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SATURDAY • FEBRUARY 5, 2005 Including The Bensonhurst Paper Brooklyn’s REAL newspapers Published every Saturday — online all the time — by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 55 Washington St, Suite 624, Brooklyn NY 11201. Phone 718-834-9350 • www.BrooklynPapers.com • © 2005 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages •Vol.28, No. 6 BRZ •Saturday, February 5, 2005 • FREE Quiet change of command Williams out at Fort Hamilton, replaced with first woman CO By Jotham Sederstrom Although a woman had The Brooklyn Papers EXCLUSIVE been commander of the re- cruiting post on the base, the The Army will appoint relieved of the command for base command has always Col. Tracey Nicholson as what base sources said were been held by men, most no- commander of the Fort personal reasons related to his tably Capt. Abner Doubleday, Hamilton Army base later wife’s arrest in 2003 on drunk who is popularly credited with this month, marking the driving charges. inventing the modern game of first time in the garrison’s Since November, Col. Cur- baseball in 1835. / Tom Callan / Tom 174-year history that a tis Wrenn Jr. has acted as tem- Besides Doubleday, who porary garrison commander in led the base for only one woman has filled its highest anticipation of Nicholson’s month in June of 1861, Capt. post, The Bay Ridge Paper appointment, which is to be Levi Whiting is remembered has learned. announced officially on Feb. as Fort Hamilton’s first com- The appointment comes 15, sources said. Wrenn will mander, in 1831. nearly three months after Col. be reassigned to Fort Monroe Papers File The Brooklyn “We’ve come a long way,” Kewyn Williams was quietly in Virginia. Col. Kewyn Williams Col. Tracey Nicholson See CHANGE on page 4 Golden fuming over new kids book promoting pot smoking By Jotham Sederstrom America and abroad that included a depiction of a family sleep- / Jori Klein The Brooklyn Papers ing in a car in a city that appeared to be New York. “It’s just so wrong, telling kids it’s alright to get messed up ABay Ridge legislator lashed out this week at a on marijuana,” said Golden, a former New York City police of- Prospect Heights author who penned a children’s book ficer. praising the virtues of marijuana, calling it “harmful Cortes defended the book’s contents as more truthful than Papers The Brooklyn and dangerous to the children of our society.” most efforts to educate parents and children about pot, which State Sen. Marty Golden said the illustrated book, “It’s Just he called scare tactics similar to those in the 1938 anti-marijua- a Plant,” by Brooklyn native Ricardo Cortes, crossed the line na propaganda movie “Reefer Madness.” by sending a pro-pot message to children. “It’s not promoting marijuana use by any means,” said The small-press book, published by Magic Propaganda Mill, Cortes, who said he anticipated that addressing the topic Idiot’s delight a creative design group, was sponsored by the Marijuana Poli- “would be a Trojan horse to some extent.” cy Project and the Drug Policy Alliance, two drug advocacy “This came out of looking at current forms of marijuana ed- Participants in the first “Idiotarod” cross the Brooklyn Bridge with a shopping cart last Sat- groups. ucation and seeing how terrible they were,” said Cortes. urday. The event, which takes its name from the famous Alaskan dog-sled race, the Iditar- “This guy Ricardo Cortes should get his head examined,” With pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge in the background, the od, saw teams of five race shopping carts from Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn to Tomp- “It’s Just a Plant,” a children’s said Golden, a conservative Republican who last year came story line of “It’s Just a Plant” revolves around a young girl, kins Square Park in Manhattan for cash prizes. While there was no set course, teams were book about pot use. down on a children’s book about different types of housing in See WEED on page 15 required to make stops at two checkpoints in downtown Manhattan along the way. MARTY’S BROOKLYN gonna need it.” When Markowitz said the project More contentious, however, were his would create “about 10,000 permanent It’s cruises, Ikea, Nets endorsements of an Ikea store that is to new jobs” and “15,000 construction-relat- be built on the Red Hook waterfront and “Thanks, dock it in my usual spot — See STATE BORO on page 12 By Jotham Sederstrom developer Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards The Brooklyn Papers Pier 11 in Red Hook,” Markowitz told PAGE 7-11 the Brooklyn-born actor and TV talk project. The latter, a 24-acre plan, would Borough President Marty Mark- show host as he approached the podium. be built on a portion of Prospect Heights, owitz promoted Brooklyn as a future Two lines, Norwegian and Carnival, stretching from the intersection of Flat- home to professional basketball, the are expected to dock at Pier 12 in Red bush and Atlantic avenues, and rely on city’s first Ikea furniture store and, Hook as early as this fall with Pier 11 eminent domain property condemna- / Tom Callan / Tom most conspicuously during his State used as an entryway to the dock. tions to construct apartment and office of the Borough address, a dock for “Those cruise lines will bring tens of skyscrapers and a basketball arena for commercial cruise ships. thousands of new tourists into Brook- Ratner’s New Jersey Nets. Kicking off the address at the lyn,” Markowitz said of the construc- The mention of the Ratner project Brooklyn Museum on Jan. 27, tion, which is scheduled to begin in drew loud boos from anti-arena ac- The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Markowitz walked on stage alongside March. “So it’s a good thing that last tivists Patti and Schellie Hagan, who Behind the scenes Brooklyn-born actor Tony Danza of “The Tony Danza Show” and Borough President Marty actor Tony Danza carrying a card- week we broke ground for the expan- sat among a pool of reporters in the Markowitz stand in front of model of cruise ship Markowitz hopes will sail from Brooklyn. board mock-up of a cruise ship. sion of the Brooklyn Marriott — we’re back of the auditorium. of ‘Assisted Living’ Ridge zoning hearing turnout Brooklyn’s own ‘Explorer’ By Jotham Sederstrom DUMBO — an Emerging Explorer. The Brooklyn Papers EXCLUSIVE The wildly coveted title will be awarded to just he and five others is large thanks to scare tactic Using statistics, Andrew Zolli dent likely didn’t foresee is the Na- chosen from among several hundred predicts such things as foreign tional Geographic Society one day re- candidates worldwide. Sharing the wars waged over natural re- While it was difficult to say 13-member commission. cruiting him as a resident voyager. recognition with an Argentinean high- By Jotham Sederstrom meting property values, Bay sources and a future in which the But on Monday, Feb. 7, the 117- altitude archeologist and an English The Brooklyn Papers Ridge homeowners and de- exactly how many people at- One explanation for the inter- modern nuclear family makes est, which dipped to only five year-old institution will name Zolli — crocodile hunter, Zolli, 34, is one of velopers turned out in droves tended the hearing, since other way for European-style multigen- four from the United States to be cho- Spurred on by a combina- proposals from all five boroughs people at last month’s Borough who runs Z + Partners, a think-tank tion of low turnout at a previ- to a public hearing before the Hall public hearing, was the sur- erational living. that specializes in helping people and sen, and the only one from New York. were also on the calendar, near- The others from the United ous hearing and the circula- City Planning Commission ly a dozen spoke either in sup- facing of a misleading anony- Zolli is what is known as a futurist. institutions understand and respond to tion this week of an anony- on a proposal to down-zone port or opposition to the preser- mous letter sent to homeowners But one thing the Park Slope resi- change, from an office on Jay Street in See EXPLORER on page 12 mous letter warning of plum- the neighborhood. vation effort before the See ZONING on page 15 One of“Get the top 100 heart hospitals in America*HeartSmart ” Get regular checkups. 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The Saudi Arabian govern- ment has been distributing ma- terials preaching hatred of Jews and Christians — and calling for death to Muslims who stray IT’S NOT EVEN IN THAT from Islamic tenets — out of a FREE CUP OF COFFEE. mosque on Atlantic Avenue Callan / Tom ( ) that has been linked by investi- gators to the funding of terror- The catch is, there is no catch.

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