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See CYCLONES on page 2 THIS WEEK IN Home Improvement: GO 6-7 NY Waterway to float ferry: p7 WWW.BROOKLYNPAPERS.COM Tempest rages Shakespeare’s final work Our neighborhood’s independent voice on stage at St. Francis Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn, NY 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2002 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 18 pages including 8 pages GO BROOKLYN • Vol.25, No. 25 BRG • June 24, 2002 • FREE INSIDE Woman slain outside home By Heather J. Wilson at 345 86th St. between Third Rothman with two steak a cell phone. The Brooklyn Papers and Fourth Avenues, where knives. Reportedly, he never Garcia was found on the she usually held court convers- uttered a word. field with two steak knives in Flowers and memorial ing with neighbors, police said. When Garcia began to walk his hand, police said. candles were placed this Rothman was taken to away after allegedly stabbing Garcia was arraigned on week in the lobby of a Bay Lutheran Medical Center fol- Rothman, several teenagers Monday, according to the Ridge apartment building lowing the attack, but was pro- ran after him. According to po- Brooklyn district attorney’s of- outside of which a 60-year- nounced dead at 9:05 pm, po- lice, they chased him five fice, and charged with murder old woman was stabbed to lice said. She sustained two blocks to the Fort Hamilton in the second degree and death Sunday. stab wounds to her left arm High School athletic field, fourth-degree weapons pos- Ariel Garcia, 25, allegedly and one to her left chest. where police were able to session. His lawyer, Steven plunged a knife into the heart Police say Garcia was wear- make an arrest, after being Chaikin, did not return a call of Leona Rothman as she sat ing a pair of black gloves and a alerted to the incident by one seeking comment by press outside her apartment building, wool mask when he stabbed of the teens, who called 911 on time. “Apparently the gentlemen was having marital problems,” Community Affairs Officer Russell Kain said at Monday night’s Community Board 10 BEE KEE NEE VICTIM’S MOM: meeting. He noted that Gar- cia’s estranged wife was living in Rothman’s building and that he had gone there to see her. According to published re- I live with ache ports, neighbors said that hours before the stabbing, Garcia’s wife had moved into her mother’s apartment there following a fight with her hus- in my heart band. Building manager Eugene Zaveloff told the Daily News By Heather J. Wilson row of benches behind prosecutor Mark Hale’s that “there might have been The Brooklyn Papers table. She did not look at her son’s killer, some bad blood” between Carmine Galante, of Bensonhurst, who stood “Billy Manolis was my son,” Maria Rothman and Garcia that in handcuffs during the entire proceeding. stemmed from a time when Manolis said proudly, but with a tinge of “We lost our Billy on April 4, 1999 while sadness, in beginning her victim’s rights Garcia had lived in the build- celebrating his 18th birthday a block away ing with his wife and mother- statement Monday in the Downtown from our home,” Maria said. “We suffered a in-law several years earlier. Brooklyn courtroom where her son’s loss that cannot be replaced by someone who Tenants standing outside of killer would soon be sentenced to the has no respect for life, a complete opposite of the 86th Street building Tuesday maximum of 18 years to life. my Billy. A parent should not have to see a told The Brooklyn Papers that Maria, whose son William was brutally death of a child. I live with a lump in my they did not know whether or stabbed to death in the Bee Kee Nee bar on throat and an ache in my heart… not marital problems might Fort Hamilton Parkway at 92nd Street three “People that do not have responsibility for have had anything to do with years ago, made her pre-sentencing statement their fellow man and [have] disregard for hu- Garcia’s attack on Rothman. directly to Judge Joel Goldberg from the front See MURDER on page <None> See SLAIN on page 4 A makeshift memorial in the lobby of 345 86th St. near where Leona Rothman was brutally murdered. Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango CB rules Angry transsexuals sue Toys ‘R’ Us By Heather J. Wilson Donna McGrath, Robert (Tanya) Jinks and sexuals who were in another aisle while she Board 10 chair says: The Brooklyn Papers Norbert “Tara” Lopez, are each seeking shopped for a life-size Butterfly Barbie doll $300,000 in damages from Toys ‘R’ Us stem- on Dec. 13, 2000, with Jinks and Lopez. Mc- learn ‘em, live by ‘em A civil lawsuit brought by three transsex- ming from two incidents in December 2000 Grath said she heard employees refer to them uals against Toys ‘R’ Us began in federal The Brooklyn Papers during which, they allege, they were discrimi- as “faggots” and “transvestites.” court Downtown this week. The suit alleges nated against based on their sexual orientation. “I felt humiliated, I am not a transvestite,” The chairman of Community Board the three were verbally abused and physi- McGrath says that she overheard a female she said. 10 has told board members to hit the cally threatened by employees of a Bath employee of the Toys ‘R’ Us on Bay Parkway McGrath noted during her testimony that books — in particular, the book that Beach Toys ‘R’ Us a year and a half ago. at Caesar’s Bay commenting about the trans- See SUES on page 4 teaches rules of parliamentary law — to resolve the disorder of recent meetings. At Monday’s monthly general meeting, held at 9000 Shore Road, CB10 Chairman Steve Harrison asked that board members take the next two months — when CB10 Judge: Ferrari killer a flight risk meetings halt for summer break — to read “Robert’s Rules of Order.” The book, according to CB10 member The Brooklyn Papers several charges, including second-degree mur- Rachamin return to court Thursday with Joanne Seminara, is designed to provide an A judge revoked bail Tuesday for a der, for allegedly killing Howard Mazariegos, documents including his passport, visa and answer to nearly any possible question of of Gravesend, in April while driving drunk other forms of identification. Florida man charged in a deadly hit-and- and at speeds of up to 100 miles an hour. He No bail was set upon his arrest and ar- parliamentary procedure. It includes the run on Fourth Avenue after finding out rules of order behind calls to order, order of faces 25 years to life in prison if convicted. raignment. that he isnt a U.S. citizen. See CB10 RULES on page 7 During his scheduled June 18 pre-trial According to prosecutors, Mangano had Donna McGrath and Tara Lopez outside U.S. courthouse Darninka Rachamin, 24, was indicted on hearing, Judge Guy Mangano ordered that See NO BAIL on page 7 Downtown Wednesday. The Brooklyn Papers / Greg Mango Century 21 unveils a redesign By Heather J. Wilson stockroom of the store was under- customers through their lines faster tile floors in a rich, beige checker- tioning and a great view. That The Brooklyn Papers taken as phase one of the project, because of technologically ad- board pattern and on colored carpets helps.” Bay Ridge’s Century 21 depart- turning 24,000 square feet of space vanced cash registers and perhaps, among wider aisles.