BROOKLYN HOUSE OF ‘D’ SET TO REOPEN FOR GOP PROTESTERS: PAGE 6 SATURDAY • AUGUST 28, 2004 Including The Brooklyn Heights Paper, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper, DUMBO Paper, Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper and Downtown News Brooklyn’s REAL newspapers Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington Street, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2004 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages • Vol. 27, No. 34 BWN • Saturday, August 28, 2004 • FREE Govs to party at Fulton Landing By Deborah Kolben The two-term governor, who also The Brooklyn Papers happens to be a southern Baptist minister and the lead bassist of his After martinis in Manhattan and own country and rock ‘n’ roll band, before “rocking the planet in Capitol Offense, will headline the Times Square,” the nation’s party on Aug. 1. Republican governors — and 600 “He’s really excited about it,” Jim of their closest friends — will Harris, a spokesman for Huckabee, head across the river Wednesday told The Brooklyn Papers this week. for a Brooklyn- # # themed state fair. # # Yes, a Brooklyn # GOP CONVENTION ’04 # state fair. Nestled next to the Brooklyn It’s the band’s first gig in New / Rebecca Cetta Bridge, with sweeping views of York, although they have opened for Manhattan, partygoers from the Re- Willie Nelson, country singer Char- publican Governors Association will lie Daniels (“Devil Went Down to chow down on Nathan’s hot dogs Georgia”), and singer-turned-psy- and cheesecake from Junior’s in chic Dionne Warwick. Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park. The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn How did Capitol Offense get their But the entertainment will come start? / Pablo Martinez Monsivais from one of their own. “The people he hired had musical Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ability and the governor had played won’t make it to the podium at basic guitar as a young boy, so they On the ball Associated Press Madison Square Garden during the got together in the basement of the Cyclones slugger Tyler Davidson singles during Tuesday night’s game against the Oneonta Tigers Republican National Convention governor’s mansion and had some Vice President Dick Cheney, left, and President George W. Bush, will at Keyspan Park. The first-place Clones are in yet another pennant race and, if they hold on, will this week, but he will get to rock out jam sessions and then they said, be in town for the GOP convention this week. Cheney will accept enter the playoffs — beginning on Sept. 6 — for the fourth straight year. in Brooklyn. See GOVS on page 6 the nomination on Wednesday and Bush will do the same Thursday. Hotel Call for Dolly to set for divest of Nets THIS WEEKEND The plan calls for the state to seize nearly 10 acres of privately-owned Complaint property. Union “As a planning commissioner, Williams can smooth the way for filed with this project, which is gong to line her pockets at taxpayer’s ex- city board pense — and she’s drawing a street $45,131 city salary while she By Deborah Kolben does it,” Goldstein charged. The Brooklyn Papers In a letter to Mark Davies, ex- By Deborah Kolben ecutive director of the Conflicts The Brooklyn Papers Responding to the news that of Interest Board, Goldstein Brooklyn City Planning Com- Along a gritty stretch of Union Street called Williams’ interest in the missioner Dolly Williams is a Papers File The Brooklyn team a violation of Chapter 68 of just off the Gowanus Canal, across the the City Charter, the section de- Ray Funk co-owner of real estate mogul Dolly Williams street from a casket manufacturer and Bruce Ratner’s recently pur- tailing conflicts of interests in- an oil depot, it takes a special eye to chased New Jersey Nets, a volving city officials. conjure up white bed linens, bell hops ning board made her a key player group opposed to the team’s In his letter, Goldstein states that and pillow mints. in the city’s land use approval the provision applies to all paid Vintage calypso move to Downtown Brooklyn process. She and her husband, But a Queens-based developer with just By Lisa J. Curtis city officers and that the law goes such a vision has secured permits to build a The musical form, with its improvised lyrics, so- filed a grievance this week Adonijah Williams, own A. on to say that a city officer with 56-room hotel on the block between Third GO Brooklyn Editor cial commentary and complex rhythms, made a with the city. Williams Construction and are ownership interest in firms doing and Fourth avenues. While the borough gears up for the annual strong impact in Brooklyn, particularly in the The complaint, filed with the joint investors in the team Ratner business with the city has a con- While the empty lots upon which the ho- West Indian festivities on Labor Day weekend, 1950s, when the borough witnessed an explosion of Conflicts of Interest Board by the hopes to bring to an arena he flict of interest. tel would rise sit just blocks from Park Brooklyn Public Library’s latest exhibit, West Indian immigration, according to the curators. anti-arena group Develop-Don’t would build at the corner of Flat- “[Forest City Ratner] plans to Slope, a neighborhood where brownstones “Calypso Music in Postwar America,” explores The “Calypso Music” artifacts trace the careers of Destroy Brooklyn, charges that by bush and Atlantic avenues. borrow money from the city for now fetch millions of dollars, the Gowanus calypso musicians in nightclubs, concerts, recording investing in the team — as well as “This is a flagrant violation of this project; hence the company the impact of the Trinidadian music sensation studios and movies. Among the artists showcased in neighborhood west of Fourth Avenue is still that swept the nation from 1945 to 1960. in Ratner’s plan to build an arena, city law,” said Daniel Goldstein, a will be doing business with the the exhibit are Lord Invader, Sir Lancelot, the Duke office buildings and a housing de- spokesman for Develop-Don’t De- city,” Goldstein writes. “What is largely industrial. And unlike apartments or Curated by Ray Funk and Stephen Stuempfle, of Iron, Macbeth the Great, Atilla the Hun, Lord velopment — Williams has “bro- stroy. The group opposes Forest also of interest is the fact that retail stores, hotels are an as-of-right use the display of more than 100 archival materials Beginner and Lord Flea. ken the law,” and should be forced City Ratner’s bid to build Atlantic [Forest City Ratner Executive within the current zoning. includes rare photographs, sheet music, song- “Calypso Music in Postwar America,” to either divest of her Nets interest, Yards, a 21-acre project that in- Vice President] Jim Stuckey has The hotel property will stretch from books, album covers and movie posters never be- which is free and open to the public, is estimated at nearly $1 million, or cludes the basketball arena, 4,500 said that his company is ‘work- Union to Sackett streets and is listed as both fore exhibited together, including a lobby card for on display at the library’s Central face criminal prosecution. units of housing and three tower- ing closely with City Planning.’ 628 Sackett and 626 Union. News of a hotel Howard Koch’s 1957 film “Bop Girl Goes Ca- Branch at Grand Army Plaza Borough President Marty ing office buildings on property He has stated this in public on going up in the area was met with mixed re- lypso” (pictured), in which Bobby Troup plays a through Sept. 26. Markowitz’s appointment of extending from the downtown in- several occasions.” actions around the neighborhood, but mostly psychologist who predicts that calypso will su- Call (718) 230-2100 for fur- Williams to the powerful plan- tersection into Prospect Heights. See HOTEL on page 5 percede rock ‘n’ roll in popularity. ther information. See NETS on page 5 BEGINSPAGE ON 8 Long-troubled Heights building loses its face By Deborah Kolben Firefighters evacuated the building on shattered,” said Andy Pak, 24, who with imminently perilous to life.” building would collapse. Many Brooklyn Heights residents who The Brooklyn Papers the corner of Clark Street and Monroe his girlfriend moved into a fourth-floor The building next door, at 3 Monroe Besides firefighters and police, officials passed by the scene said they were not Place, part of the Brooklyn Heights His- apartment earlier this month. Place, was also vacated and the 2/3 sub- with the Department of Buildings, Office surprised the building collapsed. The front of a five-story building toric District, at 9:30 am after the entire Officials barred tenants of 100 Clark St. way, which runs through a tunnel that of Emergency Management, Department “That looked like it was going to cave in Brooklyn Heights collapsed east-facing facade crashed to the ground. from re-entering the building and the De- passes below the building, was slowed of Housing Preservation and Develop- for years,” said one passerby, who said he Thursday morning, sending residents “I was lying in bed when the window partment of Buildings posted a notice ex- down to minimize vibrations as Buildings ment, and the Red Cross all responded to has lived in the neighborhood for three scrambling for safety. came right at me and then the whole thing plaining “conditions in this premise are Department officials feared the rest of the the scene. 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