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INSIDE Pacino, Tomei Including The Downtown News, Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill Paper and Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Paper BROOKLYN ’S WEEKLY play DUMBO NEWSPAPER Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • N EWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2002 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 14 pages including GO BROOKLYN Waterfront access •Vol.25, No.45 BWN, DTG, PSG, MID • November 18, 2002 Atlantic-Furman traffic circle sought • FREE Connor By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers A jitney bus, a tunnel con- nection from the Clark Street a goner 2/3 subway station, a bridge from the promenade, and now a traffic circle at Atlantic Senate Dems to / File photo Avenue and Furman Street. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Local Development Corpor- oust Heights rep ation (LDC) can tack that lat- est idea onto a $1 million fed- as Minority Leader The Brooklyn Papers eral access study obtained by A view of the Brooklyn waterfront from Windows on the World taken in 1999. The Brooklyn Bridge Park Rep. Nydia Velazquez for the The Brooklyn Papers development is planned to span from just beyond the Manhattan Bridge (far left) to Joralemon Street. commercial and recreational development that will In part decrying his work for gubernatorial spoiler encompass the Brooklyn Tom Golisano, 14 state Senate Democrats vowed Heights waterfront. Wednesday to oust Brooklyn Heights Sen. Martin Connor from his minority leadership post. On Thursday, the Neighbor- Manhattan state Sen. David Paterson, 48, the deputy hood Open Space Coalition State Sen. Minority Leader Marty Connor is facing The race to spend convened a meeting with about minority leader, who has represented Harlem, the Upper ouster from his leadership position West Side and Washington Heights since 1985, an- 40 people, many of whom were nounced he had more than enough votes to pull off the neighborhood association or coup Tuesday, at the organizational Park planners hope to use cash while they can city and state agency represen- BP / File photo tatives, to discuss the improve- meeting of the De- By Patrick Gallahue ment of local Brooklyn streets. See GONER The Brooklyn Papers on page 6 communities of Brooklyn Heights, The meeting, sponsored by The developers of Brooklyn Cobble Hill, DUMBO, Park Slope Velazquez, the New York Met- Bridge Park will fast-track and Boerum Hill, planners and con- lyn Bridge Park and continues to ropolitan Transportation Coun- cil and the Brooklyn Bridge their plans through the sultants laid out a swift schedule for consult with the developers. Latest defense Park Coalition — began with a Environmental Impact State- the implementation of plans for the “Everyone knows the $150 mil- commercial and recreational water- lion is at risk … It would behoove workshop by Charles Gandy, a ment and design processes former Texas state legislator front development. The CAC is an anyone in this process to move as O before vulnerable dollars are official advisory committee to the and now a consultant with Liv- ’Hara gets new day in court quickly as possible so this money is able Communities, a trail plan- grabbed by a cash-starved city developers, the Brooklyn Bridge not at risk,” Alschuler told CAC and state, a park-planning con- Park Development Corporation. ning and bicycle and pedestrian members. advocacy group. sultant said Thursday. “The city and state are in their The master plan calls for a $150 worst situation in 30 years,” said Gandy led a discussion on At the Nov. 7 meeting of the Citi- million commercial and recreation- ideas for pedestrian-friendly John Alschuler, a consultant with zens Advisory Council (CAC), a 21- al development spanning from Jay streets that would remain func- the firm Hamilton, Rabinovitz & member group from the surrounding Street, under the Manhattan Bridge, tional for traffic. Alschuler (HR&A), which helped develop the master plan for Brook- 1.3 miles south to Pier 5 at Jorale- The slides featured flower- mon Street. The state has commit- lined roadways with various measures for traffic mitigation See RACE on page 4 as well as slides of dysfunction- See B’klyn Law defies the cityCIRCLE on page 4 By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers On Nov. 6, workers for Urban Despite being ordered by Foundation Engineering, Brooklyn the city Department of Law’s contractor on the massive Buildings to cease all work on dorm project, were spotted remov- EXCLUSIVE tion of an adjacent parking lot at its State Street dormitory site ing boulders from the site, an ac- 199 State St. No one was hurt, but after collapsing an adjacent tion that had not been approved by John Kennedy O the entire building had to be de- ’Hara outside Downtown garage last week, Brooklyn the Buildings Department (DOB), molished by the city, with most of an agency spokeswoman told The studies are performed on the bor- By Patrick Gallahue ’s federal court. Law School’s contractor dering buildings. its tenant vehicles still inside, after resumed work days later and Brooklyn Papers. it was determined that to rescue The Brooklyn Papers Contacted by The Papers, Brook- the Eastern District courthouse on The Brooklyn Papers was slapped with yet another While the contractor does have the cars would have been too dan- / Greg Mango permission to shore up the adjacent lyn Law School officials said this A federal judge has agreed to Cadman Plaza East on Dec. 20, violation. gerous. this week. “In reality, why did he properties, no work is permitted on week that the matter was under in- reopen the case of John O’Hara, calling into question O’Hara’s 1999 The contractor was slapped with pick me? Because I’m just a voter? the dorm site until necessary safety vestigation. the long-time insurgent against conviction for illegal voting. three violations, including failure No. Because I ran for office. That’s On Oct. 31, Urban Foundation the Kings County Democratic For O’Hara, it will be just the lat- Engineering knocked down a por- to safeguard an adjoining building. the way it happens. The winners According to both Councilman organization, who was found est trip to court to clear his name from what he believes was a politi- take office and the losers go to jail.” See B’KLYN LAW guilty of illegal voting. cally motivated prosecution right Forcing costly primaries, he on page 4 Judge John Gleeson agreed to from the beginning, in 1996. claims, angered his challengers and hear oral arguments on the case in the county party, who, he said, or- “Hynes has been saying all along chestrated a politically motivated that it’s not political,” O’Hara said prosecution. See LICH ER TERROR-READYO’HARA on page 6 By Patrick Gallahue / Greg Mango The Brooklyn Papers Long Island College Hospital gave a sneak preview of its upgraded emergency room on equipment that’s never going to be The Brooklyn Papers Nov. 6, with guests who were in a significantly more celebratory used,” Kohl told The Brooklyn Papers mood than its future intakes are last October. “Now it’s easier to have likely to be. that discussion.” Amid hors d’oeuvres and wine, In addition, there are now separate elected officials, members of the hos- waiting rooms for children and the pital’s board of directors and commu- size of the emergency room will be / Sherri Liberman nity activists toured the new facilities, doubled. which will officially open to patients The hospital broke ground on the / Sherri Liberman at the end of March. renovations in October 2000. The $5 The new CAT scan had been added million project has remained on target to the emergency room, which had to be finished by this March. Since the The Brooklyn Papers previously been located in the base- construction began, the emergency de- ment of the Fuller Building adjacent partment has been shifted to adjacent The Brooklyn Papers to the emergency department. areas. Veterans honored “Much of the bio-terrorism think- The upgrade to the emergency de- ing that came out after Sept. 11, we partment is part of a $63 million LICH Memorial rifle squad members Andres Gomes and Stan Costello (left) stand at attention tried to incorporate as well,” said EMT Supervisor Edward Caballero demonstrates a device that would modernization project, which, in turn, during Veterans Day ceremonies at 72nd Street and Eighth Avenue in Bay Ridge. At bot- Mark McDougle, the chief operating decontaminate an ambulance in case of a bio-terrorism emergency at is part of a $130 million endowment tom right, Chaplain Joseph Scognamiglio, Commander Robert O officer of Long Island College Hospi- the new LICH emergency room. from the estate of Donald Othmer, a der Raymond Iocobacci, speak at same services. Meanwhile, at Fort Hamilton Army Base tal (LICH). longtime LICH regent, and his wife, Veterans Day military Assisted by private fundraising by work of Jewish community schools, The Brooklyn Papers Mildred Topp Othmer, which will up- ter it was fired. “retreat ’Hare and Vice Comman- the Chest Foundation, a philanthropic / Sherri Liberman ” ceremony (top right), Sgt. Shannon Dyer covers artillary af- LICH now has more than 50 haz- date practically every sector of the wing of the American College of hospital including patient floors, med- Chest Physicians; as well as LICH ardous materials, or Hazmat suits, an emergency medicine at LICH, was ’s advanced radiation detector and anti- one of Brooklyn’s most outspoken ad- ical equipment and clinical depart- doctors; a group led by Park Slope ments. neighborhood activist Ellen Freuden- dotes for nerve agents. vocates for developing hazardous ma- heim; and Ravsak, a nationwide net- As anthrax cases emerged in New terials programs.