiating his eatery Not long after, a basket of warm, smoky, ed with little adornment, as most of the looked at the empty dishes on our table from the rest of the Middle Eastern grilled pita bread with a dish of tangy dishes at Mazzat are plated. Several and the satisfied faces of my friends newcomers, Bakhoum refers to the yogurt sauce appeared. We dipped and plump crustaceans, cooked until just and I remembered that ’60s saying, restaurant as a “Mediterranean kit- nibbled while perusing the tapas. tender, sat in a small oval dish of garlic- “Make love not war.” It seemed fitting. 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hen two successful restaurateurs way it was prepared there.” Paper The Brooklyn 9:01 pm Candle lighting followed by and a professional DJ wanted to Their talk was never more than that Italian stallions: Above from left, Mario Franzese, Claudio Cristofoli and Rabbi Simcha Weinstein Services & Guest Speaker Wopen a neighborhood spot to until a long time friend, the Venice- Giovanni Cavaggia, dreamed of serving dishes like grilled swordfish with Schtick Shift: Jewish Comedy serve the Italian food they love, there was born chef Claudio Cristofoli, showed red beets and balsamic sauce, at left, at Spirito, their new Italian bistro. enters the 21st Century only one thing missing: a chef. an interest. THURSDAY MAY 24 Mariano Franzese, Giovanni Cav- “When Claudio came on board, that’s ********* aggia and Pierluigi Palazzo met 10 years when we started putting it together,” said Franzese said he wasn’t worried. Cristfoli’s opening menu is an amal- 2:30 AM ago when they were fathers of infants Franzese. Cristofoli is the executive chef “The location seemed just right,” he gamation of the dishes the partners With Cantor. S.Z. Baumgarten Moshe Golik born about a at the trendy Soho said. longed for when they first imagined 9:45 am Morning Services month apart. The boite Downtown Spirito opend in late April. “We want- their eatery. From the chef’s sea-bound Ancient Israel & Sinai: The case for the East Village dads DINING Cipriani (he’s in ed something small and cute,” Franzese region there is “Fritto Misto” (mixed Authenticity of the wilderness tradition 11:30 am Yizkar Services became fast the kitchen at explained. Smallish it might be — the fry in Italian) the brittle, crisply fried Spirito Ristorante (287 Ninth St., be- ********* ********* friends and, as tween Fourth and Fifth avenues) accepts lunch service) — dining area seats 35; the terrace 25; and pieces of calamari and slices of arti- years passed, their American Express, Diners Club, Discover, one of several when the garden in the back of the chokes to be dipped in spicy tomato respective careers MasterCard and Visa. Entrees: $16-$24. Ciprianis, the Ve- eatery opens next month, there will be sauce. There are simple appetizers The restaurant serves dinner Tuesday Congregation B’nai Avraham took off: Franzese through Sunday. Closed Monday. For in- nice branch is rec- room for 40 more — “cute” though, (“primis” in Italian) like oversized founded Turnta- formation, call (718) 832-0085. ognized as the doesn’t do the decor justice. rigatoni with seafood in fisherman’s bles on the Hud- home of the “Bel- Spirito’s chocolate-brown awning, sauce, and “Bucatini All’ Amatri- 117 Remsen Street – Brooklyn Heights son and worked as lini,” a cocktail with the eatery’s name printed in gold, ciana,” the classic Roman dish of large For Dinner Reservations please call a DJ in clubs throughout the city; Cav- made with sparkling wine and peach signals an elegant addition to the spaghetti with tangy tomato sauce fla- aggia and Palazzo became restaurateurs: liquor. block. Gaze through the long windows, vored with pancetta. Levana (718) 596-4840 Ext. 18 Cavaggia co-owned Gradisca in the With rents in their East Village opened wide on a recent evening, into Entrees (“secondis”) typify the kind www.BnaiAvraham.com West Village; Palazzo owns Gnocco and neighborhood skyrocketing, the newly a long, high-ceilinged room. Dark of satisfying cuisine the partners Perbacco in the East Village. formed supergroup turned to Brooklyn wooden tables and a rich mahogany dreamed of serving, especially the sim- While their kids played, the men to house their restaurant. bar, brick walls and modern glass ple plate of Cornish game hens grilled tossed around the idea of joining forces “We looked in Park Slope,” said chandeliers create a handsome setting. with rosemary and served with a light and launching a spot that “didn’t serve Franzese, “and we really liked what we Up a flight of wooden stairs is a lovely lemon sauce. fettuccine Alfredo and veal Parmesan,” saw there.” The spot they chose for Spir- room with a glass ceiling. On warm Franzese is pleased with the recep- Franzese told GO Brooklyn. They imag- ito Ristorante sits between a McDon- nights, the “walls” made of plastic and tion the restaurant has received and is ined a place where diners could find the ald’s and a nail salon in the high- fabric, can be rolled up creating an out- so enamored with the diners, that he’s simple dishes that the men remembered turnover space that most recently housed door, sky-lit space. considering abandoning the East Vil- from home. Futura Bistro Modern. The block be- “It was raining one night and it was lage for Brooklyn. “The kids are older “We’re all from different regions of tween Fourth and Fifth avenues isn’t the gorgeous up there with the water running now. I’m looking for a house.” the country,” said Franzese. “I’m from most enticing street in the area, but down the skylight,” said Franzese. He sounds like a native already.

whose brainstorm — presenting Victo- Samantha Fromm. ria as Victor, a Polish count slumming Choreographer Stacy Moscotti Smith as a fabulous drag performer — takes and director Matt Schicker should get the the cabaret world by storm. John Blay- credit for the style and zing of this pro- lock’s droll manner and lived-in face as duction, and for keeping the cast ground- Toddy provides a perfect foil to Chris- ed in the reality of the relationships while It’s no drag tine Paterson’s providing endless dulcet voice and invention in come- sincere enthusi- THEATER dy bits and telling Gallery Players’ ‘Victor’ is victorious asm as Victoria. pieces of behavior. The real star in “Victor/Victoria,” will run at the Standouts in this Gallery Players (199 14th St., between By Christopher Murray York revival since the original Broad- this production, Fourth and Fifth avenues) through May regard are Allison for The Brooklyn Paper way run ended almost exactly 10 years though, is the 27. Tickets are $18, $14 for seniors and Guinn as a dippy ago. Ostensibly about the complexities company of ac- children under 12. For information, visit gangster’s moll ictor/Victoria,” the Blake Ed- of love, the current production reveals tors and dancers www.galleryplayers.com. and Patrick Field “ wards film that starred Julie An- the show more as a celebration of that plays sup- as a deadpan Vdrews, Robert Preston and James friendship. The juice, abundantly pro- porting roles as various Parisian types bodyguard. They are the yin and yang Gardner, remains beloved for its cross- vided here by a cast with ample energy and moves with agility and zest while of this production, creating comedy to- pollination of zany hijinks and charming and style, comes from the connection doing the can-can and the Charleston or gether and confirming the signature songs charged with contemporary sexual and conflict between pals. taking swings and dodging chairs in the line from the song “Trust Me”: “All politics and gender bending. Victoria Grant — an unemployed slapstick fight scenes. Each actor’s eyes you have to do for the dream to come The musical version of the film is chanteuse down and out in Paris — is are alive with enjoyment and a sense of true is go out there and be what you being presented with panache by the transformed by her new best buddy, fun caroming around Michael Kerns’s are, and we’ll make you a world fa- stalwart Gallery Players in its first New Toddy (a gay song-and-dance man), versatile set in charming costumes by mous star!”

In our May 5 edition, we incorrectly rendered the name of Winston I am the light CORRECTION Churchill’s mother, Jenny Jerome. GO Brooklyn regrets the error. of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.

John 8:12

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PROSPECT HEIGHTS BROOKLYN The Backroom (At Freddy’s) 485 Dean St. at Sixth Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 622-7035, www.freddysbackroom.com. May 19: John Pinamonti & Friends, 9:30 pm, FREE; May 21: Stand-Up Comedy with Pat “Skippy” O’Shea, Sven Weschler, Fiona Walsh, Neil Charles, Ann Design, 9:30 pm, FREE; May 22: “On the Way Out,” music from the NY Underground, 9:30 pm, FREE; May 23: Geoff Vidal Group, 9:30 pm, FREE; May 24: Atomic Grind Show, 9:30 pm, FREE; May 25: Craig Chin, 9:30 pm, Box of Crayons, 10:30 pm, FREE; May 26: Garage Band Night with The Nightlife Mysteriosos, 9:30 pm, FREE. Compiled by Chiara V. Cowan RED HOOK BAY RIDGE CLINTON HILL The Hook Dakar Cafe 18 Commerce St. at Columbia Street in Red Hook, (718) 797- Kitty Kiernan’s 3007, www.thehookmusic.com. 285 Grand St. at Lafayette Avenue in 9715 Third Ave. at 97th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 921-0217, May 19: No Fun Fest featuring Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Tom Rec- www.kittykiernans.com. Clinton Hill, (718) 398-8900, www.granddakar.com. chion, Ju Suk Reet Meate, and Oblivia, Religious Knives, Slogun, May 19: Ben, 10 pm, FREE; May 26: Andy Clayburn and Cary Sickness, Demons, The Rita, Gastric Female Reflex, and DJs Andy Sundays: DJ Contra Sounds, 6 pm, FREE; Scope, 10 pm, FREE. Ortmann, The Olson Twins, The Harbinger Sound Plastic Punk Tuesdays: Songhai Djeli, 8 pm, FREE; Explosion, 7 pm, $18; May 20: No Fun Fest featuring Thurston Wednesdays: DJ Mohamed, 8 pm, FREE; Moore, Burning Star Core Zaimph, Aaron Dilloway, Enema The Wicked Monk Thursdays: WBAI DJ Andrea Clark, 8 pm, Syringe, Leslie Keffer Rodger Stella, Stegm, Hacky Pack Sac Sac, 8415 Fifth Ave. at 84th Street in Bay Ridge, (718) 921-0601, FREE; Fridays: Live band, 10 pm, FREE. www.wickedmonk.com. Deathroes, American Band Air Conditioning, and DJs Joachim Nordwall, Lamsbread Sound System, 6 pm, $18; May 24: The May 19: Mimic, DJ Tree, 9 pm, $5; May 19: Norwegian Day Sputnik Heaves, Gutenflower, 8 pm, $5; May 25: 8362 MetaForce presents Parade, The Jerry Farley Showcase, Time TBD, $TBD; May 24: Joe 262 Taaffe Pl. at DeKalb Avenue in Clinton Meta Tantrumm Masala featuring Orestis from Greece, 10 pm, Waltz Acoustic, 9 pm, $5; May 25: U2 Nation, DJ Kyle, 9 pm, $5; Hill, (718) 398-6666, www.barsputnik.com. $TBD; May 26: Black Metal Ritual 2007 featuring Engorge, May 26: Dirty Jersey, DJ Pepe, 9 pm, $5. Saturdays: French Beats International, 11 Deimos, Nephillim, Agrath, Discordia, Pax Santana, 7 pm, $TBD. pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Kings of Karaoke with Colin King of Karaoke and DJ FlimFlam, 10 Hope and Anchor BEDFORD-STUYVESANT pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Open mic, 9 pm, 347 Van Brunt St. at Wolcott Street in Red Hook, (718) 237-0276. FREE; Thursdays: (Upstairs) Skylab, 10 pm, Food 4 Thought FREE; May 25: Manjinga, 9 pm, $TBD. Thursdays: Karaoke hosted by Dropsy Dozzman, 9 pm, FREE; 445 Marcus Garvey Blvd. at MacDonough Street in Bedford- Fridays and Saturdays: Karaoke hosted by drag queen Kay Sera, 9 Stuyvesant, (718) 443-4160. pm, FREE. FLATBUSH Saturdays: Open mic, 9 pm, $6; Tuesdays: Philosophically Phat Jalopy Art and soul: On May 19, over 100 artists, including Gina Tuesdays, an open discussion, 8 pm, donation suggested; Wed- Cornerstone Pub nesdays: Game Night (Cash Flow), 7 pm, FREE. 315 Columbia St. at Woodhull Street in Red Hook, (718) 395- Samson (“Untitled,” above), will participate in the eighth 1502 Cortelyou Rd. at Marlborough 3214, www.jalopy.biz. annual SONYA (South of the Navy Yards) Studio Stroll. Sistas’ Place Road in Flatbush, (718) 940-9037, Fridays; Saturdays: Live music, 9 pm, $TBD; May 19: Indie Rock www.cornerstonepub.com. Originals with Bogs Visionary Orchestra, 9 pm, Timothy Dick, 10 456 Nostrand Ave. at Jefferson Avenue in Bedford- Saturdays: Alegba & Friends, 9 pm, FREE pm, $8; May 24: Dirty 30, 8 pm, Wrong, 10:30 pm, $8; May 25: RECEPTION: Brooklyn Arts Ex- Stuyvesant, (718) 498-1766, www.sistasplace.org. (donation suggested); Tuesdays: Dan Rob Reddy Trio, 9 pm, The Jef Lee Johnson Band, 10:30 pm, $15. change presents the seventh May 19: Sekou Sundiata, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $25 in advance, $30 day Pratt Quartet, 9 pm, FREE (donation sug- annual art show featuring work of the show. gested); Thursdays: Stephane Wrembel, by construction workers. Recep- 8:30 pm, FREE. SHEEPSHEAD BAY 9 DAYS... tion from 3 pm to 5 pm. 421 Fifth BOERUM HILL Vox Po p Anyway Cafe Continued from page 2 Ave. (718) 832-0018. Free. 1602 Gravesend Neck Rd. at East 16th Street in Sheepshead INDIE MARKET: 11 am to 7 pm. Hank’s Saloon 1022 Cortelyou Rd. at Stratford Road Marsh Nature Center Trail. Wear See Sat., May 19. in Flatbush, (718) 940-2084, Bay, (718) 934-5988, www.anywaycafe.com. comfortable walking shoes and 46 Third Ave. at Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, (718) 625- www.voxpopnet.net. Bright son: On May 23, Ravi Coltrane — son of John — will Mondays: Open mic, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Jazz with Andrey dress for the weather. 1 pm. Salt 8003, www.hankssaloon.com. Sundays: Open mic, 7 pm, FREE with 2- Ryabov, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Grace Garland, 9 pm, FREE; Marsh Center, 3302 Avenue U. Sundays: Sean Kershaw and the New Jack Ramblers, 10 pm, FREE; drink/snack minimum. perform at a benefit for the School for Improvisational Music Thursdays: Susan Tobocman, 9 pm, FREE; Fridays: Eric Nicholas, Call 311 and ask for the Urban MON, MAY 21 Mondays: Live band kuntry karaoke, 10 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: 9 pm, FREE. Park Rangers. Free. at the Center for Improvisational Music in Park Slope. Also BROOKLYN GOES GLOBAL: Mobscenity, 10 pm, FREE; May 19: SNAFU, 9 pm, Royal American, FORT GREENE BOARDWALK WALK: Jerry’s Jewish 10 pm, Luther Wright and The Wrongs, 11 pm, FREE; May 24: Earl performing are Ralph Alessi, Ben Street and more. Brooklyn Chamber of Com- WILLIAMSBURG Singles tours the board walks of merce international trade day Pickins, 10 pm, FREE; May 25: Ramblin’ Souls, 10 pm, The BAM Cafe Coney Island and Brighton Rakehells, 11 pm, Guitar Bomb, Midnight, FREE. Capone’s Bar and symposium. Learn how to (At the Brooklyn Academy of Music) Beach. $10. 1:15 pm. Meet at expand business into foreign 30 Lafayette Ave. at Ashland Place in Fort Greene, (718) 636- Saturdays, Fridays: DJ Dance Party, 10 pm, $15 (ladies FREE until 221 N. Ninth St. at Roebling Street in Williamsburg, (718) the lifeguard chair at the Stillwell markets. Interactive workshops, BROOKLYN HEIGHTS 4100 www.bam.org. 11 pm). 599-4044, www.caponesbar.com. Avenue Station. Call for reserva- one-on-one consulting sessions May 19: Brian Jackson and Original Guerilla, 9 pm, FREE; May 26: Fridays, Saturdays: The Beat Club/All Disco, 9 pm, FREE; Mon- tions. (732) 470-5746. and marketing opportunities. 9 Magnetic Field “DanceAfrica” with Gokh-Bi System, 9:30 pm, FREE. days: Karaoke with Colin and DJ Flim Flam, 9 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: WALKING TOUR: Brooklyn His- am to 5 pm. Touro College, GREENWOOD HEIGHTS Speakeasy, an open mic night, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: The 97 Atlantic Ave. at Henry Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) torical Society and St. Francis 1602 Avenue J. (718) 875-1000, Stroke with DJs Brian Tweedy and Dave Ready, 9 pm, FREE; Thurs- 834-0069, www.magneticbrooklyn.com. Living Room Lounge College present “Arthur Miller’s ext. 104. www.ibrooklyn.com GREENPOINT days: Rehab, 9 pm, FREE. May 19: Rotary Downs, Andy Friedman & The Other Failures, 8 245 23rd St. at Fifth Avenue in Greenwood Heights, (718) Brooklyn Heights” walking tour. HEALTH FAIR: Lutheran Family pm, $TBD; May 21: Benicio and The Del Toros, 8 pm, FREE; May Club Exit 499-1505. $12, $10 members. 2 pm to 4 Health Center hosts “Forever Galapagos pm. Meet at 128 Pierrepont St. 24: Live band karaoke, 8 pm, FREE; May 25: Spider Bags and 147 Greenpoint Ave. at Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Saturdays: DJ Kirt, 10 pm, FREE; Sundays: Cult Movie Night, 8 Young: Mind, Body and Spirit.” pm, FREE; Mondays: Concerts on the big screen, 8 pm, FREE; 70 N. Sixth St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 782- (71) 222-4111. more, 8 pm, $TBD; May 26: Mitch Easter, Baskervilles, 8 pm, $10. (718) 349-6969, www.club-exit.com. 5188, www.galapagosartspace.com. Information available on all adult Wednesdays: Open mic Night, 8:30 pm, FREE; Thursdays: Live STUDIO TOUR: 15th annual Park programs as well as health infor- music, 8 pm, FREE; Fridays: Karaoke, 8 pm, FREE. Fridays: VJ/DJ Friday Nights, 10 pm, FREE; May 19: (Backroom) Slope tour. Noon to 6 pm. See mation, early detection, asthma, The Stay Free Movement with Fudakochi, Youngbloods, Sound Sat., May 12. Frontier, 7 pm, $TBD, (Front room) ZM:R Launch Party, Zenen CD diabetes and more. 2 pm to 4 pm. Shore Hill Housing, 9000 PARK SLOPE Release Party, Naked Highway Video Premiere, 7 pm, FREE; May PERFORMANCE 21: (Front room) SMUT hosted by Desiree Burch, 7:30 pm, FREE, Shore Road. (718) 630-7588. Free. Bar4 Monday Night Burlesque presents “Cherry Bomb’s Dra-g-lam, BCBC: Brooklyn Center for the BARNES AND NOBLE: Signing 444 Seventh Ave. at 15th Street in Park Slope, (718) 832-9800. 9:30 pm, $5; May 22: (Backroom) NewFormat Improvisation Performing Arts presents “Klez- with Holly Black and Cassandra May 20: Jon de Lucia, 7 pm, Dan Weiss Trio, 9 pm, $5. proudly presents “Subway Series,” 7 pm, $5; May 23: (Backroom) merized!” with violinist/ compos- Clare, Young Adult authors. 6:30 IS THIS YOUR er Alicia Svigals and the Klez- pm. 267 Seventh Ave. (718) 832- New York Dancers Raise Money for Las Vegas Burlesque Museum, Barbes 8 pm, $15 ($10 in Vegas-themed dress), (Front room) “Love Ahoy! matics. $25. 2 pm. Walt Whit- 9066. Free 376 Ninth St. at Sixth Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 965-9177, ...The Final Cruise?,” a gameshow, 7:30 pm, FREE, “3X The Charm: man Theater at Brooklyn Col- EASY PARENTING: Families First www.barbesbrooklyn.com. Art Party NYC” with Johanna & The Dusty Floor, Flechette, So lege, one block from the junc- hosts a talk “Tips for Easy Sundays: Stephane Wrembel, 9 pm, $10 suggested donation; Deadly, PetelShot, and DJs Paul, Neptune, K.O., 8 pm, FREE; May tion of Flatbush and Nostrand Parenting.” Parents of infants, Tuesdays: Slavic Soul Party, 9 pm, $10; May 19: Les Chauds 24: (Backroom) “Ya’ll Ready for DJs!,” 10 pm, FREE, (Front room) avenues. (718) 951-4500. toddlers and preschoolers are EMERGENCY Lapins, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation; May 20: Trio Balkan Strings CNBCN’s Spring Funk-a-Thon, 10 pm, FREE; May 25: (Backroom) MUSIC OFF THE WALLS: Brooklyn invited to learn secrets of simple featuring Zoran Starcevic & Sons, 7 pm, $10; May 21: Balkan Younger Sister Band & D. Charles Speer and the Helix, 10 pm, $8, Philharmonic presents new work techniques that can be used. Overflow with Greg Squared, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation; (Front room) Sneak Thief, 7:30 pm, Dead Muse, 8:15 pm, Millsted, by Valerie Coleman: “Exalted $40. 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm. 250 May 22: Todd Sickafoose’s Blood Orange, 7 pm, $10 suggested 9 pm, $TBD, Crashin’ In presents The Gaskets, The Frail, Revl9n, Landscapes.” $15, $10 museum Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. COMMUNICATION donation; May 23: Curtis Hasselbring’s Decoupage, 8 pm, $10, 10 pm, $8; May 26: (Front room) Break of Reality, 7 pm, $10. members, students and seniors. FILM: Screening of “Brooklyn Mat- James Carney Group, 10 pm, $10; May 24: Jim Campilongo 3 pm. Brooklyn Museum, 200 ters,” about the proposed At- Electric Trio, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation, Jack Grace, 10 pm, Laila Lounge Eastern Parkway. (718) 488-5913. lantic Yards development. Panel $10 suggested donation; May 25: Jessica Lurie, 7 pm, $10 sug- 113 N. Seventh St. at Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) CONCERT: S.E.M. Ensemble or- discussion follows. 8:30 pm. gested donation, Life in a Blender, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation; 486-6791, www.lailalounge.com. chestra performs works of Brown, Cattyshack, 249 Fourth Ave. PLAN? Pinataland, 10 pm, $10 suggested donation; May 26: Cocktail Tuesdays: Bluegrass Tuesdays, 9 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Jezebel Stockhausen, Strauss and Xenak- (718) 230-5740. Free. Twist, 8 pm, $10 suggested donation, Delta Dreambox, 10 pm, Music Showcase with an open mic, 7:30 pm, FREE; May 19: Blend, is and others. 8 pm. Willow $10 suggested donation. 10 pm, $TBD; May 25: DJ Fat Tony, 10 pm, FREE. Place Auditorium, 26 Willow Place. Call. (718) 488-7569. TUES, MAY 22 Bogota Latin Bistro The Lucky Cat GALLERY PLAYERS: “Victor/ Vic- 141 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope, (718) 230- 245 Grand St. at Roebling Street in Williamsburg, (718) 782- toria.” 3 pm. See Sat., May 19. 3805, www.bogotabistro.com. Jewish Festival Shavuos 0437, www.theluckycat.com. PAPER MOON PLAYERS: “Bravo Wednesdays: Live Brazilian and Latin jazz, 7 pm, FREE; May 20: Mondays: Joe McGinty’s Keyboard Karaoke, 10 pm, FREE: Tues- begins at sundown George Mel Trio, 7 pm, FREE; May 23: George Mel Trio, 7 pm, FREE. Broadway!” 3 pm. See Sat., May days: Jezebel Music Open Mic Night, 7 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: 19. SHAVUOS DINNERS: Dairy meals Hot Popcorn featuring Binky Griptite & The Melomatics, 10 pm, BAM: “Doug Varone and Dancers.” 3 followed by all-night Torah dis- The Brooklyn Lyceum $TBD; Thursdays: Vic Thrill, 10 pm, $5; May 10: Brown Bird Rudy cussions are scheduled at 227 Fourth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, (718) 398- Relic hosts an evening of Blue Grass, Blues and Roots music, 10 pm, pm. See Sat., May 19. serveral area synagogues. See 7301, www.gowanus.com. $TBD; May 21: Circuit Parade, 9 pm, FREE; May 22: You Need a BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- EVENT story on the cover of May 20: Songwriter’s Exchange Greta Gertler, Kym Tuvim, Elise Band hosted by Ed Gorch, 10 pm, $TBD; May 24: Jason Mears, cert with the Knights Chamber GO Brooklyn (page 9). Knudson, 8:30 pm, $5. Harris Eisenstadt, Nate Wooley, 8 pm, $TBD; May 25: Dance Party Orchestra. 4 pm. See Sat., May 19. BUSINESS SEMINAR: Church with DJs Jumpy & Fab Mic-lo, 11 pm, FREE; May 26: Tin Star Sisters, CHILDREN Avenue Merchants Business Biscuit BBQ 9 pm, DJ Daniel and ESP Productions, 11 pm, $TBD. Association hosts a talk: See Family Calendar on page 14. 230 Fifth Ave. at President Street in Park Slope, (718) 399- Luna Lounge “Choosing a Home-Based Busi- 2161, www.biscuitbbq.com. OTHER ness.” 3 pm to 5:30 pm. 884 Sundays: A Sunday Kind of Jazz with John McNeil and Bill 361 Metropolitan Ave. at Havemeyer Street in Williamsburg, Flatbush Ave. (718) 282-2500. (212) 260-2323, www.lunalounge.com. McHenry, 8:30 pm, $10; Mondays: Debra and Mary’s Night on the GOOD DOGGIES: AKC Canine WORKSHOP: Heights and Hill Town, 8:30 pm, $10; Tuesdays: Songwriters’ Showcase hosted by May 19: Cheeseburger, 8:30 pm, Totimoshi, 9:30 pm, RTX, 10:30 Good Citizen Test is sponsored Community Council hosts “You Staci Rochwerg, 8:30 pm, $5 suggested donation; Wednesdays: pm, $10 in advance, $12 day of the show; May 20: The Droves, by the Kings County Kennel 7:30 pm, Big Lazy, 8:30 pm, Eric Brendo, 9:30 pm, The Beasts of and Your Aging Relative.” Today’s Argentinean Tango Night hosted by Annatina featuring dance Club. Open to all purebred and talk is “The Insurance Maze: instruction, 7 pm, and dancing/milonga, 8 pm, $12; May 19: Beledo Eden, 10:30 pm, $7; May 23: Jeremiah Rifles, 7:30 pm, Reno Bo, mixed breed dogs. $10. 10 am. 8:30 pm, Favourite Sons, 9:30 pm, Levy, 10:30 pm, $7; May 24: Medicare, Medigap and Long & Friends with Uruguayan Jazz Guitarist/Composer and guest musi- Testing is held at Wollman Rink, Term Care.” 6:30 pm to 8:30 If your family is separated during cians, 9 pm, $15; May 24: Jesse Stacken Trio, 8:30 pm, $TBD; May Fulton Lights, 7:30 pm, Forest Fire, 8:30 pm, Air Waves, 9:30 pm, Prospect Park. Enter park at 25: Uke Nights, 9 pm, $5; May 26: Gustavo Casenave Trio, 6:30 The Weight, 10:30 pm, $7; May 25: The Meltdowns, 7:30 pm, pm. 160 Montague St. (718) Ocean Avenue and Parkside 596-8789. Free. pm, $TBD, Emilio Solla Jazz Quartet, 9 pm, $10. Faces on Film, 8:30 pm, The Picture, 9:30 pm, Lions and Tigers, Avenue. (718) 258-7229. a fire, flood, blackout or other emergency, 10:30 pm, $7, Mirko Loko, Midnight, $10; May 26: Grey Does BARNES AND NOBLE: Reading PLATFORM: Brooklyn Society for with Jennifer Niesslein, author of Brooklyn Conservatory of Matter, 9:30 pm, Thee More Shallows, 10:30 pm, $10, Share- Ethical Culture hosts a talk by groove, Midnight, FREE. “Practically Perfect in Every do you know how you’ll stay in touch? Music Demond Mullins, a member of Way.” 7:30 pm. 267 Seventh 58 Seventh Ave. at Lincoln Place in Park Slope, (718) 622- Pete’s Candy Store Iraq Veterans Against the War. Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free. 3300, www.bqcm.org. 11 am. 53 Prospect Park West. Most New Yorkers don’t. 709 Lorimer St. at Richardson Street in Williamsburg, (718) (718) 768-2972. May 19: New Music Collective with Maximalism, 8 pm, $15 ($10 302-3770, www.petescandystore.com. seniors and students with valid student identification); May 20: OPEN HOUSE: Classes and demos Sundays: Open mic, 5 pm-8 pm, FREE; Mondays: Stand-Up Co- WEDS, MAY 23 Salon Series, 6 pm, FREE. of t’ai chi, karate and self-de- That’s why you need medy, 7:30 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Alan Hampton, 10 pm, FREE; May 19: Kate McGuire, 8 pm, Chad King, 9 pm, Miles of Owls, 10 fense classes for women, trans- CANASTA CLUB: Brooklyn Canasta Cafe Steinhof pm, Jes Hudak, 11 pm, FREE; May 20: Laura Cortese, 8:30 pm, gender people & youth. Noon to Club seeks all levels of players a family emergency 427 Seventh Ave. at 14th Street in Park Slope, (718) 369- Shimkus, 9:30 pm, Brittain Ashford, 10:30 pm, FREE; May 21: 3 pm. Center for Anti-Violence for new groups. 9:30 am to 3:30 7776, www.cafesteinhof.com. Gerald Jay King, 9:30 pm, Jimmy Reeves, 10:30 pm, FREE; May Education, 327 Seventh Street, pm. Call for information and for communication May 23: J. Walter Hawkes Trio, 10:30 pm, FREE. 22: Bingo, 7 pm, Jacob Smigel, 9 pm, Alan Hampton, 10 pm, Deer 2nd Floor. (718)788-1775. Free. reservations. (718) 680-4084. Tick, 11 pm, FREE; May 23: Quizz-Off, 7:30 pm, Pistol Apes CRAFT WORKSHOP: Brooklyn FILM: St. Francis College presents Cattyshack Payback, 10 pm, Boy Genius, 11 pm, FREE; May 24: Happy to be Artists Gym presents the topic: the movie “Wild Hogs.” 2 pm plan that works. 249 Fourth Ave. at Carroll Street in Park Slope, (718) 230- Ugly (comedy), 7:30 pm, Takenobu, 9 pm, Kind Monitor, 10 pm, “Suminagashi Paper Marbling.” and 6 pm. 180 Remsen St., Foun- 5740, www.cattyshackbklyn.com. Trilobite, 11 pm, FREE; May 25: King Canutes, 9 pm, Yarn, 10 pm, $40 plus $10 materials fee. 1 pm der’s Hall. (718) 489-5372. Free. Mondays: Open Psyche (open mic), 8 pm, FREE, Chump Change, FREE; May 26: Kyle Irvin, 8 pm, Invisible Republic, 9 pm, Wynn to 5 pm. 168 Seventh Ave. (718) BARNES AND NOBLE: Reading 10 pm, FREE; Tuesdays: Trivia Night, 7 pm, FREE; Wednesdays: Walent and The Folks, 10 pm, The Weber Brothers, 11 pm, FREE. 858-9069. with Andris Baltins, author of Karaoke with Sherry Vine, 9 pm, FREE ($2 after 10 pm), Oink Boys IRISH WAR HERO: Green-Wood “Love Letters.” 7:30 pm. 267 Party (ladies welcome with sexy boys), 10 pm, $5; Thursdays: S— Stain Cemetery hosts a tribute to Bri- tkickers, 8 pm, FREE ($5 after 9 pm), Hey DJ!, 10 pm, $5; Fridays: Seventh Ave. (718) 832-9066. 766 Grand St. at Humboldt Street in Williamsburg, (718) 387- gadier General Thomas Sweeny, Free. R.P.M. with DJ Lug Nut, 7 pm, FREE. 7840, www.stainbar.com. hero of the Mexican and Civil BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- The Center for Mondays: “Paint Stain,” 5 pm (often accompanied by the jazz gui- wars. Ceremony includes unveil- cert features a program of music Q Pick two places to meet – one near your home and tar of Noboru, 8 pm), FREE; Wednesdays: “JAMstain,” an informal ing of sculpture by James Kelly’s by Beethoven, Bruch, Piazzolla Improvisational Music open mic hosted by singers/songwriters, 9 pm, FREE; May 19: 1914 bronze bust of Sweeny. 1 Clifton Hyde, 8 pm, Ass-Tro Hour with Sister Mary Manhattan, 9 and Schoenfield. $35 $20 stu- another farther away in case you can’t get back to your 295 Douglass St. at Third Avenue in Park Slope, (212) 631- pm. Fifth Avenue and 25th dents, $30 seniors. 8 pm. Fulton 5882, www.schoolforimprov.org. pm, FREE, Stand-Up Comedy, 10 pm, $2; May 20: The Sunday Street. Reservations required. Salon, 7 pm, FREE; May 24: The Wiggins Sisters, 8 pm, Maggie neighborhood. May 23: SIM Benefit Concert with Ralph Alessi, Ravi Coltrane, (718) 344-2771. Free. See 9 DAYS on page 13 Manson, Sean Martin, Jason Vitelli, Arslan Chaudhary, and Brett Jason Moran, Ben Street, Nasheet Waits, 8:30 pm, $15; May 24: Saxon, 9 pm, FREE; May 25: Cameron Hull, 9 pm, Frank Carbone, Open Session, 8 pm, $7. Ask an out-of-state friend or relative to be your family 10 pm, FREE; May 26: Dewayne Dickerson, 5:30 pm, Fresh Ghost, Q Perch Cafe 11 pm, FREE. contact, because it may be easier to call out of the area 365 Fifth Ave. at Fifth Street in Park Slope, (718) 788-2830 Trash Bar www.myspace.com/theperchcafe. 256 Grand St. at Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) 599- An Exceptional meal. May 22: Literary Tuesday featuring Grace Schulman, 7:30 pm, $5 if local phone lines are overloaded. 1000, www.thetrashbar.com. minimum; May 23: Five Star Day, 8 pm, $5 suggested donation. May 19: Umami, 8 pm, The World Without Magic, 9 pm, Death of Puppet’s Jazz Bar Fashion, 10 pm, Goldstreets, 11 pm, Shaka Zulu Overdrive, Mid- Q Make sure everyone knows and carries the night, $8; May 20: Hawkins Rise, 9 pm, The Grown Up Noise, 10 284 Fifth Ave. at First Street in Park Slope, (718) 499-2627, pm, Swimclub, 11 pm, Scientific Maps, Midnight, $6; May 21: Jules www.puppetsjazz.com. meeting places and contact information at all times. and The Family, 8 pm, Lisa Hahn and The Dot Com, 9 pm, Illi- May 19: Bill Ware’s Pups Vibes, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $10; manjaro, 10 pm, Bad Ash, 11 pm, Wet Coma, Midnight, $6; May May 21: Jaime Aff Session, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, FREE; 22: Dead Rabbit, 8 pm, Rabid Roy, 9 pm, The Hoarsmen, 10 pm, May 22: Gavin Fallow Group, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; May Suicide Dolls, 11 pm, The District, Midnight, $5; May 23: Laura Dis- WANT TO LEARN MORE? Take our interactive Readiness 23: Jaime Aff Trio, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; May 24: Bjorn tasi, 8 pm, Sarah Renfro, 9 pm, The Killing Fields, 10 pm, Voluntary Solli Trio, 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $5; May 25: Alex Blake Trio, Mother Earth, 11 pm, The Silver Arrows, Midnight, $6; May 24: Quiz at www.nyredcross.org/brooklyn1 and you’ll receive 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $10; May 26: Alex Blake Trio (Second Hammarsing, 8 pm, Bang Post Bang, 9 pm, Resolution 15, 10 pm, year anniversary party), 9:15 pm, 10:40 pm, Midnight, $10. Reactionaries, 11 pm, Fear the State, Midnight, $6; May 25: Walking a free 16-page Family Preparedness Guide. Plus you’ll be Bicycles, 8 pm, Lady Panic, 9 pm, Tied for Last, 10 pm, Cargun, 11 Southpaw pm, Amazon Dart, Midnight, $7; May 26: Eighteen, 8 pm, Pash, 8:30 eligible to win a fully-stocked Red Cross GO BAG for two. 125 Fifth Ave. at St. John’s Place in Park Slope, (718) 230- pm, Full Tank, 9 pm, Wild Bee, 10 pm, Only Son, 11 pm, $8. 0236, www.spsounds.com. Tuesdays: The Wreckroom, 8 pm, FREE; May 19: King Heron a.k.a. Union Pool “The Leader” and DJs Cosmo Baker and Soul, 9 pm, $18 in 484 Union Ave. at Meeker Avenue in Williamsburg, (718) advance, $20 day of the show; May 22: Dan Bern and special 609-0484, www.myspace.com/unionpool. guests, 9 pm, $16; May 24: The Bridge, Funky Butter, 9 pm, $8; May 19: Indo Silver Club with DJ Gerald, Eamon Harkin, and more, Get Ready, Brooklyn! May 25: Lifesavas, Strange Fruit Project, 8:30 pm, $12, Lyricist 10 pm, FREE; May 24: The Exit, Artanker Convoy, 8 pm, $8. Lounge, Miss Nelch & Remarcable Entertainment present Pete Rock & Stimulus, 11 pm, $TBD; May 26: The Burlesque Alliance of Zebulon Cafe Wasabassco, Pinchbottomn, Sweet & Nasty, Kissing Cousins, and GET A KIT • MAKE A PLAN • BE INFORMED Angie Pontani present” The USOh! Show,” a seasonal spectacular, 258 Wythe Ave. at Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, 9 pm, $15. (718) 218-6934, www.zebuloncafeconcert.com. May 19: Baye Kouyate et les Tougarakes, 10 pm, FREE; May 20: www.nyredcross.org/brooklyn1 Tea Lounge Sam Beer, 9 pm, Hans blix, 10 pm, FREE; May 21: Ken Butler & Friends, 10 pm, FREE; May 22: White Blue Yellow and Clouds fea- 837 Union St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 789- 2762, www.tealoungeny.com. turing Matt Bauder, 10 pm, FREE; May 23: Charles Gayle Trio, 10 pm, FREE; May 24: Yah Supreme and Brohemian, 10 pm, FREE; May 24: Beth Schenck’s Nonetheless, 9 pm, 10:30 pm, $5 sug- May 25: Baye Kouyate et les Tougarakes, 10 pm, FREE; May 26: gested donation; May 25: Todd Sickafoose’s Blood Orange, 9 pm, Meta and the Cornerstones, 10 pm, FREE. 10:30 pm, $5 suggested donation. Two Boots Brooklyn 514 Second St. at Seventh Avenue in Park Slope, (718) 499- 3253, www.twobootsbrooklyn.com. May 19: Jay Collins Band, 10 pm, FREE; May 25: Stephanie TALK TO US… Rooker, 10 pm, FREE; May 26: Bill Malchow & The Go-Cup All Marco Polo Stars, 10 pm, FREE. To list your events in Brooklyn Nightlife, please give us as much notice as possible. Include name of venue, address RISTORANTE Union Hall with cross street, phone number for the public to call, Web (Downstairs at) 702 Union St. at Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, site address, dates, times and admission or ticket prices. Pioneer of the fine restaurant movement in Brooklyn (718) 638-4400, www.unionhallny.com. Send listings and color photos of performers via e-mail to Sponsored by a grant from the New York City Council May 19: Frog Eyes, Alex Delivery, Chris Garneau, 8 pm, $10; May [email protected] or via fax at (718) 834-9278. 21: Name That Tune with Sara Schaefer, 8 pm, FREE; May 22: Listings are free and printed on a space available basis. We 345 Court Street (at Union Street) 718-852-5015 regret we cannot take listings over the phone. ®2007 Arnie Levin from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved. Jonathan Coulton, Jenny Owen Youngs, Wynn Walent, 8 pm, $10; Open 7 days for lunch and dinner • Free Valet Parking • May 23: Luke Temple, The High Strung, Gabriel Kahane, 8 pm, $8; The listings are correct as of press time. Contact the May 24: Oxford Collapse, Centipede’s E’Est, Excellent, 8 pm, $8; venue before you go to confirm event details. Visit our website www.MarcoPoloRistorante.com May 26: The Old Ceremony, Beat Radio, Death Ships, 8 pm, $10. Set in Grenada in 1983 after the United States invasion to “save” democracy One World Theatre Production May 19, 2007 THE BROOKLYN PAPER WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM AWP 13 Sittingpresents in Limbo SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: Salt Marsh Donations welcome. Noon. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636- written by Dawn Penso/Judy Hepburn Nature Center hosts an open mic www.brooklynforbarack.org. 4100. directed by Patricka Dallas night. Sing, dance, read a poem INDIE MARKET: Collective of GALLERY PLAYERS: “Victor/ Vic- featuring Jennifer Copeland * Petol Weekes * Gloria Jung or whatever you do. 7 pm. LIST YOUR EVENT… 9 DAYS... Brooklyn-based emerging toria.” 3 pm. See Sat., May 26. Special Apearance from UK, Lavern Archer Refreshments served. 3302 Ave. designers show their wares of To list your event in Nine Days In Brooklyn, please give us two weeks notice U. For info, call 311. Free. fashion, accessories, bath and OTHER Continued from page 12 or more. Send your listing by e-mail: calendar@brooklyn paper.com; by mail: Fri., May 18th & 25th @ 8pm GALLERY PLAYERS: presents beauty, pet gear, home-goods SUNDAY PLATFORM: Brooklyn Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street GO Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Paper, 55 Washington St., Suite 624, Brooklyn, NY Sat., May 19th & 26th @ 8pm “Victor/ Victoria.” $18, $14 sen- and more. 11 am to 7 pm. Society for Ethical Culture hosts Sun., May 20th & 27th @ 6pm at the East River. (718) 624- Smith and Union Street. 11201; or by fax: (718) 834-9278. Listings are free and printed on a space avail- 2083. iors and kids. 8 pm. 199 14th St. a talk: “Memorial Platform.” (212) 352-3101. www.brooklynindiemarket.com. able basis. We regret we cannot take listings over the phone. Members and friends remem- Location: Club Port Royal BARGEMUSIC: Classical music con- PIER ART SHOW: Brooklyn Water- ber those who have died with a 837 Union Street (7th & 8th Av) front Artists Coalition hosts its candle-lighting ceremony. 11 THURS, MAY 24 cert features an all Beethoven Park Slope, Brooklyn program with the Manhattan 15th annual exhibit entitled “Con- Nature Center and scientists concert features an all Beet- am. 53 Prospect Park West. nections.” 1 pm to 6 pm. Event from the Natural Resources hoven program with the Man- Admission: $25 HEALTH FAIR: Lutheran Family String Quartet. $35, $30 seniors (718) 768-2972. Free. $20 students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry includes Art Collectors’ Round Group offer a day of adventure hattan String Quartet. $35, $30 PIER ART SHOW: Brooklyn $20 in advance * student & group discounts Health Center hosts “Spirituality Table and a performance by Un- and Aging: A Three Part Lecture Landing, Old Fulton Street at during a canoe to White Island. seniors $20 students. 4 pm. Ful- Waterfront Artists Coalition the East River. (718) 624-2083. Plugged in Red Hook. 499 Van Previous attendance at a basic ton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton hosts its 15th annual exhibit Series.” Today: Reverend Don Brunt St. (718) 596-2507. Free. (718) 398-4830 * [email protected] Siger discusses “Spiritual Dimen- canoeing program required. Street at the East River. (718) entitled “Connections.” 1 pm a project of Berkeley Innovative Communications sions of Aging.” 2 pm to 4 pm. CHILDREN Children under 12 not permit- 624-2083. to 6 pm. Also, “Unplugged in Shore Hill Housing, 9000 Shore See Family Calendar on page 14. ted. Bring lunch and sunscreen. DANCE AFRICA: 30th annual Red Hook with Paula Jeanine Ticket Outlets: BROOKLYN Rd. (718) 630-7588. Free. SUN, MAY 27 11 am. 3302 Ave. U. Call to African dance festival at Brook- and American Ghazal.” 499 MEDIA WORKSHOP: Learn to har- OTHER register. (718) 421-2021. Free. lyn Academy of Music. Program Van Brunt St. (718) 596-2507. Christies Jamaican Patties Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery Dixon’s Bicycle Shop BBQ FOR BARACK: Fundraiser for OUTDOORS AND TOURS includes performances, films, Free. 387 Flatbush Ave 495 Nostrand Ave 792 Union Street ness the power of the media for th th non-profit organizations. Topics Barack Obama. Noon. Picnic CANOE EXPEDITION: The Urban PERFORMANCE concerts, workshops, arts, food INDIE MARKET: 11 am to 7 pm. (@ Sterling Pl) (@ Fulton St.) (btwn 6 & 7 Ave.) include how to develop and frame House South in Prospect Park. Park Rangers of the Salt Marsh BARGEMUSIC: Classical music and crafts. $20 to $45. 7:30 pm. See Sat., May 26. 718-636-9746 718-622-0555 718-636-0067 story ideas, cultivate media con- tacts, draft press releases and make pitches to reporters. 6 pm to 8 pm. Magnolia Tree Earth Center, 677 Lafayette Ave. (212) 822-9582. Free. BARNES AND NOBLE: hosts a dis- cussion with YA authors E. Lockhart and Melissa Kantor. 6:30 pm. 267 Seventh Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free. MUSIC: One World Symphony hosts an open rehearsal. $5. 7 pm. St. Ann’s Church, 157 Montague St. (718) 462-7270. READING: Freebird Books and Goods presents Rob Sheffield, an editor at Rolling Stone Maga- zine. Others. 7 pm. 123 Colum- bia St. (718) 643-8484. Free. STORYTIME: Brooklyn Public Library’s Central branch hosts Ezra Jack Keats bedtime stories and take-a-book. 7:30 pm. Grand Army Plaza. (718) 230- 2100. Free. EDGY MOTHER’S DAY: Amy Sohn, novelist and columnist for NY Magazine, authors Tom Rafiel, Susan Gregory Thomas, Alison Lowenstein and Judy Lichtblau, read from their work. $5. 8 pm. Old Stone House, Fifth Avenue between Third and Fourth streets. (718) 288-4290. GALLERY PLAYERS: “Victor/ Vic- toria.” 8 pm. See Sat., May 26. Good day. Please allow me to introduce myself.

FRI, MAY 25 METROTECH CONCERT SERIES: presents The Request Band, performing Caribbean music. Noon to 2 pm. The Commons, Metrotech Center, downtown Brooklyn. (718) 488-8200. Free. I am Sir Charge, BARNES AND NOBLE: Teen writ- ing workshop with Nick Vizzini. 5 pm. 267 Seventh Ave. (718) 832-9066. Free STORYBOARD ARTIST: Story- boarding workshop presents “The Comic Book Artist of Film” with David Cooney. $15. 6:30 Verizon’s best-kept secret. pm to 9 pm. Brooklyn Young Filmmakers office, 149 N. Oxford Walk. (718) 935-0490. DANCE AFRICA: 30th annual Afri- can dance festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Program includes performances, films, I pop up unexpectedly... concerts, workshops, arts, food and crafts. $20 to $45. 7:30 pm. 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4100. MUSIC: One World Symphony per- ...all over your Verizon home phone bill. They do manage to forms works by Shostakovich. $25, $15 students and seniors. 8 pm. St. Ann’s Church, 157 Montague St. (718) 462-7270. keep this old scoundrel busy in the most inexplicable manner, BARGEMUSIC: Classical music concert features a program of music by Brahms, Liszt, Foster but one thing is clear: Sir Charge and your money make a and others. $35, $30 seniors, $20 students. 8 pm. Fulton Ferry Landing, Old Fulton Street at splendid royal couple. the East River. (718) 624-2083. DRAWING CLASS: Workshop fea- tures female models. Short poses for artists. $10. 8 pm to midnight. Retreat Lounge, 147 And really, it costs a bloody fortune Front St., 2nd floor. artisticrevo- [email protected] GALLERY PLAYERS: “Victor/ Vic- to tailor these suits! toria.” 8 pm. See Sat., May 26.

SAT, MAY 26 OUTDOORS AND TOURS EARLY BIRD WALK: at the Pros- pect Park Audubon Center. 8 am to 10 am. Enter park at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. ROCKAWAY PARADE: NY Transit Museum offers a nostalgia train ride to the Rockaways in cele- bration of the 75th anniversary of Jacob Riis Park. Musical enter- tainment, antique care and more. $30, $25 kids. 11 am. Call for reservations and meeting loca- tion. (718) 694-1600. RIDE THE CAROUSEL: Prospect Park’s historic 1912 carousel is open for rides. $1.50 per ride. Noon to 5 pm. Children’s Corner, Willink entrance, at the intersection of Flatbush Avenue and Empire Boulevard. www.prospectpark.org. MYSTERIES OF THE LULLWATER: Learn about the Lullwater, a larger-than-life floating exhibit of science and art. Prospect Park’s Audubon Center. Noon to 5 pm. Enter park at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. Free. WARBLER WATCH: Sharpen your birding skills with the Urban Park Rangers. See how many birds you can spot on a walking tour in Prospect Park. Noon. Meet at the Maryland 400 Monument, off of Wellhouse Drive, Prospect Park. Call for info. 311. Free. NATURE FACTS OR FICTION: Learn if alligators can live in the sewer and if bats really are blind. Get the facts on a nature walk with the Urban Park Rangers. Noon. Salt Marsh Nature Center, 3302 Ave. U. Call for info. 311. Free. PEDAL BOATING: Cruise Brook- lyn’s freshwater lake in a pedal boat. $15 for one hour, plus $10 Stop supporting this guy. refundable deposit. Noon to 5 pm. Enter Prospect Park near the Parkside and Ocean avenue entrance. www.prospectpark.org. BIRD WATCHING CRUISE: Learn Time Warner Cable has a home phone plan that’s easy to about the history of Prospect Park, from prehistoric times to present day, while touring one understand with charges you’d expect. of Prospect Park’s habitats for turtles and water birds. $10, $6 kids. 1:15 pm to 2 pm. Enter park at Lincoln Road and Ocean Avenue. (718) 287-3400. www.prospectpark.org. Call 1.800.OKCable anytime. BROOKLYN BRIDGE AT TWI- LIGHT: Big Onion Tours takes a tour across the Brooklyn Bridge and through Brooklyn Heights. Yes. Even before 8:00 a.m. or after 6:00 p.m. Weekends? No problem. Stops include Plymouth Church, the AA Low Mansion and sites associated with Arthur Miller, Robert Moses and Norman Mailer. $15, $12 seniors, $10 students. 5 pm. Meet at south- east corner of Broadway and Chambers street, lower Manhattan. (212) 439-1090. PERFORMANCE (with taxes and DANCE AFRICA: 30th annual Afri- $19.95 a month can dance festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Program in- cludes performances, films, con- fees you understand) certs, workshops, arts, food and for the first crafts. $20 to $45. 2 pm and 7:30 pm. Additionally, Bam Cafe pre- sents Gokh-Bi System, playing Free installation. African music and American hip- three months! hop. No cover. 30 Lafayette Ave. Also, Dance Africa bazaar. Noon to 10 pm. Lafayette Avenue Offer expires 4/30/07 and is only available to new residential TWC Digital Phone (“DP”) customers in serviceable areas of Brooklyn and Queens, NY. For this offer, new DP customers are customers who have not received DP service within 30 days prior to request for service. After your first 3 months of DP service at $19.95/mo., you will automatically be billed at regular retail rates. DP monthly rate does not include, and additional charges apply for International Calls, Directory Assistance, Operator Services, non-standard installations, or taxes and fees. Free install applies only to standard installation on 1 outlet. Installation charges are not included for non-standard installations or additional outlets. In the event of a power outage or other cable outage, Digital Phone (including the ability to access 911 emergency services) will not be available. Digital Phone is not com- and Ashland Place. (718) 636- patible with all customer-premise equipment. Not all services are available in all areas. Other restrictions may apply. CAM.0307.005-BQdp_BKpaper 4100. 14 AWP THE BROOKLYN PAPER • WWW.BROOKLYNPAPER.COM • (718) 834-9350 May 19, 2007 Physically Active, Nature Oriented, Too much on Smartmom’s plate Outdoor,Traveling MARTMOM FEELS week on a whim while shop- like her life is spinning ping for a cockatiel to replace out of control. She’s her dearly departed one. Birds Day Camp S are fairly easy, but this toy poo- vastly over-committed and Daily Trips to: Swimming at a lake, pool and finds that she has less and less dle is a handful, even though KIDS THE TEENS time to do the things she real- she only weighs a single pound. the beach. Weekly hikes and trips to Museums, ly wants to do. The little poodle had a Zoos, Playgrounds, The Aquarium, Liberty Science Many of her friends feel ex- seizure last week, and Divorce Center, Bowling and a special trip to Sesame Place Diva had to race to Animal Brooklyn Paper actly the same way. Mrs. Kravitz juggles a busy Kind on Seventh Avenue. job as parent coordinator at a The poodle recovered after SCHOOL CAMPS •Experienced, local elementary school with spending the night hooked up to Carefully Chosen, her involvement at Old First an IV, which was a good thing Adult Staff because it gave DD a chance to Reformed Church. On top of • Flexible Schedule: that, there’s her children’s com- take a breath. plicated after-school schedule Then there’s Mrs. Cleavage, 3, 4, 5 or 6 weeks of piano lessons, tutoring, who’s a regular perpetual-mo- STYLE PARENT MUSIC 3, 4or5days a Brownie meetings, Irish step tion machine. She’s single, un- week dancing classes, and play dates. employed, and can no longer • Early drop-off afford to live in (8am) and late Park Slope, so mom make a list of everything • She wants to stay involved they should be saying “no.” she needs to prune the tree of pick up (6pm) she lives in East she’s doing. with Blogfest, an annual gather- She told Divorce Diva that her life and prioritize. But it’s available SMART New York and TWAS AN INTERESTING ing of bloggers. getting that little toy poodle not so obvious what should go. subways with exercise. After compiling • She really should keep par- might put her over the edge. Well, it’s a tough call. Saying • Ages 5 to 11 her son to PS Ithe entire list, Smartmom ticipating in her weekly writer’s She warned Mrs. Kravitz that no isn’t as easy as it sounds. Still, years mom 321 every morn- understood why she feels like group. becoming a church elder might Smartmom may have to pass on ing. Then it’s off Sybil (it’s not the multiple per- • She really should keep co- be pushing the envelope. quite a few of her activities or at By Louise Crawford to the big city sonality disorder, but simply editing Pandamonium, PS he counseled Diaper Diva least get a whole lot better at del- Park Slope • (718) 768-6419 for a temp job that she’s trying fit a whole lot 321’s poetry magazine but she’s that taking that freelance egating. She’s already found 27 years of operation Add to that getting dinner on and back again to the Slope to of life into that small, over- under doctor’s orders not to do Sjob with the looney-tunes someone to replace her on the the table, cleaning the house, pick up her son after school. weight body of hers). it next year. producer might put her life into poetry magazine (Buddah bless dealing with her son’s severe al- In her copious amounts of So what could be eliminated • And how could she bail on a tailspin (and give her less time her) and a committee of bloggers lergies and being a great friend free time, she sends out cover from the list? Not much it turns helping to organize Stoopen- with Ducky). (oy vey!) wants to take over to many people — her life is letters and resumes, looks for a out: dous, a celebration of the sum- But you can’t keep a good Blogfest for next year. like a speeded up ride on the new apartment, writes her blog, • She must remain a good mer solstice in Park Slope on woman down. They want to do Now all it will take for her to Enjoy the View! Cyclone. Mrs. Cleavage’s Diary, and at- mother to Teen Spirit and the June 23? what they want to do because get something done will be to Divorce Diva is breathless tends to her own personal writ- Oh So Feisty One and be there • And she wants to keep do- they feel passionately about so stop going out on Seventh Av- ™ with all that she’s got going on. ing, for which she has won nu- for them when they need her. ing her monthly work-shift at many things — even if they enue, stop answering her Razr, STOKKE XPLORY In addition to her daughter’s merous awards. • She must remain a good the Food Co-op. wear themselves out in the stop hanging out in the lobby at busy school and after-school It’s enough to make anyone wife and friend to Hepcat and Whoa. No wonder she’s has process. PS 321 after dropoff, stop re- schedule, Divorce Diva is a want to take a nap. give him the love and support no time to meditate, to exercise, Smartmom tried to take her sponding to e-mail. Urban Stroller freelance magazine writer with So you see, Smartmom is in he needs. to read, to run in the Park, to own advice. It is so obvious that Maybe next year. a business to run, who is also in good company when she says • She has to work to pay the have a mammogram, to catch a training to become a personal that her life is out of control. bills, oversee the family’s fi- show at the Brooklyn Museum. coach. Last week, over momtinis at nances, and take care of her Buddha knows that Smart- SHAVOT ® And if that wasn’t enough, Black Pearl, another busy home (at least, nominally). mom is spreading herself a bit she bought a toy poodle last friend suggested that Smart- • She has to be a good too thin. And she’s learned the TRIPP TRAPP daughter, sister, aunt, friend, hard way that doing too much cE CrE m Rt ™ and member of her extended can really backfire. I a Pa y BY STOKKE family. She screws up; she forgets for kids • She has to honor her cre- meetings; she hands in her The chair that grows with the child™ Brooklyn ative side and work on her nov- Smartmom column late, and el, her column, her blog, which Dumb Editor gets mean [Dumb Come Celebrate the Countdown to are all parts of her life that give Editor note: “mean” is a subjec- Save $10 all store merchandise with this ad Fencing her great satisfaction. tive term]. the Ten Commandments! (minimum $50 purchase) There are plenty of things She neglects her other re- that sound expendable, but on sponsibilities. She’s out of Wednesday, May 23rd at Noon Center further review, aren’t: shape. She’s not taking good 718.422.1978 • She wants to keep organiz- care of herself. 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Parties up to 20 kids FENCING BIRTHDAY PACKAGES! Ages 6 & up FAMILY CALENDAR 62 Fourth St. (corner of Hoyt) • (718) 522-5822 SATURDAY, MAY 19 lections and present a performance in re- unique puppet show CHOCOLATE CHIP CHAMBER MUSIC: sponse to the special exhibition “Global Feminisms.” $8, $4 for seniors and students; balloons and face painting www.BrooklynFencing.com Performance, plus cupcake decorating, a perfect for kids 2-8 petting zoo, and more fun. 10 am-12:30 free for members and for children under 12. pm. Old First Reformed Church (126 4 pm. 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. for over twenty five years Seventh Ave., at Carroll Street), adults $6. MONDAY, MAY 21 (718) 636-7414. “cheerful nuttiness!” - N.Y. Times PARK SLOPE • BAY RIDGE • WINDSOR TERRACE • KENSINGTON KIDS MOVIES: Big Movies for Little Kids pres- BOOK TALK: Children’s author Doreen Cronin and illustrator Scott Menchin invite toddlers ents “Gulliver’s Travels” (1939). $6. 4 pm. to hop, leap, pounce and bounce during a Cobble Hill Cinemas, 256 Court St. (718) 718 686-6801 reading of their book, “Bounce.” 3 pm. 596-9113. www.starmiteskidspuppetparties.com Barnes & Noble (267 Seventh Ave., at Fifth EASY PARENTING: Families First hosts a talk Street), free. (718) 832-9066. Free. “Tips for Easy Parenting.” Parents of BAKE: Make a strawberry shortcake at this infants, toddlers and preschoolers are invit- baking lesson. 6:30-8:30 pm. One Girl ed to learn secrets of simple techniques Cookies (68 Dean St., at Smith Street), $45 that can be used. $40. 7:15 pm to 8:15 pm. per person. Call (212) 675-4996 for reserva- 250 Baltic St. (718) 237-1862. tions. SATURDAY, MAY 26 SUNDAY, MAY 20 ARTY FACTS: Brooklyn Museum invites chil- DANCE AFRICA: Family workshop for chil- dren to explore “All Your Senses.” $8, $4 dren, ages 8 to 16 years, and adults. $8, $5 students and seniors, free to members and kids. Noon to 1:30 pm. BAM Hillman Attic children 12 and under. 11 am and 2 pm. Studio, 30 Lafayette Ave. (718) 636-4130. 200 Eastern Pkwy. (718) 638-5000. BROOKLYN MUSEUM: Teens are invited to learn about the museum’s permanent col- — Compiled by Susan Rosenthal Jay To list your kids event, e-mail information to [email protected]. Dance Africa at BAM Sunday.

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OUR OPINION ALL DRAWN OUT On board with bikes he wheels are finally turning in favor of bi- In the decade from 1996 to 2005, 225 bike rid- spected jurist has finally been freed. cycle riders in the city — and every pedal- ers were killed in crashes on city streets — yet But this story is not over yet. T powered commuter has the Bloomberg Ad- only one death occurred on a street with a bike Phillips was declared mentally incompetent ministration to thank. lane. No wonder the agency plans to lay down 50 and committed to the care of court-appointed In the past six months, the mayor’s Department miles of new bike lanes every year from now un- guardians in a process initiated by District Attor- of Transportation — which for too long treated til 2030. ney Charles Hynes. The DA claimed he wanted to A recent survey compiled by the Department bikers the way most motorists do (as a nuisance) protect the aging judge — who once ran against — has become even more proactive in encourag- of City Planning showed that virtually all pedal- pushers support more bike lanes — and that the him for the top prosecutor job — from those who ing green commuting, going so far as to paint new would pilfer his multi-million-dollar real-estate bike lanes even in neighborhoods whose commu- majority of non-bikers would bike to work if only the roads were safer. fortune. nity boards had rejected them. That is exactly what happened anyway — yet It happened this week in Fort Greene, and is Encouraging bicycle commuting is a crucial Hynes has not brought charges against any of the about to happen on Ninth Street in Park Slope, a part of the mayor’s PlaNYC 2030 plan — the vi- sionary strategy for dealing with an expected in- bike-friendly area whose community board has, people who were supposed to be protecting flux of one million more residents (and their cars) Phillips, not even Phillips’s legal guardian Emani oddly, stalled on a bike lane plan there. in just over two decades. Though we typically resist top-down manage- Taylor, who recently admitted that she took al- ment that shunts aside local planning boards, we most $200,000 from the retired judge. applaud the DOTs drive for bike safety. (It’s not Many have questioned whether Hynes was re- for nothing that our bike-commuting editor has a Judge Phillips is free ally trying to protect Phillips or merely having his file in his computer labeled “My obit” — to be FTER LAST WEEK’S GUEST viewpoint political rival taken out of the picture. To counter run in the event of his demise on the roads.) about the six-year odyssey of retired Judge that impression, Hynes must move against the The good news is that the statistics bear out the A John Phillips, our readers will no doubt be guardians who ruined Phillips’s life. agency’s aggressive push for more bike lanes. pleased to see our front page story that the re- This case is not over. Cristian Fleming

LETTERS Tolls on bridges do job of ‘congestion pricing’ To the editor, an estimated $30 a trip in the hidden, but real, ! building, I think I have the right to say that ment to call off the dogs — and if that does- There’s no “ambivalence” about my ar- costs of congestion in everything we buy, in MORE ONLINE ? you cannot throw your litter on my property n’t work, he should visit Mayor Bloomberg. dor for congestion pricing, as suggested in wasted time, in accident and health costs that BROOKLYNPAPER.COM (“Law would destroy my livelihood!” The One other thought: What if one of your story, “Taking its toll” (April 28). are not reimbursed, to say nothing of defend- * Brooklyn Angle, May 5). Felder’s new “no solicitation” signs are Delivery Opt out Brian Ketcham and I have been vocifer- ing our foreign oil supplies. Readers sound off on a plan to Councilman Simcha Felder’s bill would found littering his mother’s front yard? Every week, we deliver copies of The ous advocates of the idea since he made it a Yes, $8 is a bargain for all. allow building owners to block you and oth- Would who get a ticket in that case? Brooklyn Paper to homes throughout put an Arabic school inside a Brownstone Brooklyn. Our unique sys- key strategy of his pioneering 1973 Clean Carolyn Konheim, Boerum Hill public school in Boerum Hill. er litterbugs from dropping your newspaper Name withheld, Borough Park Air plan (which became federal law). The writer and her partner Brian Ketcham on my stoop. Your columnist asked, “But tem limits deliveries to just a few pa- My comment to your reporter was that are transportation consultants. what about renters who live in a 40-unit pers per building (eliminating the kind the mayor made such a strong and eloquent than an unconfirmed tip from an unnamed of clutter caused by circular and menu building? Suppose their building owner puts Colton bagged delivery services). case for the fees that we should just install source, because this tidbit of gossip resulted up one of Simcha’s Anti-Solicitation Signs? To the editor, We hope everyone appreciates our EZPass on the bridges. It could be done IKEA responds in a provocative headline and story. Addi- Just because the building owner is tired of To the editor, Assemblyman William Colton would free home delivery, but realize there are quickly and send a clear signal to drivers tionally, I was dismayed by the inclusion of cleaning up circulars doesn’t mean that resi- exceptions to every rule. that there was no gain in driving out of their Your recent story on retail development a completely unrelated and out-of-context like to ban plastic bags, stating that petrole- dents should be denied their right to con- um is released into our waters when bags So, if you’ve received The Paper at way to a free bridge. Such a plan would be in Red Hook (“Not just Ikea: Red Hook wa- comment I made to a trade publication two sume legitimate advertising or news.” decompose (“Pol says ban bags,” April 14). home and no longer want this free easier to operate than the proposed multiple terfront could become big box Mecca,” years ago about another retail establishment Oh, yeah? Well, the answer is very sim- What about heavy-duty trash bags and all of service, you may “opt out” of our deliv- checkpoints in Manhattan, producing much May 4, 2007) was not only factually inaccu- that happened to locate by one of our stores ple: PAY FOR A STAMP AND MAIL our other plastic? ery program by filling out the online more revenue for transit — a chief benefit rate, but crossed an unfortunate line from in another state. YOUR PAPER TO THEM! There is no form at BrooklynPaper.com/html/about/ of congestion charges. reporting news to reporting rumors. IKEA always has sought to keep our First Amendment issue here. I bring several canvas bags to the super- market to carry my groceries home. optout.html The reporter asked if such a scheme When contacted for this story, we made it Brooklyn neighbors updated and informed J.J., neighborhood withheld Cashiers are often surprised, but happy that would be unfair to Brooklyn residents, and perfectly clear that IKEA had absolutely no about our project’s progress, and we will Editor’s note: The First Amendment issue that colum- I’m helping to pack. Others have scoffed, she quoted me correctly as saying, “Brook- development plans for the outparcels on our continue to do so. We hope The Brooklyn nist Gersh Kuntzman raised is indeed proven by this let- ter: Under Felder’s bill, building owners would be given saying my effort won’t help. lyn and Queens residents would benefit property at this time. We’re not sure how Paper will strive for more accuracy as it at- Send a letter the right to block tenants from receiving many different I am dismayed when others feel uncom- very greatly by getting rid of the congestion much more definitive we could be. Indeed, tempts to do so as well. By e-mail: [email protected] types of Constitutionally protected speech. fortable by my small actions to reduce waste. that fans out from the bridges and is mess- the quote attributed to me in the article Joseph Roth, Conshohocken, PA By mail: Letters Editor, The Brooklyn ing up the quality of life.” could not have been clearer: “…we are fo- The writer is a spokesman for IKEA. To the editor, I do not preach when I shop. I try to keep it Paper, 55 Washington St., Brooklyn, NY Drivers benefit most of all from faster trav- cused solely on building and opening our Editor’s note: As Roth pointed out, he was quoted Felder isn’t thinking this issue through personal (so others won’t feel judged) by say- 11201. IKEA store and currently do not have plans ing that I don’t want to waste bags. But I do el. After all, $8 a day is what drivers who stuff accurately. Our story reported what our Red Hook properly. The fault is not the occasional lit- By fax: (718) 834-9278. meters on Brooklyn streets are willing to pay. underway for other parcels at this point.” source told us — that IKEA will, at some point, ex- ter — it’s the overzealous Sanitation De- “preach” in the school where I work, encour- It’s what two people going shopping in Man- Again, while our city approvals in October ercise its option over the “outparcels.” aging my students to use the paper/metal/plas- All letters must be signed and include partment inspectors. the writer’s home address and phone hattan would pay for MetroCard fares. Why 2004 reflected the potential development of Why do they harass people with tickets tic recycling containers in my room. number (only the writer’s name and should one group of people going to Manhat- the outparcels, we consistently have main- for a small piece of paper? Don’t they real- Though we cannot help being consumers neighborhood are published with the let- tan pay nothing when everyone but pedestri- tained that priority number one was — and is Simcha, times two ize that, in New York City, no one can con- (in the biological sense of the word), there are ter). Letters may be edited and will not ans and cyclists pay something? — to build and open IKEA Brooklyn. Period. To the editor, trol every piece of paper? still ways we can reduce our effect on our en- be returned. The earlier in the week you In fact, drivers are costing all the rest of us Apparently this fact was less compelling As a homeowner and owner of a 16-unit Felder should tell the Sanitation Depart- vironment. Rosemarie Bugenis, Gravesend send your letter, the better.

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NATIONAL Suit: Ratner is one bad liar CLASSIFIEDS By Gersh Kuntzman and seeks $20 million in compensatory agrees with Mr. Greene’s allegations and Sadie Mitnick, told Greene that “she a man who had no qualms about “[tak- The Brooklyn Paper damages and $10 million in punitive will fight them.” knew how hard he had worked, that he ing] advantage” of Greene’s access to damages. Greene also did not wish to comment should have been taken care of for all of deep-pocketed basketball investors. Reader Advisory: National trade associations to which we belong purchased the fol- Bruce Ratner is a money-grubbing Ratner, said Greene, “never had any for this article. his efforts … and that Ratner should By the end of the 17-page court doc- lowing classifieds. This publication has not verified the value of any of the services or prod- liar who tricked a well-connected busi- intention of fulfilling” the promises, But his court papers speak for them- never have promised him all of the ument, the prevailing image of Ratner is ucts advertised; some advertisers do not offer “employment” but rather supply manuals, nessman into investing $6 million of which included making Greene a mem- selves: Ratner stiffed Greene out of his things that he had,” the papers said. one of a money-hungry user who makes directories and other materials designed to help their clients establish mail order selling and his own money to help Ratner acquire ber of the Nets’ Board of Governors, fundraising fee, which typically amounts Reached by The Brooklyn Paper, promises, yet doesn’t deliver. other businesses at home. Under NO circumstance should you send any money in advance the New Jersey Nets with promises where he could “interact with other high- to eight percent of the total amount Mitnick said she didn’t want to com- Green was “continuously pressured or give an advertiser your checking, license ID, or credit card numbers. Also beware of ads that he “never had any intention of ful- that claim to guarantee loans regardless of credit and note that if a credit repair company worth investors … for further and ever- raised, and he “breached the implied ment on the suit because she was on va- by Ratner … to continue his fundraising does business only over the phone it’s illegal to request money before delivering its service. filling,” a bombshell lawsuit charged increasing business and financial gain.” covenant of good faith and fair dealing,” cation. She promised to speak to a re- efforts,” the document says. Ratner last week. When Greene confronted Ratner with the papers said. porter next week. “continuously urged Greene, ‘We need Eugene Greene contributed the hefty the alleged breach of contract at the end Greene was “shocked at Ratner’s po- Greene’s court papers paint a decid- money, money, money. And you need to sum — and rounded up another $25 of 2004, Ratner told him, “I don’t re- sition” given the success of Greene’s edly different picture of Bruce Ratner get it for us!’” million from other investors — to help member what I said. As you know, I fundraising effort, the papers added. than the one conveyed by Forest City’s As a result, Greene engaged in Ratner buy the Nets in 2004, but now have a memory problem,” the court pa- Greene, who describes himself as “a official bio (which calls him “the fore- “round-the-clock efforts to raise more claims that the Atlantic Yards developer pers said. highly experienced and successful busi- most urban real estate developer in the capital for Ratner.” He expected to be CADNET ADS reneged on his promises to make Greene Forest City Ratner officials did not re- nessman and entrepreneur,” sought help New York metropolitan area” and refers “well compensated for his efforts,” but “the glue that helps run this team.” spond to several requests from The from other executives at Ratner’s com- to his service in the Lindsay and Koch was not compensated at all, the papers Ratner made “repeated promises and Brooklyn Paper to address Greene’s se- pany, but “those executives admitted to administrations before becoming a real- charge. 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