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Two Sections w Facebook.com/ Twitter.com Volume 59, No. 108 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2013 BrooklynEagle.com BrooklynEagle @BklynEagle 50¢ BROOKLYN City’s Lawyers TODAY SEPT. 13 Defend Muslim Good morning. Today is Surveillance the 256th day of the year. The From Associated Press Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Sept. Lawyers for New York 13, 1901, carried a report on City are claiming police had the condition of President legitimate reasons to put William McKinley, who had mosques under surveillance been shot by anarchist Leon in response to a civil rights Czogolsz. The Eagle said lawsuit filed by Muslims. there was an improvement in An attorney with the city his condition, that he was con- Law Department told a fed- scious, and he was responding eral judge at a hearing in well to a saline injection. As Brooklyn on Thursday that we know, however, McKinley before the case goes for- eventually died of his injuries, ward, the city should be al- and New Yorker Theodore lowed to show that the New York Police Department was Roosevelt became president. acting on reasonable suspi- cion. Well-known people who An American Civil Lib- were born today include erties Union attorney coun- singer Fiona Apple, actress tered that the suspicions Jacqueline Bisset, singer were based on innuendo. PEOPLE ON WEDNESDAY TALK AT A WILLIAMSBURG HOTEL’S Peter Cetera (former lead She said the NYPD should rooftop bar with a view of the “Tribute in Light” in Lower singer of Chicago), fashion be ordered to turn over sen- designer Stella McCartney, sitive reports and documents Manahttan. The twin beams of light commemorate the television producer Fred Sil- detailing the alleged spying twin towers that were destroyed in the attacks of Sept. 11, verman and former baseball on Muslims. 2001. See related story, page 2. AP Photo by Mark Lenihan player Bernie Williams. The 2013 Toast of Brook- lyn Wine and Food Festival will be held Friday night and all day Saturday at the court- Two Brooklyn yard of the Bedford- Stuyvesant Restoration Pro- ject at 1368 Fulton St. On Fri- Residents day evening, the festival will feature a reception honoring Nelson Mandela, who will be Face Off for represented by his daughter, Dr. Makaziwe Mandela and granddaughter, Tukwini Man- Mayor of NYC dela. Both are principals of House of Mandela Wines. ... AT LEFT, MAYORAL CANDIDATE On Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 Joe Lhota speaks to reporters p.m., the Christian Cultural after voting in Brooklyn Heights Center, 12020 Flatlands Ave., on Tuesday. AT RIGHT, Demo- will sponsor a health fair titled cratic mayoral frontrunner Eagle “Health, Sex and Rest: What Bill de Blasio, with Public Ad- photo by Mary Frost photo You Need To Know About of AP courtesy Photo vocate candidate Letitia James Your Body and Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle.” There will and dozens of supporters, be more than 40 vendors and holds a rally at Brooklyn exhibitors. Borough Hall on Thursday. See stories, page 3. CONDOS ARE BEING BUILT ON the upper floors of the land- marked 177 Montague St., the Brooklyn Trust Company Building. Chase is expected to continue to occupy the banking hall of the vintage-1913 Italian High Renaissance-style buidling. See Eye on Real Estate, pages 1-2INB. ISLANDERS CAPTAIN JOHN Tavares took his first skate Eagle around the Brooklyn ice Thursday morning. The soon- Croghan by Lore photo to-be Brooklyn team arrived Downtown at approximately 9:35 a.m., Atlantic Avenue time, for their first-ever prac- photo by Rob Abbruzzese photo tice at “The House That Bruce Eagle Built.” See Sports, page 15. Friday, September 13, 2013 • Brooklyn Daily Eagle • 1 Scissurra of Chamber Speaks at B’klyn Bridge Rotary By Raanan Geberer clude smaller high-tech businesses, Greenpoint to Brighton Beach to Brooklyn Eagle solar-power firms, “green” compa- East New York. In many categories, Brooklyn is a nies and more. “We get our biggest response leader not only within the metropol- In food business, he mentioned when we go to the outlying areas of itan area but in the world, said Car- that the most recent Brooklyn Eats the borough,” said Scissura. “When lo Scissura, president and CEO of the event attracted from 120 to 130 lo- we held a meeting in Bay Ridge in Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. cally-based firms. Turning to Bar- the heat of the summer, we got 220 However, he said, Brooklynites clays Arena, he called it “the hottest people. And everywhere we go, we should realize that although Down- arena in the world. People in Italy, partner with local business organi- town Brooklyn is the commercial and in Greece talk about it.” zations. In Bay Ridge, we partnered civic center of the borough, Brook- Scissura also discussed popula- with the Fifth Avenue BID and lyn isn’t just Downtown. ‘Brooklyn tion trends in the borough. As has the Merchants of Third Avenue. In doesn’t look like me,” said Scissura. “It been the case throughout its histo- Brighton Beach, we partnered with looks like every one of us.” ry, Brooklyn is getting many immi- the Brighton Beach BID.” He was speaking to a meeting grants from abroad, from places like After his speech, the club’s pres- of the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary Club Latin America, the Caribbean, Rus- ident, Ed Weintrob, revealed that at the Archives Restaurant at the sia and China. “It’s also getting a lot the Brooklyn Bridge Rotary board Brooklyn Bridge Marriott on Thurs- of immigrants from places like Cali- had recently applied for Chamber day. The club, founded in 2011, is fornia, Michigan and Ohio. membership. comprised of business and profes- “According to the most recent Weintrob also distributed sional leaders in the greater Down- Census, the fastest-growing groups coins bearing Rotary Internation- town area. of newcomers are immigrants al’s “Four-Way Test,” a guide for Ro- In keeping with Rotary’s tradi- Carlo Scissura, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. from China and young men under tarians to use for their personal and tion of service, it supports projects the age of 30 from the Midwest,” professional relationships. The test like Frances Residence, for single serves the southern part of the bor- kill for just one of these projects, he said. poses these four questions: mothers and young children; and ough. and we’ve got about 10 of them.” He then talked about the activi- “Is it [the planned action] the provides volunteers and other help Scissura began by saying that He predicted that Sunset Park ties of the Chamber, obviously hop- truth? at P.S. 38 in Boerum Hill. “Brooklyn is hot.” Mentioning the will become “one of the largest ing that many there would join. “Is it fair to all concerned? The club is currently celebrat- borough’s recent developments, manufacturing areas in the world.” While the Chamber once concen- “Will it build goodwill and bet- ing the 100th anniversary of Rotary such as Barclays Center, Brooklyn New industries there, he added, will trated on Downtown, he said, to- ter friendships?” and in Brooklyn. Another borough club, Bridge Park and the revived Coney not follow the old model of large day its outreach activities extend “Will it be beneficial to all con- the Verrazano Rotary Club, mainly Island, he said, “Many cities would “smokestack” factories, but will in- into every part of the borough, from cerned?” Love Lane Mews in Heights 9/11 Remembered at Officially Sells Out Bay Ridge Ceremony By Paula Katinas Brooklyn Eagle With the Tribute in Light in view across New York Har- bor, hundreds of people gath- ered on the 69th Street pier in Bay Ridge for a ceremony to remember the victims of Sept. 11 and their loved ones on the 12th anniversary of the attacks that changed the city, and the nation, forever. Some 500 participants held candles, waved American flags, sang patriotic songs, and Brooklyn residents gathered to pay tribute to the victims of Sept. 11. prayed together in a ceremony Eagle photo by Paula Katinas organized by state Sen. Marty Golden (R-C-Bay Ridge-South- ementary school at the time highest total of any neighbor- ern Brooklyn). Golden has the tragedy took place. hood in New York City, Gold- been hosting a Sept. 11 tribute Many of them grew up en said. at the pier on every Sept. 11 an- wanting to serve the coun- Fort Hamilton solders niversary since 2002. The city’s try, he said. “Our military was offered a 21-gun salute to official tribute to the Brooklyn reshaped by the attacks,” he the victims. After that, Gold- victims killed in the terror at- said, adding that 1.3 million en and Gines released two tacks, a 20-foot-high bronze Americans have joined the bunches of yellow balloons statue called “The Beacon” sits various branches of the ser- into the air as a symbol of on the pier. vice over the past 12 years. hope for the future. Manhattan Skyline Management Coproration’s Love Lane Mews, a former parking garage, in Brooklyn Heights. The pier, which provides Gines said that the attacks Retired U.S. Army sergeant a clear view of the Manhat- feel like they took place yes- Louis Licalzi led the singing Manhattan Skyline Man- room duplex apartment with 24-hour concierge. Other ame- tan skyline, is also the spot terday. of “God Bless The USA,” the agement Corporation an- an over-sized den on the first nities include a resident man- where hundreds of Bay Ridge “The events of Sept. 11, country music song. Licalzi’s nounces that its most recent floor completes sales at Love ager, a fully-equipped fitness residents flocked to on Sept.