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-00,'03#3&",*/(/&84&7&3:8&&,%":"5888#300,-:/1"1&3$0. Brooklyn’s Real Newspaper BrooklynPaper.com s (718) 834–9350 s Brooklyn, NY s ©2008 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS–DOWNTOWN–NORTH BROOKLYN AWP/16 pages s Vol. 31, No. 31s Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008 s FREE WITH CARROLL GARDENS, COBBLE HILL, BOERUM HILL, FORT GREENE, CLINTON HILL, DUMBO, WILLIAMSBURG, GREENPOINT WIN TIX TO BOB "3&/"45"--&%"("*/ DYLAN Ratner delays Nets opening until 2011, at least By Mike McLaughlin The Brooklyn Paper /&846*5 /QNLHRDR OQNLHRDR Sure, Bob Dylan’s Aug. 12 Bruce Ratner has pushed back the New Jersey Nets’ Page 14 6ODPOTUJUVUJPOBM concert in Prospect Park is Migdal Sylvan move to Brooklyn again — now saying that the basketball Readers of The Brooklyn Paper are well aware that sold out — but you can still / BP team he owns might not play its first game in an Atlantic Bruce Ratner has broken promises over the years. Here’s Ratner’s ever-changing timetable for the arena. And it’s unclear how Ratner could possibly keep even that get a pair of reserved seats, Yards arena until the 2011–2012 season. promise. courtesy of your friends at The Brooklyn Paper. If that turns out to be true, it means the Nets would relo- Promises made Promises unkept In order to clear land for the project, Ratner still needs the Of course, there’s a catch: Go to www.BrooklynPaper.com and cate five years later than originally promised by the devel- state to condemn a handful of holdout properties in the At- take our Dylan quiz. Get your answers in by Sunday at 10 pm and oper when Atlantic Yards was unveiled in 2003. December, 2003 The arena will be done by 2006 and it will lantic Yards footprint. you’ll have a chance to hear the famed “voice of a generation.” Ratner told investors at the annual Forest City Ratner Com- cost $435 million. On Friday, nine of those property owners filed suit in the panies meeting in Cleveland that construction on the Barclays Appellate Division of New York State Supreme Court to December, 2006 The arena will open for the start of the block Ratner. Center, at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic avenues, 2009–10 NBA season. would begin in January 2009, according to a story this week Arguments in that case aren’t expected until January, 2009 on the Atlantic Yards Report, an invaluable Web site. January, 2008 The arena will be completed in calendar — when Ratner said he hopes to be breaking ground. “And then it will be about two and a half years to build our year 2010. On Monday, company officials revised Ratner’s remarks. arena,” Ratner said. “I think Bruce was just stating that the schedule in place Based on his own calendar, that wouldn’t make the pub- Now The arena, with a new $950-million price- is, in fact, very aggressive,” said Forest City Vice President tag, will be done in time for the start of Bruce Bender. “We plan to break ground this fall. … While licly financed $950-million arena ready until July, 2011 — the 2011–12 season. after the conclusion of the 2010–2011 NBA season. See ARENA on page 14 5)*48&&, Hospitals predict borowide -"458&&, baby crisis after LICH shuts By Mike McLaughlin of maternity cases,” said Ei- The Brooklyn Paper leen Tynion, a spokeswoman If Long Island College for Maimonides, which deliv- Hospital goes through with ered 7,207 newborns, more its plan to close its mater- than any other hospital in the nity ward, other Brooklyn state last year. There’s also no room at the hospitals may not be able inn at Methodist. to handle the resulting baby “We just expanded to meet boom, The Brooklyn Paper demand and we are already has learned. McLaughlin Mike at capacity,” said Lyn Hill, a Last week, LICH an- spokeswoman for the hospi- Peter Frampton came nounced it would seek permis- tal, which delivered more than alive at Coney Island’s As- sion from the state to close its 5,000 babies last year. ser Levy Park last Thurs- obstetrics department, which Woodhull Hospital, a city- day, belting out some delivered 2,800 children last The Brooklyn Paper / run facility in Bushwick, said of the hits that made his year — but to win the state’s Councilman Bill DeBlasio (left) and Rep. Nydia Velázquez it could handle some LICH “Frampton Comes Alive” OK, the Cobble Hill medical (right) with Yifat Schulsinger, who said she was sad about mothers, though spokes- LP the greatest live al- center must provide a plan the proposed closure of LICH’s maternity ward. woman Lynn Schulman de- bum ever (with the possi- is awesome for where all those expect- clined to say how many. ble exception of “Cheap “Last year, we had 2,000 Trick at Budokan”). But on Tuesday, Brooklyn will ant mothers could turn. pital in Park Slope and Mai- departments are already op- And that’s about as easy monides Medical Center in erating at capacity. births and this year we ex- host a true legend: Bob Dylan. For details on the pect 2,200,” she said. show of the summer, see GO Brooklyn, page 8. as getting a man pregnant. Borough Park told The Brook- “We are not in a position to New York Methodist Hos- lyn Paper that their obstetrics accommodate a higher volume See BABIES on page 12 THE BROOKLYN Callan Tom -&+$ By Gersh Kuntzman "MMUIFMFBWFTBSFCSPXO The Brooklyn Paper / The Brooklyn Botanic Garden has just named Eighth Street be- tween Eighth Avenue and Prospect Park West in Park Slope the “greenest block in Brooklyn.” The award is a tribute to the resi- XBUFSGBMMJTUIFLJMMFS dents’ hard work — but our columnist thinks its a sham. By Jessica Firger Dom’s Tree Services, which was salty mist is easily transported in for The Brooklyn Paper hired by the Parks Department to the air, explained Rochelle Steiner handle the adverse of the Public Art Fund. Jessica Firger The greenest The city’s hottest new public art project is a tree-killing ma- side effects of Elias- “You never know how nature is chine. son’s $15-million going to react,” Steiner said. One of the four pieces in Ola- piece of modern art. The good news is that once Elias- fur Eliasson’s “New York River Cafe owner son closes the valve on his watery block in boro? Buzzy O’Keeffe noticed project this fall, the trees at River City Waterfalls” is spew- The Brooklyn Paper / ing brackish East River browning leaves on his Cafe should make a full recovery. water from under the linden, birch, and wis- “There’s no doubt in my mind,” Brooklyn Bridge onto teria trees in late June, said D’Alonzo, the arborist. “They’re trees at the legend- the New York Post re- probably going to even be health- I don’t think so ary River Cafe in ported on Tuesday. ier than before” because of all the DUMBO, turning But only recently TLC they’re now getting from pro- leaves a burnt-orange was the culprit con- fessionals. came to compost Eighth Street, Yes, there are beautiful sweet-po- color normally only firmed: Eliasson’s For his part, O’Keeffe has a high not to praise it. Yes, I was there tato-vine arrangements, but there are seen in autumn. artwork is an arbor- appreciation for art, said River Cafe Ion Wednesday, when the gray ex- also filthy, exposed garbage cans. Yes, “It’s the salty mist,” cidal maniac. manager Scott Stamford — but the panse between Eighth Avenue and the tree pits look like the Ritz, but some said arborist Dominick And some worry that ill effects of Eliasson’s artwork have Prospect Park West was named the houses have cement courtyards without D’Alonzo of it’s even hurting its human earned complaints from customers “Greenest Block in Brooklyn” by so much as a drop of green paint. fans. who no longer get to enjoy the nor- the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Sorry to stick a green thumb in “The other day it was windy mally verdant surroundings, but of- Jessica Firger Up and down the block, I saw the eye of the borough’s horticultural and we were getting a nice mist — ten finish dessert to find their cars well-maintained tree beds. I gazed elite, but calling Eighth Street between but I had to wonder: what’s killing covered with the tell-tale white crys- at beautiful window boxes. I inhaled Prospect Park West and Eighth Ave- the trees, and is it good for me?” tal. the lush fragrance of begonias, im- nue the “greenest block” is a decision asked Jake Nelson, a valet at the And as any restaurant-goer that will tarnish the Brooklyn Botanic cafe. knows, too much salt has no place patiens and rugelach (oh, sorry, that was the refreshments table). I rolled Garden worse than the High Court Each waterfall is armed with a The Brooklyn Paper / in a fine dining experience. was damaged by Bush v. Gore. wind meter that temporarily shuts Eliasson was said to be traveling Autumn in New York: Salt-water spray from artist Olafur Eliasson’s around in mulch. the waterfall during strong gusts. But and could not be reached for com- “New York City Waterfalls” is killing trees downwind at the famed But there’s one problem with Full disclosure: I visit this Eighth even without gale-force winds, the ment. River Cafe (above). A wider view shows the extent of the damage.