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*/4*%&1"(&40'$0610/4504"7&:06$"4) Yo u r Neighborhood — Yo u r News® BrooklynPaper.com U (718) 260–2500 U Brooklyn, NY U ©2010 DOWNTOWN, PARK SLOPE & BAY RIDGE EDITIONS AWP/12 pages U Vol. 33, No. 17ÊU April 23–29, 2010 U FREE $00174$001 Park Slope Food Coop claims that Barneys Co-op’s name is illegal — and the law agrees By Stephen Brown The Brooklyn Paper The venerable Park Slope Food Coop has fired a shot against the fancy-schmancy Barneys Co-op, saying that the department store Rosenburg Julie Tony Cella slated to open later this year on Atlantic Avenue has illegally coopted the word “co-op” — and one lawyer says the supermarket may actually have a case! Joe Holtz, the general man- ager of the famously left-lean- ing, members-only grocery store, Community Newspaper Group / Community Newspaper Group / has gone public with his concern The Park Slope Food Coop thinks Barneys Co-op (right, in Soho) is violating state law. that Barneys’ “misuse” of the le- gal term “co-op” is a violation of state law. quated” and “obscure,” but state any abbreviation, variation or si- corporation may sue for an in- Holtz cited an article in the law nonetheless — that could pos- militude thereof, shall not be used junction against such prohibited state’s Cooperative Corporations sibly serve as a legal basis for a as, or in, a name except by a cor- use of the term.” Law — variously described by David v. Goliath showdown. poration defined in this chapter,” Holtz, who made his objec- two lawyers as “arcane,” “anti- “The term ‘cooperative’… or the law states. “Any cooperative See CO-OP on page 9 Sobbing in their suds Freddy’s Bar, anti-Ratner mainstay, accepts defeat By Stephen Brown The Brooklyn Paper "OE(PMETUFJO Freddy’s Bar has given up the fight. The Prohibition-era bar, whose location TFMMTPVU Photo by Paul Martinka on Sixth Avenue inside the Atlantic Yards SEE PAGE 12 footprint made it the ideal “war room” for project opponents, has accepted an offer from developer Bruce Ratner to quietly beer on April 30. /@MHB@SSGD!NS@MHB close and relocate into Park Slope, a half- The announcement signals a much-less col- Visitors have swarmed the Brooklyn Botanic Garden to look at the cherry blossoms Bess by Photo Adler mile from the current site. orful conclusion for the beloved dive, which — but the buds will be way past their peak for the festival weekend, May 1–2. See Freddy’s Bar closes on April 30. The bar will serve its last tear-filled See BAR on page 2 story, page 9. 3BJEPOBOBSDIJTUIJWF ficers were pursuing outstanding war- Was police action legit or was it really spying? rants because the two men did not appear in court on their court date. By Aaron Short one of the men who was arrested. He The commanding officer of the The Brooklyn Paper 8IBU¤TBOBOBSDIJTU said that the officer wanted to talk more 90th Precinct, Deputy Inspector Mi- A police raid of an anarchist collec- SEE PAGE 2 about Andrews’s role in planning the chael Kemper, said cops had no inter- tive in Bushwick last Tuesday — which upcoming festival than the bench war- est in the Bushwick building, which rant for missing his court date on an cops claim was a mission simply to ar- were not only picking up the wanted houses 19 collective members, plus rest two members of the commune who men, but also picking up information open-container summons. assorted hangers-on, beyond the men skipped court appearances on minor about the anarchists on the eve of the The flier featured a doctored photo- who missed their court dates. offenses — may actually have been fourth annual Anarchist Film Festival, graph of the pope wearing bondage gear. “If they’re not doing anything ille- a intelligence mission at the Thames which took place this weekend. As such, he believes police officers were gal, and no one is wanted by the po- Photo Paul Martinka by Street compound. “[An officer] pulled a flier for the engaging in a “fishing expedition.” lice, they have nothing to worry about,” Cops raided this “anarchist collective” on Thames Street in Green- New details have emerged about the festival out and asked, ‘Do you know Police officials disputed that his ar- said Kemper. point on Wednesday. Suvi (smoking) was arrested, while his pal, Jai, April 13 raid that suggest that the police what this is?’” said Sharod Andrews, rest was a coincidence, claiming that of- See HIVE on page 2 was not. Lentol’s ‘poker’ face Lawmaker wants to legalize card games for money By Aaron Short play it in a nice setting.” replace existing OTB storefronts, but The Brooklyn Paper And without OTB, even more wa- said parlors could have amenities such What happens in Vegas stays in Ve- gering fans will head to Atlantic City or as snack bars, televisions, and even gas — except for legal poker, one Wil- Foxwoods to lose their money — money other sports — as long as they were liamsburg lawmaker is hoping. that the state could be getting. regulated. Emboldened by the all-but-certain “Joe’s view is, let’s update how peo- Of course, every good poker player demise of Off Track Betting — the ple want to be entertained through gam- knows that you never count your money state’s sole legalized gambling outfit bling,” said Lentol’s Chief of Staff when you’re sitting at the ta- besides the lottery — Assemblyman Cathy Peake. “When Off ble. Indeed, Lentol would Track Betting came out, have better odds of Joe Lentol (D–Williamsburg) has pro- I remember, there were drawing a royal posed legalizing the legendary game big screens and all flush than get- of frontiersmen, card sharps and guys sorts of different ting his bill named “Fats.” things you could into law. Lentol said he was inspired by the do. Now peo- To be- needs of today’s young gamblers. ple have big come law, “Poker is the game that most people screens in not only want to play now,” said the longtime as- their house.” would the Photo by Stefano Giovannini semblyman, who last made headlines for Lentol would bill need to pass his promise to swim in the fetid New- not elaborate on both houses and be town Creek to attract Google’s high- what a poker par- signed by Gov. Paterson, speed Internet service for Greenpoint. lor would look but it would require a Consti- “New Yorkers watch it on TV, they play like or whether tutional amendment adopted by poker on their computers and many they would voters through a referendum. -08#-08 would like to go out for a night and In other words, fold. Tenor unpaid, replaced by a bass! By Andy Campbell Lamonarca was enraged by this af- The Brooklyn Paper front to all things mid-range. It’s not over until the thin man “I’ve done everything for this mu- sues. seum — yet they pushed me out,” said Photo by Stefano Giovannini "DPODSFUF#PBSEXBML A battle between a diva-esque tenor Luciano Lamonarca, the former publi- O, SOLO MIO: Opera tenor and a tiny opera museum hit a new cist for the Sheepshead Bay museum. By Michèle De Meglio Luciano Lamonarca (top) says crescendo this week when the former “They wouldn’t pay me, they wouldn’t for The Brooklyn Paper he was snubbed by the Enrico artistic director of the Enrico Caruso acknowledge me, and then they took my Caruso Museum, and its chief, Is Coney Island’s famed Board- Museum of America announced that performance out from under me.” Aldo Mancusi (above). walk becoming a sidewalk? he would sue the curator of the ob- Now Lamonarca is looking for a The city is now replacing the scure institution — though he’s not way to sue his former employer Aldo wood planks on the Riegelmann really sure why yet! Mancusi, who runs the museum out only performers on the concert ticket Boardwalk with large concrete slabs The dispute stems from that most of the attic of his Homecrest home. that night. Since his hire in December from Ocean Parkway to Brighton operatic of slights: Not only was the But their feud didn’t reach a breaking last year, Lamonarca had been com- First Road. tenor Luciano Lamonarca bullied out of point until that fateful night on April plaining that he was never officially “It’s not going to look like wood his position, but his final performance 9, when Lamonarca was scheduled to named “artistic director” — despite at all,” admitted Martin Maher, chief in his official capacity was tragically sing an aria at Borough Hall to recog- his claims that he did everything in of staff for the Parks Department Photo Levin by Ted undermined when he was replaced at nize 15 years of the museum’s dedica- his power to publicize the museum and in Brooklyn. These metal planks along the Coney Island Boardwalk will soon be the last minute — by a bass! tion to the late Italian tenor. its Web site — and his desire to turn See CONEY on page 10 topped with concrete, not wood, planks. Purists are horrified. Since the museum exists solely to Some facts are not in dispute: Lam- the position into a paying job. honor the greatest tenor of all time, onarca and his virtuoso pianist were the See OPERA on page 10 2 AWP / iÊ ÀÞÊ*>«iÀÊUÊÜÜÜ° ÀÞ*>«iÀ°VÊUÊ­Ç£n®ÊÓÈäÓxää April 23–29, 2010 would rather cut up those air rights MOTHER’S DAY SPECIAL and build smaller buildings in an around the Metrotech office com- /:6¤TCJHFYQBOTJPO plex.

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