PRIMARY THOUGHTS Kids Are Back DECISION’08 BROOKLYN VOTES TUESDAY, FEB
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Brooklyn’s Real Newspaper BrooklynPaper.com • (718) 834–9350 • Brooklyn, NY • ©2008 AWP/16 pages • Vol. 31, No. 5 • Saturday, Feb. 2, 2008 • FREE Jeeves, be a dear and get my laundry Concierge service the new high-end trend By Dana Rubinstein Call them what you will: valets, nies, are competing to benefit from territory.” The Brooklyn Paper attaches, gofers, concierges, but these the windfall. In fact, Beason is facing serious, fancy fetchers will sit in well-appointed It’s something of a David vs. Go- and more established, competition The in-house butler is coming to lobbies for one purpose — to serve liath fight. here. Brooklyn. the wealthy tenant (for a fee, of course). Wielding the slingshot is Sharon David Werner, who owns the Clin- From One Brooklyn Bridge Park Ian Levine, a spokesman for the Beason, an aspiring accountant who ton Hill-based Prestige Valet and on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront 449-unit One Brooklyn Bridge Park, capitalized on the growing demand for Concierge and works with more than to No. Twenty Bayard and The Edge said that the condo building will have concierge services in 2006 when she 70 buildings in Manhattan, is aggres- / Jeff Bachner / Jeff / Jeff Bachner / Jeff in Williamsburg, to One Hanson a 24/7 “valet.” founded All About Brooklyn. For sively courting the new Brooklyn Place in Fort Greene, developers of “We’ve seen a number of people now, Beason has 50 individual clients, market, one he claims is exploding. luxury condo towers are luring pam- moving from Manhattan to develop- but is going after the mother lode: “We’ll be doing a lot of work in pered buyers from across the East ments in the Brooklyn area and these large-scale luxury developments. Brooklyn,” said Werner, who is in River with personal concierges who types of services are things they’ve “A lot of these Downtown devel- negotiations with a number of large The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn will find a babysitter, hire a dog- become accustomed to,” said Levine. opers have hired concierge compa- developments. Just recently, he secur- Dave Werner, owner of a large Brooklyn-based con- walker, or even go grocery shopping Existing concierge services, in- nies from Manhattan,” said Beason. ed the contract for One Brooklyn … Brooklyn rival Dina Patton for the coming cierge service, is going up against … for their too-busy-to-bother clients. cluding two Brooklyn-based compa- “But I say, ‘Wait a minute. This is my See CONCIERGE on page 13 tide of luxury clients. STATE OF THE UNION: PRIMARY THOUGHTS Kids are back DECISION’08 BROOKLYN VOTES TUESDAY, FEB. 5 in the ‘Hall’ he owner of Union Hall, the Union Street bocce bar popular with hipsters, rockers and (until last week) new moms, has Tchanged his mind after a week of criticism for his hastily an- PAUL nounced “No kids allowed” OBAMA CLINTON McCAIN HUCKABEE ROMNEY policy. Starting soon, owner Jim SMART Carden told Smartmom, the bar will once again welcome mom in moms and their kids for some downtime (and drinks!) By Louise Crawford a few afternoons a week. Whew! Now, can we all EXCLUSIVE / Jeff Bachner / Jeff Bachner / Jeff Bachner get along? BP BP BP Carden had been under fire — and also hailed as a drinking class “Barack Obama is “Hillary has the experi- “John McCain has “When Mike Huckabee “Ron Paul is the only “Mitt Romney has the hero — ever since he posted a “No strollers” sign in the front win- going to bring us a ence needed to be shown time and time became a viable candi- candidate who stands kind of background dow last week. different kind of politi- the next president of again that he does what date, it was like a for peace, privacy and that shows he’ll make Plenty of mommies took to the blogs to slam Carden, but just as cal conversation and the United States.” he thinks is right even if breath of fresh air. … prosperity.” serious attempts to many defended him. he thinks it’s going to be He’s a good conserva- Sam Russo, make Washington more “I went to Union Hall [and] was appalled to be sitting next to get us engaged with — Donald Graff, politically costly.” tive all the way Carroll Gardens fiscally responsible.” toddlers while trying talk to my girlfriends (sometimes graphically) Park Slope our democracy.” Theodore Roosevelt around.” Mark Butler, about life,” wrote one poster on Brooklynian. “So I’ve not been — Jen Abrams, IV*, Brooklyn Heights Leslie McMillan, Carroll Gardens back. I’ll give it another try if it’s not going to feel like a preschool.” Windsor Terrace Bensonhurst That was one of the more polite posts! *Yes, he really is the great- grandson of the 26th president. Carden certainly wasn’t the first bar-owner to lower the boom on the Bugaboo set. Who can forget the bartender at Patio on Fifth Avenue who wrote the now-famous (or infamous) “Stroller Mani- festo” on an A-frame sandwich board? “What is it with people bringing their kids into bars?” wrote THE PAPER’S ENDORSEMENTS, P.5 • PRIMARY COVERAGE, P.6 bartender Andy Heidel in thick white chalk back in August, 2006. See HALL WELCOMES KIDS on page 12 Ridge steroid suspect kills self By Joe Jordan Medical Examiner ruled the death a ongoing probe of Lowen’s. for The Brooklyn Paper suicide. “Look, what else was this guy go- Rossi, a Staten Island resident, made ing to do?” one Lowen’s customer The owner of a suspected steroid headlines last year when Lowen’s said on Tuesday. “If he lived and mill in Bay Ridge was found dead in was raided twice by authorities in an they went after him in court, they’d an office above his Third Avenue ongoing steroid investigation. take the store, his house — every- drugstore on Monday night, leaving Nearly $8 million in illegal thing. By doing this, at least his fam- a note that begged for forgiveness steroids and human growth hormone ily can get it all.” for his role in selling the illegal mus- were seized in the raids, authorities Another customer, Joan Lyle, was cle-builders. said, though Rossi, listed simply as a beside herself upon hearing of John Rossi, 56, co-owner of Lo- “target” of the investigation, had not / Joe Jordan Rossi’s death. wen’s Pharmacy, had been shot once yet been charged in any crime. “This is shocking,” said Lyle, in his chest and once in his head. He may have felt the dragnet was who has lived in Bay Ridge since Next to his body was a bottle of Jack tightening. 1955. “You never hear things like Daniel’s whiskey, a bottle of pills Newsday reported this week that this going on in Bay Ridge.” and a note saying, “Please forgive law enforcement officials were con- Paper The Brooklyn Rossi’s daughter had just given me,” the Daily News reported. sidering criminal charges against Police discovered the body of John Rossi inside an office above birth to his grandson on the same / Ben Muessig After an autopsy on Tuesday, the Rossi unless he cooperated with their Lowen’s Pharmacy, at Third and Bay Ridge avenues, on Monday. day as the suicide. The Brooklyn Paper The Brooklyn Pam Willke poses with Samantha, the dog that was stolen from her Wind- sor Terrace apartment last week, but returned to her by two women who BOSSERT ON THE BLOCK say they bought the pooch from the thief on the Fulton Mall. Jehovah’s Witnesses to sell Heights jewel By Adam F. Hutton ness arm of the Jehovah’s Witnesses — Real-estate developers are salivating BARK BACK! The Brooklyn Paper comes as the Witnesses have moved over the properties that have come on the The Hotel Bossert, the swanky most of their publishing and printing op- market, but locals say they will miss the Brooklyn Heights building that was the erations upstate. Witnesses. See BOSSERT on page 6 Stolen dog returned to owner site of the Dodgers’ knock-down, drag- out World Series victory party in 1955 By Ben Muessig at work. Cops knew that the dog had and, more recently, has served as a dor- for The Brooklyn Paper been stolen, and was not merely miss- mitory for the Jehovah’s Witnesses, is ing, because the thief had also taken the A grief-stricken Windsor Terrace on the block. pup’s yellow carrier. The “For sale” sign is the latest one to woman was reunited with her beloved For two days, a panicked Willke put Maltese pup on Wednesday — a full be slapped on Witnesses buildings in up flyers all over the neighborhood and Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO and week after thieves broke into her contacted the local media. apartment and stole the only valuable Brooklyn Heights, where the century-old At the same time, sisters Julissa and faith is based. that mattered: her dog. Shavonne Bermudez, 23 and 19, of Last year, the sect put up for sale six Pam Willke’s 8-year-old pooch Flatbush, were shopping on the Fulton of its 18 Brooklyn Heights properties, in- Samantha was returned to her at the Mall in Downtown Brooklyn — miles cluding the Standish Arms Hotel on Co- 72nd Precinct stationhouse in a tearful away from the crime scene — when a lumbia Heights, which sold for $50 mil- reunion that ended a bizarre, week-long man offered to sell them a dog. Un- lion in December. mystery that began when thieves raided aware that the canine was stolen prop- The Bossert could go for twice as her 16th Street apartment on Jan.