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THIS WEEK IN SMITH ST TICKET BLITZ: P.2 BLAH BLAH NABS VANDAL: P.4 COOL BITES Chill out with these ceviche concoctions Brooklyn’s Weekly Newspaper WWW .BROOKLYN INSIDE Published weekly by PAPERS Brooklyn Paper Publications Inc, .COM 26 Court St., Brooklyn 11242 Phone 718-834-9350 AD fax 718-834-1713 • N EWS fax 718-834-9278 © 2002 Brooklyn Paper Publications • 16 pages including 4 pages GO BROOKLYN • Vol.25, No. 31 BWN, DTG, PSG, MID •August 12, 2002 ANCHOR BANKER •FREE Bank of NY to make Atlantic terminal home By Patrick Gallahue The Brooklyn Papers tower, and bring with it 1,500 em- Bank of New York will be- ployees. The BONY entrance will be come the anchor tenant for an on Hanson Place. There will be addi- Brooklyn corporation family,” Bor- office tower atop Forest City tional “contingency space” for anoth- ough President Marty Markowitz said Ratner’s $240 million Atlantic upon hearing the news. “They have fice tower, which will sit atop the er 750 employees in case workers planned 400,000-square-foot Atlantic Terminal in Fort Greene, bank need to be relocated, Giacalone said. chosen to locate in the most livable officials confirmed this week. downtown community in America.” Terminal retail space. The total build- “We are enthused to welcome the ing will stand about 295 feet tall. Bank of New York (BONY) is no- Bank of New York to the growing Last May, consultants for Forest tifying its employees of the planned City Ratner presented plans to Com- The design calls for a sweeping move that is slated to get underway in munity Board 2 for their 12-story of- glass tower above the retail center — the summer of 2004, according to bounded by Flatbush Avenue, At- BONY spokesman Cary Giacalone. See ANCHOR William Ruiz kneels at a memorial made for the four Sunset Park family members who, a year The oldest bank in New York City, on page 8 ago Sunday, were killed by a drunken off-duty police officer on Third Avenue. founded in 1784, and now with 350 branches in the New York metropoli- tan area, BONY was reported to have been searching for space in Clinton Hill, at 470 Vanderbilt Ave. — owned BP / Tom Callan Judge guilty by the Washington, D.C.-based Car- lyle Group and J.P. Morgan Chase — Family recalls as well as in Atlantic Terminal. Giacalone told The Brooklyn Pa- Barron cops plea with Hynes pers this week that while other spaces may have been considered, Atlantic By Patrick Gallahue Terminal was chosen. He declined to The Brooklyn Papers discuss other locations. In taking a deal that would subject Disgraced former Brooklyn him to 3 to 9 years in state prison, Bar- “We may have spoken to a number ron, 60, stood before presiding Judge DWI tragedy of people,” Giacalone said. “But this Supreme Court judge Victor Nicholas Colabella as television cam- is where we’re going.” Barron copped a plea Monday, admitting that he extorted a six- eras rolled and in a muted voice admit- The company will occupy approxi- ted to soliciting “a bribe in excess of mately 320,000 square feet of the figure bribe from an attorney in a $100,000” and accepting $18,000 as a planned 400,000-square-foot office case over which he presided, in Victor Barron leaves court after down payment. By Patrick Gallahue exchange for a reduced sentence pleading guilty. On Monday, both the defense and The Brooklyn Papers recommendation from Brooklyn the prosecution expressed disdain at BP / Tom Callan Close to 100 people gathered Sunday, a year District Attorney Charles Hynes. how the Barron case has damaged the ago to the day that a drunken off-duty police reputation of the embattled Brooklyn officer struck and killed four Sunset Park family judiciary. “He has accepted full responsibility members as they crossed Third Avenue, to for his actions and will now pay a se- remember the victims and call for societal and New lows in Slope vere penalty,” said Barron’s attorney, legal changes that might prevent such a tragedy Barry Kamins. “It is also a sad day for from happening again. the court system, and Mr. Barron The intersection of Third Avenue and 46th Street had Special zoning plan would limit height of buildings deeply regrets that his actions and his been the site of previous vigils and furious protests in conduct may have caused the public to the days after former cop Joseph Gray, now serving a By Patrick Gallahue lose confidence in the judicial system.” The Brooklyn Papers five- to 15-year prison sentence, crashed his van into building heights could reach 120 feet. For months, however, skeptical six-months pregnant Maria Herrera, 23, her son Andy, newspaper editorials had hoped that Park Slope could soon stunt its The height limits would descend back 4, and her sister Dilcia Pena, 16. an open and public trial would reveal own growth, to the delight of to variations of 50 feet to 75 feet on enue, widening almost down to Sixth Sunday’s scene, however, was more a demonstration community activists. and Seventh avenues at around Fourth a potentially wider scale of corruption Third Avenue, according to the plan. in the Brooklyn courts. In the end, of the tragedy’s evolution, its social implications com- A proposal to rezone the area rough- Street, all the way up to Flatbush Av- ing into focus. More than 60 percent of the area pro- they were left wanting. ly bounded by between Third and posed for contextual zoning would be enue — although none outside of it. “It’s overstated without a scintilla “I’m interested in seeing changes, I’m interested in Fourth avenues and Prospect Park West, limited to heights of 50 feet, Myer said. The designation of a neighborhood seeing people stop drinking and driving, killing,” said and from Union Street to 15th Street, is as a historic district promulgates stan- of evidence that this is an endemic The only areas proposed for rezon- problem,” Brooklyn District Attorney Victor Herrera, whose wife, son and unborn child were being considered by the Department of dards to be enforced on properties killed in the accident. ing are already designated for residen- Charles Hynes said at a press confer- City Planning and may seek city ap- tial use and the manufacturing dis- within its boundaries, and requires ap- Among Sunday’s assembly were family members of proval as early as this fall. ence following the plea deal. “I don’t tricts in Gowanus and Park Slope, proval from the city Landmarks believe it. Not here in this county or victims in similar incidents, such as Kalliopi Kiladitis, The plan would limit building will not change. Preservation Commission (LPC) for any other county.” of Bay Ridge, whose 21-year-old son Stefanos was heights to between 50 and 120 feet, de- new construction. killed by an off-duty police officer alleged to have been Community Board 6 has lobbied Hynes said his office poured through pending on the section of the neighbor- for contextual zoning for Park Slope The Park Slope Civic Council has for driving while intoxicated, and Jamilah Hazim, whose hood, according to Regina Myer, direc- files, interviewed attorneys and pushed for about 10 years. the past few years been lobbying the for information from Barron regarding husband, Afif Hazim, was killed on the Throg’s Neck tor of City Planning’s Brooklyn office. LPC to expand the historic district. Bridge in 1999 by off-duty Capt. James O’Connor, “The community board has been ad- other potentially crooked jurists. “It’s largely an effort that looks at In 1992, the tract from Flatbush Av- who was drunk at the time. preserving the scale of the vastly his- vocating this because we see it as a layer “We have done as much as we can Kalliopi Kiladitis, holding a photo of her of protection for brownstone areas and enue to Union Street was contextually with him,” Hynes said. “And he had Last week, O’Connor pleaded guilty to charges of toric neighborhood while at the same zoned by the City Planning Commis- son, Stefanos, killed by an allegedly manslaughter in exchange for a sentence of one to three to the low-rise nature of many areas in nothing to give us.” time providing opportunity for addition- sion, limiting building heights and bulk, DWI cop. years in prison, to the Hazim family’s vocal displeas- al residential development,” Myer said. the Slope be they brownstone or multi- Although the DA’s office consis- and, Myer said, the latest proposal is Brooklyn Papers ure. The investigative methods employed against Offi- ple dwellings,” said Jerry Armer, chair- tently denied a negotiation was in the / Tom Callan Most of the bocks east of Fourth “largely an extension of that.” Avenue to Prospect Park West, Myer man of CB6’s Land Use committee. works during the weeks leading up to said, would vary to limits of about 50 There is already a substantial de- City Planning has already begun to the Aug. 5 plea, Hynes was part of See TRAGEDY circulate plans of the proposed special the negotiations that led to the deal on page 7 feet to 75 feet, while along Fourth Av- gree of security offered to the area enue, between Union and 15th streets, within the perimeter of the historic zoning district to CB6 and local civic for a lesser sentence, avoiding a very district — running roughly between groups, but the maps may not be widely public, televised trial.