HOLY CHUTE! Mom Threw out My Gun Beep Hopes to Revive Landmark
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INSIDE Including The Bensonhurst Paper New sensation at BMA Published weekly by Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • NEWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2002 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 14 pages including 4 pages GO BROOKLYN •Vol.25, No.39BRG • October 7, 2002 • FREE Ex-cop Marty Golden: HOLY CHUTE! Mom threw out my gun Beep hopes to revive landmark By Patrick Gallahue By Heather J. Wilson The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Papers The race between state Sen. Golden vows Bill O’Keefe remembers the Vincent Gentile and Council- long lines he and his friends man Marty Golden was sup- to release his used to suffer through as posed to be a dog fight and in teenagers waiting to ride their first debate, a brief 15- police records Coney Island’s famed Parachute Jump, the 262-foot- minute affair on cable news The Brooklyn Papers high thrill ride that was once channel NY 1, the opponents City Councilman Marty Gold- part of Steeplechase Park. came out barking. en, responding to questions In 1950, when he was just 16, Golden and Gentile, vying for about his police record and the O’Keefe remembers, the Parachute the newly drawn 22nd state Senate circumstances of his retirement Jump — although tame by the stan- District, which includes all of Bay that have been raised during his dards of today’s amusement park campaign against state Sen. Ridge and Dyker Heights, focused Vincent Gentile BP / File photo Marty Golden BP / File photo rides — made the experience of sit- their attacks on each other’s Vincent Gentile, announced through his campaign office ting that high in the air on a small records in the Sept. 25 debate. After moderator Andrew Kirtz- record and responded, “What they seat, very unsettling. Especially, he But one of the most contentious this week that he has requested man asked each candidate a ques- want is my disciplinary records, the police department turn over added, when he and his friend were moments came when Gentile tion he gave them each the oppor- and they’re not going to get them.” his records so they can be made stuck in midair for 20 minutes. asked Golden to speak about his tunity to ask a question of their Gentile asked him why he would public. “We kept talking to one another NYPD disciplinary record and not open his police record to pub- and we would not look down, just opponent. Gentile referenced a “We are going to release the Golden admitted he had been dis- lic scrutiny. records and we put the request out,” O’Keefe remembers, laugh- ciplined for losing his gun while a Daily News article in which Gold- “Vinnie, I’m so surprised that in yesterday. We are releasing his ing. “Occasionally you did get police officer. en was asked about his police you would stoop to such lowness,” records on his medals, his cita- stuck up there, and they would tell Golden responded. tions and disciplinary records,” you it was something mechanical. The two immediately began Golden campaign manager But it was a very poplar ride. We bickering, with Golden defending William O’Reilly told The Brook- had to wait in a long line to go up his record and Gentile demanding lyn Papers on Tuesday. there and get stuck.” he answer the question. Finally, Asked whether those records Now, 61 years since it first Kirtzman intervened and asked See RECORD on page 7 opened, the Parachute Jump may find the technology it requires in Ragamuffins Golden, “For what were you disci- order to be restored as a working plined while serving on the Golden countered that Gentile, amusement park ride. On Sept. 26, NYPD?” a three-term incumbent, has failed Borough President Marty “There was a loss of a gun that to deliver for his district. Markowitz revealed that the city I lost in … 1978 when my mother Economic Development Corp. parade on 3rd threw a gun out while I was away “He hasn’t brought any money would undertake a $5 million on a vacation,” Golden finally home, he probably brings about $200,000 a year,” Golden said. restoration of the Parachute Jump, said. “If somebody wanted to which since 1968 has stood dor- know about the loss of a gun well Gentile countered that he cham- mant, first as a rusting tower and now you know about it. pioned a bill that increased fund- then as a repainted city landmark. “There was nothing I’ve been ing for pre-Kindergarten programs “Today is not 1950, today is disciplined for except the loss of a from $800,000 to $8 million in Coney Island’s Parachute Jump was fully operational when this pho- 2002,” Markowitz said Thursday, gun,” Golden added. See LOST GUN on page 7 to was taken in 1952. It was shut down in 1968. Associated Press See PARACHUTE on page 7 / Greg Mango / Greg ‘Survivor’ hunk a cop from Ridge By Patrick Gallahue from St. Francis College, earned last May, Gahn” and “Sook Jai,” selected by the The Brooklyn Papers and a degree in Police Science from the eldest male and female castaways. New York City Police Academy. He also Stafford was a third-round pick of the The Brooklyn Papers The Brooklyn Each Thursday night, St. Francis holds a certified fitness professional cer- younger, sexier Sook Jai tribe, along with Salavatore Bilancione plays Danny to sister Gabriella’s Sandy as they College students and staff gather to tificate from the National Academy of the tongue-pierced Erin Collins, a real es- re-create a scene from the movie “Grease” on Third Avenue Saturday. watch “Survivor” in an administra- Sports Medicine. tate agent from Austin, Texas; Robb Zbac- tive office at the school on Remsen “The whole St. Francis community is nik, a laid-back 23-year-old bartender By Heather J. Wilson cording to one parent, “Martha Street between Court and Clinton pulling for him,” said college President from Scottsdale, Ariz.; Stephanie Dill, a The Brooklyn Papers Stewart would be proud of.” streets in Brooklyn Heights. Frank Macchiarola. “I know Ken is used 29-year-old firefighter from Fayetteville, That mother dressed her 6- But these are not throwbacks to the to taming the concrete jungle in Brooklyn Ariz.; and three other toned and tanned Dogs, dads and most of all, month-old daughter, Jenna Lynn kids paraded down Third Avenue sorority-like assemblies from the days of — I hope he’ll be as successful taming the 20-somethings, along with Jake Billings- Immitt, in a feathered chicken cos- “Melrose Place” or “Beverly Hills jungle in Thailand.” ley, a 61-year-old land broker from Texas. in Bay Ridge on Saturday in the tume — complete with white 90210.” No, this is Brooklyn rooting for Due to contractual agreements, Stafford “I based picking the teams on athleti- 36th Annual Ragamuffin Parade, feathers attached to a baby onesy one of its own. is not allowed to speak with reporters un- cism and just that gleam in their eyes that wearing handmade costumes and rubber glove shoes representa- Ken Stafford, a Bay Ridge resident, St. til the show’s completion. look like they’ll be here for the duration,” that put manufactured ones to tive of a chicken’s webbed feet. Francis alumnus and police officer with A resident of Bay Ridge, Stafford, is Billingsley said after picking his team. shame. “I found the idea in a Martha the 79th Precinct in Bedford-Stuyvesant, unmarried with two American bulldogs, Over the course of 42 days, the survivor From 1 to 3 pm, running from Stewart catalog,” said Bay Ridgite has joined the latest lineup of island cast- Bubba and Thumper. Stafford’s “luxury contestants hold periodic “tribal councils” to 67th Street to 92nd Street, cheerlead- Carolyn Immitt. “It really was not aways to scheme, connive and socialize item,” one item per person that they can secretly vote off one person from the island. ers and knights, cartoon characters that difficult to make.” their way to a $1 million prize. bring with them to the island, was his The person with the most votes is immedi- and farm animals, showed off the Immitt pointed out that like all This season, Stafford, along with 15 NYPD shield, and his status of “New ately sent packing, back to civilization. craftsmanship of their mothers and parade attendees, Jenna received a other competitors, have been marooned York City Police Officer” has earned him One by one, survivors are voted off un- fathers whose sewing skills, along free gift — a stuffed red, white and on the remote region of Koh Tarutao, applause from the other competitors. til only two people remain, at which point with the creativity of their children, blue teddy bear. And, because she Thailand. The beached contestants were divided the seven most recently banished survivors “Survivor” castaway and New York City police combined to make costumes that, ac- See MUFFINS on page 10 Stafford, 30, holds a bachelor’s degree into two teams, or tribes, named “Chuay See SURVIVOR on page 2 officer Ken Stafford in Thailand. CBS / Monty Brinton Weiner calls for 9-11 files By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers Sally Regenhard, the mother of Red Hook Firefighter Christian Regenhard, who per- ished in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, has experi- enced many bittersweet victo- ries over the past 13 months. She founded the Skyscraper Safety Campaign to advocate for safer highrise buildings. She successfully lobbied for the National Construction Safety Team Act, which would require the Na- tional Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to dispatch construction safety experts to build- ing disaster sites for a thorough in- vestigation.